"Gentlemen, I recommend temporarily halting the current operation. The synthetics' emotions have fluctuated dramatically. At present, it is highly likely that this was caused by the concentrated diagnostic procedure."
Jarvis's voice was grave—some synthetics were already on the verge of an outburst.
Fear was spreading among the synthetics and growing exponentially. It was highly likely to cause abnormal behavior.
Harry frowned. His Psychic Vision allowed him to see the sudden changes in these synthetics, but all he could sense was their fear.
What exactly were they afraid of? And why had this emotion emerged at this particular moment?
Was this trauma Ultron had left behind in them?
Once the Emotion Matrix was placed into the Biological Computer to form a synthetic personality, it essentially became a black box. Their consciousness could not be debugged the way one debugged a program.
"...We need to try another approach, Jarvis. Stop the diagnostics and let them return. Tell A to maintain real-time monitoring," Harry said immediately.
"A wise choice." Jarvis seemed to breathe a sigh of relief—Harry keenly noticed that detail.
The order was issued. The synthetics should have unplugged their data cables simultaneously, just as they had when entering the factory.
But reality diverged from expectations: the synthetics disconnected from the data link at different speeds, and the discrepancy was substantial—as though some of them had frozen in place.
"Any ideas?" Tony could sense that the atmosphere had become strange, but he likewise had no idea what had gone wrong.
Weren't these synthetics supposed to obey orders without question?
"Perhaps this isn't a program malfunction caused by erroneous code." Harry tapped at the keyboard, trying to find an answer in the existing data.
"Not a program malfunction?" Tony paused. If it wasn't a program malfunction, then what was the problem?
Harry gestured