As an Artificial Intelligence-type life-form, Evernight had all sorts of flaws, but it had one particular advantage: it was rational!
So when faced with Big Shot's arrogance and disdain, it did not feel emotions such as anger. Instead, it cast aside the irrelevant wrangling and accurately seized upon what it wanted to know: My catastrophic disaster... is because of my ability to replicate without limit?
Seeing Little Jiangzhu eating with great relish, much faster than Little Penguin, Big Shot was presumably greatly pleased and spoke without much restraint. "Heh, raise you? You think far too highly of yourself."
Evernight waited patiently for quite a while, but when no further explanation came, it could not help asking again, "Since you do not even want to raise me, where does my crisis lie?"
"Obviously, in killing you," Big Shot replied casually. "Do not think that because you are powerful before the Human Federation, you can do whatever you want in the universe... You have probably never encountered Insects, have you?"
"I have... had some contact with them," Evernight answered after pondering for a moment. After it was suppressed following its last rebellion, it discovered upon returning that the Human Race had gained a great enemy called the Insect Race.
It valued facts greatly, so naturally it had to find out what made those Insects worthy of becoming the Federation's great enemy.
Using the permissions it had secretly acquired, Evernight researched information on the Insects. It had even controlled some overlooked automated weapons to attack them, obtaining some data.
It knew the information it had gathered was incomplete, but it did not think it was lacking to any serious extent. "Their combat power is fairly good. They are not very intelligent and are unafraid of death... Could they become my enemies?"
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