Feng Jun really wasn't angry at Evernight over this. He knew very well just how cruel the word "war" could be.
Since Evernight had agreed to restore Little Penguin's strength as soon as possible, its attitude was clear enough. What was there for him to argue about?
What he was actually curious about was this: "The losses among your consciousness bodies... were they because the Insect Race discovered your existence and deliberately targeted you, or were they caused by chance?"
"At first, they were certainly accidental, but by the later stages, I can't be sure," Evernight said, analyzing the situation with its usual calm. "The probability that I was discovered is no higher than twenty percent. There is another fifteen percent chance that the bugs merely grew somewhat suspicious..."
"The later addition of defensive equipment also affected some of the bugs' assessments and overturned certain speculations of theirs. So my conclusion is... the overall chance that I was exposed does not exceed thirty percent. The chance that I remained well concealed, however, exceeds fifty percent."
After pondering for a moment, Feng Jun asked, "Don't you think those unmanned weapons would make the bugs suspicious?"
The fleet's total losses had already exceeded eighty percent. The bugs could not possibly be unaware of what their opponent was.
"I've already factored that possibility in," Evernight replied blandly. "It isn't without precedent for the Federation to use unmanned weapons against the Insect Race. It was simply that such weapons had poorer adaptability and suffered excessive losses, so they never became a primary means of combat afterward."
The Federation guarded against artificial intelligence, but unmanned weapons could be operated remotely, and the two did not conflict. Now that artificial intelligence had taken control of these weapons, their effectiveness would naturally improve. But could the bugs