Software Instability

The colors of an android's temple LED came in three types: blue, yellow, and red.

Blue indicated normal system function, yellow indicated a correctable system error, and red indicated a severe system error.

"Do you have a weapon on you?" Daniel raised the gun in his hand and aimed it at the protagonist. Yinzi noticed that the LED at his temple was now yellow.

It was no longer the red that had represented a severe error before.

"Does this mean he's a little more emotionally stable now?" Yinzi muttered to himself.

Faced with this question, he had two choices.

Tell the truth, or lie.

After only a brief hesitation, Yinzi chose to lie. He needed to ensure the little girl's safety. If he admitted he had a weapon, he would most likely have to throw it away. That would mean one less degree of control over the situation, and that was not his style.

Yinzi immediately chose to say that he was not carrying a handgun.

Daniel immediately spoke in anger.

"You're lying! I know you have a gun!"

Yinzi froze. He thought he had made the wrong choice, causing the negotiation to fail once again.

But Connor's response quickly made him realize that the game had no officially prescribed choices. No matter what choice he made, the game could continue, and even tiny decisions could lead it toward different endings.

"I'm telling the truth, Daniel."

"I'm not carrying any weapons." Connor held his hands in front of him, his expression sincere yet helpless.

Even a microexpression expert would not have been able to find a single tell of deception on Connor's face.

And the person he faced was Daniel, another android. Even though Daniel was experiencing some errors, his basic operating systems were still functioning normally.

As a negotiation