Top-Tier Attention Trap!

The heavy snow kept falling, and the androids' situation grew ever more dangerous.

Since ancient times, winter had always been a difficult season for human society.

Those who endured it would welcome a spring of budding grass and singing birds; those who failed to endure it had a high chance of becoming casualties of "survival of the fittest."

The story spanned only about a week, yet the weather had abruptly shifted from late autumn to the depths of winter.

The snow blanketed the roads until their original appearance could no longer be seen. As the weather grew colder and colder, the atmosphere surrounding the three protagonists became increasingly tense.

Humanity's deep-rooted fear of winter was skillfully stirred up by the game and woven into the plot.

The state was already slaughtering androids and scrapping them.

After countless developments, it had ultimately chosen to remove androids from human life.

Humanity still could not control another form of life that was smarter and more capable than itself. All they could do was destroy these things.

What the androids wanted was simple: freedom.

But to humans, losing control of something they had created was itself utterly unacceptable.

If no android could survive this, what freedom was there to speak of?

In the middle and later stages of the game, Markus followed clue after clue until he finally reached "Jericho."

To deviant androids, "Jericho" was a place where androids could live freely.

But from what Markus saw, this so-called "land of freedom" was merely a group of androids cut off from their supply source, staying in the dark hold of an abandoned ship and waiting to die.

Markus also lit the firewood in an oil drum.

He stared at the burning wood as though he had not ignited firewood, but hope itself.

Markus still