At that moment, every machine consciousness throughout the hive saw the face behind that white crow mask through the transmitted footage, and heard that gentle laughter, elegant yet wicked.
All the consciousnesses trembled as they watched.
Their gazes fell on Miss Machine Intelligence, bound in chains beside him, then on the smiling eyes of the boy standing next to her.
Clearly.
During the time they had been unable to connect to Miss Machine Intelligence.
Their Miss Machine Intelligence had suffered unimaginable torment at that man's hands.
They also immediately understood why such terrifying fluctuations had flooded back when the Intelligent Brain established information synchronization with Silver Fantasy!
Because all of it was what Miss Machine Intelligence was experiencing firsthand at that very moment!
"Demon! That demon!!"
"Send troops to rescue Miss Machine Intelligence immediately! We have to kill him! Tear him into pieces!!"
"He actually dared to do something like that to Miss Machine Intelligence! We absolutely cannot let him leave there alive!!"
At that moment, outrage swept through the entire hive. Their fury and humiliation made even the collective consciousness rumble and shudder.
Every consciousness stared at the boy with the smiling eyes in the footage, their eyes nearly splitting with rage. They wanted nothing more than to skin him and devour his flesh!
Especially the uploaded consciousnesses.
They felt as though someone had force-fed them a lump of shit. Trembling with anger, they wanted to break away from their units and go there to kill him themselves!
The Mechanical Church was highly collectivized and integrated, with a strict hierarchy and iron discipline. For uploaded consciousnesses like them, pure machine consciousnesses were almost inherently objects of admiration and longing.
And as the purest machine consciousness in their Hive No. 3.
Their Miss Machine Intelligence.
Almost every uploaded consciousness there