The moment Aroro finished speaking, all four of them turned to look at him hiding in the corner.
Under everyone's scrutiny, especially as Ye Lin's gaze suddenly grew intense, Aroro instinctively swallowed. He almost lost the nerve to continue.
From his perspective, there was actually no difference between humans and the Rebels. To him, they were all monsters.
So being human was not important. Anyone could be human. "Human" was nothing more than a label.
Seeing how nervous Aroro was, Ye Lin crouched down and motioned for him to continue:
"Aroro, do you mean that the Rebels' consciousness might not have come from humans, but from Buddha?"
"Humans didn't enslave the consciousness of their own kind. They enslaved Buddha instead. So in Eve's eyes, they're more human than humans? Because Buddha was human, or rather, the previous generation of humans?"
The wording was convoluted. After he finished, Ye Lin frowned deeply, as though a possibility had occurred to him.
But contrary to his expectations, Aroro shook his head and cautiously spoke:
"Yes and no."
"Lord Ye Lin, what I mean is, could humans be robots left behind by the previous civilization?"
"This world has been through many cycles. The civilization that created Buddha couldn't survive, but Buddha could. In the same way, the civilization that created humans couldn't survive, but humans could."
"Under the Sun's rays, humans mutated into real humans. To survive, they built robots. But after humanity went extinct, the robots mutated into real humans, and they created new humans..."
"Like an endless loop. Eve and the others probably discovered this, which is why she said they were human too, humans just like everyone else..."
Ye Lin froze for a moment. He had never considered that angle at all.
For a moment, An Ke and the others stood