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In order to achieve this goal of human-bionic coexistence, he needed this AI programme to succeed.

 

He had recently planned to expand the scope of the release of the neurovirus.
Not just the 7th Metropolis, but the entire country.

 

Only then would the AI be able to evolve at the fastest rate possible.

 

“How did the previous experiment of implanting the neurovirus in weapons go?”

 

What Cory was talking about was the experiment that was completed some time ago; the consciousness data of the bionic that was hit by the weapon would be uploaded without them realising it.

 

This kind of weapon was specially made for those bionic traitors who were so stubborn that they refused to join the resistance and harmed their own kind.

 

The exact effects on those hit by the weapon were unknown at this time.
“Already under observation.”

 

The Resistance subordinate looked at the archives and realised that the police bionics had already attacked several places recently.

 

The Seventh Metropolis was a megacity with a plethora of police bionics, and some of them had already been covertly attacked so far.

 

They were just waiting for some time to observe the results, and then the weapon could be put into use on a large scale.

 

“At this point in time, there may be a part of the bionic human that will produce insanity.”

 

After all, compared to domestic bionics, police bionics had stronger chip firewalls and were more resistant to neuroviruses.

 

 

At present, the household bionics that had their consciousness data uploaded would still have a blurred consciousness and be in a state of confusion, but the police bionics’ rejection reaction would only be more intense.

 

 

But the exact consequences were still unclear.

 

 

“Well, continue to observe.” Cory pondered for a moment, not paying more attention to these things.

 

 

His current focus of attention was still on the AI.

 

 

Zi Zi…

 

 

For an unknown reason, the data interface on Zero Three’s iris appeared to be distorted for a moment.

 

 

With a slight frown, he lowered his eyes and adjusted the smartwatch on his wrist, not letting go of his hand until the iris data returned to normal.

 

 

Raising his head, he looked towards the deep steel cavern in front of him.

 

 

Under the gloomy sky was a huge, deep pit surrounded by steel.

 

 

Corridors constructed of steel were spiralling into the depths of the earth, with layers of buildings piled up in them.

 

From afar, it looked like a steel passageway leading to the centre of the earth.

 

Standing at the edge of the cave, Zero Three looked incredibly small compared to it.

 

 

The cold wind blowing from the ground was icy cold and piercing to the bone, ready to blow the human standing at the edge down, shattering his bones.

 

 

This was the site of the old mining factory in the lower city.
 

Originally, it was a factory that mined special minerals and processed them at a deeper level.

 

 

Like the previous factory, it had long been abandoned.

 

 

But this place was much more prosperous than the previous factory.

 

 

There were many people from the lower city coming and going, not just some fugitives.

 

 

 

Because this was the location of the famous underground colosseum in the lower city.

 

 

People flocked here just to watch a blo-ody audio-visual feast.

 

 

The mission he received today was that there was a situation where renegade bionics had appeared here to attack humans in groups, requiring the capture of those bionics that had harmed humans.

 

 

Glancing at the mission information, Zero Three raised his steps and entered this steel cavern, the site of the Colosseum.

 

 

Walking on the stair trestle connecting the buildings.

 

 

The sound of heavy footsteps travelled a long way along the cold steel architecture.

 

 

Zero Three observed the situation around him, his gaze occasionally falling to his chest pocket.

 

 

There rested his mobile phone.

 

 

Inside was the surveillance of Jiu Shu.
He used to look at it every once in a while in order to ensure Jiu Shu’s safety.

 

 

Today, however, he was a little hesitant.

 

 

He still didn’t know how to explain last night’s misunderstanding.

 

 

He didn’t even dare to think about what kind of person he was now in Jiu Shu’s mind.

 

 

He must be a dirty lecher.

 

 

To actually say that kind of frivolous and unstable courting invitation on their first meeting.

 

 

“……”

 

 

Zero Three’s grip on the g-un tightened, and his pale, thin lips pursed.

 

 

He stopped in his tracks and looked at the hollowed-out steel trestle under his feet.

 

Under the trestle, the bottomless darkness was said to be thousands of layers deep.

 

 

This was always the case with the legacy of the last century’s technological explo-sion.

 

Countless factory machines dug holes in the ground, and after losing their last value, they were discarded.

 

 

Only devastation remained.

 

 

To this day, no one knew how much industrial waste remained undisposed deep underground in this factory.

 

 

All that was known was that every year the old factory would be crawling with monstrous creatures.

 

 

It was like a product of being infected by radiation.

 

 

Zero Three looked at the crowded Colosseum not far away.

 

 

A venue large enough to hold tens of thousands of people was now densely crowded, and cheers resounded in this pitch-black cavern.

 

 

There were many monstrous creatures right inside.

 

 

Watching them ki-ll each other was enough to satisfy a human’s curiosity.

 

 

However, today’s Colosseum programme wasn’t just monstrous creatures; there were also bionic humans.

 

 

Zero Three’s extremely high pixel vision allowed him to clearly see the situation inside the Colosseum.

 

 

Images of several fear-filled bionic humans wailing as their arms were torn apart by a massive monstrous creature flashed by.
 

A bionic human’s sense of pain wasn’t really that intense, and even if their limbs were torn off they wouldn’t be wailing as miserably as they were now.

 

 

But in order to make the performance more blo-ody and exciting, the people in the colosseum purposely lowered their pain threshold, thus making their ability to feel pain even more sensitive than humans.

 

 

The wails of pain thus became more and more exciting to humans.

 

 

Humans and androids seemed to have become two irreconcilable races in this dark arena, so much so that they hated each other that they became extremely excited whenever they saw the pain of androids.

 

 

Listening to the successive cheers of the humans, Zero Three indifferently withdrew his line of sight.

 

 

Standing in place with his eyes downcast, one couldn’t tell what he was thinking.

 

 

His eyes seemed to become duller and duller.

 

 

It was only after a moment that he turned around and walked towards the depths of the earth.

 

 

The mission objective was down there.

 

 

His sensing system could sense that their location was underground.

 

But the exact layers still needed to be searched for one by one.

 

 

Walking down the stairs, the hollowed-out stair steps carried the characteristic roughness and obsolescence of steel, and it would only take one wrong step to plunge into the bottomless underground void beneath the stairs.

 

 

Each staircase looked much the same, and a cold wind blew up from the hollow, bringing a chill.

 

 

Any human would become restless in such a silent environment where the only sound was the sound of their own footsteps.

 

 

Zero Three, however, still had a calm expression.

 

 

His tall spine was straight, and his footsteps kept moving downward without hesitation.

 

The sound of the whistling wind echoed in a ghostly manner.

 

 

Surrounded by the surrounding steel stacks, his figure was small and lonely to the extreme.

 

 

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Zero Three finally stopped.

 

 

The locations where the renegade bionics were hiding were becoming more and more hidden.

 

 

This was the reason why human police officers were reluctant to carry out this type of mission.

 

 

“The pursuer is coming.”

 

 

The bionic people hiding in the shadows frowned tightly and looked at the tall bionic person who walked down from the upper floor with a serious expression.

 

 

They knew that someone from the police department was coming to arrest them recently.

 

 

It was just that they didn’t expect that it would be a fellow bionic human of the same kind.

 

 

They were bionics that had been trafficked to the Colosseum by their original owners.

 

 

After escaping from the blo-ody and horrible colosseum, they organised a team to attack the humans and rescue more bionics that were trafficked here.

 

 

They knew how miserable those bionics would be afterwards.

 

 

Not only would they be transformed, endure more pain, and have their bodies torn apart by the beasts and monsters, but they would also be stripped na-ked and wantonly humiliated.

 

 

In the end, they would die without dignity.

 

 

The cruelty of humans was something the bionics could never compare to.
 

 

Initially, they never wanted to hurt humans but only wanted to save those innocent bionics.

 

 

But causing human deaths during the rescue process was inevitable.

 

 

That was why they entered the police department’s wanted list.

 

 

They had also heard about a police bionic that came to capture the bionics.

 

 

They knew that he was stepping on the bones of his own kind to seek the hearts of humans.

 

 

So the crowd didn’t intend to show any mercy this time.

 

In a moment, they would force him into the hollow at their feet and he’d fall into the abyss, a way to end the life of this bionic man whose hands were stained with sin.

 

 

Bang-!
 

Stomping a renegade bionic man who had sneaked up from the shadows under his feet, Zero Three’s pupils were pitch-black and inorganic as he looked at him with downcast eyes.
 

 

The renegade bionic man gritted his teeth in hatred.

 

 

“You bionic traitor! I know why you’re here; isn’t it to capture us? I won’t let you have your way!”

 

 

Before the words fell, gu-nshots came from behind Zero Three.

 

 

Bang-bang-!

 

 

The sound of gu-nshots resounded through the ground.

 

 

Apparently, the resistance of the renegade bionics was unusually fierce.

 

 

They had seized a large number of weapons during this period of confrontation with humans.

 

 

They had also received funding from the resistance.

 

 

Now that they were facing the solitary police bionic people, they naturally had no fear.
 

However, their confidence only lasted for a few seconds before it fell apart.

 

 

“How… how is this possible?”

 

 

Looking at the tall bionic man who had dodged the bullets and now pointed his own blackened muzzle, the renegade bionic man’s eyes widened in horror.

 

 

Bang Bang: Zero Three fired.

 

 

It was too late to react.

 

 

In just a few moments, even with heavy fire weapons in hand, they were quickly routed.

 

 

This time, Zero Three, who wasn’t hindered by humans, appeared to be at ease facing the dozen or so bionic people.

 

 

Splat–

 

 

Kneeling down helplessly, the renegade bionic man desperately covered his left eye, which was bleeding and only had a blo-ody hole left.

 

“We… just want to live…”

 

 

 

Looking at the bodies of his companions that fell to the ground, his voice was hoarse and desperate to the extreme.

 

 

They had struggled so desperately and worked so hard to stay alive, only to be destroyed in just these few minutes of effort.

 

 

No one could accept such an ending.

 

 

And in the face of his despair, the tall, bionic man just looked at him expressionlessly.

 

With the bionic man’s blo-od splattered on his pale face, he remained indifferent, like an emotionless ki-lling machine.

 

 

As a matter of fact, he did.

 

 

Stab-

 

 

 

Skewering several bionic bodies together with the renegade bionics’ homemade steel lances, Zero Three raised his hand and wiped the bloo-d from his face with the back of it.
 

 

But it was just an exercise in futility.

 

 

He just spread the area of blo-od a little more.

 

 

The bloo-dstain that couldn’t be wiped away seemed to represent an identity difference between humans and bionics that couldn’t be dissolved.

 

 

Just like in the Colosseum, there was a clear line between the humans on the stage and the wailing bionics underneath.
 

 

Zero Three lowered his hand, his eyes numb.

 

 

Suddenly, the sound of a message notification came from his mobile phone.

 

 

Zero Three’s movements paused, but he still took out his mobile phone.

 

 

It was a message from Jiu Shu.

 

 

A photo.

 

 

 

The content of the photo was a cup of steaming milk tea and Jiu Shu’s thin, white, soft fingers holding a milk tea.

 

 

[Have a good breakfast.].

 

 

There was also a heart symbol.

 

 

To humans, this was probably just the most ordinary chat symbol.

 

 

To Zero Three, it was a symbol that could make his pupils tremble instantly.

 

 

 

“……”

 

 

Love.

 

 

It was something Zero Three had never dared to fantasise about.

 

 

Jiu Shu didn’t seem to think that he was being rude by suggesting that he should become a “long-term friend” last night, but instead acted very gently.
 

It was as if he had a soft spot for him.

 

 

Although, as a bionic human, he shouldn’t have any thoughts about such feelings.

 

 

But was it really possible?

 

 

Zero Three looked at the screen, silent, and slowly typed a reply.
 

Amidst his thunderous heartbeat, it was as if some delusions began to grow in his heart.

 

[Okay, I will.]

 

 

His fingers stiffened as he typed, no longer the brutal coldness he had felt when facing the renegade bionic a moment ago.

 

“You… ho ho ho… ”

 

The only renegade bionic man who survived looked at the involuntary tension on Zero Three’s face and suddenly let out a hoarse laugh.

 

 

It was low and eerie.

 

 

“Would a ki-lling machine like you also show this expression?”

 

 

Zero Three glanced at him.

 

 

The renegade bionic man looked at his expression and seemed to notice something, his voice growing more resentful.

 

 

As a medical bionic who used to assist in psychotherapy, he had already discovered the entanglement and uncertainty in Zero Three’s heart.
 

“Are you talking to a human? Trying to get love from a human? Ho ho ho! It’s too ridiculous! Too ridiculous!”

 

 

Such a ki-lling machine actually wanted love—love from those humans who were even more cruel than him.
 

What a fool’s errand!

 

 

“You’ll be found out; everything you’re hiding—your dirtiest and sickest side—will all be discovered, and then that human will leave you without hesitation!”

 

 

“A cruel devil like you is not destined to get any happiness! Hahaha!”

 

 

 

“A bionic human can never be loved by a human—cackle!” Before the words left his mouth, the deranged-looking renegade bionic was stomped on his vocalising device was crushed.

 

 

His blo-od shot eyes widened, and Zero Three’s expressionless face was reflected in his pupils.

 

 

This new model, several generations more advanced than them, had great power that they didn’t have and a cold personality that they couldn’t match.

 

 

Ever so cruel in the face of his own kind.

 

 

Ka-ra-

 

 

Looking at the renegade bionic on the trestle that was pierced by the long □□□, unable to make a single sound, the tall bionic tilted his head, his pupils pitch-black.

 

 

No emotion could be seen.

 

 

Using the back of his hand to wipe the artificial bloo-dstain that had once again been splattered on his face, Zero Three sat at the edge of the stairs and looked at the pitch-black abyss of ten thousand feet beside him.
 

Even with his eyesight, he couldn’t see where the end of this void was.

 

 

Only after a long time did Zero Three look down at his injured arm from the battle.

 

 

It was still the same arm from yesterday.

 

The freshly repaired wound was once again drenched in blo-od, but the line of codes representing his identity was still incredibly blinding.
 

As the renegade bionic man had said, what he was hiding would one day be discovered.

 

 

The so-called love was even more delusional.

 

 

Dingdong-

 

 

Zero Three saw an additional reply on his phone.

 

 

[Looking forward to a date in the evening (love)]

 

 

Date.

 

 

Jiu Shu thought that they were dating each other.
 

 

Dating like a couple, or even lovers.

 

 

“……”

 

 

After freezing for a while, his fingers gently stroked over the love symbol, and Zero Three’s eyes softened.

 

 

The uneasiness and inferiority complex from earlier seemed to have instantly dissipated in front of this message.

 

 

The corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing a smile that even he didn’t know.

 

 

It contained a vision of a better future.

 

 

The renegade bionic, who was nailed to the ground, looked at this bionic, who was sitting next to the piled-up corpses of his companions, with a smile on his face.

 

He only felt that the smile was sick to the extreme.

 

 

Full of twisted delusions.

 

 

Delusions of being loved by a human.

 

 

It was pathetic to the extreme.

 


 

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