Why it never ends

Chapter 368 Machines
"Looks like you've found your way with the disease."

"...There is no such thing." Hesta raised his head, "Have you finished your question?"

"almost?"

"Then I have some questions to ask you."

Anna leaned back slightly, she leaned on the couch again, her eyes fell on Hesta intriguingly.

"You said."

"What's your relationship with Ava?"

There was a look of surprise in Anna's brow, which was exactly what Hesta wanted to see—a reaction that convinced her that she had asked the right question.

"Oh," Anna stretched out every particle in her tone, "Did you misunderstand something?"

"Misunderstanding?" Hesta smiled with downcast eyes. Although Anna's words flickered, she could see that the other party's eyes never showed any panic. "I have shown my utmost sincerity... Anna."

"what do you mean?"

"I won't talk about my illness with an insignificant person... But Miss Chiba trusts you, and you are accompanied by someone related to Ava..."

"Who are you referring to?"

Hesta suddenly grabbed Zero's wrist beside him.

"Long time no see, Palan."

The four eyes met, and Zero's face remained expressionless.

"Did you recognize the wrong person?" the girl whispered.

"Really, Palan is also a pseudonym?" Hesta didn't mean to let go at all, she slowly stood up from the wheelchair, and forced the little zero to the wall, "Then what should I call you, 'eclipse' '? Is that your real name?"

Zero blinked innocently, then turned to look at Anna with doubts in his eyes.

Looking at the calm face of the little girl in front of her, Hesta also hesitated for a moment. She couldn't connect the lively and smiling Palan with the girl in front of her, but as long as she remembered the first time she met in the independent prison In the case of a solar eclipse, these hesitations evaporate immediately.

She had witnessed a solar eclipse transform into another Hesta in front of her eyes.Appearance, height, body shape... There is nothing that the eclipse cannot adjust, and this is the key to her being able to help herself escape from birth.

Anna shrugged slightly, "Jane, even though you are Mercury Needle, it doesn't mean you can bully children—"

"Don't forget that I'm a mental patient now," Hesta interrupted Anna, "I might not only bully children, but also middle-aged people."

"Oh, so would you do that?"

Hesta sat back in the wheelchair, "...I can only say that I will work hard to control myself."

"Thank you for your efforts," Anna said with a smile while propping her cheeks. "Yes, you are right. Eclipse and Palan are one person...but zero is zero, and she is not either of them."

Anna waved lightly at the girl, "Zero, come and help me."

The girl returned to Anna and carried her into the nearby variable speed wheelchair.

Anna adjusted her posture in the wheelchair, "Tell me, Jane, how did you notice it?"

"Eyes," replied Hesta. "I had this feeling the first time I saw Palan, but I didn't realize at the time what it was that was familiar to me."

Hesta looked at Zero, "I took a closer look at her eyes until I went downstairs just now. Although the color of the iris is different, the texture of the base is very special. Even if I haven't seen it before, I can see that it is completely different from the eyes of ordinary people. different."

"...I knew it." Anna laughed. "Indeed, only the visual system is the part that cannot be replaced quickly. Maybe I should be grateful that the world has not started to use iris locks on a large scale..."

She took Zero's hand.

"Then, let me re-introduce Zero's identity to you." Anna said softly, "Zero comes from... the true golden age."

The room fell silent, Hesta almost held her breath, and finally realized, "Is she a simulation robot?"

"I suggest you not to use such words." Anna's eyes were rarely serious for a while, "It will give you some illusions that you shouldn't have, and thus misplace yourself and others."

Hesta didn't understand. She was just about to ask what the illusion was, when she heard Anna say to Zero: "Go and make me a cup of tea, it's still the same as before."

Zero nodded quietly, and walked straight out along the central axis of the room.The moment she passed by Hesta, she didn't even look over there, as if they were complete strangers to each other.

Hesta kept looking at Zero until her back disappeared behind the door.

"I thought you would be more surprised," Anna drove her variable-speed wheelchair around the desk, "Usually people will have a process of acceptance after they know the origin of zero..."

"Ah."

"Are you really not that surprised, or is it a good disguise?"

Hesta didn't answer immediately, she looked away.

"...A long time ago, I asked Miss Chiba a question."

"uh-huh."

"At first, I found out that the base's underground hospital could provide us with real prosthetics. A new body... or a prosthetic body, strong enough to fight against chelates, and even better than flesh and blood."

"Well, this is a miracle from the golden age, but only a part of the mother city has this technology." Anna replied.

"I know," Hesta replied, "I was just thinking, why the base never seems to consider making a batch of combat prosthetics? Every salvage operation is dangerous, but Mercury Needle has to do it, because only in this way can it New descendants are constantly being discovered...but making a combat machine doesn't need to be so troublesome at all, it can be mass-produced."

Anna nodded again, and she listened to Hesta's analysis with great interest, "Then what do you think?"

"I thought about one possible obstacle—maybe it's possible to make a body, but it would be very difficult to make a consciousness."

Anna nodded thoughtfully, "Well...it seems to be so."

"But it doesn't make sense," Hesta said softly. "One of my former instructors, Arnold, died of melanoma when he was almost 70 years old. If the base offered to dig out his head and put it in a completely In the artificial body, he will probably agree... He will quickly regain the feeling of being 20 years old in the new body, and I know he will not resist this.

"In this way, people don't have to be obsessed with creating consciousness, because there are always available brains in the world."

Anna nodded happily again.

"So, I'm not surprised at all by Zero's existence. If I have to pick out something surprising, it's why I didn't see her until today..." Hesta looked back at Anna, "You haven't Answer my question, what is your relationship with Ava?"

(End of this chapter)