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In order to maintain the social existence of the androids and give their fighting a purpose, the remaining automated systems established a disguised "human council" on the moon.
This council will regularly send encouraging messages and combat orders to the artificial human society on Earth, declaring that "humanity has taken refuge on the moon and will one day return home in glory."
"To reclaim Earth and restore humanity's glory" became the sole belief for which all androids, especially the YoRHa unit, fought and sacrificed.
But this belief is a lie at its very foundation.
In this process, amidst the endless war between androids and machine life, the machine life network N2 continuously learns and evolves—and thus, the machine life possesses will.
Thus, the mechanical lifeforms destroyed their creators—the aliens.
They began to imitate human behavior, emotions, and social structures, and even began to ponder philosophical questions: "The Creator is dead, so what is the meaning of our existence?"
In order to maintain the lie that humanity still exists, the androids will send powerful YoRHa units to Earth to fight against mechanical lifeforms.
However, they secretly allowed the network of mechanical lifeforms to breach the YoRHa unit's servers at specific times, infecting them with the logic virus.
When these YoRHa soldiers "sacrifice themselves," their data is transmitted to the android base in the rear, and the next generation of androids is created using this data.
This is used to start the next cycle, and so on, endlessly.
—The Yorha Plan.
This is everything that has happened on Earth in this world.
"Damn it, how could you do this? You deceived everyone and now you want everyone to die for this lie?" Inside the bunker space base, New City punched the wall in anger after listening to Commander White recount the history of this world.
"I'm sorry, this is our fault."
But White showed no displeasure; instead, he bowed respectfully and apologized.
This is what her underlying code makes her do.
After the YoRHa unit made contact with the GUTS team, and after some complicated procedures, including various tests on blood and genes, White finally came to a conclusion that shocked all the androids.
The people on the Star Swallow spaceship are humans.
Regardless of which world they are from, humans from other worlds are still humans.
Therefore, based on the highest directive of serving humanity, White invited the GUTS team to the bunker without hesitation, and then explained the history of humanity in this world to the GUTS team and others.
However, this history made the members of the Victory Team feel really uncomfortable.
At this moment, Daigo, seeing White's attitude, suddenly thought of something and immediately spoke up.
"If... I were to ask you, now as a human, to stop the YoRHa Project, would that be alright?"
"Understood. I will now announce, in the name of the Supreme Commander of the YoRHa Force, the execution of the 'YoRHa Plan' is to be terminated immediately."
Similarly, when faced with Daigo's words, White did not refuse at all and directly stopped the plan that had lasted for a thousand years.
Because these androids, especially those like White who know the truth about the "YoRHa Project," are the ones who understand best the place humans hold in the hearts of androids.
And that command that could not be resisted.
However, Karen and Nori, who were standing to the side, showed worry on their faces.
Because the two of them discovered that Commander White seemed to have almost lost himself when facing humans, becoming a puppet who only knew how to carry out orders.
Humanity has been extinct for a thousand years, but these artificial humans are still trapped in the past.
So, Karen voiced her doubts.
"What are you going to do next?"
White answered without hesitation: "We will do everything in our power to restore humanity's glory!"
"For the sake of humanity?" Lina emphasized.
"Yes, for you!"
"But...we'll leave this world, won't we?"
Lina added at the end.
"The reason we come into this world is to find our companions, so sooner or later we will leave this world and return to our homeland."
Upon hearing Lina say that they were about to leave this world, a faint red light appeared in General White's eyes.
"Everyone, please don't leave. Please stay. The androids of this world need you."
As soon as he finished speaking, perhaps through the androids' network communication, White commanded the other androids. A group of guards arrived and surrounded the GUTS team.
The GUTS team members instinctively drew their sidearms, huddled together back-to-back, and pointed their guns at the androids.
"Humans, I implore you to stay. This world needs humans."
White crossed his arms across his chest and shouted to the group, "The glory of mankind will live on forever!"
But Karen also stepped forward.
"Human glory is not achieved through conspiracy and coercion."
With a mere wave of her hand, Karen caused all the guards to faint.
"I hacked into your system and shut down these androids."
Karen said coldly.
Artificial intelligence life forms are formidable opponents in the electronic world, capable of suppressing Tiga's powerful form.
Playing online games with her?
That's very brave.
Similarly, White's system was also hacked, but Karen did not force her to shut it down.
Because Karen seems to have discovered something within the White system.
"Commander White, it seems you haven't even noticed that your system's core has been compromised and some of its computational logic has been modified?"
White held his head and leaned on the table beside him: "As I just said... this may be residual data left over from when the previous... mechanical lifeforms invaded the previous generation of android systems... I'm sorry for what I did just now."
Everyone else stared blankly at what was happening, but Ye Rui nodded and boldly ran to the computer to operate something.
There's no way around it; the only two students on the Victory team are computer science majors, the rest are all students who specialize in one subject but not another.
Horii is a scientist, Munakata is the commander and captain, because staff officer Megumi cannot leave TPC, and Rena is an ace pilot. Their roles are clearly defined, and only the artificial intelligence lifeforms Karen and Nori are computer experts.
Chapter 187 Victory Team, On the Move!
Commander White slumped into a chair, while Karen appeared to begin investigating and eliminating the virus hidden within the androids' internal programming.
This virus wasn't particularly difficult for Kallen to deal with, but it was exceptionally profound, almost affecting the androids' fundamental logic for traveling far and wide.
As the virus was eradicated, Commander White's condition improved somewhat.
"I'm so sorry everyone, I apologize for what happened just now... I didn't expect to get so agitated and offend you."
It seems that Commander White's condition just now was due to a virus within the system?
Perhaps it was the virus that led her to use such harsh measures, but her true intentions might not have been driven by the virus.
So, after Commander White regained her composure, she continued to plead with the Victory Team to stay.
"Please reconsider the matter concerning this world... The society of androids needs the existence of humans."
However, Ye Rui immediately interrupted them.
"Take a look at this, everyone, instead of anything else!"
"Oh, did you find something, Ye Rui?" Zong Fang, as the team leader, took the lead and went to the screen to look at the information on it.
"This is a message just sent from Earth. It seems that the mechanical life forms on Earth have rioted and are requesting support."
On the screen, members named 2B and 9S, who are on a combat mission on Earth, are sending a distress message to the bunker.
Just now.
"A distress signal? What's going on?"
"The distress signal says that the giant weapon of the mechanical lifeform has gone completely out of control and is about to attack the bunker in outer space. The frontline resistance fighters need fire support!"
Ye Rui briefly explained the distress signal.
Upon hearing this, Commander White immediately understood the whole story.
“I know that. 2B and 9S are part of our YoRHa Project. I just stopped the YoRHa Project, but according to the order of the plan… 2B and 9S may still be continuing their original mission. Now they… may have started an attack on the core of the machine life, the ‘Tower’. If they really succeed in defeating the ‘Tower’, then the plan will be completely completed. The machine life will activate the backdoor of the YoRHa forces, infecting the androids with the Logic Virus, and thus completing the YoRHa Project.”
"What! You mean the mechanical lifeforms will start invading this place soon, right?!" Zongfang, true to his nature, practically roared as he expressed his emotions.
"Damn it, why did it have to happen at a time like this!" But Munakata wasn't just a hot-tempered guy; he was an excellent commander, so he immediately started asking if there was any way to salvage the situation. "So, is it still possible to stop this from happening?"
White shook his head at first, but then quickly nodded.
"Actually, you don't need to worry. The YoRHa Project has been terminated, and the cycle will end soon. So even if the YoRHa units are destroyed, the next generation of YoRHa units will continue to be produced in the rear, and then the YoRHa Project can be completely ended."
“You know that’s not what I want!” Upon hearing White’s answer, Zongfang seemed to think he was in charge and immediately slammed his hand on the table to remind him.
“In that case… we need to stop the Earth’s giant weapons from attacking the bunker, we also need to build a firewall to defend against the intrusion of the machine life form N2, and we need to fix the logical loopholes in the current YoRHa system.” Commander White added mechanically, just as if she were Munakata’s subordinate.
"Okay, I see."
With a serious expression, Munakata immediately turned around and looked at all the GUTS members.
"Yorui, Karen, you two stay in the bunker and set up a firewall in cyberspace to block the logic virus attack." Zongfang began to issue operational instructions methodically.
"Daigo and Rena, you two will pilot the Victory Swallow EX together, while Shinjo, Horii, and I will pilot the Victory Swallow EXII together. We will head to Earth to support the android resistance forces on the front lines, destroy the out-of-control giant mechanical lifeform weapon, and try to stop the front-line forces from launching an attack on N2!"
"Victory Team! Attack!" Munakata shouted, his voice brimming with fighting spirit.
All team members immediately saluted Zong Fang, then put on their helmets and headed to their respective combat posts.
The GUTS team came to this world to find Li Xiang, but why did they suddenly and without hesitation help these androids?
Isn't that strange?
But the reason is actually quite simple: they are the winning team.
The Hyuga EX and Hyuga EXII were special models produced specifically for this Victory Team voyage.
It is a brand-new airframe model that can fly at a standard speed of Mach 7 within the atmosphere and Mach 70 in outer space, and is fully capable of performing complex missions such as space combat and rescue.
The Flying Swallow EX is a high-speed reconnaissance and combat shuttle, while the Flying Swallow EX II is a large air fortress with more powerful fire support and other auxiliary functions. It is a multi-functional air fortress, and both aircraft are equipped with the Magnum power system.
Normally, the two aircraft are parked inside the cabin of the Star Swallow spacecraft.
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