"Professionalism?"
Jack's dark red electronic eyes stared at the hologram. The scars on his face seemed to have solidified. "I came back from the Deep Blue World and holed up in the recycling stratum as a gang leader. I served as a hired thug for Quantum Corporation. Is that professionalism?"
"Oh, ideals?"
"It's desire."
Jack knocked his own chest. "To be the head of a miner in the Deep Blue World, mining tens of thousands of meters deep every day. Or to return to the big city, free and unrestrained, doing whatever you want. Anyone with normal desires would make the same choice as me. I paid a great price for this. I relied on a bit of luck to come to Xia City. "
Yan Yongbo was a bit surprised. He wasn't surprised by Jack's choice, but rather his attitude. Now wasn't the time to pour out his heart? He believed that Jack definitely had some other goal.
"So … …"
"So I'm very annoyed. I've been in Xia City for over three years. Quantum Corporation usually doesn't contact me, but there are always some people who support the business. I can go do what I like. It's very comfortable … … until you came back from the Deep Blue World. "
Yan Yongbo raised his coffee cup and gestured to Jack. "That's truly an honor."
Jack laughed. "You came to excavate the Stargate, right? Hehe. If the second Deep Blue World succeeds, it will be a great achievement. But it has nothing to do with me. I've seen it for a long time. The Apocalypse Laboratory's Androids will never have a chance to shine. Anything that can be mass-produced is a consumable for those people. There are no exceptions! "
The expression on Yan Yongbo's face froze for a moment.
Jack grinned at him and spread his hands. "Since it's a consumable, professionalism and whatnot is too laughable. You say that my mission is of the highest priority, but you probably don't understand. I've dealt with over twenty test subjects over the past three years. Every single one of them has been confirmed as a defective product by the laboratory … … Do you understand what this means? "
Yan Yongbo didn't say anything. He drank his coffee. The raised cup perfectly concealed the changes in his expression.
Jack didn't care. He didn't expect Yan Yongbo to respond in the first place. He had a stomach full of things he wanted to say. "This means that this combat arena built on the recycling layer was originally a garbage recycling station. These test subjects shouldn't have any damned 'awakening'. The value of their existence was to provide basic data that might never be used, and then naturally be destroyed.
"So, the test subjects are trash, and I'm the janitor of the garbage factory. At most, I can use their remaining value to have some fun. No one in the lab has ever paid attention to this place. Do you understand? Never! Regardless of whether the data I uploaded to the cloud is real or fake, the lab won't investigate it because they won't check it at all. I can dispose of any of my subjects whenever I please. In fact, I do it all the time. "
Yan Yongbo paused the cup of coffee by his mouth for a moment before putting it down. He faked a sigh and said, "I think the laboratory will have a headache over the awakening of a defective product, especially Professor Li Wei. Perhaps this represents a major change in the direction of his research … And Jack, you're quite different from my impression of you."
"What did you think I'd do? Rejoice over returning to the Deep Blue World?"
Jack's bionic eyes seemed to ignite with fire. He used his finger to forcefully poke his head. "The moment Rui Wen's ability awakened, the priority of the processing chip's mission was triggered. Do you know how I felt? The second half of my life that I'd planned for myself suddenly collapsed because of this' accident 'of hers. Of course, I'll remember that among the elements that caused the accident, you had a part to play in it. You were the one who lured those two people over. "
"Two people?"
Yan Yongbo captured the key information, but he absolutely wouldn't take the blame for such a thing. "Wait a minute, Jack. Do you remember? I told you to take care of the fellow in the off-road vehicle before receiving your reward. But what did you do? You paid in advance! And then? When I was providing fire support for you, that big guy was still alive and kicking. You definitely don't know how shocked I was at that time! "
What he was implying was that if you had taken care of your opponent earlier, the current situation wouldn't have happened.
As for the so-called 'credit', to hell with it. After all, strictly speaking, if Rui Wen's awakening tonight was considered inevitable, then Yan Yongbo and Jack, who had caused new problems, wouldn't be able to escape blame.
In reality, the laboratory would definitely investigate this matter if the matter was blown out of proportion. If it wasn't properly resolved, then Yan Yongbo would have to face an extremely embarrassing situation when the time came. He still wanted to talk to Jack at such a tense moment, which meant that he wanted to tie up loose ends. However, Jack had already deviated from this topic.
Jack still displayed an extremely shocking frankness. "Yes, I admit it. I paid the price for a moment of stupidity … … Oh, you can record this sentence as proof. In any case, I've already said too much. Do I need to repeat myself? "
"No, thank you."
Yan Yongbo admitted that he already couldn't understand Jack. This fellow had turned into a madman with self-destructive tendencies just because he wanted to return to the Deep Blue World. This was a troublesome situation that he hadn't anticipated.
No, wait. An emotional altered human?
Where were the preset emotional templates?
Yan Yongbo was well aware of the principles of altered humans. Overly "deep" modifications had already destroyed their thought, feelings, and the ability to coordinate their actions. It was like a bad band. Not only would it not be able to play a pleasing melody, it would instead become a noisy disaster.
In order to overcome this problem, people had used a "disc" that had already been recorded to replace the role of the band.
The melody in the disc might be pleasant to listen to, but it was also mechanical and rigid. There wouldn't be any impromptu colorful variations. From the very beginning, the altered human's emotional pattern had been clearly defined.
Therefore, altered humans could become emotional, but it had to be a "recorded" emotion. It had to be an emotional rhythm that was played after the preset conditions were met.
Yan Yongbo found it hard to imagine how stupid a production line would have to be to install "self-destructive tendencies" into it. Or could it be that this bro had been infected with a virus?
"Jack, are you alright?"
"Of course. I've never felt this way before."
"… …"
From what Yan Yongbo could see, at this very moment, the glow in Jack's electronic eyes was clearly radiating a crazy flame.
"You should understand my position now. In order to leave the Deep Blue World, I can do anything. No matter how stupid or crazy, it's no problem. So … … "
"So?"
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