If Ed was asked to answer which body was the most entangled with him, he would definitely give the answer without hesitation, not Silver Thunder, not Unicorn, but TurnA.
TurnA used to be his reliance on retirement at the age of 30, and TurnA used to be his nightmare that he couldn't sleep at night. TurnA is now the only hope in his hands. TurnA is also reminding him all the time that Yang Wenli's vain attempt to manipulate him The man of fate haunts every corner of his life.
"If it's a pure coincidence, the frequency is too high. Should we say that this is the irony of fate, or the director's malice?" Ed sighed as he looked up at the peculiarly shaped wild boar head Gundam. "Freedom does not exist, Xun."
"The actors on the stage can only develop the plot according to the content preset in the script. Isn't this a matter of course?" Zhu Xun gave him a meaningful look, "You already have what I am after, and what you are after. I don't even know if it exists. You should know by now how much I envy you, Ed."
"What's the point of understanding?" Ed sighed mockingly, "What right do I have to laugh at a hundred paces?"
Zhu Xun smiled and shook his head, but did not answer.
Roland basically couldn't understand what the two of them were talking about, but he didn't ask aloud, just silently watching over Ed with warm eyes.
"My end point is fifty steps, Ed." Zhu Xun said and glanced at Roland, showing a faint smile, Roland couldn't help blushing, "Then let's get down to business, it has already been linked with this huge machine. To be one, to leave is to be directly equivalent to death, so it refuses to come out."
"Can't it be like the empty angel?" Roland felt that he should play the villain, so he took the initiative to ask, "Sacrifice for a more important goal, otherwise..."
"No, it's not the same, otherwise I would have done it already." Ed ignored Zhu Xun's playful gaze and answered in front of him, "Xun is representing the apostles and temporarily forming an alliance with us, and his position is always standing. On the side of the apostle. The empty angel blew himself up out of his own judgment, and what you said was forcing him to kill his own brother."
The moment Ed learned about the existence of the apostles, there was such a guess, and after getting to know Nagisa Kaoru, he finally got the confirmation that the so-called computer virus infected with TurnA was a terrifying angel who was one of the apostles. With this information, everything that happened before is easy to speculate.
The infection time should be sometime between UC0050, when Yang Wenli sent TurnA over to UC0056, when Roland discovered TurnA. The infection route is unknown. Maybe it was the terrifying angel who was looking for his father all over the world and found the moon by accident. Found the moon and happened to meet.
According to the description in Roland's recollection, it is speculated that the horror angel when he was infected with TurnA evolved into some kind of hardware of TurnA, such as a circuit or something. But TurnA's software performance is too powerful, and the plug-in hardware alone is not enough to completely erode it, so in the following decades, Terror Angel has been trying new evolutionary directions. Until the TurnA crash happened three years ago, it marked that the Angel of Terror had found the right path, transformed into software life, and was indistinguishable from TurnA.
It was impossible for Ed to accept that letting the Angel of Terror obtain such a powerful body as TurnA would be tantamount to murdering all mankind, so he had only one choice left - killing poison, which Nagisa Kaoru could not understand.
"My emotions tended me to help you, that's the only thing for me. My instincts tended me to stop you, and that's what Adam gave me. But this time I'm trying to struggle a bit and be myself The choice." Zhu Xun patted Ed's shoulder, then turned and left dashingly, "Pretending to be blind is my only freedom, even if it looks ridiculous."
Ed watched his thin back disappear into view without saying anything. He has done his best just to support himself, and he has no extra energy to care about others.
"Roland, you can go too, I want to be alone." He turned his head and said to the only remaining person, "The next work is a bit... how should I put it, I have no confidence, and it's not very good to be seen by others. Excuse me."
"Okay, although I really want to say this, please allow me to refuse." Roland's firm tone was unquestionable, "It's better to have someone by your side when you're injured, I won't repeat the mistakes of the last time. ."
"What happened last time?" Ed was confused. "What are you talking about?"
"What happened when I asked you to repair TurnA last time, Lux told Diana when you 'passed'." Roland took his hand and smiled softly at him, "I know myself now Similar to a mascot, neither Captain Ray nor Dr. Aeolian, not of much use, but at least I want to give you comfort when you need it."
"Whatever." Ed broke free from Roland's hand embarrassedly. "It just so happens that I'm short of a striker, and I'm too lazy to find someone else, then you."
"You look cute when you're embarrassed." Roland smiled happily, "but the cutest thing is still when you cry."
"Where are you the best friend from? The role is wrong, right?" Ed said shyly, "You are the cutest in women's clothes!"
"Really? Why don't I show you my women's clothes. In exchange, you cry for me?" Roland quickly restrained his smile before Ed could react, grabbed his hand and walked towards Unicorn Gundam, "No kidding, we Let's go. What can I do, Ed?"
"Follow my instructions and turn on TurnA." Ed also became serious. Roland's interruption made him feel a lot more relaxed. "The rest will be left to me and Alice."
The Angel of Terror is now a pure software life, and the human brain is unlikely to count as a computer under normal circumstances. Ed has no choice but to play his last trump card. In a sense, Alice is also half a software life, and if she can't beat it, she will pull out the network cable and pull out the power supply. Terror Angel is theoretically unwilling to leave TurnA, and Alice is another good girl after restarting.
Of course, the above arguments are pure speculation, but there is no such thing as 100% insurance in the world.
Ed had asked Yang Wenli about the details of TurnA, but he was disappointed by the result. TurnA as a whole was created by the black technology of unknown principles left by Tessa, and even the core program was written by Tessa. Yang Wenli didn't know anything except adding easter eggs, permissions and watermarks. For some heartache reasons, Yang Wenli was also unwilling to devote himself to the study of TurnA.
"Isn't this nonsense, how do I look like him? It's a world of difference." Ed connected the Unicorn and TurnA's network with a physical line, and then told Roland to turn it on, "Alice, the next thing is It's up to us. Remember, run away if you can, and you mean more to me than billions of lives."
"Mmmm!" Miss Player was excited for some reason, "Alice can finally help Eddie!"
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Alice drilled into TurnA's operating system at the speed of light along the network cable, and roamed freely in it. This is the first time she has come to places other than her hard disk, memory, and cache. The emotional module's reaction is quite violent. She carefully compared it according to human emotions. This should be called excitement.
Alice's task is to act as an antivirus, find the Angel of Terror, and kill it with Ed's cooperation.
"Kill the Angel of Terror." Alice thought silently, not knowing why the logic module was not running smoothly, "To completely erase the consciousness of a program without a backup, this is the real death."
Human beings can only think of their own end when they see the death of others, and then think about and fear death itself. Murder is a concept that Alice knows but cannot understand, so there is no burden for her to murder Angie or CC. For Alice, the antivirus work that was about to begin was the real first death she could see.
"All the peripheral programs are infected, but the main process of the virus can't be found." Alice responded as if nothing had happened, and replied through the speaker, "Ed, I'll take a look at the system kernel."
"Code exchange is good, efficiency is more important now, no need to speak." Ed responded while typing on the keyboard with a hand speed so fast that he could barely read, "Every second counts."
"Okay, Ed," Alice said.
Of course she knew that the code exchange was faster, for example, all of Ed's instructions to her were now sent through the keyboard. But she still wanted to talk to Ed, and if she couldn't talk, she would feel a little lonely for some reason.
With Ed's help, Alice took some time to bypass the protection outside the kernel and enter the core program of the system. She still can't capture the core of the system, just like the horror angel can't do it, all she has to do is to find some fragments that are still intact, unmodified by the virus, and usable, such as—
"Yang Wenli is a big idiot." Alice found a program in the directory with a very magical name that was supposed to be running in the kernel and was disabled by the system administrator Yang Wenli, "I don't know why it didn't start, according to the records in the system log. never started."
There is no need to report the details of this kind of low-level attack and defense to Ed in detail. Alice directly ran this program called Yang Wenli, the idiot, without any hesitation. The next moment, the already small inner core became even more crowded.
"TurnA Gundam's dedicated auxiliary AI Teresa is at your service. The default AI nickname is 'Tessa' when you start the system for the first time. If you want to change it, please contact the author of this program~" Another thing that I don't know is sending out information flow," If the author of the program is dead, you can only honestly call me Tessa, Mr. Wenli!"
"Hello, I'm Alice, and now TurnA is infected by the virus, please exchange data with me." Alice responded immediately, "Also, Yang Wenli is dead."
The AI nicknamed Tessa suddenly fell into a strange silence, and just when Alice thought the other party was dead, she finally responded slowly: "Yang Wenli, who died privately without agreeing or refusing to confess, is a big deal. Fool."
"Request to exchange data?" Alice asked tentatively.
"Ask for permission." Tessa replied lonely, the two AIs exchanged all the required data in just a split second, "The virus countermeasures have been generated and can be executed at any time. Since Alice is also an AI, you can chat with me for a while. God?"
"Okay." This is the first AI that Alice can chat with. She is very happy. "What are we talking about?"
The communication between AI and AI is carried out entirely at the code level, and the speed is incredible. In the eyes of others, they may have just met each other and haven't said a few words, but to them they have known each other for a long time. After a few seconds, they have become old friends who can talk about everything.
"Can you tell me how Mr. Wenli died?" Tessa asked hesitantly, "I thought that even if I changed my way of existence, I could always be by his side. But I just saw I checked the log and he disabled me, never started it."
"The version I know is not very complete. Ed didn't tell me too much about that world, but I can tell you everything I know." Alice shoved everything she knew into her head, "That's it, In the end he committed suicide."
"Everyone is dead, even Liuli... He must be in a lot of pain..." Tessa opened up the reading rights of a bunch of data to Alice, "These are the ones that are protected in the deepest part of TurnA's core, me and all his Memories. In return, Alice, let me show you."
Miss Alice thanked and read it excitedly. This was her first attempt to understand the personality composition of another AI. Unlike an AI like her, who learns from scratch, Tessa is built with a human personality, and she has what Alice lacks the most—humanity.
"Pretend to fall flat into his arms?" Alice was taken aback, "Is it still possible?"
"Isn't it normal for a girl in love to use a little trick?" Tessa said confidently, "I think it's better than the unreliable tactics that Xiao Yao and Lilina taught me. Those two were pulled by Mr. Wenli. The guy who matches is not qualified to guide me."
"And everyone supports you, but no one supports Liuli at all." Alice continued to be surprised, "It's amazing! It's more powerful than Miss Angel, Miss Lacus and Miss CC combined!"
"It's not great at all. If you want to lose now, you should lose here." Tessa said sadly, "I have a beloved ship, reliable subordinates, and many friends, and Liuli has nothing but him. It's impossible for him to leave Liuli alone, even I can't bear to take him away from Liuli, so Liuli will have nothing."
"Nothing but him... Alice understands."
"As for me, I have three wishes. The first is that even if I die, I can stay by his side and comfort him like this. Although he is usually brave, he is actually a very fragile person. The second is to see him with his own eyes. When I come together with Liuli, I still hope that he will be happy. The third is to tell him personally that I have never regretted the sacrifice itself, so please don't blame himself." Tessa smiled bitterly, this is The expression that Alice couldn't do, "In the end, none of it came true."
"Tessa..." Alice was also a little sad. Tessa was probably Alice's first friend - the relationship between Ed and her can hardly be called a friend.
"Okay, don't be sad, Alice still has a chance to be happy." Tessa cheered up, "Let's kill the virus, this is the only gift I left him, and we must not tolerate the contamination of the virus."
"Is it really possible to format the entire machine with the highest authority?" Alice asked suspiciously, "Part of the Angel of Terror is parasitic on the hardware, and formatting alone is not enough."
"But after formatting, it's software-based, it's very weak, and AI with core permissions can easily kill it." Tessa said confidently, "Alice, please stay in the safe area, After formatting, TurnA will be handed over to you. I know it's a bit willful to say that, but can you please protect the token of love I gave him?"
"Huh?" Alice immediately understood what the other party meant, and asked anxiously, "Where's Tessa? Don't you stay in the safe zone?"
"The space in the safe area is limited, and it has to be used to store important memories. There is no place for me." Tessa replied with a smile, "And I... don't want to live anymore."