"Thank you for your kind words, General."
"No good words, just telling the truth." Kim Karam was doing the usual end-of-day checks to make sure Ed didn't cause any damage to TurnA's systems, "This kind of check has no value at all except for the symbolic meaning, you can cause Destruction is the greatest progress."
Today is the fourth day of work to begin the analysis of TurnA, with General Kim Kalam taking full responsibility for the operation. After a few days of getting along, Ed can have a normal conversation with him like this. Apart from his appearance, this person is actually not that scary.
Half of the time has passed, and the analysis work itself has not made any progress. The difficulty is as high as that of a primary school student who can only use four arithmetic operations to calculate calculus. All core systems are encrypted by an algorithm that has never been seen before, and any access to programs and documents is completely closed. The complexity of the encryption algorithm has exceeded the upper limit of the capabilities of any existing computer.
At his level, without any background knowledge, it is completely impossible to crack this system by himself, and what has made him persist until now is just unwilling.
"Even if there is no gain, there is always an idea." Jin Karam finished the inspection and left the secret warehouse where TurnA was kept side by side with Ed. "Not as a researcher, but as a person, an NT intuition."
"Malicious, full of malice." The more Eddard thought about it these days, the more terrified he became. "Deliberately handed the unprotected nuclear bomb launch button to a child who was fighting with other children. His Highness Roland's self-control It's just... I kind of understand what the Moon has been up to all along."
"This is something that can only be done by people with a really strong heart. It took me a long time to understand." Jin Karam nodded frankly, "I'm not as good as him."
Although the entire TurnA is completely encrypted, all the permissions for basic operations and weapon use are completely open, without any restrictions, and even cannot be locked at all. As long as Ed is willing, he can run away while everyone is not paying attention, and open the Moonlight Butterfly, and there is no obstacle for everyone to return to before liberation overnight.
However, the objects of Moonlight Butterfly's influence are all existing human scientific and technological achievements. If nothing else, as long as it is fully turned on, the entire moon and everyone in PLANT will die directly. And TurnA himself has a way to not be affected by the moonlight butterfly, which means that the person who created this thing is not afraid of the moonlight butterfly at all.
It is simply to tell you bluntly that you are not allowed to learn any technology from it, you are not allowed to use it to fight against me, you are only allowed to use it to kill each other. This kind of naked malice is obviously overflowing. Whoever left TurnA on the moon had absolutely no good intentions. If a random person with little self-control or evil thoughts discovers it, maybe everyone is now living in caves and slash-and-burn farming.
But the question arises again, why do people who have such miraculous means use such roundabout means? Is it just plain bad taste, or is there any reason why it can't be done? The latter is not the scope that Ed can guess. There are too few clues and no clue.
Now it has really become unfounded. Even if someone tells him that the earth will disappear tomorrow, he can't find a reason to refute it. The most desperate thing is that he has no choice. Facing TurnA every day is like fighting an unreasonably powerful person, he doesn't even know who the other party is, and the other party doesn't even need to know who he is.
He now understands the so-called absolute neutrality of the Diana couple. With such a big sword of Damocles hanging over his head, who has the time to get involved in the petty troubles of your ZAFT federation? Wouldn't it be more painful to say that humans are killing each other now? As for winning the understanding and support of the two major forces, just look at how PLANT treats the suspected alien fossils that the father of the Adjuster brought back from Jupiter. For politicians, what doesn't happen now means nothing.
It was really uncomfortable to sleep on the crater every day, but what made him even more uncomfortable was the feeling of powerlessness that he couldn't hit the opponent's knee when he jumped up. Roland said that he was a mediocre person who knew it and didn't know why, but how could he be so strong? Isn't it the same as knowing why? I don't know why...
"General Jinkaram," the traveler also wants to save face, how can he be so embarrassed, "please let me talk to Her Majesty the Queen and Her Royal Highness, I have an idea, I need more time!"
I'm just a little sorry for CC, I said it's been a week, I hope she doesn't get angry. If it was her, she would pretend not to care and ask "Why should I be angry"
He is still hesitating whether to tell CC about everything he has learned here and his own inferences. Although Diana said that it was okay to tell the most trusted person around him, but he always felt that there was something missing with CC, and it seemed that it was not enough to talk about this. Everyone is so familiar with him that it would be a lie to say that he didn't have any ideas, but CC's attitude towards Geass's concealment still gave him a little prick.
But this kind of thing is going to be suffocated by yourself, so it is probably the best choice to chat with Alice, right
In a blink of an eye, it's the end of December, and next week is New Year's Day.
"Then Dr. Lingos," Diana's voice had a rare trace of nervousness, and Roland took her hand, "please tell us the conclusion."
In the simply decorated briefing room, Roland, Diana, Jin Karam, and Harry were sitting. These four are the highest level of the entire moon, and all of them are insiders of black technology. Regarding the black technology, according to Jin Karam, there are other things besides TurnA, but Ed is not their "own person" after all. It is a great trust for TurnA to be completely open to him, and he will not complain. .
"All the research in the past few months has been carried out entirely on the Moonlight Butterfly." Ed explained in front of the PPT, "My ultimate goal is to get the Moonlight Butterfly's performance, principles and countermeasures. The first is the performance, according to the test And calculating the engine output of TurnA has so much.”
A long list of zeros appeared on the screen. Except for Diana, all the people present were familiar with MS-related data. Seeing so many zeros, I could not help but take a deep breath.
"The mechanism for this order of magnitude of output is still not deciphered. In the extreme case, with the sun as the center, the coverage of the moonlight butterfly just reaches Jupiter, and Jupiter also happens to be the boundary of human activities. This makes it difficult to I believe it was accidental, as long as someone turned the Moonlight Butterfly to its maximum power, all human civilization would just be destroyed."
Ed couldn't help looking at Roland. The description of Moonlight Butterfly inside TurnA is extremely vague. Roland didn't know the ultimate power of Moonlight Butterfly back then. When his homeland was invaded, what kind of restraint did he have to destroy only one fleet? Roland noticed his gaze and smiled at him. In other words, Roland seems to like to laugh very much, and when he smiles, he is very good-looking, unlike someone who is expressionless all day.
"TurnA's moonlight butterfly is realized by a kind of nanorobot that can self-proliferate, and TurnA's self-healing function and the function of not being eroded by the moonlight butterfly are also realized by nanorobots. These three kinds of nanorobots are actually the same kind of robot. Different performance under different programs. And its principle-" Ed paused, his eyes passed over the four big men, "I don't understand at all."
For a split second, he thought Harry was going to rush up and beat him. This is NT's intuition, probably not an illusion.
"Even if you don't understand what the formula means at all, you can sometimes spell the correct answer with back-and-forth deformation." But he couldn't help but want to make a fool of himself, "Although what I'm doing is countless times more complicated than this, the principle is The above is the same. In general, I did something that I knew and didn’t know why. I would like to thank Your Royal Highness Roland for your inspiration.”
Roland politely replied, but the blank expression betrayed him.
"I used—" A big ellipsis appeared on the PPT, "it took hours to explain, and I don't know if you can understand the method. I successfully separated the proliferating nanorobots and made them think I'm still on TurnA. The program to trigger the Moonlight Butterfly is encrypted and stored in TurnA, so these nanobots can't be used to do this, but the other two functions are automatic functions that don't require a trigger."
"That means we have the means to counter the Moonlight Butterfly?"
"The device equipped with this nano-robot can slowly repair itself, and is completely unaffected by the moonlight butterfly. The way of use is somewhat similar to the PS armor." Ed nodded to Diana with relief, it seems that everyone listened very seriously. , "But unfortunately even the abridged version of the nanorobot still has a high demand for energy, at least nuclear power for MS, and at least battleship-level output for batteries. My results are the above, although they are insignificant. Output, but better than nothing, right?"
"This is the best New Year's gift I've ever received." Diana stood up and held Ed's hand, with a bright smile that filled the room for a while. It was the first time Ed saw her smile. Roland and Jin Karam also stood up excitedly to express their gratitude.
"Well, I still have an unkind request." It shouldn't be too much to mention this at this time. "Can I make a copy of the nanorobot and take it with me?"
"Of course." Roland replied without hesitation, "No one is more qualified than you."
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Today is the last day of Universe Century 0084. There is a boring New Year's party broadcast on TV, and the hosts and stars don't know a single one. At PLANT's New Year's party, I still knew a Lux, what's the point of watching a show full of strangers. Ed and CC sat side by side on the sofa, absently thinking about Gnaku during the day, not hearing a word of the voice on the TV.
"This is the first time we spend the New Year together, right?" CC's voice pulled him back to reality, "What are you thinking?"
"I'm not happy that I'm going to leave for a month, Alice." Today, the installation and debugging of the nano-robot on Yinlei has finally been completed. I'll go back and get a set for Blue-Eyes White Dragon. "After I upgraded her with a new equipment, I finally managed to Make her happy."
"… make her happy." CC repeated inaudibly.
"Ten! Nine! Eight! Seven..." Unconsciously, it was time for the countdown to the new year. Looking at the noisy group of people on TV, a sense of alienation came to my mind—this is their new year, not mine.
"The most lively at this time is the sound of cicadas on the trees and the sound of frogs in the water; but the liveliness is theirs, and I have nothing." Some words poured into his mind from the depths of his memory, and he unconsciously spoke Chinese in a low voice. read out.
"...One! Zero! Happy New Year!" The loud shouts overwhelmed his own voice, hoping CC didn't hear it clearly. He was about to look at her expression when the person beside him suddenly stood up.
"Go to bed earlier, it's already past twelve." CC grabbed the pillow and walked to his room, "Or do you have the habit of staying up all night in the New Year?"
"I usually don't celebrate New Year's." He turned off the TV, and the room suddenly became quiet, as if the excitement just now was fake.
"Oh, yes." CC said expressionlessly, standing inside the door, "Happy New Year and good night."
With a click, the door was closed.
"Happy New Year… "
Ed sat on the couch for a while, and finally decided to go to sleep with nothing to do. If I knew earlier, I wouldn't watch the New Year's party with her. It's better to go to bed at ten o'clock.
One o'clock.
The light from the side of his face woke him, who had finally fallen asleep, and Edd subconsciously wanted to reach out to turn off the light on the bedside table, but he couldn't move as if something heavy was on him. He opened his eyes in a daze and saw CC straddled on top of him, still wearing the nightgown that night. what is this? Talking about life
"Is it really a dream?"
"Not really."
"What are you doing in the middle of the night?" Ed was still half asleep and didn't understand the situation. "My CC can't be this cute?"
"Didn't you find that we lost a line this year?" CC leaned down gently and whispered in his ear, his warm breath made his scalp tingle, and his drowsiness disappeared all at once. "Or are you so retarded?"
What lines? He doesn't have the habit of memorizing CC quotes, who knows? As he reasoned, he tried to flip through the memory, and he didn't have it this year, but every year. They get together less often, and what she would say every year, again under this circumstance...
"...!" Ed swallowed the non-existent spit, "This year, you can't attack at night... Is this a foreshadowing?"
"At least at this time, take the initiative." CC showed a charming expression on his face, his emerald green hair spread out at will, and his golden pupils reflected a coquettish luster under the dim bedside lamp. It looks particularly attractive, "I'll leave it to you next?"