"That's your former commander?"
"Probably sort of. I used to take a lot of missions under her when I was doing comparison tests."
And suffered a lot because of it, but that bit of suffering back then had completely turned into her combat experience by now, so it couldn't be said that it was useless.
"Where is it probably sort of... That said, with the news I just heard, do I need to notify Agent Helian now? Those people seem to be getting more and more numerous. If it continues like this, our manpower might be attacked by those guys." Although Statesec's agents were already staking out the surrounding area, they could only keep an eye on them.
Before those guys did any factual acts of violence, neither Statesec's agents nor Griffin's dolls had any right to drive away those personnel.
"No need. Ange must have notified Herian long ago. It's not like the two of them don't know each other. I guess it won't take more than a few minutes for Helian's side to transfer all the doll echelons that are close to those guys." M16 naturally didn't need to worry about this matter.
Griffin's headquarters was in this city; here, Griffin's intelligence was still very well informed and accurate.
"Is that so? But after we leave, the security of that neighborhood..."
"Why do you think so much? The Universal Anything Company is not a soft persimmon. Their family is very big; where do we need these Griffin's dolls to worry about? And even if the dolls are evacuated, isn't there still Statesec's agents?"
It was enough to deal with some low-intensity conflict incidents.
"Well, indeed. It seems that I'm still not experienced enough regarding this aspect of things."
"Come on, I'd rather not have any experience in this area at all." M16 waved her hand, looking at the crowds that had gathered in the distance and whose clamor was gradually getting louder, and somewhat helplessly took a sip of her drink.
This time's routine patrol was almost over here. Fortunately for the two of them, it was already time, but the other doll echelons that hadn't yet arrived or had only just gone out to prepare for the change of defense weren't so lucky.
Because the mission was terminated in the middle of the day, for them, the result is that the number of times they have attended this time will be null and void, and then the reward that was already not much will be less again.
M16 and RO635 naturally didn't know how much salary would be deducted from the other dolls, but they were in a much better situation than the dolls under Griffin's direct supervision.
In the end, the two of them are still 16lab's dolls, and they only came to Griffin to help Persica collect doll combat data and assist her in further researching the technology of third-generation dolls.
Therefore, they took a share of the money from Griffin's side, and 16lab's Persica's side would also give them a share of the money, of which 16lab's money was still the big head, so the two of them didn't have empty hands like the other dolls.
At the very least, RO635 still has money to go to the movies, or spend money on HD video discs of special features and such things...
Uh, M16... this guy is purely drinking too much, throwing all the money into the pubs and bars, the sun will only come out of the west if there is money left.
Returning to Griffin headquarters, the two did not stay in the headquarters for too long, just reported to Helianthus and returned to 16lab.
Since staying in the headquarters wouldn't put them to use, they might as well go to Persica's side to look at the status of the M4. They didn't know if Persica was actually serious about the work.
The good thing is that although Persica is usually unkempt, when it comes to work, especially for their own production of the M4A1, she is very dedicated.
When the two of them went back, Persica was filling herself with coffee sugar water while testing the M4A1 for the exact state of her neural core.
"Well, why did you two come back? Didn't I say the M4A1 wasn't much of a problem?"
It shouldn't take long for M4A1 to wake up again. Sangvis Mastermind's forced invasion of M4A1 had caused some damage to M4's neural core, the core's exterior, fire control core, and imprinting system's area of attachment had sustained quite a bit of damage.
However, these were minor problems. The main body of the neural core had not suffered any damage, and as long as she repaired those less important areas, she would be almost ready to reboot the M4A1. But after booting it up, it would take some time to reattach the M4A1's fire control core as well as the imprint system to her.
Otherwise, M4A1 would immediately turn into an ordinary doll that doesn't even know how to hold a gun, and can't even necessarily be counted as a civilian doll. After all, although civilian dolls are civilian, most of them are multi-talented, and several useful skills may be found on one doll.
But M4A1... well, maybe she can was a little bit of good at cooking? And then personality is better?
Anyway, these are all small problems. Fortunately, RO635 and Gentiane and the girls appeared in time, and did not allow the Iron Mastermind to cause further damage to M4A1.
"There's nowhere else I want to go if I don't come back. I accompanied SOP2 and AR15 around the city a few times before, and I've gone almost everywhere I can. So instead of wandering around outside with nothing to do..." or even the possibility of being surrounded by those crazy protesters, it would be better to run to Persica's side to touch to laze around.
Not to mention the fact that Persica's side takes care of the food! You can also order your own food!
Persica, who was planning to reconstitute a large cup of 'sugar water' for herself, heard M16's words and held her coffee cup in her hand still.
"What! What! The two of them, SOP2 and AR15, are back! Why didn't the two of them come back to check on me!?"
Somewhat frantically growling at M16 in front of her, Persica now had the heart to dismantle M16!
It was so hard to get a chance to study the vectors created by Renault up close, but now it was all gone!
"Ahem, this, AR15 is still Griffin's most wanted. I can't blatantly bring her here. As for SOP2, that guy is having too much fun and didn't even think about it... not right, SOP2 has sent a lot of messages, haven't you seen them?"
M16 suddenly recalled that SOP2 sends those photos, so Persica's cell phone must have them. She didn't understand why Persica didn't notice the movements of SOP2 and AR15 at all. In terms of universal rationality, seeing two dolls like their own daughters return, there was no reason for her to have been soaking in the research lab and not even come out of the nest, right?
At least go out and take a look, then run over to say hello.
"This... maybe my cell phone is broken and didn't receive them?" Persica wiped the sweat from her forehead, recalling that she had dismantled her cell phone while researching its communication function.
She finally found a way to take it apart, but she hadn't had time to put it back together before M4A1 was sent back, so the dismantled cell phone should still be lying in a nook or cranny of her research room.