After destroying the giant machine, Ejie finally had time to organize his thoughts properly.
That's why he directly revealed such information to 2B.
Yes, he knew 2B—how could he not know such a famous character? She was the protagonist from the Machine Era in the "NieR series" games.
When she considered him human and wanted to take him back for protection, he refused.
If it were other people who had played this game, switching places with him, they might excitedly accept the invitation.
After all, androids treated humans almost like gods, with such unwavering loyalty.
Even though humans had perished, they didn't forget the responsibilities humans had assigned them, and continued to war with machine lifeforms for thousands of years.
This showed how loyal androids were to humans, how much they revered humans, treating them like gods.
In a sense, they were gods, weren't they? After all, they were the creators of androids.
So, being invited as a human to the android base would naturally be incredibly exciting, because one would be the androids' only god.
Androids would obey every command—wouldn't that be thrilling?
But, would it really be that simple in reality?
With a deep analysis and understanding of the YoRHa troops' plan, Ejie didn't think that androids were still so loyal to humans.
Perhaps it could be said that humans were still highly respected beings in the hearts of androids, but they could only live in the past, only as history.
If they were still alive in the present, then sorry, that might not be allowed.
Because androids probably had their own ideas and wouldn't want a human standing above them.
Of course, this should mainly be the thinking of high-ranking androids; lower-ranking androids were truly dedicated and loyal.
The reason high-ranking androids didn't directly announce that the Human Council had long been a council in name only was because once announced, it would cause tremendous upheaval among androids.
Most androids understood their reason for existence as living and fighting for humans.
Once they learned that humans had long been extinct, they would think their existence was meaningless, leading to great chaos.
Therefore, the leadership fabricated the existence of a Human Council on the moon as a spiritual anchor for uninformed androids to continue living.
However, the lie about humans still existing would be uncovered sooner or later.
And now, it had already reached a dangerous point, hence the existence of the YoRHa troops.
They existed to give androids a new shot of adrenaline, to make them believe humans were still alive, to give increasingly confused androids renewed motivation.
Subsequently, the central government of androids would gradually begin to modify the cognition of grassroots androids, changing their perception.
Yes, the establishment of the android central government indicated a change in nature; androids no longer lived for humans but would seek their own path.
If humans were truly still alive, similar actions to the machine lifeforms exterminating their creators might occur later.
Therefore, Ejie might receive orders from the YoRHa Commander to have 2B kill him.
No, such orders wouldn't be issued because 2B was an uninformed android who would absolutely not kill humans.
Instead, orders might be issued to 'amicably' bring him back, and what the Commander would do to him then was uncertain.
Of course, this was assuming they could really take him back.
How could he not resist? And he could choose to exit this world.
So, he said these things to shake 2B's resolve, wanting to reveal the true purpose of the YoRHa troops and recruit 2B to his side.
Of course, by directly stating that he wasn't from this world, he was also expressing a willingness to cooperate with Commander White and her leadership.
Wasn't the so-called YoRHa plan meant to give androids a morale boost, to enhance their spirit, to make them believe that the humans they worshipped still lived on the moon?
With Ejie's appearance, he could well play the role of a human, without needing to invest so much or take such a roundabout approach to make androids believe.
He could directly stand in the open, let androids confirm he was human, and give androids affirmation and praise for their mission—wouldn't that be much simpler?
But cooperation was cooperation; complete trust was impossible, and they might dismantle the bridge after crossing the river.
Or perhaps they had no intention of cooperating at all and would thoroughly eliminate him, whether he was a human from this world or another.
Therefore, 2B and even the YoRHa troops were his recruitment targets, especially since the YoRHa troops were destined to be sacrificed.
The YoRHa troops were different from other androids; once other androids learned of this difference, they might become hostile towards the YoRHa troops, not recognizing them as androids or comrades.
Of course, all this was Ejie's speculation based on the assumption of maximum malice.
Perhaps androids truly still worshipped humans, including the leadership, and the appearance of a human would genuinely fulfill their spiritual anchor, allowing him to easily become the androids' god.
But such good fortune should be considered the least likely possibility.
One cannot be too careful.
Speaking of which, his neural thinking was somewhat sluggish now, so he stayed closer to A2, so she could send him back if he couldn't react in time.
The reason for his sluggish thinking was his recent use of psychic power.
No, it should be called a power similar to psychic abilities; the power he drew wasn't extracted from the Warp, and it wasn't even known if the Warp existed in this world.
The power he drew was in the material world, floating around like air.
But these things didn't feel like material substances, not something a regular microscope could observe.
This thing might be what magical novels call mana elements.
And this world indeed had some magical elements, with things called magical particles that could activate supernatural powers—it wouldn't be wrong to call it magic.
What he had urgently mobilized was to gather these forces to form a barrier, purely assembling magical particles into a shield rather than so-called magic release, thus causing a burden on him.
"Who are you?"
Such a voice came from the support unit beside 2B, presumably Commander White.
From earlier, he had noticed that this support unit was behaving somewhat abnormally, so he deduced that Commander White was monitoring through this machine.
"When asking who someone is, shouldn't you reveal yourself first? That would be more polite."
"You're right. Please wait about ten minutes, and I'll arrive."
So, Ejie looked up at the sky, seeing the sun.
From when he entered this world until now, this sun hadn't shifted angles at all, keeping the area in a perpetual dusk, with gentler sunlight.
The reason for this, he recalled, was something like tidal locking, causing one side of Earth to always face the sun.
But now wasn't the time to pay attention to these things; he needed to further shake 2B and 9S's resolve before Commander White came down.
He would tell them about how humans disappeared.