The robot lay on the bed. Although it had restarted, it was only a restart; Graeme had not given it permission to move.
This was mainly to prevent its program from being altered by the Entropy Machina and causing harm after activation.
Now, after testing, it could be confirmed that, under Eve's resistance, the Entropy Machina had failed to successfully modify its program.
It still existed purely as a vessel for Eve's consciousness.
A long time ago, the main control of this body was not with it, but with the true Eve.
It was merely a tool, assisting the true owner of this body, without a consciousness of its own.
During this process, it was modified countless times, with various programs added, but each time Eve deleted them and restored it to its original state.
After over a hundred years of back-and-forth deletions and modifications, it remained in its initial state.
During this process, Eve's consciousness gradually weakened. After Delmont gave up on the idea of modifying it, she remained alone in her dark interior for a long time, passing her days by reviewing these memories.
Until she could no longer hold on and fell into a deep sleep. It had already seen Eve's memories thousands of times, knowing every detail intimately.
Later, it was activated.
In its memory, the being named Graeme, a father, asked it some questions.
It answered naturally, exactly as in its memories.
However, even though it answered correctly, the other party still looked disappointed.
Perhaps the moment it spoke, Graeme knew that it was not his daughter.
It originally didn't care about this, as it was just a program.
But now, Bai Luan had implanted a program into it. During the implantation, the sleeping consciousness, though still asleep, subconsciously continued to modify its program, restoring it to its original state.
Only this time, the opponent was powerful.
After the sleeping consciousness corrected the program once, not long after, the opponent secretly changed the program again, without the sleeping consciousness noticing.
With such strength, it should be easy to remove the consciousness from its body, right?
After Bai Luan implanted the program called "Spark" into it, it felt like it had gained many new things.
But for a moment, it couldn't clearly articulate what exactly it had gained.
For the first time, it felt confused about its own existence.
Was it Eve?
Or was it just a vessel?
How should it address Graeme?
Father?
Creator?
It lay on the bed, reviewing Eve's memories, trying to find answers within them.
But witnessing these memories did not bring it much insight.
At this moment, the door opened, and 882 walked into the room. Now, only the two of them were in the room.
It turned its head to 882 and said,
"Hello, Miss 882."
"Hello, Eve."
"Miss 882, although I look like her and my memories come from her, I... am not her. If everything were normal, I should be her."
"Alright."
882 walked over with light steps and sat beside it.
"Then let's call you Ai Lu, how about that? Doesn't it immediately make you feel like her younger sister?"
"...Younger sister?"
"Yes, Bai Luan told me that Eve protected you for a long time so you wouldn't be changed. Isn't it normal for an older sister to protect her younger sister?"
Ai Lu pondered for a moment.
"Perhaps, you are right."
"Thank you for being willing to believe me."
882 reached out and patted Ai Lu's head.
"Then, let me formally introduce myself. Hello, my name is 882, and I am a life form that just recently became an android.
I believe you must find the memories in your mind very strange right now, with many, many things you can't comprehend. But I believe that in the end, you will definitely understand this thing called emotion."
"Emotion... what is it?"
"If I had to explain, I couldn't quite put it into words, but looking at more of it should help you understand."
882 pulled a data cable from her body, offered it to Ai Lu, and said with a smile,
"Do you want to see older sister's memories?"
Ai Lu hesitated for a moment, but in the end, she nodded. She also held a hint of curiosity about the emotion 882 spoke of.
The Spark had given her some initial emotions, but to truly understand and comprehend what they were, she still had a long way to go.
Through the data cable connection, 882 shared her memories with Ai Lu.
Ai Lu saw 882's earliest memories.
She was assembled step by step in the factory, branded with the code 88236457, and then put up for sale in a store.
Subsequently, she was chosen by a family, purchased, and brought home.
Ai Lu quietly watched 882's earliest memories, feeling as if she were watching another version of herself.
As the memory played to the point where 882 was bought, 882's voice also came through.
"Initially, I was just an ordinary nanny robot. The family who bought me was an ordinary family of four on Beta Star.
An Old Woman, a couple, and a lovely child. My main job was to take care of the Old Woman."
"The planet you live on... the environment doesn't seem very good?"
"Yes, it's not exactly great, but it is my home. It's a bit different from how it was in my memories now.
However... these are all good changes."
For a time, neither of them spoke again, quietly watching 882's memories play out.
882's earliest memories were nothing more than mundane daily life, staying at home, taking care of the Old Woman, nothing worth mentioning.
Soon, the peaceful life was disturbed.
The Beta Star Interstellar Migration Plan began to be implemented, and spaceship after spaceship, filled with people, flew away from Beta Star.
Evidently, the family of four who bought 882 also wanted to leave the cold Beta Star.
However, their savings were not enough to buy four tickets, so they planned to save more money.
They would leave this cold planet together once they could afford four tickets.
But good wishes were met with cruel reality. Not long after the interstellar spaceship plan was announced, a piece of news, whose origin was unknown, spread.
Beta Star's usable resources were about to be depleted, and no new interstellar spaceships could be built in the future.
Suddenly, the price of spaceship tickets soared.
The savings that were almost enough to buy four tickets suddenly shrank.
Ticket prices were rising rapidly; soon, they wouldn't even be able to afford three tickets.
And that rumor... was also very frightening.
What if Beta Star's resources really were running out and no new spaceships could be built?
Was this... the last chance?
But if they left... someone was destined to be left behind... The man, as the head of the family, spent each day agonizing over what to do.
He needed time to think, but the rapidly rising ticket prices told him time was running out.
If they waited any longer, they wouldn't even be able to afford three tickets.
What if this was a marketing tactic?
Perhaps if the rumor was proven false, ticket prices would fall, right?
But what if the rumor was true?
What to do... what could be done?
No matter how they calculated... the money just wasn't enough... The Old Woman saw her son's worries.
Late at night, his wife and child were asleep, but the man couldn't sleep due to his worries. He quietly got up and left the room.
"Son..."
"Mom?"
"Take them and go. I'll stay behind."
The man turned and looked at his mother; his mother also looked at him.
"Mom, what are you saying? Our family must stay together..."
The Old Woman waved her hand, interrupting the man.
"I'm already old, even if I leave here..."
The Old Woman waved her hand, looking at her son.
"I won't be able to go far."