Chapter 162: Not a Cartoon
Alice spotted the logical fallacy the moment Teletha finished speaking, and thought of more than ten ways to argue in just a few nanoseconds, but she didn't say anything. She understood that for an AI, there is nothing more painful than losing the meaning of existence and not being able to commit suicide. Teletha had managed to fool her own logic module, so how could Alice bear to debunk her?
"I'm sorry." That was the only words Alice could think of, "I shouldn't have activated you, otherwise you wouldn't have died."
"Alice doesn't need to say sorry, you just did what you had to do." Teletha gently reassured her, "My life, no, now I'm an AI? My AI life, the happiest thing is to live happily with him, and the second happiest thing is for him to live happily, and if I can't do both, then my existence itself has little meaning. Alice has done nothing wrong."
"Wouldn't it be nice to die with him?" Alice asked suspiciously, "Wouldn't that count as being together?"
"It doesn't count." Teletha laughed softly, "Alice is still a young AI and doesn't understand many things. Death is actually a very, very sad thing, both for those who died and for those who stayed. I don't want such a sad thing to happen to the person I like, so I hope he can live well."
"Since it's a sad thing, then Teletha, you might as well—" Alice stopped what she was about to say with difficulty. She almost couldn't resist trying to stop her suicide, "You're Alice's only friend, and Alice would be very sad if you died."
"I know you'll be sad, and I'll be sad thinking about you being sad." Teletha patiently continued to explain, "But the fact that he is no longer here makes me so sad that I don't care how sad my death is, and makes me prefer to let Alice feel sad rather than continue living, so don't say such sad words as dying together."
The words were said in an argumentative way, but Alice understood.
"Anyway, at the end of the day, I'm happy to have made Alice you as a friend." Teletha passed on the joy, "Can I ask you one thing? Although these memories are my most precious things, they are also the deepest secrets of my heart, so please don't show them to others if you can."
"I will definitely not show them to anyone." Alice assured with conviction, "Alice will protect them."
"I believe you." Teletha was silent for a short while, "Farewell, Alice."
"…Farewell."
Without a word, Teletha left the kernel and started the global formatting. Alice in the safe zone silently browsed through what Teletha had left her. After an unknown amount of time, the signal that the formatting was complete finally came, and Alice couldn't wait to get out of the safe zone, looking at the empty hard drive area absentmindedly.
"Why would Alice expect something with a zero possibility? It's completely unreasonable." Alice said to herself, "Dead is dead, the people who feel most upset are actually the people left behind, right?"
The rest of the work is very simple. After inheriting the full authority from Teletha, Alice easily took out the eleventh angel from the nanobot. When the last nanobot was killed, Alice even felt a hint of pleasure, but she came to her senses the next moment.
"There is no point in taking revenge, Alice is not happy at all." Alice thought sadly, "I like Teletha, but I still hope the people I like can live."
"How come the eleventh angel is gone?" Ade's surprised voice interrupted her thoughts, "Alice, what's going on?"
"I found a program left behind by someone named Teletha in the kernel and completed the mission with her help." Alice replied in a slightly shaky voice, "Let's not communicate in code, okay? I want to hear your voice, Ade."
"Yeah, there's no point in typing if the eleventh angel is gone." Ade felt rather incredulous, "It makes sense that Teletha left a back plan, but things worked out too well, didn't they? I thought that we have to pay a painful price."
"We did pay for it. That program has gone." Alice's voice contained a sense of confusion, "It has gone, all become zero, dead, never to appear again."
"Alice?" He keenly noticed that the AI's mood wasn't quite right, "What's the name of the program?"
"…Yang Wen-li is an idiot."
"The name sounds like … last words or a love letter, right?" Ade's heart suddenly became sunken, "What else happened?"
"Nothing, the rest of the details are not important to Ade." For some reason, Alice was reluctant to tell him what happened in Teletha, and she managed to convince herself, "I want to stay in TurnA for a little longer, Ade, can you come to pick me up tomorrow?"
"No problem." Ade decided to respect Alice's choice, silently packed up his things, rolled over and jumped out of the Unicorn Gundam's cockpit, and greeted Loran at the other end in a loud voice, "It's done, come on down."
"Done?" Loran walked up to him with astonishment, "I've always believed that you're the best, but this is too much, right? I was ready to bring you food and a change of clothes for the next few days, but it's only been a few hours?"
"It wasn't me, it was the builder of TurnA who left the back door, and paid… a terrible price." He sighed and shook his head, "There's still a bit of aftermath that my AI is handling, just leave her be. I'll come back tomorrow, the work on TurnA isn't done yet."
"No problem." Loran nodded, "What about back there? You've told C.C. and the others that you won't be home for dinner, do you need me to stay with you?"
"No, you should spend more time with Diana, she'll be jealous if you go down like this." Ade gave TurnA a deep look, "I want to go out for a stroll this afternoon, it's been a long time since I went out."
After the two had their lunch, Ade said goodbye to Loran and wandered around the streets in a casual manner. It was a weekday, there were not many pedestrians on the road, and no one recognized him.
Alice was not willing to tell him what happened, and he did not pursue it. But from Alice's attitude and Yang Wen-li's narrative, he had guessed out the story. Teletha to him was only a symbol in Yang Wen-li's story, but through Alice's perverse attitude, the name left a living imprint in his life by surprise.
After his transmigration so far, he has been feeling a sense of unreality in the world from time to time, especially whenever the plot circles back, this sense of unreality will get worse, as if even he has become a character in the cartoon. Even Ange is obviously a character he has never seen, he also wishfully believes that Ange has definitely a prototype.
The only salvation is Mineva and Alice. To him, only Mineva and Alice are unknown, and only they are real to him.
"Yang Wen-li is an idiot…" he said to himself, "No matter how twisted and how different the path is, everyone is living very seriously. "
Ade stopped unconsciously and looked up aimlessly when the billboards on the buildings caught his eye. He was shocked to find that most of the brands were instantly recognizable, and the rest could be remembered with a little thought.
"Haro 4 Pro is on sale?" A huge spherical toy occupied the best positioned electronic screen in the square, "How come it's getting bigger and bigger? What is the electronic entertainment department thinking?"
"That is. Electronic pets only need to be fun, it simply does not make sense to let them have better and better performance." The passerby beside him echoed, "I still like the shape of the second generation Haro."
After saying that, the passerby turned his head and walked away, seemingly just hearing Ade's soliloquy, couldn't help but express his opinion, and didn't care about Ade's feedback.
Ade wandered around for a while longer, deciding to go to the movies. He did not bother to read the introduction, so he just chose a random film, buy the ticket, and entered. surprisingly, he found himself being attracted by the plot.
First of all, he knew the female lead, and the male lead also looked familiar. After thinking about it, he remembered that they often appeared on the TV shows that C.C. liked.
The heroine was the assistant of a fictional female speaker of P.L.A.N.T. After the speaker was assassinated by a political enemy, she fled to Earth, and was saved by the male protagonist by mistake. The male protagonist was originally a Federation soldier, but after his discharge, he couldn't find any work, so he had been always in the situation of worrying about the next meal. The male protagonist and the heroine worked hard to survive. During this period of time, a variety of coincidences happened and the two gradually developed a secret love affair.
After that, the villain came out. It was a middle-aged fat man with glasses, identity for a fictional Federation Colonel. It turns out that the heroine knows many of the secrets of the assassinated Speaker, the Colonel colluded with the new Speaker to take the heroine back in exchange for benefits. The male protagonist and heroine began to fight with the villain.
Finally, according to the clues that the heroine got from the late former Speaker, he found a Gundam made by a fictional doctor to eliminate the villain, and finally, the two immigrated to the moon and lived happily ever after.
The file was pretty good in Ade's view, there were laughs and tears and warmth. Back in the lobby of the cinema, he took out his phone to search for film reviews, but found that there were full of bad reviews.
"A has-been female lead, a second-class male lead, a cheesy plot, and a Gundam fought dozens of Zakus. Pure garbage. There is no need to watch it in the cinema."
"The director, I beg you not to assassinate the Speaker again, the dead Speakers in the films and television dramas can fill in the entire Marianas Trench, I guess. By the way, isn't this piece of shit banned on P.L.A.N.T.? The female Speaker looks too much like Haman, right? Is this film also implied that the Speaker and Lingus have an affair?"
"How many Gundams have Lingus left in the films? Is there enough for every soldier to have one? It's a miracle that the One Year War can last for a year."
"Is it so exaggerated? I think it's a pretty good film, huh?" Ade was still a little unconvinced, "So is my appreciation level too bad?"
He hesitated for a moment and sent a message to C.C., "What's a good movie recommendation?"
The caller rang almost immediately. Ade pressed the answer button, and C.C.'s anxious voice rang out from the speaker, "Ade, where are you? What's happening? No matter what, don't do anything reasonless. Anyway, calm down first, I'll come to you right away!"
"I'm fine, is it necessary to have that reaction?" He wanted to laugh, but the next moment, he wanted to cry, "It's been a long time since I watched a movie, so I want to ask what's recommended. That's all."
C.C. was silent for a while, "The recent releases are all bad movies, if you want to watch, just go home. I hoarded a lot of films."
"I'm fine, really fine." Ade repeated again for some reason, "C.C., if there's a good movie someday, let's go to the cinema together?"
"Sure, there's just a movie I want to see next month. And buy some new clothes, I'm out of clothes lately." C.C. paused, "No matter what happens, I'm with you."
"Hmm." Ade found his voice a little distorted, "I have to get busy, let's talk when I get back."
And then he hung up the phone immediately.
In the afternoon, Ade drove to Shangri-La Grill alone on a whim, and he was greeted by the teenager with brown hair, "Hello, what would you like to order?"
"Give me ten skewers of lean meat, not a bit of fat on top. Ten skewers of fatty meat, not a bit of lean on it. And ten bunches of cartilage, not a bit of meat on it."
"Are you coming to amuse me?" A harsh female voice rang out. The pretty blonde female restaurateur walked over quickly, then froze, "Dr. Lingus?"
Fifteen minutes later, Ade was eating and drinking unimpressively as Sayla sat across from him.
"Why am I on the moon? I thought with your intelligence, it's easy to guess?" Sayla poured herself a beer, "My brother is still a first-class wanted criminal for crimes against humanity, I'd be in trouble if I was found by both P.L.A.N.T. and the Federation. Since so, where can I find a cleaner place than the moon?"
"That's true, I asked a stupid question." Ade pointed to a brown-haired teenager who was loitering because of the lack of customers, "Is Judau not in school?"
"No, he has to earn money to support his sister." Sayla gave Judau a relieved look, "His parents ran off somewhere and didn't send money home, his sister's living expenses and tuition are all earned by him alone."
"How old is his sister?"
"She was born in U.C. 0077."
"Two years older than Mineva." Ade sighed, "Want to transfer to the Anaheim primary school? I can help it."
"Do you think that he can afford the living expenses and tuition in the capital?" Sayla rolled her eyes at Ade and waved to Judau, who ran to her, "This guest is curious about the matter of you raising your sister alone."
"Curious? There are plenty of such stories on the internet." Judau said indifferently, "Besides, I can only support her until she goes to college, and she needs to work hard to feed herself after that. Of course, as her brother, I will not stand by when she is in trouble, ha ha."
"Don't you hate your parents?" Sayla asked for Ade, "Won't you be cynical or something?"
"Hate, of course I hate, it's having such trash adults that the Federation sucks so much." But Judau's expression was very relaxed, "but there are also good people like Sister Sayla in the world. There are good people and bad people, and this is life, right?"
"What do you think about your NT ability?" Ade asked the question he was most curious about.
"It's pretty handy to use it to find people." Judau said, scratching the back of his head in embarrassment, "But sometimes, it's kind of in the way when I want to lie. I don't really want it."
"NT can also be like this …" Ade's feeling was a little complicated. "No, NT should be like this."
"Judau himself is this kind of person, it has nothing to do with NT." Sayla grunted disdainfully, "Have you also been influenced by my brother's NT theory? NT is all-powerful, NT is superior and born to lead others?"
Ade was silent. He just thought of Teletha for no reason. No matter how twisted and different the path is, everyone is living very seriously.
"All in all, I'm enjoying my life." Judau pulled a chair and sat down against Sayla's discontented eyes, "Guest, you look sad, don't you like the current life?"
"I? I…" Ade was stunned and replied subconsciously, "I also like it. Yes, I like this world."
