Chapter 1420： "Heart" (1/2)

The delicate machinery began to make a slight clicking sound, and two gleaming diamond-shaped crystals floated out of a storage slot beside them, hovering in front of Diana, and the light curtain projected by the crystals crossed like a net. Sweeping through her body, in this short moment, Diana's memory went back many years ago, back to the days when she was a guard at the Wipland Observatory.

At that time, life was much simpler than it is now, and a machine does not need to think about so many questions.

A mechanical handle with a sharp tip came to the top of the repair slot and accurately pried the overhaul cover on Diana’s abdomen. The old brass core ticked in the mechanical compartment, the magic center and the mind wrapped in a protective layer. The core glowed with a slight blue light in the colloidal buffer material. Under the personal control of Ophelia Norton, the tools of the repair slot began to carefully handle this body, which was already very different from the original factory setting. Diana Hearing the voice of the corps leader came from above again.

"It may take a while. There are a large number of components inside your body that have exceeded the limits of use, and there are many...not-so-compliant modifications and repairs. Although these things barely allow you to move as usual, they have already affected many of your core devices. It has caused great pressure. Now, relax, I want to transfer your energy flow to the outside and remove your magic center."

"These substandard modifications and repairs have allowed me to live to this day. Without them, I might have died a century ago." Diana said softly.

The short-lived dizziness hit the moment the magic center was removed, and quickly dissipated due to the connection of external energy. She blinked and heard Ophelia Norton’s voice in her ears: "...'Live 'And'death', ordinary iron man soldiers seldom use these words on themselves, even if it is a model dedicated to the civilian market like you. You look like a human now, Diana."

"...This is probably a side effect of getting rid of the iron man network," Diana said slowly. She could feel that the tools were disassembling her body into parts little by little, but this didn't cause pain. Her perception system was already automatic. Switching to the maintenance mode, the "perception" generated when the bionic tissue is cut is turning into pure data and flowing into the core of the mind, "I don't know whether this change is good or bad."

"It depends on you," Ophelia chuckled, "I'm curious, how does it feel to be out of the iron man network? Since the birth of iron man, there has been almost no precedent like you. Even if there are occasional disconnected individuals, I never There was no chance to ask about this from them."

"...In the early stage, it was chaotic and at a loss. The lack of direct and clear instructions caused the machine's operating efficiency to drop to the lowest point. In most cases, only the instinct to maintain its survival was left, and I was the only one in this instinct and'escape from disaster'. Driven by an order for hundreds of years," Diana frankly told her once nominal "Supreme Commander" about these things that she had never said to outsiders. "And after contact with humans, the situation began to change. Some... changes. Those humans are not my superior nodes, but their rescue gives me a reason to... do something for them. At first, I thought this was also some kind of'command', but I don’t know when I realized This is my own'will'..."

"The central connection is about to be released and reset," the system prompt sounded suddenly from the repair slot, "start cutting."

A strange "puffiness" poured into the core of the mind. The next moment, Diana lost her whole body perception. She seemed to have become an unconscious soul lying on this cold mechanical platform while maintaining the only She has a clear mind, but her vision and hearing modules are still running. She can still see the dark red "eyes" directly above and hear Ophelia Norton's soft voice.

"It looks like those humans have changed you a lot, Diana."

"...You also remember me...different from what was recorded in my initial data," Diana said, and she found her voice came from a synthesis device in the room, "I saw it last time' I have this feeling when Veronica’s interactive carrier. You are different from the Ophelia Norton I know, but I don’t know how to describe this difference. As an ordinary ironman soldier , I only contacted your will in the mental network back then, maybe I am not qualified to make this kind of judgment..."

"Your judgment is accurate, Diana," Ophelia's voice seemed to pause for a moment. "We have all experienced something. After seven centuries of changes, it is difficult for both soldiers and generals. Keep the original look."

Diana did not speak for a while, but silently perceives the only data flowing in the core of the mind that is still functioning normally. These data constitute her "personality", as Her Royal Highness Ophelia said, she is now It's really "like a human", so that she suddenly became nervous like a human: "My core of mind, and the data stored in it..."

"Your mental core condition is not good, but the damage can be said to be minor compared to other places. I will adjust it, but you can rest assured that I will not move anything inside," Ophelia said gently. He said, there is a kind of gentleness in that voice that I don't know if it is an illusion, "The data of Diana is your memory and life, and I may understand the meaning of these data better than you."

Ophelia’s words seem to have a deeper meaning, especially when she talks about "memory and life", this feeling is especially obvious, but Diana can’t guess what kind of feelings are buried in it. She was just a little sleepy suddenly. It was a countdown to sleep that was out of her control. She knew that the adjustment to the core of her mind had already begun.

"From now on, you will go to sleep until the body completely recovers and restarts," Ophelia's voice came from above, sounding a bit far away, "Are there any special requirements before going to sleep?"

"...Please keep the steel plate on the protective compartment on my left torso," Diana said softly. "It was left over when they first tried to repair my body. I want to keep it as a souvenir. "

"Okay, I will keep it. Now go to sleep at ease, soldier, have a good dream. After waking up, there is a whole new life waiting for you."

…

In the deep control hall, Ophelia Norton, who was sitting on the golden throne, turned her gaze on Gawain: "Diana's condition is worse than I expected. I am surprised that a regular iron man soldier like her is actually It has been able to operate even with so many malfunctions in the body until today. At the same time, I am also surprised by the various'wonderful solutions' that Typhon people have come up with in order to maintain such a body."

"You seem to take her seriously," Gawain said unexpectedly. "I don't think you will repair every damaged Ironman soldier yourself, right?"

"Diana’s situation is very complicated. Her body has undergone a lot of irregular transformations and repairs. The conventional automatic repair process is difficult to repair her without causing secondary damage... No, as you said, I am very Value her."

"why?"

"...A person has become a machine, and a former machine is gradually becoming an adult. I don't know how to describe this, but the existence of Diana reminds me of myself, although our situation is completely different. , But I think... we are all proving the blurred line between'human' and'machine'," Ophelia's voice sounded quite emotional, "can you understand my awkward thoughts?"

"I understand more than you think." Gawain laughed. As a satellite spirit, no one knows this kind of ambiguity and dislocation in self-cognition better than him. At the same time, he also feels a little bit about it. A few years ago, that really killed him and he never thought that he would discuss this kind of cyber problem with an ancient artificial intelligence in this place...what about swords and magic?

"What are you thinking?" Ophelia noticed the slight change in Gawain's expression, and couldn't help but be a little curious.

"It's nothing," Gawain waved his hand, and then his expression became serious, "I came to see you in person this time. There is a very special thing."