Cyber Era Witch-Chapter 69 - 52 Tanaka Intelligence

69: Chapter 52 Tanaka Intelligence

69 -52 Tanaka Intelligence

After the call, Asa Katsuragi said that the factory manager would soon be out.

Xu Yang had initially thought it would be a long wait, but soon enough, a pale blue, softly luminescent eyeball robot emerged slowly from the factory’s ventilation duct.

It had a spherical body like other small eyeball robots but was much larger, about the width of a street, with four sets of thrusters humming with power, emitting pale blue flames, audible from a distance due to the operation of its engine.

The so-called eyeball robots are generically spherical robots, typically without limbs, resembling a large eyeball.

They are quite agile and suitable for various situations.

Farosa had no doubt they were metallic replicas of the underground ‘eye demons,’ only lacking the ability to control people’s hearts.

The pale blue eyeball robot rotated downward, steadily accelerating, and descended near the shuttle machine.

It seemed to be an auxiliary robot, with no combat or detection capabilities to speak of, unlike its laser-equipped counterparts, specifically used for reception.

“Sorry to keep you all waiting.

Welcome to Tanaka Intelligent Robot Company,” it said in a pleasant voice.

“We have a synthetic human from your company that’s seriously damaged, and we were wondering if it could be sent back for repairs,” Xu Yang said.

A40 was clearly meant to be a security guard, but its poor performance guaranteed it would be dismantled if returned to its original company, leaving the manufacturer as the only option to assess the situation.

“Our company produces the finest synthetic humans in Aizu City,” the pale blue eyeball emitted a happy electronic sound, “No matter the damage, we can restore them to their original condition.”

“Synthetic human?” Farosa asked, confused, “What’s the difference between that and your robots?”

“They are essentially robots, but specifically designed to look like humans,” Xu Yang explained.

“Most are equipped with third-generation artificial intelligence.

Compared to the first and second generations, the third generation has the ability to learn independently and simulate emotions, even though they are not yet real emotions or intelligence.”

Farosa remembered the warlocks of old who could animate golems, giving life to the lifeless.

The Witch Council considered this a desecration, an audacious overstep of the power to create life, and they actively searched for and persecuted these warlocks.

In this era, creating artificial life had become commonplace, with humanity progressing ever further on this offending path, appearing ever more rebellious.

But now, it seemed that perhaps the Witch Council’s actions were out of jealousy, for humans had far too many methods to create life.

Unable to help herself, Farosa gently touched her lower abdomen.

Witches did not have the ability to nurture life and could only fade away alone at life’s end, like a firefly.

Only humans continued the cycle of life, to this very day.

The pale blue eyeball inspected the damaged parts of A40.

Some of A40’s pieces were missing, many shards were scattered around by Pan Ruiyi and difficult to recover.

The A40 in front of them retained only about 80% of its original mass, but the good news was that the head was intact, meaning the consciousness chip was still there.

“Very, very sorry,” the pale blue eyeball began to apologize repeatedly after the inspection.

“Can’t it be fixed?

We’re willing to pay extra,” Xu Yang said, not wanting A40 to end this way.

Without A40 buying them enough time, there was no telling how the previous conflict would have ended.

“No, no, the repair is within our capabilities,” the pale blue eyeball robot explained, “It’s just that, I am very sorry…

this is a defective product, there must have been an issue with the quality inspection, which allowed it into the market.

We hope it didn’t cause any problems.”

“It was pretty fierce in a fight,” Xu Yang thought of A40’s rapid attacks on Pan Ruiyi.

If she had been a regular combat witch, she might have been slain by A40, but Pan Ruiyi was far outside that sort of discussion.

“Code ‘A40’ was supposed to be a wise, brave, and loyal combat-type synthetic human, but there’s a broken connector in the consciousness chip that links to the social services logic module, preventing it from reading values correctly,” the pale blue eyeball robot hovered around the remnants of A40, “Unfortunately, we hope to offer compensation for this.”

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“That’s not necessary, just have it fully repaired,” Xu Yang said.

“Would it want that?” Asa Katsuragi crouched down.

“You mean…” Xu Yang felt a stir of emotion.

“Which one is the real A40?” Asa Katsuragi pointed at A40’s consciousness chip, “The one that attacked on sight, cowered under fire, spared civilians, and challenged the powerful, or the one after the repair: wise, brave, and loyal combat synthetic robot?”

“You’re mistaken,” Cui Junyou shook his head, “A40 was meant to be a normal combat robot; its behaviour was abnormal due to being damaged.

It’s like having a defective implant, it’s nonsense to keep it; of course, you need to get it repaired properly!”

“Would a war-crazed A40 dream of the Brother Fus it chopped down?” Li Xiaomin recalled an anime she had seen before.

“If it were that A40,” Nidelaide said, “I suppose it wouldn’t matter to him.”

Xu Yang also felt conflicted about this.

A perfectly repaired A40 or an A40 with defects, which one was the Synthetic Human we knew?

Unfortunately, in its current state, it couldn’t make the decision for itself.

However, after a moment’s thought, Xu Yang still made a plan.

“Fully repair it,” Xu Yang said.

“Then…” Asa Katsuragi was confused, “…is it still considered A40?”

“After all, it’s about the Consciousness Chip,” Xu Yang turned to A40’s wreckage, “after the repairs, it should still retain its past memories, or let’s say, records.”

“Yes,” the blue-eyed robot agreed.

“After the full repair,” Xu Yang nodded, “it will also remember what it did during its defective period and then assess itself with its new consciousness.

At that time, it will decide what kind of A40 it wants to become.”

“Please pay a repair fee of 55,000,” the blue-eyed robot said, then printed a work order from its body.

It could be used to bring the intact A40 back later according to the instructions on the form.

Xu Yang paid with a cash card, transactions with which still had the characteristics of being untraceable and anonymous.

There was nothing to worry about, but this was his last one.

If he wanted to apply for a new cash card, he would need to have a Corporate Alliance file.

“One last question,” Xu Yang looked at the red laser-eyed robots floating around inside and outside of the factory, “why such heavy security?”

“Because we’ve received reports that Katagi District has been invaded by Ratmen,” the blue-eyed robot explained, “to prevent the disaster from spreading, I have ordered the transfer of industries and equipment and released the inventory of combat robots.

Your Synthetic Human will also be transferred to the repair center in Anjiu City and will not be affected underground.”

“I see,” Xu Yang nodded, the impact of the Rat Tide was still very apparent, but another piece of information in the blue-eyed robot’s words caught his attention, “…an order you issued?

Buddy, you’ve got quite a high status.”

The blue-eyed robot spun around happily.

“I am Tanaka,” it said, “Taro Tanaka, the representative director of this company.

Pleased to make your acquaintance.”

“Is it the technology of consciousness upload?” Xu Yang was curious.

In Xia District, people still valued the quality of the flesh and rarely transformed themselves into robots.

To prolong life, they preferred to pursue drugs that maintain and improve health rather than seek technological means.

“No, no, that’s too expensive,” the blue-eyed robot floated up, “in fact, I live inside this robot.”

Xu Yang was taken aback, indeed the robot was large enough to completely accommodate a whole person.

“Because of a disability, I really can’t appear and talk to you in person, I’m very sorry,” explained the blue-eyed robot claiming to be Taro Tanaka.

“No problem,” Xu Yang said, “pleased to meet you.

Is there still only one way to return to Anjiu City now?”

“Thanks to the nature of robots, we can return to the ground through the cargo pipeline.

If you want to take the normal route, you need to go through an inspection at the entrance,” Taro Tanaka explained.

It looked like they would have to contend with the Ratmen for a while longer.

In their current state, it was impossible to return to the surface normally.

Being checked would be very troublesome.

“We have received your commission, and the Synthetic Human will be fully repaired soon,” Taro Tanaka executed a spin, using magnetic traction lines to collect A40’s wreckage and took it away, then returned along the incoming pipeline, entering the depths of the factory.

Nidelaide was right, indeed it was only in such a bizarre place that an abnormal Synthetic Human like A40 could be created.

A40’s previous employer had been killed, and it certainly wouldn’t be able to continue working at its former security company.

Once the Rat Tide ended and we could control a company, we could hire it.

After all, A40 was indeed an exceptional blade fighter.

“Lila,” Xu Yang looked at her, “…when will the next Rat Tide crisis erupt?”

“Maybe now, maybe after a while,” Lila stepped down from the Shuttle Machine, gently treading on the ground, “Just 25 meters directly below us, there are 19 Ratmen quietly tunneling, making a way for a 10-meter class Giant Rat to crawl through.

Without a doubt, Hui City District will plunge into a bloody storm.”

We must enhance the strength of our group.

“First, let’s find a gun store, then head to Zuo Hongchen’s company to settle down,” Xu Yang said, “…it’s time to arm ourselves.”