Steampunk Era: Mad Abield
Chapter 963: Section 631: No. 3 (1)_2

Chapter 963: Section 631: No. 3 (1)_2

When Victor lost control today, Sostack No.3 could no longer hold back, and on the spot, he added another push to Victor’s system temperature, directly killing the fugitive.

It was precisely because of this that Jason discovered it.

As for why Victor killed Mendel, Sostack No.3 indeed did not know.

Out of trust in Malin, Sostack No.3 also arranged a meeting; he, along with Malin, Raglov, and Todd, accessed Sostack No.3’s shelter through the relationship with His Majesty Manheim, and the two sides had an open and honest meeting.

Facing the artificial brain submerged in the life-sustaining tank, Malin affirmed this meeting — though Sostack No.3 would not choose to side with Malin, clearing his suspicion still proved to be fruitful.

Moreover, the cooperation between Sostack No.3 and Malin benefited both parties — units Eleven and Seventeen received a large amount of new equipment, and Sostack No.3 confirmed their allegiance to Malin, actively modifing their affiliations.

Sostack No.3 was so cooperative, and Malin also gave some cores — these cores were obtained during Sydney’s liberation of the Chaos territories in the North, Malin handed out quite some equipment to get them, hence no one objected.

Todd and Raglov also obtained repeated affirmations from Manheim — the Royal family would not wield the slaughter on its citizens, this phrase passed Malin’s lie detection, in other words, the Royal represented by His Majesty Manheim indeed was unaware.

Malin also thought the same, killing a Mendel while simultaneously antagonizing the Church, the North, and Malin, there might be such foolish people in the world, but it should not be His Majesty Manheim — after all, his child is not the heir to this country, he had no need to offend three factions at the same time for his descendant’s sake.

Especially since each of these three factions is more troublesome than the last, even the weakest North has enough power to start a civil war.

Thinking this, Malin started to doubt whether someone among the Nobles could do this — why?

There needs to be a reason for such actions, indiscriminate assassination only brings troubles, and Malin couldn’t see who could benefit from killing Mendel.

The Crown Prince?

Sostack No.3 stated that this young man was the most outstanding conditioned being he had seen in a hundred years, with absolutely no reason.

Compared to him, Lulu fell far behind.

Sostack No.3’s assessment of her was that only her brain was suitable for conditioning. If it weren’t for that old geezer of the Hagelberry family protecting her, and Sostack No.3 also felt that instead of turning this girl into a servile brain, it might as well see if Spiritual Energy and prosthetics could perfectly integrate.

Of course, from the current perspective, it’s very perfect.

The only flaw is that extremely precious materials must be used to manufacture the human-machine interface between the brain and prosthetics.

Like Mithril.

This metal is the only one Sostack No.3 has seen after the Great Destruction that the brain doesn’t reject. Victor could only live up to fifteen years because he used other common metals as materials, and also considered eliminating all unnecessary protective plugins.

Otherwise, Victor living for forty years would have been no problem.

Upon hearing this story, Malin was somewhat frightened — if not for Sostack No.3’s moment of consideration, he and Lulu would have had no chance of meeting, even if at that time he stood here, he would only see an emotionless servile brain.

"Do you know, Mr. Malin, I had to abandon necessary emotions, in my eyes, civilization has headed toward destruction more than once. The citizens before the Great Destruction left behind children who tried hard, but destruction always followed like a shadow. When creating reconnaissance prostheses, I couldn’t find suitable candidates, and could only choose some strong enough guys from those criminals."

Malin of course agreed with Sostack No.3’s defense, being able to choose not indiscriminately innocent people for transformation was already quite beyond Malin’s expectations, and Jason’s eventual reconciliation with it also relieved Malin.

Of course, when Jason was rolling on the carpet in helpless fury later, Malin could only console this childish AI, while expressing great respect for Engineer Zhang — being able to train an AI like this is truly not easy.

Once it was confirmed that Sostack No.3 had no intention of murder, Malin felt that the future spoken by the girl named Marlene should be the one where Sostak searches for Victor with Harold — they were about the same age, and the information obtained from Sostack No.3 even showed that they studied at the same school when they were young.

This explains it — Sostak and Harold discovered that it was Victor who committed the murder. They wondered about the actions of their friend and ultimately decided to confront him, thus resulting in the tragic outcome.

Anyway, there should be no such problem this time, after explaining to Marlene, the girl left this era satisfied.

And after obtaining a small prosthetic from Jason, Sostack No.3, unwilling to be left out, remotely walked out of his shelter. In his words, having stayed in that ghostly place for eight thousand years, as long as he could stand under the sky personally, calling Jason a ’big brother’ would present no problem.

Malin felt quite sorry for him, and Jason also stated that as long as Sostack No.3 swore not to betray him, everything was negotiable, all these ’big brother’ or not.