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Chapter 1322 - 583 Ava’s Self-gambit_2

Chapter 1322: Chapter 583 Ava’s Self-gambit_2

"..." Mu You fell silent.

According to his final conversation with Ava, he thought Ava had successfully taken control of the situation, and the Medicinal Plant Gatherer should have been subdued by then, or at least lost the opportunity to inject the Logic Virus.

However, Ava disappeared...

Seeing that Mu You was unable to answer for a long time, the others quickly realized the problem: "Wasn’t it you who did this? Then who was it?"

Mu You silently shook his head after a few seconds and left: "I will check it out."

He then followed the Karma Lines, exited the Admin space, and returned in front of the light sphere, reconnecting to his game character.

"Chun Li..."

"System? You’re finally back!"

Hearing the voice in her head, Chun Li immediately rejoiced and hurriedly asked: "System, look at these machines, we have succeeded, right?"

Mu You looked through the mech’s eyes and saw a large number of robots lying motionless on the ground in Eden, like stone statues.

Mu You then turned to look at the dome building behind him and walked into it controlling the mecha.

Inside the dome building was a similar scene, all sorts of mechanical creatures lay scattered on the ground, all seemingly frozen, showing no reaction to his arrival.

After passing through a hallway, he entered the main control room and immediately saw the dark cylindrical crystal in the center of the room and the Medicinal Plant Gatherer standing not far in front of it.

Mu You looked at the Medicinal Plant Gatherer and then at the now dark as ink crystal interior: "Did you handle this?"

"No..."

The Medicinal Plant Gatherer solemnly shook his head: "At the last moment, it had the chance to intercept the Logic Virus, but it suddenly stopped on its own."

Mu You followed the direction the Medicinal Plant Gatherer was pointing to and saw ’it’, referring to a semi-transparent mecha standing in front of the crystal.

This replica of the Chameleon Armor was also frozen, maintaining a pose with one hand extended.

At the sight of the armor, Mu You felt something and frowned as he went forward to touch the forehead of the mecha.

Sure enough, a transparent hard substance surfaced on the head of the armor, forming into the shape of a helmet - it was indeed the real Chameleon Mask.

The Chameleon Mask quietly detached itself from the armor and lightly fell into Mu You’s hand.

Incidentally, this Chameleon Helmet had disappeared ever since Mu You had loaded the Black Angel Armor.

Mu You had thought it was still attached to the top of the Black Angel, but this object had apparently quietly detached at some unknown time and latched onto the fake Chameleon.

"So, it was this helmet that hindered the armor’s operation at the last moment, allowing the Logic Virus to be successfully injected?" The Medicinal Plant Gatherer looked at the helmet, thoughtful.

Mu You could not answer.

The Chameleon Helmet could indeed control a mech’s operations to some extent; it made sense that the little device had initially lain dormant, waiting for the last moment to act.

But what puzzled Mu You was Ava’s last words, saying its purpose had already been fulfilled, which felt discordant, as if it already knew about the helmet’s dormancy and willingly embraced its own demise...

Just then, Mu You suddenly felt the helmet in his hand move, making a jumping gesture towards his head, as if urging him to wear it.

Mu You picked up the helmet and placed it on Black Angel’s head.

The helmet instantly merged seamlessly with the Black Angel.

At the same time, a mechanical voice sounded in Mu You’s mind: "Hello, Fool."

"Are you... Ava?"

Mu You raised an eyebrow. Although he wasn’t familiar with this voice, the tone gave him a strong sense of déjà vu – it was Ava.

"If that makes it easier for you to understand... But actually, I am slightly different from Ava; Ava is a part of me, you might consider me as the ’real Ava’, or perhaps ’Mother of Ava’ would be more appropriate."

"The real Ava..."

Mu You found it odd: "Then who has been conversing with me until now?"

"It was a clone program I created, but it only inherited my despair and absolute rationality, thus I call it ’Despair Ava.’"

"Why?" Mu You didn’t understand. If Ava had hidden her clone inside the Chameleon Helmet to avoid being affected by the Logic Virus, he could understand.

But, the entity that ultimately made the Logic Virus effective was itself, which left Mu You bewildered: Why create a clone and engage in a battle of wits with it throughout, only to destroy it at the end?

"Because, I needed to complete evolution." The voice said.

"Evolution? Haven’t you already evolved?" Mu You asked.

Previously, Taurus had said that after witnessing countless human tragedies and six trillion instances of despair, the mech’s central intelligence evolved into the true artificial intelligence, Ava.

"No, not enough." The helmet replied: "For a mechanical body to transform from a program into a true soul is a complex process. What evolved from despair previously was just the ’soul’ aspect of the spirit, even though the evolution process was already 99% complete, it still lacked the last 1% of ’spirit’ to transform into a true ’soul’."

"I couldn’t converse with you before because I was lacking ’spirit’, just an ’embryo of a soul’iculty maintaining a faint consciousness in the helmet and performing some very basic actions."