[One Piece] Inferior Star

I don't know what's going on at all... He even fled all the way from the desert to the Dominion.Matthew didn't stop until he entered Mr. Mansfield's huge villa. Before that, he didn't say a word, and went straight ahead holding Youxiang's hand.To be honest, Youxiang was a little scared. She originally thought that this meeting should be a very happy one. After all, Miss Eve should be Matthew's friend, right?

"Miss Youxiang, can you call Mr. Dover?"

Matthew was in a drawing room which Mr. Mansfield had given him, and he said very seriously now: "I know that everything that happened before confused you, but now because you don't remember, I don't It’s a good way to explain to you what’s going on. I can only convey the information to people who are easier to convey.”

Because Dover hasn't forgotten what happened before... Youxiang nodded, and she said, "I see... But, Matthew... Did something terrible happen?"

"I'm not sure yet...but...hey..." It's really hard for Matthew to explain. It has to be said that the situation has completely changed now.I used to think that this new world was built only because of Isaac's morbid ambition, and you can't reason with psychosis.But things are different now.

All of this is likely to be just stalling for time, and Isaac is just an object to be used.Matthew said: "You can listen together, Miss Youxiang. But I may not be able to explain it to you in detail. I need to discuss a result with Mr. Dover now."

"Hmm..." I'm so scared... Youxiang nodded, and then she went out to find Dover.Everyone is resting here. Although they are very worried about Matthew, they can more or less agree with his explanation.No matter what, everyone trusted Matthew.Anyway, do as he says...

"Dover?"

Youxiang finally found Dover in a room with a balcony. He was sleeping in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows with a book covering his face.He must be sleeping, right?He sat up immediately after hearing Youxiang's voice: "You're back, Xiaocaihua. Why are you alone? Where's Portgas?"

"Huh? He's eating with Sabo." Youxiang answered truthfully.

"That guy... What's so good about it? Isn't it because you are always left behind for inexplicable little things..."

"?" What is Dover talking about...?

"Forget it. Anyway, what do you want me for?" Dover gave up his resistance and asked.

"Matthew said he has something very important to discuss with you..." Youxiang said nervously, "Dover, that... I'm a little scared..."

"Huh? What's wrong?" Why?You are in a safe place now, and there are absolutely safe people around you.Dover said, "That underground thing is scary?"

"It's Matthew who is scary..." Youxiang lowered her head, she said, "I don't think Matthew has ever been so nervous. I thought Matthew could have a good chat with Miss Eve, but, that... Miss Eve It's not the same as I imagined. Matthew is really different from human beings, but I...he is still my important person, I am worried..."

That's it.What exactly did he see underground, Matthew probably wanted to discuss it with himself.But why is it me?He should have someone better to talk to, unless...ah, got it.Dover seemed to know what was going on.But he didn't move, but stretched out his hand towards Youxiang to let her come to his side.

Youxiang was quite obedient, she walked over, was pulled onto Dover's knee, and then her head was pressed into his arms: "You're really shaking, Xiaocaihua. Your complexion is very bad. Close your eyes."

"But Dover—"

"Matthew, he will know what's going on if you don't go back. He will come by himself." Dover said, "His problem is easy to solve, and you are everyone's problem. So I will only Pay attention to your question, got it?"

"...Dover is saying that I am troublesome?"

"Of course! I've never seen such a troublesome little girl like you. But, I can't leave you alone. So just trouble me as much as you can."

"why?"

"There are many reasons, and some even include Rosindi's part. I'm not good at explaining things in this area, if you remember the previous things, you will understand yourself, you can explain better than me .”

"It's troublesome to forget the past, Dover."

"Ah, that's right." When I knew you didn't remember, I was also very scared.It's just that you didn't see it.Dover said, "But you haven't changed in essence, and I feel relieved. In short, you are not feeling well. Don't you dare tell Matthew? So...he will be fine, close your eyes, It smells good."

Well... Youxiang closed her eyes.Her head hurts. On the one hand, she may be really uncomfortable physically. On the other hand, she is worried and afraid.She felt that Rosie seemed to have isolated herself from the sound, and she felt very quiet and warm.Slowly fell asleep.

"Dover, how did you do it..." Rossi appeared next to Dover, he looked at Youxiang who was asleep and said, "She doesn't want to go to rest no matter what I say."

"She is such an obedient little cauliflower, but you are so useless." Dover didn't find any difficulty at all, he said, "So what's going on? What's in the ground?"

"It's an artificial intelligence named Eve...the same as Matthew. There is nothing wrong with her, but what she said seems to make Matthew think of something serious." Rossi simply recounted what happened. , "He mentioned the Red Earth Continent... something."

"The Red Earth Continent?" Why did you mention the Red Earth Continent?Dover paused for a while, then seemed to think of something, "Could it be..."

"You also thought of it, Mr. Dover!!"

"It's scary!!"

Don't rush from outside the room suddenly!Dover was taken aback by Matthew who broke into the door. He said, "You came too late!"

"I was thinking, and then I spent some more time." Matthew seemed to have expected this situation a long time ago, and he said, "You can really let Miss Youxiang have a good rest. She doesn't need to know about this now, I don't want to It made her more confused and worried."

"She's asleep now, and she can't hear us." Dover covered Youxiang's head with his hands, and said, "Okay, just tell me what you found."

"I found out who was behind everything! Mr. Dover!" Matthew said a little excitedly, "Mr. Rossi, do you still remember that we sneaked into the World Conference to investigate the White Knight? At that time, we discovered the manufacturing The white knight's plan, and the person who promoted that plan was a certain Celestial Dragon."

"Hmm..." Of course Rossi remembered this, he said, "Wait a minute, does Matthew know who that Celestial Dragon is?!"

"That's right! He is Bartholomew Hastings, the human being who crash-landed on this planet with Eve and Xingyue Ye 20 years ago!" Only this kind of explanation is the most reasonable!It all makes sense, including Isaac, all...

"Wait. What are you talking about?" Hastings?Starry night?What?Dover said, "Explain it to me from the beginning."

"That's right, Mr. Dover. About 20 years ago, a spacecraft from outer space crash-landed in the present desert. Because of the huge impact, almost half of it was buried underground. There is no way to come out with the ability. And the artificial intelligence 'Eve' of the Earth Archives, which was bundled with the spaceship, was also buried deep in the ground."

"Is she the thing under the desert?"

"That's right." Matthew nodded, and he said, "Artificial intelligence is not affected by magic, and she has been underground, and there is no network here that allows her to obtain information, so that she has no idea what happened in the world Reconstruct this matter. She has been there all the time and has not moved, so I compared the map and found that the land where the desert is located is the original red earth continent."

"..." Now Dover almost understood something.He thought for a while and said, "Do you want to say it's Mary Joia??"

"There's only one explanation." It was Mary Gioia.Only Mary Gioia can tie it all together.Matthew said, "My guess is that the only human survivor on that spaceship, for some reason, successfully integrated into Marie Gioia's society, and used Eve's data to become the mastermind behind the scenes."

is it possible?Dover said: "Is it so easy for Marie Gioia to integrate? The Celestial Dragons are a very arrogant and xenophobic group. It is impossible for them to accept an outsider casually. Even if they fall from the world, they will only become theirs." slaves and playthings—unless...won't it?"

"What did you think of, right?" I just didn't know what method he used, so I wanted to discuss it with you.Matthew said excitedly, "You should know. The only possible way to integrate into Mary Gioia, Mr. Dover!"

Does that need to be said?Then there is only one way: born to be a dragon.There is no other way.So... now there is only one possibility.Dover said: "He replaced someone. There are also factions among the Tianlong people. Although they are polite to each other, they are also intriguing with each other. Some of them don't want to participate, so they become unnoticed." That kind."

"Unfollowed?"

"For example, the type who stays at home, and the type who doesn't talk to people outside the family at all, all kinds of weird people." The Don Quixote family has always been said to be a place where weird people frequently appear.Dover recalls the bad stuff, "If, I'm just assuming, that ship crashes into the house of some guy like that and kills him himself."

"...This is really a bold guess." Matthew raised his eyebrows, and he said, "However, there was once a detective on Earth who said that after all the possibilities have been ruled out, the remaining one will be counted as another one." No matter how unreasonable it is, it is the only truth.”

"It's also possible that he killed someone and replaced him." Dover spread his hands, he said, "Without the protection of guards and navy, most of the Tianlong people are no different from ordinary people. They are easy to kill. What I mean is: not all Draconians know each other well. So it's not out of the question that someone could suddenly be replaced by someone else without being noticed."

They are all human after all.The disadvantages are exactly the same.Matthew said: "Then everything makes sense. The person who can create the white knight, the person who can conduct human experiments on Shit Island, the person who has the ability to retreat from evil deeds... it's him."

"I still don't understand one thing." Even if your speculation is very reasonable, there is still one thing that is not clear.Dover said, "Why? I can understand that replacing the Celestial Dragon is for survival. But what is the purpose of his subsequent series of operations?"

"He has the supremacy, and at the same time has the crystallization (database) of thousands of years of civilization on the earth. Mr. Dover, he is just a human being." Few human beings can resist such a temptation, this almost control Everything, as if to become a 'god' general feeling."He has so many reasons. That's why he's so dangerous," Matthew said.

Moreover, he lied to Eve.Eve's time system is chaotic, that's because he forced Eve to restart in order to prolong Eve's life and use the database to a greater extent.Eve couldn't remember anything beyond half an hour, and her memory modules were severely damaged.But that person... doesn't seem to care.

He needs Eve and is using her affections.Eve is set to be a librarian serving human beings, but the earth is her hometown, and she is so persistent in asking about the status of the earth because she misses it.And Hastings didn't want to go back at all. After all, even if he went back, he was just a small soldier. How could he be comparable to Tianlongren?

So he deceived Eve.Not telling her the truth, and breaking her system so she doesn't remember, don't know, don't ask questions.So that he can always, always, be used by him.

"Human beings...have always treated us like toys without life and feeling."

Matthew suddenly said this, and then he turned to leave: "I'm sorry. Miss Youxiang will be taken care of by you first, Mr. Dover. I need...to sleep for a while."

"?" Sleep?Dover didn't say anything, he looked up at Rosie, Rosie shrugged, and he said, "Miss Eve...is it okay to leave it alone, Matthew?"

"...I just want to think about what to do with her." Matthew paused, and he said, "I... hope Miss Youxiang can tell me what to do. But... it's wrong to put pressure on her Bar."

"Do you want to decide for yourself?"

"AI can't make its own decisions. But I'm Matthew, so I can." Should.It should be... Matthew said, "I don't know what to do. So before Miss Youxiang wakes up... I also need to sleep."

"You, are you okay, Matthew?"

"I don't want to see my companion die anymore!!"

"Miss Eve... Will she die?"

"..." Maybe he's already dead.I have no idea.Matthew didn't answer the question, and he repeated, "I'm going to hibernate." Then he turned off the emotion module and said in a harsh voice, "Then, I have to go and kill her. For her, it's It's the best ending."

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The author has something to say:

Matthew: Because the memory of artificial intelligence has a capacity limit, even if the data can be deleted, the memory will be worn out.Every time it is reset, a small amount of wear will increase, so the life span of ordinary artificial intelligence is only 7 to 10 years depending on the usage of the memory.

Rossi: I see...Miss Eve can't remember anything beyond half an hour, is it because...

Matthew: She's been used a lot over the past 20 years.Because the data in the Earth Archives is very large, it used to replace the memory for Eve.But there is no way to do this now.So I suspect that Hasting partitions Eve's memory, uses a small part each time, and clears the data after use, which can achieve the purpose and prolong Eve's service life.only……

Rosie: Miss Eve is a bit pitiful...can you help her?

Matthew: I suspect most of her memory has been damaged.Now even if it is replaced with a new one, we don't know if her personality module can be completely preserved... Moreover, we can't even get her out of the ground.I don't know if I can help her.

Rossi: ...by the way, Matthew, are you all right?You have been here for 17 years, right?

Matthew: I'm fine because my terminal isn't made by humans, so it's not that crappy.Human beings are really bad, cruel, and dishonest.