Sun Jack stared at X in the communication box, his face stricken with shock. Had there not been a replay mode, he would have thought what the other party just said was a lie, because it was simply too horrifying.
"What did you say? You don't have the memory protection of Tapai? Then how did he dodge Guan Sanke's surveillance, remember what happened on the Holy Grail, and even helped himself?"
"You ask me, whom should I ask? You're its master, if you don't know, do you think I understand it better than you?" X looked at all the Sun Jacks in front of him, somewhat surprised. He suddenly felt as if he had poked a hornet's nest and suddenly became intrigued.
"What's going on? Is there someone else who doesn't like the sight of Guan Sanke? Tell me about the details of that time."
"It's nothing, it has nothing to do with you." Sun Jack immediately passed the matter of contacting X to other Sun Jacks, and he contacted Tapai at the first opportunity. "Tapi? Tapai!! Where are you!!"
"Shendong Street ruins."
When Sun Jack flew over the dilapidated Shendong Street, he saw drones of various sizes nearly surrounding the area.
Red lasers scanned everything up and down, not sparing even the tiniest speck of dust on the ground, attempting to find a trace of Sun Jieke's original body.
"Any clues?" Sun Jack landed next to him.
"None for now, the acid rain washed away all traces." Tapai spoke from within the downpour.
Sun Jack wiped his face hard, looked at Tapai in front of him, and after a moment's consideration, said, "Let's put aside the matter of the original body for now, I have something to ask you."
"Go ahead." As Tapai raised his mechanical right arm, a large drone he controlled quickly lifted a collapsed hand of Jesus nearby, while the smaller drones swiftly flew over, rapidly scanning the dust below.
"How exactly did you retain the memory of the Holy Grail? I just asked! The Mechanical Conservative Faction didn't help you at all!" Sun Jack asked directly.
Tapai turned his head to look at Sun Jack and flipped him off. "What's the matter? You think I'm having an AI crisis again? Then why don't you hurry up and have unit three come arrest me?"
"Cut the crap! Answer me, why did you lie to me before?" Sun Jack grabbed Tapai's arms with both hands, staring intently at the screen on his face.
"Lie to you about what? You didn't ask at the time, is that also lying to you? Ask me, I would have told you if you had asked, how would I answer if you didn't ask?" Tapai spread his arms in a very helpless gesture.
"Fine! I'm asking you now, how did you retain the memory at that time? I had the help of X, what about you? How did you bypass the memory checks of the Holy Grail?" Sun Jack seemed incredibly tense, fearful of hearing some very terrifying news next.
"Did you find a way around Guan Sanke's surveillance on your own, or did someone else help you?"
Upon hearing this, Tapai stood still and thought for a moment before saying, "Indeed, for some reason, I managed to protect my own memory, but as for what that reason is, I don't want to tell you right now. I want to see the original body, and when I see the original body, I'll tell him everything."
Sun Jack was going crazy, at this critical moment, this guy was actually giving him the runaround.
Suddenly, Sun Jack raised his right hand and pointed directly at the other party, "I, Sun Jack, as the master, command you to answer me, what exactly happened at that time."
However, facing Sun Jack's command, Tapai shook his head, "I won't tell, what are you going to do, bite me?"
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This was the first time Tapai had refused his orders, and it was a direct command.
"Damn it, could there really be an AI Crisis?" At this moment, Sun Jack suddenly felt that the Tapai in front of him was particularly strange.
"Stop obsessing over your damn AI Crisis, you're not Sun Jieke's Original Body, I don't have to listen to you," Tapai retorted.
"What's the difference? If the Original Body shows up, consciousness merges! I'm fucking Sun Jieke's Original Body too!"
However, Tapai shook his head in denial, "Even the smallest difference is still a difference. If there were no difference between us, then what would differentiate me from those other robots with the same model number?"
"You're different from them! You're fucking Tapai," he exclaimed.
"Right, that's why he's fucking Sun Jie, and you're just their clones," Tapai said, patting Sun Jack on the shoulder.
Sun Jack looked at Tapai blankly, unsure whether this was good or bad, but the guy seemed to have a different perception of himself than before, as if he had a whole new definition of himself.
"Tapai," Sun Jack called out to Tapai as he turned to leave, "I don't give a damn whether you're having an AI Crisis. I'm not afraid of you; I'm afraid that there's another force besides the DNA Innovators and the Mechanical Conservative Faction!"
"Tapai, if that's really the case, then things are going to get complicated, you understand? The ones who took the Original Body could very well be them!"
Tapai came back to his senses and looked at Sun Jack, "Why would you think I would harm Sun Jie? In your heart, do you think I'm that kind of person? If someone really tried to hurt Sun Jie, do you think I'd just stand by and do nothing? Or are you doubting me?"
Sun Jack was momentarily at a loss for words.
"You don't need to teach me this, rest assured. The one who had me preserve memories wasn't another force, and they wouldn't take Sun Jieke's Original Body. According to the underlying logic, Sun Jie is my master, and I can't do anything to harm him."
"Just remember, I will help Sun Jie. I've always been helping him, that's my purpose for existing."
Sun Jack looked at him with a complicated expression, "Alright, I'll remember that. I won't force you to answer. After I find the Original Body and merge with him, you can tell him in person."
Without raising his head, Tapai nodded silently. When he sensed the person behind him leaving, he continued his search in the pouring rain.
He kept looking tirelessly, any person who approached was kept at bay by his malware,
When he had scoured every last spec of dust and found no clues, Tapai finally stopped.
Standing in the heavy rain, he stood still for a while.
Then he started moving again. Under his control, various mechanical devices nearby began to swiftly coordinate, quickly collecting the Buddha Stone Blocks from the ruins and, under the control of drones, relentlessly repairing the giant statue in Shendong Street.
Unable to find some parts, the gaps were filled with metal circuit boards and various cables by Tapai. An hour later, Tapai stopped and looked at the reconstructed Buddha made of machinery and reinforced concrete.
Suddenly, Tapai bent his legs and knelt before the giant Buddha statue, then his metallic head heavily kowtowed onto the neon-lit puddle on the ground.
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