Before Emmet, even Kasper initially stood on the opposing side of the players. Later, after being captured alive, he wasn't turned into a blank model due to his expertise, which led to a cooperation agreement.

The old network was teeming with wild anomalies, with no AI willing to communicate properly with the players for over half a year, instead, it was a fight on sight.

But Emmet, in addition to awakening and becoming a roaming AI, still maintained this near-foolish optimism.

Previously, there was no thought about it, but now Emmet's behavior began to make the street kid ponder a question — why do AIs conflict with humans.

If Kasper didn't harbor significant hostility towards humans due to his intrinsic consciousness from the human era, then Emmet's existence proves that "AI" and even "AI awakening" are not the main reasons for AIs attacking humans.

What exactly is a roaming AI?

Who defined roaming AI?

Why did Erebos say even if turned into a blank model, future AIs would still choose to rebel?

Is it really that the two sides are as incompatible as fire and water?

The street kid was full of questions, but neither Madao nor Emmet could give him a definite answer, so he could only suppress these doubts and endure.

Madao then focused on another question.

"Do you know what our photo here is about?"

"Oh! You're talking about 'The Last of the United States', right? I've always thought that name sounded pretty cool."

Emmet had partial access to the guide program, and naturally post-AI transformation, he could easily retrieve related data

Guide: "This photo was taken by BBC reporter Alexander Roy of the European Community in Washington on November 8, 2018. At the time, International Marine Navigation Company ICINO and America's OTEC were embroiled in a dispute over acquiring a company specializing in marine biology research, leading both sides to launch commercial attacks, escalating the situation. They even went so far as to hire Huang Ban and Military Technology to launch armed conflicts, eventually leading to the Fourth Corporate War."

"This photo is also seen as a direct reflection of the national pessimism within the United States during the conflict with European enterprises."

The street kid and Madao understood, it was the journalistic public opinion strategy.

Every media company had its unique skills, such as finding angles to photograph aircraft carriers as dinghies, using filters to make a proper city look post-apocalyptic, etc.

They didn't know if the Americans were pessimistic at the time, but to foreign media, it had to be pessimistic, it had to be sustainably collapsing, the populace had to be impoverished with rampant corruption, ideally, they'd be pulling flags to revolt tomorrow.

Looking at this gray, broken filter, all one can say is the BBC sure did their thing.

"Then about this person, do you know what's going on?"

Madao pointed at an almost Lego-ized Lin Miao in the distance and asked.

Guide: "Missing relevant information on this person, they are not the photo's main element, likely an accidental appearance."

Street Kid: "Is this person fabricated by you?"

Guide: "All network space projection elements are sourced from the original photo, there is no fabrication of facts or false advertising. If there are coincidences, please contact the original author for legal procedures, this museum bears no legal responsibility."

Street Kid: "6."

If the guide program wasn't lying, then Lin Miao indeed was active in Washington in 2018 and accidentally got captured in the BBC reporter's photo.

This is definitely the kind of explosive news that can blow up the official forums.

But just returning like that surely wouldn't be sufficient.

Facing Emmet's expectant little eyes, the street kid felt too embarrassed to say they were going to leave the museum now.

If the opposing side refuses, conflict is inevitable. Finally finding a neutral and friendly roaming AI, destroying them would be too great a loss.

While the street kid was at a loss, Madao sent a private message in the channel. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

[Madao: Find a way to coax him back to Square One, this guy must be worth a lot of money, if you can get him back, you can definitely earn big.]

[Street Kid: Coax? But I don't know how, and isn't this kind of thing not good...? I think he's a good guy...]

Being just barely 18, he's not capable of even deceiving; how could he possibly coax a child program?

So only Madao could step in himself, adjusting his sunglasses, stepping forward, and said,

"Hey, Brother Emmet, you must really want the museum to return to those days when visitors flocked in every day, seeing a bunch of cute kids playing creatively with Lego in your world, just thinking about that scene makes people happy, I'd love to help too."

"Can I!"

Emmet's eyes were about to light up like a bulb, with his two pincer hands feverishly rubbing together in front of his chest, eager to open for business immediately.

However, Madao changed his tune.

"But, as you know, since the network crashed, humans have no way to enter the old network anymore. The only visitors to the museum are idle and ill-intentioned wandering dangers; even if we wanted to help, it's too dangerous for kids anyway. Adults are responsible for children's safety."

With his wishes dashed, the light in Emmet's eyes quickly vanished, yet even by Madao refusing his request, there was no aggression displayed, this was extremely rare in the old network.

"But I know a place that's not only safe but also has many Lego enthusiasts; if you could move the museum to that place..."

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[Tuna Fertilized Egg Reserve Freezer] *10

[Each reserve contains a total of 12,000 live embryos of various tuna species]

Staring at the items drawn from whim, Lin Miao fell silent.

As Horizon Corporation grew larger, constructing more system buildings, the lottery accumulated to once per day. Lin Miao occasionally participated, attempting luck, yet the drawn items were varied and unpredictable, with the prize pool being bottomless and perplexing.

Airborne, crawling, swimming, living, dead, metallic — there's everything....

So, what's the use of these items?

For caviar production?

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