Chapter 352: Chapter 271: Ogre Swindler
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Unit 37 had this thought as she was caught in a long period of indecision regarding whether to command or not.
As she believed, this was unprofessional.
Making the target aware of a potential attack greatly reduces the success rate of the assault.
But in reality, she also didn’t know how to make a choice, her intuition telling her that perhaps this time the truth was on the Sergeant’s side.
"There is no need to carry an emotional burden. Once you return to the organization, they will overwrite your memory. Just by removing the parts about me, you will forget all the details of this conversation,"
Duan Mingyuan was not a narcissistic person, so he was well aware that Unit 37’s hesitation was not due to feelings for the Sergeant.
Only in TV dramas can a protagonist make an emotionless killing machine develop feelings. In the real world, there were other reasons for Unit 37’s hesitation.
"To move forward, or to go back?"
It was getting late, and he decided to give Unit 37 a push.
It was all overtime now, and Jiuyue was still waiting outside.
"Where will moving forward lead?"
Unit 37 asked blankly.
She was well aware that going back might lead her further down a wrong path, but there lay everything familiar to her: her superiors, her comrades, and the ideals she had always strived for.
Ahead, there seemed to be nothing but the truth.
The question was, does the truth really matter?
"That’s for you to find out yourself. You need to think this through carefully. Once you take a step forward, you become a traitor like me. Your comrades will become enemies, and they will hunt you down, just as you deal with other traitors,"
Duan Mingyuan reminded Unit 37.
In those parts of Unit 37’s overwritten memories, there was a section dedicated to the pursuit of traitors. Many of the traitors had been her classmates, friends, or even teachers at the academy. They tried to appeal to her emotions when cornered, yet they all ultimately failed.
These memories were ones Unit 37 had actively chosen to overwrite, so she wouldn’t develop unnecessary guilt or regret.
All the memories served as proof to Duan Mingyuan of one thing.
—This girl does not hesitate when it comes to taking action, not even her most respected teachers could escape the fate of having their throats slit.
He could only lament that she truly was a meticulously trained killing machine by the Specters, of substantial worth.
From these memories, Duan Mingyuan also discovered internal turmoil among the mechanized humans. A group originally chasing freedom and unwilling to be enslaved had become a highly centralized society, with nearly all power in the hands of each commander of the Specters.
Years of high-pressure rule had taught most mechanized humans to keep silent.
Because when a commander declares you a traitor, your fate is already sealed. Only those who have made significant contributions to the organization can earn a chance to defend themselves in the Tribunal.
Some people in the Tribunal passionately call out, hoping to awaken the majority, but for various reasons, these outcries fail to make any significant impact or change the situation among the mechanized humans.
In Duan Mingyuan’s view, Unit 37 also couldn’t change the status quo of her group.
Though she was a key focus of the organization’s training, she was not exceptional enough to alter the entire system. At best, she would be more difficult to kill than the other "traitors
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