Chapter 981 - 26: Yorinobu Arasaka’s Dilemma (6,000 Words Double - )_4

"You must become such a warrior, control your desires, your thoughts, all those ideas that make you doubt yourself. You must become stronger than your father, stronger than the Arasaka Empire he left behind, stronger, more decisive, more... unstoppable.

To win the war, we need such warriors, do you understand?"

Yorinobu was completely captivated; decades of stubborn thinking, decades of entanglement, decades of unresolved contradictions all transformed into one thought:

This war is about the future, the future he desires.

He was born to win this war, winning it could end all his distress; he could take revenge, fulfill his teacher’s expectations, escape Arasaka Saburo’s control, and... truly achieve himself.

But winning this war requires him to become a true warrior.

Of course, he would become such a warrior.

To V, this scene looked undeniably exaggerated: Yorinobu’s expressions and postures shifted too quickly and fiercely, completely like he had become another person...

Two words appeared in her mind: "Brainwashing"!

Many people think "brainwashing" is a conspiracy theory; V knew of Perares and the Ye Group’s affairs, so she knew it was technologically achievable.

But what she didn’t know was that words could achieve the same effect, and at such a fast speed...

V looked at Lille, feeling her perception and understanding of Lille had refreshed again...

She felt a bit strange.

"I get it—"

Yorinobu stood up abruptly—

And Lille smiled, the sound emanating from a mechanical throat, his hand stopping the agitated Arasaka Yorinobu, interrupting his words, making the latter shut up immediately.

"If you think about it carefully, you’ll find that our current situation is something you’ve seen, and is incredibly familiar to you."

Yorinobu looked confused until his rapidly working brain retrieved some images from deep memory:

Arasaka has procedures to cultivate Death Soldiers...

That’s exactly what he thought of.

"Your obsession is too heavy, you’ve been imbued with too many ideas since childhood, it only takes a few words to turn you into this—

Surpass Arasaka Saburo, surpass the Arasaka Group... do you really need these? If the one defeating the company is just another Death Soldier, another puppet without thoughts, how can life’s meaning be all anchored in death, how can you create a future full of vitality?

So... stop playing your awful role-playing game, you really should learn how to love a person, whether she is poor or rich, ugly or beautiful;

Learn to love this world, whether it gives you flowers or thorns, sunlight or wind and rain;

Accept yourself... even if you’re already hard to be considered a perfect good product, imperfection doesn’t mean you should die or continue to rot, growing towards the sunshine is always better than compromising into a worse decay.

Once you’ve figured things out, we’ll talk about what job you should be doing—

Don’t think killing Saburo is so impressive, even if you don’t do it, he’ll end up dying by my hands."

Lille said as he took two steps back, glanced at V, indicating it was time to leave.

[Lille: Let’s go, David is about to arrive.]

"Oh..."

Even after Lille and V left, Yorinobu stood there.

Looking at the place where he had kowtowed earlier, and at the beer he barely drank, it took a long, long time before he reacted and realized he should move—

Because the vendor’s cautious voice sounded from behind.

"Sir... you... we’re packing up, your stuff..."

Yorinobu picked up the unfinished frozen dumplings and beer on the table, eating and walking—

"Disgusting frozen dumplings and beer full of artificial flavor..."

He really wanted to drink the beer he had at 20 again, perhaps he should try making it himself, whether it’s food or drink.

...

V boldly scrutinized Lille, occasionally even touching his arms and body.

It turns out the body feels quite similar to a human’s, even the temperature is similar.

This behavior gave Lille goosebumps: "What are you doing?"

"I actually thought you learned some... brainwashing techniques from the AI, planning to use evil AI technology to rule the human world."

Bang bang.

V tiptoed up to knock Lille’s head lightly, causing him to stop and turn to stare at her expressionlessly.

"Heh heh..." V chuckled awkwardly, "Well, wasn’t I just confirming... why grow so tall!"

"I would like to shrink a little, but the technology doesn’t support it."

Lille shook his head.

Unlike the common human perception of "bigger is better," to him, a larger mainframe signifies immature technology; if the core components are more compact, the same volume can carry more functions, indicating more advanced technology.

"Hey~ big things have their advantages." V said, then her eyes rolled, "What you said just now was quite beautiful, let’s say, you... yourself... is it..."

"Where else do you think I am doing here?" Lille lifted V’s collar to put her back by his side, "I’m not some terror robot programmed to destroy companies and capitalism, my reason for returning here is...

The folks."

Bam!

"People who like to pause dramatically in their speech usually aren’t good people!"