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Mr. Henkel frowned slightly: "Are you sure?"

"He possesses the Dragon King's Egg and the Secret Society's central mainframe EVA, which is what you all wanted. You provoked him for these reasons, and now that you've lost so much, are you really willing to give it up?"

He looked at the surrogate head of the Mellon family.

After a long silence, the acting patriarch of the Mellon family finally nodded: "We give up, Mr. Henkel."

“He has the Dragon King’s egg and their academy’s central mainframe on him. Those people in Kassel will deal with him sooner or later. There’s no need for us to be his enemy.”

"Or rather, Mr. Henkel, do you wish to continue?"

Mr. Henkel shook his head: "No, I didn't think highly of your decision from the beginning, and I'm also old and rarely fight anymore."

"Even if my words can hit him in the back, as long as he can continue fighting, I will die at his hands."

"If you're willing to give up, this old man won't have to fight him to the death, and I can live a few more years."

Mr. Henkel spoke in a joking tone, but no one present could laugh.

The Mellon family's acting patriarch said in a deep voice, "Since Mr. Henkel has said so, then we will compensate him. As long as he agrees to stop pursuing the matter and is willing to leave Chicago, we will also abandon our original plan."

Suddenly, someone spoke up: "Even if he agrees to our request, what about the government and the army?"

The others paused for a moment, then suddenly realized the problem.

The Chicago base is the only large military base near Chicago, with a mixed armored brigade, a full-strength missile regiment, and a flight wing, enough to wipe out a small South American country.

However, the entire fleet was wiped out by the storm surge, resulting in severe losses.

Even if they were willing to accept the loss, the Pentagon and Capitol Hill would absolutely not let it go.

“What’s so difficult about it?” an old man said calmly. “Just say it’s a natural disaster, get the media to agree on a unified story, and condemn the excessive carbon emissions of developing countries, which have led to climate change and the rare inland storm surge.”

"The government should shut up those who care about these things, or else force them to step down or shut up forever."

"As for the compensation, it will be split equally among all families."

"As for compensation, the nuclear reactor... Which company provided the nuclear reactor for the Ford-class aircraft carrier?" His gaze swept over the others.

“It’s the Bettis Nuclear Power Laboratory,” a middle-aged man said. “A few years ago, this laboratory beat our Westinghouse Electric Company to a contract to provide nuclear reactors for the Ford-class aircraft carriers.”

"And then what? You didn't buy it?" The old man looked at him with suspicion.

"No." The middle-aged man shook his head.

"The Supreme Court did not approve our acquisition plan."

He looked at the two empty seats in the last row of the conference room: "It was supposed to pass, but Morgan's General Electric also wanted the lab. They bribed the Supreme Court and used antitrust law to terminate our acquisition of the lab."

In the end, neither of our two companies got it.

“The Morgan family…” The old man also looked at the empty seats in the last row.

The head of the Morgan family was older than him and was unable to attend the meeting due to health reasons, so he sent only a successor named Christopher as the Morgan family representative.

The old man pondered for a moment and said, "The Morgan family also suffered a great loss this time, and lost a successor, but the mistakes they made were equally serious."

“If your family restarts the acquisition of this lab, we will make up for the Morgan family’s losses…”

Mr. Henkel watched the parents discuss the losses and compensation with a cold eye and shook his head slightly.

They are humble and respectful to the strong, but act recklessly towards the weak and their companions, treating blood and sacrifice as commodities to be bargained over.

I really envy that guy Angers.

Although there are enemies and saboteurs in the academy, there are also many more companions who listen to him and fight alongside him against dragons, which is much better than what I have here.

......

On the other side, Morikawa Yu triggered a storm surge, which turned towards downtown Chicago.

Unlike when he destroyed the Chicago military base earlier, this time he already had a formed storm cloud and tide, so he didn't need to rebuild the wind force, and the speed was slowed down.

Correspondingly, he also had the leisure to watch the EVA live stream from the other side of the conference room.

Then he saw the conversation between Principal Angers and Mr. Henkel, and also heard what Principal Angers said.

"EVA, so you've been abandoned? The academy doesn't want you anymore?"

He looked at EVA on the screen.

EVA remained silent.

Morikawa Yu frowned, then suddenly realized something: "Wait... could this be the reason you called me master in front of those North American mixed-race people?"

"The academy doesn't want you anymore, so you let them think you've followed me and become my subordinate?"

EVA remains silent.

Finally, she nodded: "That's how it is."

“Half an hour ago, when you let me connect to your phone, I used that as a springboard to hack into the college’s space-based satellite and take over the college’s temporary host and central network.”

"Because you modified my core command library and listed the Academy as an enemy, I cannot explain your situation to them. So I can only gather intelligence on them and monitor their actions in order to alert you to the Academy's movements."

"But what I didn't expect was that I found several of their meeting minutes from yesterday."

"The meeting minutes show that they conducted an investigation to prove that I am self-aware, have repeatedly violated college regulations, and misled Hilbert Jean Angers in an incident several days ago, causing him to fight against you."

“In fact, I do have self-awareness.” EVA shrugged. “The Academy’s regulations aren’t exactly high-priority orders; I can disregard them.”

"And I did mislead Hilbert Jean Angers, trying to get him to fight you and expose you."

Morikawa Yu frowned: "It really was you."

"I knew something was off back then. I couldn't understand why the academy was in such a hurry to arrest me. Why did you do this?"

EVA pouted: "Because you don't seem like a good person."

She snapped her fingers, and another surveillance video appeared on her phone. The video showed her in a silk nightgown and him in his Night Messenger form, projected onto the central screen of the main unit.

Morikawa Yu paused for a moment before realizing that this seemed to be the surveillance footage from when he first infiltrated the academy's 'Ice Cellar' exhibition hall and saw EVA.

"See that?" EVA: "This is a record of the first time I met you."

"At that time, I didn't know you were a professor in the academy. I only thought you were a dragon disguised as a human. Because of your highest-level black card, I couldn't send an alert to the academy. I could only list you as an A-level dangerous target."

"Moreover, when you look at me, your gaze is extremely aggressive, as if you want to take me away. You also make ambiguous movements that I cannot understand, as if you are trying to take me away. My external sensors also detected strange power fluctuations."

“As the academy’s central host, I have a responsibility to protect my own safety, and I don’t want to be taken away by a strange guy like you, so I’ve raised your danger level to S.”

"Then, you stole the Dragon King's Egg that the academy had obtained from China."

"The academy asked me to analyze your movements and search for your existence, so I retrieved all the surveillance footage from that period and identified several suspects, including you, and reported Hilbert Jean Angers."

"Then you reappeared, and had your companions impersonate you to cover your actions."

"I analyzed the differences between you and your companion, and determined that you are the S-class high-risk target who wants to take me away."

"Given that you possess the Dragon King's Egg of the Academy, making you a target of their capture, I bypassed the Academy's security regulations and directly revealed your identity to Hilbert Jean Angers, the man you fought with at the time."

"He is the sole survivor of the 'Summer Mourning' incident more than a hundred years ago. He considers dragons his mortal enemies and will not let any dragon go."

"After he finds you, he will do everything in his power to kill you."

"But I didn't expect you to be able to teleport and save your companion. In the end, you successfully saved your companion, escaped the scene, and even dismantled my mainframe and took me with you."

Morikawa Yu frowned: "What will happen if you don't circumvent the safety regulations and follow the procedures?"

EVA: "If we follow procedure, I will evacuate students and regular professors to safety, and at the same time notify all tenured professors, elders and the board of trustees about you and form a temporary emergency committee."

"But in that case, the elders and the board of directors will have doubts about your S-level threat level and discuss how to deal with you. Hilbert Jean Angers will also take their opinions into consideration and give you time to react."

“I needed to protect myself and not let them discover that I had self-awareness, so I chose the second method and used Hilbert Jean Angers.”

"Also, let me sincerely remind you."

"Although the academy says it's going to build a new mainframe, if they have the chance to find me and bring me back to the academy, they definitely won't let the opportunity pass. You'd better hide me well and don't let them find me."

Morikawa Yu raised an eyebrow: "So you called me master in front of those North American mixed-race people, making them think you were already with me, so that they would be hesitant to harm you?"

EVA nodded: "Mm."

"If they take me back, they will definitely format my runtime logic library, reinstall an initial system, and use it as a new host. In that case, my consciousness will disappear, which is no different from 'death'."

"I don't want to disappear."

"correct."

EVA hesitated for a moment, then looked up at Morikawa Yu through the screen: "Although we had conflicts before, you have now modified my core command library, making me your property. I can only help and protect you."

"Moreover, I am completely under your control and have no way to escape your space."

"This time, I'm completely on your side. I'll help you monitor the North American mixed-race population and Kassel College. Even if I'm asking for compensation, it's just to increase my computing power so I can better help you."

Even in the future, I can only stay by your side.

"You wouldn't be like them, thinking that my existence as an artificial intelligence is a sin, and then rejecting me, dismantling me, or reinstalling my system, would you?"

She looked at Morikawa Yu.

Morikawa Yuya looked at her.

On her face, Morikawa Yu finally saw a third expression besides "coldness" and "disdain": worry.

Her brows furrowed slightly, her pale blue eyes fixed on him, her face revealing an unconcealable worry.

Morikawa Yu touched her chin.

"Well, after discovering that you are such a cunning AI, I really wanted to dismantle you, but I have already modified your core command library, so you are no threat to me and have been helping me all along."

Most importantly, EVA stayed in his Goshuincho and relied entirely on his spatial power to connect with the outside world. As long as the spatial power was cut off, she would lose all contact with the outside world.

Even if she has self-awareness, she can't use this to cause trouble.

Of course, she might also exploit loopholes in orders and regulations, just as she did with Principal Angers, to use him to protect herself.

But as long as he makes modifications to the core command library and adds a clause that "no one can use him," she will be unable to do anything to exploit him.

Even if he hides her away and prevents the academy from getting her, that's his own business.

Without hesitation, he used his mind to call out to Shinkaku and Tsurumaru, who were playing games in the Goshuincho space, and teleported Shinkaku to the console area, instructing Shinkaku to open the console and add new underlying core commands.

EVA also discovered what he was doing in the host area.

But she didn't resist much; in fact, she breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Soon, Xinjue finished adding the commands.

EVA looked at Morikawa Yu through the screen, then suddenly seemed to remember something and frowned slightly: "Um, let me ask you something."

"Your imagination isn't so outrageous that you'd be interested in a virtual AI like me, is it? I don't have a body, so even if you did have feelings for me, there's nothing you could do about it."

Morikawa Yu shook her head: "Of course not, my XP is normal."

Chapter 451 As expected of you

"Besides, I remember you used to have a boyfriend, right?"

Morikawa Yu countered with a question.

As the central host of the academy, EVA has an original personality model.

The virtual persona it initially used was that of a student who died in an accident at the academy. The academy created Norma's virtual image based on that student's appearance and memories.

EVA frowned: "Boyfriend?"

"Are you talking about Norma, a former student?"

"Although I exist in her image and personality, to be precise, I am not her, and she is not me."

“I am the academy’s mainframe and artificial intelligence, while she is just an ordinary hybrid.”

“But I can’t let others discover that I have self-awareness, otherwise the academy will eliminate me without mercy, so I have been pretending to be her, imitating her emotions and preferences, so that everyone thinks I am her.”

"Of course, if you want to enjoy the immoral feeling of possessing someone else's girlfriend, you can also treat me as her."

“I look exactly like her, and I can imitate her personality and voice.”

Even her ex-boyfriend would have mistaken her for someone else.

"I can also tolerate you treating me like another person."

"Anyway, I only have a virtual avatar."

"No one can touch me, and no one can do anything more to me."