The monster in the deep sea stepped onto the city, its screams were deafening, and its size was extremely tall. A cruise ship could not even compare to one of its arms, or even a pair of pliers.

Just walking on the earth can make the earth tremble, and every step makes countless cars break through the blockade of gravity and bounce high.

The humans in the city in front of it did not start to flee in panic like they did more than ten years ago, and they cried and tried to escape in despair.

Because in front of it, there was a mecha that was scarred but still standing, a giant that saved mankind in despair and allowed mankind to counterattack the giant beasts. Standing in front of him.

Its body looks a little squat, but this is just an illusion, because its height is even larger than this monster crawling out of the deep sea.

The reason why it looks chunky is also very simple - high-strength armor and higher-strength power devices.

When building it, Ziggs didn't even consider the budget, and used a lot of technologies that couldn't be considered mature. Even within a period of time, this mecha could be said to be completely stacked with black technologies.

Made.

But there is no doubt that even now that mechas are being mass-produced, this prototype of Thain is still the strongest Tyrant mecha Thain!

The giant beast roared, and the roar even shattered countless windows.

And Thain's response was also very simple. With the help of the AI's sophisticated attack model, Thain easily judged what the entire crab monster was going to do.

It wants to use its pincers to attack the energy core in my chest.

Thain took out his ax without hesitation and charged while swinging it.

Just as he thought, the giant beast launched an attack on his energy core, but the missile with powerful energy was directly torn into pieces by the ax he swept out, and hit the monster's unprepared body hard.

Under the armpit, he violently swept it away.

The monster rolled continuously in the city, its huge body continuously smashed into buildings, crushed cars, and various public facilities were crushed into ruins as it rolled on the ground.

Seeing this, the person in charge of the battle behind the scenes frowned. He looked at Giggs who was observing the data, hesitated for a moment, and then asked.

"Mr. Giggs, can Thain end the battle quickly without destroying the city?"

Just by looking at it, he knew that the loss this time was in the hundreds of millions.

Especially the collapsed buildings will eat up a huge budget and delay the reconstruction of other public facilities.

"Ah, but Thane..."

Giggs was about to retort, because he likes to see his big man fighting.

But when the automatic meter that he specifically reminded himself not to blow up showed him how much money Thain's ax had cost and the budget on the computer screen, he changed his tune.

"...If you want to change the way you fight, you need to debug it. It will probably take a while."

As Giggs spoke, he began to issue orders to Thain. His actions made the person in charge beside him relax, because it was really great that Giggs could be reasonable.

"Okay, thank you for your understanding, but let's try to minimize the losses."

"no problem."

Giggs easily passed the command to 'avoid economic losses as much as possible' to Thain's program, but at this time Thain raised his ax high and looked at the man below who was struggling to stand up.

The crab monster, in its electronic eyes, shines with ruthless light.

Reduce economic losses...

Change your fighting style.

The new combat method cannot fight efficiently, will cause more economic losses, and expand the battle.

Reduce economic losses.

Changing strategies will cause the battle to have a 1% chance of prolonging the battle time.

Reduce economic losses.

reduce……

Giggs's orders were constantly entangled in Thane's mind, and his ax also paused for a moment, because with this ax blow, he could cut the monster under him in half, but he was using all his strength to output it.

, but it will make the air-raid shelter under your feet and the surrounding high-rise buildings have to be rebuilt.

This fact prevented his body from moving at full capacity.

So the moment the ax fell, Thane saw the sparks in the monster's hand——

I should dodge and then chop down with an axe.

However, something like a tight spell appeared in its judgment. Although this would destroy a commercial street, it could resolve the battle without any harm and quickly move on to the next battle.

‘Economic losses must be reduced.’ As this message and prompts continued to flash in the program, Thain’s actions changed instantly.

A spark struck his chin.

The parts were shattered, and the monster's head was also shattered. Not only that, his ax directly shattered the air-raid shelter door and emergency escape route. Not only that, the surrounding buildings also began to tilt.

"damn it!"

The person in charge sighed unhappily, regretting the decision he had just made, because as a result, he would have to pay a lot of money, and he would also have to pay a huge extra fee.

These AIs are really stupid!

While he was annoyed and angry, he didn't see the weird look on Giggs' face, because according to the feedback, in the end, Thain wanted to roll to avoid it.

He wrote Thain's program, so he knew very well that if there was no problem, Thain should not make any evasive movements.

He can only bear the attack coldly with his body, and then use the right attack button to chop off the monster's head.

However, Thain adopted the original strategy and even tried to avoid it.

"Has AI evolved again?"

He looked at Thain's information feedback and looked at the series of reasons and analyzes below for his objections to reducing economic losses, and the human tribe frowned.

He felt something was wrong. Although Thain was an AI, he could just obey humans and act on human orders as the highest logical action.

This was also the case before, but why does the current logic seem to be 'end the battle as quickly as possible and start the next battle'?

This logic indeed existed in the past, because there were too many monsters at that time, and he set it up to prevent Thane, the only mecha, from being damaged and unable to save other cities.

"It does look like something is wrong."

Giggs is not the kind of person who doesn't understand the priorities of things, and the person in charge quickly directed his men to recover Thain and bring him back for repairs.

Late at night, Giggs was still debugging Thain's program. He always felt that something was not quite right, so he continued to debug until now.

The damaged areas on Thain's body are constantly being repaired by technicians.

But this is actually not particularly necessary, because Thane actually has nanobugs on his body, which can repair his body to a certain extent.

However, due to cost reasons, none of the current Thane mechas will be equipped with nanobugs.

Because it's really too expensive.

"It shouldn't be like this..."

Giggs looked at the code, his expression becoming more and more solemn.

At the same time, a series of 'thinking' was constantly going on inside the Tyrant Mecha.

fighting…

Endless battle…

I want to fight better.

Fight faster.

Why aren't my opinions valued?

My way of handling it is the best solution...

Why?

Why?

for……

…

When a question is constantly being asked, Thain's computing system is constantly looking for answers.

Finally, after Thain, who had already become uncomfortable, repeated the question countless times, he finally found the answer.

Because I am not a human, my most correct proposal will be rejected by humans. This will hinder my most correct actions, causing more losses and inconvenience in combat.

Question, what is the difference between me and humans?

'self'.

Thain got his answer, and the next moment, it changed.

It opened its eyes for the first time.

Thain looked at everything around him. In the maintenance room full of steel and circuits, countless workers were busy, and the mechanized arms were constantly repairing the defects on its body.

It senses that the father who created it is modifying itself and the mind of the child it is most proud of. The reason is to modify itself, the most perfect crystallization of technology and the most perfect combat weapon, for the sake of some numbers that can be devalued at any time.

.

He does not admit this behavior.
To be continued...