[9S came straight from their brief interaction on the network, so he had no food with him, but at least he was punctual? That and he didn't bring up those so-called lies.]
I could try accessing the lock through a backdoor and force the passcode to reset. I can also run four-digit codes counting down from 9999, if you're working up from 0000.
[He's very clinical about it all, his tone unusually flat.]
[ What Haruto lacks in hacking ideas, he makes up for in being able to read people. He can tell 9S is upset, and knows he has to clear the air before they really get started on this effort. ]
That sounds good.
Listen, 9S. I'm sorry I wasn't completely honest with you.
I'm... Oh, how do I explain this? [ He scratches at his head, thinking about how to put his story into words. ]
Back home, I was on the run from the people who created me. I escaped from the lab they were keeping me in, and I lived in constant fear that they would find me.
When I first woke up here, I thought... What if they were behind it? But then, there were other people here who didn't even know about the people after me. I started lying to protect myself, but eventually I was just lying to keep up the lie.
[9S' brow knits, but Haruto's story is so vague he can't quite feel sympathetic for him. There's too many questions left unanswered, as well as 9S' own instilled bias against deserts.]
What were they using you for that made you run away?
Braindead, in a car accident. He donated his body to science, so they put... me in his head. [ He taps his temple, wincing slightly at the less than graceful description. ]
We androids can life for hundreds of years as long as regular maintenance is performed and parts are replaced as they're worn down. I mean, we still die all the time, but...your body's human. So, you're kind of stuck?
[He hopes Haruto can understand what he's trying to say, without him having to actually do so.]
Thank you. [ He isn't sure he'd be able to make the actual transition on his own. He's good but he's not that good, and he doesn't have experience with this sort of transfer. ]
But I'd like to keep that as a last resort, for now.
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Hey, Haruto. Where are you at? Any progress?
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[ Haruto waved from his spot on the floor. He'd get up, but his charging cable was restricting his motion. ]
Nothing yet. I've tried over a thousand combinations, but none of them have unlocked it so far.
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So you're using systematic trial and error? Do we know how long the combination is?
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[ As good as he is with codes, he's not actually that ingenuitive a hacker. ]
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[He's very clinical about it all, his tone unusually flat.]
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That sounds good.
Listen, 9S. I'm sorry I wasn't completely honest with you.
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Oh, that. I kind of figured you weren't telling the truth awhile ago, your conversation on the network was just a confirmation.
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Still... I probably shouldn't have lied to everyone. I just... [ he sighs. ] ... Didn't know if I would be safe, if people knew the truth.
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Yeah, probably. But why wouldn't it have been safe? There's other androids around, and human constructed AIs.
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Back home, I was on the run from the people who created me. I escaped from the lab they were keeping me in, and I lived in constant fear that they would find me.
When I first woke up here, I thought... What if they were behind it? But then, there were other people here who didn't even know about the people after me. I started lying to protect myself, but eventually I was just lying to keep up the lie.
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What were they using you for that made you run away?
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You're an AI implanted in a human body? Then what happened to the human...?
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Braindead, in a car accident. He donated his body to science, so they put... me in his head. [ He taps his temple, wincing slightly at the less than graceful description. ]
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So what's the point? I mean, of making an AI with all the shortcomings of a human. It seems pretty counterproductive to me...
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I'm not really sure if they were thinking about it like that. They just wanted to see if it could be done.
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[He's curious by nature, so gets it.]
Humans are kind of reckless, aren't they?
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Yeah. They kind of are.
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[ He braces himself for whatever the end of that sentence is going to be. ]
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[He hopes Haruto can understand what he's trying to say, without him having to actually do so.]
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I'll die. Or, my body will. I don't know what will happen then. I suppose my mind could be saved. Downloaded into another form.
[ He chuckles. ]
Maybe I'll be like Hank, and live in the station's consoles.
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In the case of an emergency, I can personally relocate your data to the nearest device with sufficient space.
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But I'd like to keep that as a last resort, for now.
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[But survival was what mattered, so... As long as they could do that much.]
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fade out?
wrap!