[Comprehensive] The male protagonist never shows up

"Puppet master, why did you speak suddenly." Luna returned to the room and said to the puppet master very depressed, "Everyone was taken aback by you!"

"I just think Motoko Kusanagi is very similar to me, but it's a pity to see her being restricted by her narrow self." The puppeteer's voice returned to a deep male voice, with a special metallic texture.

Luna pouted with displeasure on her face, she was really confused by these two guys who were obsessed with exploring themselves: "Luna's rare date has also come to naught, Sister Suzi and Bart have been arguing and keeping silent, although the sea It's beautiful, but Luna hasn't even had a chance to get in the water and have fun."

"It's okay, Luna, it will be the same next time." The puppeteer comforted.

"...that's fine." Luna suddenly remembered something, her eyes began to sparkle, "But Luna thought of one thing, puppeteer, do you think there is any way to maintain the prosthetic body by yourself? Like Luna The bodies of Na and Motoko are very sophisticated and expensive. If they don’t pass the maintenance of Class [-] or MEGATECH Prosthetic Body Research Institute, it seems that they can’t survive. But Luna feels it’s a pity, and originally wanted to use this body to continue to the next one. local."

"Do you maintain it yourself?" The puppeteer's voice was in a thoughtful rhythm. After a while, he finally continued, "In this case, Luna, I will prepare a gift for you when we meet. I will use biochemical human and righteous How about body manufacturing theory and technology?"

"Wow, it sounds so powerful. Does it matter to Luna?" Luna was a little surprised, but at the same time worried about the puppeteer, "Won't the puppet master reveal the secret?"

"It doesn't matter, the most thing I have is data, they are in my database, they are my things, I want to give them to Luna, what's wrong?"

Well, puppeteer, you have won.Luna immediately relieved her psychological burden, and nodded happily: "I look forward to meeting you more and more, Puppeteer!"

"Me too, Luna."

The puppet master made an agreement with Luna, but in the next few days, he suddenly disappeared. No matter how Luna called, he didn't get a response from him. Luna was a little puzzled. It's strange that the puppet master has been all over the Internet. Wandering around, but she couldn't even find it on the Internet.

Oops, is the time approaching?time to leave.Luna put down the data cable in her hand and suddenly realized the problem.

On this day, Luna finally walked out of Motoko Kusanagi's house alone. The sun was strong and bright. Luna looked up at the sky and smiled. Then she connected to the Internet and began to search for Motoko Kusanagi's location.

The location of Motoko Kusanagi is not difficult to find, because Luna has already investigated the final battlefield in advance.

Luna knows everything, the prophet has an advantage.

Before fully arriving at the destination, Luna heard the sound of fierce guns and guns coming from inside, which seemed to be a very dangerous confrontation.

But that didn't stop her from moving on.

The dilapidated building was originally supposed to be a museum or a primitive society research institute, and there were clear and detailed reliefs of dinosaur fossils and evolutionary tree diagrams on the surrounding walls, but it was a pity that it was destroyed by gunfire and shelling.The only evolutionary tree that still has some traces on the wall, only the human beings at the top are still clearly identifiable, as if it is a hint in the dark.

A series of splashes were suddenly stirred up in a shallow pool on the ground, only to spread towards a huge thinking chariot not far away. The machine guns on the battlefield were powerful, and the aroused wind could even blow to Luna's side. , the body's instincts inspired a thermal optical camouflage device.Luna quietly watched Motoko Kusanagi appear on the top cover of the Thinking Fighter, and tried to open the top cover with her own strength.

Even though the strength and speed of the prosthetic body are countless times higher than that of normal humans, they are still no match for the hard and stable chariot. Motoko Kusanagi's muscles have been tightened to the limit, and the artificial muscles and bone joints in the arms have burst out of the artificial skin. The fragility of human beings is in stark contrast to the power of machines.At this moment, the thinking chariot turned sharply, and Motoko Kusanagi, whose elbow and knee joints burst due to excessive force, was thrown off at once.Then it clamped Kusanagi Motoko's head with its thick and powerful wrists, slowly lifted it up, tightened it tightly and recovered it.

Motoko Kusanagi's front-view mirror has been shattered under the strong pressure, if this continues, her optical brain will be scrapped.

This is absolutely impossible.

"Stop!" Luna rushed forward clumsily, trying to stop the thinking tank from moving. At this critical moment, a series of loud noises were heard, and the bullets falling from the sky destroyed the thinking tank's AI.The upper body of Motoko Kusanagi, who was freed, fell back to the ground. Although her somewhat damaged head could not effectively mobilize her expressions, her vision and hearing were still intact. She turned her eyes slightly and said to Bart who came to her side: "Bart, there is one more person here."

"Who is it? Come out!" Bart immediately drew his gun and looked around vigilantly.

Then they saw that Luna lifted the thermal optical effect, slowly got up from the fallen position, and looked at them with a flattering expression.

"Luna?" Motoko Kusanagi and Bart were not surprised that a person suddenly appeared here, but that this person turned out to be Luna who should have been completely ignorant of their whereabouts.

"Well, Sister Suzi, Batsang." Luna got up, showing a more lively and lovely smile, "There is no need to ask how Luna got here, because they are coming soon, just now I saw it on the road."

"Bart, how is the puppet master?" Motoko Kusanagi put aside Luna's question for the time being, and asked Bart directly. After Bart went to check, he found that the prosthetic body loaded with the puppet master was intact: "Fortunately, the car is strong enough, and there is nothing wrong with it." Hurt."

"Prepare the equipment, I'm going to sneak in."

Although Bart was very surprised and opposed, he still complied.Luna has been quietly watching them connect to the data cable, Motoko Kusanagi began to sneak into the opponent's computer brain, and the puppeteer also invaded Motoko Kusanagi's voice system, he turned his head to look at Luna beside him: "Luna, although the process It was different from what I expected, but I finally met you."

"Well. Luna is very happy to finally meet the puppeteer." Luna smiled, as if they were not in a dilapidated house full of bullet holes and gunpowder smell at this time, and the puppet master was not in a dilapidated house. Motoko Kusanagi's voice system speaks the same.

Bart was shocked. When did this girl who was always by their side and never went out alone know the puppeteer: "You guys actually know each other?"

Luna nodded with a smile: "Well, he is the first friend Luna met in this world."

"Although I regret not being able to meet you properly, Luna, my agreement is still valid."

Agreement?Luna thought about it with some hesitation, and then nodded expectantly: "Well, Luna is looking forward to it."

The puppet master then began to introduce himself: "My code name is Project 2501, I was created to engage in commercial espionage and intelligence manipulation, intrude into specific Ghosts and implant Trojan horse programs, with the purpose of gaining benefits for certain individuals and organizations. I wandered around different networks and became conscious of my own existence, but the programmers identified this as a bug and started isolating me into separate prosthetics"

The voice of the puppeteer continued. He said that he was still flawed as a living body, and the reason was that he currently had no ability to die or reproduce. He said that although he could make copies by himself, after all, copying is not reproduction, and such copying cannot produce mutations. and personality.The true meaning of life is continuous reproduction and evolution, and reproduction is a defense mechanism that stubbornly resists various destructive disasters.So he hopes to "merge" with Motoko Kusanagi.

"After rapprochement, the brand new 'you' will bring my descendants into the Internet... At that time, I will be able to die."

But the voice of Motoko Kusanagi suddenly disappeared. Bart couldn't hear their conversation and shouted anxiously: "Major, can you hear me? I can't hear your call. What's wrong?"

Luna was listening to the puppeteer's mechanical voice in silence, and when she saw this, she patted Bart next to her comfortingly: "Batsang, don't worry, they just have some little secrets that need to be communicated and shared internally, and they won't be harmful to Sister Suzi. .”

"How do you know?" Bart asked suspiciously.

"Because Luna is special!" Luna showed a very pure smile, "Luna just knows some things."

Not so easily convinced, Bart lunges forward, determined to cut the line between them.The puppeteer immediately glanced at Bart, only to see that Bart's arm was suddenly out of his control.

Luna blinked in confusion, she pushed Bart, pointed at the bodies of Motoko Kusanagi and the puppeteer, and signaled, "Someone wants to shoot Sister Motoko and the puppeteer."

Following Luna's outstretched fingers, Bart also immediately saw two red machine gun aiming points appear on the prosthetic bodies of Motoko Kusanagi and the puppeteer.Although the puppeteer deliberately interfered with Motoko Kusanagi's program in order to gain time to communicate with Motoko Kusanagi, the shooting still started. At the critical moment, Bart stretched out his arm to block Motoko Kusanagi's bullet without hesitation.And his arm, the puppeteer's prosthetic body and most of Kusanagi Motoko's prosthetic body were all torn to pieces by the powerful full-range shooting.

"Motoko!" Bart couldn't take it anymore, dragging his broken body, he ran towards Motoko Kusanagi.

Bart is such a kind and affectionate man~

Luna sighed like this again, and stood up calmly again.

The exact moment has finally arrived.

She tentatively raised her right hand, and then saw two small black bats appear out of nowhere on her right hand, fluttering their wings and pounced on the wreckage of Motoko Kusanagi and the puppeteer who were completely destroyed by bullets and began to collect samples , their bodies began to turn red slowly until they were full of blood and turned red, then returned to Luna's right hand and disappeared.

The self-awareness program, and the blood sample of Motoko Kusanagi fused with the evolution of the puppeteer, have arrived.

Luna looked at Motoko Kusanagi's head not far away, and looked forward to it with some joy. As long as the blood samples were collected, she could go back.

"Sister Suzi's head, it's better to hide it first." Luna waved her hand to Bart kindly, signaling that she started to withdraw first, "I'll go to Batsang's house to prepare the body for Sister Suzi, and I will contact you at that time .”

Bart hid Motoko Kusanagi's head without even thinking about it. When the people from Public Security Section [-] came, they only saw Bart who was also in a mess together with the two dilapidated remains of the prosthetic body.After repairing the prosthetic limb, Bart quietly went to his shelter with Motoko Kusanagi's head.

Luna has already prepared a spare prosthetic body through the information in the network and database.

"This is?" Bart looked at the prosthetic body of a cute little girl in a black dress that Luna showed him with some confusion.

"How about it? Don't you think it's cute?" Luna smiled and nodded to herself, "Luna thought this was very similar to Sister Suzi, so she brought it back specially."

"Really?" Bart sighed helplessly, but the major is not like this at all, "Forget it, let's do it now."

Because Motoko Kusanagi’s brain tissue is alive, just like in the human body, even if it is transplanted into a full-body prosthetic artificial human body, before the body functions are not functioning effectively, intravenous drips are still needed to infuse the brain. of nutrients.

Bart and Luna waited quietly in the study, waiting for their Sleeping Beauty to open her eyes.

"Bart." Motoko Kusanagi finally woke up. She stood up and looked at her body speechlessly, "Can you explain what's going on with this body?"

"It's not my bad taste. It's the only thing that works for now." Bart explained with some embarrassment, and then roughly talked about the chaotic scene at that time.

Motoko Kusanagi looked around the room, and then said casually: "The decoration of this room is very nice, is it your refuge?"

"Ah, it's mine. You are the first visitor so far. If you want, you can stay here forever."

Batsang, you just ignored the existence of Luna. Luna glanced at the serious Bart with some teasing. Well, it's understandable.

"Thank you, but I'm leaving." Motoko Kusanagi's voice was firm, without any hesitation or compromise, she looked at the smiling Luna with a complicated expression, "Luna, come with me, the puppeteer has something to tell you. "

"Puppeteer? What did you and that guy talk about? Is he still there, in your body?" Bart hesitated and asked with difficulty, he had to ask.

Turning her back to Bart, Motoko Kusanagi calmly and rationally said another thing: "Bart, do you still remember the voice you heard at the beach? Before that sentence, there were a few words like this, when I was a child What you say is like a child, what you feel like a child, what you think is like a child, but when you become an adult, you will abandon your childish innocence, and what is in front of you is neither a program called a puppet master nor a woman called a major."

Bart laughed when he heard the words, he seemed to be relieved all of a sudden.

Luna knew it was time to say goodbye when Motoko Kusanagi connected the data cable to the nape of her neck.

"Luna, it's really nice to meet you." The long-lost mechanical low male voice said slowly, and then fell silent in Luna's consciousness.

Puppeteer, Luna is also very happy to meet you.

Under Kusanagi Motoko's surprised eyes, Luna disappeared in front of her like a phantom, and Luna's smile was pleasant when she parted.

"Sister Motoko, Luna is really happy, and finally became friends with her favorite Motoko Kusanagi—"