There was silence in the dim room, and a blue light emerged from the screen, illuminating the table in front of him and the figure of a girl, who stared at the screen without saying a word.

"In short...that's it, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do about it."

"I see."

The girl replied lightly, then cut off the communication. Then, she stared at the screen without saying a word. At this moment, the door next to her opened, and then, a girl with wheat-colored skin walked in.

"What's wrong? Agnesta? This is the first time I see you showing such an expression."

Looking at the expressionless expression of the girl sitting at the table, the girl with wheat-colored skin frowned and asked. In her memory, this girl always had a smile on her face, looking naughty and cheerful.

But now she is full of sadness and anger.

From the perspective of the girl with wheat-colored skin, this is the first time this has happened.

"...The student council president just sent me news."

The girl named Agnesta lowered her eyes and stared at the table, her voice completely lacking the usual liveliness and excitement.

"The Garden Council passed a resolution to prohibit any intelligent machines from appearing in human form at the Star Warrior Festival."

"What?!"

Hearing this, the originally calm face of the wheat-colored girl suddenly changed color slightly. However, the bad news was obviously not the only one.

"... The operating committee has also made a decision to prohibit the emergence of any human-shaped intelligent machines... All humanoid intelligent machines currently manufactured must be destroyed..."

Speaking of this, Agnesta clenched her fists tightly and gritted her teeth. And when she heard Agnesta's answer, the girl with wheat-colored skin was also shocked. Although she knew that when she saw Agnesta's expression,

The situation was not good. But what she didn't expect was that things would turn out like this!

"Why is this? Is it because you didn't achieve any results in the Phoenix Star Martial Arts Festival?"

Even though she said that, the wheat-colored girl herself thought it was too unbelievable. Indeed, at last year's Phoenix Star Warrior Festival, the chairman of the operating committee specifically talked about the special permission for humanoid omnics to participate. As a result, the two of them made

Not only did their robot fail to win the championship, it was even smashed into scrap metal in the first round. To be honest, this result was beyond their expectations, and they suffered from it for the entire next year.

Quite a lot of pressure.

Unlike other academies, Alcant Academy is divided into five major factions, almost all of which act independently. The Ideological Faction is mainly responsible for studying basic theories and natural sciences, while the Lion Faction's main research direction is Huang-style weapons and weaponry. The Ultraman Faction

It focuses on body strengthening and transformation, while the Black Woman Faction mainly conducts research on new materials and manufacturing processes.

The last sculptor group is responsible for pseudomorphs and their control.

Agnesta Juno and the wheat-colored girl Carmilla Paret are the core of the sculpture school. Especially Agnesta, although she is usually naughty and frivolous, she has keen observation skills.

and genius-like computing abilities.

However, although they are both members of the Sculpture School, their goals are different.

What Ainesta hopes for is to create a unique and strongest pseudo-form.

Carmilla's goal is to create a universal pseudo-form that anyone can use.

To put it bluntly, it is the difference between exclusive machines and mass-produced machines.

Although the two have different goals, this does not prevent them from becoming friends.

However... Carmilla was also shocked when she suddenly heard the news.

"Why is this? Agnesta?"

"...Someone has seen through our thoughts."

After saying this, Agnesta suddenly started gritting her teeth.

"How can it be?"

"I don't know how he did it..."

When Agnesta said this, she also felt cold inside. In fact, Agnesta's ultimate goal is indeed to create an autonomous simulant that has emotions and can grow, and she also hopes that her "child"

Can one day obtain the same rights as human beings.

But what Agnesta didn't expect was that her wish, which had been hidden deep in her heart, would be directly revealed by the other party!?

"How is this possible? How can someone who is not from our school be so familiar with Luo Xing Engineering?"

After listening to what Agnesta conveyed and the speculation that Fang Zheng put forward at the meeting, Carmilla felt numb all over. She didn't expect someone to be so keen, and could see their true thoughts just from the humanoid design?!

"I don't know either, but now......"

Having said this, Agnesta gritted her teeth and remained silent. Not only did Fang Zheng see through her thoughts, but he also took direct action to block all of Agnesta's escape routes. It was not allowed to create simulacra of human form.

This means that no matter how far Agnesta develops autonomous artificial intelligence, they will never be treated as humans. Maybe there will be animal protection laws or something like pets, but... Agnesta

The desired future, in which mimics have the same rights as humans, will never happen again.

"But this is just the decision of the academy, the conglomerate's side..."

"Our Lady's Cord is very unhappy with us."

Agnesta shook her head. Under normal circumstances, the resolution of the Academy meeting will not take effect immediately, but will be submitted to it for discussion by the Academy City Operating Committee composed of representatives of the eight chaebols. If it is just a simple

If there is no reason to ban the production of humanoid mimics, then it may not be recognized. However, Fang Zheng has made the reason very clear. There are also smart people in other chaebols. When they hear it, they will know that this is not groundless.

It's a real threat.

So in the end, the Operations Committee not only passed the proposal in the academy meeting, but even directly issued regulations, declaring that all humanoid machines manufactured in Academy City were illegal, and all existing humanoid machines must be destroyed.

Not only that, this incident also made the Virgin's Cord consortium behind the Alcant Research Institute very dissatisfied. After all, they were also conducting similar research internally. In the past, other conglomerates did not care about this issue, but now it is certain that in this

After the incident, several other chaebols will keep a close eye on the Virgin's Cord's research on humanoid mimics, and if they don't keep pace, something else will happen.

From the perspective of the Virgin's Cord, this is all the responsibility of Agnesta and Carmilla. If they hadn't been eager for success and exposed their feet, the company's confidential operations would not be in danger of being leaked. So they also made a decision

responded—just now, they had informed Agnesta through the student president of Alecante, demanding that the "Sculpture Sect" must unconditionally cooperate with the operations committee's actions and completely destroy all humanoid mimics.

It's obvious that Holy Mother's Rope intends to lose pawns to save the rook.

This is the sadness of the Xingmai Generation. Although in this city, they are far away from the outside world's discrimination against the Xingmai Generation, but in turn, they cannot leave this cage. No matter what kind of talent and strength they have, they must

At the mercy of the plutocrats.

So even if Agnesta didn't want to do it ten thousand times... now she had no choice but to say it.

But that doesn't mean she will give up.

"...Kasugano...I will never let you go!"

Agnesta gritted her teeth and spoke fiercely.

"...A sneeze!!"

Fang Zheng sneezed and wiped his nose.

"What's wrong? Kasugano-kun?"

Imari Nagakura looked at Fangzheng curiously and asked, but the latter shrugged.

"Who knows, maybe some pretty girl misses me."

"Aha……………"

Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Nagakura Imari looked confused, while Tachibana also rolled his eyes without curiosity.

"Maybe someone is scolding you secretly behind your back."

"How is that possible? A handsome, gentle and kind person like me would never make enemies with others."

"Forget it, I don't want to talk about this topic with you."

Juba shook her head. After having been together for more than a year, she had gained a certain understanding of Fang Zhenggan's character, and she knew that it was pointless to argue with him in this regard at this time.

"I just want to say, about that new training method...is it really okay?"

"Of course...it can't be okay."

Fang Zheng curled his lips.

"Otherwise, why do we need you to sign the guarantee letter?"

At the beginning of the new semester, students including Tachibana also received notification about the arrival of the new teacher. Of course, for them, what is more relevant is the introduction of the "special courses". According to Sakuya Nine-nine

According to the saying, this special course is specially prepared for students who have undergone the sublimation ritual. As long as they can pass the trial, they can obtain new and more powerful power that can compete with other schools.

But this is not without cost. Before receiving special training, everyone will get a guarantee letter, indicating that the special training may threaten life safety. If you are not willing to accept it, you can choose to give up. But at the same time, if you give up the special training

courses, then its status in Haoling Academy will also be reduced.

This naturally made Ju Ba and others feel uneasy. They wanted to ask Fang Zheng to find out what the special course was. But Fang Zheng said that it was an interesting secret, and you will understand it only when you experience it - now let’s talk

It would be too boring to come out.

If he couldn't beat him, Juba would really want to go up and face Fangzheng to deal damage.

Of course, if she really dared, Fang Zheng would definitely welcome her.

By the way, as expected by Fang Zheng, Julie and Sogoya both signed the guarantee letter immediately, while Imari Nagakura hesitated for a moment and then signed as well. Only Tachibana Bass thought about it and finally gritted his teeth and closed his eyes.

, signed the guarantee letter with the momentum of selling oneself to bury his father.

To be honest, from here, Fang Zheng can tell... Maybe Juba will not be able to pass this special course.
To be continued...