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2B still shook her head and refused, but seeing 9S's eager eyes, she said, "9S, if you want to eat, go ahead."
"What about you?" 9S asked.
"Don't worry about me." 2B shook her head.
9S hesitated for a moment, but finally sat down at the table and picked up the spoon excitedly.
The breakfast was simple, a pot of thick broth, which Shen Ye learned from Aerith's mother, Ms. Elmyra. It was just lacking some necessary spices, so the taste was not as original as before.
But for an artificial human, this is already considered delicious.
Looking at the people drinking soup at the dining table, 2B sat on the sofa and carefully looked at the layout of the room.
To be honest, although androids are not very picky about the environment, 2B has to admit that the layout of the room gave her a very warm feeling, which was something she could not experience in the monotonous single bedroom in the bunker.
Just as she was feeling a little emotional, she suddenly heard the sound of water in the bathroom, so she looked over and asked, "Are there other people here?"
"Yes, and she is your acquaintance." Shen Ye said.
"My... acquaintance?" 2B looked at the auxiliary machine beside her in confusion, but the auxiliary machine did not give any answer, obviously it did not detect who it was.
"Who is it?" she asked.
Shen Ye scraped up the last bit of soup in the bowl and put it into his mouth, then said, "You'll know when she comes out."
2B had no choice but to look back towards the bathroom, her eyes full of confusion.
Not long after, the bathroom door opened and 11B, wearing the maid outfit that Accord had made overnight, walked out.
"11B." Seeing it was her, 2B stood up quickly. 9S, who was drinking soup from the bowl, put it down in surprise.
"You are still alive."
11B tugged at the collar on her chest, which felt a little tight. Then she heard what 2B said. She glanced at Shen Ye first, then said, "Yes, I'm still alive. Are you surprised?"
"I thought... No, since you're still alive, why didn't you contact me or the Bunker?" 2B stared at 11B and asked in confusion.
11B walked over to A2, sat down and said, "Because I don't want to go back!"
"So you're planning to defect from the Bunker?" 2B immediately understood what she meant.
"That's about it." 11B nodded.
2B's eyes suddenly turned cold. "Do you know what the consequences of defecting from the Bunker are?"
"Yes, just like Senior A2, I am being hunted by you." 11B said.
"If you knew that, why did you do that?" 2B asked in confusion.
11B did not answer the question, but asked, "Can you let me go if I tell you so?"
"impossible."
"Then I can only say there is no reason." The reason for 11B's defection is related to some secrets of the Bunker. She can tell Shen Ye and others who have nothing to do with the Bunker, but she must not tell 2B and the others, otherwise it will lead to very serious consequences.
"Since you won't tell me, I can only take you back first." Having said that, 2B waved her hand and the Virtuous Contract appeared in her hand.
Seeing this, 11B was not panicked. She had someone to rely on. She asked, "Since you want to capture a defector like me, why did you let Senior A2 go last time? And after so many days, the Bunker didn't send anyone here. I guess you didn't tell the bunker about Senior A2, right?"
Hearing this, 2B fell silent. She didn't know how to respond. Should she say it was because A2 saved her? But that would mean she wasn't as loyal to the bunker as she thought.
"I don't know how to explain it, 2B. So why can't you let me go like you let A2-senpai go? And if the commander finds out that you let A2-senpai go, you'll be punished too, right?" 11B asked.
2B fell silent again, and her expression kept changing, as if she was having a fierce mental battle.
Finally, she nodded helplessly.
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In fact, the Bunker doesn't take the defection of the androids very seriously. Over the years, the YoRHa model that defected from the bunker is not only 11B... A2 was hunted down by the bunker for other reasons, not because of defection.
So 2B agreed seemingly with great difficulty, but in fact she didn't feel too much psychological burden because she had seen a lot of things.
The more important reason is that she is not a rigid artificial person. As long as no one notifies the Bunker, she can treat 11B as a real "dead person".
In the game, she also concealed 11B's defection plan from the Bunker.
"Speaking of which, what is your mission this time? Why do you need our assistance?"
Seeing that 11B's problem was temporarily solved, Shen Ye asked 2B, but it was like asking a question even though he already knew the answer.
"Didn't Anemone tell you?" 2B was a little absent-minded. She noticed that 11B was helping A2 clean the table, which made her very curious.
"I told you, but I think we don't need so many people just to investigate the anomalies of mechanical life, right?" Shen Ye took the cup of water handed to him by Jakol. There were flower petals in it. They were left over from Jakol's soap making.
"But it was only to investigate the abnormal movements of machine life forms. There was no other reason." 2B felt no psychological pressure when she lied.
"Okay then." Shen Ye shrugged. Of course he didn't believe it, but he could also understand that 2B sometimes had no choice.
After Shen Ye finished his tea, A2 and the others cleaned up the room, and then together with Yakor, the six of them left the apartment.
Since the destination of this trip was the desert, they needed to make adequate preparations before setting off, so Shen Ye took them to the commercial street of the rebel camp to replenish their supplies and bought a lot of food, drinking water, hemostatic gel and other things.
In addition to treatment supplies such as hemostatic gel, food and drinking water were all prepared by Shen Ye for himself. He could not go without food and water for a long time like the androids. At critical moments, they only needed to charge and bask in the sun to keep moving.
Although, there are also a lot of supplies stored in his storage space.
Afterwards, the group left the resistancecamp and, based on the map data provided by Anemone, came to a canyon that led to a passage to the desert area.
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