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Shen Ye usually takes a shower very quickly, usually finishing in a few minutes, but today he took a little longer and it took him more than ten minutes to come out.
It's not that he suddenly became clean, but he heard the conversation outside. The bathroom door had poor sound insulation, and the robots didn't lower their voices, so he heard it clearly.
At first, the conversation he heard among the androids seemed normal, just planning his future life. Then White asked A2 about some of his situations, such as his personality and hobbies.
But as the androids began to consult the twin sisters, Shen Ye was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, because he heard a lot of content that even he thought was quite explicit, and listening to the androids' echoes, Shen Ye had reason to suspect that if they were human, they would probably rush into the bathroom and do him on the spot.
Fortunately, they are artificial humans, and Shen Ye is the only human, so he feels that he should not worry about this.
But is it really so?
After listening for a while, Shen Ye finally couldn't help but come out of the bathroom after realizing that the content of the robots' chat had become so deviant that it couldn't get any more deviant. When the robots saw him coming out, they immediately ended the topic and surrounded him.
This scene frightened Shen Ye, and he wondered if he had been wrong just now, and they really wanted to kill him on the spot?
Fortunately, they only came to help him tidy up his clothes and clean up the unclean areas on his body, and did not do anything out of line. However, under such close contact, some intimate collisions were inevitable, which made Shen Ye secretly happy. At the same time, he sighed that the androids were like real people... or even more delicate and elastic than real people. The touch of the bionic body was really good, which made him want to touch it.
However, although he knew that the android would definitely not mind, Shen Ye finally only grabbed A2's hand.
This was the first time he held her hand in the true sense. He was dressed very warmly at the time and had gloves on his hands, so even though they had slept together before, it could not be considered intimate contact.
A2 was a little nervous when her hand was held, but the warmth from her palm quickly calmed her down. She looked at Shen Ye with tenderness in her eyes, but even so, she couldn't suppress the heat in her eyes.
Then, she mustered up her courage and threw herself into Shen Ye's arms.
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The nights in NieR's world are the most difficult to endure, especially after staying there for a long time. Shen Ye feels this even more so. He is almost developing the bad habit of going to bed early.
Fortunately, there were many people in the room, so we could chat and relieve boredom. However, the topic started to become formal.
"Commander, there are 13 bases in the planetary synchronous orbit, including the Bunkers. If we add the androids in the lunar human base, the total number of androids in our human army camp is about 80,000 to 90,000. Most of them are combat models, a small number are auxiliary models responsible for logistics and communications, and there are also some scientific research models responsible for research and development, but the number of these models is very small, only a fraction of the auxiliary models."
After resting for a while, Shen Ye began to ask the senior executives of the androids about the number of androids. The first to answer was White. Although her position was not the highest among the senior executives of the androids, nor was she the first to know Shen Ye like Anemone, she was the first to come to support and the most courageous.
Shen Ye was stunned after hearing this, and asked in confusion: "Is that all?"
The game did not specify how many androids there were in orbit, not even in the bunker from the main perspective, so Shen Ye naturally did not know very well. However, according to his guess, there should be at least 100,000 androids in total from more than a dozen bases, but now there are less than 100,000, which was a bit beyond his expectations.
"The resources in the orbital base are very scarce, and they all rely on ground-based rocket transportation. Moreover, building an android factory requires a large area. In addition, the production of android cores is difficult, and there are other limitations, so the output has always been low," White explained.
Then she added, "Also, every few years, we will conduct a large-scale landing operation, and the casualties are huge. If we can recover three out of ten people, it is considered a relatively small loss."
"I see!"
After hearing this, Shen Ye nodded. He did not ask stupid questions like why the factory was not built on the ground. After all, he also knew that after the human army retreated to the moon, the ground had basically been occupied by mechanical life, especially those factories and places where resources were produced. These were the places where mechanical life was mainly entrenched. Those places even had servers for mechanical life. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why the human army would prioritize destroying the servers in a certain area every time they descended on a large scale to fight.
Then Shen Ye looked at Anemone, and without him having to speak, she immediately said, "I have recorded the number of rebels in this camp and nearby small camps. The number of rebels in this area is about 10,000. Some of them are old-model androids made in factories left over from the human era, and the rest, like me, came from the orbital base."
Anemone also came down from the orbital base to carry out the landing operation, but because the base was short of resources, artificial humans like her who were produced using previous technology would remain on the ground after the battle, so she could only be considered as a member of the rebel camp, not the human army camp.
"That's almost 100,000 people in total, but it still feels a little small." Shen Ye frowned slightly. 100,000 androids sounded like a large number of troops, but compared to mechanical life, it was still too few. Although androids were more powerful than mechanical life, the number of mechanical life was usually dozens of times that of androids. In a real large-scale battle, androids did not actually have an advantage.
After frowning and thinking for a while, Shen Ye continued to ask: "Is there any way to contact the resistance forces in other regions? Earth is so big, there should be other large resistance camps, right?"
"It is possible to contact, and there are many resistance camps that can be contacted, but the scale of those camps is far smaller than the camp where Anemone is located. Generally, there are only about a thousand people." said a senior android.
"Moreover, there are not many locations suitable for setting up camps, so the resistance camps on the ground are very scattered. Even if they are contacted, gathering them together will be a big problem." Another senior android leader spoke up.
"Well, it seems that my idea of gathering superior forces in a local area has failed." Shen Ye shook his head, feeling a little regretful.
After a while, he suddenly remembered what White had said just now and asked, "You just said that the production of artificial humans has other limitations besides resources and space factors. What are those limitations?"
Hearing this, all the androids looked at him, and then White said, "According to the Human Agreement, androids cannot build factories for independent production at will. Unless they obtain permission from humans, they can only build small factories with low output, just like Base 13, which is the bunker. That's why we transformed to only produce elite models of YoRHa in the later period."
"However, things are different now. With the commander here, as long as you give us a nod, we can build a large-scale artificial human factory on the moon, and then we can increase the output."
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