"Lilith."

"What are you thinking about today?"

"............"

In the vast hall, there was a large round table.

It was surrounded by dozens of bizarre-looking angelic statues, with extremely strange shapes.

In the eerie and terrifying atmosphere, a small serpent-like emerald girl was lazily sitting at the round table.

She dangled her legs down, constantly fiddling with her feet.

Pandora, the vice dean of the laboratory, sat dignified on a bench in front of the round table, asking Lilith in front of her without changing her expression.

She crossed one leg over the other, held a pen in her left hand, relaxed it on her knee; and held a folder in her right hand, looking quite like an interrogator.

"I... I remembered some things from the past, but they are not worth mentioning."

"Just those unimportant details."

Lilith pulled one leg back onto the table, resting her chin on her knee.

She pressed her hand against her skirt, the other hand supporting her stomach, curled up on the table, showing no trace of a ladylike demeanor.

"It's okay, you can talk about any small matters."

Pandora turned the pen in her hand, smiling silently.

"Let me see... did we talk about Eve the last time?"

"In that era of interconnected everything; no privacy, everyone in danger; everyone severely lacking in spirit, suffering from psychological issues; even the need to pay for breathing oxygen…"

"You told me, your master Eve, possessed a perfect body, a selfless heart, and unwavering strong will."

"How did your government select her from the common citizens?"

Pandora curiously asked Lilith.

"...No, I told you, our government at that time was not called a government, but a corporation... we were a nation led by corporations..."

"Never mind, it's all the same."

Lilith lowered her head gloomily, showing only half of her face to Pandora, seeming to be in a bad mood.

Her pale, light-green serpent scales seemed to silently gaze at Pandora through the dim light.

This made Pandora even more nervous, straightening her posture.

"Our {government} doesn't choose people, it nurtures them."

"They set specific environments, edit specific genes, carefully arranged a series of growth plans for Eve from birth to adulthood, to ensure she becomes the perfect soldier useful to the state."

"Even if Eve deviates from the expected growth, they immediately modify her memories..."

"So, Eve's personality has always been perfect, unchanging."

"She is self-sacrificing, energetic, willing to go through fire and water for the country, and strong, honest, almost perfect like a work of art crafted by humans."

"But she... she... at the critical moment..."

Seeing Lilith's emotions start to slightly lose control, Pandora immediately interrupted her, steering the conversation in a different direction.

"By your description, Eve does sound like the saint in our traditional sense."

Pandora pressed the button on the round pen in her hand, adding a few words to the file while speaking to Lilith.

"Um, a saint...?"

Lilith was somewhat puzzled, her memories were not complete.

So she no longer understood the meanings of certain specific words accurately.

"Yes, a saint."

"It's someone who brings hope to the world but bears the burden alone."

"In your religious myths at that time, there should have been such people."

Pandora tentatively asked Lilith.

At this moment, Lilith's emotions had stabilized slightly.

Pandora noticed that whenever Eve's matter was brought up, Lilith's emotions would always fluctuate, without exception.

"Religious myths... indeed."

"My database clearly states, in the traditional Christian beliefs. During the ancient period when humans lived in the Garden of Eden, everyone was a saint."

"But after being tempted by the serpent and eating the forbidden fruit, they gained human desires. That's how humans are now."

"If at that time, in the cave, Eve could listen to my advice... just like the pair in the *Bible who ate the forbidden fruit, with a little more human desire... maybe she would have followed me..."

"Then... she would definitely have found happiness as a human."

"Eve... she is not only the hope of our country, but also my hope."

"But she is too busy with others' matters, the country's matters, to the extent of forgetting herself completely..."

"I regret it deeply... truly, perhaps if I had been a bit more gentle in my tone at the beginning... she would have..."

"Ah..."

Following Lilith's pace in speaking, Pandora's pen danced on the file.

Finally, after writing the last word, Pandora closed the file, placing it on the round table next to Lilith's body.

She smiled with interest, although she had many more curious questions to ask the girl in front of her, time did not allow.

She chose the question she was most curious about and asked the girl in front of her.

"I actually have one last question."

"I'm curious, Lilith."

"Why does your country recruit a soldier, rather than a war machine that completely loses its will, devoting its entire being to the state?"

"Although Eve can be considered a saint..."

"But, can such a person really bring you hope?"