Combination!

Since ZERO decided to side with humanity… although siding with humanity was a rather optimistic way of looking at it, the Hope’s top officials had decided to start engineering AIs.

Even though many people still had reservations, like how would they balance the AI and stuff, since ZERO’s existence wasn’t yet common knowledge, they were persuaded by Yao Yuan’s charisma.

On the other hand, Yao Yuan too wasn’t completely faithful to ZERO’s promise. After all, leaving the fate of humanity to a non-human entity was a bit out there. No matter how much Xiao Niao was willing to vouch for ZERO, he couldn’t believe ZERO implicitly, since this involved more than one or two human beings but the whole of humanity.

This was why after Yao Yuan got ZERO’s answer, he purposely used his Anima power to tell Guang Zhen and Bo Li the following,