"You'll get over it," an actually playful response, for once, if you can call it something like that; teasing is really as close as he gets.

A smirk at the robot, apparently amused at its suffering, before turning away to hack at more branches. He wants to check out one of these damn caves and whatever things lurk inside of it. He'll have more data submissions than anyone, that's the goal (a goal he'll fail).

"How do you think the back of this fish can have caves? Perhaps they're like cavities and bore in bit by bit." Welcome to Hei's pondering time.