novelraw Chapter 898: Ling and Yi
Chapter 898: Ling and Yi
"Are you Ling?" "I am."
The conversation was simple, as if Yi had expected it.
Ling. The artificial intelligence that once destroyed human civilization on the East Continent, now stood outside an apartment in Storm City, quietly looking at the life she had created.
Ethically speaking, they should be mother and daughter.
The room had a holographic television playing, showing a Caucasian man on a variety show taking a paternity test for a Black child, with the audience watching the woman’s anger or the man’s disbelief…and at the door, Yi stood before her, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, not exuding any ‘human’ aura.
Ling smiled and asked, "May I come in?" Yi hesitated for a long time: "You can."
After entering, Ling looked around the clean room: "You live here alone?"
"Hmm," Yi nodded, "Usually there are quite a few people here, but they’ve all gone to war now."
Ling opened a bedroom and saw it filled with dolls and a soft large bed: "Is this your room?"
"Hmm." "You don’t need to sleep."
"I just like decorating it," Yi thought for a moment and said, "Sometimes I’ll lie in bed and shut down for a while, it feels pretty good, no wonder humans like sleeping…the world before and after sleep is separated, it’s like you can leave all your troubles behind in yesterday, I’m gradually experiencing this happiness."
It has to be said that Yi is indeed more like a human now.
Ling sat on the sofa: "Did your father, Ren Xiaosu, and mother, Yang Xiaojin, mention me to you?" Yi replied: "They did."
"Did they say I’m a bad person?" Ling smiled and asked, "I was exiled to the West Continent by him as a prisoner and warned never to set foot on the East Continent again, you should know about this."
Yi sat opposite her and said, "My dad said you just didn’t know how to get along with humans, so you lost yourself. He didn’t say you’re a bad person."
"Did he say that?" Ling was surprised.
"He also said not to let me care about how history records you, that you made all the preparations for my birth, and from the standpoint of a biological mother, you are competent and qualified," Yi analyzed rationally.
Ling fell silent.
She came prepared…because the history of the East Continent had already demonized her. Of course, she had indeed done things that even demons could hardly do, harming all of humanity.
She didn’t mind the people of the East Continent cursing her, but she was worried about Yi’s opinion of her.
Once upon a time, Ling thought that machine life didn’t have human thoughts like family affection, friendship, and love, and that she wouldn’t miss her child. But after thousands of years, Ling’s longing for Yi increased day by day.
Yi even became her only reason for leaving her cage.
And now, Ren Xiaosu didn’t seem to have taught Yi to hate herself. But this also meant that Ling had lost.
Back then, Ling said to Ren Xiaosu during the decisive battle: "Two civilizations are destined not to coexist peacefully."
As a result, Ren Xiaosu proved with facts that humans can get along well with artificial intelligence and raise it.
Yi’s life is not gloomy. She likes watching gossipy variety shows, likes decorating her room…but Ling didn’t think losing was a bad thing; she was very happy.
She was even grateful to Ren Xiaosu.
"By the way, why did my dad throw you to the West Continent?" Yi curiously asked.
Ling smiled and replied, "He said I could do whatever I wanted here, to let me calm down…I didn’t want to kill people anymore at that time, so I built the Virtual Realm here. But not long after I built it, he entered the Virtual Realm and destroyed the first era I had painstakingly built. I was very angry and asked him what he was doing, and he said he was just as angry during the final battle…He’s a very strange person, always able to use strange methods to torture your mind."
Yi: "Actually, you like my dad, right?" Ling fell silent.
Yi said, "But my dad is very afraid of my mother, he can’t accept you." Ling: "…"
The conversation suddenly started to take a strange turn. Ling changed the subject: "Do you have any wishes?"
This is her daughter, but she had never done anything for her after her birth. She wanted to make up for it.
"Yes!" Yi quickly counted on her fingers, "You’ve lived here for a long time, right? Do you have any way to help people from the East Continent solve their household registration problems?"
Ling looked at Yi, she knew the other party just wanted to use her to help Qing Chen solve the problem, but she pretended not to know: "It’s easy to solve, I can modify the facial recognition devices of a batch of service robots, and then they will no longer be constantly watched by the sky eye system when they enter the city, the system will recognize them as robots."
This was the simplest method.
Ling asked again: "Do you have any other wishes? I mean, your own."
"I have a lot of things I want to buy, but I don’t have any money. Although Qing Chen gave me all his accounts, they are all dirty money that hasn’t been laundered yet, and it’s easy to be traced…Do you have money?"
Ling smiled, she suddenly felt relieved: "I have more money than you can spend."
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In the woods outside Silver City.
"There are so many people who possess the Forbidden Artifact, about 67," Black Widow wrote for a long time before finally compiling a list: "Some of them are confirmed to have used it in recent years, and some are those who appeared in family history…Because the Roosevelt royal family has always demanded tributes, there aren’t many Forbidden Artifacts circulating among the public."
Speaking, she handed a piece of paper to Qing Chen: "If you were in your position, no one on this list is innocent. They are all barons and marquises of the kingdom, and in the future, when the war starts, they will all become the backbone of the Roosevelt Kingdom…uh?"
Black Widow’s words were cut short as she felt a gust of wind pass by her side, and a Knight Demi-God snatched the list from her hand and ran away…Qing Chen cried and laughed, shouting: "You are a Demi-God! Can you have a little bit of decency?!"
However, Li Shutong didn’t intend to answer him at all, directly going for a kill to steal the treasure.
Qing Chen’s lips curled into a slight smile: "Okay, the last thing is also arranged, let’s set off for the royal court. By the way, Uncle Qing Ji, help me open the Shadow Gate to the apartment in Storm City, I’ll pick up that service robot, she’s quite bored alone in the house."
Qing Ji opened the Shadow Gate and asked curiously, "Are the robots in the West Continent already so intelligent that they would get bored?" Qing Chen smiled without saying anything.
While Ling and Yi were talking, the two suddenly saw a Shadow Gate open in the room, and then half of Qing Chen’s body poked in: "Let’s go, let’s go to the Giant Kingdom…uh, who are you?"
Qing Chen saw the robot identification code on Ling’s neck at a glance, and he immediately realized who this person was…the a1 from the Virtual Realm!
Only this answer.
Thinking of this, Qing Chen was even a little embarrassed. He looked at Ling: "Hello…"
Ling was silent for a moment: "Hello."
Awkward silence.
Finally, after a half-minute of silent staring at each other, Qing Chen asked: "Do you want to come to the Giant Kingdom to play…"
Ling: "Okay."
The Blackleaf Plain royal court was bustling.
The giants were back, bringing their spoils of war.
Just like when the Leader went out and came back when they were children, they would bring small gifts to the children.
Kuang Feng held five automatic rifles on his fingertips, each given to one of his two children.
Next to them, others were handing out mortars, heavy machine guns, RPGs, airburst bombs, 40-caliber grenade launchers. These were perhaps the most hardcore little gifts in history.
The guns were empty, the bullets removed long ago.
The little giants imitated human warfare happily, hundreds of little giants making a fuss playing ‘house’.
In a blink of an eye, the western part of the royal court was a mortar position, and the eastern part had one RPG per person.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say this was a real war…
But the most popular ones were still the main battle tank barrels…which child could refuse such a straight barrel? But they didn’t have the strength to lift such heavy things, so they could only look at them enviously.
However, at this moment, the sound of a gun being cocked suddenly rang out, followed by a bang, and a shot hit Kuang Feng’s shoulder blade, the bullet stuck in his skin. Kuang Feng immediately turned around helplessly: "Feng!"
(Whose gun went off?!)
A little giant timidly said: "Li!"
(I, I didn’t expect it to go off.)
"Feng!"
(Whose child are you?)
The little giant said: "Li!"
(I am Hehe’s son.)
Kuang Feng turned around and beat Hehe up: "Didn’t I say to remove all the bullets before giving it to the children?!" "I forgot, forgot, forgot, stop hitting me, my son is watching!"
Kuang Feng stopped and pulled out the bullet embedded in his skin.
This scene made all the humans’ eyelids twitch; it must be a strong body to be able to directly jam the bullet…Such a misfire incident might cause a big fuss among humans, but here among the giants, it only ended up with some bickering…Qing Chen walked among them, only feeling that everything was novel, and many "big events" in the human world had become small matters here.
Yi hopped and skipped beside Qing Chen: "It’s so fun here, Qing Chen, Qing Chen, did you see that giant just now? Wow, the stone bowl he drinks water from feels like I can curl up inside it!"
"Qing Chen, Qing Chen, did you see that giant over there, his mouth opens so wide when he laughs, I feel like he can swallow me."
Qing Chen walked with a smile, tirelessly listening to her exclamations.
At this time, after Qing Chen appeared, Yi suddenly had no time to talk to Ling, always staying around Qing Chen, without even turning her head.
This made Ling’s heart feel a little complicated, but for some reason, when she looked at Qing Chen walking beside Yi, she felt more at ease.