Chapter 633 Gods' Game: Blocks and Me 19

B8017913 decided to follow the best plan he had analyzed: "No, I won't spend any money. This is all money I earned from drinking and singing. I manage the money at home."

The gingerbread man, which dispenses popcorn, suddenly became nimble. It forcefully pushed the popcorn bucket down, and a bucket full of popcorn, piling up at least 30% more than the normal amount, was ready.

Players who had just bought popcorn and hadn't gone far, as well as those eating popcorn nearby, all turned to look.

Yu Xunge and Tu Lan's eyes lit up as they looked at the popcorn, and they both exclaimed "Wow!"

B8017913: "...Please excuse my poor performance."

D62492: ...

After paying, Tu Lan was in charge of getting the popcorn and drinks, while Yu Xunge carried B8017913 onto her shoulder. This was a family member with connections, so she had to protect it.

D62492, who witnessed all of this, asked: "Is their status really this high after forming a contract with a player?"

Not only can it manage money, but it also eliminates the need for walking...

B8017913 couldn't really say that Zaijiu Xunge simply wanted something alive to stand on her shoulder. By this time, Yu Xunge had already taken it further and further away from the popcorn cart, so it couldn't elaborate and could only reply, "...Yes, it's all about bonds."

D62492: What is this?

Looking back at the expression on D62492's face, B8017913, sitting on Yu Xunge's shoulder, couldn't help but laugh and waved to the little gingerbread man.

...

Tu Lan and Yu Xunge were eating popcorn, and the latter would occasionally hand B8017913 a piece. Although B8017913 was powered by electricity, it was not incapable of eating.

At this moment, Tulan was wondering, "Didn't you say before that the Machine Race didn't have many emotions? Why do all the Machine Race members we've encountered have personalities and tempers?"

The fact that B8017913 can be placed in claw machine number 1 and that extra popcorn can be given to B8017913 is not something an emotionless thing would do.

But B8017913 often says that it doesn't have much emotion.

B8017913 was munching on a piece of popcorn as big as its head. Tu Lan wasn't there when it met Yu Xunge in the abandoned area. It wouldn't have brought these things up with Tu Lan before, but now that Tu Lan asked, it was happy to tell her. It explained:

"Our race is programmed with a personality at the factory. Our emotions and ways of handling things are based on our programmed personality and the logic derived from it. When we encounter anything that should theoretically cause emotional fluctuations, our emotions will change in one or two ways depending on our personality."

"With the full setup, our program will tell me what emotion I should be in at this moment, and then our emotion pool will generate the corresponding emotion. People may know that they should feel happy at this moment, but they don't actually understand why they should feel happy."

What B8017913 wants is to know "why".

It's like the whole world knows that 1+1 equals 2 and accepts this result, but B8017913 just wants to know why this is the case.

Tulan: "Then why don't you have them as much...?"

She couldn't think of an adjective for a moment. Vivid? Real? Neither seemed quite right.

Tulan paused for a moment, then said, "Didn't you say you've awakened? Why aren't your emotions as vivid as theirs?"

B8017913 first explained awakening: "So-called awakening is when something, or a certain player, makes us break out of the settings and generate emotions beyond the program."

Then he explained the second question: "When I left the abandoned area with Zaijiu Xunge, I abandoned half of my settings. I severed the link between the emotion pool and the soul simulation program. I can fake any emotion I want, but all the emotions generated in my emotion pool are the most real ones."

B8017913 summarized: "You can understand it as, I don't want richness or vibrancy, I just want authenticity."

After saying that, it asked, "Do you find what I'm doing boring?"

The question jumps around a lot, but Yu Xunge knows that B8017913's question is asking itself, asking itself if it's boring to know why 1+1 equals 2.

To be honest, she knew some of what B8017913 was talking about, but B8017913's explanation was clearly more detailed, and some of it was something she was hearing for the first time.

For example, B8017913 abandoned half of the settings.

Tulan did not answer the question. For a dragon with such rich emotions and feelings, she could not imagine how B8017913 felt.

Just as a person with a high sensitivity to color cannot imagine the world of a blind person, whose understanding and imagination of color comes entirely from the definitions given to them by others.

Because she couldn't empathize with B8017913's pain, she stopped speaking up easily.

Feeling B8017913's gaze, Yu Xunge shook her head and replied, "It's not boring. You said that things the gods don't allow won't happen, and I'm sure the gods hate boredom."

"If the gods deem your awakening utterly boring, then as beings created by the gods, the machine race has no possibility of awakening emotions beyond their programmed state."

"Although you will be thrown into the wasteland, elimination is everywhere. Just like washing gold out of sand, players will be constantly eliminated, and you awakened mechanical races will naturally need to be eliminated as well."

"More importantly, awakening without consequences is meaningless."

Finally, Yu Xunge didn't say she understood B8017913; she only put herself in the shoes of the author: "A program can tell me what emotion I should be in right now, but even a god can't make me have this emotion without asking me. That's not me."

B8017913 understood what Yu Xunge meant. It excitedly stood up, threw down its popcorn, and shouted things like "Bonds!" and "Light!" before hugging Yu Xunge's block head.

Yu Xunge: "..."

The popcorn tasted great, with a slightly crispy shell and just the right amount of sweetness. After finishing a bucket, Yu Xunge and Tu Lan no longer felt weak or hungry, but they were still a little hungry.

They went to queue up again and bought three grilled fish. B8017913 was in charge of the process, and the little gingerbread man immediately opened his portable refrigerator and picked out the three largest fish.

While eating grilled fish, B8017913 suddenly said, "I don't hate the gods anymore."

Yu Xunge: "Huh?! You've had such dangerous feelings before?!"

B8017913: "Being a machine is pretty good. If I weren't a machine, you would never have made a contract with me."

Yu Xunge: "That's true."

...

"What is Qi Hua doing?"

"The automatic watering system in His Flower Cloud is still being set up."

"Not set up yet?"

"I just went to check it out. That automatic watering magic device is made by a building block player with fiery wings..."

"I saw it too. It looked like the one who was shaking his head and shouting 'No, I did nothing wrong,' the one who was laughing at Qi Hua for a long time just now."

How did you water it?

"Just fly in His clouds, holding your head and shaking it while watering the flowers in the clouds, and after you're done watering, shout 'No, I did nothing wrong,' it's pretty sophisticated, huh?"

"..." What's more terrifying than the humor of teasing flowers is the perverse sense of humor of teasing flowers.