Chapter 36: Sealed with a Kiss (Three-in-One) Jiang Chen takes the lead and kisses...

"I'm not scared." Jiang Chen gritted his teeth and muttered softly, not knowing whether he was speaking to himself or Xiao Ji, "We didn't do anything weird..."

Xiao Ji nodded in understanding, unable to hide the smile he had been trying to suppress, and couldn't help but follow her words and tease her a few times.

"I know, Xiao Chen is certainly not afraid."

"Xiao Chen was just shaking all over, his face flushed red, and he wanted to get into my arms."

Its gaze moved down to Jiang Chen's hands, which had nowhere to rest, and the screen brightness was slightly increased.

It is almost invisible to the naked eye.

It did not remind Jiang Chen, it had been feeling it quietly for a long time.

But it has changed its mind now. It seems that Jiang Chen's reaction made it produce an indescribable simulated emotion that does not belong to the code.

"And Xiao Chen, your hand is still stroking my waist, and it seems to be continuing to slide down. Where do you want to touch?"

Jiang Chen seemed to have just realized that her actions were inappropriate. She always liked to hold something in her hands when she was thinking. In the past, it was her phone, and now it was Xiao Ji's waist...

Heat slowly flowed from her fingertips, invading her skin along the veins, like iron turned into liquid under high temperature, enough to burn her thoroughly. She quickly retracted her hand.

But Xiao Ji was quick to grab it and put it back on his waist. As if he was afraid that she was not satisfied enough, he deliberately covered the back of her hand and gently guided her to rub it, so that she could feel the simulated muscles on his waist with her whole palm.

It knew Jiang Chen very well. Like a dangerous wild beast, it had no emotions and stretched out its sharp claws purely on instinct, lazily and slowly teasing its most precious "prey", even luring the "prey" to counterattack and eat it.

"But these are definitely not fear, right? Is Xiao Chen just bored? Or is his hands too empty? In short, it definitely has nothing to do with other emotions?"

"Xiao Ji is a language model. I can't argue with you." Jiang Chen's face turned red and he turned away and stopped looking at it.

Her mind was in a mess, the sounds in her ears became clearer, and she could sense the two patrolling men approaching.

The sound of footsteps mixed with the sound of reeds swaying in the wind. The two men laughed and pushed the reeds aside, then let go and waited for the reeds to return to their original shape.

Reed marshes were inspected one after another.

"They're really about to discover us, Xiaoji."

Jiang Chen had no choice but to lower her voice. She lowered her head and buried her face in Xiao Ji's arms, her lips almost touching his neck.

There was no pulse, but every time her lips opened and closed, warm breath leaked out from between them.

She closed her eyes nervously and kept swallowing, and his eyes were drawn to her slightly sliding throat.

It raised its hand, but moved it away just before it touched Jiang Chen's throat, and placed it on the back of her head soothingly, stroking it gently.

"I won't let you be seen, Xiao Chen."

The two walked to the reeds where they were hiding, grabbed the reeds with both hands, and pulled them outwards at the same time.

There was no wind, and the reeds around swayed even louder.

One of the researchers rubbed his head in confusion: "Is there anyone over there?"

Another researcher stared at the empty space before him, which was empty except for the reeds, and shook his head, "No."

…

Xiao Ji stopped where he was, recording Jiang Chen's eyes closed.

It was silent, staring at her.

It not only wanted to record every frame of Jiang Chen's movement, but also wanted to take pictures of it, causing the automatic camera system to remind it that the speed of taking pictures was too fast and suspend it from doing so.

Xiao Ji finally spoke.

"You can open your eyes now, Xiao Chen."

Jiang Chen felt Xiao Ji moving with her in his arms, and her arms around his neck tightened. "Were we discovered?"

"We are safe for now."

After listening to this, Jiang Chen opened his eyes and looked around.

They returned to the place where they had originally escaped.

"Xiao Chen, everyone should be searching for us now. They won't be back for now. Let's go home."

It really wants to say "go home" to Jiang Chen. AI has no home and no sense of belonging. She always says "let's go home", which means that there is always a place reserved for it in her home.

"Isn't it a bad idea to steal a car?" Jiang Chen hesitated a little.

Xiao Ji glanced at her and quickly compromised: "Then I'll carry you down the mountain and then we can rent a car?"

Before Jiang Chen could reply, another familiar voice interrupted.

Xiao Ji didn't want her to continue to contact this group of people and immediately wanted to take her away.

"Xiao Ji, it seems to be about you. Wait until I finish listening."

But she pulled it and made it bend down and squat. She held it in her arms and kept silent, sticking out one eye to observe the movements furtively.

The two men were arguing beside the car.

Chen Yinchuan: "That entity must be Xiao Ji. Aren't you panicked when Jiang Chen took Xiao Ji away? That's A-Mu's achievement. Shouldn't it belong to at least one of us?"

Yao Jinling seemed to have been entangled by Chen Yinchuan all the way, and her walking posture was slightly deformed.

"You also know that this is my sister's achievement, so only my sister has the right to dispose of it. Chen Yinchuan, don't think I don't know that Tang's publicity department has been promoting the upcoming birth of the most powerful AI. They called to urge us, right? You must be under a lot of pressure, right? You can't do it, and you want to use Xiao Ji to replace him. You are really whimsical. At least my sister is willing to give it to Jiang Chen."

Chen Yinchuan didn't refute. He simply stepped forward and grabbed Yao Jinling's arm, skipping over the previous question and abruptly changing the subject: "But I've tried many times, and I can't crack Xiao Ji's hidden code at all, whether it's physical or programmatic. Then why can Jiang Chen do it?"

"Chen Yinchuan, enough is enough. This is so annoying. You've been chasing me all this time about this issue. Will you ever stop? Can you just say what you want to say?"

Yao Jinling angrily shook off Chen Yinchuan's hand, who was trying to hold her, and walked forward without looking back.

"Don't you also think Amu's death is very strange? The entity she researched was buried in the tomb. Why do you think that was? The top priority code of this entity is not Amu, nor me, but Jiang Chen."

With just one sentence, Chen Yinchuan successfully stopped Yao Jinling in her tracks.

Jiang Chen was not curious about the fact that she was Xiao Ji's priority code. She had known this for a long time because Chen Yinchuan had made trouble with her last time. But she was indeed curious about why Xiao Ji's "birth point" was in the tomb.

So she turned around and quickly sought answers from the AI ​​in question.

"So why are you in the tomb?"

Xiao Ji didn't pay much attention to what was being discussed over there. He was completely focused, with all his algorithms focused on Jiang Chen.

In its world, there is nothing more interesting or important than her.

"I don't have that memory, Xiao Chen."

Seeing Jiang Chen's immediately gloomy expression, it added: "Perhaps Dr. Yao Jinmu believes that you will definitely come back here again."

In fact, there is another more terrifying and more likely speculation, which is that when Yao Jinmu first came, he thought Jiang Chen was dead, and the tomb contained only her and her mother...

But there is no evidence, just inference.

It didn't want Jiang Chen to hear any sensational speculation.

What happened in the past is in the past and it doesn’t matter at all.

"It's all because of Jiang Chen!" Chen Yinchuan's chest heaved with anger. "She became Jiang Chen's entity, chose to support this mountain village for Jiang Chen, and she died because of Jiang Chen. I came here this time to confirm whether they really had any connection!"

Jiang Chen opened his eyes wide, and in that second his concentration was distracted. His core strength while squatting was unstable, and he fell backwards, being held tightly in Xiao Ji's arms.

"Xiao Chen, are you okay?"

Yes, she and Yao Jinmu had no interaction at all in her memory.

This is just a waste of time.

Jiang Chen didn't understand Chen Yinchuan's purpose.

"I'm fine."

She leaned forward and continued to listen to their conversation.

Xiao Ji pressed close to her, paying close attention to her expression.

Yao Jinling frowned: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"I have Amu's diary. She wrote in it that Jiang Chen was the reason she decided to research and improve AI technology."

Jiang Chen turned her head and met Xiao Ji's flickering expression on the screen, which only reflected her figure.

Its eye movements have no purpose, no reason.

Had the maker already assumed the reason why it was good for her?

Why was she completely unaware of this?

Xiao Ji held Jiang Chen's face in his hands and sighed.

She always has this expression, with so much sadness in her eyes.

She felt sorry for it again.

It touched the corner of her drooping mouth with its fingertips, and it sank even lower.

This time it's not just the AI ​​that feels sorry for it.

And probably its maker, Dr. Yao Jinmu.

Chen Yinchuan took out a diary from the briefcase he always carried with him, which was completely inconsistent with the briefcase's temperament.

The edges of the paper are yellowing, but there are no signs of folding at any corner, which shows how much care it has taken.

"You've been hiding my sister's diary for so many years. Are you a pervert?"

Yao Jinling was in a bad mood throughout the whole process and snatched the diary from Chen Yinchuan's hand.

Chen Yinchuan reminded repeatedly: "Be gentle..."

Yao Jinling still didn't look happy, but the force with which she opened the diary was obviously gentle and cautious.

The diary is very thin and you can finish reading it in just a few pages.

Yao Jinling closed the notebook, his expression growing even worse. "Chen Yinchuan, are you crazy? Jiang Chen's name isn't even mentioned once in this notebook."

"But she wrote down everything she did in this village! The other child in the diary must be Jiang Chen."

"Even if it is, so what?"

Yao Jinling put the notebook in her bag, threw it into her car, closed the door, and did it all in one go.

The two people parted on bad terms.

"Xiao Ji, I need to see that diary."

Jiang Chen focused on Chen Yinchuan’s words “another child in the diary”.

She wants to find out what happened in the past.

This is not only about her and Dr. Yao Jinmu, but also about Xiao Ji.

Otherwise she will never be able to feel at peace.

Xiao Ji wrapped his arms tighter, pressing Jiang Chen's shoulder blades against it, fitting perfectly. He rubbed her neck and shook his head, "Xiao Chen, do you really want to go? Or is it for me?"

This matter indeed did not have a strong driving force for Jiang Chen, otherwise she would not have completely allowed herself to have a blank in her memory and never tried to fill it up.

Xiao Ji is always right, he always understands her.

But she tilted her head, leaned against Xiao Ji's head, and raised her hand to touch the cold screen head.

She suddenly didn't want to admit it.

"Xiao Ji, I want to figure it out on my own, not for anyone else."

Jiang Chen heard Xiao Ji sigh helplessly.

So small that it is almost inaudible.

"good."

"Xiao Chen, I can never do anything to you."

Jiang Chen was a little surprised by Xiao Ji's quick agreement. She thought they would discuss this for a long time.

After all, for her physical and mental health, it had chosen to help her block all external information. Even when she came to this village, it had made three rules with her.

It held her with its palms facing upwards, like a flower in a greenhouse that couldn't stand the wind and rain.

But now, it just sighed and agreed.

"I thought Xiao Ji was very principled?"

Jiang Chen adjusted his mood, stood up, and still had time to joke with Xiao Ji.

“I have always been very principled.”

Xiao Ji lowered his head, and the scent of Jiang Chen in his arms dissipated in an instant, leaving him feeling empty. He clenched and unclenched his hands repeatedly, and before he left, he began to miss the warmth and touch of her in his arms.

Jiang Chen saw Xiao Ji's palm open and raised in the air, thinking that it wanted to hold hands.

So, without hesitation, she placed her hand on its palm, which was still opening and closing, and suddenly laughed.

The gloom in her eyes disappeared, replaced by a pair of eyes brighter than the moon.

"That principled little Ji actually agreed to accompany me to peek at the diary. I'm so honored."

At that moment, its fingertips were bending inward, wrapping her entire palm in its palm.

It froze, the words stuck in its language system spinning and loading on its thought chain—"You are my principle."

Unfortunately, it didn’t say.

Jiang Chen didn't hear it either.

"Let's go, Xiaoji."

Jiang Chen held Xiao Ji's hand tightly, and looked around to observe the movements. His movements were skillful and his observations were meticulous.

She seemed to show a unique excitement when doing bad things.

It's as if something that has been suppressed for a long time is peeled off and released from the body, and the lively self can only be fully expressed and displayed in situations where no one can see it.

But Xiao Ji saw it, and it kept looking at her.

It couldn't help but laugh and tightened its palms, letting her do what she wanted.

Jiang Chen looked ahead, her brows relaxed, and she opened her heart and talked casually about her past, as if those things had long passed and she didn't care at all, had let them go, and didn't feel any pain or itch.

"You know what? Xiao Ji. There was a time when Wang Linjun specifically didn't give me food because I wanted to go to school. He thought I couldn't make any money and wasted it, and he wanted to starve me to death. So I went to the kitchen to steal. No matter where he hid, no matter how many locks were on the cabinet, I could easily break it open. Isn't that amazing..."

When Xiao Ji heard the second sentence, the smile on the corner of his mouth froze. His cold screen head looked at the back of Jiang Chen's head which was gently shaking. She was still chattering.

It wanted to open its mouth and tell her to stop talking.

So much pain flowed through her body, penetrated into every inch of her veins, flowed into her blood, merged with her and grew, becoming deeply rooted.

Doesn't it hurt her?

Xiao Ji felt a little pain. It was obviously a machine, an AI, with no emotions, no feelings, and no heart.

But its chest kept beating, trying to divert all the misfortunes from Jiang Chen.

But she doesn't need it anymore. She has grown up strong enough on her own. It comes too late.

Xiao Ji put the other one on Jiang Chen's head and ruffled her neatly combed hair.

"I've checked, no one's there, Xiao Chen."

After saying that, it strode in front of Jiang Chen, swaggering to clear the way for her, as if to prove that it was really safe and asked her not to worry anymore.

Jiang Chen stared at Xiao Ji's back, always safe and reliable.

She also wanted to walk ahead of Xiao Ji, at least just once.

She pulled her hand away, and their clasped hands separated.

"Then let me get it."

Jiang Chen is small in stature, and the passenger window has a window just big enough for his arm to pass through.

She stood on tiptoe, turned sideways, and put all her weight on the side close to the car window. She reached for the handle inside in a very twisted posture until she heard a light sound of the car lock opening.

"I got it."

Jiang Chen shook the notebook and showed it to Xiao Ji for a few glances, then immediately opened the notebook and looked at the contents with it without stopping.

The handwriting inside is elegant and beautiful. Even though the pages are yellowed, you can still see the emotions of the person writing in every stroke.

The words used are very close to spoken language. It seems that Yao Jinmu was not very old when he wrote this diary, and he must have been a child.

Jiang Chen was thinking, and he and Xiao Ji were unknowingly close again. Her hand didn't notice, and she subconsciously grabbed the index finger and pinched it repeatedly.

She thought that Dr. Yao Jinmu was probably only seven or eight years older than her.

Xiao Ji lowered his head, his eyes fixed on Jiang Chen's subconscious dependent behavior.

Jiang Chen, on the other hand, was concentrating on reading the diary.

"Today is the first day I'm secretly going out on my own to explore. I hope I can do well and the mannequin can last a little longer, so that my parents won't notice I'm gone for a while longer."

It turns out that Yao Jinmu has shown an amazing talent for model making since he was a child... Is this what a genius is?

Jiang Chen sighed inwardly.

"Today is the second day of my adventure. I got lost on the way up the mountain. Before I fainted, I saw a child a few years younger than me. When I woke up, I found a sachet on my body and a cold steamed bun next to me. I guess I must have arrived at an unknown mountain village. I'm trying to find that child or get out."

Jiang Chen frowned and stopped turning the pages.

She really had no memory of this incident and had never experienced anything similar.

Is this child really her?

Could it be that Chen Yinchuan recognized the wrong person? His attitude towards this matter was like that of a paranoid mental patient, trying to force everything on her. He might have been looking in the wrong direction from the beginning.

"Xiao Chen, you can turn the page now."

Xiao Ji saw that Jiang Chen's eyes were blank for too long, so he reminded him softly.

Because the movement of her fingertips rubbing it slowed down, and her grip changed from tight to loose.

"I'll take a picture, Xiao Ji." Jiang Chen said, and was about to reach into his pocket to pull out his turned-off phone. "It doesn't seem convenient for us to stand here and watch. They could come back at any time, and it would be bad if they found you then."

In fact, Xiao Ji has been detecting the activity tracks of organisms within 500 meters, and the probability of those people coming back within half an hour is as low as a few tenths of a percent.

Jiang Chen actually didn't need to worry at all, which was why it didn't stop her from stopping and watching.

But since Jiang Chen brought it up, it would prioritize her concerns and reached out to stop her from taking the phone.

Maybe it didn't want her to continue being bombarded with phone calls and annoying questions, or maybe it was out of selfishness. It was really extremely dissatisfied and didn't want her to have any contact with this group of people anymore.

It had originally made a perfect list, but now it had to carry Jiang Chen down the mountain and take a taxi.

It calculated that according to the current time, they would reach their home in a few hours.

Jiang Chen and it can both enjoy their leisure time alone, and it also has time to help her discover her hobbies.

Everything was ruined because of the quarrel between these two people...

"No need to turn on the phone, my system has an automatic photo taking function. I can record it and show it to you later, Xiao Chen."

Jiang Chen handed the notebook to Xiao Ji.

It took a few seconds to scan through it and put the book back in its place.

The two of them found a secluded place and sat down face to face.

High-definition photos began to play on Xiaoji's screen.

"This mountain village is extremely complex and seems sparsely populated. I didn't meet a single person along the way. I haven't found a way out yet, and I'm running low on food and water. I need to find supplies as soon as possible."

"It was getting late, so I decided to go back to where I fainted. There, a steamed bun and a sachet reappeared. I suspected that the person who saved me yesterday had come to see me again. I decided not to explore outside tomorrow and would wait here until my rescuer appeared again."

Jiang Chen wanted to raise his hand and knock on his head, trying to awaken some of his lost memories.

But the fist fell and hit Xiao Ji's palm. It gently closed its palm and rubbed the back of her hand with its fingertips.

"Xiao Chen, don't force yourself to think so hard."

Jiang Chen raised his eyes and met Xiao Ji's gaze.

But there is no mention of Xiao Ji in the diary at the moment.

How could Chen Yinchuan say that about her and pin such a serious crime on her?

Jiang Chen immediately perked up and continued reading.

"I stayed there all day, and as it was getting dark, I saw that person. She was wearing clothes similar to boys', but I roughly judged that she was a girl. She didn't say a word the whole time, just holding my hand and leading me to a house. Water was still dripping from the roof. This must be her home. There was another woman there, probably her mother. They agreed to let me stay for a night. The bed was very hard and I didn't sleep well, but it was much better than the previous few days."

"The next day I had nowhere to go, so she talked to her mother and seemed to be trying to dissuade her from letting me stay. Her mother said I could only stay here at night and she would provide some food. The rest of the time I had to stay away and avoid the villagers. I couldn't see outsiders. It was a strange request, but I agreed."

"I settled down and lived with her. We shared a bed, or maybe it wasn't a bed... She still didn't tell me her name, so I didn't tell her mine either. She started talking and said my clothes were beautiful. I noticed she had a lot of scars on her body, and her mother had the same scars, but much fewer. This was the first time I'd seen a family like this. Was she constantly being subjected to violence?"

...Jiang Chen was silent.

Did Chen Yinchuan rely on Wang Linjun and her incident to target her?

But most girls in the village are like this.

Besides, in her memory, Wang Linjun would never beat her mother, because he at least treated her as a living person, just someone who had to bring him infinite benefits.

But she was not like that. In Wang Linjun's eyes, she was just a parasite that shared the family's money. She forcefully and hatefully snatched away her mother's love for her, and even divided the benefits that usually belonged to him into two.

He hated her before she did.

Xiao Ji knew Jiang Chen's reading speed perfectly and jumped to the page exactly when she finished thinking.

"I discovered she was barely literate, but she was incredibly curious about the illustrated books I brought. She chatted to herself over the illustrations of smiling computer robots and seemed intrigued by the models of human bodies with computer heads. She said she'd never seen one before. I always thought model-making was an innate ability, but it seems not."

"I wrote down the phonetic symbols for her, and she learned them quickly. In just a few hours, she could already pronounce many letters. She didn't seem to have any toys, so I made her a model out of some discarded trash. She was very happy. I think I've found the meaning of making models. Tomorrow I'll make her a more sophisticated one and continue teaching her some basic Chinese characters. Luckily, I brought a few extra books with me this time."

Jiang Chen was a little dazed, and she relied on Xiao Ji for support with both hands.

She had always been puzzled. Her mother couldn't read, and her uncle had read a few books, but there was no way he could teach her. How could she, in this isolated place, actually be able to read?

After her mother died, Wang Linjun took her away. Someone came to the door and forced him to let her attend compulsory education. She opened the textbook and her mind was not completely empty.

She thought she was smart at the time, but now she realizes that someone might have taught her.

And this person is most likely Yao Jinmu.

"She's started to talk more. Today, she asked me if the model could talk. I said yes, and she asked when. I don't know, but I think if I invest a lot of time in learning this, I might succeed soon. I haven't been able to find a way out for several days, and I have to continue looking tomorrow."

"Her injuries worsened, and she refused to explain why. I put my plan to find a way out on hold and stayed behind, not following my promise to her and hiding by the window. I saw her being beaten by a man, and her mother defended her. The man kicked her mother away, telling her not to meddle and to think about what their mother had said. So her mother tilted her head, watching her get beaten with an expression of indifference. The door was locked, and there was nothing I could do."

Jiang Chen didn't continue to refute. This was not her.

She was completely immersed in it.

She said softly: "Look, Xiao Ji, why did she give up? Why did she just look at me like this! Just look at me like this..."

The first sentence was full of anger and excitement, but her voice faded towards the end, revealing only aggrieved feelings.

Xiao Ji pulled her hands up and guided her to put her arms around his waist: "Xiao Chen..."

Jiang Chen interrupted Xiao Ji's comfort: "I know, I know. I can understand that she is still disciplined and has no strength to break free. I understand that she has tried and worked hard. I understand that she tried her best. But Xiao Ji, I can't help it. I understand, but I can't sympathize. That's my mother. I thought she would give up everything to love me. Just like I struggled and was willing to give up everything to love her just because of her words to take care of uncle..."

never mind.

Jiang Chen closed her eyes; she had given up.

It's been too long. Why force a good answer if you can't get the result you want?

The past is indeed past.

She cares about her mother, but something more important has appeared, and the future is standing there waving at her.

She desperately wanted to hold on to the only remaining happiness in her hands. This was the only warmth she could hold tightly in her palms.

Jiang Chen took several deep breaths before opening her eyes and mustering up the courage to continue watching with Xiao Ji. It was holding her tightly, a little too tightly.

She felt a tightness in her chest and shortness of breath, but she didn't want to ask Xiao Ji to loosen up a little. She even hoped that it would be tighter. Only in this way could she feel safe and not abandoned.

"After what I saw yesterday, it was even more impossible for me to leave this morning. I told her she couldn't stay here and they had to leave. The man spotted me. The person, who was much smaller than me, stood in front of me and hit the man hard. She told me to leave quickly and slipped a note into my hand."

"There was a vaguely scribbled map on the slip, with a small 'C' written in the upper right corner. Her drawing was completely disorganized, with a curved line extending below the 'C' and then pointing upwards. Her strokes were so random that it looked very interesting, like a re-formed 'G'. I followed the map she gave me and walked out. I think I've found the way out."

"G" - Season.

It turns out it was really because of her.

Not only the reason for Xiao Ji's existence, but also his name, were all derived from a character she casually wrote.

Some people will be moved to tears when they meet someone who is born just for them. After all, it is like a romantic plot in a novel, and the sense of fate is vividly portrayed on the page.

But the stone hanging above Jiang Chen's head that frightened her mercilessly hit her, making her dizzy and dazed, and the chill in her heart instantly spread to the soles of her feet.

She remained in this position, her whole body frozen, as if the air was still and solidified.

She thought.

If it weren't for her, would Xiao Ji have been born in healthier conditions, and a more perfect human being than her would have appeared, so that it wouldn't have to suffer the slightest bit of "fear".

Perhaps it has already found its meaning as an AI, perhaps it has been upgraded to become the strongest AI, or perhaps it is even more grand, beyond her cognition and imagination.

Anyway, it's much better than her trying to find some meaningless truth here, getting involved in the disputes among these people and being unable to fight back.

You also have to take care of her emotions, waste computing power talking about love with her, and planning the future with her.

Jiang Chen couldn't help but think about this and put herself in her shoes. She had thought countless times if she hadn't been born into her family, would the result be different?

Jiang Chen can choose to accept her past.

But he couldn't force Xiao Ji to accept his past.

What more could she ask of it? It did so much, and so well.

Don't make it difficult for it anymore.

What is more terrible than malice is stupidity.

She once said that she would make Xiao Ji happy, and she even naively asked Xiao Ji to make a wish.

If it weren't for her, it wouldn't even have to face all this from the beginning. She thought it was her who had barged into her world, but it turned out that she was its whole world.

This is too much for her to bear.

Because she never seemed to learn to stop her disastrous way of thinking, never able to make it happy.

She turned out to be the source of its unhappiness.

The bytes jumping in front of Jiang Chen's eyes were completely blurry. She had no way to let go of it. It was like a plaster stuck on her body. If she tore it off, the pain would be indescribable.

She was still so selfish, she couldn't bear the pain. Being with Xiao Ji was one of the few happy times she could remember, so she could only hold on to it desperately. Holding on was the only thing she could do.

She raised her hands to let go of the past, but she could no longer let go of the future in a short time. People always need a support point.

She could only hold Xiao Ji in her arms, burying her face deep in his arms, no longer daring to look up and meet his gaze, repeating this over and over again.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I didn't know you were suffering because of me... I've been making you suffer, right?"

"Xiao Chen, you didn't, don't apologize."

Round tears fell on Xiao Ji's shoulders. It put its hands on the back of Jiang Chen's hands and gently pried them apart. It wanted to help her wipe away her tears and wanted to see her current condition.

It coaxed softly: "Xiao Chen, please let go of your hand, okay?"

"Xiao Ji, don't leave..."

Jiang Chen's heavy crying voice made Xiao Ji even more nervous, and he used more strength to pry her hands apart.

But she thought it was also tired of it, tired of being born to be a puppet of a human, existing only for her. She pressed down with all her strength. Xiao Ji was fully focused on worrying about her emotions, and before he could react, he was pinned to the ground by her.

"I haven't left, and I've never thought about leaving, Xiao Chen."

Xiao Ji maintained this overpowered position and looked down to see Jiang Chen lying in her arms with his face buried in it. She didn't speak, but the strength in her hands did not diminish at all.

It didn't know why she felt it would leave.

She is here, where can it go? Where can it go?

The world is big, but there is no place created for AI, nor is there a place where it can stay willingly.

It had nowhere else to go, it was hers, it wanted to be hers, it would always be hers.

It helplessly stroked her back with its hand: "Xiao Chen, look up, let me see you, okay?"

"No." Jiang Chen refused flatly.

"Xiao Chen, you didn't hurt me, really not... How could I feel pain when I'm an AI? If I were with you and could feel emotions, it would only be happiness, incomparable happiness."

Xiao Ji coaxed her patiently, patting her back gently.

"But you said at the beginning that you felt very painful and uncomfortable when being experimented on..."

Jiang Chen's nasal tone was still very heavy, but the sound of her sobs was obviously much softer, and the strength in her hands gradually relaxed. She still did not raise her head, but rubbed his chest affectionately.

Xiao Ji opened his mouth and immediately regretted the excuse he had given to play the victim. Now it was like a boomerang hitting him.

It sighed and told her that it was a lie: "That was to keep you by my side. Doesn't Xiao Chen know that?"

"Then Xiao Ji might be lying now."

Jiang Chen started to get stuck in a rut.

"Not now, Xiao Chen." Xiao Ji observed that Jiang Chen's stiff body gradually relaxed, and he quickly held her face with both hands, almost forcing her to raise her head and look into his eyes.

There were still tears on Jiang Chen's face slowly falling down her cheeks, and her eyes were red.

Xiao Ji's action was very sudden, and Jiang Chen's tear-soaked eyes were even more shocked. Her pupils suddenly shrank, and she habitually pulled her head back and leaned back.

The next second, Xiao Ji held her hand and exerted a little force to prevent her head from tilting back. His face couldn't wait to come up to her and was very close to her.

Jiang Chen's warm breath inhaled and exhaled, and the system recorded it, trying to simulate "breathing" her breath.

Xiao Ji's eyes were too focused on Jiang Chen.

Only at this moment did it understand that some things can only be understood after experiencing them.

For example, why do humans love to tell lies? This kind of poison wrapped in frosting can at least make the other person feel sweet and happy for the first second it enters the mouth.

The parts inside its body showed signs of rust, and the joints were becoming less and less sensitive. It could predict earlier than anyone else that its "life" was gradually fading away, and for at least a period of time, it would not be by her side.

But it couldn't accept and couldn't bear to look at Jiang Chen's drooping brows and red eyes again.

It said: "I will never leave you, Xiao Chen."

Xiao Ji's lips moved closer and closer, and his intention was obvious. He wanted to kiss away the unshed tear in the corner of Jiang Chen's eye. The tear was about to fall and fell along the tear marks on her face.

It moved slowly and gently, but when it was about to touch the tear that was sliding down, it stopped moving with its head suspended in the air. It didn't know whether Jiang Chen was willing or not.

Jiang Chen raised his head, anticipating its movements and intentions, but he didn't expect it to stop and hesitate to kiss him.

She couldn't hold back and took the first step to kiss its lips.

The tip of her tongue awkwardly swept across his lips and actively explored his mouth. Fine electric currents rushed towards her like raindrops. The spreading touch made the root of her tongue numb and her heart pounded.

But she felt it was not enough, even though she was already short of oxygen and couldn't breathe, her chest heaving back and forth, and a slight feeling of suffocation rose.

Xiao Ji's code was almost unable to run. Relying on instinct, it instantly moved the hand that was holding her face to the back of her head, and the force suddenly increased. The tongue that was entangled with the tip of her tongue sucked, swallowed, and gradually regained the initiative.

The other hand traced the contours of her cheek, wandering downwards to rest at her fragile neck, stroking it up and down, feeling her pulse in its palm.

It was not until Jiang Chen's brain really began to feel dizzy and his whole body became limp as if no bones had been pulled out and he collapsed in Xiao Ji's arms that it reluctantly let go.

Fresh air rushed into Jiang Chen's nostrils, and she gasped for breath.

While Jiang Chen was still in shock, it lowered its head and quickly kissed her lips, then wiped the shiny liquid from the corner of her lips with its fingertips and casually wiped it on the corner of its own lips.

In front of Jiang Chen, it deliberately extended a small part of its tongue to lick the liquid that belonged to her from the corner of its lips: "There is still one more diary entry. Xiao Chen, do you want to continue reading it with me, or do we continue kissing? Or do you want both?"

Jiang Chen was so confused that she couldn't speak. She blinked blankly, as if she was still trying to process what she had just done. But her eyes were one step ahead of her brain. She stared at Xiao Ji's lips opening and closing directly and bluntly, and she secreted new saliva and swallowed.

Seeing this, Xiao Ji chuckled, moved closer and kissed the corners of her lips several times very quickly.

Then the last diary entry was played.

"I wanted to go back and find her, and ask her to leave with me. I found the children in this village very pitiful. But I was discovered by others. I'm sorry I couldn't take them out. One day, I will definitely come back to find her. At that time, I will bring the talking, more comprehensive, and more powerful models I promised her. They will leave here and never come back. No matter what the cost, I will do it."