Chapter 30 Sang Zhitao Who Can Only Sing~ Tsk, alarm sounds…
The alarm blared throughout the base, and everyone looked at each other, puzzled, as they listened to the rhythm of the alarm.
"Let's go over there first." Li Mingguo was discussing with several experts in Chinese classical studies what to trade with the Pokémon world next when he heard the alarm. He frowned and led his men straight to the observation room.
When they saw Sang Zhitao in the observation room, everyone was stunned for a moment before they quickly arranged for someone to examine her.
"What's going on? Has Zhi Tao not woken up yet?" Seeing everyone quickly examining Sang Zhi Tao's body, but Sang Zhi Tao hadn't woken up, Li Mingguo was a little worried.
Before anyone could answer, the equipment kept reporting errors: "Unable to monitor target, unable to monitor target..."
Li Mingguo's face was somewhat gloomy. He looked around and asked Li Feng directly, "Professor Li, what's going on?"
Li Feng also looked puzzled. He looked at the sleeping Sang Zhitao, then at the equipment that kept giving error messages, pursed his lips, and hesitated for a long time before saying, "Is it possible that Zhitao's body elements have changed?"
Over there, He Lei had quickly turned off the testing equipment as instructed by the teacher. In the quiet moment, Li Feng's words reached everyone's ears.
"What do you mean?" Sang Lezhi asked worriedly.
Lang Yue frowned, his eyes darting around as if he had just thought of something. He quickly walked up to Sang Zhitao, carefully took her hand, and squeezed it.
“The bone structure is not right.” He straightened up and said with a serious expression.
"What do you mean?" This time it was Li Mingguo who spoke.
Lang Yue thought for a moment before explaining, "The shape of our human skeletons is basically fixed regardless of size, but when I touch Zhi Tao's hand, it doesn't feel like bone under the skin; it looks more like..."
"What does it look like?" Li Mingguo asked anxiously.
"It looks like the detachable skeleton of a humanoid robot..." He Lei had already moved closer, and as someone who loves studying robots, he had a rough guess after just one look.
"A robot?!" Everyone exclaimed in surprise.
"We'll need to wake up Tao to find out," Lang Yue sighed softly, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Tao Tao, Tao Tao, wake up, wake up." Without waiting for Li Mingguo's consent, Sang Lezhi took two steps forward and gently pushed Sang Zhitao.
Li Mingguo didn't take her decision to heart. He understood that as family members, they must be the most worried in this situation.
"Hmm..." Sang Zhitao finally let out a soft hum through her nose after her sister called her repeatedly, and then slowly opened her heavy eyelids.
"Sister...?" She yawned, looking at Sang Lezhi's face as if she were asleep, and murmured a very soft voice that escaped unnoticed by anyone.
Sang Lezhi was about to lower his head and call her when Sang Zhitao suddenly opened her eyes and sat up abruptly.
"Bang! Ouch!" The two sisters collided with each other, both letting out a cry of pain.
"Watch out!" Zhang Su from the medical team was organizing data when she reached out and helped the two sisters.
The two thanked her first, then glanced at each other.
Sang Zhitao rubbed her temples and looked around at everyone, somewhat puzzled. She opened her mouth but didn't say anything.
Everyone was relieved to see her awake, but they were also a little surprised by her question.
"Do you know which world you went to this time? Do you know that your body structure is now that of a robot? Do you have any guesses about how you got back?" The one who spoke was Su Guoxi, an expert who specializes in intelligent systems.
Listening to his barrage of questions, Sang Zhitao was momentarily at a loss for words.
After thinking for a moment, she was about to start talking about her experiences in another world, but...
“11100110 10001000 10010001…” What came out was a very rhythmic string of numbers, exactly the same as in the robot world.
The crowd was stunned by the inexplicable numbers and the magnificent melody.
"Tao Tao, you just need to describe that world, you don't need to sing," Sang Lezhi said softly, thinking she was still half asleep.
Sang Zhitao glanced at her, then at everyone else, sighed, shrugged, and said nothing more.
"Zhi Tao is unable to speak normally now?" None of the people present were stupid, and they immediately understood what Sang Zhi Tao meant.
Sang Zhitao looked at everyone pitifully and nodded repeatedly.
The group looked at each other in confusion before Su Guoxi handed them a piece of paper and asked them to point out the words on it.
Sang Zhitao took the paper with a happy expression, glanced at it, and pointed to a few words for them to see. She replaced the missing words with homophones.
"You mean, you transmigrated into the book about the music robot's rebellion, and you still took the female lead's place?" Su Guoxi asked curiously.
Sang Zhitao nodded repeatedly, holding the few sheets of paper, pointing to a few words and introducing them to everyone, while Lin Jing and Sang Lezhi stood beside her, helping to record the words she chose.
After a long while, the general outline of what had happened was finally recounted, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Sang Zhitao was not in danger, everything was fine.
"Can Tao Tao write? Or type?" Sang Lezhi looked at her sister's anthropomorphic hands and, thinking about how she had struggled just now, frowned and asked.
Sang Zhitao waved her hand in front of her, then shook her head.
Looking at her hands, Sang Lezhi realized that no matter how well the internal bone structure was designed, it was still very difficult to write and type like a real person.
"Is it because you're a music robot? Why is your workmanship so simple?" He Lei suddenly leaned forward and curiously squeezed her hand, asking.
Sang Zhitao nodded repeatedly.
"What should we do then? We can't just let you carry the dictionary around forever." Sang Lezhi looked at her hand, then turned to look at Li Mingguo and the others.
Although the bigwigs were discussing business, they also overheard the children's words. Seeing that the children were looking for help in a somewhat helpless manner, they exchanged glances before Su Guoxi asked, "Zhitao, do you have any ideas?"
Sang Zhitao thought for a moment before pointing to two words on the manuscript: "long" and "height".
"Singing?" As a young person, Lin Jing was the first to realize the meaning of this homonym.
"You mean, like in the book, to express meaning through song?" They had already roughly understood the original plot during this discussion, so they naturally understood Sang Zhitao's meaning.
"The song you're singing now is from over there, so we can't understand it. You mean you're downloading songs from our side?" Su Guoxi continued to ask.
Sang Zhitao nodded repeatedly.
Su Guoxi nodded and continued, "Can I see your download port?"
Sang Zhitao realized what had happened and slapped her forehead; she had forgotten that the ports between the two worlds were different.
She sighed silently to herself, then flipped open a piece of skin on her arm, revealing a triangular opening for the other person to see.
Su Guoxi was first startled by her actions, then excitedly rushed to her side and frantically flipped through the portal.
"How is it? Can you do it?" Li Mingguo nervously approached the two of them and asked with concern.
He was among the first to meet Sang Zhitao. In the eyes of these elders, Sang Zhitao was a lively and adorable girl who chattered all day long. Now that they heard that she could not speak normally, how could they not be anxious?
"I need to take Zhitao to the lab for a few days to find a data cable that can connect to the network as soon as possible," Su Guoxi said, standing up.
Li Mingguo thought for a moment before saying, "I hereby grant special permission for your Information Engineering Group to temporarily move to the observation room to work."
Su Guoxi wasn't surprised. The observation room was the most strictly monitored place in the base, and it was the safest place for Sang Zhitao to stay. He was just asking tentatively, just in case it worked.
Researchers are always enthusiastic about their work. When they heard that they could study a super-intelligent robot, they quickly packed their things and came over.
They even carried many pieces of equipment themselves to the observation room, no longer bothering the soldiers.
Here, the bigwigs led by Su Guoxi surrounded Sang Zhitao, tentatively gesturing with handheld devices.
Meanwhile, their students deftly assembled various pieces of equipment.
"Teacher, it's done." Su Guoxi's student, Wang Le, quickly came over and said in a low voice.
Upon hearing this, Su Guoxi and the others nodded and made way for them: "Zhi Tao, come over here first and get tested."
Sang Zhitao obediently followed their instructions, sitting on a small stool and watching them move around her with various devices.
"Try these first." After a long while, Sang Zhitao was about to fall asleep when Su Guoxi handed her a few connecting wires.
"Bang!" The connected computer emitted black smoke again, which sprayed directly at everyone.
"Cough cough!" Sang Zhitao couldn't help but choke on the smoke a few times.
Hearing even her coughs had a rhythm, the young scholars couldn't help but smile knowingly.
Sang Zhitao spent four days in this way, constantly experimenting with Su Guoxi and others, and she did not travel through time even once during those four days.
"Ding, device inserted." The system notification sound successfully sparked cheers from the crowd.
Su Guoxi held Sang Zhitao's hand and looked at her with satisfaction: "A small data cable can actually advance our technology. Zhitao, you have made a great contribution."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but take the report and explain it to Sang Zhitao, making her dizzy and disoriented.
However, she also learned that through her data cable innovation, Su Guoxi and others have made great changes to the information transmission of data cables. Now, a charging cable the thickness of a mobile phone data cable can be used to support the charging of an electric vehicle. Not only that, the entire charging time has been compressed to the extreme, and it is possible to charge for five minutes and drive for a whole day.
Seeing everyone's barely contained joy, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but smile as well.
Of course, she also secretly downloaded songs for herself in the background.
As a world with an extremely developed entertainment industry, Earth has countless songs to fill her music library. Even so, with her extreme download speed, Sang Zhitao only took one day to download all the downloadable Chinese songs.
"Zhi Tao can finally speak. Let's try talking." Upon hearing that she could speak, almost all the big shots at the base, except for those from the agriculture and medical teams, came running over.
Sang Zhitao took a breath, opened her mouth, and uttered her first words upon returning: "I just wanted to talk to you. I've been doing well lately~"
"Yes, yes, that's good." Hearing the familiar song, everyone finally felt a huge weight lifted off their shoulders.
Sang Zhitao smiled and touched her face, then frowned slightly, touched her stomach, and couldn't help but cry out, "So hungry, so hungry, so hungry, I'm so hungry, so hungry..."
Upon hearing this voice, the group all looked at Sang Zhitao, their lips twitching slightly. Li Mingguo was the first to speak, asking, "What can you eat like this? Batteries? Or... engine oil?"
Sang Zhitao couldn't help but pout, only to realize that Earth didn't have any crystals to feed robots.
"Natural energy surges, we are proud of it, this power, this power, is unstoppable, natural energy, grow!" Sang Zhitao sang a suitable song from her song library.
"Something with energy?" Everyone was a little confused.
"Jade is often used to describe things in novels. Is jade a good choice?" The one with a wild imagination wasn't a young person who loves reading novels, but a serious and shrewd boss like Su Guoxi.
The crowd looked at him with some disbelief before asking, "So, ore works too?"
"What about those with radiation sources? Are they also considered a form of energy?"
"That makes a lot of things: thermal energy, chemical energy, mechanical energy, electrical energy, nuclear energy, solar energy—which of these doesn't contain energy?"
"What do you think?" After the crowd had been arguing, they looked at Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao thought for a moment, then opened her mouth and sang: "I am a small stone, buried deep in the soil..."
"Let's start with ores then," Li Mingguo decided immediately, adding as a final note, "Don't give Zhi Tao anything dangerous yet, let's start with... let's start with the safest thing: jade!"
The biology and space groups, which had other research topics, all left.
Only the information engineering team and others were left to deliver the jade and, incidentally, help Sang Zhitao monitor the data.
The worries of Li Mingguo and others did not materialize. After Sang Zhitao touched the first piece of jade, she successfully absorbed the energy inside.
"There really is energy in jade?!" Not only Su Guoxi was incredulous, but also the physics and mineral experts. After receiving the news, they all came to the observation room.
After several rounds of experiments, everyone finally concluded that there is indeed energy in jade, but for the time being, it can only be extracted by Sang Zhitao. This energy is useless to their current technology, and it is expensive, scarce, and easy to waste.
"Tao Tao, what are your plans after you go back there?" After dinner, Li Mingguo came to see Sang Zhitao.
He had been wanting to ask Sang Zhitao about it for the past few days, but hadn't found the opportunity. Now that he had learned something, he naturally came to ask her.
"You support me, and I can climb over the mountain; you support me, and I can cross the raging storm..." Sang Zhitao thought for a moment and sang.
Li Mingguo pondered for a moment before understanding her meaning, and then said, "You want to support others."
Sang Zhitao nodded, sighed, and opened her mouth to continue singing.
Li Mingguo waved his hand and said, "Don't waste your brains looking through the playlist."
Upon hearing this, Sang Zhitao quickly shut her mouth.
“You’re right. Be careful then, and try to find a suitable person. I’ll also try my best to have someone make a plan for you.” Li Mingguo sighed and continued, “You’re all alone in another world, so be careful. The country really can’t help you much…”
Sang Zhitao tugged at his sleeve, shaking her head repeatedly, and hummed a song softly: "My country and I are inseparable, wherever I go, a song of praise flows forth..."
Li Mingguo smiled, patted her head gently twice, and said, "Good girl."
After seeing off the researchers and Li Mingguo, Sang Zhitao lay on the bed in the observation room and fell into a deep sleep.
Then the familiar green light appeared on her body, and she returned to the world of robots once again.
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Author's Note: The robot arc has such low click rates! Are people not interested? Or are we building up the story? I'm so nervous!
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