She would use this period of time when there was no failure to deal with all the remaining matters.

When the next artificial intelligence takes office, she will be an upright pioneer and no one will be able to catch her.

"No need," Xie Xu said over there, "Do you remember the person who led you to the Ansa black market when you first went there?"

"That mechanical head?" Tu Ran asked.

Xie Xu on the other end of the headset was surprised by her highly condensed abbreviation.

"……right."

It was more than just a memory. She was deeply impressed. She was always curious whether the other person was a "human" or a "machine".

Now that she didn't have to be as cautious as before when facing Xie Xu, Tu Ran asked directly, "Is he still human?"

"You can say it's a person, or you can say it's not a person."

Tu Ran: "... Could you please stop being so ambiguous and explain it more clearly?"

As expected, when people have someone to rely on, their attitude becomes tougher.

Xie Xu explained: "He used to be a human. Because his brain was severely damaged, Xiao Jiu replaced his skull with a mechanical one. Not long after, his body developed an immune response. The skull, which is suitable for almost all humans, was strongly rejected by his immune cells, and his organs quickly failed."

"In an emergency, at his request, I digitized his brain consciousness and imported it into a computer, allowing him to transcend human physiological form and achieve digital immortality. After that, I worked with others to create a human body for him and imported his consciousness into it, allowing him to live in human society as usual."

Tu Ran was so shocked that she couldn't express it in words. Digital immortality had been proposed in the First World, but the human brain has tens of billions of neurons and trillions of interfaces, which makes it impossible to realize the digitalization of consciousness in the next few decades. In the Second World, this technology has actually been realized? ! Tu Ran calmed down for nearly a minute before finding her voice, "So... why did you suddenly mention him?"

Xie Xu was silent for a moment, "He has a name, called Ling."

zero?!

Tu Ran asked with difficulty: "This zero...isn't that zero?"

"They are the same Zero." Xie Xu gave a positive answer. "One chance, I introduced his consciousness into Zero's host. He devoured the original Zero, and now he is Zero."

Tu Ran gave him a thumbs up in her heart, "You are awesome."

Xie Xu didn't say anything.

"You seem to have a good relationship with him."

"Yes." Xie Xu replied.

"So you don't let me have any idea about Zero because Zero is under your control. You can control Zero and Zero is not a threat to you."

"Yes." Xie Xu answered honestly.

This time it was Tu Ran who remained silent.

She didn't know what to say, as she seemed to have received explosive news.

Zero is the mechanical head, and the mechanical head is Zero. Xie Xu and Zero, the mechanical head, have a good relationship. It seems that they are in a relationship of superior and subordinate. The problem of Zero that has troubled her for so long was solved by Xie Xu in just a few words.

She no longer had to find ways to sneak into the Xie family's manor and destroy Zero's host.

But now there is another problem that bothers her even more.

"You have already controlled Zero, so you can do whatever you want, right? You can walk sideways in the Federation, so why do you still want to cooperate with me?"

"Zero can only be used by me in this world. In other worlds, he is not as good as you." "Other worlds?" Tu Ran frowned, "Threshold?"

“Including the threshold, but not just the threshold.”

Tu Ran suspected that she had misunderstood, "You mean there are other worlds besides Threshold? My and Li Wenchuan's hometown?"

"For now, this topic is not something that must be discussed," Xie Xu did not intend to tell Tu Ran more about other worlds, "Let's talk about our cooperation."

"You changed the subject very abruptly." Tu Ran commented.

Xie Xu did not comment.

"I said in the basement of Songwu Experimental Base that I wanted to consolidate our cooperation," Xie Xu said calmly, "I have shown you my sincerity. I have not mentioned the matter of Zero being devoured to anyone except you. I told you a secret that was enough to subvert the entire federation. My actions have shown my sincerity. Now I want to know what you think."

Tu Ran thought for a moment, choosing her words carefully. "Under the premise that my life is not in danger, I will put our cooperation first."

Her life safety should always come first.

If it weren't for the connection between her original body and Xie Xu, she wouldn't have been threatened by Xie Xu as soon as she came to this world, and she wouldn't have been entangled with him until now. Now she even knows a shocking secret of Xie Xu, a secret that is even bigger than the secret that he has a private research institute.

As the saying goes, it is easy to get on a pirate ship but difficult to get off. She has come to this point in a muddle-headed way. Rather than carrying this secret and being hunted down by Xie Xu, she would rather go along with him.

She knew how powerful Zero was. In the past, Zero stood on the opposite side of her. She called it a "dog of the Federation" and hated it so much that she wanted to get rid of it immediately.

Now that Zero and she are on the same front, Zero is a rare treasure. With Zero around, to put it in an exaggerated way, she is like a tiger with wings, and there is no one in the entire federation who can threaten her anymore.

She doesn't have any long-term ambitions, and she just thrives for a while.

"Okay, then I will assume for the time being that our cooperation is solid. Although it is not indestructible, it will not fall apart at the slightest blow." Xie Xu said.

Tu Ran smiled and said, "You can think so."

"Senior Tu Ran, you are smiling so happily, is there something good?"

Tu Ran smiled so brightly that she was noticed by Le Qin who was standing next to her.

Tu Ran kept smiling, "I'm just happy to think that I can get off work soon."

Le Qin had never thought of this as a reason and was a little surprised. But then she thought, isn’t this exactly in line with Tu Ran’s style of doing things?

She checked the time. "It's 9:30 federal time now. We still have nine and a half hours until we get off work."

The happy smile on Tu Ran's face instantly turned into a bitter smile.

Nine and a half hours? Are you kidding?

So many things happened in one day. She had hardly touched the ground since morning. And then she was told that there were still nine and a half hours left before the full twenty-four hours? Was federal time so long?

"Sister Tu Ran, if you can't laugh, then don't laugh. The expression on your face right now scares me." Xiao Di, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, saw the expression on Tu Ran's face through the passenger seat and rubbed his arms exaggeratedly.

Tu Ran put away the smile on her face, leaned back in her chair, and sighed, "The life of a social animal is so tiring..."

It’s tiring not to find a job in the first world, and it’s even more tiring to find a job in the second world.

The colorful neon lights outside the car window shone on her profile, whizzing past and changing in various ways.

I'm sorry for taking a day off, I'll make it up later