Chapter 32 Chapter 32 127.0.0.1.
A small two-story house.
The mirrored solar panels were covered in piles of rotting leaves. The metal frame had been treated to prevent rust, but it still bore the marks of rain.
Tao Ying stepped onto the third step.
She stood in front of the door, handed two masks to her teammates, and entered the password.
SD.HOUSE, 127.0.0.1:8080.
Lin Biege looked puzzled: "SD stands for Shadow, House stands for House, what does 127.0.0.1 mean?"
Tao Ying: "The local loopback address in a computer—you can think of it as home."
Nan Gua's eyes lit up. "Oh, I know! I read a line in my mecha literature textbook: 'There's no place like 127.0.0.1'*. The book said it was based on a fairy tale. The original line was 'There's no place like home.'"
Lin Biege murmured to himself: "Mecha literature is really a peculiar major."
Tao Ying knocked on the door a few times, and the electronic screen on the door displayed the password page.
She directly entered the biometric information of three people.
Before his two teammates could react, Tao Ying pushed the door open and walked in.
Lin Biege and Nan Gua were both shocked and stopped her.
"Hey wait, can you just go in? Don't you need to wait for the owner to come and see the house?"
"About this..."
Tao Ying turned around and suddenly laughed sinisterly twice.
"Don't worry, the owner of this building has been dead for many years, and no one has lived in it. Even if we live here secretly for a hundred years, no one will know."
Lin Biege: “…”
"Let me ask you, you didn't kill the landlord, did you?"
Lin Biege pointed to the lush weeds growing in the garden.
"Isn't his body buried in the garden?"
Tao Ying gave a kind smile: "What if it is?"
Lin Biege took out his laptop and clicked on it: "Hello, is this the Laimen Police Station? There's a homicide case here..."
The computer screen is not turned on.
Tao Ying smiled and patted Lin Biege on the head.
"Just kidding, the owner is my friend. She left the First Galaxy and doesn't live here for the time being."
Lin Biege: "Five thousand star coins a month, have you saved her life?"
"That's true. But it's mainly because the house hasn't been maintained, and it's very troublesome if it breaks down. The landlord saw that we were students and liked to keep things clean, so he agreed to rent it to us."
"That... makes a lot of sense."
Lin Biege looked hesitant.
But it's still a bit suspicious.
"What's with that look on your face? It seems like you don't trust me at all."
"Considering your criminal record..."
"I don't have a criminal record. I just managed to exploit a small loophole in the school rules. The password must have come from a legitimate source."
Tao Ying shook her head, a look of pain on her face.
“Prejudice in people’s hearts is a mountain.”
Lin Biege & Nan Gua: "..."
Finally, the three of them reached a conclusion and decided to go in and take a look.
Tao Ying did not lie, the source of the house was indeed very legitimate.
It's too formal.
After all, this is one of Tao Ying's properties.
I bought this house when I was working at the Laiji Institute because it was close to my workplace. But after buying it, I realized that I had no time to live in it.
Tao Ying lived directly at the Laiji Institute most of the time.
So this house... probably hasn't been cleaned in more than ten years.
Sure enough, as soon as I entered the entrance hall, I could smell a strong smell of dust.
Several people pressed their masks tightly.
After closing the door, an electronic voice automatically announced: "Welcome home."
Although the house was dirty, its overall condition was much better than Tao Ying had imagined. Most of the furniture was covered with white cloth and was in good condition and could be used.
The water pipes in the bathroom and kitchen were checked and they were in good condition, with no leaks.
The first floor is the living room, kitchen, and utility room. The second floor has four bedrooms and a game room, which is a very comprehensive configuration.
It's only one stop away from the school. It's a perfect house.
Lin Biege weighed the pros and cons and finally clasped his hands together: "Just live here, I have no objection."
Nan Gua nodded in seconding the motion.
The three of them reached a consensus.
…
Tao Ying was in poor health, so she chose a bedroom on the side with the most sunlight. Lin Biege lived across from her. Nan Gua lived next door to Tao Ying—a small room in the corner with a beautiful view.
After booking the room, it’s time to move on to the next step.
Lin Biege rolled up his sleeves and found some cleaning supplies from somewhere.
"Come on, Nan Gua, let's get started. Let's clean up!"
"good!"
The two of them ran to the living room and started cleaning.
Lin Biege used to work as a cleaner and is very good at it. Nan Gua is responsible for most of the housework at home and is also good at it.
Because of her poor health, Tao Ying was forcibly forbidden by her two teammates to clean the floor, and was even scolded for wiping off the dust.
The two teammates clenched their fists and said, "Don't you know what your physical condition is? Give me some rest!"
She leaned against the windowsill bored.
When I raised my hand, I found a string of red on my skin.
...allergic.
Tao Ying silently withdrew her hand from the windowsill.
Another item needs to be added to the medical record.
I wanted to find something to do, but there was no place to sit in the room.
"Oh!" Tao Ying remembered something and suddenly clasped his hands together.
When Tao Ying bought the house, the developer gave her a household robot as a gift. She turned it on and tried it out once, then threw it away.
You can turn on the machine to help with cleaning and reduce the burden on your two teammates.
I remember putting it in the basement...
After thinking for a while, Tao Ying walked down the stairs, came to the utility room, put on gloves, and began to rummage through a pile of metal parts.
Soon, she found it.
Tao Ying dragged the smart housekeeper out of the pile of parts, and only then could she see its full appearance.
The smart butler is about one meter tall, with a hemisphere on its head and a cylindrical body. Its hands are very similar to those of humans - probably to facilitate the grasping of various tools.
The outer shell parts are a bit corroded, and it is an extremely old-fashioned household robot, but the appearance is quite cute.
"Let me see, the socket is... here."
The moment the power was connected, a dazzling white light flashed before Tao Ying's eyes, followed by a burst of sound.
The lightbulb above my head popped.
The circuit breaker tripped, and the battery in the smart home appliance started to smoke.
Tao Ying: …
She silently pulled out a fire extinguisher from the corner and put out the fire.
Lin Biege's scream came from the first floor: "Hey, who turned off the power? The vacuum cleaner won't work!"
Thirty minutes later.
Tao Ying took out a wrench and parts from the toolbox and checked the smart housekeeper.
It seems that there was an internal short circuit, which burned the battery.
She soldered the circuit, called Interstellar Express, and replaced the battery.
"That should be all right, right?" She pressed the power button.
The smart housekeeper starts flashing its lights.
[——Starting up, updating the system, please do not shut down.]
About ten minutes later, the smart butler opened its cute eyes, turned its round body around, and began to scan the surrounding situation.
After scanning Tao Ying, it showed a surprised expression.
"Hello, I am your home smart butler. Please give me a name."
Tao Ying was just about to pick a name when the robot suddenly got stuck.
"Hello, I'm your smart home manager, Ye, Ye, Ye..."
“…” I’ve never chosen this name before. It’s been years since I started it. Is it a bug?
Ye Ye?
In the past, humans really liked to give household robots reduplicated names.
"Then I'll call you Xiaoye."
As soon as Tao Ying saw that it was time for dinner, she turned around and went upstairs.
The waist-high little robot suddenly trembled and pulled the corner of Tao Ying's clothes. Tao Ying looked back in confusion.
Xiao Ye: "><, please enter your health data."
Tao Ying: “?”
Xiaoye: "><, the health management function has detected that your physical condition is below the interstellar average. Please enter your health data."
oh--
Tao Ying glanced down.
I guess the air quality here is too bad, and the health system of the optical brain has started to alarm again.
The smart housekeeper has this module, which can help her plan and improve her physical indicators.
Tao Ying simply connected the computer and transferred the data given to her by the doctor.
Xiaoye's semicircular head turned a circle.
Then, an expression >▽< appeared on the LCD screen.
"Xiaoye will prepare a diet and weekly exercise plan for the master!"
...seems very happy.
The emotional value is very sufficient.
Tao Ying gave it a thumbs up.
"Help me clean the whole house."
"OK!"
Xiaoye received the cleaning instructions and began to walk around the house.
It was originally only one meter high, but the inside of the cylinder actually concealed a raised part.
Two tubes form the legs, extending straight up to three meters high.
From a visual perspective, it probably changes from an O shape to a ======O shape.
Xiaoye's hands are made of soft deformable material. They can recognize the shape of the cleaning object, fit perfectly, and perform all-round vacuuming.
An hour later, the whole house looked brand new, the top of the wardrobe was sparkling, and even the ceiling was clean.
A smart butler with no blind spots.
Lin Biege looked up, amazed.
"You just said this was a gift from the developer? What a thoughtful design."
Tao Ying: "It's quite conscientious. I just checked and this model can also cook."
"What!" Lin Biege became excited when he talked about this.
Tao Ying raised her head and patted the robot's two-meter-long legs.
"Xiaoye, we are hungry."
"OK!"
Xiao Ye quickly made a recipe, ordered the ingredients, and went to the kitchen to start cooking.
Everyone sat in the living room, and halfway through the meal, Lin Biege began to cry.
"I haven't had such a delicious meal in a long time."
Nan Gua's voice choked: "I've never eaten it before."
Lin Biege knelt down in front of Xiaoye with a thud.
"I would like to call you mother."
Xiao Ye: “…”
A large question mark appeared in the center of its screen.
Nan Gua looked left and right at the robot.
"I always feel like it's a bit like a living person... and it's always sticking to Xiaoying?"
Xiaoye paused for a moment.
Lin Biege: "You worry too much. All self-aware intelligent entities are under the control of the Lemen Monitoring Center and cannot run around freely."
Tao Ying patted the little robot's head.
"Don't worry, this robot's storage structure is very old and cannot support large-scale calculations. It will not have any intelligence."
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On the other side, three thousand meters underground, hundreds of black gold servers were calculating frantically.
Strings of data float throughout the space.
The Pomeranian passed through the six golden characters "Daily Nutritious Meals" and jumped to Dust's side.
"You have such a high-speed machine that you can use to calculate Tao Ying's recipes. How can the calculation be so huge?"
Dust sighed, "Xiaoying's medical history is really too long."
I had originally wanted to start designing a healthy diet plan today according to the doctor's advice to help Xiaoying take care of her body, but it took a long time just to transfer the data to the server.
Not to mention calculating it in conjunction with the Interstellar Health Guide.
Pomeranian was heartbroken: "Take it easy, my friend, is this month's electricity bill enough to pay?"
Dust's hand was halfway through moving in the air when he heard Pomeranian's words and suddenly froze.
Pomeranian looked puzzled: "What's wrong?"
Dust hesitated, "Just now, while transmitting data, the Smart Butler seemed to have consumed too much power..."
"Ah? Does that mean Tao Ying has to pay a large electricity bill for you this month? Won't she beat you up when she finds out your identity?"
Dust: “…”
Don't break up when things are tough.
Hiromi: "But you were just about to tell her your identity, why did you suddenly give up?"
Dust hesitated for a moment. "You don't understand. I'm afraid of home."
He was a little scared. When he said his name, Tao Ying would say in confusion, "Huh? Ye Xinghui? Who is that? I don't remember."
The Pomeranian hummed twice.
Dust hesitated. "Anyway, for now... let's pretend to be a smart butler."
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The author has something to say: There's no place like 127.0.0.1, a reference to the Wizard of Oz movie "There's no place like home."
It feels a bit like a magical but very interesting computer meme hhhhhh
PS: Mr. Dust’s temporary may last a little longer... (Looking up at the sky
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