Chapter 111 Chapter 111
A red light flickered in the snowman Ark's eyes, and tiny arcs of electricity were still lingering around his body, flickering non-stop.
Several mysterious beasts were terrified, not knowing whether the self-destruction process was completely over or temporarily stopped, but now they didn't dare to touch it at all - what if they touched the wrong place and the little snowman really became a bomb?
The owner brought home a new toy and played with it like crazy the very day...
Woo woo woo, the animal is scared to death!
The mysterious beasts were terrified by the scene just now, but what they didn't know was that at this moment, an unprecedented change was taking place inside Ark "Xiaoxue".
Of course, it's not easy to create an intelligent mystical beast. Even though the Yin-Yang Butterfly possesses the extremely rare ability to sense emotions, creating life from nothing is definitely not something that can be done by simply throwing energy at it.
Moreover, given the project team's efforts to protect the confidentiality of the Ark subsystem, they will definitely not allow external energy to arbitrarily change the central settings - didn't you see that the Liangyi Butterfly only tried twice, was Xiaoxue going to self-destruct?
But the most peculiar change in the world is precisely at the point where it "self-explodes".
The elemental fluid was running at full speed, and the energy in the whole body was completely condensed. It abandoned external defense and continued to destroy and decompose the internal code, attacking the core... and just at the moment of detonation, it encountered the "disorder" attack of the little koi.
"Disorder" instantly disrupted all code programs, making the self-destruct program unable to maintain operation. At this moment, the remaining emotional energy rushed in and enveloped Ark's currently defenseless core in one fell swoop.
The combination of disorder and emotion pushed the code to the brink of collapse. Amidst unprecedented chaos, elemental particles vibrated and collided at a frequency of hundreds of millions of times per second.
A strange energy fluctuation gradually emerged from the chaos.
But for a palm-sized mechanical product, this wonderful change was far beyond its tolerance. The snowman's defensive shell began to crack, and the cold iron-colored alloy part also shattered silently, and the whole body was gradually covered with spider-web-like patterns.
"Click, click, click..."
The cracks spread faster and faster, and the already frightened mysterious beasts became even more terrified.
The Swift Dog subconsciously stretched out its little paws, but hastily retracted them halfway - in terms of attack power, it was confident in itself, but repairing and fixing were not its strong points.
The little koi's eyes rolled around, and another idea came to his mind: "... Gulu!"
Xiao Zi, hurry up! Inject life energy into it!
Yin-Yang Butterfly: "...Yeah?"
Is it possible?
Can life energy be useful? It’s not even life!
The koi fish flapped its tail anxiously: "Gulp gulp!"
Never mind, let’s give it a try!
When the Swift Dog heard the words "life energy", he remembered the strange energy that made him sleep for several months and then transformed himself when he woke up, and he immediately became energetic.
“Ouch!”
That's right, Xiao Zi, use your life energy! It might be useful!
Encouraged by the two predecessors, Liangyi Butterfly calmed down and tried hard to gather a large ball of life energy.
In order to help it quickly condense the energy ball, the Gale Dog and the Koi Fish ran to its side and let the Yin-Yang Butterfly use its tentacles to rest on them to absorb their vigorous mysterious power and vitality.
The life energy of divine beasts and quasi-divine beasts far outweighs ordinary profound strength. Furthermore, the Swift Dog and Koi Fish were imbued with the starlight power from the Yunhua Ceremony and the pure dragon energy from the Dragon Pill.
With the nourishment of the vast and abundant life energy and the unremitting efforts of the three mysterious beasts, Ark Xiaoxue lived up to everyone's expectations... and cracked even faster.
“Crack, crack!”
A layer of alloy slag quickly covered the ground. The alloys Chi Zi used to create Xiaoxue's shell were all of the best quality and most defensive types, but at this moment, under the repeated erosion of the mysterious force, they were still shattered into large pieces of powder.
Ark Xiaoxue's outer shell quickly fell off, leaving behind pure elemental fluid, as well as the code strings and central systems engraved directly on the elemental fluid.
It was like a newborn baby, or a peeled hard-boiled egg, its pure white core exposed and defenseless. The formless elemental fluid was like a balloon filled with water, slowly rising and falling in the wind lingering in the room.
The three mysterious beasts who witnessed everything: "..."
Silence filled the room. After more than ten seconds, the Swift Dog squatted on the ground, raised its furry little paws in pain, and covered its eyes.
It’s broken, completely broken!
The Yin-Yang Butterfly was still confused, its tentacles holding the remaining life force, unsure whether it should continue throwing. "...Eh?"
Brothers, what should we do now?
The koi fish stared with a pair of dead eyes, and lay down on the ground neatly, showing its white belly: "Gurgle."
There's no hope. Just wait for the owner to come back and scold you...
Alas, what happened to the powerful system that the engineers carefully built and that can input mysterious beast models?
Isn't this too much fun?
…
Xia Muqing didn't know at this moment how many "tragic" things had happened in the dormitory while she was frantically digging through Qingzhou Technology's information.
She concentrated on organizing the materials and suddenly entered an immersive mode. When she came back to her senses from the pile of materials, the sky outside the window was already dark.
A message from an hour ago popped up on the phone. It was from Xu Ling, asking Xia Muqing if she wanted her to help bring dinner back to the dormitory.
Xia Muqing rubbed her hot temples, looked at the half page of paper she had painstakingly sorted out on the table, felt a series of gurgling sounds coming from her stomach, and sighed helplessly.
"There's too much information to process in a short time," she muttered. "Forget it, I'll look at it tomorrow."
No matter how complete and relevant the information collected by Ark Xiaoxue is, she still needs to sort it out manually. After reading nearly a hundred pieces of information, Xia Muqing is overwhelmed.
But from these materials, Xia Muqing still found some clues.
"Three years ago, a research institute acquired this medium-sized company and renamed it Qingzhou Technology... Originally focused on the medical device industry, they expanded into the information technology sector a year ago, hiring a large number of programmers. Then, six months ago, they acquired planning and gaming companies..."
"The transition is too drastic. The pharmaceutical industry is suddenly starting to work in information and gaming. How can this be related?"
"And how come the timing is so accurate?"
Sure enough, it seems suspicious no matter how I think about it.
But these still cannot be considered as real evidence. Xia Muqing rubbed his head, tiredly sorted out the information, and closed the notebook.
Alas, this kind of work is really tiring. She would rather take a few mysterious beasts to the training ground, or practice boxing by watching the video.
...Wait, isn't this Xu Ling's way of thinking? Why do I have the same idea as her now?
As Xia Muqing walked towards the dormitory, she thought with a mixture of laughter and tears that she had been hanging out with Xu Ling for too long, and even their way of thinking had become somewhat assimilated.
"Mu Qing!"
The shouting came from not far away. Xia Muqing looked up in confusion and found that her best friend was waving at her vigorously downstairs of the dormitory building.
But Xu Ling's face didn't look very good.
"I was just about to look for you," she grabbed Xia Muqing's wrist, "Hurry back to the dormitory—I was startled when I walked in just now. Your mysterious beast made some weird things!"
Xia Muqing: “……?”
She was dragged back to the dormitory by Xu Ling in a daze. When she pushed the door open, the clean and tidy floor in front of her was covered with debris, and her books were blown all over the place by the wind. The most important thing was that the Ark Xiaoxue she plugged in for charging disappeared, and was replaced by a pure white snowball with red eyes.
The whole body is crystal clear and its temperament is as cold as ice, but the original touchpad and connection port are nowhere to be found.
Xia Muqing was stunned: "What's going on?"
Beside them, three mysterious beasts lay in a row guiltily, looking at their noses and mouths, not daring to breathe.
"Where's Xiaoxue? Did Xiaoxue transform this... snowball?"
The koi fish quietly raised its head and glanced at the Yin-Yang butterfly. The Yin-Yang butterfly's tentacles instantly tensed, then timidly drooped a little at a time under Xia Muqing's suspicious gaze.
Just as the Yin-Yang Butterfly made a low babbling sound and was about to confess to Xia Muqing, the Gale Dog suddenly raised its head, walked up to its own beastmaster with tragic steps, and fell to the ground with a plop.
“Ouch!”
Sorry, master, they were wrong!
This time, it was mainly its fault. It failed to take good care of the koi fish and the Yin-Yang butterfly, nor did it take good care of the new family member. They also wanted to test the possibility of Ark becoming an intelligent mysterious beast. To explain the details, it was just a bunch of energy this, that, this, that...
Xia Muqing: “???”
Xia Muqing felt mixed emotions.
The story described by Wind Dog is really...completely incomprehensible.
But she could tell the beasts had good intentions. They had heard a lot about Ark from her, and so they had the daring idea of experimenting, wanting to turn the cold little snowman into a true companion.
"You guys...ah," Xia Muqing sighed helplessly, "Your courage is commendable, but you should have told me first. It's not like I disagree with your idea."
She was also envious of the mechanical mysterious beast that truly possessed its own intelligence.
"And if I were here, I could at least cover for you. I wouldn't be able to explain to Teacher Chi if you guys messed around like this..."
The Koi Fish and the Yin-Yang Butterfly squatted obediently by the side, nodded repeatedly, and looked at the Gale Dog with eyes of great gratitude - thank you, big brother, this family cannot do without big brother, the Gale Dog!
This was the first time that the Yin-Yang Butterfly was blocked behind the Gale Dog. At this moment, its eyes sparkled and its wings flapped gently.
It turns out that the reason why the Gale Dog is the boss of the mysterious beasts in this family is not just because it is the strongest.
On the other side, Xia Muqing held a freshly baked snowball in her arms, muttering with mixed feelings: "Xiaoxue? Xiao Ark? Give me some information, are all the programs deleted? Did they format it for you?"
Just then, she felt a slight warmth in her palm.
The little snowball squirmed, the light in her eyes flickered a few times, and a scanning green light swept across her cheek. Then she slowly responded in a hoarse mechanical voice: "Master..."
Then, it made a move that made Xia Muqing stiffen all over.
The little snowball rolled half a circle, and its round but elastic body leaned against Xia Muqing's palm and rubbed gently.
"I'm Xiaoxue."
It stumbled and slowly organized its words: "Hello, Master. Nice to meet you..."
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