Chapter 112 Chapter 112
Xia Muqing was stunned.
The three mysterious beasts were also stunned.
Ark Xiaoxue's words, though simple, were clearly different from the electronic synthesized voice she had heard before. Xia Muqing couldn't quite pinpoint the difference, but she was certain it wasn't simply a response programmed by an internal program.
Ark Xiaoxue's words were halting, especially when she was expressing her feelings with the word "happy", she paused for a long time.
It was as if he had used up all his strength, trying to judge the traces of indescribable emotions, picking this one word from thousands of words to describe emotions, and hesitantly and nervously transforming it into electronic music.
Even after he said it, his eyes moved up nervously and glanced at Xia Muqing.
Xu Ling was confused, but also excited: "Wow, what is this? Is this the Ark subsystem you mentioned earlier?"
It's very smart, and it's soft and looks very easy to poke!
Yin-Yang Butterfly: "...Aiya!"
The hairs on the Liangyi Butterfly were standing on end.
It has always been the most sensitive to emotions, but just at that moment, it actually sensed a little bit of energy fluctuation from Ark Xiaoxue?
Even though it was only a tiny bit, not even as strong as the emotions that fluctuated between thoughts of a normal person - but, it was still an emotion!
"Aaaaaaaa!"
Master, master, they won’t hit the mark by accident, will they?
The Yin-Yang Butterfly was extremely excited, and Xia Muqing felt her heart beating faster after hearing its description.
She lowered her head and carefully examined the white ball in her palm. She carefully pinched the soft shell and asked nervously, "Xiaoxue? How are you? How do you feel now?"
"Can you speak? Say a few more words, anything is fine."
As Xia Muqing kept asking questions, the white ball in her palm shook a few times, and the red light where her eyes were flashed repeatedly.
It seemed that it also wanted to answer Xia Muqing's question, but this kind of "thinking" which was more difficult than "being happy" obviously exhausted its brain power, causing the white ball to stagger like a drunk for more than ten seconds before crashing completely.
"Energy... insufficient energy..."
This time it was a cold electronic sound again.
"Hiss, do emotions consume so much energy?"
Xia Muqing started to have a headache again.
A single "happiness" would consume all the energy, and it would not be able to become the intelligent beast she wanted.
The koi fish next to it reacted quickly. Its eyes rolled around, and it caught a glimpse of the energy bead on the top of the Yin-Yang Butterfly's head. It quickly reminded him, "Gulu!"
Xiaozi, give it the energy bead!
Yin-Yang Butterfly nodded, took off the energy bead, and stuffed it into Ark Xiaoxue's body.
Xia Muqing hesitated for a moment and was about to say don't be impulsive, but then she saw the elemental fluid wrapped around the core like a flowing spring, quickly accommodating the energy beads and gathering in a position very close to the core.
Ark Xiaoxue's body is a translucent white. At this moment, it absorbs the energy bead. The remaining emotional energy in the bead blooms with colorful light. The light is absorbed by the white ball, so its white body also glows, colorful, like clouds.
Ark Xiaoxue's eyes flashed with gold.
It seemed to have resurrected, jumping actively in Xia Muqing's palm, and the electronic music repeated: "Happy... Happy, happy!"
The voice is becoming more and more fluent.
Xia Muqing finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Calming down, she observed carefully for a while and found that the energy beads had replaced the previous power system. The emotional energy also seeped into Ark Xiaoxue's body, replacing electrical energy and mysterious power, becoming the energy it relied on to drive.
This is really... magical.
"It's so beautiful," Xu Ling also sighed, "Let me touch it - can I touch it?"
Xia Muqing nodded and placed the Ark Xiaoxue, which was surrounded by colorful light, in Xu Ling's palm. Then she turned her head and glanced at the mysterious beasts without comment.
The mysterious beasts were swept by her serious eyes, and the surprised expressions on their faces froze instantly. Recalling the wrong things they had done, they lowered their heads in shame.
"You guys, tell me what you did today?"
Xia Muqing deliberately put on a stern face: "Don't think that just because Xiaofeng stepped forward to take the blame, everyone else will be fine... Especially you, Xiaojin, it was you who came up with today's trick, right?"
Koi fish: “……!”
Finished, the beastmaster knows fish too well!
…
As the three mysterious beasts reviewed their affairs with their heads drooping, Xia Muqing finally understood everything that had happened before.
She broke out in a cold sweat, especially when she heard that Ark had initiated a self-destruct sequence. Xia Muqing bent her fingers and knocked each of the mysterious beasts on the head, saying angrily, "That's too much! You're so bold! Haven't you considered what would happen if you harmed Xiaoxue?"
The Gale Dog and the Yin-Yang Butterfly hung their heads pitifully, listening carefully to the lecture of their beastmaster. Only the Koi Fish tentatively raised its head, its eyes rolling around and spitting out a string of bubbles.
"Gulu?"
But master, the final result is good.
If they hadn't acted rashly, Ark Xiaoxue wouldn't have been able to undergo such a drastic change in just a few hours. We have to acknowledge this result, right?
Xia Muqing: "..."
She was at a loss for words: "Don't use the results-only approach on me!"
Xia Muqing wanted to criticize a few more times, but at this moment, Ark Xiaoxue suddenly bounced up from Xu Ling's palm and landed on the desk in front of Xia Muqing.
"Master, no...don't criticize everyone. I feel great now. There's no...problem."
It spoke haltingly, but its entire body was filled with brilliant light, like the undulating waves, which conveyed Ark's strong inner fluctuations at the moment better than words could.
Xia Muqing: "..."
Looking at little Ark who was trying hard to protect several mysterious beasts, her heart warmed up, and the little anger in her chest quickly melted away. The words of criticism were on the tip of her tongue, but she couldn't say them for a while.
In fact, what the little koi said makes sense.
Everything that happened today was too dreamy. Although Xia Muqing didn't know the specific principles yet, there was no doubt that if it weren't for the bold advance of several mysterious beasts, Ark Xiaoxue would definitely not have become what she is now.
Even if Xia Muqing herself wanted to create intelligent profound beasts, she wouldn't be able to achieve results so quickly. Through the profound beasts' stories, she could imagine the thrilling scene: emotional energy, the opportunity for self-destruction, huge chunks of elemental fluid capable of carrying even greater power, disordered characteristics, and life energy...
Miraculous energy, coincidental timing, and a bit of luck have led to the current situation at great risk.
Even if she was given another piece of elemental fluid, Xia Muqing could not guarantee that she could repeat this process. It was more likely that the Ark subsystem would complete the self-destruct program. Even if it was disturbed by "disorder", it would be more likely to produce a pile of scrap metal rather than the innocent and cute Ark Xiaoxue at this moment.
The newly born Ark couldn't judge human emotions very well. Seeing Xia Muqing hesitate, he thought she was still angry, so he tried hard to use his newly formed little brain to think of ways to make his owner happy - that's right!
It bounced up from the desktop and rolled to the edge of the network interface like a marble. Its round body poked upwards, and its soft shell immediately wrapped up the entire interface.
Before Xia Muqing and the others could react, little Ark had already quickly connected to the Internet. The snow-white little ball swelled up like a balloon, its body flashing with a bright green light. Streams of information flashed through its body, and then turned into a screen, projected in the air.
It was still searching for information about "Qingzhou Technology". After all, this was the first and only instruction it received from Xia Muqing.
This time, however, the information he found was different. While the previous information focused on comprehensiveness, it was still essentially a combination of large amounts of data. This time, little Ark, through analytical analysis, extracted more precise, and even more hidden information!
Xia Muqing looked at the information summary that was completed in just a few seconds, opened her eyes wide in confusion, and then turned her head to look at the half sheet of paper that she had spent two hours to organize.
Whether it is efficiency or quality, there is more than one level difference.
"Wow, that's amazing!"
Owning an Ark analyzer is enough to make her happy, but now she has an Ark plus version subsystem that is far more intelligent than ordinary Ark systems, can talk, act cute, and can help her analyze and judge!
The surprise now completely overwhelmed her anger. Xia Muqing happily held Ark Xiaoxue in her palm and kissed her soft shell fiercely: "Xiaoxue, you are awesome!"
“Sizzle…sizzle…”
The sudden intimacy from the owner exceeded little Ark's emotional threshold. The energy beads in its body flashed several times in succession, a small ball of electric sparks appeared on its head, and then it crashed as if it was overloaded.
But this time, Xia Muqing has figured out the pattern.
"Xiao Zi, replenish your energy!"
"Aiya!"
The Yin-Yang Butterfly swooped over quickly, and its two small tentacles touched the white ball, transferring the endless emotional energy into the energy ball in Ark Xiaoxue's body.
A few seconds later, Ark Xiaoxue "resurrected with full health".
"It's still consuming energy too quickly," Xia Muqing stroked her chin. "There's nothing we can do. It looks like this little guy needs to team up with Xiao Zi first, and then we can find a way to expand its energy threshold."
The Gale Dog and the Koi Fish tilted their heads in unison, and the Yin-Yang Butterfly's eyes suddenly lit up after hearing these words.
Great, it will have a little white ball with it!
Xia Muqing smiled and touched the antennae of the Yin-Yang butterfly: "Yes, Xiao Zi, you must take good care of it. Its current situation is just like when you first came to our house. You should be able to understand its feelings, right?"
The Yin-Yang butterfly fluttered its wings, and a glimmer of light flashed in its eyes.
Following Xia Muqing's words, it remembered when it first came home. It didn't understand anything and was curious about everything. It crawled around the house every day, babbling.
Looking back now, I really seemed like a little idiot.
But Xia Muqing, the Swift Dog, and the Koi Fish never disliked it. They even played with it and used it as a cradle...
Ark Xiaoxue, is it also in that confused, helpless and nervous state at this moment?
"Aiya!"
Don’t worry, master, it will definitely take good care of Xiaoxue!
Ark Xiaoxue will feel all the care and happiness she gets from her companions without any omission!
Xia Muqing smiled and nodded.
But then she warned, "Don't do any more dangerous experiments. Xiaofeng, Xiaojin, listen up, Xiaoxue was just a machine before, but now it may have life and intelligence. You must treat it gently."
"Well, we can't just experiment with machinery. It's not that I'm reluctant to part with the elemental fluid, but it's dangerous. What if Xiaoxue explodes and hurts you?"
Xia Muqing gave them some serious instructions, and now the mysterious beasts did not talk back. They listened to the lecture obediently and said politely that they were wrong and would not make the same mistake again next time.
Seeing that they admitted their mistakes in a good attitude, Xia Muqing waved her hand and let the mysterious beasts play by themselves. Then she clicked on the online information compiled by Xiao Ark and looked through it carefully.
...After taking a look, I really found the problem.
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