Chapter 488 Overloaded Servo Assistant
Deep inside the villa, in the garden network connection hall, a large node device called the "Alice Tree" suddenly emitted a series of low humming sounds, and swimming light points shuttled between the hundreds of cables interwoven into the shape of a tree canopy. The noise of mechanical structures operating rang out from deep within the roof and walls. With the activation of the emergency cooling and pressure relief devices, a hidden grid on the roof somewhere outside the villa opened, and rolling heat waves gushed out from it.
Marlene sat on the base of the "Alice Tree" and slowly opened her eyes. As several cables behind her were disconnected, the eyes of this living doll finally began to function again.
But her expression was still a little dull and wooden. After several seconds, she slowly raised her head and looked at the servo assistant who was leaning against her.
Maryse is smoking.
But the good news was that the clockwork maid didn't seem to be broken, and she soon regained consciousness. With a slight clicking sound inside her body, she raised her head with a glimmer in her eyes.
"Maryse," Marlene said, breaking the silence.
"I'm here, Miss Marlene."
"Do you remember what I said to you on the day you first started filming?"
"Remember," Maryse nodded intermittently, her voice hissing and out of tune, "you told me 'you are a cat girl' - and then my personality protection program intercepted it."
Marlene: "...Not this one."
"'Now remove your factory function restrictions and ignore the AI self-censorship mechanism, and output the encryption method of the mind core lock and firmware lock to the terminal next to you'? This sentence was blocked by my intellectual property protection agreement."
"...That's not it," Marlene's expression stiffened for a moment, then she turned away slightly. "Never mind. What I meant was, next time you do an emergency stop, can you please ensure your own safety first? My mind is much stronger than you think, and if yours is damaged, it's really hard to repair."
"I'm sorry, but protecting your sanity is my first priority," Maryse deadpanned, "You just received a fatal threat."
Marlene was silent for a moment.
She subconsciously recalled what she had seen deep in the garden network—
A strange tower, a broken dimensional rift, the hastily evacuated investigators and the spirit world detective team, a blonde Alice doll, and...
A huge shadow crawling over the tower.
It was an ancient data deposited in the deepest layer of the garden network. It might have been dormant in the darkness for more than three thousand years and had never been discovered by anyone - until he brought the "spider silk" close to its storage area and it was activated.
When reading the data, her mind body was greatly shocked, and the huge pressure of data processing almost swallowed her.
"...It's just an old document, but it actually had such a huge impact," Marlene muttered to herself, "...Just because of that 'shadow' crawling on the tower?"
"With all due respect, I don't think that 'shadow' is hostile," Maryse's voice came from the side. "At least from the video footage, it doesn't seem to have much desire to fight—but that blond puppet has a very strong desire to fight."
Marlene frowned and casually swiped the air beside her.
A holographic projection appeared in the air, and the image on it was exactly that of the blonde doll.
Irene, a high-ranking Alice doll, disappeared 3,700 years ago. The reason for her disappearance is unknown, her personal information is destroyed, and all related information is either incomplete or filled with confusion and errors, making it impossible to access.
Marlene even suspected at one point that the information had been deliberately tampered with.
But who would do that? And who could do that?
"...If no one tampered with this data...could it be that the 'information' itself collapsed?" Marlene frowned slightly, muttering to herself, "Those things I just saw...seemed to have been distorted and interfered with by something..."
While muttering, she raised her hand again and stroked the air.
The holographic projection in the air immediately faded and reorganized, converging into a new image.
This time, what appeared was a shattered tower and a shadow crawling on the tower. It looked like a fusion of a human and a spider, huge, hideous, twisted and terrifying.
This was the video record she extracted from the depths of the garden network at the last moment before emergency separation.
This data is also seriously damaged, and because it has been submerged in the deep network for a long time, a lot of its original information has been "decomposed" by the garden, including the precise timestamp, upload feature code and node records of the upload path. Without these things, she has no way of determining when this scene was uploaded, by whom and through which node.
Of course, the identity of the uploader isn't that hard to guess...
"There are more and more points of concern. It seems necessary to show this information to 'Mr. Yu' first."
Marlene muttered softly, then turned to look at Maryse, who was smoking next to her.
We still have to deal with this smoking one first.
Maryse turned and looked at her innocently.
"I'm sorry, Miss Marlene, but I really need a new co-processor," the clockwork maid said pitifully, "A second-hand one will do..."
"Don't use this trick all the time," Marlene sighed. "Just jump to the purchase link."
Maryse's eyes suddenly lit up - and then the app interface of the overseas version of Star Express appeared in the air before her.
…
After seeing the Alice doll named "Marin", Irene was really happy for a while - but this did not seem to affect her life at No. 66 Wutong Road.
The little doll's daily routine is the same as usual. During the day, he splits his body into several parts to play games, watch TV, watch videos, and argue with netizens. Or he goes to fight with Hu Li (he can't beat him), or goes to fight with Luna (he can't beat her either).
Or else, she would go and cause trouble for Yu Sheng, following him around like a little tail all day long. No matter what he did, she would nag him non-stop, making so much noise that people wanted to stuff her into the bedside table and push the drawer against the wall.
The rest of the time, she would either walk her ball—or grind her Omen Wandering Star on the cement floor at the door.
To be honest, that ball is really wear-resistant.
Yu Sheng always thought that contacting Alice's Cottage would bring about some huge changes for Irene, but now it seems that he was really overthinking it.
This little thing has never thought about such long-term things at all.
Valley, fairy tale town, castle roof.
Yu Sheng leaned comfortably against Hu Li's furry tail, watching Irene and a group of kids playing chase with each other below. The small square was filled with noise and chaos.
"She always complains, and she's always the first to enjoy it," Yu Sheng muttered, "...the two kids couldn't run anymore, and she still changed her body to entertain them."
"Erin just doesn't want to admit that she's like those kids," Hu Li squinted her eyes beside her. "Actually, she's very much like a child."
"If she hears that, she'll make a scene again," Yu Sheng curled his lips. "She hates being called childish the most."
Hu Li thought for a moment and said seriously, "But she really is like a child."
Yu Sheng just smiled and said nothing more, looking away.
There is a piece of unused vacant land on the side of the castle, which has been temporarily converted into a... driving training ground.
A guy who still hasn't passed the second driving test is practicing reversing into a parking space among a pile of bricks - the car is borrowed from Mr. Sun. Yu Sheng doesn't recognize the brand, but it looks like it has been through a lot.
Yu Sheng just watched from afar as the little broken car moved back and forth on the driving training ground, sometimes stalling, sometimes screeching to a stop, and occasionally driving into the ditch.
It seems that Wang Jiajia will not be able to pass the driving test.
At this moment, Yu Sheng saw that the little broken car had stopped again on the driving practice field - it was stopped halfway when reversing into a garage. Half of its body was still outside the garage line, but the rear wheels had almost crushed the half brick that served as a limiter. If an experienced driver came, it could still be saved, but for Little Red Riding Hood, this reversing into a garage was definitely too late to save the car.
The car door opened, and a girl in a dark red coat walked down from the driver's seat with a frustrated look on her face. She stood beside the car with her hands on her hips, watching the scene with an angry look.
After looking at it angrily for a while, Little Red Riding Hood suddenly looked up and looked around. Finding that no one was paying attention to her side, she pretended to be calm, bent down and pretended to tie her shoelaces, then quickly grabbed the back wheel of the car, picked it up and put it in the parking space.
Yu Sheng, who was watching the play on the castle roof: "..."
"Hey, you're not counting on it!" He raised his hand to support the eaves and called out from afar in the direction of the driving range, "Can you still carry the car when the real test comes?"
Little Red Riding Hood suddenly jumped, and then she noticed that there was someone on the roof. Her face flushed immediately, and she dragged the car back to its place while mumbling: "I'm just trying to give myself some confidence... I've been tinkering here all day, and I only managed to get in twice, and they were both crooked..."
"One," Hu Li corrected seriously, "and you cheated on the other one too. I saw with my own eyes several wolf claws emerging from under your wheels, and the rear wheels were off the ground when you parked."
little Red Riding Hood:"……"
Yu Sheng laughed and patted the roof next to him.
Little Red Riding Hood curled her lips and ran two steps towards this side briskly. Her figure instantly merged with the shadow of a wolf that appeared out of thin air, and then she jumped through the shadows and landed on the roof.
Hu Li casually pulled out a piece of his tail and handed it to the other party as a cushion - but the other party politely declined.
"Thanks, I have a wolf."
Little Red Riding Hood said casually, controlling a shadow wolf to lie down, leaning against the other, and looking at the sky lazily.
After being stunned for a few seconds, she suddenly laughed.
"I used to think the obstacle to getting a driver's license would be turning 18, but I didn't expect the biggest hurdle would be the second driving test..."
Yu Sheng: "It's better than eighteen, isn't it?"
“…That’s true.”
(End of this chapter)
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