Chapter 48 Night City (2) (3-in-1) [VIP]
Shi Zhou took a few deep breaths.
"Of course, there are other possibilities," Bai Jinshu's voice behind her was still calm. It didn't sound like he was describing a natural disaster that caused a one-sided massacre. Instead, it sounded like he was evaluating some possibilities. There was an almost cruel indifference in his voice, "For example, there are greater benefits."
"What do you mean?" Without waiting for Shi Zhou to ask, Guan Hongyan followed up with his question, "What do you mean by greater benefit?"
"In AI's judgment, things are prioritized," Bai Jinshu's narration, coupled with his broadcasting tone, has a cold academic tone. "If sacrificing these people can bring greater benefits, then it is worth it."
"Isaac, let's not talk about those below, just talk about the people in the building. They are all company people who work diligently to build Night City," Shi Zhou calmed down and tried to speak calmly, "They have never seen the outside world since they were born. They work diligently for the company until they die. They are the cornerstone of Night City. Even if they are cheap and can be reproduced at any time, what benefits can their death bring?"
"You have to understand that all instructions of artificial intelligence are input by the creator," Bai Jin said in a light voice, "Life is important, but under higher priority instructions, it is not that important. There is a nice saying in your place about this greater interest, which is 'what you desire is more than the living, and what you hate is more than the dead.'"
Shi Zhou couldn't utter a word.
Isaac's voice continued: "And determining the answer to your question is exactly what we are going to do. I guess the dozen or so exploration teams before you haven't figured it out yet."
This project explored all the surface rules, but knew nothing about the inner workings of the rules. It completely deviated from the focus on AI out of control. No wonder it got stuck on the last core rule.
Shi Zhou couldn't refute it, so he curled his lips and said, "At least now I know that the mechanical riot disaster, one of the three major natural disasters, was not caused by an AI error."
"Not bad," Bai Jinshu smiled a smile that was at least ten times more sincere than hers, "I'm glad to help you."
Shi Zhou: ...
She felt like her breath was stuck in her throat and she almost suffocated to death.
A sigh passed through the barrage:
[Sincerity is indeed a killer move...]
[Sister Shi Zhou's expression looked like she wanted to strangle herself to death a few seconds ago. ]
[Isaac spoke with a sincerity that showed no regard for the lives of others.]
[I now believe that programmers are really all straight men. Do all you programmers who study artificial intelligence talk like this? ]
[Hmm... Why not? Don't you think he is more like artificial intelligence than artificial intelligence? ]
[But didn't you say that Shi Zhou has entered Night City at least a dozen times? Logically, she should have gotten used to the fact that people here are not treated as human beings... Why is she not as conscious as a programmer who just entered? ]
[Yes, why? When she introduced Night City before, she clearly knew a lot about it. Why is she so excited about the death of the clones? ]
[This is...very complicated. I can't explain it to you in a few words. You will understand as you read it slowly. Sister Shi Zhou is obsessed with this project, otherwise she wouldn't have entered it dozens of times.]
On the screen, the mechanical riot disaster not far away has passed. The machines that caused the riot have retracted their weapon bays and are hovering in the sky again. On the ground of the street next to them, many open covers appear. Along the covers, some large suspension tanks painted blue emerge from them.
Mechanical grippers extended from the sides of the suspension chambers, throwing all the humans killed by the mechanical uprising on the ground into the chambers, cleaning the ground with great efficiency.
Passages were also opened on the company's walls for them to enter and exit. These large suspended cabins painted blue followed the passages into the company and threw those who died at their workstations into the cabins.
"That is..." Lu Changfeng pointed to the blue-painted machines.
"That's also a municipal robot," Shi Zhou regained her composure. She stroked her hair and answered Lu Changfeng, "It's the kind you mentioned at the beginning."
"Which kind?" Lu Changfeng recalled what he said at the beginning and said in disbelief, "Street sweeper?"
You call this a street sweeper???
"Yes," the cleanup below was still going on. Shi Zhou simply sat down with his legs dangling at the edge of the supplement delivery port, as if he was not standing a hundred meters above the fifty-plus floors. "Those are the cleaning robots here. We call them scavengers. They are responsible for cleaning up the dead."
"They take in the dead caused by mechanical riots, the dead caused by toxic gas leaks, and the dead replicants who have reached the end of their lifespan. They take in everything."
"If they encounter fugitives like us, they will also catch us. They will use their mechanical arms to throw wanted criminals and dead people into the suspension chamber together." Shi Zhou pointed at himself and then at Lu Changfeng. "So if you encounter such a machine, don't join in the fun. Just leave quickly."
"Oh... ok," Lu Changfeng was a little puzzled. "Then it has too many businesses, right? Why is it catching fugitives and cleaning up the dead at the same time?"
Logically speaking, this should be two aspects of the job, right? This sounds as strange as a criminal police officer working part-time as a street sweeper?
"Hey, Sister Shizhou! Sister Shizhou!" Before Shizhou could answer Lu Changfeng, Zhang Pei behind her suddenly shouted, "That scavenger, is it coming towards us now?!"
Not far away, a scavenger who had just cleaned up a layer of corpses of company employees was staggering towards them.
"No," Bai Jinshu judged, "It was heading towards the supplement delivery port of that building."
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the scavenger hovered at the edge of the supplement delivery port of the building, seeming to deliver something inside.
Shi Zhou narrowed his eyes and looked at it: "Oh, that's the answer I need to give to Lu Changfeng, why it cleans up the dead and captures fugitives."
The scavenger staggered out of the delivery port, then extended its long mechanical claws and began to throw corpses into the suspension chamber behind it.
"Because no matter if they are dead or alive, once they enter the scavenger's suspension chamber, they will be decomposed. If they are caught here, they will not be sent to prison. The only thing waiting for them is to be shot on the spot," Shi Zhou pointed to the scavengers on the ground and said to them, "Look, those few are also full, and now they have to go to the company's supplement delivery port."
"So they wouldn't decompose people into..." Zhang Pei's voice gradually became smaller, full of disbelief.
"Decomposed into supplements," Shi Zhou thoughtfully added the second half of the sentence for her, "Actually, they can't be called supplements, because these scavengers and the machines that deliver pig food are not actually delivering the same thing. We suspect that it's because pig food is a basic supplement for survival, and the scavengers actually deliver the parts of the replicants that are still useful after they are decomposed."
"That makes sense," Bai Jinshu's expression seemed unusually calm among the extremely ferocious team members, "Make the best use of it."
"Replicants consume resources to create, so in order to reuse resources, when they can no longer create value, it is reasonable to return them to the original resources and put them into secondary use. "He paused, "and it is environmentally friendly."
"Huh..." Shi Zhou held his head and exhaled a long breath, "Thank you, you made such a disgusting thing not so disgusting."
Compared to the disgusting description of eating one's own kind, resource reuse sounds much more acceptable.
In the distance, the blue municipal cleaning robots and colorful neon lights complemented each other, flashing brilliantly. Their silver claws reached into the workstations of every employee who had long lost vital signs, and threw those replicas who could no longer create value into the suspension chamber. The people in other companies nearby indifferently let these claws move between the workstations and continued their work as usual.
They create value for the company when they are alive and provide supplements for their colleagues when they die, thus ending their short lives without ever seeing the light of day.
And among the noisy and bustling high-rise buildings, they finally saw the world outside the company briefly on the mechanical claws after their death.
Actually, there is nothing to see.
Steel and concrete, flashing neon lights, cold and depressing.
Shi Zhou sat on this abandoned supplement delivery port and blew the cold wind for a long time. When he saw the blue scavengers leaving the area in the distance, he stood up and said, "Let's go. We have to leave here too."
Although they will not be tracked by any police machine here, their purpose of entering the unknown space is not to survive for five days, but to find the core rules of Night City inside.
"The next natural disaster will occur in Area C, the second of the three major natural disasters. According to the rules we have summarized, it will occur in three hours. There is still time." Shi Zhou clicked on his watch and looked at it. "Isaac, I will tell you when I get there. We have always believed that this kind of natural disaster is caused by environmental pollution, but now it seems that it may not be the case."
If the mechanical riot was not caused by AI error, then the toxic gas leak they believed was not necessarily caused by environmental pollution or operational error.
After all, if the replicants are not important in the judgment of Night City’s central control AI, then it cannot be that Night City’s industries and chemical factories are not important in its judgment, right?
People are not important, factories are not important, so what else can AI think is important?
When they came up, Shi Zhou was the one who climbed in front, and now when they are going down the stairs, Shi Zhou is also the one who walks in front.
As she walked down, she said, "We can actually go inside the company without having to climb the stairs outside, but the police scanning machines in this area are very sensitive, so there is a certain chance that we will be discovered if we walk inside."
"Is this area sensitive?" Guan Hongyan quickly understood what she meant. "So there are areas where the police machinery is not sensitive?"
"Yes," Shi Zhou climbed while paying attention to the robots that occasionally floated by. "The area C we are about to go to is not sensitive. I can guarantee that we will not be discovered when entering the company there."
"Be careful," she grabbed Li Jue who was about to fall, "Don't be distracted. If you are discovered in this area, we will all be finished. The scavengers haven't gone far yet."
Li Jue was sweating profusely the moment he fell, and only breathed a sigh of relief when Shi Zhou caught him: "Thank you, Sister Shi Zhou, I was just looking inside the building."
"Focus," Shi Zhou helped him steady himself and reminded him gently, "After all, Night City is a high-end space. Although it has been downgraded to B+, it is not because its energy concentration has decreased, but because investors want to absorb funds."
If you really treat this place as a mid-range space, it's okay if you harm yourself, but it will be troublesome if you harm your teammates.
After what happened to Li Jue just now, Shi Zhou stopped talking during the climb. The team was silent all the way until they reached the bottom of the building. Shi Zhou spoke again: "It's a bit far to go to Area C from here. In order to save time, I may lead you to take many strange routes. You need to spend a certain amount of points to buy props. No one has any objection, right?"
She didn't need to say this, but it seemed that there were two mid-level investors, Zhang Pei and Li Jue, in this exploration project. Isaac was just promoted to the high-end and didn't count. There was a threshold between the mid-level and the high-end, and there were many different concepts about the use of points.
If everyone had bought the high-end team members before, and there are still two mid-level team members left, she really couldn't be sure of what these two people were thinking.
Fortunately, everyone, including mid-range investors Zhang Pei and Li Jue, shook their heads.
"Okay, let's go," Shi Zhou had already engraved the map of Night City in his mind. He took a quick look at the patrolling police officers around him and planned a route in his mind, "Come this way."
The exploration team began to walk through the alleys they had walked through after initially logging into the space. Shi Zhou walked in front and introduced everyone: "There will be patrolling police officers passing by on the street. They are all connected to the central control AI, so once you are chased by one of them, it is very likely that you will find a bunch of them following you while you are running, so we usually try to avoid running into each other."
"And our physical strength is limited, but police robots don't," said Shi Zhou.
"Those things are just steel machines that never stop. They are just dog-skin plasters." Shi Zhou's eyes flashed with disgust. It seems that he has been tortured by these machines. "As long as they are connected to the central control AI, they can receive power continuously. Once they are entangled, they may not be able to get rid of them until the end of the five days when they leave the project."
"They will also constantly summon new police robots and police patrols to join them. All the infrastructure and temporary passages in Night City, even the delivery ports, will cooperate with their work. It is very likely that when you are running on the road, the walls next to you, the ceiling above your head, and the ground under your feet will suddenly open their flaps, and they will float out from inside and shoot at you. They are really good at disgusting people."
"Sister Shizhou, you haven't seen our last project," Lu Changfeng said from the side, "Sister Yan and I went to a Cthulhu world for our last project. There was a kind of dog in there that was even more disgusting than this. It would jump out of the void and chase you."
Bai Jinshu glanced at him. This fat guy is good at making big moves.
The Hound of Tindalos only chased them a few times in the last project. Only the first time when Jiang Jinming died was so sudden that no one could react. And the second time when Bi Wu died, he was the only one present. Lu Changfeng and the others were locked outside the cave by him, so there was no question of being chased.
"The Hound of Tindalos," Guan Hongyan also said, "But this is just a similar creature mentioned by one of our team members. If we hadn't discovered that the two creatures were not the same species in the end, I would have used fixed attributes. I estimate that the pursuit we would have suffered would have been similar to the one here."
"That's pretty disgusting too," Shi Zhou frowned, apparently knowing what Guan Hongyan's fixed attribute was. "Compared to this kind of hunting that jumps out of the void to kill, the hunt in Night City is still quite logical."
"After staying in there for a long time, you will know where those things will emerge from. There are still traces to follow," she pointed to the surrounding walls, "the walls with small gaps are those that can be flipped open. These walls were originally delivery ports or passages that were convenient for connecting the inside and the outside. Sometimes municipal robots and scavengers will appear from here. When we were being chased, the police robots would also go through here."
"At first we thought the patrol routes were set like the red supplement delivery robots, but we later discovered that the patrol routes were completely irregular."
"Because AI will optimize the route and plan the route online," Bai Jinshu paused, "and if I'm not mistaken, the route you took to evade pursuit last time will be included in the patrol route next time."
And this function is actually not very smart.
After all, intelligent features such as route optimization and route planning can be achieved by Amap and Baidu Maps.
This kind of learning, which requires the accumulation of data, is one of the easiest tasks for AI to accomplish.
“…Yes!” Shi Zhou almost gritted his teeth, “Night City’s central control AI will record your escape route. If you escaped the pursuit last time, you will not be able to escape if you use that method next time!”
"That's normal. You've been analyzed by it. Artificial intelligence is also constantly learning and evolving," Bai Jinshu groaned. "And if its self-learning and self-evolution are strong, it can simulate your thinking, determine your escape route in advance, and then block your next path."
"If this is the case, then we will not be able to survive," Shi Zhouchang exhaled, "Anyway, we are still wanted. Don't let them target us. It will be very troublesome."
As soon as she finished speaking, as if to confirm her words, as soon as the few of them walked out of an alley, Shi Zhou suddenly grabbed Guan Hongyan and took a few steps back.
Unfortunately it's too late.
Just at the street corner not far away, there was a patrol vehicle moving at a constant speed.
The edge of the patrol device just happened to sweep over Shi Zhou's toes as he was about to retreat back into the alley.
"Fuck," Shi Zhou cursed fiercely, "Where the hell did this patrol device come from? It wasn't there the last few times. Run!"
The patrol plane has already identified the target, and then countless armed machines from Night City will come from all directions until they are destroyed here.
“Come over here!” Without waiting for the patrol device to respond, Shi Zhou ran away as fast as a rabbit, changing his casual attitude along the way, “Follow me! I won’t care if you fall behind!”
She seemed to be very experienced in getting rid of these things. Although she was going in circles, she never took the same path twice and seemed to be able to leave these things behind quickly.
No wonder so much experience can be summed up.
As Shi Zhou ran, she quickly calculated in her mind where to go at the next intersection, and how to avoid all patrol devices while getting rid of the one behind her. At this moment, she heard a still calm voice: "I said you were analyzed."
"It seems that this AI has a strong ability to evolve on its own," the calm voice even trailed off with a relaxed tone, "Well... it has analyzed which road you might take and has strengthened its focus on monitoring that road. If it's correct, every road you take next may be in its plan."
"There are so many security robots. The security force in this city is more than I thought. Does it take so many guards to chase six people?" Bai Jinshu looked back and sighed calmly, "This street may be the busiest street in the entire Night City now."
"Look, the armed machine ahead is ready for you to run past. Turn right."
The thoughts in Shi Zhou's mind were disrupted by the man's voice and turned into a mess. She looked up in frustration and found that there was actually an armed machine in front of her. She turned right without thinking carefully: "Isaac, don't you need to breathe?"
Even if a person is physically fit, running at this intensity would cause him to gasp for air and breathe heavily. How come Isaac's voice was so calm?
She turned around and looked back blankly, then met the tired and numb eyes of her teammates behind her.
Then, under her blank gaze, she saw Isaac nod at her and continue in that indifferent tone: "If you are asking about the process of gas exchange between the body and the external environment, yes, I don't need it."
"Because strictly speaking, I don't have lungs."
Even while running at such a high speed, Isaac's upper body remained stable.
Shi Zhou looked down in shock, and suddenly realized that this man was not running with his own legs.
Under his feet, there appeared a balance bike!
Isaac stood on the balance bike, observing his surroundings and answering her questions calmly.
Shi Zhou: ???
Isaac stood on the balancing car and said calmly, "When I was young, a retro modification was very popular among us. That is, replacing the prosthetic foot so that it can pop out four vertical rows of small tires in an environment that requires high-speed running, and use sliding instead of running."
“I thought that was stupid,” he said calmly, “so when people asked me if I wanted to join them, I just installed a set of segways so that they couldn’t catch up with me no matter how hard they skated.”
"Cool, brother Isaac!" Lu Changfeng ran out of breath and exclaimed in a half-dead voice, "You are right, balance bikes are cooler than skateboards!"
Shi Zhou:……?
She felt that her imagination of Isaac, a civilization that could replace prosthetic limbs and transfer consciousness, might be too advanced.
The human federation she imagined: conquering the universe, rushing into space, mechanical immortality, and wherever the sword points, humanity will go.
The actually possible Human Federation: replace the prosthetic foot with a pair of skateboard shoes to play with, hehehe.
"All of your actions have been analyzed by Night City's central control AI," said one of the members of the Human Federation calmly. "Based on my observation, if you keep running, you will definitely run into their trap."
No matter how good AI is, it is not a god and cannot predict the future. It needs data to feed it. Shi Zhou came in too many times, and her behavior logic and escape route samples were too high. The central control AI has already figured out any route she would take.
From this point of view, the patrol plane at the entrance of the alley might be a trap, designed to make Shi Zhou crash into it.
"Damn it..." Even if Shi Zhou was slow-witted, he should have understood that the reason he was able to escape successfully several times before was because he fell into the opponent's trap.
Night City's central control AI deliberately let her go in order to collect her data, so that they could be caught in one fell swoop this time.
So smart?
[What do you think of a central control AI that can coordinate a city? This level of capability is easy for it to achieve.]
[There is no way, Shizhou has been here too many times. ]
[So why did you point her in? Wouldn't that kill everyone?]
[??? Are you okay? Who knew that Shizhou was being kept alive before today? Besides, if it weren't for Shizhou, everyone who came in would have died in the first natural disaster, right?]
[Some people are almost done with it. Night City is a space created by a high-end project. He probably had never even heard of the name of Night City before today. However, after watching the live broadcast and listening to Shi Zhou's explanation, he felt that he understood Brother...]
[You'd better put some money in, otherwise I don't know why you have anything to say to Sister Shi Zhou even though I didn't say anything.]
"There is a route," Shi Zhou gritted his teeth and glanced around, "There is a route I have never taken when being chased."
"Night City's central control AI definitely didn't know I was going there."
Outside unknown space:
[Alright, alright, stop arguing. What's there to argue about? I'm really convinced. ]
【How come modern investors can argue about everything? 】
[Let alone the high-end project Night City, I haven't even heard of the name of the high-end team member Shi Zhou. There are so many people in this mid-range live broadcast room who speak to Shi Zhou. Aren't they all big guys from the high-end? ]
【Great.】
[Wait wait wait, stop chatting. Where the hell is Shi Zhou taking everyone? Why is she heading towards the company gate?]
[Ah? Didn't this guy just bump into her? Didn't she say that the security in the company is very sensitive and there is a certain chance of being discovered?]
[I don't understand, why is it okay for Shi Zhou to just walk into this company? ]
[This company's security is not connected to the Internet???]
[Then why don’t the machines outside chase after me? ? ? ]
On the screen, Shi Zhou, who had been running away, looked around and ran straight in one direction.
She seemed to be very familiar with where she was going, and was extremely confident that she would be able to escape the pursuit once she entered there. There were more and more patrol planes and armed machines following them, and some machines even attacked them, but Shi Zhou still ran in that direction regardless.
Everyone followed her into a tall skyscraper. Then, the machines outside that were tracking them seemed to have lost their target. They turned around and returned to their respective patrol positions.
The exploration team members fell crookedly on the floor of the company. Bai Jinshu put away the balance bike under his feet, stepped on the ground again, and was leisurely observing the surroundings among a group of strange-looking team members.
"Hello, unauthorized visitor, please log in."
"Hello, unauthorized visitor, please log in."
"you……"
"Stop making noise." Shi Zhou stretched out a half-dead hand and pressed on the floating robot.
"Recognition successful," a green light flashed on the robot's screen, "Hello, employee Xc-12 Sp1354, welcome back to your post."
"You'd better not welcome me..." Shi Zhou fell back to the floor exhausted.
"Sister Shizhou," Lu Changfeng also sighed breathlessly beside him, "So you are from the company."
The truth behind their pursuit couldn't be that they were company employees who had escaped from the company, so they would be fine as long as they returned to the company?
"I'm not." Unexpectedly, Shi Zhou shook her head. Guan Hongyan reached out and pulled her up. There was still sweat on her forehead after the intense exercise.
"This is what I discovered when I first entered Night City," she leaned against the wall, "As long as we pretend to be company people and enter the company when we are being hunted, these hunting machines will not come after us."
Before anyone else could show any joy on their faces, she continued, "But pretending to be a company employee can fool the guards outside the company, but it can't fool the security system inside the company. In the end, you will still be discovered. The only question is what machine is chasing you."
"Sister Zhou, you just..." Lu Changfeng was puzzled.
Didn't she just pass the verification? !
"The identity verification I passed was not my own." Shi Zhou finally caught her breath. She leaned against the wall with an extremely complicated expression, "The one I passed... was someone else's."
"Let's go," she raised her chin towards everyone, "It's too late to go to the second disaster site at this point. In this case, I'll take you upstairs to have a look. We have to walk through it sooner or later anyway. Maybe you can find clues that we couldn't find before. Li Jue, didn't you want to see what the company looks like just now?"
"Here we go," Lu Changfeng stood up enthusiastically, "How do we get up there? Is there an elevator?"
"Yes," Shi Zhou got rid of the pursuit and returned to his know-it-all look when walking in Night City. "You need to swipe your card to go upstairs, so I'll do it. Don't stand in front when the identity verification is done later."
Even after entering the company, there were no living people in the corridor. Shi Zhou took them to the elevator, then pressed the floor button. After smoothly passing the verification and reaching the target floor, everyone arrived inside the company.
This place looks like an enlarged and replicated office, with a large flat floor that stretches as far as the eye can see and endless workstations. If you look down from above, it looks like a piece of writing paper with grids everywhere, and each grid is a workstation where the company's people sit.
Behind the workstation was a belt like an assembly line. Lu Changfeng guessed that those things were used to deliver supplements.
The entire office was surprisingly bright and quiet. Lu Changfeng thought of a very appropriate metaphor at an inopportune time -
It was so quiet here that it felt like a library the day before a final exam.
He stood in front of this spectacular office and felt oddly insignificant.
Shi Zhou seemed to have been here many times, and was very familiar with the shock that the team members behind her would feel. She gave everyone enough time to sigh, and then said, "This is the only safe floor. It's okay to be scanned here. You can walk around freely. As long as you don't leave, you won't be discovered."
"At that time, Sister Zhou, you..." Li Jue couldn't look away.
"I have my own things to do."
Shi Zhou nodded to everyone and walked towards the window.
Bai Jinshu looked at Lu Changfeng who was still sighing there, and the remaining team members who were eager to find clues, and followed Shi Zhou's pace.
"Aren't you going to investigate with them?" Shi Zhou asked curiously.
"I want to know more about what you are going to do." Bai Jinshu's voice was very calm.
"Sometimes I really doubt whether you are studying artificial intelligence or you are artificial intelligence. Are all you programmers like this?" After experiencing a manhunt together, Shi Zhou's tone towards him became much more relaxed. She pouted and complained, "At least have a sense of boundaries."
"Anyway, there's nothing to keep secret about what I'm going to do," Shi Zhou shrugged, "I'm going to find someone from the company. Yes, the one whose identity I used, Xc-12 Sp1349... oh, now it's 54."
"You can come if you want, but if possible..." She paused, "I would prefer you to call her Shi Ting."
Next to the narrow workstation, a handsome office worker raised his head and looked in the direction of the voice towards Shi Zhou and Bai Jinshu.
"Sister Shizhou," the company employee smiled, "You are here."
Among a group of people working hard, Shi Ting stood out with his head raised.
"Can you continue to tell me about the world outside the company today?" Her eyes sparkled with a beautiful light. "Last time you mentioned that there are flowers outside. What are flowers?"
【Ah... Here it comes, Sister Shizhou's obsession. 】
[Wow, this is also my obsession. The reason I can keep investing in Night City and not withdraw my capital is because of Shi Ting.]
[Who isn't... If it weren't for Shi Zhou and Shi Ting, Night City would have been closed down by referendum long ago due to the huge cost. ]
[Sister Zhou, you came to see Shi Tingbao again, woo woo woo…]
[Tingbao...my Tingbao...]
"Flowers are..." Shi Zhou squatted over, his voice softer than ever before, "Flowers are a very soft plant."
"It has lots of colors and a nice smell..."
Shi Ting opened his eyes wide with curiosity: "Can Hua Ye move freely like you, Sister Shi Zhou?"
"No, no, no, it won't move. It's planted in the soil."
"So just like us?" Shi Ting thought for a moment, "What is Tu? Is it the name of a company?"
"Hmm...what is soil?"
Shi Zhou glanced at Isaac as if asking for help.
Isaac: "A loose substance composed of various granular minerals, organic matter, water, air, microorganisms, etc.*"
Shi Zhou: "Wait, you can't say that..."
Before she could stop him, the other party had already finished speaking.
Shi Zhou's eyes widened, he looked at Isaac in despair, then looked at Shi Ting: "Uh...uh don't listen to him."
She said it was too late.
She was devastated to hear Shi Ting repeating: "Minerals, organic matter, water, air, microorganisms, what are they?"
The author has something to say:
Brother Isaac, the walking Baidu Encyclopedia.
The Human Federation in the previous chapter: conquering the universe, rushing into space, mechanical immortality, wherever the sword points, that’s what humanity will do.
The Human Federation in this chapter: Look, I’m going to change my prosthetic foot into a pair of skateboard shoes to play with, hehe.
*Yes, this sentence is indeed from Baidu
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