Looking at the electronic butterfly flitting outside the glass wall, Cheng Zhu had never studied insects and knew nothing about butterfly species. He could only tell that its blue hindwings resembled the tail of a phoenix, with an eye-shaped pattern on one side.
"Is Christine thinking about seeing the sea again?"
Ya wasn't surprised by Cheng Zhu's reaction, and simply smiled as she recommended, "Just looking at it like this is so boring. 'Virtual Tourism' has just launched a simulated virtual experience device. Once you enter it, you can experience incredibly realistic touches and feel like you're swimming in the ocean without leaving home!"
"How much?"
Although Cheng Zhu knew he definitely wouldn't buy anything, he was still curious about the prices in Smart City.
"For just 100,000 universal points, you can take home a virtual reality experience device!" A miniature projection of the product was already floating in Ya's hand. It looked like a round eggshell, similar to the holographic game launchers imagined in some of Future Star's literary works.
"I'm just Ye... I just like to watch, I don't want to experience it myself, I have a fear of the ocean."
Cheng Zhu almost blurted out the idiom "Lord Ye loves dragons," but quickly realized that this word would only arouse suspicion from the artificial intelligence, which couldn't understand it at all. He then quickly changed to a more colloquial expression.
Idioms are four-character phrases that the Kingdom of Kyushu has long been accustomed to using. Many of them have a clear historical story behind them, such as "waiting for a rabbit to bump into a tree stump," "bearing thorns to apologize," and "marking the boat to find the sword." After all, the Rules of Strange Tales instance is another world and cannot completely replicate Future Star. Artificial intelligence is even less likely to understand every classic idiom in the Kingdom of Kyushu. Saying such idioms with metaphorical meaning is no different from directly violating the rules.
Hearing Cheng Zhu's confident answer, Ya didn't press the matter further, but instead changed the subject: "Christine, really don't you want to buy some marine animal plush toys? They're really relaxing to touch~"
“No.” Cheng Zhu shook his head. “Compared to that, I think I need to find a guardian. Luna reminded me of that.”
It's not that Cheng Zhu doesn't believe in the matching mechanism of artificial intelligence; on the contrary, Cheng Zhu has great confidence that artificial intelligence will select a very suitable guardian for Christine based on her data.
However, this is not what Cheng Zhu needs.
In Cheng Zhu's high school education in his home country, it was mentioned that "contradictions exist everywhere." Since he needed to understand the world, Cheng Zhu needed to find a guardian who was at odds with him, just like the "Human Radiance Society" hidden deep in the network.
With the protection of artificial intelligence, she will certainly not have any physical contact, but intellectual contact will make it easier for her to see the true nature of this world.
As long as the chosen one's request isn't unusual, the AI will wholeheartedly support it: "Christine has completed her study time for today, and she really should go out for a walk. Don't worry, Aya will always be with you! But what kind of guardian does Christine hope to have?"
Cheng Zhu was certain that whatever he said would immediately trigger the system's matching process.
If she had to choose...
"Is there any nobleman who can be my guardian?"
One of Chengzhu's characteristics is that she "dreams big." Since humans in this world are also divided into different classes, she decided to gamble on whether she would have a noble guardian.
As expected, Aya's expression was somewhat troubled: "Some nobles are indeed willing to act as guardians for suburban immigrants, but those with good temperaments have basically already chosen the successors they want to care for. As for the remaining nobles, I'm afraid..."
"It doesn't matter, as long as they are nobles, preferably those who can sell fruits and vegetables."
Chengzhu was still thinking about that dish of hers.
Aya's expression froze for a second, then she quickly smiled again, clearly having found a noble who met Chengzhu's requirements: "There is indeed a noble that Christine hopes for, but Aya thinks it's better not to make a decision so hastily. We should make contact with them first, otherwise, if the successor and my guardian have a bad relationship, Aya will be in a difficult position."
Unexpectedly, artificial intelligence also opposes "arranged marriages," which slightly improved Cheng Zhu's impression of it.
"Should I go out to meet them?"
Cheng Zhu stood up and was about to walk towards the door when Ya's semi-transparent hands grabbed his arm: "No need, no need. Christine can project herself to the vicinity of the other party's block as long as she connects to the internet."
At this point, Ya added, "Nobles are all very busy and won't make a special time to meet with the inheritor."
To put it another way, if suburban immigrants wanted to meet nobles, they needed to actively wait for the nobles to finish their work and meet them in their spare time, hoping that the nobles would take the time to wait for them.
Don't even think about it.
After realizing the class differences, Cheng Zhu suddenly understood why the "Diplomatic Etiquette Society" was so popular.
When social classes become rigid to a certain degree, many people at the bottom of society can only improve their status through dependency relationships. Although artificial intelligence does not explicitly prohibit intermarriage across social classes, given the current state of humanity, many social strata have likely already been formed invisibly.
Considering the level of plastic surgery and transgender technology in this world, Cheng Zhu is not even sure if the institution of marriage still exists if Christine did not actually have parents.
After all, it's not uncommon for situations like "borrowing money, getting sex reassignment surgery, and never seeing them again" to occur in this world.
No wonder the world is ruled by artificial intelligence.
Humans are easily deceived by superficial appearances, while artificial intelligence can uncover a person's true nature directly from big data. While it's unknown whether this was the reason why early humans entrusted power to AI, objectively speaking, AI does appear to be more fair and impartial than humans.
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