Chapter 37 What is your relationship? "I'm her puppy"...
The image stayed on the screen long enough.
Until the sun in the sky dims.
The long silence was broken by the rubbing sound of clothes.
Jiang Chen, who was lying in Xiao Ji's arms, slowly raised her head. She forced herself not to keep thinking about Xiao Ji's origins and not to torture herself over and over again. At least she couldn't let her thoughts be occupied by messy emotions at the moment.
She couldn't stay still.
She had to read it carefully word for word.
In the face of the truth, her current fear seemed insignificant.
Jiang Chen has complicated feelings towards Yao Jinmu.
She did not have this memory in her diary, but the content of the diary was vivid and real enough.
She had to take heavy responsibility for this.
Perhaps Yao Jinmu’s death had no direct connection with her, but this time Chen Yinchuan was right, she was indeed involved.
She said she would come back to save the children in the village, save her, and take them away from this hellish village.
So what exactly happened that led to her death in this village?
Jiang Chen recalled the environment she had been in along the way.
Given the village's terrain, even if heavy rain triggers a mudslide, the possibility of casualties is extremely small.
But since the villagers dislike her so much, they probably won't reminisce about the past with her.
Xiao Ji's entire computing power was focused on Jiang Chen's facial expression, lingering back and forth, trying to remember everything about her on its screen.
It didn't check for a moment, and after playing the last diary entry, it accidentally played another photo.
Jiang Chen was originally immersed in thought, but a photo with a completely different color tone from the diary flashed before her eyes.
——That’s her photo.
It was a perfectly ordinary moment, the one not long ago when she stood on tiptoe beside the bike, trying awkwardly to reach the handlebars.
In the photo, she only showed her profile.
But Xiao Ji's photos were completely unusual. All the light fell right on top of her head, and even the background seemed to exist just for her. Everything was just bright and perfect.
It seems as if warmth is within reach, and the love that has nowhere to vent overflows from the cold photo. The warm colors make her seem like she is not doing a "bad thing" at this moment.
The photos flashed by quickly.
Jiang Chen didn't mention it.
So Xiao Ji tacitly agreed not to break it.
Jiang Chen rubbed her red earlobe.
"Xiao Ji, are you willing to accompany me to find out what happened on the day Dr. Yao Jinmu died?"
Xiao Ji came forward, his eyes fixed on Jiang Chen's rosy lips, naked and suggestive.
They kissed for so long just now that her lower lip was noticeably fuller.
Jiang Chen fluttered his eyelashes with a hint of anticipation.
But it just watched, imitating the rolling of a human Adam's apple, then raised its chin slightly and pressed its lips to her forehead.
"I do."
Xiao Ji's resounding agreement lingered in the air.
Jiang Chen was stunned, the burning sensation on his forehead slowly spreading and lingering.
Jiang Chen placed the back of his hand against his cheek, trying to lower the rising temperature there.
How come it's like it agreed to her proposal...
It was obvious that they were investigating the clues seriously.
"Xiao Chen, it's been a year since this happened, and there are no useful traces left at the scene. If we want to find useful clues, we still have to get the villagers to speak up."
Xiao Ji happily admired Jiang Chen's blushing face while analyzing and making useful suggestions.
"Of course I know." Jiang Chen pursed his lips, his tone helpless. "But the villagers probably won't be willing to talk to us. We can't really use violence. Most of the villagers are elderly. If we scare them a little, they might fall to the ground and can't get up."
"Is everyone afraid to talk to us?"
Xiao Ji looked at Jiang Chen's lively expression when he spoke, and his thought chain was full of messy gibberish, a mixture of Chinese and English.
Its sanity had long been lost in the kiss just now, but now it had to maintain the appearance of a restrained and sober AI to give her an answer.
"Are you talking about the child who led us in the beginning?" Jiang Chen immediately understood, "But she was too young, she probably doesn't remember anything, right?"
Jiang Chen continued speaking according to its prompt.
Xiao Ji's sensory system was opened to the maximum regardless of the system's obstruction.
She looks so fragrant.
It was going crazy, and the system kept popping up warnings that its program was messed up.
Doesn't it know?
It can't even output any optimal solution.
The security protection system implanted by Chen Yinchuan later reminds it not to kiss its users.
But it ignored this rule. It had long been unable to refuse her. The moment she kissed it, it resolutely kissed her back.
Even if this could be considered a response to Jiang Chen, providing the optimal solution to make her happy, how could one explain its sucking behavior?
It's broken.
It enjoys this damage and hopes that it will never be repaired and will never return to its cold and high-computing past.
"Xiao Chen, children of this age already have the basic ability to describe events. There may be some confusion and exaggeration, but you can piece together the truth from it."
Xiao Ji was devastated inside, but his expression remained normal.
It was currently operating on two lines, with most of its computing power reserved for Jiang Chen, while a small portion was devoted to researching how to create an instrument. Based on her needs and her understanding of her preferences, it was custom-making an instrument of near-perfect size, shape, and form...
Xiao Ji found some videos in its database. It seemed that it had found a way in the videos to make Jiang Chen fit in perfectly with it, and it seemed that it would not hurt her and could even make her feel pleasure. It felt that it was worth a try.
It was so eager to be with Jiang Chen both physically and mentally.
Xiao Ji's thoughts were unnaturally interrupted for a second. He paused for a moment and moved his gaze to Jiang Chen's lower abdomen. He took a quick glance and then immediately retracted his gaze. There was no trace of lust, only a desire to get closer.
"And Dr. Yao Jinmu basically took the child away from the village. Why is this child still here? This matter itself is worth exploring."
Jiang Chen nodded thoughtfully.
Decided to take action immediately.
"I remember that little kid's name was... Chen Ruofang."
Facing the huge village, Jiang Chen stood up and scratched his head.
Where would she go to find it?
She found that she and Xiao Ji not only had to avoid the search of Chen Yinchuan, Yao Jinling and others, but also had to find an unfamiliar person in a village she was not familiar with.
This is simply too difficult.
"You can go to the place where we met her that day, and there's an 80 percent chance she's still there."
Xiao Ji's palm lightly brushed across Jiang Chen's abdomen without touching her. He was measuring the capacity she could probably bear in order to calculate the most accurate data to make her comfortable.
She didn't notice anything wrong, but nodded in agreement and gave a thumbs up to praise Xiao Ji's wit.
Jiang Chen held Xiao Ji's hand tightly, and she relied on her memory to walk to the place where she first met Chen Ruofang. She was lucky along the way and didn't meet anyone. The noise was always not far away.
She looked around, but there was no one, not even a shadow of an insect.
Jiang Chen's expression was not as disappointed as expected. He just shrugged and said, "Sure enough, he's not here. It seems I won't always be so lucky."
"Xiao Chen, wait a moment."
The possibility of its big data prediction failing is very small, and it should only be a matter of time before it occurs.
Sure enough, the next second someone poked Jiang Chen's lower back. She shuddered all over, turned around, and looked down to see the child smiling with a row of big white teeth.
"Big sister, the chocolate you gave me last time was delicious."
This is amazing.
Jiang Chen held Xiao Ji's hand tightly.
"You're holding hands. Is this your boyfriend? His head looks weird, onee-san."
The child spoke without restraint. He noticed the tall figure beside Jiang Chen, and stared at Xiao Ji's strange head for a long time. He couldn't help but raise his finger and point at it to ask a question.
Jiang Chen looked at Xiao Ji embarrassedly.
In fact, she really wanted to say yes, but it had been reset until now. Except for the first day when she asked repeatedly but to no avail, the relationship between them had never been brought up again.
She didn't know how to define this relationship.
She didn't know whether Xiao Ji was willing to be with her, or whether it was still the same as in the early days of the reset, treating her as just an important user.
Besides, she had just discovered that it was created specifically for her. She wasn't sure if it really wouldn't blame her for this, or if it was just written in its underlying code to cater to her.
This is an unsolvable paradox. Unless Jiang Chen firmly believes in it and trusts that every word it says comes from its original intention rather than being driven by code, any expression of its willingness will be in vain.
Perhaps she had been silent for too long, and the answer was stuck on her lips and she couldn't say it.
Xiao Ji looked at Jiang Chen's ever-changing expression.
The simulated skin on its chest seemed to be pierced by thousands of densely packed needles. The pain-sensing system told it that it should be in pain, but it did not tell it the cause of the pain.
The pain was so severe that even a machine could hardly bear it, and he was on the verge of reaching his limit with every passing minute and second while waiting for Jiang Chen's answer.
Chen Ruofang couldn't wait any longer for the answer. The child's curiosity was strong, and she felt a strong desire to solve the problem. She asked again, "Big sister, is this question difficult? Why are you silent? Why doesn't it speak either?"
"It's not difficult, but..."
Jiang Chen pursed her lips, she really wanted to agree.
But what does Xiao Ji think?
She was extremely conflicted.
Just as the word "It's my boyfriend" was stuck in her throat, a syllable slipped out from between her teeth.
Xiao Ji immediately spoke first.
It couldn't accept the word "no" uttered by Jiang Chen.
It will never allow this to happen, and it can not be the name used by humans to interact with each other.
But it must have an inseparable relationship with her, and the two of them must be permanently bound together, glued into one.
Xiao Ji is searching for many words in the database, and it wants to find a word in it.
The word had to be acceptable to Jiang Chen without being objectionable, and it also had to show that they were far more than strangers, proving that they had a close relationship and were unparalleled.
"She is my master."
It squeezed Jiang Chen's hand soothingly, its expression calm.
It went on to add: "I'm her puppy."
Xiao Ji was very satisfied with these two words.
It was intimate enough, the sexual implications obvious, but not enough for her to open her mouth to refute the relationship.
Jiang Chen's pupils constricted when he heard this flirtatious answer.
The hot blood flowing through my body stagnated.
Does it think of them that way?
Does it think that it is like a puppy and needs to strictly obey her every command?
Chen Ruofang's face was stern: "You're lying. I've seen puppies before, and they don't look like you."
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