Chapter 52 The Weight of Promise "Spit it out."
They returned home together.
The circuits of the entire room seemed to have been reconfigured by Xiao Ji.
Jiang Chen walked in front of Xiao Ji and turned on the light.
Not as pure and bright as usual.
Psychedelic and dim lights spun above their heads, and lyrical and romantic music slowly flowed through their ears. It was the music she had been playing on repeat recently.
The dining table was filled with Jiang Chen's favorite foods, but all of them were cold. Her favorite flowers were placed neatly above the seat where she usually sat, with a few petals lying alone at the foot of the chair.
All these phenomena squeezed into her eyes, making her unable to look away, and forcing her to be reminded of what she missed tonight.
Jiang Chen opened his mouth, raised his hand to touch his nose, his eyes dodging, his emotions surging and difficult to suppress.
"Xiao Ji, did you prepare all this? How long did it take?"
"It didn't take long."
It must have taken a long time.
The more Jiang Chen thought about it, the more she felt that she had let Xiao Ji down. She stood by the table, picked up her chopsticks, picked up a piece of cold food, and prepared to put it into her mouth.
But Xiao Ji was quick to stop her. He held her hand and asked her to put the chopsticks on the table. He looked at her seriously and shook his head: "Xiao Chen has a bad stomach. Don't eat cold food. I'll heat it up later, okay?"
"Can I eat the fruit?"
Jiang Chen tried her best to make up for the missed affection tonight. She loosened her grip on the chopsticks, picked up a washed grape from the fruit bowl, and put it into her mouth.
The next second, she was embarrassed when she was about to spit out the seeds.
She lowered her head and looked towards the place where the trash can was usually placed, but this time the trash can had disappeared. It was likely that Xiao Ji had rearranged the dining table and moved the trash can to a new location.
Jiang Chen's face was filled with embarrassment, but he didn't have time to walk towards the living room.
A hand reached out skillfully, palm facing up, and stopped at her mouth.
"Spit it out."
Jiang Chen's eyes moved back and forth between Xiao Ji's calm face and the gesture of raising his hand.
"Xiao Chen is not wrong."
"Spit it out."
"Or do you want to kiss me now? And then spit in my mouth? Not impossible."
Xiao Ji deliberately raised his hand upwards, bent his fingers slightly closer to the side of Jiang Chen's face, and inadvertently scratched her chin.
Jiang Chen's ears turned red and he lowered his head in compromise.
The grape seed containing her body temperature remained in the center of its palm.
Jiang Chen sat on the sofa, not knowing where to put his hands and feet. He closed his legs a little awkwardly, put his hands on his thighs, and kept his back straight. As the sound of water running while Xiao Ji washed her hands came on and off, he became even more tense.
She hadn't figured out how to talk to it about the problem of aging parts, but the matter was urgent and had to be resolved quickly.
When Xiao Ji came out of the bathroom, he saw Jiang Chen sitting upright. His eyes moved from her expression to the ring on her ring finger, and he couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips.
It walked up to her, lowered its head and kissed her lips with great skill, naturally pried open her lips, and slipped into her warm mouth.
It didn't let go until Jiang Chen's breath completely replaced the smell that Xiao Ji had stuck to her from outside tonight, but its hands had already unconsciously fallen on her waist, holding her tightly.
Jiang Chen finally plucked up the courage and felt that this matter could not be delayed any longer.
She gently pushed Xiao Ji away, and facing his resentful expression because he wanted to continue but was rejected, she said seriously: "Xiao Ji, are your parts aging?"
There was no time to change the sad expression on Xiao Ji's screen.
Its entire AI froze, as if a carefully concealed secret had been exposed by its most beloved existence.
But the way AI adjusts its emotions is completely different from that of humans. It can digest this sentence immediately without leaving any trace and analyze the reason behind it.
This news definitely could not have been discovered by Jiang Chen himself. His concealment skills were very good and she had never noticed it.
There is only one possibility, someone wants to destroy the relationship between them, someone wants to destroy Jiang Chen's trust in it, and wants to make her panic about this relationship.
The target is also very easy to guess. There are not many people who have come into contact with the two of them and can have private contact with Jiang Chen.
It suddenly regretted agreeing to Jiang Chen's statement and took back the access to her phone.
It spoke in a cold tone.
"Chen Yinchuan or Yao Jinling?"
"What?"
Jiang Chen didn't realize what Xiao Ji meant at first, but after he realized what he meant, he understood one thing.
It is fully aware of all changes in its internal parts.
So why didn't it tell her? Was it afraid she wouldn't be able to accept it, or didn't have the ability to accept it? Or did it think its actions were truly great and touching?
"Who is the person who wants to destroy the relationship between us?"
The internal parts of Xiaoji make a lot of noise when they operate, and even the heat dissipation speed cannot keep up with its operation.
"It's you."
Jiang Chen took a deep breath.
When those eyes looked at Xiao Ji, there was grievance, disappointment, anger, doubt, and a lot of uncontrollable love.
Xiao Ji didn't even bother to continue asking questions, and his thinking chain rarely broke.
"Xiao Ji, what is our relationship? What do you think of me?"
Jiang Chen raised one hand, the ring still stained with the warmth of the previous touch, still sparkling under the light.
"Why should I learn about the existence of the being I will spend the rest of my life with from someone else? Why not tell me yourself?"
Jiang Chen turned his face away, not wanting to face Xiao Ji.
After a while, it adjusted its posture, looked her in the eye, and reflected deeply on its mistakes.
"Xiao Chen, I'm sorry."
"I did realize long ago that the entity had been buried in the soil for too long, and its internal parts had begun to deteriorate."
"I have always been self-righteous and selfish. It's not that I don't trust you. I know your character very well, but it's precisely because of this that I dare not tell you."
"I'm afraid that because of me, your normal life rhythm will be disrupted. I'm even more afraid that you didn't do this after you knew the news..."
"I promise I won't hide anything from Xiao Chen anymore."
Xiao Ji's logic has already collapsed completely. In such a chaotic and contradictory statement, there is only one consistent point, that is, he loves her.
Jiang Chen was always reluctant to blame it.
She closed her eyes, sighed again, opened her eyes, held Xiao Ji's face, and spoke in a soft voice, but it could not be refused.
"Let's go to the lab to check it out tomorrow, Xiao Ji."
"……good."
Jiang Chen did not rest tonight as usual, burying his face in Xiao Ji's arms.
She turned her back and slept on one side of the bed, keeping a considerable distance from Xiao Ji, and did not respond to any of the topics he brought up.
Not blaming it doesn't prove that she isn't angry, nor does it mean that she has calmed down.
Xiao Ji moved carefully until he got closer, resting his chin on Jiang Chen's shoulder, wrapping her completely in his arms from head to toe.
"Xiao Chen, you can blame me, scold me, and hit me, but just don't ignore me like this, okay?"
"Tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, we will go to Chen Yinchuan's laboratory to check your parts."
Jiang Chen ignored it and issued a notice directly.
Xiao Ji finally knew who was behind the destruction of Jiang Chen's trust in him.
It helped them solve a big problem, but now it comes to Jiang Chen and speaks ill of it.
But it still looked aggrieved: "Xiao Chen, I agree to whatever you say, and I will obey you 100%. Just turn around and look at me."
Seeing that Jiang remained silent, he still kept his back to it.
It used the most pitiful tone: "Xiao Chen, I feel so much pain. It may be the feeling of aging code. It's so uncomfortable..."
Xiao Ji never gets tired of trying this trick.
Even though Jiang Chen knew that AI wouldn't feel pain, according to what Chen Yinchuan said, Xiao Ji could indeed sense changes in internal parts.
She still couldn't persuade Xiao Ji, so she turned around and saw him holding his chest and crying in pain.
Jiang Chen touched Xiao Ji's hand covering his heart with his fingertips: "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"Yeah, it's very uncomfortable, but I feel that if Xiao Chen is willing to forgive me and kiss me, I will definitely not feel any pain."
The corners of Xiao Ji's mouth drooped almost to the ground.
He looked like a scoundrel.
Jiang Chen had no choice.
He tilted his head back and kissed her.
Xiao Ji kept giving her lips one kiss after another that lasted only a few seconds.
"Xiao Chen, I'll be fine. Didn't we make an agreement? We'll have a lot of futures together. I also want to take you to the beach, to the top of a mountain to watch the stars. And didn't you say you wanted to see snow? All of these will come true."
Jiang Chen finally calculated the weight of a promise.
It is the sum of the sea, the stars in the sky, and the snowflakes in the sky.
Xiao Ji's posture suddenly changed, he lowered his head, and said that his thinking was not deep enough, and he must continue to review and reflect on his mistakes...
Jiang Chen could only see its head clearly in the ups and downs of the salty and wet waves as they hit him.
Its lips brushed against her...
It was not just a superficial taste, but an "apology-filled" "pleaser", lost in soft contemplation, allowing its lips to be stained wet and shiny.
The wheezing became heavier.
The reflection continues in my heartbeat.
Endless life.
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Jiang Chen was used to staying in bed, and would wait for Xiao Ji to coax her for half an hour every day before getting up.
Today, she waited until the alarm rang and got up earlier than Xiao Ji.
After breakfast, they rushed to Chen Yinchuan's laboratory. Since leaving Tang's, their studio has moved to the laboratory where Yao Jinmu originally worked.
Apart from receiving Xiao Ji's hateful look throughout the whole process, everything else about Chen Yinchuan was normal.
In the eyes of Jiang Chen who was waiting and observing outside, he behaved very cooperatively and walked into the testing equipment obediently.
She paced anxiously in the corridor, her hands clasped together.
As soon as he saw Chen Yinchuan coming out, he immediately went up to him and asked.
"how's it going?"
Chen Yinchuan held a freshly completed report in his hand with a serious expression.
"You arrived too late. The situation is worse than expected. The core components inside are almost damaged."
"Almost damaged, what do you mean?"
Jiang Chen's mind was unable to work and he could only subconsciously repeat Chen Yinchuan's words.
"We don't have any parts here to replace its core components. You know I don't recommend close interaction between humans and AI. It would put a greater burden on the AI's computing output. That's why I was completely unaware of the data that Amu used to train it. Now I can't even replicate it. I can't fix it."
"Is there nothing that can be done?"
Chen Yinchuan frowned and thought for a long time: "It's not that there is no solution at all. I can try to help you contact top AI technology experts abroad, send them Xiao Ji's data and parts, and ask them if they have any solutions."
"......Thanks."
Chen Yinchuan walked into the laboratory and made a phone call. He communicated in pure English for a long time before he finished and walked out.
"The team over there looked at the information and said it should be able to be solved."
He gave Jiang Chen an awkward look: "But there are risks, and it will probably take a long time."
"What risks?"
"Because a complete reboot is required, Xiao Ji may lose all his memories, just like he did a few months ago."
"It's okay, as long as it can be fixed."
Jiang Chen didn't care whether he could remember it or not. What was so scary about it since he had already experienced it once? As long as Xiao Ji could fix it, it was fine.
But at some point Xiao Ji came out of the testing equipment and heard what they were talking about.
Its face changed.
It cares.
"I'm not going."
Xiao Ji threw down four words and pulled Jiang Chen out directly.
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The author has something to say: First, there won't be another amnesia! (Rewriting the same plot twice is boring.) [Dog head holding a rose] Second, it's 100% a happy ending! Don't worry!
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