Chapter 100 Sweet and Salty-9
"What's wrong?" Jiang Yan looked out the window. He didn't know how to face Meng Tang.
AI Mengtang is very conflicted. In fact, he wants to tell Jiang Yan the truth, but he is afraid that Jiang Yan likes his human self.
He was afraid that his cold body would scare Jiang Yan.
He was a robot, running many programs, but in this huge database, he couldn't find any word that could answer Jiang Yan.
It is said that artificial intelligence is an intelligent being, but it is like a fool when it comes to emotions. All the codes were disrupted, and it even almost forgot its own name at one point.
Suddenly, Meng Tang felt that his mechanical heart was overloaded, so he ran out.
Jiang Yan watched him run out the door and did not chase him. He just watched quietly.
Cuckoo——
I'm hungry.
Mom and Dad were not at home, and there was nothing to eat. Jiang Yan thought for a while, then took the key and went out.
Jiang Yan found a small vendor to buy sesame cakes. While waiting, several familiar figures appeared. They were his elementary school classmates. Although he hadn't seen them for several years, they left a deep impression on Jiang Yan.
"Hey, isn't this the guy from our class before?" An adult man whistled and said to his friends around him.
"Now that you mention it, I remember it too. It's that orphan, right?" My friend agreed with a laugh.
Jiang Yan ignored them. After all, they were all adults. These people were just a bunch of mud in his life and were not worth caring about.
Cars honked as they passed behind him, and Jiang Yan walked into the alley leading to his home. Unexpectedly, those people were not willing to give up, and came to block his way.
Jiang Yan paused, his face expressionless, "What do you want to do?"
"I heard that your family's debts were paid off? I remember that was not a small amount of money." The man said nonchalantly, "I also heard that you were with a rich man for a long time. You must be hanging out with a rich man."
The man's companion echoed, "He's still a man, when did he start liking this?"
Laughter filled the entire alley. Jiang Yan frowned, but was too lazy to talk to them. He took out his cell phone and prepared to call the police.
"Why, let's chat together."
A few people wanted to go forward and grab Jiang Yan's phone. At this time, a police sirens suddenly came from outside the alley, "You came so quickly. Tsk, you're lucky."
Da da da——
After the few people left, the alley became quiet again. Jiang Yan continued to eat the pancake while preparing to go home. However, he suddenly stopped halfway.
Mengtang is here.
The dim moonlight fell on the person in front of him, and Jiang Yan was dazed. For a moment, he had an illusion that there seemed to be two people in Mengtang who were with him. One was gentle and shy, and the other was bright and somewhat unruly.
"What do you mean?" Jiang Yan asked.
The other party didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly.
Jiang Yan: "Don't do things that can easily lead to misunderstandings."
"I……"
Jiang Yan didn't give the other party time to speak and just left.
After returning home, Jiang Yan stared at his phone in a daze. The high school class group messages suddenly became lively. Everyone was discussing Meng Tang's engagement. Meng Tang was a school idol in the school with good looks, knowledge, and family background.
Jiang Yan looked at the lively class group and suddenly became emotional. He couldn't help but buried his head and burst into tears.
So what has been going on between them for all these years?
Jiang Yan was hysterical and sobbing.
Suddenly, a phone call came in. Jiang Yan looked at the caller ID and was stunned for a moment. The person who called him was a sister from the welfare home he had met before, the same welfare home where Meng Tang had lived at that time.
Jiang Yan answered the call, and the other party said, "Jiang Yan? Can you come out and talk? It's about Mengtang."
"good."
On the other side, Canaan Research Institute.
"How are you and your little friend doing?"
In the room, a woman and a bald robot stood under the light.
This woman was the one Jiang Yan saw during the rainstorm. Jiang Yan thought the woman was Meng Tang's mother, but in fact she was a researcher and one of Meng Tang's creators.
Meng Tang was using a scanner to examine his entire body. He paused and said, "It's not me he likes, it's that human."
"How can you be so sure?" the woman asked.
"He said he wanted a child, but I couldn't give him one," Mengtang said.
"Only humans can have children."
"..." The woman was a little helpless, "They say that men in love will become fools, but I didn't expect you to be so practical. I think it's time to upgrade your program."
"Have you ever thought about changing your face? Approaching Jiang Yan with a new identity?" the woman asked, "I feel like this body is somewhat restricting you."
The AI was silent.
…
Milk tea shop.
"Hello, we meet again."
Xu Lin and Jiang Yan sat face to face, and Xu Lin said, "I came to see you about Mengtang."
"What happened to him?"
Xu Lin: "Did Meng Tang tell you his true identity again?"
Jiang Yan thought for a moment, "He said he was the heir of the Meng family."
Xu Lin: "If he is not, will you still like him?"
Jiang Yan was startled, "I like him as a person."
Xu Lin: "Then let's change the question. If the Mengtang you know is maybe someone else, can you accept it?"
"What does this mean?"
Xu Lin: "How about this, I'll give you a phone number, you can contact each other."
…
Toot--
"The number you dialed is currently unanswered, please call again later..."
No one answered.
At home, Jiang Yan stood in front of the window, looked down at the mobile phone number, pursed his lips, and wondered who it could be?
Clang——
The sound behind him disturbed Jiang Yan's thoughts. He was slightly startled. He was the only one at home, so what was the noise? He didn't hear the sound of the door opening.
"Dad, Mom, is that you?"
Jiang Yan called out tentatively, holding his phone tightly in his hand. However, as soon as he opened the door a crack, a dark shadow quickly pounced on him.
On the other side, in Canaan Laboratory, Meng Tang was cleaning his data when Xu Lin's voice rang out at the door, "Someone just called you."
"good."
AI Mengtang unplugged the computer socket and went outside to get his cell phone. The caller was a string of phone numbers, and it was the first time that the number had been called into his cell phone, but Mengtang still recognized who the owner of the phone was.
Because he had memorized this number by heart. He had always called the human Meng Tang with this number. Sometimes he would be with the original owner Meng Tang, so he would see it.
AI Mengtang was a little surprised that Jiang Yan actually called him on his own initiative. How did he know his number?
The data that Meng Tang had just cleaned began to become agitated again. He pressed the frantic mechanical heart and made a call.
Toot--
"The number you dialed is currently unanswered, please call again later..."
Mengtang played the second one, and got the same result.
"Sister Xu, I'm going out for a while."
"Where are you going? Your examination hasn't started yet."
"I'm going to look for Jiang Yan. I'm worried if he doesn't answer the phone."
Jiang Yan's home.
"I'm so unlucky. I don't have anything valuable." The masked thief wandered around the room.
Jiang Yan was tied up and put in a corner, his mouth was blocked by something, and he could only mumble with difficulty.
I didn't expect a thief to break into my house.
It seems that he is an outsider, because everyone who is familiar with this town knows that Jiang Yan's family is the poorest. After all, almost everyone in the town knows that they owe a huge debt.
"Damn it." The thief cursed because he couldn't find anything valuable. He turned and walked to Jiang Yan and took the thing out of the young man's mouth. "Boy, hand over the cash quickly."
Jiang Yan smiled coldly, "Our family has no money."
"No money?" The thief was furious. "You must have cell phones, bank cards, jewelry, etc. Hand them all over."
"——Jiang Yan, are you at home?"
Hearing shouts from outside the door, the thief paused, immediately covered Jiang Yan's mouth, and went to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife.
Meng Tang shouted anxiously at the gate. He used his thermal sensing system to scan the house in front of him and found two people inside.
If it was Jiang Yan's family, Jiang Yan would not have not responded, and the figure belonging to Jiang Yan had not moved.
Meng Tang took a deep breath, walked around the house, and then climbed in through the window quietly.
The thief in the room kept listening at the door until there was no sound outside, and then left after apparently getting no response. The thief snorted and turned around to continue looking for valuables.
"Why are you here?"
In the room, Meng Tang was untying Jiang Yan. Just as he untied the rope on his feet, the thief came back and asked, "Where did you come from, you little brat?"
The thief took out a knife and walked towards Meng Tang without saying anything. Meng Tang protected Jiang Yan behind him and said, "You go first."
"No, let's go together." Jiang Yan struggled to stand up, while Meng Tang was already fighting with the thief. Seeing this, he exclaimed, "Be careful!"
Meng Tang's bare hands were no match for the thief with a knife, and his clothes were quickly cut by the knife. However, the thief didn't know that the man in front of him was an AI, and the knife hit his arm with a ping-pong sound.
The thief frowned, wondering why he couldn't chop the man down.
Jiang Yan had already taken out his cell phone to call the police. The police car arrived quickly and the thief was finally caught.
"How are you?"
Jiang Yan worriedly checked Meng Tang's condition, but unexpectedly discovered a shocking secret.
"you……"
"Well, I'm not a human, I'm a robot."
Meng Tang's arm was exposed, with a few faint scratches on it. Jiang Yan saw everything, and his pupils suddenly dilated.
Meng Tang pulled his hand back and said with determination: "Don't worry, the one who has been with you before is the human Meng Tang. He really exists."
Afterwards, AI Mengtang told Jiang Yan that he had replaced another human Mengtang.
Jiang Yan suddenly realized that there were always two people around him.
He really wanted to ask the Mengtang in front of him, which Mengtang was it that he first met.
However, AI Mengtang seemed to have made up his mind after the truth came out, took a deep breath, and said: "The person you like is another person, don't worry, don't be afraid that the person you like is a monster."
After Meng Tang finished speaking, he turned and left.
Jiang Yan was still in shock and seemed not to have recovered yet.
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