Chapter 534 Conversation in the Snow
At the end of November, the weather became a little colder.
Tilan, wearing a winter skirt, walked on the street. It was snowing lightly in the sky, covering the world with a thin layer of white.
Compared with the warmth and relaxation of summer, winter always seems a little restrained and restrained, but for some people, being wrapped in thick clothes is like wearing a layer of armor, which makes them feel inexplicably relieved.
When they arrived in front of a store, Tilan looked at the sign above, then pushed open the glass door and went in.
Various lively sounds came to her face, including the conversations of the elderly and children, the calls of animals, and the flapping of wings and the running of cats and dogs.
This is a pet hospital, and it is a very popular pet hospital.
"Ah, it's Zijin. Are you resting today without class?"
"Miss Zijin is here. It's been a long time since we last met."
"Can you help me take care of my Xiaobai? It's been depressed recently."
As soon as she entered the door, many people came up to her. The girl smiled and dealt with them one by one, then waved to everyone and walked into the employee area at the back.
This is the lounge. A man in a white shirt is leaning on the sofa with a cup of coffee and reading the news.
"Long time no see, Zi Jin, are you here to play today?" He simply said hello.
"It's a rare holiday recently, so I came to see you." The girl found a seat and sat down.
After reading a piece of news, the other party paused the screen, then turned around, first looked at the girl's white winter skirt with plush edges, then looked at the calves wrapped in pure white stockings under the winter skirt, and gave a thumbs up to praise.
"Zi Jin looks good in any clothes." Then he stood up.
"Would you like some hot coffee?"
"Yes, have a cup." After thinking for a while, Tilan did not refuse as she did in the past, and wanted to try what the "poison coffee" in Lemon Fruit's mouth looked like.
"Okay, wait a moment." Then he walked out.
Although it was winter, the lounge was very warm. There was a round table in the middle of the circular sofa, and underneath it was a heater that emitted a faint orange light. A cat with white and gray spots was lying there and sleeping soundly. You could hear the regular snoring in the quiet room.
Behind the sofa was a cage hanging, in which a pale yellow parrot was standing with its eyes closed. On the top of the cabinet on the other side, you could see a green figure, probably a snake coiled up to sleep.
As if it had sensed that the environment here was good, a large spider with white fur and blue color appeared beside Tilan. It first circled around the sofa, with several black eyes moving around, then jumped upside down on the ceiling, ran a few more times, and then landed beside Tilan.
Seeing the big spider raised its feet, it seemed to want to get on her legs, but Tilan lightly nodded her head.
"No, don't you see how old you are now? You can't lie on my legs, let alone on my head."
The big spider now, even in its non-combat form, is two meters wide, and it really can't lie on Tilan's head.
The stopped big spider gritted its teeth, made a sound of grievance and protest, then ran around the circular sofa for a few laps before jumping onto the ceiling and lying on its back.
Seeing this, Tilan shook her head slightly. This guy was probably trying to scare people again.
Not long after, the door suddenly opened excitedly. The exaggerated footsteps woke up the cat sleeping next to the heater, but after seeing who it was, it turned around and lay down again.
"Oh, Zijin, you're here. I haven't seen you for a long time." Lemon Fruit ran to Tilan excitedly and held her hands.
"I heard from Okas that your school is very strictly managed and you haven't had a chance to come out this semester. Otherwise, I would have thought you were missing."
"Well, this is indeed a bit strict." Tilan thought about it and nodded, then changed her mind and asked.
"How has the business been in the store over the past six months?"
"Pretty good, basically no problems have occurred. The Okas you recommended is really great. Although his style is completely different from Zijin's, he has solved many problems." She then chattered on and on about the various things that had happened over the past six months, including several times when she had encountered customers who had deliberately made things difficult for her and were then scared away by Okas.
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"Let me tell you, the white tiger raised by Ocas is very powerful. Although it is as big as the black lion that Emily sent, its fighting power is completely on a different level."
"In July, there was a local thug who was causing trouble. He raised a particularly ferocious white dog, the kind that drooled when it walked. He came to our store and asked for his dog to be bathed and trimmed. As a result, the white dog almost bit the clerk, but he laughed and said it wouldn't bite anyone to death, so we continued to provide service." "
Then, when it seemed like a quarrel was about to break out, I was afraid that things would get out of control, so I called Ocas, and then he came over." "
As a result, the ferocious-looking white dog, which was baring its teeth and biting, immediately became timid when it saw Ocas, and when the white tiger brought by Ocas appeared, it lay down and dared not move. The local thug was very angry when he saw this, but he felt relieved." Lemon Fruit kept talking.
"That dog shouldn't be an ordinary animal." Tilan thought that if it was a low-sequence extraordinary animal, it would be easy to control it with the strength of the store staff.
"Although I don't like it, the dog does have the strength of Sequence 6. According to the thug himself, he spent tens of millions of federal coins on it."
"No wonder." If it was Sequence 5, the store's permanent guard animals could suppress it and it wouldn't be so passive.
But that said, there are really many rich people in the Central Star Region. The white dog that Lemon Fruit mentioned should not have much combat power. Sequence 6 is purely a flower stand piled up with resources. It is estimated that it can't defeat some carefully cultivated Sequence 5 animals, but even so, people are willing to spend money.
I'm afraid he is also a rich kid, not a simple thug as Lemon Fruit said.
While the two were talking, Wu Suo, wearing a white shirt, came back with two cups of hot coffee in his hands.
"The second lady is here too, would you like to drink some?" He put down the coffee.
"No, just drink it yourself." Lemon waved her hand, then looked at Tilan curiously as she took the coffee.
After sniffing it gently and taking a sip, the slightly bitter taste of the coffee spread out, and then quickly dissipated, and a light sweet aftertaste appeared, which was rich in layers.
"Mr. Wu Suo's coffee is really good." Tilan commented.
"I'll tell you, Second Miss, you see Zi Jin thinks that my coffee brewing skills are good." Wu Suo was quite satisfied, and then continued to sit on the sofa and clicked on the news broadcast on the projection screen.
[Today, the exchange team from Feiyu Star Region officially arrived, many of whom are students from Feiyu Star Region University, and also include a special guest, Miss 'Star Ring Rhythm' Shela Lanke...]
"The Winter Festival is about to begin. The exchange team that came this time is expected to compete with several famous schools in Academy City." Lemon Fruit said the news conveyed in the news.
"It didn't seem so lively last winter." Tilan recalled.
"Yes, college is different from high school. The winter competition is no longer a full-region competition, but an exchange competition between some colleges and universities. It is usually held every two years."
"Shela Lan is about the same age as Elukelu and the others, only two years older. This time, I guess the two will have to fight each other as the finale."
"By the way, will Zi Jin participate in the exchange competition between colleges? I heard that powerful schools will send top students to participate to show the strength of their schools. This is also the origin of the ranking of colleges and universities."
"Me, I don't seem to have received any notification." Tilan thought about it. She hadn't heard any news about this. It was estimated that the singer would not be involved in this kind of competition between colleges and universities.
After that, the few of them chatted for a while, and then Tilan stood up and prepared to walk around the store to see how everyone was doing.
"It's coming down." Before leaving, Tilan waved at the ceiling, and then the two people in the room saw the big spider hanging upside down.
"Ah——"
Lemon Fruit was startled on the spot, and then reacted. Although Wu Suo was surprised, he was later amused by Lemon Fruit's scream.
Following Tilan, the big spider swayed around nimbly, looking east and west along the way. Fortunately, there were not many people in the employee area at this time, and only some animals in cages were wary of the big spider that suddenly appeared.
All the way to the dormitory area at the back, Tilan saw some familiar faces, such as the lazy big tiger of the store manager, and several animals that were fostered for a long time. Finally, when she came to the attic, she found that the familiar black lion was gone.
Did he leave? Tilan thought about it, then went downstairs and came to the courtyard behind where animals were raised. Finally, she saw the familiar figure on the grass.
"Roar——" While making a low roar, he shook his mane to shake off the snow on it, and then the black lion took light steps and walked towards Tilan across the snowy grass.
"Did you see an old friend?" The woman who was also admiring the scenery in the snow turned around. She was wearing dark sunglasses and only a thin coat even in winter.
Seeing the black lion approaching, Tilan squatted down, reached into its thick mane, tickled it, and then watched the guy lie down with his eyes narrowed, his limbs stretched out and slightly swiped in the air.
At the same time, the woman with sunglasses in the snow also came over.
"Hi, hello, seeing how familiar you are with the 'Black Prince', I guess it's Zi Jin." She took off her sunglasses, revealing her brown and smart eyes.
"It's me, are you Miss Emily?" Tilan remembered that the owner of the 'Black Prince' was Emily.
"Yes, it seems that Little Lemon has told you a lot about me." She also squatted down, but patted the lion's buttocks to let it stand up.
"Let's go, let's sit over there for a while." Although the snow was not heavy, it was indeed inconvenient to talk in the snow.
The two people and the lion walked side by side in the snow. The big spider that followed Tilan not long ago now changed the color of its fur, its body became weak, and it easily hid itself in the snowflakes, running around happily.
Tilan was very relieved about it. It didn't matter if it didn't follow her now. If she needed it, she could easily call it.
Let it play for a while. After all, it would be boring to stay at home with me every day. It was rare to get out for a walk.
They came to the observation deck next to the courtyard and sat down. The black lion also lay beside them, occasionally opening its mouth, as if yawning and relaxing.
"Zi Jin used to graduate from the Cultivator Academy, right?" Emily touched the lion beside her and said.
"Yes."
"Very good, whether it's the customers or everyone in the store, they all say you are very reliable and great."
"Thank you."
"I'm usually very busy at work, and I don't have much energy to take care of 'Black Prince'. I usually foster him here and come to see him occasionally." Emily talked about her life.
"Sometimes I feel sorry for it, but sometimes I feel that I should focus on my career instead of taking care of animals. People are really contradictory creatures."
"Maybe everyone has a soft spot in their hearts." Tilan responded simply.
"Well, but slowly, I found that this seems to be good. Occasionally, I come to see it and watch it grow up healthily. I feel inexplicably relaxed and satisfied. If I must let it stay by my side, it will probably be trapped in a steel cage and not free."
After the "Black Prince", the two chatted about the various animals in the store.
"... I feel that Zijin is very good. At least I was not as good as you when I was in college. I was always overwhelmed by various projects."
"After graduation, do you want to try our company?"
"The company where Emily works is the giant enterprise "Dakshi Matrix", right?" Tilan remembered what Lemon Fruit introduced a long time ago.
"Yes, this is it, a special enterprise focusing on high-level AI generation." Emily replied.
"You can understand that the generation of high-level intelligent AI is divided into two parts, one is the hardware body, and the other is the neural network architecture as software. We are a company that focuses on the latter."
Hearing this, Tilan was a little curious.
"What level has the current top AI reached? I have heard others say that if restrictions are lifted and AI is allowed to simulate humans, almost no one can tell the difference."
"Well, because of the confidentiality clause, I can't tell you directly. I can only say that certain bans are indeed necessary." Emily smiled.
"However, don't look too highly on AI. For it, everything is the result of massive data calculation and selection, which does not mean that it has emotions."
"It just knows that this answer, this response, is very consistent with the needs and desires of humans in the database, and this will get the highest score. Or, you set a certain emotional model for it in advance, and it will respond according to this model."
"Unfortunately, for most people, they can't distinguish between AI and real people. In fact, AI's personality is more abundant and richer than that of real people because it has a more powerful database support."
"Do you know why the Federation prohibits such functions?" Emily suddenly spoke with interest.
"I don't know."
"Because if it is released, society's cognition will change dramatically. The rare 'love' in the past will become rampant and devalued. Then, even when faced with sincere emotions, people will no longer believe in and cherish it."
"In this way, the foundations of many works of art, literature, and even film and television will no longer exist, and human beings themselves will slowly fall into the cold world of data and become part of the machine."
"Machines will only choose the best, most efficient, and most direct path to the point... Deliberate mistakes and detours are unreasonable in their eyes."
"Does it look familiar? This was the choice of the Mechanical Parliament back then. The entire civilization was like a highly efficient machine."
"It's a pity that such a civilization did not last until the end."
"Things like emotions are not sacred at all. They can be imitated and deceived, but to say that they are useless is not the case. They give humans the motivation to diversify."
"For the entire civilization, this diverse emotional power drives humans to explore in all directions, thereby truly expanding the vitality of civilization, bringing about an ecological environment like stars, bringing about a myriad of bizarre biological forms, and bringing about an endless adaptability of life."
"For example, machines don't need to wear socks, but humans do. People not only wear socks, but also choose socks of various materials, densities, and colors according to their own preferences. In the process of exploring, making, and using these socks, humans have discovered all kinds of new and interesting knowledge, or ignited new inspirations and expanded new fields."
"In this way, new discoveries and new knowledge in countless fields can always produce a few sparks and bring new progress. The end of the Mechanical Parliament is that the efficiency they pursue has greatly reduced the area of the cognitive world, like a long and narrow straight line, while a civilization full of various emotions, like a radioactive pattern, will be exposed to more things."
"But humans are like children who never grow up. They never learn lessons and always repeat the cycle of making mistakes, suffering, recovering, and making mistakes again. In this respect, they are not as smart as machines." After saying this, she touched the black lion lying beside her.
"I admire the entire civilization, but I don't like people in reality. Most people are not worth getting along with. They are far less innocent and cute than animals."
(End of this chapter)
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