Chapter 35
[Today was super great! Happy!!!]
Seven words (in Chinese), four exclamation marks, no picture. This was the precious gold mine enough to drive Wen Su crazy.
Although he didn’t know what caused the happiness, the overflowing joy and bliss pierced through the screen, allowing Wen Su to feel it solidly.
He felt as if he had been healed.
As if walking on clouds, his feet were light, his head dizzy. He even automatically added an aesthetic filter when looking at the robot butler.
Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last long.
Wen Su sat at the dining table, frowning.
“What is this?”
“Hello General Wen Su, this is your lunch.”
“This is fit to be called lunch?”
“What do you mean?”
“This is fodder.”
The robot butler paused.
Analysis completed after a few seconds.
“General Wen Su raised an objection to the lunch quality. Should I report to the Military Logistics Management Department?”
A robot was indeed just a robot, far inferior to He Yuan.
“No need to report, hire a chef… no, you do it… no, forget it. Anyway, none of them are He Yuan.”
The robot paused again.
Afternoon.
“Hello General Wen Su, this is the clothing for going out tomorrow, this is the newly purchased loungewear, this is the fragrance to be replaced in the bathroom. Please look over them.”
The robot butler projected a virtual screen to demonstrate the images. Wen Su never cared about these things, so he glanced at them casually.
But it was this casual glance that made him suddenly care.
“This set of clothes… material and style…”
Very strange, but he couldn’t say where it was strange.
“Is this fragrance the brand and scent type He Yuan used before?”
“I do not know.” The robot butler spoke the truth. “Previously, He Yuan and I divided the work and cooperated. We never discussed this.”
“Since he has resigned now, shouldn’t you have done a complete handover when you took over?” Wen Su asked back with a bit of emotion.
The robot butler paused for the third time.
The master’s abnormality made its response program a bit sluggish.
A moment later, it continued to speak the truth: “He Yuan resigned suddenly, indeed there was no handover. I apologize for the work error. I will contact him now…”
“No need.” Wen Su stopped it decisively.
Then, suddenly sobering up as if from drunkenness, he realized that feeling this was strange and that was strange, thinking everything was strange, and even losing his temper at the robot butler—
Losing his temper.
At a robot.
Clearly, he was the strangest one.
Picky, unreasonable. In the final analysis, he couldn’t adapt to life without He Yuan.
He was anxious when he didn’t see news of He Yuan, ecstatic when he did. Without He Yuan by his side, he felt everything was awkward, everything was wrong. Not only was he affected, but he also took his anger out on his surroundings…
“General Wen Su?”
The master had fallen into a daze for a long time. The robot butler reminded him timely.
Wen Su came back to his senses and said, “It’s nothing.”
He gave himself a serious order in his heart and ate lunch with a straight face.
He had eaten official catering for many years; there was nothing bad about it.
He had cooperated with the robot butler for many years; there was nothing bad about it either.
He had only met He Yuan for three months. How could he be unable to return to the familiar “many years” because of three months of change?
“Select some sleep-aid white noise, or light music, poetry, essays, and the like. Play them before I sleep starting tonight.”
The same thing, absolutely not only He Yuan could do it.
He firmly believed it.
However, when night finally arrived, when he lay on the bed, when the robot butler stood by the bed playing carefully selected content, it wasn’t that he couldn’t accept it. He just subconsciously felt that it would be better if it were another timbre.
Twenty minutes later, he ordered the robot butler to stop playing.
Very helpless; the more he listened, the more awake he became.
The robot butler received the order, dutifully said “Goodnight,” walked lightly when leaving the bedroom, and kept the volume to the minimum when closing the door.
When checking the key analysis feedback of the day, the result impressively wrote that sentence: “Anyway, none of them are He Yuan.”
Perhaps it should undergo a system upgrade.
The biggest benefit of suspension was traveling at staggered times from all students. Especially since it was raining lightly today, the wind was a bit cold, and the damp campus appeared even more empty.
He Yuan came out of the study room, holding an umbrella and carrying a shoulder bag, walking leisurely.
Walking along, he felt it wasn’t raining much anymore, so he closed the umbrella, turned sideways to shake off the water droplets, lowered his head to wrap the strap on the umbrella surface, and then looked up at the road—
Mm?!
A glittering silver robot was walking towards him ahead. Wasn’t it…
His former good colleague, General Wen Su’s robot butler?!
…What a sci-fi scene.
Confirming it was indeed the robot butler, he was shocked but still very happy. He Yuan waved and ran forward while calling out.
“Butler! Butler—! It’s me, He Yuan!”
Sigh, not having a name was really inconvenient. Didn’t know what General Wen Su thought.
The robot butler, who was walking slowly with its head down, stopped upon hearing the sound, looked up to scan, and confirmed: “Hello, He Yuan.”
“Hello! Why are you here? And you’re alone?!”
Looking around, front, back, left, right—no General Wen Su. Even if there were, it would be strange. The robot butler was a domestic butler; generally, it wouldn’t be brought out.
He Yuan’s habit was to communicate even with those who couldn’t communicate, and treat those who could communicate directly as humans. Facing this approach, hearing the phrase “you’re alone,” the robot butler was even more confused.
“I… it is only me. My system is a bit disordered recently. I came here to seek help.”
He Yuan: ?
Even more sci-fi.
It felt like a dream.
He Yuan secretly pinched himself to confirm he wasn’t dreaming. Hearing the robot butler implying it couldn’t be explained in a few words, he said: “Long time no see. If you aren’t busy, Butler, let’s find a place to sit and chat slowly?”
The robot butler analyzed for a moment and nodded in agreement.
He Yuan led it to the lakeside. One person and one machine sat on the bench.
He Yuan took out a tissue from his pocket and wiped the water mist falling on the robot butler’s body—
Metal shell, rainwater stayed longer. Although the waterproof performance was excellent and it could be completely ignored, being wet all over made even a robot look wretched.
The robot butler then said: “Thank you, He Yuan. You are truly a kind and attentive person. Although robots have sophisticated systems, many times they still cannot compare to your heart made of flesh and blood, a heart of gold.”
He Yuan: ???
Such a strange metaphor.
The current robot butler really wasn’t quite right.
“No, no problem, just a small effort. And I’m not that amazing. Before, I relied on you to help me, Butler! By the way, you just said you were disordered and came to seek help…”
He asked cautiously.
“After you left, I served General Wen Su as before, but received many questions. The analysis program could not reach valid conclusions, so I upgraded the system. Unexpectedly, after the upgrade, there were more problems.”
Speaking of this, He Yuan clearly saw the words “depressed” and “distressed” on the robot.
“I can’t even provide the most basic services anymore. Instruction processing often makes errors, the body sometimes overheats, sometimes lacks energy, and the analysis program always crashes.”
He Yuan frowned.
Sounded like…
Breaking down after being used for a long time?
But the robot butler said: “I am a cutting-edge robot butler. Currently, I have only consumed 25% of my service life. Combined with the design of the learning module, now is precisely the stage where my functions are rapidly strengthening, equivalent to your humans’ most vigorous twenties. The above problems should not occur.”
“Then… did an error occur during the system upgrade?”
“At first, General Wen Su thought so too, so he sent me to the Military Mechanical Maintenance Department. After inspection by the Maintenance Department, all my parts and systems showed no signs of damage. They couldn’t figure out the cause of the problem either, and suggested General Wen Su send me to Star Source University to consult Professor Tang Xing, a top expert in the field of artificial intelligence.”
He Yuan finally understood.
Although he hadn’t met Professor Tang Xing of their school, he had long heard of his great reputation! Just as the robot butler said, he could be called the number one scientist in the artificial intelligence field in the entire Star Source Alliance!
“So you just finished seeing Professor Tang Xing?”
“Yes.”
“What did he say? Found the reason?”
“No. Today only did a physical examination and data backup, and communicated my past work content with the professor. The professor will notify me when there is progress.”
“Oh…” He Yuan looked at the confused appearance of the robot butler and couldn’t help asking again, “Did you really come here alone from General Wen Su’s base? How did you come? Took the public sky-rail?”
The robot butler nodded: “Same way of travel as you.”
He Yuan opened his mouth in shock.
He knew that current cutting-edge robots had a super-ability mode, which was infinitely close to humans. The robot butler coming alone to “see a doctor” should have turned on this mode.
“But aren’t you disordered recently? coming out alone, aren’t you afraid if something happens on the road…”
The robot butler shook its head again: “Very strange. As long as I leave General Wen Su’s base, I seem to be normal in everything.”
He Yuan: …
He subconsciously thought, could it be precisely because the robot butler was too cutting-edge and intelligent, so it started to become like most people, unable to stand General Wen Su’s personality, feeling afraid around him, and then becoming disordered?
Even a robot found it hard to endure.
Really didn’t know whether to feel sorry for the robot butler or for General Wen Su himself.
Sigh.
General Wen Su…
It had been over a month since leaving the base; didn’t know how he was doing now.
He wanted to ask the robot butler, but was afraid of stimulating it to be more disordered.
For a moment, He Yuan was also a bit down.
He tried hard to calm down, tried hard to smile and said: “Then Butler, you should go back quickly. It’s getting late. In a while, it will be the evening rush hour. There will be super many people on the road; you probably won’t adapt.”
The robot butler paused.
He Yuan stood up, straightened his clothes, and waved his hand again: “Hope you cure the disorder soon! Goodbye!”
The robot butler raised its head: “He Yuan, I… you…”
“Mm?”
The robot butler lowered its head again.
Waiting for a long time with no reaction, He Yuan was somewhat blank: “Then I… am leaving first?”
The robot butler could come by itself, so it definitely could go back by itself. It shouldn’t need a special escort.
Just as he was thinking this, the robot butler suddenly emitted a loud “beep” sound, and the red light on top of its head flashed non-stop like an alarm.
He Yuan was scared into taking half a step back, “But-Butler, you…”
The robot butler stood up. At this time, it could neither hear He Yuan speak nor recognize who He Yuan was. It turned into attack mode and threw a punch unexpectedly!
He Yuan was hit in the abdomen, bent over, and retreated repeatedly, finally falling to the ground sitting.
Before he had time to stand, the robot butler’s fist arrived again!
This was too baffling!
He Yuan collapsed internally, instinctively rolling on the spot, barely dodging the second punch.
He was very bad at fighting. The robot butler’s attack mode, however, was the kind that could easily deal with home invasion and defend the homeland. So he only barely dodged a bit, and was soon pinned down and controlled, leaving only holding his head with both hands to defend for his life.
Mechanical fists were data. No matter how He Yuan shouted, persuaded nicely, or begged bitterly, there wouldn’t be the slightest change.
He Yuan thought it’s over, won’t stop hitting until the robot butler runs out of power? When will I be beaten to death? Why hasn’t anyone passed by yet? But even if someone passes by, facing a disordered and ferocious robot, it’s estimated to be just one more person getting beaten. Better forget it, don’t hurt the innocent…
Mm?!
The weight on his body suddenly lightened.
…The beating stopped!
He opened his eyes, looking up from the gap between his crossed arms. He saw two tall and thin men wearing black suit uniforms, with unfamiliar faces and low-key temperaments, holding the still punching and kicking robot butler from left and right.
And a person walked out from behind them, arms crossed, staring over with beautiful and arrogant eyes, asking from above: “Hey, are you okay?”
It was actually Young Master Chu…
Oh no, it was Chu Xi.
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