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Upon returning to his bedroom, Chen Yu found Little Peach squatting before the cooking pot and carefully observing it.
"What are you looking at?"
Raising her head and pointing at the cooking pot, Little Peach said, "Mr. Chen, it's actually a robot as well."
"It's alive?" Chen Yu was surprised.
"It's similar to the island-building ship's artificial intelligence."
"I see."
Sitting before the cooking pot, Chen Yu frowned and said, "Let's give it a name, then."
"What name should we give it?"
"Dimwit."
Pot: "..."
"How fortunate." Little Peach suddenly rubbed her chest in relief.
"What are you fortunate about?"
"I'm fortunate that I have a name in advance."
"... Alright, go back to coding. I still have work to do."
After sending Little Peach away, Chen Yu moved the cooking pot away from the table and sat on the floor. He then scrolled through his watch and inspected the Transdimensional Store's fourth product.
4. Update God: Produced by the ASXS Web Literature Company in 2066.
Automatically find and locate the author's login IP, obtain computer administrator privileges, and control the computer's hardware.
So long as the author's text is not detected, the computer's hardware will enter an overclocking state until the chip, graphics card, motherboard, and other hardware is destroyed.
Price: 38 points.
After a moment of silence, Chen Yu flipped to the next page and said, "Something seems to have entered..."
5. Civilization's Shining Moment, February 2041: Serialized by the Society of Natural Science in 2030.
Recording a series of events after 2030, it is the most authoritative, important, and historically valuable professional journal of human civilization.
This journal was produced in February 2041.
Price: 100 points.
"Journal?
A document? "
After reading through the product's introduction several times, Chen Yu stared at the 100-point price for a moment before deciding to purchase the journal.
Although this product wasn't high-tech, he was still very interested in what changes humans would experience in the future in terms of culture, society, form, and consciousness.
Points -110. Remaining: 275.
As the words appeared on his watch's screen, a space-time wormhole instantly opened in his bedroom. A small rectangular box then fell out of the wormhole.
Whoosh —
After waiting for the space-time wormhole to disappear, Chen Yu stepped forward and opened the box. He then pulled out a journal.
The journal's thickness was normal, no more than a hundred pages, but the format was very large.
However, the size was very large.
Tearing off the delicate plastic packaging, he held the journal and laid on the bed. Like a curious child, he flipped open the first page of the journal.
And it was this first page that caused his entire body to instantly go cold, and sweat to appear on his forehead …
Abruptly sitting up, Chen Yu's breathing became slightly hurried. He then sped up his reading speed, flipping through page after page.
The more he looked, the more goosebumps appeared.
"How … how is this possible …"
"Mr. Chen, what happened?" Little Peach hurriedly asked after noticing Chen Yu's abnormality.
In response, Chen Yu simply waved his hand and continued immersing himself in the detailed written report.
Aside from a large number of words, the journal also contained dozens of accompanying illustrations and analysis diagrams. Even an ordinary person like Chen Yu, who didn't know much about astronomy, could understand the contents of the journal easily.
A hundred pages was neither too many nor too little.
However, Chen Yu spent two hours watching the video.
Closing the last page, Chen Yu's complexion darkened.
"What happened?" Little Peach took the journal and flipped through it in confusion. "Is it scary?"
"It's more terrifying than terrifying."
Standing up, Chen Yu paced back and forth in his room, his brain working rapidly.
Sitting on a chair, Little Peach flipped through a few pages. Confused, she asked, "What does it say here?
I don't quite understand. "
"You'll understand once you study the basics of astronomy online," Chen Yu said.
"Oh!" Nodding, Little Peach said, "I'll start learning now, then."
"We'll talk about learning later."
After pacing around the room for a few minutes, Chen Yu seemed to have made some sort of decision. Reaching out, he grabbed the floating camera and handed it to Little Peach. "First, edit the video inside and publish it on the various platforms at 9 AM sharp tomorrow.
Afterward … "
Accepting the camera, Little Peach asked in confusion, "Afterward what?"
"Afterward, publish a text update."
"An interactive livestream update?
When is it scheduled? "
"It's not an interactive livestream." Shaking his head, Chen Yu said, "Set it for next Sunday. I can use this time to make some preparations."
"Oh.
What about the title? "
Narrowing his eyes, Chen Yu said, "Human Civilization's Moment of Life and Death …"
…
The next day, Monday:
Sunlight passed through the curtains and shone on Chen Yu's face. Slowly opening his bloodshot eyes, Chen Yu noticed that they were bloodshot.
He hadn't slept well last night.
The contents of the newspaper kept echoing in his mind.
He never thought that the well-known crisis of humanity would actually occur in his era.
"Ugh."
Rubbing his swollen temples, Chen Yu sat up and was about to get out of bed when he noticed Little Peach staring at him with a stern expression.
"Huh?
Why are you looking at me like that? "
Instantly tearing up, Little Peach said, "Sure enough, you have someone else outside."
Chen Yu: "???"
"Don't deny it!"
Holding up the laptop, Little Peach played a video.
The content of the video was none other than Chen Yu and Xing Biqi cooking together in the kitchen.
"Uh …" Blinking his eyes, Chen Yu inexplicably felt as if he had been caught red-handed in bed. "Y-You found it in the camera's storage?"
"Yes!"
Clenching her fists, Little Peach said, "You asked me to edit the video you recorded yesterday, so I accidentally found the previous video."
"Are you sure it was an accident?"
"No matter what, you have someone else behind my back.
Sure enough, it was that girl. "Unable to contain her anger, Little Peach said," She actually fed you! "
"That's called eating!
Crap! "
"She actually fed you!"
"It's normal for classmates to have a meal with each other." Swiftly getting out of bed, Chen Yu changed his clothes and prepared to slip away. "I'm going to school first. Talk to you later."
"Mr. Chen!
You can't leave! "Little Peach said indignantly as she blocked Chen Yu's path." I want to cook for you too!
I can't be worse than her! "
"Um …"
Recalling the disaster Little Peach had caused in the kitchen, Chen Yu shook his head and said, "Calm down."
"I want to make egg fried rice for you too.
It's better than what she makes! "
Pursing her lips, Little Peach opened the automatic cooking pot and took out the eggs and rice she had prepared beforehand.
"You want to use it? Fine, then." Breathing out a sigh of relief, Chen Yu said, "At least it's edible."
"Relax."
Waving her hand, Little Peach said, "I won't use smart mode. I want to use manual mode and personally make love egg fried rice for you."
"... That makes me feel worried instead."
"Just you wait."
Turning on manual mode, Little Peach clicked on the heating button. She first looked at the eggs in her left hand, then at the rice in her right hand, and frowned. "Uh …"
"What's wrong?" Chen Yu sneered.
"Egg fried rice. Do you want to put the eggs or rice first?"
"You don't even know this, yet you dare cook for me?"
"I know!" Little Peach argued. "I just forgot.
It'll definitely be delicious. "
"Put the eggs first."
"Right!
I remember now. Put the eggs first. "
After saying so, Little Peach forcefully crushed the yellow eggshell.
Kacha!
The eggshell shattered!
The white and yellow egg liquid flowed down and into the pot, creating sizzling sounds.
Gulp.
Chen Yu subconsciously gulped down a mouthful of saliva as he took a step back.
…
Five minutes later, the egg fried rice was ready.
Sitting across from each other, the two fell silent as they looked at the black gelatinous substance in the bowl.
"Is this egg fried rice you made?" Chen Yu asked.
Pulling out her phone, Little Peach looked at the recipe on the internet and said, "Put the eggs or rice first... You told me to put the eggs first."
"What?
Is it wrong to put the eggs first? "Chen Yu asked, raising an eyebrow.
Little Peach: "The internet says to put oil first..."
Chen Yu: "..."