"Your dislocation is a little serious. Even after I've reconnected it, don't move it around."
Inside Jinzhou City's Second People's Hospital, an old orthopedic doctor helped Chen Yu put on a sling. "What happened?
Did you get into a fight? "
"With a machine." Chen Yu's anger had yet to dissipate.
"I'll prescribe you two doses of medicine. Take them on time and come back for a follow-up a week later."
"Okay. Thank you, doctor."
"Let's go." Waving his hand, the old doctor said, "Students should study hard. What's the point of fighting and fooling around?"
After walking down the stairs and out of the Second People's Hospital, Chen Yu pulled out his phone with a dark expression and sent a message to the Transdimensional Marketing Company's salesperson.
[Chen Yu: "Can that robot be recycled?"]
[Transdimensional Marketing: "Mr. Chen, what are you planning to do?
Unlike other high-tech products, artificial intelligence cannot be recycled.
However, it can be replaced. "]
[Chen Yu: "Even if I replace it, it'll still be Little Peach, right?"]
[Transdimensional Marketing: "That's for sure.
[Chen Yu: "But Little Peach is a scammer, you know?!
I'll die because of it! "]
[Transdimensional Marketing: "Mr. Chen, you can teach it.
From the perspective of a carbon-based organism, Little Peach was just a newborn infant.
It can learn from you. "]
[Chen Yu: "Learn from me?
Then wouldn't I die even faster? "
[Transdimensional Marketing: "Actually, Mr. Chen, you still have some merits."]
[Chen Yu: "What merits?"]
[Transdimensional Marketing: "Self-knowledge."]
[Chen Yu: "… If I want to file a complaint against you, what steps should I take?"]
[Transdimensional Marketing: "Live until the Transdimensional Marketing Company is established in the year 4552. File a complaint at the Transdimensional Marketing Headquarters' Opinion Handling Department in the Kuiper Belt.
My work number is 23333. "]
"Hah."
Sighing, Chen Yu's mood worsened. He turned off his phone and headed home.
Along the way, his invisible watch kept vibrating, alerting him that someone was tailing him. However, Chen Yu paid it no mind.
He was already used to it.
When he got home and opened the security door, black smoke billowed out!
Chen Yu was startled. Thinking that his house was on fire, he hurriedly ran to the source of the smoke — the kitchen. What he found was Little Peach holding a wok in her left hand and a spatula in her right, frantically stir-frying the ingredients.
Even the iron shovel was bent from the heat.
Approaching Little Peach step by step, Chen Yu scrutinized Little Peach and asked, "Are you trying to fry landmines?"
"I'm making your favorite bento, Mr. Chen," Little Peach said with a sweet and blissful smile as she gently combed her burnt bangs.
"I think it's better to give it to my favorite big mouth."
Turning off the stove, Chen Yu said with a sobbing tone, "Hero, please spare my life. You nearly destroyed the kitchen. I'll die when my mom gets home."
"It's okay."
Little Peach bounced into the bathroom and took out a broom. "I'll clean it up!"
After saying so, Little Peach picked up the broom and started sweeping up the shattered glass on the kitchen floor. Afterward, she accidentally knocked over the thermos beside the kitchen counter.
"Huala."
Accompanied by a loud noise, the thermos shattered into pieces, the water flowing all over the floor.
"Huh?" Turning around, Little Peach asked, "Why is there more of it?"
"..." Lips trembling, Chen Yu took a deep breath to calm himself down. "Little Peach, you should come out. Let's calm down and have a proper talk."
"Dating?" Little Peach tossed the broom aside and covered her face.
"We can talk about anything. Come out first."
"Mhm!"
After arriving in the living room and sitting on the sofa, Chen Yu took the initiative to speak up.
"2020 is not the future. Nothing is sturdy here, including me." Pointing at his hanging right arm, Chen Yu said, "I'm not sturdy, either.
In the future, you have to be more careful when you do things. "
"I know!" Little Peach nodded.
"By the way, are you a man or a woman?"
"Service-type artificial intelligence like me is neutral. It doesn't have the distinction of two sexes like carbon-based organisms."
"Oh." Chen Yu rubbed his neck thoughtfully.
After a while, Little Peach asked another question, "I heard you can connect to the Internet. Is it the Internet?
How do I connect it?
Is it wireless or plugged in? "
"Mr. Chen, the lowest network I can connect to is Future.
The ancient Internet.
Protocol
The Suite cannot be connected to.
The decimal system between us is incompatible. "
"You can't connect to the Internet?"
"Yes."
"What use are you, then?"
Biting her lip, Little Peach said, "I'm just a romantic partner robot. I can bring you love.
Moreover, low-level Internet standards are limited. I can master it through learning. "
"You can be a programmer?" Chen Yu's eyes glowed.
"Yes.
But I need to learn. "
"Learning isn't a problem!
I'll take you out in a moment and find you a place to live alone. I'll also buy you a few books and a computer that can connect to the Internet. Study programming knowledge and learn how to live in ancient times while you're at it. "
"No!" Little Peach rejected Chen Yu's proposal decisively. "I don't want to leave you."
"It's inconvenient for you to stay at home. I still have my parents and three little sisters. I'm also being monitored by some people. I can't let them discover you," Chen Yu said earnestly.
"I won't.
I know how to turn invisible. Nobody can see me. "
"Invisibility?"
"Yes." Little Peach nodded. A light then flashed across her eyes, and she instantly disappeared...
Except for her clothes.
Holding his forehead, Chen Yu said, "There's still clothes."
"Rip!"
Little Peach's unlined shirt instantly shattered.
"That's it."
Chen Yu: "..."
Three seconds later, Little Peach reappeared and proudly placed her hands on her hips. "I won't be discovered now, right?"
"Mhm, mhm..."
Seeing Chen Yu's fixed gaze, the chip in Little Peach's brain performed some calculations. She then swung her hand and slapped Chen Yu to the ground.
"Annoying!
What are you looking at?! "
…
"Chen Yu, what's wrong with your arm?"
Mother Chen asked with a frown as the Chen family crowded around the dining table for dinner.
"It's dislocated. I hit it while playing basketball," Chen Yu answered vaguely while eating with his left hand.
"Did other students let you touch it?"
"No. I dunked it."
"Dunked?" Looking up at Chen Yu, Father Chen exclaimed, "Amazing, son!
You can even dunk- "
Smack.
Before Father Chen could finish speaking, Mother Chen smashed her chopsticks on his head. "Amazing!
Amazing!
Amazing!
Your son is injured to this extent, yet you're still so amazing?! "
"It's basketball. It's normal to get some minor injuries," Father Chen said as he held his head. He then looked at Chen Yu and said, "Son, perform for me once you've recovered."
"No problem."
"You can even dunk? Your athletic talent is quite good. You take after me."
"Take after you?"
Curling her lips in disdain, Mother Chen said, "It's not like I haven't seen you play football when you were young. When you run, you look like a girl with bound feet. You'll fall with a single knock."
Dissatisfied, Father Chen said, "That's diving!
What do you know?
It's a football tactic! "
"That's right." Picking up a mouthful of food, Mother Chen said, "Diving with the cheerleaders."
Father Chen: "..."
"Hahahaha..."
Cheerful laughter filled the kitchen.
"Mom, how do you know so much?" Chen Yike asked curiously.
"I'm the cheerleader that knocked him down."
"Hahahahaha..."
Outside the kitchen, Little Peach, who was currently invisible, looked at the Chen family's laughter with a blurry gaze.
In the future, asexual reproduction, the rapid increase in human lifespan, and the prevalence of celibacy would cause the concept of familial love to disappear. There would never be a warm scene like the Chen family's...
"From ancient times to the future, what are humans pursuing?"