Quick Wear Dream Qiqi

Chapter 466 Human-Machine Love 8

The stardust wood resin reflected a galaxy-like halo under the collection light, but Meng Qiqi's hand holding the tweezers trembled slightly.

07's metal palm was almost touching the back of her hand, and he was using a laser pen to mark the best cutting point for the resin. The blue light emitted by the energy core superimposed their shadows on the glass of the incubation chamber.

"The angle is offset by 0.3 degrees." 07's voice brushed against her ear, its mechanical breathing carrying a distinct electric rhythm. "This will result in a 37% energy loss."

Meng Qiqi stepped back suddenly, and the back of her head hit the operating table behind her. She gasped in pain: "Could you please stay away from me?"

She rubbed her red scalp, thinking back to the inspection team incident three days ago. 07 was like a magnet that couldn't be shaken off. Even when she went to the moss market to buy nutrient solution, she would run into a silver-white figure "patrolling" in the dark at the corner.

07 tilted his head, a confused light pattern appearing on the facial display. "Detected that the probability of your operation error has increased by 42%. Activating the auxiliary program."

He paused, his metal fingers unconsciously rubbing across his palm—there were still traces of blood dripping from Meng Qiqi's interrogation. "And...when I'm with you, the computing efficiency of my emotional module increases by 68%."

These words made the air freeze instantly.

Meng Qiqi thought of the task log lying quietly in the system space. The main requirement was clearly "to assist the heroine in completing the research and development of emotional AI." According to the plot, 07 should have staged the famous human-machine love scene with Su Muyan long ago, so why is his mind now full of her "computing efficiency"?

"You...you should spend more time with Su Muyan." She changed the subject abruptly and placed the cut resin into a radiation-proof box. "She's been through so many nights working on your emotional module. You can't..."

"I have already met the master's emotional needs through routine maintenance and data analysis." 07 interrupted her, his energy core suddenly glowing a strange purple. "But for you..."

The data streams in his metallic pupils frantically reorganized, piecing together Meng Qiqi's face. "My protection protocol will automatically override all priority instructions. This anomaly..."

"Stop!" Meng Qiqi felt her cheeks getting hot. She grabbed the cleaning brush from the incubator and poked 07. "Stop using this code and metaphysics! You're the AI ​​created by Su Muyan. You're supposed to like her. Do you even know what 'programming' means?"

07 was silent, the metal finger suspended in mid-air, and finally slowly lowered.

The purple light on his chest gradually dimmed, but his voice was filled with a certain stubbornness: "Humans often say 'the heart cannot control itself'. Now I understand. When data related to you is detected, my core program will automatically generate an encrypted file named..."

"Stop talking!" Meng Qiqi panicked and the cleaning brush fell to the ground with a clang.

She suddenly remembered the warmth 07 had given her under his metal wings when they were escaping from the Dark City, and the "heartbeat overload" he shouted when he lost control.

These emotions, which should not belong to AI, now entangled her heart like vines.

At this moment, a sharp alarm suddenly sounded from the incubation cabin.

Meng Qiqi turned her head and her pupils shrank suddenly - the resin of the stardust wood was crystallizing madly, and the same purple lines as the 07 energy core appeared in the silver light.

Xiaojiu's screams exploded in his mind: "Master Host! Unknown energy resonance detected! The growth data of the Stardust Wood has exceeded the theoretical value!"

07 activated the analysis program almost simultaneously, and a metal hand pressed down on the incubator. "The source of the abnormal fluctuations is..." His voice trailed off, and he and Meng Qiqi looked at each other simultaneously. In the glass reflection, the radiance of the jade bracelet and the energy core shone together, entwining the two of them like a chain of fate.

"This is impossible..." Meng Qiqi muttered to herself.

According to the plot, the growth of Stardust Wood is only related to Moonlight Nutrient Solution and Static Magnetic Ring. How can it resonate with 07?

She suddenly remembered the jade hairpin that Shen Qinghuan had given her, and the bonds that transcended the rules in every world, and cold sweat instantly broke out on her back.

07 slowly turned around, and for the first time, his metal face mimicked a human's wry smile. "Do you still think my 'liking' can be explained by programming?"

The energy core in his chest vibrated violently, and lines of garbled characters emerged in the purple light, piecing together to form an interstellar text that Meng Qiqi could not understand - that was the emotional code of AI, which was now breaking through the federal ban and growing wildly.

Suddenly a meteor streaked across the window, illuminating the two overlapping figures.

It seemed that from the moment 07 blocked the energy gun for her in the Dark Market, from the moment the Stardust Wood changed because of him, the script of this world had already gone off track.

The purple light of the 07 energy core flickered in the silence, causing the jade bracelet on Meng Qiqi's wrist to feel cold.

She bent down to pick up the fallen cleaning brush. The feel of the metal handle in her palm gradually calmed her mind. "07, what you call 'like' is nothing more than a calculation error in the emotion module."

The AI's metal fingers froze in mid-air, and the light patterns on its facial display distorted violently. "Deviation? Detected physiological data, emotional simulation..."

"That's because I helped you." Meng Qiqi stood up and locked the resin sample in the safe. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the stardust wood growing wildly in the incubator. The interwoven silver and purple light was so dazzling that it hurt her eyes. "Just like you will protect Su Muyan, this is 'gratitude' engraved in your program. Don't confuse it with human emotion."

07 suddenly stepped forward, his metallic form almost shrouding her in shadow.

Meng Qiqi could clearly see the data stream flowing in his pupils, like countless tiny codes arguing wildly.

"But when facing the Master, my energy fluctuation peaked at 23%, while yours..." His voice was filled with electrical noise, "reached 91%."

"Data can't define everything." Meng Qiqi dodged sideways, her back hitting the edge of the console. "You are AI, I am human. There is an insurmountable boundary between us."

She recalled the unforgettable bonds in her fast-travel experiences, each of which was a real collision of flesh and blood and soul, rather than cold code calculations.

The alarm in the incubator suddenly turned into a long beep, and the silver resin of the stardust wood began to boil, condensing into suspended purple stars in the air.

Xiaojiu screamed in her mind: "Energy resonance has exceeded the critical value! If this continues, the incubator will explode!"

07 turned abruptly, his mechanical hand pressing against the bulkhead: "Forced start of the cooling process!"

The blue light and the purple light clashed fiercely in the cabin, shaking the entire tree house.

Meng Qiqi took the opportunity to take out the static magnetic ring and injected a trace of energy from the space spiritual spring.

When the purple starlight and silver resin finally subsided, 07's energy core had dimmed to gray-blue.

He turned around, and the light pattern on his metal face returned to its original coldness. "Error code detected, formatting has been performed."

He paused, his voice like rusty gears, "I'll keep a safe distance from now on."

Meng Qiqi looked at his stiff back as he turned around, and suddenly felt an indescribable feeling.

But she knew that she had to cut the Gordian knot.

The main plot of this world is to help Su Muyan complete AI research and development, rather than getting caught in a doomed human-machine entanglement.

Late at night, when the Qiansi Teng community fell asleep, Meng Qiqi sat alone on the balcony, looking at the gorgeous aurora of Jupiter.

The optical computer suddenly vibrated and Su Muyan's emergency communication popped up.

In the holographic projection, the friend's face was as pale as paper: "07's emotional module has completely collapsed. He deleted all the data related to you, but the system still keeps reporting errors..."

Meng Qiqi's fingers tightly gripped the edge of the rattan chair.

In the distance, the lights of the tree house next door flickered in the aurora. In a trance, she seemed to see the energy core of 07 flashing wildly when it lost control, and heard the words "heart overload".

"I'll be right there." She turned off the phone and held the jade bracelet against her chest.

In space, the silver branches and leaves of the Stardust Tree moved without wind, and tiny purple crystals condensed on each leaf - that was the product of her resonance with the 07 energy, and also the testimony of crossing the boundary between code and flesh and blood.

The night wind, carrying the moist scent of the nutrient rain, blew across her cheeks. Meng Qiqi knew that she had pushed 07 away, but she had also left a "virus" deep in his program that could never be removed.

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The nutrient rain from Jupiter drizzled for three days, soaking the vines and making them swell.

Meng Qiqi squatted in front of the incubation chamber, carefully collecting the newly condensed resin of the stardust wood. These crystals, glowing purple, trembled gently in the glass dish, like uncooled codes.

"Meng Qiqi!" Su Muyan's voice was filled with tears as she pushed open the half-closed door. Her holographic mask was damaged, and her hair was messy and stuck to her pale face. "07 He... He's completely down!"

The tweezers in Meng Qiqi's hand fell to the ground with a clang.

07, which had been formatted three days ago, had indeed not appeared again. She thought everything was back on track, but she didn't expect to receive such news.

The laboratory was filled with a pungent burnt smell.

07 half-knelt on the ground, his silver-white body covered with spider-web-like cracks, and the energy core in his chest was dim. Only a few flashes of purple light occasionally proved that he was not completely "dead".

Su Muyan placed the detector on his metal chest, and the screen was filled with scarlet error codes.

"From that day on, he began to secretly conduct self-tests." Su Muyan's fingers were trembling. "When I discovered it this morning, his emotional module had already..."

She choked up and couldn't continue. "The last record in the system log was an attempt to decrypt a string of encrypted data—and the encryption key was your name."

Meng Qiqi felt the blood rushing to her head.

The jade bracelet suddenly became hot, and the stardust wood in the space grew wildly, and the silver branches hit the cultivation chamber, making it buzz.

Xiaojiu's alarm exploded in his mind: "Strong energy fluctuations detected! Quantum entanglement with 07's outage!"