"Lao Ba, what are you thinking about?" Huo Yu looked at Lao Ba's thoughtful look and asked, suppressing a smile.
The Arctic wolf was stunned for a moment and began to stick out his tongue and wag his tail carelessly.
It doesn’t matter whether he is the sixth or eighth child, as long as he has something to eat.
"I'll eat later. I have something to do now." Huo Yu had long been accustomed to the arrogant behavior of Arctic wolves and patted Lao Ba's head.
Although Xiaoba has such bad habits, his father, Laoba, still likes to be clean, and he looks very handsome. His hair is smooth, shiny and free of stray hairs, otherwise he would not be able to find a wife.
The ratio of male wolves to female wolves in the wolf pack is about 3:2, which results in many male wolves still being single.
Huo Yu has been thinking about when to bring back a few female wolves to improve the situation of the wolf pack's yang and yin decline.
When Lao Ba heard Huo Yu's words, he immediately stopped begging for food, squatted at Huo Yu's feet, and helped Huo Yu watch the surroundings vigilantly.
If you didn't look carefully, you would really think it was a competent police dog.
Huo Yu smiled and ignored it. He closed his eyes and started to communicate with the system.
"System, I want to build an ice wall."
"Ding! It is found that the host scientific research station already has an ice fence. You can choose to expand the fence or purchase a new fence."
Huo Yu asked: "What's the difference between the two?"
“Extending the wall only costs a small number of consent points for the length of the extension, but can only extend from the existing wall.”
"Purchasing a new fence can be done at a random location, but it will cost the full price."
"Please host choose."
Huo Yu put his chin with his hand and began to think seriously.
In my plan, the new wall was originally built to be integrated with the old wall.
Once separated, it will be equivalent to dividing the new four areas from the old area of the scientific research station, forming five independent courtyards, which will be more difficult to defend.
From this point of view, expansion should be more cost-effective.
To be on the safe side, Huo Yu asked first: "System, how much does it cost to expand the fence?"
"Each meter of new ice wall will cost 100 recognition points, and purchasing a new wall will cost 1,000,000 recognition points."
Huo Yu nodded and did a little mental calculation.
The planting area and the residential area are each rectangular one hundred meters long and fifty meters wide, with a circumference of 300 meters.
The two small courtyards at the front and back are squares with a length of 50 and a width of 50, with a circumference of 200 meters.
The total is one thousand meters. If it is expanded, it only requires 100,000 recognition points. The price difference is ten times, and even a fool knows how to choose.
“I chose to expand.”
"Ding! Please host choose the expansion range."
The system beeped, and the floor plan of Scientific Research Station 249 appeared again in Huo Yu's mind.
Huo Yu skillfully selected the expansion area. To be conservative, he asked the system again: "If it needs to be rebuilt in the future, can these walls still be rebuilt?"
"If you need to change the fence, you only need to delete the old fence or edit a new fence. Deleting the old fence will not deduct the approval points. You only need to make up for the required approval points for the extra length."
"Okay, let's start the expansion."
Rumble——
There was a loud noise, and Lao Ba, who was sitting at Huo Yu's feet, suddenly stood up and looked around with cold and wary wolf eyes.
The other Arctic wolves who were scattered around the 249 research station looking for the wreckage of the drone also turned around following the sound, and saw the ice wall gradually rising from the ice, with curious eyes in their eyes.
Several walls made of ice rose from the ground, and a large sheet of snow mist rose from the center of the scientific research station, covering it.
"Ouch."
The Wolf King understood that this was Huo Yu's method and gave an order to his subordinates.
The other Arctic wolves then withdrew their curious gazes and continued to look for the drones shot down by Huoyu.
"Ding! The construction is completed, please check it with the host."
Hearing the system prompt in his ear, Huo Yu suddenly became curious: "System, what on earth are you?"
"..."
The system's silence was completely unexpected by Huo Yu.
The reason for asking this question is because Huo Yu feels that today's system is different from the past.
Although the previous system could answer Huo Yu's various questions, it was more like a programmed artificial intelligence that could only reply to fixed sentences according to the questions.
The level of intelligence is only a little higher than that of Tmall Elf and Xiao Ai...
But as time went by, Huo Yu felt that the system was becoming more and more intelligent.
Today it can even analyze it by itself and give Huo Yu two suggestions, which was impossible before.
Seeing that the system chose to play dumb, Huo Yu became even more convinced of his conjecture.
In fact, Huo Yu had no suspicion of the system.
Without the system, there would not be the current icekeeper Huo Yu, let alone meet the small fish, and experience so many wonderful things in the Arctic.
But Huo Yu didn't want to keep fooling around like this, especially knowing that there is a special group of favored people in this world.
"System? Aren't you also involved in Jiji's secret?" Huo Yu continued to ask.
"As the number of identification points used by the host increases, my intelligence will continue to improve."
The sound of the system was still cold, but it was like a bolt from the blue in Huo Yu's ears.
Because this is the first time he has heard it, the system will describe itself as 'I'.
When communicating with Huo Yu before, the system's voice felt more like a narration to him, just a tool for the system to communicate with himself.
But now, Huo Yu had to wonder if it had developed self-awareness.
And is it a good thing for a self-aware thing to be hidden in one's own mind?
"So, do you have anything to do with the pole?"
The system was silent for a moment, and finally said: "I don't know either."
have no idea?
In Huo Yu's mind, the system has always been an omniscient and omnipotent existence. How could he not know this?
But no matter how Huo Yu asked, the system stopped answering, as if it had returned to its previous state of no self-awareness.
Huo Yu sighed and stood there and started thinking.
He wouldn't start to distrust the system because of this incident. After all, with the system's ability, if he wanted to harm himself, he would have succeeded long ago.
Moreover, it is not a bad thing for the system to generate self-awareness and higher-level intelligence, so that it will have an artificial intelligence helper that surpasses the world's top, just like Jarvis in Iron Man.
It's just that this thing is indeed a bit fantasy. A computer hidden in one's head suddenly becomes a spirit, and anyone who puts it on will be confused for a while.
Since he couldn't find out the truth anyway, Huo Yu shook his head and simply stopped asking.
He had just taken a few steps forward, ready to take a look at the newly built wall, when a thought suddenly occurred to him and he stopped abruptly.
The system is so capable. Could it be that the trust I have in the system deep in my heart was also instilled in my subconscious by it?
