The wind chimes rang, An Yu struggled to open the heavy glass door, and the sounds of the boys and girls playing in the store broke into his ears.
Ling Qiu, who was choosing bread in front of the shelf with her back to him, turned around when he heard the sound, looked down, and then smiled at him in surprise, "Lop-eared rabbit? You rabbits also like to eat bread?"
An Yu nodded and said "Yeah".
Ling Qiu moved away, "Here, come and choose. Do you need my help?"
Before An Yu could answer, Ling Qiu strode towards him, "Come on, you're welcome."
He bent down and lifted An Yu up to the top two shelves of the bread rack, "Pick slowly, don't be in a hurry."
An Yu felt the warmth in the palms of his hands and stared at the shelves in a daze.
After a while, he scanned the labels and silently took out a multi-cheese sourdough bag.
Ling Qiu sniffed and said, "Hey! We are very destined. My brother and I both like this one."
The bread was very big, the size of a human family suit. An Yu was now just a two-headed rabbit, and the bread was almost as tall as him. He held the bread in his arms with some difficulty and asked in a low voice: "Does your brother like this kind of bread very much?"
Ling Qiu put him on the ground, raised his eyebrows and whistled, and put the same kind of bread into his tray one after another, "He likes bread made from solid and tough coarse wheat kernels, without adding any expensive icing." and fat, the rough and primitive texture can bring him a sense of security. There are hundreds of kinds of bread in the main city, but this is the only one that suits his taste best."
An Yu curled his lips, "It sounds like a silly dog's taste."
When the soldiers nearby heard this, they all shouted, "How can you talk like a rabbit?"
"Alas!" Ling Qiu stretched out his hand to stop them, and naturally took two steps towards An Yu, putting his body between him and the soldier, and smiled at him: "I'm sorry, my military fire is strong, isn't it? I deliberately want to scare you. You are right, it tastes like a silly dog, but I have always felt that when people in the main city are rich enough, they will also like the most original bread. After all, it will always be a silly dog who can lead the world. "
An Yu lowered his head and hugged the bread tightly without saying a word. The light cast his shadow to the ground, and his two drooping ears twitched slightly.
"Hey, aren't you? Are you so timid?" Ling Qiu knelt down and looked down at his face, "My brother is braver than you."
"I'm not afraid." An Yu whispered and put the bread back on the shelf next to him. "I'm not here to buy bread. I'm just passing by to take a look. I'm leaving."
He said and turned around to walk towards the door. Just as he opened the door, he couldn't help but turn around.
Ling Qiu standing under the light was more vivid and clear than in memory.
Ling Qiu went to pay the bill with the tray in her arms. She took the huge bread bag amidst everyone's joking "You're already a colonel and you're still so frugal." Then she pulled a small paper bag from the side and turned around and walked towards An Yu. .
"Wait a minute!" he shouted.
An Yu hesitated for a moment, and could only squeeze his plush body between the cracks of the half-open door, and was squeezed until it hurt.
Ling Qiu came over and stretched out her foot to block the door for him. She squatted down and took out a piece of bread and put it into a separate small paper bag. "Here, take it and eat it."
An Yu was stunned for a moment, "Give it to me?"
"Yeah. No money."
"Why?"
"You and my brother have very similar tastes." Ling Qiu smiled heartily: "I send him bread every now and then, but I never receive a reply. I don't know if he has received it. If I give you a piece of bread, just treat it as food. My brother."
An Yu's mind went blank, and when he came to his senses, he was already standing on the roadside holding the piece of bread.
The group of soldiers had already lined up and ran away. Before bidding farewell, Ling Qiu even pulled his ear and said that he would bring his soldiers here to buy supper every night. As long as they met, he could treat him to a piece of bread every night until he was gone. The conscientious brother replied.
"You're kidding." Ling Qiu laughed and ran back, "I can treat you to food after he replies. Your eager eyes are exactly the same as when he was a child. Let's go."
An Yu stood with the bread in his arms on the street where cars were passing by, looking at the figure walking away from him, his vision gradually blurring.
"Why are you crying?" Qin Zhilu walked to him and said in a calm tone, "Back in Area 53, you just shed a tear belatedly."
An Yu buried his head in the bread, and the aroma of sourdough bread filled his nostrils. He whispered: "I'm very sad, sir. He... our guess was shattered. His words and deeds were very vivid. It can't be..." Mo Li’s chosen target.”
"Well, it failed, which is indeed not good news." Qin Zhilu said calmly, "I do have good news, do you want to hear it?"
An Yu nodded.
"The Black Tower secretly monitored the female college student. Uncharacteristically, she signed up for a night run this afternoon that she had resisted before - tomorrow night. It seems that Mo Li is enjoying life in the real world very much, at least for twenty-four hours. I'll be back." Qin Zhilu paused, "If you want, I can accompany you here again tomorrow night to blackmail Lingqiu for a piece of bread."
An Yu struggled to raise his head from the bread, "Won't it slow down the progress of the mission?"
"Perhaps." Qin Zhilu looked matter-of-factly, "But you are a human being, Shangfeng is a human being, and all those facing the downside risks of AI are also human beings. They should be considerate of human emotions."
An Yu didn't know what to say for a moment. Qin Zhilu stared at him and suddenly said, "Your eyes are red."
"Um?"
"The mechanism of the lop-eared rabbit's eyes changing color is the same as your own. Therefore, except when it loses control and goes crazy, I have never seen its red eyes." Qin Zhilu said in a low voice: "It's so unexpected to see it. adapt."
Before An Yu could react, he saw the smooth tentacles in front of him suddenly moving towards him, firmly and cautiously hugging his shoulders, and then slowly tightened.
Qin Zhilu held him in his arms, paused for a moment, lowered his head and kissed him gently.
This time, it was no longer a kiss on the forehead, but on the eyes and cheeks, and it stayed there for a long time.
"Furry," he whispered in his ear.
An Yu stood stunned beside the busy street.
Like an illusion, kissing these places gave him a different feeling from being kissed on the forehead before.
"Sir..."
"I didn't have time to give it to you in Area 53." Qin Zhilu held him in his ear and whispered: "I hope it's not too late to make up for it now."
Chapter 78 AI Consciousness Cloud Island·78
An Yu felt like he had been kissed for a long time.
The embrace that held him gradually gained warmth, and it hugged him warmly, making him feel like he was in the real world. Like every ordinary and luxurious city dweller, he had the last bit of human prosperity, and was like.
Be loved.
My heartbeat suddenly missed a few beats.
"Are you cold?" Qin Zhilu stretched out his hand and pinched An Yu's nose. "The tip of his nose is cold."
He grabbed An Yu's paw with his human hand and led him back. "My brain took stock of the population of the main city that had been registered dead and made a list of the five most likely to be selected by Mo Li. Ling Qiu was one of them." One, after excluding him, we have to find the remaining four people."
An Yu responded in a low voice. He wanted to free his hand, but as soon as he took a step, the instinct to jump up made him give up the idea.
21's body was as hard to use as a stiff machine. Even suppressing the instinct to jump one step at a time was an insurmountable task. As he walked, he wondered whether rabbits were such low-level creatures.
Qin Zhilu glanced at him, "What are you thinking about?"
An Yu raised his head. The rabbit's golden eyes were more blank than those of humans. The pupils turned around. He asked softly: "Sir, you usually use the terminal to interact with 21, and do you often hug and kiss it?"
"No." Qin Zhilu looked back to the front and continued walking, "Why do you think so?"
An Yu's mind was a little stuck. There was too little learning data for 21, and he seemed to have returned to his original state because of this, making it difficult to cope with such rhetorical questions.
Qin Zhilu didn't mean to wait for his answer, and calmly explained: "21 is just an AI raised on the server. It was not it that shocked me during the mission, it was not it that secretly read my memory, and it accompanied me to eliminate the abnormal trend. It's not the one who defended me in front of the Black Tower, it's not the one who owes me a huge sum of money and a cart of bread——"
Qin Zhilu turned his head and looked down at An Yu, "Didn't Ling Qiu teach you that you shouldn't use hugs and kisses to express care in general social relationships?"
An Yu thought for a few seconds with his 21-degree brain, and shook his head slightly, "He didn't teach me. Maybe he thought I would never experience this."
Qin Zhilu made no comment, and An Yu asked in a low voice: "What is an unusual social relationship?"
"Everyone's standards are different." Qin Zhilu replied, "In my standards, those just now are the ones."
An Yu's inflexible rabbit's foot stumbled in the open space.
Then he heard Qin Zhilu say to himself: "Of course, I didn't expect that I would encounter such a set of standards."
An Yu didn't understand the meaning of the commander's whisper.
21's brain is really not very good at thinking about people and the world. If he thinks hard, he will obviously feel that his brain is stuck and his thinking will fall into a state of emptiness.
After Mo Li abandoned Wu Ju, the female college student she chose this time was named Bai Yu. She obviously didn't expect that humans would understand her new identity so quickly, and she was immersed in the real world. After signing up for the night run the next day, she was dragged by her classmates to the bakery to stock up on food. This time she could no longer calculate the queue and queued outside the store for a full two hours.
The moment she stepped into the bakery, An Yu and Qin Zhilu on Yundao stopped and read the surveillance footage of the real world.
"Good evening--"
Xu Shuangshuang raised his head from the account book, his eyes only paused on Bai Yu for a moment, then he walked to the door of the store and turned over the "Bread will be sold out" sign, revealing "Today's reception is over, thank you for waiting." .
The guests at the back dispersed sadly. Bai Yu and his classmates looked at each other, and the classmates smiled and said, "I'm so lucky today."
Bai Yu winked playfully, "It seems like you were right to hook me up. I've always been very lucky."
The message from 716 through the terminal appeared in front of An Yu.
-This wink and this sentence are very typical of Mo Li's words and deeds. It must be her, it can't be wrong.
An Yu whispered: "Don't let her discover 21's abnormality."
-rest assured. She only knows that 21 is the AI set by Qin Zhilu, and she probably cannot be 100% sure that 21 is your reflection.
There was not much bread left on the shelves, so Bai Yu let his classmates pick first and rounded the remaining ones himself. She came to Xu Shuangshuang with a tray and turned around to scan the dining sofa area in the store - 21 was sitting there, with her back to the cashier, leaning on the table and poking at the terminal.
"Your boss will continue to live in the store today." She showed her ID card to Xu Shuangshuang for accounting, "Didn't the store resume its normal closing pace?"
Xu Shuangshuang lowered his head and copied his ID, and said lazily: "He has to help me reconcile the accounts. He has been in business for so many days and owes a lot of handwritten accounts. He can't run away!"
Bai Yu smiled and said mysteriously in a low voice: "I heard that your boss is related to the Black Tower and the Spire. He usually lives in the Spire."
Xu Shuangshuang raised his eyebrows in surprise and lowered his voice, "I didn't know it was so detailed. How did you know?"
"Hmm..." Bai Yu turned his eyes and said with a smile: "The Bagua post showed that he seems to be often picked up and dropped off by cars from the Black Tower and the Spire."
"It turns out that's the car from Black Tower and Minaret -" Xu Shuangshuang skillfully put the bread into the paper bag one by one, and said in a lower voice: "No wonder the guy who often picks up the boss looks so scary, tsk, he's not easy to mess with. .”
Bai Yu said "Huh?" "What guy..."
Before he finished speaking, the curtain behind the counter was suddenly opened, and a figure wearing a black windbreaker walked out of it.
Black eyes swept over Bai Yu's face, and without stopping for a moment, the leather gloves took away the thick handwritten books from Xu Shuang's hands.
"that's it?"
The voice was cold, not arrogant, but a sense of alienation that was naturally restrained to the extreme.
Xu Shuangshuang nodded quickly, "Ah, yes, I've been here for the past few days."
"Um."
The military boots stepped on the ground steadily without making any noise. The figure strode towards the sofa and soon stood in front of 21.
He reached out and removed 21's terminal, gently but not negotiable.
