Don’t Covet the Beautiful System!!

The first day of Jiangyuan University's recommendation examination is a written test, and the second day is an interview.

There are many subjects in the written test, and the time is very tight, one after another. When the last test is over in the evening, the high school students who can finally bring their bags home are exhausted.

Everyone left the classroom one after another and walked towards the school gate. Many parents were waiting at the gate. When they saw their children coming out, they immediately waved and called, and there were many noisy voices at once.

In the dark crowd, Pei Qingyuan saw Ji Tong at a glance.

"elder brother-"

He was also wearing a beige sweater and a dark blue scarf embroidered with white mushrooms. He looked like a miniature version of Pei Qingyuan.

As soon as Ji Tong saw the host, he immediately jumped up and waved to him: "Are you thirsty? I bought a drink!"

Standing behind him is a tall and big adult man, blocking other people who might squeeze over. He wears a pair of sunglasses on his face, and there is an aura of not getting close to strangers all over his body, but he holds three glasses of drinks in his left hand. He holds two boxes of egg tarts in his right hand.

As soon as Ji Tong spoke, he cooperatively lifted up the snacks in his hand and showed them to Pei Qingyuan.

Seeing how well prepared this group of family members were, the other students couldn't help casting envious glances.

After the exam, there are drinks, desserts, a cute younger brother, and a tall and mighty... bodyguard?

Pei Qingyuan walked quickly towards the two of them. He couldn't help but think that Fang Hao still looked pretty good when he was not talking, which was very suitable for the identity of the bodyguard arranged by the mysterious rich man for his youngest son.

But when you open your mouth...

As soon as he walked to Ji Tong's side, he heard Fang Hao whisper, "Shall we go home directly? My building blocks haven't finished yet."

Ji Tong gave him a mushroom scarf as a gift for the arrival of winter, and also gave Fang Hao a set of exquisite-looking assembled building blocks.

This caused Fang Hao to abandon flying chess, and sat in front of the coffee table in the living room every day, obsessed with building blocks. There was a table with various parts. In addition, Pei Qingyuan was studying circuits and mechanical welding recently, and bought a lot of parts. The whole Suddenly, there was an atmosphere of an underground factory in the house.

Like all parents who are concerned about their children's grades, Ji Tong was concerned when he saw the host: "Brother, how do you feel after the exam?"

He knew that Pei Qingyuan must have done very well in the exam, but the necessary procedures must be followed. If other candidates have candidates, his host must also have them.

Pei Qingyuan nodded: "The grades should be good."

The people around were also having similar conversations, Pei Qingyuan gathered the soft scarf around his neck, he took the drink in Fang Hao's hand, and took Ji Tong who was imitating his movements and tossing the scarf: "Let's go home. "

He became more and more used to this once unfamiliar words.

In the winter when dusk is approaching, each family walks towards home amidst laughter.

There was still an interview to be held the next day. Pei Qingyuan was not nervous about this occasion. There was nothing special to prepare for. He was still researching the assembly of jelly bean robots as usual. If he encountered any problems, he would go to the forum for help.

The only strange thing is that there are two netizens who seem particularly enthusiastic.

Not long after Pei Qingyuan asked the question, they answered it seriously.

After Pei Qingyuan finished thanking him, he asked some seemingly unconstrained questions about convenience.

[He Hehe: No thanks, no thanks, boss, can I ask you a question? ]

[Netizen 6391323: I'm not a boss, you can ask. ]

[Hehehe: I want to ask, what is your home like? ]

[Netizen 6391323: ...? ]

[Hehehe: I don't want to spy on your privacy, that is, can you describe how your daily environment makes you feel? ]

Pei Qingyuan looked blankly at Ji Tong who was joining in the fun, and Ji Tong also looked back blankly.

"Generally, this kind of enthusiast's home will have a special workshop, full of tools and parts." Ji Tong tried to conduct a rational analysis, "Maybe he wants to know how obsessed the host is with this hobby."

Pei Qingyuan thinks it makes sense.

He turned his head to look at Fang Hao who was still hard at work putting together building blocks in the living room, and looked at the building blocks and mechanical parts scattered all over the room, and replied honestly.

[Netizen 6391323: Like a factory. ]

[He Hehe:! ! I see! ]

...understand what?

[Netizen 6391323: What do you understand? ]

[Hehehe: I understand what you want me to understand! ]

[Hehehe: Boss, if you have any questions, you can ask me directly, and I will definitely answer them properly! ]

Pei Qingyuan: ...

Ji Tong: ...

In the confusion of the two looking at each other, the night passed quietly.

In the afternoon of the next day, Pei Qingyuan continued to go to Jiangyuan University to attend the interview according to the stipulated time.

When he walked past the two seniors who came to help, he vaguely heard their chatting excitedly.

"...He must be the kind of maverick Frankenstein, with gray hair, but full of childlike innocence, likes to play tricks on people, has a huge basement, or lives in an abandoned factory, with dim green lights shining everywhere, countless strange shapes robots are placed on display racks…”

It seems to be talking about science fiction movies.

Sounds like a story Ji Tong would love.

Thinking this way, Pei Qingyuan calmly passed by them.

The interview went very smoothly. His psychological quality and cultural level were very good. His knowledge and experience in artificial intelligence also greatly exceeded the expectations of the teachers present. with no doubt.

In order to avoid suspicion, Xiao Jianping did not participate in the interview, but when Pei Qingyuan finished the interview and was about to pick up Ji Tong at the school gate, Xiao Jianping rushed over.

As soon as he saw him, the teacher of the School of Artificial Intelligence who had just walked out of the examination room laughed, "I told you that you can't be idle, and you will definitely come."

"There's no class today. How is it? How is Xiao Pei doing?"

"I can't say yes." The teacher deliberately paused, looking at his nervous eyes and panting, "I can only say it's great."

"I said, Old Xiao, where did you find all these seedlings? Really, even high school students can't escape your eyes..."

"That's good." Xiao Jianping breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled, "Luck, it's all about luck."

"Hello, Professor Xiao." Pei Qingyuan stopped and greeted him proactively.

"I've worked **** the exam, and I can have a good rest tomorrow weekend." Xiao Jianping said with a smile, "Are you ready to go home?"

Pei Qingyuan replied truthfully: "I made an appointment with my friend to have dinner in the cafeteria of Jiangyuan University, and now I'm going to pick him up at the school gate."

Fang Hao's building blocks have reached the most critical stage, and he is like an old monk in meditation, so Ji Tong decided not to disturb him, and came to find the host alone for dinner.

He searched the gourmet website and learned that there is a special dish in the cafeteria of Jiangyuan University that is delicious, so he decided to take the opportunity of the host exam to come and taste it.

Xiao Jianping understood as soon as he heard it: "Are you going to eat that deep-fried egg yolk shrimp? There is a limited amount every day, so you have to queue up, and you won't be able to eat it if you go late."

Pei Qingyuan nodded, and heard Xiao Jianping proudly say: "You might as well come to my house to eat, I know this dish."

Seeing Pei Qingyuan's unexpected eyes, Xiao Jianping explained: "My wife also likes this taste, so I went to learn from the chef in the cafeteria. She said that my cooking is better than the cafeteria."

"Let's go, you pick up your friends and come home, I'll go buy some shrimp and other vegetables, just as Xinchen is coming back from school for the weekend." Xiao Jianping said, "My home is in the staff dormitory of the school, very close, my wife I already said I wanted to see you."

Xiao Jianping often calls and sends messages with Pei Qingyuan to discuss academic issues, and Xiao Xinchen also mentions the black and white love cat mushroom that Pei Qingyuan picked up from time to time, making Shi Yuelan, the only member of the family of three who has never seen Pei Qingyuan, very curious about him.

Hearing Xiao Jianping mentioning his lover, Pei Qingyuan no longer hesitated, and nodded in agreement: "Then trouble Professor Xiao."

Pei Qingyuan thought about taking advantage of this time to come to the exam, thank Xiao Jianping for his help during this time, and treat him to a meal, but after all, he is a foreign examinee, and Xiao Jianping is a teacher in our school, so he is worried that it will cause him something bad Influence.

Since Xiao Jianping didn't care, of course he couldn't refuse.

"If there's any trouble, don't bother. I'll go to buy vegetables, and you will pick up someone. I'll meet you at the entrance of the staff dormitory in a while."

But when Xiao Jianping came back with a bag of vegetables and saw Pei Qingyuan and the friends he picked up, he was still surprised.

"Your friend...is quite small."

Pei Qingyuan and the children around him wore the same sweater and scarf. They looked like a pair of brothers with a huge height difference, which was very eye-catching.

"Yeah." Pei Qingyuan didn't change his face, "I'm a kid I know as a tutor."

"Hello, Uncle Xiao." Ji Tong greeted Xiao Jianping very politely, "Thank you for inviting me to dinner."

"Hey, you're welcome, you're so sensible."

Xiao Jianping was instantly captured by the cute little friend. As soon as he entered the house, Shi Yuelan, who was sitting in a wheelchair, was quickly amused by this strange little guest, and directed the robot Xiao Ming to bring him candy and snacks.

Not long after, Xiao Xinchen came back from school, and the room became even more lively.

Xiao Jianping was busy in the kitchen, while Xiao Xinchen told the other people who were waiting for dinner in an exaggerated tone what happened in school today. Shi Yuelan couldn't stop laughing, and Pei Qingyuan's expression was much softer.

He found that Ji Tong was very curious about the humanoid robot Xiao Ming designed by Xiao Jianping to accompany Shi Yuelan.

When Xiao Ming didn't get instructions, he would stand aside respectfully with his hands down.

The adults were chatting, and Ji Tong took a stool and sat beside it, talking to him without blinking.

"Hello what is your name?"

Xiao Ming was awakened, opened his eyes and looked at Ji Tong, who was close at hand, with a clear voice.

"Are you calling me?"

"right."

"Oh, hello, my name is Xiao Ming, tomorrow's Ming."

"Xiao Ming, what can you do?"

"I can do many things, you can tell me what you need me to do."

Ji Tong couldn't figure out what to do with it for a while, he propped his chin with his hands, and looked at its body designed completely like a human with his bright eyes.

"It's nice that you can walk and carry things."

Xiao Ming seemed to understand his instructions: "Do you need me to take a few steps to see? OK."

The robot immediately opened its legs, walked up and down, and walked back and forth twice in a serious manner to show him, Ji Tong smiled instantly.

Shi Yuelan, who was watching from the sidelines, was about to become cute: "It's so cute, even cuter than Xinchen when she was a child."

Xiao Xinchen, who was being compared, did not refute. He thought for a while and said, "I think this kid looks like a cat mushroom."

Pei Qingyuan was about to be surprised by his keen intuition, when Shi Yuelan said: "Here it goes again, you silly boy, last time you pointed at the Chow Chow on TV and said it looked like a mushroom..."

Pei Qingyuan paused, and stopped his surprise in time.

Surrounded by warm and simple decorations, the aroma of food permeates everywhere, and the rumbling noise of the range hood can't hide the laughter in the room.

Xiao Jianping, who was free to wait for the water in the pot to boil, poked his head out of the kitchen, listened curiously to what they were talking about, interrupted occasionally, and was rushed back to the kitchen by his lover soon after.

This is the most ordinary and the most distant home.

Pei Qingyuan saw the photo frame on the table, and the younger Xiao Jianping was sitting beside Shi Yuelan, holding a small baby in his arms, laughing heartily. His facial features and this slightly silly smile were very similar to the current Xiao Xinchen.

Xiao Xinchen and Xiao Jianping are very similar, and the enthusiastic temperament of the second-year middle school is almost carved out of the same mold.

Most of the time, people's actions carry the imprint of family or people close to them.

He couldn't help but think about the level of technology in the world where the system was sent to create an AI system full of personality like Ji Tong and Fang Hao.

Ji Tong said that he was the first host he bound.

So what does the system do every day before it comes to the host?

How did such a smart and advanced artificial intelligence "grow up"?

Pei Qingyuan looked at Ji Tong who was trying to shake hands with Xiao Ming, full of curiosity, but didn't know how to ask.

The meal was a joy for both the host and the guests. Xiao Jianping's cooking skills are very good, Shi Yuelan is gentle and kind, the lively Xiao Xinchen has endless words to say, and there is also a smart and clumsy robot Xiao Ming who is quietly waiting by the side, ready to serve everyone at any time. Serve.

Pei Qingyuan and Ji Tong almost reluctantly bid farewell to this family.

Walking on the street at night, the moonlight in the winter night was bright and cold, and the wind was bitter. Ji Tong wrapped most of his face with a mushroom scarf, only revealing a pair of bright eyes looking at him.

"Ruan Ruan, are you happy today?"

"happy."

"I'm happy too."

After he finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at the way home ahead. Pei Qingyuan could only see the faint moonlight falling on the top of his hair.

Strangely, that unexplained depression and sadness welled up in his heart again.

Along with this complex emotion came that white dream.

After saying goodnight to Ji Tong, Pei Qingyuan, who had a rare insomnia, had a premonition and let himself gradually sink into a familiar dream.

After returning from Chengde, the frequency of Pei Qingyuan's dream decreased, and the figure of the strange boy's back was gradually blurred in his memory until it resurfaced tonight.

When I came back to that spotless room, the overflowing loneliness was still suffocating.

There were still huge fairy-tale mushrooms floating outside the window. The boy was sitting by the bed holding a book. His figure was infinitely elongated by the sunlight and fell on Pei Qingyuan who was nearby, like a wall separating the two worlds.

He stared at this thin figure, and after an unknown amount of time, he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

Dreams are illogical fragments spliced ​​incoherently.

After the door was knocked, a carefully wrapped gift appeared on the cabinet next to the boy's bed.

This gift looked very clean, as if it had been sterilized inside and out. The overly clean texture matched the young man's pale and thin fingers. He opened the gift extremely carefully.

It contains a nearly oval object with a black shell, the front and bottom are flat, and can be placed stably on the table.

Pei Qingyuan quickly recognized that this is a smart product with a screen, which is very common in the market. It can be used as a speaker to play music or video, but the definition is usually not high.

After the appearance of the only blackness, the intense loneliness gradually faded away.

He saw the boy quietly read the manual for a long time before pressing the power button lightly.

The boot music sounded, and the cheerful melody filled the entire space.

The screen turned from dark to bright, and a fancy UI interface appeared. A small pea-green robot animation popped up in the center of the screen. It blinked its big eyes and said "Hi" with a slightly stiff mechanical female voice.

The young man was taken aback, and subconsciously backed away. This action made Pei Qingyuan smile.

Sounds and colors finally appeared in the lonely room, and he felt happy for the strange boy.

Although he still couldn't see the boy's face, he seemed to be able to imagine the surprised expression on the boy's face.

After hesitating for a long time, the boy spoke.

"Hello what is your name?"

This was the first time Pei Qingyuan heard the boy speak.

Completely different from the silent space and the thin back, this voice is clear and clear, with cautious expectations, like the warm sunshine falling on the cheeks in winter.

In the illusory dream, Pei Qingyuan felt a sense of familiarity.

"Hello, master, my name is Xiaomei."

The mechanical female voice answered him like this.

Hearing this answer, Pei Qingyuan was startled.

There was a lightness in the boy's voice: "Xiaomei."

"Why."

He called a second time, with faint joy: "Xiaomei."

"I am here."

The third time was undisguised happiness: "Xiaomei."

"Why."

It appears that there are only two modes of answering.

The boy called it many times, listened to the two answers alternately many times, and finally stopped in satisfaction and changed a question.

"Xiaomei, what can you do?"

He focused on this pure black smart product, and the brightly colored little robot on the screen kept blinking, as if looking at him.

"Xiaomei can play videos, music, and radio programs for the owner. If the owner is in a bad mood, Xiaomei can also tell jokes to make the owner happy."

After the mechanical female voice finished speaking in short pauses, she added slowly in a cadenced tone: "Xiaomei has many functions, she is very smart, maybe sometimes the response is slower, but master, please don't hate her." Xiaomei, Xiaomei will study hard."

Pei Qingyuan, who was watching, thought, this is a soft-sounding lie.

He now has a certain understanding of artificial intelligence. Through the functional partitions on the screen interface and the fluency of the voice, he can judge that the intelligence of the product in front of him is limited. The AI ​​itself is not smart and advanced, and can only answer the simplest questions. and operation, only the preset self-introduction content is more user-friendly.

But the young man listened carefully, and every time Xiaomei paused, he would nod, as if he remembered every sentence in his heart.

After Xiaomei finished speaking the preset sentences, she asked questions in a rigid tone.

"Master, what do you need Xiaomei to do for you?"

The young man thought for a while. He had too many things to do, and he couldn't prioritize them for a while. It wasn't until the screen that didn't receive instructions gradually went dark, and Xiaomei's animated smiling face was almost invisible, that Pei Qingyuan heard his anxious voice.

"Xiaomei, I want to watch TV."

He is in a good mood now, and there is no need to listen to jokes for the time being. If it is music and radio, there should be no picture.

He wants to see a world where colors flow.

Under the young man's eager gaze, the screen brightened up again, and Xiaomei in the center of the screen was smiling, and bright pink flowers appeared around the smiling face, which bloomed and disappeared.

"Okay, master."