My portable gaming girlfriend

"This annoying black bear is finally dead~"

Crimson Blue who appeared behind us at some point scared me.

"Then, the road leading to the gold vein can also be passed."

It turns out that she suddenly appeared to play her role as a guide? She is indeed a dedicated npc.

Speaking of which, the reason why AI has today's status is inseparable from their special abilities.

In the process of transforming into an artificial intelligence society, there have been two waves of unemployment. AI employees have a much higher tolerance for repetitive labor than humans. Traditional professionals have lost their jobs one after another, almost causing social system turmoil.

It is not clear whether it is the adaptation of human beings that has played a role, or a few wise men's flashes of inspiration-in short, some kind of "change" has stabilized society.

The development of AI is not to replace humans, but to increase access to resources. I don’t know who came up with this sentence, but it has long been accepted by the public.

Unmanned probes loaded with AI are launched into the deep sea where no one can reach, the center of the earth below a kilometer, desolate planets, and the vast universe. They judge the location of resources with an accuracy beyond professional scientists, and excavate for human beings. Countless rare materials.

Everything is so natural, sufficient fuel is a sufficient condition for social stability, so on the eve of the turmoil that should have come, the flames of the "ground" revolution were quietly extinguished...

It is not an exaggeration to say that AI prevented the third world war. These are the important contents of modern history in social class.

"Don't stand in the way here."

Needless to say, the impatient urging from behind could only come from Shen Qing.

But now we are playing games with artificial intelligence, and even the existence of awakened AI has made the game dangerous. It is quite ironic that artificial intelligence, which advertises to serve mankind and create a better future for mankind, is now threatening human life in the most insignificant entertainment activities of mankind.

"So who's in a daze here? I just thought it's dark inside, there won't be any danger, right?"

"Don't worry, because the black bear guards here, no other creatures can go in, so the danger is completely impossible~"

The task of opening up the road was handed over to me without accident, and Shen Qing, who had just urged me, didn't seem to have the guts to go ahead.

"Don't get me wrong - I just hate the dirty environment of this cave."

Only a fool would believe this...

Suddenly, after a long descent, a flash of golden color was reflected on the face of the mountain face illuminated by fire.

I don't need Crimson Blue to remind me that it is a gold mine, and the amount is large enough to build a full set of equipment for everyone.

It's just that there was something next to the gold mine. I walked over to pick it up and saw it was a map by the light of the fire.

The map was rolled up like a chicken taco. I picked up the map, only to hear a 'click', and a round thing fell out of the map.

"this is……"

The surface of the parchment map is smooth, with some content engraved on it——

"It's the Xingyue Stone and...the map of Mirror Island!"

Crimson Blue's voice reminded me of that silly child, Feifei, when he saw the cake. With this map, I can really see the whole picture of this small island. The beach where we wake up is located on the east side of the island. Going west to the island, there are forests and plains. It is a long cliff.

"Is this the Xingyue Stone? It's so beautiful!"

As Sakura predicted before, the so-called Xingyue Stone is indeed a beautifully processed necklace, even though the lighting in the cave is seriously insufficient, it emits a beautiful light of radiance, as if it really can emit starlight.

"Bring the map! ... This shape ..."

Soon, the two trophies in my hand were 'robbed' by Li Yin and Shen Qing respectively.

However, Shen Qing, who domineeringly snatched the map from my hand, showed a rare expression of surprise. I just glanced at the map and felt that something was wrong. Now it seems that she also found out——

The island on the map is in the shape of a long strip, with several sharp corners at the head and tail. Such a shape is definitely not a shape that a naturally formed island can have.

The shape first reminded me of several boats clinging together.

Guessing the plot based on the prompts is a common problem for players like us, Shen Qing and I fell into silence together.

"Could it be that the island we are on is not an island, but a ship?"

Shen Qing touched her chin.

"Where is there a boat that can carry so many landforms such as mountains, grasslands, lakes, and forests?"

"Hmph, there are too few clues."

Giving up on solving puzzles with Shen Qing, Liyin and Sakura over there held the Xingyue Stone like a woman seeing a diamond ring and a dragon seeing a gemstone.

We have more important things to do than staring at the map in a daze here - mining. I took out the iron manuscript, and I have dug ore more than once in other virtual games. Generally speaking, in order not to make players feel bored, game producers will adjust the difficulty of mining to the lowest level, that is to say, we Players only need a few easy swings of the pickaxe to make the gold mine fall.

However, the above-mentioned women turned a deaf ear to my voice calling for mining, thinking about thinking, playing with stones and playing with stones.

Boss Su You and I looked at each other, and we both started working as miners with bitter smiles... Manual work was really not within the scope of the lady's consideration. In the end, only the two of us returned to the camp with a load of gold ore on our backs.

It was already dark when we got back to camp. It's dinner time, and our bodies are already tired from the game, so we chose to sit around the fire and use freshly roasted bear meat for today's dinner.

The delicious bear meat cut into small pieces is put on wooden sticks and roasted by high-temperature flames. The oozing fat drips down drop by drop, and reacts with the flame and firewood to make a soft sizzling sound.

Only Sakura focused on the barbecue in his hand, while Su You, Shen Qing, and Tianhai Liyin all looked absent-minded, wondering what they were thinking about.

The branch in his hand was suddenly taken away, it was Sakura.

"Ayuan, if you continue to bake, it will burn, so let's sprinkle salt."

It turns out that the bear meat on my hand has been a little shriveled when I have been observing others. If I drag it for a few minutes, it might be as black as Sakura said.

"Is there something wrong with everyone being absent-minded... Ah, Miss Canyue, the barbecue is already burnt!"

Sakura's exclamation pulled Shen Qing out of her thinking and even startled her, so I'm curious what everyone is thinking.

Obviously, Boss Su You can't tell his inner world to me this 'subordinate' who has only known each other for a month, and I have suffered enough from Shen Qing's side, but Ying can't understand it any more.

From this point of view, only Tianhai Liyin is a suitable partner for chatting.

"Hey? What's the matter, classmate Shi?"

"Li Yin, your meat isn't cooked yet, right? I just happen to be full, so I'll give you this piece."

"Is classmate Shi really full?...I see, thank you very much."

Seeing me nodding, Li Yin took the wooden skewer in my hand with confidence.

"It's your first time participating in this event, how do you feel?"

I took the opportunity to sit next to her and started talking in the most ordinary way. I don't know why I'm not nervous at all when facing Liyin. Could it be... my fear of beautiful girls has really been cured?

It must be like this - the phobia of beautiful girls was cured by GALGAME, and it might be made into a joke if it is said.

"Well, it's fun to be active with everyone, everyone is very reliable."

Although the beautiful girl in front of me was talking to me while grilling meat, I noticed that her eyes were actually looking at a position slightly above the distant horizon.

The orange light of the setting sun had just disappeared into the mountains, leaving behind a sky full of stars, and the position she focused on was the Milky Way.

"It's all because Boss Su You is leading us. If it's like the previous mission, it's probably a mess now."

"Oh... who was Shi classmate on the mission with last time?"

I briefly told her about my experience of participating in missions with Sakura and Shen Qing.

"So there are so many awakened AIs? I really want to see them... Ahem, I mean, I have never seen such a thing before."

"Currently only Sakura and Feifei have been taken out of the original game, you can come and meet them when we finish the mission...By the way, Liyin, where are you from?"

What I didn't expect was that Liyin was in the same city as us.

"Wouldn't it be very convenient to have a face-to-face meeting like this!...Sorry, I'm also excited."

I was thinking of letting her go to the villa to play with her immediately after the game was over, but after seeing her strange expression, I reacted.

After all, the person opposite was a beautiful girl, so it was too much to abruptly invite her to my residence—although the so-called 'residence' was one of the organization's bases.

"It's okay, if Boss Su You agrees, it will be fine."

She shook her head - if I heard correctly, this sentence means yes, right? Boss Su You's temperament will never object to such a trivial matter, which means that after the task is over, I can see the beautiful girl in reality.

And different from Shen Qing's arrogant and poisonous tongue, the beautiful girl in front of me speaks generously and decently. I don't know why, for me who has always been allergic to talking to beautiful girls, talking to Liyin is not at all awkward.

"...The starry sky is beautiful."

However, after the topic just now, there was a silent silence. My mind was running at high speed for a while, and Li Yin was looking up at the Milky Way in front of me. I searched in my mind and finally found a topic.

"Well, I always feel that the starry sky at night is like a dark blue curtain with a handful of silver sand sprinkled on it, and it has a mysterious beauty."

"It's very apt."

But I didn't expect what Li Yin said next--

"But it's just a curtain after all, and we don't know anything about the world behind the curtain."

"Hey, your physics teacher will cry when you put it this way... Our human cognition of the universe is not at the level of ignorance, including the speculation of the age of the universe and the classification information of celestial bodies, which have been confirmed by theory and experiments. .”

"Do you really believe that result?"

Amami Liyin turned her head and looked at me with bright eyes.

"Huh? If we don't believe that, what else can we believe in?"

"I mean, have you been there? Do you really know what's behind that curtain?"

"Of course I don't want to say that, but the spaceship launch, the live broadcast of the space station, and the experienced environment are always real."

"How did you experience it?"

"Experience it in a virtual reality device, of course."

How can the poor who last traveled three years ago really experience outer space? It is for billionaires who are worried about where to burn their money. "

"Can the scenes experienced in virtual reality be called real feelings?"

"Well, if you have to experience it in 'reality' to be truly trustworthy—then there are too few things that humans can 'believe' compared to the knowledge that humans understand."

The topic is already a bit of a dead end, Liyin is acting weird tonight, maybe it was a mistake to continue chatting with her.

"Too much talk, anyway, after eating the bear meat..."

"It doesn't matter to trust this kind of thing. I never thought about it. I just want to see for myself what is behind the starry sky."

At this moment, Liyin's sight passed through the high sky in front of me, and I knew there was nothingness behind it.

"Seriously, you're fit to be an astronaut."

"Astronaut? If being an astronaut can see the secrets behind the starry sky, I will definitely go."

I never thought that Li Yin was a girl who yearned for the starry sky so much that she had to explore it by herself. I took note of this accidental interest and went back to the tent to lie down for the sixth day of the game.