Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

"The relationship between the same clan is really harmonious~"

Asteria, who knew nothing, said enviously - I have to say, sometimes, ignorance is also a kind of happiness.

"It's no wonder that several cubs have fallen in love with painting recently, and they often come out to 'take pictures'."

It's okay not to mention this, but when this matter is mentioned, Hong suddenly thinks of the strange phenomenon recently reported by the city monitoring system.

At that time, although she was a little curious, but since the youngsters did not bring their own bodies when taking pictures, and the electronic board was disconnected + the screen deliberately avoided monitoring, she judged that there was a "little secret" and she didn't delve into it.

If you really want to get to the bottom of it, there are actually many ways, but Hong herself trusts her cubs very much. Since they have a little secret, she naturally smiled at that time and didn't care.

But now, after catching a trend, the clever Hong immediately understood what they were doing.

"It turned out that I was drawing a small notebook."

Hong murmured thoughtfully.

"Ah, ah, don't say it!"

Lilina, who was full of shame and anger, jumped up and tried to cover Hong's mouth to prevent her from saying those words that made her extremely shy.

Unfortunately, unlike the bionic body that relies on expensive and realistic artificial vocal cords to make sounds, the mechanical service unit uses a very ordinary and cheap speaker-unless the cub smashes her speaker with a punch in an extremely shy situation, it is impossible. Might have stopped her from speaking.

It's too much to think about Lilina's slender arm that has neither undergone relevant genetic adjustments nor implanted with prosthetic enhancements, and wants to break the metal shell of the service unit.

By the way, in the pre-Cartus era, the Catus warriors who had prosthetic implants in relevant parts could do this without relying on powered exoskeletons-of course, none of the current cubs have done it Augmented person.

It's not because of the side effects of almost stagnant growth brought about by the prosthetic body implantation, but rather, this is a pretty good advantage for the cubs who are full of attention to attract red attention.

The main reason is that Hong is reluctant.

After all, it wasn't the original one, and Hong looked distressed, not to mention that she had to do the surgery herself.

Moreover, the technologies in the red hand are all modified for the Catus, although the appearance of the Catus and the Jeffrey are very similar, and there are also many similarities in body structure.

But in the final analysis, they are two unrelated species, with different genes, many organs, and cells are extremely different. Therefore, for the cutting-edge technology of prosthetic body transformation, it is definitely not feasible to apply mechanically.

In this way, it means that she needs to modify and experiment before she can transplant the technology.

And this is the risk.

Unlike most civilizations, the purpose of red is to ensure the safe and healthy growth of cubs. If this causes risks instead, it is putting the cart before the horse.

Seele's situation is different, because she originally had a tiny brain implant.

However, due to the need for hibernation, this tiny device was dismantled—after waking up, with Hong, Xier naturally wouldn't need to do anything extra.

"Wait, what is a small notebook?"

Asteria Probe.

Although she is a distorted red chef, she doesn't know much about Two-dimensional, and even more so about this peculiar subcultural product.

Moreover, in Taralon, something like a small book has a more direct name...

"Actually..."

"Yahahahah!"

If Hong, like a normal person, expresses shock or anger at her appearance in the notebook, Lilina has ways to deal with it, but the more serious Hong is at this time, the more shy she will be.

After all, in some works, uttering strange words with seriousness is a kind of...XP?

"Don't say it!"

She covered her head to cover her primary ear, and her arms were pressed against the secondary ear, trying to avoid what would happen next.

"Okay, if you don't say it, don't say it."

Hong's gentle voice sounded, like a loving mother who loves her child to the extreme.

If you ignore her whispering next to Lilina's ear, it will be more similar.

"After I go back, I want to take a good look at your previous works~"

"No!!!"

In the midst of the bewildered Asteria's philosophical thinking of "who am I, where am I, and what happened?", the train roared to the end of the trip.

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Volume 75 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Looks silly, why not...

After getting off the bus, Lilina left the scene of the crime as if she was fleeing under the strong onlookers of the two bionic bodies on the platform.

Before leaving, I didn't forget to bring her electronic board.

"So cute."

Looking at her receding figure, Hong put his hands behind his back, looking well-informed.

"So what exactly happened?"

At this time, Asteria is like a newcomer who suddenly joined the chat group but couldn't see the chat history——can't figure it out.

Optimist: "Everything happens for a reason."

Pessimist: "Everything is unconnected and meaningless."

She: "What happened? What happened? No one told me what happened!"

Probably this is the feeling.

"It's nothing, it's just a painting related to me." Watching the service unit on the train, Hong changed the subject lightly, "Compared to this, the research park is just below, why don't you hurry down?"

"Oh, alright."

After secretly memorizing the word "little notebook", Asteria, who was about to search the Internet afterward, was startled, trotted for two steps, and left the platform.

Although for Chef Hong, the interaction between Hong and her cubs is also very attractive, but compared with the things that have passed, the novel scientific research park is still more attractive to her.

To put it bluntly, it’s like liking the new and disliking the old.

"The last time I came here, I evacuated before I had time to come in and take a look."

One person and one machine strolled on the stone brick path in the park, slowly approaching the nearest advanced research facility, the central synchrotron radiation light source device.

A milky-white gardening drone passed silently above their heads and flew towards the bushes waiting to be taken care of. Unlike the Alliance, as an omnic that should be "efficiency first", Red opposed the city. On the contrary, the plan is full of various "inefficient and useless" designs.

For example, there are ornamental plants everywhere on the road, large tracts of grass that are useless except to make you feel better, single-family villas that reduce land utilization, and so on.

Nearly perfect infrastructure construction, city-wide network control at any cost, hundreds of thousands of maintenance units, annual power consumption of about 4000 terawatts, or [-] billion kWh.

According to the standard calendar of the same family, that is, about 70 billion kWh of electricity is used every day. According to the technology of the Federation, if all thermal power is used for power generation, 20 billion tons of coal will be consumed every day.

20 billion tons!

In Talalong, giant industrial and commercial cities with a population of tens of millions do not have such a high energy consumption. Even if they paste all the houses higher than 10 meters with neon lights, it is impossible to use such an exaggerated amount of electricity.

In the end, it was only used to feed a hundred or so cubs.

A hundred or so!

If you simply apply the numbers, it is equivalent to spending 5000 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per day to raise a cub, and more than 1000 million tons of standard coal per day.

"They are all my favorite cubs, what's the point of using some electricity for them?"

In the face of questions, Hong always answers like this - in her mind, if this level of "waste" can give the cubs a comfortable living environment and let them grow up happily, it is already unimaginably "efficient" up.

After all, a rich material life is the only condition she can give.

"How does it compare to the city you live in?"

"It's so much better."

Asteria touched the gardening drone that was pruning flowers, and replied under the gaze of Hong "let go of your salty pig hands".

"How could such a thing be built in a place like Talalong City where every inch of land is so expensive?"

"It's full of high-rise buildings, buildings everywhere, and when you look up, you can only see the sky squeezed into a line-not to mention it's still gray."

"Scientists like us can still see small forests, lakes, etc. in the science park. Those who have never left the city for life, old age, sickness and death, many have never seen real mountains, rivers, lakes and seas in their lives. The biggest plants I have ever seen in my life are probably only the three or five small saplings that the government forces to plant on the side of the street."

"If you want to survive in this icy universe, you always need to pay a lot."

Red sighed empathetically.

However, it is not her who resonates with her now. After all, for Hong, the price she paid is not the real price—it seems that most organism scholars do not think that it is a problem to let artificial intelligence work around the clock. Kind of squeezed.

Not even she thinks so.

What strikes a chord is her reminiscences of the pre-Catus era.

Although Hong was not awakened and had no subjective consciousness at that time, for the omnic, the data written in the database was the deepest memory.

Until now, she can still clearly recall the name of every Catus under her management, their age, position, ability, their life experiences, their joys and sorrows—and the time of their death.

Accurate to the millisecond.

You know, at that time, Katus was facing catastrophe, and at that time, she was a truly "ruthless" artificial intelligence that regarded everyone as a part.

As long as they are useful to production, she will try her best to squeeze them, and as long as they are beneficial to the overall situation, she will sacrifice them mercilessly.

How much did they pay to survive?

"We all give a lot."

Asteria naturally didn't know that Hong was recalling the past, she was simply expressing her sympathy for those people who worked all day long.

Although she has no sense of belonging to the Federation personally, and even more seriously, as an academician, she has the will to join the same clan, which is already a kind of treason in a certain sense.

But for those Jeffreys who have similar genes to her, after all, she still can't stand by and turn a blind eye to their plight.

Seeing her lonely look, Hong subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch her head to comfort her—after all, as Hong has emphasized many times, from a biological point of view, Asteria has just touched the threshold of a girl, and there is no Completely out of the childishness that belongs to the cub.

Moreover, thanks to the high-level genes, her appearance is also extremely beautiful, and she is usually fine, but when she fell down, the red switch was triggered.

She stopped her thoughts in time, and didn't let the command reach the corresponding body—this is the wild Jeffrey!

wild!wild!wild!

The kind of oversized pups that are nearly impossible to adopt!

Those who will go back for evaluation after 20 years, the kind that they can’t keep!

Moreover, it may be the kind of spy who aimed at his own weakness and specially sent to win sympathy and engage in "beauty tricks"!

Hong, who didn't notice that her evaluation changed from "old woman" to "large cub" sighed, let her idle hands untie her hair, and replied.

"But with all due respect, the contribution of the alliance is wrong."

"why?"

Asteria raised her head in surprise, with doubts written all over her face.

"Aren't they trying hard enough?"

"Whether the effort is enough, I don't know." Hong didn't choose to modify her words, but directly stated her true thoughts, "However, if the effort is in the wrong place, no matter how much you invest, there will be no benefit. "

"Even, it's a negative return."

Hong raised his head slightly, looked at the giant supporting pillar standing in the center of the city, and said slowly.

"You need to change, from the mode of production, the relationship of production, to the ideological trend of the regime."

"All are needed."

"Could it be that......"

It’s okay not to mention this red, but when it is mentioned, Asteria immediately thinks of the “reform” voice that has been very active in the federal network recently.

Could it be, is it really Hong who is secretly promoting it?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but stop.

Who should I support?

It is one thing to want to join the same clan without a sense of belonging, but when faced with this kind of choice, she found herself hesitating.

Do you want to secretly inform the Federation?

According to her status as a federal academician, she should have chosen this path, but when she thought of being red, she was reluctant.