ATL | Chapter 23

Riding in the same hovercar with Hetawaisi was even more tormenting than eating A2-type nutritional paste.

Ganlin missed Yase at this moment very much, missed that gentle venomous snake.

He should have been a little faster. If he had pinned Yase to the top, he would not have this annoying trouble now.

Yet Cersei volunteered to drive, thoughtfully lowered the invisible mirror layer, and pushed Hetawaisi to the back seat, looking quite pleased.

Little Lamb sat very carefully by the window, but the snake beside him had no sense of propriety at all. After folding his long legs and sitting down with difficulty, his tail still hung down in the middle of the back seat, the tip already almost brushing Ganlin’s knee bend.

This was also the closest snake tail had ever been to him.

Ganlin

Eliya looked at Ganlin’s expression and only then suddenly realized that what he had just asked seemed to be a little ambiguous.

"Wait! Ah, no!"

Eliya suppressed the urge to bolt, while explaining to him and backing away.

Ganlin’s face turned cold as ice. He stepped toward him and asked, "Then what do you mean?"

"This is a normal way to ask!"

Golden wings emerged behind Eliya. The wings carried him slightly into the air, making sure that when Ganlin rushed over, he could fly to a place Ganlin could not reach.

"Baby, Aividisi is a robot! A robot! How else am I supposed to ask?"

When he explained the first sentence, he was still a little unsure, but after saying a few more words, he felt more and more justified, and his tone also became more righteous.

"Shouldn’t the evaluation standard for machines be whether the functions are complete and whether they are easy to use? This is a unified way of asking, not a specific reference to something on the bed."

"My Carrot Butler is very easy to use too, thoughtful and professional. Is Aividisi professional enough? Although that part of bed content is also within its scope of work."

"Baby, you’re too sensitive."

Ganlin stopped. He seemed to have been persuaded by him.

Eliya also came back in front of him. Just as he was about to speak, he saw a brilliant smile appear on Ganlin’s face the next second.

"???"

Eliya sensed something was wrong, but his body did not react at all. His vision blurred, and then his whole body flew out.

"Wow!"

Xier’s gaze followed his body, and in the end he could not help nodding. "What a perfect parabola."

Luckily, just before landing, Eliya flew up from the ground, barely preserving his dignity.

Xier turned to Ganlin and asked, "Gangan, have you finally decided to kill Eliya?"

Ganlin sat across from them and shook his head.

"What a pity!"

Eliya came back and sat down beside Ganlin with a thud. He complained, "Gan, you’ve become irritable too. I absolutely did not mean to investigate your private matters on the bed."

"Mm."

"So, Aividisi, is it, is it good?"

Eliya swallowed back the words that had almost slipped out, then forcibly changed his wording and asked.

Ganlin looked at him and said, "Why are you asking this?"

Of course Eliya would not say that he had felt a little afraid when he saw Aividisi before. He chose his words carefully and said, "Aividisi’s intelligence is very high, it seems a little dependent on you, it looks like a human, and its emotional expression is rich. Humans will have empathy because of this."

Xier also added, "Aividisi is very smart, its learning ability surpasses some human idiots~ Mm, what it cannot calculate are humans’ bizarre ideas."

Wang Yun did not look up, but also said, "It is a little too protective of you. I know the command for robots to protect their owner is included in their main program, but it seems to think that a simple companion robot is not enough, and wants to occupy every aspect around you."

"Your room does not look like a room, but like an extension of its body."

"Maybe besides a problem with the built-in energy source, its program also has a small defect."

In the end Eliya looked at Ganlin and said, "Do you plan to take it with you?"

Ganlin opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but the sound he made seemed to be absorbed by something, and what finally came out was as thin as a mosquito’s buzz.

No one noticed.

"Although companion robots are a bit expensive, after we leave here, I can help you save up a little, and buying another one will not be a problem."

"Aividisi"

"The new one wouldn’t be the same, anyway. Gangan obviously likes this one more."

"It already has feelings, right."

Ganlin reached out and pressed the throbbing vein at his temple. His head was much clearer, and he finally said what he wanted to say. "Aividisi!"

The others all closed their mouths, then turned to look at him at the same time.

Looking at the three faces in front of him, Ganlin said, "Um, what I want to say is, I want to try taking it with us. It has some problems, but it is also quite expensive."

"All right, all right."

Eliya said as if conceding, "Then you have to arrange it properly."

This short meeting ended, Ganlin continued training those people, and after this round ended, he should also get off work.

After resting for a moment, he called Xier and left together.

Wang Yun intended to keep Xier to work together, but Xier just waved his hand and refused earnestly. "It’s time to rest, overworking will make me grow shorter!"

Eliya also stood up and stretched lazily. "Overworking also causes premature aging. I’m going back to sleep for beauty rest."

Wang Yun

"Do you even understand what it means that work makes people happy?" Ganlin pretended to be casual and lowered his head, glancing over.

The tail tip was thin, curved into half a circle, and it looked quite soft. Before, he had always only caught a fleeting glimpse of it. This time, he finally had the chance to slide the hand resting on his thigh toward his knee.

Mm.

The tail tip had no deterrent at all, it was about as thin as his little finger.

Ganlin felt curious for a moment. Following that snake tail with its tightly packed scales and beautiful color, he traced upward little by little. The curve slowly swelled along with the bend, until in the end it disappeared into the place where the seat and backrest met...

"What are you looking at?"

Ganlin shifted his gaze to the window, pretending to look at the scenery, but in fact trying to compare it.

Just as Aividisi had said, Little Dog really missed him.

Little Dog was holding his leg, and in front of him was Aividisi’s perfect face. It wore a smile and said, "Ganlin, welcome home."

The scent of home was too strong. The walls turned warm-toned, and the fresh air that washed over him made Ganlin relax at once. He let out a breath and muttered, "Aividisi, I’m so hungry."

"Then let’s eat first."

Aividisi led him to the dining table. The food prepared in advance on the table was still at a suitable temperature for eating.

While Ganlin ate, Aividisi helped him take off his protective suit.

After Ganlin cooperated and took off the protective suit, he felt lighter. He loosened his shoulders and could not help saying to Aividisi again, "Aividisi, you’re really good."

Aividisi only rubbed against his fingers, the smile on its face unchanged.

Wang Yun’s arrival made the entire settlement restless. Whether it was because they had guessed something, or because that unsettling force had affected them again, in any case, they became somewhat abnormal.

Then another suicide incident appeared.

And this time Eliya did not suppress the matter, because the incident happened in the activity hall.

Ganlin had not witnessed the process with his own eyes. He learned the specific situation from Xier.

"A man. He was sitting in a remote spot by the wall. No one saw how he did it. Anyway, by the time he was discovered, he had already taken off his own chin, the whole chin, bloodied and still showing teeth. It was disgusting."

"Uh." Heta repeated, "ordinary friend."

From the slightly subtle tone of this sentence, Ganlin judged that this was the result of the snake species’ vile comparison gene.

The more she thought about it, the more she found Lin Bai cute, just a little too timid. But it did not matter, slowly getting familiar would make it better.

Cersei did not go to the shopping mall at all. She directly drove the hovercar back to North Port. As soon as the car door opened, the upgraded, iterative, brand-new AI butler [Shouanren] had already prepared home clothes for mother and son, while also pushing over a clothes rack, stopping in front of Ganlin.

[Detected that you are very attentive to Guest. If you want to actively pursue a mate, I can provide you with real case references.]

Heta only glanced at the first sentence, then turned around and took Lin Bai to the elevator, with no time at all to pay attention to the AI.

The discussion lasted the whole day. By the time it ended, it was already very late, but this time Ganlin remembered to contact Aividisi in advance.

He told it that Aividisi would be home a little later.

[Gan: Aividisi, I’ll be a little late today too, at most one hour, and I’ll be home.]

[Gan: I only had nutritional fluid at noon, I hate nutritional fluid.]

Aividisi’s reply was very fast. The next second after Ganlin sent it, he received its reply.

[Aividisi: I will prepare your dinner in advance.]

[Aividisi: I miss you very much, Little Dog misses you very much too.]

[Gan: ^ ^]

Ganlin’s estimate was very accurate, and sure enough their discussion ended quickly.

"Then let’s stop here for today."

Eliya stood up, and then said to Wang Yun, "Should I arrange a room for you? Do you have any requirements for the living environment? Any requirements for supplies?"

"No need."

Wang Yun said she did not need any extra arrangements, she could just stay here. Anyway, if the floor was tidied up a bit, she could rest.

Eliya did not agree. He bent slightly and said, "How can I let a lady stay alone in a place like this? Please come with me."

Wang Yun glanced at him, and in the end still stood up.

Ganlin left with Xier. As they walked through that long corridor, neither of them said anything, until it was time to part, when Xier said to Ganlin, "Gangan, be careful."

A crazed secret admirer was equally dangerous, his head seeming to have been eroded by obsession, lacking reason.

Ganlin: "I know."

After walking alone on the road, Ganlin could not help quickening his pace. Very soon he saw that familiar door.

After unlocking it as usual, Ganlin pulled open the door to his room. He did not know if it was an illusion, but he felt that the room door seemed heavier than the past two days. But before he could confirm it again, he was entangled by the enthusiastic Little Dog.

"Wang wang wang wuuu!" Shouanren, however, while displaying, was already synchronously searching for real cases of snakes courting sheep.

Unfortunately, fifteen minutes later, all kinds of databases had been combed through, and the number of recorded cases was still shown as zero.

Little Jellyfish was a little discouraged, but immediately realized that the first sample case in Yujing’s history might be right before its eyes.

With the mood of exploring the diversity of human romance, it eagerly chased after them.

After huffing and puffing up three floors, turning around and tracking to the bathroom, it actually immediately harvested something big, and hurriedly began objective recording.

[Detected that the bodies of both sides are currently tightly connected.]

[In addition, one side is exhibiting slight coercive behavior, the other side’s heart rate has accelerated, but has not actively struggled free.]