Chapter 125: Commendation Ceremony “Good afternoon, Professor.” Ms. Aston found Siles in the conference hall where the commendation ceremony was being held. Siles was standing by the window, wondering why Atherton Central Square was visible from this room. The space behind the door at the History Society was an unbelievable place, and nothing in his knowledge so far offered a theory to explain it.…

Chapter 124: Very Bright and Very Dark “Good afternoon, Professor Noel.” The mild-mannered painter, Alden Bridges, greeted Siles with a slight smile. It was January 30th, a Friday afternoon. Nearly two weeks ago, Siles had asked Dorothea for the Bridges family’s address and subsequently written a letter to Emil, asking if he would like to test play a sample from the Toy Store. In…

Chapter 70: Ezekiel, Turning Human. Perhaps summer was approaching. The temperature on the surface had spiked recently, going from negative forty or fifty degrees to just negative one or two degrees. Xiang Nanli’s nutrient liquid could finally be consumed directly without needing to be thawed. Gospel also no longer had to worry about being unable to charge due to low temperatures. Xiang Nanli checked…

Chapter 69: “Yo, Comrade War Criminal. Haven’t…” Xiang Nanli bent over, hands resting on his knees. He looked back and forth between the moldy seeds on the ground and Beichen, who was squatting in front of the seeds deep in thought, his eyes brimming with anticipation. These seeds varied in size, some large and some small, but all were equally shriveled. After observing for…

Chapter 68: “Your teacher is very beautiful.” For a robot, what exactly counted as suicide? Xiang Nanli had read the history of the Human Alliance. There was a period of time when robots frequently created panic by self-destructing. A service robot that was smiling and chatting warmly with you one second could take you out in an explosion the next. Robots had no life;…

Chapter 68: Before Dawn (7) Faced with Rong Yi’s threat, Tang Cuo felt like he’d been bitten by a summer mosquito—a little itchy, and he just wanted to swat it dead and be done with it. However, the implication hidden within Rong Yi’s words caught his attention more. He looked straight into Rong Yi’s eyes and said, “There’s a second timeline besides the one…

Chapter 67: Before Dawn (6) At the end of the call, Tang Cuo instructed Qi Hui to tell Zhou Dahai to find a way to investigate the attic. The fact that Zhou Dahai had been trapped in a mere basement for so long and frightened half to death by the non-aggressive ghost of Yu Wangyue proved he wasn’t particularly reliable. “Let’s sort out the…

“Respected Professor Siles Noel, we hope this letter finds you well. “We are delighted to inform you that your paper, The Lost Songs of the Sardinian Empire: A Brief Analysis and Origin Tracing of the Wandering Poet Poetic Tradition, has received an ‘Outstanding’ rating. This is something highly worthy of celebration. “Therefore, we solemnly invite you to attend this year’s School of Literature and…

“I’m not sure if this letter will disappoint you, Professor. Uh… I hope not. “Anyway, I’ll sneak the bad news to the very front: I couldn’t find the painter you mentioned, nor could I find out his name. “…The bad news is over! Let’s move on to some good news. “I did find one or two acquaintances who had seen this painter before at…

Chapter 67: “The humans back then did not wait for spring, and neither did I.” After Xiang Nanli spoke, he didn’t wait for Dongfang Qingdi’s reply; he just hopped off and walked away happily. Human emotions were complex and myriad, truly difficult to analyze. Dongfang Qingdi stood alone in place, short fragments continuously flashing through his mind. He didn’t know how to process this…