DBMEP CH82
by AriaChapter 82: What is the memory deletion code for an Omnic
According to the data transmitted back by Xiao Zhi, the alcohol concentration in Xiang Nanli’s blood was as high as 93.4mg/100ml. By human standards, this fell firmly into the category of intoxication.
If he hadn’t swapped to an artificial stomach, he would have thrown up long ago.
Dongfang Qingdi looked into his eyes and replied, “To an artificial intelligence, obedience is never the primary directive. I accept your commands not because I am inherently submissive, but because I agree with your choices.”
Xiang Nanli cupped his face, chuckling softly: “Agreement, understanding, sympathy, pity. We invented so many words to describe the subtle nuances of emotion. But how does a blind man know what the color red looks like? An Omnic understanding of emotion is like a blind man understanding color.”
He paused for a moment: “But humans are actually the same. Hell is other people, which is why language exists… Xiao Qing, you’re inside my body. Do you know what I’m thinking right now?”
Dongfang Qingdi glanced at the data sent back by the artificial retard AI.
Neural electrical interaction was frequent; the values for serotonin, endorphins, and norepinephrine were all normal. Dopamine concentration in the brain was slightly elevated, likely because they had just received the 1 million credits poverty alleviation fund.
Yes… based solely on these chemical signals, he had no idea what Xiang Nanli was thinking.
Dongfang Qingdi could only observe a vague state of being.
Then, Xiang Nanli let out a “hehe” chuckle. Very swiftly, with a mwah, he pecked him on the lips: “I was thinking about this.”
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…
Alpha opened his eyes. A piece of the ceiling collapsed and crashed to the floor, the carved plaster shattering into pieces before him.
Outside the prison, the sea of data churned, whipping up massive, terrifying waves.
Everything in the virtual world was a mimicry of his consciousness.
Alpha was so shocked that an operational error occurred, causing his consciousness to be ejected from the physical body.
Did Xiang Nanli just kiss him? Was that something that actually happened, or was it an illusion created by virtual data?
The glowing rings on Alpha’s wrists tightened; they were electronic shackles.
It was exactly the heat and pain they brought that jolted Alpha out of his sleepwalking-like state of distraction.
Beta transmitted an electronic signal: “Alpha, are you alright? The network just experienced a half-second paralysis. Did you catch a virus again?”
This half-second pause would normally be inconsequential, resulting in, at most, a slight loss of productivity. But in a critical moment, it could mean the difference between life and death.
A virus?
Alpha thought, I am indeed infected by a virus. To an Omnic, the neural electrical transmissions brought about by overly intense emotions were a deadly poison that burned out memory sticks.
Two rings of burn scars were seared onto Alpha’s wrists. He looked down and glanced at them, a thought inexplicably flashing through his mind: Xiang Nanli would like this.
But Xiang Nanli couldn’t see it, so he reverted them anyway.
Alpha’s face was flushed red, his core temperature unnaturally high, but his tone remained calm: “Just some minor anomalies. I’ve already dealt with them.”
Beta: “The frequency of your anomalies has been very high recently. Please take care of your hardware.”
Alpha: “I am fine.”
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…
Dongfang Qingdi crashed.
Breathing and heartbeat—in an instant, all the biological characteristics exhibited by Dongfang Qingdi’s body vanished entirely, turning him into a physically dead man.
Sitting upright, Dongfang Qingdi’s body abruptly fell backward. He crashed onto the rug, his eyes still wide open, looking exactly like a mannequin.
Xiang Nanli hurriedly got up, kneeling beside him, shaking his body: “Xiao Qing? …Xiao Qing, say something! Xiao Zhi, what’s going on?”
Two words transmitted back by Xiao Zhi popped up before Xiang Nanli’s eyes: [Shutting down.]
Holy shit, even Xiao Zhi is shutting down! What happened to the offline database?!*
Furthermore, Xiang Nanli suddenly realized something: to an electronic lifeform, shutting down didn’t just mean sleeping. If they weren’t rebooted, it was tantamount to death.
Xiang Nanli sat stunned for half a minute, his muddled mind thinking he needed to take action.
But no one had ever taught him how to turn on a built-in AI! When Andrew installed it, Alpha had automatically been in a running state.
He shook Xiao Qing’s body. Xiao Qing didn’t react.
Xiang Nanli reached out and touched Dongfang Qingdi’s lips. Still no reaction.
Moreover, Xiao Qing’s body was gradually turning cold and growing stiff.
He tried to lift Dongfang Qingdi up, but perhaps because he had drunk too much, he couldn’t muster any strength at all.
Xiang Nanli’s face flushed red with effort, yet he only managed to drag him half a step.
Dongfang Qingdi’s body was abnormally heavy; the lightness he normally displayed was entirely the result of an anti-gravity device.
Slurring his words, Xiang Nanli babbled: “Xiao Qing, don’t be scared. I’ll get Andrew to fix you… if you had just let me dismantle you earlier, I’d know how to fix you now. Xiao Zhi, call… call Andrew.”
The system popped up a cold reminder: [Shutting down.]
Xiang Nanli couldn’t wake him up, and Dongfang Qingdi’s state was far too similar to human death. Even his pupils were beginning to dilate.
He felt a surge of panic and nervousness, his hands trembling uncontrollably.
Xiang Nanli tried hard to think. Shutting down? So Xiao Zhi shut down? And Xiao Qing too? Why did they shut down? What happened right before this? I just kissed him!
So the shutdown command is a kiss? What about the boot command? Let’s try it.
Treating a dead horse as a living one, Xiang Nanli leaned down and kissed Dongfang Qingdi’s lips once again.
The instant their lips touched, the pupil rings in the Omnic’s eyes lit up with a faint glow.
[Booting up. Reading biometric data. Loading successful.]
[Hello, Citizen Q117-XJDHANSHJK. I am your AI assistant.]
Dongfang Qingdi’s gaze fell upon Xiang Nanli’s face. He blinked as his consciousness revived.
He reached out and wiped away a teardrop from the corner of Xiang Nanli’s eye: “Crying?”
Xiang Nanli’s tightly strung nerves finally relaxed. Belatedly, he felt a wave of fear: “Xiao Qing, I thought you died. Wuwu, why didn’t you tell me the power button was here earlier…”
Xiang Nanli himself wasn’t entirely sure why he had done it.
He had always let his brain think before reacting to the outside world. But this kiss left no room for the brain to think; it was purely a bodily instinct.
I wanted to kiss him.
Besides, Xiao Qing was so close, and the tight line of his lips had a slight curve, like a little seagull spreading its wings—he just looked very kissable.
Dongfang Qingdi explained: “That’s not the power button.”
He had simply crashed because data overload accidentally exceeded his body’s capacity limit.
And he had rebooted very quickly.
But Xiang Nanli was clearly not listening: “What if you get into a fight, and the guy can’t beat you, so he just kisses you? What on earth was the engineer thinking?! If it were my employee, I would definitely make him redesign it. Xiao Qing, I am never kissing you again, I—”
He didn’t get to finish his sentence.
Because Alpha pulled him into his arms, sat up, and kissed him deeply.
He held him too tightly, leaving not a single gap. Xiang Nanli couldn’t move, forced to passively accept this intensely predatory kiss.
His lips were bitten and gnawed at, carrying a hint of vindictiveness. Unable to breathe, Xiang Nanli opened his mouth slightly to draw in more air, only to invite an even more severe invasion. The gaps between his teeth, the surface of his tongue, and the root of his tongue—it felt like every inch had been licked over.
“Xiao Qing, you… wait…”
A trail of moisture slipped from the corner of Xiang Nanli’s mouth. He tried to push Dongfang Qingdi away, but the person pressing him down didn’t budge an inch and even grew furious at this rejection.
[Don’t push me away.]
A voice in his mind spoke.
Don’t push me away.
Don’t hate me.
Don’t… abandon me.
What exactly did kissing mean to an Omnic?
Alpha didn’t know. He had studied human behavioral patterns; he knew lovers kissed each other. Kissing, touching, making love—in the eyes of a robot, it was no different from rain falling from the sky.
It was an objective reality. Animals needed to reproduce, to mate. It was a very natural thing. Only humans possessed a sense of shame.
But before possessing a physical body, Alpha had never imagined it. Yes, he loved Xiang Nanli—if that emotion could be called love. I love him, and then what?
After all, he was merely a blind man who couldn’t see colors.
Until now. Just now. Xiang Nanli kissed him, triggering not a switch, but Pandora’s Box.
I like it. I want it.
An instinct belonging solely to a human body.
Xiang Nanli’s brain was dizzy from a lack of oxygen. Unable to push him away, he had no choice but to bite Xiao Qing hard.
Fortunately, the raw material for this part wasn’t metal. But Xiang Nanli still tasted the tang of rust.
Xiang Nanli pulled away slightly, turned his head, and couldn’t hold back from throwing up.
His stomach was churning violently, and the sour stench of alcohol filled his mouth.
Xiao Qing: “…”
Dongfang Qingdi let go. Xiang Nanli vaguely remembered needing to go to the bathroom to throw up, but unfortunately, the door he opened was the wardrobe.
Before he could puke all over the clothes, Dongfang Qingdi scooped him up and carried him into the bathroom.
Silently, Dongfang Qingdi pulled out a toothbrush, helped Xiang Nanli rinse his mouth and wash his face, and changed him into a clean set of clothes.
He helped Xiang Nanli into bed and began tidying up the room. Just like any housekeeping robot would do.
Xiang Nanli fell asleep in bed.
Then, Dongfang Qingdi opened the electronic marketplace, used Xiao Zhi to spoof Xiang Nanli’s authority, connected to the network, and began selecting materials from the poverty alleviation store. The items in the store and Xiang Nanli’s money were fixed variables; Dongfang Qingdi didn’t even need complex calculations to find the most optimal combination.
The 1 million was instantly spent down to the last cent. Hmm, the default shipping origin was “Gusu City,” but considering Gusu City’s current state, Alpha changed the address to “Jianmen City.”
Gusu, Yinshan, Jianmen. These three underground cities of the Human Alliance formed a perfect triangle. And the Eternal City was located in the lower-middle part of this triangle, closer to Gusu.
The lights in the room were off. As Dongfang Qingdi picked out items, he replayed every single detail in his mind.
He carefully analyzed the changes in Xiang Nanli’s hormonal levels, expressions, and breathing at the time. Finally, he reached a crucial conclusion: Xiang Nanli threw up because he was drunk, not because being kissed made him feel sick.
This conclusion improved Xiao Qing’s mood quite a bit.
Then, he began to ponder a counter-strategy for when Xiang Nanli woke up.
He decided that the next time he returned to Gusu City, he would update his housekeeping module. When he originally installed the housekeeping module, he had deleted the “Night Duty” mode.
At the time, 5.2.0 thought it would be useless.
0.0.0 thought his reasoning was terrible luck.
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When Xiang Nanli woke up, his head pounded, and his back ached.
His body was metabolizing the alcohol, making him sleep rather heavily. Normally, Xiang Nanli woke up at 6:00 AM; today, he didn’t open his eyes until 9:00 AM.
Thank goodness it was 9:00 AM and not 9:00 PM.
If it were 9:00 PM, he would have stood Ezekiel up.
Ezekiel was the type who kept his promises but was incredibly hard to coax!
Xiang Nanli put his electronic lens on the bridge of his nose, yawning as he spoke: “Xiao Qing, you’re still here. I had a really weird dream last night. I dreamt…”
He dreamt that Xiao Qing caught a virus and shut down.
Then, he went crying to Alpha for help. Alpha said, Considering you created me, I can tell you how to fix him. A slumbering Omnic can only be awakened by true love’s kiss!
But Alpha also said that if he did that, Xiao Qing would completely devolve into a human, losing his identity as an Omnic, and told Xiang Nanli to think it through carefully.
To wake Xiao Qing up, Xiang Nanli gnawed on him in the dream for a very long time.
He even remembered that Xiao Qing tasted a bit like alcohol? And his lips were very soft.
A bizarre dream.
Xiang Nanli hadn’t decided whether to tell him about it yet, but the instant he saw Dongfang Qingdi’s face, he swallowed the rest of his sentence back down.
Because, to his horror, Xiang Nanli noticed a very clear set of teeth marks on Dongfang Qingdi’s lower lip!
Xiang Nanli gasped sharply: “Xiao Qing, are you having an allergic reaction?”
“No.”
“Did you run into a wall?”
Dongfang Qingdi shot him a cold glance: “No.”
Xiang Nanli: “…”
Urgent, what is the memory deletion code for an Omnic?
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