Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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One morning ten years later, Zhuang Dahai went out for a run with his one-meter-tall robot as usual.
The round face of the little robot was an LCD screen, which was playing Zhuang Li’s video in real time. He was wearing a white coat, holding a notebook in his hand, staring straight ahead, and seemed to be busy.
Zhuang Dahai looked at his son on the screen from time to time, feeling extremely peaceful. His son was very busy at work and often stayed in the laboratory for several months at a time. When it came to projects that required strict confidentiality, it was not uncommon for him to not come home for two or three years.
In order to better take care of his old father, he specially developed this companion robot. Although they were in two different places, they could often stay together through video connection.
“Dad, don’t be lazy today. I will accompany you throughout the entire run.” During the break between experiments, Zhuang Li took the time to say to Zhuang Dahai on the other side of the screen.
The small robot had an automatic selection function that blurred out all the furnishings in the laboratory, leaving only a clear image of Zhuang Li. This prevented any confidential information from being leaked.
Zhuang Dahai touched his nose guiltily and said flatteringly: “I will definitely finish running today. Please let dad go this time. Dad is very good now. It only takes me forty minutes to run the entire neighborhood.”
“Dad is great.” Zhuang Li smiled and gave him a thumbs up, and then carefully warned: “Don’t run too fast, take your time.”
“Okay, look, I’m just going to run in small steps.” Zhuang Dahai smiled brightly at his son on the screen while taking small steps.
People who passed by him greeted him enthusiastically: “Hey, Mr. Zhuang, your son is running with you again? Your son is so filial. He always takes time to accompany you despite being so busy.”
Zhuang Dahai laughed happily, his voice so loud that it could scare the birds in the tree. It would have been difficult for his bold and unruly character to integrate into this community where powerful people gathered, but who let his son succeed! There was no need for him to please others now and others would naturally rush to please him.
They did not move, but still lived in the villa given by Xuan Ming. His son said that he was nostalgic and didn’t want to leave, so Zhuang Dahai stayed there with peace of mind.
In the beginning, their family did suffer a lot of rejection.
When Zhuang Dahai drove his Rolls-Royce out to buy groceries, he could always hear the doorman pointing at him and teasing: “Look, this is the poorest family in our community. A dung beetle gets on the train track – pretending to be the number one. Driving hundreds of thousands of dollars yuan’s car but he is just like that, it’s so tacky!”
Zhuang Dahai felt suffocated and once he even got out of the car to argue with the guard, which aroused more and more ridicule from the people around him.
The property management company never took his complaints seriously, let alone firing the trash-talking doorman.
But what happened next?
Later, Mr. Xuan died, and everyone was waiting to see how the father and son would flee in despair from this vanity fair that did not belong to them. As a result, his son published an article on the Internet with more than 2,000 patented technologies he had mastered. Then he became the decider who controlled the fate of Haisheng, and even the fate of all companies in the same industry.
The global patent fees alone could provide hundreds of billions of funds to his son every year, which was more than the assets accumulated by many top wealthy families for hundreds of years.
After the news came out, the whole community was shocked.
But the matter was not over yet. His son established a new Haiming Group, and within five years it became the world’s number one technology company, with annual profits of up to one trillion yuan.
Among the powerful people living in this community, who dared to compare their wealth and status with his son’s? If you say it, it would make others laugh out loud.
From then on, no one laughed at Zhuang Dahai, no one dared to look at him with blank eyes, and no one said in his ear, “Your son is a waste, and you will have nothing to rely on in the future.”
Speaking of which, who didn’t envy Zhuang Dahai for raising a good son? He had become the thickest golden thigh in this community.
At the moment, a group of people were chatting around him and greeted Zhuang Li in the video with great enthusiasm.
One of the old women raised her voice and said: “Mr. Zhuang, the electronic pets your company sells are really useful! Did you know that a while ago, Lao Liu took his electronic dog for a run in the back mountain? But he suffered a heart attack and fainted. Very few people go to the back mountain, and he almost died!”
“What happened next? When I saw him yesterday, he was still fine!” Another woman asked.
“Later, his electronic dog gave him an electric shock, injected him with epinephrine, fed him special medicine, contacted his housekeeper and children, notified 120, and sent a positioning signal to the emergency services. In less than half an hour, Lao Liu was sent to the hospital and was out of danger. The doctor said that fortunately the electronic dog had first aid function, otherwise Lao Liu would have died this time!”
“Oh my god, this is too dangerous!”
“Yeah, I really didn’t expect that electronic dog to have first aid functions. Mr. Zhuang, your company’s products are great!”
The old woman sincerely praised him for a while, prompting everyone to place orders for an electronic pet.
Zhuang Dahai giggled all the way and murmured with tears in his eyes: “My son is really promising. My son has made great contributions to society.”
Zhuang Li looked back at his old father through the eyes of the little robot, with a faint smile on his lips. The killings of his previous life seemed to be far away from him.
….
An hour later, Zhuang Li escorted his father home and watched with his own eyes as he took a shower, ate, and took out his mobile phone to play games before exiting the video connection with confidence.
7480, which was implanted in the cortex of the back of his neck in the form of a chip, reminded him worriedly: “Master, due to your intervention, the technological civilization of this world has reached a score of 0.9, and the development speed is far beyond normal. You have to know, in an ordinary small world, it takes two hundred years of hard work to develop from a civilization coefficient of 0.6 to 0.9; and from 0.9 to 1.0, it takes more than three hundred years of struggle. The higher the score, the slower the speed of technological development.”
“But according to my analysis, if you don’t stop, this world will reach a civilization coefficient of 1.0 in twenty years. Its development line has been advanced by three to four hundred years because of you. Such a huge progress, while controlling hundreds of millions of such small worlds, the Lord god may not be able to discover it, but the observers will definitely come as promised.”
“Master, I advise you to keep a low profile. The observers are very powerful, and you are not able to deal with them now.”
Zhuang Li turned a deaf ear to these suggestions, and just used a needle to pull out 7480 from the back of his neck, put it into an energy tank, and upgraded the program.
Then 7480 was forced into hibernation.
After an unknown amount of time, it woke up in a daze and found that it was back on the back of the host’s neck, with no changes to its internal program.
“Master, why did you stun me?” it asked tremblingly, and then screamed: “Master, be careful!”
He was really afraid of what would happen. Before fainting, it was still persuading the host not to be too high-profile, otherwise it would attract observers; and after it woke up, the observer had appeared, holding a particle gun in his hand, and without saying anything, he fired a laser beam at them.
“Ahhhhhh——” 7480 howled miserably.
But the imagined scene of “the owner was annihilated and he followed the dog leash” did not happen. Instead, the observer was hit in the chest by the rebounded laser beam, and among his extreme surprise, he turned into light spots which disappeared one by one.
The observer’s widened eyes, distorted face, and expressions of panic and disbelief seemed to still be vivid in his mind. He had no idea why he would die in the hands of an unknown person, and why he died so quickly and easily!
“What happened? Master, what did you do to him?” 7480 asked a question that the observer could never ask.
“I used the Lord God’s force field technology to create a larger force field and loaded it into your defense system. The moment your scanner detects danger, the force field will immediately wrap around my body. Zhuang Li walked to the place where the observer disappeared and said in a scornful tone, “And this force field will automatically adjust its surface to bounce back the incoming particle beam. It can both defend and attack, but it doesn’t need to consume too much energy.”
“If someone wants me to be smashed to pieces, then first, they will be smashed to pieces.” Zhuang Li flicked out a light spot with his slender fingertips and smiled interestingly.
7480: “…”
Master, I still underestimated you!
Zhuang Li walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, looked at the blood-like sunset, and said slowly: “I will not stop because of fear of observers, unless I die of illness one day.”
7480 noticed that he said death from illness, not death by accident. It seemed that he was confident enough to survive the attack of observers.
“I’m waiting for those observers to come to me. I want to see how many such dogs there are under the hands of the Lord God, and whether they will all be slaughtered one day.” Zhuang Li raised his head and looked into the vast sky, his sight clearly impenetrable. Through the clouds, he seemed to see the opponent standing on the top of the universe.
Yes, he regarded the Lord God as his opponent, not the so-called superior ruler.
His arrogance made 7480 shocked and uneasy at the same time.
“This observer was killed by you because he despised you. He didn’t expect that you could invent an energy shield and bounce his particle beam. The observer you meet next time may be more cautious and more powerful.” 7480 couldn’t help but remind.
If the host died, it would also die, so it had to cooperate with the host.
“Observers will become more and more cautious but relying on the rapidly developing technology in this world, I can also make more advanced weapons.” Zhuang Li turned around, walked quickly back to the laboratory, and gave an irrefutable conclusion: “So the technological development of this world must not stagnate, but must be accelerated. The more developed this world is, the stronger I will be. My interests are bound to the interests of this world. It belongs completely to me. Do you understand?”
7480 remained silent but was horrified beyond words.
It didn’t expect the host to understand the connection between luck and the world’s progress so quickly. Yes, if people with good luck maintained the world well, they could continue to become stronger. Let alone a surprise attack by the observers by then, he was afraid that as soon as they stepped into this plane, the host would receive a warning from the world consciousness and could use the laws to fight back.
However, the host was not an orthodox child of destiny, he was still far from that realm.
But the host was so smart, who could guess what step he would take? Even the orthodox sons of destiny were willing to surrender to him, maybe he could really create miracles.
The core program of 7480 trembled slightly at this thought.
A man several dimensions away woke up from a short sleep and was extremely surprised to find that among the wounds all over his body that had not healed even one millimeter no matter how many recovery medicines he used, one of them was rapidly healing.
When he looked carefully, the wound on his ankle had turned into smooth skin. No matter how he touched it, he could not feel the manic pain.
If it weren’t for the man’s extraordinary memory, he might have thought he was dreaming.
He looked up at the bloody setting sun hidden in the gray and black haze, his eyes wide open, as if he wanted to see through these desperate colors a star that contained his light of hope hidden in the distant universe.
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