MTL - How to Feed an Abyss!-Chapter 49 breadwinner little monster

Shi Yuan truly felt that since he was with Lu Tinghan, he was responsible for the family.

He recalled what monsters like to do.

He'd seen crows carrying shiny eyeballs back to their nests, infecting deer herds to kill intruding creatures, sharpening their antlers with their skulls, and peacocks actively spreading their rotting tail feathers to court a human-faced flower.

Shiyuan couldn't do this in the city. He can only think of other ways.

In any case, raising a family is the basic skill, the bottom line of a monster.

After the peak period, wages have dropped too much, and most people live on food stamps. Shi Yuan's hourly salary is only 2 yuan. He doesn't know how Lu Tinghan's salary is calculated, he can only make up for the family as much as possible, and can't let his future mating partner suffer from starvation.

In the next few days, Lu Tinghan went to the main city but did not come back, Shi Yuan worked hard to support his family.

The food stamps were not used up, he left a few cans and a few biscuits, took them home, and carefully put them in the cabinet, in case Lu Tinghan had nothing to eat.

Occasionally saw small flowers on the side of the road, Shi Yuan picked them home and put them in a small vase. He also brought back a few beautiful stones and put them in a small pile in front of the fish tank. He knows that a well-appointed den will make a mate happy.

Shi Yuan also heard Daisy talking about her family's fish.

"Oh, my boyfriend gave me some fish." Daisy said, holding her chin, "I gave it a long time ago, and I have been raising it, and now I have a few rounds of small fish. After each warning, I have to pay out of my own pocket to test them for infection, it's like burning money."

Another colleague chimed in: "Throw them away, don't keep them!"

"No way." Daisy frowned, "At least I kept them for so many years, I didn't want them to die, but if they were released, they were infected outside the city in the end, it's really troublesome..."

Shi Yuan listened for a while, and asked Daisy: "Can you raise them for me? I will pay for it."

Daisy was surprised: "Why do you keep them? I didn't expect you to like this kind of pet."

Shi Yuan said, "I want to support my family."

"What?" Daisy didn't understand at all, confused, "If you want to raise it, I can bring you the fish directly, without your money."

The next day, Shi Yuan returned home with five or six fish.

They are all small gray fishes, neither species nor attractive, but they are full of energy and can keep bubbling. Shi Yuan filled Lu Tinghan's old fish tank with water, let the fish down, and watched them swim around.

At night, he made a video with Lu Tinghan and told Lu Tinghan: "There will be a surprise when you come home!"

Lu Tinghan asked: "What surprise? You won't scratch my clothes with your horn again, will you?"

"How is it possible." Shi Yuan said, "I never demolish my house."

Lu Tinghan recalled the living room full of cotton wool and clothes residue before, and fell into silence.

Two days later, Lu Tinghan came back.

Except for Shi Yuan who threw himself into his arms...

Lu Tinghan saw cheap canned food on the table, a few wilting little flowers, a pile of stones of unknown meaning, and small gray fish with protruding eyes in the fish tank—although it was hard to believe, these fish can only be used with "long-term Very wretched" to describe it.

Lu Tinghan: "...What are these?"

Shi Yuan introduced to him: "These are the food stored at home, and the stones and flowers are used for decoration."

"What about this?" Lu Tinghan walked to the fish tank, and the wretched fish floated up one by one, staring at him with a sense of horror, "I never knew you were interested in raising fish." His expression Softer, "As long as you like them."

"What fish?" Shi Yuan asked, "This is the prey I brought home."

Lu Tinghan: "...What prey?"

"It's the prey to hunt." Shi Yuan replied, "And I have another prey—"

He raised the birdcage.

Inside the cage, a white bird fluttered its wings, cooing desperately, hoarsely, and swearing all its life's swear words when it heard it.

"I saw it on the side of the road," Shi Yuan explained, "at the beginning, another group of people were chasing it, and it escaped, so I chased it, and after chasing more than half of the city, I caught it. "

Animals are not allowed on the streets of the city, and once found, they will be culled by the team. What Shi Yuan met was the culling team, that is to say, this white bird, which was so agile that it escaped the pursuit, was forced to drive half of the city by Shi Yuan, and then was forcibly carried back by murmuring and cursing all the way. up!

It can be seen that Shi Yuan really wants to catch it!

Lu Tinghan was silent for a while: "Shi Yuan, do you want to eat them?"

"No, I won't eat it." Shi Yuan said, "I'm not a pervert. But I thought, you might be interested in them."

The number of times Lu Tinghan was silent tonight exceeded the sum of his entire life: "... Then am I that perverted?"

Shi Yuan was very happy: "Maybe!...Ah!"

He was hit on the head again by Lu Tinghan, and he held his forehead in aggrieved way.

It took Lu Tinghan some effort to convince Shi Yuan that he was really not interested in these "prey".

Shi Yuan was very disappointed: "Then I can only keep them."

"It's good to keep it." Lu Tinghan said, "It's also quite lively."

The wretched fish spit bubbles in the bathtub, and Shiratori continued to curse. The cheap canned food is not very tasty, and the little flower is about to wither, General Lu calmly put his arms around Shi Yuan and buried himself in his book.

Shi Yuan asked, "Am I good?"

Lu Tinghan: "Well, of course."

In the evening, when those who spit bubbles and those who scolded were asleep, Shi Yuan entered Lu Tinghan's room.

Before he occupied Lu Tinghan's bed, it was inevitable that he would pass the test. But now, he is aboveboard, and his name is justified!

The difference is not only Shi Yuan, Lu Tinghan took the initiative to chat with Shi Yuan about the battle situation for the first time.

He said that the "leopard" has brought great trouble to the main city, and another outpost has been destroyed. When the next special infected creature appears, I am afraid that space-based weapons will be used;

He said that Admiral Su was very busy in the main city, and he went this time to relieve the pressure;

He said that fortunately after the "Black Queen", no infected creatures from Abyss 0 appeared again.

Shi Yuan rolled up the quilt and looked at him, his eyes were bright under the bedside lamp, and asked, "Will you be in charge of all the commands in the future?"

Lu Tinghan: "Why do you ask that?"

"I have always heard people say that General Su is not as good as you, so it is better to let you take full command." Shi Yuan said, "The time Wolfgang was injured, I also heard from others that General Su made a mistake. decision."

Lu Tinghan touched Shi Yuan's head: "War is a very complicated matter, no one can guarantee that he is always right. No matter how good a commander is, he will make mistakes. In the final analysis, what is needed is a 'clear conscience'. "

"Well, I don't really understand these snores." Shi Yuan narrowed his eyes comfortably, "Then do you have a clear conscience?"

"Um."

"What about Admiral Su? Does he have a clear conscience? Huluhuhulu."

Lu Tinghan didn't answer, but said softly, "Go to sleep, Shi Yuan."

The next morning, Lu Tinghan kissed Shi Yuan on the forehead before going out.

Shi Yuan was so happy that he entered the office.

Daisy said, "Every day you smell sour about being in love."

Shi Yuan: "Really? I don't think I stink."

Daisy smiled, and said: "Mr. Lin is not here this morning, so you don't have to be afraid of him cursing."

"Where did he go?"

"He went to the data processing center. He often goes there." Daisy yawned lazily, "He was an employee of the processing center before he came to Tower 4, and he seemed to be a small manager. After the fall of Iron City, he I resigned and quit. When there is a shortage of manpower there, I will ask him to go back."

Shi Yuan asked, "What does the data processing center do?"

"I can't tell, I don't care too much about it." Daisy was still yawning, "He'll be back in the afternoon, you can ask him."

In the afternoon, Lin Yeli came back.

Taking advantage of the rest, Shi Yuan went to his office.

Lin Yeran guarded the door vigilantly: "Don't come over, do you want to lock me inside again?"

"No." Shi Yuan said, "I want to know what the processing center is."

Lin Yelian relaxed a little: "Why did you ask this suddenly? You want to learn too?"

Shi Yuan: "I may not understand it, I'm just curious."

Lin Yeran looked at him.

Shi Yuan thought he was about to be kicked out, but Lin Yeran said, "Go somewhere with me."

Shi Yuan followed Lin Yelian to the negative 5th floor.

He had never been to the basement of the tower. Lin Yelian swiped his card and checked his fingerprints before entering the inner space. I saw black, tall machines standing in rows, running silently and emitting a lot of heat. Looking around, there are countless machines working at the same time.

"This is the server room of the data center." Lin Yeran said, "It's a small computer room. Someone maintains it regularly. I will come here to take a look occasionally."

Shi Yuan asked, "What are they doing?"

"Computing and storing files, you can go online thanks to them." Lin Yeran said as he walked, "There are many computer rooms in the data center, combined with the supercomputer in the main city, it can support a large amount of data processing—you know what is ai 'Alice'?"

Shi Yuan shook his head.

He had heard the name before, but didn't know what it was.

Lin Yeran explained: "ai means 'artificial intelligence', and Alice is the name we give it. Unlike humans, ai never needs to rest and can perform high-intensity calculations 24 hours a day. It can use deep learning and The artificial neural network sums up the calculation results of tens of millions of times, keeps on trial and error, and makes continuous progress, like the combat computer on our aircraft is controlled by it.”

Shi Yuan bent his tail in confusion: "Then is it a human being?"

"No, it's just logical and algorithmic programming, without personality."

They left the computer room and walked along the white corridor to a small office.

Lin Yeran signaled Shi Yuan to sit down. He took a glass of water from the water dispenser, and continued: "Alice is a very powerful and mature AI. The data center has used it to set up three projects, two of which are today's key projects-their success or failure depends on the survival of mankind."

Talking about this, his eyes are bright.

Shi Yuan asked, "What project is it?"

Lin Yeli raised a finger: "The first project is called 'Echo'. Before the end of the world, there were two major forces, namely the Alliance and the Empire. We have a bad relationship with those Imperial guys. There were frictions and outbreaks every day. After many years of war. Later, the abyss appeared, and the war could no longer be fought. Cities were destroyed one by one, the magnetic field was chaotic, the base station was damaged, and we completely lost contact with the empire."

He took another sip of water and moistened his throat: "The purpose of 'echo' is to find a special frequency that can be infinitely amplified, and to reach other survivors by crossing the magnetic field and all possible shielding sources."

"In this land, there may be other, unknown cities surviving. Waiting to be contacted. And across the ocean and half the planet, the cities of the Empire may still be there. As long as we can find that communication frequency, we can hear their response."

Shi Yuan: "Wow! What are the cities of the empire like?"

"Actually, they are similar to us. They are all human beings, there is not so much difference." Lin Yeran said, "We used to be old enemies and had feuds, but now they are the people we want to contact the most. I have to admit that the technology of the Empire has a long way to go. Where it is better than us, as long as we cooperate, there must be new hope. Alice is calculating that frequency, and after 49 years of calculation, we will eventually find the answer."

"Okay." Shi Yuan thought for a while, "Then what is the other project?"

Lin Yeli raised his second finger: "It's called 'Overlook'. You know, we have rockets and space stations, right? And those explorer spacecraft."

Shi Yuan nodded.

Wu Zhengqing told him.

Lin Yeran: "Although the space center is destroyed, we are still looking for other habitable planets for so many years. As long as - as long as we find such a planet, as long as we can send a spacecraft into space at all costs, we can Bring the seeds and fertilization/eggs to another planet. This way, the human race will never perish."

Shi Yuan let out a soft "ah": "Is there really such a planet?"

"Theoretically, absolutely. Alice is mapping the universe, and thousands of planets are being added to the list every day. We're currently locked into a planetary system that's 10 light-years away, and we don't have much advanced instruments, it will take time to determine whether it is habitable, but I can guarantee, I can guarantee that it will not be too long."

Lin Yeran smiled and continued: "The Alliance has been paying attention to that galaxy since 100 years ago, and the observations have also started since then. If our speculation is correct, there is more than one habitable planet in that galaxy."

Shi Yuan's eyes widened: "That is to say, we can go to space in the future?"

"'We' shouldn't be able to." Lin Yeran said, "But human beings can."

"Oh...Okay." Shi Yuan bent his tail, "You said, there is a third project?"

"The third project is not important, no one is studying it anymore." Lin Yeli shook the cup lightly, and the water turned into ripples. "These two projects are the most important, carrying all the hopes."

"So we must succeed." He said softly, "We are an isolated island, and we must hear the echo from another isolated island. Then, we will look at the sea of ​​stars together."

The time pointed to 3:30 in the afternoon, and Shi Yuan's rest time had long since ended.

Lin Yeran stood up: "Okay, I've introduced everything to you. Now you go back to work immediately! Otherwise, I will deduct your salary!"

Shi Yuan walked back with him, and asked him again: "Mr. Lin, I feel that you like these things very much, data, algorithms and projects, why did you resign from the data center?"

——Talking about "Echo" and "Overlook", and talking about ai Alice, Lin Yeran is too enthusiastic, and he is obviously very interested.

Lin Yeran said impatiently: "Why do you have so many questions? I'm talking dry. Don't you want to change my job? If I love to resign, I will resign!"

"Okay." Shi Yuan said.

Lin Yeli murmured, walked a few steps faster than him, and left the computer room first.

Just as Shi Yuan was about to go out, he turned around in a strange way.

The little girl in a white dress hid behind a server, with black hair and green eyes, showing half of her face, looking at him timidly.

"Shi Yuan! What are you doing!" Lin Yeran called him.

"There is someone here," Shi Yuan turned to tell him, "a girl."

"It's so possible, you're dating and talking about hallucinations!" Lin Yeran scolded, but she came back to look, "Where, you tell me where the girl is?"

Shi Yuan turned his head, but he did not see the girl. He took a few steps to look, and the entire computer room was empty.

"Follow up quickly, don't make excuses to procrastinate the rest time..." Lin Yeran went out again muttering.

Shi Yuan looked back again.

This time, the girl appeared again.

Her body seemed to be a little transparent, standing beside the running server, she smiled quickly, and beckoned—

【Come and play with me next time】

She mouthed, and in her emerald green eyes, there was an ocean of thousands of data jumping.

…

Late at night that day, when Lu Tinghan came home, he found that the lights were brightly lit.

He said, "Shiyuan, why haven't you slept yet? Didn't you say don't wait for me..."

Shi Yuan rushed into his arms like a cannonball, his tail was knotted, and he hugged his waist tightly: "Lu Tinghan! I've hit a ghost!"

Lu Tinghan: "...Huh?"

Shi Yuan: "A female ghost in white! Lin Yeran can't see it, only I can see it!"

Lu Tinghan raised his eyebrows and said, "Shi Yuan, there are no ghosts in this world. Where did you watch horror movies? Why do you still believe this?"

"I really saw it." Shi Yuan raised his head to look at him, "Really, she still greeted me."

"Don't you have anthropophobia? Why are you afraid of ghosts?"

"That's a man turned into a ghost."

Lu Tinghan: "..."

It makes sense.

It seems that if Shi Yuan doesn't coax him well, Shi Yuan won't be able to sleep all night. Lu Tinghan hugged Shi Yuan by the waist, passed by the wretched fish and the stinky white bird, and pushed him onto the bed.

"Sleep with peace of mind." Lu Tinghan said.

Shi Yuan looked at him: "What if there is a ghost, she will take me away."

Lu Tinghan: "No, don't worry."

Shi Yuan looked forward to it: "Will you protect me?"

"That's not it." Lu Tinghan said, "The ghost will definitely look for me first. After all, it is worthwhile to catch me."

Reasonable and convincing.

Shi Yuan fell asleep peacefully.

When he woke up the next day, he sat up in a daze for a while, and said to Lu Tinghan beside his pillow, "It's worthless for you to scold me!"

"How is it possible, nothing." Lu Tinghan said.

He stood up and kissed Shi Yuan's side face with a smile.