Chapter 321

Whether it's Prometheus or gen-sys, focused on biotechnology,

or the Evil Science Alliance, notorious for its forbidden arts and bottomless ethics, their modification techniques still must abide by the constraints of physical laws and the rules of life.

But the 【Assembled Doll · Modified】 leans slightly toward idealism: "I think it works, so it works."

Li Cheng had no doubt that if this item fell into Prometheus's hands, they would pull off cyberpunk-style antics like "extracting a human brain and implanting it in a server room to create an employee who can work 24/7."

Although the real world is already sufficiently cyberpunk—Amazon uses AI systems to monitor employees' workstations, computer screens, and eye movement trajectories, even their drinking and bathroom habits; if the system detects "slacking off," it can fire them directly without supervisor approval.

Domestic food delivery platforms dare exploit legal and regulatory lag: squeezing merchants' revenue upstream, charging customers membership fees midstream, and using algorithms to infinitely exploit couriers downstream—then proudly claim annual losses.

Everyone is losing money—so who's making the money? How strange. jpg

"The original 【Assembled Doll】, after merging with the 【Technological Singularity Device】, produced an effect far greater than 1+1=2. If it fell into the wrong hands, the harm would be limitless—thankfully, it ended up in my hands."

Li Cheng muttered, "Thankfully, technology is in the hands of civilization," then suddenly remembered something, hurriedly picked up brand-new CPU, RAM sticks, SSDs, and a motherboard from the shelf, and turned to look at Hui Yu.

Shit!

Hui Yu instinctively sensed danger, scrambled backward on all fours, but Li Cheng grabbed her collar with a helpless expression: "I'm not going to hurt you—come here, I'm upgrading your brain."

"I don't want to!"

Hui Yu looked like a elementary school kid waiting for a shot in a hospital hallway, shaking her head like a rattle.

After much coaxing, she reluctantly sat on the chair, nervously swallowing saliva.

"Sit still."

Li Cheng placed the electronic components on the table, gently entwining them with Hui Yu's hair, and activated the CPU first: "How does it feel?"

Hui Yu fell silent for a long time, her eyes shimmering with wisdom: "Forty."

"Huh? What forty?"

"The total number of your fingers and toes plus mine is forty."

Hui Yu spoke with profound wisdom: "Together, we have four eyes, four ears, two noses…"

Are you seriously doing this right now?

Li Cheng groaned: "I meant—any mental changes? Like improved calculation speed?"

"Hss—"

Hui Yu took a deep breath and said seriously: "I feel incredibly strong now—my brain is super fast. Why don't you ask me a math problem? Anything."

"521 × 1314 − 520 + 8848." Li Cheng casually made up a calculation.

Hui Yu smiled and answered: "891608."

"What?" Li Cheng's eye twitched. "That's not right."

Hui Yu spread her hands: "Don't ask if it's right—just tell me how fast it was."

Fast your head. Something must be wrong.

Li Cheng refused to believe it, suspecting Hui Yu's memory was too small, preventing the new CPU from delivering its full computational power.

So he activated the 【Assembled Doll · Modified】 again, connecting a 64GB RAM stick and an SSD directly to her hair.

This time, there was finally a change.

Hui Yu's eyes glowed as she grabbed a test paper from the drawer and scribbled furiously—the final result was… peculiar.

In conventional math problems, her performance skyrocketed, matching a calculator exactly. But for complex questions requiring abstract thinking or perceptual reasoning—like image sequencing, logical deduction, or comprehensive analysis—her scores rose only slightly.

"Hmm."

Li Cheng frowned, thinking deeply, and finally guessed what was happening.

Hui Yu's true nature was an interstellar pirate-created liquid-metal robot, built using Zelos civilization technology and other interstellar civilizations' tech.

She was itself an engineering miracle, far surpassing Earth's civilization still stuck in the Solar System.

The reason Hui Yu usually appeared unintelligent was because her creators—the interstellar pirates—never specifically designed or optimized her intelligence attributes.

In other words, the hardware was insanely powerful, but the software was utterly pathetic.

Now, attaching Earth-era CPUs, RAM sticks, and SSDs to Hui Yu could only enhance her most basic computational abilities.

More processing power remained locked due to incompatible software—she simply couldn't unleash it.

Li Cheng scratched his head. As a liquid-metal robot thousands of years ahead of her time, no company or organization on Earth could develop software compatible with her.

Thus, she was too advanced to be backward—stuck, unable to ascend or descend.

One error, one sentence, one piece of content, one look!

Compared to Li Cheng's regret, Hui Yu was quite happy.

The expansion of memory and storage made her feel refreshed and invigorated, as if emerging from darkness into light; she immediately picked up her phone and started scrolling through short videos.

As she scrolled, she told Li Cheng: "Wuhu! Now with dozens of terabytes of storage, I don't have to delete old memories anymore just to make room for new ones like before. So satisfying!"

You're a super-advanced future robot and this is what you do?

Li Cheng rolled his eyes, about to give her a light head flick, then suddenly remembered something—his expression softened.

Indeed, Hui Yu originally had only 256GB of storage space, part of which was occupied by system files.

The longer she stayed with Li Cheng, the more memories she accumulated.

To remember every moment with him, she had to use up 1GB, then another 1GB—her own brain capacity dwindled steadily.

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Li Cheng reached out and gently stroked Hui Yu's small head.

Hui Yu instinctively pulled her neck back, but when she saw Li Cheng's gentle expression, her face inexplicably flushed, stammering: "Y-you y-you I-I-I, it's too heavy."

"? What are you thinking?"

Li Cheng's face darkened. He told Hui Yu to keep doing her homework, then picked up the now-silver 【Assembled Doll】 and walked toward the shelf.

The method of attaching electronic devices to her hair was still too unreliable.

Also, because Hui Yu's liquid metal slowly flows, and her liquid-metal muscles automatically tense during combat, internal installations were unstable.

After much thought, Li Cheng simply took out sewing equipment, a special textile fabric identical to that of the spacesuit, and secured the CPU and memory sticks inside the fabric to make a coat.

When the time comes, Hui Yu can wear the coat and connect via cables to an external brain to move about.

The lightbulb on the warehouse ceiling glowed silently.

Hui Yu sat at the desk, doing homework, occasionally sneaking glances at his phone.

Li Cheng, in the corner, stepped on the sewing machine, carefully stitching the coat.

"Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap."

The scene was bizarre yet harmonious.

(End of Chapter)