Chapter 2099: If I Were an AI, Would You Love Me? 09

Jin Chen held Xu Shuxing as they walked from the elevator into the lab's side door, directly entering the safety compartment inside the glass cover.

Outside the glass, Xu He was genuinely startled by the scene before him, and as he stood up his chair almost tipped over.

"Little Xu? What's wrong? Where do you feel uncomfortable?"

He hurriedly pressed his earpiece and asked.

Human voices cannot penetrate this highly transparent protective glass; the sound Xu Shuxing heard came through the special medium in the wall.

"I'm fine." Xu Shuxing was set down to sit, and he gave Xu He a smile.

The pallor on his cheeks hadn't faded yet, but a subtle vigor had appeared.

Jin Chen stood at his side, and with outsiders present he dutifully acted as an undiscoverable android.

Xu He then sat back down; the screen showed various analyses based on Xu Shuxing's bodily data.

"Unit 520 has already sent me your recent bodily data; overall it's a good sign, and you're gradually strengthening your immunity."

Xu Shuxing drank some water to dispel the lingering spray medicine in his throat, heard the words, lazily nodded, and with a hint of hope said, "Then how many more tests do we have today?"

Xu He was unsympathetic: "Nineteen items."

Xu Shuxing: "……"

He turned his head, not wanting to hear those words, and pressed his forehead against the android's arm.

Jin Chen raised a hand to soothe, wrapping his arm around Xu Shuxing's shoulders, half‑squatting to speak: "According to the calculation, the tests will take about one hour and fifty‑five minutes."

"Once Xingxing finishes the tests, we can buy snacks and go home to rest; before that, I found a great horror‑film resource for Xingxing."

Hearing this, Xu Shuxing couldn't help feeling a bit of anticipation: "Okay."

Outside the glass compartment, Xu He: "……hiss."

It seemed as if something had twitched on a radar.

Before he could ponder further, he saw the 520‑unit android, which had been gently comforting Xu Shuxing, straighten up and look over through the glass with its deep‑blue, emotionless mechanical eyes.

"Dr. Xu He, ten minutes ago an intern with employee number 01923 from the central base rushed into Xingxing's private elevator."

Jin Chen paused, analyzed the person's demeanor in the elevator, and continued to complain: "This intern's excuse was to deliver Professor Song's car keys."

While trying to pick up your wife, he inadvertently bullied my wife.

Unforgivable.

Xu He blinked, realized why Xu Shuxing had been late, and immediately felt anger.

He told Xu Shuxing, "I'll take care of this; from now on I won't let that person appear before you."

Xu Shuxing actually never even remembered what that human looked like.

Nevertheless, the protectiveness and concern from Unit 520 still made his heart leap with joy, so that this time when he lay down in the testing chamber his mood was considerably better than before the test.

Every subtle fluctuation in Xu Shuxing's mood feeds back into Jin Chen's emotion detector.

He gazed at the testing chamber, covered the glass with his hand, and silently moved his lips.

It won't be transmitted through the special medium to the outside of the compartment, nor will any other human hear it.

Xu Shuxing clearly read Unit 520's lip movements.

"Guabao bao."

In that instant, Xu Shuxing's memories flashed back like a kaleidoscope.

Starting at age five, Xu Shuxing has undergone this kind of checkup every three to six months, sometimes even more frequently.

The testing chamber is sealed and sterile, quiet as another world; little Xu Shuxing would be very afraid.

He would open his big, wet‑red eyes, longing yet helpless as he looked toward the experimenter outside the compartment, while only cold machinery kept him company during the test.

After the experimenters finished the bodily statistics, they would leave, sending data to his parents who were constantly busy away from home.

Little Xu Shuxing, adolescent Xu Shuxing would lie naked in the chamber, waiting for the anesthetic to wear off, waiting for the sampling wound to be mechanically sutured, and then be taken back to an empty home by the robot nanny.

No one had ever comforted Xu Shuxing, even if he behaved ever‑so‑obediently and calmly.

Later, when he grew up, he was immensely grateful to have Xu He and Song Shoujie as friends, yet the care he ultimately received was still different.

They couldn't hug, and they hadn't even shaken hands.

Countless scenes finally converged in Xu Shuxing's pupils, forming a tear that spilled from the corner of his eye; the kaleidoscope returned to reality.

At age twenty, he finally got what he'd been waiting for.

He now has embrace, companionship, and warmth—better than anyone else's.

【Villain Heartthrob Value +10, total 33!】

【Villain Blackening Value –5, total 25!】

Outside the chamber, Xu He had Jin Chen step out of the compartment so he could link into the android's core data.

"Recently several ordinary androids have shown strange bugs; you are currently the only fully capable high‑grade android, and your data code might have reference value."

Jin Chen didn't refuse; he proactively pulled out a data cable and plugged it into Xu He's computer, his gaze fixed on the screen analyzing Xu Shuxing's body.

"When Xingxing was five, what triggered the discovery of his allergy to humans?"

This has long puzzled Jin Chen.

It makes no sense that a child who had enjoyed his mother's hugs and his father's care, living well up to age five, would suddenly become allergic to all humans, with his condition taking a sharp turn for the worse.

Xu He was refreshing the data when he heard this and said, "I don't know either; the dean never mentioned it."

The dean is Xu Shuxing's father and the owner of this experimental center.

Watching the code's fingertips pause, Xu He looked at the android before him and asked, "What is the development level of your autonomous exploration ability?"

Jin Chen lowered his eyes to search; it was 70%.

Currently, the exploration degree of all androids on the market generally ranges from 40% to 60%.

This function allows the robot to continually self‑update and learn; keeping the value in the upper‑mid range likewise helps prevent the robot from truly encountering unexpected situations.

"70%." Jin Chen said.

Anyway, he has no reference, unless the lab can recreate an advanced android in a short time.

Otherwise, what he is like is what the advanced android is like.

While Xu He was analyzing the data stream, Jin Chen evaded the search mechanism, letting Ling Gun Gun pass through his link and capture all bodily data about Xu Susong in this experimental center, from age five to the present.

The leftmost computer screen suddenly displayed a video message from Song Shoujie.

Xu He took a moment to answer, turned his chair to face the holographic projection, and before he could say anything flirty, he was hit in the face by the news Song Shoujie brought.

「Upper City District has seen a case of humans being devoured, right near District One; according to the Special Security Bureau's police system analysis, the killer is very likely hiding in the experimental center. 」