Chapter 2102: If I Were an AI, Would You Love Me? 13

The disinfection room door opened, but Jin Chen came out from the other side, his metallic-toned cold voice somewhat complex.

"Doctor Xu, Number One has escaped."

Xu He turned his head, "What the hell?"

Jin Chen: "The Number One from my batch isn't in the cabin."

That was something he personally dismantled and stuffed in!

Really terrible.

Number One was dismantled like that, yet he could still get away.

No wonder he's the loyal mechanical body of the biggest villain in the original plot.

【It seems that as long as the crystal core has been installed in a mechanical body, it leaves data; this crystal core is like a virus, host—once you touch it, you can't get rid of it.】

Jin Chen neither affirmed nor denied, nodding in agreement.

"Damn, didn't only one of this batch of high-end androids successfully activate!"

Xu He seemed to have heard a ghost story.

Exactly, isn't that Number One?

Jin Chen showed no expression, not at all guilty: "Cause undetectable."

"Pull up the surveillance! Quick!" Xu He told the lab staff.

Thinking of the rumor that androids could develop self-awareness, Xu He and the lab staff present all got goosebumps.

"If a fully functional high-end android gains self-awareness, the Upper City District is doomed!"

Jin Chen: "……"

Nonsense.

Jin Chen decided to abandon helping the doctor who spread rumors about androids.

Xu Xuxing sat in place waiting for Number 520 to come over for a hug, not even sitting on the bench, and after being embraced he adeptly leaned against the shoulder.

Jin Chen embraced Xu Xuxing, lowered his head to nuzzle him, "Just now you were amazing."

Xu Xuxing couldn't help but sniff the android's neck scent; it was still fragrant, without the irritating smell of disinfectant, so he felt at ease leaning in.

"I came out of the testing chamber, thinking I could see you at first glance." Xu Xuxing took two breaths, feeling a grievance he wasn't even aware of.

"The experiment center has many robots; even as a high-end android you must watch your safety, don't rush to the front from now on."

Xu Xuxing poked the android's shoulder, his fingertips lightly hooking its fingers, giving the command: "You are my android, you must obey me."

Jin Chen's azure pupils leaked a hint of a smile: "Yes, your android has remembered."

Seeing that familiar smile, Xu Xuxing recalled the lip-reading he'd understood while lying in the cabin, glanced sideways at the busy other humans, then turned back.

Xu Xuxing looked up at the android's handsome brows and eyes, his eyelashes flickered, and he softly asked him to shout again.

"Shout what?" Jin Chen asked deliberately.

Xu Xuxing furrowed his brow, pressed a hand against his lips, reminding: "What you shouted in the partition was lip-reading."

"What shout? Let me hear it too." Song Shoujie came over with a report, speaking slightly teasingly, and pushed up his glasses.

Xu Xuxing immediately covered Jin Chen's mouth, turned to Song Shoujie with a solemn expression, like a little strict one: "Nothing."

Jin Chen really couldn't hold back, lowered his head and chuckled; Xu Xuxing's palm felt a little numb, his ears secretly flushed, and he pressed his lips tighter.

"Such clinginess." Song Shoujie shook his head and handed the report to Xu Xuxing.

"Your preliminary check-up report; the rest has to wait until we deal with this mess."

Xu Xuxing took it, "Thanks, Shoujie Ge, do you need my help?"

Song Shoujie bluntly: "Not fainting randomly is the best help."

Xu Xuxing: "……"

He slapped the report against his face.

Always saying things I don't like to hear.

"Shoujie Ge~Bro! Come help me quick!" Xu He panicked, turned to see his boyfriend still chatting with Xiaoxu, then shamelessly yelled: "Pull up the surveillance—Number One really escaped! This scares me more than if you ran away!"

Song Shoujie: "……"

This embarrassing thing.

The team's lab staff were already used to it; only the Special Security Bureau personnel almost choked, never expecting Doctor Xu He to have such a personality.

Jin Chen also looked at the surveillance projection.

In the footage, Number One's brain slammed open the cabin, fell to the ground, and step by step installed his severed limbs, almost putting his legs on backward during the process.

The instigator, Jin Chen, inexplicably sensed a feeling of "disabled but resolute" fortitude.

Immediately after, Number One angrily raised his fist and smashed the cabin—the very cabin that should have belonged to Jin Chen.

Special Security Bureau staff wondered: "What kind of behavior is this?"

Lab staff: "I don't know; theoretically androids have protection mechanisms for their birthing chambers."

Jin Chen kept his composure: "This Number One has gone mad."

After smashing the cabin, Number One easily opened the storage room's main gate, furtively observed for a while, then hid inside a cleaning robot's bin and was transported out.

Meanwhile, the small cleaning robot even opened up to look, and at the moment it came face-to-face with Number One, it was still analyzing whether it was human or machine before getting punched.

"Hurry up, don't waste time." Number One barked fiercely.

The cleaning robot was spun around by the blows, dazed, and pushed its cleaning cart away.

Outside the frame, Special Security Bureau staff couldn't hold back: "Do high-end androids with self-awareness just become crazy?"

The atmosphere grew subtly tense, and everyone's glances furtively drifted toward Number 520.

Jin Chen: "……"

Xu Xuxing frowned, blocked their gazes, "This is a special case; don't generalize from a single example."

Xu He: "I will apply to the general team; once I obtain Number One's data chain block, I can directly locate and destroy it."

The matter concerning Number One here hasn't been resolved yet, while on the other side, Song Shoujie's team has already analyzed the bacteria carried by the mechanical corpse.

The experimenter wearing black glasses said, "Dr. Song, it is the water spore devouring source from the edge zone three of the contaminated area, ID NY098."

The experimenter called up a holographic projection, showing a huge pale pink pathogen resembling a jellyfish.

This is the effect at two hundred times magnification: once a human is infected, after the three-day incubation period it triggers immune system collapse, large pink patches appear on the skin, the infected person's muscles and bones gradually stiffen, and motor ability sharply declines. In the final stage of infection, the whole body turns pink, resembling a zombie, hence called the pink zombie contagion source.

A very strange disease.

Just as this thought flashed through Jin Chen's mind, his pupils twitched slightly; he lowered his head to look at Xu Xuxing in his arms.

Could Xu Xuxing's human allergy disorder also have been infected by the contaminated zone?

Xu Xuxing didn't know what his 520 was thinking; seeing him stare intently at himself, he tilted his head, pressed his cheek against the android's shoulder, and slowly rubbed.