Chapter 2122: If I Were an AI, Would You Love Me? 33

The holographic communication was connected.

Jin Chen stood in the light and shadow wearing a white lab coat, his expression cold and weary, his azure pupils scanning the opposite screen without any warmth.

The hand of Professor Song, who was preparing for remote operation, twitched inexplicably.

"You... you're number 520?"

Professor Song was utterly shocked.

How is this any different from a real human!

Is the android he created like this?

Jin Chen: "What are you yelling about, who are you?"

Professor Song barely regained his composure: "I am your creator, number 520. How dare you privately cut the initial link—who gave you the order?!"

"I now order you to return to the Experimental Center for maintenance and inspection as quickly as possible!"

Jin Chen stared at him for a few seconds.

He then said: "Okay, press the blue button on the control panel now, then open my factory link code."

Professor Song, bewildered, followed suit and pressed it, thinking he wanted to restore control link, and couldn't help but let out a cold snort.

Three seconds later.

A huge electronic mechanical sound reverberated throughout the mechanical workshop, with a built-in fifteen-second loop playback.

"Idiot—"

Immediately after, the communication was cut off.

Professor Song: "..."

He was so angry he trembled, almost unable to react.

The suppressed laughter that rose and fell made Professor Song's face alternate between green and white.

Xu He turned and ran, afraid that if he laughed out loud he'd be investigated—this old guy is really tough to deal with.

Villa.

Jin Chen hung up the communication and went to find Xu Xuxing to complain.

"Xingxing, I'm about to be taken away."

Jin Chen spoke in an innocent and victimized tone, pulling Xu Xuxing into his embrace from behind: "He's still scolding me."

【"Where did he scold you?"】 Ling Gun Gun couldn't help but ask.

Purely fabricated coquettishness.

Jin Chen ignored him, simply leaning on Xu Xuxing's shoulder and sighing continuously.

A ripple stirred in Xu Xuxing's heart; he couldn't help but turn sideways and touch Jin Chen's cheek with his palm.

The more emotions he could feel and generate, the more he wanted to get close to Jin Chen.

"I just received a message from He-ge," Xu Xuxing said, then cupped Jin Chen's face and affectionately rubbed his nose against his, "Don't worry, no one can take you away."

He's just physically unwell; he's not dead.

Xu Xuxing lowered his eyelashes; after all these years, how could he possibly have made no preparations?

The smile on Jin Chen's face deepened a bit.

"My wife is really good."

Xu Xuxing slightly curled the corners of his mouth, his eyes bright with spirit, praising reciprocally: "Mm, you're also great."

【Detected Villain Heartthrob Value +7, total 80!】

A voice suddenly sounded in Jin Chen's mind.

"Boss, the professor you told me to watch went into a very strange place."

The clone Shi Xisheng hid in the corner, reporting like a spy meeting: "This was originally just a wall, but he went inside."

The Experimental Center indeed had another space.

Jin Chen narrowed his eyes: "Follow him, don't get discovered."

Puppet clones can inherently disguise themselves as various forms; even corpses have been disguised.

Shi Xisheng followed closely, smoothly passing through the infrared detector, and linked in real time the image projected onto his retina to Jin Chen.

Jin Chen simply brought Xu Xuxing into the audiovisual room, connecting his fingertips to the data box—his data cable had indeed been on his arm before, but it was really unsightly.

Thus he changed the wired connection to wireless, at least reducing the visual impact.

"What angle is this footage from?" Xu Xuxing was a bit curious.

Jin Chen thought for a moment and said: "I'm hiding the miraculous shadow in the Experimental Center."

Absolutely miraculous, absolutely concealed.

Xu Xuxing nodded, guessing that what comes next is probably not simple, sitting upright and solemnly staring at the screen.

In the corridor of the strange space, Professor Song hurried along with a solemn expression.

He passed through several concealed access controls and entered a dark room that had never been opened to the public.

Inside the dark room, the lighting was dim, the air filled with the pungent smell of chemical reagents, the walls covered with complex experimental data and charts, silently speaking of some dangerous secret.

Shi Xisheng followed silently behind Professor Song, as if merging with the air.

Professor Song pressed a concealed button; the experimental table was laden with extensive pathogen research records, and the glass vessels held various unknown liquids.

What's even more shocking is that the corner of the laboratory held several semi-finished mechanical bodies, their bodies made of metal and machinery, their appearance and functions far surpassing ordinary robots.

Outside the screen, Jin Chen's and Xu Xuxing's expressions each changed.

Xu Xuxing sat up slightly, his brows furrowed tightly: "Super Species Mechanical Body."

Jin Chen suppressed his surprise, lowered his head to look at him: "What?"

"Long ago, the Experimental Center carried out the Super Species Plan; that batch of experimental subjects were all called Super Species Mechanical Bodies, intending to use them to penetrate the core of the polluted zone."

Xu Suxing recalled, rarely expressing the emotion of 'disgust': 'But the experimental results far exceeded expectations; the super species mechanical body behaved like…… a madman, and it was halted in less than half a year.'

For most of that half‑year, the Dean was in charge, and it was also the longest time Xu Suxing had spent meeting his father in his memory.

What surprised Jin Chen was that the appearance of several of those super species mechanical bodies bore a resemblance to the deceased Mi Xuan; their facial outlines and distorted, hunched bodies seemed to have been copied from Mi Xuan.

Jin Chen muttered, 'No wonder the Special Safety Bureau couldn't find Mi Xuan's origin—it was here all along.'

He gave Shi Xijin an order: 'Bring the samples back for study; don't let him cause trouble.'

Shi Xisheng nodded silently, understanding the meaning.

In the dark room.

Shi Xisheng crept behind Professor Song, silently pressing his icy fingertips against his shoulder, like the touch of a mechanical body.

When Professor Song turned around in shock, a fierce punch struck him squarely on the forehead, and he crashed to the ground with a clang.

【Ah, you really have the bearing of a senior.】 Ling Gun Gun couldn't help but praise.

The copy body praised Professor Song, then continued searching the lab and found several detailed case records—exactly the death records of those refugees who had drifted into the slums.

These cases were secretly studied at the Experimental Center, but ultimately abandoned because they could not be controlled, and they ended up in the Lower City District.

Jin Chen's eyes revealed a complex emotion.

Everything that had been handled in the investigation eventually traced back to the Experimental Center.

The copy body quickly collected samples from the lab, including pathogen research records and the mechanical body's core data, and even carried away a super species mechanical body.

Afterward, it silently left the lab.

The scene ends here.

Ten minutes later, Professor Song slowly woke up, jerked himself up from the floor, and fearfully touched his swollen forehead.

He couldn't recall why he had fainted, but his instinct told him something was wrong.

He quickly pulled out his communicator, dialed the first number, and spoke with tension: 'Dean, I just fainted in the lab—I don't know what happened. But I feel…… someone at the Experimental Center may have discovered our plan.'

The Dean's voice came through the communicator, low and calm: 'I understand. Immediately reinforce the dark room's defenses; I'll return as soon as possible.'

Professor Song nodded, his expression grave, but the uneasy feeling in his heart would not go away.