Master, I Need Charging - Chapter 37: Artificial Intelligence

Inside the private room of a high-end restaurant where the interior was elegantly furnished, a beautiful waitress was found serving up the last dish before she politely left the room.

Ace, on the other hand, had found something else more interesting than the spread of delicacies on the table.

“So, according to what you said, Shen Xinran borrowed Ruan Ruan from you, then that Director Xu wanted to bang—uh, no. Ahem, ahem! I meant, Director Xu went about something in the wrong manner, which resulted in her running away and you eventually finding her?”

Chen Yuheng gave a non-committal nod of his head, indicating that that was indeed what had happened.

“After that, you realized that she was out of battery and her bra strap was broken, so you went to buy her lingerie?”

He continued nodding, but his irritation had already begun to surface on his face.

“The worst part of this matter isn’t that you were unfortunately caught on camera by a reporter and ended up in the headlines, but rather, your grandfather learned about this matter and forced you to either bring your girlfriend home or go on a blind date?”

Rolling his eyes at his friend, he blandly said, “You don’t have to keep emphasizing it.”

Ace chuckled, looked around, then suddenly said in a flattering tone, “I have something to discuss with you, Yuheng.”

The former coldly responded, “Go on.”

“I want to take Ruan Ruan back to the work studio…”

He cocked a brow warily. “What for?”

……

Ace gave him a meaningful smirk in reply. “Don’t worry, I’m not going to increase her breast size. All I want to do is to re-test the source code.”

Chen Yuheng gave it some thought for a short two to three seconds before refusing his friend flatly, “No.”

The latter did not expect his request to be rejected at all. He cried in surprise, “Why?!”

With a frown, Chen Yuheng shot him a look of distrust. “God knows what other rubbish programs are you going to add! The impression system is already giving me a huge headache. If you’re going to add something else, how am I going to send the robot to my grandfather for him to use?”

“Impression system…?” Confusion clouded Ace’s face.

He found it ridiculously funny as he recalled the events that had happened recently. “Because of her low favorable impression of me at the start, she actually wanted to escape but ended up being caught by the security! So… I decided to take her home and have her coming and going to work with me. This method is rather effective, and now she’s quite obedient. It’s probably due to the increase in impression value.” As he continued speaking, he appeared somewhat troubled. “She blushes too frequently, though. In my opinion, this design of the skin turning warm is happening too often, and it will negatively affect the sensitivity of the temperature-detecting system. Also… she’s not very proficient in nursing and is a little clumsy. Although it has somewhat improved recently, it’s likely due to the continuous practice…”

“Are you sure… you didn’t let other technicians tamper with my source code?” asked the other man with raised brows.

He looked back at him with a blank face, not at all understanding the reason behind his question.

Ace laughed dryly. “I’ve never added any impression system to the robot.”

That surprised Chen Yuheng.

If that isn’t it… how do you explain… Ruan Ruan’s strange behaviors…?

The former continued. “Besides, a robot secretly running away is just simply unimaginable. Unless someone else is remotely manipulating it. Do you think robots can conceive the thought to escape?”

Only humans possessed active consciousness and would actively take the initiative to do a certain thing. Robots, on the other hand, possessed only passive consciousness. They passively accepted instructions.

It would be terrifying if a robot developed an active consciousness. That would mean that it can think. When it began to actively think and learn on its own and was no longer under humans’ control, that would be the true meaning of artificial intelligence. Nevertheless, given the current level of technology, how was it possible for robots to reach that level?

Ace was bewildered. He did not know if such a phenomenon was a misunderstanding caused by a bug in the program or… artificial intelligence truly existed. Did I accidentally create it?!

Excitement… inexplicably surged within him.

The blood in his entire body was starting to boil…

This is something that would only happen in a sci-fi movie!

“Yuheng,” He suddenly turned serious as he carefully asked, “Think again, are there any other unusual behaviors about Ruan Ruan?”

His friend looked at him. “Don’t you know about your own creation?”

Shifting his chair closer to him, Ace whispered, “I suspect that I’m such a genius that I’ve accidentally created artificial intelligence!”

Chen Yuheng could not help but sneer at him, “Is artificial intelligence mad? Why would it be born in an inflatable doll with F cups, long ears, a long tail…”

That got him enraged! Unable to take that insult lying down, he slammed the table as he shouted, “I didn’t know the robot was meant for your grandfather! I thought it was for you! You’re 28 already, but you don’t even have a woman at your side. If I hadn’t added that function to let you get some action, I was afraid you would die from your pent-up sexual frustrations! You’ve mistaken my good intentions for ill intent! Besides, isn’t it good that her boobs are big? Are big boobs no good? Are big boobs no good, huh? Are you discriminating against big boobs?!”

Chen Yuheng was angered by what he heard, too! His face instantly darkened as he spoke through clenched teeth, “You actually really added that type of function…”

Ace froze. “… You haven’t got it on with her?”

I’m sure he didn’t, otherwise, wouldn’t he know about this function?

As soon as his voice dropped, a plate of lotus-wrapped fish with green lemon flew right over!

He instantly crawled under the table at lightning speed, making a narrow escape!

With his arms tightly wrapped around his bright silvery-white hair, the shocked man got up to his feet and shrieked, “Chen Yuheng! If my newly dyed hair gets dirty, I’ll fight you with all my might!”

Chen Yuheng poked a chopstick right through the mud-covered Beggar’s Chicken¹.

His friend choked at that, and immediately restrained himself a little. “… Can we not waste food…? I’m still hungry…”

He put away his chopsticks, despite the raging fire within him.

Even though he could keep quiet about the robot’s sexual function, he just could not overcome his psychological barrier of doing so.

He wanted to perform filial piety by arranging a robot to take care of his grandfather, but in the end, because of this scourge, it would end up with the grandson gifting his grandfather an inflatable doll…

His lifetime of clean reputation…

“I’ll change that for you, then…” Ace slowly sat back down with a pout.

Change?

… How to change it?

An image of Ruan Ruan lying stark naked on the operating table and Ace, holding various tools in his hands, standing between her legs, with a vulgar look, to proceed with the modification works suddenly surfaced in his mind.

His frown deepened.

“No need,” he said somewhat resentfully, “We’ll keep her this way. There’s no need for any changes.”

“Ah…?” Ace stared at him, feeling confused.

He shot him a death glare in return as he somewhat flew into a rage out of humiliation. “It’s too troublesome!”

“It’s not very troublesome, actually…”

He started bellowing, “Are you going to eat or not?! The dishes have gone cold!”

“…”

Bored stiff, he picked some food with his chopsticks and ate two mouthfuls of it before he eventually could not help but discuss it with the other man, “Lend Ruan Ruan to me for a few days, alright? I won’t touch her. I just want to take a look…”

“You can always go see her at my office.”

Ace tried reasoning with him, instead. “I’m her designer and creator. Don’t I get a little right to use her at all?”

“All expenses were paid for by me,” replied Chen Yuheng.

Feeling helpless, the former relented. “How about you keep a logbook of the strange behaviors you usually observe from her and send it to me on a periodical basis? What do you think about this idea?”

He was certain that the CEO would not be so idle to do that.

Alas, the CEO smiled comfortably at that. “Easy. I’ll just get Ruan Ruan to write a diary entry every day.”

That left Ace astonished. “She can write diary entries?!”

“Well, I suppose she can.” Chen Yuheng nodded. “I’ve seen her looking up jokes to read online.”

Since typing isn’t a problem for her, keeping a diary shouldn’t be difficult…