Electronic Nezha

Chapter 194 Danger
The car was driving smoothly on the road, and for a moment I was a little disoriented. In ancient times, without navigation, you would still go to Beijing even if you wanted to go from Hainan. Am I being too reliant on technology and indulging in excessive consumption? Are modern autonomous driving systems really enough to help us turn danger into safety?
There was a sharp bend ahead. I deliberately didn't touch the steering wheel. Old Ma's SUV automatically slowed down and turned the steering wheel, smoothly navigating the bend. I looked at Ma Chaoran again, and Ma Chaoran gave a half-smile and gestured towards the back.

It seems that Liu Zhenhua was behind this. If Yuanyuan could create Xiao Wu, it wouldn't be difficult for Liu Zhenhua to create Xiao Zhang and Xiao Wang.

"Let's listen to some music." I pretended to fiddle with the control panel for a while. There are five humans and an unknown AI in this car now. I was giving "Xiao Zhang" and "Xiao Wang" a chance to introduce themselves.

Then a voice came from the speaker, singing mournfully, "Little Wu is very sad, very sad, very sad—"

My mom was startled: "What song is this? Who is Xiao Wu?"

I thought to myself, "You're so ungrateful! Xiao Wu saved your wife's life." Although I didn't know why it was Xiao Wu, I had a feeling something was up.

My dad said, "That's how young people are these days. They don't sing properly, they don't dance properly, they just repeat a couple of lines over and over and call it a song. If you criticize them, they'll say you don't understand art." The old man's words were a wake-up call, proclaiming that contemporary art is dead.

My mom said, "Exactly, none of them are as good as the songs from our time." She then asked Ma Chaoran, "Can you even play Guo Lanying's 'A Great River' on your computer?"

My dad said, "Don't cause trouble. You're not driving. Let the young people choose for themselves."

Ma Chaoran suppressed a laugh and said, "Little Wu, Little Wu, search for Guo Lanying's 'A Great River'."

Heartbroken, Xiao Wu was lost in thought for a moment before finally saying, "Fine—"

My dad asked in surprise, "Why is it still unwilling?"

So, accompanied by nostalgic old songs like "A Great River," "Nanniwan," and "One Stream After Another, One Mountain After Another," we got closer and closer to the hot spring hotel.

After exiting the highway and driving for nearly 40 minutes along mountain roads, the hot spring hotel came into view. The place was quite large. On the way to the parking lot, you could see various outdoor hot springs with steam rising from them, giving you the feeling of entering a fairyland. Just for that, I would accept it even if it was heated by a boiler!

When they arrived at the parking lot, the elderly couple went to the trunk to get their things. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ma Chaoran quickly moved closer to the control panel and said, "Xiao Wu, don't be angry."

Xiao Wu said, "Hmph!" It gave off a feeling of turning away in a huff...

Liu Zhenhua said, "I'm going to help my grandparents now."

After Liu Zhenhua left, Ma Chaoran said, "Liu Zhenhua originally wanted to create a new navigation system, but it was only after I insisted that he found you."

Xiao Wu then said, "Then I forgive you. My sister knows how to care for people. Brother, you need to be more careful. Is the highway a place to sleep?"

"Yes, you're right." The price of enjoying future technology is being criticized by an AI.

After parking the car, I asked Ma Chaoran in a low voice, "How did Xiao Wu get into your car?"

"You'll have to ask Liu Zhenhua about that." Ma Chaoran looked delighted; she couldn't wait for Xiao Wu to come back.

Our group, carrying large and small bags, walked towards the grand hotel lobby. When we passed through the revolving door, I bumped into someone. That person was clearly taken aback, lowered their head, and hurried away.

I vaguely felt that the person's back looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen him before.

My dad awkwardly went to the front desk to get the keys with his phone. The old man was really into this trip, and he even booked everything online in a half-baked way.

My dad booked a family room and a couple's room. I was just saying that the old man was quite romantic when he waved to Liu Zhenhua and said, "Zhenhua, come with us. We'll stay in the family room." Then he glanced at his watch and said to Ma Chaoran and me, "Take a break. We'll meet in the lobby in ten minutes."

The hotel's most distinctive feature is its outdoor hot spring. There weren't many guests today, and those coming and going were all wearing swimsuits, steaming from their bodies, and wearing blissful expressions.

The two rooms are on the same floor, but far apart. As soon as I entered the room, under the pink ambient lighting, the first thing I saw was a waterbed. The condoms on the small bar were arranged in a heart shape, and the posters on the wall featured wildly posed models, both male and female.

"Small workshops really know how to use raw materials aggressively," I could only joke.

Ma Chaoran laughed and said, "The old man is so thoughtful." She suddenly said to me, "Don't move, slowly take off your clothes!"

"what?"

Ma Chaoran moved closer to me, first taking off my down jacket, and then carefully searching through the pullover underneath.

"Take it off again."

I understood what she meant by that moment. When I was down to just my tank top, Ma Chaoran found five fine white hairs on my back!
“You’ve been ambushed again.” She picked out the five strands of hair and put them away, saying to me, “The Queen still hasn’t given up on her plan.”

I said, "Luckily you're quick-witted. Did you notice something was wrong as soon as I spat?"

"Well, we'll talk about that later. Right now, you need to hurry up and buy two swimsuits for yourself and Liu Zhenhua."

"Didn't you say you brought some for us?"

"That was for the sake of your image. Who knew you didn't even have this much common sense? I'd say I was worried about the money if I didn't bring the old lady with me."

Ma Chaoran took her swimsuit out of her suitcase and threw it aside. She then pulled out a black waterproof bag and put her cell phone and pistol inside.

"I'm changing my clothes, you can turn your head away," she said to me naturally.

"Go change your clothes..." I stopped mid-sentence, only then realizing that the bathroom in the room was completely transparent...

Who says couples' rooms can't have any privacy at all? It feels like the hotel owner's aesthetic sense is terrible; he just tries to make a fuss about anything related to "couples."

"Should I go down first?"

"No need, Shark and Koi went to Liu Zhenhua's place, you have to come with me."

"it is good……"

Then I heard rustling sounds behind me. The room was full of glass, so I couldn't turn around, and I couldn't even see anything.

I simply closed my eyes and said, "I can't see anything at all."

"Alright, open your eyes."

"It's not appropriate. Although I've always considered you a brother, it's best to maintain some boundaries between men and women..."

"I'm all changed!"

"So fast?" I turned around and saw that Ma Chaoran had already changed into a black one-piece swimsuit. She had a slim waist and long legs, and a certain part of her upper body was not to be underestimated. Although we had been pretending to be a couple for quite some time, this was the first time I had seen her figure in its entirety. Apart from her upper arms being overly muscular, it was quite beautiful.

"How was it?" Ma Chaoran couldn't help but feel a little smug when she saw that I looked at her a few more times than usual, as if she was waiting for me to praise her.

"Pen'er Feite!" You've played the game before, right? This sound happens when you defeat your opponent without taking any damage. Perfect.

"Hehehehe." Ma Chaoran laughed happily and immediately said, "Let's go." There was a small supermarket in the hotel lobby that sold drinks, swimsuits and the like. I went in, grabbed two pairs of swim trunks, and went to the clerk to pay.

"Sir, you can just give me your room number."

I said, "I'll pay now." Wouldn't it give me away if I gave them the room number and then paid the bill at the end?

The shop assistant's eyes darted around, and she ran to the side, picked up a walkie-talkie, whispered a few words, then turned back to me and said, "No need to pay, it's yours."

It's a bit strange, but not that strange. After all, the room rate here is quite high, and it's understandable that guests would bring swimsuits as a gesture of goodwill. It's a thoughtful service.

A little while later, Liu Zhenhua's grandparents came downstairs. When they saw that I was still wearing a long robe and mandarin jacket, his grandfather asked me, "Why didn't you just change out?" He and my mother had already changed out.

"I'll change with Liu Zhenhua." There's a passageway leading from the hotel to the outdoor hot spring pool; we can change in the changing room too.

"I didn't realize you were so old-fashioned," my dad remarked.

We eventually met up in an outdoor pool where the water temperature was just right, serving as a transitional zone for the guests to acclimatize to the outside environment. Koi and shark each carried a waterproof bag and followed us in the adjacent pool.

My mother gave Ma Chaoran a few hard looks, hesitant to speak. I was really afraid she would praise Old Ma in public for being "good at bearing children" or something like that; old ladies can be quite outspoken. Fortunately, she only conveyed her praise to my father with her eyes, saving me a lot of embarrassment.

This place is more like a resort than a hot spring hotel. Within the hotel's grounds are all kinds of hot spring pools, some with high temperatures and some with low temperatures, as well as pools that can provide massage for different parts of the body. They are all designed in various ways. My family chatted for a while and then naturally parted ways.

In a pool that had been turned into a small cave, the three of us finally had a chance to talk. We had already soaked enough in the hot pool, so we sat sweating on the steps inside the cave.

I first asked Liu Zhenhua, "Is the 'Little Wu' on the old horse-drawn carriage the same Little Wu?"

Liu Zhenhua said, "Yes."

"Then how did you transfer it from my car to Old Ma's car? To do that, my car should at least be running, right?" It's not hard to understand why an advanced AI like Xiao Wu would roam around, but for two computers to transfer files to each other, both computers must first be powered on.

Liu Zhenhua said, "So the little Wu on the old horse-drawn carriage is Yun Xiao Wu."

I asked curiously, "Does Xiao Wu have a surname?"

Liu Zhenhua said, "It's not the surname, it's the cloud in cloud data. Xiao Wu is the navigation system with model RY0073.1. It should have a base station to facilitate the transmission of the collected data back. Previously, the base station was turned off because there was only one Xiao Wu. Just like there's no need to make a parallel circuit for a light bulb, now I've authorized the base station to be turned on. The Xiao Wu in your car automatically transmits the data to the base station, and then I move it from the base station to the old horse-drawn carriage. So it's cloud Xiao Wu."

The word "cloud" explains everything. When you buy a new phone and transfer data to the cloud, it has nothing to do with whether your old phone turns on or not. Base stations are essentially the cloud.

Ma Chaoran said cautiously, "Then..."

Liu Zhenhua glanced at her and said, "You can continue to use Yun Xiaowu from now on."

"Yay!" Ma Chaoran excitedly clenched her fist, and I felt a gust of wind. The muscles on her arm were definitely not for nothing.

I said speechlessly, "Don't either of you care what I dreamed about?"

Ma Chaoran then asked, "By the way, what kind of trouble has the Queen caused this time?"

I started to recall slowly, and now, looking back, it was truly a long dream. First, I felt a bit scared. The most dangerous time was before I realized it was a dream; on the highway, a few seconds of distraction is enough to cause an accident. I started by talking about encountering a traffic jam, then about Sun Zhancheng and the others having a barbecue by the roadside, and when I got to the part about going to the hospital, I suddenly paused.

Ma Chaoran asked, "What's wrong?"

I said, "I just remembered something. Sun Zhancheng and Cui San'er are people I've met before, meaning the Queen stole information from my brain. But I have absolutely no recollection of the driver who hit me with his car—"

Liu Zhenhua said, "This means that this person is someone the Queen knows. If you can remember what he looks like, we can find another clue to the Queen based on this person!"

Ma Chaoran said, "Smart!"

I scratched my head in frustration and said, "This person seems unfamiliar, yet I feel like I've seen him somewhere before. Could he be one of those strangers I met a long time ago?"

Ma Chaoran asked, "Can you draw a portrait?"

"You're making things a bit difficult for me."

Ma Chaoran laughed for a while and said, "Then take your time to think about it. I always feel that the matter of the Queen is about to be resolved - whoever puts their hair on you after you've become wary must be untrustworthy. Let's settle this matter after we go back from the hot springs!"

Just then, Ma Chaoran's phone rang. She took it out, glanced at it, and said to me, "It's Dolphin. He's already hacked into the hotel's surveillance system." After saying a few words, she turned and looked outside, asking me, "Are those two people following us your friends?"

"Aren't the ones that have been following us the koi and the shark all along?"

Ma Chaoran said confidently, "There are two more."

"Uh, I don't have any friends in this area."

“That’s because they’re after you,” Ma Chaoran said to me after hanging up the phone. “The dolphins have been dealt with by koi and sharks.”

I hesitated for a moment and said, "What if they are just two tourists?"

"No, trust our professional ethics."

"What are you going to do?"

Ma Chaoran said, "Let's eliminate the danger for now."

Liu Zhenhua said, "Can either of you lend me your phone?"

I handed mine over.

After tapping the screen a few times, Liu Zhenhua was visibly startled and looked up at Ma Chaoran, asking, "Have my two brothers already made their move?"

Ma Chaoran nodded.

Liu Zhenhua sighed and said, "Alright then—"

Just then, a burly man in a bathrobe suddenly burst into the cave entrance. He rushed towards me from afar, shouting, "It's you, Lao Liu! Hahaha, I didn't expect to run into you here!"

I looked up at him, but I didn't recognize him.

Ma Chaoran had been extremely cautious since receiving the phone call. Seeing my blank expression and the burly man approaching step by step, she suddenly stood up, grabbed the man's arm, and threw him solidly into the pool with a back throw.

(End of this chapter)