Delta Operation: Big Red Objects Mutate

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"No matter what you do, it doesn't change the fact that you betrayed us!"

"If what you say is true, that you haven't betrayed them, and that you've already saved them, then why don't you destroy Hafk now?"

"Why should we continue to be Hafk's lackey?"

"Brother Zhao Chuang, where are Sister Zhang Ning and the others?!"

Every word Su Mulan said was like a knife stabbing into Fuji's heart.

Even now, where his heart was originally placed, there is no longer a heart; instead, it has become a cold, controlled nuclear fusion power system.

But he still felt heartache.

He raised his hand and tapped it lightly in front of Su Mulan a few times, after which Su Mulan could no longer utter a word.

"You want to ask me for an explanation."

"But how I also want to find Liu Yan and get to the bottom of this!"

"Just because I joined Hafk to save you, you consider me a traitor."

"But Liu Yan killed everyone, yet no one thinks he's the traitor?"

At this moment, Su Mulan was no longer able to answer or utter any words.

But Fudge continued to vent his grievances on his own.

He really wanted to find Liu Yan and ask him directly.

Why did we do that back then?

Deep down, Fudge still didn't believe that Liu Yan would kill everyone for no reason.

But the result was that he hadn't joined Hafk and used the global leap to save everyone's lives with resuscitation ventilators.

Then everyone would really die.

After all, ten years have passed since that decisive battle...

But he searched the whole world and still couldn't find Liu Yan.

Liu Yan seemed to have vanished into thin air, completely disappearing from that decisive battle ten years ago.

After a sigh, Fudge looked at Su Mulan with apologetic eyes.

"Hafk's time machine is almost finished."

"I'll be driving then..."

"It will be dangerous for you to run around while I'm not here."

"Before that... you'll have to suffer like Lao Chuang and the others... get some sleep."

As soon as Fudge finished speaking, Su Mulan's vision went black, and she lost consciousness.

At the same time, three streams of garbled data carried the three of them into the sky, disappearing from Fudge's side.

Meanwhile, Fudge raised his hand and typed code in the air.

The next second, he appeared in a dilapidated foot massage shop.

Even now, all the buildings in this world have been renovated and are full of technological features.

Fuji has kept the foot massage parlor where Liu Yan and Zhao Chuang once stayed in its original state.

From the time Liu Yan and Zhao Chuang graduated, the three of them first met at this foot massage parlor until now.

Eighteen years have passed.

And it was at this very moment.

The changes in people and things were completely tangible in Fudge's eyes.

"Liu Yan...where are you...?"

"I don't believe you'll die..."

"What other plans do you have...?"

"Or perhaps..."

"You've been lying to us all along..."

Chapter 458 A Cell, A String of Data

Just then, a colorful holographic image appeared out of thin air in front of Fudge.

The video shows a long-haired woman wearing a simple white T-shirt.

It's clear that she's trying her best to make a warmer, more human smile.

However, if you look closely, you can still see the coldness hidden beneath that smile.

Even so, when Fudge saw her, he couldn't help but smile.

"Mr. Fudge, don't be sad, I have lots of funny videos here, hahaha."

The ethereal AI voice, reaching Fudge's ears at this moment, felt so warm.

However, unlike when broadcasting, the AI voice was less cold and impersonal when communicating with Fudge.

Then, one by one, videos that were calculated by algorithms to show the highest probability of smiles appearing when the residents of Xia Kingdom watched them were presented to Fudge.

Even when looking at a short video blogger named Dao Ge rescuing a child from the water in reverse, it's still a problem.

Fudge remained unmoved.

Even these videos have undergone rigorous algorithmic calculations.

It still doesn't compare to the moment when that AI named Meiling appeared.

"Meiling, turn it off. In some situations, it's hard to laugh at even the funniest videos."

Meiling's AI avatar tilted its head and then turned off the funny videos one by one.

Following that, several more science popularization videos appeared.

"You can tell at a glance that someone has lost their spirit; their eyes have lost their light, it's because they've experienced immense pain and setbacks..."

This time, Fudge actually chuckled.

To be precise, he was speechless and laughed.

"Meiling, I know you want to make me happy, but this is easier said than done."

"Moreover, it is very difficult to calculate from the data."

Even though Fudge said that, Meiling continued playing one video after another.

Even though Fudge had become numb to it, he still let Meiling play the various videos she had carefully selected.

He knew it very well.

Meiling is using every algorithm she knows to make herself happy.

If that's the case, how could Fudge possibly make it sad?

“Mr. Fudge, you smiled.”

"Based on algorithm calculations, you like to see the hanging image of a bald samurai named Coke the Cat Brother."

Fudge nodded and looked at Meiling very gently, saying:

"Thank you, I feel much better now."

Fudge knew that if he didn't tell Meiling, his laughter just now was only to make her think that her efforts had not been in vain.

Then Meiling would really think that she likes all kinds of erotic pictures of Coke.

In other words, all of these will be included in its algorithm.

But that doesn't matter.

Before Meiling could say anything more...

Jacob's voice appeared in Fudge's mind first.

“Fudge, Rometheus said the time machine is almost finished and he wants you to try it out first.”

"The operation is cumbersome, but it is already the most simplified version."

"Okay, I'll be there later. Don't contact me suddenly next time. I said you have to wait for my consent first."

"Sorry, I'll let you know in advance next time."

Fudge slowly stood up after Jacob's voice cut off.

"Let's go, Meiling, come with me for a walk."

As Fuji walked out of the foot massage parlor, Meiling's AI avatar also made walking motions, closely following behind him.

Along the way, Fudge walked very slowly, not at all like he was in a hurry.

Even as you walk along, you might stop and linger for a long time in a place where something once happened.

In fact, he can appear in any corner of the world at any time by using Skynet, if he wants to.

But rather than do that, Fukichi wanted to stay in Hama a little longer.

Looking at the occasional scattered crowds passing by on the roadside, their faces all wore genuine smiles.

What they had in common was that they all had Relink brain-computer interfaces installed next to their brains.

Snap—

Fudge squatted against the wall by the roadside and lit a cigarette.

"Tobacco smoke contains more than 7000 chemical substances, at least 70 types of cancer, and can irritate the respiratory tract..."

Before Meiling could finish speaking, Fuji interrupted her with a helpless, bitter smile.

"Meiling...I am a mechanical lung."

"I'm sorry." Meiling apologized and then stopped talking.

Instead, she maintained her AI persona, standing demurely next to Fudge, smiling and tilting her head as she watched him smoke.

"Mechanical lungs, smoking, and the inability to derive pleasure from nicotine."

"I know, but my mouth isn't a mechanical mouth."

"Hahaha."

Meiling's AI laughter made Fuji smile again.

After finishing his cigarette, Fudge casually turned the cigarette butt into 2D paper, then flicked his fingers, and the paper turned into ashes and disappeared.

"Let's go."

“Yes, Mr. Fudge.”

As the voice faded, Meiling's AI image disappeared, and the next second, data turbulence in the sky enveloped Fudge.

Fukichi then disappeared from Hama City.

...

Haffk Experimental Field.

Rometheus, with his hands in the pockets of his white coat, was circling around a device shaped like a water droplet.

His eyes were full of admiration.

Immediately afterwards, garbled data appeared around him, and then Fudge's figure quietly appeared.

At the same time, Meiling also stood beside Fudge in an AI form.

Rometheus glanced at Fudge, then at Meiling, and shook his head helplessly.

"Having lived for millions of years, I have come to understand so many things that I can no longer count or remember them all."