In a crossover anime, do you believe that a machine spirit can defeat a fake human?

Mai Sakurajima followed at a leisurely pace beside her.

"That's not it."

Just kidding, the most satisfying thing is stomping noobs, of course I wouldn't let such a good opportunity pass me by.

"Are we going to the supermarket again today?" Rio Futaba asked.

"...It seems there's nothing I want to buy..."

Chen Yi suddenly remembered that there seemed to be half a jar of rice left at home, and it would be best to buy two bags as a backup.

"Go buy some rice, and while you're at it, grab a few boxes of chicken wings to fry."

We also need to buy oil; we don't have enough olive oil and peanut oil at home to make fried chicken.

"Yi-kun can also make fried chicken?" Mai Sakurajima was surprised. Having spent so much time together, Chen Yi's eating habits did not include such oily fast food.

"I know a lot more..." It's just that he doesn't have proper kitchen equipment at home. If he wanted to, Chen Yi could cook most dishes with ease.

"Then I'll look forward to it." Mai Sakurajima blinked.

......

"commander."

When they entered the supermarket to buy things, Kroos, who hadn't spoken until now, suddenly spoke up.

"You seem to have reduced the frequency of taking chili pepper lozenges these past few days."

She said this based on her own observations.

"Is it... because of Lorelei?"

High School Sophomore: Chapter 197 Update (Paying Back Debts)

Chapter 197

"Whether it's because of Lorelei... it doesn't really matter much," Chen Yi replied. He took out the bottle, shook it gently, and from the sound, it seemed that only half of it remained inside.

"Essentially, this works by adjusting nerve reflexes to counteract the hallucination of boiling... but overdosing will only numb the nerves, thus negating its effect."

Of course, if we were to pick out a separate reason, there is one: this stuff is purely torturous to both the body and mind, and it's impossible to say that this kind of treatment has no side effects.

Moreover, Chen Yi felt that he might have some underlying symptoms of pain addiction.

"As for Lorelei..."

Chen Yi organized his thoughts.

"I think we can let her try handling the boiling phenomenon first."

Essentially, it was a desperate measure. Although Lorelei appeared to be in control in the dream, it was quite obvious from her words that she didn't gain much advantage at all.

"Commander... trusts that person that much?" Kluge asked with some reservations.

"Kluisai, don't you know Lorelei?"

"No, what I mean is... how can the Commander be so sure that it was Lorelei? Since Boiling One can impersonate you in dreams, it can impersonate someone else, right?"

Dreams are constructed using the subconscious and memories, so why can't those who are obsessed with dreams use their memories to set up "traps" with acquaintances and reel in big fish over the long term?

“...That makes sense.” Chen Yi thought about it again and realized that what Kelukai said actually made some sense.

“I think I’ll be able to tell once I meet her,” Kroos said, implying that she wasn’t truly excluding the Commander’s other forces.

"Alright, if I see you in my dreams tonight... I'll ask you about it while I'm at it."

"Ah."

Kroos responded softly and didn't ask any further questions.

However, Chen Yi didn't have high hopes, because given Luo Leilai's personality, if she really wanted to come out, she would have already done so.

......

"debug."

The drone assembled by Saki Kawasaki took off shakily and crashed straight into the wall next to her.

“Still a little short…” Kawasaki Saki scratched her head and walked over to pick up the drone.

Why did it stop flying after those few lines of code were modified? Weren't those lines of code redundant?

Saki Kawasaki connected the drone's data cable to her computer and overwrote the hardware with the backup flight control source code.

The drones can fly again.

“It’s different from what the book teaches…” Kawasaki Saki looked at the steady drone, then at the complex code on the computer screen that looked glaringly obvious.

Forget about opening it up; good code is one that can fly.

Kawasaki, being adaptable, chose to follow the principle of practicality.

"What trouble have you run into?" Rio Futaba asked as she came downstairs at that moment.

As soon as she got home, Rio Futaba rushed downstairs. She had just had another idea: perhaps she could try to create a smart glove solution that would allow her to control a drone with gestures while in stealth mode.

"Was this system designed by Chen?" Kawasaki Saki pointed to the screen, then to the drones flying around the room, seemingly having automatically triggered the task of collecting spatial information.

"Did you encounter a bug?" Futaba put down her cup and walked over to take a look.

It's Chen Yi's magical and mysterious code.

"If it can run, don't touch it," Rio Futaba advised.

"Although it sounds mysterious... that's really how programming is. Sometimes, only the person who wrote the code understands what it means, and sometimes even the person who wrote it may not understand what it means. So we've come up with the wise saying that if it runs, it's not a bug."

At first, Rio Futaba also tried to modify Chen Yi's code, but after modifying it, she found that it was really difficult to adapt to the various interfaces designed by Chen Yi, or simply could not achieve the expected parameters. So she simply handed over the control of programming to him, and only took care of the ideas and solutions herself.

Saki Kawasaki was at this stage of learning by doing.

In fact, if one's programming skills are high enough, it's not difficult to modify it. However, Chen Yi's code is too full of his own ideas. For Futaba Rio, who has only studied programming for five years, modifying it is more difficult than rewriting it from scratch.

"I see... I understand now." After receiving a positive response, Kawasaki Saki stopped worrying about it.

After watching Kawasaki Saki for a while and making sure she had no other questions, Futaba Rio went into Chen Yi's small office, intending to use his computer to work on the proposal.

After turning on the computer, a news article popped up in the sidebar, and Shuangye couldn't help but frown.

Where is this system function disabled...?

Rio Futaba swiped the mouse and her sharp eyes caught a flash of a news report.

On Twitter, the caption used the sensationalist 'Guitar Knight is dead?' to grab attention.

Rio Futaba admitted that her curiosity had been piqued, and she clicked in to take a look.

It turns out it was a disguised way of urging for more updates.

"Why would someone have so much free time to run into fake people every day...?"

Rio Futaba was amused by the nonsensical fans and exited her browser to open her work software.

Wait a minute, it seems like A-Yi just killed the fake man during a nighttime stroll a week ago.

Rio Futaba reconsidered.

Okay, let's ask A-Yi about his plans for the blogger account during dinner.

......

At the dinner table, Chen Yi picked up a piece of braised pork with his chopsticks.

"The blogger's account..." Chen Yi had completely forgotten about it since the boiling phenomenon worsened.

I haven't recorded any guitar playing videos for a while, so it's like both accounts have stopped updating.

Chen Yi recalled that after revealing that Guitar Knight and his playing account were the same, he gained quite a few fans and often talked to Boqi about playing techniques.

I wonder if that little Pochik guy will mourn his own cyberwar...

Considering Boqi's personality, Chen Yi had a strange feeling that it was very likely.

"How about we update it again?" He looked at Mai Sakurajima.

"Anyway, you guys are all pretty busy at night, and I'm a bit bored by myself." Mai Sakurajima thought for a moment and agreed immediately.

"Then you can borrow my notebook from my study."

Anyway, everyone uses desktop computers for work now.

"Oh right, Kroos."

Chen Yi thought for a moment. The most valuable combat footage recently was that of the scavenger, but his subsequent use of the acid-corroding rifle and the exploding grenade seemed too illegitimate.

"Is there a way to Photoshop an acid-etched rifle and a grenade to look like a regular rifle?"

"No problem, and according to information gathered online, carrion eaters can be killed with small to medium caliber bullets."

Rather, one might say that the size of a dummy that is difficult to kill with a medium-caliber rifle bullet must be enormous.

P.S.: I'm exhausted, but I'm updating like crazy today...

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Second-year high school student: Chapter 198 Izu Seaside Holiday Hotel

Chapter 198

When you're exhausted to the limit, it's harder to dream, but this rule obviously doesn't apply to Chen Yi.

No matter how tired he is from work, there is a 50% chance that he will be fighting with the Boiling One in his dreams as soon as he falls asleep.

I'm a little thirsty...

The soft touch beneath him made Chen Yi instinctively sense something was wrong, and his muddled mind regained a sliver of clarity.

Chen Yi sat up in bed and looked around at his surroundings.

The hotel is the same seaside hotel we stayed at in Izu last time.

A chill crept up from his tailbone, and Chen Yi tumbled off the bed in a fluster, narrowly avoiding the sneak attack from the fake bed.

He scrambled to his feet, roughly unzipped the guitar case, and then fired.

The "fake bed" was riddled with bullets and fell to the ground, its body mangled and bloody.

"call......"

Chen Yi lowered the gun slightly and took a breath in the dim light filtering through the balcony curtains.

The invasion of the 'boiling phenomenon' is becoming increasingly urgent. At first, it was just the imagery invading the dream, but then it became more and more intense, even evolving into the ability to use firearms, and now it directly reproduces scenes from the depths of memory.

However, in reality, it is still aimed at weakening the spirit so that it can be taken advantage of, which is not much different from the ordinary boiling phenomenon.

Chen Yi checked the ammunition count, then casually fired a shot at the mattress to empty the remaining half of the magazine. Only after confirming that it was completely dead did he leisurely reload.

“…Lorelei?” Thinking of the purpose of his trip, Chen Yi tentatively called out.

No one responded, but judging from Lorelei's personality, she was either too busy to care or simply couldn't hear him.

That's terrible.

"There might be another fierce battle later..." Chen Yi thought of the fog-shrouded figures, the low-temperature pseudo-humans, the surveillance cameras, and the fleshy wall that he could never see the beginning or the end of, and felt somewhat at a loss.

"VR devices, fairies, waist belts..."

As Chen Yi sorted through the items he could use, he realized that his gear had been surprisingly meager when he traveled to Izu.

"Speaking of which, can fairies still be used...?"

Chen Yi tried to turn on the phone screen, but to no avail.

These early, rudimentary gadgets were completely incomparable to the later ones; they had neither manual controls nor latches. In other words, if the phone couldn't be used, then these things were completely useless.

Unless there are some tools here that can modify the lead wire structure...

Otherwise, what if it explodes right in your hand?

"and many more......"

Chen Yi looked at the 'Messenger-1' in the corner. Compared to the improved multi-functional mechanical wolf, the current 'Messenger-1' is still the size of a domestic dog.

Chen Yi tried to wake it up and found that it could be lit.