Evolution of a Girl

Yikui was talking about an embarrassing incident that had happened before. Tianyin, who had mixed into the puppets, scared the tourists who came here and caused quite a bit of trouble.

"I didn't do anything bad. I was practicing the Kuruo Zen technique." Tianyin said seriously.

"Kuroro Zen?" These four words were in Chinese, so Shendai Yikui didn't react at first, but his electronic brain immediately retrieved the relevant information.

"Zen... that's what monks use to cultivate their moral character. Where did you learn it?"

"I dreamt..."

Tianyin wanted to say that she was taught by a strange old man in her dream, but just as she was about to say it, she suddenly remembered that another older brother named Lelouch once told her that she must never let other people know about what happened in the dream.

"I learned it from a kind old grandfather." She didn't lie.

"Where did this monk come from..." Kamishiro Yikui muttered.

Although this place is a shrine, it is also a cemetery for dolls, so it is not surprising that monks would come here, because monks also have dolls they want to bury.

"Then are you practicing here?" Shendai Yikui asked.

"Well, it hasn't started yet." Tianyin said, "Because the people haven't arrived yet."

"people?"

"Wisdom, withering and flourishing, is like a twin tree. If one sees the Buddha-nature, neither flourishing nor withering, then one attains Nirvana in the middle. The dual illumination of the Two Truths summarizes the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. Though it is expressed separately, it is difficult to grasp in words. The mind in a single moment is the dharma born of causes and conditions. The arising and ceasing of the mind through causes and conditions is the Three Treasures."

A platinum-haired girl of three or five years old, wearing a kimono and reciting Buddhist scriptures in Chinese, was indeed a strange sight.

"The Four Foundations of Mindfulness in the Tripitaka, Volume 4." The advantage of an electronic brain is that you can access relevant information at any time as long as there is a wireless network.

However, Shendai Yikui was a genius and he did not hesitate at all.

"The Four Foundations of Mindfulness... observe the body as impure, observe feelings as suffering, observe the mind as impermanent, observe dharma as without self." He also began to recite.

"The so-called observation of the impermanence of the mind means that the inner heart should be constant and unchanging; the so-called observation of the non-self of dharma means that all things have their own natural nature." Tianyin said seriously, like a little adult, "So, even in front of everyone, I can maintain inner peace. This is the purpose of cultivation."

"Did you learn anything?" asked Shindai Yikui.

Tianyin was stunned for a moment, she tilted her head, looking silly and cute.

After hesitating for a moment, she shook her head, looking a little disappointed: "Not yet."

"It's time to eat. After dinner, go to class. If you want to practice, wait until the break."

"Oh." Tianyin replied dejectedly, then got up and followed Yikui closely.

After dinner, Yikui asked the maid robot to take Tianyin to take a bath and change clothes.

After taking a bath, the maid robot took out a bottle of something similar to grease.

Tianyin looked at the bottle of oil with disdain, then let the maid robot smear it on his body.

Of course, this is not real oil, but a "neural connector" used to connect clothes to human receptors and to connect to the electronic circuits on the surface of clothes.

Tianyin is a pure human being without an electronic brain or prosthetic body, so if she wants to enter the electronic world to go to school, she must apply this oil and wear special clothes as compensation.

After applying the grease, the maid robot then produced a jumpsuit. This jumpsuit was a neural connection suit, used for entering the electronic world and establishing a neural connection. The suit was made of a rubbery material, very large, loose, and thin. The suit was inserted from the neck. Once inside, the maid robot secured a metal collar to the collar and gently pressed it.

Then, the clothes that were originally stuck to Tianyin began to shrink, and the gas began to be discharged from the device on the neck until the air inside was completely drained.

At this point, the neural connection suit was completely woven onto Tianyin's body. The rough surface of the suit became smooth due to the tightening, like a black mirror. Soon, the little girl's body was completely covered with a black, shiny second layer of skin.

After putting on the neural connection suit, the maid robot put on a set of elementary school student's suit uniform on the outside, which completed the outfit.

"So tight..."

Tianyin put on her clothes and stretched out her fingers, staring blankly at her hands. The fingers wrapped in black reflected a little luster, just like those dolls.

"How are you going to school without this?" Yi Kui patted Tianyin's head gently. "Okay, time to go out."

"Oh."

Chapter 2: Things Beyond Humanity

Tianyin, carrying a small red schoolbag, was running in front, while Yikui followed behind her.

Children are always full of energy. Tianyin walked forward for a while, then ran back, like a cheerful elf. Her clothes kept making a "crunching" sound due to her large movements. This sound of rubber rubbing against rubber might be a little irritating to some people, but Tianyin seemed to enjoy it.

Her school uniform consisted of a tight-fitting V-neck, open-fronted, short-sleeved shirt on the upper body, and a short skirt with a wide belt underneath. Under the skirt, there were red stockings, and further down, there were a pair of small leather shoes.

In the morning light, the clothes reflected a shimmering luster. This was because the clothes and the neural connection suit inside were made of the same material. The top, skirt, stockings, even shoes, backpack and wide belt were all made of the same material, and the visual effect looked very similar to latex.

This is because ordinary clothes will affect the effect of entering the electronic world.

——Yi Kui refused to allow Tianyin to undergo electronic brainization, so if you want to have the same experience as other students, sometimes you have to make sacrifices.

The girl, like a lark, was jumping for joy in front, while Yikui was staring at his adopted daughter.

Tianyin was born different.

Although she looks like a human, her body structure is somewhat different from that of ordinary people.

For example, her waist is much thinner than that of her peers. This is because Tianyin doesn't have a normal intestinal system. Her intestines are a straight-through structure from the esophagus to the rectum, so her abdominal contents are very small. However, despite this, her digestive system has a large storage capacity and flexibility, and is also very efficient.

Furthermore, Tianyin's skeletal system is unique. Her bones are normally harder than those of an average person, yet exhibit remarkable elasticity and toughness when deformed, while also being incredibly lightweight. It's safe to say that if Tianyin were alone, she wouldn't suffer any serious injuries from a fall from any height. If she lived in a multi-story building, she could even open a window and take a shortcut.

It is not a biological body, but Tianyin's physical body can perform far beyond those of prosthetic bodies.

She also has a high IQ. Although she may appear a bit silly and adorable, her learning ability is truly astonishing. By the age of three, she had already mastered five languages: Chinese, Japanese, English, French, and Russian, and could speak them all as fluently as her native tongue. As for other aspects of knowledge, she could generally grasp them at a glance.

However, from a physiological and genetic point of view, Tianyin is still a human being.

——The perfect form of human beings.

Yikui prefers to call Tianyin's qualities this way.

Tianyin's appearance is what Yikui strives for.

In the past few years, Yikui's greatest achievement is the development of a lightweight prosthetic body modeled after Tianyin.

You know, an artificial body is heavier than a real person. Therefore, if a person uses prosthetics, even if the limbs themselves are waterproof, the prosthesis will easily sink into the water. The lightweight prosthesis of the Yikui can allow the prosthesis to perform light movements like a real person.

Sometimes Yikui even finds it a little ridiculous.

At this moment, humans are strengthening their bodies through electronic brains and prosthetics. These fools are still in the process of pursuing becoming Transhuman, while Tianyin is born a Posthuman.

She has gone one step further than the perfect form of humanity. She is a gift from the gods, a true son of God.

Moreover, Yikui had a premonition that this kind of Tianyin might be even more unique.

While thinking this, the two of them had already arrived at their destination - Yushin Elementary School located at the foot of the mountain.

The name of Yushen Elementary School sounds impressive and the school is quite large, but in reality, Tianyin is the only student here. The year before she enrolled, the last student here had already graduated and moved to the distant Xinbin City to attend middle school.

Originally, Tianyin should have been in kindergarten this year, and Yikui had never thought about letting his daughter skip a grade, but considering that there was no kindergarten in the village, the authorities specially approved her to go directly to elementary school to receive education.

However, it’s not that there is nothing in the school - in fact, the classrooms in the school are full of “people”.

They were all discarded child-sized puppets and prosthetics. Some served as comfort robots for the elderly, while others were children who had been given full-body prosthetics after accidents, their bodies abandoned after they had grown up. Though they sat in the classroom, these puppets were, in reality, incapable wrecks.

"I'm going to class." Tianyin turned around and greeted Yikui.

"Ah."

"Goodbye~"

After saying goodbye to his father, Tianyin came to his class.

Soon, Tianyin arrived at her class.

Tianyin's class was also full of puppets. The scene was quite weird, but Tianyin didn't mind and sat in the only empty seat in the classroom, becoming the only human among this group of puppets.

In fact, before Tianyin entered school, Yushen Primary School had already planned to be transformed into a puppet venue - because there were almost no children here - when Tianyin was about to enter school, the authorities were a little caught off guard, and moving the transformed puppets away was also a very troublesome matter.

However, Yikui said that this was fine, so in order to save trouble, the authorities did not restore the school, but retained its renovated appearance.

Soon, a teacher robot walked into the classroom.

"Now, let's start the first class." The teacher robot made a sweet voice - of course, this was not the voice of the teacher robot itself, but the teaching mode of Xinbin City's special teacher that was recorded in advance. During the class, the teacher robot will play the teaching content of the special teacher that was recorded in advance.

Tianyin took out his book very seriously. Although he had completely understood it, he was still very serious.

Tianyin was very interested in human affairs. Even when it came to recorded content, Tianyi still used 100% of his energy to listen carefully and take notes.

The teacher robot is the only active being in the school besides Tianyin.

In this country with a declining birthrate, the number of schools is decreasing, and the reduction in educational resources has made people even less willing to have children. To address this problem, the government has deployed teaching robots in remote areas. Even if there is only one person in these schools, the teaching robots can complete the teaching work.

Of course, it's not just the teacher robots; there are also "remote classrooms"—teacher robots are, after all, low-level AI and can't be compared to real people. Therefore, students in schools in remote areas need to receive these VR courses.

The first class in the afternoon was held in the remote classroom.

Tianyin packed up and came to the VR classroom.

The equipment for the VR classroom is only available in schools, which is why Yikui sent Tianyin to study here - otherwise she would just stay at home and study remotely.

Electronic brain technology has been promoted in many places, but Tianyin in the physical body can only access the virtual world through clumsy and large equipment.

Moreover, VR courses also place a certain burden on students. They cannot be in the VR world all the time, and usually there are only about two to three classes a day.

In the middle of the VR classroom, there is a chair with armrests, a fixing device and an eye mask helmet that can cover half of the head.

At this time, Tianyin's neural connection suit came into play. Tianyin did not have an electronic brain, so she could only go to school this way, and the neural connection suit could help her enter this virtual world.

Tianyin walked over, sat on the chair, and put the helmet on his head, blocking out all external sounds and lights.

She spoke softly: "Connection begins."

Following Tianyin's voice, the once pitch-black world before her eyes gradually began to light up. Tianyin had now left the Yushen Primary School in Puppet Village and arrived at a garden school filled with birdsong and the fragrance of flowers...

Chapter 3 Girl and the Virtual World

"I feel so heavy..."

After arriving in the electronic world, Tianyin began to complain.

In this world, in order to allow students to grow up healthily, the authorities will restore students' physical fitness in the real world.

However, when Tianyin entered, the program displayed "Invalid data" and reported an error, restoring Tianyin's data in the virtual world to the default value.

So after coming to the virtual world, Tianyin's strength, speed and even reaction ability dropped several levels.

But Tianyin still likes this place very much.

After the world manifested, Tianyin appeared in a classroom surrounded by a garden.

"Tianyin!"

A voice came from the side.

"Aya!"

Tianyin also greeted the other party.

The girl named Aya is a little girl with long hair and is also Tianyin's good friend.

Tianyin's IQ is relatively high, so she started school early. Aye originally thought of Tianyin as a little sister who needed protection, and that's how they got to know each other. However, after a few interactions, they became close.

The course in the VR classroom is Chinese language class - this type of liberal arts course is also one of the courses that teacher robots cannot teach.

In addition to Tianyin, the other students are from all over the country, and some are even from Shikoku and Kyushu.

The teacher was a female teacher in her thirties, and her explanations were lively and interesting.

Although Tianyin had already taught herself all the courses before college, she still listened with great interest.

In fact, for Tianyin, there is no difference between high-level courses and elementary school courses - in the eyes of a girl who knows that 1+1=2 is about the same difficulty as calculus, such courses are actually the same.

But the reason why Tianyin likes this place is not because she can take classes here, but because she can go to school with other friends here.

Tianyin likes to observe humans and the world. These unquantifiable things are what she cares about most.

After finishing the class, Tianyin did not leave immediately because there was still free time for club activities.

After the teacher announced the end of get out of class, Aya came over and took Tianyin's hand: "Tianyin, let's go!"

"Yeah." Tianyin nodded, and the two of them teleported out of the classroom. The next moment, they arrived at the kendo hall.

——Aya is a member of the Ancient Swordsmanship Club (tentative), while Tianyin is currently in the process of gaining admission into the club.