Chapter 10

Li Shuoxing hadn’t recovered from his shock when the little person had put all the weeds and the sickle in his hands in one corner of the courtyard, switched to a hoe and carried it back and forth in the courtyard before stopping at the corner of the courtyard farthest from the house to reclaim it.

The moonlight woven with silver yarn sprinkled down, gently embracing the little person.

The little person worked hard in this environment. After a while, he seemed a little tired. He straightened up with the hoe and raised his little hand to wipe his cheek. In an instant, his white cheek had more brown marks.

The little white cat turned into a little flower cat.

What a warm and beautiful scene…

Hmm?

Wait a minute.

Where’d the sickle for cutting grass and hoe for ploughing come from? Wasn’t there only a shovel before?

Li Shuoxing snapped out of the beauty with a jolt.

He quickly opened the system narration and studied it.

The system narration was very faithful, recording everything that happened when he wasn’t online.

Today, 6:30pm

[Su Mingqian opens the refrigerator.]

[Su Mingqian plays with the orange juice.]

Today, 8:00pm

[Su Mingqian enters the production workshop.]

[Su Mingqian rummages through the workshop.]

[Su Mingqian finds a sickle and a hoe with difficulty.]

[Su Mingqian waves the sickle.]

[Su Mingqian smiles.]

Today, 9:00pm

[Su Mingqian starts cutting the grass.]

[Su Mingqian cuts a pile of grass.]

[Su Mingqian looks at the weeds and stones piled up on the ground and looks around, deep in thought.]

[Su Mingqian picks up a handful of grass and a stone.]

[Su Mingqian puts the weeds and stone into the rubbish bin in the kitchen.]

[The weeds and stone disappear.]

[Su Mingqian moves the rubbish bin out.]

[Warning! Indoor furniture cannot leave the house!]

[Su Mingqian holds the rubbish bin and looks out at the courtyard.]

[Su Mingqian abandons the rubbish bin.]

[Su Mingqian piles the weeds into the corner, picks up stones and arranges them along the edge of the path.]

…

There were some scattered records following, but they weren’t very important and Li Shuoxing didn’t read them much. He was once again surprised by the game.

In the past, his attention was on the little person’s AI and he was full of praise for the game’s AI; but now, he suddenly realised that the game’s physics algorithm seemed to be pretty impressive as well? It could even roll ordinary stones around and use them as decorations.

Li Shuoxing looked at the courtyard again.

This time, he moved the screen to focus his view on the courtyard and carefully watched the changes.

After half an evening’s hard work, some of the weeds that’d been growing in the courtyard had been removed and piled up neatly in the corner. The courtyard path connecting the house and the production workshop, which had originally been broken and mottled under the wind and rain, was now decorated with small stones by Su Mingqian, giving it a wild look.

…And the reason for this was that Su Mingqian just didn’t know where to put the stones, so he came up with a way of utilising the waste to make them beautiful.

Is this a category of logical reasoning or artistic creation?

Li Shuoxing was once again confused.

The former could be realised by existing technology, while the latter really couldn’t be realised by existing technology!

At that moment, a message popped up again on QQ.

Terminal Food Group:

@Caramel Ximu: Everyone’s made a bet for the word count of your stock. I’m betting 100k, Ah So 70k, Old Sang 30k. You hurry out and announce the answer.

Li Shuoxing gave a glance and slapped his head.

What was I worrying about? A science fiction professional is in the group!

He quickly opened the QQ group. “@Sang Wugui, Old Sang, I have a question for you.”

Sang Wugui: “Hmm?”

Li Shuoxing: “It’s about a game.”

Sang Wugui: “I’ll help you @Soren. I’m not very clear on questions on games.”

Soren: “?”

Li Shuoxing briefly explained, “It’s not a question purely about games. I talked about this game with Soren before. It’s a love nurturing game. The little person I’m nurturing in the game has a surprisingly high IQ.”

He explained the stone path in the courtyard and the little person’s ability to communicate freely with him.

Soren spoke first, a little surprised, “Are you sure this isn’t game mapping?”

Li Shuoxing recalled the system narration he’d read and said, “No, it seems like real-time calculation.”

Soren: “This is possible in 3A ¹ AAA is an informal classification used for video games produced and distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher, typically having higher development and marketing budgets. masterpieces. As for mobile games, I really haven’t played anything like this.”

Sang Wugui also joined in. He basically guessed what Li Shuoxing was thinking. “You think there’s a real person behind the scenes controlling the game character? Otherwise, the game character wouldn’t be able to communicate with you so smoothly, would they?”

Li Shuoxing: “I did think of that.”

Sang Wugui: “I also think the possibility of a real person playing the role is quite high. But, if you just want to ask me if it’s possible for artificial intelligence to freely communicate with humans and create art, then my answer is… yes.”

Li Shuoxing: “Explain?”

Sang Wugui: “It’s a little complicated to explain this seriously…”

Li Shuoxing: “That’s okay. You can take your time explaining.”

Sang Wugui: “So let’s just directly look at the results. Here’s last year’s news, ‘The First Collection of Original Poetry by Artificial Intelligence to be Published’. [link]”

Calm Egg: “…”

Soren: “…”

Li Shuoxing: “…”

Sang Wugui: “Do you understand?”

Li Shuoxing twitched his mouth. “…I understand.”

Facts spoke louder than words.

Now that artificial intelligence could write poetry, what was so great about chatting with humans?

How ignorant of them!

Calm Egg also sighed. “It’s black technology ² 黑科技 refers to technology or products that are far beyond the reach of current human technology or knowledge, lacking a scientific basis and defying the principles of nature. .”

Soren commented, “Black technology novels have been quite popular these days.”

Sang Wugui: “See the charm of technology?” He added, “In fact, don’t look at the bold title I sent you above, there’s really no black technology in it. There hasn’t been much innovation in artificial intelligence these days. On the contrary, I’ve heard that there’ve been some revolutionary breakthroughs in brain nerves, but what exactly they are, we don’t know for the time being. We’ll have to wait another two months for the bigwigs in this field to officially hold a seminar before any specific news will be circulated…”

The topic in the group had gone awry.

Li Shuoxing swept a glance and, seeing no one urging for the word count of his stock, he silently escaped.

He turned his eyes back to his phone.

The moonlight had the same gentleness, and the little person was still diligently hoeing the ground.

His fingers unconsciously slid across the screen, dragging it from left to right and back again.

He exhaled softly, not sure himself whether it was relief or some inexplicable regret.

Anyway, Li Shuoxing leaned back in his chair and stared at the screen. After a short pause, he raised his hand again and poked at the weeds in the corner of the courtyard.

Unsurprisingly, the weed pile immediately popped out an interactive option.

[Do you want to clear the weed pile? Yes/No]

Li Shuoxing chose “Yes”.

In the blink of an eye, the weeds piled in the corner blew away without a hiccup.

This scene attracted the little person’s attention.

When Li Shuoxing saw Su Mingqian turn his head, he was in a good mood again. He said to himself, “No matter what, this game’s still impressive. Its real-time calculations are comparable to that of 3A masterpieces. It feels like playing a mobile game that can be compared with 3A masterpieces…”

Just three words.

I feel good.

The corners of Li Shuoxing’s mouth curled up. Before he could put them down, the system’s novice guide came again.

“Dear player, after a few days together, your lover has adapted to the environment here and regards it as his home. In order to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the courtyard as soon as possible, your lover has entered the courtyard with tools and started to work. To this, can you be indifferent?”

After this paragraph was displayed, a long overdue task popped up on the screen.

[Love Task]: Clear the Courtyard

Please clear the courtyard together with your lover.

Time Limit: 3 days

Reward: Exclusive Title [Teamwork] × 1; Courtyard Swing × 1

Li Shuoxing tapped to accept, and a translucent light band appeared in the courtyard, followed by a virtual palm, indicating Li Shuoxing to drag Su Mingqian to the designated position.

Li Shuoxing was about to follow the system prompt when his heart suddenly moved and his hand faltered.

Wait a minute.

Every time I suddenly did something before, I’d frighten the little person and have favourability deducted.

If I follow the system guide this time, the little person will definitely drop favourability again.

So, can I…

Li Shuoxing, with the mindset that it wouldn’t hurt to try, used the input method to discuss with Su Mingqian, “The sooner we clear the entire courtyard, the sooner we get the seeds. Cub, we’ll work together to clear the courtyard. Now, let’s cut all these weeds first.”

“Okay.”

A simple response popped up.

Su Mingqian put down the hoe, picked up the sickle again, walked over to the overgrown weeds and began to bend down to cut them.

Li Shuoxing intently stared at the novice guide and saw it fade away, signalling that this step had been completed.

He raised an eyebrow in triumph.

“It seems that as long as I meet the novice guide’s requirements, I can pass it. As for how I meet them, it doesn’t really matter…”

The first step of the instructions ended and the novice guide began the second step.

After Su Mingqian cut the weeds, they fell to the ground. A virtual palm then appeared on top of them, indicating Li Shuoxing to tap on the weeds to discard them.

Li Shuoxing readily followed this instruction that wouldn’t deduct favourability.

Su Mingqian was in front, and he was behind.

Su Mingqian harvested the weeds, and he removed them.

With the two working together, the progress was more than doubled. In less than fifteen minutes, the weeds in the courtyard were completely cleaned up. The originally overgrown courtyard opened up, and a blue butterfly flew over and circled around Su Mingqian.

The novice guide reached the third step.

A new light band appeared again between Su Mingqian and a dead tree in the courtyard. Beside the dead tree, there was a small translucent axe chopping.

Li Shuoxing glanced over and fully understood the system’s intention. He once again communicated with Su Mingqian, “Now it’s time to start chopping down trees. Let’s go to the production workshop to get an axe and chop them down.”

Su Mingiqn: “…”

Su Minqian: “Chop down trees in the middle of the night?”

Li Shuoxing didn’t think anything was wrong. “Yeah.” He looked at the courtyard and speculated, “After we chop down the trees, we have to clear the debris, reclaim the land, and maybe dig a pond or something…”

Su Mingqian: “…”

Su Mingqian looked up at the moon. “It’s too late today. I’m a bit tired.”

Li Shuoxing woke up. “No stamina? Do you need to eat something to replenish it? Would orange juice do?”

Su Mingqian: “…”

Su Mingqian: “I’m really tired. I need rest. Food won’t make me not tired.”

Li Shuoxing noticed that in this conversation between himself and the little person, the little person would always pop up with an ellipsis before he spoke each time.

What’s going on?

There was no such problem before!

Li Shuoxing didn’t understand. He subconsciously said, “So food can’t replenish your stamina? Then I’ll look for something that can replenish your stamina.”

His finger had already tapped to open the game store.

If favourability points couldn’t replenish stamina, then contribution points must be able to buy stamina.

He was having a good time and didn’t want to stop at all. Isn’t it just money? I’ll spend it! I’m gonna finish the courtyard task today and get the swing and title!

But…

He didn’t find the option to purchase stamina.

Li Shuoxing was surprised. “What the hell, where’s the stamina? You hurry out and let me pay. I have to continue clearing the courtyard with the little person!”

Li Shuoxing, of course, failed to call out the stamina purchase option.

He wasn’t the one who developed the system.

He thought about it carefully and felt that Su Mingqian would have to handle this. After all, the system had always interpreted whatever he needed before.

So Li Shuoxing typed to communicate with Su Mingqian, deliberately considering his words to make it easier for him to understand. “Cub, we have to clear the courtyard together. Think carefully about what can increase your stamina. I’ll buy it for you!”

Su Mingqian: “…”

Su Mingqian: “…”

Su Mingqian: “…”

Su Mingqian didn’t want to communicate with the Watcher anymore.

Perhaps it really was too late today, leading to some problems in the Watcher’s logical thinking.

He put down the tools in his hands and politely said, “Goodnight.”

With that, he entered the door and made his way to the bathroom.

Although he felt really tired, so tired his eyelids were about to glue together, he couldn’t go to bed like this…

He couldn’t go to bed dirty!

Su Mingqian’s crisp refusal left Li Shuoxing a bit baffled.

He couldn’t help thinking, Does this game really have no stamina purchase option? He’s forced to go to bed at 12 o’clock? If he doesn’t sleep he’s not a good baby?

This… This game experience is too bad, right? It can’t be the legendary anti-addiction system, right?

But I’m a 26-year-old adult. Why should I receive anti-addiction!

I just want to use money to solve all problems. Isn’t that its function, to solve all problems of players?!

While Li Shuoxing was in shock, the system narration suddenly popped up.

[Su Mingqian is so tired that he falls asleep in the bathtub.]

[The situation is not good.]

[Please do something for your lover.]

1

AAA is an informal classification used for video games produced and distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher, typically having higher development and marketing budgets. 2

黑科技 refers to technology or products that are far beyond the reach of current human technology or knowledge, lacking a scientific basis and defying the principles of nature.