21: Chapter 21: The Iceberg Female Academician Chen Shuyin? Not only are her legs long, but her imagination is also boundless.

"Warning! Warning! Illegal intrusion protocol detected."

"Self-destruct sequence initiated."

"Countdown: 10... 9..."

In that instant, Jiang Chen felt his blood run cold.

What kind of hellish joke is this?

The blonde bombshell was lying on the bed, her emotionless mechanical pupils flashing with a dangerous red light, and from her chest came a teeth-grinding "beep-beep" sound, the frequency so fast it was like a death knell.

Self-destruct?

In my bedroom?

"Jiang Wanqiu, are you sending me a gift or a bomb!"

Jiang Chen didn't have time to complain about that spendthrift woman far away in the Wasteland; he lunged forward, reaching out to grab the "lump of iron" that was counting down.

Throw it out!

Must throw it out!

If this exploded, let alone this multi-million dollar villa, even General Qin next door would probably be sent to the sky!

However, the moment his hand touched her waist, Jiang Chen's expression changed.

Heavy.

Dead heavy!

This seemingly delicate beauty with soft, supple skin weighed at least three hundred pounds! That wasn't flesh at all; it was a high-density alloy skeleton wrapped in human skin!

"8... 7..."

The mechanical voice continued its ruthless countdown.

Jiang Chen gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his neck, using every ounce of his strength to barely lift her upper body a little.

"Move! Move for me!"

Cold sweat streamed down his forehead, instantly soaking his bathrobe.

I can't move this thing at all!

"6... 5..."

The red light grew more blinding, and a burnt, ionized smell even permeated the air.

Jiang Chen despaired.

He could already see tomorrow's headline in his mind: 《Shocking! China's youngest national scholar dies in a suicide pact with an inflatable doll in the middle of the night; the reason is...》

Just at this critical moment.

"Bang—!!!"

The heavy solid wood door of the bedroom wasn't pushed open; it was kicked open using an extremely violent method.

Amidst flying wood splinters, a tall figure rushed in like lightning.

Jiang Chen turned around subconsciously.

Before he could see the person's face, he first saw a pair of heaven-defying long legs wrapped in suit trousers, followed by the scent of a pleasant, cold perfume.

It was Academician Chen Shuyin.

This usually dignified and aloof female Academician from the Longke Academy was currently holding a strangely shaped silver instrument, her expression even more anxious than Jiang Chen's, yet tinged with a strange excitement.

"Put her down!"

Academician Chen Shuyin shouted sharply, her movements so fast she didn't look like a researcher at all.

She rushed to the bedside in two or three steps, ignoring the dangerous source that could explode at any moment, and slammed the instrument in her hand into the back of the android's neck.

There was an inconspicuous, hidden port there.

"3... 2..."

Just as the mechanical voice counted to 2, Academician Chen Shuyin's fingers had already rapidly tapped out a string of commands on the instrument.

"Electromagnetic pulse shielding, forced cutoff of core power supply!"

"Zzzzt—"

A faint sound of electricity crackled.

The red light in the blonde bombshell's eyes instantly extinguished, and the "beep-beep" sound from her chest stopped abruptly. The body that had been struggling, like a computer unplugged from its power source, instantly went limp on the bed, turning into a lifeless shell.

The world went quiet.

Jiang Chen maintained his hunched position, panting heavily, his heart still pounding wildly in his throat.

Did... did I survive?

"Phew..."

Academician Chen Shuyin wiped sweat that didn't exist from her forehead and pushed up her rimless glasses. Her cold, clear eyes were now blazing with intensity as she stared fixedly at the android on the bed.

"It really is titan core power..."

She muttered to herself, her tone as fanatical as a madwoman, "7th generation Valkyrie combat model! The legendary forbidden model that possesses the prototype of self-awareness! This perfect biological skin technology, and this neural conduction interface... My god, this is simply a work of art!"

Jiang Chen plopped down onto the carpet, feeling his legs go a bit weak.

"Aca... Academician Chen."

Jiang Chen swallowed hard, his voice a bit shaky, "You carry a jammer with you? And how did you get in?"

"With energy fluctuations of this level, the villa's security system would have alerted me long ago."

Academician Chen Shuyin didn't even turn her head, still obsessively examining the android's construction, and replied casually, "As for the jammer, that's my professional habit. After all, dealing with someone like you, one must always be prepared to handle 'surprises'."

She finally turned around, her gaze falling on Jiang Chen.

Then, the air suddenly froze.

The scene right now was, frankly, a little... hard to explain.

Jiang Chen was wearing a loose bathrobe, the collar wide open, drenched in sweat, panting as he slumped on the floor.

And on the bed, the hot-bodied blonde android lay disheveled in the messy bedding, still wrapped in a few coils of alloy rope from the Wasteland that hadn't been untied, in a twisted and strange posture.

Most importantly, just now, in order to move her, Jiang Chen had his hands clamped tightly on her waist, and the position... was quite awkward.

Academician Chen Shuyin froze for a moment.

Her finger, which was pushing up her glasses, froze in mid-air, her gaze scanning back and forth between Jiang Chen, the android, and those few ropes.

The rigorous gaze that originally belonged to a scientist gradually became somewhat strange, even carrying a hint of... sudden realization?

"Um, Mr. Jiang."

Academician Chen Shuyin took a deep breath, trying to make her tone sound professional and objective, but the uncontrollable curve at the corner of her mouth betrayed her rich inner monologue at that moment.

"Although I have long known that top geniuses like you often have some unconventional ways of relieving stress."

"However..."

She pointed at the "Valkyrie" on the bed, then pointed at the sweating Jiang Chen, her tone so sincere it made one want to bang their head against a wall:

"This is, after all, a heavy combat android, with high-voltage circuits and hydraulic actuators inside. When you are conducting... ahem, this kind of deep 'human-machine interaction' experiment, shouldn't you consider safety first?"

Jiang Chen: "???"

What human-machine interaction?

What stress relief method?

What kind of dirty thoughts are in your head, hey!

"No! Listen to me explain!"

Jiang Chen sprang up from the floor, gesturing wildly, "This thing was about to self-destruct! I was putting out a fire! I wanted to throw it out! I didn't tie those ropes either; it... it arrived like this by courier!"

"I understand, I understand everything."

Academician Chen Shuyin interrupted him, her face revealing an intellectual smile that showed she was "not only long-legged, but also had a wild imagination."

"Research pressure is high, it's normal to need to vent. Plus, this 7th generation chassis has a tactile feedback system with up to 99% realism; it really is much more advanced than the average... ahem, those silicone products."

She looked at Jiang Chen with admiration, "To pursue the ultimate experience, not hesitating to risk electric leakage, and even playing until it triggered an overload alarm... Mr. Jiang, I truly admire this spirit of exploration dedicated to science."

"Admire your ass!"

Jiang Chen's mentality collapsed.

Is this woman's brain circuit connected by quantum entanglement? How can it skew in such an outrageous direction?

"Academician Chen Shuyin! I am a decent person!"

Jiang Chen gritted his teeth and pointed at the lump of iron on the bed, "I don't have any improper thoughts about this pile of scrap metal! I just want to dismantle it and sell it as scrap metal now!"

"Dismantle it?"

Upon hearing these two words, Academician Chen Shuyin's gaze changed instantly.

The playfulness that had been gossiping just a moment ago vanished instantly, replaced by a fanaticism that made Jiang Chen's spine chill.

That was the look of a mad scientist seeing a prime lab rat.

She leisurely took a pair of white gloves out of her silver toolbox, putting them on elegantly, each finger pulled tight and seamless.

Then, she walked to the bedside, her slender fingers gently stroking the android's skin, which was as delicate as a real person's, and her fingertips paused at the slightly recessed collarbone, pressing lightly.

"Such a perfect masterpiece, what a pity to dismantle it."

Academician Chen Shuyin turned her head, the eyes behind her lenses flashing with an eerie light, her tongue gently licking her lips, her voice low and hoarse:

"Jiang Chen, since you don't want to play with it anymore..."

"Then hand it over to me."

"I want to take her back to the laboratory to properly... study her internal structure in depth."

Looking at that gaze, Jiang Chen couldn't help but shiver, subconsciously wrapping his bathrobe tighter around himself.

This woman...

Why does she feel even more dangerous than that self-destructing robot?

"What do you want to do?" Jiang Chen retreated half a step vigilantly.

Academician Chen Shuyin smiled slightly, took out a screwdriver as sharp as a scalpel from the toolbox, and spun it in her hand with a beautiful flourish:

"Don't be nervous."

"I just want to see what secrets are hidden inside the chassis that made you play until you almost 'misfired'."