59: Chapter 59 Chen Shuyin Arrives at the Door: Jiang Chen, Are You Keeping a Mistress in a Golden House?

"Clatter—"

That was the sound of over a hundred pages of top-secret documents scattering in the air, drifting down like snowflakes.

Following that was the dull thud of a heavy silver briefcase hitting the floor, a sound so loud it made Jiang Chen's heart skip a beat.

He struggled to lift his head from the throw pillow, peering past the arm of the pink-haired maid toward the doorway.

Academician Chen Shuyin stood there, her chest heaving violently. The face usually filled with intellectual beauty was now covered in frost. Her eyes, hidden behind rimless glasses, were locked onto the "indecent" scene on the sofa. Her gaze held not just anger, but the humiliation of being deeply deceived.

The air was thick with the scent of "catching an affair."

"Jiang... Chen."

Academician Chen Shuyin walked over in her high heels, each step feeling like it was stomping on Jiang Chen's nerves.

"Is this what you called closed-door research?"

She pointed at the mechanical cat ears that were still perched on Jiang Chen's waist, swaying slightly due to inertia. Her voice was as cold as if it had been frozen in the Arctic Circle for three years:

"Is this what you meant by... for the future of humanity?"

"Is your future just playing these vulgar types of cosplay at home? Or is this some special custom of your 'Galactic Empire'?"

Jiang Chen felt his scalp go numb; he was more panicked than facing a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier.

This was a huge misunderstanding!

He tried to push away the heavy AI on top of him, but this thing weighed at least a few hundred pounds and was still in "work mode," pinning him down like a mountain. He couldn't budge it.

"No! Old Chen, listen to my explanation!"

Jiang Chen gestured wildly, his face full of despair. "This is really research! I am... uh, I am testing a new type of medical device!"

"A medical device?"

Academician Chen Shuyin laughed in anger. She walked to the sofa and looked down at the girl in the maid outfit, whose figure was provocatively hot.

The material of those black silk stockings, that backless maid dress, and that highly suggestive pose.

"A fine medical device indeed."

Academician Chen Shuyin gritted her teeth, her eyes even turning slightly red. "Jiang Chen, I am a scientist, not an idiot. Even if you want to make up an excuse, can you at least find a decent one?"

"Last time I took the initiative... ahem, offered to sacrifice myself for science, you acted like a gentleman and tied me up like a dumpling, throwing me into the guest room."

"And now, you turn around and find a young model to play these kinds of games?"

"Do you think I'm not seductive enough? Or is my figure not as good as hers?"

As she spoke, her anger grew. Academician Chen Shuyin felt her self-esteem being rubbed into the dirt.

Who was she? The youngest goddess academician of Longke Academy! Countless people lined up just to catch a glimpse of her, yet in this man's eyes, she wasn't even as good as a wild model wearing fake cat ears?

"Get off!"

Academician Chen Shuyin couldn't take it anymore. She reached out to grab Ikaros's arm, wanting to pull this shameless woman off Jiang Chen. "This is a state-level protected person! Is she someone you can ride? Get down!"

Her movements were swift, carrying a fierce, decisive anger.

However.

Just as her fingertips were about to touch Ikaros's shoulder.

"Beep—"

An extremely sharp, danger-filled electronic buzz exploded in the living room without warning.

Ikaros, who had been closing her eyes and focusing on massaging her master's waist, suddenly opened them.

The soft light in those emerald green mechanical pupils vanished instantly, replaced by a heart-stopping crimson.

[Warning! Hostile target detected!]

[Threat level assessment: Medium.]

[Attack intent confirmed: Target attempting physical violation of the master.]

[Defense mode—Initiated!]

"Click, click, click—"

A dense, teeth-gritting sound of metal deformation echoed.

Academician Chen Shuyin's hand froze in mid-air.

She watched helplessly as the girl's arm, originally slender, fair, and even tinged with pink, suddenly split open like a Transformer.

The skin rolled back to both sides, revealing the silver-white titanium alloy skeleton underneath.

Countless precision gears meshed frantically, hydraulic rods extended, and blue energy circuits finished charging in an instant.

In the blink of an eye.

The hand that had just been massaging Jiang Chen's waist turned into a mini-Gatling cannon as thick as a thigh, with six rotating barrels!

The dark muzzle was still sizzling and rotating as it warmed up, pointed directly at Academician Chen Shuyin's forehead, less than five centimeters from her brow.

Meanwhile, the cute cat ears on top of Ikaros's head suddenly stood up, turning into two small phased-array radars.

"Back off."

Ikaros's voice was no longer the soft, sweet maid tone, but had changed into a cold, emotionless, synthesized mechanical voice:

"Otherwise, I will eliminate you."

Silence.

Absolute silence.

Jiang Chen lay underneath, watching the Gatling gun pointed at Academician Chen Shuyin's forehead, his heart nearly stopping from fright.

"Ikaros! Stop!"

He frantically slapped the sofa. "That's one of our own! Don't fire! Absolutely do not fire! One burst and she'll be turned into a sieve!"

However.

The scene he expected, with Academician Chen Shuyin screaming in terror or collapsing to the ground, did not happen.

After the initial second of shock, this female academician's reaction made Jiang Chen completely doubt reality.

Academician Chen Shuyin did not back down.

She didn't even blink.

She just stared blankly at the Gatling gun barrel inches away, at the blue energy halo flowing over it, and at those precision-engineered structures accurate to the micron level.

Then.

She slowly, with stiff movements, raised her hand and pushed up the glasses on the bridge of her nose.

The anger, jealousy, and humiliation that had been in her eyes vanished completely at this moment.

Replacing them was a fanaticism capable of burning away reason, the obsession of a scientist witnessing truth.

"This... this is..."

Academician Chen Shuyin's voice trembled, but definitely not from fear.

She even leaned forward voluntarily, completely unconcerned about whether the muzzle would misfire, her face almost touching the barrel, greedily sniffing the burnt smell of ionization.

"Living metal deformation?"

"Instant conversion of bio-energy and thermal energy?"

"And this... this fire-control system that perfectly simulates human neural reflexes?"

She snapped her head around, glaring at Jiang Chen, who was pinned underneath. That look was a hundred times scarier than when she was "catching an affair."

"Jiang Chen! Tell me!"

"This isn't an inflatable doll? And not a young model?"

"This is... a mechanical lifeform?!"

"It's alive?!"

Jiang Chen: "..."

Looking at Academician Chen Shuyin's expression, as if she wanted to dismantle Ikaros and swallow her whole, he suddenly felt that his earlier worry about her being scared to death was completely unnecessary.

This woman's brain circuit was indeed different from a normal person's.

Faced with mortal danger and scientific truth, she chose the latter without hesitation.

"Yes, yes, yes, it's alive."

Jiang Chen waved his hand weakly. "Can you make it put the gun away first? I feel like its barrel is a bit hot; it's burning my waist."

"Put it away? What are you talking about!"

Academician Chen Shuyin shouted excitedly, even reaching out to touch the scorching barrel. "Don't put it away! Let me look more! My God, this cooling structure... it's simply a genius design! It's an entire era more advanced than our Lithography Machine's cooling system!"

"Ikaros, is it?"

She didn't care that the other party had just tried to kill her, leaning in like a weird aunt with eyes shining:

"Good girl, don't move, let sister see your internal structure."

"How was that deformation just now achieved? Where is your energy core? Is it in your chest?"

As she spoke, she actually reached out, wanting to touch Ikaros's chest—the place where the heart should have been.

"Warning!"

Ikaros clearly couldn't understand this kind of human madness.

The red light in her eyes intensified, the barrels began to rotate again, making a heart-stopping buzzing sound:

"Target's mental state detected as abnormal."

"Assessment: High-risk lunatic."

"Preparing to execute... physical elimination."

"Don't!"

Jiang Chen used his last bit of strength to roll off the sofa, grabbing Ikaros's waist and forcibly pulling her and the gun off-target.

"Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat—!"

A string of blue energy rounds whistled out.

"Boom!"

The marble background wall in the living room, which had just been renovated, was instantly turned into a honeycomb; gravel splattered, and smoke billowed.

Academician Chen Shuyin was knocked to the ground by the shockwave, her hair disheveled and her face covered in dust.

But the first thing she said when she climbed up was:

"Holy crap! Energy weapon! No ammunition needed?!"

"Jiang Chen! Sell it to me! I'll buy it for any price! Even if you sell me, it's fine!"

Jiang Chen looked at the mess, at the female lunatic still crazily calculating data, and at the cold killing machine in his arms that was preparing to charge again.

He closed his eyes in despair.

What a disaster.

This life is unlivable.

One wants to dismantle the other, and the other wants to blast the first one away.

How is this "hiding a mistress"?

This is clearly tearing my house down!

"Both of you, stop!"

Jiang Chen roared, bringing out his dignity as the head of the household. "Whoever dares to move again gets no dinner tonight! And no batteries either!"

Just at this chaotic, tense moment.

"Buzz—"

The phone thrown in the corner suddenly vibrated again.

That familiar vibration with a special frequency.

Jiang Chen's heart sank.

No way?

The room is already chaotic enough; do we really need to add fuel to the fire?

He turned his head stiffly to look at the phone screen.

A huge video call request box popped up, and the remark field clearly wrote three large characters:

[Jiang Wanqiu]

And below the name, there was another line of small text:

[Status: Extremely excited, requesting to show off new war trophies.]

Jiang Chen looked at the jumping green accept button, feeling like he was standing at the gates of hell.

This is...

A three-way talk?

A real-world female lunatic, an extraterrestrial mechanical maid, and a Yandere Empress from the Wasteland?

Is this a Shuraba?

This is simply the end of the world!