60: Chapter 60 Warning: A Battleground of Bloodshed! Female Academician VS Artificial Intelligence

The smoke and dust in the living room hadn't cleared yet, and the pungent smell of burning made one cough incessantly.

Jiang Chen held the mechanical maid in his arms, who was ready to perform another "physical elimination" at any moment, with one hand, while using the other to protect the madwoman who would risk her life just to see the structure clearly. He felt like he was caught between two pieces of nuclear fuel about to collide, ready to trigger a criticality accident at any second.

"Stop! Everyone stop!"

Jiang Chen roared until his voice cracked, the sound echoing in the spacious living room, sounding exceptionally bleak. "If anyone dares to move again, I will... I will throw you both out!"

This sentence seemed to have some effect.

Academician Chen Shuyin finally stopped her hand that was trying to pry at Ikaros's shell. She pushed up her dust-covered glasses, her eyes still glued to the Gatling gun barrel that was still dissipating heat, while muttering a string of incomprehensible technical jargon:

"Incredible... High-energy particle compression? No magazine? Is that extracting free electrons directly from the air for charging? This conversion rate..."

She suddenly looked up, staring at Jiang Chen, her eyes as bright as two searchlights:

"Jiang Chen! Tell me honestly, did you really find this?"

"Where did you find it? Are there any more? I want to go find one too!"

Jiang Chen rolled his eyes, pressed Ikaros back onto the sofa, and said irritably:

"Found it by the side of the road. This is the only one, it's out of print."

"This is my new maid, Ikaros. That was a misunderstanding just now; she thought you were trying to assassinate me. That was her automatic defense mechanism."

He turned to look at the cold-faced AI girl who was still staring at Academician Chen Shuyin's neck, calculating the cutting angle, and rubbed his temples in headache:

"Ikaros, disarm. This is... *cough*, this is someone here to fix the water pipes, not an assassin."

"Fixing water pipes?"

Ikaros tilted her head, her mechanical cat ears twitching as if performing a logical assessment.

A few seconds later, the red light in her eyes gradually faded, returning to that inorganic emerald green.

"Command received."

"Threat level lowered. Target redefined as: Aggressive repair worker."

"Click, click, click—"

A dazzling sound of mechanical transformation rang out.

The menacing Gatling gun barrel rapidly retracted and folded, and the metal skeleton was covered by bionic skin once again. In the blink of an eye, that mechanical arm filled with killing intent turned back into a slender, fair, and delicate girl's hand, even painted with pink nail polish.

Watching this scene, Academician Chen Shuyin gasped, her breathing instantly becoming rapid.

"Nano-memory metal! Liquid transmission!"

She could no longer control the primordial power within her; she lunged forward, grabbed Ikaros's hand, and like an old pervert, began to rub and knead it repeatedly, wishing she could peel back every inch of skin to take a look.

"It's too perfect... This texture, this temperature control... It's simply God's masterpiece!"

"Jiang Chen! Hand it over to me!"

Academician Chen Shuyin turned to look at Jiang Chen, her tone resolute and carrying an unquestionable domineering air, "Technology of this level being kept at home as a maid is simply a waste! This is a desecration of science!"

"I must take it back to Longke Academy! I want to dismantle its core logic! I want to replicate its energy system!"

"As long as I can study it thoroughly, our Dragon Country's individual combat capabilities will be at least one hundred years ahead of the rest of the world!"

Before Jiang Chen could speak, Ikaros, whose hand was being held, reacted first.

She looked down at this reckless woman, a cold stream of data flashing through her green eyes.

"Warning."

Ikaros's voice was devoid of inflection, yet it carried a chill that made one's spine crawl, "Detected 'repair worker' attempting illegal dismantling of this unit."

"According to Article 3 of the 'Housekeeping Service Code': Any behavior attempting to damage the master's private property shall be regarded as a declaration of war."

"Recommend releasing immediately. Otherwise, this unit will initiate 'Close Quarters Combat Mode,' projected to snap the target's cervical spine within 0.01 seconds."

After speaking, her fingers curled slightly, and those sharp metal probes popped out from her fingertips again, pointing directly at Academician Chen Shuyin's pulse.

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't get violent!"

Jiang Chen was so scared he rushed up to separate the two, like breaking up two fighting cocks, placing himself in the middle as a human shield.

"Everyone calm down!"

He pointed at Academician Chen Shuyin, looking at her with a mix of frustration and disappointment:

"Old Chen! You are a respectable person, can you not want to dismantle every piece of high-tech you see? That is my private property! And she has self-awareness; if you dismantle her, that's murder!"

"Self-awareness?"

Academician Chen Shuyin sneered, tidied her messy hair, and regained some of the aloofness of a female academician, "That's an illusion simulated by algorithms! It's just a more advanced chat robot."

She glanced at Ikaros with disdain:

"Hey, iron lump. Do you know calculus? Do you understand quantum mechanics? Do you know what love is?"

"Besides turning into a gun to scare people, what else can you do?"

Facing this provocation, Ikaros blinked.

She didn't get angry, because an AI doesn't have such emotions. She simply replied calmly in a tone stating facts:

"This unit carries navigation data of star charts for all known galaxies in the universe, has mastered 1,300 types of antimatter engine repair protocols, and is proficient in 3,000 alien languages."

"As for calculus..."

She paused, and a hint of extremely human-like contempt appeared in her eyes:

"That kind of low-level mathematical tool, in my database, belongs to 'toddler enlightenment reading material'."

"Besides, I can give massages, cook, and warm the bed."

Ikaros puffed out her proud chest, her mechanical cat ears perked up proudly, and she delivered a soul-crushing blow to Academician Chen Shuyin:

"And you, as a carbon-based female organism."

"Besides yelling and attempting to destroy the master's property, your value of existence... seems to be no higher than that of a sweeping robot."

"You—!"

Academician Chen Shuyin's face turned green from being retorted, and she almost couldn't catch her breath.

Being looked down upon by a robot?

And said I'm not as good as a sweeping robot?

"Fine, fine, fine! What a great artificial intelligence!"

Academician Chen Shuyin laughed out of extreme anger. She rolled up her sleeves, pulled a laser screwdriver out of the toolbox that had fallen to the floor, and her eyes were as fierce as a chainsaw maniac:

"Since you're so capable, let's have a go!"

"If I don't dismantle you into parts today, I won't take the surname Chen! I'll show you what human intelligence is!"

"Challenge accepted."

Ikaros was not to be outdone, her arm began to transform again, this time turning directly into a high-frequency vibration particle blade, "Calculating optimal cutting path..."

Watching these two madwomen who were about to stage a "Man-Machine War" in the living room at the slightest disagreement, Jiang Chen was completely desperate.

He slumped onto the rubble-filled sofa, holding his head in his hands, feeling like his head was even bigger than the wall that had just been smashed through.

This life is impossible to live.

One is a crazy scientist sent by the state, the other is an obstinate AI with off-the-charts combat power.

If these two really start fighting, I'm afraid there won't be a scrap left of this villa.

"Can you... do me a favor?"

Jiang Chen raised his hand weakly, attempting a final mediation, "Everyone is doing this for me... No, wait, for science, can we sit down, have a cup of tea, and talk calmly?"

"No!"

The two said in unison, filled with murderous intent.

Just at this critical moment, where swords were drawn and bows bent, ready to strike at any second.

"Buzz—"

The phone tossed in the corner suddenly emitted an extremely special vibration sound.

That wasn't a normal incoming call.

That was the alert tone Jiang Chen had specifically set, which would only sound in the highest-level emergency situations.

The three of them froze simultaneously.

Academician Chen Shuyin stopped the screwdriver in her hand.

Ikaros retracted the particle blade.

Everyone's gaze was focused on that phone, its screen lighting up.

A huge video call request box with a Wasteland style popped up on it.

In the name note column, three large characters were written:

[Jiang Wanqiu]

And below the name, there was a line of small text that made Jiang Chen's heart stop:

[Status: Extremely excited. Requesting to show Father God... the "surprise" found in the alien ruins.]

Jiang Chen looked at the pulsing green answer button, feeling as if he were standing at the gates of hell, with one foot already inside.

This is...

A three-party talk?

The crazy female academician in reality, the sharp-tongued AI maid by his side, and the Wasteland Empress on the other side of the screen who had just awakened her "yandere attribute" and possessed off-the-charts combat power?

How is this a Shuraba?

This is simply enough to destroy the world—

Ragnarök!