Marvelous Mecha

Chapter 49: Eggy_1


Being despised was no big deal. However, being despised by a creature that looked like an innocent rubber dinosaur with a human-like gaze was another story. Feng Yi could clearly sense the creature's human-like gaze.

He picked up the little rubber dinosaur for a closer look...

The creature suddenly opened its mouth and chomp, bit down hard on Feng Yi's arm, leaving two rows of teeth marks. The pain was intense enough to make him throw it right into the trash bin. His throwing skills were as precise as a three-point shot in basketball.

Before Feng Yi could regain his composure, the trash bin exploded in a burst of green light that rushed towards his face with a smack. Then came an assault of scratching from its little claw as the creature targeted Feng Yi under the principle of disregarding its own life and dignity. "Bully, bully, I'll beat you to death, beat you to death."

Within seconds, Feng Yi's initially elegant hairdo was reduced to a mess. This was clearly a combat dinosaur.

Feng Yi had seen many different types of robots, but he had never encountered one that could respond with such an effortless flow of foul language. Was this another one of Lasso's pranks even after his death?

Feng Yi smartened up this time and grabbed the creature from a spot on its spine where it couldn't bite him: "What exactly are you, an intelligent robot?"

"Duh, isn't it obvious?" The little creature retorted with no attempt to be polite. "By the way, what era is it now?"

"The Great Age of Exploration", Feng Yi answered, feeling rather puzzled. Was this creature a time traveler?

"Got it." The little dinosaur nodded its head humanly. "Find me a power source. Household electricity will do."

"A power source?"

"Yes, why aren't you moving? Hurry, now, immediately, this instant." The small dinosaur's mouth moved like a machine gun, constantly spouting words and phrases with no repetition.

Feng Yi's mind was filled with a shocking term at the sight before him. Artificial Intelligence! He pointed to a corner of the room. "There's a power source over there. Help yourself."

Upon seeing the power socket, the little dinosaur became visibly happier. The rotund small creature rolled over to the power source and extended something from the tip of its tail, plugging it directly into the socket.

The power in the Shadow District was supplied by the Wind Thunder Military Academy. At the moment, the Intelligent Brain was rapidly reporting the power usage of Sector S, so the staff immediately cut off the power system of the sector.

Looking at the darkness of his room, Feng Yi's face turned chilly. "You did all this, didn't you?"

Click!

The room lit up again instantly. The little dinosaur looked at Feng Yi, its gaze as pitiful as a child who had done something wrong.

"Share your story. What are you really?"

The little dinosaur remained silent and stubbornly refused to answer. As a result, Feng Yi had to force it to do so. It seemed that the dinosaur finally realized that Feng Yi was not someone to be toyed with. Suddenly, a holographic image appeared in front of him.

This was a day hundreds of years ago. As an pure life form, Eggy was born in 2295. The footage was fast-forwarding almost like it was on rapid play...

Eggy came to being, it was destroyed, it came to being again, and it was destroyed again. Within the footage, Feng Yi saw what was recorded in the virtual notes of the well-known Federation scientist, Dr. Claire Chester. This footage was saved by Eggy.

It was during the glorious times when the Federation was experiencing a technology explosion, as well as during the chaotic times of war. The peaceful nation, the Federation, upon discovering a massive stash of supermetals towards the end of the 23rd century, soon became the focus of resource-stealing wars from various powers. Its surrounding powers were like ravenous wolves, each wanting a piece of its juicy meat.

The spreading war caused numerous families to be torn apart and countless people to become refugees.

In order to arm themselves and protect their beloved nation, the people had to put on an invincible armor. Under the secret orders of the Vice President, Dr. Claire Chester and other researchers, despite facing societal criticisms, devoted themselves completely to their scientific research. They gave everything, but ultimately failed...

When the Vice President was assassinated, the hidden research base instantly turned into a secret and unknown air-raid shelter.

Although there was more than enough for necessities, the researchers could not bear the solitude of their sunless life. Over time, young researchers chose to commit suicide one by one over the years.

Only Dr. Claire Chester survived. His heart was gradually opened to a new perspective, revealing an unknown world. It was a perspective that was forgotten by humans, indicating that when technology reached its pinnacle, it also signified humanity's ultimate destruction.

At that time, Dr. Chester forgot about the war, the hatred, and the loneliness. In front of human history, were petty family and national grievances important? Perhaps, he would try to escape this constraint in his own way.

At that time, there was no ripple in Dr. Chester's heart as he suffered in pain, fully devoted in the research of Artificial Intelligence.

In this way, in a dark, enclosed underground base that was like a partially dead person, he spent decades creating Eggy all by himself.

But giving a machine subjective consciousness was too difficult. After countless failures, he decided to search for the problem at its root.

That day, all the academic theories and memories possessed by countless Eggys were archived by Dr. Chester. The last simple math question which ordinarily would have been answered in less than one-thousandth of a millisecond, took one whole second for one particular Eggy to give the wrong answer to.

That day, the doctor smiled happily. From then on, he would spend most of his time every day inputting academic theories into this little creature, instead of turning it into a program computer by feeding it garbage data.

Just as if it were the doctor's growing child, he put Eggy into a bionic Mecha dinosaur shell like a container and added a speaking system to it, so it could move freely and speak.

Soon, the doctor installed intelligent chips into the remaining small dinosaurs to accompany it every day, so it would not feel lonely, because Dr. Claire Chester was nearing his end.

In the end, he named the small dinosaur Eggy, inheriting his burning love for his motherland and the starting point of humanity. He hoped that the little guy would bravely move forward, and when the Egg of Peace blossoms, a true Angel of Peace would emerge.

Dr. Claire Chester emphasized at the end of his notes: Eggy is an artificial intelligence program, its IQ growth is relatively slow, it possesses absolute information collection and processing abilities, and can improve its IQ through long-term interaction with humans. When the doctor closed his eyes for the last time, the little guy's IQ was about the same as a 5-year-old child. He also jokingly added at the end that no one should bully Eggy.

Seeing this made Feng Yi a little saddened. With the passage of hundreds of years, the lonely small dinosaur's IQ should at least increase by another two years.

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