The Star Scholars who had been working tirelessly in the data center for days were finally coaxed into the lounge, temporarily averting the crisis of "interstellar friends suddenly dying on the construction site." Mo Ran then went to inspect the progress of the do repair in the Rift Laboratory, ensuring that the "self-healing" of Black Stone Space Station could be maintained at maximum efficiency.
Afterward, she dismissed her attendants, pondering how to report Master Alvin and the others' investigation results as concisely as possible—
and also inquire when the "real expert of Black Stone Space Station" ntioned by True Monarch could arrive...
At the sa ti, Yu Sheng and Erin were still at the "Alice Embassy" on the border.
He brought the puppet along, firstly to apologize, and secondly because he wanted to see what state the servo robots were in after being infected with the shake-to-skip ads.
However, when he and Erin arrived, Marin had already completed the first round of ergency treatnt for Maris—the living doll lady successfully disabled her maid's ad skipping function and greatly improved the latter's "stop-and-go" symptoms.
Now Maris stops after every two steps.
Yu Sheng pressed the puppet's head and apologized to Maris and her master—the good news was that the puppet surprisingly cooperated; despite her usual rowdy and uncivilized behavior, she knew when she was in the wrong.
Marin didn't seem too bothered.
"It's actually not a big deal," the living doll lady said with a smile on her face, "Maris originally had a bit of this problem, and I'm sowhat used to it."
Yu Sheng glanced sideways; the spring-loaded maid was lying honestly on the inspection bed, the decorative large spring key and part of the back cover had been removed and placed aside, a few cables connected to her chest and neck, and were undergoing data processing with the terminal.
"Does she usually stop after every step?" Yu Sheng asked curiously.
Marin sighed, "…She normally jumps ads too."
Just as she finished speaking, Maris, who was staring into space with several wires inserted, turned her head imdiately: "You can reduce ad push notifications by three-quarters by subscribing to the basic mbership package, and get personalized push services based on your daily browsing data. Subscriptions now co with…"
Marin sighed again.
Yu Sheng couldn't say much, but he suddenly felt that daily life in the "Alice Embassy" seed quite colorful.
Then he received an interstellar call from Mo Ran at Black Stone Space Station.
Black Stone Station itself was still in a damaged state, so Yu Sheng had been allocating limited "instincts" to ensure that the self-healing of Black Stone Space Station was maintained at peak efficiency. He didn't monitor the station's status in real-ti, so when Mo Ran suddenly called, telling him that Black Stone Station had once "fallen out" of this world, briefly becoming a living creature outside the world, he was utterly bewildered.
Yu Sheng was aware a group of "Star Scholars" had been shut in the data center at the space station, engaged in cultivation, but he hadn't expected them to dig out such a huge secret in these few days! As one might say, worthy of being Luo's kin, the universe's renowned spiritual energy species, these "Cosmic Long Ears" sure are suited to unearth secrets in starry spaces...
At this mont, Erin was sitting on Maris's inspection bed, tilting her head and watching Yu Sheng's changing expressions while he was on the call, growing curious: "What's up?"
"Mo Ran discovered sothing incredible," Yu Sheng briefly explained the situation to the puppet and then touched his chin, "I was originally planning to wait a few days before talking to Luo about Black Stone Station, but it seems like her 'vacation' will have to end early."
Erin imdiately jumped off the inspection bed, deftly climbed up Yu Sheng's clothes to his shoulder, chattering all the way: "Then hurry up, the long-haired princess has already taken Luo to fish by the river outside the town, they're even planning to sneak fruit from the Snake Princess's lair. If you wait another two days, that pointy-eared one will be completely led astray by the long-haired princess, then they'll just be two Big Golden Hairs..."
Yu Sheng bid farewell to Marin hastily, opening a door directly to the Fairy Tale Town in the valley, and as the illusory portal vanished into thin air, peace returned to the "machine repair room."
Lying on the inspection bed, Maris blinked, watching the direction where the door disappeared, and after a while, she turned her head sluggishly to look at her mistress sitting beside her.
Marin was also watching the spring-loaded maid on the bed.
"...How did you get loaded with all that ssy stuff?" Marin finally couldn't help but ask.
Maris replied honestly: "Miss Erin said that accelerators increase winning probabilities..."
"No, I didn't an that," Marin interrupted, "I an, how did she bypass your permission certification and the Garden Network's security protocols itself?"
Maris's eyes instantly beca sowhat blank, a faint buzzing echoed from within her, and the holographic display above the data terminal next to the inspection bed flickered montarily, showing the "Garden Network simulated connection" status.
"I... don't know," the spring-loaded maid hesitated to speak, "none of the security protocols were activated, and Miss Erin astonishingly mastered various simulated interface calls and modifications, even seemingly ignored the compatibility issues between the Garden Network and other external networks. Yet, based on my observations, Miss Erin herself seed unaware of all this; she was acting purely on instinct."
Marin furrowed her brows tightly.
"And the security defense chanism of the 'Gathering Hall' didn't react?"
"No reaction—because Miss Erin didn't actually cause any damage to the Garden Network, not even the slightest. Although her instinctual operations violated many security protocols, the outco only added a set of ad plugins to without any actions exceeding the security boundaries... Perhaps, this is one of her 'instincts.'"
Marin didn't speak for a mont, but picked up the data terminal beside her, swiftly operating it.
She was reviewing the access logs of the Garden Network from Maris's mory bank—which also included Erin's actions in the network.
"...Did you guys pass by 'Alice's House'?"
"Yes, we made a brief stop there. I introduced Miss Erin to the background and current situation of the access node."
Marin lifted her head from the data terminal: "Do you know that she accessed several remote ports at Alice's House?"
The spring-loaded maid on the bed looked surprised and instinctively propped herself up halfway—but soon shuddered and lay back down.
The effects of the shake hadn't worn off yet.
"That doesn't make sense," Maris quickly said. "We only stayed briefly outside the barrier, and 'Alice's House' was closed as usual. Miss Erin didn't attempt any access, she didn't even approach the entrance."
"But the system logs show she communicated with the 'Antique Shop' several tis. Although the communications were brief and no valid data was transmitted, the communications did occur."
Maris blinked: "...I don't understand."
Marin pondered for a mont without speaking. After a while, she put the data terminal back and broke the silence softly: "Her permissions are very high, extrely high—within her 'Alice Secret Key' is a set of special access codes that can bypass the Garden Network's security protocols. Since your simulated mind is based on the 'Universal Substrate' authorized by the Garden Network to the Universal Union, she can also easily bypass your various permission authentications."
Maris thought for a mont, looking sowhat serious: "It seems that when teaming up for gas with Miss Erin in the future, we'll need to be a bit more cautious—she always acts more on instinct than reasoning..."
Marin felt like she heard sothing strange but didn't mind. Instead, she suddenly looked very seriously into the eyes of the spring-loaded maid, with a thoughtful expression.
Maris suddenly felt an unaccountable tension from the mistress's gaze: "...Ma, Miss Marin?"
"Your basic rewrite permissions are still in a penetrated state, right?" Marin suddenly said.
The spring-loaded maid squird slightly unconsciously: "I think so, what do you want to do?"
Marin suddenly smiled and moved a bit closer to the maintenance bed.
The visible tension rose in the spring-loaded maid: "Miss Marin, please allow to remind you, as per the user agreent..."
Marin: "You're a cat girl."
Maris: "..."
Marin: "...No response?"
"Triggering personality protection program, detected behavior violating basic user agreent rewrite. 127th warning. For your data safety and user experience, please do not privately rewrite the basic personality settings of servo robots—if rewriting is necessary, please purchase the 'Advanced Developer Expansion Pack' customized for developers by the Universal Union, now available at a 15% discount. You can purchase on any platform..."
Marin: "...?"
How co the bottom layer of the mind core, after the basic permissions were penetrated, still contains a damn advertisent?!
...
A light breeze blew by, the air was fragrant with the scent of grass and trees, and the soft daylight illuminated the riverside beside the woods, where a small campfire crackled, bringing out the aroma of cooked food.
Several sticks poked into the muddy soil beside the campfire, with fish and shrimp caught from the river, fruits taken from the Snake Demon's nest, and mushrooms picked from the Black Forest skewered on them.
The Big Golden Hair, along with the Little Golden Hair, nestled in a thicket of wild grass, gnawing on freshly roasted mushrooms.
In terms of age, Luo was much older than the long-haired princess, but in terms of hair scale, the long-haired princess surpassed Luo by a large margin.
But this didn't affect their random sisterly nicknas—all thanks to the power of roasted mushrooms.
"It's so nice," Luo mumbled, chewing on mushrooms, "I want to be a scholar in the future, a great scholar, like a Star Scholar… After graduation, I'll go..."
"I can't graduate, I'm seventeen, but I've saved a lot of money, enough to buy everyone... oh no, my brother saved ," the long-haired princess murmured, looking up at the sky, sotis lost, sotis happy, and sotis dejected again, "So I still have to worry about graduating, math is just so hard..."
"What's so hard about math? You just need a brain, right?" Luo glanced back at the blurry golden banana beside her and took another bite of the roasted stone in her hand, "I'll tutor you later, I'm good at math, I... I don't want to work, I don't want to work! Those two recruiters are con artists—"
The golden-haired elf, upon saying this, seed to rember sothing sad and started wailing loudly, instantly startling the long-haired princess beside her. The latter gave a slap: "Are you stupid? You've already clocked out, brother brought you back—right, brother? Brother, why did you dye your hair... Oh, it's Erin. Erin, why did you dye your hair?"
At ho, the troublemaker kids gnawed on wild mushrooms picked from the Black Forest until they were dazed, alongside the just-returned alien technology warlords. (insert image)
Yu Sheng bringing Erin back into the valley, the first sight they see is this scene.
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