Qing Chen could imagine Yi's older brother discovering Yi's online dating escapades with hundreds of people and, unable to explain it, naturally blaming him.
If it were any other matter, he would have accepted it. Cute and Lovely is Cute and Lovely, and Heartbreaker is Heartbreaker.
But the problem is, he can't take this blame!
This is the earliest generation of Demi-God, okay?!
According to Yi, this Demi-God is in the network, destroying those uploaded consciousness bodies every day!
This is Li Shentan, the one who once single-handedly resisted millions of intelligent mechanical troops, a Demi-God who has lived for thousands of years.
He's really a little worried that the other party will wipe him out with a flick of the finger for corrupting their niece.
"Did you misunderstand something? I didn't teach Yi how to date online," Qing Chen carefully explained.
At one point, Qing Chen didn't know why, but he even felt a little nervous meeting the Leader.
"Hmm?" Li Shentan looked at Qing Chen.Qing Chen patiently explained, "Please believe me, I really didn't teach Yi online dating; she's self-taught."
Li Shentan said with a smile, "Yi is such an innocent child; how could she learn online dating by herself? Don't try to argue anymore; if you argue further, I'll fly you like a kite in a typhoon."
A typhoon-day human kite? Is Yi's brother normal...
And.
Innocent?
Yi is innocent?
The Yi who named herself "Heartbreaker" is innocent?
Qing Chen almost thought that the Yi Li Shentan was talking about wasn't the one he knew.
However, he didn't dare to explain more. When he thought of Li Shentan's combat effectiveness, he echoed, "Yes, she is very innocent..."
Li Shentan put on his top hat, "By the way, I should also congratulate you on surviving. I originally thought you would die at the a02 base. You're more tenacious than I thought."
"Of course, this is also thanks to Yi's help," Li Shentan said, "But you must understand that even if she does these things flawlessly, people will still notice some clues. If you are Yi's friend and care about her, don't let her do anything for you anymore. There are some things you don't understand yet; this is to protect her. I've already talked to her, and she understands the gravity of the situation."
No wonder he couldn't contact Yi after leaving the a02 base; she was disciplined by her older brother.
And the reason Li Shentan appeared in front of Qing Chen was because Yi controlled those War Robots.
Li Shentan couldn't let this continue. As Yi's elder, he naturally had to care for the unruly child.
At this time, Li Shentan said, "As Yi's friend, you can ask me one question."
Qing Chen said seriously, "You can rest assured about this... but I'm curious about something. Is the time-travel event related to you?"
Li Shentan looked at him, "It is related. You wasted such a good opportunity but asked a question unrelated to your interests; that's not wise. Let me give you a gift: Da Fu's second condition is to lick its forehead."
Qing Chen was stunned. This question... he finally got the answer; it was indeed related to Yi's brother.
Even Li Shutong didn't know Da Fu's second containment condition.
Of course, it's not surprising that Li Shentan knows Da Fu's second containment condition. After all, he's a living fossil.
Perhaps Da Fu was once played with by Li Shentan.
But the problem is, why is Da Fu's second containment condition so strange?!
According to feline habits, in gregarious cats, only the leader can lick the heads of other group members. This is a way to assert dominance and status.
This feline habit may be the origin of the containment condition.
But who would idly lick a cat's forehead? Who discovered this containment condition? Could it be Li Shentan himself...?
Qing Chen imagined Demi-God Li Shentan hugging Da Fu and vigorously licking its head, and suddenly thought... it's a little cute?
Before Qing Chen could finish thinking, children handing out candy in the distance saw Li Shentan. They cheered and ran over, surrounding Li Shentan.
The Demi-God with silver-white hair smiled at the children, his expression becoming warm again.
He said, "Shall Uncle perform some magic for you?"
"Yes!" the children said.
Li Shentan took out a deck of cards; the cards flew into the sky one by one, and countless cards buried his body.
As all the cards fell, the figure in the grand tailcoat had disappeared.
Qing Chen stood there; this was real magic, definitely not a trick.
No matter how he recalled and slowed down every detail, he couldn't figure out how Li Shentan did it.
He pondered; according to Yi, at the end of the last human era, Li Shentan's mental and spiritual integration with the world exceeded 70%, causing his body to disintegrate and turn to ashes.
And Yi's creator, "Ling," put Li Shentan and Yi into the sandbox together, waiting for Ren Xiaosu to open it.
So what about Li Shentan's body now? Is it made of Nanobots?
Qing Chen hurried away; he had many things to do tonight.
As for Da Fu's second containment condition, he'll have to try it when he's in a private place.
Qing Chen always felt that Da Fu would undergo a surprising change.
At this moment, his phone in his pocket vibrated, "Hello?"
"Is this Chen Sui? This is the Black Swan Restaurant. Your waiter interview was successful. Come to work tomorrow. Tell me your height and weight, and I'll have the tailor shop make your clothes. But these clothes aren't free; they'll cost you 5,000 yuan as a deposit."
"Okay, thank you."
Qing Chen hung up the phone. That's a restaurant in District 4, and it's also where Shendai Yunhe used to go most often, according to the information Shadow gave him.
This time, he didn't take the Steam Train back to the Central Plains but turned back and headed north again to hunt down an A-class master.
And those more than 700 people.
Before his last time travel, Qing Chen deliberately went to the rooftop of the tallest hotel in Osaka Shinsaibashi to see the faces of those who wanted to hunt him.
Time travel is interesting; prey you can't kill in the Outer World can be killed in the Inner World.
City 22 is where Shendai controls the Time Travelers; the more than 700 Time Travelers have been brainwashed and live scattered throughout the city.
He practiced painting to let Shadow help him find these people.
...
...
Entering City 22, Ninth District.
Qing Chen clearly felt like he had come to another world. All the buildings were sprayed with dense slogans of resistance and swear words.
The colors of the graffiti harmonized strangely under the blue and purple neon lights.
After taking a few steps, a middle-aged man asked, "Young man, are you selling organs? You only need to sell a kidney or eyeball, and you can get a lot of money. You can go to the casino to gamble, you can go to District 4 to find the best girls. Don't worry about safety; I can replace your kidney and eye with bionic ones; they'll still work well."
Qing Chen looked at the middle-aged man. He was covered in low-quality Cybernetic Limbs, and both of his eyes were replaced with mechanical ones.
A blue mechanical heart beat in his chest, looking particularly strange.
On the long street, countless people were similar to this middle-aged man. Their expressions were full of numbness. Some people used Ling money to buy dopamine chips from street shops.
From the dirty and messy alleys, the bargaining voices of prostitutes and clients could be heard.
After time travel, Qing Chen went to prison, which was well-managed by Yi.
After being released from prison, he had Li Shutong's protection, so he had never actually entered the lower three districts.
Therefore, he almost thought that everything he had seen was cyberpunk.
But only then did he understand that the lower three districts, which housed 50% of the city's population, were the true cyberpunk.
The Conglomerate's control over these people wasn't surveillance but control over their spiritual entertainment and lifestyle, making them unable to see the future and hope, willingly becoming caged pigs.
In this place, people like Qing Chen, whose "Ling parts" were still intact, were like living freaks and walking wallets.
Everyone's eyes told him this wasn't where he should be.
Qing Chen once asked Yang Yang why she wanted to change the world.
Yang Yang said that if you go to the lower three districts, you'll know why.
Qing Chen continued to walk deeper into the Ninth District, and a child passed him, taking his phone from his pocket.
He grabbed the boy's wrist, "Give it back."
The boy weakly handed over the phone. When he looked back, Qing Chen found that even this little boy's eyes had been replaced with mechanical ones.
The little boy's eyes were sold by his parents.
His liver, kidneys, and heart were preserved because he was not yet an adult. It wasn't because of laws protecting minors but because the child's organs were not fully developed yet.
Qing Chen released the child's hand and let him run away.
He walked into a building called "Pigeon Cage." The building had 90 floors, but the elevator was broken and no one had repaired it. The sewers were also clogged and no one cared.
People living on the upper floors didn't want to go downstairs to throw away their garbage, so they threw garbage and excrement down.
The whole building exuded a foul odor.
The corridors were filled with noisy music. Many residents hadn't closed their doors. As he passed by, Qing Chen could see young people dancing wildly inside, and bodies entangled together.
Qing Chen opened his rented room, went in, and closed the door.
But the noise from the outside wouldn't disappear because he closed the door; the noisy music would still penetrate through the walls.
In the corridor, several young people looked at each other, carrying sticks and approaching. In their eyes, Qing Chen might be a recently bankrupt resident of the fifth or sixth district, destitute enough to come to the lower three districts to live.
But it doesn't matter; what matters is that Qing Chen still has intact organs.
There are many wealthy elderly people in the Federation. They don't have the Neural Link body-snatching technology of the Shendai Consortium, and Nanobots are also more expensive than ordinary human organs.
So they would use the Federation's mature and advanced medical technology to replace their entire set of organs.
However, a set of organs might only last ten years, so they would have to buy a new set in ten years.