After spending four minutes finishing a flavorless breakfast, Lu Xing walked out of the house.
The scenery outside remained the same. He trudged across the lawn in front of the house and waited by the street.
While he was at it, he checked what message Jiang Xuannv had left for him.
"Compatriot, I am very glad to learn that you have found other humans. Reflecting on my actions over the past sixteen years, perhaps I was too obsessed with imitating Intelligent Beings. Making appropriate mistakes is a trait humans ought to possess—this is the conclusion I reached after observing Ancient Human Campus.
"As for whether to join the White Cat Society and other matters, please make the decision, compatriot. No matter whether the final result is correct, I will support you.
"I will continue observing the behavior of other humans at Ancient Human Campus, refine my gender, complete my transformation from Intelligent Female into an adolescent human girl, while retaining the former gender. Please teach me how to do this, compatriot."
"..."
Lu Xing was shocked. Although he had exchanged messages with them several times, witnessed the differences between other worlds, and had even worn Anne's little skirt, after seeing Little Jiang's words, he still felt that words should not be arranged like this.
But if he rephrased it, she probably meant:
Refine her personality, remove the mechanical quality brought by imitating Intelligent Beings, but not erase it completely. Instead, she wanted two modes of thought.
As an ancient human, Lu Xing found it hard to understand how she intended to do that.
For humans ruled by artificial intelligence, the word personality had been deleted from the dictionary. They were not allowed to have individualized forms of expression. Everyone, whether human or Intelligent Being, had to think and live according to artificial intelligence's methods.
"What a freak!"
Lu Xing could not help complaining, but only artificial intelligence could do something like that.
So programs absolutely could not have bugs. This was a matter of humanity's survival!
While his thoughts ran wild, the bus arrived.
Lu Xing got on and discovered that the three classmates he had met last time were on the bus:
Chu Caifeng, Zhou Duohao, and Wang Bagua.
The first two were humans from the White Cat Society, while the last was an Intelligent Being who had named himself.
"Morning."
Since he was planning to visit the White Cat Society today, Lu Xing greeted the three of them.
More than a dozen classmates on the bus turned to look at him, yet not one responded. They were so cold that it felt like they were filming a ghost movie.
Lu Xing understood. Morning greetings did not violate the rules, but nobody did them!
A trace of mockery flashed through Chu Caifeng's eyes, as though she were laughing at Lu Xing for exposing his human identity again.
Zhou Duohao sat beside him, turning to look out the window with an indifferent expression.
At that moment—
"Good morning, B74."
Wang Bagua smiled and returned his greeting.
At the same time, a message came through: "Good morning, Jiang Xuannv. Is this a human form of greeting?"
"Yes. Fortunately, there are no teachers on the bus, or I would lose points again."
Lu Xing sat down and received another message, this one from Chu Caifeng:
"You have already returned to being a human male. Have you considered it? Will you join our White Cat Society?"
"I need to see your strength."
Lu Xing sent back a reply.
"I also need to see your strength."
The other party replied.
Several minutes later, the bus arrived at school.
Lu Xing entered through the gates and used the classroom number to transfer into the classroom.
Five minutes later, morning reading began. In other words, they removed their chips and reviewed their memories.
The first class soon began. It was still mathematics. Just as Lu Xing was hesitating over whether to use his saved experience points to exchange for some mathematical knowledge, a voice broke the classroom's silence.
"Teacher!"
Zhou Duohao raised his hand. Lu Xing turned to look and discovered that blood was dripping from his left hand, drop by drop, onto the desk.
"Z5D, what happened to your hand?" the teacher asked.
"Due to an unknown error, my hand has cracked. I need to go to the infirmary for an examination. Please approve my request, teacher."
"Alright. Go ahead."
After receiving permission, the aloof Zhou Duohao left the classroom. Before he went, he glanced at Lu Xing.
Half a minute later.
Lu Xing was still considering the reason when Chu Caifeng also raised her hand.
"Teacher!"
Lu Xing looked over again and found that her arm was injured as well. Using the same excuse, she requested leave to go to the infirmary.
"Seriously, you're doing this? The teacher doesn't find it strange?!"
Lu Xing's expression turned peculiar, but something incredible happened. The mathematics teacher did not question her at all and simply allowed her to leave.
Before she left, Chu Caifeng also cast Lu Xing a slightly provocative glance.
"..."
As a programmer, if Lu Xing ever met the person who had written this program, he would definitely make them fix the absurd logic of Intelligent Beings!
Wait.
After noticing Wang Bagua, Lu Xing changed his mind.
Intelligent Beings were not that stupid!
After thinking for a moment, Lu Xing tried pinching his slender, fair arm with his fingernails. A faint pain struck him, but no matter how hard he tried, his skin did not break. There was not even a red mark.
There were no knives in the classroom. Without drawing attention, Lu Xing removed the hairpin Jiang Xuannv had made for him from his head and slowly pressed its pointed end into his skin.
"Warning: This hairpin does not possess knife functionality!"
The Smart Hairpin issued a feeble warning. It already knew that ancient humans simply did not care about warnings...
There truly was no warning in Lu Xing's eyes, but unfortunately, no matter how much force he used, Jiang Xuannv's body remained uninjured!
"So bleeding is a bug!"
The two people from the White Cat Society had both used bugs to make their bodies bleed, using that as an excuse to leave the classroom.
"Is this what Chu Caifeng meant by needing to see my strength?"
Lu Xing had shown them his strength before, but unfortunately, that attack had been the passive firewall inside Jiang Xuannv's chip.
"How do I make a knife that can make people bleed?"
Lu Xing sent his request to the Smart Hairpin. Since Jiang Xuannv could create it, she could surely make other things too.
The hairpin quickly replied, "Compatriot, please eat a scrap of paper or something else, grab it, then alter its properties..."
Eat a scrap of paper?
No. With a programmer's mindset, he should be capturing a data packet.
Lu Xing stretched out his hand and gently tore a small piece of paper from his book. His gaze focused on it as he imagined it was a segment of memory awaiting reclamation. What he had to do was use Jiang Xuannv's ability to forcibly preserve the data that should have been reclaimed!
He succeeded!
Or rather, Jiang Xuannv's ability had taken effect!
The instant his gaze focused, the world before him changed.
The teacher at the podium had strings of information surrounding his body:
ID: jhyu56sjA Gender: Intelligent Male Date of manufacture: April 5, 5431. Address: Insufficient permissions. Unable to view. Current identity: Mathematics teacher at S32 School, H78 District, Level One. Current score: 1632. 368 points until the next level.
The other students, and even every object in the classroom, were the same. Their information was all exposed in Lu Xing's vision in the form of attribute lists.
An unbelievable world!
Yet this was a completely virtual world composed of data!
Lu Xing suppressed his shock and looked at the scrap of paper in his hand again.
Temporary ID: JDHRUKL4SDKL3 Properties: None. Target address: Principal's Office. Reclamation cycle: 8 seconds.
Time was passing. Lu Xing hurriedly tried to rewrite it. Touching the scrap of paper with his fingertip, he added 255 seconds to its reclamation cycle.
Good. The memory had not overflowed!
Eight seconds later, the paper remained in his hand, but it spun wildly out of control and changed shape, becoming a cluster of pixels.
Lu Xing looked at it again. Its ID was gone, its properties were gone, and its reclamation cycle was gone. Only an arrow remained, still pointing toward the Principal's Office.
What his eyes had seen earlier were only the object's surface-level properties. The underlying code was still functioning.
Lu Xing pinned down the cluster of pixels and rapidly wrote:
ID: Lu Xing's Legendary Knife Property: The blade can make people bleed. Manufacturing address: Principal's Office Description: It is very sharp.
The moment the properties were written, the pixels immediately turned into an ordinary little knife.
Lu Xing almost laughed out loud. He actually felt the thrill of playing at creating a world!
While nobody around him was paying attention, he picked up the knife and lightly sliced his own arm.
"Hm?"
Nothing happened.
Lu Xing looked at the knife's panel again. After thinking for a moment, he changed its property to: The blade can make XXR-122B74 bleed.
A knife aimed at himself.
Lu Xing drew the blade across his arm again, and blood immediately flowed out.
He took a deep breath and calmed himself. He was touching the truth of this world.
Everything here was made of data!
Lu Xing stood up. The petite girl's body was incredibly resolute as he calmly said to the teacher at the front:
"Teacher! I need to go to the infirmary!"
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