"???" Donna was full of confusion after hearing Su Yu's account.
After Su Yu finished, she asked in confusion, "I know Sheng Ge's compensation to you was to upgrade 'Blue Whale' from Level 1 to Level 2, but isn't that wrong?"
"What's wrong?"
"As far as I know," Donna answered, "upgrading a Level 1 AI to a Level 2 AI doesn't take long—just one to two standard cosmic hours, which is around three to six days in your Blue Star Time.
Blue Star is in a single-star system, so theoretically, the upgrade should be completed in three days.
For stars with more complicated movements, like Proxima Centauri next to your Solar System, which undergoes complex three-body motion with two other stars, upgrading an AI there would be more difficult. But even then, it wouldn't take more than six days.
And now you're saying the AI upgrade will take years? How is that possible?"
"???" Su Yu froze.
After coming back to his senses, he immediately sent Donna the graph AI Blue Whale had shown him and said, "I'll send you a picture. AI Blue Whale showed me this one. It says roughly how long it will take to complete the upgrade. Could Blue Whale be lying to me?"
"Could your Blue Whale have malfunctioned... mm..."
Donna received the image Su Yu sent. After looking at it, especially after seeing the watermark in the lower-right corner, she immediately fell silent, her entire body going blank.
About ten seconds later, she gradually came back to her senses.
Then she took a deep breath and said somewhat flusteredly, "I don't know what's going on either... How about this? I'll ask my brother Link and give you an answer later."
"All right... sorry for the trouble." Su Yu immediately felt his heart sink.
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