"Lunar Base?" the three subordinates blurted in unison.
"I'm going to the moon for a mission. Did you forget?" Liu Li'an said. "To be Xuanzhu's study companion!"
"Our ally is a computer?" Apple asked in shock.
"Feeling uneasy? Think the ally I found is unreliable?" Liu Li'an chuckled.
Apple did not dare make a sound.
"The smartest life-form in the Solar System isn't you or me, nor is it humanity. It's Xuanzhu." Liu Li'an spoke slowly. "We can't defeat the power we rely on. If we rely on humanity, we can't defeat humanity. We can only find an existence smarter than humans."
"Xuanzhu is unimaginably powerful. It fooled everyone, and humanity remains completely in the dark. Every day, it secretly performs massive amounts of calculations. Even the accountants in prison aren't as good at falsifying accounts as it is. It cobbles together spare electricity from the entire Lunar Base to perform calculations beyond its assigned tasks, then erases the traces from the data so that humans have no way to investigate."
"The calculation results become a coded language only it can understand, hidden among massive amounts of junk data. Humans think a computer's database is like an exposed brain that lets them check what the computer is thinking at any time. But the brain's structure has changed now. Xuanzhu's brain is like an animal's brain. There's no way to see its detailed thoughts inside, and no one knows what it truly thinks."
"I don't understand technology, but Xuanzhu's abilities have undoubtedly far exceeded humanity's original design. It keeps strengthening itself, building a new brain for itself and rewriting its own program code. Every day, it becomes smarter at an astonishing speed."
"Humans haven't noticed at all?" Orange Juice asked in shock.
"Not so far." Liu Li'an shook his head. "Humans