Chapter 283
When Sirin saw the Little Herta standing silently beside her like a doll, she was about to say something when she heard a peculiar sound.
What if Chen Li mistakenly believes that I'm just using him as a tool and have no feelings for him whatsoever? Would he even kick me out of the room?
Did my unauthorized actions cause any hidden harm to Chen Li?
[Is my overly active and sentimental thinking an influence of my "machine spirit"? Is it a factor that should be ruled out?]
There may be no place for me in this house anymore. Should I move out and return to the Herta Space Station?
A sound of order amidst the chaos rang out in the space, and everyone's gaze fell upon the Little Herta.
Little Herta looked around somewhat bewildered... and finally fixed its gaze on the brightly colored bird that Chen Li had described as "very noisy" but which had never uttered a sound.
"It's so noisy, so annoying, Shush!" Little Herta pulled out a hammer bigger than herself from under her skirt and smashed it at the bird.
The bird was smashed, but Chen Li's dining table also broke at the same time.
Chen Li quickly prepared the breakfast from Little Herta and picked it up, then watched as the table he had used for over a decade turned to dust.
Little Herta breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the bird killed.
"I haven't been thinking about those things. Don't look at me like that," Little Herta said expressionlessly.
That bird is so annoying! Who told it to talk nonsense? Does it think it can read minds?
How am I supposed to face Chen Li and Sirin now? Damn bird!
[Now, there really is no place for me in this house.]
Little Herta's voice rang out again. To everyone's astonishment, countless musical notes converged on Little Herta's beret, and the bird reappeared, broadcasting Little Herta's inner journey live for everyone.
"..." Upon discovering that the bird was still alive and even "slandering" him, Little Herta expressionlessly pulled out a black hole the size of a fist.
Backup Hidden Energy Source...
"Destruction it."
Start up!
"Holy crap!"
"Can you understand this feeling? When you've finally finished clearing the safe in the treasure hunt game, you realize it's already 6 a. m., and you're just about to drift off to sleep... and your home is gone!" Houraisan Kaguya sat at the dining table, looking at everyone present with great emotion.
Houraisan Kaguya truly felt that without her, the family would fall apart!
"Thanks to your eternal ability. Here, this is a reward for your hard work." Chen Li presented 10 Starstones.
"What I want is a reward for my hard work, isn't what I want just a little bit of peaceful sleep?" Houraisan Kaguya felt that Chen Li had misunderstood her.
"Add another 10 Starstones."
"Chen Li, I really misjudged you. I thought that given our relationship, you would understand me, but I never expected..."
"Add 10 more Starstones, that's the most we can do."
"But since it's understandable, I won't dwell on it. So what should we do with the Little Herta?" Houraisan Kaguya calmly put away the 30 Starstones and looked at the Little Herta, whose face was full of Killing Intent.
The hidden energy on the back of the Little Herta exploded, but not completely. Although only a small part exploded, it still overturned the entire restaurant and caused Houraisan Kaguya to move her room to the area above the restaurant.
Houraisan Kaguya thought that if she didn't live above Chen Li's room, she wouldn't be affected by the Heaven's Lost Property and suffer both physically and mentally, but she didn't expect that what was bound to happen would still happen.
Fortunately, Houraisan Kaguya's [Eternity] ability on the house was permanent, and the living room was quickly repaired.
"Cold salad".
"Chen Li, can you shut this damn bird up?!" Little Herta, who found that he couldn't kill the bird no matter what he tried, walked over with a hammer.
"Ahem, isn't it great... at least the misunderstanding is cleared up, isn't it? I never thought of Little Herta you out of the house, but I also didn't expect you to be so sentimental." Chen Li looked at Little Herta, whose face still held a hint of Killing Intent, and couldn't help but pinch Little Herta's cheek.
The Little Herta was a doll created by the Great Herta. It was equipped with many modules, including a personality module. Later, due to the possession of a machine spirit, it awakened itself and became the Little Herta in the true sense.
The Great Herta had once expressed this concern to Chen Li, believing that the Little Herta, who always "self-identified" as the Little Herta, might, under the influence of the Machine Soul, truly revert to the mindset of the Little Herta Herta from his childhood...
Although Great Herta said that he didn't have any dark history when he was young, and that he was a complete genius and an excellent research assistant when he was young, he still had his rebellious phase and sentimentality to some extent, and told Chen Li to be careful.
Chen Li initially thought the Great Herta was talking nonsense, but unexpectedly it came true.
As expected, Herta understands Herta better.
"That's enough." Little Herta slapped away Chen Li's hand that was playing tricks on his face.
Before Chen Li could shut up this wretched bird, Little Herta didn't want to talk about anything other than dealing with it.
Because this damn bird keeps selectively replaying Little Herta's thought process.
It's already embarrassing enough to try to read minds when you're feeling sentimental, but Little Herta didn't expect this damn bird to go so far. He even used Flash, and it still wanted to chase and kill him!
This is Heaven's Lost Property heaven!
"While I do have some reservations about your approach to learning [Appraisal], I'm pleased that you were able to express your thoughts so accurately. I'm also flattered that you have thoughts about me beyond just being an experimental tool. Great Ms. Herta..."
"Ah! Enough, don't mention this again!" Little Herta reached out and covered Chen Li's mouth.
It's all that damn bird's fault!
Sure enough, it was too "noisy".
"To put your mind at ease, I also need to make this clear: there's no deeper reason why I threw you and this Heaven's Lost Property out of the room. It's simply because, while processing all that complex information, I didn't have enough memory to process information related to you, so I had to remove you from a rather dangerous place..." Chen Li continued to explain after removing the Little Herta's hand.
Chen Li is worried about me; he cares about me.
The distinctive sound once again emanated from the bird's beak.
"Ah!" Little Herta was a little frantic.
Why is this damn bird only targeting me?
Why don't you go and cause trouble for Sirin?
While Little Herta was going crazy, Sirin was already laughing so hard she couldn't straighten up.
Sirin probably guessed that Little Herta had done something after she left, but whether it was right or wrong, Sirin no longer cared. Sirin just wanted to laugh.
"Let's talk about some academic issues, like what you analyzed from those data?" Little Herta changed the subject.
Little Herta tried to change its way of thinking to prevent this wretched bird from always speaking its subconscious thoughts.
Herta wasn't good at polite words, but subconscious thoughts would occasionally flash through his mind.
This bird, however, might voice Herta's thoughtless ideas.
"Well..." Chen Li hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.
After consuming the data from the Little Herta, Chen Li, through a brief process of digestion and a period of reorganization and analysis of the information, finally gleaned a sentence from it.
A sentence that is so simple it's almost unbelievable.
[Chen Li, do you want a wife?]
Chen Li couldn't understand how, in a world-class exchange, a sentence that, even with punctuation, would not exceed 10 words, could be converted into such complex data, the amount of information enough to overwhelm a Wisdom Envoy.
Indeed, no matter how outstanding an individual becomes, they are insignificant in the face of the world.
Chen Li didn't understand this sentence at first, but now he understands it a little.
Well, the world and the Little Herta played an extremely cruel joke on us.
Yes, extremely bad.
[Chen Li has finally stopped paying attention to my sudden change into being a bit sentimental, that's great. If we keep talking like this, I really won't know how to explain myself...]
Just as Little Herta was feeling fortunate, the bird's words ruined Little Herta's little plan.
"This family is either us or it!" Little Herta cried out anxiously.
"Oh... just as you said, there's no place for you in this house anymore. If all else fails, you can give up your room for it. I think this bird is quite lovable."
"..." by Little Herta.
The Little Herta stared intently at Chen Li without uttering a word.
"I was just kidding. The family can't do without you, no matter who else is missing." Chen Li raised his hands in surrender.
Little Herta glanced at the only food on the reconstructed dining table... a "pile" of delicious food he had made to apologize to Chen Li.
Seeing this delicious Little Herta reminded me of the scene where Chen Li deliberately picked up this food before I smashed the table.
He specially protected this breakfast I made for him; he truly cares about me.
"Special conditions detected. Activating remote doll auto-praise mode! Ms. Herta is unparalleled in the world, Ms. Herta is exceptionally intelligent, Ms. Herta is breathtakingly beautiful!" Just as everyone was wondering what explanation Little Herta could offer, Little Herta suddenly started spinning in circles?
"???"
"Huh? Chen Li, what did you do to Little Herta? She actually sent me an emergency help request and let me log in." Little Herta's tone changed subtly after she stopped spinning around.
"The Great Herta?" Chen Li asked tentatively.
"Hmm, so what happened?" The Great Herta looked around at the people and things with curiosity, trying to find out the reason.
As a doll created by Great Herta, Little Herta has never lacked any functions. Great Herta never used Little Herta's account before because Little Herta's machine spirit gave it enough freedom and independence.
It's like Little Herta set a secondary password for its account, but just now Little Herta removed this secondary password and sent a login invitation to Great Herta.
The Great Herta had never seen such a scene before, so it was naturally very interested in it.
"Uh..." Chen Li didn't know what to say, so he turned to look at the bird.
Bird, oh bird, say something!
The Great Herta also noticed that Chen Li's gaze was fixed on the bird.
"This is?"
"Today's Heaven's Lost Property. The assessment result is that it will randomly select a character and then repeat their dialogue. In order to prevent the selected target from being taciturn, it also has the ability to read minds."
"So, the Little Herta was actually breached by this repeating machine? That's so lame."
[Wait a minute, authentication? Who authenticated Chen Li's food? Little Herta? Tsk tsk, this little guy actually ate behind my back.]
"..." The Great Herta was stunned for a moment when it heard the words coming out of the bird's beak.
This is truly a case of "you can't expect anything good to come out of a bird's mouth."
Why do you keep blurting out all sorts of things, you little rascal?
"Now you know why Little Herta was forced to leave, right?" Chen Li said, both amused and exasperated.
"I think I understand..."
"Wait, I can't ignore what that bird just said. What does 'stealing food' mean...?" Sirin suddenly ran over and grabbed the Great Herta by the collar, asking.
"Well..." The Great Herta turned its head away.
Your husband tastes amazing.
"What did you do to Chen Li behind my back?!" Sirin exploded.
"This generation of young people is really showing off." Cecilia shook her head as she took a shower after her morning exercise and happened to see Cecilia recreating a classic scene.
"This is really something to enjoy. You guys are really good at this." Houraisan Kaguya moved closer to Chen Li and nudged him with her elbow.
"Want some?" Houraisan Kaguya shared her watermelon.
"No need." Chen Li picked up the breakfast that Little Herta had made for him.
Although this breakfast doesn't look very appealing, it should taste good...
Well, it didn't taste very good either.
Although Chen Li's Gourmet Cells allows Chen Li to taste the deliciousness of any food, there are still differences between different kinds of deliciousness.
Just like how playing real-life isekai adventure games can make you lose interest in games once you can actually interact with the beautiful girls in anime.
Commonly known as electronic genitalia.
Chen Li has almost quit gaming, which has greatly displeased his gaming partner, Houraisan Kaguya.
But...
Chen Li glanced down at the breakfast.
What is meant by "curiosity-oriented Chaos Recipes"? 1/5 of them have been included.
Chaos Recipe is an ability that comes with the Miracle Card [Scamming for Food and Drinks].
Besides being able to get food to produce food for you by taking a bite, and the world trying to kill the food if it doesn't produce food for you, this Chaos Recipe is also an important function.