In the end, there were no surprises or suspense. With Annie personally stepping in, she subdued the tech geek "Zhang Liuying" and his wife, "Mulan," the female robot whose programs he had designed himself, whose independent personality and intelligence he had nurtured himself, and whose body he had built himself. She did it without breaking a sweat, forcing the two of them to sit obediently on the sofa and answer her questions.
It was only a few minutes later, after she had more or less figured everything out, that Annie released them.
"Okay!"
(๑嘿嘿!)
"I didn't mean any harm. I was just curious."
(-)
"She ran off without answering my question earlier, after all!"
(ψ｀▽′)o
As she spoke, Annie shot Mulan an exasperated glare. She glanced once more at the robot's perfectly intact, identical body, then asked in an odd tone,
"Your name is Zhang Liuying, and hers is Mulan, right?"
(ω)
"She's your wife?"
The spineless weirdo had blurted everything out while Annie was subduing them, but she still asked to make sure.
The two of them had already told her everything. Annie now knew that the bespectacled weirdo was called Zhang Liuying. He was a tech geek and a coder who specialized in AI programming and mechanical engineering. Before the Warp Cataclysm, he had worked for a large local machinery company, mainly handling machine repairs and programming automated tools that could only follow fixed routines.
The woman was called Mulan. She was the wife this tech geek had secretly spent years researching and tinkering away to create.
He had written her program in secret while he was still a student. From then on, he had hidden it in his communication device and treated it like a wife, nurturing it in secret. It was only after he started working