Little Baby (Part 1)

"We can't say that! Uncle Xiang and Aunt Shen are both very old. What if they get seriously injured from being frightened?" Tang Baona said firmly.

Yang Zhen'er whispered, "With Alice watching over us, what problems could possibly arise..." She now had great confidence in Alice's protective abilities because last year her grandfather suddenly fell ill, Alice resolved the situation remotely. Even her grandfather himself was unaware that he had just escaped death. She only learned of the danger when Alice came to her to "report" to her, as if to show off her achievements.

Little Apple fiddled with the globe on Xia Libing's desk, seemingly lost in thought, and said, "Didn't Uncle Xiang arrange any corresponding countermeasures? Like some kind of secret plan, something we could open and take a look at when we encounter problems?"

Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er simultaneously turned their attention to "mini Alice," who was playing a handheld game with Liu Shiling on the sofa in the office.

The Alice in the office at this moment was not the "Juxian Alice" they usually saw, who was about five or six years old, dressed in a white dress, wearing black leather shoes, holding a scalpel, with delicate and cute features, and resembling Little Lao Xia. Instead, she was a little girl of about two years old.

The little girl can still see the likeness of Little Lao Xia, but it's more real, and it will always exist, never disappearing.

This is the real body that Alice" created" this year through the use of thousands of "Super Coin," the "Super-Sensing Item System," and the transformation of Xiang Kun. It's similar to Mr. Liang's reconstruction of his body.

Alice's original plan was to directly simulate the state of a newborn human baby, arrange her growth according to the normal human development model, maximize the "realistic" construction of her persona, and begin her "life".

However, in her attempts to build the baby, Alice discovered that without the nurturing process of a mother's womb, it would be difficult to accurately guarantee the baby's physical development, and there was a certain chance of failure, resulting in physical defects or even death. Of course, if she had enough time to conduct multiple experiments, she would certainly be able to solve all the problems and make herself the most perfect baby.

Unfortunately, her boss had given her instructions that he could only support her in constructing one body for the time being. So even though there was only a 1‰ chance of failure, she was unwilling to take the risk. As a result, the initial body she constructed was no longer a newborn human infant, but a baby who was almost two years old.

This body looks no different from a human's from the outside, and its microscopic composition is basically the same. It also needs to eat and sleep, and its body grows, growing from a child into an adult.

However, she also has many fundamental differences from ordinary people. The most fundamental point is that she was completely "constructed" by High-Dimensional Factor and has a large part of the characteristics of a "Mutated Creature".

However, these High-Dimensional Factor do not exist directly and independently within her body, nor are they completely controlled by her consciousness. In essence, these High-Dimensional Factor still belong to the entire "Super-Sensing Item System" and still belong to Xiang Kun.

At a higher dimension, these High-Dimensional Factor exist simultaneously in her body, the "Super Coin," and Xiang Kun. They serve as channels for abilities and characteristics, enabling this new body to utilize some of the abilities within the "Super-Sensing Item System" and to acquire the evolutionary abilities of "Mutated Creature" to modify itself.

Meanwhile, some characteristics of "Mutated Creature" that are "burdensome" to her, such as the need to drink blood, phased limits, restrictions and weakening of some bodily functions after sunrise, digestive system mutations that prevent normal eating, and entering a state of dormancy after devouring other "Mutated Creature," can all be transferred and carried by the "Super-Sensing Item System" through the differentiation of members within the system—such as the entire secondary ability platform controlled by "Little Radish."

In comparison, the body Alice created is even more powerful than the reconstructed Mr. Liang, since she can access most of the abilities of the "Super-Sensing Item System." In other words, she has all the abilities that Mr. Liang possesses, and she also has abilities that Mr. Liang doesn't.

It's like a small terminal that relies on super-fast network transmission speeds and cloud service permissions to allow complex calculations to be completed in the cloud. It doesn't need to install software or store data, so there are no issues like hardware overheating, insufficient storage space, or performance lagging behind software iterations.

The benefits are numerous, and the drawbacks are completely eliminated.

This is a benefit that only Alice, the "GM" of the "Super-Sensing Item System," can obtain, besides Xiang Kun. After all, her consciousness exists directly on the "Super-Sensing Item System," and her body is completely reconstructed by the "Super-Sensing Item System," making it the most suitable match.

When "Baby Alice" was first born, in order to ensure that there were no problems with the integration of her body and consciousness, Lao Xia kept her in the base's underground laboratory and her own room for observation and communication.

Anyway, for Alice, since "Baby Alice" can't go out to play, she can still have "Little Lao Xia's Alice" appearing and running around everywhere. During Xiang Kun's dormant phase of transformation, as long as Lao Xia gives her permission, she can appear, with a super high degree of freedom, so she won't feel bored being locked up.

What frustrated her was that Lao Xia, as her "temporary guardian," didn't make her formula, feed her rice cereal, change her diapers, lull her to sleep, or play with her toys. She had to go through the base's internal logistics management system to have someone buy and deliver these things herself. Then, she would conjure up a "Little Lao Xia version of Alice" to warm up her milk and feed her. As for changing diapers, she didn't need to, since she wasn't actually a two-year-old child.

At first, Alice often acted spoiled and pleaded with Lao Xia, claiming that she was a real little baby who couldn't take care of herself and needed to be cared for hand-in-hand, fed, coaxed, and kept company. Moreover, she looked like an adorable two-year-old girl, which was quite convincing.

However, she was facing Lao Xia, who not only knew her situation perfectly but also had maximum immunity to "cuteness." So when faced with her whining and pouting, he would either have a rational discussion and try to analyze her psychological feelings and physical condition, or he would remain completely unmoved.

"Lao Xia, Lao Xia, I'm hungry." At mealtimes, Alice would sit in her crib, stretching out her arms towards the room's security camera and pleadingly say this. Then, the footage would be forcibly shown on Lao Xia's work computer.

Lao Xia would then say, "Isn't the food on the table? It's all heated automatically; go get it yourself."

Alice then acted cute and pleaded, "I'm a little baby, I can't do it myself."

Lao Xia then said, "Didn't we give you permission to manifest? You can take care of yourself completely; you are invincible."

Alice: "I'm not 'Invincible Alice,' I'm 'Baby Alice'! Two Alice can't appear together."

Lao Xia: "You can."

Alice: "It'll drive you crazy."

Lao Xia: "No."

Alice: "..."

And when Lao Xia comes home to sleep at night, "Little Alice" will also whine, "Lao Xia, Lao Xia, tell me a story to lull me to sleep."

So Lao Xia would say into the phone, "Alice, tell me a story to lull yourself to sleep."

Alice: "..."

However, although Lao Xia didn't treat "baby Alice" as a real baby, he still spent a lot of time with her, conducting... various tests.

She had extensive interactions with "Baby Alice" and conducted continuous observations in order to assess "Baby Alice's" physical functions, "Mutated Creature" characteristics, and the degree of integration between consciousness and body.

In fact, Lao Xia is very supportive and interested in Alice's "body creation plan," as it is a great opportunity to understand the nature of consciousness and the relationship between consciousness and the body.

Moreover, she was happy to see Alice become more and more human, even though she knew it was a path she couldn't imitate and that belonged only to Alice. Witnessing the whole process was still very rewarding for her.

Lao Xia didn't let "baby Alice" stay at the base for too long. A month later, when Yang Zhen'er came to the village to find her, he asked her to take Alice to Peng City.

In Peng City, "Little Alice" spent most of her time with Tang Baona or Yang Zhen'er, claiming to be Yang Zhen'er's relative and living with them.

Liu Shiling would come over to play with "Little Alice" every day after school. Compared to Lao Xia, Little Chubby Girl, Yang the Third, and Nana, they had absolutely no resistance to the two-year-old, incredibly cute "Little Alice".

Although they knew perfectly well that the little baby who looked about two years old and resembled Lao Xia as a child was Alice, whom they had spent every day with and knew very well, they still treated her like a two-year-old baby because of her adorable appearance.

Moreover, Shiling's Mother, who helped take care of her for a few days, praised her, saying that Zhen'er's little niece was so well-behaved, cute, and lovable. She originally thought that her Liu Shiling was relatively easy to take care of when she was young, but compared with Zhen'er's little niece "Little Ai", she was still much more mischievous.

In Shiling's Mother's eyes, this little girl named "Little Ai" is not only beautiful and cute, but also very well-behaved. When she is hungry, she begs for food in a sweet, childlike voice. When she is sleepy, she will ask for a story and fall asleep after listening to the story for five minutes. When she is not busy, she is quiet and elegant like a little princess. She is really cute and well-behaved beyond compare.

Unlike Liu Shiling at that age, who wanted to eat everything she saw, couldn't tear herself away from cartoons, didn't want to go home when playing outside, and didn't want to sleep when having fun, and was also very sensitive, crying loudly at the slightest provocation, but then happily eating whatever was delicious, even with snot almost dripping into her mouth.

Of course, what she didn't know was that "baby Alice" was so well-behaved for two reasons: first, because she was too shy to make a fuss in front of her, and second, because she had gotten used to being "disciplined" by Lao Xia at the Research Base during the first month after her "birth".

When only Yang Zhen'er, Tang Baona, Little Apple, and Little Chubby Girl were around, "Little Baby Alice" was still quite "naughty and mischievous," always wanting to be pampered and carried wherever she went.

Of course, because "Little Alice" is so cute, everyone is happy to hold her. Even Liu Shiling, who is already in the fourth grade, often carries her around and gives her the best food first. When Yang Zhen'er picks her up, if she buys Ice Cream, popsicles, or snacks on the way, her first reaction is to go home and eat them with Little Screw. She really treats her like her own little sister.

During this National Day holiday, "Little Alice" naturally went back to the Research Base in Chongyun Village with Tang Baona and the others, back to the place where she was "born".

At this moment, in Lao Xia's office, "Little Alice" is playing an AR game with Liu Shiling on the sofa.

Liu Shiling, who is now in the fourth grade of elementary school, has grown quite a bit taller. Although her face is still a little chubby, it is no longer as plump and bouncy as it was in kindergarten, and she is starting to look more delicate.

On the contrary, "Little Baby Alice" stayed in Peng City with Liu Shiling and Yang Zhen'er for a few months. Although her eyebrows and facial features were still delicate and she could be seen as "Little Lao Xia", her face had become noticeably chubby. At first glance, she looked more like a Little Chubby Girl.

When I walk with the Little Chubby Girl in the neighborhood, everyone says the two sisters look alike...

Yang Zhen'er often says that this is the "those who are near the bell will find it round" law.

The handheld game console the two are currently playing, which resembles a Switch, is a new introductory gaming device developed by Soaring Dragon Interactive Entertainment specifically for children.

Soaring Dragon Interactive Entertainment has developed rapidly in the past three years. With the technical support of Universe Technology, its game development department has not only launched its own game console, leading the hardware and software standards of the new generation of technology, and revolutionary AR and VR devices and games, but it can almost be said to be the world's number one game company and hardware company in the Post-Antarctic Crisis Era ".

The AR game that Little Chubby Girl and Alice are playing now is actually about two virtual characters on their respective game console screens battling in a real environment—a sofa. They can react to real environmental terrain, such as the sofa back, armrests, coffee table, and water glasses on the coffee table. They can interact with the terrain, bump into it, jump over obstacles, and even simulate destroying the real environment on the screen.

Although Soaring Dragon Interactive Entertainment already has more advanced and interactive AR games and devices, those devices and games are very expensive. This handheld console, on the other hand, is designed specifically for children, so reducing costs is the most important thing. The current problem is that they can't mass-produce it with a cheaper solution unless they significantly sacrifice gameplay, but that would be unbecoming of their company's reputation. However, if they set a high price, it will inevitably remain a luxury toy for a very small number of people, which wouldn't be very meaningful.

Giving Alice a trial run is essentially asking Alice to provide solutions. Now that they're facing obstacles that Soaring Dragon Interactive Entertainment's own technical department can't handle and can't overcome in a short time, Zhang Qian has gotten used to asking Universe Technology for help. Anyway, if it's handed over to Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er, it can be resolved quickly.

Hearing Little Apple's words, "Little Alice," who was sitting on the sofa, put down her game console, turned around, and looked up at her chubby little face, saying in a childish voice, "No, the boss didn't have any tips. He just said that if there's something he can't handle, he should ask Lao Xia and let Lao Xia make the decision."

So everyone's attention turned back to Xia Libing behind the desk.

Seeing that Xia Libing didn't answer immediately and seemed to be thinking, Liu Shiling couldn't help but say, "How about we tell Grandpa and Grandma that Uncle Baldy is practicing a powerful magic... martial arts... something like that, and now is a crucial time, he can't see anyone, otherwise he'll go into qi deviation and fail in his practice. If Grandpa and Grandma don't believe us, Sister Laoxian can create a few illusions to demonstrate and tell them that our magic... martial arts were all taught by Uncle Baldy, and convince them!" This idea had actually been running through her mind for a long time, but she had been too embarrassed to say it out loud.

Yang Zhen'er stroked her chin and nodded slightly. "Hmm, Little Bell is indeed a good idea."

"You two..." Tang Baona said, both amused and exasperated, "If you really tell your aunt and uncle that, and keep up those fancy illusions of yours, they'll probably worry even more."

At this moment, Xia Libing spoke up, "I'll take Alice with me."

"Huh?" The crowd was somewhat puzzled.

Xia Libing continued, "I'll take Alice to meet Xiang Kun's parents and ask them to give her a Chinese name."

Yang Zhen'er couldn't help but scratch her head. "What does this mean? Alice is a perfectly fine name, why do we need a Chinese name, and why do we have to ask Xiang Kun's parents to choose it?"

Tang Baona was the first to react, and couldn't help but laugh, "Brilliant!"

Little Apple clapped the globe in her hand and laughed, "Sister Bing is so cunning!"