Cloud Kun: Shen Le, just you wait, I'll bring you back a Secret Realm from the seabed!

"I'll be back!"

"I'll definitely be back!"

"I'll be back within a month at most! When the time comes, I'll bring you something good!"

"I'll bring Haidilao!"

Every sail of the Cloud Kun billowed with sea wind as it cast off its moorings and slowly departed the harbor. A row of people stood along the rail, waving hard without making a sound.

Atop the mast hung a huge loudspeaker, enthusiastically calling out each line. Yet its voice sounded rather odd—no matter how one listened, it sounded like an AI voice.

Shen Le's eyelid twitched. Cloud Kun, you'd better put those people away!

Fortunately, there were no ordinary civilians nearby. If someone had been looking through binoculars and seen a row of paper and cloth dolls standing on the deck, waving their arms with all their might...

Would they think it was trying to scare people, or that they were robots?

Besides, it took three years to learn good habits and three days to learn bad ones. Before, it had only known how to make the dolls hold tablets, poke them in front of people, and play recorded speech through the tablets.

Now, it had learned to hide the dolls in the cabin to type, connect the audio to the loudspeaker, and pretend that someone was speaking from inside the cabin...

Cloud Kun's progress had cost Shen Le a great deal of effort. He had spent an entire month attending classes with Cloud Kun.

General knowledge, ocean surveying and mapping, underwater cultural relic exploration and appraisal, navigation—even a great many military courses.

Well, there was no need to train Cloud Kun into a soldier. But at the very least, it had to engrave into its bones the concepts of obeying orders without question and that running around recklessly could drag countless