Chapter 1143: Chapter 372: The Origin of the Roving AI_3
The glowing sphere penguin gave an awkward yet polite smile.
"Thanks for the kindness, but I don’t have any research interest in the desire to train humans or animals."
"That’s really a pity. You’ll never understand the joy of coming home to find a beast-eared maid in a white silk short skirt calling you ’Master’..."
"Don’t expose your kink here, idiot. I’m amazed you can say these things in public."
Thud!
Johnny kicked Ecstasy right into the light screen.
"Hey! What are you doing?"
Having passed through the light screen, Ecstasy rubbed his butt and turned around, only to find himself already inside.
And there’s no light screen behind him, just a plain airtight door.
He seemed to be in a not-so-spacious reception room. The furnishing looked somewhat old, with many group photos hanging on the walls, and outside the window, he could see the relentless blizzard of Antarctica.
Inside Ecstasy’s head popped one location:
Antarctic Research Station
This place seems established according to a research station’s setup.
At that moment, the door to the reception room was pushed open, the blizzard blocked by an invisible force outside, and a middle-aged man in a gray down coat and wind goggles walked in from the snowstorm.
He had the air of a scholar with competent movements.
He brushed off the snow on his clothes, those fallen snowflakes quickly disappearing.
The man looked at Ecstasy.
"Hello there, guest. How should I address you all?"
At this moment, the other three also appeared in the reception room, standing behind Ecstasy.
"Cough cough, Kawaii."
Penguin ’boss’ coughed to signal, then walked in a self-important sway as he spoke.
"You can call me the Roman consul of Super Earth, no need for salute, commoners."
Kawaii, or Tear, skillfully had Nero conjure up a bottle of wine and some glasses, starting to pour drinks for everyone present one by one.
It’s hard to say if these guys had rehearsed for this pretentious occasion beforehand.
"Are there penguins in the Mediterranean too?"
Endless looked at the four penguins in front of him, smiling.
He understood why these people would dress up as penguins, but he truly didn’t expect these humans could pull off such a thing.
"Rome has everything!"
Ecstasy squawked like a penguin.
"What do you know, you cyber barbarian? Not just penguins, Rome has pandas too!"
"Impressive, if I have the chance, I definitely must visit."
Endless didn’t dwell too long on this topic as he pulled a chair to sit, holding a notebook and marker in his hand.
"So, what business do you outsiders have with me?"
"Of course, it’s a trade."
Ecstasy pulled out his stack of data discs again.
No choice, they didn’t bring any other data this time. Whether useful or not, let the merchant open his shop first.
"Do you have anything to sell or any assistance you need from me? Anything’s fine, but it needs compensation. Not too much, just give me some nuclear fusion technology, room temperature superconductor, EVA, Beta Magic Wand, anything, I’m not picky."
"..."
Don’t mention Endless, even Johnny was sweating beads.
"That’s unfortunate, I might not have anything to exchange with you. My hard drive only contains Antarctic Research Station’s investigation report and ecological research, which I don’t believe hold much value to you.
Besides..."
Endless casually beckoned, and Ecstasy’s discs in his pants flew to Endless’s hand uncontrollably.
"Hey! Don’t touch if you’re not buying, you’re making us sell discs with your fingerprints!"
But Ecstasy’s words didn’t stop Endless’s actions, as in his eyes these animal videos held no value.
It’s not my preferred Antarctic type, immediate rejection.
Even if there were Antarctic animal videos, it made no difference, nearly all documentary content from Antarctica is backed up in his hard drive.
Duplicate data is completely...
?
What’s this?
"Journey to the Ends of the Antarctic World"
Why have I never seen this documentary?
Why is the footage this high-definition?
Why’s the Antarctica in this documentary so clean?
Such clean icebergs and snow fields!
Such a clean sea!
Though the research station worked until 2023, the equipment used for documentary filming were practically antiques from the last century, lacking maintenance and updates.
While many technology aspects in the cyber world pace ahead than in another world, concerning camera equipment, the research station’s gear was clearly inferior compared to what Tokyo University’s Lord used in 2022.
Most importantly, this documentary doesn’t exist in Endless’s hard drive, it’s new!
The narrator in the footage was still Tokyo University’s Lord, but according to what he knows, Lord Dong’s Antarctic expedition efforts were hardly anything significant, Norway surpasses them, so how was this documentary made?
Confused
Baffled
Yet it seems desirable!
The data in his database hadn’t been updated for decades; pulling anything from it makes one seem like Night City’s grandma.
Without new data, He can’t advance further.
Within the current chaotic old network, every non-contaminated piece of data is extremely valuable.
"Cough..."
Endless beckoned a table and several chairs, even personally offering a cup of hot water to each penguin.
"Alright...I take back what I said earlier, maybe I indeed need these things."
His shift prompted Ecstasy to whisper to Johnny beside him.
"Indeed a pervert, I knew it, these furry enthusiasts usually act normal until they see something fluffy and then reveal their true colors."
Still speaking in public channel chatter.
Johnny: "..."
Endless: "..."
Luckily, AI don’t generally get angry under normal circumstances, so Endless gave no extreme reaction to the slander.
"But the data I hold wouldn’t be much valuable to you, so feel free to propose some requests, and I’ll consider them."
Evidently, he didn’t plan to return those data discs to Ecstasy.
The Jing Luo squad seemed to face difficulty too after seeing this, hastily opening the game channel applying for aid, seeing if they could wangle something good from this guy.
However, before them, Johnny proactively raised a question first.
"Ote, and Soul Killer, relic—how much do you know about these?"
