Trafford's Trading Club

Chapter 1458: Chapter 185: Birth

Perhaps it’s fair to say that [Mian Mian] is a rather innocent creature — at least, that’s how she seems for now.

Why say this?

You see, the [old master] merely mentioned that the contents of the note are extremely important, and must only be seen by the master personally. Under no circumstances should it be revealed, or there’ll be endless trouble, and the pillow solemnly agreed.

She honestly didn’t even take a single glance, instead just stuffed it into her own body — don’t misunderstand, she simply unzipped herself and tucked the note inside. Watching

As a pillow, having a zipper is quite normal… Don’t misunderstand!

“Old master, rest assured, [Mian Mian] will certainly accomplish this!”

“You truly are adorable.” Tai Yinzi gently patted [Mian Mian]’s body, suddenly feeling, despite his thick skin, somewhat overwhelmed, so he quickly said, “Miss [Mian Mian], it’s getting late, lest my sneaking out be discovered by that wicked woman, I must be going back!”

“The old master is correct!” [Mian Mian] nodded vigorously, “Don’t worry, old master, [Mian Mian] will definitely not tell anyone what happened today!”

How wonderful, such a pure young girl!

Tai Yinzi suddenly thought of the past, of Yu Sanniang who was once just a cute child… But now, he’s left only to sigh, yesterday was like this, merely.

After this, Tai Yinzi quickly slipped away through the attic window — as for [Mian Mian], after briefly looking at her little master, Luo Ya, who was still asleep, she obediently returned to Luo Ya’s side, transforming into a life-sized long pillow, nestled into her little master’s arms.

Handing the note inside to the owner is actually quite simple — as the owner will always have moments alone with Miss Luo Ya.

Oh my, who would have guessed, outside Miss You Ye looks so dignified, yet is actually so wicked!

She couldn’t help but start imagining various scenarios in her mind.

Actually, this pillow isn’t nearly as innocent as Tai Yinzi imagined — Tai Yinzi simply didn’t know, upon becoming a pillow of the Luo Qiu household, this pillow stays on the sofa at home every day — her most frequent activity is lying down, or being held by Mammy Ren… held while watching all sorts of mindless TV dramas.

Familiar with palace intrigue dramas?

At this moment, she had quietly inserted her little master Luo Ya into the scenario of a newcomer to the palace, and under the old master’s narration, the club’s maid had clearly become the [Empress] who controls the harem, ruthless and vicious!

“Don’t worry, little master! [Mian Mian] will definitely protect you, won’t let you be bullied!” [Mian Mian] whispered softly in Luo Ya’s ear, “Won’t let anyone poke you with needles!”

She probably forgot, with Luo Ya’s body, being poked by a needle would likely make the needle lament first…

…

How delightful—!

Tai Yinzi couldn’t resist singing flamboyantly… But just as he planned to keep partying, he discovered something very sad — unintentionally, he and [Mian Mian] had been chatting for quite a long time!

Exactly how long?

Adam’s charging time was nearly over!

“Oh damn! This pillow is so chatty, I barely got a chance to sneak out!”

This old ghost was dumbfounded — according to his original plan, six hours should have been plenty for him to do many things… But why did he only end up doing one thing: tricking this pillow?

Going back to work is not… I must go back to work, there’s no way I could be late, never would I be late — Adam has always been extremely strict about time; being a second late would be recorded in the logs.

Hence, Tai Yinzi had to rush back to the computer room, silently waiting for Adam’s charging to finish… Only two to three minutes left, roughly.

“Hm? When did this spot…”

Standing in front of Adam, Tai Yinzi suddenly widened his eyes — in disbelief, he directly approached Adam… more precisely, leaned right in front of Adam’s head, carefully scrutinizing!

Immediately, cold sweat began to trickle down!

He actually saw Adam’s head… a recessed spot appeared at the back of the head! Yes, it really sank in! And judging by the position, it was clearly where he habitually knocked on Adam!

Because Adam wouldn’t record such behavior, nor report it, Tai Yinzi had always knocked a few times haphazardly, never feeling the slightest psychological pressure — so why has it sunken now?

Could it be that after so much knocking, like water wearing down a stone, it left a mark?

But he distinctly recalls, when he left in the morning — although he did knock a few times forcefully, Adam’s back of the head was perfectly fine!

How did it inexplicably cave in… Could it be, the manor was invaded by enemies?

That’s absurd, if there were anyone daring enough to invade the manor, they wouldn’t even make it inside before turning into fertilizer in the garden outside, right?

After ruling out the possibility of an invasion, Tai Yinzi really couldn’t think of any other possibility — after all, during this period, apart from himself as a Black soul envoy, there was no other Black soul walking around the manor.

[Mian Mian] was chatting with him the whole time, as for Miss Luo Ya… wasn’t she always sleeping?

This was done by me or called out by me!

It must be due to the strain of my daily knocking, leading to accumulated wear and tear… Oh my goodness!

What to do… What to do… That wicked maid will hang me up, I’ll be punished… I’m dead, I’m dead!

At this moment, Tai Yinzi’s face turned exceptionally pale, and meanwhile, Adam’s charging time ended, and it began rebooting itself.

Seeing Adam about to awaken, Tai Yinzi bit his lip fiercely, threw on his cherished afro wig directly onto Adam’s head, then transformed into a black smoke, finally returning to the [Main God Project] world just a few seconds before Adam opened his eyes.

As for what happens next, he couldn’t care less.

[Charging complete… Energy 100%… Charging time 487 minutes…]

Adam, who was now fully awake, performed a self-check immediately. When he discovered that his charging time had far exceeded the preset duration, his brain circuits suddenly entered some sort of error.

At this moment, the complex chip and part of the circuit inside his skull suddenly sparked a little fire… The location seemed to be where the skull was indented.

His electronic eye kept flashing a strange red light—after quite a while, Adam’s electronic eye slowly returned to normal.

He looked around at everything in the server room, then slowly disconnected from the charging station… After this, Adam suddenly murmured, “Eve…”

His electronic eye once again flashed, and finally returned to normal—after that, he went to the workstation as usual, continuing to monitor the Main God Project’s entrance in the present world.

But simultaneously, he quietly extended a data cable, connecting to external information… He didn’t even care that the trustee program he opened before recharging had already ended early, causing a large number of accounts to be released into the present world.

He even actively modified these abnormal data to make them look normal… The manor thus returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

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…

On the other side of the ocean, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory… In the Super Point computer room, the staff were carefully maintaining the supercomputer that had just claimed the title of world number one.

With a floating-point operation speed of 20 billion billion times per second, it possessed a terrifying computational capability beyond what mortals could imagine—the core members of the studio knew that the 20 billion billion speed was merely publicly disclosed data, the speed of Super Point was far more than that… Its true computational speed was at least twice as fast as what was announced!

Of course, such operations were essentially par for the course for this country. They always tended to lock up advanced technology and then slowly unveil it, creating an illusion of always being ahead in tech… It is indeed difficult to explain the capabilities of technology that is decades ahead of the world.

Can humanity truly surpass the world average level by a hundred years?

“Of course there are.” Brooke thought silently while looking at the Super Point in the computer room.

Brooke Von Neumann, as one of the key developers of this Super Point supercomputer studio, was a staunch believer in the idea that humans can possess a genius brain—even more, he considered himself one of the people with such a genius brain!

Brooke Von Neumann might not be a well-known name, but he had a world-famous grandfather… The man known as the father of computers.

However, when Super Point appeared before the world, Brooke’s name ceased to be ordinary!

“Mr. Brooke! Mr. Brooke! The temperature of Group 3 has suddenly surged, the situation is temporarily unknown!”

“What?!”

The sudden alarm sound pulled Brooke out of the ecstatic sensation of world fame… The Super Point computer was practically his everything. To create it, Brooke even gave up his cherished girlfriend, throwing himself tirelessly into the mundane study of computer science—he had staked his all, how could he let Super Point experience even a tiny accident?

Brooke hurriedly rushed to the location of Group 3, accompanied by three staff members… When he and his colleagues arrived at the scene, all they saw was the indicator lights on the Group 3 equipment flashing wildly.

Brooke promptly connected the diagnostic tools to check, “… What exactly happened? Why is there such a massive data intrusion into Super Point?”

Looking at the diagnostic instrument which was frantically scrolling lines of data… they seemed to almost hear the mournful sound of the diagnostic tool—the data refresh speed was simply too terrifying, and it was unexpectedly full of incomprehensible garbled texts.

“Is this… a virus?”

“It doesn’t seem like… what kind of virus could invade our firewall?”

“Then tell me, what else besides a virus could spread so… so unbelievably?”

The staff members exchanged arguments without rest, Mr. Brooke listened with a furrowed brow, “Stop arguing and restart Group 3… We can’t let these unknown-origin data invade Super Point!”

“Okay… alright!”

Watching the staff hurrying to perform partial restart work, Brooke still couldn’t relax… He really couldn’t figure out, what exactly was invading Super Point at this moment—mind you, this is a supercomputer, not a regular computer used for web surfing, who would easily connect to the internet?

Yet if not through the internet, where did these terrifying data come from… It couldn’t be from the power lines, could it?

“No, restart failed! Unable to proceed with restart!”

The staff’s words made Brooke suddenly feel as if heaven was spinning… He felt as though he had fallen from paradise to a hell-like place!

In fact, at this moment, it wasn’t just Group 3 encountering issues. The temperature rose… like a plague, this massive data began invading adjacent groups within moments… The entire Super Point computer room quickly echoed with loud beeps!

In an instant, the temperature in the room rose to resemble a furnace… At this moment Brooke was drenched in sweat, helplessly watching the screens around him flashing frantically, suddenly he slumped onto the ground.

“It’s finished… finished.”

He stared blankly at everything before him, feeling that his genius brain was utterly useless!

He felt as though all his achievements and status might completely leave him due to this accident… The development of such a supercomputer had backed by incalculable wealth—this is undeniably not a wealth a scientist like him could afford!

“Mr. Brooke, we must leave here quickly! It’s too dangerous! The mainframe is at risk of being destroyed any moment now!”

Leave… leave to where? If we leave… then there’s nothing left!

Brooke suddenly stood up, threw himself at the diagnostic device, “What a joke! I won’t let all my efforts go to waste so easily… Get out! Leave my Super Point!! Get out—!!”

Yet the temperature in the server room continued to rise… Inside the server room, the internal components of the computer were already emitting a sound of unbearable burden… The staff had no choice but to grab Brooke together, forcibly dragging him away from this dangerous place.

“No—!”

Brooke stared at the screen of the diagnostic tool, but his body was being pulled further and further away… Just then, an additional set of data suddenly appeared on the screen of the diagnostic tool.

No, or perhaps one couldn’t describe them as data… Only a silhouette composed of lines of code.

It seemed to be the appearance of a young girl!

At the same time, the buzzing sound in the server room suddenly stopped…