Trafford's Trading Club

Chapter 1469: Chapter 196: Adam and Eve

“Adam, please create another possibility model for Experiment Target No. 9. I’ve just adjusted new parameters; it should increase the success rate… Master?”

The maid glanced back and saw Boss Luo already standing behind her without her noticing, and she quickly stood up.

Luo Qiu naturally placed his hands on the maid’s shoulders, stopping her action, “I saw you working so diligently here, so I didn’t disturb you… You Ye looks very beautiful when she’s focused on work.”

The master came, yet as a maid, she didn’t sense it… The only situation where she couldn’t sense it was when the master blocked her perception.

The maid gently leaned her head on Boss Luo’s hand… She even closed her eyes, savoring this moment of tranquility.

After quite a while, Luo Qiu softly asked, “Is the calculation going smoothly?”

The maid opened her eyes and replied, “We have currently found three potential worlds that meet the standards. Now, we’re conducting measurements for higher stability… Master, look, these are the three sub-worlds.”

Since the targets were located using the sub-worlds stationed by Zhao Le and Chen Mingming, the three sub-worlds that met the criteria were relatively similar technological worlds.

One of these technological worlds has even completely developed to the extent where humanity as a whole resides in nutrition pods, living mentally in a virtual world—running under the arrangement of the Mainframe… The civilization in this sub-world gives Boss Luo a peculiar sense of immediacy.

And this entire world is precisely the ninth experimental target that the maid referred to—Luo Qiu took a few more glances and found that this ninth experiment target had been modeled four times.

“It seems you’ve already made a choice,” Boss Luo smiled slightly.

“I wanted to give you more options,” the maid said softly.

Luo Qiu thought for a moment and said, “Let’s go with this ninth experimental object. If there’s no problem, use it to open the third entrance for the Main God Project.”

The maid nodded, then immediately said, “If that’s the case, I’d like to go personally… After all, I need to construct the server directly in the sub-world. The firewall of the world of the ninth experimental object—the Mainframe—seems very sturdy.”

“Do you need help?” Luo Qiu directly asked—referring to help via direct purchase, of course.

But clearly, the maid dislikes her master wasting resources in such areas, “No need, bringing Adam along should suffice… However, it might require being away for a period.”

Boss Luo curiously asked, “Will it take a long time?”

The maid hesitated and said, “I estimate it will take a week… which is indeed quite long.”

A week…

Boss Luo… Luo Qiu blinked as he remembered that since meeting You Ye, they had never been apart for more than three days, let alone a week.

The last time at the sub-world stationed by Zhao Le and Chen Mingming, Boss Luo decisively used the altar’s power to get there in one step… but this time, building the server is manual labor for the maid.

It’s like going on a business trip… Boss Luo thought and said, “Then go with peace of mind. I’m not so helpless as to lack self-care ability.”

The maid certainly wouldn’t doubt her master’s self-care ability—after all, before she met him, Luo Qiu had already taken good care of that little home.

“That’s not what I’m worried about,” the maid gently grasped the boss’s hand, whispering, “It’s just that thinking about being apart for a week, it feels very lonely.”

Boss Luo chuckled and said, “Using the Border Gate to go is quite convenient.”

Although she is going to another sub-world—separated from the current world by a space-time stretch—and yet, for Luo Qiu, it’s merely a door… a door that can be opened at any time.

The maid evidently savored this response from the boss considerably, and her gaze became more lively.

“But, leaving with Adam for a week, is there no issue with channel monitoring here?” Luo Qiu then asked in confusion, “I remember the hosting program can only last for up to thirty-six hours?”

The maid said, “No need to worry about this level, I plan to awaken Eve before leaving.”

Luo Qiu blinked… Eve?

The maid smiled and explained, “Eve was created alongside Adam, didn’t the master visit my laboratory before? Below the lab, there’s still a warehouse, and Eve is housed there.”

Eve and Adam… when it comes to creation, of course, you can’t have one without the other—this is likely driven purely by a sense of perfectionism… which indeed aligns completely with the maid’s personal style.

“Why have you never mentioned it before?”

The maid casually glanced at Adam, then slowly said, “At that time, we used technology obtained from other sub-worlds, and the evolution level of the artificial intelligence slightly exceeded my original expectations… Later, some minor issues occurred, causing problems in Eve’s kernel, which also infected Adam.”

Boss Luo curiously glanced at Adam and found him still diligently working on the tasks laid out by the maid, seemingly uninterested in their discussion, “And then?”

The maid casually said, “After trying several times to redo the system without resolving Eve’s kernel issues, I simply formatted both Eve and Adam… After all, as auxiliary artificial intelligence, highly advanced thinking capabilities aren’t necessary. Moreover, removing the kernel for intelligence evolution freed up space for computational enhancement.”

Speaking here, the maid ran her fingers through her hair, “Later, Adam turned into the Adam you see now, Master; over these years, there haven’t been any more problems. As for Eve, due to a surplus of labor, she hasn’t been activated again.”

Boss Luo nodded, temporarily placing no more concern on this matter.

And now, the maid started discussing another issue: If there’s indeed going to be another Main God Project channel setup, then clearly a Black Soul envoy is needed to guard it in the new sub-world.

“What are your thoughts?” Boss Luo directly asked.

The maid said, “Recall the current Black Souls on vacation, or create new Black Souls… As for the Heteromorphic Origin, I’ve already sent Da Zhe to the dimensional gap.”

Boss Luo thought for a moment and said, “If we are to recall the Black Soul envoys currently on vacation, do you have someone suitable in mind… I remember Kintaro had already woken up ahead of time, right?”

The maid shook her head, “Kintaro was initially designated to handle customers who maliciously delay debts… If we’re doing detailed work, it clearly isn’t suitable—currently, No. 18 and Master No. 9 seem like good choices, as neither is currently on vacation. Just regarding No. 9…”

“Let Master No. 9 stay in China,” Luo Qiu shook his head, “Unless there’s something extraordinary, I don’t want to disturb his current life.”

“No. 18?” The maid looked at her master and said, “She’s been wandering outside for some time, should we continue letting her be?”

Boss Luo thought for a moment and said, “Regarding Black Souls on vacation… do you have a good suggestion?”

“Hmm…” The maid thought carefully for a while, “Eleanor is indeed a fine choice, you’ve already met her once.”

Eleanor is currently guarding the Twelve Knights of Lancelot, under the British queen… As for the current queen, she was actually the maid’s student from sixty years ago—although their teacher-student relationship stemmed from a transaction.

Eleanor, the previous maid of the shop, certainly has unquestionable abilities, and there are no faults in choosing her as a guardian.

But… Boss Luo ultimately still shook his head, he still didn’t wish to disturb those Black Soul envoys who had exchanged a large number of performance points for vacation opportunities.

Since he had a direction, he would consider requiring abundant yields… But if this contradicted the initial purpose, it always left him feeling it’s a loss.

Would he slowly become like the previous generation… all for the sake of numerous transactions?

“Perhaps… the master can attempt to create servant-type Black Souls,” the maid evidently saw through her master’s thoughts at this moment, “We can entirely create multiple single-function Black Souls to manage the new sub-world portal.”

The so-called servant-type Black Souls, are the lowest level among Black Soul envoys—Tai Yinzi is actually at this level, thus in the early stages of creation completely displayed the inferior product’s typical appearance… But later, due to the Main God Project, he gradually improved, becoming an anomaly.

But aside from Tai Yinzi, among the Black Soul envoys Boss Luo later converted, there were no servant-types, and all were relatively advanced.

“I’ll think it over carefully again,” Luo Qiu pondered for a moment, “Anyway, building the new server will take at least a week.”

“Understood.” The maid nodded, “So I’ll prepare tonight and set off early tomorrow morning.”

After spending a while in the computer room with the maid, Boss Luo also returned to his own bedroom.

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He sat down at the desk by the window, thinking about a few matters… mainly Nero’s issue, and the derived potential problem from it—that it required far more Life Points than now.

Luo Qiu wasn’t accustomed to letting himself always be in a state of hurried waiting… Clearly, this matter can’t be rushed. Therefore, as long as the second sub-world portal opens, he can then accelerate the accumulation of Life Points.

After all, once the portal for the second sub-world opens, it means in the future the third, fourth… even more portals will open, and ultimately when enough sub-worlds are radiated through the ports, his primitive Life Points accumulation rate clearly won’t be less than the previous generation’s crazy portal opening, crazy Black Soul envoy creation method.

The main point is… he still doesn’t need to constantly engage in transactions.

Maybe… the future self would only need to use the Nero issue to accelerate the Main God Project’s progress during this time?

There’s a saying, if one works harder in youth, would the future state of oneself become better than originally—speaking of which, the change in past time points can directly influence a future time point.

If now, he starts massively accumulating Life Points, then the future self might wake up one day to find a vast amount of Life Points… Then, he wouldn’t find himself suddenly constrained for resources when needing to undertake something.

Of course… truly future developments might not proceed so smoothly—but this possibility can’t be directly denied—moreover, even if consciously accumulating vast Life Points, it hasn’t reached the future self time point that signals the need, if encountering situations using a large amount of Life Points, he wouldn’t suddenly fall short.

Thinking this way… maybe the future self would face something requiring Life Points but ultimately fail to resolve it, leading to regret—then, in a more remote future, the future self might send signals to the past self through this method?

Luo Qiu fell into silence because he noticed his always rational thinking ultimately became unstable due to the information about the future self.

He couldn’t help but mockingly whisper to himself, “Indeed, issues concerning oneself eventually struggle to escape the dilemma of selfishness…”

He shook his head, deciding not to delve deeper on this issue for now—everything will be reconsidered once his primitive Life Points accumulate significantly.

Having temporarily set aside Nero’s affair, there were then only three matters left in front of Boss Luo.

The first is the matter of Claudia’s father, Professor Xie Jiatu’s disappearance—which concerns the Golden Eyes and Akasha Records.

The second is the matter of Teacher Prin and Mr. Smith’s family… which Boss Luo originally planned only to observe—since this was Nero’s initial engagement, but Nero was temporarily erased from history due to this matter.

Perhaps, continuing to track this matter might provide a thread of clues about Nero’s disappearance.

The third… Luo Qiu opened his palm, revealing a neatly folded note in his palm—this was discreetly handed to him by Mian Mian from Tai Yinzi.

The note wrote in scraggly handwriting:

—Cicero

Cicero… was whom Luo Qiu encountered in the reminiscence of the everlasting kingdom’s remnant spirit at the uppermost level of the Penglai Treasury.

Logically, this should be something only he should know… How did Tai Yinzi know?

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