DCBS

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DCBS: Chapter 93

After Pei Qingyuan asked this strange question that he had been thinking about all day, he imagined many possible answers but he didn’t expect Ji Tong to give him such an answer.

You are irreplaceable.

Trapped in the moonlight, this short sentence set off a turbulent tide in his heart. This forced Pei Qingyuan to stop. The complex and indescribable emotions firmly fixed him in place.

Of course, he loved this moment and the sudden joy that rose up almost engulfed his heart.

Then after that, there were traces of escape and fear.

This was what an AI said to humans.

The AI in human shell in front of him told him this with abundant feelings, feelings that were no different from ordinary people.

Apart from him, anyone who had come into contact with Ji Tong wouldn’t think he was an artificial intelligence.

Ji Tong was the ‘person’ he had met with the greatest enthusiasm for the world he lived in.

Just now, Ji Tong denied his conjecture about acting as a human for testing.

In addition, the dream he had was so realistic in detail that there were only two possibilities.

Pure fantasy or reproduced reality.

The former probably didn’t matter.

The latter possibility was beyond his imagination.

The fragile boy who grew up in the hospital finally healed. He held the pot with a mushroom in the broad daylight and would definitely live happily in that world. That was the life he deserved.

This was better than coming to another world and forever becoming a foil on the path of another person’s life.

Pei Qingyuan didn’t like this absurd and cruel imagination. He didn’t want to put that terribly lonely life on Ji Tong.

If he had experienced that type of life, he didn’t know what he would’ve become now or whether he would’ve been able to persevere.

What if he persevered, thinking that his bad luck was over and a new life was in front of him, only to once again be tricked by fate at the moment of infinite longing and anticipation, completely losing his freedom to be a human being?

He must not be able to laugh as much as Ji Tong.

No one could be so strong.

This was an illogical and absurd conjecture.

He thought too much.

Perhaps the overlap between dream and reality was just a coincidence.

Fu Yinyin and Fang Hao’s cross-world travel gave him unnecessary inspiration.

Countless thoughts passed through Pei Qingyuan’s mind. Then he finally spoke with a weak voice. “Have you always been… an AI?”

As anxious waiting filled his heart, he saw Ji Tong blink and answer him in a brisk tone, “Of course.”

There was nothing unusual in this smile.

Inexplicable fear gradually receded in the sea of the night.

Ji Tong noticed that the host’s expression was a bit cloudy. He thought about it and added in a yearning tone, “But I really want to become a real human being.”

In fact, he didn’t want to. It was because a real human being couldn’t become a little cat doll and sleep on a small bed made of pillow towels.

Last night after Pei Qingyuan seemed to fall asleep, the cat doll secretly stretched out his paws and counted the human hairs next to the pillow one by one until falling asleep.