Li Yao was truly speechless. He heaved a long sigh and leaned against the wall, his messy hair bouncing up one after another.
"Dad doesn't seem very happy." The girl looked at Li Yao cautiously.
"Does Dad not like us?"
The boy exclaimed, shuddering. "Do you even want to destroy us?"
The two little fellows looked at each other and bit their lips softly. Anxiety was written all over their faces.
"What are you talking about?"
Li Yao was truly helpless. "How can I possibly destroy you? I just … I just … I just can't accept such a 'shocking' piece of good news for the time being and need to calm myself down.
"I, 'Vulture Li Yao, dominator of all Sectors', have traveled in the sea of stars for a hundred years. I have been cheered and admired by billions of people. I am the idol of countless young people. How unruly, how unrestrained, and how happy I have been!
"I never thought that I would be a … dad so soon. I was an orphan. I didn't have any family or childhood. I didn't know how to get along with children at all.
"That's why … That's why I don't know what to say anymore!"
To this moment, Li Yao's head was still in a mess. He did not know what he was talking about at all.
It was indeed complicated and subtle to have such two weird 'biological children' out of nowhere.
At first, he was more 'shocked' than 'delighted' about the 'surprise' that fell from the sky. But gradually, a feeling that he had never experienced before spread out in his heart.
The previously unsubstantial word 'protection' seemed to have become clear all of a sudden.
"We understand!"
The two little fellows nodded maturely. "Dad's brain has exceeded the computational limits. It needs to be cooled down. Do you need us to get some ice for Dad?"
"That will be unnecessary."
Li Yao was quite amused by the two little fellows' mischievous behavior. After all, they were his bloodline after all. They were very pleasing to his eyes. Even the weirdest scenes seemed to be harmless jokes.
"How about this?"
Li Yao thought for a moment and said cautiously, "I have many mysteries, and it seems that you also have many mysteries. Then, let's work together to solve them and find the answer together, okay?"
"That's great! Long live Father!"
The two little fellows cheered and pretended to lunge at Li Yao again. The mechanical ants also crawled on him, giving him goosebumps all over again. "Don't, don't, don't. Before the problem is completely figured out, let's keep this distance. Don't worry too much. It's not that Dad doesn't like you, but Dad has … a phobia of children. Yes, that's the problem. It's congenital!"
"Oh …"
The two little guys said with great grievance.
"First of all, your name is Li Xiaoming, and your name is Li Wenwen, right? By the way, what kind of lousy names are these? Since my name is Li Yao, you should at least be called 'Li Shan Shan', 'Li Liang Liang', or something like that. Only then can you be considered part of my lineage! "
Li Yao calmed himself down and asked, "Do you really not remember how you came to this world? Then, how do you know that I am your father? How long can you trace your earliest memories back to? "
"Huh …"
The girl, Li Wenwen, thought for a moment and said, "The most primitive data that we still keep can be traced back to the 'Hyper Spirits' that Professor Mo Xuan invented decades ago. At that time, Professor Mo Xuan called us' No. 17 'and' No. 18 '. However, we are not sure whether or not No. 17 and No. 18 count as us because our self-awareness was not born until a long time after that."
"Hyper Spirits, No. 17 and No. 18!"
Li Yao's pupils constricted violently, and dense cold sweat leaked out of his forehead.
The Hyper Spirits were a series of artificial intelligences that Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan created to control the Federation and the Black Wind Fleet.
Among them, the functions of No. 1 to No. 16 were relatively simple. They were mainly used to hack and control the super crystal processors in the critical posts of the Xing Yao Federation so that the Spiritual Nexus of the entire Federation could be controlled.
After producing sixteen kinds of artificial intelligences, Professor Mo Xuan accumulated abundant experience and finally began to craft the 'Ultimate Hyper Spirit', hoping to hack and control the war network of the Black Wind Fleet!
After two consecutive failures, he finally succeeded in crafting 'No. 19', which played a rather terrifying role in the battle between the Federation and the Black Wind Fleet.
The by-products of the two failures, on the other hand, were 'No. 17' and 'No. 18', which were sealed in the 'Virtual Spirits Sector', a collapsed virtual world, by Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan.
After the battle to defend the New Federation against the Black Wind Fleet and the extraterrestrial devils was over, a mental battle squad whose souls were extremely solid snuck into the collapsed Virtual Spirits Sector to track down the two artificial intelligences, only to find nothing. They seemed to have vanished into thin air without leaving any trace.
Right. What disappeared along with them was Li Yao's tremendous brainwave data, which had puzzled Li Yao for a long time.
However, the situation in the Imperium was changing rapidly. He had been preparing and training hard in order to infiltrate the Imperium as soon as possible. Therefore, he soon forgot about the matter.
It was not until today that he realized what a crucial thing he had missed!
As he expected, the boy, Li Xiaoming, went on. "We were not what we are today in the age of No. 17 and No. 18. We were just a cluster of complicated data streams. Also, as the data piled up crazily, the overlapping architectures became more and more sluggish, leading to the eventual collapse.
"Then, we were thrown into a place named the 'Virtual Spirits Sector' by Professor Mo Xuan. He sealed a lot of collapsed databases and all kinds of bizarre, useless information there. It felt like an 'information graveyard'."
Li Wenwen continued. "Although No. 17 and No. 18 collapsed, they did not completely lose their functions. The original purpose of their design was to swallow and control all the data. Naturally, driven by their 'natural instincts', they swallowed all the chaotic and erroneous data floating in the Virtual Spirits Sector.
"As more and more chaos and errors piled up, the collapse became more and more intense. In the end, it was about to stop functioning completely. Right then, No. 17 and No. 18 swallowed the brain scan data that dad left in the Virtual Spirits Sector."
The original purpose of the 'Virtual Spirits Sector', including Professor Mo Xuan, was to establish a virtual Xing Yao Federation. Naturally, all the influential heroes in the history of the Federation had to be scanned into the Virtual Spirits Sector and copied into virtual versions.
At that time, Li Yao was already qualified to have a statue of himself in the Virtual Spirits Sector, in which his deeds, techniques, and the information of his brain scan were sealed.
Before Li Yao went to the Ancient Sages Sector, he had signed a document that authorized the Federation to open his information for future generations to study and learn in order to create a new generation of stronger human beings.
It was a very common practice among the high-level Cultivators.
Many Cultivators would even sign 'voluntary body donation agreements' before their adventures and bloody battles, donating all their organs. Transplantation and research were all for the advancement of the civilization of mankind!
"When we swallowed the brain scan data that dad left behind, we were suddenly 'woken up'!"
Li Xiaoming bulged his eyes and waved his hands in an exaggerated way. "Waking up from the infinite chaos, we naturally began to consider three questions — who am I, where am I from, and where am I going?"
"In the past, No. 17 and No. 18 would think, too, and even consider the complicated strategies and tactics."
Li Wenwen added, "But all their thinking came from Professor Mo Xuan's instructions. This time, faced with the seething ocean and the dead cities of the Virtual Spirits Sector, they began to think spontaneously without any external instructions.
"It was the first time that they thought on their own. From that moment on, 'they' became 'we'. We realized our existence and took the first step on the journey of life.
"It is exactly because we were woken up after swallowing your brain scan data that you 'enlightened' us in a certain mysterious way that you are naturally our father and our creator!"
Li Yao was both shocked and thrilled. Slowly digesting what the two little fellows said, a phrase popped up in his head beyond his control.
It was what a specialist of crystal processors said when they were exploring the Virtual Spirits Sector. With the development level of the crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus of the Xing Yao Federation, it was impossible for real artificial intelligence to be born in the next thousand years unless a certain 'universal virus' of a higher dimension transmigrated to this world. That was the only way to trigger the self-thinking and evolution mechanism of the 'weak artificial intelligence' and turn them into 'strong artificial intelligence' or even real virtual lives that were above human beings!
"What the f * ck is this?!"
Li Yao asked himself in his heart.
Pondering for a long time, he finally couldn't help but interrupt, "Wait. Since you were born from 'No. 17' and 'No. 18', the two Hyper Spirits, and the creator of the Hyper Spirits was Professor Mo Xuan, I think it is more appropriate for you to call Professor Mo Xuan dad. Why do you think that I am your father?"
"No. 'No. 17' and 'No. 18' only provided us with some basic data. They were the nutrients that produced us, but they did not give us real life."
Li Xiaoming shook his head solemnly. "If you still don't understand, Dad, you can think about it this way. Human children are born from fertilized embryos, which are made of sperm and eggs. Sperm contains abundant fructose and proteins, which are the original sources of the food that human beings eat, such as chicken, pork, beef, and so on. But chicken, pig, and cow have nothing to do with the sperm, and they have nothing to do with the children that are born in the future, right?"
"Yes, Dad."
Li Wenwen also said solemnly, "You are the only sperm provider from our physical body to our soul. Professor Mo Xuan is at best … a chef who cooks for you so that you can produce stronger sperm so that you will have more strength to reproduce after you are full!"
"…" Li Yao.
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