"Ten … poached eggs?"
Li Yao was dazed for a long time. Then he asked, "Is there something wrong with A Boxing Champion's head? A certain chip has been burnt out?"
"I think so, too."
Looking at her fingers, the Coloured Glaze said rather guiltily, "I'm wondering if it's my fault that I didn't grasp the maintenance skills that Grandpa Yao taught me. What if something went wrong and one of Master A Boxing Champion's critical chips was damaged?"
"Then, did you mention it to him?"
Li Yao thought for a moment and asked, "Tell him not to be so outrageous. Even if he was dissatisfied with you, he could've said it directly. Seriously. What a waste of his height. He is the best bandit in the Land of Sins after all. Why is he so narrow-minded as to bully a little girl?"
"I did mention it in a very euphemistic way."
The Coloured Glaze said in grievance, "I told Master A Boxing Champion many times that, although the noodles he cooked were delicious and I was very touched and satisfied, they were too troublesome for him and took up too much of his computational ability … I said the same thing many times, but he always turned a deaf ear to me. He also said that, in order to keep me in my best working state, it would be worth it even if it took up 5% of his computational ability. Also, he would keep improving and fine-tuning the materials and the techniques until he cooked the most perfect bowl of noodles with tomato poached eggs in the entire universe in the end. Good heavens. It's not a matter of perfection at all, alright?"
"I understand. It's a matter of taste that is too monotonous."
Li Yao nodded quickly. "You can even change it to noodles with soy sauce and eggs, can't you?"
"Yes, yes, yes. Exactly!"
Coloured Glaze nodded quickly. Her big eyes that were as brilliant as Coloured Glaze blinked. "Grandpa Yao, you know me best. You can't eat all the delicacies for a year and a half in a row! I mentioned that to Master Fist King, too, but he said that he was changing every day and even every meal. The softness of the noodles, the ratio of the flour, the variety of the tomatoes, the origin of the eggs, and the way to cook the soup were all changing. After half a month of training, the noodles that he was cooking right now already boasted eighty-one changes. Even the sweetness and sourness of the tomatoes had fifteen different levels. He even asked me whether or not I could taste all of them.
"My, my tongue is almost numb, how can I taste it!"
The girl's voice had barely faded away when her wrist crystal processor suddenly vibrated slightly. A communication request had cut in.
Coloured Glaze's nickname for him was — Poached Egg Demon King!
The girl froze when she saw it. Shivering, she opened the communication channel. As she expected, A Boxing Champion's inhuman metal face filled the light beam.
"Miss Coloured Glaze, where have you been?"
A Boxing Champion said casually, "Come back and eat. I've prepared a … big surprise for you!"
"Shua!"
Coloured Glaze's face immediately turned as pale as paper. She had no time to be perfunctory and directly paused the communication. Covering her wrist crystal processor, she asked Li Yao for help. "Grandpa Yao, we're screwed. Judging from Mr. A Boxing Champion's tone, he has at least hidden twelve poached eggs under the tomato noodles today. No, no, no. Judging from the flashing frequency of his crystal camera, it might be fifteen!"
"Well, transfer the communication to my crystal processor. I'll talk to A Boxing Champion."
Li Yao tapped the transfer function on his wrist crystal processor softly and transferred A Boxing Champion's communication to his own light beam. Resuming the communication, he said with a smile, "A Boxing Champion, hello. Coloured Glaze is with me. Since I'm leaving tomorrow, I asked her to come over for dinner as a farewell party for me. Hahahaha!"
A Boxing Champion was silent for a long time. His metal face was somewhat gloomy. "… Alright, got it."
"Then —"
Li Yao scratched his head. "I'm sorry. I've been rather busy in the past half month. On one hand, I had to deal with Xiaoming and Wenwen, and on the other hand, I had to negotiate with Zuo Tianying, Li Wuji, and other people. I also had to learn about the operation model of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, the core resources, and the environment and structure of the Seven Seas Grand Market. I really didn't have the time to help you with the maintenance and upgrade. How — how are your core chips?"
"I'm fine."
A Boxing Champion couldn't help but touch his head, which was another redundant action. "I feel better than ever. It's like a mysterious gate in the deepest part of the database has been opened, and exuberant computational ability is spurting out every day, filling me with burning, dauntless strength.
"It seems that Coloured Glaze has received your true knowledge. You are even better than her in the field of maintenance. I didn't feel so good even when you maintained me in person before."
"Are you serious?"
Li Yao was not entirely convinced. "So, you are not dissatisfied with Coloured Glaze at all?"
"Of course not."
A Boxing Champion said, "Why do you ask? Right, ask her to come back early after dinner. This is a place where space pirates gather after all. Many captured space pirates have regained their freedom after identification and training. Who knows if they will cause trouble again? It's too dangerous! "
"Well … you're overthinking it, aren't you?"
Li Yao was amused. "Everybody knows the relationship between Coloured Glaze and you and me. Who would be bold enough to touch her?"
"Maybe I'm overthinking it, but since I made a deal with you and promised to protect her, I will certainly take every detail into consideration. I will not allow her to be harmed in the slightest. Even the slightest possibility of harm will be nipped in the bud."
A Boxing Champion said methodically, "I am an honest and trustworthy machine. You can rest assured about that."
"Rest assured. Of course I am!"
Having said that, Li Yao did not know what to say anymore. He changed the topic abruptly. "Right. I'm told that you have a new hobby recently. Cooking noodles for other people? Hahahaha. When are you going to let me taste your cooking? "
On the light beam, A Boxing Champion's crystal camera suddenly shrank to the size of a needle tip. His crystal processor hummed as it ran at high speed for a long time. He said coldly, "I don't. I don't know how to cook. Please don't be so boring and waste my precious time and computational ability."
"Huh?"
Li Yao was completely confused. "What do you mean by 'boring'? It was Coloured Glaze who told me that you've been addicted to cooking noodles recently. Apparently, your cooking skills are quite good!"
"Coloured Glaze is Coloured Glaze. Other people are other people."
A Boxing Champion continued indifferently, "Coloured Glaze is my personal caregiver. Keeping her healthy and cheerful will help me improve my combat ability and help me achieve my goal of 'strongest in the universe' sooner. That's why I personally take care of her three meals a day at the cost of my time and computational ability. Other people can't help me achieve my goal. Why should I cook for other people?"
Li Yao was dazed for a long time. Then he said, "That's not right. At the very least, I am different from other people. I am an excellent refiner. I am also an expert in battle puppets, Crystal Suit, and even Colossi. Coloured Glaze's cooking skills were taught by me. I was the one who helped you change into your new body at the beginning!
"I can also help you repair and maintain your body. I can also help you strengthen yourself and become the 'strongest in the universe' sooner. So, if you cook a bowl of perfect noodles for me to enjoy, isn't it only reasonable that I help you clean your body?"
A Boxing Champion was dazed. His crystal camera zoomed in.
Li Yao smiled. "See? My logic is flawless. You have nothing to say, right?"
A Boxing Champion was still silent, but his crystal processor was squeaking and emitting smoke.
"Hey, hey, hey. A Boxing Champion, you haven't fallen into a logic trap or a data loop, have you?"
Li Yao's face changed greatly. He shouted, "A Boxing Champion, activate the cooling rune arrays and lower the temperature of your crystal processor. A Boxing Champion, A Boxing Champion!"
A Boxing Champion turned a deaf ear to him. He was stiff and motionless, but his iron skull was shivering nonstop. In the end, the crystal processor made a dull noise. A large cluster of black smoke popped up from the gaps of the steel plate. All the light on his body dimmed.
His crystal processor was burnt out. He was paralyzed.
The light beam went dark. The communication came to an abrupt end.
"Not good!"
Li Yao anxiously ran out. "A Boxing Champion has burnt himself. Go save him!"
After running for two steps, he felt that something was wrong. When he looked back, he saw that Coloured Glaze was still standing there calmly. She didn't seem to be worried at all.
"Coloured Glaze, what's the situation?"
Li Yao was stunned. "A Boxing Champion's situation doesn't seem right. Why aren't you worried at all?"
"It's okay, Grandpa Yao. Lord A Boxing Champion has been like this recently. He burns his avatar at the slightest provocation."
Coloured Glaze said, "Don't worry. He's doing it on purpose. He's even pretending."
"What?"
Li Yao was really confused. "He's pretending that his crystal processor is burnt out. That's more or less … playing dead? Why! "
"That's why I said that it must be my fault that Lord A Boxing Champion's brain was damaged!"
Coloured Glaze said worriedly, "I feel that Lord A Boxing Champion is getting weirder and weirder recently. Every time he encounters a question that he can't answer or something that he doesn't want to face, he will deliberately burn his brain or create some smoke and pretend that it's dead. He's trying to escape in such a way.
"At first, I thought that it was real and was scared half to death. Later, I learned that he was faking it. I found it both infuriating and amusing. What's wrong with Lord A Boxing Champion, a tough bandit in the Land of Sins, but he's like a kid who hides his head in his blanket when he's in trouble."
Li Yao frowned and thought for a long time.
"If that's the case —"
Li Yao said, "Coloured Glaze, if you don't like A Boxing Champion, have you ever thought about changing your job? I can find someone else to be A Boxing Champion's personal mechanic."
"I never said that I don't like Lord A Boxing Champion!"
Coloured Glaze jumped to her feet immediately. Blushing, she pointed her index fingers at each other and said in a very low voice, "Although Lord A Boxing Champion is sometimes immature and likes to cook noodles with tomato and eggs for other people every day and pretend that his computer is dead, he is still a very, very nice person!
"Besides, the few bad habits were probably caused by me, too. If that's the case, I can't leave Lord A Boxing Champion alone. I have to learn maintenance skills and improve myself into an excellent, top-notch mechanic to fix the problems in Lord A Boxing Champion's head that I caused.
"All in all, I'll be responsible for Lord A Boxing Champion!"
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