Everyone was stunned. Hao Ren did not understand what Wuyue meant.
"Lil Pea thinks that she was born from this pot." Wuyue looked serious. "That's right. This is the pot that Lily used to cook the egg. I don't know what went wrong. After the little one confirmed that you're not her mother, she thought that the pot was her mother. Now she believes that you discovered the pot, and then you and the pot invented her together..."
"What the hell is all this nonsense?!" Hao Ren jumped two feet high, and the little mermaid shivered. He quickly went up and poked Lil Pea's belly to calm her down. He then looked at Wuyue in a frenzy. "What did you say to her?"
"I tried my best." The siren's resentment was no less than Hao Ren's. "Let me tell you, the little one's mind is a complete mess. My communication with her was basically at the critical point of logic. You can't force a one-day-old little one to understand too many things. I'm already surprised that she can understand what 'daddy' and 'mommy' are."
Hao Ren wanted to cry but no tears came out. "But you can't let her treat a pot as her mother... especially when I'm her father. This child's worldview has been so skewed since she was young. Can she ever correct it when she grows up? "
Wuyue sighed and turned to look at Lily. "Open your dog eyes."
Lily obediently opened her eyes. "Is that so?"
Wuyue turned her head and spread out her hands. "You see, worldview is something that can't be explained..."
Hao Ren was speechless.
Lily stood there for a long time, but she still could not figure out what was going on. So, she packed her things and left the house.
Hao Ren and Wuyue tried again and again, but in the end, they gave up on correcting the little mermaid's worldview. Lil Pea still insisted that she was born from a pot, and she was unusually intimate with the pot — as intimate as Hao Ren. Vivian then realized one thing: she had to change her cooking pot in the future, and the little one had taken it.
Wuyue filled the pot with water, and Hao Ren carefully put Lil Pea in. The little one then swam in the pot. She was visibly relaxed. Her previous cautiousness and uneasiness were gone, and the pot seemed to give her a familiar sense of security. Although the pot was not her mother, at least she was born in the pot. That must be the source of that sense of security.
The little one swam in the water for a while before she started to complain of hunger. The way she did it was easy to observe. She made a series of grunting sounds, and then slapped the water violently with her tail to keep her body upright in the water. Hao Ren silently memorized the way the little one expressed her feelings, and the time. He then went to the kitchen to get a pair of chopsticks...
He had no choice. The only thing that the little one could eat was chopsticks. He had to slowly verify the other recipes.
Maybe he could let her eat vegetables? Since the little one could eat plant fiber, maybe she could eat vegetables with a lot of fiber.
Hao Ren thought it was a good idea. He ran to the kitchen and took out some celery and radish. He pinched them into small pieces and threw them into the water. He felt that he was not taking care of a child, but feeding a fish. The little mermaid quickly showed her disdain for these things. The little one smelled the strange smell in the water and quickly threw all the vegetables out. She even splashed water on Hao Ren's face.
It seemed that she was another child who did not like to eat vegetables.
"These two sure are having fun." The MDT floated in the air for a long time before it came down and poked Hao Ren in the head. "Now that you've played with your daughter, let's get down to business. According to the schedule that Madam Raven has set for you, now is the time to learn basic navigation and starship control theory. If you want to experience firsthand what it feels like to control the control panel, you'd better start now."
Hao Ren was looking down at the scene of Lil Pea eating happily. He was stunned when he heard the MDT. "Wait, since when was there a schedule like this?"
"I told you last night." The MDT floated in front of Hao Ren and opened a set of holographic projections. On it was a mind-numbing teaching material. "But you were fighting with your half-foot-long daughter. You probably didn't listen. Here, look carefully. These are the new learning materials. Madam Raven has given you some basic teaching materials. With these new materials, as long as you can pass, you can barely control the Petrachelys. Once you get a level two license, you can sail independently. What do you want to learn first? "
Hao Ren was dizzy as he stared at the table of contents on the holographic projection. Countless nouns flashed before his eyes, such as starship control theory, basic navigation, energy theory, star chart basics, and artillery introduction. He could not even guess what half of the contents were for, and this was just the table of contents!
"I... I have to learn all of these?" Hao Ren was stunned. Although he had heard that piloting a spaceship would take a while to learn, he did not expect there to be so many teaching materials. It was so extensive that it was shocking. It turned out that piloting a spaceship in real life was not as simple and crude as in fantasy novels. "Can I understand this? I flunked six subjects in university... "
"Of course you can understand. Your brain has been adjusted to a certain extent. Your memory is in a high-speed state. Your subconscious has been implanted with the auxiliary computing ability to process these data. As long as you are not so stupid that you can't even understand the logic of words, it is not difficult to learn these teaching materials. They have been adjusted to suit your worldview and knowledge base. They will start from the theory of the Grand Unification of Information." The MDT's voice was flat and rigid. When it came to business, it was more or less like a senior electronic assistant. "And to be honest, you don't need to understand the basic theory. You just need to know which command to input under certain circumstances and why to input the command. Between a primitive man who knows how to press buttons and a technician who is proficient in the principles, this is a qualified starship captain — well, the entry level."
Hao Ren thought for a moment and asked hopefully, "Wait, don't you have high-tech? Don't you have that kind of technology? You can input memory and knowledge directly into the brain, eliminating the learning process. Just like in the story, you have XX system in your head. How convenient!"
The MDT shook its body disdainfully and said, "There is such a learning device, but not for this occasion. This indoctrination learning device is limited to pure logic, data, and reflexive learning courses. It is commonly used in the recruit camp of the servant army because part of their curriculum is enough and there is no danger. But you can't use this in the starship captain course. It will reduce your learning ability and brain autonomy. This is not a side effect, but the essential purpose of this' learning 'method: to directly use you as a machine to input code. The effect is excellent, but you will be useless if you input too much. "
Hao Ren nodded as if he understood. The MDT slowly added, "In some autonomous universes that are not so well managed, you can often see this kind of implanted system in the black market of the lower civilisations. Some organizations and individuals with ulterior motives use this system to cultivate cheap and useful 'electronic slave workers'. Their implanted system will even remove the safety lock and replace most of the user's thinking process with a fully enhanced system plug-in. At first, it will replace your calculation and memory, then slowly replace your thinking, and finally... replace yourself. "
Vivian had been listening curiously from the side. Now she asked curiously, "It will eventually turn people into idiots?"
"No, on the contrary, it will, as it claims, make people extraordinarily smart. An implanted system will give the user superior intelligence, amazing reflexes, never-tired, unparalleled memory, and machine-like precision of thinking. It will really create a superman — but that superman is not you. The user who has been seriously assimilated will not even realize that he has been replaced. He will feel that all his thoughts are from his heart, and he will feel that he is not affected. This is the most perfect brainwashing — to let the brainwashed believe that he is very sane. "
Cold sweat trickled down Hao Ren's neck as he listened!
"Directly implanting knowledge, skills, logic, and even thinking and memory, and finally relying on conditional reflexes and brain plug-ins to survive. No one will notice that you have been replaced by a set of data from the inside out. This kind of thing happens everywhere, and sometimes even requires inspectors to clean up the mess," the MDT said as it touched Hao Ren's forehead. "So let's play it safe. Different skills have different learning methods, and different life forms can only accept different education models. Come on, let's start from the most primitive introduction to the curvature engine..."
Hao Ren was speechless.
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