Lin Feng’s big hand flew out again, this time even faster, aiming directly at where the great beauty was, with an air of not stopping until he achieved his goal. With a crisp slap, he ended up smacking his own shoulder hard, his right palm empty. When he looked again, the great beauty had already returned to his left forearm. Moreover, on the screen of the great beauty, a peculiar ‘囧’ character appeared, seemingly mocking his clumsiness. When Lin Feng, in embarrassment and anger, unleashed his ‘claws’ again, the great beauty ‘whooshed’ and vanished from his left arm, returning to his consciousness. No matter how much Lin Feng tried to summon it with his mental strength, the great beauty ignored him.
“Niuniu is sleepy, don’t disturb…” Lin Feng pressed harder, and a line of text appeared on the great beauty’s screen, in a font style.
“Niuniu? … Great beauty?” The great beauty, uh, Niuniu, actually started communicating with me? Heavens, could it be that the great beauty… uh, Niuniu is truly a sentient life form? It even has such human-like expressions? This phenomenon left Lin Feng staring blankly. He was dizzy, utterly dizzy!
Just as Lin Feng thought he was about to faint, another line of text appeared on the screen of the great beauty: “I’ve decided to change my name to Niuniu from now on, humph! The name ‘Great Beauty’ is just awful, I seriously warn you one last time, don’t call me Great Beauty anymore… Oh! My gosh—” Lin Feng’s brain short-circuited, his thoughts slowed as if under a spell. After about fifteen minutes of being stunned, Lin Feng seemed to wake from a dream, excitedly rubbing his hands together, unsure what to do next. He ran around the room like a madman, his little brother swinging freely with him, seemingly unsatisfied, he posed in front of the wardrobe mirror, making faces and occasionally striking bodybuilding poses, completely unaware of his own embarrassment… It wasn’t until this bout of craziness had mostly subsided that Lin Feng finally calmed down.
“Could Niuniu be the legendary artificial intelligence? It was something I accidentally obtained while playing the game from the online world. Could such advanced life forms really exist in this world? Niuniu’s current state seems like it hasn’t fully evolved yet. Before, there was no communication between us, perhaps because my charm value has risen enough to finally qualify for interaction with her?” He thought to himself, such a transcendent existence, inadvertently obtained by a fool like him, must be the blessing of many lifetimes! Over the past few days, except for the troublesome habit of stealing underwear, Niuniu hadn’t caused any disasters, and thanks to its magic, he had managed to do several gratifying deeds.
Thinking this far, Lin Feng no longer rejected Niuniu’s existence but rather felt secretly proud and extremely delighted, as if he would wake up laughing from his dreams. The only regret was that he still couldn’t determine Niuniu’s true origin or fully control its functions! Lin Feng thought, based on the superpowers he had explored so far, all of Niuniu’s functions seemed to be related to the charm value assessed by the intelligence system. It looked like his primary goal moving forward should be to accumulate charm value!
After a while of aimless thinking, his thoughts shifted, and he remembered the words Mr. Wang had said to him that night, which suddenly made Lin Feng’s heart race. Cultivating magic, understanding the world! Although Mr. Wang never explicitly stated it, the information he revealed through his words gave Lin Feng much to ponder. Mr. Wang said he was a practitioner from the Tianxuan Sect, and his role as a physician was just a side job to cover his true identity. Other mysterious statements made things even more confusing. Mr. Wang mentioned that there was a world he couldn’t see right in front of him, and if he persisted in practicing magic, once he reached a certain level of cultivation, there would be even more astonishing discoveries waiting for him, and his current troubling habits would also be resolved…
When Lin Feng first heard the old man’s rambling, he didn’t quite believe the old man’s explanation, especially when the old man claimed that his penchant for stealing women’s underwear stemmed from his cultivation reaching a state of nurturing vital energy, leading to an excess of yang energy. Lin Feng thought to himself, “Old man, you only know one side of the story.” Especially after witnessing an unexpected scene that night, he was even more convinced that the entity named Nuonuo inside him was some kind of unknown high-tech being, possibly even an artificial intelligence life form as rumored to have been developed long ago. Lin Feng mused, “Grandpa Wang, your martial arts skills might be impressive, but to fully control such advanced technology, enhancing mental strength is one aspect; the main focus should be on cracking Nuonuo’s core control program.” However, after that night’s conversation with the old man, Lin Feng, upon returning home in a daze, suddenly found himself adept at using Nuonuo’s storage cabinet. The old man had strongly recommended Lao Tzu’s “Tao Te Ching” to him. Could it really be that mystical? Could it be that the ancient classics passed down by our ancestors are just as effective when dealing with modern high-tech gadgets? Lin Feng usually enjoyed browsing for strange and unusual stories online. He had seen people using “The Book of Changes” to deduce the brilliance of our ancestors, claiming that they had predicted the widespread use of digital products thousands of years ago, and even suggesting that the working principles of computers were actually developed by our ancestors… Such anecdotes, which Lin Feng would have previously dismissed with a smile, thinking them to be mere sensationalism, now took on a deeper meaning with tonight’s experience. At least in Mr. Wang, he saw the potential for one day fully mastering new equipment.
After about two to three hours, the flow of energy within Lin Feng had become unprecedentedly robust, with continuous streams of mist-like energy circulating back and forth, flowing through his extraordinary meridians. Whenever there was a blockage, the mist-like energy would quickly gather and occasionally form small bumps on his skin surface, from which dark, sticky substances oozed out like black sweat, adhering to his skin and then being absorbed by the sheets below. As the black faded, the previously rough and dull skin became clearer. After several cycles, his skin turned bright red and hot as if it had been branded. The room was filled with a pungent odor, making anyone who smelled it feel nauseous. From a distance, Lin Feng, sitting cross-legged on the bed, looked like a large steamed melon, with bubbles popping out one after another, a sight that would truly startle anyone. Especially as his skin gradually turned red, except for the areas with hair, his whole body seemed to become a ‘big red man’, which was quite frightening. If anyone had seen these strange changes on his body, they would have been scared out of their wits. Was this still a living person?
