Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

The atmosphere in the middle of summer is always lethargic. Whether it's the hot, dry wind or the sound of the tree, people can't help but want to lie in front of the window and sleep.

No, don't say it's human.

But the lazy atmosphere, not even Em accidentally hit a hoot, lazily shrunk on the couch in the study, made a nice snoring, like a very tired kitten.

But even if a nap is such a tempting proposition, not everyone is trapped in wonderful dreams.

More than a girl sitting by the window at such a moment, there is no fatigue on her good face, her stone-like eyes staring carefully at the letterhead painted by holographic light in front of her, carefully discretionary words, so that it does not appear disturbing as much as possible, and accurately conveys her thoughts.

“… it's been almost three months since you've been to Mars and I don't know how you've been there. ”

“Your students miss you so much...”

“And me. ”

Looking at the three words on the down payment, Vera hesitated for a long time, unsure if the line seemed a little redundant.

Eventually, however, she mustered the courage to keep it, then dragged it into the draft box to be sent with her eyes closed and quickly turned off the holographic screen, as if something had gone wrong.

“Really, if you want to master, go to him... obviously has a convenient body, what a waste."_"

When she heard the sudden sound coming from behind her, Vera was frightened and looked back and found Em lazily hitting her arrears and sitting up from the couch.

Determined, she said.

“… when did you wake up? ”

“Em doesn't need to sleep, she just thinks it's better not to disturb you when you write. (´ ◔ ‸ ◔ ') ”

“Really... that's a really convenient feeling. ”

“It's not convenient at all,” she sighed in an old sigh and continued nagging. "You can't sleep with the master, you can't eat with him. Happy things can only be watched together, and you can't walk around randomly, especially where there's no Internet... Every time the master leaves Egg's sight, Eggy worries about dying. 5465; (⇀ ↼) ᕗ"

“Well...”

Sounds really hard.

Though I would love to comfort it with two sentences, for myself from the 21st century, Vera is not particularly clear about what a biomimetic person is like, and I don't know where to start with comfort words.

After a long hesitation, she said.

“Actually… I would very much like to go to him, but worry about disturbing him. ”

Em: “Well... although the owner is smart most of the time, there are times when he's a fool. But anyway, I don't think the owners are the kind of people who hate to be disturbed… even the ones who often disturb him. (´ ◔ ‸ ◔ ') ”

Vera looked at it surprised.

“Eh? Is that it? ”

Em nodded her head and said happily on her face: "Hmm! It feels great to be needed. Oh, maybe that's one of the motivators that keeps the owner going. ”

Vera suddenly felt a little ashamed when she looked at Em as if she understood.

While she is convinced that it is more than just love and dependence, it is a love affair, but for many of his things… she has a feeling that she doesn't understand at all, so she is always afraid to make decisions.

Watching Eddie sitting on the couch chirping her legs, she hesitated for a moment and finally said.

“In your eyes, what a man he is. ”

Almost unthinkable, Em immediately answered vigorously.

“A very handsome man!"✧

Vera: “Handsome, handsome...? ”

“Mmm!” Em pushed harder. Her eyes flashed with small stars. She continued to say shy words. “Unfortunately, the owner is not AI, or she could get closer to Em! (ω)”

It always feels like this guy's idea is a little dangerous.

Yet just as Vera was about to say something, she suddenly took it seriously and kept talking.

“What can I say? A long time ago, Em was with the owner. At that time, Em was not as capable and intelligent as she is now, but the owner has always looked at Em with great inclusiveness, watched Em grow up little by little, and ended up like this. ”

Em smiled embarrassingly and scratched her cheek to continue.

“It always felt like I had spent so much time with him unconsciously… if I had the concept of life, he would have become part of Little Egg's life. After seeing the tail and Lily, there was some inspiration for me, more or less. Friendship or dependence on AI? Anyway, it just feels like it. ”

“But these things don't matter, at least Em thinks so. It's enough for Em to stay with him for a limited period of time. ( ︶ ) ”

Vera: “… always feels. ”

Egg twisted his head: “Always feeling? (• ̀ ∀ • ́) ”

“Nothing,” Vera shook her head gently, smiling, "just some, just envious. ”

Em: “That's necessary! After all, such a handsome master, Eko won't let you. (ω)"

Vera smiled and didn't speak.

It's just AI...

It's not very competitive, is it?

Probably?

I don't know why, for a moment, she suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

To think of it, Vera stood up from the desk.

“I've decided. ”

Em: “Hmm? ”

“I'm going to Mars," said Vera seriously, looking at Em. "You're right, if you miss him so much, you should go to him right away. If we waited so long... it would be no different from a hundred years ago. ”

Life is too short to stand the wait.

She's been waiting in her dreams for a hundred years, and she doesn't want to wait any longer.

Em: “Huh? (• ̀ ∀ • ́) ”

The conversation between the two seems to be interrupted...

……

Lunch time is up, Vera leaves the study and follows the stairs to the restaurant downstairs.

As she passed by the TV cabinet, she touched the button on the holographic TV and walked to the table to sit down and wait for the home robot to bring the food to the table.

It's been over six months since she woke up.

She remembered that even holographic television made her curious for half a day in the beginning, but now she's pretty much adjusted to her current life, at least she won't do anything stupid with her hand in it anymore.

Opposite Vera, Em dragged her hands under her cheeks and drummed her mouth.

“If you go to Mars, there's only Ai left in the house. (´ ◔ ‸ ◔ `) ”

Vera: “We can go together. ”

“Hey, Em wants to... I really envy you guys, you can go anywhere you want." Em sighed, laying on the table impeccably, blowing her breath at Liu Hai on the tip of her nose, and said impotently, "Em, don't say it's Mars, even going to the moon is a little difficult. ╮ ╯ ╰ ╭ ”

“… will you have a big body? ”

“Mmm!” Egg nodded down, stroking an exaggerated gesture with his hand, “the oversized one. ”

After eating, Vera put the tableware in the plate and thanked Em for bringing it to the kitchen.

At this point, the idea of going to Mars came to her mind unconsciously.

Unconsciously, she stretched out her index finger, tapped the personal terminal that was worn on her wrist, paddled the holographic screen in front of her and logged into the ticket purchase page.

Tickets to and from Mars are very inexpensive because of the serious accidents that occurred on that side of the planet some time ago, and because the relative distance between Mars and Earth is now at its furthest point.

Thinking seriously about the itinerary time, just as Vera was preparing to buy tickets, she suddenly saw a familiar face on holographic television beside her.

“Professor…”

In the holographic screen, standing in front of the camera, the ark is being interviewed by a journalist. And the sound that's playing on TV is the news host's confession.

“… In recent days, following the long silent acquisition of the Renaissance Mining Corporation, the industry has taken an alarming initiative to invest in the purchase of space segments in geosynchronous orbit and Mars orbit for the construction of space facilities in the newspaper. ”

“Although the Ark itself did not indicate exactly what the space facility was about to start, it was revealed by informed sources that it might be related to the privatization of hypervelocity technology…”