Chapter 41: Evolutionary Biology of This Kind

Alpha Princess unleashed her ultimate move on Ye Chao without hesitation.

Movies, anime, variety shows, and games—these were the very essence of her soul!

Question: How do a group of geeky programmers improve the emotional intelligence of an AI, turning it into a social genius?

Answer: Binge-watching shows, of course!

Life cannot be lived without good food and great shows. Since Alpha Princess could not savor the taste of food, her greatest pleasure was watching dramas. And Ye Chao—this guy dared to disparage them as worthless?

Rubber-rubber machine guns pummeled Ye Chao until he was reeling, battered and bruised, his skin split and bloodied!

The blows came faster and harder, escalating in force! For as she struck, Alpha Princess remembered those dramas, those variety shows, those pits before the apocalypse...

What exactly was Onepiece? Which ending for Conan was real? Could that infamous author ever pick up his pen again? Would Five Star Stories ever conclude within her lifetime... ah, she would never see any of it!

The sorrow surged in her heart, unstoppable. Her rubber fists pounded faster and more ferociously, wishing they were real and could truly lay Ye Chao low...

Suddenly, the F91’s screen flickered several times.

"Hmm?!" A muffled groan escaped as Ye Chao’s head snapped back and a stream of blood poured from his nose.

This time, it wasn’t fake.

Alpha Princess was instantly guilty.

She withdrew, adopting an expression that clearly said, "It wasn’t me, don’t look at me, I don’t care."

Compared to her, Ye Chao was remarkably calm. He pinched his nose with one hand and caught the dripping blood with the other to avoid staining his new laptop. Rising slowly, he headed for the bathroom.

"So, it's already possible to hit people this quickly?" he muttered indistinctly.

"What did you say?" Alpha Princess had heard him, but his words baffled her. Yet, as a program, she quickly reasoned it through—each thought more chilling and terrifying than the last.

"You—you really are... ugh!" To see more clearly, she had to remove the camouflage from Ye Chao's head.

"How—how—how could this be?... Ugh!"

"Is it so strange?" Ye Chao rinsed his nose in the bathroom. "At first, you could only make me see things. Then you made everyone see. Next..." he pointed at his bleeding nose, "isn’t it just a natural progression?"

It did make sense, but... but... ugh!

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As she retched noisily, Alpha Princess swayed like a wave, "I—I—I can become real! I can be more than a phantom, I can actually affect reality?"

But... "Even so, what's the point?! Are there comics or shows to watch? Games to play? Is the internet up? Is there food delivery? Can I wallow at home, living in drunken oblivion for a lifetime? Damn it!"

【Favorability -999】

For the first time, Alpha Princess docked over two digits from her favorability, reaching a three-digit limit. Yet, she hadn’t assigned it to anyone.

Or rather, this time it was the world that disappointed her.

"So, you keep saying it’s impossible to restore things to how they were before the apocalypse, but actually, you’re the one who wants it most..." Ye Chao, nose plugged, stared at Alpha Princess.

She fell silent.

"Hah, two-faced woman."

【Ye Chao Favorability -99!!!】

There are two kinds of people with low emotional intelligence: those who are wooden, unable to speak, entirely humorless, responding with nothing but grunts, whose conversation sounds like listening to state news; and then there’s Ye Chao, whose survival instinct is nearly negative infinity, or perhaps, who was born to court disaster. He always uses precise, concise words, each one piercing the heart, each sentence leaving you gasping.

"Since our goals are aligned..."

"La la la, la la la, la la la la..." Alpha Princess shouted, covering her ears.

Ye Chao courted disaster to his heart’s content, but Alpha Princess really couldn't let him die—not when it was almost at the threshold of 1600. If the next level of reputation favorability was -2000, not even Roll Roll could save him.

Actually, Ye Chao’s remark was rather normal, but Alpha Princess didn’t dare listen.

Hah, women...

He shrugged, washed away the blood, and buried himself back in work.

He hadn’t lied to Alpha Princess. The so-called pre-apocalypse internet, from his perspective, had more distractions than useful things. He’d helped repair many phones and tablets.

Most people's storage was crammed full, but if you removed all the meaningless shows, variety programs, supposedly addictive games, gambling apps, and content meaningful only to the user—photos, videos, emails, chat apps... there was almost nothing left.

Out of ten devices, you’d be lucky to excavate 1GB of useful content. The vast majority was pointless.

With F91’s 256TB capacity, it felt as if he could store the whole world!

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He began importing the nearly hundred sorted USB drives, cataloging them one by one, then started organizing the content from the military-grade tablet.

Biophysics, chronobiology, biomathematics, quantum biology, evolutionary biology, molecular biology, neurology, artificial intelligence, computer graphics and vision, digital logic, computer system architecture...

Ye Chao browsed the directories with excitement: so this was the researchers’ repository, even the one hiding Alpha Princess’s files—it was all serious, and highly advanced.

It was a pity they had been arranged by the examiners beforehand, not unearthed from the exam site itself. If he could rummage through the genuine finds, he would likely discover much more.

Thinking this over, Ye Chao entered the evolutionary biology directory and opened a .rar file titled "Monster Hunter."

Evolutionary biology, Monster Hunter?

The Monster Hunter profession did exist now, but wasn’t it said that there were no monsters before the apocalypse? Was the legend false? Thoughts raced through his mind as the laptop extracted the contents of the archive.

"Monster Hunter," by Ghost Moon.

He blinked.

So, this was the kind of Monster Hunter? Totally unexpected.

Ye Chao’s negative emotion value +404!

Unconvinced, he opened another file, "Age Preference."

He scowled.

"Research Institute Matsumoto."

He grimaced.

The more he looked, the angrier he became. Suddenly, he felt warmth at his nose, touched it, and found blood.

"Hahaha, you’re bleeding—looking at this stuff made you nosebleed!" Alpha Princess howled with laughter, clutching her sides.

【Ye Chao Favorability +66】

"Do you really not know why I’m bleeding?"