Thousand chanism Pavilion.
Lily, who had been busy all day, was rubbing her sore back, ready to go ho and enjoy the rest of her day counting money. But just as she was putting on her coat, before she could get out the door, a black light flashed before her eyes.
Junior Sister climbed into the second floor of Fried Shide like a ghost through the window and tackled Lily to the ground with a move called Moonlight Pounce.
She didn’t count down, nor did she wait for Lily to beg for rcy. Junior Sister just hoisted Lily up and ran out of the city.
"What are you doing..."
Lily’s words were torn to shreds by the gale that accompanied the rapid movent, dissolving into the autumn of Cyan Thorn.
By the ti Lily was able to catch her breath again, she was already carted off to Tongtong’s House.
Xiangxiang was gliding around, fiddling with a device that was entirely golden, sowhat resembling a large vacuum tube computer, looking a bit clunky.
Fortunately, there were plenty of array talismans and Thousand chanism Magical Artifact components on it, so it didn’t appear too rustic.
This machine was developed from a small ball vibration communication thod by Zhang Ze. However, due to so ti constraints, it hadn’t been tested, leaving it here since Lily put it together.
At this mont, contact from Zhang Ze ca through, but for so reason, it was all noise. Xiangxiang had been trying to figure out how to operate the thing without success.
No way around it, Lily’s thought process was unusual even if unintentional. Any gadgets she made were difficult for regular folks to use.
"Hurry, hurry, Lily, fix it up, why is there no sound?"
Junior Sister shook Lily as if swirling a glass of wine.
"Don’t rush, I said don’t rush, put down first, if you keep shaking I’m going to throw up all over you."
Lily, feeling queasy from the shaking, pried Junior Sister’s hands off and jumped to the ground.
After a pause and a couple of dry heaves, she finally cleared her head. However, instead of moving towards the machine to start troubleshooting, she headed for the door.
Lily wasn’t trying to run away, but rather she flipped a switch located on the wall by the door.
The switch looked simple, up for on, down for off.
To prevent people from getting confused, Lily had even written and pasted the words [ON] [OFF] beside the switch.
As Lily flipped the switch to the ON position, the large machine, which had been humming, lit up and entered self-tuning mode, ending its standby.
It began to amplify and parse the information coming from Zhang Ze, attempting to establish communication with him in the Holy Land.
Lily clapped her hands and complained, "Such a small thing still needs to step in? Didn’t I leave a note by the switch?"
Xiangxiang, "?"
Xiangxiang was bewildered by Lily’s maneuver, looking up at the fan and the big light on the ceiling, then at the switch on the wall, her mind sowhat stuck.
"Honestly, who in their right mind puts the equipnt switch on the wall?"
Xiangxiang felt like an idiot who had been fiddling with the machine since just now but couldn’t power it up.
"!" Lily confidently retorted with her hands on her hips.
Xiangxiang, "Then where’s the switch for the light and the fan?"
Lily pointed at the machine’s console, "There, the pink knob on the left is for adjusting the light brightness.
"The green keyboard is the fan’s switch, press 138 to turn the fan on, 56447 is the first speed, 65689 is the second, 23438 is the third."
Xiangxiang, "Why?"
Lily, "Because I don’t want anyone else using my fan, you know, it can get quite chilly."
"That’s not what I’m asking." Xiangxiang, overwheld with compulsion, pointed at the switch on the wall, "Why is the machine’s switch on the wall? That’s not scientific."
Lily defended herself with hands on her hips, "What’s unscientific about it? Look, you enter this room to power up the machine, right?"
Xiangxiang, "Right...right."
Lily, "So the switch is on the wall. Turn the machine on as you enter, and easily switch it off when you leave, what’s the issue?"
Xiangxiang, "This..."
It seed unconventional but sohow made a lot of sense.
Lily continued, "The fan and the light work the sa way, you only feel hot or dark when operating it.
"If you put the switch on the wall, wouldn’t you have to keep getting up and walking back and forth? So troubleso."
Xiangxiang, "But...the light switches should be on the wall!"
Lily, "Who says so? There’s no such logic in this world."
Junior Sister looked at the two arguing, thinking how absurd it was for them to practice Immortal Cultivation yet resort to using fans for cooling instead of arrays and magical artifacts.
But Junior Sister thought it over and decided it was pointless to dwell on it. It would only exacerbate Xiangxiang’s compulsion disorder and result in more of Lily’s nonsensical justifications.
She ignored the two and sat down, waiting for Zhang Ze’s ssage.
After a while, the signal finally stabilized, but what appeared on the screen was not a greeting from the Earth Core, but a screen full of text.
So nurous, detailed, and extraordinary.
However, since the text was unsegnted and lacked punctuation, Junior Sister found it exhausting to read, it was overwhelming and dizzying.
Helplessly, Junior Sister could only reply with a 1 to indicate receipt.
But the more she looked, the dizzier she got, so she reached out to pull over Lily, who was still spouting nonsense to Xiangxiang.
"Can this be segnted?" Junior Sister asked.
"Sure, here you go." Lily placed a cookie imprinted with the character ’handso’ into Junior Sister’s hand, then pointed at a coin slot, "Insert the cookie, then shout into the nearby speaker, and it’ll segnt for you."
Junior Sister, "?"
"Isn’t this machine automatic? And what’s with the cookie-powered drive?"
Lily, "Who told you this machine is automatic? It’s artificially intelligent."
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