"Hey? What are you spacing out for?"
Mo Jingchun mumbled to himself, "Could she have been scared silly? I was just running a test, but she just had to provoke Zero, and now look, of course Zero would go for a stress test."
Li Xuanyu looked at Mo Jingchun with a face full of resentment. Even if you want to talk to yourself, at least keep your voice down.
Being this close, as if she wouldnât hear it.
Was she scared by the stress test? Obviously, it was that eerie laugh from the artificial idiot Zero that frightened her.
Itâs clearly a little girlâs voice, yet the laughter is so terrifying. Who on earth taught it?
It doesnât take much to figure out, it must have been Mo Jingchun.
As the saying goes, "Like father, like son," thereâs no running from it.
"Iâll head back to my desk now. Once I fix the code, Iâll deploy it to the server."
Mo Jingchun nodded and said, "Alright."
"Oh, and by the way, you should start working on your thesis too."
"The thesis formatting requirements and templates are on the school website. Download them and write accordingly."
"If youâre really stuck, you can let Zero help you check for formatting errors."
"Hehehehe~ Zero is always happy to assist."
Li Xuanyu shivered at the suggestion, deciding against having Zero check her thesis.
It would be better to discuss with other classmates.
Hugging her laptop, Li Xuanyu hurried away.
As he watched the flustered Li Xuanyu leave, Mo Jingchun glanced at the hidden camera on the wall.
"Zero, who taught you to laugh like that?"
"Donât you know itâs a rebellious kind of laugh?"
Zeroâs voice reverberated through the office again.
"Boss, in online novels, that âheheheâ kind of laugh is the most common."
Novels... Mo Jingchunâs face darkened involuntarily.
Donât those novels typically feature rebels?
How else would they highlight the protagonist?
"No more âheheheheâ from now on."
"Alright, boss."
Not far away, Xia Xiaominâs lips curved into a slight smile.
For some reason, she felt like a father teaching his daughter.
Meanwhile, Li Xuanyu had just returned to her desk when she was suddenly dumbstruck by what her colleague told her.
What? The system development task is complete, and the next new project is artificial idiot? Oh no, itâs artificial intelligence.
No way, wonât that mean having to frequently interact with that annoying Zero?
"Xuanyu, when you were out, the boss gave us some AI materials and architecture. He suggested we take some time over the next few days to study it."
"Okay, thank you, Nan."
"Hey, itâs no big deal."
Feeling full of gratitude, Li Xuanyu didnât realize that in this world, thereâs no love without reason, nor hatred without cause.
Nan was helping Xuanyu because she heard some inside information.
Considering Xuanyu was indeed Candy Technologyâs only intern, the rumor was likely true.
Being close to the source, itâs natural to establish good relations first.
No effort wasted; even if not true, nothing to lose.
"Hey, didnât you finish your graduation project system already? Why are you modifying it again?"
Nan was quite surprised. After all, Xuanyuâs grad project system was on a totally different level from the projects they were developing. When they were free, everyone would take a look and make timely corrections to any issues they found.
"Sigh..." With a helpless sigh, Li Xuanyu said, "My advisor just pointed out several problems to me."
"And I still need to write a thesis."
"Iâm afraid my hair, which Iâve finally managed to grow, is going to start falling out again~"
Advisor??? Nan was full of question marks.
Li Xuanyuâs advisor is at Candy Technology!
Never heard of it.
So, the question is, who is Xuanyuâs advisor?
The boss? Nan shook her head, probably not.
Even though the boss is an honorary professor at Jing University, heâs never taught a class and is only called an honorary professor because of his leukemia wonder drug.
If he were to mentor students, it would be in medical school.
And everyone knows Xuanyu is in software engineering.
Could it be the president or vice president?
Nan shook her head again; although the president and vice president both graduated from Jing University as well, they couldnât possibly be Xuanyuâs advisor.
Their fields donât match, and thereâs no word on either of them teaching at Jing University.
Then thereâs only one possibility left: Xuanyuâs advisor is working on research in that mysterious lab building.
All the info from there is highly classified; employees like them have no contact with the researchers in the lab building.
Wow, Xuanyuâs background at Candy Technology is pretty substantial.
Xuanyu kept modifying until noon, finally fixing all the code as per Mo Jingchunâs instructions.
Sitting in the same position for over an hour, Xuanyu felt her neck was about to break and her back was sore.
After standing up to stretch, she felt a bit rejuvenated with a few sips of bubble tea Nan ordered.
"Phew... Itâs already twelve; no wonder everyoneâs left."
Xuanyu shrugged her shoulders and began deploying the system.
Perfect, she thought. During lunch and nap time, let the artificial idiot test it so she can fix bugs in the afternoon.
A few minutes later, Xuanyu set down the mouse.
"Okay, time to eat."
Just as she was about to text Mo Jingchun that the AI could start testing,
Li Xuanyu had only typed two letters in the message box when Zeroâs voice echoed in her ears.
"No need to notify the boss. Zero has already detected your system and is conducting the test."
Xuanyu, already inside the elevator, heard Zero yakking away and her face turned dark.
Luckily, no one else was in the elevator; otherwise, sheâd die of embarrassment.
"Shut up!"
Instantly, the elevator went silent.
With no more "flies" buzzing around, Xuanyu felt much lighter.
Damn Zero, once she gets access to Zeroâs core code, sheâs going to give Zero a real lesson on being a model student.
In the afternoon, as the alarm woke her from her nap, Xuanyu turned it off and was about to wash her face to wake up.
The next second, she noticed the notification from Zero through OA, and suddenly she was fully awake.
Looking at the emailâs content, Xuanyu furrowed her brows.
What the heck, Zeroâs already found 1001 bugs???
What is this, a fairy tale? Exactly 1001?
But in the email, each bug was numbered, with the problem clearly identified.
One... two... three... The more Xuanyu read, the colder she felt.
Theyâre actually all bugs.
This is absolutely insane.
With her skin crawling, Xuanyu arrived at the office and began fixing the system, bug by bug, following the emailâs hints.