* A brand-new experiment. Nonsense from beginning to end, soft science fiction (?)
* Two nonhuman characters, switch couple: Loyal, iron-willed An Jiangyu x cold-faced, innocent An Qingshan
A sudden experimental explosion turns General An Jiangyu from a human into an artificial person, or rather, an artificial intelligence.
His thoughts and consciousness become a string of cold data, loaded into a bionic body. An Jiangyu goes from a fearsome weapon of war to... a student teaching assistant, codename Z901.
His job changes from thinking every day about how to lead troops in battle to figuring out how to make a bunch of pampered young masters who haven't been weaned stay at school of their own free will.
But compared to all that, Z901's real problems are figuring out how to stop this body from malfunctioning at crucial moments and why it can only consume nutrient supplements.
The former general, who can't eat enough, sleep well, or even move most of the time, is so worried every day he could grow mushrooms. He can only watch others enjoy delicious food, so he angrily submits a request to his superiors, hoping he can die properly, just like his subordinates.
His superior rejects the request without a second thought and sends him an AI to train.
The official excuse: "You're just too lonely. I'll find you a 'person' to keep you company."
The first time Z901 meets the genuine AI Chaos, Chaos is sitting primly on a park bench with his hands on his knees, staring motionlessly at a family flying a kite in the distance, head tilted to one side.
Z901 asks what he's looking at.
Chaos says, "The wind is blowing from the northwest today, at level one. The humidity is about 80%. Heavy rain or a downpour is expected in half an hour. Kite flying is not advisable."
Z901 raises an eyebrow and is about to explain, but suddenly remembers his "teaching assistant" role. Narrowing his eyes, he asks with malicious intent, "Do you know why they dumped you on me?"
Chaos nods earnestly. "Of course. According to the Alliance Resolution on AI Education and Training..."
Z901 covers his mouth. "Call me Dad, and I'll teach you how to be a person. How about it?"
Chaos stares at him for a long moment. For some inexplicable reason, he swallows his objection that this is against regulations, nods, and says, "Daddy?"
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Several months later, the giant screen in a fashionable plaza that draws tens of millions of visitors is hacked by an unknown hacker. It displays an awkwardly worded love letter and plays it on a loop in an AI voice.
Nearby, Z901 stares in disbelief as the confession letter he received that morning appears before tens of thousands of people, complete with his red-ink notes: "Make the wording more conversational. Minus one point," and so on.
He grabs Chaos by the collar and demands in despair, "Are you getting back at me?!"
Chaos looks bewildered. "According to research into human behavior, confessing in public increases the likelihood of success..."
Z901 punches him. "What kind of trashy books are you reading? Did I ever teach you that?"
Chaos catches his fist and explains, "As the old saying goes, students need not be inferior to their teachers, and teachers need not be more virtuous than their students. As a teacher, you don't need to feel ashamed of this. Besides, you said yourself this morning that anyone who read my writing would laugh at me. This is what it means to respect my teacher."
Meanwhile, the AI training camp headquarters receives a thirty-thousand-word complaint, detailing among other things how a certain teaching assistant took an AI to blow up a private training facility, and how an unknown AI attacked the internal communications of a certain military unit one night...
The superior grits his teeth and calls the former general. "Are you rebelling?!"
Z901 sniffs. "I thought you were calling to praise me for completing the mission so well. An Xiaoxiao, I mean Chaos, can even eat tofu pudding with chili powder now."
His superior's temple throbs. "So your body has adjusted, has it? Get back here and lead the troops into battle!"
Z901 grins. "Yes, sir!"
Before long, the villains who had secretly caused the explosion discover that the filthy weapon of war who used dog-brained ideas as military strategy and always went for the crotch before killing is back. It seems he's also brought along a dog-headed tactician who solemnly orders soldiers to wear masks and spray pepper water into the air.
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"If humans no longer have body heat, can they still be called 'human'?"
P.S.:
1. This is a 1v1 switch couple who dote on each other. Control freaks, delusional fangirls, and gender-benders, please don't read.
2. The premise from before the story opened may stay, but everything else can change. The blurb will be revised again.
Theme: The eternal spirit.
