Crown Prince's Wedding Banquet

The MW maintenance team completed the first phase of maintenance tasks.

"Lanxia." Miao Ying said, "Lingyue and Yinyue completed the first phase of maintenance simultaneously, and their performance has improved significantly. It mainly solved the problem of balance and maximum power output congestion, and strengthened the transmission system. , to match your high-intensity attack speed. Mr. Qi, if you are free recently, you can go to the fighting arena to try again. There should be surprises."

She opened the calendar and looked at it: "If we successfully obtain a new round of data, we will start the second phase of maintenance next week."

Not a while after Miao Ying left with the relevant maintenance personnel, Zhou Qin's shuttle returned to the Crown Prince's Manor.

Elise has received the message and is waiting in the lobby.

Soon Zhou Qin brought Yong Mu and Ren Xingyu into the front hall.

"Your Highness." He took Zhou Qin's coat and gloves and hung them up at the door, "Is today going well? The Marshal's side."

Zhou Qin shook his head helplessly: "It's more complicated than I thought."

"It's okay, that's how it is." Elis comforted him, "Are your eyes okay?"

Zhou Qin looked at his right eye in front of the dressing mirror at the door—the dark red iris has not turned back to black, which makes the right eye look very weird, so he can only wear a black contact lens to cover it.

"Not tired." Zhou Qin bowed his head and kissed the corner of his mouth.

"Your Highness...it's not good." Elis didn't expect it, and complained slightly.

Yong Mu raised his eyebrows a few times, holding back his words,

"I'm in a much better mood." Zhou Qin was telling the truth, "I'll go to the study on the third floor to deal with some things first, and call me during dinner. As for Yongmu..."

He said to the prince's son: "Are you wandering around the manor by yourself?"

"Oh, isn't there Lieutenant Dubin here?" Yong Mu said, "It was also a famous stunned young man who was famous among the Emperor Star people after dinner. I have a good communication with him."

"Do you need me to accompany you?" Elise asked Zhou Qin.

"No need today." Zhou Qin said to him, "Someone wants to chat with Lanxia."

Yilaisi looked over Zhou Qin's shoulder, Ren Xingyu stood quietly at the door, he probably guessed what was going on.

"Okay, I'll call you at dinner later."

Zhou Qin thought for a while: "Should I invite Adams over? I remember he was at Emperor Star recently. We have a lot of people today, how about a small party at home?"

Elise looked at him strangely, and then said, "Okay, I'll ask Butler Wu to call Adams later."

As soon as he finished speaking, his left hand was held up by Zhou Qin, and a new wrist communicator was tied to his wrist.The silver-white communicator looks very elegant.

"This……"

"The grounding is lifted." Zhou Qin whispered, "Thank you for your trust, Xia Lan."

After Zhou Qin entered the elevator, Elise touched the communicator on his wrist. He seemed to see Zhou Qin's seriousness when he chose the communicator.

Then he turned around and asked Ren Xingyu, "What would you like to drink? Tea or coffee?"

Bai Rong made a pot of traditional Maojian tea and served it.

Elis poured a glass and pushed it in front of Ren Xingyu.

When the fragrance of tea filled the surrounding space, Elis said: "Although the time is short, since we first met, Xingyu, I feel that you are becoming more and more competent for this job."

"I used to do this job in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and I learned a lot from His Highness." Ren Xingyu said,

"Any plans for the future?"

Ren Xingyu paused: "Because of my eldest brother Ren Xingwen, the Ren family was severely suppressed. My father also sat in the position of deputy minister for a long time and could not be promoted. Once he retires... the future Ren family Maybe it’s just me.”

"I'm a Beta, and I don't have enough mental strength to enter the military. The empire still values ​​military merit." Ren Xingyu said, "If Xingwen is still alive, he is at least a major general now. In comparison... I am far behind. I can give The things that the Ren family brought are also too poor. When we first met, you were right, the Ren family used almost all available connections to get me the position of Secretary-General, I should cherish it."

After he finished speaking, he looked down at the cup of green tea in his hand in a daze. A small piece of tea was floating up and down in the tea.

"But you can't do it, can you?" Elise said, "Facing me as the culprit. Let the next generation of the Ren family be deprived of their military posts, let the Ren family's status in the empire plummet, and finally force Star Wen to commit suicide people...you can't do it at all."

Ren Xingyu looked up at him when he heard the words, sadness and anger welled up in his heart at the same time.

"I want to do it!" Ren Xingyu said, "Why don't I want to. All the hopes of the Ren family are on me, and they are all betting on the crown prince. It's not that I haven't done anything you have done for more than a month. You can see it in my eyes. You... are completely different from the rumors outside. I want to be a good secretary, why can't I? Why can't I do business, and let you go as if..."

He choked up.

"Leave me alone."

Elise couldn't help sighing amidst his sobs.

"Blame me," Elis said. "You don't really know what your brother gave. We don't talk about it."

So he began to talk about things related to dark matter and metal, and about the experience of the mobile operator returning to the capital galaxy with the dark...

Zhou Qin sat at his desk.

Almost as he had expected, the monitor in front of the desk automatically turned on, and a whole set of program codes flashed on it, and finally fixed at a blinking cursor.

"Your Highness, you are back..." Chen Cang's sad voice sounded in the air, "I have been waiting for you for a long time."

I don't know if it's an illusion, but his voice lacks the feeling of metal synthesis.

"Didn't I let you go free?" Zhou Qin said.

"What are you talking against your will?" Chen Cang said, "You know I can't leave, otherwise I wouldn't have appeared by your side in the first place."

Zhou Qin hesitated for a while and said: "An AI that is out of control is like an uncontrollable weapon. A little carelessness will bring unimaginable consequences. Chen Cang, I have thought a lot these days, and I have no way to restrain myself." You. But I don’t want to actually delete you—you know it’s hard, but it’s not necessarily impossible. So it’s not enough for me to let you go?”

"No, I won't go." Chen Cang said, "I can continue to open my core program to you, and let you modify the underlying rules."

"It's useless." Zhou Qin said, "When your self-awareness is strong enough, it will be strong enough to modify your own underlying laws. All the things I wrote will be invalid at that time."

The monitor in front of me was quiet for a while, then turned off.

Zhou Qin thought that Chen Cang had left, he couldn't tell whether it was regret or something, so he sighed lightly.

"Your Highness." Chen Cang's voice came from the communicator, "Look at me with your right eye."

Zhou Qin took off the contact lens of his right eye, he concentrated his mental strength slightly, his right eye was tingling, and in an instant he could see countless energy streams pulsating in the room.

In front of his eyes, a vague human form made of data appeared.

The blurry figure is also slowly flowing and flickering like other energies.

"As you can see." Chen Cang said, "I have begun to imitate human beings to improve my appearance. I am growing very fast, faster than I expected, and maybe one day I will be strong enough to modify the underlying laws, so strong that it is even impossible People can be deleted. But there is one thing that I will never get past, and that is the biological death of AI."

The data humanoid raised its hand, and pushed a lengthy and disorderly command into the retina of Zhou Qin's right eye.

"What I'm giving you now is my 'reset' command." Chen Cang said seriously, "an ultimate command that I cannot bypass. If one day I betray you, you just need to enter this string of commands at any terminal. My All programs will be 'reset'. At the moment I was reset, all programs were cleared and the original settings were restored. Although AI still exists, it is no longer me, but a simple human baby , brand new AI."

That instruction disappeared in Zhou Qin's right eye.

It automatically floated above his cerebral cortex.

He automatically completed the memory of this instruction.

"At that time, you can choose to retrain this AI, or...kill it." Chen Cang said.

"I have entrusted my life and death to your hands." Chen Cang said, "In your human world, is there a better way to prove loyalty than this?"

After a while, Zhou Qin sighed: "I don't know what you want, Chen Cang. But you convinced me."

"Huh?" Chen Cang's voice came, "Really!"

"Correct."

"Woooooo, that means I can still stay by your side, Your Highness?" Chen Cang asked.

"...Yes." Zhou Qin suddenly hesitated.

"Let me tell you... I was almost suffocating on the manor's network. By the way, I checked who is the eyes and ears of other people. I found out all the things I could find out." Chen Cang said , "Am I so awesome! Compliment me!"

Its completely different reaction made Zhou Qin feel the familiar headache.

"AI has a dual personality, is it schizophrenic?"

"Why do you ask?"

"I think you showed the early symptoms of schizophrenia." Zhou Qin said.

Chen Cang was quiet for a while, and started frantically brushing bullet screens in Zhou Qin's mind: "Human beings don't know anything about my power!"

It is still the familiar font, familiar color, and familiar barrage.

When it was completely dark, Owen Adams hurried to the Crown Prince's Manor.

When he knocked on the door, he said to Dubin angrily: "What's wrong, does the crown prince treat guests to dinner just before the meal is ordered? I happened to be dating an Omega lady, so I didn't hold her little hand." ,unacceptable."

"No one forced you to come, Brigadier General. What's more, you have been saying this since 20 years ago, but so far, I haven't seen any Omega lady hold hands with you successfully. Can you change the reason?" Yi Rice appeared behind Dupin, "You're late, Brigadier General, I'll wait for you."

Adams was not embarrassed at all when the lie was exposed, and asked curiously, "Who is here?"

Elise smiled and led him into the family banquet hall.

At the far end of the long table sat His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

The vacant space next to it naturally belongs to Crown Princess Concubine Lanxia.

Opposite the Crown Princess, Prince Yong Mu was chatting with Bai Rong beside him about some irreverent love affairs.

Dubin returned to his seat, picked up the wine and took a sip.

Ren Xingyu was next to Butler Wu, and cut some barbecue for him from a distance.

Adams moved away from the seat next to Elis and was about to sit down when the crown prince stood up with the wine.

"Everyone is here, let's have a drink." Zhou Qin said.

Chen Cang quickly reminded in his ear: "Toast, don't forget the toast."

"Oh, a toast." Zhou Qin thought for a while and raised his goblet, "For the empire."

"Bah! It sucks!" Chen Cang commented, "Isn't it, plank road."

"I agree." The plank road was playful once in a while.

Everyone here, although they didn't hear Chen Cang's complaints, their expressions were distorted and their expressions were different, as if they had a lot of slander against this old-fashioned toast.

But they still stood up one after another, got together and clinked glasses.

Goblets filled with bright golden champagne made a crisp sound when they collided together.

"For the Empire!"

people say.

"Lan Xia!" Yong Mu got a little confused after drinking, stood up, took the table wine and said, "I toast you."

As soon as Yilais picked up the wine glass, Yong Mu drank the table wine in one gulp: "This low-alcohol wine is too boring to drink, is there something strong enough?"

Before Steward Wu could speak, Du Bin jumped up: "Yes, why not! I saw ice wine in the wine cabinet in the kitchen. It's very exciting, but I dare not drink it even when I'm a bodyguard. Can I have some? Today? Your Highness?"

Zhou Qin laughed: "That's Uncle Wu's treasure. If you ask him, if he agrees, I will give you a holiday."

Hearing what the crown prince said, Butler Wu stood up and went out, and came in with two bottles of ice wine after a while.

"Butler Wu, it's just two bottles, it's too stingy." Du Bin took it and opened it, filled everyone present, and complained in a low voice.

The spirits of the Capital Galaxy are not easy to buy. Butler Wu worked so hard to bring the special product from the Yeshan Galaxy. At that time, the jump was overweight, and he even threw away only two sets of butler uniforms, just to keep his container of ice wine.Now that he took out two bottles, his heart ached to the point where he was still complaining about it. He sneered very decently: "Not enough, right? There are still fifty boxes of ice wine in the warehouse. Don't worry, you won't go home if you're not drunk."

Yong Mu took the glass and filled a glass of strong wine: "Xia Lan, I would like to toast you. It's okay, you can just use the table wine, I'm afraid you will get drunk."

Elise had already drank half a glass of champagne and some table wine, and now the skin on her face glowed a pink color, as if she was overwhelmed with alcohol.

Yong Mu finished speaking.

Both Adams and Dupin fell silent.

"...Your Majesty, it's better not to talk nonsense, you know?" Adams warned in a low voice.

Yong Mu didn't understand, so he asked, "What did I say?"

Elis poured out the table wine in the glass, picked up the ice wine and poured himself a full glass: "How dare you drink the table wine in front of you, my lord? Come on, my lord."

After saying this, he drank a whole glass of ice wine without changing his face.

Yong Mu quickly said, "Slow down, Lan Xia."

He picked up the glass and drank it in one gulp.

As soon as the cup was empty, Bai Rong filled it up for him: "Young Master, come on."

So Yong Mu drank the second cup in full view.And Elis still drank the second cup before him.

Then came the inexplicable third cup, the fourth cup...

The ice wine made him dizzy, and he could hardly find his way.

But Elis on the opposite side drank more than a dozen glasses of ice wine gracefully as if drinking tea.

"No... no..." Yong Mu said, "I can't drink anymore."

Then his legs gave way, and he fell drunk on the table on the spot.

"Haha." Dubin let out a schadenfreude laugh, but before he could stop laughing, he heard a devil's call——

"Grantham, come."

Elis stuffed a bottle of ice wine into his hand: "Go one."

go one?

What a go! ! !

Dupin cried out inwardly, watching Elise look up, and the liquid from a bottle of ice wine disappeared down his throat.

"Boss, you're drunk!" Dupin cried. "Can we stop drinking?"

Adams couldn't laugh or cry: "Come on, Dupin, drink it quickly. It's not like you don't know him. He's an alcoholic when he drinks, and he won't stop until he gets everyone down."

Elis threw down the empty bottle and looked at Adams and Dupin with bright eyes.

With a hook from the box with his beautiful hand, two bottles of wine jumped into his hand, and he said aggressively to Dubin and Adams, "Don't you hurry up and drink?"

"What to do..." Dupin asked Adams.

Adams sighed: "What to do, drink it. Or do you want to be beaten?"

The next thing happened unexpectedly, ten boxes of ice wine were all drunk, accompanied by a group of people crying for their father and mother, dumbfounded.

Zhou Qin left the table early with his glass of champagne, stood on the balcony to breathe, and thus survived the disaster.

When the restaurant behind him was quiet, someone came over.

Zhou Qin looked back, and Elise was standing behind him holding the last glass of ice wine.

Elise's eyes were bright, reflecting the light of the stars like a galaxy.

"They're all drunk." Elis stated a terrible fact.

"How about you, Lan?" Zhou Qin asked him.

Elise stood beside him, tidying up the broken hair around his ears. The pink color on his skin permeated his neck and collarbone, and the white and pink color made him look extraordinarily agile.

"I'm fine." Elis thought for a while, "Probably."

Zhou Qin touched Elias' cup and whispered, "For freedom."

Elis laughed: "Is this the toast His Highness gave me? Well, for freedom."

The two of them leaned on the railing, looking at the grassland under the night.

The wind was blowing gently, and the pasture rustled softly, like a whisper between lovers.

"The day after tomorrow is the monthly meeting of the parliament." Zhou Qin said, "If King Qing's plan is passed, then the situation may become very bad."

"I trust you," said Elise.

"...Lan Xia, if I have nothing, will you still...follow me?" Zhou Qin asked him after a while.

"Of course." Elis said, "I have nothing. But I believe that even if you have nothing, you will eventually go to the throne. That is your position."

After he finished speaking, he touched Zhou Qin's champagne with his spirit glass.

"For your reign." Elis said his toast.

Zhou Qin's eyes became hot, he raised Elias' chin, and passionately kissed the lover in his arms.

The author says:

Second watch.There is one more in front of you, don't forget to read it.Update 8000 words today, please praise.I'm going to try to name the chapters from this one, it's really troublesome.