Chapter 199: Human Civilization’s Judgment Day…
Chapter 199 – Human Civilization’s Judgment Day…
After returning to his bedroom, Chen Yu found Little Peach crouching before the Automatic Cooking Pot and inspecting it.
“What are you looking at?”
Raising her head, Little Peach pointed at the cooking pot and said, “Mr. Chen, it’s actually a robot as well.”
“Is it alive?” Chen Yu asked in surprise.
“It’s roughly similar to the island-building ship’s AI.”
“Is that so?” Sitting before the cooking pot, Chen Yu frowned, “We’ll need to give it a name as well, then.”
“What should we name it?”
“Dimwit.”
The pot: “…”
“How fortunate.” Little Peach suddenly stroked her chest in joy.
“What are you feeling fortunate about?”
“I feel fortunate that I came with a name.”
“…Okay, go back to coding. I’m still busy.”
After sending Little Peach away, Chen Yu moved the Automatic Cooking Pot aside, sat on the floor, and resumed browsing the Transdimensional Store.
[4. Update Reminder Device: Produced by the Qidian Reading Company in the year 2066. This device automatically locates an author’s login IP, obtains their computer’s administrative authority, and takes control of their computer’s hardware. As long as no text input is detected from the author, the computer hardware will go into an overclocked state until the graphics card, motherboard, and other hardware are burned. The selling price is 38 points.]
“…” After remaining silent for a moment, Chen Yu flipped to the next page. “It seems I’m thinking of nonsense again…”
[5. The Shining Moment of Civilization, February 2041 Edition: Serialized by the Natural Science Society in 2030. This journal records the series of events that happen after 2030. It is the most authoritative, important, and historically valuable journal of human civilization. This journal is the February 2041 Edition. The selling price is 100 points.]
“A journal?”
After carefully reading the product description several times and hesitating on the 100-point selling price for some time, Chen Yu chose to purchase the journal.
Although this product wasn’t some advanced technology, he was relatively interested in what humans would experience in the future and what changes would occur to human culture, society, form, and consciousness.
[110 points expended (product + tax). Remaining points: 275]
As this line of text flashed by his watch’s screen, a s.p.a.ce-time wormhole instantly appeared in the middle of his room. A small, rectangular box then fell out of the wormhole.
Whoosh—
After waiting for the wormhole to disappear, Chen Yu stepped forward and unsealed the box. He then pulled out a journal from it.
The journal’s thickness was average, and it numbered no more than 100 pages. However, the size of the pages was large. At a glance, the pages were at least A3 in size.
After tearing off the exquisite plastic packaging, Chen Yu laid on his bed with the journal held up. And with the heart of a curious child, he started flipping through the journal.
However, just reading the first page’s content had already caused his body to grow cold and sweat to appear on his forehead…
Chen Yu abruptly sat up, his breathing a little short. He then started reading through the journal with greater speed, flipping through page after page.
The more he read, the more gooseb.u.mps he got.
“This… How is this possible?”
Noticing Chen Yu’s abnormality, Little Peach hurriedly approached him and asked, “Mr. Chen, what happened?”
Chen Yu did not answer. He simply waved his hand and continued immersing himself in the detailed reports.
Aside from there being many words, the journal also had dozens of accompanying pictures and a.n.a.lysis diagrams. Hence, even an ignorant plebian like Chen Yu could more or less understand what the reports were talking about.
Despite the journal not having a lot of content, Chen Yu had spent two whole hours reading it.
After Chen Yu read the last page and closed the journal, uncertainty appeared on his face.
“What happened?” Little Peach asked in confusion as she grabbed the journal and flipped through it. “Is it a horror novel?”
“It’s much more terrifying than a horror novel.”
Standing up, Chen Yu started pacing around the room as his brain started working overtime.
Meanwhile, after flipping through a few pages, Little Peach asked in confusion, “What is this book talking about? I don’t quite understand.”
“You’ll understand if you search up some basic knowledge on astronomy on the internet.”
“Okay!” Nodding, Little Peach said, “I’ll go study now.”
“Set aside your studies for now.” After pacing around his room for several minutes, Chen Yu seemingly came to a decision. Reaching out, he grabbed the camera suspended in mid-air and handed it to Little Peach. “Edit the livestream first and publish it on the various platforms at 9 AM tomorrow. Afterward…”
Receiving the camera, Little Peach wondered, “Afterward?”
“Afterward, publish a text announcement.”
“Is it an interactive livestream? What day should we host it on?”
“It isn’t an interactive event,” Chen Yu said, shaking his head. “Set the time next Sunday. I need to make some preparations in the meantime.”
“Oh. What about the t.i.tle?”
Squinting his eyes, Chen Yu said, “Human Civilization’s Judgment Day…”
…
The next day, Monday:
Sunlight snuck through the curtains and landed on Chen Yu’s face. Feeling his face warming up, Chen Yu slowly opened his eyelids to reveal a pair of bloodshot eyes.
He didn’t get a good sleep last night as the journal’s contents repeatedly echoed in his mind.
He had never once thought that humanity would face an existential crisis in his era.
“Ugh…”
After ma.s.saging his swollen temples, Chen Yu sat up. Just as he was about to get out of bed, he noticed Little Peach staring at him with a stern expression.
“Huh? Why are you looking at me like that?”
Her eyes bursting into tears, Little Peach said, “You really have someone outside.”
Chen Yu: “???”
“Don’t deny it!”
Bringing the laptop over, Little Peach played a video.
The image shown on the video was none other than Chen Yu and Xing Biqi having dinner together in a kitchen.
“Uh…” Chen Yu blinked in surprise. For some inexplicable reason, he suddenly felt as if he had just been caught cheating. “Y-You found it in the camera’s storage?”
“Yes!” Little Peach clenched her fist. “You had me edit yesterday’s livestream recording, and I accidentally came across a video recorded previously.”
“Are you sure you came across it by accident?”
“Regardless, you still went behind my back and found someone else. And sure enough, it is that girl.” Struggling to contain her anger, Little Peach yelled, “She even fed you as well!”
“It’s normal for cla.s.smates to have meals with each other.” Chen Yu got out of bed, changed into a new set of clothing, and slipped away. “I’m going to school now. Let’s talk afterward.”
“Mr. Chen! You cannot leave!” Little Peach blocked Chen Yu. Angrily, she said, “I want to cook for you too! I cannot lose to her!”
“Uh…” Recalling the evil concoction Little Peach cooked up before, Chen Yu shook his head and said, “You need to calm down.”
“I want to make egg fried rice for you too! I’ll make one better than hers!”
Little Peach pouted. She then opened up the Automatic Cooking Pot’s lid and grabbed the eggs and rice she prepared beforehand.
“You’re using that to cook? Sure, then.” Chen Yu breathed out a sigh of relief. “At least the final product will be edible.”
“Don’t worry.” Waving her hand, Little Peach said, “I won’t cook using smart mode. I’ll use manual mode to make an egg fried rice filled with love.”
“…I’ll grow even more worried if you do that.”
“Just you wait.”
Little Peach turned on manual mode and heated up the pot. She then frowned as she switched her gaze between the egg in her left hand and the rice in her right hand. “Um…”
“What’s wrong?” Chen Yu sneered.
“Should I put the egg in first or the rice?”
“You don’t even know this, yet you dare cook for me?”
“I know how!” Little Peach mumbled, “I just forgot. It’ll definitely be delicious once it’s done!”
“Place the egg first.”
“Right! I remember now! I have to add the egg first!”
After saying so, Little Peach squeezed the egg with all her might.
Crack!
The eggsh.e.l.l was crushed!
Egg white and yolk then flowed through the gaps of her fingers and fell into the pot with a sizzling noise.
Gulp.
Chen Yu took a step back and gulped nervously as he felt a dull pain coming from his crotch.
…
Five minutes later, the egg fried rice was completed.
Sitting opposite each other, Little Peach and Chen Yu silently stared at the bowl of charred jelly between them.
“You call this egg fried rice?” Chen Yu asked.
Grabbing Chen Yu’s phone, Little Peach looked up a recipe on the internet and said, “I asked whether to add the egg or rice first… You told me to add the egg first.”
“What? Is it wrong to put in the egg first?” Chen Yu frowned.
Little Peach: “The internet said to add oil first…”
Chen Yu: “…”