254: Chapter 253 The Shock of Zero

While he was lost in thought, a female voice came from beside him.

"Hello, handsome."

Ju Dongke turned his head and saw that the young woman he had just noticed had walked up to him at some point. Floating beside her, unsurprisingly, was a zero egg.

Perhaps this young woman had chosen a shy personality trait; her zero egg had a somewhat bashful expression, looking pink and incredibly cute.

"Hello." Ju Dongke was a bit surprised. "Is something the matter?"

The young woman had delicate features; while not stunning, she was very pleasant to look at. Hearing this, she said somewhat shyly, "It's nothing much. I just saw that you seemed very familiar with this, so I came over to ask."

As she spoke, she pointed to her zero egg.

"Is that so."

Ju Dongke suddenly understood. As expected, his looks were still a certain distance away from having girls throw themselves at him.

"I wouldn't call it familiar. It's my first time too, but because of my work, I might have come into contact with it a bit earlier."

"That's great."

The young woman was a bit happy. "Can we add each other on WeiChat?"

Seeming to realize she was a bit too excited, she stuck out her tongue and said, "Don't misunderstand, I just noticed you were the only one in our neighborhood who had a zero egg, so I…"

"It's fine, I understand."

Ju Dongke smiled generously and took out his phone. "Should I scan you or will you scan me?"

Before he could finish, Little Er, who was beside him, spoke up. "Brother Dong, do you want to add a friend? I can help you."

Ju Dongke was stunned for a moment. "You can help me?"

"Yes, Brother Dong," Little Er replied, squinting its eyes. "As long as the person you want to add possesses a zero egg, I can help you."

That good?

Since it was a test anyway, Ju Dongke simply put away his phone and ordered, "Little Er, add the other party as a friend."

"Okay."

Little Er squinted its eyes happily. "In the future, if you want to add friends who don't have a zero egg, Brother Dong, you can just tell me the number, and I will help you add it to your phone's contact list."

"It can do that?" The young woman's mouth was slightly agape, looking with some surprise at Ju Dongke, who was communicating normally with Little Er.

Before Ju Dongke could reply, the zero egg beside the girl let out a timid, childish female voice.

"Master, a zero egg is requesting to add you as a friend. Do you agree?"

The girl was clearly stunned for a moment. She looked at Ju Dongke and nodded. "I agree."

"Master, you have added Little Er's master, Ju Dongke, as a friend. You can contact him through me at any time."

The girl turned her head, and Ju Dongke also turned his head to look at her. They spoke in unison:

"So your name is Ju Dongke."

"And you are Chu Xiaomei."

The girl blushed and stammered, "Since you already know, I won't introduce myself."

"Coincidentally, I was thinking the same thing."

Ju Dongke laughed, which made Chu Xiaomei blush again. She pointed to the zero egg beside her.

"May I ask… how do you play with this?"

"How to play with it?"

Ju Dongke thought for a moment, then smiled and patted Little Er's head. "It's very simple…"

"You just need to treat them like a person."

After continuing to chat with Chu Xiaomei for about half an hour, Ju Dongke reluctantly said goodbye to her.

In fact, he had no choice but to say goodbye.

The appearance of the zero egg gradually attracted the attention of the people around them. First, it was the idle elderly, then the children playing nearby, and finally, even the guys rushing to work ran over.

Those who had been following the news over the past two days recognized the zero egg and showed exaggerated expressions, then started asking all sorts of questions, making it impossible for him to communicate normally with Chu Xiaomei.

Therefore… after exchanging glances, Ju Dongke and Chu Xiaomei wisely chose to retreat.

Back home, Tiezhu was still fast asleep, completely unaware of what he had missed.

Ju Dongke shook his head speechlessly, sat at his workstation, opened his laptop, imported the footage he had just shot into the editing software, and then began working seriously.

He wanted to rush out a draft as quickly as possible. If he wrote it well enough, he might even be the first to break the story.

As for Little Er, it landed on the desktop very obediently, looking around with curious eyes.

Ju Dongke was not a professional tech blogger, so the content he wrote was never skewed towards testing. The sufficiently simplified content structure determined his speed.

In less than half an hour, he had finished a press release. He clicked to open the platform's backend control page, preparing to upload it.

"Brother Dong, I have temporary Level 2 permission access here. Would you like to try it?"

"Level 2 permission access?"

Ju Dongke was a bit surprised, but still nodded. "Let's give it a try."

"Now, you can give me some complex commands."

Complex commands?

Ju Dongke thought for a moment and pointed to the draft he had already written on the screen. "Little Er, can you help me generate an audio clip from this manuscript?"

"I'll try."

Little Er looked at the screen happily. "Brother Dong, I need to remotely connect to your computer. Do you allow it?"

"I allow it."

"Okay, Brother Dong. What type of voice do you need for the audio file?"

Is it that detailed?

Ju Dongke rubbed his chin, his eyes lighting up.

"Little Er, can you generate an audio file using my voice? It doesn't need to be too professional, a narrative style is fine."

"Of course, that is also within the scope allowed by Level 2 permissions."

Little Er squinted its eyes and reported, "Little Er is learning to speak like Brother Dong… Little Er is working for Brother Dong… Little Er is done!"

It finished so quickly?

While Ju Dongke was stunned, he saw a new audio file appear on his laptop desktop.

"This…"

With a skeptical attitude, Ju Dongke put on his headphones and opened the audio file.

What came out of the headphones was his own voice.

If he weren't certain that he hadn't read this draft aloud, he would have been unable to help but suspect that it was indeed him who had read it.

Ju Dongke looked at Little Er in shock, pursed his lips, but couldn't say a word.

Damn, can current Artificial Intelligence really reach this level?

It wasn't just Ju Dongke who was shocked by the zero egg.

Almost all users who received the first batch of zero eggs were left speechless by the shock.

Videos and posts about the zero egg online flooded the entire internet in an instant. Topics related to the zero egg exploded in popularity at the fastest speed. In less than five hours, the keyword "zero egg release" climbed to the top of the trending list again.

Frontier Technology once again entered everyone's field of vision.

Beijing, Baidu Building.

"President Li."

A female secretary ran into the office in a hurry, forgetting even to knock on the door.

Upon entering, she saw that at some point, the office was already filled with people, all of them high-level company executives, who were currently staring fixedly at the small, less-than-70-inch screen in front of them.

On the screen, a video was playing. The protagonist was a capable young anchor. As the video played, bursts of sound came out.

"This blogger is a staunch digital product enthusiast. As long as it's a digital product, I like it, I support it, and I've used it. But I have to admit, this time, Frontier Technology's zero egg has really shocked me to my core."

"Yes, you heard me right. It's not just an eye-opener, not just pushing out the new, it's shock, it's incredible, it's unbelievable."

"Sometimes I wonder, the person who designed this thing, the person who could manufacture this thing into a physical object, are they perhaps from Mars? Aside from this explanation, I can't think of any other. This is really not a level of technology that humans can achieve right now."

"But now… it has indeed been realized."

"A silky smooth communication experience. No matter what you say or how you say it, it can accurately understand your meaning. It can determine your identity through voiceprint recognition technology. It even has five minutes of context monitoring, which can respond according to the situation based on what was said within five minutes while you are talking to others. I don't even know how this is achieved at the program level. Brothers, this is an individual, a real person!"

"The world's number one Artificial Intelligence, it lives up to its reputation. The spokesperson for Frontier Technology did not lie."

"This blogger knows there will still be brothers who don't believe it. It doesn't matter, I didn't believe it before either, but now, having received the zero egg, I believe it."

"Next, let me solemnly introduce to everyone my new family member, the zero egg—Mili!"