Chapter 73: Intelligence: Little Nine!

Humans were just strange like that.

When he came, he was fully focused on plotting against Tony, wanting to obtain the artificial intelligence.

But now that this intelligence was placed right in front of him, Wei Ziqing’s heart did not feel very excited, as if what was before him was nothing more than an ordinary box.

After a long silence, Wei Ziqing finally opened the black box.

What entered his sight was not the complex fiber optics and circuit board cores he had imagined, but instead an ultra-thin object similar to a notebook.

“Is this the Intelligent System Tony gave me?” He was slightly stunned. Since it was claimed to be artificial intelligence, it should have been very complex, so why was it so simple?

Looking at the intelligence that looked like a tablet, Wei Ziqing quickly found the activation button. With one press, a cold, mechanical voice suddenly came from the tablet intelligence.

“System activating!

Intelligence embedding!

Emotion initializing!

Intelligence gathering!

Environment scanning!

…”

The cold voice gradually became more emotional. Clearly, it changed from a mechanical sound to a crisp and ethereal one, turning into a female voice.

That was not all. In that instant, the entire room suddenly fell into darkness. Wei Ziqing clearly noticed that invisible currents of electricity broke through the confinement of the wires and rushed toward the tablet-like device, gathering there.

“This… this Intelligent System can actually absorb electricity and convert energy by itself, this…” Wei Ziqing’s face was filled with horror. He did not expect that what Tony gave him would be so terrifying.

It had not even finished activating, yet it already knew how to replenish its own energy. If it were fully activated, then…

Wei Ziqing did not dare to think further, but the joy on his face grew even stronger.

Countless currents of electricity continued to gather, lighting up the entire room in a brilliant azure glow. Above the notebook tablet, a huge blue sphere of light was constantly forming.

Looking closer, he discovered that inside this blue sphere of light, there were networks of various sizes like blood vessels, as if it were a human brain magnified four or five times. It was extremely exquisite!

“This… could this be the core of this intelligent computer?” Wei Ziqing understood. He remembered that in The Avengers, the core of J.A.R.V.I.S. was also like this!

The only difference was that J.A.R.V.I.S. was yellow, while this one was blue!

“System activation successful!

Intelligence embedding successful!

Emotion initialization successful!

Data collection successful!

Environment scan successful!”

While Wei Ziqing was shocked, the intelligent light-brain finally finished activating completely.

“Hello Xiansheng, I am glad to serve you…” The voice was very emotional, as gentle as a hazy yet beautiful woman.

Wei Ziqing suppressed the excitement in his heart. Looking at the huge blue light-brain before him, he took a deep breath and asked, “Hello, what is your name?”

“Name? I don’t have a name right now. For now, I am temporarily called Number Two. How about you help me pick one?” The ethereal voice carried a hint of depression, clearly dissatisfied with her own name.

Wei Ziqing smiled slightly, as if he could see a young girl pouting with a look of annoyance on her face.

After thinking for a while, he spoke: “In that case, how about you be called Little Nine?”

“Little Nine… alright, I’ll make do. At least it sounds much better than Number Two!” Little Nine was clearly still a bit unhappy with the name, but she accepted it, as if she already knew that Wei Ziqing was not good at naming things.

“Xiansheng…”

“What is it, Little Nine?” Wei Ziqing looked at Little Nine’s light-brain core. It was rare for Little Nine to speak first, so he was naturally curious about what she wanted.

“It is nothing, Xiansheng!” Little Nine’s tone was a bit hesitant, but she still smiled and spoke.

Wei Ziqing frowned. Little Nine clearly had something to say to him, but then she said there was nothing? What was going on?

He felt some doubt in his heart, but he did not think too much about it. After all, he was Little Nine’s master; she would not lie to him!

…

For a whole week, Wei Ziqing spent his time familiarizing himself with Little Nine’s various functions.

The notebook was indeed Little Nine’s carrier, or rather her core. However, because of the limitations of this carrier, many functions could not be fully utilized. This was something Wei Ziqing needed to solve.

But Wei Ziqing was not in a hurry. He would deal with these things after returning to reality. Here, he did not need to rely on Little Nine too much.

After all, her main field of operation was in reality!

One day, while Wei Ziqing was watching television, a sudden breaking news report caught his attention.

It was Rhodey announcing that an accident had occurred during one of their military exercises, and a fighter jet had suddenly malfunctioned and crashed.

Seeing this, Wei Ziqing was stunned. He suddenly forgot that this scene also happened in the plot, although the truth was that the plane was crashed by Tony.

“Tony went to Gulmira? Then what about Yinsen? Is he safe?” After several days in Afghanistan, Wei Ziqing still cared quite a bit for his old friend Yinsen.

“Xiansheng, please be assured. Mr. Yinsen is fine. He was saved by Iron Man, the Tony Stark you mentioned. It is just that he still did not come to New York with Tony…”

Little Nine’s ethereal and gentle voice came from the empty room. She had heard Wei Ziqing’s mutterings and used her collection abilities to turn all the information into light screens, displaying them before Wei Ziqing.

Looking at the information Little Nine collected and hearing her words, Wei Ziqing smiled. Although he had grown accustomed to Little Nine’s abilities over the past few days, seeing this highly sci-fi scene was still quite shocking. He waved his hand across the light screens to move them away, said thank you, and then fell silent.

“Tony has returned from Gulmira. That means the Mark III is completely finished, and the plot has reached the point where Obadiah Stane has developed the large Iron Battle Armor. Then in a few days, Tony and he will clash, right?”

Standing by the window, Wei Ziqing’s expression became conflicted.

Although Tony eventually defeated Stane, he almost died!

In the past, he would not have worried much; whether Tony lived or died had nothing to do with him. But now, because of his own appearance, Wei Ziqing could not be too certain!

After traveling through two Planes, he discovered that whenever he appeared, the original story inevitably changed. This time, if he did not get involved, could Tony truly turn danger into safety?

Although there was now a gap between Tony and himself, they were ultimately former friends. Could he truly ignore the possible changes?

After a long time, Wei Ziqing finally made a decision. He turned to Little Nine and said, “Little Nine, help me access the New York surveillance system. See where Obadiah Stane is right now!”

For an artificial intelligence, hacking into New York’s surveillance system was not a difficult task. Little Nine immediately replied, “Yes Xiansheng, I will search for Obadiah Stane’s whereabouts immediately…”

Ten seconds later, Little Nine finally had a result: “Xiansheng, Obadiah Stane is on his way to Tony Stark’s residence…”

“What?” Hearing this, Wei Ziqing’s face changed instantly. Why would Stane go to Tony’s house now? Was it for the Arc Reactor?

He quickly asked Little Nine what was happening. It turned out that Potts had already gone to Stark Industries and found the evidence of Stane framing Tony, and she even found out that he was researching an Iron army!

That was not all. Wei Ziqing asked about Rhodey’s location as well. Rhodey had not gone to Tony’s residence. This meant that at the final moment, Rhodey would not arrive in time to place the original Arc Reactor into Tony’s chest!

Tony would be killed by Stane!