The Geared Immortal

SLIA and the Virtual World Part 1

/*unedited*/

The Virtual World is one of Shin Jiao's dreams to make with the suggestion from his little crafting disciple, Ai Ji. At that time Ai Ji suggested for him to create an artifact that can teach people how to concoct medicine using real data and information. That way, they can save more on medicine limit waste while teaching alchemist real-life experience and results from concocting medicine.

But Shin Jiao has a grander plan, and that is to create a virtual world.

A virtual world is a world where cultivators and even mortals can exchange notes in fighting, trade items, and more. But in this world, death is nonexistent. The only limit is that one cannot improve physically because everything in the virtual world is purely data and knowledge.

…

Susan Tang lifted the visor from her head and an expression of amazement appears on her face. She suddenly threw herself to Shin Jiao's embrace and cried.

"Thank you… thank you so much." She said without reservation.

She didn't know why, but for Susan Tang, Shin Jiao is someone whom she can rely on. She is confident that he would not do anything to her as other men would. So she is complacent to show her weak side to him.

"Hey, we are partners in this right?" Shin Jiao said while patting her back.

But he could not avoid taking a whiff of her fragrant virgin scent which made his heartfelt warm and a bit excited.

However, he didn't want to act on his impulses because he has a goal to achieve first. And that is to regain his memories.

From the looks of it, he knew that he is not a normal person. He has a lot of hidden secret within him, and a huge mystery surrounding his very own identity.

However, he found hope because it seems that he is truly immersed in research and development. It might seem that he is a person of science.

And so, he already planned out that his cooperation with Susan Tang would push his plans forward. Not knowing what would happen next, Shin Jiao decided to just go with the flow until the time his memories would return.

After Susan Tang recovers from her emotional outburst, the two started to draft a plan to start a new small company. This time, she didn't want to rely on others. She would just build this company with the two of them.

Looking at the handsome man beside her, Susan Tang's mind even considers Shin Jiao as a life partner.

"Why not? He is handsome and a very capable guy…" she thought as she looked at him.

"I know I'm handsome and all, but I think I would melt if you look at me more." Shin Jiao suddenly said while looking at the draft that she made on the table.

Feeling a bit startled, Susan Tang squinted her eyes and glared at him.

"Humph, too conceited. Do you think you all that?" she harrumphs, but her face immediately turned red.

Shin Jiao chuckled upon seeing her beautiful blushing face.

"You're cute…" he muttered with a chuckle.

"You… you… Don't tease me!" she said shyly as she suddenly covers her face.

"Alright, alright, let's just go through with this." Shin Jiao said as they went over the plan again.

The week has passed peacefully, except for the remaining transfer of property that Susan Tang sold to her previously owned company.

On TV and online, she was criticized by some people and others pitied her. There are some media who learned about the harshness of the business world and her two brother's action. But everything was a done deal and nobody can do anything about it.

The conference room of Susan's Touch Corporation became a red zone. All of the executives, managers, and even the shareholders wouldn't dare held meetings in that place. Because it turned out that secrets in that place would be exposed due to an unknown reason.

The 4 low-tier talismans that Shin Jiao scattered in that place would dissipate only after a month. Hence, that place was regarded as the truth hall. And it became a famous place within the company and even the other neighboring companies.

But unknown to them, the peace in the business world within City H and the whole world would soon be rocked by a small start-up company.

In Susan Tang's condominium, Shin Jiao is busy tinkering with a laptop as he rapidly types in codes after codes.

However, if a programmer sees the codes on the laptop, they would turn dumb, because it is not a known programming language. Even Shin Jiao didn't know what the name of the language is. However, they are a combination of runes and machine language.

"Shin, when are you going to upload that thing that you are talking about?" Susan Tang asked with curiosity.

"I'm about to finish it now," he said after typing in a line of code and stopped.

He then compiled it and stood up from the sofa.

"Here look, this is our first freebie product to advertise our company." Shin Jiao said after he finished compiling the program and installing it in Susan Tang's phone.

"It doesn't change anything on your phone, but this is a learning virtual helper. It can learn anything that the user wanted to learn. Plus the A.I. has a basic intelligence of an eight-year-old child. The more information you feed it the more it would become intelligent. The only limit of the learning capacity is the amount of space on your phone. Plus it is under the three basic laws for A.I.'s and robots." Shin Jiao explained as he presented Susan Tang her phone.

Then suddenly a figure of a small slime spear in the middle.

"Hello, I'm SLIA! Which stands for Self-learning Interactive A.I., I'm happy to meet you! I want to take a picture with you, can I?" a small child's voice from her phone said.

Susan Tang was stunned at what she is seeing. She just unconsciously nods her head.

"You have to reply." Shin Jiao said.

"Yes… Yes…"

Then a prompt from her phone is asking for SLIA to access the camera just one time.

"Yes…"

Then a picture of her and a small smiling slime on her shoulder appear on her screen. This made Susan Tang smile.

"Shin this is awesome…" she said as she began to busy herself.

Shin Jiao turn around and continue writing program scripts and codes. This time, within his mind an unknown yet familiar world began to expand.

Then a prompt appears on the laptop screen.

'Spirit Qi input required, please put on the visor.'

Shin Jiao immediately put on the visor and the screen on the laptop shows a download bar.

…

Two days later, Susan Tang has finished registering for her new company.

But it didn't cause a fuss because she did it in a low-key manner. And since it is just a small Software Company called NXT Element, it didn't catch any attention with the media.

In these two days, Shin Jiao's life became busy crafting visors and cultivating. The two didn't even bother to rent an office building as they just work at home. With the remaining saving of Susan Tang, they soon developed the new company without a hitch.

After a week, everything was ready.

The first to appear in the market was the new A.I. technology called SLIA. At first, many people didn't know what it was and didn't bother with it.

In a dormitory room, two college students are currently browsing through their phones.

Suddenly, a voice interrupted the two.

"Hello, I'm SLIA!..." the cute voice made the two almost stunned.

Then they became excited as they began to interact with the app. Soon, they realized what they have in their hands and began to spread the news to other people.

From those two students and other people able to download the app, they realized that the app SLIA is not just any normal app on their phone. It's not even a normal A.I., it's like... a living being, a companion, a helper, and for those who are alone... a friend.

...

The next day, Susan Tang was awoken by the non-stop ringing of her phone.

"Ugh… Who…" she groggily muttered as she extended her hand to get her mobile phone on the table but dint found it.

"SLIA! Where are you?" she called while still lying on her pillow.

"Big sister Susan, I'm here!" a cute voice appears from under her pillow.

She remembers that last night she busily taught SLIA about business law and techniques. She needs SLIA to memorize those things just in case she forgot something.

"Oh, there you are! It seems that I have some calls... Who is calling me?"

"Well, you have at least twenty callers with different caller I.D. plus two callers named Bastard and *sshole called you at least ten times. They are the most annoying ones."

Hearing SLIA's comment Susan Tang chuckled.

"This little guy is so adorable." She thought.

She knew who those two. They are her two despicable older brothers.

"Big sister Susan, I think that the download for my app has already exceeded more than a million. Even those from other countries have already downloaded me." SLIA said with a smug look on her cute slime face.

"Really!" suddenly Susan Tang sat up from her bed.

She immediately scrolled through the news and saw the headline.

Meanwhile, Shin Jiao is currently sitting on the cold floor and cultivating in the living room. He has already reached the 3rd sphere in the 2nd container in his dantian after gathering Qi every night.

Suddenly he was jolted back by a scream inside Susan Tang's bedroom. Without a word, Shin Jiao immediately jumps up and dashed towards the door.

He was about to open it when Susan Tang suddenly rushed out and the two almost hit each other. Although she tried to stop, she was caught off balance and her body tilted forward.

Before she knew it, her lip is already touching Shin Jiao's who has a stunned look on his face.