As soon as Eula and Holhaiya heard about the room selection stage, their eyes lit up. Of course, what they were thinking about was not how to live closer to Sora, but how to live in the same room with Sora directly.

It seems that I have to find a way to bribe the conductor to make this easier.

They just asked Ji Zi, and there is no rule that men and women sleep in different rooms on the bus, and as Lao Yang said, the sound insulation effect is very good.

After the two girls turned around and got in the car, Kong got a brief period of “free time” and stretched himself nicely. Although he almost broke down at the beginning, everything was going smoothly so far. However, most of the stitched subsystems were still being restarted, so he actually had no daily tasks to do.

I can only contact the Black Tower – God knows what their attitude is towards me, the guy who stole the experimental equipment.

After getting closer, Kong found that the short girl’s joints were spherical, like a doll. It took him only a few seconds to roughly guess the application form and operation method of this type of technology.

The other party also noticed Kong’s inquiring look. The doll turned around. Although it was obviously shorter than Kong’s current body, its gaze was very domineering.

The dark purple eyes and gray-purple hair made the doll look very lifelike and gorgeous, but the arrogant expression was not very pleasing.

“Shit, it’s Bigu, no, Happy Valley, no, Happy Beans, oh, it’s the ‘Uncanny Valley’ effect!” Kong took a half step back, looking like he was frightened by a puppet.

“…What are you talking about, little brat?” Heita’s head was full of question marks.

“What little kid? Do you know how old I am? Just call me a little kid–” Kong was full of question marks.

“How old are you? Compared to me, aren’t you just a brat?”

It sounds like the Black Tower isn’t very friendly.

It could be that geniuses are mutually exclusive, or it could be that Kong deliberately created this kind of atmosphere to have a conversation with the so-called “genius” in his perception. In short, the feeling he gave to Heita was completely different from the feeling of being understanding and docile that he gave to Himeko and Ester.

“Is this person the Black Tower?”

Sora pretended to be unhappy and turned to look at Himeko, whose face had a look of “Isn’t this also good?”

“Is he the little devil who ate the star core?”

Heita also raised an eyebrow and looked at Jizi.

“Well, Black Tower, you can’t judge a person by his appearance. He just saved your space station.”

“Oh? Then I have to take a good look.”

After confirming his identity, the arrogant doll seemed to have forgotten Kong’s disrespect. It put on a malicious smile and looked the boy up and down while Ester was about to say something.

17. If you want to show off, I’ll let you fly!

“Oh! What an impolite girl! I want to give her a nickname, what should I call her?”

Kankong and Heita almost got into a quarrel, and Paimon stood out and helped his relatives instead of the others, pointing fingers at Heita’s little man –

But Sora wasn’t really angry, he was just trying to find a way to make Kurita willing to listen to him.

Many geniuses are rebellious, but a well-rounded genius should not only make achievements in his own field, they can even use rational methods to construct emotions, and can more or less give people a feeling of high emotional intelligence.

It’s not that Heita doesn’t have the ability in this area – Kong saw it, she was just too lazy to simulate her high emotional intelligence to those guys who were of no use to her.

How to locate and choose the object of communication, and what method of communication should be used to benefit, the talent and difficulty required are in a sense no less than top scientific research. Strong social skills are also a kind of genius – for example, to deal with the Black Tower in front of him, Kong has figured out how to increase her interest in him and reduce her malice through a short contact, as well as how to make the Black Tower choose not to pursue the matter of him absorbing the star core without making a fuss.

This process requires the help of the savvy webmaster.

“Back to you, Miss Stationmaster.”

After figuring it out, Kong simply ignored the Black Tower’s observation and handed the cone of light back to Ester.

Later he planned to make a better one for Holhaiya, as there was no point in keeping this thing.

“Eh? Aren’t you going to keep it?” Esta didn’t pick it up immediately.

In her opinion, the light cone that was sent out was like spilled water, with absolutely no chance of coming back, but Kong didn’t seem to care about it at all.

“You didn’t say you were giving it to me for free? We can mass-produce similar things. I’ve already made the money, so I won’t be greedy for this little advantage.”

“Oh? You are so arrogant. This is a product of Liuguang Yiting’s technology. The value of this light cone alone exceeds your contract income and the bounty of Doomsday Beast.”

Heita thought Kong was just bragging:

“I don’t sense any trace of Fu Li on you either… Although those guys living in the memory are mysterious, their skills are also real. How dare you say that you can analyze their technology that they will never reveal to others?”

“Ah? Just this broken thing? Is it worth the price of a medium-sized leisure spacecraft?”

He just held his neck tight and looked sore.

This was no longer an act, he really felt that the memories inside could not be sold at a high price, including the “packaging” of the light cone, the mental maintenance coating it used was not of high quality.

Technical products that can achieve similar effects include Xumi’s canned knowledge, Siren’s mind cube, and so on. He can list a lot of them.

“You don’t mind if I rewrite the memories in there, do you? Stationmaster?” he asked Estelle for her opinion.

“Rewrite… the memories in the light cone?”

Esta covered her mouth lightly and said, “Can we do this without the experts from Liuguang Yiting present? And this is a very precious memory…”

“The only value of this thing to me is that it provides a shell.” Kong snorted and said, “I will save this memory separately… I just want to show you what kind of memory I know that can be exchanged for money should be like.”

Whether it is expensive or not depends entirely on what the people who make the light cones say – it all comes down to a monopoly.

He thought about it, and a somewhat evil idea popped up in his mind.

For a genius like Heita, as long as he behaves more talented than her or produces results that can surprise her, she will lower herself to get close to him.

Of course, it might also make her feel hostile… but that’s also a way to bring them closer.

Who isn’t a genius!

“Then, what do you want?”

【Starting the overwrite function. 】

As soon as Esta agreed, Kong crushed the cone of light. The colorful memories condensed into a constantly replaying picture in his slowly loosening palm, protected by an even more gorgeous border.

Such a gorgeous memory, even the Black Tower, which had seen many light cones, was fascinated by it. She seemed to see the mystery of the stars in the replayed picture, although it was only a corner, but she had an impulse to get this light cone.

“Here, here it is for you.”

But before she could speak, Kong threw the newly generated cone of light into the arms of the black tower, and the doubts that were about to reach Esta’s throat were also blocked.

“Ok??”

The puppet’s gray-purple hair floated up, and the memories within the light cone flowed into the Black Tower’s brain along with the connection.

With the blessing of Lord Boshi, the Black Tower was able to see more details within the light cone.

[“Chief Technology Officer, anchors, lenses, drilling and decompression platforms are all on standby. There are no microscopic particles affecting the dark matter output port. All members of the society request to activate the decompressor.”

“Permission to start.”

“Yes, the pre-recorded kick-off speech is playing.”

“…We are on the path of pursuing the highest applied science. The matter decompressor is our second step in using the Milky Way as a springboard, but students – don’t forget, the highest theoretical science should be outside the universe!”]

The Black Tower saw the huge compressor and extractor “unpacking” the black hole bit by bit – extracting seemingly endless matter from the terrifying star.

She saw that everything changed from the perspective of a man – he served as a leader, supreme mentor, and scientific and technological officer, and led his students and colleagues to accomplish the feat of controlling black holes in three hundred years.

The puppet of Kurita was silent for a full minute, which made Himeko look worried. She looked at Kong, hoping that he would explain what happened to Kurita, but Kong just shrugged and mouthed “she’s fine”.

“…This is truly a great gift.”

The Black Tower came back online, but this time her tone no longer contained any contempt for Sora, instead it contained a strange kind of enthusiasm.

“I don’t plan to exchange these with star cores. Doctor… I can’t think of anything I can exchange for them at the moment.”

The change in address made Ji Zi unconsciously loosen her hands that were folded in front of her chest, and Esta’s eyes widened. In her memory, the last person who could gain such respect from the Black Tower was only Elijah Salas.

“Esther, I’m going to go back and clean up the office. Please help me entertain Dr. Kong. Give me two hours, or just one hour, and we can discuss what I can pay you.”

Esta had seen Heita get anxious before, but most of the time she was just “impatient” rather than wanting to start a discussion right away. But after Kong threw the cone of light at her, she became like a different person, with her emotional intelligence system fully activated.

After saying that, this guy actually withdrew his spirit from his doll.

When she left, she did not forget to transfer the light cone away. She looked like a literary girl who had found her favorite reading material.

“Then…should we discuss the additional supply agreement first?”

The series of accidents made Esta a little unsure. She relied on the experience she had learned at home to deal with people and found a reason and a place for herself and Sora:

“It’s dinner time now, I have to treat you guys~”

“That’s settled then.”

Kong nodded: “I’ll go call Dan Heng and the others out.”

“Sora, what memory did you show Kurita? She was as excited as a little girl who got a new toy. I haven’t seen her so obsessed in a long time.”

Just as the boy was about to return to the car, Himeko quickly walked up to Kong’s side and asked in confusion.

“I gave her a design for a large storage cabinet.”

Kong Wusuo said, “A little girl like her who has too many toys will definitely need one or two storage cabinets, right? I know the character of girls like her too well. Otherwise, if dangerous toys are left everywhere, something will happen one day. You see, the security system of this space station is not very reliable.”

Little, little girl…

Ji Zi’s pretty face twisted slightly and she almost laughed out loud. She really didn’t expect Kong to call Heita like that – probably to Heita this couldn’t be considered a mockery, but more like a compliment.

At the same time, she selectively ignored the somewhat playful term “storage cabinet”. Anyway, Black Tower would most likely explain it to her later.

“Let’s all go eat together – Danheng, March! Lao Yang and Pam won’t get out of the car… so what about packing some for them?”

Passing the two young men who were drinking juice, Sora shouted further inside:

“Holhaiya, Eula, we are ready to return to the main control cabin – have you arranged the cabins?”

“Everything is ready, Doctor.” The tip of Holhaiya’s tail popped out from the compartment, but Kong blinked, as if he remembered that the seat was the box that he and Pam had just applied for –

“It’s a pity that the snake girl and I couldn’t reach an agreement on the decoration, so we can only split it half and half.”

Eula also took a step forward in her high-heeled boots.

“Newcomers nowadays are so frugal… They’re willing to share a box with three people. I’ll help you expand the space a little bit. If you need more bedding and pillows, tell me earlier.”

As Pamgu came out of his room with a giggle, Kong’s face, which had just been pretending to be cool and complacent, turned pale in an instant.

“…You two, can’t you?”

He pointed at the knight and Quetzalcoatl with trembling hands. Paimon on his shoulder looked as if he couldn’t bear to watch, and he covered his forehead with his hands and mourned in silence.

“Now that I’ve caught you, how can we still live separately?” An unnatural blush flashed across Eula’s face, but she just gathered the blue hair around her ears and pushed it back, with no intention of backing down.

“Although there are many inconveniences, Doctor, I will never let you go. Are you still naively thinking that you can escape~?”