One minute later, the mother wolf successfully caught the panicking wild rabbit. However, her next action made Aosiqin's eyes sharply narrow as he trailed far behind.
This mother wolf did not immediately begin to enjoy the rabbit. Instead, after vigilantly observing her surroundings, she picked up the rabbit in her mouth, locked onto a direction, and suddenly sprinted away—she was returning to her den.
A lone wolf that does not eat its prey immediately after a successful hunt, but instead rushes back to its lair. As far as Aosiqin knew, there were generally only two reasons for such behavior:
The first was that the lone wolf had cubs to raise;
The second was that it was not truly a lone wolf—there were other wolves or dogs waiting for it in the den.
Regardless of which situation it was, Aosiqin had no intention of giving up tracking the mother wolf.
Maintaining a neither-too-close-nor-too-far distance behind her for ten minutes, Aosiqin stopped in his tracks. Through the image fed back onto his visor by the detection soul tool, he could clearly see that about two hundred meters away, there was a natural rock cave.
On the small open ground in front of the cave, a large dog—snow-white all over except for a ring of yellow fur encircling its back—was lazily basking in the sun.
Beside the dog on the ground lay two wild chickens with their necks snapped. Suddenly, as if hearing something, the big dog abruptly opened its eyes and stood up, then excitedly stuck out its tongue and ran to greet the mother wolf rushing over.
This scene darkened Aosiqin's expression slightly, but he still quickly found a position with a relatively wide field of view and firmly aimed the video-recording soul tool in his hand at the wolf and the dog.
Five minutes later, Aosiqin put away the video-recording soul tool. In the distance, the wolf and the dog had already stopped their affectionate nuzzling, picked up the prey on the ground, and entered the cave one after the other.
"Kaoen, you traitor!" Recalling the images captured after the video-recording soul tool zoomed in, Aosiqin couldn't help but grit his teeth and curse. "We agreed to stay single forever, yet you secretly found yourself a little female dog outside—oh no, a little female wolf. In the future, when those bastards send me dog food, who's going to help me deal with it?!"
Carrying the sorrowful feeling of being abandoned by his own pet, Aosiqin decisively turned around and ran a full kilometer away before unfolding the flying soul tool on his back and flying toward the training base at the foot of the mountain.
After returning to the training base, Aosiqin happened to catch up with the main group preparing to depart.
"Eh, didn't you go look for Kaoen? Where is Kaoen?" Seeing Aosiqin fly out of the mountains alone, Aosika asked his younger brother in confusion.
After removing his visor, Aosiqin—whose face was still pitch-black—did not answer Aosika directly. Instead, he handed the video-recording soul tool to him.
Not understanding what was going on, Aosika very generously shared the "dog video" recorded in the soul tool with the other students for everyone to watch together.
Another five minutes later, after watching the video, the students' expressions were all somewhat awkward.
"Little Ao, remember to tell Kaoen that before the little female wolf gives birth, he must bring her back to the academy. Flander already has the Lightning Marten, so we don't need to worry about him—but we teachers still don't have our own pets," Zhao Wuji instructed Aosiqin in this manner.
At some point, Zhao Wuji had quietly crept over and watched the entire five-minute video. After saying this, he ignored the strange looks in the students' eyes, swaggered back to the teachers' group, and continued preparing for departure.
The interlude ended here. The group finally set off on their return journey to Shrek Academy—only, when they departed, not a single person informed Kaoen that they had already left.
After returning to the academy, everyone used the time before lunch to clean up the dormitories that had been unoccupied for a full month. Today was a day of relaxation. According to Aosiqin, no one planned to spend the afternoon staying inside the academy.
Aosiqin and Aosika discussed their plans: during the seven-day holiday, they would first return to their home in Soto City for two days, purchase some rare metals there, and then spend the remaining five days back at the academy, going all out to produce the Virtual Combat Room.
The Virtual Combat Room was quite large in volume, and its production involved numerous steps. Aosiqin had no intention of relying solely on his own strength to complete it.
After all, Aosiqin's original intention in producing the Virtual Combat Room was to allow Aosika to become more familiar with soul tool combat. Ready-made labor that could be used for free would be wasted otherwise.
Of course, the inscription of the core formation still had to be done by Aosiqin himself. A spirit-forged Feiling Gold core was not something Aosika could handle at his current level.
Business at the small snack shop in Soto City remained extremely good. Seeing her two sons—who hadn't been seen for a month and seemed to have grown a bit taller—Yun Shuangshuang briefly expressed her happiness and welcome, then immediately began to "squeeze" their labor without hesitation.
Because of this "exploitation," the shop's serving speed increased by a full two levels in a short period of time. Basically, every customer who placed an order could receive their food within half a minute.
Over the next two days, Aosika and Aosiqin worked as human serving machines in the snack shop during the day. At night, after returning home, they began researching the production process of the Virtual Combat Room. The difference was that Aosika could only repeatedly study the blueprints, while Aosiqin conducted simulated practice within the Omniscient Library.
On the fifth day of the holiday, Flander and the academy's other teachers still had not returned. However, from Aosiqin's laboratory in the soul tool production area came Aosiqin's excited howls.
As the perspective shifted into the laboratory, after Aosiqin used the baby-bottle soul tool to supply sufficient soul power to the carefully inscribed Feiling Gold core, the core formation suddenly burst forth with dazzling spiritual light and slowly floated into the air.
The spiritual light pulsed rhythmically. With the help of the spirit-force externalization soul tool, Aosiqin—maintaining a state of spirit-force externalization—could clearly feel that the core formation before him was radiating a spirituality that belonged to him. This was something he had never experienced with any spirit-forged core formations he had produced before.
After a full five days of simulated production within the Omniscient Library, Aosiqin had finally succeeded in inscribing the core formation of an artificial intelligence soul tool.
After venting his excitement to his heart's content, Aosiqin stood up and cut off the soul power supply from the baby-bottle soul tool to the Feiling Gold core formation. Watching the spiritual light gradually subside, Aosiqin barely managed to steady his emotions and prepared to install the inner shell and outer shell onto the core formation.
Completing the soul-forged Feiling Gold core inscription only meant that the most critical component of the Virtual Combat Room—the artificial intelligence soul tool—was close to successful completion.
However, just as a computer requires not only a CPU but also reliable programs to function, the operation of the Virtual Combat Room, in addition to the artificial intelligence soul tool, also required many types of auxiliary soul tools.
To briefly explain, the following auxiliary soul tools were needed to assist the artificial intelligence soul tool based on the soul-forged Feiling Gold core.
First, the sound soul tool. This soul tool would allow the Virtual Combat Room to learn to recognize human language, communicate through language like a human, and achieve barrier-free verbal communication between humans and machines.
Second, the information soul tool. This soul tool was responsible for collecting combat data, generating virtual character models, and providing various combat scenarios.
To allow the information soul tool to perform better, it could also be equipped with multiple information-gathering soul tools at the same time, making it convenient for everyone to provide more data to the Virtual Combat Room's artificial intelligence core, thus promoting the AI's growth.
Speaking of information collection, Aosiqin could only feel helpless. In a world without the internet, gathering information was truly far too difficult.
If this were his previous life, a successful artificial intelligence in its early stages of growth would not need manual input of information at all. The massive amount of information on the internet would already be enough for a newborn AI to complete its first stage of growth. Only when dealing with truly specialized fields would dedicated information input be necessary.
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