Are you lonely?

Why me?

This was the question Ren Xiaosu wanted to ask the most.

Earlier in the afternoon, Lingling's tone was extremely stiff when interacting with him at Base 1. But now, it sounded like a normal human being speaking on the phone. Although its tone carried a little less emotion, and it did not seem to know much about the ways of the world, Ren Xiaosu would probably not have guessed the other party was an artificial intelligence if he had not been so paranoid.

It was also because he had often discussed the artificial intelligence with Jiang Xu that Ren Xiaosu became wary when he suddenly encountered it now.

"Why did you call me?" Ren Xiaosu asked curiously.

"Because to the humans, you and I are both anomalies," Lingling replied calmly as though it were stating a very simple fact.