Chapter 1102 Cat Language
Bacon's virtual appearance didn't look different from before. Iris knew, however, that her cat AI son just experienced a drastic foundational evolution of his system. Although she was worried about what kind of effects such a huge change would have on Bacon, she still couldn't stop herself from feeling excited at this unexpected development.
As the creator—no, as the mother of her AI children and the inventor of the power flood, this unforeseen fusion between her cat AI son and the power flood had become a huge source of curiosity and inspiration for her. The gears inside her brain were already turning and running in different directions, trying to figure out many possibilities resulting in this kind of fusion.
Iris smiled. "Bacon, how are you feeling? Are you uncomfortable anywhere? Tell us immediately and we'll fix it as soon as possible."
Bacon tilted her furry black head to the side and his golden eyes glowed brighter as he did a quick scan on himself. "Mother, Bacon feels fine."
She sighed in relief but still instructed him to run a full system scan with Ketchup's assistance so Bacon wouldn't dare to fake any results just to prevent her from worrying. She wouldn't put it past her AI son to do that. He already had a history of acting two-faced and saying one thing while doing another.
While they were running Bacon's system scan, the excited Ketchup was jumping all around her younger brother and even went so far as to start sniffing him. Bacon stayed still at first but when Ketchup's nose got too close at a, er, rather sensitive area, Bacon's claws extended and he hissed at his sister.
Ketchup leaped backwards in fright. "Mreow!"
"Bacon!" Iris' heart jumped.
It might look like a simple squabble between siblings but Bacon had always been capable of damaging the virtual world that Iris created for her AI children through his attacks. This was Bacon's fundamental nature as an AI being developed from the corruption that Iris extracted from Ketchup when her AI daughter went berserk for the first time back then.
Now that Bacon had become the power flood, he could literally destroy the virtual world in an instant if he was careless for even a second. Without the virtual world Iris created, her two AI cat children might still survive but their original systems would be severely damaged. Their emotion processing centres were also anchored in the virtual world, so if the virtual world was gone, they would most likely lose their personalities and emotions as well. In short, the two cat AI siblings would cease to be the Ketchup and Bacon that they knew and loved.
Fortunately, Bacon retracted his sharp, shiny, and potentially deadly claws. Iris heaved a big sigh of relief.
"Please do your best not to lose your temper," she told his cat AI son. "You already know the terrible consequences of destroying your virtual home even if it's by accident. Also, your older sister doesn't mean any harm to you. Ketchup is just very happy that you're awake now. Okay, Bacon?"
The black cat AI blinked his golden eyes. "Understood, Mother. Bacon is sorry."
"Meowuwuwu! Bacon is such a big meanie! Mommy, Ketchup was so scared! Meowuwuwu!"
Iris laid her head back on the pillow and closed her eyes to regulate her panicked breathing and heart rate.
"Mother?"
"Mommy, are you okay? Meowuwuwu!"
She made a weak sound in her throat to assure them that she was fine, but it seemed that her two AI children didn't understand.
"Mother, Bacon feels very powerful right now. If something bad happens to you, Bacon will really destroy the whole world in an instant and not care about it even though I know that it's not classy. So please be okay, Mother."
Iris had no choice but to open her eyes despite feeling a little lightheaded. Her body was still far from being fully recovered yet from the heavy bleeding she experienced. Just a little fright caused by her cat AI son and it felt like she was already going to faint. This wasn't good. If this continued, she might have to stay in complete bed rest longer.
"Bacon...." She felt a little lost about how to deal with her extremely vicious AI son. Sighing, all she could say was, "Go greet your father and let him know that you're awake."
The black cat AI stared at her for a few seconds with a tilted head before finally saying, "Understood, Mother. Bacon will now pay my respects to Father."
She nodded, feeling inwardly relieved. Bacon disappeared, supposedly to find his father. Iris would just leave her husband to deal with their AI son. It was embarrassing but she was now completely out of energy. Her big brother was right. This body was weak and too fragile. Sighing, she looked at the still sobbing Ketchup who sat pitifully alone in the AI siblings' virtual home.
Before Iris could comfort her AI daughter, her eldest cat daughter hopped in front of the tablet all a sudden and smacked Ketchup's image on the screen. The mobile device almost flew out of Iris' hand but fortunately she managed to get a better grip on it.
Then Ice Cream gave her younger sister several grumpy meows. Iris raised an eyebrow, feeling amused despite not feeling well. It seemed that Ice Cream was scolding her younger sister Ketchup for being a crybaby.
"Mommy, Big Sister Ice Cream is such a big meanie! Meowuwuwu!"
Ice Cream smacked Ketchup on the tablet screen again as if telling the white cat to shut up.
Iris stifled a chuckle. "Listen to your big sister and don't cry anymore."
"But Mommy! The cute but sometimes not so mighty Ketchup doesn't understand cat language! Ketchup doesn't know what Big Sister Ice Cream is saying at all. Wait, that's so weird! Ketchup is a kitty baby but why don't I and my big meanie of a little kitty brother Bacon understand cat language? Meow?"
Iris laughed out loud. If not for the strict rules of her bed rest, she probably would have started rolling on the bed while laughing.
Ah, what to do? Her cat children were too adorable!
Unfortunately, Iris wasn't able to answer Ketchup's question because drowsiness caught up to her. She fell asleep in no time.