Panic and despair enveloped the New World. After the Supreme Leader stepped down, there was no further news, and in the new election, a young man from a prestigious family was elected as the new Supreme Leader. Upon taking office, he promptly resolved the issues at the cloning research base, protected the experts, and even quelled several rebellious organizations.
The Paradise reached an agreement with the traitors and publicly disclosed the status of all the natural women in Paradise. This helped calm part of the populace. Although the military still surrounded Paradise, their vigilance had significantly relaxed.
The Supreme Leader was struggling to adapt to his new body and was about to undergo another body replacement. Though he had a team that could provide a new body in time, this was still risky. One mistake, and he could lose his life.
Thus, the Supreme Leader hurried to find Ling Wu, believing Ling Wu to be the ideal body.
Since Paradise had gained the trust of some people, the Supreme Leader, knowing that Ling Wu was in Paradise, dared not act recklessly.
After all, with everything that had happened recently, including the involvement of Ladbrokes Technology and some of the leader’s loyalists, doubts about him and the government were growing.
He didn’t dare propose an attack on Paradise, for fear that his newly secured position would be shaken again.
One late night, Wan Tong got out of bed, and in her carelessness, she fell off.
However, before she could hit the floor, two hands caught her, gently setting her back down onto the bed.
“What’s wrong?” A low, husky voice entered her ears, sending a shiver through Wan Tong’s heart.
Wan Tong shook her head and asked Ling Wu, “Any news from Ladbrokes Technology?”
Ling Wu adjusted the room’s lighting to a soft, warm tone. He nodded, “Mm.”
He hadn’t wanted to wake her, but unexpectedly, she had woken up on her own.
“I want to go too.”
“…” Ling Wu stayed silent, unable to refuse.
Wan Tong hummed lightly and added, “Don’t worry, I have you, right?”
“Mm.” Ling Wu finally answered.
Wan Tong quickly changed clothes and sneaked out with Ling Wu, heading straight to the training grounds.
There, about ten serious-looking boys had gathered, with Shen Yu standing in front of them, looking like a drill instructor.
Shen Ting was also there, slumped at Shen Yu’s feet, yawning while trying to rest his head on Shen Yu’s leg.
Shen Yu shot him a warning glare, but Shen Ting pretended not to see it.
When they saw Ling Wu and Wan Tong arrive, the two brothers turned to look.
“Tongtong? You’re here too?” Shen Ting immediately jumped up and ran toward Wan Tong.
Shen Yu furrowed his brow, his gaze fixed on Ling Wu, clearly disapproving.
“I’m protecting her.” Ling Wu’s voice sounded.
Wan Tong gave a sweet smile, almost as if she was wagging an invisible tail.
Shen Yu stared at her for a moment. Despite his dark expression, he didn’t refute her presence.
That night, Paradise infiltrated Ladbrokes Technology and completely destroyed the new body they had prepared for the Supreme Leader.
Ling Wu was responsible for protecting Wan Tong, so he stayed close to her.
Wan Tong secretly went to the control center of Ladbrokes Technology, and with Ling Wu by her side, everything went smoothly.
In the storyline, the Supreme Leader controlled Ladbrokes Technology, and his system was connected to all robots and information networks, as well as utilities like water, electricity, and transportation. Later, when Ling Wu opposed him, it took considerable effort, especially to obtain the key to Ladbrokes Technology’s control system.
She came today to get the key, making it easier for Ling Wu later on.
Ten minutes later, Ling Wu obtained the key, and they left the building.
When they returned to the waiting vehicles, they received death stares from Shen Yu and Shen Ting.
“What did I say earlier?”
“Tongtong, Ling Wu, where have you two been? Do you know we were worried sick?”
Wan Tong coughed lightly and weakly explained that she and Ling Wu had gone to get the key.
“With the key, can we control all the robots?” Shen Yu’s gaze deepened, his tone ambiguous.
“That’s pretty terrifying. Ladbrokes Technologies even left such a backup…” Shen Ting shuddered, feeling that things were getting more complicated.
The Supreme Leader’s system was so powerful that it seemed like the entire world was under his control. If he got angry and ordered all the robots to rebel, the consequences would be unimaginable.
It seemed like the apocalypse might come again.
“It should be, yes. We only took the key and didn’t alert anyone else…” Wan Tong sat upright, looking innocent.
Shen Yu’s eye twitched slightly as he shot a meaningful look at Ling Wu and continued, “Now that the key is in Ling Wu’s hands, does that mean he can control all the robots too?”
As far as he knew, Ling Wu wasn’t under Ladbrokes Technology’s control.
Wan Tong nodded, “Yes.”
Her gaze and tone were full of trust.
Ling Wu sat quietly beside her, not saying much, but when she spoke those two words, he glanced at her.
Lately, he had spoken less and less, usually just quietly staying by her side.
“How’s it going on your side?” Wan Tong changed the subject.
“All the bodies were destroyed, but the data shows that the Supreme Leader still has three spare bodies,” Shen Ting answered quickly.
Wan Tong nodded, “Since they are spare, they won’t last long. He will soon be unable to control himself.”
When they returned to the Paradise, Wan Tong immediately collapsed onto the bed and fell asleep.
Ling Wu lay straight on the bed beside her. When her breathing became steady, he suddenly got up and left the room.
Not long after, Wan Tong heard Shishi’s voice, and she got up from her grogginess and walked out the door.
It was the same simple workshop.
Ling Wu was sitting on a small stool, opening a box in his hand.
Inside the box was a blue energy stone, about the size of a heart, emitting a faint blue light.
This was the energy source for combat robots.
Ling Wu had one inside his body now.
Wan Tong suddenly remembered something. In the plot, Ling Wu’s energy had once been depleted, but he had replaced it.
It was probably around this time.
No wonder Ling Wu had been so quiet lately; he must have known that his energy was running low.
Earlier, at Ladbrokes Technology, he had casually taken one, planning to replace it now.
Ling Wu lowered his head, his green eyes continuing to shine and scan something as if analyzing and recording. His slightly long bangs hung down, covering his eyebrows.
His lips were tightly pressed, and his expression was unusually serious.
Watching Ling Wu’s slow and somewhat stilted movements, Wan Tong felt a little heavy in her heart.
In front of her, he always acted so human-like that she almost forgot he was actually a robot.
Her communicator was equipped with a monitor, and if it were usual, Ling Wu would have sensed her emotional fluctuations, but now he seemed somewhat dull, which was why he hadn’t noticed.
About half an hour later, Ling Wu fastened his shirt and, upon noticing the broken mirror, tilted his head and poked his face a few times.
He wasn’t quite satisfied with his face.
He wanted to have whatever Tongtong liked.
She always stared at Shen Yu’s face, and he thought she liked that.
But she had also told him not to touch his own face.
The sound of light footsteps was clearly captured by Ling Wu.
He turned his head slightly, and Wan Tong came to him, smiling as she reached out her hand, “Ling Wu, go back to sleep. I can’t sleep well alone.”
Ling Wu’s eyes lit up, and he grasped her hand, nodding lightly, “Okay.”
After he stood up, Wan Tong hugged his arm. “Carry me back.”
“Okay.”
Being needed by her was probably the most beautiful thing in his world.
Wan Tong buried her head in his temperature-controlled chest and sighed in her heart. The boss of this world didn’t even understand what emotions were, yet he always treated her like a precious jewel, carefully protecting her.
She also wanted to give him all the most beautiful feelings in the world.
When they returned to the room, Ling Wu didn’t put her back on the bed but placed her in the recovery pod.
“To help you sleep.”
Wan Tong disliked the recovery pod because it was too cramped, but after hearing Ling Wu’s words, she obediently lay down.
She was used to Ling Wu’s gaze following her, so after closing her eyes, she soon fell into a drowsy state.
Ling Wu stood by her side, his gaze fixed on her face.
Not long after, he stiffly lowered his head, looking at the bulging part of his waist and abdomen, and then checked his body temperature.
When he replaced the energy, he had also completely shut down his main function, but why did it suddenly react now? And he couldn’t even force it to shut down.
Ling Wu sat on the edge of the bed, reached out to take off his clothes, preparing to give himself a thorough checkup.
The next morning, Wan Tong was almost shocked into unconsciousness.
Ling Wu was not wearing clothes, his head lowered as he worked on himself. She could clearly see the artificial organs inside his body.
“Ling Wu…”
She called out.
Ling Wu slowly looked up, “Tongtong, wait a moment.”
In just two minutes, he had finished and put his clothes back on before walking to her side.
His face had a serious expression, making Wan Tong worry. “Ling Wu, is something wrong with you?”
Ling Wu couldn’t find any problems with himself, so he shook his head. “I was just adjusting myself, Tongtong.”
“Tell me if there’s anything.”
“Okay.”
Wan Tong still felt uneasy. When Ling Wu went to get her breakfast, she asked Shishi, [What’s wrong with the boss?]
After a long while, the corpse finally managed to speak, [The boss repeatedly dissected himself because the main function went out of control.]
Wan Tong didn’t understand what it meant for the main function to go out of control.
Wan Tong had initially planned to let Ling Wu leave the Paradise and follow the plot, but after that night, she began clinging to him, not letting him be alone anymore.
On Wan Tong’s coming-of-age birthday, Shen Yu, Shen Ting, and Mu Rong made a big cake.
This was the first time Shen Yu ate cake.
A circle of indifferent-looking boys surrounded them, but their eyes were filled with curiosity as they observed Shen Yu’s expression, their movements growing more restless.
In the end, Wan Tong only took one bite of the cake before the boys snatched it all away.
Shen Yu glared at the boys as they licked their fingers with lingering desire. His face darkened as he coldly ordered, “Get lost!”
In an instant, all the boys scattered.
Wan Tong and Shen Ting swallowed nervously. It had been a long time since they saw such a fierce side of their Eldest Brother.
Their parents’ eyes were slightly red, and by the time dinner came, another cake was placed in front of Shen Yu.
Shen Yu thanked them coldly before taking the cake away.
Behind him, a group of boys trailed, their eyes greedy, only to be stopped by a door.
The new Supreme Leader still gave daily speeches to the public, his enthusiastic and confident words seemed to dissipate some of the city’s gloom. However, after a few days, the speeches suddenly stopped.
A report emerged on the news about the Paradise’s indiscriminate killings, and the new Supreme Leader ordered the elimination of all rebels, including the bloodthirsty youths from the park.
Some people spoke out in opposition, and even within the government, there were objections to the Supreme Leader’s actions, leading to a collective investigation request.
But in less than an hour, the protests from the public seemed to disappear. Even on the internet, all ‘inappropriate’ comments were censored and deleted, and many accounts were instantly banned.
However, public opinion could not be suppressed. Like a flood, the more it was blocked, the more furious it became, eventually breaking through the dam.
Despite this, the Paradise still faced the most intense attacks.
Live broadcasts were held daily, with the public organizing various rescue efforts, confronting the military.
To avoid harming civilians, the army was forced to pause its offensive and report back to the higher-ups.
It was during one of the live streams that sharp-eyed viewers noticed that the long-missing Shen Wantong was actually inside the Paradise!
Some people replayed the short few seconds of her appearance and found a familiar face next to her—Zhong Lele.
Moreover, Zhong Lele seemed to be holding Shen Wantong hostage!
This discovery quickly sparked a wave of discussion online, and people were eager to rush to the Paradise to find out what was going on.
As if aware of the public’s confusion, the amusement park soon released a statement claiming that Zhong Lele had taken advantage of the chaos to abduct Shen Wantong.
At this moment, the atmosphere inside the Paradise grew even tenser.
Zhong Lele, who had been detained, somehow escaped and took Shen Wan Tong with her. Afterward, Ling Wu also disappeared.
However, Ling Wu sent a message later, reassuring them and asking them to cooperate by widely publicizing Shen Wantong’s disappearance.
Zhong Lele struggled to drag Shen Wan Tong into a dark basement. Her face twisted with weakness as she fiercely grabbed Shen Wantong by the collar. “Shen Wantong, you little slut, you’ve ruined me!”
She had been locked up by a bunch of unruly kids and ignored to the point of madness!
“So, what do you want to do?” Wan Tong calmly responded.
“Of course, I want to kill you!” Zhong Lele’s mind cleared, and she immediately stripped off all the tracking devices on Shen Wantong, then raised a knife and stabbed at her.
It was the only weapon she could find in Paradise.
In the chaos, she had taken Shen Wantong and run, originally intending to use her as leverage against the Paradise’s little punks. But now, thinking that the night was long and full of uncertainty, it seemed better to kill her first.
However, the knife never reached Shen Wantong. Suddenly, a group of soldiers in military uniforms entered.
Before long, both women were taken away.
This was Shen Wantong’s first time in the exclusive floating domain of the Supreme Leader, but she had her eyes covered when she arrived, so she saw nothing.
Her communicator was returned to her hands.
Once in a spacious hall, the blindfold was finally removed from her face.
Standing before her was a young man, his face pale, his eyes sharp and dark.
“Who are you? Why are you taking us?” Zhong Lele, standing next to Shen Wantong, had missed many updates during her captivity and naturally didn’t know that the Supreme Leader had already entered a new body.
The Supreme Leader, seemingly annoyed by Zhong Lele’s incessant chatter, furrowed his brow and harshly demanded, “Who is this?”
A middle-aged man respectfully spoke up, “She’s the natural female hidden by the Zhong family, the one who went missing recently. The Zhong family has been looking for her. She’s the one who abducted Shen Wantong from the Paradise.”
The Supreme Leader wasn’t interested and waved his hand. “Throw her out.”
Zhong Lele froze, as if realizing something, and quickly spoke up, “I know everything about the Paradise, Supreme Leader. Please spare me.”
“What do you know?” The middle-aged man glanced at the leader’s expression and asked in his place.
“The most dangerous thing in the Paradise is Ling Wu. He has awakened consciousness and can control—”
“Zhong Lele, can you shut up already? You’re driving me crazy.” Shen Wantong interrupted, “Last time, you controlled Ling Wu and had him serve as your nanny bot for a while. Weren’t you satisfied?”
She couldn’t allow Zhong Lele to reveal anything about Ling Wu.
The leader caught the point that interested him, his cold gaze landing on Zhong Lele, his voice rising slightly, “Can you control that robot?”
Zhong Lele’s heart skipped a beat, and she quickly shook her head, “How could that be?”
Wan Tong furrowed her delicate brows, letting out a soft snort, “Why are you lying? You controlled Ling Wu, that’s why he took you out of the Paradise…”
Her voice was sweet yet soft, tinged with a unique sense of resentment and dissatisfaction that only a young girl could possess.
When the Paradise rebelled, only Zhong Lele and Wan Tong, the two women, managed to escape, which had even made the news.
There had indeed been a robot around Zhong Lele.
At this moment, Zhong Lele found even denying it to be powerless.
The Supreme Leader stood in front of her, his gaze sharp as if a blade cutting through, “Tell me, how did you control the robot?”
“I didn’t control him, he has his own consciousness, and he insisted on following me,” Zhong Lele spoke under the pressure.
Wan Tong touched the bloodstain on her neck, took a deep breath, and angrily glared at Zhong Lele, “Ling Wu only has eyes for me, he would never follow you.”
“Shen Wantong, don’t be too confident, Ling Wu doesn’t belong to you!”
“He is mine!”
“You—”
“Shut up.” The Supreme Leader angrily interrupted the two of them, pointing at Zhong Lele, “Take her away for questioning.”
Zhong Lele was terrified, and at that moment, she could care less about anything else, “I can tell you everything the Supreme Leader wants to know!”
“Don’t say anything bad about Ling Wu, he will come looking for me soon,” Wan Tong glared at her.
Suppressing the anger she wanted to retort with, Zhong Lele only wished to reveal the storyline to the Supreme Leader, hoping he would suppress Ling Wu’s development. Who cares whether this world will be destroyed or not?
But the Supreme Leader was reminded by Wan Tong’s words. He had brought Shen Wantong here to lure the robot.
As long as he dares to come…
So Zhong Lele was taken away.
Wan Tong breathed a sigh of relief, never expecting Zhong Lele to be brought back with her, and that Zhong Lele planned to sell out Ling Wu’s information.
“Girl, did you lie just now?” The Supreme Leader stopped in front of Wan Tong, his gaze full of suspicion.
Qin Hao had disappeared from the Shen family, and died in the amusement park’s hands. Who knew whether he might have leaked some information?
Wan Tong shook her head and said with a tone of innocent sweetness, “Supreme Leader, thank you for saving me.”
The Supreme Leader looked at her sweet face and soft voice, and his heart began to stir.
Perhaps, with the body he wanted nearly in hand, the massive stone pressing on his chest loosened a little. Seeing such a delicate girl in front of him, it was hard not to have his thoughts wander.
The most perfect natural female?
It was said that Ling Wu’s body was equipped with artificial nerves. Once he obtained that body, he would be able to taste the sweet treat standing before him.
The lewd look in the Supreme Leader’s eyes disgusted Wan Tong, though her face didn’t show it.
“You tell me, when will Ling Wu come looking for you?” The leader casually asked, staring at the communicator on Wan Tong’s wrist.
Wan Tong raised her hand to check the time, “I don’t know, but Ling Wu always finds me.”
She had given Ling Wu a deadly order to cooperate with her, which was to release Zhong Lele, and let Zhong Lele use the chaos to abduct herself from the Paradise, bringing her here.
Ling Wu would come, but he would come to take the Supreme Leader’s life.