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Chapter 478 Will Robots Miss Little Fish? (Part 55)

Xiao Xunlan received a message from Lin Huanming and quickly ran downstairs to meet K011, who had already arrived at her workplace.

Following the text description sent by Lin Huanming, Xiao Xunlan found K011 sitting on the steps downstairs.

When K011 turned around, Xiao Xunlan was stunned for a moment.

K011 does indeed look very human. If Lin Huanming and the others hadn't deliberately concealed their silvery-white skin today, Xiao Xunlan would definitely have mistaken K011 for a living person.

"Hello," Xiao Xunlan heard a voice that was neither male nor female, but whose age could only be judged to be that of a teenager, "Are you Ms. Xiao?"

“Ah, yes, I am, my surname is Xiao.” This was the first time Xiao Xunlan had been addressed so formally. She pulled K011 up from the ground and said as she did so, “You don’t need to call me Ms. Xiao, you can just call me Xiao Xiao.”

“Okay, hello, Xiao Xiao.” Seeing that Xiao Xunlan seemed unable to pull him away, K011 took the initiative to stand up and said, “Professor Lin wants me to accompany you to obtain someone’s portrait rights.”

“Ah, yes, yes, yes,” Xiao Xunlan said. “Come upstairs with me. I’ll get that document, and then we’ll go find that person to ask for their portrait rights.”

K011 blinked, nodded, and obediently followed Xiao Xunlan into the elevator.

The person and the robot went to the floor where Xiao Xunlan worked first. K011 stood at the elevator entrance waiting for Xiao Xunlan to get the documents.

While waiting for Xiao Xunlan to return, many people looked towards K011.

Everyone was puzzled as to why a stranger would appear there, but upon seeing the silver-white shell, they all understood immediately—it was the humanoid robot that the company had been promoting recently.

Few people are worried about why this humanoid robot is here—humanoid robots are meant to learn and imitate human behavior, right? They're probably just here to gather information; they won't steal company secrets, so there's no need to be too wary.

Some people, just looking for fun, went up to K011 and asked him some questions.

However, K011's answer was no different from that of a typical companion robot, so the person who asked the question quickly lost interest and left.

Xiao Xunlan returned with the documents and saw K011 still standing at the elevator entrance.

K011's calm expression made it easy for Xiao Xunlan to think of K011's creator, Professor Lin Huanming.

Actually, Xiao Xunlan had met Lin Huanming three or four years ago. At that time, she was still in college and had just skipped from freshman to junior year.

When choosing courses, Xiao Xunlan saw a course that interested her—the history and offline development of humanoid robots—so she chose this course that few people chose.

When they arrived at the venue, most students treated the course as an easy one, with some sleeping, some playing on their phones, some daydreaming, and some talking.

The first three rows were completely empty, which made the already small classroom look particularly empty.

However, Lin Huanming didn't seem to care. She just sat on the small lectern, with a thick stack of documents next to her tablet computer.

Beside Lin Huanming, a robot the size of a trash can was circling around, occasionally bringing him a glass of water.

Xiao Xunlan remembers that she sat in the first row in almost every class. Although Lin Huanming did not interact with the audience, Professor Lin would nod slightly every time he saw her.

So Xiao Xunlan originally thought that Lin Huanming remembered her, or at least that he had become a familiar face to her.

I never expected Professor Lin wouldn't remember a thing, even though I took super detailed notes. Xiao Xunlan sighed and entered the elevator with K011.

The elevator reached the floor, and Xiao Xunlan and K011 stepped out of the elevator to find Lü Xia.

Xiao Xunlan asked Lü Xia's colleagues where Lü Xia was, and the reply was that Lü Xia had gone to get water and had not returned yet.

So Xiao Xunlan and K011 stood together next to Lü Xia and waited for Lü Xia.

Before Lü Xia returned, Xiao Xunlan took a deep breath and mentally reviewed the words she had spoken to Wu Jinxia during her training session the previous night.

"It's alright, it's alright," Xiao Xunlan reassured herself. "Lu Xia is easy to talk to; he's very gentle."

Despite trying to reassure herself, Xiao Xunlan still felt a little flustered. She wasn't good at communicating with people, and Lü Xia was the person she secretly admired.

With this buff added, Xiao Xunlan felt her heart pounding louder and louder.

Could something unexpected happen? Xiao Xunlan couldn't help but start letting her imagination run wild, like a stone suddenly flying in and interrupting our conversation. It's not that I'm thinking anything random, haha, my head is just so confused…

"Xiao Xiao." Suddenly, a warm hand grasped Xiao Xunlan's hand. Xiao Xunlan was slightly startled and turned her head to find K011 looking at her.

"What's wrong, K011?" Xiao Xunlan asked.

"Xiao Xiao, you seem very nervous." K011 blinked. Based on its analysis, it could sense that Xiao Xunlan's face was flushed and her brows were furrowed, clearly a sign of nervousness. "Are you flustered because you're talking to someone?"

"Yes, there is a bit of that." Xiao Xunlan knew that the other person was a robot, and there was no point in hiding it, so she might as well just say it directly.

After listening, K011 blinked and said, "Then I'll talk to Mr. Lü Xia later."

"Ah, wouldn't it be better if I brought it up myself?" Xiao Xunlan replied softly upon hearing K011's suggestion.

"Hello, is this the person who called me? What can I do for you?" A familiar and gentle voice came from beside her. Xiao Xunlan's mind went blank for a moment when she heard the voice. After she came to her senses, she blushed and handed the documents in her hands to Lü Xia.

"Ah, this is..." Lu Xia took the thing handed to him by the girl in front of him with a blank look on his face. Someone had come to give him a love letter during his break at work, but he refused it. This one didn't look like a love letter either.

The format was quite neat, but what exactly was it? Lu Xia looked at it carefully and then discovered that the document's main content was that they wanted to obtain his portrait rights to make a robot.

Ah, so they're going to use my face to make a robot. After reading the contents of the document, Lü Xia suppressed her doubts and put on her usual gentle smile as she looked at the girl in front of her.

This person is so young, when did they join the company?

“Yes,” K011 replied, and recorded Lü Xia’s face—it felt that it had seen Lü Xia’s face somewhere before, so it remembered it and compared it with its own image in its mind.

"Um, you are..." The child was a bit short, and Lü Xia hadn't noticed until the child spoke.

It's just that this voice isn't very common, or rather, it's not something you hear very often.

Judging from the voice alone, Lü Xia couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman. But when she looked down and saw the face and hair, she guessed it was a girl. It wasn't until she saw the girl's outstretched hand that Lü Xia completely overturned her previous guess—it was a robot after all.

"So you're the new companion robot that our company has been promoting lately?" Lu Xia asked the small robot with a smile.

“Yes, I am,” K011 replied, and then said to Lü Xia, “My gender has been determined; I am female, so we now need a male.”

"The market demand for statistics requires us to have a handsome man as a reference to design the appearance of male companion robots."

"So that's why you came to me?" Lu Xia's smile was almost gone—the thought of how, if this companion robot were successfully promoted, she could walk down the street and see her face no matter which way she went.

It's terrifying to think about.

“Don’t worry about that,” K011 blinked its eyes and said, “We will make changes to your appearance so that no one can tell that this is yours.”

"So you don't need to worry about suddenly seeing another version of yourself on the street, Mr. Lü."

Hearing that her appearance would change, Lü Xia felt a little relieved, and then said to K011, "You don't need to call me Mr. Lü, that title is too formal, just call me Lü Xia."

K011 blinked and said, "Okay, Lü Xia, do you agree to sign this document? This document concerns the use of your portrait rights."