During the time Elysia was studying, Ryn also became more and more familiar with the dojo master. Of course, getting to know the dojo master was secondary; the main goal was to get to know his daughter.
Hua, the dojo master's daughter, was Class President Fu Hua from 50,000 years ago, before she changed her name.
However, Fu Hua was now much younger than Elysia, just a silly little dot.
Every day when the apprentices came to the dojo to practice their boxing, she would hide behind the dojo master, watching them train with wide eyes. Sometimes she would even toddle forward, babbling, and throw a few punches in imitation.
But her movements lacked any force; they were just indescribably cute, often causing roars of laughter.
Unfortunately, Fu Hua was too young now. She couldn't even speak clearly, and her walk was wobbly.
Children don't have memories from before they are three, and adults don't remember what happened when they were little, not to mention Ryn's story takes place 50,000 years in the future.
It's better not to form a bond, lest it only brings more sorrow.
Ryn didn't interact with Fu Hua much, only occasionally playing some pranks on her when he was bored.
After all, in Ryn's memory, Fu Hua always had a stern face and was very serious about everything. If you joked with her, not only would she not react, but she would also lecture you. If you were a repeat offender, she would string you up and give you a beating. There was absolutely none of the joy one gets from teasing someone.
Sometime later, Ryn left Elysia in the care of her teacher and departed from Canghai City alone to search for traces of Cortana.
After all, having a super-advanced artificial intelligence was better than him always robbing hooligans for money.
The number of hooligans in Canghai City had not only decreased due to the robberies, but an urban legend of the "Green Grass Man" had also started to spread...
Relying on the quantum entanglement effect he and Cortana had created in the Sea of Quanta, Ryn spent several days and finally found Cortana's prototype in the Earth's crust of the Mu Continent.
But what gave Ryn a headache was...
Cortana was now just a stream of data. Just as she had said before, she really was just a key...
A phantom key made of a crystal-blue data stream, stored in a container of non-human technology.
The moment Ryn saw Cortana's current form, something seemed to flash in his mind.
"Tsk, tsk, no wonder Cortana said to look for her if I ever went to the past...
So this is how the time loop begins?"
Otto once told Ryn that Cortana was just an ordinary artificial intelligence, but Schicksal couldn't use her. Although Cortana was somewhat mysterious, the essence of her creation was very simple and not worth Schicksal wasting a large amount of resources to study her.
So Otto simply gave her to Ryn as a gift.
What Otto didn't expect was that as soon as Cortana was transferred to Ryn, she automatically booted up...
Back then, Otto even joked that Cortana knew how to pick her owner...
At first, Cortana was just an ordinary smart home butler in Ryn's hands, but as Ryn injected his Honkai energy, Cortana became more and more humanlike and intelligent.
In the end, Ryn took the container holding Cortana's data stream and began to think about how to materialize this data stream and create Cortana.
Ryn was severely lacking in knowledge about artificial intelligence and electronic chips; you could say he had practically none.
But he didn't trust anyone else to create Cortana, so he simply decided to study the relevant knowledge on the Mu Continent, the most advanced human civilization.
He found the world's largest library at a top university in the central city of the Mu Continent. While studying in the library, Ryn saw someone, someone who left him a bit stunned.
The counterparts of Anti-Entropy's Executor Tesla and Einstein, a doctor who was a fusion of both their characteristics—Dr. Einstein.
Because this Einstein not only had Einstein's looks but also Tesla's hair color and hobby (making Armed Dolls)...
Filled with curiosity, Ryn waited for Dr. Einstein to check out the documents she needed from the library and then followed her into her laboratory.
However, this Dr. Einstein didn't seem to be doing very well. The huge laboratory was empty except for her, and it was filled with messy manuscripts scattered everywhere, with no one to clean them up.
After Dr. Einstein returned to the lab, she tossed the borrowed books onto her desk and slumped over it, exhausted, closing her eyes in thought. She didn't even notice Ryn had followed her into the lab.
Oh, no, wait.
She noticed, but it seemed like she had already given up and didn't care anymore...
"Don't touch the drafts on the table... never mind, whatever. Take whatever you want, just remember to close the door for me when you leave."
Dr. Einstein, slumped over the table, glanced at Ryn who was observing her drafts, and said lazily.
Then she continued to lie on the table, listlessly flipping through the borrowed books, occasionally scribbling something on a draft, then crumpling it into a ball and tossing it into the trash can on the side.
As a key national researcher and an honorary doctor of the university, on this talent-filled Mu Continent, she had failed to produce any research results in just a few short years, living off school and state funds. She had now become a disgrace in everyone's eyes.
Not only did she not have a single student under her, but even the equipment in her own lab was often borrowed or taken away by other researchers...
Ryn had been on the Mu Continent for a while and knew that the academic world here revered strength and results. Seeing the sorry state of Einstein's lab, it wasn't hard to guess her current situation.
"You might have misunderstood something. I'm not here to empty out your lab. My name is Ryn, and I have a few small questions that I'd like your answers to."
"Oh? What are they?"
Dr. Einstein's interest was suddenly piqued. She sat up straight and took out a pen and paper, ready to jot down Ryn's questions.
It had been a long time since anyone had been willing to ask her for advice. Now that someone finally had, she felt she had to answer his questions well.
"Whatever the question is, as long as I know the answer, I will do my best to answer it for you. Even if I don't know, I can help you ask others."
Ryn glanced at the work ID on Dr. Einstein, learned her name and identity, and then said, somewhat embarrassedly,
"Dr. Einstein, you're being so serious... it's making me hesitant to ask..."
"It's fine. The pursuit of knowledge is a right everyone should have. As a teacher at this school, it's my duty to help students solve their doubts."
"Oh... then I'll ask..."
"Mhm!"
Einstein raised her pen, ready to record what Ryn was about to say, looking at him with anticipation.
"Are Tesla and Einstein your parents? As in, which one provided the paternal genes?"
"Hold on, let me think... Wait, what did you just say? Huh?"
Einstein's recording motion froze, and she looked at Ryn with a head full of question marks.