"Bang"

Meilin, carrying something, pushed open his door, and saw Lord Gugu lying on the sofa at first glance. The fat orange cat was lying on the sofa in a kingly manner, staring at the TV in front of him, and the latest cat food advertisement was relaxed on it.

Gugu raised his paws, pointed to the TV, then raised his head lazily, looked at Meilin, and screamed softly.

"Meow"

"I understand."

Merlin nodded and glanced at the ordering hotline below the cat food advertisement. Icarus completed the ordering work in 3 seconds.

He gestured to Lord Gugu with an OK gesture, and the latter nodded with satisfaction, then got up, shook his fat body, towered his tail, jumped off the sofa with light steps, stepped up the stairs, and went to sleep in his cat's nest "throne".

"Silly dog, come here."

Merlin sat on the sofa and shouted at the doghouse in the corner of the living room. The next moment, Frank's dissatisfied voice sounded from the doghouse:

"Don't call me a stupid dog, call me Frank. Although I disguise myself as your pet as Carol's mistress, I also have my own dignity."

"Okay, stupid dog."

Merlin reached out and pushed her glasses, putting the things in her hand on the ground, he said:

"I bought you new canned food in 13 different flavors, as well as lamb chops and steaks. I'll renew your contract until 3 years later."

“???”

Frank, who was yawning out of the doghouse, widened his eyes. It ran to Merlin with short legs, looked at the cans in the plastic bag, and then barked twice, as if he was very happy.

But soon it reflected that the joy visible to the naked eye on the dog's face was quickly hidden. It dragged the can and meat to the edge of the refrigerator, pushed open the refrigerator door with its paws, put the food in, and then ran back, squatted on the ground, looking at Merlin with a suspicion, and said:

"Did you suddenly find your conscience? You are better for Lord Frank in the future? Or do you ask me for help if you have something to do?"

"You're so smart, silly dog, Frank."

Merlin reached out to touch Frank's head, and the latter immediately grinned at him, but before she could resist Merlin's hand landing on top of her head, the slow hair caress with faint magic made Frank's comfortable eyes narrow.

"I do have something to ask you for help."

Merlin said while stroking Frank's head:

"I need you to go to South Galaxy for me and bring some things to Carol."

"Southern Galaxy?"

The silly dog ​​raised his head suddenly, a trace of hesitation and fear flashed in its black eyes, and it said to Merlin:

"You asked me to be a messenger again? This is very dangerous. I know from some friends that the war on the South Galaxy has recently become fierce again. This war is larger than the last time. I am not afraid, but in such a war-torn area, it is difficult to find a mistress. It is not as simple as finding someone on the earth."

“I know it’s hard.”

Merlin said helplessly:

"But I have no one to entrust my entrusted besides you."

"This task is important, Frank, both for me and for Carol. I can't tell you what it is, because it will bring you more risks, and you just need to send the stuff safely to Carol, just like the last time."

"Oh, by the way. I've also prepared a 'friend' for you."

Merlin took another thing out of her pocket and placed it next to Frank.

The thing was like a large suitcase, but the surface was black metal and looked quite heavy.

When Merlin placed it on the ground, the parts on the metal shell of the thing began to rotate and deform. Amid the crackling sound of the metal parts, a black, one-person-high robot appeared beside Frank.

There is a blue-light information collector on its rectangular head, as if it has its own thinking. It raised its head and looked down at Merlin, then looked down at Frank, then stretched out its metal hand, gently picked up Frank with a panic-looking face and placed it on its wide and strong shoulders.

"Yo, it seems that the Fortress likes you very much."

Merlin said to Frank who was confused about his mind:

"I won't let you go alone in this courier mission. The fortress will accompany you, and it will be your personal bodyguard."

"This robot looks stupid."

Frank squatted on the shoulders of the fortress, and it sniffed the metal smell from the fortress, and said to Merlin:

"Is it really OK? You have to know that the group of robbers in outer space are very fierce."

"Of course the fortress can."

Merlin said seriously to the stupid dog:

"Don't look at its silly look. If there is a conflict, as long as it is not a large-scale firefight, it can protect you from evacuating safely. It also has backup artificial intelligence in its database. Although it can only be turned on in critical moments, it should not be a big problem to escort you across the galaxy, provided that you don't cause trouble yourself."

"Look at me, Merlin!"

The stupid dog said dissatisfied:

"I'm just a harmless puppy. You touch your conscience and speak. In your damn house, I'm the one who is bullied the most, okay? Then again, I always feel that this robot is a bit unreliable."

"Uh, OK."

Merlin said to Frank:

"If you really feel that the fortress cannot protect you, then I will change you to a fellow traveler."

He looked up at the second floor and shouted:

"Gugu! Come."

"Swish"

An orange figure jumped into Meilin's arms like lightning. Perhaps because he was about to get a new cat food, Gugu seemed very gentle. He rubbed his head against Meilin's arm, looking harmless.

"I'll let you go with you, is there any problem now?"

Merlin touched Gugu's smooth and shiny fur and said to Frank, who was afraid:

"You know how powerful Gugu is, it's not a problem to take you across the Milky Way, as long as you can tolerate the treatment of being beaten by Gugu every day or beaten a few times."

"Forget it, forget it."

The silly dog ​​was decisive and cowardly. It stuck out its tongue and licked the fortress's very silly and joyful rectangular head. It said to Merlin:

"I won't have to worry about this little thing. I can handle it. Give me some things, I'll set off tomorrow morning."

"No, you'll leave tonight."

Merlin took out an encrypted, necklace-like thing from his pocket and wrapped it around Frank's collar, and he said to Frank:

"This thing requires a password to be opened. The password is the date of the day when Carol and I drank. In addition, I set up a security module for it. Once it leaves your body more than 20 meters, it will explode. The explosion is very powerful, so at critical moments, you can throw it out as a bomb."

"But that also means that your mission fails, return to Earth as quickly as possible. I will give you another one. In short, I would rather lose it than let it fall into the hands of others, do you understand?"

"What's the matter, it's so serious."

Frank stretched out his claws and pulled the necklace hanging around his neck, and he complained:

"It's the same plot as the idiot movies you humans acted in."

"You don't need to know what it is, you just need to know that it's important, that's fine."

Merlin took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. He said to Frank:

"Go, I've bought you a ticket to leave the earth tonight and go to the Galaxy. Agent J will pick you up from Star Harbor. The fortress will disguise yourself as your private aircraft and come back early, Frank."

"OK."

Frank bared at Merlin, and he jumped off the shoulder of the fortress and said to Merlin:

"Don't let go of my cans, I'll come back as fast as possible."

Merlin turned his head and made a gesture to the fortress. The latter immediately changed its appearance again. With the support of several deformation gears in its body, the fortress of this 2.0 system, like Horus, can be converted back and forth between several forms.

As the silly dog ​​Frank watched, the fortress quickly turned into a black flying platform similar to a flying saucer. The three blue thrusters below continued to generate recoil energy, allowing it to steadily suspended in the low altitude.

Merlin waved his fingers, and the gravity emitted from his fingertips lifted Frank up and threw it above the fortress aircraft. A glass-like cover turned outwards, and a metal seat belt grabbed Frank steadily on the surface of the aircraft.

The silly dog ​​barked twice in excitement, then raised his paws and waved at Merlin. The next moment, between the buzzing of the aircraft, it carried the silly dog ​​Frank quickly out of the open window and rushed into the night sky.

"Icarus, I'm actually quite curious."

Merlin watched the silly dog ​​and the fortress disappear into the night. He pushed his glasses and said to Icarus:

"After Frank and Fort entered outer space, can the backup program you left in the fort database be started? Is it still under your control?"

"No, no."

Icarus replied:

"After leaving the communication scope, the backup program will be assigned a temporary autonomous authority. It will be equivalent to some threads I assigned, simulate my data awareness, have a complete logical loop, and it will temporarily become another low-end version of 'me'."

"But after the fortress returns to Earth, that temporary consciousness will share the data and memory with me and become a part of me again."

"Well, it sounds quite dangerous."

Merlin held the sleepy Gugu, and he rubbed his chin and said:

"It's like you have divided a part of the soul, aren't you worried that that part of the soul will truly separate from you and become another independent individual?"

"Let's watch less boring science fiction movies, Mr. Merlin."

Icarus complained without mercy:
To be continued...