Chapter 46 I Did Nothing and Somehow I’m the Hero

The way he looked at Scarlett had softened, there bwas /bba /btrace of warmth in his eyes now.

“That’s your doing.b” /b

Scarlett blinked. iWait/i, whati? /i

If randomly piecing together building blocks counted as an achievement, she honestly didn’t deserve the credit.

Jack, on the other hand, was fuming with jealousy. iHow /iimany /iitimes /ihad iI /iihelped /iiout/ii, /iigone /iiabove /iiand /iibeyond/i, iyet /iinot /iionce /iihad /iiI /iireceived /iia /iiword /iof ipraise /iifrom /iiJasper/ii? /i

Pixel had simply done the most basic assembly, and now she was being called the hero.

He was hurt!

Jasper was in a good mood, so he was willing to exin.

“The circuit you connected earlier was incorrect. It affected the chip’s performance.”

Jack’s eyes widened.

“You mean to say Pixel identally scrambled the encoding and somehow ended up fixing the problem?”

iThat /iiwas /iiway /iitoo /iilucky/ii! /iiHad /iishe /iibeen /iistruck /iiby /iisome /ikind iof /iifreak /iigood /iluck ior /iwhat? iUgh/i, iI’m /iiso /iijealous/ii! /iiWhy /iicouldn’t /iI iever /iicatch /iia /iibreak /iilike /iithat/ii? /iHe hadn’t skimped on holiday offerings either!

Jasper gave a small nod, tapped his legs, and the robot cat leapt up onto them, stretching outzily in hisp.

“The system detects you’re in a good mood and wants a cup of coffee. The coffee machine, start working! Or do you want to be scrapped?”

Amazingly enough, right after the grumpy cat let out its roar, the coffee machine actually started up.

Once the coffee was brewed, the robot cat ordered the little machine trolley beside it to go fetch it.

In just a short moment, Jasper was already savoring the coffee.

As a reward, he reached out and gave the robot cat a few gentle scritches on the head.

“Well done.”

He stood up with the robot cat in his arms and moved to theputer.

The cat cooperatively ced its paw on the sensor.

A set of data immediately appeared on the screen.

Jasper moved the mouse and began to dissect the data bit by bit.

Scarlett couldn’t help but bfeel /blike ball /bof this bwas /bstrangely surreal.

When she finally snapped out of it, she bwas /bjust grateful she hadn’t messed anything up.

bIf /bshe had wired something incorrectly and damaged the robot cat, she would’ve been sick with regret. From now ion/i, biI /i/bbiabsolutely /i/bbicannot /i/bgo imessing /iiaround /iin iareas /iiI /iidon’t /iiunderstand/ii! /i

“Pixelb, /be on,e on!”

Scarlett paused, instinctively ncing toward Jasper, who was still fully focused on the data onscreen and not paying her the slightest attention. Only then did she follow Jack outside.

“Mr. Jack, what’s up?”

Once they were outside, Jack’s expression turned serious.

“Pixel, you really need to be more selective with the people you hang around.”

“Some folks may look dignified and decent on the outside, but underneath it all, they’ve got some very shady intentions toward you.”

“You need to stay away from them.”

“If you ever get into trouble, call me right away. I’ll be there in a sh to take care of it!”

Scarlett looked at him, puzzled. “Are things really that bad between you and Mr. Fletcher?”

Jack was stunned. iSince /iwhen? iWhy /iididn’t /iI know iabout /ithisi? /i

Then, a secondter, it hit him. iOh /iino/ii. /i

Scarlett hadpletely misunderstood who he was talking about.

He wasn’t referring to Jasper–he meant that sly, scheming James!

“Pixel, no, don’t get the wrong idea. I wasn’t talking about Jasper.”

Scarlett raised an eyebrow, clearly unbothered. “Then who were you talking about?”

Jack fell silent. The words were right there, but he didn’t know how to say them.

The truth was… he didn’t actually have any proof that James was intentionally trying to flirt with her.

“In short, aside from me and Jasper, you really need to watch out for anyone else who might have bad intentions around you. Got it?”

Scarlett let out a softugh, her bright eyes filled with warmth, but her tone was teasing.

“Mr. Jack, you’re young, but why do you sound so much like a concerned dad?”

Jack gave her apletely baffled look.

“What does that even mean?”

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bScarlett /bbdidn’t /bbanswer/bb; /bher smile just deepened bas /bbshe /bturned and walked back to check on her bb /bbmouse/b.

bJack /bbwas /bleft standing bthere/bb, /bba /blittle dazed and windblown.

He stood in ce, thinking it over for quite a while…

Still couldn’t make bsense /bof it. iI /iireflect /iion /iimyself /iithree /iitimes /iia /iiday/ii, /iiI’ve /iidone /iinothing /iwrong! Avoid gossip? Yeah iright/ii! /iiSo /iwhat iam /iiI /iidoing /iwasting imy /iitime /iibrooding /iilike /iithis/i? iBack /ito the ib/ii! /i

Scarlett had just finished checking theb mouse when she saw Jasper wrapping up the data analysis.

The robot cat let out a soft “meow” and hopped over to her.

“Pixel, Jasper says thank you.”

She froze and quickly turned to look at Jasper.

His expression hadn’t changed at all; his eyes were calm and unreadable, giving nothing away.

“It was just a lucky ident, Mr. Fletcher. You don’t have to take it to heart.”

Jasper’s lips moved ever so slightly.

“Very well–then I’ll bury it deep.”

Scarlett blinked. “…Alright then. So if I ever mess something up in the future, Mr. Fletcher, you’ll have help me out unconditionally, right?”

There was something deep and unfathomable about him.

But his voice–his voice was calm and reassuring, putting her at ease.

“As long as your body doesn’t suffer any further damage, we’ll talk.”

Scarlett lowered her gaze.

That managed to quiet the storm inside her heart.

Honestly, she hadpletely lost her temper in the restaurant earlier.

And if something like that happened again, she’d probably be even more on edge.

Thinking about it now, she couldn’t help but give a wry smile.

“Don’t worry, as a test subject, I understand the importance of staying alive.”