"Can we trust what the robot says?" Weekend, sitting on a bus heading to the city center, Yiyi pouted, feeling puzzled by Xiao Xian’s act of giving Romeo One five Purple Ginseng roots. Romeo One didn’t specify which of the three would be given special treatment this time.
According to Yiyi’s calculations, Xiao Xian shouldn’t have given the robot the Purple Ginseng immediately and could use it to threaten Romeo One at the right time.
"If it wants to renege, we don’t have any other options either. Might as well be generous and open the door of convenience," Xiao Xian also felt Romeo One had been somewhat different lately. You could even say the cold robot has developed a trace of humanity.
For example, in recent times when the three of them left school multiple times, Romeo One turned a blind eye and didn’t require them to submit a series of departure procedures as before. This phenomenon is uncertain if it’s good or bad, but at least for now, having a robot to cover them is quite convenient.
Before heading out to see Bai Xue, Xuerou, who previously didn’t care much about the Bai Xue incident, suddenly suggested going together to visit Bai Xue.
After entering Huake Institute, where they were almost pletely free and taught in an unstructured manner, their lifestyle was pletely disconnected from that of same-age middle school students. More or less, the three were curious about how their old classmates’ lives were now.
Xiao Xian and Mao Yi agreed to meet at East Leaf Park in the city center, and Bai Xue’s home was near East Leaf Park.
On their way to the park from the bus, the three passed by a district elementary school, separated by the school’s iron fence. They could hear the motion from students having PE class on the playground, along with the whistle of the PE teacher giving orders.
"Looking at them, why do I have the mindset of someone in their thirties or forties?" Yiyi voiced her reflections as she saw the students with red scarves around their necks.
Xiao Xian and Xuerou didn’t interject, as they were also watching the children running on the playground.
In terms of age, the three of them were only sixteen or seventeen, supposedly still in the prime of youth. They
should be at an age where they’d nibble on snacks with friends and gossip with flushed cheeks about handsome guys on the playground.
When she crossed over, Zhou Xiaoxian was sixteen; counting the years, she was already twenty-five or twenty-six. It truly wasn’t easy for her to behave like a child again.
Xuerou lost her father when she was young, giving her a prematurely mature disposition.
As for Yiyi, aside from her stature, she originally fit the city’s standard for middle school students. An only child, her personality carried a bit of arrogance, and when Xiao Xian first arrived at Sacred Heart Middle School, Yiyi was the one taking her around the school looking for food. But now, everything seems to have deviated from its initial path.
The three of them had no idea what their future would hold.
"Don’t pull long faces; I’ve been here before and next to the school is a photo-taking spot. It’s said to have e from Japan, and within a few minutes, you can have your photos developed. Moreover, the photos can be attached to wallets or made into keychains. These are quite trendy now." Yiyi shook off the previous gloomy mood, ignoring the fact that the time agreed with Mao Yi had long passed. Anyway, it’s a universal law for men to wait for women, so she treated it as early training for his future girlfriend.
Xiao Xian and Xuerou were typical examples of being out of touch with current young people.
If Xiao Xian’s interests in knitting and planting could be considered feminine, then Xuerou’s mechanics and racing were definitely full of masculine flavor.
Their quirky tastes often left Yiyi frowning, claiming there was a significant generation gap with the two.
Any elementary school would inevitably have a small shop at its entrance. The new photo machine Yiyi mentioned was right next to the school.
The new photography technology from Japan is called da tou tie; it’s only bee popular in the last few years. Because taking da tou tie photos is relatively free, it doesn’t require posing awkwardly as instructed by the photographer, and it es with backgrounds favored by girls, it’s particularly popular in places like schools.
Yiyi had taken da tou tie before. She asked the shop owner for two sets of backgrounds—one for each of them individually and the other for a group shot. They squeezed into the photo booth-sized da tou tie machine, and once they pulled the light blocker down, they started taking pictures unreservedly.
The three female students giggled, kissed each other on the cheeks, hugged tightly, and finished the shoot with the universal "peace sign." After taking the photos, they checked the photo samples on the machine and burst into laughter together.
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