Tang Ran followed the servant into the Tang's front yard.
She heard the sound of the car engine running as she walked down the gravel path leading to the main house's main entrance. Judging from the sound volume, it seems to be a freight car with a large displacement.
Thinking that his bionic robot should have been transported by this freight car, Tang Ran's originally depressed mood finally turned into waves of joy.
Tang Ran's pace quickened unconsciously.
As he got closer and closer to the sound of the engine, Tang Ran heard a familiar voice line - a hippie smile that could be heard just by the tone of voice, it was the voice of Tan Yunchang, the manager of the int store:
"Uncle Tang, since Tang Ran lives in a side house, let's enter through the back door over there. Please inform the security guard over there, and look for the license plate number of the car specially hired by our laboratory— This robot is very precious, we will have to take it back to test and repair it frequently in the future, if I ask you to come out every time, I will be very embarrassed."
Tang Shixin, who was standing in front of the car, asked hesitantly, "Do you still need to repair it often?"
Tan Yunchang snorted, "It's not a repair, it's basic maintenance. Especially the micro motors and the like, there are too many parts and components, and it is easy to break down if you are not careful."
Tang Shixin nodded, "Okay, I will inform the security personnel of the side door clearly."
"Okay, thank you Uncle Tang!"
"you are welcome… "
While Tang Shixin was talking, Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Tang Ran walking out. He turned around and took two steps back. After hesitating, he didn't help her. He just said, "Xiao Ran, the bionic robot was sent to you from Luo Zhan's laboratory. Do you want to open it and try it?"
After Tang Shixin finished speaking, Tang Ran didn't have time to respond. Behind him, Tan Yunchang choked awkwardly, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him: "I'm sorry, Uncle Tang, I can't watch it now, I have to wait for the evening."
Tang Shixin was stunned for a moment, then turned around and said, "Why do you have to wait for the night?"
"The current power supply device of this robot is to convert solar energy into electrical energy and store it in the battery, and it can only be charged in this special mechanical box." Tan Yunchang said according to the draft prepared earlier.
Tang Shixin looked at the cuboid mechanical box on the car and asked suspiciously, "Is it still not fully charged yet?"
"Yeah," said Tan Yunchang, "you also know that the efficiency of converting solar energy into electricity is relatively low, and this robot has too many micro-motors, which consume a lot of power and have poor battery life - so it must be fully charged for normal use."
Tang Shixin asked subconsciously, "When will we wait?"
"Almost," Tan Yunchang pretended to be calculating, "at 8 o'clock every night, it can last two or three hours of battery life."
"Is that so..."
Tang Shixin didn't know much about AI, and the latest technology of humanoid bionic robots is also a rarity in China. The specific parameters and indicators are completely blind spots for ordinary people, and he can't tell the truth of Tan Yunchang's words. .
Tang Shixin gestured regretfully, "Then you can send the robot directly to the side house. Enter through the side door when you need it, and I'll let you know."
"Okay, Uncle Tang, if you are busy, I will send it over first or go back to work."
"Um."
Tan Yunchang was about to leave.
Tang Ran stood aside, like a little ant crawling on a hot pan, and he couldn't bear it any longer. When she heard that Tan Yunchang was about to leave, she quickly asked, "Can I go there together?"
Tan Yunchang stopped unexpectedly and looked at Tang Shixin.
Tang Shixin asked hesitantly, "Xiao Ran, are you here?"
Tang Ran nodded without hesitation.
Tang Shixin said, "Then I'll have someone send you—"
"Don't be so troublesome, Uncle Tang, just in time for us to drop by and take people over together." Tan Yunchang took the conversation neatly.
Tang Shixin frowned, "You don't seem to have any extra space for this cargo truck? And Xiao Ran is not suitable for such a small, airtight cabin."
Tan Yunchang smiled: "That's just right, it's just behind the car with the mechanical box."
Tang Shixin disagreed and said, "How dangerous is that?"
Tan Yunchang: "Our train fence is solid. As long as sister Tang Ran doesn't think about jumping off the train secretly, there will be no problem."
Tang Shixin wanted to say something else, when he heard the soft and quiet voice beside him: "I'll just go with them, don't bother others to send it."
Tang Shixin turned back, "Xiao Ran..."
Tang Ran didn't give him a chance to stop her. She had already tapped the ground tentatively with her blind stick and walked to Tan Yunchang, "Manager, can you help me to the back of the car?"
"Of course, of course." Tan Yunchang responded repeatedly.
Tan Yunchang helped Tang Ran into the body of the freight truck and stopped next to the mechanical box. Tan Yunchang glanced at the metal box with special ventilation holes next to it with a guilty conscience, and said to Tang Ran: "You sit here, if you feel insecure, just put the box, there are handrails here."
Tang Ran touched it tentatively and asked softly, "Won't you pull it away?"
"Of course not, the door is locked inside—ahem, the box is locked and can't be opened!"
Tang Ran nodded, "Yes."
Tan Yunchang jumped out of the car neatly, said goodbye to Tang Shixin with a smile, and then returned to the passenger seat in front of the car.
"Sister Tang Ran, hold it, we're going."
"Um."
With the sound of the engine running, the freight car bypassed the main entrance and headed towards the side door of the Tang family along the entire periphery of the Tang family compound.
Tang Ran sat in the swaying car body, holding the door handle tightly.
The main entrance of the Tang family was getting farther and farther away from her, and the soreness and bloating in her heart seemed to disappear a little bit.
The girl put her forehead on the cool box, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and she said softly:
"Hello, robot."
"Starting today, the two of us are living together."
The girl closed her eyes and leaned against the cold mechanical box.
She didn't hear—
Hidden in the sound of the engine running, there was a very light noise in the mechanical box when her words fell.
With Tang Shixin's notification, Tan Yunchang's freight car from the laboratory was successfully released at the side gate of Tang's house.
It's just that the side door is in the backyard, and there are basically only gravel paths and green trees in the yard for people to walk.
Tan Yunchang complained and got out of the car, and while walking back, he muttered to Lin Qianhua, who also got out of the driver's seat: "This is the Tang family's partial house? Are you sure it can live in? It's so far away and it's so desolate inside, I don't know what to do. I thought I was in a cabin in the woods of some horror story."
Lin Qianhua was startled and glared at him angrily: "Senior Tan, don't scare me now, will you?"
"Who scare you, I'm telling the truth." Even though he said this, Tan Yunchang kept his mouth shut and stopped complaining.
There was obviously no one in the backyard, not even the servants who came to pick them up, only the security guards who were responsible for guarding the side door came in with the car.
Tan Yunchang stopped at the back of the car, helped Tang Ran out of the car, and greeted Lin Qianhua to lead him well. He signaled to the two security guards: "This is the bionic robot, you two just need to move this mechanical box down."
The two agreed.
One of them got into the bucket, and he was about to push down the mechanical box with rollers. Tan Yunchang was looking at Tang Ran's direction, but when he turned around inadvertently, his eyelids jumped, and he almost jumped up—
"Hey, hey, hey! Be careful, Ancestor!"
The two security guards were taken aback by him and stopped.
Tan Yunchang was still in shock and frowned: "Can this thing be pushed down directly, ah?? Do you know what's in it—"
The word "people" that was almost blurted out was swallowed back by Tan Yunchang biting the tip of his tongue.
One of the security guards muttered dissatisfiedly: "Isn't it just a bionic robot for this little girl? Do you need such a treasure?"
Tan Yunchang sneered: "Do you know how much this bionic robot costs for an order?"
The security guard glanced at him: "How much can you ask for? One hundred thousand?"
"Sorry, add a 0 to the end of one hundred thousand." Tan Yunchang angrily watched the other party's face change, and added: "And then change the currency unit to a US knife."
"… "
The air was dead silent for ten seconds, and the two security guards were stunned and said in unison, "A million dollars??"
Tan Yunchang thought about the pain of the prodigals in the int lab, while learning Luo Zhan's cold smile: "This is still a discounted price for big customers, and ordinary people can't rank order numbers even with money."
"… "
The two security guards said nothing.
Afterwards, they pushed and pulled the roller mechanical box, their expressions and even their voices were cautious, as if they were holding a fragile glass lump, and escorted them all the way to the side house.
After the boxes were placed, the two security guards left.
Tan Yunchang and Lin Qianhua looked at the environment of the side house, and their expressions were a little unsightly.
After a long silence, Tan Yunchang spoke first: "Sister Tang Ran, your family... just arrange for you to live here?"
"It's pretty good here." Tang Ran, who had been led by Tang Shixin, said softly, "Three meals, snacks and fruits will be delivered, and I can call the main house or the annex if I need anything. ."
Lin Qianhua couldn't help it, "But they are too perfunctory, they don't even have anyone to take care of—" Before he finished speaking, Tan Yunchang gave him a glance, and had to swallow it again.
Tang Ranqing smiled lightly: "Mr. Tang wanted to arrange for me to live here, but I refused."
Tan Yunchang was taken aback: "Why?"
Tang Ran's eyelashes trembled slightly, but she still curled the corners of her eyes, "The people in the family... don't like me very much, and are reluctant to come here. I don't want them and me to be embarrassed."
Tan Yunchang was rarely serious, and his brows furrowed.
Tang Ran didn't want to gain sympathy on this issue. She quickly changed the subject and asked softly, "Is the robot still dormant?"
"Ah, yes." Tan Yunchang responded guiltily,
Tang Ran: "How long does he work?"
Lin Qianhua replied, "Two to three hours."
Tang Ran nodded.
Tan Yunchang gestured to Lin Qianhua with his eyes, and Lin Qianhua said knowingly: "However, the situation was special at the beginning, we need to do some data collection and feedback in time, so after 10 o'clock every night, we will send a laboratory car to pick him up... Cough, come and move him back."
"Okay." Tang Ran thought for a while, and then asked, "Does he need me to plug in something to charge him after he runs out of power?"
"No, no, of course not!" Tan Yunchang's head almost shook into a rattle.
Lin Qianhua also hurriedly continued: "He has an automatic navigation system, which can automatically return to the mechanical box and lock it before the battery runs out. The whole process of voice commands can be recognized, and you don't need to care about him at all."
Tan Yunchang agreed: "Yes."
Tang Ran was a little surprised: "So powerful?"
"It's nothing," Tan Yunchang wiped his sweat with a guilty conscience. "In this regard, you can treat him as a sweeping robot that can automatically return to its position."
Tang Ran's eyes slightly curved: "Okay."
Before leaving, Lin Qianhua told Tang Ran uneasy: "This home bionic robot is still mainly used for companionship. Hundreds of thousands of language modules allow him to conduct more intelligent conversations than ordinary voice assistants; but other functions are compared Limited, it is best not to try lightly."
Tang Ran nodded, "Well, I see."
Tan Yunchang: "Sister Tang Ran, this robot... is more valuable. If something happens, you must call me first and then decide."
"it is good."
"… "
After thousands of exhortations, Lin Qianhua and Tan Yunchang took the car and drove back on the way back with a lot of thought.
Leaving Tang's house, Lin Qianhua in the car asked anxiously, "Is this really okay?"
Tan Yunchang collapsed in his seat and sighed, "Then how do I know?"
"I still think Brother Zhan's plan is too dangerous. We should persuade him to order it."
Tan Yunchang: "What kind of temperament does that ancestor have, can we persuade him?"
"What if, what if someone from the Tang family finds out?"
Tan Yunchang snorted: "I think we should pray first not to be known by the Luo family - especially the old man, if he knew that we would wrap his little grandson as a birthday present for the little girl, we wouldn't kill him. us?"
"… "
Imagining the consequences, Lin Qianhua nodded in pain.
At the same time, the Tang family had a partial house.
Two servants brought Tang Ran's dinner tonight in a multi-layered lunch box.
In order to save trouble, when Tang Ran dined, they waited in the small dining room connected to the side house and the living room. When Tang Ran was eating, the two of them stood in the corner, chatting in a low voice without any scruples.
"Can the young master of the Luo family really come over tonight?"
"Listening to the old lady's phone call with Mr. Luo, it should be true."
"If you say that, the marriage contract between the two is about to be finalized, right?"
"Guess so."
"Our prospective uncle must go. I don't know how many families will be red-eyed. Don't mention anything else, just talk about the high branch of the Luo family, who doesn't want to climb it?"
"However, considering the background and appearance of the family, plus the appropriate age conditions, Luoqian is the most suitable no matter what."
"Of course, the old gentleman of the Luo family must also think like this - the three generations of the Tang family have not had a male yet. Now that he is married to Luo Qian, he is not sure how much he will gain in the future, at least he will never suffer a loss."
"… "
For a dinner, Tang Ran ate nothing.
After the two servants packed up their plates and left, she was finally alone in the side house.
The air is also cold and clear.
Tang Ran sat blankly at the table.
When she couldn't hold it any longer, she slowly bent down and fell onto the table.
Leaning on his arm, Tang Ran was silent in this strange darkness.
after a long time.
A very soft voice sounded a little bit in the air, and the tone trembled slightly:
"Happy birthday to you... happy birthday to you... happy birthday to you—"
"Click."
A soft sound in the darkness suddenly cut off the trembling song that Tang Ran sang to him.
The girl was startled, and slowly sat up straight.
Quiet for a while.
When Tang Ran almost thought it was her own illusion, she heard a voice in this strange darkness:
"Good evening, my... master."