There was a gust of wind in the elevator.
Luo Zhan came back to his senses and sighed when he felt the eyes behind him.
"You misunderstood. I didn't explain it to you that day. The girl on the 12th floor was not my girlfriend. I was just entrusted by her elders to give her the keys..."
"Hey."
The old lady patted the outside of his arm lovingly.
"Look at you young man, what's so embarrassing about you? Don't look at my age, but I'm not one of those old-fashioned antiques, let alone those of you who are young, why are you embarrassed to admit that you are in a relationship?"
Luo Zhan said sternly: "It's not really love, it's just giving keys."
The old lady hesitated: "Really?"
"Um."
The old lady was confused: "Then... You went up at noon that day. Why did I meet you here when I came back in the evening. I won't send the keys for an afternoon, right?"
Luo Zhan: "..."
After his unremitting efforts, the emotion in Lan Jingqian's eyes behind him has basically changed to killing intent.
Not daring to talk to the old lady any more, Luo Zhan watched the old man leave.
Lan Jingqian: "Send the keys?"
Luo Zhan: "It is indeed a key delivery. You can verify this by asking Ranran or her grandmother."
Lan Jingqian: "That is to say, there is no one at home, you and her are alone under the same roof."
Luo Zhan: "… "
Lan Jingqian: "Still for an afternoon?"
Luo Zhan: "… "
After looking at each other for a few seconds, Luo Zhan smiled helplessly: "Why do I seem to be speechless."
"If there is a discrepancy with the facts, you can refute it."
"Unfortunately," Luo Zhan shrugged slightly, "no. It's true."
Lan Jingqian's eyes sank slightly.
Luo Zhan: "But even if you want to sentence me, let me add the situation and background at that time?"
"… you say."
Luo Zhan: "Ranran was at home alone at noon that day, and she didn't eat, and there was no instant food at home. Her grandmother didn't know when to go back - I couldn't leave her alone."
Lan Jingqian's eyes moved slightly, and his expression began to soften.
Luo Zhan added: "I didn't cook, so I had a long tossing about lunch at noon that day. After lunch, she slept on the sofa alone, so I didn't leave. I didn't leave until her grandmother came home in the evening. ."
Lan Jingqian couldn't help frowning, and lowered his eyes: "Xiao Ran... is she often at home alone?" He seemed to be asking Luo Zhan, and he seemed to be talking to himself, his expression between distress and guilt. Swing between emotions.
And Luo Zhan is very familiar with this kind of emotion.
- After knowing that he was the boy the little girl saved in her childhood, Luo Zhan never really got out of this emotion.
Luo Zhan lowered his voice: "In the past, maybe. But in the future, not anymore."
Lan Jingqian raised his eyes.
Luo Zhan showed a rare serious and serious look: "I will appear in front of her at any time as long as she needs it in the future."
Lan Jingqian was very moved and opened his mouth: "Boy, don't even think about it."
Luo Zhan: "?"
Lan Jingqian: "My daughter is only 16 years old. A beast like you who doesn't even have a basic moral bottom line at the age of love, the farther away you can get from her in the next few years, the better."
Luo Zhan: "..."
Do men who have daughters always warn and prepare like this
After the incident of the old lady's demolition of the apartment, Lan Jingqian's last trust in Luo Zhan in relation to Tang Ran, together with their plastic brotherhood, was completely shattered.
In just half a day, Luo Zhan's status in Lan Jingqian's eyes quickly dropped from the young master of the Luo family who had been with him in the new year to a beast boy who missed the precious daughter he met in 16 years.
The danger of guarding against Luo Zhan is more than that of guarding against Chuan.
So in the whole day's action, no matter where Luo Zhan took Tang Ran to, the black car was always firmly stuck behind their car.
The old father's eyes full of reprimands and precautions were like a sharp axe hanging over Young Master Luo's head.
- Still resenting him, ready to jump down and snap his axe at any time.
In the evening, the little girl was handed over by Luo Zhan to Lan Jingqian's "driver" car. He himself drove back to the laboratory to prepare for the robot part-time job at night.
In order to avoid bumping into Lan Jingqian, Luo Zhan deliberately delayed his departure from the laboratory.
on the way.
Inside the loading car, Lin Qianhua asked anxiously, "Brother Zhan, can it be done with just the two of us?"
Luo Zhan: "The pulley device has been installed in the car body, and one person can handle the up and down problem of the mechanical box, why not?"
Lin Qianhua: "That's not the problem. I'm worried, isn't that Mr. Lan installing a driver for sister Tang Ran? In addition to the meal delivery person, the people in the side house seem to be getting more and more crowded now. I feel like this will happen sooner or later. Lu Xian - and Senior Tan has something to do tonight, if something happens, how can I have him respond quickly?"
Luo Zhan didn't raise his eyes, and yawned lazily: "Don't be a crow's mouth, that's enough."
"...Oh." Lin Qianhua hurriedly turned his head, "Bah-bah" twice.
Luo Zhan pondered for a few seconds, and said calmly: "When you enter the back door of the Tang family compound, you can observe the parking situation. If Lan Jingqian's car is still in the courtyard, then turn off the engine and pretend to be dead and wait for him to leave. as usual."
Lin Qianhua felt more at ease after hearing this, and immediately nodded, "Okay."
The loading truck entered the back door of Tang's house unimpeded.
After getting out of the car, Lin Qianhua was so cautious that he wanted to turn over the grass near the side house, so as to ensure that Lan Jingqian's car was not in the courtyard.
He breathed a sigh of relief, and sent the mechanical box that had been put into the "robot" in the body of the car to the ground along the retractable electric sliding rod, and then pushed it into the side house where the door was usually left.
The house is brightly lit.
There is no one in the living room. This is not the case once or twice. Lin Qianhua habitually does not disturb, only knocks on the metal door of the mechanical box according to the agreed "password", then turns around and leaves the side house.
After getting into the car in the courtyard of the side house, Lin Qianhua breathed a sigh of relief as he prepared to start the car, and said to himself, "It's no different from usual, why do you scare yourself."
Lin Qianhua held the car key here, and was about to unscrew it to ignite the engine, when two beams of snow-white lights from the headlights of the car suddenly lit up in the direction of the Tang's back door.
The car light seemed to be turning, and it happened to be swaying past Lin Qianhua's eyes. He instinctively raised his arm to block it in front of him.
It stopped for four or five seconds before the lights turned on.
Lin Qianhua put down his arms and muttered, "Who is this late at night..."
The voice stopped abruptly.
The second after he recovered from the stiffness, Lin Qianhua slammed forward, almost lying on the front window and looking at the black car parked in front of the side house not far away.
A few seconds later, the doors on both sides opened, and the man who got off the driver's seat walked to the side of the passenger seat and helped the girl out of the car.
Inside the car, Lin Qianhua, who was stunned for a few seconds, snapped back to his senses: "Fuck!"
He retracted and fell back into the seat, hurriedly flipped out his phone from his body, and sent a message to Luo Zhan with the highest hand speed:
[They are not at home, they just came back, hurry up and hide!]
Inside the house.
Luo Zhan walked out of the mechanical box not long after Lin Qianhua left.
There was no one in the living room, Luo Zhan turned half a circle, determined that there was no difference, and then went straight to the little girl's bedroom. According to the previous night, if Tang Ran was not in the living room, it was probably because of something in the bedroom.
At the door of the bedroom, Luo Zhan heard nothing for a long time. He frowned slightly, opened the door carefully, and walked into the bedroom.
But after walking around in the bedroom, and even looking for the bathroom, the little girl was still nowhere to be seen.
Luo Zhan frowned.
He subconsciously raised his wrist, and then remembered that the watch would be taken off early during the disguised robot stage.
Luo Zhan could only take out his mobile phone that was set to silent to determine the time.
Just as soon as the phone was taken out, it lit up in his hand.
Lin Qianhua's text message was impressive.
Seeing the word "them" in the text message clearly, Luo Zhan's eyes were shocked. He put away his phone and opened the bedroom door.
At this moment, in the direction of the entrance behind the living room, the sound of pushing the door suddenly sounded—
"Xiao Ran, be careful."
"Thank you uncle."
"I've been out for a day today, are you tired? Sit first... What is this?"
"Um?"
In the living room, Lan Jingqian looked vigilantly to the side, and said to Tang Ran at the same time, "Xiao Ran, a metal box of about two meters suddenly appeared in your living room, and it is still open."
Tang Ran was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Don't worry, uncle, that's the robot's mechanical box."
Lan Jingqian was startled and turned around: "Is this the robot?"
"Yeah." Tang Ran nodded, then wondered, "The door of the box is open, the robot should have come out - ah, maybe in the bedroom, it will sometimes automatically sense it and go there to find me."
"… "
Following Tang Ran's words, Lan Jingqian's brows slowly wrinkled at Panasonic: "You mean, that robot will take the initiative to go to your bedroom?"
Tang Ran nodded: "Similar to heat source induction?"
Lan Jingqian pursed his lips and said nothing, his expression serious and vigilant—
According to the current development of artificial intelligence, it is not impossible to actively judge and respond to heat sources, but it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to invest in the system coordination of a completely independent bionic robot.
Combined with Tang Ran's previous description, he became more and more suspicious of the nature of this robot.
Tang Ran didn't notice Lan Jingqian's caution.
After getting acquainted in the side house for a few months, she has been able to pass as a normal person. So after answering Lan Jingqian, Tang Ran took two steps towards the bedroom.
While walking, the little girl called softly, "Luo Luo, are you there?"
"… "
The air is quiet.
Tang Ran stopped unexpectedly.
In the darkness that has never changed, the little girl turned her face blankly: "Luo Luo?"
"… "
The only answer to her was still silence.
In Tang Ran's heart, a deeply buried seed of panic struggled out, causing her voice to tremble a little: "Luo, Luo Luo, are you not here?"
Lan Jingqian returned to his senses and stepped forward, half pulling and half protecting the flustered girl: "Xiao Ran, don't worry."
Tang Ran instinctively pushed Lan Jingqian's hand away, and she hurriedly took two steps into the darkness where she suddenly couldn't tell her direction, her voice trembling slightly.
"Luo-"
"I am here."
Before panicking to the top, the sound was cut off.
In the darkness, the hoarse mechanical voice walked out of the bedroom aisle and appeared in Tang Ran's empty world.
Then step by step, silent and calm, "it" came to her and stopped.
Tang Ran sensed something, slowly reached out, and touched the familiar shirt and temperature with her trembling fingertips.
The panic and tension on her face suddenly loosened, and the little girl's voice brought a choked smile: "Luo Luo?"
"I am here."
The mechanical texture repeats tirelessly.
"I thought something had happened to you again." The little girl let go of her trembling voice. She opened her hands and hugged the robot's waist without lingering fear. "You scared me to death."
"… "
After Luo Zhan was slightly startled, he let Tang Ran hold him.
After the little girl who was in front of him muttered, he only smiled silently.
Then Luo Zhan raised his eyes.
He and Lan Jingqian, who was shaking in place not far behind the girl, looked at each other.
Until Tang Ran slowly regained his mind and raised his head in front of him: "Luo Luo, you didn't say hello to me tonight."
Luo Zhan paused and said helplessly, "Is it necessary?"
This dialogue seems to be more flexible than before.
Tang Ran hesitated for a moment, but replied softly: "It was obviously every night before. I want to hear it."
"… "
In front of Lan Jingqian, Luo Zhan knew that he had better not say a word now, that would be a wise move.
But Tang Ran's request, he could never refuse.
Luo Zhan lowered his eyes helplessly.
Looking at the girl, he whispered:
"Good evening, master."