After Roo One’s lights ca back on, it checked its internal timing system and found that only ten minutes had passed.
"Interdiate Student Zeng Xuerou, I’m very grateful for your help," Roo One doesn’t know any pleasantries, so it could only use the simplest sentence to express its thanks.
"It’s no big deal, just changed a circuit board," said Xuerou as she packed up her toolbox, "But Roo One, several of the circuit boards in your body had loose connectors, which I’ve re-soldered for you. You shouldn’t short-circuit next ti because of soone else’s provocation."
Xuerou’s words reminded Roo One again of Ye Heng’s malicious attitude. Who says robots don’t hold grudges? As long as they’re not formatted, it’s all recorded firmly in the computer’s mory, perfectly rembered after short-circuiting and rebooting.
After Xuerou stepped out of the supply center, the stone embedded inside the robot’s body still lingered in her mind; she didn’t dare to remove that suspicious stone on her own.
Actually, this wasn’t her first ti inspecting the robots on campus. She had repaired other robots before and seed to have never encountered a similar stone.
Perhaps Roo One trusted her to carry out the repair because it saw she had related experience.
"It’s impossible that only Roo One has it, and the others don’t, so there can only be one explanation. These stones that supply power for the normal operation of the robots have always been there, it’s just that I hadn’t learned to use ’Treasure Eye,’ so I never discovered it before," Xuerou mused. However, there was nothing she could do about the stone.
Even if she were to tell Xiao Xian and Yiyi, they would probably agree that the stone was the latest type of battery, sparing oneself the trouble of worrying about the robots.
"I wish I had such a stone. If I put it in a car, I wouldn’t even need gasoline," Xuerou returned to her new apartnt, which was empty. Xiao Xian and Yiyi were out; a note on the table said they both went to the Spiritual Fruit Garden to "watch" ginseng.
In the following days, Xiao Xian and Yiyi would go to the Spiritual Fruit Garden in tacit agreent, keeping their plans a secret.
In the blink of an eye, a month passed, and the B section’s Spiritual Fruit Garden was as beautiful as ever with bright flowers and fragrant fruits.
Contradicting this beautiful spring scenery was the sound of a woman’s uncontrollable scolding coming from near the dicine Field deep within the Spiritual Fruit Garden, audible even from the Blossom field.
Several branches of beautifully blooming peach trees quivered under the sharp scolding, shedding a shower of petals to the ground.
"Ye Heng, is this your innovative solution? Where’s my ginseng? What am I supposed to tell grandfather," Xu Lan Ya’s usual gentle appearance was gone, replaced by a hint of ferocity. What did she see? Five mu of ginseng—entire five mu—without a single ginseng plant left.
The ginseng had looked scorched weeks earlier, leaves turning yellow, until they wilted away, and no amount of high-value, specially purchased fertilizer Ye Heng could buy could save the ginseng in the field.
Pulling up the ginseng showed a charred top, and the once plump roots were now rotten and emitted an unpleasant stench.
"Lan Ya, I’ve tried everything. Maybe there’s been a change in the soil here, causing..." Ye Heng tried to explain, only to be rudely interrupted by Xu Lan Ya.
"Don’t you tell there’s a problem with the soil or spiritual energy in the Spiritual Fruit Garden. Look over there," ironically, while Xu Lan Ya’s ginseng field faced catastrophe, just a field ridge away and a few ters apart, a two-mu plot of an unknown variety of ginseng thrived.
The ginseng had entered the flowering stage, with purple-white blossoms looking just right. Upon closer inspection, under the vibrant green leaves were flowers like purple spheres, with bees flitting between them, diligently collecting honey.
"Lan Ya, now that you ntion it, I suspect the problem lies with those mu of land next door. Think about it; we’ve planted crops twice before without any issues. Ever since those two mu of ginseng and the new student showed up, things changed. Could it be that their ginseng is absorbing the spiritual energy and nutrients from our side?" Ye Heng’s suggestion made Xu Lan Ya snort coldly in her heart.
Did Ye Heng really think she was so bimbo with no brains? Absorbing spiritual energy? Such an overbearing thod would be difficult even among high-level Cultivators, let alone for plants that don’t just passively take it. Him saying this was just a way to shirk responsibility.
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