Chapter 100 Something feels off... "You...you..."
"What...what happened to you?" Mingming was shocked to see her friend looking like she had been drained of her life force by a demon.
Sang Zhitao yawned and rubbed her stiff neck before explaining, "I've been researching how to make bubbles by hand lately."
"Huh?" Mingming looked at her with a question mark on his forehead. "Why are you researching that?"
Sang Zhitao followed her outside, explaining as she went: "I saw that buying a bubble model was a bit expensive, so I decided to make my own by hand. It's cheaper, and I can input various symptoms, making it convenient for experiments."
Even though it was clearly cold, he nodded and said, "That's true."
Before Sang Zhitao could say anything, she continued, "There's no need to be in such a hurry."
Sang Zhitao just smiled and didn't reply.
It was just a casual remark, and no one noticed her silence: "I really have to get this done today. I really don't want to face that staff member again."
“Indeed, let’s go quickly.” Sang Zhitao nodded and headed straight for the administration hall with Mingming.
The information I found out was very accurate; the rude staff member indeed didn't come to work.
In just five minutes, I got the doctor's badge.
"Such a small amount of food, and we waited for three whole days," Sang Zhitao remarked.
"Never mind, as long as it's done, let's hurry up and put up the sign, then have a big meal to celebrate." Mingming pulled her quickly toward 46th Street.
Upon arriving at her doorstep, looking at the space assigned to her, Sang Zhitao placed a palm-sized ball on the ground.
The sphere emitted a pink light, then stood up with a whoosh, and stopped after a while. A crisp opening sound rang out, and a doctor's symbol was ejected from the sphere.
The pattern bounced very high, stopping about ten meters away from where they were standing.
Looking at the pink doctor pattern, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but complain, "Everyone likes to decorate their lives with color, but they discriminate against Bubbles who are born pink."
"Human nature always has some strange and wonderful aspects," Mingming said with a smile.
"Alright then." Sang Zhitao didn't say anything more.
"Alright, alright, let's go get something to eat." Mingming pulled her towards the nearby food island.
After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Mingming, holding her hand, suddenly said, "By the way, my brother said your idea last time was excellent. He wanted to ask you if we could meet in person to discuss it in more detail."
Sang Zhitao hesitated. She was currently waiting for Bubble to be healed, and this matter was already outside the plot. If she agreed, she was afraid it would delay things further.
Seeing her hesitation, Mingming instantly understood and said with a smile, "Don't worry, it won't delay your shop. I'll have him come over."
Hearing this, Sang Zhitao nodded in agreement.
After agreeing on a time, Sang Zhitao took out another business expansion ball.
As soon as the expansion ball appeared, it emitted a pink light.
After Sang Zhitao placed the expansion ball on the ground, the light from the expander flashed faster and faster until a blinding light passed, at which point she opened her eyes.
Looking around, Sang Zhitao noticed that her bubble space had expanded.
If it was a small studio apartment before, it's now a small two-story clinic.
The first floor is the outpatient area, the pharmacy area, and the medical area; the second floor is her former bachelor apartment.
Looking at the changes in the room, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but rub her chin and exclaim in amazement, "How did they manage to do that?"
After thinking for a moment, she quickly returned to the forum and posted a new thread titled "Can bubble models achieve the same spatial expansion as real bubbles?"
After posting the message, she waited for a while but received no reply, so she decided to go and familiarize herself with the clinic for the time being.
Looking at the various testing tools in the outpatient area, she breathed a sigh of relief; at least she didn't have to pay for them herself.
Looking at the medicine section, she saw that all kinds of medicines were prepared. She checked and found that the basic medicines were all available, but the quantities were not very large.
Thinking of the information she had seen before, Sang Zhitao knew that this batch of free medicines was only available to newly opened clinics, and there was only one batch available. Once it was used up, she would have to apply to purchase more at the administrative hall.
"Well, at least we saved quite a bit." Sang Zhitao sighed.
The medical area was empty, with many sticky hooks hanging above it. If you count carefully, there were probably more than a dozen sets. These sticky hooks were used to treat the special bubbles, and the bubbles could be stuck in mid-air with the sticky hooks.
"In intervention mode, wouldn't we be unable to see the customer's bubble?" Sang Zhitao looked at the sticky hook and suddenly became very curious about how the customer could enter their bubble without intervention.
"Knock knock knock." Several knocks sounded on the door.
Sang Zhitao was taken aback at first, but then realized that it was the clinic simulating the sound of a wooden door, and hurriedly went to open the door.
Outside the door stood a young girl, her eyes slightly red and her voice choked with sobs: "Sister...sister, can you help me?"
Sang Zhitao quickly squatted down, her voice gentle: "What's wrong, little beauty?"
The girl looked to be about seven or eight years old. She hesitated for a moment before saying, "I... my bubbles have color now."
Sang Zhitao didn't react for a moment, but when she looked up at the girl's bubbles, which were a thick black, she realized: "Is it that black patch?"
The girl pursed her lips and nodded cautiously.
Sang Zhitao stepped aside to let the girl in.
She watched the girl with great interest, eager to see if the bubbles would disappear when they entered the clinic.
Seeing that the bubbles hadn't disappeared, she couldn't help but rub her chin curiously, thinking she'd search for them online later.
The girl carefully stepped into the room, her expression revealing her curiosity as she looked at the unfamiliar clinic environment.
Sang Zhitao smiled and said, "Wait a moment, let me see what's going on."
The girl stood obediently in place, nodding repeatedly.
Sang Zhitao took out the testing instrument, placed it on the black part of the bubble, operated the device, and watched the numerical reaction inside.
After a long pause, he frowned and looked at the girl, saying, "Little beauty, this isn't an illness."
The girl stared blankly at her for a long while before nodding and saying, "Mm."
Seeing her like this, Sang Zhitao squatted down and looked at the girl: "Could you tell my sister what happened?"
The girl pursed her lips and after a long while said, "It's...it's Little Fatty. He said he wanted to turn me into a lowly colored bubble..."
Seeing the fear in the girl's eyes, Sang Zhitao sighed softly: "Colorful bubbles are not lowly..."
"Never mind..." Sang Zhitao looked at her blank and confused face, "I'll help you clean it up."
The girl held the hem of her clothes and nodded obediently.
Sang Zhitao took a clean cloth from the pool, wet it, and started cleaning the girl.
Fortunately, the girl was young and the bubbles weren't high, otherwise she probably would have had to stand on a stool to deal with it.
Even so, it took her a long time to clean it properly.
Looking at the trash can where three or four stained rags had been thrown, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but curse under her breath: "What a brat."
The girl was pleasantly surprised to see her little bubbles return to cleanliness, and quickly thanked Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao smiled before reminding him, "Remember not to say you left through my place, okay? I'm also a colorful bubble, and if you say that, that chubby boy will bully you again."
The girl was taken aback at first, then nodded obediently.
After seeing her off, Sang Zhitao turned around and searched online.
She had been curious about this for a while: the inside of the bubble was so big, yet it looked so small from the outside, and unless it was intentionally designed, you couldn't see what was inside.
But many children's bubbles are just like ordinary bubbles with a child standing inside, without any of the complexity of adult bubbles.
The internet quickly provided tens of thousands of messages.
Looking at the links, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but sigh, "This is so real, unlike Baidu on Earth, where every search is just ads."
After clicking through several links, Sang Zhitao finally found what she wanted to see.
In the bubble world, bubbles change internally as they age, and their bubble space usually becomes fixed around the age of eighteen.
“Repairing the worldview…” Sang Zhitao stroked her chin. In the original book, she basically didn’t write anything about the worldview or background, and she didn’t even touch on things like children’s bubbles.
Sang Zhitao immediately thought of Mingming's brother: "I remember it said in the original book that bubbles can form families and have children, but..."
She frowned, thinking about what she had seen during her stay. The bubble people here rarely appeared in family units; most were single, and everyone was an orphan.
"Strange... The basic settings in the original book cannot be changed, so would the world still be the world in the book?" She rubbed her fingertips, feeling like she had guessed something.
"And... where do orphans come from?" Sang Zhitao felt as if she had glimpsed the turbulent undercurrents beneath the calm and peaceful bubble world.
Before Sang Zhitao could ponder the change, her train of thought was interrupted by a message on the forum reminding her that her post had been replied to.
Without hesitation, Sang Zhitao quickly opened the forum.
The post has already received more than a dozen replies.
The first few comments were mostly jokes.
"Where did this cutie come from, asking such a silly question?"
"Probably a primary school student. Go do your homework and stop going online, or you'll be reported to the administrator."
...
She scrolled down until she reached the latest message.
"Replying to the original poster, real bubbles are a gift from heaven. The spatial expansion comes from special technology, which is a top secret. Simple things like artificial bubble models cannot be simulated."
Sang Zhitao quickly replied, "Then how can I learn about spatial expansion?"
A moment later, the other party replied, "Maybe you'll have a chance when you become a special talent."
"Special talent?" Sang Zhitao quickly asked him again.
"Yes, you can search for special talent programs, but I don't recommend you apply. After all, those people are geniuses who only appear once in millions."
Sang Zhitao frowned. She was just an ordinary person. It had already taken a lot of effort for her to learn basic medical knowledge and pass the qualification exam in three months. She didn't even dare to think about challenging the geniuses of the Bubble World.
But she really coveted that space expansion technology. After a long sigh, Sang Zhitao decided to give up for now and focus on learning the basic bubble model first.
However, her sixth sense told her that even without going through a special talent program, she would eventually come into contact with this technology, and that this technology was even intricately related to the things she had been wondering about.
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Author's Note: I got off work too late today, so I missed a chapter. I'll make it up when I have time.
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