Chapter 379 Deep Virtual Reality 207
Since she had already come to Moonshadow Bay, Xie Ning took a day off after finishing all her projects.
She wanted to go to Xutai Street to take a look.
After several years of development, Xutai Street, which used to look like an old residential area, is no longer dilapidated but has become a prosperous place.
Although the streets are brightly lit with neon lights on both sides, they are wide and clean. The cleaning robots carefully pick up every piece of trash and throw it into the trash cans in their bellies for decomposition and processing.
The street was lined with shops on both sides, and there were quite a few pedestrians. Xie Ning walked on the street with her umbrella but did not feel crowded.
"Hahaha—look how round it is, does it mean it won't get up once it falls to the ground?" Several children, braving the drizzle, kicked a cleaning robot over and kicked it around like a ball.
The robot mechanically issued alarms: "Alarm! Alarm! Cleanup robot T49 is under attack, requesting backup! Alarm! Alarm! Cleanup robot T49 is under attack, requesting backup..."
The children's interest grew stronger with each repetition, their laughter growing louder and louder. Passersby glanced at them, but didn't stop; they just smiled and turned away.
It was originally a modified old robot. Because it was cheap, the quality was not very good. After a few moments, its abdomen became loose, a small screw fell off, and then the sheet metal covering it loosened and fell off. Then a pool of foul-smelling liquid flowed out and spread with the rain.
The child gagged a few times after smelling the foul odor and ran away in disgust.
"Warning! Warning! Cleaning program error, requesting assistance from other cleaning robots..."
An umbrella hung overhead, blocking the falling rain. A young woman's figure appeared in the blurry green screen of the cleaning robot, and a large alarm exclamation mark slowly disappeared as the robot straightened its body.
Xie Ning picked up the screw and installed the patch. For her, it was a simple and easy task.
The cleaning robot made no sound until the patch was installed, at which point it announced in a mechanical electronic voice, "Cleaning program restored to normal, alarm deactivated, cleaning robot T49 may continue cleaning."
Xie Ning patted her slightly damp skirt and then sent the photos in her hand to the community management. Everything has a price. Maliciously damaging public property is punishable by a fine of 100 federal dollars or more, depending on the extent of the damage, according to federal law, with no upper limit.
Even though the children are young, they are not exempt. Their guardians will pay the fines, and the children will also need to undergo three days of education.
The rain was getting heavier, but Xie Ning continued on his way to his destination.
Since returning from Sky Island, she had been searching for the researchers who had brought her there. She finally found them recently, but they had died of radiation sickness more than 20 years ago.
And she died before she was found by the headmistress.
Logically, if she had been "adopted" by those two researchers, she should have been sent to an orphanage after their deaths, rather than being abandoned.
During this period, there was a gap in her schedule. She wanted to go and see where the two researchers had lived. If there was anyone familiar with them, she could ask them for directions.
That place was considered a relatively good residential area back then, but so many years have passed and there has been no redevelopment plan. Now it's an old residential area, similar to the one where Zhan Lin's family lives, only it's cleaner and more spacious.
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