Chapter 28: Human-machine Love, Are You in Love?
"Why are you all staring at me?" Ming Nuo couldn't help but ask them. He felt uncomfortable with this strange atmosphere, as if he had done something bad.
Baldwin took a sip of his wine, looked at Mingnuo, and asked him a question, "If Sedwick wanted your lamb, would you give it to him?"
Zelphis and the others also looked up at Mingnuo, anxiously awaiting his response. Seren urged Mingnuo to answer, "Will it?"
Everyone can see that Mingnuo likes Baimian. If he can easily give Baimian to Sedwick, things might become a bit troublesome.
"Hmm..." Ming Nuo gave his answer after careful consideration, "No, I won't give it to him."
He remembered Field saying before that Sedwick didn't know how to raise small animals, and whatever he raised died. So he definitely wouldn't be able to raise white cotton well, so he should leave the difficult task of raising lambs to him.
Zelphis and the others didn't know the reason, but after hearing Mingnuo say this, they couldn't help but feel relieved. It seemed that the two of them were just ordinary friends and their feelings were not that deep.
Then it's okay.
"Well, go play with him tomorrow." Zelphis said to Mingnuo with confidence, "Have fun."
At the same time, he silently told Dillon to pay attention to Mingnuo's safety at all times.
Dillon had a reassuring expression, as if to say, "Don't worry, I'm here." "I know."
Mingnuo got his brother's permission, and after dinner he immediately started preparing Baimian's flight bag and leash for tomorrow's outing. Grandpa Fudi also prepared a lot of pet snacks for him.
Mingnuo was given a lot of snacks, as if they were afraid that the man and the sheep would starve to death outside.
The next morning, the sun was warm and gentle.
After finishing his breakfast, Ming Nuo took the airline box to the garden to pick up white cotton. The morning dew was hanging on the branches. The gardener who was pruning the branches saw him and smiled and called him "Little Prince".
"Uncle, is Baimian at home now?" Mingnuo asked the gardener politely, lifting the flight case. "I'm taking him out to play today."
Baimian has an exquisite wooden hut in the garden, which is covered with soft blankets. It can wander around the garden as it pleases, and sometimes Mingnuo can't even find it.
The gardener thought for a moment and said, "When I came here just now, Baimian was still in the nest."
Mingnuo thanked the gardener and walked towards Baimian's home. Baimian was already familiar with his footsteps, and before Mingnuo could reach its nest, Baimian ran out with its short legs.
The snow-white lamb affectionately circled around Mingnuo several times, rubbed his trouser legs, and said in a sweet and coquettish voice, "Mee~~"
Ming Nuo picked it up and kissed its little head, then put it on the ground, opened the airline box, and pointed inside, "Jump in, I'll take you out to play."
Bai Mian tilted his head, grabbed Mingnuo's trouser leg, and pulled him in one direction, as if he wanted to take him somewhere.
Mingnuo followed it for a while and came to a hidden and desolate corner. Most of the flowers and plants here had died, revealing the bare ground. A half-human-high egg leaned alone against the corner of the wall.
Baimian ran over and rubbed the eggshell, then bleated at Mingnuo.
Ming Nuo had never seen such a big egg before. He was surprised and reached out to touch the rough shell of the white egg. It was cold to the touch. He didn't know whether it was a real egg or made of stone.
"Do you treat it as your friend?" Ming Nuo picked up Bai Mian, thinking that Bai Mian must be too bored to treat this egg-like stone as a friend and introduced it to him.
Ming Nuo touched Bai Mian's little head and said, "You can go play with the rabbits. They are also herbivores and won't bully you."
Bai Mian tilted his head and bleated at Mingnuo twice, but it was unclear whether he heard what he said or not.
It happened that Birdwin was about to go out in the morning, so Mingnuo sat with him in a hover car. As soon as they got in the car, Mingnuo released Baimian who was locked in the aviation box.
Bai Mian did not show any stress response and lay leisurely on the car window to look at the scenery outside.
"It's getting fatter and fatter." Birdwin leaned back in his chair, his narrow eyes sweeping across Baimian's snow-white fluffy fur, and then his gaze shifted to Mingnuo's silver hair.
Well…lambs love lambs.
"Bai Mian is not fat." Ming Nuo argued for Bai Mian. Suddenly, he thought of the egg in the garden and asked Bodwin, "Uncle Bodwin, do you know that big white egg in the garden? Is it an egg or a stone?"
"The eggs by the fountain?"
"Yes, is it really an egg?"
"It's the egg of the Tasang beast." Bodwin suddenly reached out and ruffled Mingnuo's hair. "Your father brought it back when he was bored, but it never hatched. Now it's just a dead egg."
The Tasang stone on the Tasang beast is hard to come by, so Herbert simply went and snatched an egg back, intending to achieve self-sufficiency in Tasang stone.
As a result, no matter what method was used, the egg could not be cracked, and it was finally thrown into the garden as a decoration.
Ming Nuo looked at Bai Mian in surprise and muttered to himself, "So it really is your good friend..."
When Baimian saw humans talking to it, although it didn't understand, it bleated twice in support.
More than ten minutes later, Mingnuo and Sedwick arrived at the place they had agreed on. It was a picking garden that focused on green ecology. Sedwick and the other three were already waiting for him at the entrance.
"Uncle, I'm leaving now."
Ming Nuo saw that the sun was shining brightly outside, so he put on sunglasses.
After saying goodbye to Birdwin, Mingnuo got off the hovercraft holding Baimian's flight case, ran happily to Sedwick, patted him on the shoulder, and said hello to Field and Lin Yu, "I'm here."
Field put his arm on Mingnuo's shoulder and glanced at the hovercraft that had not yet left. He could vaguely see a figure sitting inside. "Could it be that your brother sent you here?"
Ming Nuo: "My brother is very busy, so my uncle sent it to me."
"Your Highness Baldwin..." Field shuddered, not knowing what he was thinking of, and kept silent about him.
Mingnuo thought he was weird and turned to look at Sedwick. They hadn't seen each other for a while, and Sedwick still had that expressionless face.
Sedwick took Baimian's flight case and his gray eyes swept over Mingnuo's soft cheek. "Let's go into the park."
"Is this Baimian?" Lin Yu looked down at the lamb in the flight case, his eyes lighting up. "It's even cuter than in the photo."
Ming Nuo smiled and said, "Yes, yes."
Not far away, Birdwin saw that this time it was not Mingno and Sedwick who were traveling together, and his displeasure slowly disappeared.
But the next second he frowned again, because Mingnuo walked into the picking garden side by side with Sedwick. Field and Lin Yu were obviously beside him, but Mingnuo insisted on squeezing together with Sedwick.
Birdwin remembered that the two children had a good relationship when they were very young, but so many years have passed, and they are still not estranged at all?
Lorian was already quite estranged from this uncle, so why was he still so nice to this little brat? Bodwin felt unbalanced instantly.
Bodwin gave the hovercraft's intelligent driving system an order in an unhappy tone, "Go to Anka Garden."
On the other side, Mingnuo took Baimian out of the airline bag when he walked into the picking garden. Baimian was a little uncomfortable with the new environment and shrank timidly behind Mingnuo's legs.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." Ming Nuo squatted down, put a leash on Bai Mian, and touched its little head soothingly.
Sedwick also squatted down and was about to reach out to touch Baimian, but Baimian fiercely hit his palm with his little lamb horns and then hid behind Mingnuo.
Sedwick deadpanned, "It doesn't like me."
Field poured cold water on him, "Maybe he smells the scent of death from you. Just ask a small animal killer, who wouldn't be afraid?"
Sedwick ruthlessly pushed him aside.
Mingnuo brought Baimian here because he wanted them to live in harmony. Of course, he would not watch their friendship break down. He immediately picked up Baimian and made it face Sedwick.
Mingnuo pointed at Sedwick seriously and said to Baimian, "You are not allowed to be mean to him, understand?"
Then he looked up at Sedwick and said, "I have some pet snacks in my bag. Find them and feed it some. It won't be afraid of you anymore."
Mingnuo's backpack was on Sedwick's shoulders. Sedwick found the pet food for Baimian from a pile of snacks and handed the grass lollipop to Baimian.
Smelling the delicious food, Baimian was finally less wary of Sedwick. When Sedwick touched its head again, Baimian did not resist.
Ming Nuo smiled a little smugly, "See, Bai Mian is easy to coax."
A smile flashed across Sedwick's gray eyes, and he said, "Hmm," "Where shall we go shopping first?"
This picking garden is very large. You can pick food on your own and ask the chef to help cook it, or find a place with good scenery to have a picnic. Green trees and green grass are everywhere you look. It is a great place for entertainment and relaxation.
Therefore, many tourists come here.
Few people could recognize Mingnuo after he put on sunglasses, but the four of them walking the lamb together still attracted a lot of people's attention. Many uncles and aunts also stopped to look at Baimian a few more times because of his good looks.
"This lamb is so cute. What breed is it?"
"It looks quite similar to the one your Majesty keeps. I think it's the same breed. It must be very expensive."
"By the way... His Highness Lorian seems to have silver-white hair as well."
“…”
When Mingnuo heard that his identity was about to be exposed, he quickly ran to another place with fewer people. The tourists who were discussing the matter realized what was happening and hurriedly looked for Mingnuo, but they couldn't find him.
Ming Nuo and the others ran to the river. There were only a few anglers here who were concentrating on fishing. They were paying close attention to the floats on the water and didn't pay any attention to the four of them at all.
"That was a close call. I was almost discovered." Ming Nuo breathed a sigh of relief, still feeling a lingering fear. "Do you think I should dye my hair next time?"
Sedwick, holding the leash and watching White Cotton sniffing around, looking like a cloud set against the greenery, replied, "Your current color is quite good."
Lin Yu also nodded and said, "It must be that video from a while ago that made everyone remember your face. Next time, I'll ask Dad to help you get some military camouflage devices. They can directly change your appearance, which is very convenient."
"I want some too." Field suddenly said, shamelessly, "Ask Uncle Lin to give me some too."
Lin Yu frowned: "What do you want this for?"
"Skipping class."
“…No.”
Field immediately went to find Mingnuo again, hoping that Mingnuo would share some of the camouflage device with him when he got it, but Mingnuo refused.
Looking at his former slacking partner, Mingnuo said earnestly, "Fei Er, you have to study hard too."
Field: “…”
It's over. Looking at the situation, the slacker will also be promoted to the new generation of the King of Rolls.
They walked along the river for a while, and Ming Nuo told them all about his interesting experiences of learning practical skills from his brother during this period, and of course, his miserable life when he was learning from Wen Zhining.
"I'm really afraid of pissing Brother Zhining off to death." Ming Nuo couldn't help but sigh when he thought of his disastrous score. "Do you think I'm really an idiot?"
Field chose to remain silent. He couldn't understand the mentality of having to get all 50 multiple-choice questions right. Isn't it normal to get one or two wrong?!
He looked at the depressed Ming Nuo and Lin Yu who was comforting him, and felt deeply that he was witnessing the rise of a generation of king of rolls.
Sedwick glanced at Mingnuo and said, "Are you stupid? I thought this was my brother's exclusive name for me."
This sentence instantly rescued Ming Nuo from his depressed state. Ming Nuo couldn't help but ask him curiously, "Why?"
"Maybe when he learned addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, I couldn't even count to ten. Then he learned algebraic geometry, and I could only solve linear equations..." Sedwick's voice revealed helplessness, "So I have always been a fool."
Garland is a person who loves to show off. Every time he gets first place in the exam, he will show his certificate in front of his whole family very proudly, and he will not stop until he gets praise from everyone in the family.
Until he became a classmate of Mingnuo's brother, Zelphis became the first place since then. However, Sedwick's life did not become much easier because every time Garland came back with second place in the exam, he would cry and make a lot of noise.
After hearing what Sedwick said, Ming Nuo couldn't help laughing, "Then you are miserable."
Sedwick remained noncommittal. "So don't be too critical of my brother."
"But Brother Garland is really good-looking."
“…”
Sedwick stopped talking, and Bai Mian stared at the snacks in his hand. Meeting the lamb's expectant eyes, this time Sedwick did not give him the snacks. Instead, he put them into his pocket coldly.
He said to Bai Mian indifferently: "You should lose weight."
Bai Mian was disappointed: "Meh..."
Ming Nuo: “…”
Such familiar words, it turned out that his uncle had said the same thing just now. But he really couldn't understand why everyone said that white cotton fat was fat, it just had more hair, it was actually fat with false fat!
Suddenly, a burst of hurried footsteps was heard. Sedwick frowned, grabbed Mingnuo's wrist and pulled him behind him, while picking up Baimian from the ground, looking at the group of people in front with cold eyes.
Mingnuo also stuck his head out to take a look.
Five or six half-grown boys ran out of the woods and surrounded a young man. They punched and kicked him, venting their anger on him and cursing at him.
The young man who was beaten would just hold his head and curl up into a ball, without any intention of resisting, as if he had already accepted his fate.
Ming Nuo's breath was taken away when he saw this, and he subconsciously spoke out to stop them, "Stop fighting!"
But the group turned a deaf ear to them. Seeing that they even took out a gun and pointed it at the young man's chest, Ming Nuo was so scared that he almost drew his sword, but Dillon stopped him.
A tall and handsome AI appeared next to Mingnuo. In the blink of an eye, Dillon grabbed the boy with a gun by the collar and threw him out. The others were intimidated and subconsciously stood there in a daze.
Until one of the boys reacted, he looked Dillon up and down. The spoiled young master who never cared about military affairs would not recognize Dillon. He raised his chin and said, "Who are you? You are brave enough to do me a favor? Do you know who my father is?!"
Dillon looked at him indifferently, "Who is your father? Didn't your family tell you?"
The young man was stunned for several seconds before he understood what Dillon meant. He instantly flew into a rage and started cursing at Dillon. But Dillon would not tolerate him and kicked him in the chest.
The young man let out a short scream, flew backwards, and lay on the ground crying.
When the others saw their companion being bullied in front of them, they immediately felt embarrassed, but before they could take any action, they caught a glimpse of the group standing behind Dillon.
Except for Mingnuo, whose appearance could not be seen clearly because of sunglasses, the faces of Sedwick and the other three were well-known in the aristocratic circle. The arrogance of these arrogant teenagers instantly subsided.
Field sneered, "You still dare to cause trouble? Aren't you afraid of being sent to a barren planet to mine?"
Lin Yu took the beaten young man from Dillon and checked his condition.
The teenagers looked embarrassed. One of them, perhaps feeling that he had the backing to challenge them, boldly said, "Can't you just give our boss some face and pretend nothing happened?"
Sedwick suddenly said sarcastically, "Who the hell is your boss?"
The young man's face flushed, "My boss is His Majesty's younger brother! Don't you even care about the royal family?!"
Ming Nuo was stunned. How could he not know that his brother had a younger brother? Didn't his father only have him and his brother?
Field couldn't help but burst out laughing, his arm resting on Mingnuo's shoulder. "I've never seen anyone so shameless. They even dare to approach His Majesty and claim to be his relatives. They've been rejected several times for asking to see him. Don't they know that His Majesty doesn't want to bother with them at all?"
The boy's face flushed red. He looked at them angrily, turned around and ran away, and the others followed closely behind him.
Ming Nuo was still out of his mind. "Who is their boss?"
Sedwick: "Gracie Flynn."
Ming Nuo shook his head, "I don't know him."
Now the other three's eyes were on him. Sedwick looked surprised. "You haven't met Gracie?"
"No." Mingnuo thought about the man's surname Flynn. "Is he my aunt's child? But isn't Sister Finilte an only child? My brother told me not to care about other people in the Flynn family..."
Field: "He is the son of your grandfather's second wife's son."
Ming Nuo: “…”
What a complicated prefix.
Seeing Ming Nuo was confused, Lin Yu patted his head and said, "Since your brother told you to ignore them, then you don't have to pay attention to them. Besides, Gracie himself is an uneducated and unskilled playboy. It's better for you to follow your sister."
Field's attitude towards Gracie was also not good. "You don't have to say it so nicely. He is just an idiot who only causes trouble."
It sounded like Gracie's character was indeed questionable, so Mingnuo stopped worrying about this cousin he had never met and went to see the young man who had been beaten.
The young man had a delicate appearance, with black hair hanging down to the side of his neck. He looked powerless and cowardly. He covered his arms tightly and lowered his head, not daring to look at Ming Nuo and the others.
Dillon stared at the young man with a frown, wondering what he was thinking.
"Are you okay?" Ming Nuo asked the young man tentatively. Seeing that he had been covering his arm, "Is your hand injured? We can take you to see a doctor."
The young man still lowered his head timidly, "Thank you, thank you, but no thanks, I'm fine."
Ming Nuo: "Then you..."
Someone suddenly grabbed Ming Nuo's wrist. He looked up in surprise and saw Dillon suddenly standing between him and the young man, separating them. He looked down at the young man and said, "You are a bionic man."
Mingnuo was horrified, and this time even the usually calm Sedwick could hardly maintain his facial expression.
The young man suddenly burst into tears and looked at Ming Nuo pleadingly, "Please don't send me to be destroyed. I'm just a home android. I, I escaped with great difficulty. Please..."
Sedwick: "Escape? Where were you from before?"
"My name is Youan, and I was originally from the Saichuan Empire." Youan choked up and told the truth, "But after my master passed away, his family believed in the Unapocalypse God and thought that all androids were sinful, so they wanted to send me to be destroyed... I didn't want to die, so I escaped."
Ming Nuo subconsciously softened his heart after hearing about his miserable experience. Field also sighed and shook his head. Thinking of those bullying bastards, he sighed and said, "When will equality be achieved for all beings?"
Lin Yu: “Someone can make it happen.”
Field was surprised, "Who?"
"Mrs. Flynn." Lin Yu answered seriously, "I guess only in her presence can all beings be equal."
Field recalled the fear he felt when he was dominated by Dilina last time, and his scalp tingled, but it was undeniable that in front of Dilina, emperors and commoners were the same and he could confront them all the same.
Sedwick was different. His grey eyes stared at Youan calmly, not missing any loopholes in his words. "Since you are a android, can you disobey orders and escape privately?"
The young man shuddered as he glanced at Sedwick and muttered, "My master changed my basic command to prioritize my own life above all else. He was the one who told me to leave."
Dillon was already standing next to Mingnuo. While the others were still questioning the android, Dillon murmured, "What a touching human-machine relationship."
Mingnuo was confused. What was this person saying?
Ti Lung looked deeply moved, like a Cupid who was deeply in love with a man. He asked Ming Nuo, "Do you believe in love?"
Ming Nuo: “……?”
Only then did he realize that the love Dillon was talking about was the relationship between this android and his master, but it was clearly a pure employment relationship! Ming Nuo really couldn't understand what Dillon's algorithm was calculating all day long.
But Dillon seemed to be addicted to shipping the couple, and he didn't even return to his brain. He just stood beside Youan, staring at him with a pair of oppressive eyes.
Youan was almost crying under Dillon's oppressive gaze. He couldn't figure out how he had offended the other party. Was he waiting for an opportunity to kill him?
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