Chapter 276 Machine 15
Jiang Chan was not infected with the disease. Yin Jia's disinfection was very comprehensive. She just started to have a fever because of the sudden drop in temperature. She was locked up in the slums, depressed, and the surrounding environment was very bad. It was intermittent until the afternoon of the third day that she got better and her body temperature returned to normal. Yin Jia also filled a cup with light salt water and handed it to Jiang Chan, asking her to hold it and drink it.
The thermos cup that Jiang Chan used when she went out was a lanyard style one with a fat belly, a capacity of 1000 ml, and beautiful pictures on the surface. She curled up at the head of the bed, with the quilt piled on her legs, holding the thermos cup and drinking from it in small sips.
"Yingjia, my throat hurts." Her voice was hoarse from the inflammation. Yinjia's original design was primarily for her safety. While it could perform some daily tasks, it wasn't as intelligent as it is now. Yes, in Jiang Chan's opinion, Yinjia was intelligent, almost unlike an intelligent machine, more like a new species that had acquired machine consciousness.
The Silver Armor, which used to be a bit laggy and not much different from the robot nannies on the market, was sitting silently beside her. His broad mechanical arms were a bit clumsy as he cut the orange, peeled it and threw it away, then handed the juicy orange segments to Jiang Chan's mouth.
Jiang Chan had hands, but she enjoyed Yin Jia's care. She opened her mouth wide, "Ah..." Yin Jia put the orange slices in, and his teeth closed. The plump orange pieces exploded in her mouth, filling her mouth with sweet orange. Jiang Chan swallowed hard, her throat aching. She pinched her neck and continued to open her mouth, waiting for the feeding.
After Jiang Chan finished eating a whole orange, her throat felt a little better. She thought about what happened before the high fever and asked, "Yingjia, has the epidemic not been resolved yet?"
Shining Armor: "Yes, young master."
Jiang Chan said sullenly, "Then when can we go out?" Jiang Chan felt bored. She wanted to play with her mobile phone, but her mobile phone was gone. Yin Jia reminded her, "My little master, Yin Jia's display screen is your mobile phone. It has many functions." Jiang Chan remembered that Yin Jia could check all her virtual information. She held her face and nodded, then tapped in front of Yin Jia's chest. When she clicked on the message column, the voice message started playing, and Jiang Chan pressed it to death.
It was sent to her by her deskmate in the same school, who asked her if her living environment was safe and was willing to take the risk to deliver supplies to her.
The reason why Jiang Chan pressed the button to death quickly was because her deskmate was a boy and he took good care of her in school. But now when her deskmate's voice came through the display screen of Yin Jia, it felt very strange and there was an inexplicable feeling of embarrassment.
Shining Armor: "Do you need me to step aside?"
He suddenly spoke, his voice as calm and flat as ever, his metallic eyes staring quietly at Jiang Chan. She was right in front of him, so small that he could completely cover her with just one hand.
Jiang Chan: "...No need." She felt her temples bulging and her back was numb with cold. She pursed her lips and clicked the voice button: "Thank you, I'm safe for now..." The moment the message was sent, a red exclamation mark appeared next to the voice message, indicating that the message failed to be sent and the network was disconnected.
Confused, Jiang Chan tried again, but it still failed. She asked Yin Jia in a slightly hoarse voice, "Why can't the message be sent?"
Jiang Chan's eyes were still wrapped in white gauze. The environment in the slum was very dirty, and the air was filled with ashes from the burning fire and choking smoke. Such an environment was not good for her eyes' recovery, so she didn't dare to take it off rashly.
White gauze blocked her eyes. She tilted her head slightly, facing Yin Jia. Her throat seemed to be filled with gravel. Although a little hoarse, it was still very pleasant. In Yin Jia's data, the most commonly used word to describe a beautiful voice was "oriole", crisp and beautiful... The signal on Yin Jia's display screen still hadn't recovered. The two voice messages were forced to stay on this end and could only be heard by him.
Yin Jia's face was expressionless, and his voice was steady: "Young Master, we have detected that a rainstorm is coming, causing problems with signal reception. You can try sending a text message..."
He continued, "Young Master, Yin Jia has recently developed a new feature that can reply to important messages while you are busy. Do you want to enable the relevant authorization?"
Jiang Chan decisively refused. After telling her deskmate that she was fine, she quickly turned off the monitor and ordered Yin Jia, "I want to eat another orange!" Yin Jia paused for a moment, then said, "Young Master, you've already eaten one. Eating too much is bad for your throat. How about an apple?"
Jiang Chan nodded: "Okay, I want to eat."
After Yin Jia turned around, Jiang Chan let out a long breath. Just now, she was really afraid that Yin Jia would be like the last time. After she refused to authorize him, he was like a virus invading her, repeating the same sentence five or six times, urging her with a hint of madness, making it impossible for her to disagree! Jiang Chan took the apple from Yin Jia and took a bite. "Crack!" She secretly praised her own quick reaction for not giving Yin Jia the chance to force her to authorize.
Dark clouds gathered in the sky. Silver Armor always quietly cleaned the area next to the window, so the smell was not very bad. Jiang Chan folded her hands and lay on the window sill, feeling the cool breeze on her face.
"Ginger Armor, is it going to rain soon?"
"Yes, young master. It has been detected that heavy rain will arrive within two hours."
"I don't know how the residential buildings in the west of the city are doing. I don't know if this rainstorm is a good thing or a bad thing. Silver Armor, it's so uncomfortable to be stuck in the house. It's okay for a short time, but if it lasts too long, I feel like I'm going to get moldy all over..."
Yin Jia went to the kitchen to prepare dinner. Jiang Chan was lying by the window enjoying the fresh air. Suddenly, she seemed to hear a familiar buzzing sound in her ears. Jiang Chan froze all over and stared blankly towards the source of the sound.
She couldn't see, but she could feel that there seemed to be countless flying machines gathering in the air like a swarm of bees.
She didn't understand what was going on. The surrounding residents, hearing the noise, opened their windows and looked up at the sky, discussing the situation. The dark machines gradually descended, obscuring the sky above the residential buildings. It was pitch black. Jiang Chan's sense of light vanished, and her vision went dark. The humming sound gradually intensified, and with a scream, the bloody prelude was fully begun...
The nearby high-rise buildings collapsed one after another like dominoes, the falling rubble sending up clouds of dust. The strong smell of explosives filled the air. The moment the dynamite was released, Jiang Chan instinctively curled up in a corner. She was like a cat, curled up small, and the angle formed by the wall completely enclosed her. Her cries and wails, strung together into a mournful song, echoed in her ears...
Jiang Chan felt someone picking her up, and there were rumbling sounds in her ears, as well as the clanging sounds of falling bricks hitting metal.
Her eyes were wide open but lifeless, wrapped in white gauze. She seemed to see people coming and going around her, countless people screaming in front of her, and the sky was filled with drones that she once thought were playmates. Each drone carried a small explosive, which was dropped randomly, blowing the street into pieces.
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Jiang Chan is a very well-behaved girl. She is the smartest, most beautiful and most well-behaved girl in the welfare home. Children like her are easily adopted. She longs to have her own home and to be loved by her parents. When she learned that a family would adopt her, she was very happy every day, and even her dreams were sweet.
On the day she was taken to her adoptive family, Jiang Chan put on her most beautiful dress, which was a beautiful princess dress with a bow and lace. She usually didn't want to wear it, but today she wanted to leave a good impression on her future parents. She held her teacher's hand obediently. In the candy house, she met her adoptive parents, who were very satisfied with her. Then Jiang Chan was held by the hand by her new mother and walked towards her future home.
Her steps were full of joy, but she tried hard to suppress her joy. She wanted to maintain a good impression and be a child that her parents loved very much. The next moment after she parted with the teacher from the welfare home, several drones suddenly flew over the street.
The welfare home has drones, which are used for watering and filming, and the children often chase them and play with them.
But the ones today were a little different. They were covered in black paint, covering the sky and looking very ugly. Jiang Chan looked up and stared at them. In the blink of an eye, a fiery red light illuminated her entire field of vision. Flesh and blood exploded around her. Jiang Chan was petrified and shouted helplessly, "Dad... Mom..." No one responded. Her hands were let go and she could not find any trace of her adoptive parents in the crowd.
Jiang Chan hugged her arms tightly and tried to run and search in the crowd. Balls of fire exploded around her and people fell at her feet one after another. Her princess dress fluttered in the wind and soon lost its luster. The corners of the dress were stained with ashes and the lace was ignited by sparks. Jiang Chan tried her best to beat the dress, but the princess dress she was reluctant to wear became tattered and she was still calling for her mother in a hoarse voice.
"Mom...Mom..." Most of the children in the welfare home were abandoned. Jiang Chan had no memory of her biological parents, but she thought that she must have been abandoned as well. She was finally going to have new parents and a new home, but she was still abandoned. She was very good and obedient, but where did her parents go?
Jiang Chan fell to the ground, and at the same time, the explosives were aimed at her.
"boom--"
There was a loud explosion, and flames splashed! When Jiang Chan opened her eyes again, she was lying on a street full of ruins. It was the director's mother who came and took her and the teacher to the hospital. Afterwards, Jiang Chan hid in a corner. No one was willing to adopt a blind child. It was a burden.
Later, a fellow disaster victim arrived at the orphanage. He was skilled in mechanics and was responsible for repairing everything mechanical, including the electrical system. The child constantly teased her, so Jiang Chan quietly stayed by his side. Perhaps out of pity, he built her a robot to keep her company. Jiang Chan was deeply grateful to him, as he was Yin Jia's "father." Upon his death, Jiang Chan erected a monument in his honor and visited him whenever she was at the orphanage.
Later, the welfare home was gone. In the mechanical city filled with gunfire and bloodshed, Jiang Chan only had Yin Jia, and only Yin Jia never left her.
"boom--"
Red light splashed all over the sky.
Jiang Chan fell to the ground, surrounded by crowded people fleeing, but the exit had been blocked long ago. They roared and begged. Jiang Chan shrank as hard as she could. She thought of the past, and tears fell like beads from her eyes. She couldn't even stand up, let alone escape.
Someone stepped on her hand and she turned pale with pain. Bullet holes appeared around her one after another and people fell one after another. The blood looked particularly dark under the dark sky.
She blinked her eyes. The flames were burning, angry red fireworks, dark blood, and dust splashed everywhere by the collapsed high-rise buildings. It was a terrorist attack exactly the same as before, except that the leader this time was the royal family. The royal family wanted these poor people to die in order to block the disease.
Is this how I'm going to die? Jiang Chan thought feebly as she watched the dark dust slowly envelop her. Her clean white socks were stained red, and one of her shoes had fallen off, leaving no idea where it had landed. She collapsed to the ground, her legs aching. Those densely packed drones covering the sky wouldn't allow anyone to survive.
Jiang Chan felt desperate. She seemed to have returned to the time when she was helpless and everyone could abandon her. She was always alone. She slowly curled up her legs and hugged herself tightly, like a lonely little beast licking itself.
"Young master..." A distant voice appeared, as if coming from a dream.
Jiang Chan looked up suddenly and saw a giant robot pushing away the rocks that were pressing on it and standing up. He shook off the dust, blood, and debris on his body, and walked towards her in a silver body.
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