Chapter 3
Xun Xiaoyu expressed doubts about Su Ci's statement. She looked at the new breeder in front of her suspiciously.
He was only in his early twenties and was very handsome, with delicate eyebrows, bright eyes, white teeth, and delicate, flawless skin that glowed with a pearly, hazy, and warm luster under the light from the corridor. He was the kind of handsome that was memorable at first sight.
But he looked...
Too weak, too fragile! It doesn't fit in with the style of the nursery, no, it doesn't fit in with the style of everyone on Prison Star.
He was suited to stay in the nursery on the Capital Star, teaching the well-educated and carefully raised cubs from the noble and wealthy families, rather than coming to the harsh conditions on the Prison Star to take care of these troublesome little monsters in the nursery.
Xun Xiaoyu didn't want to question Su Ci's professional ability, but the 24th Base Nursery didn't need ordinary breeders. Was the Human Resources Department too unreliable this time?
Su Ci ignored her gaze, turned around and walked into the restaurant. Seeing this, Xun Xiaoyu hurriedly followed.
In the restaurant, members of the action team were examining two cubs that had fainted.
The little girl had already put 4583's head down. With red eyes, she ran to the action team and shouted to one of the cubs, "Brother..."
Her voice was filled with tears, fear and anxiety.
Nanny robot 4586 followed the little girl and soothed her gently, "Don't cry, baby. Si Si just fell asleep."
Sisi? Hearing this name, Su Ci thought of the little boy with lion ears and tail who was thrown out of the corridor.
It seems that this little lion is her brother.
After a preliminary inspection, the task force found that the two cubs were just unconscious and there were no signs of anesthetic residue on their bodies.
As for the injuries, although they looked serious with bruises on his face, they were not fatal. Compared with his previous outbursts, the injuries this time were quite minor, and no innocent people were affected.
They exchanged the test results, all of them were very surprised, and no one paid attention to Su Ci who walked in.
The brooding center changes more than ten to twenty keepers a year. Although the newcomer this time has outstanding appearance, it doesn't look like he can stay for long, so there is naturally no need to interact with him.
Su Ci was happy to be alone and looked at the cub holding a toy in the corner.
The child, who was originally immersed in his own world, suddenly looked up at Su Ci after he came in. His pair of light blue eyes were like the clearest and cleanest sapphires, but his eyes were blank and out of focus.
It's like reading Su's poems, and also like listening with slightly tilted ears.
Su Ci looked at him and frowned slightly. This kid...
Blind?
After a while, the child slowly lowered his head and continued to play with the toy in his hand attentively.
There was a lot of noise around him, but he was indifferent. He just closed himself off in his own world, not listening or asking, and had no interest in anything around him.
Su Ci looked at him for a while, then lowered his gaze to the broken robot in the corner.
It must have been knocked against the wall and broken, with all its body parts scattered all over the ground, leaving only the main torso and a round head.
Like 4586, it has flowers painted on it with bright colors. In addition, its head and scattered parts have signs of burning and melting.
As if sensing Su Ci's gaze, the broken robot spoke cheerfully: "Hello, I'm nanny robot number 4583, nice to meet you!"
The voice of 4583 is a little more naive than that of 4586. It is a male voice, but both are equally gentle and warm. Looking at its fragmented body, it sounds even more positive and optimistic.
"Hello." Su Ci squatted slightly in front of it.
"I haven't seen you before. Are you the new breeder Su Ci?" the nanny robot asked him.
Su Ci hesitated and hummed.
He is Su Ci, but a breeder... maybe?
"Su Ci, you are so beautiful. Please accept my most sincere compliments!" 4583's tone was brisk, with a slight crackling sound of electricity, and full of lively energy.
"Thank you." Su Ci looked at the metal shell that seemed to have melted after being burned by high temperature, and couldn't help but be curious, "Does it hurt?"
"Su Ci, robots don't feel pain."
"Is that so?"
Xun Xiaoyu looked at Su Ci chatting happily with 4583, who only had a head left, and the corners of his mouth twitched, but he didn't know what to say.
She had just checked the surveillance footage, and it was just as the breeder said. He had been standing outside the corridor watching, and the two cubs suddenly fainted for unknown reasons.
"How is it?" She came to the team members.
"Nothing was found during the examination. We have already notified the medical purification department and the maintenance team. They will send someone over soon." The team member who was asked replied.
Xun Xiaoyu nodded, looked at the messy restaurant in the nursery, and then at the holes in the metal wall, and couldn't help but sigh.
It seems that the base's already tight funding has been further exacerbated.
Not long after, people from the Medical Purification Department arrived first and skillfully carried the two unconscious cubs onto a suspended stretcher.
The two medical staff in their snow-white uniforms couldn't help but sigh, "Only two this time? And their injuries don't look serious. How surprising."
Then, one of them looked at Su Ci.
"Are you the new breeder? Please sign here. We're taking these two little monsters...children with us. We'll let you know when they're healed. Then you'll have to go to the medical decontamination department to pick them up."
The cubs in the nursery all possess extremely powerful bloodline power, and almost all of them can transform into beasts. However, because they are young and have violent and bad tempers, they find it difficult to suppress the negative energy brought by their powerful bloodline, which causes them to often go crazy.
This not only causes great harm to the cub's body, but also causes serious damage to the base - every time the cub loses control, it will cause varying degrees of damage to the base buildings.
The crazy cubs are difficult for ordinary people to deal with, and only the action team can suppress them.
I remember the most serious incident when seven cubs rioted at the same time and almost demolished the entire nursery. In the end, it was the captains of the various teams in the Operations Department who took action to control the situation.
Since then, the cubs in the 24th Base Nursery have had a more appropriate nickname:
Little monster.
Of course, they only barked in private and knew to restrain themselves in front of the cubs.
Su Ci recalled how Shi Yjiang had signed his name before, and wrote his name on the tablet the medical staff handed him. Although the characters were unfamiliar, he wrote them easily, as if they had already become muscle memory.
So the two children who showed signs of beast transformation were carried away on a suspended stretcher.
The little girl who was left behind wanted to follow, but was stopped by 4586.
"Five-five, don't run around."
The little girl watched her brother being taken away reluctantly, but she behaved well and did not make a fuss. She was obediently pulled to the nanny robot's side.
The little girl was about five or six years old. She was delicate and pretty, with long flaxen curly hair and a pair of round brown eyes with watery glint in them. She looked timid, as if she was frightened.
Su Ci lowered his eyebrows slightly and noticed that her little hand placed at her side seemed to be a little red.
Xun Xiaoyu also noticed it. She watched the medical staff leave, then came to the little girl, gently took her hand, and scanned it with the instrument.
"For minor burns, use K143U medical spray for first aid." The instrument beeped and an electronic sound rang out.
Xun Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief, took out a bottle of spray from her waist bag, and skillfully sprayed it on the little girl's hand to give her first aid.
Number Two possesses the bloodline power of the Red Flame Tiger. Xun Xiaoyu had just watched the surveillance video and saw that he had used it again while going crazy.
The flame almost hit No. 5, but fortunately the nanny machine 4583 discovered it in time and blocked the attack for her. Then she was hit by No. 2's tiger tail and flew away, hitting the wall and falling like this.
After the nanny robot was smashed, the little girl held up its head, and that's probably when she got burned.
Although it was a pity that another nanny robot was scrapped, Xun Xiaoyu also knew that these cubs did not do it on purpose, they just couldn't control themselves.
"Okay, it won't hurt after a while."
Putting away the medical spray, Xun Xiaoyu gently touched the little girl's head, with a rare hint of tenderness and pity in his eyes.
Number Five is cute, with a chubby, pink and soft face, and a very good personality. Among the seven children in the nursery, she and Number Three are probably the only ones who are less worrying.
Xun Xiaoyu thought so, glanced at the other three cubs No. 6, 7 and 8 who were almost fighting with each other and were forcibly separated by her teammates, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
At this time, people from the logistics department's maintenance team also arrived.
Looking at the restaurant full of potholes, no one had any special reaction. After greeting the action team, they started to work.
The walls, floors and even the ceiling needed repairing, and with five cubs left, they naturally couldn't stay here anymore.
The action team moved very quickly. Each of them picked up one and walked straight out, preparing to transfer the cubs to their respective rooms.
"I don't want to go back to my room!"
"I'm hungry, I want to stay and eat!"
"Let me go!"
Although the cubs inevitably struggled, they were not in a frenzied state, and the action team members were able to suppress them easily and they soon disappeared at the door of the restaurant.
Xun Xiaoyu also picked up No. 5.
The little girl did not resist, but just stared at the nanny robot No. 4583 on the ground, which was being checked by the maintenance team.
"It's so broken, it can't be repaired... Oh, another one is scrapped..." the maintenance worker muttered.
The little girl pouted and tears welled up in her eyes.
However, 4583 seemed not to have heard the maintenance worker's words. He blinked his electronic eyes at her and coaxed her in a very cheerful voice: "Good baby, don't cry. 4583 needs to take a nap first. You should go eat too... Du——"
The maintenance personnel turned off the power of 4583, its sound stopped abruptly, and its bright electronic eye dimmed, and finally the light completely dissipated.
The little girl stared at it in amazement.
Finally, she sniffed, leaned on Xun Xiaoyu's other shoulder, closed her eyes quietly, and was carried away.
Su Ci watched them leave, then squatted down beside the wreckage of 4583.
He watched as the maintenance personnel collected all the parts, then picked up the remaining relatively intact head, placed it in the tool box, and closed the lid.
"Is it really impossible to fix it?" he asked.
"It's so badly damaged, how do we fix it?" The maintenance worker frowned and muttered, but when he looked up and saw Su Ci, he couldn't help but pause.
This face was unfamiliar, but if he had seen someone with such a striking appearance before, he would definitely remember him. Furthermore, he wasn't even in uniform...
"Are you the new trainee breeder?"
"Hello, hello. I'm Luo Shengfei from the maintenance team of the logistics department. I'm mainly responsible for the maintenance work of the nursery. You can call me Ah Fei. We will see each other often in the future."
Luo Shengfei took off his gloves and extended his hand enthusiastically to Su Ci.
"...Hello." Su Ci shook his hand lightly based on the common sense of etiquette that came to her mind. "I'm Su Ci."
"Su Ci? What a nice name!" Luo Shengfei said with a smile.
The two exchanged a few pleasantries, and Su Ci turned the topic to the nanny robot in the toolbox.
Luo Shengfei patted his shoulder cheerfully and said with a smile, "Okay, for your sake, I'll think of other ways to fix it."
Su Ci blinked in confusion. Although he didn't know why he had to give her face, he still nodded and said thank you.
"A Fei, the machine is ready."
Luo Shengfei said yes, picked up the toolbox and pulled Su Ci out of the nursery restaurant.
I saw that a device had appeared in the corridor at some point and was connected to the metal wall.
After Luo Shengfei and Su Ci came out, the walls and floors of the restaurant began to move. Slowly, the sunken pits became flat and smooth, and even the holes in the walls began to repair.
By the time the equipment completely stopped, the restaurant, which had originally been full of potholes, had been repaired to a large extent, with only traces of the burnt parts remaining.
Luo Shengfei couldn't help but click his tongue twice, "That little monster number two is getting stronger and stronger. Now it can even burn the self-repairing metal."
Another maintenance worker, after checking, also said with a headache: "Yeah, we will be in trouble in the future. Repairing this wall is expensive and troublesome..."
Several maintenance workers gathered together to discuss how to repair the wall, and Su Ci listened with great interest.
"Su Ci, the cubs have been sent back to their rooms."
The action team placed the cubs and called him after coming down from upstairs.
Xun Xiaoyu said, "The emotions of cubs number six, seven, and eight haven't stabilized yet. We don't know if they will go crazy. Please pay close attention to them. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us."
After exchanging contact numbers with Su Ci, she left with her team members.
Just as Su Ci was about to check the communicator, he heard a beep. It was a message from 4586.
[Susu, Susu, come to the kitchen and prepare dinner! ]
Su Ci had no choice but to put down the communicator temporarily, said hello to Luo Shengfei and others, and then entered the elevator.
The elevator door closed, and several maintenance workers looked at his leaving back and couldn't help whispering to each other.
"Isn't the breeder we hired this time too thin?"
"Yeah, I remember those guys were all so tall and strong that they could lift me up with one hand..."
"Maybe it's a change of strategy? I think this breeder Su is really good-looking. Maybe those little monsters will like him?"
"Tsk, that breeder last time was pretty good-looking too, but he kept coming to the medical department and resigned and ran away after a few days."
"Okay, stop gossiping and get down to work."
Luo Shengfei interrupted them and the maintenance workers finally quieted down.
Downstairs, Su Ci came out of the elevator and looked up slightly. The conversation of the maintenance man came clearly into his ears.
Little monster...keeper?
Su Ci looked thoughtful. When he arrived at the kitchen, 4586 had already prepared the food. It still looked full of energy, no different from when it first met Su Ci.
When she saw Su Ci, she said in a crisp voice, "Su Su, the babies have all gone back to their rooms. They must be starving now. We need to send them dinner!"
Then he pushed the food out the door and turned back to shout, "Susu, hurry up, it's past mealtime and the babies are starving!"
Su Ci found it very interesting to hear its anxious call.
This puppet is very much like a real person, and emotions can be heard in its voice. However, it does not care about the death of its companions, and all its attention is on those cubs.
It's like... those cubs are all it has.
After waking up this time, the world has changed a lot.
Su Ci had also experienced sleeping for tens of thousands of years, and when he woke up, the civilization he was familiar with had collapsed, and life on earth had established a new civilization.
However, this was not the case once.
The sky turned red, the earth cracked, and even he himself inexplicably acquired a new identity, becoming an apprentice breeder in the human territory...
This emerging human civilization was very different from any civilization he had seen in the past, and the bloodlines of these humans seemed to have changed greatly as well.
Why did the earth become like this? Before he really understood the situation, he didn't want to vent his anger on the human race in this base.
"Susu!"
4586's urging voice was heard again in the corridor, and Su Ci walked out.
The elevator slowly went up and soon reached the fourth floor.
"Two, three, four, and five live on the fourth floor. Two and four are not here now, so Susu, you only need to deliver dinner to three and five."
Su Ci listened to the series of repetitions and silently took the two lunch boxes handed to him by the nanny robot. After thinking for a moment, he asked, "Don't they have names?"
"Number 2, Number 3, Number 4 and Number 5 are the names of the babies." said 4586.
Su Ci glanced at it.
Although he only had a vague understanding of the rules of the new world, he also knew that this was a number, not a name.
However, this question should perhaps not be asked to 4586. After all, its own name is just a longer string of numbers.
"Then why is there no number one?" Su Ci changed the question.
"Because baby number one doesn't need to be fed."
4586 said as a matter of course, and then pushed Su Ci out of the elevator, "The babies are going to be starving, Su Su, you can't dawdle like this."
Then, Su Ci watched the elevator door close in front of him.
The elevator continued to go up. The young man stood in front of the elevator carrying two lunch boxes. Suddenly, he turned his head and glanced at the end of the corridor.
There was nothing there.
Su Ci raised his eyebrows, then retracted his gaze and walked towards the other corridor with the lunch box.
The door of each room is almost integrated with the wall. If it weren't for the number written on it, Su Ci would not even be able to tell where the door is.
He passed the rooms marked "No. 1" and "No. 2" and came to the door of room number 3.
Two food boxes, each with a number on the lid.
Su Ci placed the one with number five on it at the door of the room, then knocked on the door with his fingers. The door didn't open, but a screen lit up in the middle of the door.
[Authentication in progress...]
A familiar white light swept across Su Ci's face.
[Ding——Authentication passed]
[Hello, trainee keeper Su Ci. After testing, cub number three is emotionally stable. Should we open nursery room 403 immediately?]
Su Ci clicked confirm.
The metal door in front of him moved silently from the middle and merged into the walls on both sides, revealing a doorway wide enough for one person to pass through.
Su Ci leaned in and looked inside.
The room was neither too big nor too small, about a quarter of the size of the restaurant. The style was still cold and metallic, with towering walls on all four sides and no windows.
The view inside the room was unobstructed - there was no furniture or decoration except a bed, a set of children's table and chairs, and a cabinet.
Su Ci took a quick look and did not see the child.
Number Three… A pair of dazed, out-of-focus light blue eyes appeared in his mind.
"Is anyone there?" There was no door, so Su Ci knocked on the wall. After knocking twice and no one answered, he walked in with the lunch box.
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