Chapter 334: Zhi Lan’s Little World (2)
Zhi Lan spent more than ten minutes negotiating with the monster. The monster seemed to be tired, so he simply turned his back to the wall, spread his dragon tail and ignored Zhi Lan.
Zhi Lan was silent for a few seconds: "Okay, if you want to stay here, stay here. I don't care about you."
There was a moment of silence in the air. Zhi Lan stared at the monster's back in silence for a while, then turned off the lights and lay down on the bed.
The floral scent lingering in the air showed no sign of fading, infiltrating the quilt. He remained aware of the possibility of something strange under the bed, and unconsciously grasped the shell under the pillow again.
"Hello, Zhilan. I am... the system, at your service."
"You are my host, our mission is..."
"I don't have a name, and you don't need to know my name..."
"The weather is nice today, but I don't want to go out to see the sea with you."
"If you were not my host, I would never agree to your rude requests. This is the travel plan I have made. We will start from the castle..."
Those tiny mechanical sounds surrounded Zhi Lan's ears. The content was unclear, but every word was a response to Zhi Lan.
Zhi Lan couldn't see the person who was speaking, so he stretched out his hand and felt around, and asked again: "Who are you? ... Who are you?"
A faint light emerged in the darkness. When Zhi Lan saw the white light, he immediately reached out to grab it.
Another empty one.
【Buzz.】
Zhi Lan suddenly opened his eyes, his golden pupils blurred, and he turned to the side slowly and stiffly. The monster had climbed onto Zhi Lan's bed at some point, and he rested his head on Zhi Lan's thighs through a layer of quilt, sleeping motionlessly.
Zhi Lan was a little dazed. He sat up blankly and shifted his gaze to the monster.
"Hey." Zhi Lan moved his thighs. "Are you asleep?"
The monster was completely unresponsive, his body didn't move as he slept, and he didn't even breathe.
Xi Lan turned on the lamp next to him. He looked at the monster in the soft light while gently pinching the monster's black dragon tail that was almost hanging to the ground.
This dragon's tail had been badly injured when he had seen it before, but now that Zhi Lan had taken a closer look, he saw that the dragon scales on it were smooth and intact, without any flaws at all.
This monster's repair ability is so strong.
Zhi Lan put down the dragon tail in his hand, slowed down his movements, and tried to hook the monster's collar and unbutton his shirt.
This was originally Zhi Lan's pajamas, which were easy to pull, and it was not difficult for Zhi Lan to unbutton them. He paid attention to the monster's reaction and quickly took off his clothes.
The monster's upper body was half flesh and half iron, with more machinery, but it had strangely grown skin and flesh. Chi Lan frowned as he looked at the monster's body, and pressed his fingertips gently on the monster's heart.
There was no movement, just a solid silver mechanical box.
Zhi Lan placed his palm on it and actually felt warmth from it.
Could this be the monster's driving device?
【Buzz.】
The body below shook, and Zhi Lan was startled. When he was about to withdraw his hand, he saw the monster open his eyes and suddenly grabbed Zhi Lan's wrist.
He used a lot of force, and it made his bones ache.
【Buzz.】
The mechanical box on the monster's chest glowed faintly, and the temperature was rising rapidly.
Zhi Lan thought he was going to go berserk, so she quickly said, "I just wanted to help you put on your clothes, but your buttons were unbuttoned, and I..."
The glass beads in the monster's eye sockets reflected a strange expression, and the monster's brows were slightly furrowed, as if in pain.
The monster tilted his head when he saw this. He relaxed the strength in his hands, pulled Zhi Lan's wrist and placed it on his chest.
【Buzz.】
Zhi Lan paused when he saw the monster lowering its head and fiddling with the buttons of his shirt. He hesitated for a few seconds before reaching out to put the monster's clothes back on.
"How did you get to this place? There's nothing here, just an old castle and me." Zhi Lan buttoned up her clothes one by one. "How about I help you out and take you home?"
The monster had a wooden face and did not react. After Zhi Lan put his clothes on, he left the bed on his own and crawled under the bed again.
Zhi Lan: “…”
"If you agree, you'll buzz twice?"
There was dead silence under the bed. Zhi Lan shouted a few times at the edge of the bed, but the monster remained unmoved.
"It seems that you don't agree." Zhi Lan propped up his chin, "How about this, you stay and keep me company. I'm the only one here anyway, so if you stay, we can still keep each other company."
The monster opened his eyes under the bed, his dry and hard eyelids lifted, and his glass eyes stared straight at Zhi Lan.
"But I also have conditions." Zhi Lan lowered his hands. His knuckles were clearly visible, with rounded tips, half hidden in the darkness.
"If you stay, you can't leave." Zhi Lan said softly, "I don't want to raise you well and then have you run away with someone else. That's not good."
"So you have to stay with me until I don't need you anymore, then you can leave. What do you think? Do you agree?"
The monster curled up with his chin resting on the dragon's tail, as if he was thinking about Zhi Lan's words.
Zhi Lan gave him a few minutes to think about it. When the time was up, he spoke again: "What do you think? If you don't want to, I'll let you go. I won't force you."
The monster did not react.
Zhi Lan suspected that he didn't understand what he said. He hesitated for a few seconds and continued, "...If you're willing, just hum twice?"
【Buzz.】
This time he responded quickly.
Zhi Lan: “…”
He didn't expect the monster to agree so quickly. No normal person would easily agree to Zhi Lan's request, but he did not hesitate at all.
"Really? I'm not kidding you." Zhi Lan smiled and said half-threateningly, half-threateningly, "If you dare to run away in the future, I will cut off your tail and stuff it into your mouth."
The monster's dragon tail slapped the ground from time to time. He stared at Zhi Lan and hummed softly.
Zhi Lan raised his eyebrows, he got off the bed and simply stretched out his arm under the bed: "Come out."
The cold wind that blew out of it blew on Zhi Lan's face. Before Zhi Lan could react, the monster that had been lurking under the bed for a long time suddenly jumped out from inside. It moved so quickly that it slammed its entire body into Zhi Lan.
Zhi Lan was dragged down to the wooden floor by him, and his back hit the ground with a dull sound.
The monster pressed on him, his chest flashing with silver light. He looked at Zhi Lan tentatively and cautiously, while wrapping his dragon tail around Zhi Lan's waist again and again.
"Why are you so rude?" Zhi Lan got up from the ground, glanced at the monster's chest, and reached out to grab the straw on his head, "Get up, it hurts me."
The monster followed Zhi Lan and stood up. Zhi Lan saw flowers blooming on his head again and couldn't help but laugh: "Very happy?"
The monster glanced at Zhi Lan and quickly looked away.
The bathrobe on Zhi Lan had already been torn apart by the previous collision, revealing his pale and thin upper body. The monster's glass eyes moved and looked further down along the path of the torn bathrobe.
Zhi Lan had sensed it long ago, and he casually sat down on the bed, letting his bathrobe, which was already loosely tied, spread out even further.
"What's your name?" Zhi Lan asked, "I forgot. You can't speak. So I'll give you a name? Let me think..."
Zhi Lan sat at the head of the bed, his movements casual as he spoke, the bathrobe on his shoulders almost falling off.
The monster stood stiffly in front of Zhi Lan. His glass eyes turned around and then quietly turned back. His expression remained unchanged as he peeked straight at Zhi Lan's exposed skin.
"You only have three flowers on your head every time, and they are all white." Zhi Lan analyzed, "What do you think... how about calling you White Three Flowers?"
monster:"……"
"No, it seems you have no objection." Zhi Lan narrowed his eyes.
As soon as he finished speaking, the monster standing in front of him suddenly took two steps forward. Zhi Lan raised his eyelids. He had a premonition, so he sat there without moving, letting the shadow of the monster fall on him.
"What do you want to do?"
Zhi Lan raised his head, and just as he opened his mouth, the monster reached out and pulled up his bathrobe. The skin on his hands was rough, and it scraped against Zhi Lan's chest, which was cold and uncomfortable.
【Buzz.】
The alarm on the monster sounded twice. He wrapped the bathrobe around Zhi Lan and turned around and walked out.
The door opened and closed, leaving Zhi Lan alone in the house.
Xi Lan narrowed his eyes slightly, looked in the direction of the closed door, and touched his chest with his hand.
"baffling."
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Bai Sanhua stayed in the castle.
Zhi Lan originally just wanted him to accompany her for entertainment when she was bored, but she didn't expect Bai Sanhua to be an all-rounder, able to handle both cooking and cooking, and could make several delicious dishes for Zhi Lan every day.
Zhi Lan was a little surprised. He had observed Bai Sanhua while cooking and found that he moved quickly without any stiffness or pauses. He looked nothing like the rusty robot he was at the beginning.
He is transitioning from machine to man.
This is also the conclusion drawn after careful observation.
Bai Sanhua's body was originally 70% mechanical, with only a small part of the rest covered in skin and flesh. But in just one week, flesh and blood grew on the surface of his mechanical parts, covering 90% of the area.
The most obvious manifestation was that the straw on his head slowly turned into yellow hair.
"Sanhua, when will you learn to speak?" Zhi Lan took a measuring tape to measure his body size. He frowned and said, "You have grown taller again."
Bai Sanhua stood obediently in the room, with his arms outstretched so that Chi Lan could carefully measure the various values of his body.
He only wore Zhi Lan's clothes on the first day, and they only fit him on the first day. In the following days, he grew at the speed of one centimeter a day.
Zhi Lan had no choice but to change his clothes into larger sizes. At the rate Bai Sanhua was growing, he would wear out Zhi Lan's clothes sooner or later.
"It has been raining these past few days. It rains whenever I go out. I really don't understand." Zhi Lan said, "There are not many clothes here. I was planning to go to the town to buy some, but now I don't know how long I have to wait."
Bai Sanhua's eyes flickered slightly. He glanced at the drizzle outside the window, lowered his head and hummed.
Zhi Lan looked at him: "You don't want me to go out?"
【Buzz.】
"Why?" Zhi Lan pinched Bai Sanhua's chin and said with a smile, "There are more good things in the town, much better than the wild fruits and vegetables we eat now."
When this robot actually grew up, it was much more beautiful than Zhi Lan had imagined. Its eyes were slightly silver, its skin was fair, and even its lips were of the right thickness and a beautiful deep red.
Zhi Lan rubbed his chin with his fingertips for a few seconds before retracting his fingers.
【Buzz.】
Bai Sanhua shook his head and said again that he didn't want to go out.
Zhi Lan asked suspiciously, "Sanhua, is someone bullying you outside?"
Because of fear, he dared not go out. Zhi Lan had seen this kind of dragon before and was bullied and humiliated by them. He could only hide in a place and dared not leave.
When Bai Sanhua first arrived, the dragon's tail was seriously injured, perhaps due to the injury caused by outsiders.
Bai Sanhua's eyes turned slightly. When he heard Zhi Lan asking him, he pursed his lips and nodded.
【Buzz.】
Zhi Lan heard the sound and sighed, "Okay, then we won't go out for the time being. The weather is not good, so there is no need for us to go out."
Bai Sanhua nodded.
He brought out the food from the kitchen and placed it in front of Zhi Lan and himself respectively.
The drizzle outside stopped at some point, and the sunlight shone through the dark clouds and fell on the wet land.
Zhi Lan was holding a hot bowl and preparing to drink soup. When he saw the bright sunshine outside, he couldn't help but move.
He stared outside for a few seconds, then glanced at Bai Sanhua who was sitting next to him. Sanhua was obviously in a good mood. He scooped rice with an iron spoon and ate it with gusto even without any side dishes.
Zhi Lan withdrew his gaze. Without saying a word, he silently clenched his chopsticks.
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