After the hover taxi had been driving for half an hour, several forked lightning bolts flashed across the dark sky, illuminating the gray sky for a few seconds, and then—
With a "crackling" sound, countless sparks burst out from the instrument panel of the suspended self-driving taxi, followed by countless red and blue flames, and the fire spread rapidly.
"Get out of the car!" The hover taxi driver awoke from his doze, flung open the door, and jumped out. Luckily, he'd been wearing protective undergarments, and the car wasn't too high, so he wasn't hurt much. He didn't have to worry about the car; it was insured anyway. The lightning strike was a natural disaster, covered by Ludo Third Insurance.
"The front of the car is on fire and will explode soon. You need to jump out of the car." Wang Xiaohai reminded. The hover car was emitting black smoke, slowly lowering its altitude, and crashing diagonally towards the ground.
"No——" Zhang Jiajia was so scared that she quickly covered her eyes. This was simply waiting for death.
"Forget it, you still owe me the spaceship." Wang Xiaohai sighed - in the face of danger, these stupid people would only scream and get nervous, at a loss, and would not be calm and rational at all.
Wang Xiaohai grabbed Zhang Jiajia's arm, pulled her out, and jumped to the ground. After the two of them jumped out, the taxi continued to slide forward for several meters before exploding into a huge ball of flames. It was then extinguished by the gradually intensifying rainstorm. Smoke rose, leaving only the burnt-out, blackened frame of the vehicle on the road.
"My suitcase is still in the car!" Zhang Jiajia stomped her feet and shouted in the rain.
"Is there anything valuable?" Wang Xiaohai stood in the rain, and the heavy rain seemed to be deliberately avoiding him and passing by.
"Inside it are my clothes, cosmetics, toiletries, a dressing mirror and other things," said Zhang Jiajia.
"That was all garbage, so I just burned it," Wang Xiaohai said. "I thought it was something important, like some core technological secrets."
"Not important?" Zhang Jiajia said loudly, wiping the rain off her face. "My clothes are all Tesla brand, tens of thousands of dollars a piece, and the bag in the suitcase is Age brand."
Wang Xiaohai wanted to laugh when he heard this - he thought the clothes were an electric car brand. He wondered if there were electric cars in the Ludo galaxy?
"If you think the loss is too great, you can search the car. I'm sure you can even find some clothing ashes," Wang Xiaohai said. "Then you can bury it in the back garden, pour three glasses of wine every year, and burn some incense."
"You... I won't talk to you anymore, you're so mad at me!" Zhang Jiajia made Wang Xiaohai angry again. She thought to herself that this guy's words were so irritating, and no single girl would like him.
"I saved your life." Wang Xiaohai looked at the cold raindrops falling on the water, which were shaken away by the breath outside his body. No matter how heavy the rain was, he could remain spotless.
"Saving my life doesn't mean you can insult me at will." Zhang Jiajia said, "I will help you buy a spaceship, or if you don't have enough money, I will give you a small one, as a way to repay you for saving my life." As she spoke, she used her mobile phone to call a taxi again. Fortunately, her mobile phone was waterproof and fireproof, but not anti-theft.
"I'm very curious, what are you doing here? You just said you were going back to the fifth galaxy?" Wang Xiaohai was not idle while waiting for the bus.
"Meet my former teacher," Zhang Jiajia said proudly. "Everyone had a teacher before entering the academy. People like you can only afford a robot teacher, haha!"
"College?" Wang Xiaohai asked curiously, "Is there only one kind of school in your Ludo galaxy?"
"What do you mean by your Ludo Galaxy? Aren't you an alien?" Zhang Jiajia looked at Wang Xiaohai with suspicion. "Or are you from a primitive and backward planet after Ludo 25? You're so backward that you must have never heard of the academy. Then you don't even have a robot teacher!"
Zhang Jiajia then explained to Wang Xiaohai that in the Ludo Galaxy, children undergo brain tests at the hospital at age five to determine whether they are suited to studying arts or science. Specific tests and choices are then made for each major. They then receive individual teacher training until age eighteen. The wealthy can hire human teachers, while the poor simply receive a teaching robot from a government agency. The first time they receive one, it's free, but if the robot breaks, they have to pay for repairs themselves. At eighteen, they can take the college entrance exam and enroll in advanced studies, knowledge that isn't fed into the teaching robot.
"I see. You only have one teacher in your life," Wang Xiaohai said. He had figured out the educational system of the Ludo Galaxy. The Evil Spirit Continent was similar to Earth's, with the exception of universities, which were divided into liberal arts and martial arts academies, as well as the mysterious Demon Court.
"That's right, teachers are similar to adoptive parents, so I came to the third planet to visit my teacher--" Zhang Jiajia stopped talking halfway because she saw a searchlight flashing in the distance and a hovering online taxi flying over.
This car can be considered a taxi or not. Anyway, Wang Xiaohai's curse of taking a taxi did not seem to take effect. He took the two of them directly to a very high-end villa area. Zhang Jiajia's teacher and her father were classmates, but after graduation, one went to work in a company and the other went into politics.
The hovercraft arrived in front of the old villa garden and dropped the two off and left automatically. The garden walls were covered with vines and morning glories. The gate had an automatic visitor detection system. After detecting Zhang Jiajia, the gate slowly opened, revealing a shiny metal passage.
Wang Xiaohai and Zhang Jiajia walked in together.
"Why did you ask me to come with you to visit your teacher?" Wang Xiaohai walked on the metal path, which only occupied one-tenth of the area of the villa garden, and the rest was fertile soil.
"I forgot to introduce myself to you." Zhang Jiajia walked to the exquisite gilded double doors and rang the doorbell. "My teacher is Professor Mo Yuze Mo, the chief spacecraft designer of the Ludo Third Star System Ship Sky Group. You can tell him what spacecraft you want to buy. He knows a lot."
The lock on the villa's door clicked open automatically, as the owner opened it with a remote control from his room. Zhang Jiajia and Wang Xiaohai pushed the door open, walked through the richly carpeted foyer and up the spiral staircase to the second floor. A butler-like robot greeted them. The robot resembled a Totoro, but instead of walking on legs, it relied on four retractable pulleys. Wang Xiaohai also noticed a wide electrical cord wrapped around the robot's waist, with a power plug serving as a belt buckle. It would automatically unfasten itself to recharge when the battery was running low.
The Totoro-shaped butler robot led the two to an open door. From behind the door came the "hissing" sound of welding and the knocking of steel.
"This is my teacher's personal laboratory." Zhang Jiajia pushed the door open and went in with Wang Xiaohai. "Of course, it can also be called a small workshop. It mainly produces small-scale ion engines, anti-gravity levitation devices, gravitational wave searchers, etc."
What appeared in front of Wang Xiaohai was a room that looked like a machinery warehouse. It was about two hundred square meters and was filled with all kinds of strange instruments and tools, countless plugs and broken wires, as well as half-used insulating glue and sealers. There were three LCD screens hanging on the wall, each displaying a structural diagram of a device and annotations of mathematical and physical formulas. A man with thick and short hair was sitting at the workbench in the middle, directing a welding robot to weld two pieces of strange metal.
The man was about fifty years old, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, with some gray hair on his temples, and wearing a white coat. He was Zhang Jiajia's teacher, Chief Engineer Mo Yuze.
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