Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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There was deathly silence in the ward for a while.
Tang Ran blinked slowly, as if she had just regained consciousness after a long time: “It’s broken…?”
“Yes,” Tan Yunchang explained, “It was the new students who came to the lab this year. They were ignorant and thought the robot was research material in the lab. When they were researching it privately, they accidentally broke it.”
“…” Tang Ran’s face gradually turned pale.
Tan Yunchang quickly made amends: “Although it cannot be turned on for the time being, it has been returned to the factory for repair! The laboratory has also placed a new expedited order with its manufacturer. Sister Tang Ran, I promise that a new one will be sent back very, very soon, don’t worry!”
“Then,” Tang Ran clenched her fingers tightly, “will it still have its memory?”
“Memory?” Tan Yunchang choked and subconsciously looked at Luo Zhan, but before his gaze fell on him, he came to his senses and retracted his gaze guiltily.
He smiled awkwardly at Tang Ran: “Humanoid bionic robots are just close to human behavior in appearance, senses and reactions through various closed-loop controls. They are not real humans, so how can they have memories? At most, they are just some, ahem, recorded and stored data.”
Tang Ran bit her lip and said nothing more.
She lowered her eyes and lowered her head little by little.
The silence in the room made Tan Yunchang more and more uneasy. While Tang Ran was looking down and not paying attention to him, Tan Yunchang quickly winked at Luo Zhan for help.
Unfortunately, that person’s full attention was on Tang Ran beside him, and he couldn’t pay any extra attention to him, so naturally he couldn’t receive his signal.
He saw Tang Ran’s head lower, until it was almost buried in front of her body, then the girl’s soft voice suddenly sounded by the window.
“Luo Luo.” The girl’s voice trembled slightly, as if she was about to cry in the next second, “Is it really broken?”
“——!”
Tan Yunchang’s heart skipped a beat and he turned abruptly to look at Luo Zhan.
Luo Zhan frowned and clenched his hands at his sides into fists. After a few seconds of silence, he opened his mouth to speak.
Tan Yunchang was very sure that Luo Zhan would not be able to keep up the lie for more than three seconds in front of Tang Ran at this moment.
So with a lightning-fast movement, Tan Yunchang opened his mouth and said, “He doesn’t know either!”
Tang Ran looked up in surprise, and her eyes were already sparkling.
Tan Yunchang made up his mind and decided to be the villain to the end: “Luo Zhan couldn’t solve anything while he was abroad, and we were afraid of affecting their competition, so we dared not tell him about this.”
“——”
Tang Ran sat there stiffly.
Tan Yunchang felt increasingly guilty, especially since even after the little girl lowered her head, the image of her tearful eyes kept lingering in his mind.
Tan Yunchang was afraid that Tang Ran would burst into tears the next second.
If that happened, he guaranteed that the man sitting next to him who was already breathing heavily would never let him go.
Fortunately, Tang Ran did not cry.
She just stood there stiffly for a long time, then slowly stood up, without looking at anyone or paying any attention to anyone and walked silently towards the bedside.
But it was the first time that Tan Yunchang saw the little girl like this. He hurriedly chased after her: “Sister Tang Ran, I’m sorry, we——”
“I’m tired.”
The girl’s voice gently interrupted Tan Yunchang’s words.
She stopped beside the bed and didn’t look back.
“I’m going to rest now.”
It was the first time Tan Yunchang had heard Tang Ran speak so calmly and indifferently. He was almost frightened: “Then, we will come back again in the afternoon…”
“I’ll take a rest this afternoon too.” The girl said softly, her tone calm, “Let’s meet again after my first birthday.”
Tan Yunchang was dumbfounded.
Tang Ran didn’t say another word.
She lifted the white quilt on the bed and slowly climbed onto the bed. Then the girl lay down in the quilt with her back to them and covered herself with the quilt completely.
She wrapped herself tightly and curled up under the quilt, as if she was cold all over.
She now looked like a small, pitiful little one.
Not to mention Luo Zhan, even Tan Yunchang felt as if his heart was being cut by a knife – his sister Tang Ran, who was as obedient as a little girl, was obviously angry and furious this time for the first time in history.
It’s just that the little girl was a smoldering volcano.
She had exploded in her heart, until boiling magma bubbling out, burning her heart full of holes, but she still tried hard to hold it in and not explode.
Tan Yunchang was racking his brains to think of how to remedy the situation when he heard footsteps beside him – Luo Zhan straightened from where he was leaning against the wall, frowning and walking towards Tang Ran’s bed.
When Tan Yunchang saw Luo Zhan’s expression, his heart skipped a beat.
Without even thinking, he grabbed Luo Zhan and dragged him out of the ward: “Then we won’t disturb you for now, Sister Tang Ran, you should have a good rest!”
“Bang.”
The door of the ward was closed.
“…”
On the edge of the snow-white quilt on the bed, a few half-exposed slender white fingers slowly clenched the sheet.
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