Chapter 33: Robot Xiao Yin – “Let’s call it Xiao Yin!”
It was already four days later when Yu Xia heard the follow-up about Yun Shaocheng’s situation.
Four days later, having safely passed the adjustment period between his mental power and constitution, and after undergoing a physical checkup, Yu Xia was finally permitted by Professor Wen to be discharged from the hospital. Qin Yizheng, while accompanying him upon his discharge, talked to him about the punishments given to Yun Shaocheng and Ye Zhichen.
Sitting in Qin Yizheng’s hovercar, Yu Xia blinked. “So, in a sense, both Ye Zhichen and his father were actually implicated by Yun Shaocheng?”
Qin Yizheng thought for a moment and agreed with Yu Xia’s assessment: “You could indeed say that. Although Ye Zhichen is indecisive and somewhat foolish, he wouldn’t go so far as to entangle himself with people from the Alliance. He has always yearned for the military—after all, his father is a Major General in the military. But Yun Shaocheng is different. According to the investigation results, he has no real sense of belonging. When the Alliance approached him, he saw it as profitable. It just so happened that he seemed to be quite short on money recently, so he sold the information he knew about you to the Alliance agents.”
In other words, Yun Shaocheng revealed his information to the Alliance purely for the sake of money.
Yu Xia lazily leaned back against his seat.
Although he had long realized that the protagonists of the original book weren’t all that noble and righteous, for things to end up like this still left him somewhat baffled.
From what he could see now, Yun Shaocheng had absolutely nothing that made him stand out from the crowd. In Yu Xia’s eyes, even their former class monitor who had inexplicably provoked him was far more outstanding than Yun Shaocheng. Yet strangely, the original book was written entirely from Yun Shaocheng’s perspective.
Moreover, this part of the plot didn’t exist in the original book. Although in the original story, due to Major General Ye’s insistence, the protagonist gong and shou severed all ties with the military and eventually founded a pharmaceutical company—with the protagonist shou crafting high-quality potions and the protagonist gong handling sales, resulting in a very happy ending where “Ye Zhichen ultimately had one regret”—they were still law-abiding citizens of the Empire. An incident involving the Alliance had never occurred.
Could it be simply because he didn’t end up as a vegetable?
How very strange.
Noticing Yu Xia slowly slumping into the seat, Qin Yizheng adjusted the backrest to let him recline more comfortably. “Are you tired? You just finished a physical checkup. If you can’t hold on, rest for a while. I’ll wake you when we get to the academy. My hovercar is registered with the school and can drive straight in.”
It was indeed quite tiring. The physical detection capsule was truly a torment.
Yu Xia lazily let out a yawn and found a comfortable position on the seat. “Then I’ll rest for a bit. Remember to wake me when we arrive!”
Qin Yizheng watched as Yu Xia closed his eyes without the slightest hint of vigilance. He secretly clicked his tongue, draped his own jacket over Yu Xia, and then lightly tapped the spot on Yu Xia’s forehead. “You really have absolutely no self-awareness of being an Omega. Can you just fall asleep casually in front of an Alpha? It’s a good thing it’s me…”
But then again, perhaps it was precisely because the person beside him was him that Yu Xia felt safe enough to fall asleep.
Thinking this, Qin Yizheng’s mood instantly brightened, and he couldn’t help but reach out to rub the spot on Yu Xia’s forehead that he had just tapped.
The hovercar soon arrived at Imperial Star Academy.
After parking the car securely, Qin Yizheng began to gently nudge Yu Xia. “Yu Xia, wake up, we’re at your dorm.”
Yu Xia was still a bit groggy. He rubbed his eyes. “Aha, are we here?”
Qin Yizheng let out a somewhat unnatural “Mm.” “We’re here. We’re right outside your dorm door now. It’s time to get up.”
Replying with an “Oh,” Yu Xia sat up and climbed out of the hovercar, speaking with some reluctance, “That was so fast. I feel like I haven’t slept enough. Also, do I have to start exercising again tomorrow?”
Qin Yizheng smiled. “Did resting for a few days make you want to slack off on your workouts again? Think back to what state your body was in before, then feel how your body is doing now, and finally, imagine that it will get even better in the future. Doesn’t that give you the motivation to exercise?”
Yu Xia shook his head honestly. “For the whole day after doing a physical checkup, I can’t perceive anything at all. I feel like my current physical state is no different from before, maybe even more tired.”
Qin Yizheng: …
A miscalculation.
Qin Yizheng took a step forward and was the first to open the door to Yu Xia’s dorm. “Let’s not talk about that. Your next phase of exercise requires a new regimen. Professor Wen hasn’t fully calibrated the difference between your current constitution and mental power yet—the gap is still quite large and needs further adjustment. So until the new regimen is finalized, you just need to maintain your physical fitness training. You don’t have to push yourself as hard as you did this past month. Instead of worrying about that, why don’t you come and see what I’ve…”
And then, he saw three people who shouldn’t have been in Yu Xia’s dorm.
Qin Yizheng’s face darkened. “What are you doing here?”
And every single one of them was crowded around the gift he had specifically prepared for Yu Xia.
Seeing the people who walked in, Gao Zhou and Wen Luo immediately stood up straight. “Hello, Senior Qin. We’re here to deliver professional textbooks to Yu Xia. Our Mechanical Department has quite a few specialized courses, and our tutor asked us to help bring them over. Military training is wrapping up and will be completely over in two days. After that, we’ll have a weekend off, and then official classes will begin!”
Wen Luo nodded repeatedly from the side. “Since Gao Zhou is an Alpha, the tutor was worried that him entering Yu Xia’s dorm alone might cause a bad impression, so she asked me to come along too.”
Luo Siqi, on the other hand, casually waved a hand at Qin Yizheng. “I’m here to bring you your professional textbooks. Your class monitor said the dean was looking for him urgently, so when he saw me, he passed the task to me. After all, we’re close!”
The class monitor was likely busy with the inter-academy competition. Qin Yizheng knew this, but that wasn’t the core issue at all.
Frowning, Qin Yizheng asked, “I mean, how did you all get inside?”
Wen Luo weakly raised his hand. “The dorm administrator opened the door for us. Our tutor found out from Professor Wen that Yu Xia was being discharged today, but didn’t know exactly what time. Since Gao Zhou couldn’t just stand at the door holding all those books forever, she sent a message to the administrator, letting us wait inside temporarily. We still have to sign out with the administrator before we leave, though. Oh, Senior Luo arrived later.”
Luo Siqi added: “I couldn’t find you in your dorm, so I came over to check and guessed you’d be here. You even placed an all-purpose robot in Yu Xia’s place! I couldn’t even buy this SP-model all-purpose robot, yet you just casually left it with Yu Xia. Am I still your childhood friend or what?”
Yu Xia, looking a bit sluggish, caught up to them. Hearing their conversation, he peeked his head out from behind Qin Yizheng. “What robot?”
The carefully prepared gift for Yu Xia had already been discovered by these three uninvited guests. Qin Yizheng’s enthusiasm for giving the gift was instantly halved. “It’s just a robot I asked my mom to send over. With your current condition, you still need a robot keeping a constant eye on you. Otherwise, who knows when something like that might happen again.”
Yu Xia had already spotted the motionless robot standing right in the center of his living room. Its exterior looked no different from an ordinary human, and even the finger joints were exquisitely crafted.
Just a glance was enough to tell that this robot was far more advanced than the ones he had seen on the Star Network shopping platform.
Yu Xia felt a bit awkward. “This isn’t very appropriate, it’s too valuable. I can’t…”
Qin Yizheng firmly pressed a palm onto the top of Yu Xia’s head, effectively shoving the rest of his words back down. “There’s nothing inappropriate about it. You’re going to be a mecha mechanic in the future. Although this robot looks very high-end, it’s still much simpler compared to a mecha. It’s a bit more advanced than regular household robots, but this thing was produced by my family anyway. It’s just sitting around gathering dust, so I might as well give it to you.”
Luo Siqi chimed in at the perfect moment: “You could also choose to give it to me.”
Qin Yizheng let out a cold snort. “You aren’t lacking in robots. If this robot was placed in your house, it wouldn’t serve any purpose other than looking pretty. It would be a complete waste of good material.”
Luo Siqi argued, “I could keep it in my dorm too!”
Qin Yizheng’s expression didn’t change one bit. “The school dorms don’t allow you to keep robots. Your application would never get approved. Waiting for approval to keep a robot in the dorms would probably take longer than getting an application approved to buy a mecha.”
Feeling wronged, Luo Siqi shrank back against the edge of the sofa, looking at the robot in the living room and making the most of the opportunity to stare at it.
As freshmen in the Mechanical Department, Gao Zhou and Wen Luo were naturally very interested in robots as well. “Is this robot for Yu Xia to use in the future?”
Luo Siqi shifted his position on the sofa. “Yeah. It was probably brought in by Major General Ning. Getting it through other channels would involve a very long process, and the robot would have to be dismantled for inspection before being allowed in. After all, it’s a robot; a lot of hidden tampering could be done. It’s only because Yu Xia absolutely needs a robot to monitor his health condition that the school approved it.”
Qin Yizheng clicked his tongue. “Do you think this robot wasn’t dismantled? When it was first brought in, those tutors from the Mechanical Department excitedly said they had never dismantled an SP-model robot before, and then they completely stripped it down. They definitely wouldn’t miss a chance like that.”
Saying this, he patted Yu Xia’s head again. “See? If you don’t accept it, wouldn’t this robot have been dismantled in vain? So, just let it stay here and fulfill its value. If you really feel bad about it, you can personally build a mecha for me in the future. Calculating it that way, I’m actually the one making a profit!”
Yu Xia: …
Although he knew Qin Yizheng was just making excuses, the initial resistance Yu Xia felt in his heart truly seemed to dissipate quite a bit.
He walked over to the purportedly highly advanced robot. “Alright, in the future, I will definitely do everything in my power to build a mecha for you. Let this robot shine and radiate its heat here.”
He suddenly recalled the very first robot he saw upon arriving in this world. The medical robot named Xiao Jin still bore the scratch marks left by his mental power manifestation.
Yu Xia smiled and said, “Let’s call it Xiao Yin!”
The author has something to say: Babe, let’s make a deal. Let’s move the update time to 10 PM. It’s probably because it’s getting cold that I keep slacking off while typing today. It’s only going to get colder, so I’m leaving time to slack off in advance, sob. But I will definitely update. If something comes up, I’ll post a leave notice. (づ￣3￣)づ╭～
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