nycdaug Chapter 582: "East Wind!
Chapter 582: "East Wind!
Early in the morning, Candy, who had been sleeping curled up, twitched her nose, feeling a bit itchy, as if something was crawling on it.
Not wanting to open her eyes, Candy reached out to touch it, but found nothing.
Fortunately, the itchiness disappeared.
After a short while, Candy was daydreaming about delicious food when her nose started itching again.
She reached out and gave it a smack.
The itchy feeling disappeared once more.
Soon after, it started again.
Annoyed, Candy gritted her teeth and opened her eyes.
What she saw was her brother holding a feather from who knows where, smiling mischievously at her.
Candy realized why her nose had been itching—it was her pesky brother playing tricks on her.
"Stop frowning, the sun’s already shining on your butt."
"If you don’t get up soon, you’ll be eating lunch instead of breakfast."
Ruffling her hair, Candy sat up.
After a night’s sleep, her hair was a tangled mess.
The butterfly hair tie on her head had somehow been tossed into some corner.
Candy lifted the blanket and searched for a while before finding the butterfly hair tie under her pillow.
She casually slipped it onto her wrist and started dressing herself.
"I’ll go downstairs and serve you some noodles."
"Okay~" Candy nodded, dimples appearing on her face.
Having gotten used to dressing herself, Candy took about five or six minutes to finish putting on her clothes.
She slipped on the handmade wool slippers her aunt had sent her and eagerly ran downstairs.
When her brother woke her up earlier, she didn’t feel anything, but now she was feeling quite hungry.
Perhaps it was because she had expended too much energy mopping the floor yesterday.
That was what Candy thought to herself.
Just as she got to the living room, Candy pouted.
Great, Bun and Little Grey already started eating before me, Candy.
Little Grey, who was in the middle of eating, suddenly felt a chill and tucked its tail nervously as it looked around.
Seeing it was its little master, Little Grey resumed eating.
"Hmph~"
Little Grey, with its entire head in the food bowl, glanced up at its mysterious little master.
Unfortunately, it only saw a retreating back.
On the small kitchen table, there was a bowl, filled to the brim with noodles in a blue and white porcelain style bowl.
On top of the noodles, there were two golden fried eggs.
Candy glanced around and realized there was only one bowl of noodles, and her brother was nowhere to be found.
Coincidentally, Xiaofeixia came over to pour himself a drink and, seeing Candy’s confusion, spoke with a smile:
"Go ahead and eat, we’ve all had ours already, you’re the only one left."
"Where’s brother?"
Xiaofeixia glanced outside, "He went to the bathroom."
Upon hearing this, Candy rolled her eyes.
Not believing Xiaofeixia, Candy didn’t start eating right away.
Instead, she moved a stool to the sink to brush her teeth and wash her face.
After washing her face, Candy touched the bowl; the temperature was just right.
Behind the kitchen was a room with a stove, and at this moment, the stove was lit.
Sitting in there was far more comfortable than using the air conditioner.
The only downside was staying in there too long made her mouth dry and constantly wanting to drink water.
The kitchen door was open, letting in a cold breeze.
Candy took her bowl into the stove room, eating noodles while warming herself by the fire.
Suddenly, Candy twitched her nose.
She smelled roasted sweet potatoes!
It smelled so good!
Candy sniffed again, confirming the aroma came from inside the stove.
In an instant, Candy’s eyes lit up.
There were roasted sweet potatoes!
Her brother hadn’t even told her about it.
But Candy didn’t touch the sweet potatoes in the stove.
First, she didn’t know if they were done, and second, the stove could easily burn her hands.
She wasn’t about to foolishly dig out the sweet potatoes herself.
If she got burned, it would hurt like crazy.
Inside the laboratory building of Candy Science and Technology Park, with the departure of the last researcher, all the doors on the upper floors of the laboratory building except the first floor were closed, and all four elevators ceased operations.
Only the military police in the lobby on the first floor remained vigilant as usual, guarding the area.
What was different was that the military police had heightened their alertness.
The closer it got to the year-end, and the fewer people there were in the park, the more they needed to step up their vigilance.
No one could guarantee that third-generation robots would always be invincible.
No one thought that foreign research organizations wouldn’t be studying methods to counter the third-generation robots.
No matter how powerful the third-generation robots are, they are still electronic devices, and any electronic device is vulnerable to electromagnetic bombs.
At the entrance of the laboratory, without the Little Demon King, Dagger lay lazily on the ground basking in the sun, enjoying the beautiful time.
But such joyous times wouldn’t last long.
"Dagger, time for training."
So, a new day’s routine training began again.
With a shake of its body, the lazy demeanor of Dagger was replaced by a majestic and commanding presence.
"I’m home!"
In a third-tier city a thousand miles away from Huo County.
Wei Luxue entered the passcode lock and pushed the door open, intending to surprise her family.
Unexpectedly, it was her family that gave her a big surprise.
Despite preparing herself emotionally along the way, upon opening the door, she found the house empty.
Wei Luxue struggled to drag her suitcase into the room, kicked off her shoes, and lay directly on the sofa.
She grabbed her mom’s WeChat and initiated a video call.
As soon as the video connected, Wei Luxue heard the sound of playing Mahjong.
And her grandpa’s voice.
"East Wind!"
"My royal mother, don’t tell me you’ve gone to visit grandpa in the countryside."
The wrinkle-free woman playing Mahjong was surprised.
"Oh?"
"My darling daughter, how did you know?"
Silently, Wei Luxue sighed and flipped the camera around.
"Why did you come home?"
"Didn’t hear you mention it."
Flipping the camera back to the front, Wei Luxue shrugged helplessly, "I wanted to surprise you all, my dear old mom."
"Hey, Wei Luxue, I warn you, don’t think that just because you’re a genius you can blatantly call your mom old."
Wei Luxue’s mouth twitched.
Mom, you’re pushing forty and still pretending to be young, is that really okay?
"Alright, enough, there’s instant noodles at home. You won’t starve, talk to you later."
Before Wei Luxue could say more, beep, the call ended abruptly.
Pouting, Wei Luxue opened the fridge to find it full of vegetables.
And all things she loved to eat.
But the problem was she couldn’t cook.
Otherwise, her mom wouldn’t have said there were instant noodles at home.
Glancing at the time, it was just past ten.
Suddenly, Wei Luxue’s eyes lit up.
Why have instant noodles when she could take a taxi directly to her grandpa’s place?
She, Wei Luxue, a little rich woman, can’t afford a taxi?
It’s just a hundred bucks.
She decided, and without taking anything else, left the community and hailed a cab.
More than an hour later, everyone at the lunch table turned to look at the door at the same time.
Who would be visiting at midday?
"Grandpa, your darling granddaughter has come to see you~"