Chapter 115: I Really Don’t Understand You Evil Scientists
Lu Zheng blinked at the unmoving robot on the table, then looked confusedly at Yi Ning, who was holding the instruction manual.
“Nothing else?”
“Nothing else.”
Yi Ning nodded and handed the instruction manual in her hand to Lu Zheng.
Lu Zheng lowered his head and glanced at the manual.
Indeed.
The manual only had one sentence:
Place the knife in the robot’s hand to hear it make a cool sound.
Unwilling to give up, he flipped the manual from top to bottom, front to back, over and over.
It truly only had that one sentence.
Lu Zheng was a bit baffled.
Dr. Mandel definitely wouldn’t trick him.
But he couldn’t understand why Dr. Mandel said Yi Ning would be happy to receive this thing.
He admitted.
This robot was cool and interesting.
If he had received it himself, he definitely would’ve been happy.
But that’s under normal circumstances!
Now Yi Ning was in a state of fury. Wouldn’t giving her this just add fuel to the fire?
Lu Zheng could already imagine Yi Ning receiving this gift, laughing in rage, then standing up and swinging a chair in the air until afterimages formed, before slamming it down on his head.
Could it be that when he was talking with Dr. Mandel, he didn’t explain the reason for gifting Yi Ning clearly enough?
Lu Zheng fell into self-doubt.
Yi Ning no longer paid attention to the soul-searching Lu Zheng standing beside her.
She picked up the toy knife placed in the robot’s hand and carefully examined it in front of her eyes.
She had already noticed earlier.
The shell of this toy knife didn’t seem like ordinary plastic.
Yi Ning reached with her free hand toward her waist, intending to pull out the analyzer she kept in the pocket of her lab coat.
“Huh?”
The empty feeling in her hand made her pause, and she instinctively felt around the usual pocket area in her memory and patted it.
Oh, right.
Since she hadn’t had a moment’s rest, she hadn’t had the chance to change into her work clothes.
Yi Ning subconsciously recalled the location of her lab coat, then suddenly raised her head, eyes sharp as blades piercing toward Lu Zheng.
“Hey! You guy!”
She put her hands on her hips, her cute little face puffing up like a pufferfish.
“Yes!”
Lu Zheng, who was deep in thought over whether he had failed to fully explain the situation to Dr. Mandel or if his explanation had been too vague and thus led to misunderstanding, was jolted.
He turned to Yi Ning.
Her eyebrows were sharply raised in anger.
There was no doubt, Yi Ning’s rage meter was already full.
Lu Zheng immediately shivered inside and subconsciously reached for his belt.
Looks like this robot indeed couldn’t quell Yi Ning’s anger; his streaking fate today was probably inescapable.
He consciously began to take off the clothes he had just put on, hoping Yi Ning would go easy on him.
But Yi Ning had no mind-reading ability.
Seeing Lu Zheng take off his clothes, she was startled.
Combined with Lu Zheng’s previous lowbrow behavior, she immediately took a few steps back, using both hands to shield her flat chest.
“You, you, you... What are you doing? Believe it or not, I’ll call the police!”
“Huh?”
Lu Zheng froze at her words.
He admitted that secretly copying the surveillance footage without Yi Ning’s permission was wrong, but calling the police seemed a bit excessive?
“Ah!”
Yi Ning, seeing the confused look on Lu Zheng’s face, quickly realized she had misunderstood. To avoid embarrassment, she also exclaimed, “Ah!”
“Ahem!”
She gave Lu Zheng no time to react.
Her right hand formed a fist and lightly coughed twice into her mouth.
“I wasn’t telling you to take off your clothes. I just wanted to ask, did I remind you of something when I opened the door for you yesterday?”
Lu Zheng froze, then a look of terror appeared on his face.
Yesterday, Yi Ning seemed to have asked him to help bring her clothes back.
But because of the matter with Rigil yesterday, Lu Zheng had completely forgotten!
He was doomed!
He had already upset Yi Ning quite a bit, and now he had forgotten such an important task.
Lu Zheng was already considering whether doing a handstand and running two laps around D-City might temporarily appease Yi Ning’s wrath.
Fortunately, Yi Ning didn’t press further and simply asked him to fetch her lab coat.
Hearing this, Lu Zheng felt as if a weight had been lifted off his shoulders.
He happily ran to the changing room to get her clothes, even neatly arranged them and helped her put them on.
“Mm…”
Yi Ning sat back down in the chair, waved to dismiss Little Lu, took out her analyzer and placed it before her eyes, beginning to analyze the toy knife.
She was shocked at what the analysis revealed.
This toy knife was undoubtedly a tremendous treasure to Yi Ning.
Inside and out, it was made entirely of extremely rare materials and components.
Moreover, these materials and components were ingeniously designed—if disassembled in a specific sequence, the toy knife could be completely taken apart into those components and materials.
“Interesting~”
Yi Ning set the toy knife aside and picked up the robot to examine.
Sure enough.
It had a similar structure to the knife, but used even more precious materials and components, many of which were exclusively monopolized by the Hero Association and the Evil Council. The quantities of these monopolized materials were also peculiarly exact, hitting the threshold of "not too few, not too many."
The person who prepared this gift was definitely the type who silently brought home company supplies like printer paper and plastic bags.
Yi Ning turned to Lu Zheng: “Where did you get this thing?”
This wasn’t something Lu Zheng could’ve created.
“It’s the one I mentioned to you before, Dr. Mandel.”
Lu Zheng answered honestly.
At the same time, seeing Yi Ning looking so radiant, he was surprised once again.
He thought he was doomed this time, but didn’t expect the gift would actually cheer Yi Ning up.
A professional really was a professional.
If it were up to him, he’d never think that giving a robot would make Yi Ning happy.
At the same time, Lu Zheng felt a tinge of guilt in his heart.
He had actually doubted Dr. Mandel.
When the holidays come, he should properly thank Dr. Mandel.
Yi Ning wasn’t surprised by Lu Zheng’s answer.
She had already heard him talk about Dr. Mandel before.
She was just pondering whether to settle the favors Lu Zheng owed her.
The gift Dr. Mandel prepared was certainly substantial.
Not to mention secretly copying her surveillance footage—if Lu Zheng had arrogantly slammed the documents about arresting Rigil in her face and brazenly demanded the footage, Yi Ning would’ve still smiled and handed it over, even asking if he needed her to be a witness.
That’s how heavy this gift was.
But judging from Lu Zheng’s expression, he didn’t seem to understand the value of the gift he brought.
So Yi Ning inevitably developed the thought of accepting the gift first and then using it as leverage over Lu Zheng.
She would win twice!
But after two seconds of thought, Yi Ning eventually gave up on the idea.
Lu Zheng might not know the gift’s value, but the Dr. Mandel who prepared it certainly would.
If her lie was exposed, the good relationship she had built with the D-City Hero Association might be easily destroyed.
She understood the difference between one full meal and a lifetime of good meals.
Moreover, judging by Dr. Mandel’s identity, Yi Ning suspected that this gift might have also involved high-level figures from the Hero Association.
If she could maintain a good relationship with Lu Zheng and the others, she might continue to obtain rare materials from them.
After long contemplation, Yi Ning finally made up her mind.
There was no need to abandon long-term benefits for immediate gain.
She called Lu Zheng over: “I’ll pretend nothing happened with the surveillance video you secretly copied, and also the favor you owed me for forgetting to bring my clothes—all of it’s written off.”
Yi Ning paused for two seconds, hesitated slightly, but finally continued: “And I’ll even owe you one favor. If needed, I’ll do one more thing for you.”
“How’s that?”
Lu Zheng was completely stunned.
He really hadn’t expected the effect to be this good—the gift had not only cleared all the debts he owed, but had even earned him a favor.
All he could say was:
You evil scientists are truly hard to understand.