In the blink of an eye, the sky was completely dark. Around the bright moon, there are countless mortal stars. In the barren desert, it was pitch black all around, and only two high beams hit the road ahead, making Lao Xu, who was driving the car, even more lonely.

Of course, he himself did not feel lonely. Although once upon a time, he couldn't stand the loneliness and boredom of this business trip, and longed for someone to be by his side, chatter with him, and joke with him.

But no one in Lazy Town wants to work anymore, let alone do the time-consuming and laborious hard work of making deliveries away from town. So gradually, Lao Xu got used to being alone.

But in fact, he is not alone, he is accompanied by non-stop music, and the intelligent system in the van, Mia.

In the past five years, all the intelligent machines produced in Lazy Town have a common control system, and its name is "Mia". It is responsible for the operation of the intelligent machine, as well as the processing of background data.

You can think of all the sapient machines in the town as a whole, as they are all controlled by Mia, but you can also think of your own sapient machines as separate individuals, as Mia will personalize them according to human differences.

Thanks to Mia, thousands of intelligent machines in Lazy Town can operate without error. The townspeople can also enjoy life in peace and no longer worry about trivial matters.

However, at this time, Lao Xu couldn't let go of his worries. Tiredly holding the steering wheel, he glanced up at the starry sky, then at the time on the screen, sighed deeply, and said to the control panel.

"Alas, stop the music. ”

"Roger. Mia replied, and the music stopped abruptly. Suddenly, all that was left of the cab was the sound of the engine.

"Mia, help me find a safe place. ”

"Searching. ”

A blue light emanates from the control panel, which projects a synchronized system interface on the windshield. Immediately afterwards, a map popped up on the interface, showing Lao Xu's current location.

After some searching and calculation, Mia helped Lao Xu find a few relatively safe locations and marked them with red dots on the map. Each red dot is also annotated with all the information about the location, such as temperature, humidity and the probability of quicksand.

In this vast desert, what people have to guard against is not the sneak attack of jackals, tigers and leopards, but the quicksand that eats people everywhere. If you take the wrong step, you will die.

"Let's go to the third point. Lao Xu said after thinking for a while.

"The route has been planned for you. ”

The interface on the windshield then folds the map and instead projects a safe route to point three. Lao Xu followed the route and quickly arrived at a safe location.

He turned off the fire, put on his coat and opened the window. The cold wind suddenly poured into the car, making the groggy old Xu wake up a lot all of a sudden.

"Good work, Mia. ”

"Happy to serve you. ”

"Okay, but now you can take a break. ”

"Do you need to take the system offline? ”

"Offline, of course not, just do it myself. ”

"The smart mode has been switched to the manual operation mode. ”

"Yes, Mia, that's a peace of mind. Well, you can go and rest. ”

"Okay. Do I need to set a wake-up time?"

"Oops, thanks for the reminder. Lao Xu patted his head and said excitedly, "Tomorrow at nine o'clock!"

"Tomorrow at 9 o'clock has been set as the wake-up time. ”

"Thanks again. ”

"Gladly

You serve. Have a good night. ”

"Okay, it's going to be fine. ”

Lao Xu pressed the [Confirm] button on the control panel to complete the handover of switching to manual operation mode. After that, no matter what he was going to do, Mia would not come out to help him again unless he was in danger.

The cab was very quiet, so quiet that only the sound of Lao Xu's breathing remained. He took the notebook out of his fanny pack and turned on the light in the cab.

"Bookkeeping...... What's the problem?"

Since hearing his own recording in the afternoon, Lao Xu has become restless. Along the way, he pondered this question, and almost drove into the quicksand several times because of it. If Mia hadn't intervened in time, he would have been a dead soul by now.

"When the hell did I record it!What keys!What boxes!How annoying!"

From afternoon to evening, he had checked page by page several times, checking every line of words and numbers, but he still didn't find anything wrong.

After checking it again, Lao Xu angrily threw the notebook on the passenger seat and slapped his hands the steering wheel.

"Surely it's me who is fixing myself!

He got out of the car with a thermos cup, intending to sit on the sand and calm down. But tonight the desert was much colder than usual, and after sitting for less than a minute, he ran to the warehouse and took out a smart firearm that looked like a dry pyre.

"Give me a warm fire. Lao Xu said silently.

As soon as the firearms on the ground received the information, they immediately ignited a one-person-high fire, which soon became very warm within a radius of five meters. Lao Xu lay on the sand in a big zigzag shape, looking at the vast starry sky.

I don't know what he's thinking at this point? Maybe he's still thinking about keeping a notebook, or maybe he's just emptying himself.

After a while, he suddenly put one hand on his stomach and whispered, "It would be nice if someone could cook me something delicious." ”

It turned out that he was just trying to eat. With that, he took out a tattered book from his bosom, called "100 Dishes for Survival in the Wild".

He then turned the page and carefully read the practice described on it. When he was ready to cook, he closed his eyes and pretended that he had masterfully cooked the dish, and then took a few bites with relish.

"That's what it tastes like. He sighed as he drooled.

Suddenly, saliva trickled down his cheek and fell onto the sand, and he woke up to see the dish he was eating farther and farther away from him, and finally disappeared into the flames.

Lao Xu pursed his lips, first sighed in frustration, and then said indignantly.

"That's not going to work, when I get back to town this time, I'm going to buy a smart robot for cooking!

"But," he suddenly became very helpless again, "that kind of intelligent robot is so expensive, how many trips do I have to make to afford it." ”

"Well, why am I the only one who still has a job? That lazy person doesn't know what to think, so he might as well arrange for me to have one more person! Something like a partner, or a girlfriend. ”

"Girlfriend?"

Lao Xu was suddenly stunned, these three words brought him an inexplicable sense of panic. His brow twitched twice unconsciously, and he was so frightened that he quickly sat up.

"What's going on?!" he touched his cheeks with both hands, and the temperature was unusually cold.

At this time, he casually picked up the thermos cup, intending to take a sip of warm water to calm down. But just close to the lips of the cup

In an instant, the hot iron sheet burned him and spilled all the hot water in the cup.

"This, again, what's going on, I'm obviously wanting, lukewarm water!!" Lao Xu screamed in a broken heart.

He clearly remembers that he fixed the thermos cup in warm water mode. But when he raised his hand, he found that the gear on the thermos cup had been adjusted to hot water mode.

It's something that can't happen. First, because Lao Xu himself hates drinking hot water, he has never used the hot water mode since he bought this cup. The second is because Mia knows Lao Xu's hobbies and habits, and has long banned gear adjustment in the background to prevent accidentally hitting the hot water mode.

Lao Xu looked at the hot steam rising from the thermos cup and fell into endless self-doubt.

"Did you not look at the yellow calendar before going out? Shouldn't you go out today? Or did I get something unlucky?"

As he spoke, his eyes widened and he quietly glanced around. To his surprise, there was nothing in the vicinity except a wagon, a fire, and a frightened man.

He sighed and poured out the rest of the hot water. But just as the hot water fell into the sand and the heat drifted in the air, he looked at the gradually darkening water stains on the sand, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"Oh! this is another prank I made up on myself!"

Lao Xu guessed correctly, the person who can set the command of "adjusting the thermos cup to hot water mode regularly" has no one else except himself. He jerked to his feet like a spring, jumped into the cab, and picked up another full jug of water.

"What must this mean?" he guessed, "hot water, steam...... Keep a notebook!!"

He immediately picked up the notebook, quickly spread out two of the pages, and placed them on top of the thermos to allow the steam to soak the pages. But after a while, there was nothing unusual on the paper.

Lao Xu was unwilling, and immediately changed to the other side and repeated. But this time, there is no difference.

"There must be!

He had gone through almost every page of his notebook with steam, but in the end he had found nothing. He looked at the half-wet notebook and lowered his head in disappointment.

"Could it be that I'm thinking too much? Isn't this hot water meaningless?"

He held the notebook up in front of his eyes and looked left and right. This time, instead of focusing on the words and numbers, he focused on the notebook itself.

He knew it so well that he knew which pages had been modified and which ones were damaged. So, when he revisited the book, he was surprised to find that all the alterations and damages were gone, and it was perfect.

Every page of paper is as good as new, and there is not a single typo or punctuation error in every page of information.

At this moment, Lao Xu realized that this was not his original notebook at all. Although the order information above is true, it is obviously copied and pasted. Moreover, the man also corrected his mistake "in good faith".

Lao Xu gasped, quickly got out of the car with the notebook and thermos cup, and walked dozens of meters away from the truck.

He shuddered and took off the holster of his notebook. He could see at a glance that although the paper inside had been changed, the holster was not. He thought that the man must have been afraid that he would soon find out, so he kept the holster.

He put the holster on the rim of the cup, and in a few moments, something actually appeared on it. By the faint light of the fire, it took him some time to vaguely see that it was a line of numbers.

Of course, others didn't understand what that meant, and Lao Xu himself knew that it was the serial number on his shelf.