"Crackling...... Crackling...... "The firewood in front of me is burning brightly, and after eating, Lao Xu took me back to his room, and told me to stay in this room and not walk around." I think about it, too, the roads here are criss-crossed, and even if you carefully identify the road and mark it, you will inevitably get lost. Lao Xu stood at the door with his waist crossed without saying a word, I thought he would take the initiative to say something, but looking at his expression, I shouldn't know how to say it.

"Crackling...... Crackling...... "The firewood burned very strongly, making the whole room bright and warm.

"That...... When I was asleep, I had a dream about a woman and I couldn't remember who she was, but I was pretty sure I knew this person, and she was standing right in front of me...... Tell me not to give up...... I don't know what she's giving up when she says it's giving up. I don't know who she's talking about?"

"Hmmm......"

After listening to what I said, Lao Xu still crossed his waist without saying a word, but at this time, his eyes were full of helplessness when he looked at me, and his feet were restless back and forth. He only responded with an understatement of a wry smile to what I said. I had a vague feeling that he was going to say something, what was he going to say, and in this case, should he take the initiative to say something!

"By the way, Lao Xu, I know my name, my name is Qiu Qiong, the woman in the dream told me. ”

"Huh? Autumn ...... Joan...... Good name. ”

Lao Xu hesitated to read my name, his left hand was already covering his mouth, his right hand was dragging his left elbow, his brows were tightly locked, and his eyes were even more indifferent.

"Do you have something to say to me? Looking at your expression, I feel like there's something bad about me. Just say it bluntly, Miss Ben has a big heart. I asked tentatively.

"Miss Joan...... I ......" Lao Xu leaned against the wall and lowered his head, looking thoughtful.

"Don't call Miss Joan, you can call me by my name directly, Joan can too, or Little Joan, I can accept it. ”

"Ahh......h Joan ...... I have a lot to tell you, but I'm afraid you won't be able to understand it for a while. ”

"Huh? There's a lot to tell me. What is it? ”

"It's not a big deal, and someone will tell you in detail later, I'll give you a foundation, after all, you came here, you are not familiar with the place, and you don't know much about the environment and conditions here. You don't have to be too surprised, because with us, everything is normal. ”

"Hmm...... Just say it. I nodded and motioned for him to continue, and after coming here, especially to this place, their base, I always felt that everything around me was unusual.

Lao Xu took a deep breath and looked around the room while scratching his head, as if he was looking for something. After a while, his eyes finally fell on the blazing fire on the hearth in front of me.

"Xiao Qiong, I'll give you an analogy and tell you simply. Look at this fire, is there anything special about it?"

"Hmm...... Nothing special. ”

"Okay, then I'll make it smaller now. ”

I saw Lao Xu shouting "small" at the fire. The flame that had just burned suddenly became smaller, and turned into a flame the size of a match. Then Lao Xu shouted "big" to the fire again. The flames instantly grew larger again, and they returned to a blazing state. Lao Xu then shouted, "No matter how big", the flames in front of me erupted to the top, and in an instant I felt a very powerful heat wave gushing in. In the end, Lao Xu softly shouted, "Return to normal", and the ferocious flames returned to their original appearance.

"This ...... Is it magic?"

"No, it's not magic. You come here. ”

Lao Xu and I walked to the front of the fire, the flames illuminated our faces golden, I was afraid that the flames would burn me, and kept a certain distance, but Lao Xu was not afraid at all, and actually squatted down against the flames.

"Little Joan, come and touch it?"

"What...... What? Touch what? Touch this fire?"

"yes. Come here. ”

"You're crazy. Why don't you play with fire?"

"I'm definitely not crazy. Come here, it's fun. ”

"What the hell are you going to do?"

Lao Xu grabbed my hand, and despite my efforts to break free, I couldn't escape his swift grasp. I watched my hand get closer and closer to the flames, and my heart not only beat a drum, but was it to burn my hand? Everyone here is here to entertain guests? Why did I follow this man to such a ghost place? In just a few seconds, my heart was beating loudly.

But the next second, I was stunned by the sight before me, my hand was not in the flames, the burning flame wrapped around my arm, but I couldn't feel the heat. At first, I thought it was an apparition, but upon closer inspection, it was indeed burning in front of my eyes, sending out heat, but my hand must not have hurt. Isn't this really magic?

"You must think it's weird. I'm telling you, oh, it's not magic, it's technology. Lao Xu looked at me very seriously.

"Branch...... Technology?!"

"That's right, if you look at the firewood underneath, it looks like real firewood, but it's actually an intelligent firecracker, which can automatically recognize the person's position and automatically adjust the size and temperature of the flame according to the person's needs. Of course, it won't hurt you, because its flames are also intelligent, and it can automatically avoid contact with people, so it's very safe. ”

"This ...... How can it be? There is already such advanced technology in the world?"

"Hahaha, I don't know anywhere else, but there must be one here. ”

“......”

"Let me give you another example. Even the meal you just ate is not cooked by humans, we put the ingredients away, and the machinery in the background will cook as many meals as it needs according to how many people want to eat today. And just when we brought you here, the machine calculated that you were going to eat today, so it automatically adjusted and made your share of the meal, otherwise we will always have one person without food. ”

“......”

Hearing what Lao Xu said, I was silent, I didn't know what to say, what he said was too false, how could there be such an advanced machine in the world, take what intelligent firecracker in front of me, intelligent fire I still want to believe, but flames can also be intelligent, I really have no way to believe.

"I ...... I'm still not convinced. ”

"Haha, it's okay, it was really hard to accept at first. The last thing we lack in Lazy Town is intelligent machinery. Nothing here is not mechanical, some are simply mechanical, and some are intelligent. If you look at this table purely mechanically, you have to operate the functions on it yourself, and it can't be automatically adjusted according to your needs. If you're a smart machine, you look at the bed in the back and you shout at the bed. ”

“...... Shouting what?"

"You're ...... Shout a word...... Sofa bar. ”

"Sofa, sofa!"

"Squeak-squeak--" The bed in front of me began to fold up automatically, turning into a couch.

"Look...... It's going to be a couch. You're looking at this kettle, there's no water right now, I'll put it here, you shout to try it?"

"Hot water! Wow, it's really hot water. ”

"Clever. Will you shout cold water again?"

"Ice! Oh my God, this!"

"Look...... The hot water froze. ”

“...... Is there such an advanced thing in this world? It can't be controlled by someone behind it. ”

"Of course there's someone who controls – that's you. Just now I have officially authorized you to be the master of this room, and the machines in it cannot be operated by others, so you can call them as you wish. This is a manual that we have summarized, and you can take a look at what you won't know if you can. After a while, you don't need to command them, they will automatically keep up with the rhythm of your life. ”

I took the instruction manual given to me by Lao Xu, flipped through it casually, and found that I found that the hanging lamps, chairs, bookcases, wardrobes and other things in the room were all intelligent machines, and they could really become what I imagined according to my requirements. I looked at Xu in disbelief, and he was very pleased that I was so quick to accept new things.

"How did you get there, how could an all-mechanical place exist?" I asked, puzzled.

"Well, it's a little early for me to tell you how to do it, someone will tell you later. But as for how it exists, I can tell you that it really exists, and it's right where you are. Lao Xu said proudly.

"I ......"

"It's okay, you'll get used to it. ”

"What I've been experiencing these days has really made my head a little bigger. ”

Seeing that the room was full of machines that could be manipulated, and some could even change shapes, I just felt like my head was being stretched up by more things I couldn't understand. Since coming here, I've come across a lot of things that I didn't understand, and now these so-called "intelligent machines" are still popping up! I didn't take a breath, I sat down on the bed that had been turned into a sofa, and sighed. I looked at Lao Xu and saw him blinking at me. Ah, what the hell is going on?

"Xiaoqiong, do you have anything you want to ask? I can try my best to help you answer!"

"Ah, my head is big! Huh...... Then let me boldly guess, Lao Xu suddenly became so young, it must have something to do with advanced technology and machinery?"

"Haha, you're very smart! Do you remember the bed I crawled to? It wasn't an ordinary bed, it was a 'healing machine'. ”

"Healer?"

"Yes, therapeutics are a kind of machinery that can promote the regeneration of cells in the human body and speed up the metabolic cycle, as long as you lie on it for a certain period of time, you will regain your youth. ”

"But when I saw you, why did you look like an uncle?"

"Alas, this is a side effect of the remedy, if you don't use it regularly, your body will age quickly, and even be fatal, and that's how 'that guy' trapped us. But as the only one in the town who went out of town to deliver supplies, it took a long time to go out once a month, so my side effects were smaller than the others, and I aged more slowly, and you could see how middle-aged I looked. ”

"That guy is ......"

Lao Xu's expression became solemn, as if there was something more important that was difficult to say. Just when he was about to open his mouth, a girl's long call came from a distance, shouting "Shanshan ~ Shanshan ~ where are you". Hearing such a numb sound, I couldn't help but get goosebumps in one hand, and laughed out loud. Lao Xu hung his head like a deflated doll, and kept massaging his temples with the index fingers of both hands.

It didn't take long for the girl to run in front of us, this girl had a clear hibiscus face, clean and very cute. As soon as she saw Lao Xu, she stuck to him, Lao Xu wanted to push her away, but she couldn't push her away, she really didn't care about my feelings as an outsider at all.

"Poof...... Shanshan, hahahaha!"

"Tsk, don't laugh!

"Shanshan~ So you're here!" The little girl held Lao Xu's arm and said shyly.

"Oh~ this is ...... Artificial intelligence?"

"Hehe, don't look at us machines as intelligent, but we don't like 'artificial intelligence' here, there's a place out there that is full of artificial intelligence, believe me, you definitely don't want to stay there for a minute. "I felt like I had stepped on his tail, and he said to me angrily.

"Huh, where?"

"Shanshan~ Why don't you ignore me!" The little girl pouted when she saw that Lao Xu didn't pay attention to her.

"Alright, alright. I'm not busy!"

When the word "artificial intelligence" was mentioned, Lao Xu's face showed an expression of extreme disgust. When I wanted to continue to ask, Lao Xu had already quarreled with the girl next to him, saying that he hadn't looked for her for a day, and it was useless for Lao Xu to defend himself, so he looked at me helplessly and shook his head, and I had to pity him with sympathetic eyes. When the girl was tired of arguing and leaned quietly on Lao Xu's shoulder, she found that in addition to the two of them, there was another person looking at them with a smirk, and her face turned red in an instant.

"Shanshan~ Who is this?Why didn't I see this person?" She hid behind Lao Xu's shoulder very shyly, and only looked at me secretly with one eye.

"That's what we said last night - our savior, it turns out that her name is Qiu Qiong, and I just knew. ”

"Oh~ It turns out that you are Qiuqiong's savior, hello, my name is Jiang Man. ”

When she heard my name, she immediately looked up with joy and looked at me with blinking eyes, and even though I was a girl, I thought she was quite cute. But I thought about it, what did she just say, savior?

"What? wait! Savior?!!"