Tick, tick.

The mechanical wall clock on the wall sounded crisply, and in a small house made of gears, a family of three was happily staying in their daughter's room.

"Mom, hmm. This question is so difficult, Lingling can't, can my mother teach me? ”

In the room, the little girl sitting in the middle of the desk had a sad face, biting the pencil with her small mouth, looking at the workbook on the table, she finally threw down the pencil as if she had given up surrendering, turned her head and hugged the arm of the woman in the maid uniform next to her, as if she was coquettishly pleading.

The maid, known as "Mom", seemed to have no choice about her lovely daughter, she touched her daughter's head, and then pulled the workbook in front of her, ready to explain it to her daughter.

However, when the maid really looked at the problem of her daughter's "can't" above, she paused briefly and shook her head apologetically at her daughter.

"I'm sorry Lingling, my mother won't be able to answer this question, but my mother guesses that my father will, Lingling will go and ask my father how it is?"

Speaking of this, the maid looked at the third person in the room.

Unlike the maid and the little girl, who both have very clear entities, one is wearing a home government uniform, and the other is a beautiful cartoon dress, as the young man of the child and her father, but only wearing a slightly shabby gray cloak.

Seeing his "wife" looking at him, the young man nodded, stretched out a hand from his gray cloak, which was a fully mechanized hand, and dragged the workbook in front of him.

But the young people who followed just watched and didn't say anything.

"Mom, why doesn't Dad speak" The little girl was a little dazed.

"Dad is thinking, don't worry, Dad will definitely be able to solve this problem, Dad is the most outstanding scientist, there is no question he can't solve."

"Well, Daddy is the best!"

After that, the maid picked up Ling, while gently stroking her daughter's hair, and with Ling, the mother and daughter looked at the young man with happy faces, as if it didn't matter how the problem was "solved", just the "look" that Dad was thinking about seriously was enough to satisfy them, so that her heart was full.

As time passed, the room was silent, except for the wall clock ticking on the wall and the rhythmic gears that made up the room, which turned slowly and rhythmically, and it was not difficult to doubt that if there were no outside interference, this place would have been able to function forever.

Grunt

Finally, an unusual sound shattered the silence of the room, as if slowing down the clock and dulling the gears.

The sound came from the little girl's belly.

"Mom, Daddy is still okay, Lingling is hungry" The little girl embarrassedly covered her shriveled little belly and looked at the maid with a blank look.

"It's my mother's fault, I see that my father is too involved and I forgot to eat, so my mother will go to cook, and make your favorite potato soup for Ling today."

"Potato soup, yes!" When the little girl heard the maid's words, little stars appeared in her eyes, and the corners of her mouth seemed to have a hara.

Seeing that her daughter liked it so much, the maid was also very happy, and then she took out a kitchen apron from the closet next to her, put it on, and said gently to the young father who was still "solving the problem":

"Kid and his father, can you also take a little rest, perhaps, you can play with Ling?"

After hearing the words of his "wife", the young man under the cloak was the same as the previous scene, and after nodding mechanically, the two mechanical hands put down the workbook and turned to look at Ling next to him.

The young man picked up the little girl, and began to stroke the little girl's hair, just like the maid.

Seeing that she had such a husband who loved her daughter so much, the expression on the maid's face became even happier and happier, and she went to the kitchen to cook with great energy, and after a while, a table of sumptuous dishes was placed at the table.

"Don't announce that Mom is better than Dad because Mom can make super super delicious meals!"

The little girl sniffed violently, her index finger moving and she couldn't wait to move.

But at this time, a hint of struggle suddenly flashed on Ling Ling's face, and soon the little girl became hesitant, and the knife and fork in her hand were also suspended in the air, and she didn't fall for a long time.

Seeing this, the maid couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" Is the meal unappetizing? ”

"Not mom, just. It's just that Mom, isn't the outside world all corroded by turbidity and invaded by monsters, so these foods for us?"

"Ling, have you forgotten, Dad is a scientist, Dad can do anything, and these foods are all cultivated by Dad using new technology."

After listening to her mother's explanation, the look of struggle on Ling's face disappeared, and she returned to the well-behaved daughter in the setting, she nodded vigorously, and began to eat in a windy manner, while still using a muffled voice in her chewing, she shouted:

"Ling took back her previous words, and sure enough, her father was more powerful than her mother!"

Looking at such a naughty and lively, elf-quirky daughter, the maid who is a "mother" is full of happiness.

Taking advantage of her daughter's gobbling up, the next maid set her affectionate eyes on the young scientist across the table.

The young man after that seemed to have received some order, so he took the initiative to sit next to the maid with his rice bowl.

After seeing her "husband" sit down, the maid was very happy, she took the initiative to pick up the young man's rice bowl, and served the young man with food, and then spoonful by spoonful, let the young man open his mouth, like a good wife and mother, and fed the young man with her own hands.

And after this scene was seen by the little girl, Ling was immediately unhappy.

"It's not fair! It's not fair! Ling too! Ling also wants her mother to feed! ”

The maid smiled dotingly at her daughter's coquettishness, and then with both hands, one left and one right, she was feeding her young husband and her baby daughter on the other.

Although the maid herself didn't eat a mouthful of food and was busy, the happiness on the maid's face seemed to reach its peak at this moment.

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"Mom, it's not fair! Still not fair! Ling, Ling also has to feed Dad! ”

The daughter wants to feed the youth for herself, there is a feeling of competing for favor, although the maid is a little helpless, but she doesn't mind, after all, this is the embodiment of the daughter's love for her father, seeing that the family is so harmonious, the maid who is a mother is very happy.

But the next moment, Ling took the spoon and came to the young man, and when she was about to say, "Daddy opens his mouth", the girl was stunned again.

Because I only saw that as her father, the young man under the cloak, had no face, to be precise, all the faces were covered by shadows, and they were completely blurred.

"Mom, what's wrong with Dad's face?"

Ling's voice began to tremble, and the eyes that looked at the young man were also a little more frightened and frightened, and became strange.

"No, no, it's not my father, my father doesn't look like this"

"Mom, he's not Dad! Not Daddy! ”

"Mommy?"

"You're not a mother either, my mother is human, you, you're all machines! Who the hell are you, let me out, I'm going to get out! ”

The little girl shook her head desperately, flipped over the dining table, and ran to the front of the house, turning the doorknob in an attempt to open it.

Unfortunately, the door of the house did not move, and it was useless for the little girl to turn around, and the last little girl had to bang on the door and shout "Is there anyone" to ask for help.

The maid silently got up from the dining table, came to the little girl at the door, and picked up the little girl, at first she struggled, but soon became weaker and weaker, until finally, the fear and strangeness in her eyes before, as if they had been restarted and erased, only the color of confusion remained.

"Huh? Mom, me. How could I be here, the table, the food all over the floor."

"Woo. I'm sorry Mom and Dad, yes, did you do it? Ling is wrong, Ling will never be mischievous next time, it's all to blame."

The maid touched the girl's head and said gently, "It's okay baby, good boy, you're so tired, it's time to go to bed." ”

"It's time to sleep, Ling, Ling knows."

There will be harmony in the family, but occasionally there will be some unpleasant trivialities, but eventually they will return to that happy home.

The maid and the young man lay on the soft and comfortable bed, and in the middle of them lay their daughter, Ling.

Before the lights went out, the little girl assured her mother:

"I'm going to have to solve that problem tomorrow!"

"Well, Mom believes in you."

Tick tock

The mechanical wall clock on the wall sounded crisply, and in a small house made of gears, a family of three was happily staying in their daughter's room.

"Mom, hmm. This question is so difficult, Lingling can't, can my mother teach me? ”

The little girl who can't solve the problem, the father in the cloak, and the gentle maid mother.

It's like a cycle, forever repeating.

In countless days of such repetition, one day, an accident happened.