As soon as he entered, he noticed many eyes subtly focusing on him. Although it wasn't obvious, he still caught them.
Why are they all secretly looking at me...?
Cheng Anlang subconsciously looked down to check his clothes.
The clothes are a bit old, but there's nothing seriously wrong with them...
I've always dressed like this before...
Tong Ban, a classmate who often discussed the bugs in the cafeteria's food-serving robot with him, saw him arrive, put down the robotic arm he was assembling, and ran over to whisper, "Have you checked the school's intranet?"
Cheng Anlang frowned and asked suspiciously, "...Why would I be looking at the school's intranet?"
I can't even finish reading the textbooks.
Back on the garbage planet, Cheng Anlang was a person with an AI, although his AI was relatively low-end, it still had most of the functions. He had no problem using the internet and gradually learned to recognize most of the words he used in daily life.
However, when he opened the two most basic textbooks the school had given him, "Mech Operation and Maintenance Manual" and "Detailed Explanation of Cockpit Panels," he was dumbfounded.
This is no longer a question of whether you can understand it or not.
He can't even recognize all the characters!
I could only resign myself to looking at the textbook on the screen while searching for words on the smart device; I didn't even have time to browse the school's intranet.
Tong Ban said cryptically, "The internet says you and Zhang Mingyu went out to eat, and they even took photos and videos of it."
Cheng Anlang: "..."
What's so interesting about filming this...?
Tong Ban explained while showing it to Cheng Anlang.
I don't know who filmed the video, but it's actually pretty good.
Zhang Mingyu walked ahead, with the lizard perched on his shoulder, its two vertical pupils wide open. Cheng Anlang followed behind, carrying Cheng Dahua without looking to the side. The golden lights in the restaurant shone on them, creating an effect that was both astonishingly imposing and imbued with an ethereal aristocratic air.
However, Zhang Mingyu's imposing presence and aristocratic air were genuine, while Cheng Anlang's were purely...
The lighting created the illusion that the faded and worn-out marks on his clothes were not visible.
Everyone knows that the two of them are worlds apart.
Cheng Anlang's eyelids twitched, and he asked uneasily, "What...did they say?"
Tong Ban: "Actually, I didn't say anything. I was just curious."
Tong Ban rubbed his hands together, his tone full of gossip: "So, tell me, how did you get together with him? Zhang Mingyu never hangs out with outsiders."
"I……"
I don't know either……
Zhang Mingyu led me to the restaurant in just a few words...
The matter of the insects' preciousness cannot be discussed, nor can the matter of the medicine...
Cheng Anlang lowered his eyes, his mind racing, and made up a story: "After all, I am the only awakened one on the garbage planet. The school wanted to understand my situation, so they sent someone to communicate with me."
Tong Ban exclaimed incredulously, "So they sent Zhang Mingyu? That can't be right!"
Cheng Anlang immediately shifted the blame: "I don't know what happened either, anyway, Zhang Mingyu just showed up..."
"This...this is really hard to fathom." Tong Ban scratched his head and asked, "What kind of person is he? I see all sorts of opinions about him online."
Cheng Anlang's face inexplicably flushed. He moved his lips and whispered, "It's...it's fine..."
"Could you be more specific?"
Before Tong Ban could finish speaking, Cheng Anlang gave him a push: "The teacher is coming, we have to go to training, hurry up."
Seeing this, Tong Ban could only swallow his unfinished words, suppress his gossipy impulse, and return to his mecha cockpit.
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Advanced combat room, area A.
With a duck in his arms and Yu Ya's snake hanging around his neck, Shen Rui slumped in his chair and asked Zhang Mingyu, "Why did you go out to eat with that kid from Garbage Planet?"
Yu Ya chimed in, "Yeah, how did you start talking to him? I'd like to get to know him too, but we haven't talked since we added each other on the phone, and I don't really feel comfortable taking the initiative to contact him."
Zhang Mingyu: "I just wanted to ask him for some information."
Shen Rui muttered, "What information could he possibly have..."
Zhang Mingyu raised his eyelids slightly: "He is the seller of the medicine."
Shen Rui's voice suddenly rose, like a rooster's crow: "Who are you talking about!"
"quack!"
Zhang Mingyu remained silent.
Shen Rui said incredulously, "Impossible! Where would a poor kid get such a thing? I don't believe it!"
Helpless, Zhang Mingyu could only tell him the source of the medicine, which was Cheng Dahua's saliva.
Before Shen Rui could even speak, Yu Ya exclaimed in delight, "As expected of the Hua Hua I've chosen, she's just that amazing!"