The two little robots, sitting side by side on the cold floor of the cellar, started to enjoy the view of the “mushroom field” in front of them which was glowing with ghostly green light.
“It’s ten o’clock at night. It’s time to go to bed.” Rong Gui’s voice suddenly rang from aside.
“?” Xiao Mei turned his head to look at Rong Gui. He didn’t say a word, yet Rong Gui seemed to understand the question in his mind, and continued to talk.
“Ten o’clock at night is the time when the internal organs of the body begin to heal. It’s the time to rest and get some beauty sleep! Without money to buy any skincare products, I always went to bed on time. That’s how I got such nice skin!” The robot before him clearly had no expression, yet Xiao Mei felt that the robot must have been laughing.
“Good night.” This little robot said one more sentence. And then with a “clonk”, his body smashed into Xiao Mei’s shoulder.
With his hands still resting on the floor, the robot Xiao Mei turned back his head, and continued to gaze at the glimmering, green “mushroom field” before him.
Rong Gui woke up exactly at five o’clock the next day. He thought the time was wrong when he got up. Only after asking a few more questions did he realize that there were 25 hours a day here.
“So this isn’t the Earth?” This question hadn’t even existed in his mind for more than a second, and his attention was quickly drawn to his own body.
When he was asleep, Xiao Mei had helped him to reattach his arms. And not only the arms were fixed, but even the thin cracks on his body that were originally generated by the worn-out materials were all patched up.
“Ah! I can’t play the clarinet anymore!” This was Rong Gui’s first thought in mind.
Then he noticed the terrible workmanship of the newly made patches on his body, as well as the even worse choices of their colors.
“Xiao Mei, matching red with green is considered an extremely rustic color scheme in my home country! Look what’s on your body – a green patch here and a red patch there, on my body it’s also a green one here and a red one there. Clearly you could have made yourself all red and made me all green, couldn’t you?” Upon seeing his red and green stomach, Rong Gui let out a piteous shriek.
Xiao Mei, who had turned over his head, now resumed his cold, lofty expression.
Rong Gui noticed that there was an additional red patch on the left side of Xiao Mei’s head compared to last night. At first glance, it looked like a small red flower pinned to the head.
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I knew it – Rong Gui the whole robot started to feel unwell.
“The proposal you just made is invalid. My approach of mending the body surface materials is not based on the match of colors, but considers weight, density of materials, and degree of integration…” Xiao Mei gave a long speech, and at last he said, “…This current way of distribution is the most reasonable configuration I could now think of. If you think it has a bad color scheme, then -”
“Then?” Rong Gui timidly raised his head.
“Then I can turn off the color picker in your visual image detector.”
“Hah?”
“So that you could only see two colors – black and white, without being bothered by the color scheme.”
Rong Gui: ……
“Thank you, but I especially like the red and green color scheme. It’s my favorite.” Making a cheering posture, Rong Gui shook Xiao Mei’s paws sincerely, and again skipped down towards the “mushroom field” behind him.
“Xiao Mei, can we pull off these mushrooms?” Even if the visual system of a robot allowed him to see things in the dark, as a human, Rong Gui was still more used to places with light. Although the light from these mushrooms would probably create the effect of a haunted house, but it’s still light! He soon thought about examining the additional value of these mushrooms.
“They are not mushrooms, but earth beans.” Xiao Mei first corrected his notion, and then began to answer his question, “You may pull them off…”
Rong Gui immediately pulled off a “mushroom”. The moment he pulled it off, the “mushroom” stopped glowing at once.
“Ah? The mushroom’s no longer glowing?”
Xiao Mei’s flat voice continued, “What below the mushroom you plucked is the edible part of the earth bean. But then, the mushroom won’t glow anymore.”
Well, before he succeeded in teaching Rong Gui the right name, he had already been infected by Rong Gui, starting referring to the part of the earth beans above the ground as “mushrooms”.
But neither of the two seemed to notice this. After answering the question, Xiao Mei continued to stand by. Rong Gui, however, glanced at the instantly withered “mushroom” in his hand, and began to dig up the soil which had been under that mushroom.
He dug out a round fruit, not large in size, just enough to fill the palm of this robotic body. If he had held it with his original body, it would have probably appeared to be a pitifully small fruit. The fruit looked somewhat like a potato, but also a bit like taro, despite that its color was green, and a sort of fluorescent green color, too.
It seemed like it’s poisonous…
The fruit under the soil was like a radish, and the “mushroom” above the soil was like the radish leaves – finding a reference in his mind, Rong Gui understood in a second.
“Then, for the mushrooms to keep glowing, we have to let them grow in the soil all the time?” Only when Xiao Mei heard such question from Rong Gui did he realize that Rong Gui probably wanted some light here.
Xiao Mei nodded, and he watched Rong Gui starting to get busy.
“Don’t just watch, come and work with me together!” Not only was he messing around himself, he was also asking Xiao Mei to join.
Pausing for a moment, Xiao Mei walked over in the end.
The two shabby little robots busied themselves in the eerie green “mushroom field”.
Their bodies were too small, and they didn’t have much strength. It took them until the evening to finally finish dealing with most of the “mushrooms” in the “mushroom field”.
At last, only a heart-shaped “mushroom field” was left in the cellar, and they transplanted all other “mushrooms” outside.
Three shrubs of “mushrooms” were placed in each corner of the house, and another shrub was placed next to the freezing cabin on the bed. In this way, the whole room became spooky green.
Apart from that, they didn’t let go of the outside decorations as well. Not only did they plant a huge shrub of mushrooms at the doorstep, Rong Gui, asking Xiao Mei to hold the ladder for him, even climbed up the ladder and hanged several “mushroom” lamps under the eaves of the house by himself!
A small house flickering with eerie green will-o’-the wisps promptly appeared in the dark space…
Such visual effect…
“Do you have a camera? How about we take a picture together as a souvenir?” Because of this advice from Rong Gui, Xiao Mei eventually took down his head, and used his head camera to take the picture. Upon a clicking sound, a very special photograph was born.
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A particularly “spooky” photo was born.
^_^
I think this will be a light-hearted story.
The “Sabbath” – this name can certainly be understood as “the day of eternal peace”, but according to its original meaning, it should be understood as “the day of rest”.
(Translator’s Note: 安息日 (An Xi Ri, the “Sabbath”) – the word can be literally understood as “the day of eternal peace” (a euphemism for “death”) in Chinese, with “An Xi” meaning “eternal peace”.)
His Majesty is tired, so it’s time to take some rest.
As what’s been said in the introduction, this will be a story about two people properly developing a romance.
Per…haps?
[…I always went to bed on time. That’s how I got such nice skin!]
Maybe I should start sleeping early tonight T^T
The scene of them pulling of those “mushrooms” with their cute hands AAAAAAAAAAH
THEY’RE GETTING CUTER AND CUTER EACH TIME DAMN
Their first picture together! (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)
Thank you very much for this chapter!!
Haha, yes, Rong Gui was an expert on how to become beautiful though he didn’t know much else. And Xiao Mei always tried to maintain his cold manners but he just couldn’t refuse anything Rong Gui told him to do! Thank you for liking this cute couple😘
Waiting for more beauty tips from our dear Ah Gui!
True! I feel like Xiao Mei will spoil Ah Gui so much in the future (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)
Thank you very much for translating this novel! If not because of you, I wouldn’t know of this excellent novel.