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Maimai is a vending machine, or rather, from the outside, it is a vending machine.

In fact, Maimai is not a vending machine produced locally by Lola.

In a more specific and more detailed definition, Maimai is a robot with independent thinking ability from the foundry factory of Tianyunying Galaxy.It's worth mentioning that it's an older model that Galaxy has already retired.Although Mai Mai does not want to admit this.

Mai Mai still remembers the day when he boarded the Whisper of Star Sand.All this happened a long time ago.A total of 1024 MTA-type robots were shipped in that batch, and only Maimai (it was still called MTA-R-07-521 at the time) was selected.Subsequently, the number of Maimai was clearly listed in the procurement list of the military procurement department.

The news spread like wildfire in the foundry, and the foundry craftsmen were all excited about it, which is undoubtedly a supreme honor.The Whisper of the Star Sands, this is one of the few and most glorious ships among the galaxy starships.All foundries in the Galaxy hoped that their products could be selected, and Maimai won this honor.

So, amidst the cheers of the foundry craftsmen, a brand new Mai Mai was sent on board.Its body was left with the code of the foundry by its creator (the father and mother identified by intelligent life).They coded the instincts of obedience and loyalty into Mak-Mai's.They firmly believe that in the future, Mai Mai will follow this glorious starship to bring the name of Tian Yunying Foundry to all parts of the galaxy.But the fact is that Mai Mai is just a small back office robot on the Xingsha Zhiyu.

No one will pay attention to what factory a back office robot responsible for drinks and snacks comes from.

After many years of service, Maimai was naturally eliminated as an old robot and was laid off by Sergeant Wende who took over.Originally, Maimai would be sent back to the factory for refurbishment or disassembled for recycling like most laid-off robots, but due to some accidents, Maimai accidentally came here and was forgotten in this remote place isolated from interstellar civilization.

At first Maimai waited quietly in the warehouse, but a sudden earthquake collapsed the warehouse.When Maimai walked out of the collapsed warehouse and stood by the street to absorb the sunlight, several students passed by it, and then stopped to poke its body.

"Vending machines?" a student said.

"Looks like it's broken." Another student kicked it.

I am not damaged.

I can still serve.

It was also from that day that, in order to prove that he was not damaged, Mai Mai became a local vending machine in earnest.This is indistinguishable from the duties it has performed on starships in the past.It's just that the goods have to be replaced with local commodities, and the target audience is also local residents.

So Mai Mai secretly sneaked into the local small supermarket to buy goods (only the first day was stealing, and every time after that, he would secretly settle the payment every time), and sold them on the street during the day the next day.Every time he sees customers using it to successfully pay and take away the goods, Maimai feels that his new machine career is continuing.

No matter where it is, Maimai is an excellent robot that lives up to the name of Tian Yunying's foundry.

Now, Maimai is standing at a street corner, waiting for the customers on the side of the road to come.

For Mai Mai, standing still is not boring.This planet has abundant sunlight, absorbing light energy every day is tantamount to the ultimate gluttonous enjoyment, and every night it will automatically clean up its own programs and remove redundant junk codes.Maimai is a back office sales robot with good habits, which also makes it run silky smooth even though it is an outdated old model.

An intellectual woman wearing glasses stopped in front of Maimai. She selected a bottle of grapefruit tea and pressed the button on the screen.

Crash.The grapefruit tea rolled out and landed in the delivery port.

She bent down to get the citron tea.

She is a frequent visitor to Maimai, her name is Li Xinyi, she is a university teacher, and she lives in the neighborhood around the corner.Maimai also knows that her daughter is Rourou, a lovely middle school student.Maimai thinks she is a good customer, because her movements are always gentle and she buys things quickly. She is never as big and heavy as some young Homo sapiens, and sometimes kicks it twice.When she was touching her just now, Mai Mai felt her hands were freezing cold.For this reason, Mai Mai deliberately adjusted the temperature of the citron tea to the most suitable temperature before rolling it out for her.

The moment she picked up the grapefruit tea, feeling the warm temperature, Li Xinyi couldn't help but smile, she put her hands on the grapefruit tea to keep warm and left.

When it was past five o'clock, a middle-aged couple walked past Mai Mai with shopping bags. The man among them paused for tens of seconds as he walked past Mai Mai, and his wife immediately shouted: " What are you looking at, the items in this kind of vending machine are the most expensive, and they are just making a lot of money.”

The man shrank his head and quickly followed his wife.This couple is also a resident of the community. The man's surname is Zheng, and everyone calls him Lao Zheng.According to the opinion of the community, Lao Zheng is a weak and strict wife, as long as his wife, Tan Mei, raises her voice, Lao Zheng will admit cowardice.But in fact, the two had a big quarrel for three days and a small quarrel for two days, it was just that his wife Tan Mei's voice was louder, and Lao Zheng's voice was quieter.Every time Tan Mei wanted to quiet down, Lao Zheng would always use a short, mean word to make his wife jump three feet high in anger, and her voice floated three miles away.At this time, the residents of the community will think that the hag is angry again, and lament that her husband is weak.

Every time Lao Zheng and Tan Mei quarreled, the content of the quarrel between the two was clearly heard by Mai Mai outside the community. From its point of view, both sides of the quarrel between the couple were responsible for their communication skills. This is a common problem of conflicts between Homo sapiens .This is not because the robot is keen on gossip, but because its ability to receive sound waves is extremely good.

When I was on the Star Sand Language in the past, Maimai was not only used as an ordinary automatic snack and drink vending machine, but also had the task of monitoring the private chats of the recorded crew members. Partial recording.Some crew members later learned about the use of Mak-Mak, and they have never approached and used Mak-Mak since then.Over the years, Mak-Mike has always believed that his own aging functions have inconvenienced the crew, which led to its fate of being eliminated.And after Lola became a local vending machine, its regular customers increased, and Mak-Mak finally regained some affirmation of his function.

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It was six fifteen.

Mai Mai knew he was coming.

He is a middle school student named Cui Mingzhi.

Sure enough, he appeared at the intersection again on time.

He lowered his head, listlessly kicked a stone away, and then walked to Maimai's side.

Mai Mai knew that he would definitely order a bottle of white peach flavored sparkling water.

Since the middle school student had his winter vacation, he would stand in front of the vending machine on time almost every day to buy drinks and food.For a while, he has been buying instant noodles in front of the vending machine, and after the winter vacation, he has turned into white peach soda sparkling water.Mai Mai would like to give advice to this underage Homo sapiens in terms of human physical health, but vending machines are not allowed to talk to customers.

Maimai heard the low-pitched conversations about the boy from the residents of the neighborhood, and she knew about Cui Zhizhi's situation.

His father remarried, he has a stepmother and a younger brother.But now his father took his stepmother and younger brother to travel abroad, and directly left Cui Mingzhi in the country.His aunt wanted to take him to her aunt's house for dinner, but he refused.At first he was eating instant noodles, but later the community committee noticed that no one was cooking in the boy's house, so they invited him to eat in the community cafeteria.So Cui Zhizhi stopped buying instant noodles for a long time, and instead bought drinks and snacks from Maimai. Every time he came, he would definitely buy white peach soda sparkling water.

Maimai directly rolled out the white peach sparkling water, and then it saw the astonished expression on the boy's face.

For robots, the emotions of intelligent creatures are very interesting expressions. It transcends language, and they can express their moods just by controlling the subtle fluctuations of the facial skin.

At this moment, Mai Mai understood Cui Zhizhi's mood.His face was full of doubts.

Cui Zhizhi did not choose white peach sparkling soda, but chose Wanglaoji herbal tea.

Cui Mingzhi stared blankly at the white peach soda at the delivery port.

Mai Mai: ...

Mai Mai rolled out the Wanglaoji herbal tea.

In order to make up for his mistake, Mai Mai released another bottle of fresh fruit vitamin C drink.

Because in Maimai's eyes, this middle school student's body needs to take in the necessary vitamin C.

The fresh fruit vitamin C drink rolled out and shook in the delivery port.

Cui Mingzhi: "..."

He only took the Wanglaoji herbal tea, turned and left.

A bottle of white peach soda and a bottle of fresh fruit vitamin C were left at the pick-up port.

The fluctuation of electromagnetic induction oscillates in Maimai's circuit.

It could understand the expression on Cui Zhizhi's face when he left at the end, the boy's face was full of "Is this machine broken, don't take advantage of this little advantage.".

This cognition makes Maimai's body circuit in an extremely unstable state of fluctuation.It began to clean up its own program again, eliminating redundant information.When this behavior was repeated up to No.12 times, Maimai realized that it really cared about whether it was damaged.

And it also wanted the boy to realize that he hadn't lost his skills because of old age or something.

Electricity buzzed unsteadily in its body, and Mamai thought it could be called melancholy.

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Cui Mingzhi returned home.

He turned the door with the key and turned on the light.

The house was as empty as ever.

This is a matter of course.His father, his stepmother, and his younger brother Yiyang are all gone.

The room was full of garbage and lunch boxes, and Cui Mingzhi didn't bother to clean it.

He came to the living room, and there was a photo of his father on the coffee table.In front of the photo frame was a box of pickled fish fillets, a box of braised lion heads, and a box of fried asparagus that he bought.These are my father's favorite dishes in the past.He put Wanglaoji herbal tea next to the takeaway lunch box.My father doesn't drink alcohol and doesn't like to drink beverages. He only drinks herbal tea when he goes to restaurants.Cui Mingzhi remembered it clearly.

"Happy birthday, Dad," he said into the empty living room.

Not long ago, the moth that represented his father had kicked its legs and died.The younger brother moth died as soon as it came out of the cocoon, but the stepmother moth remained strong for a long time, laying enough eggs for half a sheet of paper before ascending to the sky.

He is now completely alone in this family.

Cui Mingzhi looked melancholy at the egg laying paper in the box on the table, which was densely covered with hundreds of eggs.It was yellow when it was first produced, but it has now turned black.According to the information he found on the Internet, if he wants to survive the winter, he should seal all these silkworm eggs and put them in the refrigerator at about 5 degrees Celsius.

He stood up and stuffed the unborn half-siblings in the box into the refrigerator.

To be honest, he was not at all psychologically prepared for the birth of more than 400 younger brothers and sisters.