Tick tock, tick tock.
The mechanical wall clock on the wall has a clear sound. In a small house that looks like it is made of gears, a family of three is happily staying in their daughter's room.
"Mom, um, this question is so difficult. Ling Ling doesn't know it. Can mom teach me?"
In the room, the little girl sitting in the middle of the desk had a sad look on her face. She was biting a pencil and looking at the exercise book on the table. She finally seemed to give up and surrendered. She dropped the pencil and turned around to hug the woman wearing a maid uniform next to her. The arms are begging as if coquettishly.
The maid called "Mom" seemed helpless to her lovely daughter. She touched her daughter's head, then pulled the exercise book in front of her, ready to explain it to her daughter.
However, when the maid really saw the problem that her daughter didn't know, she paused briefly and shook her head apologetically.
"Sorry Lingling, my mother doesn't know this question either, but I guess my father will. How about Lingling asking my father?"
The maid who said this 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 service uniform and the other is in a beautiful cartoon skirt. The young man who is the child of her father is only wearing a slightly worn gray cloak.
After seeing his "wife" looking towards him, the young man nodded, stretched out a hand from his gray cloak, which was a fully mechanized hand, and pulled the exercise book in front of him.
But the next young man just watched without saying anything.
"Mom, why don't you speak?" The little girl was a little confused.
"Dad is thinking about it. Don't worry, dad will definitely know this question. Dad is the most outstanding scientist. There is no problem that he can't solve."
"Well, dad is the best!"
The maid who followed picked up Ling and gently stroked her daughter's hair. Together with Ling, the mother and daughter looked at the young man with happy faces, as if they were "solving the problem" for them. It didn't matter anymore, just the "look" of her father thinking seriously was enough to satisfy them and make her feel fulfilled.
As time passed, the room became quiet, leaving only the ticking wall clock on the wall and the rhythmic gears that made up the room turning slowly and regularly. It is not difficult to doubt that if there is no external interference, this place can continue to operate forever. .
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Finally, an unusual sound broke the silence of the room, as if the wall clock slowed down a beat, and the rotation of the gears also became sluggish.
The sound came from the little girl's belly.
"Mom, daddy is not okay yet, Lingling is hungry." The little girl embarrassedly covered her withered belly and looked at the maid with longing eyes.
"It's my mother's fault. Seeing that my father was too involved, he even forgot about dinner time. Mom will go cook now and make your favorite potato soup for Ling today."
"Potato soup, great!" When the little girl heard what the maid said, there were stars in her eyes, and tears seemed to flow from the corners of her mouth.
Seeing that her daughter liked it so much, the maid was also very happy. Then she took out a kitchen apron from the closet next to her. After putting it on, she said gently to the young father who was still "solving the problem":
"My child's father, why don't you take a break? Maybe you can play with Ling?"
After hearing what his "wife" said, the young man under the cloak nodded mechanically like the previous scene, then put down the exercise book with two robotic hands and turned to look at Ling next to him.
The young man picked up the little girl, imitated the maid's behavior just now, and began to stroke the little girl's hair.
Seeing that she had a husband who loved her daughter so much, the expression on the maid's face became even happier. She went to the kitchen to cook with great motivation. After a while, a table of sumptuous dishes was placed in front of the dining table.
"Wu Ling announced that mom is more powerful than dad because mom can make super delicious meals!"
The little girl sniffed her nose fiercely and moved her index finger eagerly to start.
But at this moment, a look of struggle suddenly flashed across Zai Ling's face. Soon the little girl became hesitant, and the knife and fork in her hand hung in the air and did not fall down.
The maid who saw this couldn't help but asked: "What's wrong, Ling? Is the food not to your liking?"
"No, mom, it's just. Just mom, hasn't the outside world been corroded by evil and taken over by monsters? Then our food."
"Ling, have you forgotten? Dad is a scientist. Dad is omnipotent. These foods were cultivated by dad using new technologies."
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 hurry, while still making a vague sound while chewing, yelling. road:
"Ling takes back what he said before. As expected, dad is still more powerful than mom!"
Looking at such a naughty, lively and eccentric daughter, the maid as "mother" was filled with happiness.
While her daughter was devouring the food, the next maid cast her loving eyes on the young scientist across the dining table.
The young man who followed seemed to have received some instructions, so he took the initiative to sit next to the maid, holding 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, serve the young man with rice and vegetables, and then gave him spoonful after spoonful, letting the young man open his mouth, just like a good wife and mother, feeding him with her own hands. Feed the youth.
When the little girl saw this scene, Ling suddenly became unhappy.
"It's not fair! It's not fair! Ling wants it too! Ling wants to be fed by her mother too!"
The maid smiled lovingly at her daughter's coquettishness, and then used her hands on the left and right to feed her young husband while feeding her baby daughter.
Although the maid herself had not eaten a morsel of food and was busy running around, the happiness on the maid's face seemed to reach its peak at this moment.
However
"Mom, it's not fair! It's still unfair! Ling, Ling has to feed daddy too!"
The daughter had to feed the young man for her, and she felt like she was competing for favor. Although the maid was a little helpless, she didn't mind. After all, this was a reflection of the daughter's love for her father. Seeing such harmony in the family, the maid as a mother was very happy.
But the next moment, Ling took the spoon and came to the young man. Just when he was about to say "Dad, open your mouth", the girl was stunned again.
Because all she saw was that the young man under the cloak, her father, had no face. To be precise, his face was completely covered by shadows and was completely blurry.
"Mom, what's wrong with dad's face?"
Ling's voice began to tremble, and her eyes looking at the young man became a little more frightened and unfamiliar.
"No, no, you are not my father. My father doesn't look like this."
"Mom, he's not dad! Not dad!"
"mom, Mom, Mom?"
"You are not a mother either. My mother is a human being. You, you are all machines! Who are you? Let me out. I want to get out!"
The little girl shook her head desperately, overturned the dining table, ran to the door of the house, and kept turning the door handle, trying to open the door.
Unfortunately, the door didn't move at all. No matter how much the little girl turned, it was useless. In the end, the little girl had no choice but to slap the door and shout "Is there anyone?" to ask for help.
The maid silently stood up from the dining table, came to the little girl at the door, and picked up the little girl. At first, Ling was still struggling, but soon she became weaker and weaker, until finally, the fear and strangeness in her eyes seemed to be restarted. , the general was wiped away, leaving only a look of confusion.
"Eh? Mom, I. Why am I here? Why is the dining table and the food scattered all over the floor?"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.I'm sorry, mom and dad. Yes, was it Ling? Ling was wrong. If Ling doesn't make trouble again next time, it's all Ling's fault."
The maid touched the girl's head and said gently: "It's okay, honey, be good. You're too tired. It's time to go to bed."
"It's time to go to sleep, Ling, Ling understands."
There will be harmony in the family, but occasionally there will be some unpleasant trivial matters, but in the end they will return to that happy home.
The maid and the young man were lying on a soft and comfortable big bed. Lying between them was their daughter, Ling.
Before turning off the lights, the little girl promised her mother:
"I must solve that problem tomorrow!"
"Well, mom believes in you."
tick tick tick
The mechanical wall clock on the wall has a clear sound. In the small house made of gears, a family of three is happily staying in their daughter's room.
"Mom, um, this question is so difficult. Ling Ling doesn't know it. Can mom teach me?"
The little girl who can't solve the problem, the father in a cloak, and the gentle maid mother.
It's like a cycle that goes on and on forever.
During the countless days of this repetition, one day, an accident happened.
