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I spent 99 yuan to buy a boyfriend, outside he is cold, but in front of me is a gentle dog

Always cold, he suddenly became very strange. He took the initiative to warm my hands. His voice gently lulled me to sleep.

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I picked up robot 998.

Actually, I bought it for 99 digital dollars at an abandoned station.

The planet I live on is a super-high-tech planet, where everyone who has a little money at home buys a robot.

I, an ordinary man, have no money, no power, and now I have lost my job, and buying a robot has nothing to do with me.

I was confused wandering outside, unknowingly went to a robot abandoned station.

Just in time, workers at the waste station were about to destroy a robot.

The robot was still new, and the blue ring on its finger had not been removed.

The ring was as deep and blue as a robot's eye, its only fault being that it was emotionless and empty.

'Wait a minute! I ran, panting, toward the clerk.

The man heard my voice and did not stop. He was about to hit the autodestruct button when I reached out and knocked his hand off.

"He's just been born? Why destroy it so soon?"

He did not sulk at all, but looked at me with a blank expression: "This robot did not produce the core within the specified time, which is a shame on our company, not to mention that we can't sell it at a good price. It needs electricity to charge, so it is better to destroy it and make a new one."

I feel bad. Is that a reason to leave?

This is the equivalent of being killed by a newborn baby

Even if he's just a bloodless robot.

"I'll take it. How much is it?"

"You're not ill? But if you're a fool, give me 99, okay? How was it?"

I nodded and raised my arm. There was a flash of light and the man raised his arm in response.

I lowered my eyes, the bracelet said "only 500 digital coins."

I sighed, wondering what the next month would be like.

"Well, it's hard for such a big robot to take away. You leave a phone address and I'll let someone send it to you."

I nodded, flicked up my bracelet, and a stream of data was transmitted.

I looked helplessly at the robot and the abandoned station sign.

The heart is happy.

This is the brand of the factory, the company I know, the biggest best-selling robot brand in the universe.

In the evening, I just got home and was about to open the door when I found a large box that was a man high beside it.

I opened it, and there stood a handsome man with a handsome face, his eyes closed and seemingly switched off.

Since it is a robot, there should be a switch, I doubt in his body fumbled, sure enough, in his ear found a button.

I gently press, the robot opened its eyes, a pair of blue eyes like Jones general beautiful mystery, I can not help but look a little stunned.

After I recovered, I was a little frustrated, what ah, just a robot, you can see fascinated, it is single for too long.

"Power on successful. Robot 998 at your service, my master." A pleasant voice came from my ear.

As I walked into the room, I said to him, "What's your name? That's weird. Don't call yourself 998.

He tilted his head slightly, as if thinking.

I collapsed on the soft couch, pulled out the nutrient solution I'd picked up on the way, glanced at him and said casually, "Jones, just call him Jones."

He crouched down beside me and looked me in the eyes. "Jones gets it, sis."

"Poof!

I just drank a mouthful of nutrient solution immediately spray out, "why call sister?"

He leaned in front of me. "Because Jones picked up the word in his head and called it that. Did she not like it?" He looked aggrieved and his eyes were red.

Robots still cry? How is that possible?

And didn't he produce a core? How can you understand human emotions?

I helplessly waved his hand: "so call it, just I don't have a brother."

When I said this, he looked so happy that he grabbed a piece of paper from the table and wiped the nutrient solution from the corner of my mouth.

His fingertips were unusually cold, and there was no human temperature.

If I give birth to a core, I am afraid that those people will want to go back, he did not produce a core is also a good thing, so that he can stay with me.

My parents grew up struggling on another planet and left me at home alone. I was sick of being alone, and now I have Jones in the house, which is nice.

I turned on my light screen TV and the virtual star anchor was broadcasting the latest news.

"In recent days, the price of vegetables in Tilaxing has gone up like crazy. The vegetable and fruit sections of supermarkets have been cleared out early in the morning. Many people have called to complain about what to eat when prices are so high. Now I want to tell you a piece of good news, 'Xinxi' company grandly launched a new nutritional solution, cost-effective, you must not miss..."

When I heard the words' nutrient solution 'I felt nauseous and turned off the TV.

Now the city is so polluted that it is difficult to grow fresh vegetables and fruits.

After drinking this nutrient solution for so many years, I want to vomit when I see it. I don't touch it unless I'm afraid I'll starve to death.

However, I have less than 500 digital coins left. How am I supposed to survive the rest of my life without a source of income?

I was thinking hard when I suddenly looked over to Jones and said, "Can you grow vegetables?"

He nodded and walked out onto the balcony, where I watched him fidget for a long time until I finally fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, I felt someone carry me to bed and tuck me in.

I fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning, I woke up in my sky blue bunny pajamas, and Jones had spent the night by my bed.

I tapped him. "Jones?"

He opened his sleepy eyes and poked his head in front of me. "Jones is there, sis."

Looking at his lovely appearance, I could not help rubbing his messy hair and said deliberately with a vicious tone: "Did you change my pajamas for me last night?"

He blinked perplexed. "No, sister."

I looked at the side of neatly placed underwear, can not help but wonder, is this really my own change? But I don't remember!

That's all. I must be so tired from getting fired recently.

Besides, why would a robot lie?

After all, he was his master.

"Sister, Jones made you breakfast." He crouched in front of me, his face propped up.

Breakfast? But isn't there only a few bags of bread and a few eggs in the fridge?

I went to the table. It was a delicious sandwich and a glass of warm milk.

I ate a few bites and found that the sandwich was cooked just right and the milk was perfectly warm.

I looked over to the balcony, where there were some fresh vegetables.

"Jones is good." I couldn't help but give a thumbs-up.

Hearing my compliment, he smiled happily, like a child.

"By the way, sister, it takes a lot of nutrients and seeds to grow these dishes. We..."

Before he could finish, I interrupted him. "We'll buy it now."

As long as you can eat fresh vegetables, a little nutrient solution is nothing.

At the supermarket, I shopped with him, like a normal couple.

Buy nutrient solution of the elder sister saw me, and I warmly greet: "to buy nutrient solution ah girl, yo, this is a new boyfriend? What a handsome young man he is, and a good match for this girl!"

Jones's eyes lit up as if expecting something.

I repeatedly waved hands, explained: "No, this is my brother, today to accompany me to go to the supermarket."

In my eyes, Jones is my friend, not a robot. He has not been treated fairly in Xinxi Company, and I don't want to be wronged here.

"The original is so ah, oh don't say, to look at the recent launch of a few nutrition solution girl." I picked a few bags at random and turned to leave.

"Jones..."

I turned to look at Jones, but he was looking low. I stopped. "What's the matter, Jones?

His eyes seemed to struggle, then he shook his head vigorously and strode over to me, saying in a sweet voice, "It's okay, sister. It was a glitch in the system, but it's completely fixed now."

"Next time, just let me know, okay?"

He nodded earnestly.

At that moment, the virtual bracelet lit up, I shook my wrist, and a message was projected in front of me: "The weather group predicts that the temperature will drop in half an hour. Please take warm measures to avoid unnecessary accidents."

I snorted, this hot day can cool down to how many degrees, now the road people are wearing short sleeves.

While I was walking slowly, an alarm suddenly sounded in the mall: "Due to the temperature dropping to minus 30 degrees, the company's power has been cut off. Please leave the premises as soon as possible!"

As soon as the alarm stopped, all hell broke loose in the mall, and the people with the aircraft just took off with the aircraft, and people like me who can't afford to drive were left with two legs.

A cold blue wave rushed up at visible speed, and I grabbed Jones's hand and ran straight for the exit.

How can human speed catch up with the speed of nature, where the cold wind, are a thick layer of frost.

Oh, my God, I've never seen anything like this, you know, one minute you're hot, and the next you're wearing a padded jacket?

My fingertips tingled and I lifted my hand to find a layer of snow on my nail.

Jones squeezed my hand and exhaled.

"How can a robot have a temperature? Come on Jones, let's get out of here..."

I didn't finish my sentence, but I was stunned. I felt warm on my skin. It wasn't fake.

And his eyes had changed from blue to deep blue, deep and even seductive.

I looked at him in silence, as if enchanted.

"Is it still cold, sister? His voice was sexy and husky, and it caught my mind.

"Jones you..."

He grasped me with one hand, waved the other in the air, and a flying machine appeared in front of me.

I was very surprised, how can a robot have such a thing as a flying machine?

He grabbed me around the waist and lifted me into the aircraft.

It was warm inside the aircraft, not at all cold like it was outside.

"Sister, let's go home."

He took me in his arms and whispered in my ear, a magnetic voice that made me blush.

"HMM." I pressed my lips, partly enjoying the feeling of protection.

The flying machine was so fast that it returned home in a few minutes.

I was brought back by him like this. People on the road were looking at me strangely. I have lived here for many years, and everyone in the neighborhood knows me.

He laid me down gently on the soft sofa and wrapped me in a thick blanket.

Moments later, Jones brought me a glass of hot milk.

Milk is always the right temperature, warm but not hot.

I casually opened the light screen of the TV, bored through the program.

After cleaning the housework, he changed his clothes and sat next to me and held me tightly around the waist.

I can't help feeling that something is wrong with him today.

Could there be a core in his body? However, it is said that robots that have not derived cores within a week after the completion of production can only understand ordinary instructions.

But Jones certainly doesn't look like a scrap metal.

Do you want to test it?

I gave him half the blanket and pretended to watch TV, testing my skin's temperature with my hand.

To my surprise...

It's really hot!

"Sister." The low, husky voice warmed my ears.

As soon as I raised my head, I bumped into his lips, panicked, and pushed his chest.

But I found that his eyes grew deeper, and they were so Jones that I was fascinated.

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