StarTie Simulation: Aren’t you NPCs?

Chapter 123 Repairing the "Starry Sky Train" (Part )

Ji Zi is now becoming more and more curious about Wu Xuan, this man who is both her teacher and friend but whom she has never met.

"What kind of person is he...? What kind of scenery has he seen?"

Thinking of this, Ji Zi shook her head gently, then looked up at the beautiful sunset and whispered softly: "Who knows... According to what he said, he will be able to appear for a long time after the train is repaired. The subsequent interstellar travel... It should be very interesting to travel with such a person?"

After saying this, Ji Zi seemed to suddenly realize something: she still had to take the exam.

"But... with this knowledge, there shouldn't be any problem dealing with those outdated exams, right?" Ji Zi rubbed her temples with a headache. As a scientist, she didn't have any idea about this kind of thing that was obviously outdated for a long time but had to be learned.

For her, she would rather sit at her desk and deconstruct one of the nine drawings without moving than take a look at those things.

"By the way... when I looked at my class schedule today, I saw that I seemed to be... a senior?" Ji Zi said as she opened her cell phone. After confirming again and again that the only thing she had to do before graduation was the exam, she breathed a sigh of relief.

For Ji Zi, who has already submitted her graduation project and thesis, and even attended the graduation ceremony... her "pioneering" journey on her home planet is about to end, and next... she will head to the vast sea of ​​stars.

Of course, this is the best assumption. What if I am a master who has not yet graduated... then I will be in big trouble.

"I was just thinking... If it takes me less than a year to get the train running again... won't I be declared missing? Now it seems there is no need to worry about such things..."

"Don't think about these things anymore. Have a good rest. I have an exam tomorrow and then I'll stay on the train after the exam~" Ji Zi thought.

At this time, Wu Xuan, who was sitting on the long sofa in the train, was writing furiously on the two drawings that were left behind.

Of course, he was not only helping Ji Zi to interpret the contents of the drawing, but he was also thinking about his own position in the mission.

After the showdown with Ji Zi today...it seems that he didn't receive any punishment.

In Wu Xuan's original idea... since the mission arranged him to become a spirit of an artifact similar to the "Starry Sky Train", does it mean that he cannot let his true identity be discovered by Ji Zi?

But now thinking about it carefully...it seems that I thought too much at the beginning. After all, the main task only asked him to guide Ji Zi to repair the "Starry Sky Train", and did not let him be a spirit of the weapon.

"As for the subsequent repair process... I can't say exactly what it will be like, but it would be better to fix it sooner rather than later. Forget it, I'll just write a comment..."

Thinking of this, Wu Xuan shook his head helplessly, and then he completely calmed down to write the notes.

Half a system hour of time passed quickly at the tip of Wu Xuan's pen, just like a pre-programmed program. No matter how complicated the drawings in front of him were, no matter how profound the knowledge contained in them, Wu Xuan could always finish writing on time and then disappear.

“De de de de...Here, my setting is to be a ruthless annotation-writing machine. It’s numb.” Wu Xuan muttered helplessly as he looked at the darkness in front of him.

......

"Ji Zi? What do you think of today's test questions?" asked Ji Zi's roommate.

Ji Zi shook her head slightly, and then said: "Not very good... outdated techniques and outdated knowledge combined with outdated test questions."

"Is that so...By the way, Himeko, have you found a job? I've seen you either drawing or going out with a toolbox these days..."

Hearing this, Ji Zi was slightly stunned, and her mind recalled the first sentence she said to Walter and the blond man beside him:

I am Ji Zi, the navigator of the "Starry Sky Train". Thank you for your guidance.

"Looking at it this way, 'navigator' is indeed a very good job..." As if thinking of the adventure stories and life that she longed for, Jizi unconsciously smiled, and then said to her roommate:

"Yes, but... I have signed a confidentiality agreement and cannot disclose it."

"Ah...Okay...I was hoping you could introduce me to someone..."

Ji Zi smiled helplessly upon hearing this, and then said: "If there is nothing else... I will leave first."

"Well~ Goodbye, Jizi~"

"Goodbye~"

After exchanging a few pleasantries with her roommate, Ji Zi quickly left the forest made of steel and concrete and headed towards the road leading to the starry sky.

For her, who has experienced several years of "pioneering", the starry sky above her head is her home.

Driven by this thought, Ji Zi quickly returned to the train. She looked up at the empty ceiling, wondering... when the projection of the void whale could reappear on the top of the observation car.

"Are you here? I have already written the two blueprints for you. They are still on the table."

That familiar voice rang in her ears, and she seemed... not surprised.

Rather than saying "not surprised", it would be more accurate to say that she knew that the "Star Train" in this game was actually a living person. If he didn't speak... she would be surprised.

"I'm here. Thank you, Teacher Wu Xuan."

After responding to her teacher, Jizi walked towards the "power car" with ease and began today's maintenance.

Wu Xuan stared at Ji Zi while she repaired the "engine" and gave her some pointers from time to time.

"This line can actually be connected to the red port, because..."

"Hey, wait a minute. We can't just leave this module like this. You should have something like rosin, right? Light it up and smoke this circuit for a second or two. This will save you the trouble of doing routine maintenance later."

"Look... this place is not just an internal combustion module, it is one of the modules that provides energy for the jump~"

......

With Wu Xuan's scientific explanations and instructions, Ji Zi successfully repaired the contents recorded in the third drawing.

Of course, everything went smoothly. It was already close to midnight. Ji Zi sat on the red sofa and looked at the two drawings in front of her. Then she suddenly asked, "Teacher... where did you stay after you merged with the train?"

Hearing this, Wu Xuan rarely answered Ji Zi immediately, but fell into a brief silence. Then he sighed and said, "In the endless darkness, I can only see the scene inside the carriage. The rest... I can't see anything."

"That is to say... you can't see the changing scenery through the car window?" Ji Zi put down the drawing and asked in surprise.

“I can see it, but I can’t change this darkness.”

Ji Zi fell silent. She felt like...she seemed to have said something wrong.

The girl slowly put down the blueprint in her hand, raised her head to the ceiling and said softly: "Don't worry, at this rate, a month... no, maybe even a week or so will be enough for me to repair the engine."

Wu Xuan did not answer the question directly, but asked in return: "Are you sleepy? Or...are you hungry? The two carriages behind the observation carriage are the accommodation carriages, and the one in front is the dining and kitchen carriage."

Ji Zi was slightly stunned. She didn't expect that her teacher had such a erratic way of thinking. He was talking about business in the last second, and started talking about life in the next second.

Before Ji Zi could react, her body's instinctive reaction responded to what Wu Xuan said before her brain could.

goo—

A strange movement was heard in the carriage. Although Ji Zi had seen many big scenes, she still couldn't withstand this kind of...sudden attack.

The girl's cheeks turned slightly red, and she seemed a little embarrassed. Then she immediately stood up and prepared to walk towards the "kitchen car".

Wu Xuan blinked slightly as he looked at Ji Zi who was about to walk into the kitchen, wondering if Ji Zi... could cook.

The result is obvious, no.

Even though Walter and Danheng were strong-willed, they both couldn't drink the coffee ground by Jizi, and... in his impression, Pam was in charge of the three meals a day of the train crew, and Jizi had never entered the kitchen!

Thinking of this, Wu Xuan took a breath of cold air. He was afraid that Ji Zi had some strange talent that would explode if she entered the kitchen, so he quickly stopped Ji Zi and said:

"It's okay. It's human nature to have a craving for food. Let me do it. Anyway... you don't have any drawings that need my help to deconstruct today."

Wu Xuan had no intention of giving Ji Zi any chance, so he immediately appeared in front of Ji Zi and hurried into the kitchen.

Of course, Wu Xuan can cook by himself by controlling the equipment in the "dining and kitchen compartment", but this solution is not suitable for emergencies such as Ji Zi is about to enter the kitchen.

Ji Zi blinked in confusion. She was not confused because of Wu Xuan's reaction, but because... Wu Xuan was too young.

Although she already had a rough idea of ​​Wu Xuan's age, in her impression, people who could master this level of knowledge should be in their seventies or eighties, at least in their forties or fifties. But when she saw the back figure just now...it seemed that he was only in his twenties or thirties?

"Wu Xuan... Wu Xuan... This name has a flavor of Xianzhou. Could it be that he is the immortal species from Xianzhou?" Ji Zi thought secretly.

"Jizi! You don't have to come in. Just concentrate on studying the blueprints."

Wu Xuan's somewhat hurried voice came from the "kitchen car", and when Ji Zi heard this, she blinked in confusion, and then shook her head in confusion, but she also obediently sat on the sofa and continued to study the drawings in front of her.

She could clearly feel that... Wu Xuan was somewhat resistant to her entering the kitchen for some reason, but even in reality, Pam was also resistant to others entering the "kitchen compartment".

"Maybe... in this game, the teacher is Pam?" Ji Zi couldn't help but make some associations, but... even she herself didn't notice that just a few days of guidance had changed Ji Zi's way of addressing Wu Xuan to "teacher" in her heart.

About fifteen minutes later, a sandwich and a small cup of coffee suddenly appeared in front of Ji Zi, who was looking at the last drawing.

As if she had noticed the sudden appearance of food, Ji Zi raised her head slightly and looked at the young man in front of her, who was not very old, and was stunned for a moment.

The quick glance just now made Ji Zi realize that this teacher seemed very young, and now... when this teacher stood in front of her, she could clearly feel the unique temperament in him.

The man in front of her was dressed in black, as if he had just walked out of the darkness, but he was wearing a pair of white gloves on his hands. In Jizi's opinion, this outfit... was quite similar to that of the "mechanical noble" Mr. Screw Gumm.

The gold-rimmed monocle that Wu Xuan wore on his face added a touch of elegance and mystery to him.

Perhaps it was Ji Zi's illusion, or perhaps it was the power of "development" at work, Ji Zi felt a bit of...ancient aura from Wu Xuan?

No, rather than being quaint, it’s more like a feeling of vicissitudes that comes from having gone through a lot.

Extremely rich knowledge, relatively young face, and a rather vicissitudes of life feeling...all of these make Wu Xuan look more in line with the identity of a "successful young man".

However, Wu Xuan himself was not aware of this, and said to Ji Zi, who was in a daze, in a gentle voice: "Sandwiches and coffee, please."

After saying this, Wu Xuan seemed a little embarrassed, and then said: "Uh... although from a common rational point of view, at this time you should drink milk to help you sleep, rather than coffee to refresh yourself."

As if she had caught some key words, Ji Zi immediately came out of her dazed state, picked up the small cup of coffee in front of her and took a sip.

A bitter feeling instantly swept across her taste buds, followed by a hint of the mellow aroma unique to coffee beans. This feeling instantly made Jizi unable to stop.

"Although... I don't want to admit it, but this skill is indeed better than mine..." Ji Zi thought as she slowly drank her coffee.

When she came to her senses again...the elegant and reliable adult man in front of her had disappeared in front of her, leaving only a still steaming sandwich.

The girl slowly put down the coffee cup in her hand, and she suddenly felt... a little sleepy. But it was just like last time, first she felt sleepy, then gradually fell asleep, and finally woke up from her dream.

Ji Zi didn't want to miss this opportunity to learn how to make better coffee, so she looked up and asked, "Teacher, how do you make such... mellow coffee?"

However... this time the fatigue seemed to come much faster than the last time, or perhaps this was the so-called "fate", Ji Zi's consciousness soon fell into chaos.

When I woke up again...what I saw was the familiar ceiling.

Ji Zi slowly sat up from the bed and sighed softly. Her years of adventurous experience made her not particularly concerned about this sudden change.

After all...it's not like I can't fall asleep again.

"As the old saying goes, 'Good food is never too late', just wait quietly..."

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