Manbao sat by the recently extinguished firepit, her cheeks still flushed when she was startled by the ringing sound in her mind.

She lowered her eyes slightly and asked Keke, "What’s the matter?"

Keke: "Teacher Mo replied to the email."

Actually, Teacher Mo had replied last night, but the host was already asleep, so Keke didn’t force her to wake up.

And this morning, Teacher Mo not only sent another email but also uploaded new "teaching materials" to the classroom.

Manbao sank into her consciousness to check Teacher Mo’s reply.

Teacher Mo had gone to apply for excavation tools for her—two excavation-type robots.

Manbao was shocked and couldn’t help but jump up from the ground; Bai Shan and Daji turned their heads together, "What’s the matter?"

Manbao held her face and sat back, trying hard to keep a straight face, "Nothing."

She said it was nothing, so Daji looked away and continued packing their luggage, while Bai Shan narrowed his eyes.

With her head down, Manbao was excited and wanted to look at the robots, but due to being overly excited, she couldn’t concentrate, and it took her a while to calm down.

When Manbao calmed down and entered her consciousness to see those two cart-like robots, she was stunned, "Are these the robots?" 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Keke had already seen them and said, "Yes, it’s quite impressive that the Alliance could find such retired excavation robots."

But even such robots shouldn’t have been sold to Manbao, let alone given as teaching materials.

Because they have nothing to do with medicine, unlike the simulation robots Zhou Man obtained, these two robots have energy conversion core technology, never sold in such backward civilizations.

So this time, the Alliance negotiated with the library to relax the restrictions on Professor Mo, allowing him to temporarily loan these robots to Zhou Man as teaching materials, but they made it clear they’d have to be returned once the meteors were collected.

But Keke said, "Teacher Mo specifically emphasized that you should use them well, don’t damage them. Such outdated robots are rare, although the Alliance may not care much, they are likely to want them back."

Even though Keke’s tone didn’t change, merely emphasizing a few words without much emotion, Manbao suddenly understood, "Oh, so they can be damaged..."

Manbao began to ponder.

By the time they returned to the edge of the pit, Manbao had figured it out.

Her eyes sparkled as she said to Daji, "Don’t worry, Daji. We’ll be good and stay here, take your time, don’t rush, come back before dark."

Even Daji understood the hidden meaning: don’t rush back, come back as late as possible.

Daji: ...

Bai Shan looked at Manbao again and also nodded to Daji, "Take your time, be safe."

Daji reluctantly agreed, "I know, young master, you guys can go down."

This time, Bai Shan and Manbao didn’t leave food and water above, but took them down, hand in hand, they ran down. When they reached the bottom of the pit and looked up, Daji waved at them before turning to leave.

Once his figure disappeared, Bai Shan pulled Manbao aside and asked, "What’s wrong?"

Manbao excitedly said, "I’ve got two new tools; they can dig for us."

Manbao said proudly, "When the things are brought here, don’t be too surprised."

Bai Shan nodded, "Alright."

He hesitated, not letting go of Manbao’s hand, his eyes scanning the surroundings, wondering if Uncle Zhou would have any objections.

Keke didn’t have any objections; it directly took out the two robots.

Bai Shan saw the two... vehicles? on the ground. He paused, looking at the shovels and chisels around the vehicles in confusion, how will these dig?

It’s difficult to handle them all together.

Manbao had already pulled him forward excitedly.

The vehicles weren’t tall, only reaching Manbao’s chest, with a screen, and didn’t require Manbao to do anything because Teacher Mo had already uploaded pictures and given instructions before sending them over, asking them to dig the stones from the images, so they could be started directly.

It was Manbao’s first time dealing with such robots, but she had experience operating humanoid robots, so she quickly found the switch.

Once she turned it on, the robot moved slightly, rotated in place, quickly scanned the stones from the images, and then moved forward with a click, drilling began under the vehicle, drills from the front, back and sides of the vehicle also started drilling the ground, loosening the sand and stone shortly, then swiftly loading the loosened sand and stones onto the vehicle, transporting them to the side to unload...

Bai Shan’s mouth gaped open; from the moment it started moving, he was surprised, but now he finally came back to his senses, although curiously, he wasn’t too surprised.

After observing for a long time, he asked Manbao, "Why can they move? Surely it’s not something like talismans, right?"

Though he said this, he also had a disbelieving look on his face.

Manbao replied, "Of course not, it’s because of energy."

She tilted her head, thinking, not knowing how to explain, only saying, "It’s something that can make many dead things move, I don’t know much, I don’t know how they’re produced or used, I just know they’re called electricity, energy stones."

The robots diligently went off to dig, so Manbao simply pulled Bai Shan to sit on a rock and chat, "I just know sunlight, wind, and water’s power can all become energy, then used on these strange things."

Bai Shan raised an eyebrow and asked, "Can you see Uncle Zhou’s world?"

Manbao shook her head, "I can’t see it, but whenever they give me things to see, I can see them."

Bai Shan couldn’t resist asking a more detailed question for the first time, "Can Uncle Zhou also not just casually give you things from that world?"

Keke didn’t warn Manbao, but Manbao knew once the conversation reached here, it was violating some rules, yet Keke surprisingly didn’t warn.

Her heart skipped, and she nodded while looking at Bai Shan’s eyes, whispering, "I can’t use things too different from our world, nor can they come to this world."

Bai Shan looked at her and asked, "Can’t you tell anyone else either?"

Manbao nodded repeatedly, looking at him with shimmering eyes.

Bai Shan then reached out to grip her hand tightly, saying, "Rest assured."

Though he didn’t say what she should be assured of, Manbao immediately understood, she smiled brightly and nodded hard.

Keke silently erased this part of the data, elongating some of the host’s previous daily data, for instance, she blinked once, and it was recorded she blinked again, her drinking action was repeated shortly after...

Such ordinary data records are easy to overlook, but once elongated, their conversations during these minutes would be smoothly covered; even if the main system checks, it will only see them operating the robots, then sitting on the rock, hand in hand, laughing silly.