After dealing with the man, Bai Youyou ignored the cheering children beside her, turned around, and walked away. She passed straight through the pipe network that blocked the light, walked into a narrow alley, and kicked away a few cans that rolled to her feet.
At the end of this alley stood a simple shack, built from abandoned iron sheets, connected with a simple mortise and tenon structure and tied with coarse hemp rope. The door was also a rusty piece of iron, and a stale odor wafted out from the slightly ajar gap.
She entered the house, her eyes adjusting to the dark, and the scene within gradually became clear.
The room was sparsely furnished, like an empty tent. In the center sat a female mechanical figure on a chair, her head drooping. The humanoid body wore an old robe, and her head was replaced by an old television set.
Sensing someone approaching, the screen of the old TV lit up, a steady line in the middle fluctuating to form an anthropomorphic expression '(*^—^*)'.
