Genius Club-Chapter 288 - 10 The Loser

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Should be a trash can robot, right?

Lin Xian stood up and dusted off the dirt on his pants.

That’s when he noticed he was still wearing the heavy spacesuit; no wonder he felt stuffy...He had long since left the high-altitude area, and the temperature in Sky City was probably over 20 degrees. It was the height of summer, and Lin Xian’s clothes were starting to sweat.

So, he began to take off his bulky spacesuit, piece by piece, wriggling out from inside.

As soon as he had removed all his clothes, the [Trash Can Robot] that he had knocked over had propped itself against the ground with its clawed arms, straightened up from its slanted position, rotated its treads, and headed for a small paper ball in front of it:

"Garbage! Garbage! Garbage detected!"

Lin Xian just silently watched it...

Though the robot seemed a bit clumsy in its behavioral logic, it was actually pretty advanced.

At least it could stand up by itself after falling, and accurately recognized the presence of garbage, attesting to its high level of intelligence.

However...

From its somewhat chipped paint, this trash can robot seemed to have seen better days.

Could it be, in Rhine Sky City, the sanitation of the streets was maintained by robots?

That wouldn’t be surprising.

In this City in the Sky, where controlled nuclear fusion technology had been mastered, energy was the least lacking resource. These robots worked like Perpetual Motion Machines, operating 24 hours without pause, more diligent and efficient than humans.

Just like that.

Before Lin Xian’s eyes, the cute, plump trash can robot made its way to the small paper ball.

Extended its right claw.

Squeak—

It precisely clamped onto the paper ball.

Then, with a bang, the... ah, not the fontanel, but the lid of the trash can popped open, the right claw threw the paper ball in, and the lid banged shut again.

The sequence of picking up the trash was thus completed.

Lin Xian chuckled lightly, finding it quite amusing.

After all, there was nothing like this in the world of 2023.

It’s just that this trash can robot was too small, barely bigger than a water cooler bottle and, presumably, not able to hold much trash.

Otherwise, Lin Xian would have considered throwing his recently removed spacesuit into the trash, too bad its capacity really wasn’t sufficient.

Just as Lin Xian decided not to bother with the trash can robot and prepared to look up and admire Zhao Yingjun’s statue—

"Garbage! Garbage! Garbage detected!"

This trash can robot, with its eyes glowing green and emitting mechanical electronic sounds, ran towards Lin Xian.

Hm?

Lin Xian looked behind him.

There wasn’t any trash here... The area around the statue was obviously clean and tidy.

Click.

The robotic claw of the trash can robot clamped onto Lin Xian’s trouser leg, yanking it back:

"Garbage! Garbage! Garbage detected!"

"..."

Lin Xian was speechless:

"This is not garbage; these are my pants."

However.

The trash can robot seemed to lack communication function and continued to tug on Lin Xian’s trouser leg:

"Garbage! Garbage! Garbage detected!"

Lin Xian didn’t have time to play with it; he simply took out a small knife from his parachute pack and cut off the lower half of his trouser leg.

He guessed that maybe the trouser leg was dirty, which was why this silly robot mistook it for garbage.

Bang!

After retracting the trouser leg, the lid on top of the robot popped open, throwing Lin Xian’s trouser leg inside.

Afterward...

Click!

The mechanical claw of its right arm stretched forward, gripping Lin Xian’s ankle tightly, with green light shining from its eyes:

"Garbage! Garbage! Garbage detected!"

"Damn, what’s wrong with you?"

Lin Xian banged on the robot’s dome, frantically.

Had it malfunctioned?

Could it be that the fall just now had caused this old trash can robot to malfunction?

The square was relatively quiet, but when he parachuted down from high altitude, he still saw quite a few pedestrians moving around in the square.

As an outsider and intruder, he preferred to keep out of trouble, which is why he hadn’t wanted to deal with the robot and had even cut off and given his trouser leg to it just now.

But to his surprise, the robot became even more aggressive!

In its eyes... it turned out he was the garbage.

"Let go."

Lin Xian forcibly pried open the mechanical claw on the arm of the trash can robot, then forcefully turned it another direction and gave it a push:

"Go sweep over there."

However...

Lin Xian had just taken two steps away.

The trash can robot whirled its treads on the spot, turned its body around, and fixed its glowing green eyes on Lin Xian again:

"Garbage! Garbage! Garbage detected!"

Click.

The mechanical claw on its right arm latched onto Lin Xian’s ankle once more.

"..."

This idiotic robot, had made Lin Xian’s fondness for the City in the Sky plummet by 97.23%.

He bent down, forcibly picked up the trash can robot.

It was quite heavy, probably around eighty or ninety pounds, close to Chu Anqing’s weight... At the Donghai Chamber of Commerce’s New Year’s banquet earlier this year, the two danced, and there were movements involving lifting, so Lin Xian had a rough idea of Chu Anqing’s weight.

However, this hunk of metal was not as easy to handle as Chu Anqing.

Lin Xian walked forward... to the edge of the platform, and directly threw the trash can robot down.

Bang!!

The silly trash can robot crashed down heavily, its head dented, and the lid popped open and deformed.

Yet even so...

It remained in a state of being overturned, lying prostrate, its treads and mechanical claws flailing, its eyes like two beams of green light gazing straight up at him from the platform:

"Garbage! Garbage! Garbage detected!"

"Go play by yourself..."