Chapter 93 - Lab Buddy

As soon as she opened the door of her lab, her eyes frantically look for him in every direction.

She found him standing in front of a supercomputer looking at the screen. In the morning she has assigned some tasks through her mobile phone when she was at Xion's home. Her every computer is connected to each other, here orange is supervising the work assigned to the computer kept in the company.

"Ohhh! Orange… Thank God you are absolutely fine!" She ran towards him, crouched down and took him in her arms to give a hug, "I'm so sorry, buddy… I know I have to upgrade your software, but I got stuck with something…."

He showed a Smiley emoticon in his eyes, and answered, "NO PROBLEM"

Xiu Mei looked down at him, "Will you forgive me? I promise I'll start upgrading your software today…. No… now… right now. I'll start working on you right now"

A heart shape emoticon appeared in his eyes, as he replied, "YES"

"Yeee….. Thank you love…." She kissed him soundly two times on his head.

Showing a flushed face emoticon he said, "BLUSH…" She chuckles, hearing this cute reply from him and hugged him back, "Orange you are such a cutie pie… Come-on let's work on your up gradation"

She sat down in front of a supercomputer and beside her is a small table on which orange is standing like an obedient child. She pulled out multiple wires from the side drawer and connects one end to the computer while the other end is connected to Orange.

Taking a deep breath she looked at Orange, "Are you Ready, buddy?"

He showed thumbs up emoticon in his eyes, "GO AHEAD"

Xiu Mei smiled at him and starts working on her computer sincerely. As expected of her nature, when it comes to working, she forgets about anything else around her. She even forgets that a moment ago she was feeling sad, she fought with someone, or whatever it may be…. When it comes to working on her inventions, this entire world is on one side and her work on the other.

Right now she will only prioritize updating Orange's software.

'Orange' is a 2 feet droid developed by her. She started working on it 5 years back as a pet project with the intention of creating a trustworthy assistant for her. As all of her software and inventions are top secret until she decides to launch them in the market, therefore she cannot trust appointing a human to be his lab assistant.

When Orange came into actual shape, she instantly falls in love on his cute look and decided to make him his lab buddy.

His metal body is painted with orange color, while his joints like, knee, elbow, shoulder, wrist, neck, ears(that acts as an antenna), feet and palm are colored in white. His face looks like a football covered with a helmet and to communicate with others he uses small words. To express feelings he makes use of emoticons that flashes in his shining blue eyes.

To facilitate him in walking, Xiu Mei has installed eight rubber rollers under his foot. She has pre-programmed him to recharge his battery every 24 hours. In her absence, he is the one who manages the assigned work as per the instructions programmed in him. If there is anything beyond his programmed instructions he will immediately send an emergency text demanding her attention.

For her, he is everything, his lab assistant, a friend, and a family with whom she shares her deepest sorrows when nobody is there to listen to her.

Not all of her inventions are meant to be launched publically in the market, almost 60% of her work goes in her personal collection, to be used later if the need arises. Orange is her best invention that belongs to her personal collection. He is the most advanced droid that ever exists, even Xion is not aware of his existence.

Before the arrival of Feng Jianyu and Feng Junjie, he was free to roam around in the library and her bedroom, but later, to avoid him being caught in someone's eyes, Xiu Mei confined him to her lab until Feng Brothers are gone.

Xiu Mei received a notification on her phone, she checked the message and instructed the mini droid standing beside her, "Orange… Computer C2 has completed the assigned task, direct him to save a copy and repeat the process on C6 and C5. Later ask him to prepare a 3D model of the prototype on the printer."

"COPY THAT…" After three minutes he replied back, "WORK ASSIGNED…"

"Thanks, buddy… High five…" She raised her palm towards him for a high five. Orange showed a smiley with sunglasses emoticon as he lightly patted her palm.

Xiu Mei goes serious and asked him, "Orange, is there any news on INFINITY SOFTWARE? We have only 2 months left to execute our master plan…."