Lu Wanqing stepped out of the hovercar and couldn't help but feel happy as she looked at Lanlan's beaming smile. She bent down and scooped the little one into her arms.
"Yes, does Lanlan miss Mommy?" Lu Wanqing asked gently, holding the child.
"Yes!" Little Mu Lan nodded vigorously without a second thought.
Lu Wanqing smiled, leaned down, and kissed the child's cheek. "Mmm, Mommy misses Lanlan too."
Little Mu Lan looked behind curiously. "Mommy, where are Uncle Wei and Sister Cuicui?"
Lu Wanqing hadn't picked up the child from kindergarten today because she had been with Cuicui. However, Mu Sijie had explained to Little Mu Lan when he picked him up earlier, so Mu Lan knew that Wei Xingzhou and Cuicui had visited.
"They've gone back. Cuicui has school tomorrow," Lu Wanqing said with a smile.
"Does Lanlan like Sister Cuicui?" Lu Wanqing couldn't help but ask.
Mu Lan thought for a moment, then shook his head slightly. "I don't know."
He hadn't spent time alone with Sister Cuicui and didn't know if he liked her.
"But Sister Cuicui is very beautiful," Mu Lan added immediately.
Lu Wanqing smiled and nodded. "Yes, Cuicui is very beautiful."
Entering the house, Lu Wanqing bent down and set Little Mu Lan down.
Lu Wanqing felt a pang of reluctance that Little Cuicui had left so soon.
However, she quickly thought of mechs. After spending a day together, she seemed to have an idea in her mind of what kind of mech she should design for Little Cuicui – it had to be beautiful!
What was the most beautiful thing in the world?
Beautiful and proud, a phoenix perhaps?
"I have some inspiration, I'll go draw a picture first," Lu Wanqing said, turning to Mu Sijie.
Mu Sijie looked at Lu Wanqing in surprise. "So soon? Aren't you going to rest for a bit?"
Lu Wanqing was in a great mood and shook her head. "No need, I have inspiration right now and need to finish the blueprint quickly."
Mu Sijie knew that inspiration was the most important thing, so he nodded. "Alright."
Lu Wanqing immediately went upstairs to draw the design. Little Mu Lan looked at his father, then at his mother going upstairs. After thinking, he quickly ran after his mother.
Mu Sijie thought for a moment, drank a glass of water, and then quickly went upstairs as well.
The process of designing a super 3s mech was also very attractive to him, and he wanted to see it!
So, while Lu Wanqing was drawing the design, she was accompanied by two little shadows, the older Mu Sijie and the younger Mu Lan. The man and the boy watched her intently, their eyes full of anticipation.
Lu Wanqing was a little unaccustomed to it at first, but seeing Little Mu Lan's expectant gaze, her discomfort quickly disappeared.
She created a new drawing sheet, paused, and thought. The shape of a phoenix quickly formed in her mind.
Once Lu Wanqing had a clear idea, she began to sketch the phoenix's form.
With just a few quick strokes, Mu Sijie and Mu Lan were stunned. Was she drawing a new blueprint?
"I want to draw a phoenix," Lu Wanqing explained as she drew.
"Seeing Cuicui today gave me inspiration. I feel that designing a mech, a phoenix mech for Cuicui, would be appropriate," Lu Wanqing said, a gentle curve at the corner of her lips.
Mu Lan's eyes widened. "Mommy is going to make a mech for Sister Cuicui too?"
Lu Wanqing finished a stroke and looked up at Little Mu Lan. She couldn't help but reach out, ruffle his hair, and say with a smile, "Yes, Mommy plans to make a mech for each of you five children."
"Yours is a Bai Ze."
"Cuicui's is a phoenix."
Mu Lan blinked curiously. "Mommy, what is a phoenix?"
Lu Wanqing lowered her head and began to sketch the phoenix's details, explaining as she went, "The phoenix is also a divine beast from the myths and legends of ancient Earth China. It is noble, beautiful, and powerful."
"Wow~" Little Mu Lan's eyes lit up with adoration.
Lu Wanqing looked up at Mu Lan and smiled. "The Bai Ze I designed for you is also very powerful. The Bai Ze is a gentle and intelligent divine beast. In legends, it knows everything in the world, it's super smart!"
"Mhm, mhm!" Mu Lan nodded quickly.
Lu Wanqing explained a few things to Little Mu Lan and soon returned to drawing the phoenix design.
Mu Sijie also quietly opened his holographic computer and searched for pictures of the ancient Earth phoenix divine beast online. He actually found some.
Little Mu Lan saw his father searching and immediately leaned over to look. He saw it and was very curious. "Is it a birdy?"
Mu Sijie looked at the explanation beside him, confirmed he had searched for the phoenix, and then looked at Lu Wanqing's rough sketch. He felt that the phoenix he had searched for was correct, and it was similar to what Lu Wanqing was drawing.
"Yes, it should be," Mu Sijie nodded.
"Wow~" Little Mu Lan was envious again. It's a birdy, something that can fly in the sky, and can be shot down and made into delicious food!
Little Mu Lan suddenly remembered a while ago on the desolate planet when Mommy used a bow and arrow to hunt, catching many birdies and making delicious food. Every meal was different and very tasty. The little one couldn't help but swallow.
Mu Sijie heard the swallowing sound and couldn't help but turn to look at Mu Lan. As he looked, he saw his son staring intently at the phoenix picture, his face clearly showing – Delicious!
"Mommy, can a phoenix be eaten?" The next moment, Little Mu Lan looked up at his mother and asked curiously.
Lu Wanqing was stunned for a moment, then shook her head seriously. "No."
Lu Wanqing thought for a moment, then looked into Lanlan's eyes and corrected him earnestly. "Lanlan, phoenixes cannot be eaten. Phoenixes are divine beasts, symbols of auspiciousness. Legend has it that seeing one brings happiness, good fortune, and a fulfilling life!"
Little Mu Lan's eyes lit up again. He looked up in admiration. "Wow, the phoenix is so powerful!"
"Does the phoenix really exist?" Mu Sijie also asked curiously.
Lu Wanqing paused slightly, then shook her head. "I don't know. In my time, both phoenixes and Bai Ze were just mythical creatures. No one had ever truly seen them."
Lu Wanqing said a few words and quickly buried her head in sketching the phoenix's form again. She saw Mu Sijie's actions of searching and, after thinking, opened her own holographic computer to search for phoenix pictures.
As she searched, her eyes lit up, and she began to design based on the pictures.
With a reference, drawing the design became much easier.
"Designing a mech as a phoenix, is that a bit inconvenient?" Mu Sijie looked at Lu Wanqing's drawing, hesitated for a long time, and couldn't help but ask.
Before Lu Wanqing, mechs in the interstellar era were generally humanoid. Last time, when Lu Wanqing said she would design a Bai Ze-shaped mech for Lanlan, he was shocked. And now a phoenix?
A Bai Ze, at least, was terrestrial. What about a phoenix?
A phoenix flies in the sky. Can it also be designed as a mech?
"Inconvenient?" Lu Wanqing was also stunned by the question. She looked up at Mu Sijie, bewildered.
Lu Wanqing thought for a moment, then said, "Aren't there many spaceships in the interstellar era? And many vehicles that can fly."
"I think the flying technology of this era is quite mature. It wouldn't be impossible to adapt some of it, would it?"