Chapter 173

When Elara returned, she noticed that No.17 had returned to his water chamber of his own volition. Relief crossed her face, and she poured some nutritional fluid into his chamber. "Are you feeling sleepy?" No.17 nodded as he sank to the bottom of the chamber to rest. A few minutes after Elara walked over to her desk, he heard her gasp aloud. Her voice sounded panicked when she exclaimed, "Why is it broken? I haven't submitted the report yet!" As guilt festered in his heart, No.17 closed his eyes and tried to force himself to fall asleep. Elara clutched her hair and silently cursed at her unfortunate situation. She noticed that parts of the computer were wet, as if someone had poured water on it. With an educated guess, she was able to guess what had happened while she was away. Elara made her way over to the water chamber and scooped up No.17, who was still desperately pretending to be asleep. She shook his head and scolded, "What did you do to my computer?" At first, No. 17 was