There was no child who didn't like to play. Xiao Yuan visibly brightened at his words and hurriedly asked, "Are you coming with us?"
"I am. You can play while I take care of something. I'll come back for you when I'm done," Xu Huo said.
Xiao Yuan nodded obediently. "I'll go tell Tan Qi."
"I want to go too." The painted woman quickly held up the Communicator.
"Don't you like it here?" Xu Huo asked as he headed for the gate.
"I do, but if you're all going out to play, I want to go too," the painted woman said. "Staying here all the time is so boring. The outside must be much more fun."
"Xiao Yuan and the others are leaving to go to school," Xu Huo said. "Do you want more lessons?"
The painted woman's task had been to learn some common knowledge and the etiquette of the Sub-district, but she wasn't particularly interested in any of it. Even people had an innate free-spirited nature, so how could anyone expect an item to fall in love with studying?
She frowned and asked hesitantly, "Can't they study while I go play?"
Xu Huo glanced back at her. "That's a nice idea... But if you want to go play, you can come with me next time."
The painted woman beamed and nodded repeatedly.
Xu Huo wasn't sure whether the scene he'd seen really represented the future, and he didn't understand the principles behind foreseeing the future very well. All he could do was prepare in advance. Even when something was unavoidable, being prepared was different from being unprepared.
But "foreseeing the future" seemed to involve a kind of cause-and-effect relationship. Take Jiang Jiang, whom he'd encountered in District 009. She had foreseen that he would kill her in District