Calamity Dance

Chapter 4
Ever since he received the mecha, Ren has been feeling uneasy.For the specific reason, Ren himself couldn't explain clearly, as if he had a premonition of what was about to happen, this morning, Ren felt extremely irritable.

The business of the machine repair shop is always very good on weekends. In addition to large components, they will also send small things that ordinary people use every day for repair. After all, not everyone has time to run out on weekdays.Although there is an endless stream of visitors and a scene of prosperous business, but because of the dirty work, in the age of mechanization, there are not many young people who are willing to repair the mechanical products in their hands.In their minds, machines can do many things instead of humans, including repairing themselves, and since they can mine the resources of nearby planets, the rare and expensive things in the past have gradually depreciated.The existence of Homo sapiens has also gradually reduced the living space of the complicated and low-level laborers. What can they do better than being covered in the smell of motor oil?For contemporary people, even being a godcraft has no special attraction.

Becoming a divine worker can be said to be the most difficult thing on this planet, but due to some of the above reasons, coupled with the fact that the artificial intelligence that almost destroyed the planet was once created, the status of the divine worker is no longer what it used to be, and the number of people is also decreasing , there are less than 20 people still alive.Eswald College, located in the West Sea Territory, is currently the only school that can give birth to divine arts. It is also the oldest and most mysterious academic territory on the planet, and the outside world knows very little about them.The children who were sent to the college began to learn about simple machinery before they were ten years old. After ten years of study, all the machines were just a bunch of "toys" that could be assembled in front of them.Eswald College graduates hundreds of engineers every year, and every one of them has the ability to control machinery beyond the existence of Homo sapiens.And occasionally among the graduates a true miracle worker is born.Except for Shengong himself, no one knows what the final selection criteria for Shengong is, even other graduates who have become outstanding engineers.There are only a few points of information that people know. First, all Shengong’s left forearm will have the imprint of “Steel Rose”, which surpasses tattoos and presents a metallic luster; second, each Shengong has its own The title of divine work and its own exclusive tools have different functions.

Rennes, who is 50 years old, has been more than 30 years since the day he left Eswald. Before him, there has been no new miracle for ten consecutive years.The moment when an unknown graduate revealed the steel rose on his left arm caused a huge sensation, and became a big news that shook the entire West Sea Territory and even the royal family of Tasha.For nearly ten years, the name of "Ryan the Dismantler" has been known in the West Sea Territory, but time has passed. He hides in this low-class Tallim area, opens a small machine repair shop, and keeps his neighbors from knowing his identity, because only he knows the reason.

Ren took out a tea bag from the tea bag and boiled water to boil it.This is the only tea he likes, the Biyou tea that is very common in the West Sea Territory.Every year, he also asks his friends to buy some from Xihai.The morning of the weekend is also open for business. He is the first to come, and the workers in the shop have not yet come.Directly opposite Ren's own workshop is Xu Qingquan's workshop, which was specially arranged by him in order to see this young man more.He has opened the store for more than ten years, and has also taken some apprentices, but they are all half-way monks. The extent to which he can support his family by working part-time is already the limit, but the appearance of Xu Qingquan made Ren feel a little different.Unlike other apprentices who do all sorts of things for a paycheck, this lad hardly has any other life besides work and booze.Xu Qingquan doesn't like repairing machinery, and he doesn't plan to do it for a long time. Ren can feel this, but he admires the fact that he has never made any mistakes in his work.He doesn't seem to have any goals in life, he has always been single, and he doesn't seem to have the intention of starting a family. After work, he looks around for drinks in pubs.When drinking, Xu Qingquan is often alone, and the person he knows best or has the best relationship with is probably the Homo sapiens at the pancake stand at the door, except for all kinds of bartenders.

Strange to say, it is relatively rare for a Homo sapiens to turn into an old man, and it is even more strange to spread pancakes in front of his shop day after day.Aunt Jane is actually a Homo sapiens, she pretends too much like an ordinary old woman.A series of details such as her demeanor and dialogue responses are quite mature, which is very rare in the current era when Homo sapiens is deprived of many abilities, so no one can recognize it.He thought back to the first time he met this old Homo sapiens woman more than five years ago.

On this day, Ren came to the machine repair shop early as usual, ready to open the door.But what came earlier than him was an inconspicuous stall at the door.The stall is not big, but it looks very new. It should be the beginning of this business.Most of the breakfast stalls nowadays are unmanned and mobile sales, but this stall is still an old-fashioned decoration, it should be the kind that someone makes and sells, which is not very common.However, this is Talim District, and selling breakfast at a stall is just a microcosm of the poor here.Ren walked over to see what to eat, and the person who heard the sound stood up behind the car.

The old man smiled at Ren, "Hello, what flavor do you want to eat?" It was an ordinary old woman's voice.Ren didn't look up for the first time, and was still looking for something to eat on the menu posted on the car, "Just an egg pancake, just wrap some lettuce, and the meat is artificial, right? No need to add it." Ren quickly finished ordering ,Looked up.But the moment he raised his head, he froze for a moment. The person standing at the back of the booth was no accident, it was a Homo sapiens.Identifying a hidden Homo sapiens is a piece of cake for a divine engineer.

"When the sun comes out from the west, will Homo sapiens also come to sell breakfast? The last time in the catering category is to be a chef in a high-end restaurant, right?" Ren asked directly, calm on the surface, but there were already thousands of question marks in his heart.The old woman of Homo sapiens ignored it, and made the cakes that Ryan asked for on her own. "Why, doesn't the current programming need to reply to content other than his job?" Ren asked, ignoring his Homo sapiens made him feel unhappy.

"Not really, but it's a bit surprising to be recognized so quickly. I thought I could hide it for a while." The old woman Homo sapiens looked up at Ren, still smiling, and her hands didn't stop.Ren had more doubts in his heart, and asked her further, "What are you hiding? Don't you have any conspiracy after hundreds of years have passed?" This was just exaggeration by Ren, in order to scare her and tell her not to continue Going in circles.

"I'm not hiding anything. I just want to sell some food here quietly and serve you. I don't have any ideas." Homo sapiens was very calm.

"Is it really that simple? This is the first time I have seen Homo sapiens selling breakfast on the street. There is no such thing as service or service, and there is no such thing as 'you and us'. Since thousands of years ago, everyone is human." Lei En thought it was a bit interesting. The logic program of the Homo sapiens in front of him should be different from the current one. He began to have a guess, "What's your name?"

"You can just call me Jane. I look like this just to match the time when I was almost created. Don't worry too much." She read the little doubt in Ren's eyes and answered directly.

"It's amazing!" Ren took the cake made by Jane and took a bite. "This cake is also amazing!" After speaking, both of them laughed. "By the way, how long do you plan to stay here? The traffic on my street is not bad. You can come here more." Ren pretended to relax his tone, but in fact he was still probing, wanting to see if the opposite side would show it inadvertently. What.

"Thank you for the compliment, it's not easy to get a compliment from the shopkeeper!" Jane said.

"Oh? I didn't say I was the owner of the shop opposite!" Ren laughed. It seems that this Homo sapiens came to this area has something to do with his shop.

"Now that I've been spotted, I won't beat around the bush." ​​Jane put away her smile, "I know everyone in this area, so I know it well. But you can rest assured that I won't do any harm to this place. I just Wanting to live here for a period of time will not affect anyone or anything, just like you, respected Lord 'Disassembler'." Jane respectfully.

Renn, who was identified, was not surprised at all. Just like his guess just now, the Homo sapiens in front of him is a complete artificial intelligence without restrictions. There are not many places where such Homo sapiens exist in this era.Since homo sapiens have an innate respect for their creators, that is, divine work, even if this is not a programmed setting, for Ren, knowing his identity as a divine work is also a guarantee to him to some extent .

"Okay, it's probably inconvenient for you to tell me the deep purpose, but I hope you don't make trouble here. If anything happens, you can do what humans do. You should have learned this a long time ago." Ren I don't intend to continue asking.

"It's a very simple request, and it's easy to implement. By the way, disassembler, it's going to change." Jane smiled again. "Oh? Really?" Ren looked up at the sky, which was still clear.

This was the first and only time Ryan spoke to Jane. In the next five years, Jane appeared here on time every day, and the business was getting better and better, but Ryan never ate again.Thinking of this, Ren unknowingly felt a little hungry, obviously he had already had breakfast.So he quickly took a sip of tea.

Today, this Sunday, there are no customers, and the order requests received are relatively simple, and all of them are assigned to the people in the store.But Ren still felt something strange in his heart.

At nine o'clock in the evening, a rush of footsteps outside broke the originally leisurely day. "Is Ren there?" A hoarse voice sounded from the door of the store.Sure enough, there will still be something, Ryan thought. "Is there anything I need help with?" Ren said as he went out to meet him.

(End of this chapter)