messenger from the wasteland

Chapter 67 Looking at it this way, I really escaped a catastrophe
"drop."

On the floor, with the sound of electronic audio, the light in B3068's eyes began to light up.

It woke up, but didn't dare to move, because it felt that Chu was still holding it behind his back.

Lowering his head, those white hands were still around its waist.

It didn't want to wake Chu, but on those hands, B3068 felt a hint of danger besides feeling that its motherboard was about to overheat again.

This is an intuition, derived from the consciousness of survival.

Those hands have disassembled the robot with bare hands. If Chu did something unconsciously in his sleep, his small body would not be able to bear it.

"Here."

B3068 slowly raised one of his hands, and placed his palm on the back of Chu's hand with a kind of bomb-disposaling caution, gently trying to take Chu's hand away.

"Ah."

Maybe he felt something, Chu babbled, and pressed his body against B3068's back, holding his palms tighter.

Yes, it's just a little tighter, but the iron plate around B3068's waist has already made a harsh creaking sound, and it's sunken visible to the naked eye.

"Drip drip!"

If B3068 had tears, it would have been so frightened that it was about to cry by now. It had a feeling that it was about to bid farewell to this world today.

Fortunately, after a few minutes, Chu still woke up from B3068's struggle.

Although when she woke up, the two fixed parts on B3068's waist had basically been scrapped.

"sorry."

On the grass in front of the hut, Chu sat on the ground, apologizing slightly to B3068.

"Drip."

B3068 quickly waved his hands, indicating that he didn't care, but today he had to go to that robot factory again, at least to replace the two fixed parts on his waist.

And the matter of taking care of the weeds was handed over to Chu, but in fact it was just a little watering at regular intervals.

B3068 stood up, waved at Chu and limped towards the city.

Chu watched it leave, then turned to look at the grass in front of him with a solemn expression.

As an apology, she will take good care of these weeds.

But it might be that she was too serious, and there was black air all over her body.

In front of Chu, who was burdened with darkness, the weeds bent over and started their dark day.

If they are conscious, they should miss B3068.

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In the factory, B3068 put two brand new fixed parts on his waist.

There were still countless bodies of compatriots standing beside it, and it originally wanted to try to activate them again, but later it discovered that these compatriots were a little different from it.

They have not been programmed, which means that they are just pure shells, or even model machines.

Also, in the last days when humanity has not given up hope, any EDR robot that can be used has been put into use.

The rest should be only semi-finished products that had not been manufactured when the factory shut down.

After the parts were installed, B3068 went to the top floor of the factory.

There it saw a human skeleton.

That should be the man it saw in the factory log, the maker of the war droids, the builder of the EDR droids, who dedicated his life to machines.

From wanting to change the war at the very beginning, to wanting to end the war, to repentance, to atonement.He seems to have spent his whole life doing just one wrong thing.

But was he really wrong, or was he the only one who was wrong?
In his final record, he sat on the top floor of the factory and said that he was not going to leave and wanted to stay and atone for his mother.

At least, he understood his mistake.

He has been sitting here, facing the distance of the ruins, facing the direction of the sky, gazing at the land that gave birth to him, either affectionately or full of guilt.

B3068 looked at the skeleton and sat down.

This man may be said to be its father, who made it so that it could have the opportunity to open its eyes and see the world clearly.

It accompanies the skeleton to look towards the ruins, towards the last planet the man saw.

After a long time, B3068 sent an audio to the skeleton.

"Didi, Didi, Didi..."

(I will let humans, come back...)
This is the heaviest promise it can give to its father.

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next to the hut.

"Stare—" Chu still stared at the grass covered in blackness.

The blades of the weeds were bent lower.

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On the way back, B3068 passed a department store, thinking of looking for something useful, B3068 went in.

This is the first time it has entered a department store. In the past, it was just looking for the environment. This kind of behavior of robbing houses is completely a beginner.

The department store is different from the small street shops it has been to before. This kind of store used to be a bustling shopping center, and the multi-storey buildings are full of different products, although these products have already been displayed here. too long.

There are different shops on both sides, and there is a small square in the center. In the center of the square is a lamp post that has long stopped working.

B3068 wandered around the store for a while, but it couldn't figure out which ones were useful and which ones weren't.

In the end, it took an automatic umbrella. Of course, it didn't know it was an umbrella. It just thought this little thing that opened and closed automatically was fun.

Before leaving, B3068 noticed many small boxes hanging on the walls of the mall.

These small boxes are connected with many wires, and according to B3068's perception, there seems to be energy stored there.

It can sense energy, which is one of the few functions it has besides detecting the environment.

Stretching out his hand in doubt, B3068 pressed a button on a small box.

The next moment, in the center of the square, the lamppost that should have been abandoned actually started spinning.

It may be that it has not been used for a long time, and the lights above dimmed for a while, but then, colorful lights were emitted from the lampposts, and the lights illuminated colorful circular patterns that rotated and moved on the walls and floors of the shopping mall, as if In an instant, the mall became dreamy.

"Snapped."

The sudden change made B3068 turn off the button in fright, and the light dimmed.

But after a while, it couldn't help opening it again.

The colored lights turned on again, turning in its eyes.

"drop······"

B3068 looked a little obsessed, it had never seen such a light, it was like a scene in a dream.

But it seemed to think of something, and without looking at it for too long, it closed the button again.

It felt that the energy stored in that box was limited, not enough to support such a light for too long.This should be the reserve energy that humans stay here, and it will not be regenerated.

However, it looked at the small boxes on the wall of the mall and had an idea.

Perhaps, it can give Chu a surprise.

(A reader mentioned the issue of the book friend group, which is included in the introduction. One group is a group of readers with old books, and the second group is a group of new books, with fewer people. The third group was accidentally built. You can No laughing or crying.)
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