messenger from the wasteland

Chapter 72 Time Can Make People Watch Everything Change

The coming and ending of TL200 seems to be just a small episode, and nothing seems to have been changed or affected in any way.

It's just that in B3068's painting, there is such a dilapidated war robot.Dragging its broken body, it escaped from the war, turned its back on light and hope, and fled into the dark world.

B3068 watched it flee, and there was no way to stop it, because even it itself did not understand whether the direction it was looking at was correct, and whether it could really bring a bright future to this planet.

It just chooses a direction to face like TL200.

The wreckage of TL200 was not disposed of, Chu and B3068 let it lie next to the hut, and B3068 tied its head back with the tape it picked up.

It wants to wait with it until the day when humans return, because they were all created by humans.

Although one of them is war and the other is abandoned expectations, both are things that have been abandoned by human beings.

······
During the first year in the wasteland, weeds grew to the door of the hut, which forced Chu and B3068 to open a stone road to facilitate walking.

And the TL200 lying outside the door seems to be gradually accepted by the weeds. Some weeds grow under it, and some grow between its mechanical joints.

This robot, who was so afraid of life before, was surrounded by life after it was closed.If it is still conscious now, I don't know what kind of mood it will be in.

And in this year, she read a lot of books for the first time. At first, she liked to read the allusions of gods, perhaps because in these allusions there are always references to the birth of human beings or the reasons for human beings and good and evil. She has a special sense of substitution.

However, the books in the ruins are limited after all. After she finished reading the allusions to God, she gradually began to come into contact with some other books.

These books tell about man coming from apes, about a more rational life evolution theory, about more people's thinking, and more knowledge about human society.

These knowledge and viewpoints are strangely familiar to Chu’s eyes. She seemed to have come into contact with and understood these when she was still a human being a long, long time ago.

When reading books, Chu always had a feeling that her memory as a human being was slowly loosening and waking up.

Those memories that were sealed up by her during the almost endless killings in the Apostle Wasteland.

When she reads what is life, what is human, what is thought, what is emotion, she will always have a desire to recall her past and recall the things she experienced in her memory.She seemed to have had these before, especially life and emotion.

But every time she seemed to be thinking about it, there would be an inexplicable throbbing in her heart, and then she couldn't think of anything anymore.

What she didn't know at the beginning was that when she recalled everything, it might be the most painful time for her.

Maybe this is just a way for her subconscious to protect herself, so that she can't remember anything.

B3068 likes to sit by Chu's side, when Chu is reading a book.

Sometimes it will draw pictures, and sometimes it will ask Chu to tell it the stories it has read.

The original voice was deep and hoarse, but it always listened carefully, every word and every word, and recorded it carefully in its own storage file.

It never complains about the bland and short stories it tells at the beginning, it only complains that the time is too short, sometimes it can't tell a few stories, and a day passes.

······
In the wasteland's fifth year, grass has grown over the entire hillside under the hut.

The hut stood in the middle of the grass, and green shoots grew in the gaps between the stone slabs and the soil used to fix the stone slabs.

From a distance, the hut has changed from dark gray to gray and green.

The light green grass leaves are dotted among the gray stone slabs, just like the grassland on the ruins, it has a different kind of heart-warming appearance.

It may be an illusion, the sky has become clear, and the brownish-yellow fog that used to hang over there has become much lighter.

The azure blue sky makes people want to look up, imagining the endless universe outside the sky, imagining that they are drifting in this universe.

The body of the TL200 was almost covered by weeds, even on its shoulders, the muzzle of the rusty machine gun platform had green grass blades shaking.

I can't remember when it started. Some other life seems to have appeared in the grass. I don't know if it is insects or what. I only know that they will sing in the evening, making this silent planet a little more noisy.

The parts of B3068 have been replaced countless times, because there are many "new" parts in the factory, so it looks newer now than when I first met Chu.

She has learned some simple mechanical knowledge for the first time, which allows her to do some simple maintenance for B3068 sometimes, and can also assemble parts with it when necessary.

But every time B3068 maintains and repairs its body, it always sprays steam to dissipate heat.

It is not a good phenomenon that the motherboard is always overheated, but after studying a lot of books at the beginning, I still can't figure out how this overheating phenomenon is caused.

It can only be said that as the culprit, she really lacks self-consciousness.

······
In the countless years in the wasteland, time has changed almost everything.

On the edge of the ruins of the city, the entire wasteland has been covered by weeds. Sitting on the hillside and looking around, you can't see the end of Asakusa at a glance.

In the city, vines and other plants grew between the ruins, and the spreading green covered the ruins.

The sky was clear and clean, and the white clouds floated lazily, as if it had already made people forget its drowsy appearance.

In the river beside the hut, a few pieces of aquatic plants floated on the water surface, undulating with the water waves, and some unknown creatures could be vaguely seen in the water cruising among the stones on the river bed.

Too many things have changed and become completely different from what they used to be.

On this piece of grass, the only thing that has not changed in time is probably the small stone house and the two people living in the stone house.

"Squeak."

In the grass, an insect was lying on the blade of grass, vibrating its wings and making bursts of chirping.

In the stone house, B3068 came out from the door, looking at the world with those green eyes.

It has seen all the changes in this world with its own eyes, from the ruins of nothing to the present.

It has been checking the environment regularly, watching everything gradually get better.

It has been several months since the last test environment, and today should be the time to test again.

Judging from the results of the last time, maybe today will be the last time.

B3068 looked towards the grass, Chuzheng was sitting there looking at it too.

The sun was shining on Chu's body, and the breeze was blowing her black hair.

"Drip."

B3068 seemed to be smiling and waved to Chu, with the never-changing expectation in his green eyes.

(End of this chapter)