The mechanic.

In the scorching sun, a large expanse of land along a gently rolling riverside clearing is covered in layers of house-like scrap metal and plastic.Rust spread like a virus on old cars, old aircraft engines, and large alloy plates that don't know what to do with them.A strong smell of rust permeates the air.

The "gate" of the garbage disposal plant is a crumbling giant crane swallowed by thick rust, and sitting next to it is a scrapped old mech at least 80 years ago.Adam raised his head and looked at the "tall buildings" piled up with waste, his eyes were full of admiring surprise.

Zhang Xun didn't tell Adam, and he was no stranger to this place.He used to sneak here as a kid, away from the other "human noises" that irritated him.There is everything here that excites and amazes him, and from the innumerable parts he can scour for a robot or other small machine.But since he started the seance project, he has no time to set foot here again.

If Sistine knew that the hard work he thought was not so hard for Zhang Xun and Adam, it would actually excite him a little bit. I don’t know if he would round his eyes that are always pretending to be squinted, and be angry. I was speechless.

"This is a T439 mecha, which is no longer seen in the ordinary world." Adam said, walking towards the huge mecha sitting quietly under the hot sun, stretching out his left hand to caress the alloy plate covered with thick rust , looking up at the silent square head that blocks the daylight.There was a huge hole in the cockpit, and it is not known whether the pilot survived.

Zhang Xun led Adam around the "high-rise buildings" piled up with waste, and walked towards a crooked small house that seemed to be spliced ​​out of plastic plates and steel plates. It was the administrator's residence.The last time he came, the administrator was still the old man Roy he was familiar with, but after so many years, he probably has changed.There are a lot of beer bottles piled up next to the hut, and a lot of clothes are casually hung on the clothes rack on the other side, and the big floral boxer briefs flutter in the wind like a flag.There was even a bonfire at the door, with a barbecue grill made of scraps, and a piece of beef remained on it, which now attracted a lot of buzzing flies.

Zhang Xun knocked on the door, but there was no response.He knocked again, and finally heard the clink of beer bottles and a rude expletive from within.Immediately afterwards, the door was pulled open suddenly, and a man in a shabby fluffy nightgown with disheveled hair like a bird's nest leaned against the door frame, obviously just waking up.What is more striking is that the right half of his face is machine-made from the cheek to the forehead, and the handwork is a bit rough, and the neglected metal is slightly rusted like the waste outside.A mechanical prosthetic eye is also the most basic model, as if a huge red monitor is staring at you viciously.

Probably an ex-soldier with a badly wounded face or head so it was replaced with a mechanical.Just looking at this rough technique, it must not be the work of the lab...

The visitor asked in a bad temper, "Why?"

Zhang Xun was almost suffocated by the smell of alcohol on his face, but he managed to maintain his composure, and stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, I am Zhang Xun, a mechanic, and I was ordered to bring Adam here to help for a while."

The man didn't reach out his hand at all, so Zhang Xun could only withdraw his hand in embarrassment... The other party suddenly said, "It seems that a messenger came and knocked on the door for a long time, I thought I was dreaming." He finished speaking , and squinted his eyes to look around Zhang Xun, and then his eyes fell on Adam in the distance, "So how come the two mechanics have time to come to a garbage dump like ours?"

Zhang Xun was stunned, the other party didn't seem to know Adam.

The strong smell of smoke and alcohol wafting from the house made him wonder if this man didn't even know about the seance plan?But judging by his age, he should have been a soldier in the past few years, so you probably don't know?

Adam was very interested and generally looked at the strange and scruffy man with a smile.

"Uh, this is not a mechanic, but Adam."

"Oh, I don't have Eve here." The man yawned.

Zhang Xun had no choice but to continue to explain, "He is the result of the Shenshen project. Eden's North American server is still being domesticated."

The man's eyes widened slightly when he heard the words "Sentence Plan", and he looked at Adam again.But it was only this reaction. He shrugged and said, "What do you want me to say? For a robot, he looks quite human?"

Zhang Xun had never met a person with such a character, so he was speechless for a while, and after holding back for a while, he said, "Are you the administrator here?"

"If not, why would I live here." The other party yawned lazily.

"Captain Sistine ordered Adam to work here for a period of time. I hope you can arrange his work content." Zhang Xun straightened his neck, and his tone became more serious and stiff.

"Work? What kind of work is there here. Go find your own place to pass the time. I'm going back to sleep." The administrator, who still hadn't introduced himself, slammed the door shut.

Zhang Xun stared, unable to believe that the door was really closed.what's the situation?Is the garbage disposal plant really left unattended now?

"His interpersonal skills don't seem to be very good. I don't think he has many friends." Adam analyzed seriously.

"..." Zhang Xun frowned, and knocked on the door more vigorously.After a while, the man slammed the door open again, and pointed a finger at Zhang Xun's nose viciously, "If you keep making noise, I'll pull you in to sleep together!"

Zhang Xun hadn't heard of this kind of threat before, and his face turned red all of a sudden, "If you are an administrator, you should carry out the orders of your superiors!"

"Superior? Who is the superior?" The other party said, and looked Zhang Xun playfully up and down, "You?"

"Whether it's me or Captain Sistine, it's your superior! Captain Sistine may come to supervise Adam's work at any time, if you can't..."

"Okay, okay! Your ears are going to be cocooned!" The man muttered, took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket, put it in his mouth, and strode out, passing by Zhang Xun and Adam.After taking two steps, he stopped and looked at the two of them, "What are you doing in a daze, come here."

Adam felt as if he had come to some alien planet abandoned by all civilizations, full of rust and dust everywhere.They walked to a "hill". The rust and dust on this mountain were obviously much less than other places, and even a lot of shiny metal reflections could be seen.At first glance, there are propellers, ship engines, antique stereos, outdated refrigerators, etc...

What kind of mess did those hunters bring back?What would make them think it's a good idea to bring back a broken refrigerator?Zhang Xun stared in disbelief, and decided to have a good talk with the group leader, Comrade James, afterwards.

"This mountain has not been registered yet." The administrator mumbled, smoking a cigarette, and stuffed a large book as thick as Leo Tolstoy's anthology into Zhang Xun's hand, "You just have to write one by one. It’s enough to classify and record the files here. Ah, if you have time, move them to the division they should belong to.” As he spoke, he stuffed an old, yellowed map with holes burned by smoke into Zhang Xun’s hand. "

The administrator who had completed the task generally asked, "Is there any other problem? No problem, I'm going back to sleep."

"I have a question." Zhang Xun sighed, raised his head and asked, "What's your name?"

"Diego." The administrator said, and suddenly laughed at himself, "but most people call me Dick." (Note, Dick = jerk)

Zhang Xun thought to himself: Dick is indeed a more suitable name.

After the administrator left, Zhang Xun turned around and saw Adam squatting in front of the hill, rummaging through something, making clanking noises.Zhang Xun leaned over and saw Adam picking out a yellow object.

It was a pendant necklace, a classic box necklace rarely seen in the ordinary world.Metal vines intertwined on the oval box, with a ruby ​​embedded in the middle.Adam opened it and found that there was a strand of hair inside...

Zhang Xun's first reaction was to take a few steps back, "Throw it away, dirty."

Adam turned to look at him and said with interest, "Do you know what this is?"

"Necklace, but why is there hair in it..." Zhang Xun showed a disgusted expression.

"In the Middle Ages, the story of a knight falling in love with an aristocratic lady was popular. Because the knight often went out to fight and duel with others, his life was in danger at any time. So the ladies who missed him cut off their lover's hair and put it in their own necklaces. Then cut off your own hair and put it in another necklace to give to your lover. This way they will never have to separate." Adam said, raising the necklace in his hand, "It seems that this is a token of love from someone in the ordinary world. "

"Why was the token of love lost? It must be because her lover saw her standing by the bed with scissors in the middle of the night, it was too scary..." Zhang Xun complained, then stopped paying attention, and opened the thick record book , frowning and shaking his head while watching, obviously dissatisfied with the chaotic recording situation inside.

He didn't see Adam quietly put the necklace in his trouser pocket.

"We need to classify the items according to their type, size, material, and degree of damage, and we will also note their possible future uses..." Zhang Xun was watching, and Adam walked to him and said, "I have scanned and can start recording gone."

Zhang Xun raised his eyebrows, "Completed the scan?"

"Can I fill it out? I want to practice my fingers." Adam's eyes fell on the thick notebook.

Adam's current writing speed is very close to the average writing speed. He took the notebook and pen, found a reversed boat bottom as a table, and started writing there.He didn't even have to look up to see what was on the mountain, the letters just kept popping out of his pen.He didn't even stop to think about it.

An hour later, Adam finished recording all the things on the hill, and put down his pen, but his fingers were a little stiff.He frowned, moved his fingers, and complained, "My wrist muscles feel weird. A human body is much harder to use than a robotic arm."

It was obviously because of wrist cramps from writing for too long... However, Zhang Xun looked at the neat handwriting of the guards who were a little crooked but already more than 80.00% in the book, and those detailed notes that even he could not reach, Zhang Xun I was a little envious.

The brain of artificial intelligence is much stronger than that of human beings...

"I found that there are a lot of materials that can be used in the Lab, just a little processing." Adam added.

Zhang Xun raised his head, looked at the mountains of leftover materials to be sorted in front of him, and sighed, "Unfortunately, Sistine does not allow me to bring things from the Lab, I have made a basic sorting robot, which is most suitable for this kind of work. "

"He is not allowed to bring it from the Lab. If we use the materials here to make one, is it a violation?" Adam said, reaching out and quickly pointed to a dozen things in his classification list, "Use these to make components, these It can be used to make parts. I believe the administrator should also have some tools for welding. There is only one problem...my opponent's control is not sophisticated enough."

"You mean, use these scraps to make a sorting robot?" Zhang Xun said, his eyes suddenly lit up, and countless design drawings had naturally appeared in his mind.He seems to have returned to the old days, wandering alone among these scrap piles like a ghost, sometimes excited by his newly discovered precious parts.But at that time, no one could share his excitement and joy.

But it's different now.The thought of working with Adam to create a robot made his blood boil.That feeling is about the same as when James and the others aimed a gun at a roaring bear, and drove the mecha into the monstrous battle. Even borrowing tools from Diego became less of a headache.

Diego lent him all the tools and trailers that the strange mechanic wanted, although he himself didn't know if those tools could still be used, and he never saw the two of them again.As always, he was immersed in the beer bottle, and it was not until two days later that he was nibbling dry bread for breakfast that he realized that he seemed to have heard the voice of the mechanic and the artificial intelligence for a long time.So he put on his coat and pulled on his slippers and Shi Shiran walked towards the place where they left them two days ago.

Then he was blindsided.

The garbage mountain waiting for classification and registration is gone, and several surrounding garbage mountains are gone.I saw a telescopic mechanical arm spliced ​​together with old car shells, truck wheels, and unknown messy metals, pulling a moldy table out of the garbage dump and putting it in another pile of furniture pile.

The Mechanic and Adam were busy around another oddly shaped, smaller machine.

Diego came up behind them, but they didn't notice.He had to cough loudly.

Adam looked back at him, revealing a face smudged but unknowingly smeared with dust and grease, with a big, friendly smile on it.

"Good morning, Mr. Diego."

Zhang Xun just nodded to him, and then focused on screwing a screw with a screwdriver.That seems to be a... a robot made out of a freezer, a robot vacuum, and a shovel?Even a little cute?

"You guys made all of this?" Diego pointed behind him.

"Yeah." Adam's tone was relaxed and natural, as if he hadn't noticed that they had done what all the people who had worked here hadn't done in the past few years.

Diego rubbed his eyes and cleared his throat, "Are you also building these robots with things here?"

Adam continued to explain thoughtfully, "Yes, and use the tools you lent us. We set sorter No. 23 to work [-] hours a day. It takes one hour to cool down and restart. This can ensure work efficiency and also It can prevent the motherboard from being burned due to overheating."

Zhang Xun raised the corners of his mouth, he liked the way Adam explained seriously to those who couldn't understand what he was talking about.

Diego stared at Zhang Xun in disbelief, "So... the mechanic actually refers to the magician?"

"According to all the data I have collected so far, magic is probably the general term for some coincidences and psychological effects that ancient humans can't explain. So no, I don't think Axun is a magician." Adam continued to explain with a serious face.

"Yes, what you said is correct...that..." Diego scratched his shoulder-length messy hair, and seemed a little embarrassed, "Actually, the TV in my room was broken for a while, Can you repair it?"

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