The Sabbath

Ronggui heard small and dense chewing sounds coming from below.

Like a little mouse - he thought.

"Is it delicious?" Ronggui asked the child.

"Delicious! Very delicious!" Moisturized by the fruit juice, the other party's throat was finally no longer so dry, and his voice became mellow.

"But, do you really not want to eat it?" The child asked in a low voice, "I only ate half of it, and there is still half left."

"Don't eat, don't eat, you can tell by looking at my hands, I'm already mechanized, I don't need to eat the fruit." Rong Gui said heartily: "Hurry up and eat the remaining half of the fruit."

"No, I don't know how long it will take to be rescued. I want to keep this half of the fruit and eat it slowly." The child refused.

Ronggui: =-=,,,

What should I do if I suddenly feel like facing Xiaomei?Is this the case for all academic masters?As long as they are given a little condition, they can think more comprehensively than anyone else.

However, hearing the other party's words, Ronggui glanced at the remaining energy in his body with a guilty conscience:

5%

A very, very dangerous number.

The alarm bell that warned him that he was about to run out of energy has stopped ringing because it will cost electricity.

Ronggui was startled.

But he soon became optimistic again: Anyway, after spending so much effort and electricity, I managed to deliver the fruit to the child, didn't I?He ate the fruit and said that the fruit was delicious, didn't he?

Moreover, he still has half a fruit left, and he can wait for rescue... Isn't it?

I don't know if it's because of the lack of electricity, but Ronggui began to feel that he lost control over his body.Forget about the others, he kept thinking about the right hand that delivered the fruit, probably because he focused all his attention on that right hand, at this moment, for Ronggui who had gradually lost his perception , the perception ability of that right hand has improved instead.

He felt a small hand beside his own.

If there is nothing, they are next to each other, and they are not grasped, but they are always next to each other.

He felt that little hand trembling slightly.

It was the child's hand.

Is he scared?That's right, he should be even more scared when he has a fever and feels uncomfortable all over his body, right?It's just that he doesn't show his fear.

Just like Xiaomei.

Ronggui thought of Xiaomei again.

Maybe all smart people are like this?

In the darkness, the corners of Ronggui's mouth curved, and then he said softly: "Excuse me, can you hold my hand? I...I'm a little scared..."

A person like Xiaomei has a strong self-esteem, so he can't directly pierce it. He needs a little skill.

So, in turn, Ronggui began to ask the other party to hold his hand.

His performance was really good, and there was even a slight tremor in his voice.

"Don't be afraid, someone will come to save us." The trembling little hand that was rubbing against his hand immediately grabbed his hand.

In the darkness, Ronggui smiled again.

"Please hold my hand carefully... This is a new hand, very beautiful, I like it very much..."

"Please hold my hand tightly and help me keep him!" Next, Ronggui solemnly begged the child.

"I... will." Hearing the solemnity in his voice, the child's voice also became serious.

"Um... is this hand really so precious?" Probably because he finally got acquainted with Ronggui, perhaps because he ate food he hadn't seen for a long time, or because Ronggui's hand in his hand gave him a sense of security, the child finally expressed She looked a little childish.

He asked cautiously, with a little curiosity in his voice.

Then Ronggui answered him: "It's very precious, this is what Xiaomei made for me, it's a very precious hand!"

"...We came out of our hometown, just two very broken robots. We walked and fell all the way. In order to change our bodies, Xiaomei took me to Erni City. He has no points. He has been a miner for a long time."

"Been buried several times."

"Heads were smashed flat."

"But we finally accumulated enough points, and then Xiaomei took me to Yedehan City?"

"Do you know the city of Yadhan? It's a place where you can buy a lot of good metal materials..."

Ronggui told the child the story of himself and Xiaomei.

It is obviously a very difficult life, but his words are lively and his tone is full of hope.

Ronggui was talking like this, and then saw that the power in his body was getting lower and lower, and finally, there was only 1% left.

Oops... When it comes to Xiaomei... there are too many words...

sorry...

But Xiaomei, you are so powerful, you must be able to find me, right?

My body is still complete, but one hand is missing...

In the dimness, Ronggui told the child again: "I'm probably running out of battery, you must take good care of my hand!"

He was relieved when he heard the other party's affirmative answer.

Then, his consciousness became more hazy.

And then--

"Shall I sing you a song?" Ronggui said suddenly.

"When I was in the orphanage, there was a church nearby. At that time, I would go to the choir to sing every week. After singing, they would give me bread to eat...

The pastor of the church is a foreign old man. I don't understand the meaning of the songs he taught me, but they are really very nice. "

"Shall I sing it to you? It's just right, in a few days... it should be almost burnt out, right?"

Ronggui murmured.

His consciousness has been a little unconscious.

However, every syllable of that song was so clear in his mind.

Then, he started singing.

Just one syllable, it amazes the people who hear it!

At first it was just a low hum, a very simple syllable, but Ronggui's voice was extremely clean, although it had a metallic feel to it, but he cleverly integrated this metallic texture into the song, which made his voice sound unique charm!

Then, his voice began to rise slowly.

The soft, round metallic voice sang out of his mouth, and then penetrated into the darkness, into the gap between stones, between sand grains, and into all glory. Where your body could not reach, it finally entered the ear of the child underground.

The dark space is full of oppression, everything is compressed.

Ronggui's voice was also compressed, but Ronggui's voice was not afraid of this suffocation. It was even because of this environment that his voice became more suitable for other people's eardrums, like a face-to-face live singing.

Ronggui sang in a language that others could not understand, as he himself said, he himself did not understand what he was singing.

But he still remembers the scene when he heard the song for the first time.

Blue sky, white clouds, white doves gliding across the sky—

The edges of the clouds are golden, and the shadow of the cross on the top of the church is black on the ground. The old pastor in religious clothes smiled and handed him an apple.

At that time, Ronggui had just been sent back by the family that adopted him for the second time, sad?Fear?Confused?

Maybe a little self-blame?

The little child was extremely helpless, and at that moment, he unconsciously broke into that remote chapel.

After listening to the choir there singing songs all afternoon, the old pastor found him, and instead of chasing him away, he handed him a red apple, and then he gnawed on the fruit and continued to listen to the songs there.

until falling asleep.

Then Rongfu and the others came to find him.

Rong Fu carried him on his back, the little girl's back was thin but extremely warm...

The feeling of redemption.

This is the emotion that will surge in Ronggui's heart every time he sings this song.

His heart was full of this feeling, and then, when he sang, he was able to convey this feeling very well.

Still buried deep in the ground, the boy whose body was aching, hot and cold was the first to be redeemed by the emotion conveyed by the singing.

In the darkness, he suddenly opened his eyes wide.

He looked straight up.

Through the boundless black sand and mud, he seemed to see some incredible scene.

Tightly holding the mechanical palm in his hand, the boy whispered: "My name is Joshua, can... can you tell me your name?"

Just as he was tremblingly waiting for Ronggui's reply——

The singing stopped abruptly.

The energy in Ronggui's body was exhausted.

-

"The family of the miners! That person is the family of the miners!" In the darkness, someone suddenly shouted excitedly.

"What? The miner's family? Isn't that person number 31557?" Another person asked in a dry voice.

"He is No. 31557...but he is also a miner's family! He is a miner's family!" The person who spoke first said, stretching out the back of his black hand and wiping away the hot tears on his cheeks.

This person, of course, is the DJ of Oni City who once had an "unacquainted relationship" with Ronggui in Oni City.

If someone could see in the dark at this time, he would see the red eye circles of this young man and the wet tears on his face.

Erni City DJ is not the only person in this small house buried under the ground, there are eight or nine people around him, and everyone has tears on their faces.

This is probably the other thing they have in common besides being dirty and hungry.

What Xiaomei said was correct: this earthquake was indeed caused by the imbalance of forces in the star-making movement.The accident happened so suddenly that the vast majority of people were affected by the earthquake. The people buried under the soil were not one or two, but a large number.

The situation of the DJ in Erni City is slightly better. When the accident happened, he was reading a boring radio script in his room. After the earthquake happened, he passed out in the process of sinking immediately.

He woke up to someone's call.

Waking up rubbing his eyes in a daze, he listened for a long time, only to realize that the person calling was not his name, but a person named "Xiaomei".

The sound came from the radio chip he wore--the little chip stamped on his pass, and everyone who was conscripted had it.

That voice is very familiar, it is another anchor in the camp, the one who has been in the limelight recently, although a bit jealous of his peers, the DJ of Erni City also admits that the other's voice is really nice.

After being in a coma for too long, his mind was dizzy. Thanks to the other party's constant calling, he was forcibly woken up.

There is more than one person who has had the same experience as Erni City DJ.

Quite a few people fell into a coma after the earthquake, Ronggui's voice woke them up, and his conversation with Xiaomei reassured everyone a little.

The voice is number 31557, and many people are quite familiar with his voice.

He probably didn't turn off the broadcasting equipment, which allowed the sound to reach everyone's radio chip.

Fortunately, he didn't close it. At this time, many people were buried alone, buried under the cold sand, and Ronggui's voice was the best comfort for them.

They heard that Ronggui and Xiaomei reported that they were safe, that Ronggui had found another victim, and that Ronggui had been desperately chatting with that victim.

At that moment, the victim rescued by Ronggui's voice was not the only one Ronggui spoke.

At that moment, all the people who fell into the trap alone took Ronggui's voice as a straw to save their lives.

What Ronggui said to that child seemed to be speaking to them.

When they heard that Ronggui found the fruit, heard Ronggui handing out the fruit with difficulty, and heard the sound of the child eating the fruit, everyone's mouths were sweet, as if they themselves had eaten the fruit that Ronggui sent over. like precious fruit.

Finally, they heard the song that made everyone's heart tremble——

At that moment, all those who listened to the radio felt that they were redeemed by the singing.

Anxiety, pain, tension, fear...all bad emotions were suppressed.

When the singing stopped abruptly, everyone burst into tears.

There is only one exception.

Xiaomei.

Unlike most people, Xiaomei turned off the radio chip on the pass.

He is also a robot, just like what he told Ronggui, he also wants to save energy.

The intercom program of the two people was disrupted by the earthquake. In order to repair this channel, he spent a full 9% of the energy.

For Xiaomei, who is very budget-conscious, this is a huge number.

Immediately afterwards, he used 15% of his energy to crawl out of the pit—without telling Ronggui, he was also trapped in the mud, and the buried position was not too shallow, and he carefully surveyed it with sound waves Little by little, Xiaomei rubbed herself out of the situation around her.

After coming out, the little robot lost a left arm.

His left arm was trapped under a huge steel bar. If he stayed in place, he could keep his arm, but he needed to come out now, so he took the initiative to remove his arm.

Just after he left, another small cave-in occurred where he had been standing.

Seeing that the place where she was originally trapped became unrecognizable again, Xiaomei knew that the arm he left there should not be able to get back.

He turned around quickly.

He wanted to locate Ronggui as soon as possible while Ronggui still had electricity, and dig out that clumsy guy.

Before the earthquake, he was in the warehouse and knew every corner of the warehouse. Even after the collapse, Xiaomei could still locate the warehouse with an accuracy of about 85%. He knew where all kinds of items were stored.

I also know the tools I need most now.

Xiaomei found a spherical backhoe.

In the following time, Xiaomei began to use the excavator to dig people.

While looking for the excavator, he dug up several unconscious people.After capturing them and waking one of them up, Xiaomei got on the excavator.

He abruptly used an excavator to dig a path out of the warehouse.

It is true that there is a locator in Ronggui's body, but the corresponding identification device is on Rhubarb. In order to find Ronggui, he must first find Rhubarb.

Fortunately, rhubarb didn't run around, it stayed where it was, but after the earthquake, its position was deeper than usual.

The rhubarb was buried deep in the ground.

The location was much farther than expected, but Xiaomei finally found Rhubarb.

Of course, in the process of searching for rhubarb, he dug out many people.

As always, put these people in a safe place, wake one up, Xiaomei will leave the other things to the person who wakes up, and he will continue to look for Ronggui himself.

The energy in that idiot's body is probably running out.

He can only hope that the guy actually goes on battery saver mode.

Thinking blankly, Xiaomei saw Rhubarb.

This car modified by Xiaomei with high-grade materials is now very strong, even though it is carrying countless sand and stones, its figure is still tall and straight.

Only the left window was broken.

Difficult to jump out of the spherical excavator, Xiaomei climbed into Dahuang's body along the car window.

At this time, fifteen hours and 32 minutes had passed since he and Ronggui last spoke.

If Ronggui has used the power saving mode, his current remaining power should be about 45%, if not, then there should be 36% remaining.

Still within safe limits.

The locator in Ronggui's body consumes a lot of energy, and it needs 20% of the energy to mobilize. The reason why I told Ronggui that 30% of the energy must be reserved is because I was worried that he would waste too much energy if he was not distracted.

Turning on the screen on Da Huang's body, Xiaomei looked at the opened screen as a black screen——

The locator is broken.

Calculating the energy consumption in Ronggui's body in her heart, Xiaomei began to calmly repair the instrument.

When the energy in Ronggui's body was still 28% in his heart, the screen finally turned on.

The locator is fixed.

however--

"The equipment on the other side has insufficient energy and has been shut down."

What awaited him was the news that the locator in Ronggui's body had been turned off.

After all, an idiot is an idiot, that guy still consumed the energy in his body beyond the safe range.

By this time, their intercom calls were no longer available.

Sitting on Rhubarb, Xiaomei was startled.

Then, very quickly, he moved again.

"I was strolling outside to see if anyone needed help. I saw Da Huang and said hello to him, and then, right after that."

"With the sound of BIU, I just watched myself fall."

In the last conversation, he memorized every word Ronggui said, and he also accurately found useful information in the nonsense.

Rhubarb has a video function!Before, it was just to prevent someone from stealing a car, but now it seems that this function should capture the scene of Ronggui sinking!

Immediately thinking of this in her mind, Xiaomei quickly called up the video recording on Da Huang.

Fortunately, Rhubarb was not Ronggui, and he did not drop the chain at the critical moment. Ronggui's expression before the fall was captured clearly, and the process of falling was also very clear.

Xiaomei saw the complete picture of the falling robot with a pair of big black eyes.

There was still a smile on Ronggui's face, he didn't seem to realize what happened, he fell down in a daze.

Xiaomei remembers where Ronggui fell.

Climb from Rhubarb to the spherical excavator outside again. At this time, the battery in his body still has 36% remaining.

At this time, there were more and more people outside, and the search and rescue personnel sent by the government also arrived.All kinds of excavators came to rescue the buried victims everywhere.

Those excavators are equipped with life signal recognition equipment, which is mainly aimed at non-mechanical life. According to the principle of rescue, the rescue team will take the lead in rescuing identifiable targets in distress.

Naturally, this does not include Ronggui who uses a mechanical body.

Among a group of large machines, Xiaomei was digging expressionlessly.

In the process, he dug up three more people.

Every time I hope that person is Ronggui, every time, that person is not Ronggui.

Immediately, someone yelled and came over and carried away the dug out victims.

Xiaomei continued to dig.

There was less and less energy in his body.

Only 5% left.

At this moment, an indescribable feeling suddenly appeared in his body.

With a wave in her mind, Xiaomei suddenly jumped out of the excavator.

Reaching out his hand to scrape away the top brick on the ground where the excavator was working, he touched a foot.

The color and material of the foot are exactly the same as that of his right hand, this is——

Ronggui!

Xiaomei immediately squatted down and continued to dig.

He was digging desperately, and his movements were so fast that he didn't look like the usual calm little robot.

Finally, he completely dug out Ronggui who was buried in the ground in an upside-down state.

Letting the black-eyed, unconscious little robot lie on her only remaining right arm, Xiaomei looked at him quietly.

Then, maintaining this movement, Xiaomei remained motionless.

The energy in the body was finally consumed to 0%, and Xiaomei also shut down.

The two little robots nestle together still, like a group of harmonious statues.