under the mask

At lunch, Levi.All the current members of the Spar family sat around the long and wide dining table, eating quietly.

"Hmm... ummm..."

Li Wei raised his hand to put the steak into his mouth, and then looked at the little Roudun sitting beside him.This little guy was the only one in the whole dining room making a snorting sound like a piglet, because he was too small to sit on a booster chair, not to mention the tiny set of cutlery in front of Issa.

"Eat the vegetables!" He frowned and shouted loudly.

Yisa raised his fat face and looked at him in a daze, dipping his mouth in the sauce.

"No...I don't like vegetables..." He muttered blankly, and there was a meatball in the small spoon he was holding.

Hall helped the little guy fork a meatball again, looked at Li Wei and laughed and said, "You were even pickier than him when you were five years old. You don't like to eat anything that children should eat...but you stare at Mingming all day long. The meat steak that can't be bitten is drooling."

Li Wei stared at the housekeeper helplessly, not understanding how he offended him.Now that it comes to this, isn't it a matter of course?As a person who likes to eat meat, I can't bite a big mouthful of meat for four or five years. That kind of craving will really drive people crazy... On this point, even if the nobleman has undergone multiple genetic repairs since he was born, it seems to be impossible. It is impossible to let the deciduous teeth grow in advance, or the body develop in advance.

"What the hell are you angry about?" He tapped on his cup to signal the maid to refill.

Hall complained casually: "The chicks will leave the nest when they grow up, and the children who can't wait to leave the house are really itchy."

Li Wei couldn't help but smiled lowly.

This is being a father... er, is grandpa expressing reluctance?

"I'm just going to school, housekeeper," he spread his hands. "Even if going home is not as convenient as it is now, it's still in the fifth district after all."

Hall looked at him, eyes a little far away.

Now it's really just school... and then the army, the endless marches of the Empire, whether it's across the galaxy or the far, cold north.In this way, going home will gradually become a distant event.

Li Wei noticed the butler's cold expression, and it was very intimidating to make such an expression with the same appearance as his grandfather Andrew.But he could feel the sentimentality beneath the cold.

Baruyer, Julie... and Andrew, each of them left this home and never came back.

Although that was already ten years ago, and everything seems to be peaceful now, the bloody riot in the history of the empire is still deeply affecting many people in this country.Including him, he had to give up the comfortable life of the nobility, for the sake of Isa and Hall.

Of course, maybe there is still a little bit of blood boiling inside.

Issa had a delicious meal, and the suddenly dull atmosphere around him didn't affect his appetite.This has something to do with his age, but Li Wei automatically explained that he didn't eat well enough.The nursery school he sent Isa to has a good reputation within the fifth noble district, but living in a group is not as comfortable as at home, let alone Isa is so young.

Li Wei carried him into the small bedroom on the second floor, and then came to the studio on the other side of the underground shipyard. The space of nearly [-] square meters almost hollowed out half of the bottom of the garden. The empty pure white room There is a small battleship and a mecha inside.In addition to the densely packed tools and parts on the wall, there are sharp mech weapons with metallic luster--various laser plasma launching arms, reconnectable electromagnetic guns, projectile weapons, etc.Machine tools and equipment for refitting and repairing warships and mechs are also available.

For those who love warships or mechs, this place is undoubtedly heaven.

Li Wei skillfully put on the one-piece work clothes, and walked directly to the small battleship. The tripod was adjusted very high, the metal part below had been painted with isolation paint, and densely packed transistors and energy transmission were still exposed above. The pipes and the card slots equipped with weapons are all empty. The most critical part is the core module of the power system. This part is disassembled separately and placed on a bracket on one side.He looked up at the 12.5-meter-long battleship in the blue night sky, and felt symptoms such as rapid heartbeat and bloodshot cheeks for a moment.

"Olivia, is it okay if I don't see you for a day?" He stared at the battleship and muttered to himself.

I don't know how the butler will feel when he is present at this time.

On days without classes, he basically spent his afternoons here, the subtle sounds of machine tools starting up, the sound of chemical reactions between lasers and continuous metals colliding with each other, and the unemotional prompts of assistant robots... Although Andrew's lifelong glory From his unparalleled mech operation, almost all the medals he got were double-one belonged to himself, and the other was for the mech. However, as his only grandson, Li Wei had no feelings for the mech at all. interest.

It might be rebellious to say so, but since the hero Andrew died in battle, no one has forced Li Wei to learn how to drive a mecha.He put all his thoughts on his little lady—the battleship in front of him that he bought with all his savings.

The original version was the relatively old OF1099 series. After years of continuous updating of components, plus the reshaping of Oliveira's overall structure and shape, it can be said that, in addition to the most basic frame at the beginning—— His little lady has been reborn!

Li Wei put on an isolation mask for himself, and as soon as he put his hands on the pedals, he quickly jumped onto the high stand.He could only imagine this kind of movement before, but with his current body, he could easily do it, not only because of the several genetic repairs he received when he was born, but also because of the conscious training since childhood.Specifically, he is developing himself.

When he really becomes a member of the dragon team, his development will be considered half successful.

Li Wei picked up the tools on one side and continued yesterday's work proficiently, curling his lips when his eyes glanced at the silver mech.I remember that Gundam was popular when he was in college, and everyone in the dormitory fell into it crazily. All the money for picking up girls was saved to buy handmade figures, and the school’s comic club was also crazy. It's a mech novel.At that time, the president of the aircraft model club he was in still had a sense of reason and said to him, 'ah, mechs are not realistic. The level can't be solved at all... But maybe when I'm old, I'll be able to enjoy it once, hahahahaha! '

He was completely dismissive at the time, who knew that he would see such a scene in the last moment of his life-or the last moment of human life on Earth.The hell-like scene in EVA reappeared in front of his eyes. The giant mecha that looks like an apostle appeared on the earth after the catastrophe. It is a nightmare to imagine countless Godzillas raging in the city.

It turns out that there are really mechs... He was thinking about this before he died.

Because of this memory, he almost had an instinctive fear of mechas in this life.It’s better to be a battleship. The gravity system of the cockpit is already quite complete. It is a full-view type, which further reduces the driver's dizziness and insecurity caused by facing the cosmic environment.

At this point, the mechas of the empire are still unable to do so, and therefore need high-quality mecha pilots.

Li Wei fit an A-level part into the weapon slot in silence, his mood unavoidably depressed.Since Andrew died, Li Wei has been avoiding thinking of him.When he was reborn into this world, he faced a small-scale war between the north and the south. His father, Baruyer, went to the front line when he was just born, and never came back. Ruyer's mission left home.

Until the age of five, Andrew bid farewell to him in his sleep early in the morning. When Li Wei woke up, the mecha in the basement was no longer there.

A family received three death notices, this kind of thing is hard for anyone to accept, not to mention that he remembers everything clearly because he was reborn.

When I woke up early in the morning, I was alone at home, and a robot that claimed to be a housekeeper appeared out of nowhere.

"Working robot, No. 1, is it activated?"

Li Wei took a deep breath: "Start."

The alloy robot embedded in the wall opened the pulley and slid out, and the stretching of the mechanical arm made the noise of metal joints rubbing against each other.Li Wei directed the robot to continuously deliver various alloy materials, and at the same time calculated the numerical value to cut the card slot, started the machine tool to manufacture parts, filled the divided parts with parts, and reduced the space of the weapon slot as a whole.This is because a new medium-sized ion cannon has recently come out, which is smaller but full of power. He has already placed an order on the interstellar network and downloaded the relevant weapon slot data. He is just waiting for Oliveira to be fully repaired. , the weapon can be reloaded.

However, if you want to conduct a specific experiment, you will probably have to wait until the first vacation of the university.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, the communicator began to flash.Levi signaled the robot to cut off the energy, straightened up and took off the isolation mask.Looking at the results of the afternoon again, one-sixth of the power module has been filled, and at least the difficult weapon slot has been remodeled.

"Thank you, No. 1, it can be closed!" He showed a satisfied smile, jumped off the tripod and patted the little robot's mechanical arm.

In response to him, the eye-like part of the robot's head flashed twice, then retracted and folded the mechanical arm, adjusted and slid backward until it was re-embedded into the wall.

Li Wei raised his eyebrows, pondering while changing clothes.Is this intelligent or not?

So far, he can be sure that there are only three robots with a high IQ no less than human beings.One is the chief brain of the empire, located in the basement of the Supreme Council, the other is the brain of the military, the location of which is only known to a few people, and the other... is Butler Hall, the fact that it is the brain is only Li Wei.Spall knows.But as far as Li Wei knows, Hall is the only humanoid and highly intelligent robot.Issa always thought Hall was his brother's brother.Others privately regarded Hall as the illegitimate son of Colonel Andrew, which is why he looked so similar.

What a beautiful and bloody misunderstanding.

By the time Li Wei returned to the living room on the first floor, it was already 10 minutes later.Issa crouched at the door of the elevator like a puppy, the bib she wore for afternoon tea already stained with cream and biscuit crumbs.

"..." Li Wei folded his arms and looked down at the little guy's watery eyes, threatening with a straight face: "Did you eat before my brother?"

Issa grinned and giggled, twisted her buttocks and ran away.He thought it was his brother who wanted to play a game of chasing me with him.

"Hey, you idiot..." Li Wei walked behind anxiously, expressing his uneasiness as an older brother.I haven't been able to write down my home address until now. Sure enough, it's not just because I lived in the nursery for a long time?

Hall had already set up afternoon tea next to the rose garden in the front yard, but Issa was so entangled that he had to take a few small biscuits and puffs from the three-tier snack stand and hand them to his fat hands .