what am i wiping this

Tianhuo carefully scanned An Ning's work—this time it was drawn on paper, with a pencil.While it's better than the ones I've drawn with my severed beard in the sand, it's still the kind of thing that would make the former good Decepticon think "fuck that's a new Autobot code" or something. "Fuck is this a hieroglyph from a savage civilization in a galaxy" type.

At any rate, triangles look like triangles, and rectangles look like rectangles.

But there was still no resemblance to him.

"Redraw." Tianhuo tore the drawing paper in half with a hiss, crumpled it up and threw it out of the cave found on the cliff, and blasted the waste paper into ashes with the last shot.

"Hey!" Even An Ning felt a little annoyed seeing his work that he had struggled for a long time being so easily denied, "But that's what I did so hard..."

"That kind of thing doesn't even count as waste paper in Cybertron! Draw it for me! Look at my face carefully! The position of the optical lens and the proportion of the facial armor must be accurate! Like this!"

Tianhuo snatched the spare paper that An Ning put aside—he took it (qiang) to (jie) from a nearby town, together with the necessary supplies in the cave to maintain human physiological activities—use He picked up the pencil that was so small that he couldn't even count it as a toothpick with his fingertips, and quickly drew on the paper.In fact, his wrist and even his fingers barely moved, only his first knuckles were trembling slightly, the sound of tiny parts working and the "swipe" sound of the pen tip across the paper accompanied by the natural human carbon base. The soft breathing of the ground is the only information here that can be picked up by Skyfire's audio receiver.

He felt peace for a long time, as if he had returned to the time when Cybertron had not yet perished and the war had not yet begun.He wished this time could last a little longer...

But his self-esteem as a former Cybertron scientist (Note 1) does not allow him to do so!

"...DONE! Check it out, carbon-based!" Tianhuo presented the completed work in front of An Ning, "Even the physiological characteristics of other races can be perfectly captured, and even the sizes of various physiological organs are marked on the side , the value deviation is only 0.01! This, "Looking at the stunned An Ning, Tianhuo proudly raised his head, his metal beard clanging, "it's called painting!"

"This..." An Ning stared at the full-body drawing in his hand, or perspective drawing: not only did he draw the clothes, but also the inner body, just like Da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man". Simulation diagrams of each pose!This alone is already surprising, but those small but clear labels and thoughtful notes of various values ​​including clothing data almost make An Ning think about it: she doesn't even know her bra One size smaller!

"Hahaha! What, carbon-based!"

"This... this... this is simply..."

An Ning managed to move her gaze away from this masterpiece handed down from generation to generation, and turned her scorching gaze comparable to an [-]-watt LED to the author of this masterpiece. If she was not worried about the painting in her hand, she would almost be like a fanatic. The fans rushed forward like that: "It's just...AMAZING! PERFECT! WONDERFUL! COOL! BEATIFUL!" She was so excited that she didn't know how to organize her words, and could only throw out all the words of praise she knew. fall.Tianhuo also looked up very usefully to enjoy the worship from the carbon base, and occasionally gave a reminder to An Ning, who couldn't remember the full name of a word for a while.

Until An Ning couldn't think of any words to describe this astonishing masterpiece, Tianhuo encouraged her to look at the earth and use other languages.

Then came another storm of praise.

The caring Tianhuo also helped An Ning find water from the supplies to moisten her throat.

By the time An Ning's only language—her native Chinese—was about to run out of words of praise and praise, the sun had sunk more than half below the distant horizon.The light it emitted with all its strength successfully attracted the attention of two intelligent creatures who were not doing their jobs properly, and they turned their heads to look at the sunset that was about to disappear, which they had ignored for a long time.

The last sunset showed a drunken red, rendering the sand and sky in the distance, like a cluster of flames that were about to be extinguished, stubbornly resisting the coming darkness.

Fragile and stubbornly struggling, but will eventually sink under the darkness.

The masterpieces of nature always eclipse all man-made creations, even Tianhuo has to admit this.

An Ning doesn't like the sunset, she has been like this since she doesn't know when.Maybe it was because it was really sad to confess to Jazz who lost his memory in the sunset, or maybe it was like this before, just like she didn't like carrots, it was natural, in short, when she realized this, she no longer I like it.

"This is really beautiful..." An Ning heard Tianhuo who was sitting beside the cliff sigh with emotion.

"But I don't like it." She opened her mouth without thinking.By the time she realized that it was not good to pour cold water on others like this, the words had already been processed by Tianhuo's central processing unit, and now she was curiously asking why.

An Ning felt that it was hard to say "there is no reason", so she had to bite the bullet and rack her brains to think of reasons: "Because, because...it's too sad, and, and..." She felt something jump in her heart, and a reason came out, "And a setting sun means no light!"

"..."

An Ning, who was stared at by Skyfire's optical lens, became uneasy in the silence, and began to wonder if his excuses were too naive, stupid, and challenged the lower limit of the Cybertronian's IQ, so that the other party's computer crashed.

"...It's not that there is no light." Tianhuo, who finally spoke after a long time, choked hard on An Ning who was just about to apologize. The next second, Tianhuo grabbed An Ning and quickly transformed into an old blackbird reconnaissance plane. After An Ning was firmly locked in the driver's seat, she soared into the sky!

An Ning was terrified!She clutched her skirt tightly, trembling all over.The tapered three-dimensional window of the camouflage model SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane used by Skyfire made An Ning feel as if she was in the dark night sky, rushing to a darker place alone and rapidly.

"No—!!" She couldn't help screaming and closed her eyes tightly.But Tianhuo didn't allow her to do so.

"Open your—what do you say? Eyes! Yes, eyes! Open your eyes!"

"No no no!!"

"I said, open your eyes, carbon-based!"

"I said 'NO'!! STOP!! PLEASE STOP!!!"

"Open your eyes!!" Tianhuo raised the volume to the highest level, "Then take a good look at this light!!"

"Varied……"

An Ning finally opened her eyes, and what she saw was a huge full moon.

"The light of the moon you see now actually comes from the reflection of the sun, a star, on the surface of the moon." Tianhuo worried that the human carbon base was too ignorant to even have this common sense, so he was patiently shocked by this scene An Ning, who was speechless, explained, "Including the stars you see, all the light in the sky at night comes from the sun."

"You said it fell, so there is no light, but look at the sky, isn't there still a lot of light shining?" Tianhuo, who was slowly speaking philosophical words, was gliding in the air. This was his first time. For the first time in Anning, he showed his demeanor as an elder.

An Ning opened her eyes wide, staring at the scenery outside the window without blinking.After a long time, she finally recovered her ability to speak and asked, "...then, is there Cybertron among these stars?"

"..." Tianhuo didn't answer, but just turned the fuselage, flew back to the cave entrance where he was hiding, and put An Ning down gently after being transformed.Then he sat on the edge of the cliff and looked up at the starry sky, as if he was looking for the starlight that belonged to Cybertron.

An Ning, who was put down, looked at Tianhuo who was not sure if he was depressed, and then sat on the edge of the cliff with light steps, imitating the other person's way and looking up at the starry sky.After deliberating for a long time, I whispered, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean it."

Tianhuo turned the red optical lens, focusing on Xiao Tanji beside him: "Why do you apologize?"

"I brought up 'Cybertron' and...uh...she's been...that...I don't know if you're..."

"Sad? Sad?" Tianhuo smiled, "Yes, of course. But even if you don't mention it, she is already dead. So, having this emotion now and even letting it affect my behavior can only show my The ability to deal with emotions is too poor. Sure enough, I am old and old..."

"Don't say that!" An Ning quickly put her hand on Tianhuo's hand hanging by her side, "Don't say that... Uh, I haven't known your name for so long."

Tianhuo was stunned for a moment, and then he threw the sadness just now into the recycle bin of the CPU: "SHIT!! I didn't say my name!! My great Tianhuo didn't report my name!!"

"So, so, your name is 'Skyfire', right?" Seeing that the other party showed signs of going berserk, An Ning quickly diverted the other party's attention, "My name is..."

"I know what your name is." Tianhuo interrupted An Ning rudely, "Your name is 'Matrix'."

An Ning was taken aback by the affirmative and reasonable tone: "No, I don't call it that. My name is 'An Ning', but you can also call me 'Annie', 'Anne Wittwiki'."

"...You're not called 'matrix'?" Tianhuo's tone sounded very surprised.

"? Yes, I don't know why you called me 'matrix'. Do I look like made of paper? (Note 2)" An Ning's tone was also very surprised.

"...He lied to me again. (Note 3)"

"?? Who lied to you?"

"you do not need to know!"

Sensing that the other party didn't seem to want to talk about it, An Ning gave a tactful "Oh" and didn't continue the topic.The scene quickly fell into an awkward silence. An Ning thought and thought, and finally came up with a topic: "You draw... you are really good!"

"That's natural!" Speaking of this, Tianhuo immediately became happy, "Do you know what I did before? Before I became a Decepticon!"

"Uh... painter?"

"Wrong! Scientist!"

"..."

"The things I study are beyond the comprehension of you carbon-based people; if you want to store the design drawings I have drawn, you need more capacity than storing all the information in your country!" Tianhuo said excitedly Seeing him so happy, An Ning also became happy.But after a while, the other party's joy turned into sorrow, and the topic instantly returned to the original point, "But then, the war started."

"Oh..." An Ning, who was thrown away by the opponent's 180-degree turn, was stunned for a long time, and could only say this word.

"Everyone has to choose their side, whether it's a scientist or a doctor. I'm no exception."

An Ning suddenly felt that these words sounded familiar.

"I...ha, it's funny to say, in fact, I didn't care much about these things at the time. I didn't bother to understand what the Decepticons and Autobots were fighting. Then I can continue my research. I don’t really care whether it’s a 'Deceptor' or an 'Autobot'. So when a friend of mine who is also a scientist chooses to be a 'Deceptor', I also... ( Note 4)"

"Wait, isn't that friend of yours called 'Star'?" An Ning interrupted him and asked eagerly.

"No, but it does have 'Star' in it. His name is 'Starscream.'"

"Oh..." An Ning, whose guess had failed again, was very frustrated.

Tianhuo squinted the red optical lens, and put the focal length into the stars in the sky, as if recalling the peaceful time in the past, he also returned to the state at that time: "Cybertron...the Cybertron at that time was really beautiful ..."

"She is now too." An Ning held one of his fingers, "It will definitely be in the future." She also narrowed her eyes, "She will return to her original appearance, I promise."

"..." Tianhuo withdrew his gaze, looked down at Tan Ji who was holding his finger, and didn't dare to move, for fear that the other party would withdraw that small but warm hand.At this time, he noticed the transparent saline solution dripping from the face of An Ning who had also been silent.Having lived on Earth for so long, he understood what it was, but he didn't know why.After hesitating for a long time, he asked, "Why are you crying?"

"I just feel... so sad." An Ning tried hard to suppress her sobs, "Everyone was an ordinary person in the beginning, whether it was Rhett, Al, or Sta... even Op was an ordinary person. Ordinary Living in a normal way, in front of scientists, teachers, etc... But, but..."

"..."

"But now they are going through a life-and-death battle, maybe they will face their original friends who are standing in the enemy camp. Just because they chose a different camp..."

"...You didn't cry just because of this, did you?" Tianhuo said.

Hearing this, An Ning finally couldn't help but burst into tears. All the grievances and worries that had been suppressed in her heart were released this time, "I don't know how Op is now! I don't know if he is still alive! I'm so happy." Worried about them! What if he dies?! What if I, I can’t resurrect him?! What if after resurrecting him, he doesn’t remember me like the prince??!! I’m so scared! I’m scared to death !! Why do Autobots and Decepticons have to fight non-stop?! When there is no distinction between factions, do they open fire when they meet?!"

Tianhuo silently listened to An Ning's cry. He wanted to tell her many things, such as the reason for the battle between the Decepticons and the Autobots, and the reason for this war, but he still didn't say anything in the end.This may be too incomprehensible for a human being.

"The 'Op' you said is an Autobot, right?" Skyfire said, "Now that I am also an Autobot, then, I promise you: I will protect your beloved 'Op' on the battlefield '! Never let him die!"

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Note 1: The setting of G1 is integrated here, that is, in the peaceful years before the war, Tianhuo was a scientist in Cybertron and devoted himself to the exploration and research of science.

Note 2: Matrix has the meaning of "type model; paper type".

Note 3: This refers to the manga "Legend of the Fallen" in which FALLEN deceived Skyfire to open a star energy absorption tower somewhere in space, destroying a star but did not tell him that there are life forms on the planets near this star, and he is also right Skyfire said that the other elders had abandoned Cybertron, and only he was saving the mother planet. (Here there is a conflict with Note 1 and Note 4, please Haihan) The setting of this article adds the setting that FALLEN asks Tianhuo to find the "matrix" and tells him that the host of the "matrix" has no self-awareness.

Note 4: The setting of G1 is integrated here. Starscream is a scientist who studies geology on the planet Cybertron. His boring research life made him join the Decepticons. (Slightly contradictory to the previous article, has been modified)