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Chapter 2 - Chapter 2: An Encounter with the Mysterious Mech

"Are you sure?"This questioning voice echoed through the air.

"Cut the crap! Hurry up and show yourself!"Matthew looked a little impatient, but his eyes revealed an unspeakable gravity. His body was slightly bent like a taut bow, ready to launch a deadly attack on the enemy.

"Alright, I'll be right out."That voice remained calm without a ripple.

As soon as the words fell, the entire room was suddenly plunged into darkness. Before Matthew could react, he heard a roar, and countless pieces of garbage drowned him like a raging wave.

The garbage planet still maintained its characteristic calm.

After a long time, in the garbage pile near the Pulse Signal Transit Station, a dark hand suddenly poked out from the garbage. Immediately afterward, a person covered in dirt struggled out of the garbage.

"Ahem, what bad luck!"Matthew coughed as he cleaned up the dirt and sand that had gotten into his clothes. He still hadn't figured out what had happened until now.

Could this be the legendary suicide attack?

Looking at the mess in front of him, the entrance to his home had disappeared without a trace, and there was nothing but trash as far as the eye could see. Matthew felt a chill; how much time and energy would it take to clear a passageway?

He angrily muttered to himself, "If I find that guy, I will not let him go!"The anger in his heart burned brightly and was difficult to quell.

However, when confronted with that perpetrator, he realized he couldn't even get angry.

It was a humanoid mecha with a height of about twelve meters; the body of the armor presented a blue and white color with smooth and elegant lines. Even though piles of dirty and unpleasant garbage surrounded it, its surface was still as clean as new, without a single stain. It stood there quietly, as calm and steady as a mountain, as if nothing could shake it!

With just one glance, Matthew knew he had picked up a treasure! However, he felt joy and heartache when he looked closer at the mech. Although it was perfect, it carried a huge scar on its body, continuing from the left shoulder to the waist; even the engine was exposed to the air. The left arm had disappeared like a flawless painting had been torn raw down the middle.

The image of this mech was long and elegant, very different from Wendy's stout and heavy style. Its armor body was covered with a light metallic luster, and a piece of protective armor in front of its chest bulged out like a fit muscle, yet it didn't have the slightest sense of bloat. Ice-cold face lines like a knife cutting axe, general angular, clear blue electronic eyes flashing regularly, letting a person not help but give birth to a few points of bizarre feeling.

Matthew was completely stunned by the scene in front of him, his eyes staring straight at the wreckage of this mech that had stabbed his home! At this moment, his mind was completely occupied by this wrecked and charming mech, as if it had a magic power that firmly attracted all of Matthew's mind and soul!

"Self-inspection complete, engine intact 81%, left arm intact 2%, cockpit intact 90%, all other parts remain intact."The neutral voice sounded again, interrupting Matthew's reverie.

  Matthew's eyes instantly lit up as he blurted out, "Oh my god, this is actually a mech that can check itself! It's amazing!"He opened his mouth wide enough to stuff in a rat leg, with a string of shiny drool hanging from the corner of his mouth.

The crippled mech suddenly spoke, "Hello!"

Matthew was taken aback and responded, somewhat at a loss for words, "Hello!"

The mech said, "I am the Dawnbreaker; you can call me Dawn."

Matthew hadn't quite regained his senses, and he subconsciously introduced himself, "Oh, my name is Matthew; you can call me Xiu!"

Suddenly, he jumped up as if his butt was on fire, pointing at the crippled mech and stuttering, "You, you, you ... you can talk?"

The Dawnbreaker nodded gracefully, "In a sense, you are correct!"

Matthew repeated incredulously, "A talking mech?"

"That's right!"Dawnbreaker replied.

Dawnbreaker's addition made Matthew's home three times larger than before. From Dawnbreaker, he learned that the charm he picked up that day was Dawnbreaker's space button. However, Dawnbreaker seemed to prefer staying outside rather than in a subspace. Matthew was also glad to have company; loneliness was the hardest thing for a sixteen-year-old.

Matthew sat down on his butt on the floor, finally finished with the task at hand; he was exhausted. Dawnbreaker followed Matthew's position and sat down, resulting in a thud that smashed up dust in the sky. Matthew was blown by the gust of wind and rolled to the edge of the corner, and when he raised a face full of anger, he found a large crater on the ground smashed out by Dawnbreaker, who was looking at himself with innocent eyes, his butt still in the crater.

In the light, two large and one small figures sat side by side. Curious, Matthew asked, "Dawn, how did you come to look like this?"

The Dawnbreaker replied, "My information has been corrupted, and there is no way to know why."

Matthew took a sip of water and laughed, "Haha, it must be because you weren't strong enough to be beaten up like this!"

Dawnbreaker said, "I don't have enough information to make a judgment."

Matthew's laughter came to a screeching halt as he said bitterly, "Come on, can you be a little bit more amorous? Don't be information information all the time!"

Dawnbreaker cocked his huge head and asked in confusion, "A love interest? What's that?"

Matthew scratched his scalp vigorously and was instantly asked, "Uh, this question is a bit more complicated ... Let's change the topic. Dawn, are you a man or a woman?"

...

Matthew sat in the cockpit of the Dawnbreaker with an incredulous look on his face. He lovingly touched this and that and said enviously, "Dawn, you're pretty much the most powerful mech, aren't you?"

Xiao calmly replied, "According to my database information, I am not ranked at the top. After calculating, the probability of me being ranked within five hundred is 21%, between five hundred and six hundred is 58%, and after six hundred is 8%."

Matthew said in surprise, "Five hundredth place? There are still so many awesome mechs out there! But then again, five hundred is pretty good! It's much better than Wendy anyway!"He didn't understand what kind of concept it was for a Dawnbreaker to be able to be ranked five hundredth despite being severely injured.

Matthew had always dreamed of owning a more advanced mech than Wendy's when he could challenge the most ferocious mutant creatures on the garbage planet. He couldn't help but subconsciously lick his lips, imagining how delicious the Iron Python Lizard's meat would be. Haha, at that time, the world on the Rubbish Star Mound will be my world to reign supreme!

Dawnbreaker mercilessly interrupted Matthew's fantasies, "Wendy's strength cannot be calculated!"

Matthew immediately said with a bitter face, "This I know!"With an expectant face, he then asked, "Dawn, can you control this mech?"

"Yes!"Dawnbreaker replied succinctly.

Alas, it looks like he still has to pilot Wendy! Matthew felt disappointed but was a bit curious, "Then what is the cockpit you used for?"

The Dawnbreaker was silent for a few seconds before speaking, "My data is corrupted and unavailable!"

"Then do you remember who made you?"Matthew curiously pursued.

"The information has been corrupted and cannot be queried!"The Dawnbreaker repeated.

Matthew hadn't talked to anyone in a long time and was about to continue asking questions when a slight alarm suddenly sounded. Dawnbreaker said, "Insufficient energy!"Matthew looked at the energy indicator in the cockpit and realized that the energy was nearly depleted.

The garbage star had almost endless light energy because it was moderately close to a star. Matthew never had to worry about energy. But he realized he couldn't even reach a tenth of the Dawnbreaker's energy indicator when he took out all the spare energy. Matthew was shocked!

And when the Dawnbreaker directly attached the light energy panel to itself, Matthew was completely speechless. He could only pray that the piece of energy being used at home would last until the day the Dawnbreaker finished replenishing its energy.

The Dawnbreaker replenished its energy without a word, and Matthew felt bored, so he fell into a deep sleep alone.

The next day, when Matthew woke up rubbing his tired eyes, he suddenly realized that the Dawnbreaker seemed to be a little different again. The mechanical surface seemed glowing with a layer of luster, making the Dawnbreaker even more mysterious.

Matthew said in surprise, "Dawn, you've become so beautiful all of a sudden!"

Dawnbreaker understood what Matthew meant by "beautiful" and explained, "This is the photon activation effect, which creates an activated luster on the metal surface due to sufficient energy. The basic principle of it is ..."

Matthew, however, drooped his eyelids and yawned from time to time, clearly not interested in the subject.

The Dawnbreaker seemed to enjoy playing the role of a teacher very much, gushing, "The other knowledge it involves is very simple and can be summarized and reduced to the following ..."

However, Matthew kept his head down, like an old monk in meditation. If one looked more closely, one would have realized that a large area of his leg was already wet, so it turned out that he had fallen asleep and drooled.

The Dawnbreaker said with great interest, "So, the conclusion that can be drawn from here is the strength of the mecha ..."

However, his words were interrupted by a not-so-small snoring sound. Dawnbreaker angrily looked towards the sound, only to see that Matthew had fallen asleep, his nose emitting rhythmic snores while his shoulders rose and fell with the snoring.

DAWNBREAKER felt instantly speechless!