"I slept so well! I haven't had such a good sleep for a long time~" When he woke up again, Ronggui felt that he was full of energy. He shared his feelings with Xiaomei and praised Xiaomei's bed: "Your bed is so comfortable to sleep on."
Xiaomei:...
"Actually, you just ran out of power and turned off. You feel energetic because I charged it for you."
All the feelings and comfort Ronggui had felt before disappeared without a trace.
"Thank you, thank you." Ronggui said thank you in a whisper.
"You're welcome."
After saying this, Xiaomei stopped moving again.
The motionless Xiaomei looked like a real robot. The only noise in the whole room was the one she made. To be honest, this kind of silence was a bit scary...
Ronggui thought, jumped off the bed, pushed open the shabby window and looked out. It was as dark inside and outside as it was outside, without any light.
"Xiao, Xiaomei, I've wanted to ask for a long time: Why is it so dark here? There's not even the moon or the stars..."
It's understandable that it's so dark in the tunnel, but it's still so dark after coming out, which is very strange.
"Because this is underground, or the lowest underground, this is where I was born." When Xiaomei's answer came out, Ronggui was stunned.
He looked at the sky, then at the ground, and after careful observation, he found that what Xiaomei said was right, but he had never thought about it from this direction.
Well, even if Xiaomei's hometown is so... low in altitude, but where are the people? Where are the people who originally lived here?
"Where are the people who lived here before?" Ronggui asked immediately after thinking about it, "Where are your people?"
Soon Ronggui found that he seemed to have asked a bad question.
"They are all gone." Xiaomei answered him in a flat metallic voice.
"Are they all dead?"
"When I was sick and unconscious, they all left together. When I woke up, I was the only one left in the village."
Xiaomei's metallic voice had stopped, but Ronggui imagined a very sad scene.
He rushed over and hugged the strong (?) Xiaomei in front of him. He patted her back hard: "It's all over. At least... they are gone, and this large piece of residential land belongs to you."
"Xiaomei, you are the landlord!" Ronggui said, patting Xiaomei's back until there was a click.
Xiaomei: "You patted my back off."
Ronggui: ...
Ronggui watched Xiaomei turn her head 180 degrees, picked up the metal cover on her back that she had patted off, knocked it, and pressed the rusty metal cover back on her body.
His movements were already very skilled.
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Two robots walked on the ridge of the field. "Come out for a walk" - this is Ronggui's suggestion. Of course, he didn't say that originally. He suggested Xiaomei to come out to "inspect the ancestral property" and relax.
Xiaomei didn't object.
However, when he went out and saw the dry and cracked land and the farmhouse without any farm tools, Ronggui felt sad.
Thinking of the empty warehouse he saw when he "visited" his neighbor's house before, he knew that Xiaomei's clansmen must have packed up all their belongings before leaving, all farm tools, all seeds, all food, all the things that can still be used in the house...
But they didn't bring Xiaomei with them.
"Don't take a walk, the wind is too strong, I... I feel like I'm about to be blown apart." Always feeling more and more desolate, and regretting that he had come up with a bad idea, Ronggui finally thought of a reason to end this walk.
Xiaomei looked at him and nodded after a while: "Go back, I just happened to have the materials I collected before, I'll go back and modify your body again."
They returned to the original room again, and when Xiaomei was knocking, Ronggui was quietly accompanying him beside him. However, Ronggui was born to be a person who could not sit still. It was ok to let him sit still for a while, but after a long time, he began to squeak and wriggle. Xiaomei was probably annoyed by his swaying, so she simply said to him: "Leave your two arms behind, and go around the house."
Ronggui happily agreed.
The little robot without arms scurried around the house nimbly.
Xiaomei's house was so small that he quickly finished the round until he found a secret room under the kitchen.
It was called a secret room, but it was actually just a cellar.
"Xiaomei, can I go to your cellar and take a look?" Ronggui, who loved to move since he was a child, had been taught a lesson by the dean several times, so he more or less remembered to ask before running around.
"Go ahead, but the cellar is empty, I didn't put anything in it." Xiaomei let him go.
"I'll just take a look." With permission, Ronggui immediately opened the cellar and went down.
As soon as he left, the room suddenly became quiet.
Quiet... just like the days he had spent before.
Whether in the white world of eternal daylight or the days he had spent here a long, long time ago, his surroundings always seemed to be dead silent.
Holding Ronggui's mechanical arm in her hand, Xiaomei raised her head.
He had long guessed the situation here. It was because he woke up from a serious illness and found that there was no one left in the village. It was quiet and there was nothing. He realized that he was abandoned, so he resolutely left.
From then on, he never met the people who had lived here again.
I couldn't remember their appearance anymore. He thought he had forgotten everything. However, when he stood in front of the door again and made the option of "not opening the door", the only thing that came to his mind was the coordinates of this place.
He followed his heart at the time and returned here again.
But coming back was just like that.
He lowered his head and focused his attention on the mechanical arm in his hand again. However, before he could tighten the screws in his hand again, Ronggui's loud voice suddenly came from afar:
"Xiaomei! Xiaomei! Come and see!"
He didn't intend to pay attention at first.
However, the voice from the cellar seemed to be tireless and shouted even more vigorously. Xiaomei had no choice but to jump off the bed again and walk in the dark. He came to the kitchen entrance that he had not visited for a long time.
Since the morning when he found that everyone had left, he had never returned to this house.
Although he had not been away for a long time according to the current time, in his heart, he had been away from here for too long, so long that it became unfamiliar.
Ronggui's voice came from the black giant cellar. The guy didn't know where he brought the ladder from. He didn't know if he had such a ladder.
Walking down the ladder, he just stood firm and saw the guy named Ronggui. He had no hands, and the guy trotted and signaled him to follow him.
Xiaomei didn't run, of course. This temporary body was not suitable for running. He walked behind the other person at a normal speed.
Walked over, and then-
Stunned.
"Xiaomei! Xiaomei! Look! There are so many... so many mushrooms here!"
If he had hands, the guy in front of him would definitely stretch his arms out. Now that he has no hands, he can only run around in place, using running to express his excitement.
Behind him, there is a cellar full of umbrella-shaped plants! They are actually glowing slightly in the dark!
Looking at the plants in front of him, Xiaomei didn't speak for a long time. Until Ronggui was about to continue shouting, he whispered:
"This is not a mushroom, but a plant called ground bean, which is... the main food of the Messertal people."
The land of Messertal can only grow one kind of plant, which is the fruit called ground bean. Only carefully selected seeds can grow ground beans. It is not a food that can be grown casually.
Ronggui didn't know this, but he still said loudly: "Tell me, are these the food your people left for you? They couldn't take you away, but they planted a large area of mushrooms for you in the cellar. No! Didou, it must be like this! It must be like this!"
Ronggui's voice struck his heart word by word. His voice was loud, but gradually, Aishiwei... no, Xiaomei gradually couldn't hear it.
It was now that he finally discovered the first accident that he had never experienced in his previous inferences.