Wasteland World. Somewhere in a human bunker.

The dim light flickered and flickered due to the instability of the circuit. There were a few drops of murky water oozing from a few cracks in the rocks at the top, dripping down to the dirty, sloppy mud below.

With a click, water droplets fell on the uneven wall of the simple earthen house below, splashing a few stars. In the shadows of the house, two children in shabby linen clothes were eating a hard-won dinner.

Guo Yan, who was sitting beside them, had a solemn face and his eyebrows were tightly locked. Only in his thirties, he looked much older than he really was, with a dull complexion, and his black hair was as careless and rough as unkempt grass.

Guo Yan chewed on the dried wild fruits and dried meat, looked at the two children in front of him with happy faces, and hesitated in his heart how to talk to the two children.

After thinking about it for a long time, he mustered up his courage and whispered softly to the two children:

"Ah Yi, Ah Qiu. I'm going out with Captain Feng tomorrow. Stay at home, and don't go anywhere. ”

The joy of having food in their mouths slowly faded away in an instant. They obviously heard that something was wrong with Guo Yan's tone.

"Ah Yi, Ah Qiu is one year younger than you, and you have to take on the responsibility of taking care of your younger brother. As long as you have a bite to eat, you can't starve your brother. ”

The two and a half children looked at each other.

Xun Qiu was brought back from outside by his father in the evening. They haven't gotten acquainted yet. However, Guo Yi felt that it should be no problem to take care of Xun Qiu.

"Don't worry, Dad. I will. Guo Yi hugged the skinny Xun Qiu, then lowered his head and pondered for a while before raising his head and continuing to ask, "Where are you going tomorrow?" How long to go? ”

couldn't bear to look directly at Guo Yi's hot and eager eyes, Guo Yan looked at his nose, lowered his head and muttered:

"North. According to someone walking outside, there used to be lights in that direction. There is not much food in the bunker. Captain Feng wants to take a few of our guards over there to have a look......"

"How long will it take?" Guo Yi asked again.

The two children stared at Guo Yan with two pairs of eyes.

Guo Yan was silent for a long time, never daring to speak out, only staring at Guo Yi with affectionate eyes, touching his dry and split hair with pity, and then looking at Xun Qiu, who looked childish, before he whispered:

"I don't know...... Go to sleep. ”

That night, after Guo Yan fell asleep due to fatigue, the two children sat down together again and whispered.

Guo Yi asked in a low voice, "What about your family?" ”

Xun Qiu shook his head: "Got separated......"

Guo Yi nodded as if he didn't understand: "This bunker is very solid. You can rest assured to stay here. ”

"Officially, my name is Guo Yi. You can call me Guo Shao, everyone in this bunker calls me that. ”

Xun Qiu smiled happily: "My name is Xun Qiu." ”

Guo Yi hugged Xun Qiu's shoulders and said, "Well, then I'll call you Xun Shao." From this day forward, we are brothers. There are meals to eat together, and there are fights to fight together! Hey! ”

Xun Qiu was slightly stunned, and then smiled helplessly: "Fight?" But I'm skinny......"

"It's okay! I'll take care of you! Guo Yi's face was filled with a warm smile that was extremely incommensurate with this gloomy bunker.

At that moment, in Xun Qiu's heart, which was frozen by the dust of this gray and cruel world, a round of sun rose that shone on him for a lifetime. No matter how difficult the predicament he found himself in the future, as long as he remembered that smile, his heart was warmly filled with strength.

On this night, the two children made a grand wish to support each other, and then entered a sweet sleep with expectations for the future.

In the early morning of the second day, after Guo Yan left an instruction to "practice the Eight Desolations and Thirteen Styles more if you have nothing to do", he walked out of the bunker with Captain Feng of the bunker guards.

Who would have expected that Guo Yan and Captain Feng and a group of seven or eight people had never come back since that day. In the bunker without the strongest fighters of the guards, the living conditions have become even worse!

That year, Guo Yi was eight years old and Xun Qiu was seven years old.

……

Xun Qiu woke up from his sleep with a dull gaze.

He dreamed of the day he and Guo Yi first met.

In addition to refining the flux day and night in the past two days, Xun Qiu has not left behind the basic refining and perception training, and he has been working on several phases at the same time, and he is so tired that his bones fall apart. So much so that in a trance, hazy dream, he wandered out of the world, returned to the wasteland, back to eleven years ago.

Although the life of the wasteland world had left him, the vivid scenes were still deeply engraved in his mind. It was his own life. Xun Qiu, who coexisted in his past life and this life, couldn't even remember where he was the moment he woke up in his dream.

It wasn't until he was stunned on the wire bed for a while that he was completely out of his dream.

It's so refreshing to wake up from a night's sleep! Even if he slept on a wire bed that was hard to the bone, Xun Qiu still felt so.

He had already completed more than a dozen alloy fluxes, enough to cover most of the low-star mechs at Azure Station. As long as he makes a name for himself here with this unique stunt, he won't have to worry about finding someone to take him through the dangerous primeval world outside and towards another time and space shuttle station!

He had determined that there were about 25 hours a day in this world, which was not much different from the world of the Seven Seas. If he pushes hard, there is still hope that he will make it to the second round of the rookie game.

After all, he and Lotte are a team, and he doesn't want to let them fall into the embarrassing situation of lack of people because of his sudden disappearance.

Well...... Maybe they'll find a replacement? No, no, no...... Xun Qiu immediately rejected this idea.

How can a random substitute compare to me? Sure enough, I'm going to have to go back and pick them up, hehe.

After simply washing his face and sobering himself up for a while, Xun Qiu immediately opened the space ring card and contacted his guide Palast.

"You say, you're going to help Hestas repair the mech? Is it true?! Palasta's small round face was stunned, and he earned it even more. The two little eyes were so bright that they could almost drip water.

"Yes, but I'll only fix the broken armor, not the rest. And my basic skills in disassembly and assembly are average, so you have to help me find a guy who is proficient in disassembly and assembly. ”

"That's fine. I know one. I'll get you in touch right away. Alas, little brother, you are really good, I can't see that you still have this ability?! Palasta smiled, her face full of flowers.

"Little things. You can help me find a spacious place, preferably on the first floor. It's convenient for me to do it. ”

"Understood!"

……

At the moment when Xun Qiu had just finished breakfast, Palasta had already completed the two commissions he had given. It seems that the relationship between Xiao Hei and Xiao Chubby is indeed quite deep. When I heard that I could help Xiao Hei, Xiao Pang really worked hard to run errands.

Standing in a fifteen-meter-high, empty large metal factory that Little Fat Palasta had rented for himself, Xun Qiu was extremely satisfied.

The price of real estate in this extraterrestrial world is simply a bargain. If it weren't for the fact that it was too dangerous outside the Swire World Azure Station, this price could have been reduced by an order of magnitude. However, there are few people who rent for a short period of time like him. So I paid a little extra. But it doesn't matter, Seven Sea Points is a number. He'll be able to earn it back soon.

A moment later, Chubby brought in a twenty-year-old mechanic.

To Xun Qiu's surprise, it was a female mechanic who came.

"I'm Wu Xiaoxi, and I hope we have a happy cooperation. My goal is to become a mech designer, so the pay is good. ”

Wu Xiaoxi, who is dressed in a brown machine-repaired jacket, black cargo pants, and low-heeled leather boots, is 1.7 meters tall, and his light wheat-colored skin looks healthy and energetic. The short black and shiny hair flutters in the wind. Quite handsome melon seed face, a pair of gray eyes as light as light ink, intoxicating dotted eyes. The eyes are clear and peaceful, and faintly flashing capable.

Wu Xiaoxi, who was standing in front of Xun Qiu's eyes, although his face was clean, because he was doing mechanical design and maintenance work all year round, he had long lost the youthfulness of the girl, and was replaced by maturity and stability. If it weren't for Xiaopang saying that Wu Xiaoxi was only twenty years old, Xun Qiu wouldn't want to believe what he said.

"Wu Xiaoxi is amazing. As soon as he became a master, he came out alone. In just over a year, he has already made a name for himself at Azure Station. However, because she doesn't like to join a large machine shop and be restricted by people, she does casual work all year round. In addition, she is also a good junior armor master, and her strength dimension has reached level four. Can't you see it, right? Hey. Palasta introduced Wu Xiaoxi's situation very earnestly on the side.

In contrast, Wu Xiaoxi didn't have much to say, just stood aside and waited for her partner to speak.

Looking at Wu Xiaoxi, who was almost the same size as himself and half a head shorter than himself, Xun Qiu really didn't believe that the other party's strength dimension was already so high. It seems that she may have a special physique.

"If you are paid, it will be at the price you normally receive. The first business is to help Xiao Hei repair the mecha, so I'll pay for it. Xun Qiu looked at Hestas, who had been standing next to him silently, and then continued, "If there is a list next, I will only accept the materials, and then pay you half of the value of the materials, how about it?" Also, if you're free, I'd like you to teach me mechanics. What do you think? ”

"Teach you? You're not a mechanic? So how do you fix the armor? Wu Xiaoxi's gray eyes widened a little because of surprise, and the look of surprise was beyond words.

"Anyway, I'm just an armorer who specializes in armor repair. For machine repair, especially in disassembly and assembly, it is really not professional enough, and you need to guide it. Xun Qiu spread his hands helplessly. If he specializes in disassembly and assembly, his deck challenges won't stand still.

"Alright! So let's get started, shall we? Wu Xiaoxi readily accepted Xun Qiu's conditions.

As a mechanic, she is good at assembly, maintenance, and updates of mechas. Give her a brand new accessory to change into, and she'll be fine. The only thing she could do was to repair the armor, especially the one that had been broken in two, but she couldn't restore it to its original state.

Because of the relationship between alloy materials, if the raw materials are used for welding, the alloy materials must be melted and then poured and fused. Not to mention the need for a special machine to operate, just this energy consumption and income ratio, she is not cost-effective to do casual work at all. At best, she'll only be able to replace new armor accessories. So when it comes to armor repair, she is completely inexperienced.

And Xun Qiu's craft just makes up for her shortcomings in this regard. So Palasta told her that there was a guy who could repair armor on his own, and she was more curious. Although it is not as despicable as stealing a teacher, if there is a trace of possibility, she also wants to know about it.

After all, this is a great attraction for her who wants to become a mecha designer.

"Let's get started." Xun Qiu stretched out his hand towards Hestas, "Take out your [Evil Horse] and let Wu Xiaoxi dismantle it." ”