The arrival and end of the TL200 seems to be a small episode, and nothing seems to have changed or been affected in any way.

It's just that in B3068's painting, there is one more such broken war robot. It dragged its mangled body and fled from the war, with its back to light and hope, and fled into the dark world.

B3068 watched it flee, and there was nothing it could do to stop it, because even it didn't know if the direction it was looking at was the right one, and if it could really bring a better future for the planet.

It's just the same direction as the TL200.

The wreckage of TL200 was not disposed of, and Hatsu and B3068 let it lie down next to the hut, and B3068 tied its head back with the tape he had picked up.

It wants to wait with it until the day when the humans return, because they were all human creatures.

Although one of them is war, the other is an abandoned expectation, both are things that have been abandoned by humanity.

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During the first year of the wasteland, weeds grew to the door of the hut, forcing Hatsuwa B3068 to open a stone path to make it easier to walk.

The TL200 lying outside the door seems to be gradually accepted by the weeds, some of which grow under it, and some of which grow between its mechanical joints.

This robot, which used to be so scared of life, is surrounded by life after it is closed. If it was still conscious, I don't know what kind of mood it would have.

In this year, she read a lot of books for the first time, and at first she liked to read allusions to God, perhaps because in these allusions, there was always a mention of the birth of man or the reason for man and good and evil, which would give her a special sense of substitution.

However, the books in the ruins were limited, and after she had read the allusions to the gods, she gradually began to come into contact with some other books.

These books tell about the origin of man from apes, about the evolution of life that is more rational, about more human thinking, and about more knowledge of human society.

These knowledge and opinions were all familiar to Chu Zhi's eyes, and she seemed to have been exposed to and understood them a long, long time ago, when she was still a human being.

When reading books, Chu always had a feeling that her memories as a human being were slowly loosening and waking up.

The memories she had sealed away in the almost never-ending slaughter of the Apostolic Wasteland.

When she reads about what life is, what is human beings, what is thought, what is emotion, she always has a longing, a desire to recall her past, to recall the things she has experienced in her memory. She seems to have had all of these things before, especially life and emotions.

But every time she seemed to be about to think about it, there would be an inexplicable throbbing in her heart, and then she couldn't remember anything anymore.

What she didn't know at first was that when she remembered everything, it might be the most painful time for her.

Maybe it's just a way for her to subconsciously protect herself, so that she can't think of anything.

B3068 likes to sit next to Hatsu, when he first reads a book.

Sometimes it draws, and sometimes it asks Hatsuku to tell it the story it reads.

At first, his voice was low and hoarse, but he had always listened carefully, word by word, and carefully recorded it in his own storage files.

It never complains about the blandness and shortness of the story at the beginning, it only complains that the time is too short, and sometimes it can't tell a few stories, and a day passes.

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In the fifth year of the wasteland, the meadow had covered the entire hillside beneath the hut.

The hut stood in the middle of the meadow, and in the cracks of the stone slabs, green shoots grew on the soil that held the stone slabs in place.

From a distance, the hut had changed from a dark gray to a gray-green color.

Pale green blades of grass dot the gray stone slabs, just like this meadow on the ruins, with a different kind of heart-warming appearance.

Probably by illusion, the sky has become clearer, and the brownish-yellow fog that used to envelop it has faded a lot.

The blue sky makes people want to look up, imagine the endless universe beyond the sky, imagine that they are drifting in this universe.

The TL200's body was almost covered in weeds, and even on its shoulders, the muzzle of the rusty machine gun mount had green blades of grass shaking.

I can't remember when it started, but there seemed to be some other life in the meadow, I don't know if it was insects or what, only that they would chirp in the evening, making the silent planet a little more noisy.

I don't know how many times the parts of the B3068 have been replaced, because there are many parts in the factory that can be said to be "brand new", so it looks a little newer now than when we first met.

She learned some simple mechanical knowledge, which allowed her to do some simple maintenance for the B3068 sometimes, and also assemble parts with it when necessary.

However, every time the B3068 is repaired for the first time, it will always spew steam to dissipate heat.

It's not a good phenomenon that the motherboard is always overheating, but I haven't figured out what causes this overheating phenomenon after studying a lot of books.

It can only be said that as the culprit, she is really a little unconscious.

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In the unknown number of years in the wasteland, time has changed almost everything.

At the edge of the ruins of the city, the entire wasteland has been covered with weeds, and sitting on the hillside, you can't see the end of the shallow grass at a glance.

In the middle of the city, vines and other plants also grew between the ruins, and the spreading green obscured the ruins.

The sky was clear and clean, and the white clouds were drifting lazily, as if people had long forgotten their once dull appearance.

In the river next to the hut, a few patches of aquatic plants floated on the water, and with the ups and downs of the water, some unknown creatures could be faintly seen swimming among the stones on the riverbed.

Too many things have changed, and they have become completely different from what they used to be.

And in this meadow, the only thing that hasn't changed is probably the small stone house and the two people living in the stone house.

"Squeak. ”

In the meadow, an insect lies on a blade of grass, vibrating its wings and making bursts of chirping.

Inside the stone house, B3068 stepped out of the door, looking at the world with its green eyes.

It has seen with its own eyes all the changes in this world, from the ruins of nothing to the present.

It's been regularly checking the environment and watching everything get better.

It's been a few months since the last testing environment, and today should be the time for another inspection.

Judging by the results of the last time, maybe today will be the last.

B3068 looks at the grass, where Hatsumasa is also staring at it.

The sun shone on Hatsu's body, and the breeze blew through her black hair.

"Didi. ”

B3068 seemed to smile and waved his hand to Chu, with green eyes with the expectation that never changed.