The desert is always very cold at night, and in such a desolate place, it should be common knowledge that the temperature difference between day and night is large. The ocean of yellow sand stretches almost as far as the eye can see, and the occasional jagged boulder looks like an iceberg in the sea.

However, it was not completely dark, in the middle of the desert, a wall was erected, and the lights in the city seemed to reflect the starlight. In the center of the whole city is a plane wreckage, and the people around it seem to have long been surprised, and stone buildings are built around the plane wreckage in the center, as if they are worshipping the statues left by ancient civilizations.

The streets and buildings are distinct, each piece as if it had been prescribed on the circuit board, and although the people in the city always look tired and dirty, the city still seems at least somewhat orderly. Tall mechanical bodies roamed the streets, the liveliest of which were the underground malls, taverns, and casinos, the children went home early, the wind and sand in the evening whipped up the distant roar, the soldiers in the watchtowers patrolled back and forth in their prosthetic bodies on the city walls, and the lights of the watchtowers flashed through the desert darkness over the wriggling living dead.

Drunken people staggered through the dirty streets, and the warblers in the night wore thin clothes, the key parts of their bodies were like threads under the clothing, and they lit a cigarette and leaned against the wall, intentionally or unintentionally hooking their eyes to passers-by. A young man hurried out of the alley with a bag on his back, wearing a black hood, and his steps hurried, walking with the usual pace of a man in a desert city.

He walked through the alley, goggles stolen the flickering lights in the alleyway, and after turning a few steps, he passed through a narrow but lively underground street, with vendors and crowds of people. There were a few stalls with mechanical prosthetics hanging from them, and the bosses sat in small booths with virtual screens lit up in front of them.

Eventually, he stopped in front of a moving residential building, which was the most common low-rise building in desert city, the house number in front of the door had long been unclear due to the wear and tear of the wind and sand, and if he had to say anything different, it was close enough to the wreckage of the plane.

The young man entered the code in front of the iron door, and after the "click" sounded, he looked back at the downtown behind him, and then quickly flashed into the corridor and walked in the direction of the basement.

When he pushed open the last door, a cold wind blew out of the door, he pushed the goggles up, and took off his mask, revealing a pair of light emerald eyes and dark skin.

He turned his backpack forward, unzipped it, and pulled out a silver-white box from inside, "Hello?" Anyone? ”

The young man took another step forward, and then a faint blue light quickly swept from the top of his head all the way to the soles of his feet, and an electronic male voice sounded in the room, elegant and low, and the voice was very gentle as if to welcome, "Good evening, our husband is busy, you can continue to walk inside, thank you very much for visiting tonight." ”

"That...... Brother Zhang asked me to bring things here, and he said that there was a very powerful 'doctor' here. ”

He swept stiffly in front of him, the lights turned on, and the electronic voice replied, "Yes, but we prefer to call him 'Prosthetic Engineer'." Please come in guests, it's a little messy, please don't mind. ”

As if to guide him inside, the lights lit up almost as he walked. This basement is full of electronic devices, and wires are intricately distributed in almost every corner. LED lights are on, shining on the machines in the very center.

The young man took a few more steps inside, and passed through the cluster of main chassis stacked like a jungle, and an old chaise longue appeared in front of him, on which sat a little girl of eight or nine years old wearing a red dress with suspenders, the chaise longue was too high for her, her legs hung down, and she swayed casually. She held a lollipop in her left hand and licked it in her mouth, while her right arm rested on the hand of another man in a black T-shirt and goggles beside her.

The electronic male voice said, "Sir, tonight's guest is here, it was Mr. Zhang who introduced him, from the tenth fortress. ”

The man didn't raise his head, just nodded, his gaze focused on the moment, which was a child's prosthetic arm, and the wrist was the entrance, and at this moment the whole thing was opened to reveal the wires and mechanical body inside. The girl blinked at him with the same pale emerald eyes as the youth, and looked at him curiously.

The man was sitting on a barstool, with a stun gun in his hand, carefully soldering a crack in the inside of the girl's arm.

The young man wanted to come forward to say hello, but seeing that he didn't raise his head to concentrate on his work, he didn't dare to speak for a while. Fortunately, he was not in a hurry, and after looking at the situation around him, he stuffed the silver box back into his backpack and waited patiently by standing aside.

In this leisure, his eyes inevitably look around. Next to the recliner was the man's workbench, which looked very cluttered, there were four or five old-fashioned computers, the screen was constantly flashing with data, and several virtual screens were also characters that young people could not understand. There are all kinds of prosthetic parts piled up on the table, some of which are newly produced, and some of which are old more than ten years ago.

The man worked silently, and the only sound in the room was the sound of welding and the noise of electronic fans running. The young man swept the little girl's arm, and after the girl blinked and looked at him for a moment, she suddenly stretched out her hand, handed the lollipop in her hand to the young man, and asked, "Do you want to eat?" ”

The young man glanced at the lollipop that was still stained with her saliva, smiled a little awkwardly, waved his hand and refused. The little girl didn't recognize her life, and said very bluntly, "I haven't seen you here before, new here?" ”

“…… Well. ”

"My name is Mu Sui. You can call me Spikelet. When the little girl laughed, there were still two small pear vortices on her face, and she leaned closer to the young man and looked into his eyes, "You are like me, your eyes are light emerald." Did someone make it for you? ”

The young man subconsciously shrunk his neck at her sudden approach, but after thinking about it, the girl in front of him was only seven or eight years old, and there was nothing to be afraid of, so he returned to normal and replied, "I...... My eyes were infected by splashes before, so I changed my pair. What about you? ”

"My uncle made it for me, my hands, feet, and eyes, all of which my uncle made." Xiao Sui'er took the lollipop into her mouth and looked at the man beside her who had been bowing his head to do things with a smile, "Uncle is a very good prosthetic engineer." ”

The young man did not speak, he always felt that this little girl was not as enthusiastic as this city should be. He can also meet some children in the city, most of them are wearing dirty clothes, running around, and some will even deliberately steal your electronic devices, or follow the robbers to secretly glue some pulse soft bodies to your prosthesis to commit robbery.

"I just told you my name, and you haven't told me what your name is." Spike pursed her lips and looked at her with some dissatisfaction, her thick eyelashes casting a shadow on her face in the light of the L·ed lamp. The young man replied, "My friends call me Dahao." ”

"And what's your last name?"

“…… I don't have a surname, so I'm called Dahao. ”

"You don't have a surname, don't you have a mom or dad? Are you an orphan? ”

Dahao was embarrassed again, he scratched his head and didn't know how to answer for a while. Fortunately, the man had finished the task at hand by this time, closed the little girl's arm, and took off the goggles on his face. His eyes were amber, the same color as whiskey.

He treated the girl in a very gentle voice, and said to her with a little resentment, "Xiao Sui'er, don't be so rude to the guests. ”

Xiao Sui'er looked at him a little innocently, as if she didn't realize how offensive this matter actually sounded to ordinary people, "Because everyone is an orphan, Xiao Sui'er just casually asked......" But she still realized his displeasure on this topic, and asked, "Is it fixed, uncle?" ”

The man nodded, and Xiao Sui'er immediately excitedly stuffed the lollipop back into her mouth and tried her arm, Dahao watched as the little girl's hands suddenly gradually disintegrated, gradually turning into a sharp blade, and then reassembled into something like a mollusk's tentacles.

Xiao Sui'er turned her arms back into her hands again, and happily hugged the man, "This is really cool, uncle!" Spike loves this hand! ”

"If you like it." The man rubbed her head, then put the goggles aside and looked at Dahao, "The tenth fortress is here?" ”

"Hmm. Arrived in the afternoon, that, what do you want......" Dahao pulled out the box from his backpack again, "Brother Zhang said that you need to be in a hurry, so I asked me to send it to you quickly." You see if it's this one, if you feel dissatisfied, Brother Zhang said to change it for you. ”

The man didn't open it for the time being, but put the box on his work desk first, got up, and picked up Xiao Sui'er from the recliner by the way. He politely asked, "Sit down." Want something to drink? ”

Dahao looked at the recliner on the side, Xiao Sui'er noticed his gaze, took the lollipop out of his mouth and said to him, "Sit down, you can't just send something." Rest assured, Uncle is very patient with everyone, no matter what problems you have, Uncle will fix it for you! ”

The man didn't answer Xiao Sui'er's words, but just nodded to him and motioned, "Sit down." Then he walked to the side. You can still see the old-fashioned refrigerator here, and after Dahao sat down on the recliner, he still asked, "That...... What should I call you? ”

The man had already opened the refrigerator at this time, and there was a lot of beer in it, he took out two bottles, and took out another cigarette from the cigarette box on the refrigerator, and lit it in his mouth skillfully.

His indifferent eyebrows and eyes were in a trance between the smoke, "What did Lao Zhang tell you about me?" ”

"Just say you're the best mechanic out there."

Xiao Sui'er immediately reminded with a lollipop in her mouth, "It's a prosthetic engineer." ”

"Yes, Prosthetic Engineer."

The man approached Dahao, handed him the beer in his hand, and said concisely and clearly, "Just call me Brother Hua." ”