The young man's body flowed with the light cast by the virtual screen, and he lay down on the old chaise longue with some uneasiness at the man's command. The basement was filled with the usual dry smell of the desert, and a smell he didn't understand.

I can't tell, with a hint of sweetness and fishy sweetness, different from the fortress he lived in in the past. The man was opening his arms, his skin completely replaced by machinery, and the muscles below were mechanical components. The engineer was always silent as he worked, so the voice of a little girl echoed in the room.

Xiao Sui'er was like an ordinary child sitting on the high chair that Murong Yuhua had made before, constantly rotating back and forth with her little red leather shoes on the ground. She asked Dahao curiously, "Is the Tenth Fortress far from here?" How did you get here? Aerocraft? Underground tracks? Drive? You wouldn't come by car, would you? ”

"I didn't dare drive alone. I came by train on an underground track. ”

"Can the underground train go all the way from the Tenth Fortress all the way to this side? It's amazing. Xiao Sui'er said, looking up at the man next to her, "Uncle will take me to take the train on the underground track when you will take me, Xiao Sui'er hasn't seen it yet!" ”

Murong Yuhua didn't speak, but quietly dismantled the young man's mechanical arm little by little with goggles, and then carefully took out a chip the size of a fingernail from the deepest peeled part with tweezers.

The young man didn't know what to say, but in order to let the other party know better, he still said, "I use the T1174 model." ”

"I know. However, it is a very old model, and if I am not mistaken, you should not be as old as this model. Murong Yuhua slowly pulled the other part of the wire over while digging the welding gun deep in.

Dahao nodded, "There is no Sky City near the Tenth Fortress. When I was a child, most of the prosthetics were shipped from the Twelve Fortresses, and there were no latest models. And...... The zombies around there have been almost cleaned up, and we have nothing to exchange with Sky City. ”

When he said this, the young man felt that the man seemed to be getting more and more dull. Spike was holding her lollipop in her mouth, her eyes flickering. As if to break the deadlock, she still took the initiative to say first, "Uncle said, the first ten fortresses are all far away from here, are there no zombies over there?" ”

"The overall level of governance over there is okay, and there are basically no zombies. But...... Strangely, although there are no zombies anymore, there are still a few towns that have been breached by zombies for some reason. Dahao said, his eyes always glanced at Brother Hua intentionally or unintentionally, and he said, "Brother Zhang asked me to come to you, in addition to asking you to help repair my device, there is one more thing." ”

"Needless to say, I know. When the time comes, you can bring the things to Lao Zhang, and you don't have to worry about anything else. Murong Yuhua put the chip he took out into the box on the side, and after saying this, he didn't answer any more questions from the young man. When he spoke again, he had already closed Dahao's arm again, "Okay, get up." ”

He stood up, took off the goggles on his face, went to the work desk to the things that Dahao had brought him, and walked deeper into the basement by himself. Dahao sat there very embarrassed, but fortunately, the electronic voice sounded again: "Please, guest, it is a little difficult to leave the city tonight, Sir has prepared a place for you to stay, and you can embark on the journey after sunrise tomorrow morning." ”

Xiao Sui'er walked up to him with a lollipop in her mouth and stretched out her hand, "Come, I'll take you there, Zhu Li can only talk, there is no way to take you around like me." ”

The electronic voice replied, "Spike, it's not like I'm completely unable to move." ”

"You just can't now, anyway. Come, Brother Hao, I'll take you to your room! ”

Xiao Sui'er took Dahao's hand very enthusiastically and walked forward. Her little leather shoes clicked on the concrete floor in the basement. The room was on the other side of the corridor in the basement, and Spike led him out of the first door of the basement, then turned to the left, and the whole corridor was lit only by the dim old lights on the overhang, and there were no other residents except the two of them.

Spike led him to stop in front of an old-fashioned white wooden door, "There are toiletries inside, and Juri will tell you how." If you are hungry in the evening, you can also tell Juri that he will have dinner for you. Then I'm leaving, Brother Dahao, bye-bye! ”

After Dahao walked through the door, he listened to Xiao Sui'er's words and hurriedly turned around and waved to her. The little girl sprang away, leaving him alone in front of the door of what looked like a hotel. The voice of the electronic AI sounded again, "As she said, if there is any need, as long as you say it, we will try to accommodate you." The earliest bus tomorrow is at 7 a.m., and I can set an alarm for you if needed. ”

Dahao put down his backpack and sat on the edge of the bed stiffly, "No need, I'll arrange it myself tomorrow." ”

"Okay, then I hope you can get a good night's rest. Good night. ”

After saying this, the original flickering lights also dimmed. The sound of Spike's jumping footsteps gradually disappeared at the end of the corridor. Dahao finally closed the door completely after stepping into the room. He walked back to the bed, but didn't notice that the moment he closed the door, a white mist slowly dispersed from the bottom of the wall of the room, but unfortunately, it was too secret to be noticed.

The day was long and tiring, and after the white mist cleared, Dahao quickly fell asleep in his bed. Until a second before he lost consciousness, a question echoed in his mind - why did the girl named Xiao Sui'er seem to never eat the lollipop in her mouth?

Unfortunately, no one will answer him this question anymore.

The little girl in the red dress opened the door, and she jumped with the lollipop in her mouth and headed deep into the basement. However, the moment she reached the end, there were steps that gradually led to the ground.

The skylight at the top of the stairs opened with a slight push, and Xiao Sui'er pushed the door open and climbed out of the basement, and in front of him was the wreckage of the plane in the middle of the city, from which the whole city could be seen almost as a whole. After nightfall, the whole starry sky is bright, and in the final analysis, the light and fire of the city are still too weak, and there is no way to compete with the whole starry sky for the time being.

Xiao Sui'er heard from her uncle that in the old civilization era, cities were connected to cities, and lights were connected to lights. At that time, there was no starry sky in the city, and only in the countryside, in the fields, in those dimly lit places, could you see such a starry sky.

But it has been a long time since human society has seen such a flourishing scene. Half a century has passed since the old civilization, and there is not much left of mankind, and although the situation is improving, there is still little hope.

Spike climbed into the cabin, half of which was sliced away, leaving the remaining half almost completely exposed. The seats in the cabin were old and dark red, apparently the marks left by the dead in the crash. Xiao Sui'er smelled the smell of smoke and walked cautiously forward, and finally found her uncle in the front row of the plane.

The man sat back in his chair, his cigarette in one hand and the chip in the other. Xiao Sui'er sat down beside him, "I'll put him to bed, uncle." ”

"Hmm."

"When he wakes up tomorrow, he shouldn't remember what happened here at all, and then he can just let Juri send him home." Xiao Sui'er took the lollipop in her hand, "Uncle, did he bring what you wanted?" ”

Murong Yuhua looked at the chip, and after a long time, he directly extinguished the cigarette on the chip. The copper core in the center of the chip immediately melted. He shook his head and took a sip of his beer, "Tenth Fortress doesn't have what we want. ”

Xiao Sui'er heard him say this, her expression was also a little lost, she was a child, but she sighed like an adult, and her tone was no longer as innocent as before, "Uncle Zhang has run more than a dozen fortresses, but he has not found a chip that can be stored until now." How much time do we have? Even if we keep looking, we may not be able to find what we are looking for. ”

"But if we can't find the right memory hardware, we won't be able to continue our project at all."

Xiao Sui'er raised her head to look at the starry sky, and during this time period, people in the city gradually returned home and chose to rest. Prepare to leave the city-state the next day, destroy the zombies around you, and fight for your own life for the prosthetics" But 'they' will never have much time left for us. We've got to do both, uncle. If we keep hoping for something that may not exist at all, we can only remain passive. As you know, it's impossible to match the technology level of Sky City on the ground - no matter how much you look in the outskirts, we may not be able to find the storage you're looking for. ”

"At least there is still time, and since there is time, try to face them in full stance."

"What if it happens suddenly, we can only act now? You know some of them are dead......"

"I won't allow it." Murong Yuhua drank the last sip of wine, smashed the wine bottle downward, the sound of breaking exploded in the ruins, he got up and walked to the skateboard that he had been visiting in the corner, and glanced back at the little girl, "To act rashly is to risk Gu San's life." You know I can't do something like that. ”

"Then you don't think you're taking an adventure now, uncle?" Xiao Sui'er said, and followed him over, holding a lollipop and stretching out his hand, the skateboard fan in Murong Yuhua's hand gradually rotated, and the lollipop in Xiao Sui'er's mouth gradually melted, and the liquid instantly flowed down her hand, and the next moment, her body gradually became transparent, as if it gradually turned into a gust of wind to accompany Murong Yuhua.