At some point, the sky was covered by dark clouds, and a few dazzling lightning bolts pierced the sky, and as the rumbling thunder rolled by, a trace of rain fell in a stream.

On the side of the road, a dim streetlamp as lifeless as the weather spreads to both sides.

Occasionally, three or two drunks walked by with wine bottles hooked on their shoulders, staring at the empty streets in a daze.

Ma Ping'an looked up at the sky, cursed in a low voice, pulled up his clothes to cover his head and ran forward a few steps, jumped onto a mechanical car that was in tatters and even half of the engine cover was missing, and skillfully connected the two wires under the steering wheel, and the car suddenly started with a bang.

Hu Si followed out of the courtyard and called again, "Brother Ma..."

He hurriedly locked the door behind him, and before leaving, he didn't forget to kick the door, and a trace of blue electric light, which was so dim that it was difficult to detect even at night, suddenly flashed on the façade.

Ma Ping'an pressed the horn dissatisfied, urging: "Hurry up, hurry up... Just looking at the door, a mecha came, and the walls on all sides were not broken with a single stab... What's the use of that..."

Hu Si hurriedly ran over, climbed into the car, and smiled: "Who would use a mecha to patronize such a place... But for the little thief, it's called being prepared... Gone, gone..."

Ma Ping'an rolled his eyes helplessly, found a rag to plug a hole in the roof of the car that was constantly dripping, and complained: "Damn, let you modify the car, how can you not do it decently, every time it rains, it is not much different from a convertible." ”

Hu Si's face was full of grievances: "Brother Ma, this is what you want me to do, what do you say about good performance, but also inconspicuous..."

"A pile of broken copper and iron can run so fast, is this not remarkable?"

Ma Ping'an scolded in a low voice, stepped on the accelerator, and rushed out.

In the sound of clanging, the broken car miraculously ran fast.

In a matter of seconds, the pointer on the speedometer reached the end of the right, and the black body was like a monster, rumbling and speeding away in the rain.

Ancient zoo ruins

Thousands of years ago, animal cages are still scattered among the weeds, and among the dense bushes, the shadows of a few concrete houses occasionally appear, but they are also dilapidated.

Fortunately, most of these houses were built and watered, and although they are dilapidated, the overall structure has remained intact after thousands of years, so they have been used as shelters by some people who are so poor that they don't even have a place to live.

It is said that it is a residence, but in fact, it is more appropriate to describe it as a wreckage.

There is absolutely no door or window in these houses, and those holes that should be doors and windows can be decently polished with paper.

In the house, as long as there is a little bit of value, all the decorations have been stripped away, and there are many, even the roof is gone, the 'skylight' is empty, and when it rains, only the thick branches on the top can cover it.

Speaking of which, this kind of rotten place can no longer be rotten, but it is also the safest place in the western suburbs.

Because most of the people who live here are so poor that all their belongings are a pair of pants.

Even those ruthless ruffians and gangsters who claim to be able to scrape off the flesh of mosquitoes can't squeeze a little juice out of them.

So no one is interested in taking it for their own.

It is about 20 kilometers from Longhua Avenue to here, and at this time, the broken car showed its fork.

In the darkness of the night, the rumbling sound was like a hurricane dragging a long tail, and it rushed to the front in an instant from a distance.

It's so fast that even the supposedly state-of-the-art hovering sports car has to bow down.

After knocking down three small trees and flying a piece of tattered fiberboard next to the rubble, there was a tremor that seemed to fall apart, and when everything had subsided, the broken car finally stopped in front of a small room with a snort.

Judging by the newness of the newspaper pasted on the windows, the room was quite 'well-decorated'.

Ma Ping'an pressed the saddle and flipped out of the car, and happily 'walked' in through the window.

Hu Si was not as good as him, and followed in through the straight door that opened on the side with a smile.

"Oops! Little Bunny! Lao Tzu's window paper is new! Ouch... My new table..."

An old man rushed out of the house, picked up the piece of fiberboard that had been smashed into several pieces, and shouted and cursed in pain.

The old man was white-haired, shriveled and thin, wearing a suit that had not been washed for an unknown amount of time, wiped the spit from his mouth with his greasy cuffs, and walked back scolding.

There was no furniture in the house, and a thick layer of hay was laid on the concrete floor.

At this time, Ma Ping'an had already sat up honestly and unceremoniously, staring at Erlang's legs with a surprised expression: "Old man, I haven't seen you for more than two weeks, why haven't you starved to death yet..."

The old man glared at him angrily for a long time, and suddenly lay down on the ground, and cried as soon as his mouth was flattened: "It's almost over, I haven't eaten for three days... Ouch, now I don't have the strength to walk..."

As he spoke, he had fallen limply on the grass, looking like he couldn't even climb.

Ma Ping'an glanced at him, stretched out his legs and kicked him twice: "Don't pretend in front of me, I see that you are quite powerful when you scolded your mother in front of you..."

The old man still had two tears on his face, he lay down and touched his chin, and said with a dry smile: "Hehe, isn't that because I saw you two come to visit me so kindly, I was excited for a while..."

Ma Ping'an sneered: "You have the ability to forge identity chips, will you starve to death here?" Don't talk nonsense with you, have you thought about it? ”

The old man had an aggrieved look on his face: "I really don't lie to you... I picked up that electronic chip, and I don't know how to put it on my hand...

Alas, it would be nice if you didn't go out and wander around... But who would have known that I was so unlucky, and I was found out when I did something bad..."

Ma Ping'an whistled, clapped his hands and stood up, and said, "Okay, okay, since you don't want to tell the truth, I won't ask... Let's go. ”

Without waiting for the old man to reply, he walked to the door by himself, and as soon as he stepped out of the door with one foot, he suddenly turned around with a righteous and awe-inspiring face: "As a law-abiding citizen, I hate your fraud!" Hmph, let the Self-Management Bureau ask you then! ”

He walked out with a puff in his nostrils, Hu Si looked at the old man, but showed a look of unbearability, quietly took out a paper bag from his arms, rested it on the ground, glanced at the old man, and hurriedly followed behind Ma Ping'an.

After a while, there was another roar outside the house, and in the blink of an eye, it was already far away.

The old man ran outside the house, seeing that the car quickly turned into a small black shadow, a trace of excitement crossed his eyes, and muttered: "These two little bastards have some ability, they can modify this car like this..."

When I returned to the house, I looked at the paper bag on the ground, but my face showed a sense of vigilance, I found a branch from the side, and poked it away from a distance.

The old man showed a look of emotion in his eyes, picked up the barbecue, looked left and right, and sighed: "I have to move again... Why can't you live still... But I haven't found that thing yet..."

He listened again until he was sure that the sound of the broken car had completely disappeared, and then he picked up the haystack beneath him.

There is a small bump in the ground under the haystack in an inconspicuous corner, which looks like a flaw that has been accidentally left behind when leveling the ground.

The old man stretched out his hand, pressed it on the bulge, and then twisted it three times to the left and right.

There was an extremely faint rattling sound, and a piece of concrete more than a meter high sank down the wall on the right side of the room, revealing a swarthy hole.

The old man looked left and right, and the cat got in, and soon the concrete rose again, and the wall became so smooth that not even a single crack could be found.

A few minutes later, there was another creaking sound at the door, and outside the house, the broken car did not move so much this time, and stopped quietly at the door.

"There's still a mechanism in this place... I'll see what you're doing this time..."

Ma Ping'an walked in with a pair of glasses on his face and scolding.

As he spoke, he plucked something the size of a grain of rice from the window, and then took off his glasses, and ran to the haystack, and played with the bulge as the old man did.

As soon as the entrance of the cave appeared, he made a gesture and motioned for Hu Si to wait outside, and immediately got in.

At this time, there is already light in the cave, and two meters down is a passage more than one meter high, which leads obliquely down.

Ma Ping'an bent his waist and walked for more than 30 meters, and when he turned a corner, his eyes suddenly lit up, and a large room of several hundred square meters appeared in front of him.

The old man held a bulbous metal body in his hand, and his eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost, "You... How could you..."

"Hehe, I didn't expect it, old..."

Ma Ping'an didn't finish his sentence, but he saw the old man throw the metal ball in his hand to the ground, and jumped to his feet and cried.

"Woooooooooo Why did you come in once, I lived here for seven years and six months before I discovered this mechanism...

Are you smarter than I am? Woooooo

He cried so sadly, tears fell to the ground, making Ma Ping'an dumbfounded, so he could only go over cautiously and gently touch his shoulder: "Hey... I didn't mean to... I'm this... It's just a monitor in your room..."

The old man stopped his tears at once, tilted his neck and asked suspiciously, "Really?" ”

"Really..."Ma Ping'an almost fainted, so he could only nod and hand over the rice-grain-sized thing in his hand: "You see, ultra-miniature monitor, 10 million pixels with infrared night vision system... Good thing, I spent more than 30,000 yuan to get it..."

"Cut!" The old man put the ultra-miniature monitor in his palm and fiddled with it a few times, his mouth grinned, with a look of disdain, but there were tears on his face, which looked a little strange: "This is called ultra-miniature?" Hmph..."

Ma Ping'an's face was flat: "This is the smallest monitor now, and the alliance inspector team rarely can afford it..."

"What a knowledgeless, uninformed fellow..."

The old man shook his head, snorted, ran to the side with his head held high, rummaged through a pile of things for a long time, and then ran back with a box: "Look at it... This is a true ultra-miniature monitor... You're that... Cut, what's it? ”

Ma Ping'an watched the old man open the box, there were a few fine powders inside, if it weren't for the bright lights in this room, his eyes were good, he really couldn't see.

"See? This is the particulate monitor... My latest invention..."

Seeing Ma Ping'an's surprised look, the old man immediately became proud, his head became higher and higher, and his nose almost didn't reach the ceiling.

"Sure enough, it's a master... Haha..."

Ma Ping'an patted him on the shoulder, and laughed: "The old guy really has some ability... It seems that creating a fake identity chip is not a problem..."

"Ahh That one... The old man didn't have a clue for a long time, and said with a depressed face: "You... What the hell do you want to do... I don't have any money, and even if you hand me over to the Self-Management Bureau, you won't do any good..."

"I didn't want to do anything!"

Ma Ping'an patted him on the shoulder vigorously, almost slapping the box in his hand on the ground: "I just feel that you are a talent, so I want you to work for me."

Well, you are well fed and clothed, and you can make good things, and it's no problem to eat abalone every day, and there are bonuses, how about it? ”

Ma Ping'an's eyes are pure and kind, as if he is a great philanthropist.

The old man frowned and looked at him for a long time, and asked hesitantly, "Working for you?" What to do? ”

Ma Ping'an looked into the room, a few hundred square meters of space was full of all kinds of strange instruments, and there was a strange-looking mecha in the deepest part, a little larger than ordinary mechas, and the whole body was a kind of green that emitted a faint fluorescence.

Glancing at the mecha, he said in a very relaxed tone: "You will always be a little bit of modifying and modifying mechas, right?" ”

"No, it won't..."

The old man was quite modest now, and his head shook neatly: "I can write computer programs and tinker with some small electronic things, but I don't know how to be mechanical... If I hadn't fixed that mecha myself, I'd have fixed it myself..."

Ma Ping'an smiled happily: "Just know how to program, my brother is a mechanical genius, you don't have to do that job...

How's it going? It's better to work for me than to stay in a self-management bureau prison, right? Well, it's said that it takes three days to nibble on a dry steamed bun..."

He was afraid that the old man would not agree, so he threatened him a little, and finally added: "Moldy!" ”

The old man's eyes blinked a few times, looked around, flattened his mouth, and said, "Okay then... But I have to stay here..."

"Here? Where the sun doesn't get out of the way every day? Aren't you afraid of mold? ”

Ma Ping'an looked at him strangely, and then looked at the things in the room: "I have a big warehouse, and I can put ten times as many things, anyway, you agree to work for me, isn't it good to live with me?" ”

"No way!" The old man immediately sat on the ground, shaking his head desperately while wiping away his tears: "No, no, no, I have to stay here, and I won't leave if I am killed... Kill me and don't leave! ”

Ma Ping'an was dumbfounded, this old man looks like he is seventy or eighty years old, he cries when he says he cries, he cries when he says he cheats, and he cheats when he says he cheats, the whole thing is no different from a child...

After grinding for a long time, no matter how Ma Ping'an coerced and tempted, the old man just didn't let go, and in the end Ma Ping'an could only reluctantly agree, but looked at the narrow passage at the door, and there was another problem: "Then how can I send the mecha in for you to modify?" ”

The X-5s he had in his hand were more than three meters tall, and the maximum diameter of the tunnel was only a little more than a meter, so it couldn't be stuffed into it even if it was crossed.

"You've discovered this place anyway..."

The old man muttered, ran to the depths of the room, pointed to the back of the green mecha and said, "There is another door here, which usually can't be opened, and that door is open in the Monkey Mountain of the Ancient Zoo... Did you know about Monkey Mountain?

It's a nice place, and there's a row of concrete canopies next to it, and there are several homeless families living next to it...

But when they're gone, they can be sent in through this door. ”

Ma Ping'an followed him over, and sure enough, he found that there was a secret door almost four meters high behind the green mecha, nodded and said, "Okay, that's it, well, it seems that you and my brother have similar interests, I'll call him to accompany you later." ”

He was afraid that the old man would run away, so he still let Hu Si look at it more reassuringly, as for the few homeless people that the old man said, it didn't matter, just let the rhinoceros come and coax them away tomorrow.

Regardless of whether the old man agreed or not, he went up and called Hu Si down.

Ma Ping'an didn't know the goods, but Hu Si was an expert, as soon as he entered the room, he looked left and right, and jumped up screaming.

"It's... What kind of machine is this? Such a small drill bit... Wow, the entire alliance doesn't have such a sophisticated look..."

"Ahhh Where did this computer come from, this... This shell is made of super-silicon synthetic metal..."

"Damn, there's this... Is this a laser splitter... Why does this look like a particle sprayer..."

He scurried around the room like a grasshopper, screaming at the sight of an instrument, and running back at the end, staring at the old man as if he were looking at a monster: "These things are more advanced than the best instruments in the alliance right now... You, you, you... Where did you get that?"

The old man tilted his head to look at him, and said aggrievedly: "These things are already here... This is what was left before the end of the day, and it took me almost a decade to find... As soon as you come..."

As he spoke, his tears were about to fall again.

Hu Si had never seen him like this, and he was suddenly startled: "Don't cry, don't cry... I'm not going to rob you of these things... At most, borrow for use..."

As he spoke, he smiled proudly at Ma Ping'an: "Brother Ma, with these things, the performance of your mecha can be increased by at least 50%." ”

"Before the end? What a monster, it's been over a thousand years, and it's still so well preserved..."

Ma Ping'an looked at the things in the room and muttered in his heart.

He also knew that human technology was much more advanced than it is now, and if it was really like what the old man said, he would have really picked up a treasure this time.

The old man looked at Hu Si, pointed to a few instruments in the room, touched his head, and said, "You have a better conscience than him, well, I'll just use that computer and those things... I wouldn't use anything else... If you want to use it, you can use it..."

As he spoke, he glanced at Ma Ping'an, with a look of 'you are a bastard'.

"Really?" Hu Si put his arm around the old man's shoulders and shouted, "Interesting enough... Well, Brother Ma, I'll move the bunk over later, and I'll live here in the future...

No, no, no, I'm not going to leave here half a step... Trouble Brother Ma to help me run and lie down..."

He looked at Ma Ping'an pitifully, but he couldn't help but feel a burst of excitement in his heart, and he laughed wildly after a while.

Ma Ping'an looked at the two crazy people helplessly, I really didn't know what could be done by letting these two people get together, so I had to pray that they wouldn't blow this up...