Black Cloud City is located in the ruins of the middle of the city. This was originally the central control building of Black Cloud City. All the mechanical terminals of Black Cloud City are integrated here, controlled by a supercomputer.

The central building, which had reached into the sky, had been completely destroyed 500 years ago, and was now in moss-covered ruins.

Directly below the ruins is a huge space.

The original light curtain in the space has been extinguished ninety percent, and the bright space has become dim.

Tortureblade lay pale on a shabby mattress, blood pouring from the corners of his mouth. There are three scratches under the left ribs that seem to have been scratched by a bear's paw.

The three scratches had stopped bleeding, but the pitch-black wounds indicated that the tissues were completely necrotic.

The wound under the ribs did not attract the attention of the torture blade. All his spirit was gathered on his left arm.

At this point, the entire left arm of the Torture Blade took on a crimson color. The tissues under the skin were as if they had been hit by something, leaving a faint bruise.

The left arm was constantly trembling, and even the iron will of the torture blade could not be controlled.

Xia looked at the torture blade worriedly on the side, and asked in a trembling voice, "Who beat you like this?" ”

Torture Blade said lightly, "I was bitten by a crow." ”

Charles came over with a long cable in tow, then took the knife and said, "Here we go." ”

Torture Blade nodded, looked at Xia calmly, and said, "They found your location. You'd better get out of here with the Charles in a moment. ”

Tick tock...

The sharp knife sliced into the skin of the blade, cutting through the high-temperature scorched tissue, and blood fell down the bright red wound to the ground.

Xia hurriedly turned his face away. This situation hurts to him.

Torture Blade was very calm, as if he had no intuition, and his brow did not furrow.

Xia looked elsewhere and said lonely, "I can't go." The Shire must be connected to this central computer in order to survive. If she disconnects, she loses herself. ”

"Losing yourself?" Tortureblade heard it and said he didn't understand.

As Charles stitched up his wounds, he said, "I have feelings, not only for the ability of this crystal, but also for the storage and analysis of the vast amount of information in the database. The combination of the two is what I am today. As soon as I got out of the database, I lost all my memories and became a robot without consciousness. ”

The wound was stitched up, and the torture blade casually got up to wipe the blood from under the ribs. The eyes without waves looked at this dependent man and machine, and after a long silence, he suddenly asked, "How long have you known each other?" How did you meet? ”

"How long? It's been almost forty years. Xia said with a warm face.

Charles corrected, "Thirty-eight years and two hundred and seventy-seven days. ”

Xia said with a look of reminiscence: "It was when I was six years old. I grew up as a wild child living in the wilderness, and was later caught by a mining company to mine. ”

"Mining Company!" A flash of blood flashed in Tortureblade's eyes.

Xia didn't pay attention to the appearance of the torture blade, and said to himself, "In another accident, I was burned on my face. The group thought I was too scary and too good to eat, and they left me here as they passed through Black Cloud City. ”

"I was hungry, scared, and even a little desperate. I know how terrifying the wilderness is, and I know how powerful madmen are. After a day of hunger, I got lost while looking for food in Black Cloud City. For the next few days, I wandered cautiously around the Dark City. Drink some rain and eat some weeds and bugs when you're hungry. ”

"Just when I felt that I couldn't live, I suddenly saw a figure also wandering around the city, and I was overjoyed, thinking that I had found my kind, and hurried over."

Xia said this, with an excited face.

"When I ran over, I didn't see a person. It's a rag robot. It was in tatters, and there was not much left of the metal-covered artificial skin. The joints of the whole body are also covered with rust. On the bare head is only a clump of fluffy grass that symbolizes hair. I cautiously walked over and found that the robot's body, though tattered, had beautiful turquoise eyes. ”

"That's Charles." Xia said, smiling and holding Charles's hand.

Charles went on to say, "I wasn't conscious at the time, looking at this thin, frail child. I couldn't see anything at the time, but now I think about it. At that time, Xia Shuang's eyes were full of joy and joy, which was an indescribable joy. ”

・・・・・

In the ruins of the ruined Black Cloud City. The ragged robot looked down at the skinny child and asked, "Aren't you afraid of me, human?" ”

The child shook his head excitedly and said, "Don't be afraid! Unafraid! ”

"Why aren't you afraid?"

"Because you are very clean and kind. I thought I was the only one who was abandoned by the whole world. I didn't expect you to be too. The child's immature voice came.

The robot looked at the child and made a mechanical voice, "You're not trying to steal my crystals, are you?" ”

When the child heard this, he hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, we are friends, and I will not snatch your things." ”

"Friends? What is that? The robot asked.

The child thought for a moment and said, "It's a good relationship, and I don't understand the specifics." ”

The robot didn't sense the child's malice, so it nodded and said, "Let's go, it's been a long, long time since I've seen anything that moves." ”

"For a long time? How long? ”

"Four hundred and sixty-three years."

So, a dilapidated robot and a skinny and ugly child wander around Black Cloud City together.

The run-down robot has a hidden place to keep your child safe.

And the child uses his little hands to clean the rust and dirt from the robot every day. Then, once again, the child inadvertently plugged the cable of the main program into the robot's body.

From then on, the meeting of fates began.

"Charles! Shire! What do you see I found? I found a dress discarded by humans outside the city. You must look good in it! The child came running back with a stained dress and screamed excitedly.

The robotic horror machine had no expression on its face, but its beautiful turquoise eyes were full of joy.

"Charles! Shire! What do you see I found? I found a small piece of artificial skin in a pile of garbage. It must be a good fit on your face. The child's whole body was dirty, and although his face was tired, his eyes were excited.

The robot kindly picked up the child, and the child carefully pasted the yellow gelatinous object on the robot's face.

Little by little, time passed.

The robot is becoming more and more human-like and pretty, and the skinny child is getting bigger and bigger.

The robot is really glad at this time. In the midst of endless loneliness, God bestowed upon her the most beautiful gift of all—family.

And the child also felt very lucky. Abandoned by human beings and surrounded by endless loneliness and loneliness, he can still have such a warm and kind family.

Ten years have passed. The children of yesteryear have become young men. And the robot full of rust and tatters has also turned into a beautiful woman. In addition to taking the bare mechanical head top.

"Charles, when I went out to look for something yesterday, I saw a large mass of blond hair in one place. It's dirty, but a wash will suit you well. There were a few crazy people guarding yesterday, I'm going to check it out today. The child said with a smile.

The robot listened and held the child's hand worriedly and said, "This is not important, you must not do anything!" ”

The child touched the robot's face and said tenderly, "Charles, I will never let you go back to that eternal loneliness, don't worry." ”

The child went out this time, and he went out for ten days.

The robot has been extremely anxious for the past ten days, and she has wanted to pull these threads countless times and go out to find the child. But she was afraid that if she pulled out these threads, she would lose these incomparably precious memories and consciousness.

Even robots can't survive the abyss of loneliness.

Just when the robot senses despair, the child returns.

But at this time, the child did not have a leg, and his left hand was covered with blood and worn skin. It looks like he came back crawling on his hands.

But he didn't feel any pain at all, instead raised the blonde hair in his hand that had been stained with his blood and said, "Charles! Shire! What do you see this is? This blonde hair must suit you perfectly. ”

In an instant, the robot felt a burst of emotion in his heart that he had never felt before, and then. A pair of turquoise eyes actually left two crystal tears.

The child who lost a leg was inconvenienced, but he still put the large blond hair on the robot's head in a clear and clean manner.

Every morning, the robot sits on the steps, and the child sits behind him, combing the robot's blonde hair with a happy face.

"It's like I'm walking out of Black Cloud City and looking at the world outside." The robot said something inadvertently.

But just this random sentence made the child remember it in his heart.

"Charr, one day, I will take you out of Black Cloud City to see the human world outside." The child swore silently in his heart.

Later, the children, with their mutilated bodies and worn-out crutches, spent more than a month going to nearby cities, looking for ways to bring human insights and interesting stories to the robots.

Every time he comes back, the child brings something new and interesting. But every time he came back, the child's body was weakened for a month or two.

Countless times the robot has tried to stop the child from going out. But the child rejects the robot's opinion. Because he knew that he hadn't found a way to get the robot out of Black Cloud City.

・・・・・・

Tortureblade listened to their stories and experiences for more than thirty years. There is warmth, there is worry. But more than that, it was touching and sad.

One is a robot that has been lonely for more than 400 years, and the other is a child who has been instrumented by humans. It is two beings surrounded by loneliness, coming together. But it led to such a touching story.

Tortureblade turned to look at the connection behind Charles. On the other side of the line is a huge black chest on the wall of the huge space.

This box is the central processing unit of the entire Black Cloud City.

"If you export this data to a small disk. Charles should be able to leave this place. Torture Blade said suddenly.

Xia was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked, "Really?" It's true? ”

Tortureblade nodded and said, "It's true." When this hunt is over, I'll help you. ”

After hearing this, Charles and the two immediately hugged each other excitedly, and kept thanking the torture blade.