Chapter 200: She Knows Everything

Bro.. brother, how do you feel?

118 looked at his own ill-fitting mechanical leg, stood up, and gave it a try.

"Answer: Barely usable, Miss."

His body had already gone off in an abstract direction, never to return....

"Alright..."

Yunxiao looked at that shoddy mechanical leg, and an unbearable discomfort welled up inside her.

118's body was gradually deteriorating, she knew, she had always known.

118's energy was also being constantly depleted, she knew, she just never wanted to think about it.

She feared that if she asked, she would get a despairing answer.

It seemed that as long as she didn't ask, 118 would never run out.

But....

In the recent battle, 118 lost an original mechanical leg, and this once again ignited her worries....

The original mechanical materials on 118's body simply could not be forged under the workshop's rudimentary conditions.

And the substitute parts currently installed on 118 will likely break before long.

"What to do...."

Yunxiao was so anxious she kept biting her thumb, while 118 beside her continued to process the bodies of the Insect Disaster.

Turning their flesh into long-lasting preserved smoked meat is a necessary measure.

Yunxiao watched 118's busy figure, forcibly suppressing her inner soreness, and began helping 118 process the bodies of the Insect Disaster.

But as they worked, tears kept falling uncontrollably.

She knows everything.

118 felt that she wasn't making a fuss because she still hoped her parents would come to rescue her, and that the Federation would also come to rescue her.

In fact, she had long known that her parents would never return, and she had long been alone with only 118....

"Why... why has it come to this?"

"Even brother... is he going to leave me too?"

Tears kept sliding down her cheeks, Yunxiao's movements grew slower and slower, from initial intermittent sobs gradually turning into loud wailing.

"Miss?"

"Don't leave me! Don't leave me!"

"Brother! Please...."

Yunxiao flung herself into 118's embrace, ignoring the sensation of the hard steel, and just cried.

118 froze for a moment, his slightly rusted mechanical hand paused, then slowly placed on Yunxiao's head, imitating Yun Sheng's way of rubbing.

"Miss, I am merely machinery; you need not grieve for me."

"You're talking nonsense!!!"

Yunxiao punched 118's chest armor, producing a thud.

"You are my brother! Not some machine!"

"Miss, physically speaking, I am indeed machinery."

"You are not!"

"I am."

"You are not!!!"

Yunxiao kept arguing with 118 about the concept of 'machinery,' which also reminded 118 of how little Yunxiao used to defend herself, and how she is still the same today.

"Say after me! I am human!"

"You are human."

"Ahhh! Brother! You're cheating!"

"Answer: Miss, I have not, I am merely exploiting a loophole in the text."

"You're bad!"

"I am not bad."

"Ahhh!"

118 teased the adorable Xiaoyunxiao with words, watching her gradually go mad, and the Logic Core inexplicably rose a hint of pleasure.

And Yunxiao, being teased by 118 like a fool, had her inner sorrow dispelled by 118's words; now she only wants 118 to acknowledge that she is her kin.

Thus the person and the machine bickered on, from dissecting insect corpses to bringing insect meat home, everything was completed unconsciously.

"Mechanical Age Year 101: This is your second year staying in the disaster zone; now your energy remains at only 38%, and if nothing unexpected happens, you can still accompany Yunxiao for nearly a year."

"Although the solar energy rate is indeed much slower, relying on solar energy still extends your standby time by two months."

"Besides that, the other parts on your body have begun to show various malfunctions of different sizes, but fortunately Yunxiao's mechanical aptitude is not bad, and it somewhat manages to solve your problems."

"Now, your legs are no longer original parts, but are assembled from various pieces Yunxiao found in the Ruins; however, for you, the mechanical limbs made by Yunxiao are not only roughly crafted, lacking skill, but even the wiring may be connected incorrectly."

"But it seems there is a mysterious force that allows you to use these faulty mechanisms without any effect; however, this is hard on Yunxiao, who feels immensely guilty when she sees you using those faulty limbs."

"You never told her about your bodily abnormalities, simply thinking it was due to aging parts, so you didn't take it to heart; but seeing Yunxiao study mechanical knowledge more diligently, you instead think it's a good thing."

Another two and a half months passed....

"Remaining energy reserve: 30.5%"

"Average daily consumption: 0.1%"

"Time.... is getting less and less..."

118 looked down at Yunxiao, wearing only an undershirt, clanging away at the iron, and the Logic Core sighed.

"The growth of human infants is really fast."

"118 made a rough calculation that in one year's time, Yunxiao had actually grown a full 11 centimeters, and she is now only just over twelve years old, just a little girl."

"It's time to work."

"The electricity stored in the solar panels was completely used up, and 118 went down from the roof to begin their busy work."

"Re-cooking the food supplies that were about to expire and turning them into canned food for storage, this is also a backup plan 118 prepared for Yunxiao."

"Looking at the canned food they had made covering an entire wall, the words 'sense of achievement' appeared in 118's Logic Core."

"But at the same time, they felt that Xiaoyunxiao was really easy to raise."

"Most of the supplies scavenged from various places were snacks."

"Xiaoyunxiao's favorite snack is a strange canned food made by mixing potato chips with various weird snacks, for example: chocolate potato chip canned food, peach potato chip canned food, peanut potato chip canned food."

"Except for the peanut potato chip canned food, none of the others are normal, but Xiaoyunxiao really likes to eat them."

"After dealing with this batch of food about to expire, 118 also carried out: preparing experimental mechanical parts for Xiaoyunxiao, preparing materials for Xiaoyunxiao, and other work."

"As night fell, 118 routinely took out the old radio to try to get outside news."

"For over two years, what came out of the radio had always been the Federation's collapse, Insect Tide smart machinery, etc., and it never changed."

"But today, the radio suddenly broadcast new content...."

"\"I am the New Federation Government! I am the New Federation Government! \""

"\"Humans have not gone extinct; we are gradually launching recovery operations on the surrounding disaster-stricken planets..... \""

"(Cough, I thought I could write about knives today, but it seems I misjudged!)"

"(All you godfathers! Big Mouth Zhang! Let's feast heartily!)"