Chapter 202: I Will Fix You

Pain....

Yunxiao slowly opened her eyes; the feeling of total darkness around her was very familiar.

But this time, there was no 118 to warn her to watch out for dust, no 118 to prop up the debris and carve out a path for her,

Yunxiao felt around her surroundings, then slammed upward twice toward the light; the board covering the hole above her head was pushed open, and Yunxiao slowly moved out of the narrow opening.

She tried to stand, but the intense pain on her body caused her to fail repeatedly.

"Brother.. brother..."

She clutched her injured arm, forcing herself to stand, and anxiously scanned the surroundings, trying to find that familiar figure.

Memory returned to before she lost consciousness: the entire insect nest erupted in fury because of that damned larva, and 118 covered her as she fled outward, but no matter what, they could not shake off the swarm's pursuit.

As that winged insect disaster appeared, it completely drove them into a dead end.

The insect disaster crashed wildly; Yunxiao only remembered being struck by a pile of ruins, and then she lost consciousness....

And now, she emerged from the narrow hole, which meant that 118 had hidden her here while she was unconscious.

The surroundings were utterly silent; the wound on her arm had clotted, and no more blood flowed.

Time.... how long had passed?

Yunxiao's head had not yet fully cleared; she stared blankly at her surroundings, muttering to herself.

Suddenly, a thunderbolt flashed in her mind; Yunxiao instantly reacted, ignoring the pain in her body, and anxiously searched around.

On the ruins, one could constantly see walls corroded by insect blood, shattered carapaces, and the gruesome deaths of the insect creatures.

It was obvious that this area had undergone an extremely brutal battle, yet no matter how she looked, she could not find the person she wanted to see.

Following the insect blood trail, she finally saw a familiar metal component along the road ahead.

Yunxiao stared at that metal component, her eyes wide, her hand trembling uncontrollably, and she slowly picked it up.

This was the component she had just installed on 118 this morning.

"No,.... no....!"

Yunxiao looked ahead; from this point on, large areas of corroded ground appeared, and basically beside each pool of insect blood there would be one or two objects emitting a metallic sheen.

"Don't!"

Yunxiao suddenly went mad and ran forward, passing through the ruins, past a solitary insect corpse, over scattered broken components on the ground, and finally at the end of the road she saw that tattered figure.

118's appearance at this moment was utterly miserable; its mechanical body was torn apart into pieces, various components scattered across the ground, with not a single intact part left on it.

He lay there silently before the massive insect carcass, the paper with abstract stick-figure drawings corroded clean, revealing its original appearance.

The mechanical eye that signified 118 was still 'alive' had gone dark, and a patch of scorched black marked his chest—the core area where the ether fuel tank was located.

Yunxiao suddenly lost all strength, plopping down onto the ground, staring blankly at the shattered figure, and tears fell again uncontrollably....

"Miss, please be careful."

"Miss, my energy is running low."

"Miss, you must stay strong and live on until help arrives..."

Yunxiao's mind kept replaying every word 118 had said, recalling how, during her insomnia, she needed to listen to his steady engine sound to fall asleep peacefully.

All of this... no longer exists.

"118...."

"What should I do... what should I do...."

"Yes.... yes... 118 is a machine! I can fix him!"

Yunxiao's voice trembled as she gently picked up 118's debris from the ground and held it close to her chest....

"I will fix you... I will fix you...."

Yunxiao gritted her teeth, forcing herself to stand; she still had hope—yes, she still had hope!

In the distance was the makeshift trailer 118 used to transport supplies; Yunxiao bit by bit lifted 118's heavy debris and placed it on the trailer.

She hauled the trailer all the way from the massive insect carcass back to her hiding place, and the heavy trailer made pulling it extremely difficult.

"Just... one kilometer...."

Yunxiao gritted her teeth, forced herself to perk up, her small frame dragging the large trailer, continually walking toward the shelter.

Fortunately, she encountered no insect disaster along the way, and Yunxiao smoothly reached her little shelter....

Clang!

Accompanied by a sound like a metal sphere dropping, Xiaoyunxiao's body and 118's head rolled down the steps together.

"Hiss...."

Yunxiao painfully rubbed her injured spot, rubbing and rubbing, until her nose grew sore again.

"Sniffle..."

Yunxiao suppressed her grievance, picked up 118's head, and gently placed it on the table.

Next, she moved 118's debris piece by piece, forcing herself to complete the work.

118 told her to stay strong.

"I can do it... I can do it..."

Yunxiao took a deep breath, using a cloth to wipe 118's head clean bit by bit...

Over a month passed; during this time, Yunxiao stayed in the shelter, attempting to repair 118.

"No good.... why is it still no good..."

Yunxiao looked at the machine painstakingly pieced together before her, and anxiously grabbed her hair.

"Then let's try again...."

Yunxiao opened the mechanic's manual, carefully checking the machine's details she might have missed.

Another few weeks passed, and Xiaoyunxiao still failed....

「I need the energy core of a housekeeping robot.. 」

At this moment, Yunxiao, due to staying up late for a long time, already had faint dark circles under her eyes.

The shelter had no energy core; she needed to... go to the dangerous outside to search.

Having made up her mind, Yunxiao had just opened the shelter's door when several Insect Disasters locked eyes with her.

Clang!

(Finally finished writing, the ginseng is about to become empty....)

(Everyone, godfathers, what should I eat for kidney deficiency? Any good suggestions?)