Little Robot on the Run

Desert and Rose.

Nan'an followed the instructions and pressed the button of the communicator.

Then, he held it carefully, opened his eyes wide, and said, "I've set it up."

The moment the voice fell, another message was displayed on the screen.

- Don't run around.

- Triple-tap if applicable.

Nan An froze for a moment, not understanding the meaning of this sentence.

In fact, I didn’t understand it before, but it seems that Mr. Communicator will do whatever he says, just like an old friend he knows.

At this moment, there was a roaring sound outside the window.

Nan An: "Wow."

It's a helicopter.

He completely forgot about Mr. Communicator in his hand, lying on the window, looking at the building outside the window.The huge wings of the plane swept across, obscuring the blue-violet light.

As a robot, he has a good impression of all objects with metal shells, so he named it Mr. Airplane just like what he did at the Kepler base.

So, who will Mr. Airplane be carrying?

Nan An frowned.

He didn't know.

But now Mr. Communicator is enough.

Nan An put the fragments of the star lamp into the bag, he was so serious that he didn't notice the change outside the window - at this time, the light of the building dimmed, the huge head floating in the air kept flickering, the lights flickered, It appears that the disturbance of the solar storm has struck.

Just as Nan'an was putting the last fragment into the bag, there was a sudden sound behind him.

"Dong dong dong."

Although subtle, it still spread into Nan'an's auditory nerve.

Without the support of his brain, he couldn't immediately determine the source of the sound, so he put the communicator into the bag, grabbed the door frame, and looked to the other side of the corridor.

A silver-white mechanical species.

It has six mechanical arms, but it looks like a human being. At the neck part, it is a long cross-section, as if it has been bitten by something, exposing blood vessels, and blue-red unknown liquid flows in it, and further up is A person's mouth, nose, and eyes, but near the brain, turned into a silver metal body.

Nan'an looked at the mechanical species without saying a word.

At this time, this combination of human and robot is moving slowly, it looks around, accompanied by the sound of Gerala, searching for some target.

Nan'an took a step back a little later.

He thought for a few seconds and decided to leave this place temporarily.

Accompanied by the noise in the corridor, he quickly packed the cloth bag and stuffed unfinished cookies and bread into it, as well as lubricating oil, recharge pump and other supplies, which were necessary supplies for Nan'an's escape.

The noise is approaching.

Nan'an hid behind the small kitchen.

He held his breath and stayed very quietly, trying to escape quietly after it left.

But in just a few seconds, a loud noise sounded not far behind him!

Immediately afterwards, he heard the sound of mechanical objects rubbing against the floor, and the scratching of the wall, just like this, passed into his ears very clearly, and it became louder and louder——

Nan'an suddenly stopped.

Before I could turn around, there was another loud bang.

The iron door behind him was knocked open by the robot, and suddenly a gust of wind blew up, and the robot appeared in front of Nan'an with a smile on his face!

It wasn't until this moment that he saw the real face of the robot—the terrifying silver-white body with rotten flesh, sticky engine oil dripping down the tip, ticking and spreading to his feet.

Nan'an could hardly think, and the moment he stepped back, the mechanical arm slammed down!

With a bang, the cloth bag was split open, and everything was scattered on the ground in an instant.

Nan An was completely stunned.

Seeing that the robot was about to wave his arm again, he almost didn't think about it. He rushed directly to the position under the tip, picked up the communicator, and ran towards the door.

But the sound behind him remained the same, the robot crushed the steel bars and spliced ​​them into a long object, and then caught up with him again.

Nan'an took a small breath. As a robot that lost his brain, he even lost the ability to resist, and he couldn't transform into a hard robot form.

Thinking of this, he seemed to feel a little wronged.

The brain was lost.

And I don't know where it went, and in whose hands.

While thinking, Nan An ran in and out of the apartment building.

The beetle went to nowhere, and there were only puddles of different depths and streets full of garbage in front of it, and the black shadow behind it suddenly approached.

"boom!"

The moment the tip struck again, he hopped onto a moving automated bus.

In just a second, the huge roar of the engine covered everything.

The robot was brought into the bottom of the bus by the speeding bus, and was instantly run over by the wheels. In an instant, the steel became slag all over the place.

The sound of parts sounded faintly, and then disappeared into the sound of rain.

Nan An leaned against the car door, gasping for breath.

There was a long cut in his arm, and blood was oozing out continuously.

The human pain hit, Nan An wiped it with his hands, then took out the communicator, saw the black screen and cracks above, and instantly lowered his head.

Still broken.

Cut off from Mr. Communicator, he became a lonely little robot again.

Nan'an was depressed for a while, and after he calmed down, he still carefully put away the communicator.Just then, he heard a rush of beeps.

He raised his head subconsciously, and his eyes fell on the screen in the cockpit ahead—three hours before the solar storm.

Nan An opened his eyes slightly.

As a little robot, he knows the influence of the solar storm. As long as he doesn't have a brain, the solar ion flow will completely penetrate him, and then become a pile of scrap metal.

But where can he go?

It is impossible for him to resist the flow of solar particles. Without an intelligent brain, he can't resist it at all.

In a daze, a sudden sound of brakes was heard.

Immediately afterwards, there was a sound of puffing - in front of him, all the screens, whether it was the small screen for controlling the driving or the monitoring screen beside him, all lit up with snowflake screens.

In addition, the lights in the compartment also seemed to be disturbed, flickering on and off, and flickering with the sound of electric current.

It might be the reason of the solar storm. An indescribable sense of burnout swept over him, starting from the heart, gradually spreading to the limbs, and then spreading to the fingertips...

After pushing the car door open, he stumbled and fell to the ground, with a few more cuts on his body.It was still raining, and it wet his hair.

The location where the bus stops is a triangular area. After Nan'an stood up, he saw the sign above saying "Triangle Base".

For some reason, the simple four words made him feel a little familiar.

His little hand couldn't help but stroke it slowly.

The breeze lifted his hair, Nan An stood there watching for a long time, for some reason, his eyes turned red.

In memory, something seemed to be awakened.

It was like a long-ago story, a fairy tale, pillowed on the Milky Way, quietly hiding behind the stars, hidden in a distant dream.

In fact, in the past few days, he often recalled some episodes like this.

But it has never been like this before, completely emerged from the vast nebula, and appeared in front of his eyes...

"wait me back."

The man in his memory had said that to him.

At that time, he took the pup and sent him to carry out the recovery task, but watching the other party gradually disappear into the rain, he could only watch, completely helpless.

And now it is.

He couldn't remember who that person was, everything between them seemed to be veiled, and he couldn't restore his memory after losing his brain.

But why did the other party keep appearing in the dream, at this moment?

Nan'an walked into the triangular base, the huge iron shed fell to the ground, and some rotten limbs and parts appeared in front of him.

He took a light breath, dragged his body in, and reached the dome—the underground base had been completely destroyed at this time, leaving only an empty shell of the dome, and the buildings of the base were revealed from below, they were no longer closed, bringing With a non-stop flickering circle of light, it just appeared in the field of vision.

The rain was louder again.

They followed the rebar and wet every place.

Under the rain curtain in the distance, shadows floated among the buildings in the distance, and those robots, conscious robots, and bionics who had not fully evolved appeared among them, as if they were looking for a shelter against the storm.

Just for a moment, there was a loud noise mixed with the sound of glass breaking, and the building collapsed.

But Nan'an no longer cared about these things.

He wanted to find something, a rose hidden in memory.

And scattered memories told him that it existed in the four cities of Rose.

Since there is no way to escape, since the solar storm will definitely hit, let him find this rose before it comes——

It can be regarded as completing the mission of a small robot.

After climbing down the dilapidated iron frame for a while, Nan An barely grasped the edge of a light circle, and with his strength, entered an abandoned twin towers.

It was an empty corridor, pure white, and Nan An just stepped here, seeing the virtual simulation area, a trace of unspeakable emotion enveloped him.

His figure swayed.

Those memories came back to him, he saw the vast sea, the starry sky, the small town and the lighthouse - and at the same time, he had the impression that the man was holding his hand and walking with him through these scenes.

His destination was originally the South.

But because of this person, he gave up the destination of the long journey.

Nan'an took a quick breath, and walked forward slowly, and more memories emerged, with indescribable sourness, completely sweeping him like this.

He came to a deck.

The rain has gradually stopped, and the clouds in the distance are showing a silvery white color. The moment of death of the robot is coming.

But Nan'an couldn't move even a single step. In the end, he still couldn't find the rose.

In his memory, that person once put it in a glass cover and gave it to him in the hospital, just because he once sighed that it was beautiful.

It is indeed beautiful.

It is unique and important to him, just like the one in The Little Prince, it blooms wantonly and is brilliant.

But he can't have it anymore.

He came from the distant 186F base, and when human society appeared, it was in the barren desert.

There are no flowers at all in the desert.

Thinking of this, Nan'an gave up completely. He leaned against the platform, and a wave from the universe covered him, making him lose all strength.

Nan'an took out the communicator at the end.

His voice was weak, but soft, and even in the face of death, he said like coaxing a cub to tell a fairy tale, "Mr. Communicator... I don't know if you can still hear it."

"I still want to, I still want to read The Little Prince to you..."

"Maybe there are five thousand flowers exactly like you in the world, but only you...is my unique rose..."

He kept talking to the communicator, and a strange light came out from the clouds behind him and sprinkled on the ground.

Nan'an's consciousness gradually blurred. At the last moment, he held the communicator tightly, and heard the cracking sound of parts, the roar of the plane resounding through the sky, and——

Nan An suddenly twitched his eyelashes.

As if feeling something, he raised his eyes and looked not far away.

A familiar yet unfamiliar figure.

In the flickering city lights, he met those silver eyes.

For some reason, just looking at each other for a few seconds, big tears fell from his eyes and landed on the communicator.

Nan An stumbled and ran over.

But just a few steps away, the other party directly picked him up and led him downstairs in a hurry.

All of a sudden, countless memories came flooding back.

The days and nights we spent together, the time we spent together, are just a few days away, but it feels like centuries have passed.

They stopped before a circular glass cover.

This is the land pavilion. The closed environment has withstood the attack of the storm, and the virtual rose inside the glass is still blooming, withering, and blooming again.

Lin Ze put down Nan'an and sat down with his arms around him.

And Nan'an was still crying.

He clenched Lin Ze's sleeve tightly, as if he had lost it and found it again, and refused to let go, sobbing softly.

But it was only a few seconds before he raised his head in a daze, stretched out his hand to caress the other's cheek, looked straight into the pair of silver eyes, and then touched the other's mechanical eyes with his fingertips.

Lin Ze looked at him, gently wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said softly, "Don't cry."

"I..." Nan'an's voice was still trembling. He looked at the other party and couldn't help crying, "I thought I'd never see you again..."

Nan An never expected to see him again.

After taking out his brain, he wanted to find a quiet place and disappear in this world forever.

But at the last moment when he left the hospital, he somehow took the communicator with him.

He obviously can do without it.

Obviously it disappeared forever.

It seems that in the dark, he still has a little hope, they will be the same as before, Lin Ze is still a big bad scientist, and he can also be a carefree little robot.

Nan'an's eyes were red again, and when he came back to his senses, he saw the other party kissing him lightly, his movements were so gentle, starting from the eyebrows, moving down the cheeks, and finally reaching the upper lips.

This time, Nan'an didn't dodge, his eyelashes still had tears, so he raised his head slightly, closed his eyes and responded to Lin Ze.

Their lips and teeth collided, and the light and shadow behind them passed through the tip of their noses and fell on the rose in the glass cover.

Roses do bloom in the desert.

It circles among the stars, in the long time and the galaxy, just to find the best moment to bloom at that moment.

And he finally found the rose that belonged to him.

The author says:

There is still one chapter before the end, thank you for your support-partially excerpted from Antoine's "The Little Prince".