The next day, Rong Gui pulled Xiao Mei off from the charger early in the morning. This robot started speaking with a loud voice that didn’t match his tiny body at all: “…I spent the whole night reading. The nutrition in earth beans wasn’t rich, but the range of nutrients contained therein was still quite broad. I say, Xiao Mei – can two of us eat earth beans? – I mean our bodies.”
Xiao Mei, who was pulled off from the charger by Rong Gui, looked at the latter with a kind of gaze…that could even make a robot’s hair stand on end (?). Seeing Xiao Mei with such looks, Rong Gui suddenly had a bad hunch. Indeed –
“It took you a whole night to finish reading merely thirty pages of information. It seems that I need to reevaluate your IQ.”
He knew it!
“Thirty pages are already a lot, okay? And I even took notes!” Rong Gui said, twitching his arms. The two little robots had been standing hand in hand, one’s plug connected to the other’s socket. In this way, not only all data could be conveniently shared between the two, Xiao Mei could also recharge Rong Gui whenever himself was being recharged.
Also because of this, part of the data stored in the two robots had always been in a mutual sharing status, and Xiao Mei could see all changes that Rong Gui made in the notes.
So this time, it’s Xiao Mei’s turn to have a bad hunch.
Of course, Xiao Mei at this time still didn’t know what the “bad hunch” was. He just instinctively felt that something was wrong, until he saw the data marked up messily by Rong Gui, who even doodled a lot of small human figure graffiti on it…
At this moment, that part of Xiao Mei which used to belong to His Majesty Asheville Methentahl went furious.
Yet, he was no longer “His Majesty” who could put people to death by a mere flash of thought. The consequence of his fury was that he threw his entire body upon Rong Gui – and used the most primitive means to attack the latter.
Then –
He was counterattacked.
And then, His Majesty lost.
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His head fell off, and one of his legs fell off, too. He was stepped on by Rong Gui right into the earth bean field.
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“Don’t fight with me! You have no chance to win. To tell you in private, although my abs were inseparable from my diligent daily workouts, at least four of them were the result of fighting with others every day before then…” Rong Gui told him a small secret.
So that’s it. It’s the difference between their fighting skills. Xiao Mei thought, screwing his head back onto his neck. After this brief interlude, he eventually found Rong Gui’s strength (?) and thereby began to examine the “notes” which the other left on his chip.
It’s a set of comprehensive caregiver notes – caregiver notes for vegetative patients, including how to feed patients, how to turn patients over in bed, and how to massage their bodies…
Unlike the usual summary of caregiving key points, the notes created by Rong Gui even had a section dedicated to muscle recovery.
“Don’t underestimate my notes~ I accidentally broke my bone when I worked as a stand-in actor in the past, and I couldn’t move for several months. It’s thanks to this set of massage strokes for muscle maintenance that I was able to keep my abs!!!”
Xiao Mei: ……
“Wait, you haven’t answered me yet: Can our bodies consume earth beans instead of the insufficient nutrient solution?” Looking at Xiao Mei who still put on a poker face, Rong Gui poked him.
Xiao Mei, being poked, took a step back: “…They can, but we need to build a component extractor.”
Getting a satisfactory answer, Rong Gui laughed out loud: “Very well, the making of that extractor something will be left to you. Don’t count on me, my brain capacity is not enough. I’ll do some manual work first~”
As it went, Rong Gui found himself another job. Not only so, he even found a job for Xiao Mei as well:
Taking care of the bodies of both of them.
When Xiao Mei was working on the extractor, Rong Gui went to “pick mushrooms”. No one knew where he found a few pieces of broken woods, out of which he made an umbrella. Rong Gui applied soil between the “umbrella” ribs and planted “mushrooms” in it. After fixing the soil and the mushrooms in a cautious manner, he carefully opened the “umbrella”.
“Without sunshine, this will be our light source!” Standing under the bright green “umbrella light” with hands on his hips, the little robot let out a rather cocky smirk.
Then he dragged the freezing cabin containing the two bodies outside.
He certainly couldn’t move the cabin all by himself, so he called on Xiao Mei to help.
He learned from Xiao Mei why his body had become what it was now. On the one hand, it’s indeed because Xiao Mei’s body took away part of the resources which originally belonged to him. On the other hand, and most importantly – it’s because the freezing cabin had already “broken down”.
The system of instruments used to maintain the normal operation of the freezing cabins had stopped functioning. All other people inside the freezing cabins were utterly done for – Xiao Mei had checked and confirmed this point. It could be ascertained that, since his freezing cabin contained a backup energy source, it became the only freezing cabin to show any signs of life. Yet even then, once the energy source inside the cabin was depleted, he would still die.
Fortunately, Xiao Mei brought him out.
However, a freezing cabin without the system was only a storage bin, and many other functions were no longer available, such as the cell viability maintenance function, the cryopreservation function, and so on…
Rong Gui thought for a while, and decided to simply understand it as to say that the machine could not take care of his body anymore. That’s fine, he could take care of it manually from now on.
In those past years when the dean of the orphanage was paralyzed in bed and couldn’t move, didn’t they also take good care of her?
He even helped the granny dean to apply facial masks~
Speaking of facial masks, Rong Gui began to desperately recall all those facial masks which he had applied in past years.
Completely unaware of what was going on in Rong Gui’s mind, Xiao Mei the robot tightened the last screw on the device in his hands.
As he looked at the ugly device in his hands, a strange feeling rose in his heart.
How should he put it?
The body he deemed to be a burden which would be abandoned sooner or later – someone actually cared so much about it. This kind of feeling…how should he put it?
When he handed over the device to Rong Gui, he saw the latter was still busying himself writing and drawing diligently on the floor, so he couldn’t help but ask Rong Gui a question: “You can get a better, stronger mechanical body in the future, so you actually don’t need to care too much about this body of flesh, right?”
What he got was an incredulous “huh” from the other side.
“Xiao Mei, have you gone nuts? Why should I be a robot when I can be a human? Can a robot be as good-looking as I am? Can the touch of its hard shell be compared to the touch of my smooth and delicate skin? What’s more, what’s more – can robot acquire abs by exercising?” Rong Gui the robot was expressionless, yet through his tone, Xiao Mei felt he saw a little robot so shocked that his face was drained of color.
Looking at the mummy…next to the shocked little robot, good-looking…delicate skin…abs…
Trying to discuss such a high-level philosophical question with someone who had insufficient brain capacity, Xiao Mei felt that he had truly gone nuts.
Author has something to say:
Xiao Mei: Believe me, it’s fantastic to be a robot. You can be immortal!
A Gui: You’re nuts! You have to cure yourself~
By the way, with both sides under the same conditions, Xiao Mei couldn’t beat A Gui.
Xiao Mei was a weak chicken~
THEY’RE SO SO SO CUTEEEEE (⸝⸝•́દ•̀⸝⸝)
[“Thirty pages are already a lot, okay? And I even took notes!” Rong Gui said, twitching his arms. ]
Trueee! 30 pages is really a lot if it’s some kind of educational something but if it’s a novel, it’s not enough.
Strange feeling hmmm
I have a hunch that when Xiao Mei realizes he’s in love with Ah Gui, Ah Gui will be oblivious unless Xiao Mei makes a move or something T^T
Another episode of Ah Gui and His Abs
pats Xiao Mei I wish you the best of luck
Thank you very much for this chapter! (^ｰ^)
Haha, being robots really made these two intimate before they fell in love with each other! I actually believe the author was hinting something by keep mentioning the “socket” and “plug” things😏
“I actually believe the author was hinting something by keep mentioning the “socket” and “plug” things”… I thought the same^^