Standing aside and holding the flower pot whose color had been freshly dried, Rong Gui kept dodging in case he touched and broke Xiao Mei’s belongings. Yet, he never thought himself to be a hindrance. Following behind Xiao Mei, he curiously watched the other taking out various items one by one.
Xiao Mei didn’t have too much strength. Whenever Rong Gui saw Xiao Mei struggling to lift something, without waiting for the latter to call for help, he would take the initiative to put down the flower pot and run over to assist.
Xiao Mei didn’t refuse his aid.
“What’s this for? It looks like something big~” Standing aside, Rong Gui stared at him unabashedly.
“An automobile.”
“What!!!!!! An automobile? It’s actually a car! Xiao Mei, you want to build a car? My god! I mean…you can actually build a car!!” Rong Gui was taken aback.
Xiao Mei looked up: “If we don’t take a car, are we going to get out of here on foot?”
Rong Gui was dumbfounded.
All right… He had always thought previously that both of them were going to leave here by walking…
“Didn’t you make some back baskets? I thought… I thought we were both going to walk out of here with the baskets on our backs…” Up till now, he had been depicting in his mind the harsh scene of two little robots with their baskets walking arduously along the endless road, and he had even thought about something like building a tent. Although their current robotic bodies had no problem resisting winds or rains, and they could be polished again by sandpaper if they became rusty, their bodies inside the freezing cabin were not so impervious to weather!
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“No, not at all.” Waiving his hands, Rong Gui became happy once more.
He really thought too much yesterday by envisaging a lot of matters which would need to be worried about during a long trudge. He didn’t expect that for Xiao Mei, none of those was an issue. The last time he went to the city, he still had to buy a standing-room train ticket, but this time, he could actually go by car. It’s really somewhat exciting just to think about this progress!
In the following days, Rong Gui continued to roam around Xiao Mei’s side.
“Why are you here? You can’t help with anything.” As Rong Gui stayed for too long time, Xiao Mei suddenly looked up and asked him. “You can spend your time sitting on the charger.”
If these words came from a stranger, Rong Gui would definitely get angry. But just how close had he become with Xiao Mei now? They were so close that they slept in the same freezing cabin! They were so close that they shared the same charging port!
Thus, Rong Gui directly filtered out the first half of Xiao Mei’s words, and just kept the second half in his ears, which he understood as: Xiao Mei wants me to get some rest, for power saving purpose~
But Rong Gui didn’t intend to recharge himself.
“I’m here to keep you company. How lonely it is to work on your own!” Fixing himself at a place which wouldn’t obstruct Xiao Mei’s project, Rong Gui continued to watch Xiao Mei work.
However, I’m not lonely at all, and I’d rather have a moment of peace – pausing for a second, Xiao Mei eventually chose not to say out these words.
It would be useless to say them out, he knew.
“Hey, Xiao Mei! What kind of automobile are you going to build? Sport car? Truck? Caravan? Aaagh, you don’t know what I’m talking about, do you? Or are you going to build a spacecraft? Wow!!!! I’ve never been on a spaceship in my life! It’s so exciting just to think about it!” Even when he was crouching aside, Rong Gui didn’t leave his mouth idle. His mind began to happily wander off.
Completely treating Rong Gui’s voice as some sort of background noise, Xiao Mei continued his work sullenly.
He used metal softener to bend the hard metals into proper shapes, then cut them, and smelted them with a flame gun from time to time. As if watching a magic trick, Rong Gui watched Xiao Mei slowly turn the scraps all over the ground into regular shapes one after another.
In the beginning, he had no idea what they were. However, as Xiao Mei dexterously assembled them together, a car gradually took shape: First came the roof, then the body, and finally the chassis.
When the chassis was assembled, Rong Gui was dumbstruck to find that, under the only two seats in the car, Xiao Mei had installed two pairs of…foot pedals?
“Why…does the spacecraft nowadays look a bit like the bicycle in our time…” Fearing that he might have offended Xiao Mei by criticizing his masterpiece, Rong Gui said in a rather small voice.
Nevertheless, Xiao Mei could still hear it.
After adjusting the pedals in his hands, Xiao Mei even sat onto the “car” and pedaled around to give it a try. He then turned back to Rong Gui and said: “It is indeed a bicycle. As a human-powered means of transportation, this is the most basic and easily available vehicle.”
“I’ve reserved a place in the seats for the jack, and we can remove the charger from the house to install it on the car later. By constantly pedaling to generate power, we may convert such power into the energy required by our current bodies.”
Rong Gui listened in a daze.
“Anyway… Xiao Mei, so you have built a very fancy bicycle…” Rong Gui nodded to indicate that he basically understood.
Although the spacecraft had turned into a bicycle, this wasn’t one of those ordinary bicycles! It not only had a roof and the side doors, but also had a space in the back for placing the freezing cabin and other luggage~
In this way, they wouldn’t be afraid of winds or rains anymore. Whether it’s about their freezing cabin or their current robotic bodies, there’s nothing to worry!
Rong Gui carefully circled around the car just made by Xiao Mei. The more he looked, the more he loved it. In the end, he loved it so much that he kept stroking the car and couldn’t let go.
He even used the rest of the dye to paint the car yellow – on the premise that Xiao Mei didn’t object to it.
“From now on, the name of this car is Da Huang*!” Holding a bucket of dye, Rong Gui cheerfully announced.
*Da Huang: In Chinese rural area, people frequently use the following format to name their pets or cattle: size (small/big) + color. Specifically, “Da Huang” is an extremely common (and rustic) nickname for country dogs, which literally means the “big yellow (dog)”.
Lmao Ah Gui’s imagination is so rich
Xiao Mei having a free background music (noise) while working ( ˘_˘)♪
The thought of constantly pedaling hurts my lower body QWQ but a ‘fancy bicycle’ is so astonishing considering they only have some scraps and etc. Xiao Mei is so great!
Ah Gui’s ‘filtering’, designing, and naming abilities are amusing. I can’t even with him! Lol
Warmest thanks for this chapter! You worked hard. Always take care, translator-san!
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How nice of A’Gui Ge to give Xiao Mei Ge free BGM music la~ thank you for the translation! ヽ(╯▽╰)ﾉ
How nice of A’Gui Ge to give Xiao Mei Ge free BGM music la~ thank you for the translation ヽ(╯▽╰)ﾉ
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