The SabbathCh24 - Souvenirs

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The next day, something rare happened – it’s Xiao Mei who spoke first:

“We are fully recharged.” 9 NcjJ

After being blown by a whole night of strong wind, the energy storage card of the entire car was filled up.

Upon hearing his words, Rong Gui struggled to poke his head out of Xiao Mei’s arms. Although he used the same robotic voice, the sound that Rong Gui let out was more like a wail: “Indeed…it’s all filled up…”

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“AaaaghHHH~ My body is filled up with sand!!!!”

After a windy night, the vents used for wind power generation were all blocked up by sand. 0q pmP

“Xiao Mei, let go of me, quick! I need to go out right now to shake off the sand~”

Hearing Rong Gui’s words, Xiao Mei suddenly froze, as if he had just been aware of their current postures. He paused for a moment, and then loosened his mechanical arms around Rong Gui’s shoulders as if nothing had happened.

Rong Gui hurriedly jumped out to shake off the sand.

Xiao Mei, on the other hand, got back onto the driver’s seat, and began to methodically examine the damage caused by the last night’s gale to the car body. After confirming that there weren’t any serious issues, he jumped off the car –

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To do car cleaning.

“Never mind the car now. Come here, let me also help you to shake off the sand!” Noticing Xiao Mei’s action, Rong Gui pulled Xiao Mei to his side without any further ado.

Picking up Xiao Mei’s body, he shook it deftly. Countless grains of sand and gravel started to rustle down from the body of the shabby little robot.

Xiao Mei, who was still holding a piece of cleaning rag, let Rong Gui shake as he liked. In the end, Rong Gui even helped to wipe Xiao Mei’s body with the cleaning rag in his hand. 2VH5rx

“Great! It’s now your turn to shake me~” After helping out Xiao Mei, Rong Gui now asked for Xiao Mei’s assistance with an air of justifiable self-confidence.

The little robot stared at him expressionlessly – kept staring at him – until finally, he picked up Rong Gui in the same way, and began to shake him fiercely.

As a result, two small sand dunes bulged out from the ground.

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And the raw material of the sand dunes came from the sand and gravel inside the bodies of the two little robots. Xiao Mei’s sand dune was a little lower, while Rong Gui’s was a little higher. qQRgYW

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He’s very busy. ydeLAr

Rong Gui was very busy as well.

During his busy work, Xiao Mei had a chance to take a look at Rong Gui, and found that the latter seemed to be fascinated by the two mounds of sand.

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

He must be searching for an angle to take photos right now ← Xiao Mei thought to himself as he saw Rong Gui moving his head around.

As expected, soon, Rong Gui sent him some photos which had just been taken. tDgjFR

Xiao Mei thought that this would be all of it. Yet some time later, Rong Gui got back to look at the two sand dunes – all the time, he just stared at them blankly. After a while, he seemed to have eventually made up his mind, and ran back to the car to take out two bed sheets from the trunk. The next moment, he actually tried to pack the two sand dunes into the bed sheets!

“What are you doing here?” As two piles of sand would add to the weight of the loaded baggage, Xiao Mei couldn’t help but ask.

“Can’t you see it? I’m packing up the sand dunes!” If Rong Gui still had a pair of human eyes on him, he must be rolling them now ← inexplicably, a robot rolling eyes appeared in Xiao Mei’s mind.

He’s actually being scolded by Rong Gui… nY2s H

No, calm down. This bloke has limited brain capacity and can merely understand the most superficial meaning of words. It’s his way of asking the question that was too hard to comprehend.

Appeasing himself inside, Xiao Mei paused for a moment, then asked again: “Of course I see that you are packing up the sand dunes. What I wanted to ask was why you are packing them up?”

Squatting on the ground and looking up, Rong Gui suddenly laughed. Gently cupping a shovelful of sand in his clumsy mechanical hands, he answered in excitement: “Because these two sand dunes are super valuable!”

“?” Not expecting to hear such a response, Xiao Mei tilted his head. FLokJ3

“As far as I can tell from my detection, the constituent parts of these two sand dunes are basically particles formed through the weathering of rocks, and there was nothing of value.” He said, scanning the sand and dirt in Rong Gui’s hands once again.

Although his body was in crude form, he still installed a basic scanning device inside himself so that he could conveniently find usable materials at any time.

P.S. Such device was not installed in Rong Gui’s body. f6eWP2

It’s probably the only difference between the internal structures of their bodies.

“Aiya~ I don’t mean the value of money, but the commemorative value.” Rong Gui hurriedly shook his head, and raised the dirt in his hands even higher for Xiao Mei to see clearly.

“……” Yet, Xiao Mei still couldn’t see the value of the dirt in his hands.

Commemorative value? To commemorate their experience of being stuck on a windy day, hung to a seat belt, and stuffed by a huge pile of sand and dirt amid a blowing gale? 2w3k1S

Xiao Mei really didn’t think there’s anything to commemorate in such experience.

“You are so thick, Xiao Mei!” At this moment, Rong Gui spoke again. “Looking” at the sand pile in his hands passionately, Rong Gui said with emotion (as much as he could): “This is no ordinary dirt!”

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“This is such a big place, and there’s so much dirt in yesterday’s wind, but only these grains of dirt were blown into our bodies. They could have come from different places, and perhaps they were not originally together, yet all of them fell onto us coincidentally. What a great, serendipitous destiny it is!”

“Now you tell me – in terms of commemorative value, aren’t they suuuuuper valuable?” Rong Gui said, suddenly raising his head, and his two pitch-black image detectors were now directly staring at Xiao Mei. iNkpAw

This…is sophistry.

Yet, without knowing why, with Rong Gui’s words and posture, one would indeed feel that what he said made sense.

“Then you pack them, I’ll keep cleaning the track.” After he finished speaking, Xiao Mei turned around. Kneeling on the ground, he continued to clean the tracks in his meticulous manner.

Xiao Mei’s words sounded like a praise to Rong Gui. As if being injected a shot of chicken blood, Rong Gui once again started to pack diligently. BY4oI

He packed the two sand dunes into two wraps, and even used the dye to write notes on each wrap: “Xiao Mei’s dirt” and “Rong Gui’s dirt”.

But he packed the dirt just this once. During the following journey, they encountered several windy days, and whenever they did, the two little robots would cuddle each other in their arms. The world was big, and at such moment, they alone seemed to remain in it.

And every time they survived such a bad weather, their bodies would surely be full of sand and dirt once more.

Rong Gui, however, didn’t collect such dirt again. ithJ7Q

“They were born here, so let them remain where they were.”

“The sand and dirt who want to come with us to see the outside world will naturally stay in the crevices of our bodies and refuse to be cleaned out.”

Such was Rong Gui’s response to Xiao Mei’s question.

So…romantic… ATayYS

At this moment, aside from the small brain capacity, another tag was added to Rong Gui in Xiao Mei’s mind.


Author has something to say:

Ha~

I also have such dirt of great commemorative value~ pv4ajE

In fact, when I was writing There Is No Afterlife, in which everyone in the commercial street went on a seaside trip for vacation, I happened to just come back from a seaside vacation.

When I was washing my jeans after I came back home, I found a lot of white sand falling into the basin.

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It’s only when I thought carefully did I realize: Wow~ these were the sand grains from the beach where I took my sunbath.

These sand grains chose to come home with me~ dctZC8

I suddenly felt super happy once I thought this way!

Hehe~

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4 comments

  1. Oookay. While I kinda do get the commemorative value of the sand dunes, Rong Gui’s views are still… special. If not dumb, lol. Kudos to Xiao Mei for not saying that. The poor guy is slowly getting used to RG’s antics. Not like he has a coice. 😅

  2. I kinda relate to RG in this part lol. Keeping things because of their commemorative value how useless they actually are asdfghjkl

    I’ve always admired XM’s tolerance towards RG. The patience I know I’ll never have lol.

    Thank you very much for his cute and hilarious chapter!^____^