“…Your eyes are so beautiful~ Like the most brilliant diamonds in the river of stars!!!”
Rong Gui’s loud singing voice ran through the open rocky beach.
After getting accustomed to working with a regular frequency to maximize productivity, he was again able to “sing” while working simultaneously.
Xiao Mei had already got used to it.
What a terrible fact!
After experiencing several horrible windy days in “Braredor”, their bodies had varying degrees of damages. The worst time, Xiao Mei’s left hand was blown away. The new mechanical hand couldn’t be made as fast. According to their current progress, even if Xiao Mei would spend all of his rest time every day making fingers, he could produce merely one finger per day at most. What’s more, he also needed to clean the tracks during his rest time. As the time went by, the wear and tear of the tracks became more and more severe, so he had to spend more time repairing the tracks. Although Rong Gui had tried very hard to come and help, the help he could offer was…frankly speaking, very limited.
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And Xiao Mei had already got used to it as well.
Its consequence was that Xiao Mei never got to replace his left hand with a new one, and he just installed a simple version of “hand” for temporary use. It was a “hand” without even a single finger, and it’s made to, firstly, block the wrist interface to prevent the sand from being blown into the body, and secondly, allow him to work more effectively. After all, he would need to perform the action of lifting on many occasions.
However, that simple “hand” wasn’t installed on his body right now, but on Rong Gui’s left arm.
While singing, Rong Gui lightly patted his lap with his wrench-like left hand. He looked very happy and no different than usual.
When Xiao Mei was installing the temporary hand, Rong Gui instantly found out. Without further ado, he snatched away the hand, then twisted off his own left hand and thrust it into Xiao Mei’s remaining hand.
“You can use my hand first, and I’ll just use this!” While speaking, he swiftly installed that temporary hand onto his body.
Rong Gui wasn’t an expert in dismantling other parts of his current body, and the only parts that he could dismantle fairly quickly were his hands. Perhaps that’s because he would take down his hands to do a little bit of polish every day, so that the original rust on the two mechanical hands was all cleaned and the surface of the hands became smooth again?
Due to the low-quality materials, coat blisters soon appeared on the hands made by Xiao Mei. Although they wouldn’t affect the robots’ routine activities, Rong Gui couldn’t bear the rusty appearance of his hands. He secretly asked for a piece of sandpaper from Xiao Mei to sand his hands every day. After a period of careful maintenance and skin care, his two hands actually looked like brand new ones more than before when they had just been freshly made~
Right now, one of such brand new hands with smooth, metallic luster was installed on Xiao Mei’s wrist.
“Don’t refuse! I don’t have to do any delicate work anyway, and nor do I have to operate the steering wheel. The hand will be more useful on your body than on mine.” As if he’s afraid that Xiao Mei would refuse, such were Rong Gui’s words at that time.
In fact… Xiao Mei hadn’t planned to refuse.
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Because what Rong Gui said was true.
Ktlr tjcv kbeiv lcvffv yf wbgf erfoei bc tlr ybvs atjc bc Ebcu Xel.
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Ca atja alwf, tf mfgajlcis ofia atja kjs. Tfa, joafg erlcu la obg j wfgf ofk vjsr, tf rajgafv ab cbalmf rbwfatlcu jybea atf tjcv ogbw alwf ab alwf.
Llr rwbbat ifoa tjcv obgwfv j rajgx mbcagjra klat tlr geras, gbeut gluta tjcv. Cr obg Ebcu Xel, tlr rwbbat gluta tjcv jirb obgwfv j rajgx mbcagjra klat tlr ifoa tjcv ktlmt gfrfwyifv j rlwqif mgevf abs.
Although Rong Gui gave his own hand to Xiao Mei, he never ceased to take care of it. When he was doing his skin-care routine now, he made Xiao Mei do it together with him. And Xiao Mei, who had never taken part in such routine before, didn’t refuse this time.
Perhaps because the left hand he’s using now originally belonged to that guy?
Polishing the rough areas with the sandpaper, and coating them using a piece of coarse cloth dipped in oil, Rong Gui performed maintenance on the hands of them both carefully. He also took this rare chance to attend to Xiao Mei’s original right hand.
It’s rare to see Xiao Mei not objecting to it~
“Hands are very important to men. A lot of women are fond of men with beautiful hands. My hands were particularly good-looking, so I can’t be sloppy in hand care even if I have become a robot.” Rong Gui said while attending to Xiao Mei’s hands.
Xiao Mei kept silent.
However, the right hand did seem to work a little better with rust stains removed.
He didn’t tell this to Rong Gui.
“When I have enough time, I’ll make a new left hand for you.” In the end, he said.
“Really? Hehehe, may I choose its style and color? The color of the previous ones is too ugly. I want white hands, just like wearing white gloves. Do you think it’s okay? Also, can I have slenderer fingers? My original fingers are just, too, rough~~~~”
Rong Gui countered one single sentence from Xiao Mei with a stream of babbling, and even added a lot of demands!
Xiao Mei: ……
Xiao Mei had already got used to it.
Yet he didn’t refuse.
As the rocks on the road gradually turned from boulders to pebbles, they also encountered less and less windy days. Since they no longer needed to worry about being blown away at night, the wind power they could generate every day also became less and less. Fortunately, they had now already stored a sufficient amount of energy for use.
The several energy storage cards previously prepared by Xiao Mei were all recharged to the full, and there’s even surplus energy left for Rong Gui to “sing” all day.
“Xiao Mei, do you think we are going to leave Braredor soon?” Despite his lack of common sense in general, Rong Gui was surprisingly perceptive in some ways.
“Yes.” Xiao Mei didn’t deny it, “According to my detection results, we will probably leave this rocky area today.”
“Oh oh~” Rong Gui responded in a drawling voice.
And then he stopped singing.
he stared at the ground closely – kept staring – in an odd silence for half a day. Finally, when the rubble was about to be gone and the earth beneath was again laid bare, Rong Gui suddenly shouted.
“STOP -”
“Stop the car!”
And Xiao Mei stopped the car.
He turned to Rong Gui, bewildered, but Rong Gui jumped down immediately after unbuckling his seat belt.
Xiao Mei saw him walking on the ground outside for a good while before returning with a rock in his arms.
“This…is a souvenir from Braredor?” One had to admit, after a few days of conditioning, Xiao Mei now had quite a solid grasp of Rong Gui’s thoughts.
Or…he thought he had.
What Rong Gui wanted to do this time was again beyond his expectation.
“Hehehe, no.” Rong Gui shook his head, “We’ve had the sand, and that’s enough.”
“?” Xiao Mei slightly tilted his head to look at the rock held in Rong Gui’s hands.
“Da da da! This is our souvenir to Braredor!” No more holding back, Rong Gui quickly announced the answer.
“I’ll leave our names on this rock, and the rock will remain here. This is the proof that we’ve been here!”
Rong Gui had already come up with what to write on it, and the dye was also ready. He even tore off a piece of cloth as an ink brush.
Then, he handed all these materials along with the rock to Xiao Mei.
“What?” Being stared at by Rong Gui’s pitch black mechanical eyes, Xiao Mei had a feeling of uneasiness and took a small step back.
“You should be the one to write them, of course! I am left-handed!” Rong Gui said, as if that’s something taken for granted.
Could a robot be left-handed, too?
Grumbling to himself in his mind, Xiao Mei still took the things that Rong Gui handed to him. According to Rong Gui’s instructions, he left the following words on the rock: “A Gui and Xiao Mei, xx month, xx year”.
Very pleased, Rong Gui took a good look at the rock, and pulled Xiao Mei over so that they could take a picture together with the rock. Only then did Rong Gui put the rock back to its original position. In order to lodge the rock firmly, he mustered some sand and dirt around the rock to form a small sand dune before getting back onto the car.
Xiao Mei started the car, and they went on their journey again.
“Xiao Mei, in the future, whenever we get to a new place, can we leave a rock like this in the local area when we are about to leave there?”
“Everywhere we go, we’ll leave one. What do you think people will say when they see these rocks in the future?”
“Will they think Xiao Mei and A Gui must be people who had been to many places?”
“Hahahahahahaha~ I’m so looking forward to it! I can’t wait to know those people who will see them many years later. Who can imagine what they will think about us~” Thinking about the future, Rong Gui laughed out loud.
No. They won’t think that these were two people who had been to many places. They will only think…ah, these two were weird blokes – why did they die everywhere?
Listening to Rong Gui’s laughter, Xiao Mei didn’t say anything, but merely answered the question silently in his heart.
The rock previously placed there by Rong Gui looked exactly like a tombstone, and the surrounding sand used to lodge the rock looked exactly like a pile of grave dirt. What’s more, there were names on the “tombstone”, and thus –
Well, things like graves, cemeteries, and epitaphs wouldn’t exclusively exist in Rong Gui’s time.
Here’s no exception.
;w; They’re too cute together~ Even switching hands~
Thanks for the chapter~~
Hand-switching, lol! Thoguh the ending of this chapter was unexpectedly heavy. 😟
Oh god I miss this novel so much QAQ
Speaking for myself, I do like beautiful hands TwT. Mine are short and ASHSHK so I’ll just admire other’s
Writing their names on rocks wherever they go is the cutest thing in the world (人´∀｀)｡ﾟ+ . I just hope the author won’t pull the “only one of them is left seeing all the memories they made together through these rocks or whatever angsty (which I certainly like) things” card hheheheh
Thank you very much for this chapter! You really did a great job. I hope you’re doing well~