Chapter 11
How the first machine was made
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The very bloody flavor beef was fried by the pan, cast on pepper and all kind of ingredients, began to send out the full-bodied fragrance of the ingredients themselves. The silver knife cut open the slightly crisp surface of the meat chunk, it’s different from the scene, which the “Handle” pricked into the head of the buffalo and the blood stormed out, even though this chunk of beef also came with some blood, but the more came out was the juice, which could make people to have the good appetite.
All the common federal residents who ate the synthesis food all year round, they had no resistance to this kind of natural food at all, not even to say the like-meat-as-life repair shop boss and the youngster Sheilor.
The wonderful dinner was over, Sheilor began to clean up the bowls and plates, put the rest of the beef and the viscera to hide into the very huge freezer in this operation room which was next to the mine, then he found himself had the rare leisure time, he didn’t know what to do for a moment. Stood in the room and had his mind blankly for a while, Sheilor took out a bottle of wine and two glasses from the drawer and walked out of the door, along the out of repair steel ladder, and climbed up to the grass on the top of the mine.
The repair shop boss Fengyu had been staring blankly over there for a very long time, he watched that last light disappeared between the sky and the earth, and then occupied by the darkness completely. Took over that glass of red wine passed from behind, Fengyu took a sip of it, said with a faint smile on his face, “please me with my baby, what do you want to ask me again?”
Sheilor carried the wine bottle to come to his side, along the uncle’s eyes looked at the far away grassland, the night had already deep at this time, he just didn’t know how spectacular the setting sun was previous that moment. He knew that the repair shop boss might have a lot of things to hold out on him, but he didn’t want to make cautious inquiriy about it neither, because in the wake of Fengyu, he just wanted to learn from the other party about the knowledge of machine maintenance, and he hoped by no means to be able to hear a compelling story.
Besides, everyone had his own secret, didn’t want to be bothered by others.
“Actually… I am not a fool.” Sheilor opened his mouth and spoke suddenly, he didn’t pretend to be very difficult intentionally, the wishing to speak but stop on a second thought appearance, was just having a brake in front of a certain important word habitually, exacerbating the tone. After his parents and sister died in that mine disaster ten years ago, in Sheilor’s lonely life, there seemed to be no what focus, so once he came up with the words occasionally, he always would only use this kind of clumsy way to express his emotion.
The youngster had his eyes narrowed in the dim light of the night, that seemed to be somewhat cautious. Actually he had already guessed something out. In these two years following Fengyu, besides for those knowledge of machine maintenance methods and practical abilities, the boss let him to pose that awkward posture and some daily physical trainings, there were a lot of oddballs…
Sheilor’s temperament was simple, unadorned and pure-heartedness, but that didn’t mean that he didn’t have the brain, it’s just only that he always thought that posture and those gymnastics, probably were the military training skills and so on, so he had been playing the fool all the time. Perhaps that could let his body stronger a bit? A good thing to himself, since the boss let him to learn, then he would learn.
However, he killed that buffalo today, he had some chills in his heart out of the air, the boss was just a fled out machine maintenance expert from the military, why the things he taught him, had such great powers? Surely didn’t mean that the things he taught him normally… Were the secret and not let out killing skills of the military legend?
“I never think that you are a fool, on the contrary, I think that you are a genius.” Fengyu took the glass away from his lips, his expression was calm, but the wrinkles on the corners of the eyebrows showed a hint of strange smile.
“I am not really a genius. I just don’t understand, what’s the use of these things you taught me?” Sheilor was somewhat helpless to look at Fengyu’s eyes,” he asked, “the machine maintenance sergeant examination of the Defense Department, doesn’t have the field operation ability included at all, I don’t want to waste my time on these things any more.”
Sheilor’s voice began to quiver, it seemed like that he was under some kind of unbearable pain and torture. Fengyu didn’t even feel like to take a look at him, he said calmly, “with your character, since you asked this question out, it seems like that you contradict to this thing very much… I just don’t understand, where doesn’t your conflict come from?”
Sheilor’s voice was still trembling, occasionally there were some heavy breath sounds on, he said angrily, “this is already the sixty-third year of the thirty-seventh Constitutional Calendar… The civilization of the human beings have already been developed to this point by now, what is the use that you still let me to practice on these things? No matter how fierce one person is, could it be said that he can contend against the mecha face to face? Could it be said that he can fly to the outer space and fight against the battleship?”
“I understand, you want to become a mechanic who can repair the mecha and the three systems of the battleship, so in your opinion, those cold metal machines, of course will be stronger than the such like ant individual human.” Fengyu replied grimly, “but you don’t forget, no matter what extent the human develop to, it is still the biological human after all, you are still in this body. This body is still your last resort for you to preserve your life, it’s the first sequence machine that you must understand like your palms, and operate it without any blockages.”
“As for those what mecha, what battleship, those are just the more extensional things.” Fengyu closed his eyes slowly, “people can’t never hide in the mecha for life, you always need to have food, need to sleep, need to go to the toilet, you need to have sex, you need to have climax, you need to take shower… The time a man not wearing clothes even occupies one tenth of the lifetime, then what about the time that you are not in the mecha?”
Sheilor looked foolish after he heard about this, he always thought that there was no reason in his boss’s words, but it appeared a strange share of pettifogging reason which couldn’t be broken as well.
Fengyu drank down the rest of the wine in his grass in one gasp, he bowed down his head and smiled suddenly, “moreover, the present federation is having the energy shortage, perhaps the space battleships would be the universe garbage one day.”
“Mecha doesn’t need the crystal mineral, now the high-compression energy can support the action that the mecha has on the land.” Sheilor knew clearly that his boss was willing to say these many words today, only because he wanted to convince him, but he still confuted stiffly, “by the way… What the saving life, what the last body, I am not going to go to the West Forest to fight with those empire savages, I just want to make money as a mechanic, and be engaged in the job which I like at the same time, do I need to worry about these many things?”
“We are not discuss your future life, because it seems to me, it’s not likely that you can pass the examination of the Defense Department, perhaps you would spend your whole life to work for me for free.” Fengyu had a “Ha ha” laugh, and then the laughter was held back gradually.
“Think about the people on the Upper Forest of those three planets, think about those lasting thousands years families, or even those seven big families, why they would have that kind of respect to that old man and that old man’s students, so that for what? It’s not exactly because of the powerful force of that old man’s own physical strength?”
Upper Forest was the name of the Capital Planets Circle Region, the Capital Planets Circle was formed by three inhabitant planets, it was the most flourishing, the wealthiest, and the people life was the most ease p
lace of the whole federal civilization. The so called seven big families, for the lived in the remote East Forest youngster Sheilor, it’s the unreachable old upper level existence. And that old man in Fengyu’s mouth…
“My real mama, you call the god of the army old man…” Sheilor didn’t know because of either pain or fear, his voice trembled extremely severe.
“Alright, you don’t have to squat the horse stance today, do the gymnastics one more time.”
Fengyu didn’t answer sheilor’s shocked words, he looked at the had already kept on standard horse stance Sheilor, he thought in his mind, even though this kid was in conflict with these things constitutionally, but he was particularly serious when he worked on things, besides him, which other teenage, could stand day after day, the horse stance test for two years?
“Pay attention to the breathing, relax your mind.” Fengyu stood up, calmly and sternly looked at the collapsed on the ground Sheilor, said it out one word by one word, “you need to feel it, and remember the most distressed trembling ways in your muscles, rather than thinking about how to forget it.