Chapter 37
The desire to repair the mecha
Sheilor reached out his fingers carefully, had a touch on the pointing at his face mechanical arm, the fingers was covered with the dust immediately, but the surface of the three-sections type alloy finger on the top of the mechanical arm also showed its original color, floating the dark light slightly, but only the dark light was a bit dim. This covered with dust mecha, didn’t know been placed over here by whom, and been placed over here for many years, just like a sword quietly waiting for its master, although in dust but not ruined.
The cold tactility feeling transferred back to the brain from the finger tip, Sheilor exhaled a breath gently, his eyes were full of the forcedly constrained excitement. He grew up to this big, this was the first real mecha he saw personally, and the distance was so close, he could reach it with his hands, at the moment when he touched it with his finger, he even worried about whether this mecha would come alive itself.
Of cause, in the related journals and magazines in the library, Sheilor had already seen many pictures of the mechas, on the treetop of the hill a month ago, he had also seen eleven streamlined black mechas to siege uncle Fengyu one person, but those still couldn’t be compared with the shock which was brought by the touching right now.
This was the most powerful close-in weapon of the federal military, only existed in the fantasy and psychosexuality of the normal federal teenagers. Sheilor looked at this broken mecha excitedly, but found out that this mecha not only the age was far back, but the style was also extremely clumsy, only the almost touch ceiling height could show a little bit deterrent force. The weapon loading system of the mecha had already been stripped away, the jointing parts made of the alloy components were also damaged, didn’t know whether it could move.
Sheilor found a nameplate somewhere on the inner side of the mechanical legs of this broken mecha, wiped the dust off from it, stared at those words, somewhat didn’t know when the Federation had produced this type of mecha. The been quiet to let him to hold the hand Little Watermelon also stretched over her little head curiously, said after she looked at it for a couple times, “brother, M02.”
M02, the first generation mecha of the federal Constitution Calendar thirty seven, belonged to the semi-finished product, but the subsequent mecha designs basically came from the ideas of this model, including the top level mecha M52 series of the federal military, also should be counted as its disciples and followers. Sheilor had his face upward, looked at this shabby mecha and heaved a sigh, he didn’t expect that he would had the chance to see this kind of legendary antique.
“Broken.” Little Watermelon noticed the excitement and itching in Sheilor’s eyes, she reminded carefully in a low voice, “recycled.”
Sheilor had a scratch on his head and had a “Hey Hey” laugh, he also felt that it’s no reason for getting excited right now. He forced to constraint the idea to keep on looking at the mecha, after all, compared with his own interest, to solve Little Watermelon’s problem was still the most important thing right now. He held the hand of Little Watermelon, kept walking to the other side of the room, pulled out the tool box from the wall conveniently, unscrewed the fixed screws of the air conditioning tunnel, climbed into it, didn’t turn his head back, and said directly, “wait over here for brother, don’t run about.”
This garbage collection cabin or should say the garbage storage cabin was very remote, there should be no other people to come here even many years later, Sheilor also didn’t worry about Little Watermelon’s safety. But shortly after he climbed into the tunnel, he climbed back with the dust all over, squat to sit down in front of Little Watermelon out of breath, said grumpily, “why didn’t you remind me, it’s no way for me to climb over at all!”
Surely, the air conditioning tunnel although wasn’t installed the electronic instrument for monitoring, but the tunnel on some connecting places would be very small, the adult couldn’t climb through it at all, probably only the little kid like Little Watermelon this little could climb through these tunnels, and climb freely around in the spacecraft. Little Watermelon looked at the dust on Sheilor’s face, covered her mouth with her hand and “ Puff” laughed up.
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The idea to find Little Watermelon’s room to confirm the truth of the matter fell through just like this, although Sheilor had followed the mechanic for a long time and learnt a lot of farfetched skills, but he didn’t have the confidence to act as a spy in the high-tech spacecraft. Or maybe because of his some sort of unknown selfish, in the next few days, he became quietly, just played with Little Watermelon in the room, had those actually not so yuck, but somewhat monotonous synthetic beef. Little Watermelon was really a very well-behaved child, Sheilor didn’t have any children’s books in his that remote and quiet room, or even also didn’t have TV, but she didn’t make any noise or felt bored, just sat quietly on the bed, listened Sheilor to tell the stories, or she told the stories to Sheilor.
“Little Watermelon, wouldn’t you think that it’s very boring to stay with me?” Sheilor seemed to have no any difference in these days, but actually the worry was getting thicker and thicker in his heart, this showed up by his side like a spirit little girl, what on earth was he supposed to handle with? Although the journey was very long, but there always had the day to arrive the Capital Planet Circle, it’s impossible for him to bring her away in these many eyes, and… Little Watermelon’ family should also worry about her, the problem was, her family was really trustworthy?
“As long as I don’t need to play the piano and draw the pictures, that will be good enough.” Little Watermelon looked at Sheilor in the eyes, nodded her head seriously, maybe in the heart of this little girl, the thing of doing nothing in these days was the biggest joy.
Sheilor shrugged his shoulders, he did not really understand about the thinking model of the children, Little Watermelon was enjoying the fun of doing nothing, but he always felt it strange somewhere in his heart. The long space travel was surrounded in the quiet, in the forever quiet, even the beautiful space scenery, would also become the boring repeat at this moment, Sheilor looked at a bleak star in the distance through the window, he suddenly understood, the odd feeling in his heart was that he had the desire for something.
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Still had the dust all over the body, climbed in the tunnel of the cleaning zone area 32 for a long time, Sheilor then climbed to that waste storage cabin which has a thick and heavy alloy door, he didn’t have time to revel in his memory, that he didn’t lose his way in the as fine as a spider’s web tunnels of the spacecraft, then couldn’t wait to lift that army green tarp once again, let that broken abandoned outdated mecha to appear in front of him.
At that moment, Sheilor confirmed that his judgment was right. He had been eager to come back to here these days, eager to see this shabby mecha again, he was full of satisfaction and faint excitement all over his body at the moment. He was eager to come back to here, see this mecha, not because he had the strong will to operate the mecha in the deep of his heart, although this was the wish of most federal teenagers, but… He just wanted to fix it.
He had already passed the first round exam for the machine maintenance petty officer of the Ministry of National Defense, although he couldn’t no longer go on this path, but his worldly ideal, or rooted in the deep of mind that kind of interest, was never let down. Since very little, Sheilor had the strong interest for repairing things, after followed uncle Fengyu for four years, this kind of interest was never reduced, but became thicker and thicker instead.
In the operating room of the mine outside of the West River state capital, in the repair shop on the fourth block of the Vanilla Avenue, once the youngster saw those electrical equipments brought in by the street neighbors, such as the appearing dark spot LED TV, the shift gear couldn’t be moved motor axle, all kinds of broken life chips, he would have the excitement and impulse like the bald
eagle seeing the carrion, and he wanted to fix all these broken things in the first time.
Just like the situation that he saw this broken mecha right now, just only this mecha… Was not very much the same from anything he had fixed before.
Sheilor was an up and do people, since he had climbed through the tunnels, and came to here, of course he wouldn’t leave like this. What degree he could fix this mecha to, he didn’t have any confidence, or even he didn’t know by himself whether he could attach that broken three-sections type metal finger together, but he was still ready to get to work. Before he got to work, he kept the good working habit, searched on the full of dust broken mecha for a long time, finally found a vacuum plastic bag, he shouted in the low voice with surprise, confirmed just like what was said in the book, the thing in the bag was the manuals of the M02 mecha.
Holding the instructions, Sheilor began to read it with relish, the position from leaning on the wall to stand, to sitting down finally. The starlight outside of the spacecraft was invariable, his eye-sight was also invariable, read all the parameter values and the component structure patterns seriously and greedily, he put his heart and soul all into it, and didn’t know how long it had passed actually.
When he was in the East Forest, the mechanic uncle Fengyu didn’t teach him any knowledge about the mecha aspect, Sheilor had once showed his protest and ridicule indignantly, he once tried hard to find a piece of control chip of the mecha, but the result was that uncle Fengyu said he didn’t know how to fix it… The now Sheilor, of course knew that his boss was not the man in the street, and also impossible didn’t have any understanding for the mecha, but when he wanted to ask his boss the problem about the technology aspect, it had already become an impossible thing, he just could immerse himself in the boring instruction book and keep learning.
After a long time, Sheilor finally put down the instruction book, lowered his head and thought seriously for a long time, and then began to search for the tools and materials which he needed in the waste storage cabin, he looked up time to time at the same time, observed where the really severe damages of that broken M02 were.
He glanced over the shoulders of the mecha, stopped his eyes suddenly on a hole on the ceiling over the cabin door, had a smile very ashamedly. The head of the little girl got out of that hole, there was the dust all over her black hair, she looked very poor, she looked at the on the ground Sheilor and said, “brother, I’m hungry.”
Sheilor pushed the wall toolbox back in situ, had a “Ha Ha” laugh and said, “then I will go to the restaurant and order the meals right away.”