Chapter 38
Genius and idiot
A six years old little girl, could remember such complex tunnels in the interlayer of the spacecraft, could be not afraid of the darkness, holding a doll to run around, this was an appalling thing itself. But once Sheilor thought of when he was six years old, also began to bring Levi running here and there in the dark cobweb of the mine, when they had the interest, they would catch a few wild cats and brought them back to play, then he felt relieved as well.
In the next few days, after the meal, Sheilor and Little Watermelon would climb into the air conditioning tunnel from the cleaning zone area32, brought the dust all over the body to come to that waste storage cabin. Sheilor would study the instruction book absorbedly, prepared the materials, considered how to fix the big broken mecha as far as possible. And Little Watermelon would be holding the doll, squat aside with great interest, well-behaved and quietly to watch Sheilor’s all movements.
Thanks to the bath and laundry facilities in Sheilor’s that simple and crude retiring room, otherwise nobody knew how dirty these one big and one small two children would be, but even washed frequently every night, the color of that white pajamas on Little Watermelon’s body was still getting darker gradually.
Sheilor had the great interest in that broken mecha, so he could stay in there for a long time. But the reason why Little Watermelon would come with him together every day, was that she was very interested in Sheilor that dedicated expression. And to make Sheilor more surprised, once he got into some kind of trouble, having the problem with the design of the drawing, Little Watermelon would give some seemed childish, but in fact could open up the thinking ideas.
The main problem for Sheilor to fix the mecha was that he was unfamiliar with the structure of the mecha, although for some of the independent chips and linkage parts, he could understand the principle and working purpose through the instruction book, but once it involved the wide-range bio-simulation framework, then he would get confused. Especially this cumbersome old mecha, he even didn’t see the picture of it before. And Little Watermelon didn’t have the knowledge about the electronic repair aspect at all, she seemed to have seen countless mechas in her this short six years life, from intuition, told Sheilor in the young voice, here seemed to be what, here should be what, and here might be what.
Having the rough intuition of the exterior, would help the repair work for the internal work. Besides the surprise, Sheilor also had the bigger question for Little Watermelon’s family. In today’s federal society, the general energy was still extremely plentiful, but the crystal mine for the space travel was not too much, although the mecha used the static high-energy battery, but the cost of the manufacture was very expensive, the energy consumption was very huge, now the whole federal military probably wouldn’t have more than four hundred of them. What on earth was the business of Little Watermelon’s family doing? A six years old little girl, actually could see that many mechas personally?
These questions disappeared like a flash, Sheilor didn’t had the deep thinking for it, because all of his mind was attracted by this broken mecha in front of him right now, he put all his heart and soul into the repair work, although couldn’t be said forgetting food and sleep, but also could be said that nothing else was in his mind.
So, this discarded as useless for a long time, thrown in the waste storage cabin of the spacecraft, long forgotten old M02 mecha, played its role once again, and became the toy for Sheilor and Little Watermelon these two people, only this toy was a bit too big.
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The three-section type finger, now was connected by an alloy wire, this alloy wire was pulled down from the interaction handle of an automatic clean machine by Sheilor. The frontal armor of the mecha had a big hole, now was barely covered with a thick metal board didn’t know where Sheilor found from, actually the exterior repair of the mecha was not that difficult, after all Sheilor also didn’t have the thought that the broken mecha could resist the strong weapons like gunfire after it was fixed, the main problem was those chip sets inside the mecha, the transmission device, and the induction device of the information transfer, it’s very difficult to repair these things.
Fortunately the waste storage cabins of the Antique Bell spacecraft were more than only one, Sheilor was surprised to find countless junks from the three storage cabins nearby, and then turned all these junk metal components into the treasures he needed, the chipset was separated into three parts with the alloy wire by him, in the situation without the precise instruments, he just only could hope that there would be no mutual interference between the chipsets, as to those ruined chips, it’s no way to fix them at all. And the transmission device, Sheilor put the repair hope on those several mine walking cars in the waste storage cabin B, although these two transmission devices were not the same model, but some of the parts still could be interchanged.
The most troublesome thing was the induction system of the information transfer, Sheilor was busy for a few days excitedly, then took down enough parts from countless broken life electric, and then it took him more time to assemble these parts together.
The dust and oil all over Sheilor, stared at the tall mecha in front of him blankly, somewhat didn’t believe his own eyes, spent how long after all, he had already not remembered, but he still couldn’t believe, in this kind of rough situation, he could really assembled those messy parts together.
The having black and grey dust on the face Little Watermelon held the doll, leaned on Sheilor’s leg, narrowed her eyes and looked up, and said in the milky sound after a long time, “it’s really ugly.”
It really was very ugly, even it had been fixed by Sheilor once right now, the mecha was still even a bit uglier than the initial beginning. The paint coat on the surface of the mecha body was broken not fit to be seen, the original still complete exterior armor was even taken apart into a piece and a piece, because those parts couldn’t be perfectly designed to be put inside the mecha system, the volume and size were also not the same totally, so if he wanted to put the transmission device in, he must took part of the shell away. This time the M02 had the oil vestiges all over and the circuit board wires hanging around everywhere, it looked very destructively, no more had the laden with history to hide under the dust same as it had at the beginning, and also not possibly like an antique, just only like a wearing the ragged clothes dirty fat beggar.
“Oh, it’s really pretty ugly.” Sheilor had a scratch on his head subconsciously, looked up at the mecha in front of him and said ashamed, “don’t know whether it could move or not.”
Sheilor really didn’t have any confidence for fixing the mecha, because this was the first time he got in touch with this kind of things, and he dealt with it totally with the way which his boss taught him how to repair the appliance, this sounded somewhat ridiculous, totally unthinkable, so he didn’t dare to have the extravagant hopes that this broken mecha could really move.
“Even that three-section type finger could move a bit, I should be satisfied.” Sheilor looked at the mecha in front of him contentedly, thought in his mind, his requirement was really very low, but actually also was very high, the careless repair such like this, assembled things together in a mess, if he really could repair this mecha and make it to move, the god really didn’t have the eyes.
“Give it a try.” The hair swung in front of Little Watermelon’s forehead, she seemed very serious, looked at Sheilor, nodded her head and said with courage, “brother, it might really could move.”
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There had the stable current outlets in the waste storage cabin, this was the thing that Sheilor had already confirmed in the first day. After he heard Little Watermelon’s words, had a deep breath, walked to behind the beggar mecha, connected the cable to the current outlet on the wall, and then stared at that screen indicator behind the waist of the mecha, until that screen got red gradually, he then heaved a sigh of relief, thou
ght that the first generation static high-energy battery really worthily was the legendary perfect product, it still could be used after sixty years.
When the red column rose to the height of one third, Sheilor ceased the recharge, this was for the safety later, after all this mecha had been put in this place for this many years, and was tossed about for this long by him, if it was started with the full power, who knew what would happen. Although it shouldn’t be possible to have the explosion, but what happened if it fell apart just in case? He had so many accidents in the mine operating room in these years, but today he had Little Watermelon this lovely little girl by his side, of course he should be more careful.
“Where is the hatch cover switch?” Although the hatch cover of the operating cabin of this M02 mecha had been damaged, but Sheilor still asked, because according to the explain on the instruction book, only had the hatch cover opened, then he could start the press-button of the mecha program loading.
Little Watermelon blinked her eyes, seemed to be in recalling some scenes, scratched her head somewhat painfully, pointed at the prominence under the head armor of the mecha and said, “it seems to be over there.”
Sheilor had already believed in Little Watermelon’s guidance very much, according to the words, very smoothly opened that nonexistent hatch cover, pressed on the program loading button, and then began the nervous and uneasy waiting silently.
Didn’t know how long later, the operating cabin of the broken mecha lit up suddenly, after a long “Dee” sound, the self-checking signal showed that it’s passed, the thin and soft light covered the mecha’s whole body!
Sheilor stared blankly to stand on the chest armor of the mecha, couldn’t believe this scene in front of him at all, even the central control system was also in good condition incredibly? He didn’t have any hope for the repair work, but he really repaired this mecha well unexpectedly? Although he just repaired the most basic parts and functions of the mecha, but he still felt the incomparable excitement and happiness.
“Brother, you are really a genius.” Little Watermelon clapped her little hands on the ground, and shouted at him.
“Of course, I’m a genius originally.”
Sheilor was still suffering from the shock, wiped the sweat off from his forehead, said the words with smile subconsciously, but his heart was just like hit by a heavy thing suddenly, stayed blankly on the tall mecha. Levi once said that he was a genius, his boss also said that, his boss… He lowered his head, looked at those busted up parts on the mecha, those looked very strange components, those because of the power problem began to have the unstable trace chip monitoring displays, they looked so familiar, then he understood why in the process to repair the mecha in these days, he didn’t have any jerky feeling for his skill, never felt any strange and difficult.
Uncle Fengyu had taught him how to repair home appliances for four years, he still once had the complaint, after all, in the process of repairing those normal appliances, his boss had already taught him how to fix the mecha, or even the more precise skill and the broader thinking! Sheilor stood on the mecha which was covered in the soft light, he felt himself silly the whole person, he thought in his heart that he’s a shit genius, he himself actually was an idiot.