Chapter 40
Found the young man
The area 38 on the back of the Antique Bell commercial spacecraft gave out a loud noise, after a period of time, the dusty Sheilor, then climbed out from those piled as mass metal parts and suffused sparks circuit boards. The youngster stepped on a frontal armor sillily, stood blankly for a long time, then thought of to touch around on the body with his hands at random, until he confirmed that he wasn’t hit by the heavy mecha debris, besides some friction injuries on the body, no other really horrible wounds, he then breathed out a sigh with the fear after the event.
In some kind of very old chronology, sixty years seemed to be a very important time period, called the cycle of sixty years, represented a section of very long time. No one knew how long this broken M02 mecha had been left in this waste storage cabin, but the date left the factory was at least sixty years, it had the damages in those years and the natural aging of the hardware, made its fall to pieces exceptionally clear-cut, broken apart all at once, but didn’t turn into the fallen down two-floor building waste, and buried Sheilor inside.
Sheilor’s face turned a bit pale, his motion was out of phase to climb across those high and low metal parts, pulled out the charging plug from the outlet on the wall in the first time. Walked a round along the wall, then walked to the front of Little Watermelon, he didn’t even dare to take a look at the ground.
Little Watermelon was also scared sillily, opened her big eyes, looked at the now empty space, seemed the mecha which earlier suddenly collapsed in front of her was still over there, her mouth also opened widely, the expression was so cute on top of the world, that dirty doll fell down to the floor from her hand as well.
Sheilor held the little girl in his arms, had a coax, and then coaxed her mind back. Sheilor turned his head back and took a look at those having many sharp metal sections of the mecha relics, had the lingering fear in his heart once again, he said in raucousness, “man, this is really too fragile.”
A major components were all made of the anti-fatigue alloy mecha, although had survived for sixty years of time, and had the fatal destruction, it still shouldn’t be as fragile as this.
Sheilor’s complain didn’t have the right place on obviously, until now, he still didn’t understand too well, it’s the way he operated the mecha caused this danger. That started from his waist, spread to the limbs strange tremble, was enlarged to the transmission system of the mecha through the sensor, still very powerful, let the mecha body couldn’t bear this kind of strong range vibration. And the youngster these days repair work, had the second time damage to the jointing strength of the mecha, then it had the previous shocking picture of single-step broken apart.
Just didn’t mention about the true cause of the mecha broken apart, Little Watermelon heard the complaint when Sheilor said with fear after the event, felt very fresh and very fun, she laughed out giggly, and there was not a bit of fear on the little girl’s face any more. Sheilor had a scratch on the head, had a wry smile, embraced Little Watermelon up and walked to the air conditioning tunnel outside of the cabin door. Although he didn’t know that the on-board people had decided to search the story down here, but he knew that huge noise earlier, certainly would cause many people to come to check it out.
Climbed in the stuffy and dark slender tunnel, Sheilor’s hands pushed Little Watermelon’s delicate white shoes time to time, his mood was abnormally easy, and didn’t have the slightest regret.
That fixed by him personally M02 broke apart just after it took the historic first step, maybe he couldn’t go into that waste storage cabin again, but he finally got close to the mecha for the first time, even fixed the mecha personally, even if it’s not so successful-- The youngster didn’t have the plan to become a mecha soldier, for him, this broken mecha was only an unusually hard-to-get experimental material. So he just had a sigh, admitted that in this kind of rough situation, with those scraped together materials, then he wanted to fix a precision mecha freakishly, it’s really a very foolish idea.
In these four years, Fengyu taught by personal example as well as verbal instruction, that always gave the play to the effects on the place Sheilor was unclear, the mechanic always had the beneath attention to the little boys’ worshipful mecha, considered in the modern warfare, mecha this kind of high energy consumption close-in weapon, really didn’t have any use, randomly a group artillery flat fire, would put these costly diamond into carbon. Besides those large range jumping special dash fight, the mecha… That was just only the decoration. Although in these years, Sheilor didn’t admit this point in front of uncle Fengyu, but he had already accepted this concept in his mind subconsciously, but… The mecha was really cool!
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Half minute after the tunnel sealing board on the ceiling was covered back, a burst of noisy and rattled step sounds came to the area 38 on the back of the spacecraft, the sound of opening cabin door sounded up, finally the storing broken mecha and more waste metal components storage cabin was opened, more than ten wearing hazel petty officer uniform young people came in in a rush, they found out that the huge noise earlier was coming from here just in a glance, and also found out the odd things in this room.
The sullen expression Mr. captain and his exclusive secretary separated the crowd and walked in, the captain walked to the place among the mecha debris, had the hands on the back and took a few eyes, then walked to the other side of the crowd, somewhat difficult to lower his body, and picked up that dirty doll from the ground.
“Miss was right here just now.” The expression of the captain was even more murky than a moment ago. The secretary took a look at him, lowered his head, didn’t criticize his boss at this wrong time, about that he didn’t pay attention to the abnormal current output alarm by the central control computer earlier.
The fat captain stooped his obesity body and walked a round in these mecha debris, time to time picked up a metal board or a still smoking circuit board to take a look, his face was getting heavier and heavier, didn’t turn his back and had the command, “the search direction will be this down level, put the emphasis on area 33 to area 42, recall all the records of these days, have a look on which areas these tunnels of here lead to, and find out the greatest doubtful point.”
The captain raised his head and took a look at the not far away the entrance of those tunnels , he had his eyebrows wrinkled tighter and said, “provide them the electric shock sticks and guns, in the shortest time, find Miss.”
Those wearing hazel military uniform petty officers were all the exchange visiting students of the West Forest military school, they could represent the first-class West Forest military school to come to visit the East Forest Region, of course they were the strong performers of the school, and were also the key training objects of the Fourth Military Region. After heard this words, they perceived the strange very sensitively, just only looking for a six years old little girl, needed to risk to provide the firearms on the ship? But none of them dared to have any doubt for the captain’s command, just inhibited the excitement and anxiety to take a look at each other, then walked out of the cabin, and began to prepare the search work.
“Why provide them with the guns?” The secretary walked to the captain’s side, lowered his voice and asked. He knew that Mr. captain should find out some very important things, otherwise he wouldn’t be nervous such like this look now.
The captain dropped his eyes, stared at those mecha debris and somewhat strange components, opened his mouth and said, “this damn broken mecha had been put in here for how many years, I had already forgot. That man even could try to fix it… The mine planet walking car, the self-powered base cannon, even this fucking automatic clean machine…” It’s full of anger and taunt in the captain’s tone, but the more was the ridiculous feeling, “even wanted to use these things to fix a mecha unexpectedly? This man dared to have this kind of idea, then he is either a genius or a lunatic.”
“Maybe that man is a
lunatic in the bone, but this mecha obviously moved and then broke apart, although he failed, but you also have to admit that he is a genius.” The captain’s eyes stared at his secretary like an eagle, “a crazy genius is kidnapping our miss at this time, don’t say to provide the guns, even ask me to request networking with the central computer of the Charter Bureau at this time, I also will be willing to.”
“Although the junior fellow apprentices of the military school grew up by eating shit, but I still will trust their ability, it may be assumed that they will be not stupid to shoot around without checking the environment.” The expression in the captain’s eyes became anxious gradually, “I was just thinking, who’s that guy having the ability to kidnap miss bellow our eyelids? Could it be said that he is the spy of the Empire, or the people from the rebel army?”
“The rebel army has already disbanded for many years, they keep in accordance with the non-violence and non-cooperation these years, it shouldn’t be them.” The secretary worried very much, but he was still eliminating the targets.
The captain shouted angrily, “have you been brainwashed by those people? How could the imperial people get on our West Forest ship? Those refugees over the Bermuda there dare to come into the scope of the Federation? Besides the anti-government side, who else will bear in mind constantly to make mischief the relationship between our Fourth Military Region and the Federation?”
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The fact proved, the fat captain that worried so much judgment was a misunderstanding or a mistake.
A people’s sight always has the blind spot, and the one time search work also had its blind spot, thus the people of the Antique Bell couldn’t find the little girl in these many days. Once they readjusted the right direction, in the help of the powerful computer, the working staffs had already found the doubtful points from the videotape just in three minutes.
One picture from the monitoring camera was enlarged and then sent to the captain. A dressed in white pajamas little girl was on the picture, stood quietly by the side of a young man, and was watching the graceful star scene which was outside of the porthole.
“This was the day before we left the East Forest Region, and it’s also that day miss was missing.” The captain’s expression relaxed slightly, because on the video, the working staffs didn’t find the signs that miss was kidnapped, “find this young man, and find miss.”
Very soon, all kinds of information were fed back, once they confirmed the target, the reaction of the having West Forest military background Antique Bell was so quick, it really had the iron army’s elegant demeanor of the field troop.
At that time, Sheilor and Little just had the bath in the room, he was using a white towel to cover the shaking ceaselessly head of the little girl, and was ready to wipe her hair dry, suddenly he found out that the door of the room was opened by people without any sound.
More then ten pitch-dark and incomparably cold muzzles pointed at his head.