There Is No Afterlife

Fortunately, Mugen himself didn't care about money, so he was only surprised for a while, and he quickly recovered his mood. During this time, their car drove for a long distance, and they didn't meet any needs along the way. The scenic spots and historic sites explained by Tatalin only have long walls hidden behind layers of green trees.

That should be a factory, and all the land within the wall belongs to the property of the factory. After estimating the area of ​​the factory in his mind, Mu Gen clicked his tongue.

Sure enough, after the suspension car drove for another hour, Mugen finally saw a heavily guarded gate ahead. The gate looked unusually wide as a whole, allowing a standard-sized military warship to pass through at the same time. Mugen saw on the gate There are simple signs with black letters and red backgrounds, and no exaggerated or abstract deformed words are used. The words "Sumei Machinery" are written in standard print.

"This is the largest machinery processing factory in Pandora, Sumei Machinery, one of the thousands of companies in the hands of the chaebol Shoemaker." Prince introduced lightly: "It is also the arsenal designated by the military department. The ones you need You can buy all the metal here."

Mu Gen nodded, and thanked the other party gratefully.

However, at this moment, his father, Xiao A, who had been sitting beside him, suddenly poked him, and turned his head in accordance with his intentions. Mu Gen's eyes just fell on Uncle Alpha who was in the arms of Xiao A's father... the faint light On the screen, unlike the colorful dots of light representing various emotions in the past, a line of words was written on the dim light screen at this time: "We don't get out of the car, take a, Mengmeng can go, but only with the head, Sigma wants You can only go if you change shape."

Mu Gen froze for a moment, then nodded for a while.

Although he was not happy, Sigma was still afraid of the power and turned into his brother's personal schoolbag and hung it behind Mu Gen, while Mengmeng took off his head very readily: He still likes to watch the fun!This is the place where advanced robots are produced. He, a country bumpkin robot, has long wanted to come and see it!

The car stopped at the gate, and the gatekeeper robot carefully checked the IDs of all the people in the car, and even scanned the inside and outside of the military license plate suspension car, before letting them pass after a full 15 minutes.

"That's what makes robots so good. They will always do their duty." Priest was not impatient with such complicated inspections.

He was obviously very familiar with the terrain here. Facing the endless factory buildings, he directly led Mu Gen and others into a small path on the right.

The communicator was dialed on Princeton Road, so when they reached the bottom of the three-story building, there was already a blonde lady waiting there. Looking at the ID card, it seems to be the staff here.

really--

"Hello, I'm Luo from Sumei Machinery, please come with me." She only briefly introduced her name, and she took them away without even asking about their identities.

This lady must have had regular guests from the military—thought Mugan.

"I have already received the purchase list from Second Lieutenant Prince. We have most of the metals on the list in our warehouse, except for Famia and Mika." Leading them into a very huge white room, Ms. Luo pressed a button, and white seats that fit the number of people present rose up on the ground, even the seat of the robot A.

"You need a total of 120 KG of Famia. The quantity we can provide in our warehouse is only [-] kilograms. I'm sorry for the remaining quantity. We don't have enough stock. Besides, we don't have Mika at the moment. We just delivered it Lieutenant Priest also knows about a batch of military orders, and that order has exhausted all of our Mika inventory."

Ms. Luo said very businesslike, after a while, she hesitated for a while and said:

"I heard that this batch of metal is used to make robots. If so, why not buy brand new robots? Our factory also produces cutting-edge military robots. The amount of your purchase list can buy ten of the current top-notch military robots. gone."

This is a very practical suggestion, which has already exceeded the scope of Ms. Luo's work. After all, she is only a staff member of a military factory, and all she can see is a purchase list. She doesn't know what the list is for, but it is Due to her professionalism, she guessed that these metals should be the raw materials for making military robots.

Ms. Luo didn't know, but Prince did. He didn't understand the relationship between Mugen and Alpha and other robots. He was just a mobile check sent by the military to purchase and pay. In his opinion, Ms. Luo's suggestion It’s actually good, so he takes a look at Moo-gun.

Mu Gen shook his head without hesitation, and after refusing to show his friendliness, he even smiled.

Mu Gen himself was simply unwilling, but he didn't know that this smile seemed a little unpredictable in the eyes of other humans.

With a tense mind, Ms. Luo secretly alerted: Yes, people only buy materials instead of finished products. The reason must be that they do not want to leak the internal design drawings of the robot, and they have exceeded the rules.

After quickly sending people to collect the materials needed on the list, Ms. Luo immediately changed the subject: "It suddenly occurred to me that there might be another place where Fabia and Mika might be found."

With an idea, Ms. Luo turned on the portable smart brain, and after entering a line of instructions on it, a smile suddenly appeared on her serious face: "It's also a coincidence, it really does exist, and it just arrived today."

Standing up, under the signal of Ms. Luo, Mu Gen and his party followed her around the building, and they finally followed Ms. Luo to another white room.

There are a lot of "parts" in this room, or a mechanical arm, or a mechanical thigh... This place is simply a robot organ warehouse.

"They acted very quickly and have already delivered it." Satisfied with the efficiency of her subordinates, Ms. Luo led Mu Gen and others to the display stand in the middle, pointed to the things on the display stand and said, "I almost Forgot: it is not in the inventory, but the robot has it, the head and breastplate of this robot use a lot of Fabia, and after re-refining, you can get five kilograms of Fabia."

"That's great!" Ms. Luo smiled happily as she was one step closer to getting the required number of Fabias on the list.

But Mugen was stunned——

On this display stand is... the black robot that he once had a relationship with in the port.

But it is different from that time, now only the chest and head of this robot are left, and the gloom screen on the head is still broken, but not only the left arm, but even the right arm has disappeared, and the lower body has also been dismantled.

Like an object, his remains lie alone on a display stand.

What was different from before was that his screen was pitch black, and there were no longer any light spots flickering, but there were still some when Mu Gen saw him before.

he died.

When I saw him in the morning, although he was damaged, he was still "alive", but why did he "die" after such a short time?Just because there is a metal like Fabia on his list, the warehouse does not have enough stock, but he happens to have it on him?

Can't it be used after repairing it?

Trying to suppress the trembling in his voice, Mu Gen asked his own doubts.

Ms. Luo shook her head: "You may not know that this robot is a military model. It was expensive to manufacture and maintain. This is the 28th time it has been repaired. Its model is outdated. And the repair cost has exceeded the original manufacturing price, we will no longer provide repair services to buyers, this time it was sent back for scrapping."

"Robots can't be scrapped casually. You see, the city garbage disposal center also has a waste robot recycling point, which is responsible for the uniform recycling of scrapped robots. This is especially true for this military model, which generally needs to be sent back to the original factory for scrapping... "

It turned out that when he came back alone, his left arm was gone, and the Youguang screen was also broken. Was it to send him back to be scrapped?

Because it is scrapped, so there is no seat, so I can only lie in the luggage compartment with the cargo and come back?

Mu Gen suddenly felt very sad.

He lightly clenched the shoulder strap of his schoolbag, then tightened his grip on Mengmeng in his arms, and took a last look at the robot little A behind him.

"Can this robot be repaired? I mean, put it back together..." Mugen asked awkwardly.

"It's not necessary? This robot has been scrapped, its body has been disassembled, and its brain has been deleted." Ms. Luo was puzzled.

In the end, Mu Gen could only remain silent.

Rejecting Ms. Luo's service to refine Fabia, Mu Gen put away the wreckage of the black robot, picked up other materials that the other party had prepared long ago, and left Sumei Machinery.

Before leaving, Ms. Luo said that she would remember to help him pay attention to the arrival of Fabia and Mika in the warehouse, and once the new products were in the warehouse, she would immediately notify Second Lieutenant Prince.

Mugen thanked her.

Mugen was in a very depressed mood, but he is now an adult, so he didn't show this sadness along the way. At the invitation of Tatarin, they went to another restaurant for dinner, and Mugen once again told the two of them After expressing his gratitude and making an appointment to meet tomorrow afternoon, Mu Gen was sent to the hotel where he stayed.

Throwing himself into Little A's father's arms like when he was a child, Mugen's sadness broke out in an all-round way, and Sigma immediately changed from the mechanical schoolbag back to its original form, sticking between Mugen and Little A like a plaster. He also brought himself in.

While the three hugged each other to comfort each other, the five big heads were studying the remains of the robot placed on the big hotel bed.

"This robot is Kappa." After a while, Beta came to a conclusion: "Kappa was produced after Sigma was produced."

"When we left, Capa was only half done." Etta immediately found Capa's photo in the hard drive, and he even had Capa's body structure diagram!

"Well, although other metals have changed, the metal on the chest has not changed." This is the thick mechanical voice of Epsilon.

"Of course it won't change. The most precious material on his body is the metal plate made of Famia on the chest and back." Etta interjected.

However, no matter how precious things are, they have now become materials to be sold.Just like them back then.

If they hadn't escaped there back then, probably the same ending awaited them, right?

Bodies were disassembled, what was useless was discarded, and what was useful was used in other machines.

The five big heads were silent.

In the silence, Sigma's voice sounded in the room:

"Sigma is not working, Sigma is staying at home."

The little robot's fighting spirit aroused by his elder brother's work suddenly died down, and Sigma's wish became a squat at home again.

"It's also good at home." The robot hand touched Sigma's head not too gently, and then Mugen's.

This behavior represents "gentle comfort", from the human textbook.

It was obviously a very cold and stiff touch, but Sigma and Mugen felt comforted at the same time.

Putting Kappa's remains in his stomach, Sigma begged his brother not to dissolve and re-refine Kappa.Mu Gen naturally agreed to his request, and then he was a little worried: "But in this way, Fabia is really not enough, I don't know how long uncle and the others will continue to do this..."

Mugen decided to ask Doug, a classmate from the Dizong era, for help. He is a local. Although he graduated and went to other galaxies for internships, he heard that Mugen would go to Pendela and immediately said that he would ask for leave and come back. They made an appointment to meet tomorrow morning.

After confirming the time with Doug again, Mugen went to bed. Although he was in a very depressed mood, he slept very deeply because he didn't rest on the spaceship before, and he didn't wake up all night.

And Sigma got up secretly when he was asleep.

Using a scanning device to confirm the depth of his brother's sleep, Sigma sneaked out of the hotel gate.