Astrolab Reboot [Online Version]

From the next day, A-Ka temporarily accepted the job.The Tsar's shop repairs equipment for the mercenaries in the old city, and also sells firearms, most of which are black guns obtained from unknown sources.Akka's job was to refurbish them, tweak them a bit, and market them.

Based on what he learned in the city of machines, A-Ka modified some electromagnetic weapons, which satisfied the Tsar very much.When the three of them sat together to eat in the morning, the Tsar wore a dirty white shirt, rolled up his sleeves, made three portions of tomato soup, and put down a large basket of bread. Paisi and Aka, who were so hungry, devoured it hungrily.

"I can't see that you still maintain firearms." The Tsar said.

"I learned some in the country of 'father' before." Aka said, "but unless necessary, I rarely touch them."

The Tsar said: "Didn't you steal one from the City of Steel and defend yourself?"

A-Ka shook his head, the weapons in the City of Steel were deeply in his memory.Mechanical life forms use weapons made by humans, and then slaughter humans, which made him have a natural resistance to guns since he was a child.But since it was a job to stay in the Tsar's shop, he had to do it well, otherwise he and Patsy would have nothing to eat.

Since that night on the boat, Aka was surprised to find that his ability to perceive the outside world seemed to have undergone earth-shaking changes.In the past, when working without distraction, the attention was only concentrated on the mechanical device, but now, as long as one enters the state of selfless work, the perception ability seems to be consciously extended.

It was a very indescribable feeling.A machine gun was in his hand, including the scope, handle, barrel and other parts, which were decomposed by his thoughts in an orderly and clear manner in an instant.Just like in the vast sea, when the thunder flashes, the principles of the world are clearly presented in front of him.The basis of all structural operations has shown a mysterious inner general.

In a trance, A-Ka loaded the gun and put it on the counter.

"That's all right?" the mercenary said, "This Storm Eagle can't even be repaired by the precision instrument shop in the East District!"

"Okay," A-Ka nodded, "There is a problem with the positioning trigger..."

The mercenary said, "Have you seen the blueprint?"

A-Ka said impatiently: "No, don't you want to repair the gun? It's been repaired, what's the problem?!"

The mercenary tried it and found that it was indeed intact, but it was not loaded. He was surprised and said to the Tsar: "Hey, man, this kid..."

"Storm Eagle?" The Tsar, who was smoking and playing cards, got up, walked over, took the gun, glanced at it, and said, "Well, the manufacturer has closed down, right? How did you fix it?"

"I..." Aka was a little uneasy, looked at the Tsar, and said, "Structure, if you find the problem with the structure, it will be easy to handle."

"This kid is very smart." The Tsar laughed, returned the gun to the mercenary, and patted him on the shoulder.

The mercenaries could hardly believe that this gun had been abandoned for many years, and it could neither be repaired nor returned to the factory. At first, they just wanted to use it as scrap iron for some money. After a few strokes, the gun was fixed!

"25 gold coins." A-Ka said.

The mercenary hurriedly took out money to pay.

Aka glanced at the Tsar sitting in the corner, the Tsar just smiled to himself, Aka wondered if the Tsar could see his ability, but no matter whether he saw it or not, Aka felt that he couldn't talk too much .And Paixi's dream—Aka tried to communicate with Paixi several times, but couldn't get a result, so he had to put it on hold temporarily.

As time passed, Akka and Paisi worked in the Tsar's shop for nearly a week.At first, the customers who came to the store were all mercenaries with fierce faces, but they were a little surprised to see Aka and Paixi.They didn't treat Aka very well, but they were very polite to Paisie, and even tipped Paisie before leaving.

A-Ka took all the money, and the Tsar would pay A-Ka more or less every day according to the turnover, and A-Ka gave all the money to Paisi for him to manage.

The two of them basically had no money to spend. While repairing firearms for the Tsar, Aka couldn't help but think of his former treasure—Robot K.At that time, he worked very hard to save parts every day, and in the end they all disappeared.From here, A-Ka thought of the robot that suddenly appeared in front of him that day when he and Heishi escaped from the city of steel.

Who is controlling K?A-Ka was thinking, while dealing with the bursting machine gun in his hand. After repairing it a few times, he thought of Heishi who escaped with them.Heishi doesn't know how he is doing now, is he in danger?

In the evening, he planned to ask Pai Xi to contact Fei Luo and ask about the situation of Black Stone.

It was very cold outside today, the door was closed with heavy snow, and the snow in Phoenix had a pungent sulfur smell, and the snowflakes that fell were all gray, and the polluted snow piled up in front of the door.Akka assembled a small autonomous snowplow robot and let it clear snow outside his door.

In Phoenix, private research on robots is forbidden.But the boundaries are very blurred. Humans and clones cannot live without mechanical devices. Most of the mechanical bodies that can operate by themselves, the rebel patrols will turn a blind eye.

Aka was fine anyway, so he used the discarded parts in the Tsar's shop to assemble something by himself.If possible, he still wants to make another K.Now it is not for escape, and he does not need to fight, but the innate yearning for steel and machinery in his body makes him unable to bear these thoughts.Making a robot is like playing with building blocks. It is ever-changing and full of fun, especially when the device you make moves, there is a kind of joy and joy of the creator...

While thinking about this, the bell outside the main entrance rang.

"Closed," said A-Ka, "Come back tomorrow."

The door was pushed open, and a tall man walked in, like a mountain, wearing a rebel cap, looking down at A-Ka.

"Where's the Tsar?" When his voice sounded, the whole store trembled. Patsy, who was peeling potatoes in the kitchen, was startled, and the cups and plates rattled.

"He..." Aka looked at this man anxiously, as if he was talking to a giant Ancarus bear.He pointed to the inside and said, "It's inside."

"Oh, Grizzly," the Tsar was leaning against the door with a glass of whiskey and a cigarette in his mouth. "Welcome. I thought you had died in the City of Steel."

A-Ka frowned slightly, and when he heard this long-lost place name, he couldn't help but glance at the man named Grizzly.Grizzly said: "This damn winter will never end, I've had enough!"

Grizzly took off his army coat, threw it down the stairs, and landed on Paisy's bed, showing his strong muscles, almost bursting his shirt.It was the first time for A-Ka to see such a burly and majestic man, with a height of 190 centimeters. Even the strong Heishi paled in comparison when standing in front of him.A grizzly is as big as two grown men.

Grizzly drank a big gulp of whiskey, his face flushed red: "An outsider joined the secret operation team, you don't know what they found in the ancient heart! Although the revolution failed, but according to the information provided by that man,' Father's rule is about to come to an end! That man... they call him 'Savior', they think he is the key to the end of 'Father' left behind by the ancient gods, he is in the ancient heart..."

Aka couldn't help stretching his neck, curiously listening to the conversation between the Grizzly Bear and the Tsar.The door of the room was open, and the Tsar glanced out, just in time to see Akka's expression.

"Tsar, may I use your magnetic welding coil?" Aka asked a little embarrassed.

"You can do whatever you want," the Tsar said lazily, "but don't try your new weapon in my shop. If you want to use it, take it to the river behind the alley."

A-Ka nodded and began to assemble his mechanical arm. When he wanted to eavesdrop on something, the Tsar walked to the door and closed the door. A-Ka could no longer hear their conversation.

Aka always felt that the atmosphere was a bit wrong recently. The Tsar no longer went out, and the investigation outside gradually became stricter.Early one morning, a mercenary came over and said, "Hey, boy, is that kid in Lane No. 16 your brother? He was detained by the guards."

Aka immediately put down the work at hand and went out, and found that there were many guard posts on the street.Pai Xi held an electronic crutch for the blind in his hand, raised his head in confusion, and held a bag of bread in his other hand.

Aka said: "He is my younger brother!"

"Don't walk around outside." The clone sentinel glanced at him, returned the bread to Paisi, took another shoulder patch, and asked, "Who gave it to you?"

"My dad," Patsy replied.

The epaulette Feiluo gave him has been kept in his close pocket, and the clone sentinel smiled and said, "Interesting. Are you the son of a clone?"

"Let's go." A-Ka looked at the sentinel vigilantly, took Paisi's hand and went back.The sentinel said: "General Maxey will come back for inspection in a few days. If you don't want to cause trouble, just stay at home obediently and don't go anywhere."

"What's going on outside?" Akka asked the Tsar when he returned.

The tsar was lying on a chair, his booted feet were resting on the round table, his hat was covering his face, and a voice came from under the fedora: "Maxie is here for a parade, speech, pre-war mobilization..."

"Is that the person in power here?" Aka asked.

"One of the three people in power." The Tsar lazily said, "The clone regime wants to counterattack, mobilize everyone, and attack the city of machines."

Aka said: "It failed only once."

The Tsar said: "People in Phoenix City are in a state of panic. At a time like this, one must find something to do."

Aka didn't ask any more questions.At night, the Tsar hummed the military song "Black Earth" of the rebel army, which Akka had heard Firo sing several times.There was a curfew in the city, the lights were turned off early, and the room was completely dark. After A-Ka fell asleep, he heard the knock on the door and got up sleepily, but Pai Xi fumbled to open the door first.

"Who?" Aka asked.

The Tsar seemed to be waiting, and said, "Come in."

The man put something on the counter in the dark, went straight into the Tsar's reception room, and closed the door behind him.A-Ka turned on the light and saw a long-range sniper rifle on the counter.

He began to test the guests, thinking that they might be some kind of friend of the tsar, and looked around curiously, wondering if the visitor had brought any news from the mainland.But the Tsar shut the door tightly so that nothing could be heard.A-Ka didn't sleep well that night, and with the disturbance from the grizzly bear's visit last night, A-Ka didn't sleep well for two consecutive nights.And the next morning, just before dawn, he was awakened by the noise outside.

People thronged through the streets, cheering as the leader of the rebel army was coming.A-Ka pushed open the window and looked out, the streets and alleys were crowded with people, all walking towards the square.Some people brought flowers, some people brought food, scrambling to the square, waiting for the legendary figure to arrive in Phoenix.

There have never been so many people in Phoenix like today, as if celebrating a grand holiday.

The sound of fireworks was deafening, Aka closed the doors and windows, and the first thing he did was to see the guests who came last night.

The guests were not there, and the Tsar was still asleep. Pissy said, "Are you looking for the man who came yesterday? He brought us something to eat."

There was a box of fresh fruit on the table with drops of water on it. Paisi said, "He got up this morning, and after washing the fruit, he told us to eat it, so he went to the rooftop."

A-Ka went up the stairs to see him, but found that the door of the roof was locked.Aka knocked on the door and said, "Are you outside?"

The man in the windbreaker put the sniper rifle on the railing, wiped the lens, looked back at the locked roof door, and did not answer.

Aka: "Thank you for the fruit, come down for breakfast."

The people on the roof remained silent.A-Ka waited for a while, but did not get any response, thinking that the people who came to the Tsar were some weirdos, so he ignored him.

A-Ka and Paixi were having breakfast when they heard singing outside, converging into a torrent.

"Unyielding soul, we will eventually return to our homeland..."

"Heroes of destiny, lead us forward..."

"The future is at your feet..."

The town was ignited with enthusiasm, and although Akka was not interested in the rebels and their affairs, he was inevitably exaggerated by this emotion.Pai Xi said, "Can I go out and have a look?"

"No." A-Ka replied without thinking.

A moment later, someone knocked on the door again, and the door opened with a bang, and Grizzly appeared at the door.

"Maxie is here," Grizzly said, "Don't you want to go out and have a look?"

The Tsar lazily said: "Oh no, there are two children at home, you can take them with you."

Grizzly smiled and asked, "Are you going?"

Pixi looked at A-Ka. A-Ka didn't want to go. His mechanical arm hadn't been assembled yet. The Tsar said, "Paixi, you can go with Grizzly. He will protect your safety."

A-Ka sized up the Grizzly, and finally said: "Go, come back early."

Grizzly came over to hold Paisi's hand and led him out. The Tsar said, "Grizzly once destroyed a base with his bare hands, don't worry about your brother."

"Instead of worrying about whether he can protect Paixi," Aka said, "I am more worried about what he will do to Paixi."

The Tsar laughed and said: "He doesn't like children, you can rest assured. Now that your bodyguards are here, no one has to be afraid."

"What?" Aka asked inexplicably.

After breakfast, the Tsar did not answer Akka's words, so he went back to his room and sat down, still lying on his chair, with his hat covering his face, and turned on the radio, which broadcast the news about General Maxey's tour.

Aka was behind the counter, debugging his robotic arm. He assembled a robotic arm with scraps from the Tsar’s shop, held it in his hand, and made a “quack” sound when it moved, and added A flare gun.

What are the guests above doing?He went up to the rooftop in the morning and never came down.

Aka opened the window and looked out, only to see that the square in front of the station was crowded with people.The crowd stretched as far as the eye could see, Aka had never seen so many people, they poured in from all directions, as if they wanted to witness a certain historic moment with their own eyes.In the center of the square is the steam station leading to the south. The railway track is laid here, as if leading to the barren land of the world, without moving forward an inch.

The big clock pointed to [-]:[-], and a steam train arrived in the small town of Shakespeare. When the doors of the carriage opened, the crowd boiled.

"Maxie—"

"Maxie, you're here!"

Countless people shouted Maxi's name, and several officers of the rebel army left the carriage, followed by a short middle-aged man.

A-Ka couldn't help but walked out of the house, and climbed up the roof along the ladder outside. Not far away was the rooftop. He saw the man in the long black windbreaker, with his hands in his pockets, quietly at the corner of the rooftop, looking into the distance .

"Hey!" Aka called to him.

The man was about the same height as Heishi, and he was wearing a pair of earplugs. A-Ka bet he heard it, but didn't turn his head.Aka stood on tiptoe and looked towards the square. He knew that many people in Phoenix City were looking forward to Maxi's arrival, and his deeds were widely recited among the rebels.The news on the radio said he was in that fight too, single-handedly destroying two large Annihilators.

He came with the orders of General Liebler, who died in battle, to unite the rebel forces in the north and lead them to form a united front, and now, he is back in Phoenix.Humanity is about to set off a revolution here and regain its homeland.

The singing of "Black Earth" was loud and loud, and then gradually died down, and Maxey spoke.

"Today is a historic moment," Maxey said.

With a deep voice, Maxi took off his hat and said: "We have suffered the most tragic blow in history, at the cost of the lives of countless soldiers, we have weakened the majesty of 'Father', but this is far from enough! We will unite……"

The daylight was pale and thin, and it fell silently on every building in Phoenix.On the roof of the machine repair shop, Heishi bit a bullet, set up his sniper rifle, and headed towards the podium where Maxi was standing in the center of the square.

He put on an infrared sight and stared at Maxey who was waving excitedly 400 meters away. He was waving a marshal's military cap to arouse people's enthusiasm.

Seconds later, the killer pulled the trigger.

"boom!"

It was as if a giant slammed a hammer on the ground, and the whole world was shaken by it.

At that moment, the passage of time seemed to be extremely slow, Maxi's great head exploded, and blood spattered.Under the sunlight, Maxi's brain shone with the light of the chip.

Everyone in the square was stunned. The shock was so great that within five seconds, no one could speak. They watched the headless body of Maxi fall to the ground and rolled off the stage.

The gunshots that shook the city killed one person, but another person woke up at the sound.

In the repair shop, the Tsar was awakened by the gunfire and sat up suddenly.

Outside the store, Aka suddenly felt a sense of panic, he jumped down and rushed back into the store.It was full of bumps with the rushing tsar!

"What did that bastard do!" the Tsar yelled angrily, grabbing Akka by the collar.

"I don't know!" Aka pushed the Tsar away and shouted, "I just heard the gunshots too!"

"Damn!" shouted the Tsar, rushing up to the roof, knocking on the door angrily, "open the door for me! Damn it! What have you done!"

However, the iron gate was tightly closed, and the Tsar could not open it with all his strength.At this moment, Akara grabbed him, pushed him aside, set up the mechanical arm, and fired a cannon against the door.

With a loud "boom", the cannon blasted the entire roof door flying out.The Tsar and A-Ka rushed up to the rooftop, and saw the windbreaker flaps flying, the figure of the sniper jumping over the railing and jumping down the alley, and his gesture of raising his hand and waving his fingers at A-Ka .

At that moment, A-Ka's blood froze instantly.

"Black Stone—" A-Ka yelled as he jumped in front of the railing.

At that time, Heishi jumped down the alley behind the repair shop, looked up at A-Ka when he landed, then ran and disappeared at the end of the alley.

Aka also fell down, fell on an oil drum, and fell to the ground again. After rolling around, feeling dizzy, he got up and ran after Heishi, shouting: "Wait!"

Maxey's death caused uncontrollable chaos. Nearly 10 people in the square uttered unexplained yells after they came to their senses, mixed with anger, sadness and even despair.Many people rushed to the stage to see his body, but the guards fired warning shots, and a riot broke out. 10 people trampled on each other and overwhelmed the stands.

Aka never expected such a thing to happen, he chased out of the alley and saw Heishi's figure.There was chaos everywhere, Heishi was really running too fast, the patrol planes all over the sky finally found Heishi, and the clone police began to outflank and intercept the escaped Heishi.

A-Ka took out a monocle positioning machine from his arms and put it in front of his left eye. He dragged the robotic arm and rushed across the long street. There were soldiers chasing Blackstone and evacuating the people everywhere. There was a complete riot in Phoenix City, and the rebel army began to suppress it. .

How is this going?Where A-Ka passed by, it was found that many people had launched a gun battle with the rebels, and most of them were mercenaries!

This desire to destroy spread among the crowd, and some people began to smash glass windows and buildings.In just half an hour, Aka witnessed with his own eyes how history completed its transformation at a critical moment, and how fate forcibly changed the life trajectory of hundreds of thousands, millions or even tens of millions of people.

With a roar, two security mechs controlled by clones chased after Blackstone, and the defense facilities rotating in the sky issued a warning.

"Quickly evacuate, ten seconds later, the sixth block began to blockade..."

"nineteen……"

Heishi ran on the road ahead, but realized the danger, turned to one side, and with a loud "boom", two annihilation mechs blocked in front of him.He flicked the sniper rifle in his hand, and in just a short moment, the sniper rifle automatically disassembled, reassembled, and turned into a magnetic cannon, blasting against the mecha.

In the lightning, the mechanical body lost its power of movement, but after a few seconds of delay, A-Ka had already caught up from behind.At this moment, the encirclement of the entire block was closed, and thousands of clone soldiers rushed towards the Black Stone with guns in hand.

Heishi turned his head and glanced around. The defense satellite on Zenith had already counted down to "one", and then, a laser shot quickly.Before long, A-Ka rushed to the crossroads, bowed, knelt down on one knee, raised the mechanical arm with his left hand, put his right hand behind his back, pulled out the rocket propeller behind his boot, and kicked on the ground.

In just a few moments, A-Ka flew towards the Black Stone, and the mechanical arm was fully fired, clearing a path!Hei Shi immediately stretched out his hand, and the two hooked their arms together. Hei Shi leapt up flat, turned around beautifully in mid-air, and embraced A-Ka. The two rushed into a building like cannonballs!

There was a loud "bang bang bang bang", and A-Ka and Heishi hugged each other tightly.A-Ka used the mechanical arm to protect the heads of the two, and rushed into the glass building, crashing into an unknown number of things, and then rushed out from the other side, dazed and unable to distinguish the direction.Heishi rushed into a basement with Aka in his arms.

"I'll go by myself..." Aka said.

Heishi took A-Ka's hand, and the two ran in the underground parking lot, found the next passage, and got in.

After half an hour, they finally got rid of all the pursuers.A-Ka was lying in the sewer, gasping for breath. He felt that he had been shot, and it was in his side.Gotta get the bullet out asap.

He stretched out his hand to touch his ribs, and his hand was wet and greasy, full of blood.However, Heishi didn't know it yet, so he pulled up his coat and covered the wound.

Heishi stood tall, standing at the junction of the sewage pipes, his brows were deeply furrowed.

"How long do you have to rest?" Heishi asked impatiently.

"Can you have a little conscience!" A-Ka was furious and said angrily.

Heishi looked at A-Ka, and A-Ka asked inexplicably, "What? Am I weird?"

"Why chase it out?" Heishi asked.

Aka said unhappily: "I'm worried about you, why didn't you say hello to me when you came back? You brought the fruit for me and Pai Xi yesterday? I wonder who will give us something delicious."

Heishi said "um" casually, and there seemed to be a little anxiety between his brows.A-Ka turned over with difficulty, leaned on the wall of the sewer, and walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow.Heishi immediately became alert and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Go on your own." Aka endured his anger and sadness and said, "Leave me alone."

"It's dangerous outside!" Heishi chased after him.

Aka finally broke out, turned around and put his mechanical arm against Heishi's chest, and roared: "Why did you stay! Why did you come back! You didn't tell me anything! I really regarded you as a friend, so I chased you regardless of my life Come out to save you! What do you think of me!"

Heishi was taken aback, Aka was like an angry fighting cock, staring at Heishi and panting.

"Is that so?" Heishi seemed very amused, "Are you angry?"

"Stop bluffing me with what you don't understand about human emotions!" Aka said angrily, "Get lost!"

"Wait." Heishi walked behind A-Ka and said after a long thought, "I don't want to involve you in this matter."

Aka said: "Go away! I don't want to hear it!"