Chapter 2 (1/2)

-Do you confirm? - spoke the doubtful voice

-Don't waste your words. Come out!

Ye Zhong's patience had started to chip away. However, his eyes and body language were completely the opposite. He curved his back slightly, like a bow that was ready to shoot out an arrow. He could have given his opponent a fatal kick at any moment.

-Ok, I'll come out then - said the expressionless voice, with no resistance.

As soon as the sentence was finished, the room darkened swiftly. Before Ye Zhong could react, a ”Boommm!” sound exploded, a fierce tidal wave of rubbish swallowed him up. The dump planet was then back to its original quiet state.

After a while, a blackened arm stretched out from the rubbish heap next to the transferring station, then a person covered in dirt could be seen crawling out from there.

*cough* *cough* – Misfortune sure does not come singly! *cough*

Ye Zhong went on swearing while shaking off all of the dirt off of his clothes. Up to this moment, Ye Zhong did not have the slightest ideas of what had just happened.

Was it the legendary kamikaze attack?

Staring at the disaster in front of his eyes, everything was buried in trash, even his entrance had disappeared. He couldn't help but feel disheartened ”How long will it take to clear up the entrance?”

He muttered to himself with deep resentment: ”You b.a.s.t.a.r.d, you are dead meat to me.” He was boiling with rage.

Glaring at the perpetrator, his words just left him.

The fact that Ye Zhong had to spend at least 3 days worth of effort to clean up his entrance made his blood boiled to the peak. But as soon as he faced the one responsible for it, he couldn't remain angry any more.

A glamorous metal outer sh.e.l.l, a plated laser layer, looking brand new, s.h.i.+ned a hue of green and white, made the surface of the mecha not even have a speck of dust, even though rubbish had surrounded it in every direction. When Ye Zhong realised, it was already standing firmly, as a mountain, as if nothing in this world could have moved it.

From the first glance, Ye Zhong already knew he had bagged himself a highly valuable item.

If the first glance delighted him, the second look gave him a mixture of pain and joy.

A big wound stretched from its left shoulder to its waist, revealing its internal engine. Its entire left arm was gone. Like an impeccable marvellous painting that got ripped.

This mecha was human-shaped, about 12 metres high; the body armour had a blend of white and green colour. Its body gleamed with a strange metallic s.h.i.+ne. Every part of its breastplate was like solid and gorgeous muscle, not flabby at all. The cold face with its contour as if it had been carved by knife, the electronic green eyes sparkled rhythmically creating a rather eerie impression.

Ye Zhong was completely perplexed, eyeballing the broken mecha that had destroyed his entrance. At that very moment, this broken, yet enthralling mecha was all that Ye Zhong could think about, as if there was some kind of supernatural force in use, it completely captured Ye Zhong's attention.

-Auto check-up completed: motor quality: 80%, left arm quality: 0%, c.o.c.kpit quality: 97%, other components quality: perfect.

A genderless voice interrupted Ye Zhong's train of thought. He blurted out ”Woah, this is tip-top, a mecha that can do auto check-ups.” If one had looked closely, they would see that its mouth had opened so wide that even a whole rat's leg could have fit in it. And it was trickling some kind of twinkling liquid.

The broken mecha suddenly spoke ”h.e.l.lo!”

The mecha could greet! Ye Zhong replied without thinking ”h.e.l.lo!”

The broken mecha continued ”I am Mu Shang. You can call me Mu”

Ye Zhong was still astounded ”Yeah, I am Ye Zhong, you can call me Ye Zi”

Then, it suddenly clicked, as if there was fire burning under his b.u.m, he jumped up and down, pointed at the broken mecha, stuttering ”You …. You … You …. You can talk?”

The broken mecha, aka Mu Shang, gracefully nodded ”To a certain extent.”

Ye Zhong couldn't believe his ears, and asked again ”Mechas can talk?”

-Yes

With Mu Shang joining in, Ye Zhong's house was three times as big as before. According to Mu Shang, the jewellery that Ye Zhong had collected was Mu Shang's s.p.a.ce switch. Mu Shang had preferred to be on the outside instead of being inside of the subs.p.a.ce. Ye Zhong also liked this new friend. To be fair, from the point of view of a mere 16 years old: loneliness was the most unbearable feeling.

Ye Zhong dropped himself down to the ground. Finally done, but utterly exhausted. Mu Shang followed suit, ”swift!” he had already sat next to Ye Zhong, blowing up the dirt. Without a chance to prepare, Ye Zhong was blown by this wind to the corner of the house. He angrily looked up, and saw the big hole in the ground that Mu Shang had just created, but Mu Shang was sitting in it looking at Ye Zhong with its puppy eyes.

The two sat under the light, one giant, one tiny.

Ye Zhong curiously asked, ”Mu, why are you in such a state?”