Chapter 4 The Robot Wawa (1/2)

Since it could talk and move, that meant that the robot trash collector that in front of him could not be called ”rubbish”. But was it a threat; did it have an aggressive nature and would it cause harm to humans?

Chen Jin conducted two little tests. He took out the baseball bat from the side pocket of his backpack and lightly tapped its body a couple of times. It did not make any defensive or retaliatory move; only twisted its cameras and gave him a strange look.

”Hi, hello!” Chen Jin waved his hand in greeting.

”Wah wah, Wah wah ~” The robot immediately executed a reply.

He waved his hand, ”how are you?”

It waved its mechanical arm too. ”Wah wah ~”

Chen Jin extended his hand towards it. ”Let's shake hands!”

”Click clack~” It extended its mechanical arm as well. The three metal pieces on the tip of its arm opened up, grasping the ends of Chen Jin's glove and shaking like how it would shake his hand.

”Damn, what a high level of intelligence!” Chen Jin was stunned. The robot responded to everything that he said to it. Just by stretching his hand, it could quickly comprehend what he meant. With the current level of technology on Earth, there was no way it could produce robots of such high intelligence. His judgement of this world's level of technological advancement immediately improved - it was leading Earth by at least few decades.

Chen Jin murmured, ”This world definitely is not an undeveloped one; on the contrary it's very advanced and very prosperous!”

As for the ”trash robot” looking up at him from his feet, Chen Jin had basically confirmed that it should be friendly towards him. Even if it was not a friendly robot and an evil one, Chen Jin was confident that he could destroy 10 of such robots without much problems using the baseball bat in his hands. After all, its size was smaller than a backpack. For example, he could just knock out both its camera eyes and it would be blinded instantly. What was there to be afraid of?

Chen Jin decided to keep this robot. It was just that it had sustained severe damage, and he needed to repair it. Chen Jin studied mechanical engineering for three years in the university, so he definitely had a basic understanding of mechanical repair. However he spent most of his time playing games and only skimming some of the necessary content.

But there was one point that definitely worked—when a machine is broken because it was missing some parts, simply replace the parts with functional ones. Following that idea, he rummaged through the rubbish bin for a while and poured out all the trash. As expected, he found a broken caterpillar track as well as two loose inducers. He could fix the two gears on the robot, but unless he welded together the broken parts of the propulsion belt, it was useless.

As for the broken right eye camera, he had to find a new one and replace it. Therefore, the primary goals in the next part of Chen Jin's exploration was to find a whole, unbroken propulsion belt and a functional right camera. The trash robot who could still move, albeit with great difficulty, followed behind him the whole way.

Chen Jin realised that he had a good conversational companion after finding out that it could understand part of what he said. He even gave this trash robot a name.

”Wa-Wah, can you mimic how I speak? Wa-Wah, could it be that your vocal unit is only capable of making the syllable 'wah wah'? It cannot vocalise more complicated words? Wa-wah, let's hear you call me Master”.

”Power-Less, Power-Less.”

As expected, the trash robot who Chen Jin had named ”Wa-Wah” said a different word. But what it expressed was ”insufficient power.” On its chest was a row of tiny lights that continuously flickered red. It walked more sluggishly; slowly losing pace with Chen Jin.

”You're almost out of battery?” Noticing that there was something peculiar about Wawa, Chen Jin quickly grabbed it and put it on the deck of his scooter. He fixed it firmly on the deck using a length of rope. To prevent it from toppling over, he tried his best to drive in a steady manner.

Sometimes the terrain was uneven, and he had to slow down the scooter. Walking along while carrying a rubbish-filled nylon poly bag and hauling the scooter with Wawa on it had caused his speed to decrease, not to mention increasing his burden at the same time.

At 3pm in the afternoon.

Using a total of about eight hours, Chen Jin had completed one round of exploration around the surrounding areas of the huge crater.

The total travel distance exceeded 40 kilometers, with one-third of the journey undertaken on foot. Right now both his legs were swollen. His body felt as heavy as lead which was very uncomfortable. But the gains were good. Luckily, besides the snakeskin bag of rubbish, he also found a spare camera to replace Wawa's right one. It had fallen off from another robot; the outer appearance was whole and undamaged.

As he did not find an unbroken caterpillar track, he intended to bring the broken one back to Earth. It should be fixed without too much trouble by getting a master welder to weld it together. By now, the robot Wa-Wah was completely out of power and had went into sleep/standby mode. Chen Jin still had to think of a way to recharge it.