Chapter 142: Xiao Jing

"Damn it! I have to get back into the fish's mouth!"

After opening the fish's mouth, the Cube retracted and closed it. There was no other way. The giant silver carp was sinking towards the riverbed at the bottom of the reservoir. Instead of resisting the impact, it was better to hide in the fish's mouth and use it as a buffer. The Cube praised its own wisdom at this miserable moment.

Bang... The giant silver carp sank to the bottom of the water, stirring up a large area of ​​muddy water. The giant carp bounced after landing and slowly sank and lay flat on the riverbed without moving.

The dark bottom of the water fell into silence...

The fish's mouth was opened, and the Cube climbed out, but because the mud was too deep, it was almost stuck in the mud and could not move. The damage to the propeller brought serious consequences.

"I hate mud! It would be great if the bottom of the water was made of rocks..."

Since it couldn't stand and walk, it simply crawled forward slowly on the mud. After determining a route that was closest to the shore and the shortest distance, the powerful giant interstellar battleship began to drag its body in the mud and crawl forward, using its only flexible right mechanical arm and two mechanical legs that didn't work very well to move towards the shore with difficulty. A water turtle that was released here by someone before the end of the world curiously circled the Rubik's Cube twice, and was mercilessly pressed into the mud by the Rubik's Cube. Unexpectedly, the water turtle escaped when it turned around, and the Rubik's Cube remembered that this thing was a master of playing with mud...

The dark bottom of the water gradually became brighter, and the crawling Rubik's Cube finally touched the hard cobblestone riverbed.

Slowly stood up, walked slowly step by step on the cobblestone riverbed, and was now very close to the shore. It chose a river bank that looked overgrown with weeds and walked towards it. At this time, the condition was not good, so it was important to find a place to slowly repair it.

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The shore.

A seven-year-old girl walked barefoot on the riverbank, wearing ragged clothes, with a fish basket tied around her waist, and her yellow hair tied casually behind her head. She often stayed by the water and her big eyes were staring at the water. Occasionally, she used her dirty little hand to wipe the saliva from the corner of her mouth. With the other hand, she held a wooden stick and tried to pull the river clams out of the water little by little.

This kind of river clam is usually the size of a child's palm, slightly fishy, ​​and the clam meat is a little hard. Even if it is cooked, it will be difficult to chew. Usually, it lives in the shallow water mud on the river bank, crawling slowly, and it is easy to pick it up.

From the surface of the water, the depth and angle of the things in the water are different from what you see, but the little girl can skillfully push the river clam to the shore little by little. It can be seen at a glance that she is very skilled because she often does it. The dirty little face is excited to watch the river clam getting closer and closer, and she doesn't care about the weeds on the shore scratching her arm.

Hualala...

What's the sound? The little girl raised her head, her big eyes scanned around and landed on a strange thing on the water not far in front of her. Her mouth opened in surprise.

On the water, the Rubik's Cube showed its head and shoulders, staring at the little girl. Unexpectedly, the detector failed to find the little girl on the shore because of the damage. Looking at the thin old clothes on the little girl, a bonfire in the weeds on the shore, the clams in her dirty little hands, and the little girl's mouth covered with black and gray, a simple analysis shows that this little girl is catching clams to fill her stomach and feed herself. The child is really young... She shouldn't catch clams here and cook them for herself. She should still be in the first grade reading fairy tales... Slowly, a feeling called sympathy rises in my heart.

The little girl stared at the strange thing in front of her. She could clearly see a pair of blue eyes, blue metal on the head, flame spray paint, a black mechanical face made of many mechanical metals, twisted and broken parts on both sides of the head, and water was still dripping. Suddenly, the metal mechanical face moved and opened its mouth...

"Hello, I am the Rubik's Cube. I hope I didn't scare you."

"I...I...you can talk..." The little girl stared at the Rubik's Cube in amazement, and didn't even notice that the broken wooden stick in her hand fell into the water.

"Of course, I'll go ashore first. It's not comfortable in the water."

"Slurp~Hmm, the water is cold~" The little girl sucked back her snot and said with deep emotion. Maybe the child didn't understand, or maybe she watched too many cartoons, so she didn't feel scared by the appearance of the Rubik's Cube, but was a little excited.

The Rubik's Cube waded towards the shore step by step, and its broken mechanical body slowly emerged from the water. This place was very hidden, surrounded by weeds and thorns. Except for the little girl, no one else was seen. Perhaps, this was the little girl's secret base...

The little girl stared at the Rubik's Cube, and finally looked up from level to upward, and saw the damaged and swaying left mechanical arm.

"Are you injured? I don't have any medicine for you..."

"It's okay, I will heal myself and it will be fine soon. Just find a place to sit down." The Rubik's Cube walked to the campfire and sat on the ground, opened the energy collection plate on its body and began to absorb energy.

The little girl walked to the bonfire, threw the clams in the fish basket onto the charcoal fire, pushed the cooked clams aside with a wooden stick, picked up a small stone that was often used to smash the shells of clams, and then picked up the clam meat with her dirty little hands, switching her hands back and forth, and blew hard into the palms of her hands to cool the clam meat. When the clam meat was almost the same temperature, she handed it to the Rubik's Cube, but still stared at the clam meat with a greedy expression and swallowed hard with her little mouth.

"Thank you, I won't eat, I'm a robot, you eat it."

"That's right, robots don't eat, by the way, my name is Xiao Jing, are you a robot warrior from Chao Shenxing? Did the monster hurt you? Those monsters are so hateful!" Xiao Jing ate the clam meat while talking to the magic cube, and cooperated with the angry expression.

"Uh... almost, the monster was killed by me, it's under the water, are you the only one here?"

"There are many people on the island, but they don't want to give me fish and corn cakes. I'm so hungry. Fortunately, I found these shells here. Although they are a little hard, they are very fragrant. I won't tell anyone~ By the way! You won't tell others, right?"

"I won't tell others, and you can't tell others that I'm here, because I have to avoid the search of those monsters." The magic cube was a little angry. How much can a child of this age eat? Even in the end of the world, it can't be so cruel, right? On the island, it seems that the robbers said that the river island, it doesn't seem to be very good. From then on, the magic cube marked this camp with a sign that no rescue is needed.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah! I won't tell anyone. Anyway, I'll go back at night and come back in the morning, so no one will know." Xiao Jing nodded and said seriously.

"Xiao Jing, are you separated from your parents?"

"No... My mother bit my father. My father knocked my mother down and pushed me onto the small wooden boat, untied the rope, and told me that he would come to find me in a few days, but now I know that my father will not come to find me..." Xiao Jing knelt on the ground and lowered his head, pouting his little mouth, and fiddling with the small stone used to smash the river clams with his dirty little hands.

The Rubik's Cube opened its mechanical mouth and said nothing, stretched out its mechanical hand and gently touched Xiao Jing's head full of dry hair.