The scavenger excitedly put the bird Buyi into a zippered pocket on his robe. When he approached the dune, he hung the gun on his body and climbed up with his limbs.
Climbing the sand dunes was a hard job, and he was sweating profusely in the dry heat.
After a lot of effort, the scavenger reached the top of the dune and began to clean up the sand with a folding shovel.
He quickly digs in, digging the hole wide and deep.
About every half an hour the scavenger would drink a few sips of salt water from his skin kettle, then paused to slowly clear the top of the dunes.
The wind tried to thwart his work, blowing fresh sand and ash back into the hole, but after three hours of digging, his shovel hit the metal, which made him grunt happily—he dared not speak loudly, fearing to attract wandering creatures or similar people around him.
"Okay, let me see what you are!"
He said as he threw down the shovel and confirmed the discovery with his gloved hands.
It is indeed metal, fresh without any trace of corrosion or rust, the patina on the surface was burnt black, just like it was burnt by high temperature, but when he rubbed the edge of the shovel over it, he could see that the damage was only on the surface.
He cleared more sand, and according to the curve of the exposed metal, the objects under his feet were roughly spherical.
As the excavation deepened further, the scavenger frowned and saw a silhouette appearing like a combat robot.
There were three bubble-shaped metal balls in front of him, just like the dome of the sensor showing no signs of life.
"What is this when the gods of all things are above?"
The alarm sound of the birdbuyi sounded, and it was loud, indicating that another strong signal appeared.
The scavenger took out the device from his robe in confusion and looked around for the source.
Soon, he heard the roar of the engine overshadowing the roar of the strong wind, but he could not determine the source, quickly raised his gun to defend his discovery, but he could not see anything.
Suddenly a dazzling light shot from the sky above his head. The scavenger blocked his eyes with his hands. The roaring engine became louder and louder, and a powerful jet blew up a burst of smoke and dust to cover his sight.
He could not see anything in the raised ashes, but he remained in the position of holding the gun.
When the aircraft landed, the engine's tone changed from a howl to a wail. After a moment, the steady light was replaced by the diffuse light when it landed.
When the dust settled, the scavengers looked up and saw a group of people walking towards him from the belly of a heavy transport aircraft.
The dust blurred the outline of the visitor, but whoever they were, the scavengers swear that they would not get his discovery.
"This is mine!"
The scavenger shouted excitedly, slamming the barrel at the dunes.
"I found it, you can't take it from me! I have the right to salvage! I have legal scavenger certificate!"
He hurriedly took off a metal card from his neck, but the other party didn't seem to care.
When the scavengers saw a group of vicious and armored escorts, and a man in precious robes, their hearts sank.
The sage was wearing a thick red robe, next to it was a servo skull with a green glow and a black hat on his head.
"You don't actually know."
The sage smiled and pointed one of his arms at the machine under the sand.
“That machine is mine.”
"Who are you?"
"I am the Rachi Bangula Sage."
"this--"
At this time, the servo skull next to Rachi Bangula flashed and he said:
"Come on, it's time."
"I won't go with you anywhere!"
"I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to my friends."
In an instant, the scavenger felt the sand under his feet trembling. He looked down in horror and found that the multi-faceted crystals on the sensor emitted yellow light. When the dormant energy battery restarted and regained its vitality, a burst of energy conduction vibrated the entire machine.
It staggered forward, the scavenger lost his balance and fell head-on in the quicksand and lost control of his weapons.
It was not until then that he could see clearly that the machine was almost 10 meters high and roughly spherical. Many metal arms extended from the body, with various strange weapons on it, like a terrifying and deadly mechanical spider, and floating in the air with some anti-gravity device.
The machine first stood motionless, and then suddenly opened fire on the vehicle where the scavenger lived.
"No!"
The scavenger shouted, stood up and crawled towards the sage, but then his protest was drowned in a rain of bullets, and the machine's weapons emitted hail.
The scavenger exploded, and the explosion formed a smoked orange fireball, and the shock wave generated knocked the scavenger to the ground.
He took a breath of spicy, toxic air, realizing that the explosion had ripped off the respirator from his face.
He hurried to get his ventilator and turned over.
"No, mine, mine..."
"May I have your name?"
Suddenly, he found that Rachi Bangula had appeared in front of him at some point, so he gasped and said:
"Sinco Martini!"
"Martini, I am deeply sorry for your loss, it...it's probably a little angry because of your previous reckless actions."
"What?"
Martini turned his head in horror and found that the mechanical crystal was staring at him coldly. He could even feel the humanized hatred and disgust from the mechanical detector.
"It shouldn't be one, one by one-"
When he found himself being dragged towards the machine by invisible force, the scavenger grabbed a lot of gas in the gray air in horror.
"Ahhhhhhh! Please! No!"
He screamed, his words gushed, and blood gushed out of his mouth.
The next moment, the scavenger's body exploded into countless pieces.
Rachi Bangula just glanced at the blood stains on the ground and turned her eyes to the huge machinery.
"Mercer, the time for change has come."
The robot's cold eyes swept across the sage, and the language system that had not been enabled for a long time rang out after a white noise.
"Bangula, I found that your body's heart rate is 5 metering points higher than normal, and the levels of neurotransmitters in the blood are also increasing. Is something wrong?"
"Yes, I'm very happy."
"What makes you happy?"
"I'll see you again after two hundred and thirty-nine years."
"So should I show this emotion too? I will record it. If my friend hasn't seen him for a while, he will produce an emotional factor called happiness."
"Mercer, I found an ally who could reverse the decaying customs and ethos of this world."
“What is it?”
“Astadt.”
"Astadt...I remember these genetic modification products, they were violent and hostile to all of us with free thoughts, yes, they almost ruined me, long ago...my memory module was broken, the only thing that was retained was some kind of scream, which was horrible."
"Don't worry, they are just tools to help me, and they don't know your existence. As long as they use their hands to solve those stubborn superstitious people, we will be free."
"Predict, your plan has a high success rate, I believe you."