My name is Ling Qi, a scavenger robot with a leaking battery and a rusted shell.
In the wasteland, I’m the most beat-up piece of “mechanical junk.”
Robbed by my own kind, corroded by acid rain, dismantled by tyrants?
Sorry, the parts on your bodies are parts I can use to upgrade myself;
the junk you look down on is the ladder to my rise.
From a two-hour battery life to a nuclear-powered core;
from rusted sheet metal to a living mech.
When an ancient AI tried to destroy the world, everyone finally realized:
the scavenger barely scraping by in the garbage heap
had long since seized the lifeline of the wasteland.
“I’m not picking up trash. I’m picking up a civilization.”
