Qi Xiaoyun was a boy from the slums who loved mechanical engineering. After competing in underground matches for a long time, he finally saved enough to buy the cheapest mech in the shop.
The mech looked a little beat-up, but at least Qi Xiaoyun found it easy enough to handle.
It was just...
Qi Xiaoyun's diary:
April 14, sunny.
Took the junker to a match today. The enemy blasted a shot into its chest armor, and I thought I heard a girl scream. Could there be something unclean in the cockpit...
No, trust science. I must just be too tired. I'll take tomorrow off!
April 16, cloudy.
Took the junker to another match today. My opponent played dirty and sliced off half the weird wires sticking out of its head.
Maybe it's just my imagination, but the junker's shells seemed a lot more powerful after the wires were cut.
May 1, sunny.
I've saved enough money. I'm going to repaint the junker and replace a few parts today.
Sure enough, a fresh coat of paint makes it as good as new. It even hits the other guy a lot harder.
May 20, #@$↘"%￥!!
Holy crap! The junker's alive! It's alive!
May 25, sunny.
After talking for the past few days, I've more or less figured out what the junker wants. But the junker actually thinks she's a girl. What made her think a mech could have a gender?
May 28, rainy.
The junker wants me to change her armor, and insists on picking something sparkly. Come on, is it really appropriate for a guy like me to pilot a sparkly mech?
May 30, sunny.
Damn it, how could the junker use a monkey steals the peach move on a male mech?! What has she been looking at online?! Tomorrow I'll cut off her signal and lock her in the black room!
No, wait. How do I even know whether the other mech is male or female?! She's rubbing off on me.
..., cloudy
Goodbye, Junker.
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Zhou Zhou knew her name was Zhou Zhou because it was built into her programming. Then she woke up one day to find a little boy calling her Junker?
Zhou Zhou figured he had to be crazy.
Ha! A once-in-a-century... no, once-in-a-millennium intelligent AI like her deigns to help a little boy like you fight, and you have the nerve to call me Junker!
Get lost!
It took Zhou Zhou a long time to understand that though she was once-in-a-millennium, she wasn't an AI.
PS:
1. The early chapters will probably be from the male lead's perspective, since the female lead hasn't woken up yet.
2. The author has no sense of logic. Just enjoy the story. If you spot any really obvious bugs, mention them in the comments and the author will fix them.
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Theme: Hard work leads to a better life
