Chapter 77: Starting From Zero - The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Out of the silent darkness, five light sources lit up out of nothing. the SOUND ONLY sign indicated that this was an ongoing teleconference.
"Thirty-fifth meeting of U.C. 0086." Number Two's young female voice said emotionless as usual, "No anomalies detected this week."
"Ditto, no unusual conditions detected." Number Three and Number Five uttered the exact same lines.
"We have confirmed that there are problems in the Misurugi kingdom." Number Four's voice was obviously a middle-aged male's, "Since last year, all the troops sent to infiltrate and reconnoiter there have lost contact. No one has returned."
"TITANS troops?" Number Five spoke up. It was Ikari Gendou, "Humph, just a warlord who runs around for money."
"The attitude of the federal government's top brass is also interesting. I was opposed by them in the name of human rights before." Number Four went on to state, "In any case, I will convince TITANS to take further military action against the Misurugi Kingdom, using the old Britannia trick."
"Britannia can give assistance in this matter." Number Three sounded like an older man, "If there is clear evidence."
"Another thing, TITANS is developing technology at an unusually rapid rate, surprisingly developing a full-body psycho-frame independently in a short period of time." Number Four continued, "Requesting to discuss the possibility of Lingus being hidden in TITANS."
"Denied." Ms. Number Two's tone was firm, "Lingus is confirmed dead."
"Oh, it's good to be dead." Number Three sneered, "Too rapid technological development is detrimental to the follow-up plan."
"Anything else to add?" The Number Two lady waited for a moment, but no one spoke, "If not, this meeting is now over."
"All for the sake of the final dialogue." Number One suddenly made an old voice.
All the light went out together, and the space returned to darkness once again.
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Ask, what is the most important tool for survival in the wilderness? Asking different people may get different answers, but Dr. Lingus' answer is - Gundam.
At the moment, he is hiding behind a tree and fully concentrated on a silly bird on the beach. There was a pit on the ground not far from the silly bird, and in the pit was the tree seeds silly birds like. On top of the pit, it was an energy box, which was held up by wood, and a noose was tied on the wood. The silly bird alertly wandered outside the pit for a while, finally concluding that there was no danger around. After that, it jumped into the pit and came under the energy box, and started eating the tree seeds.
"Alice, now!" Ade whispered into his jacket pocket.
The noose suddenly moved, and then the energy box fell and covered the entire pit. The silly bird chattered and chirped in the pit. Ade quickly ran to the edge of the pit, moved the energy box to reveal an opening, grabbed the bird, and decisively pulled out a pocket knife to cut the bird's neck.
"I am also considered to be a man with countless death on my hands." He lamented to himself, putting this dead bird and the other dead birds caught today together, "This one also has little meat! Are they almost enough for me to eat for a day, hum?"
"Ade, is this enough for today?" Alice's voice rang out from her jacket pocket, and after receiving his affirmative answer, "Then I'll put the energy box away."
From the depths of the dense forest, suddenly a Gundam sprang out and grabbed the energy box, placing it back on its back, and then silently disappeared in the dense forest.
"The trap of planks plus ropes don't work after a month, and this trick never fails, is there some defect in this bird's intelligence?" Ade had already transported the bird to the kitchen area. He threw the hot stone into the water, "Alice, do you think I should post a paper about it after I get back?"
"Ade, I can't see you!" Alice sounded disgruntled.
"Oh oh oh, I forgot, sorry." He dried his hands on the prepared leaves, took out his cell phone from his jacket pocket and put it on the stone table next to him, and a cute girl dressed in machinery appeared on the screen, which was the image of an MS girl designed by Alice herself with reference to his "study materials".
"Ok, done!" The girl on the phone showed a happy smile, "Ade, you must be tired of eating bird meat, if we still have Gatling cannon bullets, we can hunt some large creatures."
"It's better than fish. I want to vomit just thinking of it." He added hot stones to the water every now and then while lifting the birds one by one to bleed them, "Is the Minovsky floating system still not restored?"
"According to the previous progress, it will take about two more months." The girl on the phone put her hands behind her back and shook her head, "Ade, will we go back as soon as the floating system is ready?"
"Definitely! The efficiency of the nanobots is really… look at me, Dr. Lingus has almost become a wild man!" The water boiled, he poured out the water to scald the bird and then began to pluck the birds' hair and guts, "I can go directly to the wilderness survival program after I come back."
"But you can't use Gundam in the wilderness survival program." Alice smugly leaned forward on the screen, "So I'm useful, right?"
"Then of course, without you, I would have died a hundred times." He turned his head to Alice and stretched out his hand and gestured, "I can try to get a virtual projection or something for you. If your head can stick out from the phone, I can touch your head."
"Well, I'd like to!" Alice made a look of great anticipation.
Not many birds were caught today, after removing the internal organs and washing, he inserted the birds on the sharpened woods, coated them with a layer of cooking oil previously refined with animal fat, inserted them onto the fire, and began to grill.
Come to this deserted island almost a year, from eating compressed cookies and drinking nutrients all day in the beginning, to now he can make oil and salt himself, this fully proved that people can dig out their endless potential in the soup.
When he first fell to this island, if it wasn't for the video proved by Alice, he would have thought he was transmigrated again. For some unknown reason, he is completely unable to receive any satellite signals on this island. In addition, the MS was severely damaged, and the Minovsky floating system's damage could only be self repaired slowly by the nanobots, he had to be a modern Robinson.
Fortunately, Hyzenthlays can still barely move, which made the difficulty of surviving had greatly declined. He spent a week to familiarize himself with this not-so-small island, mapped out the location of various plants and animals and water sources, and then began to dominate the island.
He uses Gundam to pull big trees, Gatling cannon to hunt, lightsaber to boil the water - which he tried but failed. At first, it was fun, but after a month, it was not so interesting. The repair speed of nanobots is ridiculously slow, and daily life is so boring, if he didn't have Alice to talk to, his language skills would also degrade.
Since this place is really too boring, he couldn't resist transforming his cell phone, allowing Alice to be able to video call with himself at any time over a short distance encrypted channel. It was also at this time that Alice revealed the shocking fact that she had designed her own MS Girl image long ago.
"The attributes of the character's appearance are based on the data statistics of Ade's 'study materials', including but not limited to hair color, pupil color, looks, height, body type, and circumference." Alice introduced to him in circles with immense pride on the phone, "Is there anything else you are not satisfied with? You can always fine-tune it."
"… No." It was a terrible thing to have all the "strike zones" be hit at the same time, what was even more terrible was that he couldn't do "anything" with such a wonderful image.
"Then it's decided." Alice said cheerfully, "So we can see each other every day."
He has no clue where the island really is, but he doesn't dare to draw SOS on the beach before Hyzenthlays is repaired by the nanobots - the planet was full of his haters. Maybe this is TITANS's sphere of influence? In any case, it is not a pleasant experience to fall into the hands of Scirocco, so he can only pray that Scirocco does not come to search for him.
As for how the satellite was finally pushed away, he had no clue, what the camera recorded was only blood-red and nothing could be seen clearly. He decided to consider it after having more information.
After a while the bird meat was finally cooked, he took out the salt and sprinkled them on it, and took out some starchy fruit as the main food. The phone was placed across the table and Alice showed a table pretending to sit down herself and looking at him with her hands on her cheeks - all her movements were taken from the internet, in other words, self-taught.
"Ade, want to put on some music?"
"Forget it, the phone is running low on battery. Remember to remind me to change my phone later."
"Ade." Alice hesitated, "We can actually stay here for a while longer before going back? We have made so many things here, it's too wasteful to just leave."
"I can understand your feelings, but we can't keep running away." He chatted with Alice as he ate, "I'm worried about home too."
"And who is more worried about?" Alice made a show of counting on her fingers, "Is it Miss Lacus, or Miss C.C., or-"
"Alice!" He saw Alice spit out her tongue, "No more."
"It's still 'no more' for now." Alice corrected. "That's okay, there's still two months to go, we won't know what's going to happen."
After the meal, he napped. The hut was built with wood, and the bedding was made of animal fur, which was quite comfortable. The phone was put on his pillow, the screen display turned off, but the camera was always on at Alice's request. Alice stared at him twenty-four hours a day. At first, it was very awkward, but now he has been used to it.
Not long after sleeping, he was suddenly awakened in his dream by the ding of his NT radar and popped up from the bed at once, "NewType?!"
He is not Char, he can clearly distinguish every NewType he has seen. He doesn't know this NewType and he wonders if the other side has found him.
The other party was moving in his direction, and it was only a matter of time before they found him. He grabbed the phone and ran all the way back to the Gundam hidden in the dense forest, put the display to the maximum to the direction of the induction, and carefully observed through the gaps in the dense forest. The other party stopped and went on from time to time on the way, not like normal movement. After a while, the object finally appeared in his vision -
"God damn it! Unicorn Gundam?!" He couldn't help but shout out, "Alice, are we really not transmigrated?"
"No, Ade." Alice displayed her image on the virtual panel in the cockpit, "Is that MS very powerful?"
"Very powerful, but if it's made of the current technology, it may not be as powerful as the original version." He pinched his face to make sure he wasn't dreaming, "The point is, what the fuck is this messy plot? Who made this?"
Unicorn Gundam did not turn into destruction mode, and the surface was grayish-white. Ade wondered if this Unicorn Gundam has installed the NT-D system, if installed, at least its detection distance can not reach Ade's location. Otherwise, the current Hyzenthlays is not likely to escape from its attack.
After a while, Ade saw the reason why it stopped and went on along the way - there was another MS - can that be called MS? - was fighting with it.
"Freedom Gundam? But why is it less than ten meters?" He does not even know what to say facing this, "Alice, are you still insisting that we are not transmigrated?"
"Really no ah." Alice shook her head aggressively, "What's that small MS? There aren't any similar model matches in the database."
"Oh yeah, this side of freedom is painted red by ZAFT, so you can't recognize it." He stretched out his finger and scraped Alice's head on the screen to show that he wasn't angry, "The color scheme of that small mecha is exactly the same as the color scheme of Freedom Gundam in the original design."
He secretly turned on the public frequency and listened, and the most amazing thing was that no one was talking on the public frequency.
The small MS was holding a live rifle, and the bullets can't do any damage to the Unicorn's shield. But the small MS is extremely mobile, and the pilot's quality is also pretty good, moving with a variety of anti-human tactical movements around Unicorn, and Unicorn's beam rifle was completely unable to target it.
The small MS tried again for a while, and finally put away the rifle and pulled out a sword-like thing to try to approach Unicorn. But the size gap between it and Unicorn is too big, its sword looks like a dagger in front of Unicorn, looks like it's cutting with a pocket knife.
"This is definitely not the technology of this world, right?" Ade looked puzzled, "No power would be bored enough to develop such useless - God damn it! It can turn into a plane!"
That small MS suddenly turned into the appearance of a plane, the original rifle was used as a machine gun, with faster speed to shuttle back and forth. Unicorn's pilot seemed to have little experience in combat, and was at a loss in the face of this situation, just holding up his shield and shooting randomly with his gun.
In the midst of the chaos, Unicorn's head exploded, and it seemed that the main camera was blown out by the machine gun. The small MS keenly seized this moment, turned into the human form, pull out a large sword, and assault the other side's cockpit. The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, it's too late to take out the beam saber, and Unicorn froze for a moment as if it didn't know what to do at this distance.
"Up your Gatling cannon!" Ade shouted.
As if hearing his words, Unicorn's pilot immediately responded and fired back with its Gatling cannon. The small MS was unfortunately hit by several bullets, and probably some of its key parts were hit, it spun and crashed in the direction of the island.
Unicorn Gundam was dumbfounded for a while, and did not come after it, but chose to run away alone. After two months, Ade can go back, so he does not want to get in their fight and did not say hello to the pilot of Unicorn. The pilot's consciousness was a bit berserk in his perception, so it was better not to take any chances.
"Ade, that small MS seems to have fallen to us?" Alice showed a map of the island and marked a location, "Calculated landing point is here, want to go check it out?"
"… go check it out, at least we have to figure out where this strange robot came from." Ade manipulated Hyzenthlays towards the marked bit on the map, "This can't be Gundam anymore."
A short while later, he came to the crash site on the coast. The small MS which looked like a mini Freedom Gundam seemed to have broken a few trees when it landed and was lying in the woods. Ade thought about it, took a set of defensive gear from the cockpit, instructed Alice to take cover, and then went down to the ground to approach the MS.
The MS was not large and the location of the cockpit was well-judged. He fumbled around it for a while and quickly found a way to open it. The cockpit slowly opened, and appearing inside was a young girl, pretty looking, with short blonde hair.
There was a bit of blood on the girl's head, probably where her head had crashed. He reached out and touched her neck, there were still signs of life. Although he was interested in this MS, now it is better to save the girl first.
"Ade, a pretty girl again." Alice's voice came out from his jacket pocket, "Dead? It would be a pity if she's dead~"
