The relationship between the two children is full of "power struggles" that even adults can't imagine.
Little Abby has grown up on a garbage planet since she was a child. This planet is like her playground. She knows it very well and can flexibly find what she wants in the garbage every day. Her weird and powerful abilities are at their best here.
Although little Feynman couldn't defeat her, when he discovered that she "couldn't speak", he immediately took control of her weakness, thereby temporarily avoiding the pain of being a "reserve food". He began teaching her how to speak, and in doing so, gained more authority, including the use of the things she picked up.
He had used these technological products before they were scrapped, and he understood their true uses better than little Abe, but it only took a little time and a little skill to repair them...
The little boy often caused explosions because of his unskilled skills.
Fortunately, the place where they live is located on the edge of the "city" and there is no large accumulation of garbage, which would otherwise be enough to trigger a chain explosion reaction.
He has always been pampered and has never done such a dangerous experiment, but now he can only grit his teeth and persist.
This is the cunning point of the little boy from a powerful background. On the one hand, he shows off his abilities, and on the other hand, he constantly uses words and actions to induce little Abe to listen to him, trying to control the dominance between the two.
But little Abe's ability to perceive emotions is very good. She often cannot clearly understand his traps, but as long as she feels disgusted with his actions, he will not succeed.
Little Feynman wanted her to listen to him and be his subordinate, while little Abe roughly used him as a tool, constantly drawing knowledge and nutrients from him.
The two don't give in to each other, but they coexist strangely.
Little Feynman gradually got used to the life on the garbage planet, and little Abe also got used to having one more "person" in his life.
70% of the land on this planet has tall garbage buildings built up to form a "city", while the remaining 30% of the land is still an empty "desert". At Little Feynman's suggestion, they moved to the "desert" and "desert" "The edge of the city" and found several temporary residences on both sides to facilitate hiding, rest and relocation when necessary.
They often search for food and medicine in the "garbage jungle".
The food here does not include the leftover scraps that people eat. Those have long been ground into fertilizer by processors and recycled as renewable resources. Most of what was discarded was expired and low-quality nutrient solution with no recycling value. It was accumulated in the warehouse for a long time and wasted storage space. The production company was unwilling to bear the amount of money required for decomposition, so they spent a small sum of money to throw it on the garbage star.
Of course, if people don't put non-bag food in the disposer and just throw it somewhere, it's also possible that it will appear in the garbage star.
Feynman once saw a rotten apple in a scrapped desk.
Looking from a distance, the entire planet looks like an overturned spice plate. It is dirty and messy. The half-broken light tubes are shining in neon colors. The food is rotten and moldy. And these colors come together like the spices have been washed. The color of the water behind the plate is a polluted dark gray, staining the shimmering horizon.
He stood in front of this messy ruins and felt deeply shocked.
The young boy followed behind his elders. He was used to the luxury of the upper class and had never thought that there was such a place in the universe.
With a "click", the dirty little Abe pulled out a roll of carbon fishing line from the pile of colorful colors, and then ran towards the little boy, like a ball of gray-blue wool, with the thread ends messily angled. A bunch of hair stood up from her head, looking a little dazed. She stuffed the fishing line of unknown use into her big bag that was like a snake.
Little Feynman's thoughts were pulled back to reality, and he resisted combing her hair - he would definitely be slapped away, and he would be forced to drag the garbage bag forward with her.
Garbage Planet is a vast place with few people, and you can often walk for a whole day without seeing a single living thing. People are intertwined among the numerous "garbage buildings" or hidden deep in the barren desert land.
The people here are like wandering souls, with a layer of dead gray floating on their skin, and their eyes are like round nails driven into their sockets, firmly fixed in that position, staring forward penetratingly. They no longer know why they are alive, but their instinct to live makes them eat mechanically. They are always rummaging for food, day after day, until one day they are killed while fighting for food, or die silently in the harsh environment.
Naturally, the two of them have also encountered people competing for food.
At that time, little Feynman found a package of well-stored vegetables and used a special method to store them. Only the green leaves were slightly wilted due to water loss due to expiration. This was so rare on a junk planet that he was stunned.
Just then, someone suddenly attacked him from behind and slashed at his hand with a knife!
Seeing that the boy's thin neck was about to be cut off, little Abe kicked him away!
She held the long nail she picked up from the roadside in her hand, and used the momentum of falling from a high place to pierce the nail into the man's neck. The man's face was ferocious, and he made a "ho ho" sound as he stumbled in. Garbage heap. A huge sound came out, and the weak part of the pile was hit, which instantly broke the balance. The top weights fell one after another, completely burying him in the garbage pile.
"... You..." It took him a long time to regain his composure, "You killed someone."
When the two met for the first time, he had seen her kill someone with a heavy object, but the person did not die. The force she exerted then was not enough to kill him.
Little Abe has already picked up new things to defend herself. All the items in the garbage star are her toys, and so are the people, so it all happened so naturally.
She looked at the little boy in front of her, as if she could sense the emotions conveyed by him, such as happiness, panic, fear... She felt uncomfortable.
Like any time before, he made her uncomfortable and she fought back.
So the little girl blinked her gray-blue eyes lightly and said innocently: "I, it's okay, I'll kill you, oh."
She learned to speak very quickly and could already communicate with him in short sentences.
She said the word "kill" easily, because death is not a bad thing for people here, but something that seems inevitable.
But she knew that the person in front of her didn't like this word.
"I didn't say you did it wrong."
She saw that the little boy in front of her had a cold face again. When he turned his head, his light blond hair hung down, blocking his side view. He put his hands into his trouser pockets and said, "Thank you for saving me." If his fingers in his pockets hadn't trembled, it would have looked more like that.
He didn't want to be thought of as timid, so he hid his fear as much as possible.
What he fears is not her who killed someone, but death itself.
Little Abe couldn't see his trembling fingers, but she felt his emotional changes. From his words and his weak voice, she caught his deeper emotions.
Suddenly her face was close to his.
Little Feynman suddenly held his breath and felt her breath brushing the tip of his nose softly.
She bumped her forehead with him, like a comfort between little beasts.
The transfer of temperature calmed his fluctuating mood slightly. This move came out of nowhere, but it really made him feel better. He resisted the weak behavior that made the tip of his nose sore and said, "Mind your own business."
At this moment, he suddenly had the concept of "companion".
But even though he already had a companion, little Feynman still didn't give up the idea of going back. No one wanted to live in a disordered world, except little Abe, who seemed to be at ease.
While he was searching for clues, they met a "newcomer" who arrived on the junk planet in the same group as Feynman. She was a woman.
Feynman identified her from her ID number.
Little Abby doesn't know numbers, he hasn't taught her yet, but she can remember everyone's muscles and bones, even if her muscles are damaged and her bones are misaligned.
The other party's clothes were torn, her body was covered in bruises, her skin was pale, and she had lost all vitality and breath. She fell into a pool of blood, and the black soil was still swallowing her blood.
She was violated during her lifetime. The man not only raped and killed her, but also tore off half of the flesh and blood on her face. It was unclear whether he tortured or devoured her.
Cruel to the bone.
Moral corruption brings not only the fight for food and fighting, but also the loss of human nature and extremely suppressed catharsis. The weak are all faced with this cruel situation.
Little Abe lacks basic education and cannot understand the meaning of the picture in front of him. He just instinctively dislikes it, so just like every time before, he is ready to ignore it and pass by.
But the friends around her did not follow her footsteps.
Little Feynman took out an old long blanket from her big pocket and covered the woman silently.
The weather has turned cold, and they have been looking for items to keep out the cold. Most of the items thrown into the garbage star are technological waste and pollutants. They have been looking for such blankets for many days, and spent great efforts to remove them from the gears rolled in by the machine. Pull it out.
So little Abe couldn't understand.
She was still a little angry and was about to step forward to get the blanket back, but she was stopped by Little Feynman halfway there.
The obstruction is only for a moment.
He gave in when he saw the pure and simple look in her eyes. He didn't know whether he should teach her those things, rules, morality, order... There was no order, no morals, no rules on the Garbage Planet. Letting a person who had learned these things live here would undoubtedly be asking for death.
So he let go.
But little Abe also stopped, and she suddenly pulled him and hid him.
In mid-air are silicon strips exposed from scrapped products, extending in various colors, like intertwined neural networks covering their heads, casting a thick intertwined shadow.
The blanket covered the dead woman nakedly, like the fragrant meat bones thrown on the street, which immediately attracted the skinny wolfdog with saliva flowing from the corner of its mouth. They snatched it up with astonishing speed.
Some people also had evil thoughts about the corpse, but gave up the idea after seeing the torn half of the face.
Little Abe appeared at this time and killed them with the simplest carbon fishing line. Speed became their motivator, and everyone had a red blood line on their neck.
She picked up the blanket again, patted the dust on it, and handed it to her friend.
Little Feynman caught the blanket and tightened it suddenly. He was breathless and temporarily lost the ability to speak.
She was still not used to conversation, so she used her own methods to show him the order of this sinful land.
But he saw more, and he suddenly understood that she was a product of this order.
He suddenly felt unprecedented sadness, and the surging emotions overwhelmed him. This feeling was stronger than when he found himself kidnapped into this strange and dirty world, and more cruel than the moment when he faced death.
He was feeling sorry for her.
And she doesn't understand.
When the weather turned cold, he borrowed parts from other machines and repaired a half-broken heater. He installed the energy panel and turned on the switch. The heater is a sun-shaped sphere. When turned on, it floats into the air and emits warm light.
Little Abe's eyes lit up. He raised his hands toward the "little sun" and let his fingertips absorb its warmth. A warm light shone on his raised face.
It was probably because the memories of previous winters were not very good that she showed obvious happiness for the first time.
She also pulled Little Feynman to her side, motioning for him to feel the warmth and share the happiness with him.
Although this is the result of his experiment.
But when he saw her smile, he unconsciously raised the corners of his lips and forgave her magnanimously. He didn't notice the dust on his nose while working. He always paid attention to his appearance, but he was particularly focused this time during the repair of the heater.
Little Abby saw the plaster, which stood out under the "little sun", and she smiled even brighter.
He abandoned the young master's reserve and started laughing without knowing it.
The range of this heating machine is very small, and the energy of the machine is insufficient. They can still feel obvious warmth from the top of their heads when standing, and the temperature is much lower after lying down. The two unknowingly slept soundly next to each other, like two little beasts keeping each other warm on a cold night.
They get along more and more harmoniously and do things in harmony with each other.
On this day, when they returned from foraging for food, little Abe was the first to notice something was wrong.
The environment of her residence had changed. She smelled it carefully and discovered a strange smell. Someone has been approaching here. But when they checked carefully, nothing was missing. She counted her belongings in confusion, unable to understand what had happened.
How come outsiders come and don’t take anything
Even the food was untouched.
"New courses are coming."
"Huh?" Little Abe turned his head.
Little Feynman's expression seemed to have returned to the coldness when they first met, and his childish voice said with insight: "We are being watched."
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