This is not how you drive a machine!

Chapter 42: Heart Vessel Riot

The scattered car shell fragments, the spinning sky, the audience's exclamations, the personal pain...

Silver-white flames rose, and Jackdaw felt her soul being burned, and she screamed in pain.

"Don't die... Don't die again..."

Just when she was feeling extremely painful, she suddenly discovered that she had no contractor at all, and the venue in front of her was not the S game.

She wasn't wrecked...

"Where is this?"

Looking at the chimney of the abandoned factory, she rubbed the big bump on her head and looked around blankly.

Then she saw the car she had wrecked.

This car...she recognized it.

She remembered it was in a dilapidated 'repair station'... Zhou Yun?
Zhou Yun is here? Zhou Yun isn't here to watch her competition... No, there's no competition at all.
Did she kill another person?
Two lines of tears slid down from the corners of Jackdaw's eyes. She looked at the billowing smoke from the scrapped car and her mind went blank.

After a while, the Heart Vessel made a violent explosion, and a shockwave burst out from her body, spreading in all directions.

……

The piercing buzzing sound cut through the streets of the old city, striking hard at the hearts of every mecha girl, making the drivers feel as if their hearts were being tightly gripped.

Is the heart device of that crazy robot girl going to be completely destroyed?

Ning Yuan was forced to stop the car. He looked at his phone with a flashing screen and thought something big had happened. So he left the car and ran towards the abandoned factory area.

The shock wave streaked across the night sky and hit the helicopter, causing sparks to fly from the aircraft's dashboard. Seeing that the aircraft was paralyzed, the pilot had no choice but to land it quickly.

In the command room of the mounted police force, Ruoyue looked at the surveillance screen that suddenly went dark, felt the fluctuations coming from afar, and quickly stood up and ran outside.

Damn you Jackdaw! Why didn't you say anything?

If I had known earlier, I should have sent the jackdaw back!
There was no point saying anything now. She could only hope that she could get there as soon as possible, but what should she do after she got there?

She was confused for a moment.

……

Zhou Yun stood up slowly, dusted himself off, pulled down his mask, and looked at the crow.

At this time, the jackdaw was kneeling on the ground, crying loudly.

Tears streamed down her cheeks, dripping onto her shattered armor, which sparkled in the moonlight.

He looked at the scene, walked over to the jackdaw and sat down.

There is no doubt that Jackdaw is a little lunatic.

They destroyed street lights, crushed green belts, and knocked down walls. Tonight they also achieved impressive feats such as destroying houses and destroying telephone poles.

Let’s take a look at what good things happened when I met her.

Synthetic oil, tires, televisions, mobile phones... they have made great achievements.

But it's also true that anyone who has wandered knows that when the whole world treats you maliciously, a wall of steel will grow in your heart.

He stubbornly shrinks himself into his hedgehog shell, and any action around him, even one with good intentions, will sound the highest alarm in his heart.

The world she knew was evil, and if she didn't defend herself aggressively, it would devour her.

Zhou Yun gently rubbed Jackdaw's head. He had to tell this robot girl.

Even though she destroyed a lot of things, even though everyone thought she was a mistake, there were still people willing to pull her out of the deep sea.

So the first sentence should be:
"have you eaten?"

Jackdaw turned to look at Zhou Yun's face, and said with tears in his eyes: "Illusion, hallucination?"

"No." Zhou Yun said with a smile: "I brought you some food. Don't you like Little Raccoon instant noodles? I brought it for you."

Zhou Yun patted his pocket and took out a bag of broken raccoon dogs.

"Sign a contract with me and become a magic... ahem, become my mecha girl. I'll take care of your future little raccoon freedom!"

Jackdaw rubbed her chest. She felt her heart gradually warming up, and a trace of warmth emerged in her heart.

But she didn't want to, she had said that.

"I've already told you, I'm a useless robot girl. I, I'm useless. You will be killed by me..." "You will die..."

Zhou Yun smiled.

The information Jiang Xiyue gave him completed the puzzle of the crow.

Jackdaw was indeed stubborn, but the reason for her stubbornness was that she considered 'not signing a contract' as redemption.

She is a robot girl, her mission is to race, she tries her best to win the championship and glory, but what does she gain?
'Murder car', 'disaster star', 'cursed hearse'... these words were like knives piercing her heart, destroying the value of her existence.

Because of her own characteristics, the more she wants to prove her own value, the more kind she is and doesn't want to hurt others, the more she will... destroy the meaning of her own life.

So she became like this, feeling like a useless waste.

I would rather wander around on my own than sign a contract with any driver.

She had paid the price of being a contract driver countless times.

'No contract' is her lifeline, the thing that keeps her alive under her iron wall.

Although this 'core' is contradictory.

"Is what you did different from murder?"

Zhou Yun spread out his fingers and counted the mistakes that Jackdaw had made one by one, magnifying these mistakes continuously.

He showed no mercy and directly destroyed the Jackdaw's stubbornness.

Jackdaw collapsed. She looked at Zhou Yun with sobs, and the cracks in her heart vessel were widening.

The high walls she had built over the years collapsed in an instant, and the light in her eyes gradually faded away.

"Tell me, what's the difference between you signing a contract and not signing one?"

Zhou Yun rubbed Jackdaw's head and continued slowly, "Don't think about it. There's no point in you hiding from me."

"You've made it all the way to the top of the S-League. If you didn't have a passion for racing in your heart, I don't believe you could have done it."

"So, I don't believe you have anything else you want to do besides insisting on 'no contract'."

Listening to Zhou Yun's words, Jackdaw felt his heart twitching.

She...did have, otherwise she wouldn't be so lost in the memories of the game.

"I, I want to win the S-League championship."

Then she said silently in her heart that she wanted to help her tribe solve the resource shortage.

"Okay, Little Raccoon King, I'll take you to the top of the S-League."

Zhou Yun took Jackdaw's hand and said, "Sign a contract with me, Jackdaw."

"Aren't you afraid of death?"

"I can't die. Didn't you see everything just now?"

The roars echoed in the abandoned factory area. Zhou Yun knew that the drivers who were catching the jackdaws were coming soon.

Hearing Zhou Yun's words, Jackdaw bit his lip and pulled Zhou Yun's hand up as if possessed by a ghost, moving it towards his chest.

A faint light emanated from her hand, a sign of the contract.

Just as she was about to sign the contract, she hesitated and the light became dim.

Zhou Yun smiled and placed his hand on Jackdaw's chest: "It's too late to run now."

Under the bright light, the contract was completed, and Zhou Yun saw an extra name on his "Heart Contract".

【Stern Night·Crow】

Mental energy swept along the mental connection, and the crow's pupils suddenly dilated.

Just like a long drought finally ending in a downpour, she felt herself being soaked in Zhou Yun's energy, her whole body trembling with comfort.

The cracks in the heart vessel are also slowly healing.

Zhou Yun rubbed Jackdaw's head, handed her the Raccoon instant noodles in his hand, and then pulled up her collar.

Soon, dozens of mechas arrived and formed a semicircle around Zhou Yun and Jackdaw, encircling them.

(End of this chapter)