Early morning.
The location is on the border of the White Eagle Republic.
It is a damp mountain forest.
Currently, the area is in the rainy season.
For a moment.
Click~
Bracing her left hand against a large tree, Sheel steps on a thin branch while walking across steeply sloped ground.
Behind her, the heavily armed bunny, still in the form of a quantum robot, hovers in the air—one robotic arm carrying large and small bags, and the other holding a sleeping Bronia in its arms.
The latter.
The extensive burn wound on her right arm had also been wrapped in a clean, medicated bandage.
The two of them had an OSM and advanced for another ten minutes or so.
Finally.
"That's it."
Shear raised her hand, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and stopped on relatively flat ground.
At first glance, this place is about the size of a basketball court.
"Reinstalled Bunny, are you sure this place is well-hidden enough that there are no traces of other people within at least a fifty-kilometer radius, right?"
Shear looked back at the blue-and-white quantum robot and asked.
[Affirmative (Yes)!]
Reinstalled Bunny responded in a brief electronic tone.
At the same time, seemingly to enhance the credibility of the information she reported, a ring of light waves projected from her right eye position, eventually forming a translucent screen in front of her.
Xi'er took a closer look and saw a topographic map in the center of the screen. The three green dots in the center clearly corresponded to their group of two people and one robot.
As the map's viewing range expanded, several red dots appeared around them.
The recharged bunny marked the distance between them and each red dot with double arrows, the nearest being more than 53 kilometers away.
"Alright."
Shear felt relieved.
It's not hard to see that she was now mentally prepared to live the life of a "ranger" in this inaccessible place for a while.
There's nothing to be done—it was a helpless move.
After leaving the city of Berlin, Sheil was truly worried about the orphanage.
But now, not to mention that she no longer felt safe, she couldn't recklessly approach others after learning she was also suffering from Honkai Impact.
Only Bronia was an exception. According to the recharged bunny, she had a high resistance to Honkai energy and didn't have to worry about getting infected with the Honkai disease.
"Maybe I felt bad for you!"
"Shear approached Bronia, raised her hand, and lifted the hair from her forehead, murmuring this."
However, there was no blame in her tone.
On the contrary, was it a bit coquettish?
The Recharged Bunny silently observed all of this, making no movement.
However.
"You probably don't have video recording capabilities, right?"
Xier lifted her head and stared at her. "You can't tell her what I just said!"
"Remember, this is our secret."
The recharged bunny still pretended to be mentally slow.
Now, Xier no longer called her things like "big robot" or "iron lump."
That was encouraging.
But the days that followed—
"Let's first build a wooden house here."
Shear turned to look at the small open space around her, hands on hips.
Then.
That was it.
She had never done this before.
Being able to "build a house from scratch in the wilderness" was considered extraordinary.
However, she wasn't in a hurry.
She didn't understand, but there was "someone" who did!
"I'll leave this to you, the almighty recharged bunny."
Xill hooked her finger at the quantum robot beside her. "Bronia gave you to me to take care of first."
[.]
Let's just say it's lucky that the recharged bunnies of this period still didn't have highly humanized language modules like the future "Armed Dolls and Recharged Bunnies."
Otherwise, she would have muttered: "You (Xier) are even better at bossing robots around than Bronia!"
Hiss~ Speaking of which, do armed dolls have the potential to become high-quality cattle and horses?
After all, in the original historical trajectory of the Pre-Civilization Era, armed figures were created by Dr. Einstein of Mudland just to... ahem~
Off-topic.
In short, since Xier had expressed her request and the recharged bunny had no intention of opposing it, after gently placing the still-unconscious Bronia into the former's arms, she directly used covert and sophisticated hacker methods to invade the global network and began searching for information related to "wooden house construction" online.
Fortunately, Heavy Bunny's ability in this area—though not as good as those super geniuses of the current era—still surpassed most elites in related industries.
So for now, there was no need to worry about her signal being traced back, thereby exposing their whereabouts.
That's it.
Ding ding ding ding~
The several-meter-tall quantum robot miraculously began chopping logs, digging with excavators, laying foundations, and then... using techniques including "mortise and tenon joints," she manually crafted several precision wooden pieces and slowly built a cabin sufficient for two people to live in.
Back and forth, it took half a day.
By the time "Heavy Bunny" tossed down the luggage brought by Xier and Bronia, it wasn't even night yet.
Shear had long since taken Bronia and hidden away.
"There's quite a bit of noise here—even though it's dozens of kilometers from the nearest border town. Building a house isn't easy to detect, but she didn't want to stay close and just breathe in sawdust and fly ash!"
In short, after the recharged bunny spat out a wooden cabin, Xier had already eaten some of the dry food prepared by the kind old lady.
She even helped cook a bowl of porridge for Bronia using a small pot the latter had sent.
Speaking of which, it was only when Xier took care of Nata in the orphanage that she learned unconscious patients could still ingest liquid food.
It was physical instinct.
But she didn't expect that her previous experience would be useful now.
So, when night came.
"Eh~"
Xi'er let out a breath of relief. "Finally got a place to stay."
She was standing at the door of the wooden house, looking outside.
Especially at the sky. "Luckily it was the rainy season, but it didn't rain on the way here."
"Otherwise, the situation would've been bad."
She murmured.
That's the thing.
She just built a wooden house—because no chemicals were used, although it won't guarantee long-term quality, still… it's better for the environment, and you can move in right away.
At this point, Bronia was lying on a wooden bed, with a blanket under her that Shear had "picked up" on the way.
Yes, before coming here, Xier had already planned to temporarily escape from the world, so she... well, to put it bluntly, her little hands got quite dirty—she "purchased" many necessities for zero yuan on the way.
Among them were food, medicine, clothes, and all kinds of daily tools.
Because of this, the previously recharged bunny ended up with one robotic arm covered in bags of all sizes while having to carry Bronia in the other.
To be honest, Xier knew that this kind of selfish behavior wasn't good.
In the past, she often wandered the gray areas of Berlin. Even as a pickpocket, she probably felt a strange comfort and regretted that her ability to exploit others had once again improved.
But after meeting that kind and simple old couple...
"I will definitely repay all of this double."
Shear remembered everyone she had harmed even a little.
In the future, she must find a way to repay those favors... and "debts."
At that moment—
"Hmmm~"
From the cabin behind her came some movement from Bronia, lying on the wooden bed.
Shear quickly turned around.
And under her much-anticipated gaze—
"Ah…"
Weakly, Bronia slowly opened her eyes.
Sensing a strange environment around her, her first reaction was to force herself to sit up… obviously, this was a reflex ingrained in young soldiers.
Fortunately, Shear stepped forward and gently pushed Bronia back onto the wooden bed.
"When you wake up, lie down quietly for me first, you big sleepyhead."
After Xier stood up, she crossed her arms over her chest and deliberately made her tone sound cold. Her bright eyes faded like an illusion and she suppressed them completely.
"Listen... you got seriously injured protecting me earlier, so I've taken care of you all this time—which counts as repaying the debt."
"Next, I've got a lot of questions for you."
She stared directly at Bronia, their eyes meeting. "You must answer truthfully, got it?"
Faced with this situation—
Honestly, Bronia was a little confused now.
But after hesitating for a few seconds, she slowly nodded. "Alright."
"Bronia will cooperate with you."