As a Mecha, I Can Evolve Unlimitedly

"The elevator goes up."

Bai Ying was wrapped in a silver functional jacket, with one hand in the loose pocket and the other hand holding a photo.

Her red eyes were always staring at the electronic display on the wall, watching the floor numbers keep jumping up.

It is already early in the morning, and most members of Black Sky have fallen asleep, except for those who need to take turns.

So Bai Ying was the only one in the huge elevator.

This is her fourth month in Black Sky. So far, the number of people who have spoken to her can be counted on both hands.

She eats alone, trains alone, completes everything step by step, and then returns to her room alone.

Bai Ying dreams every night, about her mother, her father, and her childhood friend.

There were no mechas and monsters at that time. Although his father was very busy as a soldier, Shiro was still proud of his father.

"My dad is a soldier! No matter what danger we encounter, he will protect us!"

Whenever Bai Ying proudly introduces her father to teachers, classmates and friends, she will receive envious looks.

Even if her father never stayed with Bai Ying on her birthday, Bai Ying would not blame her father for her little loss.

Being determined and strong are her family mottos. Bai Ying believes that as long as she can do these two things, she can become as good as her father!

When Bai Ying was nine years old, the family of three finally reunited on her birthday. Bai Ying had never felt so happy at that time.

But the next day, the Apocalypse came, and monsters emerged from the sea and launched an attack on the country of Hein on the other side of the ocean.

Since then, Bai Ying has never been able to speak to his father.

It wasn't until humans built the first mecha, Xingtian, that Bai Ying saw on TV that his father had become the first pilot.

At that time, Bai Ying still regarded his father as his role model.

When Bai Ying was twelve years old, the monster green rat attacked the city where she and her mother lived.

That night, Bai Ying watched with his own eyes as his mother was crushed under the rubble by the falling rubble in order to protect herself.

She didn't know how many times she called her father's name, but she couldn't see Xing Tian until the whole city was razed to the ground.

Bai Ying once hated him so much, hated what he said, hated what he did, hated the mecha he drove!

jingle!

"The elevator has arrived, the sixtieth floor."

Bai Ying woke up from his memories, held the mother-daughter photo in his hand, silently walked out of the elevator, and arrived at the top of the Black Sky Observation Tower.

The bright moon hangs in the silent night sky, and the bright stars twinkle in the cloudless sky. Zhenhai City in the distance is like a warm candle, burning quietly behind the black sky.

But Bai Ying didn't expect that in the night wind, someone had already arrived here before her.

General Chen turned around when he heard the sound and saw Bai Ying's complex expression on his face.

The two of them just stood there and looked directly at each other.

Bai Ying noticed that General Chen also held a photo in his hand - it was a group photo of her family of three on her ninth birthday.

"you……"

"No!" Bai Ying's body was shaking violently, and she immediately interrupted General Chen, "No, I don't want to listen to you."

Seven years ago today, Bai Ying's mother left this world.

General Chen slowly closed his slightly parted lips and chose to swallow the words back.

Seeing that General Chen stopped talking, Bai Ying wiped his eyes hard, turned his back and walked towards the other side of the rooftop.

The cold night wind blew through Bai Ying's loose coat, causing the girl's face to be buried under the white hair again - it was the first time Bai Ying felt that the night in the black sky was so cold.

She couldn't accept that there was such a person standing behind her!

A city attacked by two monsters, an incompetent mecha, a cold-blooded order, and an eternally loyal soldier.

He saved one city from disaster with his own hands, and pushed another city to hell with his own hands!

An order, an order that cannot be disobeyed.

Obedience, absolutely loyal obedience.

He was still the great soldier in Bai Ying's memory, or in other words, Bai Ying should have known how he would choose.

But what Bai Ying needs is not a soldier, but a father who keeps his word and can truly protect him and his mother!

So Bai Ying vented everything on him, Xing Tian, ​​and even himself!

The desire to destroy was always lingering in her mind. She wanted to take revenge on this superior general, on that tattered mecha, and on her powerless self!

Ironically, she failed.

Under the setting sun, the old mecha fulfilled General Chen's unfulfilled promise. He took her out of the cockpit and rushed towards the aggregation beast alone.

In a daze, she seemed to find in Xing Tian the weakness buried deep in her heart, the one who was holding her mother's arms beside the ruins and crying bitterly.

"No matter what danger we encounter, he will protect us."

Bai Ying murmured to herself in the wind, warm tears running down her cheeks and dripping on the photo in her hand.

"I'm sorry." At some point, General Chen had already walked behind Bai Ying.

He wanted to raise his hand to touch Bai Ying's shoulder several times, but in the end he chose to let Bai Ying cry alone.

What should Bai Ying say?

She had no idea when she was recruited by her father after seven years.

The first time she piloted the Xing Tian Sync, she had no idea.

When she heard the order for her to retreat, she had no idea.

Now facing her father's apology, she didn't know.

On countless sleepless nights, Bai Ying's thoughts would go back to that night seven years ago, thinking about what choices he would make if he were his father.

There will never be an answer to that question because she is not that man.

She only knew that if it was her who was standing in Xingtian's cockpit, she would rush to the collapsed building without hesitation and save her mother.

This little home is everything to her!

"If you could go back to that night seven years ago, would you save me and my mother?" Bai Ying lowered his head, bit his lip, and asked in a trembling voice.

The corners of General Chen's vicissitudes of life seemed to reflect all the lights in Zhenhai City, and the hand holding the photo turned white.

He opened his mouth slightly, but found that he couldn't say anything.

In the end, all Bai Ying heard was a sigh.

"You don't have to answer me." Bai Ying took a deep breath, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his hands, and looked up at the night sky.

The bright moonlight shone on the two of them, while the white shadow was shrouded in the tall figure of General Chen.

Suddenly, Bai Ying put the photo back into the breast pocket of his coat, slowly walked out of General Chen's shadow, pressed the elevator button, and prepared to leave the rooftop.

"I hated you, Father."