Chapter 28

Panda Planet, Mobao Bamboo Pavilion Mechanical Cemetery, Cosmic Year 45 Zhu Qing wore mourning clothes embroidered with gears and bamboo leaves, his Mechanical Prosthetic Eye reflecting a faint blue light. Before him stood a gravestone engraved with "Mobao No. 1," a Mechanical Panda that had once saved Panda Planet with graffiti, which had now stopped running due to the aging of its core gears. On either side of the gravestone, mechanical cultivators held wreaths made of gear parts, while bamboo cultivators offered patch-covered bamboo scroll elegies: "Your error is the bamboo forest's most brilliant star." The young mechanical cultivator Mòxiè No. 2 suddenly dropped to his knees: "We apply to initiate the 'soul transplant' procedure, to import Mobao's consciousness data into a new body!" He displayed an unfinished Mechanical Panda prototype: "Mechanical life should not perish simply because its parts wear out!"