As a bookstore, the collection of books here is relatively well preserved. It can be seen that the people here were evacuated in a hurry, so many things are still unopened. They are still wrapped in plastic, so Fang Zheng led the girls into the bookstore and began to browse the books.

"X, what's in that?"

Weilai grabbed Fang Zheng's arm and pointed inside the house curiously. He saw that there was another room inside the bookstore with a thick curtain hanging outside with the number 18 painted on it.

"Oh, that..."

Seeing the curtain, Fang Zheng revealed a meaningful smile.

"That means no one under 18 is allowed to enter."

“Why?!”

Hearing Fang Zheng's words, Weilai suddenly became unhappy, while Fang Zheng just laughed.

"You'll know if you go in and take a look. There's no one here anyway, right?"

Curiosity means that the more you don't let her in, the more she wants to go in. So after hearing Fang Zheng's words, Weilai turned around and walked into the room. After a while, there was a "bang bang" sound from inside. Xin and Mei, who were outside, jumped immediately. Before they could check what was going on, Weilai rushed out with a face as red as a monkey's butt.

“Then, then, then what is that!!”

While pointing to the inner room with a trembling hand, Weilai screamed and questioned Fang Zheng, who shrugged his shoulders.

"So no one under 18 is allowed in, do you understand?"

"So, people in the past actually watched that kind of stuff?!"

"hehe."

"Disgusting! Shameless!"

“……???”

Seeing Weilai's face full of shame and anger, Xin and Mei looked at each other curiously, and then went into the room behind the curtain.

Then after a while... accompanied by the sound of bangs, they ran out with red faces as if they were being chased by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

“It’s still too exciting for children.”

Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders as he saw the three girls looking so ashamed and angry. Xin lowered his head and stared at the ground.

"Um... why are people under 18 prohibited from entering?"

"Because those are books for adults, and you are still children."

"grown ups?"

Hearing this, Mei frowned in dissatisfaction.

"Is that what adults like to watch?"

"Some like it, some don't. It depends on the person. But as long as they are normal adults, they will like it."

“Woo…”

After hearing Fang Zheng's answer, the three girls showed strange expressions, as if they had swallowed mustard raw.

"Well, let's get on with it. We don't have much time."

Because the mailman had a rule, no one dared to blatantly move all the books in the bookstore. In addition, many books were incomplete. Finally, under Fang Zheng's suggestion, the girls each chose a pocket book that was relatively well preserved. When Fang Zheng was in school, there were similar things in the nearby bookstores. Most of them were palm-sized novels, about the same size as comic books, and they basically contained various love stories. Of course, most of the customers of this kind of pocket book are girls.

Apparently, it's much the same here.

After all, pocket books are easy to carry, just put them in your coat pocket. So the girls each picked a book, put it in their pockets, and then left the bookstore under Fang Zheng's leadership.

However, shortly after Fang Zheng and others left the bookstore, Wei Li suddenly hesitated.

"Ah, that... I suddenly remembered that there's a book I want to read. I'll be back soon!"

After saying this, without waiting for anyone else to speak, Wei Li turned around and ran into the bookstore again. After a long while, she ran out with a red face, one hand tightly pressing the pocket of her coat, looking like a drug dealer who was afraid of being discovered by the police.

At this moment, Mei and Xin looked at each other and then looked at Fang Zheng.

“Um… me too…”

"I also……"

"Go, go, come back soon."

Fang Zheng rolled his eyes, and then the two of them hurried back to the bookstore. After a while, they came out - Fang Zheng was alone with three drug dealers.

In fact, Fang Zheng knew what they were doing without asking, but Fang Zheng didn't care much. After all, girls mature earlier than boys. When Fang Zheng and others were in junior high school and watched Slam Dunk every day to discuss basketball skills, the girls in the same class had already started to pass around the heavy-mouthed book of Sakuragi x Rukawa Kaede.

There were also readers who lined up at comic conventions to buy the "Boss's Strong Masturbation" series published by Bo Dao. Fang Zheng couldn't see many readers who were over 18 years old among them...

Fang Zheng still remembers the H-level of the comics that the girls read in junior high school, which was much higher than that read by boys of the same age.

So he didn't say anything.

"Hey, you guys are back."

Seeing Fang Zheng and the others coming back, the radishes and cabbages gathered over there - ahem, the boys also greeted them warmly.

"We found a lot of good stuff here, what did you find?"

"We went to the bookstore and browsed around."

"Why……"

Upon hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Chunweizi's face suddenly became long.

“Is there anything interesting in the bookstore?”

"hehe……"

Fang Zheng chuckled and was about to answer, but he saw Mei's face flushed and interrupted him.

"There's nothing to see! We just went there to take a look out of curiosity. It's nothing special. Well, it's getting dark, so we should go back to camp!"

Although Mei's attitude was a bit of a cover-up, as mentioned before, boys generally mature late. So facing Mei's reaction, everyone was not particularly surprised and turned to walk back to the camp. Along the way, the boys excitedly told about their adventures and discoveries, while the girls were mostly silent, with their heads down, not knowing what they were thinking.

However, after returning to the camp, the girls' originally somewhat strange expressions more or less returned to normal, and they began to eat and drink happily - so it can be said that all girls are born masters of expression management.

Next, everyone slept at the beach for a night, and then returned to City No. 13 early the next morning and continued to move forward.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that soon after they returned to City No. 13, they received an order from above that another mecha would join their team, and that was...

"wide!!!"

Looking at the black-haired boy in front of her, Mei happily ran to his side.

"You're actually back?!"

"Um……"

Hearing Mei's question, the boy named Guang scratched his head embarrassedly.

"For some reason, I have become the pilot of the Strelitzia... so I want to return to City 13..."

"Is she your partner?"

Hearing this, Mei turned to Guang's side and looked at the girl with long pink hair and horns, with a look of scrutiny in her eyes. Guang nodded and spoke to Mei.

"Yes, she is my partner, 02."

"Hello, 016."

At this time Fang Zheng also came over and looked at Guang in front of him.

"I'm the captain of the 13th squad, X, you can just call me that."

"Hello, X, I'm Guang... 02 also told me something about you before."

"oh?"

Hearing this, Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows and looked at 02, who smiled and waved at him.

"Hello, X, we meet again."

"I really didn't expect that we would meet again."

The two sides exchanged a few pleasantries, and then Guang took 02 into the apartment and introduced her. At this time, Mei quietly came to Fang Zheng's side.

"The partner killer you mentioned before, is she the one?"

"That's right."

Fang Zheng nodded. Mei's expression changed slightly when she heard Fang Zheng's answer.

"Well, what should we do then? If Guang partners with her as you said, will she suck Guang's life away..."

"You don't have to worry about that."

Fang Zheng smiled and narrowed his eyes, staring at the backs of the two people.

"I think I understand why he became 02's partner."

"Huh? Why?"

"I remember you said that 016 was called a child prodigy when he was young."

"Yes... that's right."

"But in the end, because he couldn't connect with anyone, he failed, right?"

"Um……"

"So guess why he is a child prodigy, but can't connect with other people?"

"this……"

Mei looked at Fang Zheng in confusion and shook her head. She actually didn't understand why.

"It's simple. His spiritual wavelength is locked. He can only connect with one person. Therefore, he can't connect with others."

"Why……?"

Hearing this, Mei was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted.

"Wait, you mean, Guang can only connect with 02? That's why he becomes 02's partner? But Guang has never seen 02 before??"

"I don't know about that. After all, I don't know much about what happened to you in the past. But I can tell you that he has a similar aura to 02. Perhaps because of this reason, he is more compatible with 02."

“…”

Hearing this, Mei didn't say anything, but lowered her head and silently clenched her fists. Fang Zheng looked at her and patted the girl's shoulder.

"Okay, let's go in too."

After entering the apartment, the members of the 13th team surrounded them and asked them questions curiously. After all, almost no drivers who left the mobile city came back. Now Guang, who had left here, actually returned, which made everyone very curious. In response to everyone's questions, Guang also explained to them.

It turns out that after Guang left the Thirteenth City, the ship he was on was attacked by a dragon. Dr. Franks and 02 happened to be nearby at the time. 02 and her partner went out to fight the dragon, but because the partner could not hold on, they were defeated, and the Strelitzia was also damaged. At this time, 02 met Guang and let him enter the cockpit to replace the dead pilot. As a result, the two hit it off and eliminated the attacking dragon.

Afterwards, since Guang and 02 successfully piloted the Strelitzia and performed well, Dr. Franks agreed to let him return to the team. So Guang and 02 returned to City 13 after some rest.

Listening to Guang's story, the others were also quite surprised. At this moment, Fang Zheng saw Ba Nan walk in from the door and come to him.

"Dr. Franks wants to see you, X."

"OK."

Hearing what the Eighth Man said, Fang Zheng nodded.

"I'll go now."