Transformers: Survival of Defective Products

Later, the three humans became regulars at the Autobot base.

Jack usually goes to and from school normally, works part-time at a hamburger shop, and only comes when he has free time; Miki wishes she could teleport to the Autobot base as soon as the school bell rings; Raphael usually sends a message to Bumblebee in advance.

Once people got to know him, they liked to call him "Laffey" along with Bumblebee, except for the ambulance.

"Raphael, hand that to me."

Vector, who happened to be reading the Earth Energy Report, looked up upon hearing this and asked, "Why do you still insist on calling me by my full name?"

The ambulance driver was baffled: "That's his name." "Raffi too."

"That's an abbreviation." "It's a nickname."

"What's the difference?"

The vector was placed on the end of the arm: "The latter generally have a closer relationship."

The ambulance driver paused for a moment: "It's not necessary."

Yin Vector glanced at him helplessly, but didn't expose him.

Humans are indeed small and have short lifespans. Ambulances have witnessed too many life and death incidents, and are somewhat reluctant to get used to the existence of these organic lives too quickly.

"Humans have good and bad sides, and Cybertronians are no exception." Vector looked down at the documents, seemingly speaking casually, "At least for now, these three aren't some evil brats."

In the distance, Meiqi was standing on the partition's shoulders, shouting, "Higher!"

The partition said, "It's already quite high."

The vector glanced at the supplement: "...probably."

The ambulance didn't respond, and the person kept calling him "Rafael," so the vector control stopped responding.

-

Later, the base became increasingly lively, mainly because the three elementary school students had science assignments to complete.

The ambulance initially didn't want to get involved, but after being bothered by the three humans asking questions, it started offering advice.

Meiqi was making a model of the planets in the solar system when he pointed out that the orbital proportions were incorrect.

Lafite made a volcano, but the eruption was only made with baking soda and vinegar, which he felt was too perfunctory.

Jack was making motorcycle engines, and the ambulance finally found a project that was somewhat tolerable to his aesthetic sensibilities, so he watched it for a few more minutes.

Then a few minutes turned into half an hour, and then he started taking apart Jack's model.

The vector pointer came by once midway and asked, "What are you doing?"

Meiqi exclaimed excitedly, "The ambulance is helping us with our homework!"

The vector swept its gaze across the engine fitted with the Cybertronian motor, then looked at the planet model that had evolved from a plastic ball into a metal object.

"Is this what you call helping?"

The ambulance driver didn't even look up: "It's just some optimization."

The vector remains silent. Oh well, the human education system will teach him a lesson.

The next afternoon, the three children brought back three very neat zeros.

The ambulance stared at the three zeros and fell into an incredulous silence.

He modified Meiqi's planet model into a miniature version of Cybertron, making it so heavy that the teacher almost strained her back while carrying it.

Jack's engine was so powerful that it almost sent the podium flying after it started.

The volcano at Lafite was the most amazing; it actually erupted when you pressed a button, but it blackened the classroom ceiling.

"Zero points?" The ambulance driver couldn't understand. "That volcano eruption simulation was incredibly realistic."

Raffi was also a little disappointed: "But the teacher said that science homework shouldn't be so dangerous."

Jack: "My engine is too powerful."

Meiqi: "My question was about the known planets in the solar system, and the teacher said I went off-topic."

The ambulance driver stomped his foot in anger, but stopped halfway through, remembering that the children might get trampled.

Vector, who had been holding back for a while, finally burst out laughing: "The homework is theirs; Cybertronian medics can't do it for them."

The ambulance driver looked grumpy, clearly indignant: "These are exemplary practices on Cybertron! Earth's education really needs improvement!"

"Don't take your anger out on Earth's education system."

Suddenly, the volcano in Lafite started to hiss and leak gas. The ambulance driver instinctively looked over and said, "Lafite, be careful."

The cars and people not far away all turned to look, and the three children stared at him as well.

The ambulance didn't say anything and casually took the volcano model away. Although Bumblebee was laughing so hard that his glasses were squinting, he held back his laughter out of consideration for the medical officer.

"What are you laughing at? Go do your own thing."

When the physician spoke, everyone quickly covered their faces.

However, the ambulance never changed the name back.

-

A few days later, Black Widow was sent to conduct geological surveys.

The vector admitted that she did it on purpose. She originally wanted to send her to Siberia to dig potatoes, but she was afraid that this girl would ruin all the potatoes, so she changed her mind and sent her to the polar regions instead.

When Black Widow received the mission, she immediately messaged her: "[Are you going to take revenge on me?]"

The official reply, delivered in a bureaucratic tone, stated: "Work assignments will be adjusted in accordance with the law."

Black Widow didn't reply to her again, probably realizing that she couldn't appeal.

-

A few days into the mission, Black Widow actually dug something out: a huge Cybertronian metal capsule was unearthed in a glacier.

Black Widow, unusually, didn't touch anything without permission and quickly reported it, since she really didn't want to increase her working hours any further.

Initial checks at the judicial liaison point revealed no signs of life, and given the large size of the capsule, it was temporarily placed at the Autobot base.

-

On the same day, Optimus Prime and Arcee went to the polar regions. The artificial energy body project was still being carried out in secret, and the Graviton occasionally assigned Autobots raw material collection missions under the pretext of energy search and geological surveys.

The ambulance equipped them with cryogenic protection, which can last for several game hours. A blue light will flash when the protection is about to fail.

The base was peaceful. Jack and Meiqi were playing games, while the partition watched. Bumblebee and Raffi were playing hide-and-seek.

Bumblebee always felt that it was particularly interesting for someone as big as him to go looking for someone as small as a human, especially since Laffey had managed to sneak into a pipe and hide last time.

Click

Just as he was about to hide in a cabin, Raffi, who was still running in the corridor, heard some strange noises.

Click

It sounds like metal rubbing together, but it's crisper.

Raffi mustered his courage and followed the sound, peering through a maintenance pipe.

A small, round mechanical creature was huddled inside, with a few short mechanical legs. It was currently gnawing on a metal gasket inside the pipe.

Raffi crouched down: "Hey, hello?"

The little creature stopped, shook its head, and stared at him. Its pair of blue optical glasses, which took up a quarter of its head, blinked, making it look rather cute.

"Laffey! Found you!" Just then, Bumblebee found Laffey, who was sticking his butt out and doing something.

The little creature suddenly turned its head, and the previously invisible flap suddenly opened. When the bumblebee saw what it was, its face turned deathly pale.

"Lafite! Back off!!"

Before Laffey could react, the little thing flew up and rushed over to join the fun, just in time to block the smoke screen in front of Bumblebee.

"Ouch! What's that!?"

Smoke hastily raised his hand to block, only to see the thing nibble away down his arm and onto his shoulder, instantly removing a patch of the coating on his forearm.

"Ahhhhh!"

All the Autobots rushed over upon hearing the news, only to find a small creature gnawing on a smokescreen that was jumping around in terror.

The ambulance driver's face instantly turned terrified and grim: "Iron-eating worms!!"

The partition was originally carrying Meiqi, but when it heard the name, it screamed instantly, almost shaking Meiqi off.

Jazz's smile vanished instantly, and Bumblebee pulled Raffi backward.

"Aaaaah! It's biting me! Ouch!" The smoke screen was wildly waving its arms, dancing as if it were being electrocuted.

Raffi grabbed the fire sprayer next to him and sprayed the iron-eating worm hard. The little thing quickly lost its vitality, stiffened, and fell to the ground.

Jazz followed up with an energy blast that took it away.

Smokescreen, still clutching his arm, was barely calm: "Iron-eating bugs? What are those? Waaah! My coating!"

Before the ambulance could respond, an even louder "clicking" sound was heard.

Everyone quieted down.

Ka Ka Ka

The sounds came from all directions; there were noises overhead, to the left and right, and even inside the walls and underfoot.

The ambulance suddenly turned around and rushed into the compartment where the capsule was stored. The capsule was mostly still there, but there was a clear hole that had been chewed out, and the inside was completely empty.

That was a trap chamber that housed the Iron Eaters. Now that they've brought it back to thaw, the Iron Eaters have naturally awakened, broken out of the cage, and started wreaking havoc on the Autobot base.

Once they figured that out, the ambulance driver turned green with rage.

"Everyone back off!!"

Iron-eating insects began to fall from the ceiling, one or two at a time, then like rain.

-

The Autobot base was in complete chaos, with only three humans escaping unscathed, since they were organic beings and not on the Iron Eater's menu.

Automotive workers are seen as walking food by them.

A row of them hung on the partition leg. After struggling to shake off two of them, the smoke screen was attacked by countless others from behind.

For the first time, Jazz couldn't laugh at all. He retreated while firing in bursts and brushing the bugs off his shoulder.

Bumblebee was chased all over the base.

The ambulance finally made it to the control panel, but the screen wouldn't turn on, and even the land bridge was making abnormal noises and wouldn't start.

"Damn it! Communications are down! By God! The power's gone out!"

-

In the polar blizzard, Arcee repeatedly called the base but only received static.

Their protective layer is failing.

"Something's happened at the base," Arcee quickly concluded, and Optimus Prime realized the same thing.

He gazed at the endless ice field and finally said, "They will find a way."

-

A lot of metal had been eaten from the Autobot base, and the three children were now the ones who could move around the most easily.

"We can help!" Meiqi shouted, grabbing the fire sprayer.

The ambulance driver didn't even turn around: "No!"

A metal-eating insect pounced on his shoulder, which he swatted away.

Jack pointed to the manual repair shop next door, preparing to help: "But if you go over there, they'll all follow!"

The ambulance paused for a moment; the Cybertronians and the repair shop were like an Australian lobster paired with a king crab to the Iron Eater.

Lafite has already pulled up a map of the base's interior: "We can seal off several maintenance areas."

"Only seal off the area." The ambulance driver gritted his teeth. "No one is allowed to actively seek out the bugs."

Meiqi quickly grabbed the spray bottle: "No problem!"

The ambulance driver looked at her: "Especially you."

"Okay!" she replied so quickly that it seemed she hadn't actually listened at all.

The three children crawled into the maintenance tunnel, at least to restore the power.

Raffi was in charge of monitoring the lines and gate positions, Jack operated the mechanical circuit breaker, and Meiqi carried a fire sprayer, spraying any stray iron-eating insects she encountered directly onto her face.

Several Autobots outside desperately lured away the main swarm of Zerg.

The entire base was filled with wails and roars.

"The partition! Behind your legs!" "Ahhh!"

"Smokescreen, don't run this way!" "Waaaaah! Where can I run?!"

"Sir, your shoulder!" "I see it!"

Click.

The jazz looked at his shoulder armor, now missing another piece, and couldn't laugh, absolutely couldn't laugh!

There were so many iron-eating insects that they kept emerging from all directions in swarms, resembling a bunch of giant flying cockroaches, a specialty of Guangdong.

Killing off dozens of them is pointless, as the base itself is providing them with a continuous supply of food.

Worse still, they were isolated and completely cut off from the outside world.

-

The temporary judicial liaison point was the first to notice the anomaly because the Autobots' regular reports were late.

At first, Jiuqi thought that the base had been assigned another mission, but after ten minutes he still couldn't get in touch with them.

AZ tried the backup frequency, but there was no response.

"What about the fixed nodes of the land bridge?" "They're not responding either."

Today, the vector is preparing to go and hear a progress report on the Earth Energy Point and the mining mission.

She looked at the screen: "I'll go take a look."

So AZ operated the land bridge, bypassing the one at the Autobot base, and directly opened a new one inside the Autobot entrance passage, guiding the vector towards the Autobot base.

——Autobot Base——

Just as the ambulance ripped an iron-eating worm off itself, it saw the lights of the land bridge at the entrance passage illuminate.

"No--"

The vector had emerged from the blue-green channel: "What about your report—"

She stopped.

A metal-eating insect was lying less than two meters away from her, crunching away at a piece of the wall.

The optical mirror that draws the vector slowly opens.

With difficulty, she slowly looked up. There was a row of smokers on the ceiling. Then she turned her head and saw a group on the wall, and several more hanging on the partition legs. The smoke was being chased and was hissing loudly.

The base was filled with the densely packed mouthparts of iron-eating worms opening and closing.

Pointer vector: "..."

The ambulance driver finally managed to squeeze out the last part of his sentence: "You go home first!!"

next second.

"Aa ...

The chief judge's piercing scream shattered the entire base.

No one has ever seen a gravitational vector make such a sound.

All three children were stunned.

Immediately afterwards, the gravity of the entire base seemed to vanish into thin air, and the world began to float.

Jack's feet slipped, and he floated up into the air, thrashing about like a fish in a river: "Whoa?!"

Meiqi also left the ground at the same time, but her first reaction was surprise: "Wow!!"

Before she could even register the novelty for two seconds, she began to uncontrollably roll backward: "Wait!"

Raffi dropped the fire extinguisher from his hand, and he and the extinguisher floated sideways into the air, his glasses almost flying off.

The body of the partition suddenly lost weight, and the feet left the ground.

Smokescreen instinctively pushed off the wall, and in the zero-gravity environment, the entire machine whooshed to the other side: "Help!!"

Jazz reached out to grab the railing, and the moment his hand touched it, he spun around it.

The ambulance gripped the edge of the control panel tightly, and all his tools flew towards the ceiling.

Things were floating around everywhere, even Meiqi's electric guitar was swaying.

The entire swarm of iron-eating insects was also thrown up. Even with wings, they had difficulty controlling their direction in the weightless environment and were subconsciously and firmly controlled by the magnetic attraction of the gravitational vector.

The entire base was suddenly thrown into chaos, and everyone lost control of their bodies.

The ambulance roared, "Vectoring!!!"

The vector itself floated up and was screaming.

"Okay, okay!!!"

The magnetic field suddenly contracted, and she forcefully manipulated the out-of-control gravity and attraction.

First, the three children were lifted up by a certain force and slowly sent back to the ground. Maggie stopped spinning, and Raffi was also smoothly sent down.

Then several Autobots stepped back to the ground with their massive bodies on the partitions, the smoke screen was pulled back in mid-air to prevent their heads from hitting the ceiling, and Jazz and the ambulance landed steadily at the same time.

The tools and parts flying around briefly paused in the air before falling safely one by one.

The whole process took only a few seconds, and for the first time, the three children truly realized just how powerful the "magnetic gravity" controlled by the gravitational vector was.

-

The Chief Justice has no time to maintain his precarious image.

The iron-eating insects were still there, and all the living creatures landed safely, but they remained suspended in mid-air.

"Everyone, get away from me!!!"

Magnetic attraction, like invisible sharp teeth, pulled out the iron-eating bugs that were gnawing at the wiring in the walls, as well as those on the ceiling, in the maintenance floor, on the control panel, on the partition leg armor, on Jazz's shoulder, behind the smoke screen, at Bumblebee's feet, and on the front of the ambulance.

All the iron-eating insects were pulled into the air, densely packed, hundreds and thousands, and more and more, making people with trypophobia almost have a bad reaction.

After confirming that it was almost done, he suddenly tightened his five fingers.