*HHHnnnn!*

*Whistle!* *Whistle!*

"Attention! Get to your work immediately!"

"Any slackers and trouble makers will be placed in labor camp!"

I heard the grim and haunting sound from an unknown instrument followed by the screeching sound of the whistle.

The first thing that entered my vision after I regained consciousness was a group of human-shaped figures in front of me.

Alright, okay, no need to panic.

I definitely died after getting hit by two trucks one after another.

When I tried to look around, I noticed how bad my vision is.

It is not the human type of bad sight where one can't clear look at something close or far away. But bad as if I looking through dirty lenses of an old camera took out from a murky pond.

I only could recognize things by their shapes and nothing else.

I looked around and found I am in some kind of large parking slot of a weird-looking mix of the machine and automaton. From the way lines in front of the person besides automatons, it looks like it is the rental place where people rent machines for various works. From the previous grim sound, this place seems like a work camp or something similar.

"This is our newly mining automaton found from underground safe. It can carry up to 3000kg precious stones plus, it comes with its own loader. And with extra price, you can even activate its own fiction to mine by itself, and it protects you and itself by its top-mounted turret."

"With just 500 unrefined jade or lesser mana stones weekly, you can use this money-making beast!"

The renter explained to me in front of a group of people with such enthusiasm. Yeah, even for someone like me who doesn't know shit about things, it sounded so good.

So good! In fact, it felt like he left skipped over something intentionally.

"Really? just a 500 unrefined jade for a week?"

The front person in the group said. Seems, wherever that 500 unrefined jade or stone sounds real bargain.

"Also, the fuel and ammo are separate~."

OIII!

This bastard said something outrageous under his lips!

As expected, don't trust something that sounds so good!

Wait a sec...

I AM GETTING RENTED!!

3000kg carry weight my ass! I can only lift 200kg to the max!

Where do you pull out that statistic from?

HM-006 Autonomous vehicle built to operate in a hazardous environment to resource gathering or reclamation. Using its built-in mass converter and fabricator, in theory, it can sustain itself indefinitely.

Oh!

Okay, I don't know where this message came out, but I take it as proof. But I bet this guy is bullshitting about my specs!.

Showing Specifications.

Oh!

Mass 30t Hull length 7m Width 3m Height 3m Carry weight 3000kg Maximum speed 60 km/On Tread/ Armor 35mm Composite armor/Heavy damaged and replaced with unrefined iron/ Armament 1 x 12mm belt-fed HV autocannon./Damaged further use would lead to misfire or an explosion in worse case/ 2 x All-purpose drill/Missing support installer and cooler./ 1 x Compound eye with ISO of 100 million/Heavily damaged./ 2 x Loader/Operational/ Engine BFE600 multi-fuel mass conversion drive engine/The engine can only use up to 18% of its capacity due to the damaged and missing component./ Mass Converter: 30%/Due heavy damage conversion rate reduced to 3%. Energy Conversion: 95%/Heavy damaged require emergency repair. Further use will lead to a violent explosion./ Matter capacity: 2000kg/Due to faulty convertors any further stress to the engine or use of mass conversion will lead to an explosion!/

Alright, time to panic!

OI! Aren't I basically no different than a time bomb?

Dammit! To think to reincarnate with a literal bomb strapped to my body~.

Bollocks!

No wonder this conman wanted to rent me out this cheap. From statistics, I am basically no different than a moving time bomb about explode in a matter of seconds.

"How about this? Won't you give us a 30% discount if we rent that for three months?"

"What are you saying. This is the only machine in this whole city."

"Then how about 20%? You know even though it is an unrefined jade it is still 500. There are only a few groups that can afford that much jade or stone."

While the leader of the group trying to haggle with a conman. I gather my thoughts as right now I am a sentient machine.

As a machine, I don't feel pain or fatigue, which is a plus. Neither hot nor cold. Actually, I am not gonna lie, it's really comfortable.

For some reason, I know how to control various parts of my body like drills or loaders.

But all of them are restricted by something.

Suddenly I feel like I playing as a TERMINATOR that waiting to be activated.

Like "System activated, target identified."

Kyaaa!

Just imagination makes me want to slap my knee in happiness!

"5%"

"15%!"

"10%! and one month's worth of fuel and ammo!"

"DEAL!"

Aaand sound of my price completely woken me up from the dream.

After the deal, the group leader handed a wad about the size of a grown man's fist while conman gave him a small thing shaped like a card.

Identified worker ID with permission to use HM-006 for three months.

Followed by a message in my head restriction around my body got disappeared.

Wait?

That is it?

Where is the slave seal-like thing that forces me to follow his command?

"Now, you can use it for three months."

You guys, do you realize, I can turn all of you into road pavement and run away right?

But of course, I will turn into scrap by guards in a matter of minutes so it is a lose-lose situation where I lose my way to contact this world and my life.

At least for now, I decided to follow the man's command.

While following the group to the mine I thought.

I wonder how much is that 500 unrefined jade or magic stone really is?

Please at least be expensive as two-floor building. While passing two-guard I head their conversation by chance.

"Hey, you heard Bob got his new car?"

"Yeah, I just saw him trying to woo a woman with his cheap trash."

"Trash ?"

"Yeah, it is just trash worth no more than 600 unrefined jade."

"WHAT! 600? isn't that the same as a bike ?"

"Yes, that trash that can't even reach 30km."

Be right back, I just wanna go twist my neck.

Oh, I don't have a neck.

Silly me.

FUCK! I am cheaper than a bike!