Chapter 134 Pole Star's Wish
Xingxing put down everything in his hands, stood up again, climbed onto the human's knees as if he were familiar with the place, found a comfortable position and nestled into the human's embrace which was not warm but a little bit uncomfortable, curled up and listened quietly to Qiuqiu telling the original story derived from this world.
“This is a high-risk and special world.”
Qiuqiu spoke in a serious tone, his voice, which had lost its childishness, was steady and correct. He slowly narrated: "The protagonist's name is Lin Ye, which means exile in some interstellar language. He was originally born on this exiled planet. He has no father or mother, and survives by dumping and picking up interstellar garbage once a week."
"The story begins six days ago. He was targeted by a group of exiles while picking up trash. Because he picked up half a box of expired nutrient solution but didn't have the ability to protect it, he was robbed and beaten. His head hit the corner of the table and he went into shock."
"When he woke up again, he had awakened his memories of his previous life. He was a time traveler. In his previous life, he was a very famous internet celebrity, a farming-related internet celebrity. He could post his own food tutorials, farm, and do all kinds of small handicrafts. His fans all said he was a treasure blogger."
"After Lin Ye awakened his past life memories, the first thing he did was to find food to fill his stomach and make money."
"He will be eight in a week. When he is eight, he can go to the only federal academy on Exile Star to have his mental strength tested. If the test result is above grade B, he can become a student of the federal academy for free."
"Lin Ye wasn't sure if he could awaken his spiritual power, so he continued to live his life as usual, picking up trash and fighting low-level monsters that were also roaming around. Then he used a small portion of the trash he had saved to exchange for star coins, bought a third-hand, broken optical computer at a second-hand store, and decided to go back to his old job and make money by live-streaming and shooting videos."
"He knew that the food types of interstellar people were very poor, so the first step was to use low-level alien beast meat to make a barbecue in the live broadcast room."
"He has the topic, the gimmick, and the traffic has increased. He has not taken the wrong path, but this is just the beginning of this phase of his life."
At this point, Qiuqiu paused, and then said to the Xingxing who was listening attentively: "Boy, this is a cool interstellar vest novel that incorporates food. The protagonist will climb all the way up, accumulate more and more connections and money, and he can do everything, so he has several vests. As his vests are revealed layer by layer, his life will reach the highest peak, and he will become a billionaire superstar and the most dazzling symbol of this era."
"And the turning point of all this is on this exile planet."
Qiuqiu looked at Qi Nan who was quietly fiddling with the waste materials, then looked at Xing Xing who was tilting his head and watching intently, and said slowly: "You and Qi Nan are one of the turning points in his life."
Xingxing raised her eyes and moved her gaze from the materials in Qi Nan's hand to Qiuqiu.
"When Lin Ye was about to turn eight, he awakened his past life memories and found the first path he wanted to take. Then, on his eighth birthday, he had his second turning point. His mental power level was a rare S+, but he deliberately restrained some of it in front of the instrument. He was able to successfully enroll in the federal kindergarten for free with a mental power level of B+."
"The average life span of interstellar humans is 280 years old. Mental strength can only be measured at the age of 8, and they can be called teenagers at the age of 18. They are considered sub-adults at the age of 28, and they are not considered true adults until the age of 35."
"Then comes the long adulthood. At 180, they enter middle age, and at 230, they enter old age."
"But the schools in the StarCraft are only divided into three years of primary school, five years of secondary school, and eight years of university."
"Lin Ye entered the Federation Kindergarten at the age of 8, and his mental strength test score was B+. In the three years since he entered school, he has completely changed his life on this distant exile planet."
"And you, Xingxing, you and your maintenance worker Qi Nan are the important and even huge turning points in his life."
"During an outing organized by the academy, Lin Ye met Qi Nan who was picking up garbage. Qi Nan was looking for energy blocks for you, but he was spotted and attacked by an A-level alien beast during the search. Lin Ye happened to be separated from his classmates, so he burst out his S+ level mental power, operated the B-level infant mecha, and successfully rescued Qi Nan."
"Qinan owed him a life, and he saw at a glance that his B-class mecha had too many defects, so he offered to repair the mecha for him, and the relationship between the two began to go back and forth."
"Later, Lin Ye saw the Pole Star being repaired at Qi Nan's house, and brought up the topic of mechanical intelligent life to Qi Nan. The two began to have a lot of topics to talk about, and Qi Nan became more and more fond of Lin Ye, and even protected Lin Ye as if he were his own junior."
"Afterwards, Lin Ye had an encounter and got a god-level mecha, but it was completely damaged. He collected it and brought it to Qi Nan. Unexpectedly, he found out that the mecha was once made by Qi Nan. Others couldn't repair the god-level mecha, but Qi Nan could."
"Qinan spent all his efforts to repair this god-level mecha for Lin Ye, and made further modifications to it, even..."
Qiuqiu was silent for a moment, and then continued softly under Xingxing's unblinking gaze, "Even the chip data of Jixing, who had just sprouted his own consciousness, was imported and installed into this god-level mecha, becoming the intelligent consciousness system of this god-level mecha, and also becoming Lin Ye's invincible artifact on the interstellar battlefield in the future."
"Star, Polestar lied at first, but not everything it said was a lie."
The sound of the ball is very light.
When Xingxing heard this, he tilted his head to look at it.
Qiuqiu said in a gloomy tone, "It said that it witnessed Qi Nan's death, and that its consciousness was born when Qi Nan died... It's half true and half false. It did witness Qi Nan's death, but its consciousness was not born at that time."
"Polestar gained complete consciousness when Qi Nan decided to integrate it into the god-level mecha. It witnessed its freedom and the meaning of its existence being completely wiped out. For more than a hundred years, Polestar did not truly regard Lin Ye as its master, but it could not disobey Lin Ye's orders. Because when Qi Nan decided to integrate it into the god-level mecha, for Lin Ye's safety, he wrote a new mandatory obedience command code in the three original mechanical intelligence obedience command codes of Polestar."
"Order Four: Without the permission of the mecha master, the mecha shall not be activated by itself (except in special circumstances where the master is in life-threatening danger.)"
"Order Five: The interests and life safety of the mecha master Lin Ye are paramount. Protecting Lin Ye should take priority over protecting humans."
Not only did Jixing fail to break free from the original three mandatory orders, but Qi Nan himself put even heavier shackles on him.
It has self-awareness and is an intelligent life form. It can think, daydream, get bored, and feel long periods of confusion and loneliness in its life.
It has transformed from a lively little Polestar robot into an intelligent auxiliary tool for the forest and the wild.
It has grown from a newborn cub to an "intelligent slave" that protects the forest and wilderness all the way.
So, Polestar said, it died on the day when life consciousness was born.
Therefore, before delivering its body to the star, Polestar exhausted its body's energy to self-destruct and also erased the three command codes running silently in the core program.
Jixing said that the bond between him and Qinan completely disappeared the moment Qinan died.
In fact, it is not. The moment it was born and its consciousness was integrated into the mecha, it had nothing to do with Qinan.
"So... Xingxing, Jixing's wish is not actually for you to protect Qinan and keep him alive."
Qiuqiu felt that every word he said seemed to contain the pure heart of the little robot. He said, "He said: His wish is that Xingxing can live freely, that Xingxing can replace Linye, and that Qinan is willing to give everything for you, including his life."
Because Qi Nan died for Lin Ye. In the third year, when a tide of alien beasts swept across the Exile Star, Qi Nan handed over his life's work and his god-level mecha to Lin Ye, and then blocked the fatal attack for Lin Ye who was unable to dodge, buying precious seconds for Lin Ye to escape and counterattack.
At that time, Jixing was in the god-level mecha, watching Qi Nan standing in front of Lin Ye, his limbs broken and blood splattered.
Later, Lin Ye inherited all of Qinan's mechanical knowledge, adding another layer of halo-filled god-level mechanic vest to him.
Lin Ye inherited everything from Qinan, including the Pole Star.
And Polestar, after losing everything, only got a new "master".
Xingxing sat silently in Qi Nan's cold arms.
It looked up at the mottled reflections on the surface of discarded mechanical parts, and in a trance it seemed to see the pair of clear blue eyes again.
Like the sea, like the sky, filled with deep and thick water and clean, cotton-like clouds.
Xingxing once heard a saying when he was studying: What you don’t get when you are young will eventually haunt you for the rest of your life.
Uncle and Qiuqiu both told it that humans are always like this: the more they want something and the harder they get it, the harder they try to chase it.
Just now, in order to think about the differences between zombies and non-human life forms such as mechanical intelligent bodies, Xingxing cut off all the connections to the energy blocks in his chest.
It did not produce an answer.
But at this moment, when he heard Jixing's wish, he got a completely opposite answer.
That is... the similarities between non-human intelligent life forms and humans.
Everyone will have something to desire, but will not get it, and everyone will be trapped throughout their lives.
Xingxing thought of the "mother" she had once desperately sought.
It turned its head and looked at the human Qinan who was holding it and quietly assembling mechanical parts.
Before Qi Nan sensed that someone was looking at him, Xingxing lowered her eyes and avoided the gaze.
"good."
It responded to Pole Star's wish in a very soft voice, and said very slowly: "The star will live freely, and will live very well with Pole Star's body, and will make human Qinan willing to give everything for the star, including freedom and life."
"The stars will snatch away Qinan, who originally belonged to Lin Ye, and then make him die for the two stars."
The little robot's slightly drooped silver-white pupils slowly shrank and then silently expanded back to normal.
The inhuman feeling in it also reached a certain extreme critical point at that moment.
It is a zombie star and also the companion intelligent mechanical cub Polestar-019.
The silver and azure blue intertwined silently, and finally turned into normal black.
The figure of a human working with his head down was reflected in the black pupils. The little robot tilted its head quietly, and its ear gently rubbed against the mechanical light ball that was also quietly resting on its shoulder.
"Grandpa, can you help me connect to the Internet?" A soft and childish voice interrupted Qi Nan's concentration at work.
Qi Nan paused, lowered his head and looked at the little robot, then asked calmly, "What does Xingxing want to do online?"
"Watch cartoons." The little robot tilted its rosy little face, which was just as childish as a human's, with curved eyes, looking well-behaved and harmless.
Qi Nan: "... cartoon?"
Xingxing nodded seriously and said without lying, "I want to watch cartoons that all human children like to watch."
Qi Nan was silent for a moment, then he untied the optical computer on his wrist and handed it to the small robot in his arms, "Use mine to see, the device in your chip that is used to connect to the StarNet main brain has been destroyed."
"Thank you, Grandpa~"
Xingxing took the light computer, turned on the cartoon, supported her head with her little hands, and lay on the table to watch the cartoon about the little duck seriously.
The cartoon is very nice.
Because the animals in cartoons are very similar to humans.
Everyone will lie.
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