Chapter 146 Master, Bubble Hug~
Who is lying?
Xingxing lowered her eyes and looked at the hand stretched out in front of her. After a moment of silence, she finally stretched out the little hand hidden behind her back and slowly placed it into the equally cold palm of the human.
"I'm very difficult to raise." It repeated what it had just said.
Qi Nan held its little hand and calmly replied, "Well, I will take good care of it."
Star:"……"
The little robot began to pack up its things.
They are moving.
Grandpa said that we couldn’t stay here any longer and we had to go to a more remote and secluded place so that we could better avoid being hunted by those who were interested.
While Qinan was picking up the garbage, Xingxing was also packing her luggage in the small shabby house.
A round pot and two unsprouted seeds.
When Xingxing was holding the small pot and seeds and looking up saying that he had packed everything, Qinan looked at its empty small pot and suddenly took out something from the space button and put it into its small pot with Dingdang.
"I'm bored on the road, take this and play with it."
It's a mechanical doll.
He is also equipped with energy and looks similar to Shisheng. Although he does not have beautiful blue eyes, the color of his pupils is closer to the silver-white color of Xingxing's previous eyes.
Like a miniature star.
And more like little zombie versions of stars.
When was this done?
Xingxing held the small pot and looked up at Qi Nan blankly.
Qiuqiu flew down from Xingxing's shoulder and landed in the pot. He rubbed the Xingxing version mechanical doll lovingly and shared happily: "Baby, this is a new mechanical doll made for you after he found that your mechanical doll was missing during your hibernation period~"
At that time, Qiuqiu particularly liked this little mechanical doll figurine!
It even planned to secretly bring the mechanical doll back to the headquarters after the world ended and place it in Xingxing's home as a commemorative figurine.
Xingxing stood on tiptoe and placed the small pot on the crooked metal stool.
He reached out and took out the mechanical doll from the pot, and looked it in the eye.
"Hello." The mechanical doll suddenly spoke, its voice soft and sweet: "My little master, please give me a name."
The stars blinked.
The little mechanical doll also blinked, and its beautiful silver eyes reflected Xingxing's ignorant expression.
Xingxing looked up at the old man who had been secretly paying attention to its reaction.
Qi Nan turned his mechanical prosthetic eye expressionlessly, turned his face away and continued to pack up his things, as if he didn't care about the child's toys at all.
"Bubble." Xingxing touched the mechanical doll's raised little round hand and whispered, "Your name is Bubble, is that okay?"
"Okay, little master, Bubble likes this name~" the mechanical doll responded softly.
"Little master, give me a hug~" The mechanical doll stretched out its two short round hands again.
Xingxing pursed her lips, put it in her arms, and corrected it: "Don't call me little master, my name is Xingxing."
Mechanical doll: "Xingxing, Bubble Hug~"
"It only has the most basic intelligence and can carry out the simplest communication and understand some commands."
Qi Nan didn't know when he turned his head to look at the stars again. When the two little guys looked up at him, he paused, pressed the strange illusion picture of a kitten holding a little kitten, and said calmly: "The space button containing the energy was lost on the way. I can only equip it with energy blocks I picked up. So in order to reduce energy consumption, it doesn't have much mobility. It's not the same as the previous mechanical doll. You can just play with it for now."
Xingxing held the doll with her eyes wide open, staring at the unnatural old man for a while, then suddenly curved her eyes and said, "Thank you, Grandpa~"
Qi Nan coughed dryly, his expression awkward and indifferent, "Don't lose things next time."
"Yeah!" The little robot nodded vigorously with smiling eyes.
Qi Nan: “…”
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Set off again.
It was still Qi Nan holding Xingxing, and Xingxing holding the mechanical doll. They closed the door of the shabby house and set out on a new journey without looking back.
No one on the road mentioned the live broadcast on the laptop that had caused a stir.
Qinan would occasionally stop to pick up useful junk parts or metal energy items he encountered on the road.
When he stopped, Xingxing would hold his small round pot and expand its range a little bit.
In this way, intermittently, with stops and starts, the little robot's originally empty pot became fuller and fuller.
Two seeds, a mechanical doll, a broken transparent glass bottle, half a tube of nutrient solution that may or may not have expired, a piece of clothing stained with dark blue blood, and a few miscellaneous items of all sizes.
Seeing that the things in the little robot's pot were getting more and more numerous and more and more strange, Qi Nan wanted to say something several times, but finally chose to remain silent.
"This is the last section of the journey." Under the dark sky, Qi Nan, sitting in a mechanical wheelchair, looked up at the increasingly thick gray-black fog.
"...Isn't it good to just stay outside?" Xingxing stood in front of his wheelchair with a stern face, and opened her little hands, refusing to let Qi Nan move forward any further.
"Only if you hide deep in the fog will you have a chance to survive." Qi Nan looked at it calmly and even gently, and told it: "Don't be afraid, I have picked up enough energy along the way to support you to live here for a while. After I go in, I will send a message to my old friend and ask him to put more energy in a safe place. When it's not so chaotic outside, you can go and get it yourself."
"But you will die soon." Xingxing opened her little hands and did not move.
As early as the afternoon, it discovered that the fog on the road ahead was getting thicker and thicker. After a casual scan, it concluded that... there were high-risk radiation pollution sources everywhere, but Qinan was still holding it and moving deeper.
Xingxing stopped him seven times.
This is the eighth time.
Before, it was lifted up by Qinan and couldn’t block the way. The human’s embrace was also very strong, and the little robot, with increasingly insufficient energy, couldn’t struggle free at all.
But this time it's different.
Within the first hundred meters, the radiation pollution index will increase several times. Perhaps there is no need to wait for the passage of time. Just keep moving forward. The unmechanized remains of Qi Nan's body and internal organs will automatically fall off piece by piece, and he will step by step towards death.
Qiuqiu said that if they went any further, even if Qi Nan was completely immersed in the spiritual spring, he would not survive.
So the stars once again stood in the way of mankind.
"Let's go back." The little robot said seriously: "Grandpa, let's go to the safe zone, buy a place, and leave this planet."
Xingxing felt as if she had become two completely different people.
One is a non-human star, who calmly convinces himself not to block the current choice of mankind. In this way, as long as Qinan hides in the thick fog and dies in it for it, the wish of the Pole Star can be realized.
The other one is a star that looks like a human baby. It is the star in the dream of the Polar Star Contract. It holds the scarred little robot in its arms and promises it, "I will try my best to help you fulfill your wish, stay by his side for you, and protect him to live well."
The stars used to just wait for others to make their choices.
But now he was standing in front of Qi Nan, and there were two little stars in his mind trying to pull him back.
"You can't die." Ignoring the two stars in his mind, he looked at Qi Nan, whose body was hunched silently, pursed his lips and said seriously: "Grandpa, you can't die here."
You can't die in front of Lin Ye three years later.
You can't die in front of me three years earlier.
As it spoke, it glanced at its open palm, where only 1% of the energy remained.
What can we do with 1% of energy?
Xingxing withdrew his hand, and in Qi Nan's silence, turned his wrist towards himself.
It skillfully opened its body shell, and when Qi Nan hurriedly tried to stop it, it gently placed its fingers on its "heart".
"Grandpa, if you go in, there won't be enough time to repair me for the third time." Xingxing said to him word by word.
Qi Nan: “…”
In an emotional state, Qinan coughed desperately. Every breath of air he took was silently corroding his remaining life. He tried to analyze the pros and cons with the stubborn little robot, but he seemed to have run out of energy. He even coughed violently and spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with internal organs.
Xingxing walked forward and used the ability of this body to control intelligent data products for the first time to change the direction and position of the wheelchair.
It crawled back into the gradually cold embrace of humans, listening to the hoarse breathing sound behind it like a broken bellows, and lowered its head to ask the mechanical doll in its arms: "Bubbles, can you sing?"
"Xingxing, Bubble Club~"
"Then can you sing songs with stars in them?"
"Xingxing, Bubble Club~"
"Then sing ahead. I want to take a nap listening to the song." Xingxing felt her energy gradually running out and slowly closed her eyes to the sound of the childish song.
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"Because at the moment of his death, I regained consciousness, and I was grateful to him, so I wanted him to live."
"My maintenance guy is so dumb, he can't even tell the difference between food and medicine."
"My maintenance technician is very skilled. He was able to keep this body on the brink of collapse for three full years. He is the most amazing mechanical genius."
"Hello, I am the intelligent robot Polestar-019. You can call me Polestar."
"You are free and independent. You don't have to be me. You can be completely yourself."
“This is a high-risk and special world.”
"You and Qinan are one of the turning points in his life."
“…”
"Qi Nan spent all his efforts to repair Lin Ye's god-level mecha... He even embedded the Pole Star into the mecha, making it the intelligent consciousness system of the god-level mecha."
"It said its wish is that Xingxing can live freely, that Xingxing can replace Lin Ye, and that Qinan is willing to give everything for you, including his life."
"Xingxing, Jixing lied at the beginning."
In the chaotic and mottled dream, Xingxing listened to the familiar conversations that kept appearing in his ears. He looked up and saw that it was still a scorched wilderness.
Polestar lied.
But Polestar's lies are half truths.
Polestar has the cleanest and clearest blue eyes.
Polestar also has the most damaged body.
Polestar says its maintenance guys are both idiots and mechanical geniuses.
Polestar didn't lie.
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