Chapter 153: Hope Hidden on the Exile Planet
Qi Nan never told anyone about these past events.
He thought he would never have the chance to talk about these past events again in his life.
But now, on this charred and desolate planet, on this garbage mountain made up of discarded metals, Qi Nan held the little robot in his arms and told it all about the absurdity and pain that had happened in the past.
The surroundings were very quiet, but he did not seem lonely despite being alone in the night.
Qiuqiu squatted on Xingxing's shoulder and listened quietly to this long story with the child.
It glanced at Qi Nan, who had a complicated expression, then looked at Xingxing, and felt that all these past events were just a tangled mess.
"Why?"
Xingxing suddenly spoke up, looking up and asking curiously, "Why did you choose to let him be born?"
It didn't seem to feel how many complicated connections there were in those lengthy narratives. It was just curious about why Qinan would regret it more than a hundred years later and betray his decision when he was young.
Since there was no intention to have that child born from the beginning.
Then why would a child be born in such a harsh environment after being exiled to the Exile Planet?
"Aren't you afraid that he will die? You should take basic responsibility for his life." Xingxing frowned, looking through the federal laws and regulations in his database, questioning why the human in front of him made such a hasty decision, leaving Lin Ye an orphan.
He even died once in a place where they couldn't see him.
After asking, Xingxing was quiet for a moment, and then calmly exposed the lie in Qi Nan's previous words: "Moreover, the pronunciation of the name Lin Ye is translated as exile in some interstellar languages."
So, it’s not entirely as Qinan said, hoping that Lin Ye can survive as tenaciously as weeds.
After asking these questions, Xingxing clearly felt the stiffness of the human body that was holding her.
Qiuqiu flew up from Xingxing's shoulder and decided to stay a little further away from Qinan.
I always feel that these humans all have hundreds of ideas.
Suddenly I thought of the reason why the stars awakened the ability to listen to their hearts in the end times... Maybe it was really the world consciousness of that world that was protecting it, or it was a kind of compensation.
Otherwise, the little zombie who had just come out of the laboratory, was blind and couldn't even speak, might have died at the hands of humans' dirty tricks.
It would be more complicated than the situation in this world and more difficult to survive than on this planet.
Qiuqiu's thoughts drifted away uncontrollably.
Xingxing was still staring at Qinan intently, waiting for his answer, which she didn't know whether it was true or false.
Qi Nan's silence this time was longer than any other time.
It was so long that the night completely swallowed him, so long that he seemed to no longer be able to think of any excuses to make up for it or cover up.
So he spoke in an unclear tone in the thick night: "I did not lie, nor did I go against my previous decision, because... we were not the ones who wanted this child to be born."
This time, there was no need for Xingxing to ask, he just gave up everything and stopped hiding or lying.
"Do you know how dazzling his parents were back then?"
"Two hundred years ago, they were the most notorious battle maniacs in the Federation, and the SS-class mecha divisions that were always invincible. Their alliance could crush the alien beast tide like a dead tree or rotten wood. People called them the Federation's most dazzling star, which would never fall."
“No strange beast could kill them, but they still fell to the schemes of their own kind.”
"I am a member of their team and their most trusted mecha repairman. I promised the captain that when he returns to the Federation to be awarded a medal, I will give him a god-level mecha as a gift. The mecha will also be named after our team, Beidou. This way, no matter where he drives the mecha, our team will always be behind him."
"After the rescue mission failed, those of us who were still alive wanted to avenge them. But it wasn't just one person who plotted against them. The entire federation, whether it was the government or the military, was grief-stricken on the surface after the two of them died, but secretly they toasted to celebrate countless times."
"But even after their death, they still haven't stopped. They were two SS-level geniuses, the pinnacle of combat power that only appears once every hundred years. Who wouldn't want to copy their success and brilliance? Everyone wants to, and they're almost going crazy!"
"That's why I was officially declared dead more than a hundred years later. If I hadn't died, all their research would have been tied to me. After all, I was the mechanic standing at the top of the pyramid. I wanted revenge, so I stretched my hands too far, and finally those people couldn't help but cut off all my hands and feet."
"For more than a hundred years, the Federation has squeezed me to the point where there is nothing left. The most impressive thing I have is the god-level mecha Beidou. Apart from that, there is the mechanical company I founded: Polestar."
"After they announced my death, they were finally able to take over all my 'inheritance' and began to restart the gene keys that the captain and vice-captain had frozen."
Qi Nan rubbed Xingxing's upturned head and slowly let out the anger that was stuck in his heart. Then he slowly said, "The shopkeeper you saw in the safe zone that day was one of my teammates. They risked their lives and paid a huge price to steal the incubator that gave birth to Lin Ye. For this, they stayed on this planet forever and could never leave."
"His name is Lin Ye, and he is the hope hidden on the Exiled Planet."
The stars didn't speak.
It was holding the mechanical doll and looking at Qi Nan, whose body was mostly mechanical and completely unrecognizable compared to a normal human being. Suddenly, it didn't know what to say.
Is it sad?
No.
Is that pitiful?
Not really.
Should we say he brought it upon himself?
Probably not.
So how do you say it?
The star thought about it and said nothing. Instead, it leaned over and shoved its tiny self into the human's cold arms.
Since nothing you say is right, just consider companionship as comfort.
After all… the humans at this moment looked really sad, as if they would break into pieces at any moment.
The star cannot understand the complicated grievances and entanglements of human beings, but it knows that the words that Qinan said, which he had never spoken in his previous life, must have been heard clearly by Shisheng.
So what is important is not what you think or what you want to say.
But what will Shisheng think? Will he forgive or resent? Will he be angry or powerless?
You won't feel relieved, right?
But I can't let it go...what should I do?
"After going around in circles, it seems like I'm back to the starting point." Qiuqiu muttered helplessly, and nestled into Xingxing's warm embrace, secretly squeezing the bubble beside him.
Qi Nan didn't expect to receive a sudden hug.
He held the little robot in his arms, feeling the constant warmth from the child's body. He felt that the coldness that seeped from his bones was slowly dispelled.
"I watched him being born with my own eyes, but I cannot be held responsible for him because I was also under surveillance for a long time. It was not until I was seriously injured again that I chose to leave the safe zone. They probably thought I was finally going to die, so they let down their guard."
As a price, he never entered the safe zone again after leaving it.
That's why when they met that day, the old friend said that he thought he had died outside a long time ago.
Not only the old guy thinks so, but the people in the federation also think so.
"It's just that I haven't seen him for many years. I didn't expect that he also grew up outside the safe zone..."
Qi Nan said this sentence softly and slowly.
The stars listened quietly and patted the human's body with their little hands as if to comfort him.
Qi Nan smiled, and his aura became much calmer than before, as if a person who had been weighed down by a heavy burden for years finally chose to let go at this moment.
"Xingxing, promise me not to tell that kid Linye about what happened, okay?" He lowered his head and supported the back of the little robot with his palm.
Xingxing blinked in confusion, "Don't you want to tell him?"
In addition to liking to lie, humans also seem to be very good at concealing things.
Qi Nan didn't know what the kid was thinking. He nodded and controlled his wheelchair to go back home. Halfway down the mountain, he calmly explained, "Don't tell him, because neither his parents nor the few of us who are still alive have ever thought of asking him to avenge anyone."
"That child has already done his best to survive. We didn't take good care of him. We owe him and his parents a lot. How can we put another heavy burden on his young shoulders?"
"Let him be an ordinary orphan without a father or a mother. Without any ties, he naturally has no weaknesses. Now he has enrolled in the federal primary school on his own. If he has the opportunity to leave this planet in the future, he can be free to be himself."
After returning home, Qinan had a very deep and peaceful sleep tonight.
On another small bed, the little robot in the dark supported his chin with one hand, and held a brand new optical computer with the other hand. He tilted his head and looked at a little robot on the light screen who looked exactly like Polestar in the dream.
"We look a lot like what humans call twins." Shi Sheng commented softly, staring at the stars.
Xingxing curled her eyes slightly, "Then do you want to be my brother?"
Shi Sheng choked.
It wants to be Xingxing’s brother.
But no matter how you calculate the ages of the two children...it seems to be a little younger.
Even the soul body is a little smaller than the stars.
The little robot fell silent, a little frustrated.
Xingxing stretched out his hand and curiously poked Shisheng's cheek on the light curtain. His finger easily penetrated the light curtain. When he retracted his finger, the small piece of light curtain that had spread out like water waves slowly closed again.
"Did you hear what grandpa said?" It asked Shisheng in the light curtain in a low voice.
Shi Sheng nodded.
I thought Xingxing would ask it what it thought, and Shisheng had even organized an answer, but the child's next question left Shisheng stunned.
"Then will you join me and help Grandpa hide Lin Ye from us and not tell him about these past events?"
After saying that, Xingxing, holding her little face in the dark, added one more sentence seriously to emphasize: "I have already promised Grandpa, a good child should not go back on his word."
Shi Sheng: “…Well, I won’t tell him.”
Sure enough, as soon as it answered, the children outside the screen smiled even more like little flowers, and praised it happily: "Wow~ Shisheng is also a good boy, Shisheng is awesome!"
Just like coaxing a child.
Shi Sheng tried hard to suppress the upward curve of his lips, and repaired all the data that caused the fluctuations. Then he spoke in a cold tone: "Then can you stop doing the mission?"
Xingxing, who thought he had gotten the truth this time, was finally willing to nod, but... the little robot outside the screen still shook its head slowly.
“Not yet.”
Xing Xing looked at it with sparkling eyes, and still said to it in a coaxing tone: "Don't worry, because this is not the whole truth. Humans are very good at lying and concealing things."
Not lying does not mean not hiding anything.
Just like Qi Nan would ask Xingxing to promise not to tell Lin Ye about the past.
Is it possible that Qinan is also hiding a lot of things from Xingxing?
For example... what Qi Nan inadvertently revealed in his last few sentences, Polestar Company?
Thinking of this, Xingxing raised her hand and touched her warm neck.
If I remember correctly, there is a product number of Polestar engraved on my neck, right?
Polestar-019.
Xingxing raised her eyes again and looked at Shisheng who was frowning at her in the light curtain.
It is clean and has nothing on it.
This kind of life is so cute.
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