Chapter 157 This is the child I created myself
"...and you, too, come from there."
Qi Nan’s words made Xingxing fall into a brief confusion.
What's the meaning?
Where are you from?
His proudest work in his life...isn't it the god-level mecha named "Beidou"?
After a moment of stunned silence, Xingxing finally understood the hidden meaning of Qi Nan's words. Its eyes widened in surprise, and it looked up at Qi Nan blankly, unable to give any other reaction for a long time.
After Qi Nan told the boy the secret that he had hidden in his heart for nearly a hundred years, he felt much more relaxed and his expression was not as gloomy as before.
Seeing the child's dazed look, he softened his brows silently, raised his hand and gently rubbed the top of Rua Xingxing's head, and whispered: "Do you know why you are called Jixing? It's not because of your production number, but because you are the first life consciousness derived from the world's first god-level mecha, and 0-19 is my 19th attempt to completely import you into a new robot body and finally succeeded."
"At that time, I had been targeted by someone because of the god-level mecha 'Beidou', but compared to the overall data of the god-level mecha they wanted, I was more afraid that you would be discovered, so I created the company Polestar to cover up your existence and hide you better."
Qinan seemed to be addicted, or maybe Secret finally found a good listener. He gave Xingxing almost no time to think. Holding the child in his arms, in the dark and quiet little house, he slowly answered the questions that had always troubled Xingxing in his old and hoarse voice.
"I exported and deleted your memory as a god-level mecha intelligent system, so that you can be sold on the market like any ordinary companion robot that leaves the factory."
Hearing this, Xingxing tilted his head in confusion and searched his memory, "But I don't have any memory of being purchased and serving humans..."
Could it be that this memory has also been deleted?
Facing the child's inquiring gaze, Qi Nan couldn't help but laugh, shook his head and said, "That's because you weren't bought by anyone else. I bought you as a souvenir, but there is surveillance everywhere in my life, so I didn't bring you to this planet until I was sentenced to exile."
"wrong."
Xingxing shook her head, looked down at the countless marks left on her body, and then looked at Qi Nan.
Then she pursed her lips and waited silently for his "explanation".
Qi Nan also looked at its tattered body and explained in a gentle voice: "This is all fake."
"?"
A big question mark slowly rose above Xingxing’s head.
Even Qiuqiu, who was originally listening with great interest, was confused.
What? What's fake?
You said the bodies of the stars...are fake? ?
Before Xingxing was completely confused, Qi Nan tapped the joint of Xingxing's arm with his fingers, and there was a hint of smile in his voice: "If you have a chance, you can peel off the outer layer of bionic skin, and you will find that there is no trace inside."
"But..." Xingxing raised her hand and touched her neck again. Could the number there be fake?
Seeing Qinan's slightly proud and even complacent expression, Xingxing silently swallowed her unnecessary questions.
It's just a string of codes. As the founder of Polestar Company, there can't be any imitations of the small robots produced by Qi Nan.
So this string of numbers is real. No wonder after so long, even though Polestar officials can check every numbered machine product sold in the past, the people in the live broadcast room have no doubts about the appearance of the stars.
But Xingxing had one last problem.
"How was I brought in?" The moment it asked this question, it clearly felt the human body stiffen for a moment, especially... the mechanical prosthetic eye, which was spinning very fast.
Xingxing waited a long time for the answer this time.
Every second that passes seems to be extremely long.
Until... Qi Nan reached out and touched his shrunken eye sockets with a calm expression.
"I hid the space button containing you and Beidou's wreckage behind my eyes."
He lowered his head and said to the stars in a gentle voice: "You are the most important wealth in my life, the proudest works I have carved, and the children I created with my own hands."
The stars fell completely silent.
It looked up at Qinan's eyes.
One was hollow, with only the sunken flesh that had healed and shriveled away, while the other was equipped with an old and strange mechanical prosthetic eye.
How did he come up with the idea of hiding the space button in there?
What kind of pain and determination did he have to hide the things in there?
Aren't you afraid? Aren't you in pain?
Have you ever regretted it?
The stars don't know.
It stretched out its hand and gently touched the human's drooping eyelids with its warm fingertips. It felt the weak and slight trembling of the surrounding muscles, and its own fingers seemed to tremble slightly as well.
So Xingxing thought of her first meeting with him again.
"Hmm? Why did the eye color change? Could it be that the internal data of the machine has been corrected and adjusted after being damaged?"
At that time, Polestar-019 had just been turned on. If Qi Nan had never seen it before and just picked it up from the garbage dump by accident, how could he know the color of its pupils? Unless the beautiful blue pupils were originally the color that Qi Nan had written himself.
"Why isn't it moving? Isn't it just the eye data that's wrong? Is there something wrong with the data of the limbs as well?"
At that time, Qi Nan had already lost his mental power. He couldn't use his mental power to connect to the body for repairs. He could only dismantle the body and carry out some simple repairs. But as he spoke, he was about to dismantle the stars. It was obvious that he was familiar with this body so well that he could repair and restore the data of the limbs without using mental power.
"It turns out that you are not broken, little robot. You are the first generation product of Polestar, and your body number is Polestar-019. I repaired you. In return, you will keep me company on this garbage planet from now on. Do you understand?"
Even if it loses its memory, does it still need humans to remind it of its product type and number? Unless he is not reminding it at all, but testing whether it still has the memory of being a god-level mecha intelligent system.
"Hello human, my name is Xingxing."
Xingxing clearly remembered the obvious surprise in the human's eyes after he said this.
At that time, his mechanical prosthetic eye was spinning very fast, and the human himself subconsciously reached out to grab it, but it dodged him.
Humans do not have the ability to walk, and there is no such thing as a neural connector that can be dismantled to repair the stars as he said, because the people of the Federation will not give him a chance to stand up again.
Xingxing still remembers that after he cut off all the connecting wires in his chest that were connected to the energy blocks out of curiosity and temptation and fell into hibernation, Qiuqiu said that Qinan looked at his "corpse" and said something.
He said: "I have been exiled for so long that I have forgotten that children love to be coaxed by nice words."
Perhaps, as early as that time, or even earlier, in his eyes, Xingxing was just a little kid who needed to be coaxed and be obedient.
Because he just said that the stars are his own children.
Later, humans woke it up and still tried to test it with various words until the star directly said that it had no memory of the past. He again asked the star to stay with him and lied to the children, saying that the planet was in a mess and he could repair and wake up the star.
From that time on, Xingxing was held in his arms, and since then, Xingxing almost never walked far on her own.
“…”
Memories of nearly a year of being together came flooding back, and from a whole new perspective, the more Xingxing thought about it, the more she could see "another side" of Qinan from those past memories.
It turned out that Qi Nan had been exposed as early as the first time they met, and it was so obvious.
But whether it was the Pole Star in the past or the stars today, at that time, they had never seen the hidden meaning behind human actions.
Then... does it also mean that in the previous life, Qi Nan committed the "betrayal" act of embedding the Polaris into the god-level mecha because he was actually forced into a desperate situation?
It’s just that Polestar didn’t see it at that time, and Qinan didn’t give it the opportunity to choose for itself, nor did he tell it any word of the truth.
So, does it also mean that the ending of Polestar in the previous life was actually something Qinan was helpless about, and the so-called protagonist was just the "lucky guy" chosen in advance by Qinan in order to save Polestar?
If this is true, then in his previous life, Qi Nan, as a cannon fodder who gave the protagonist Lin Ye a golden finger, actually put a lot of thought and planning into it, just to find a chance for the real protagonist in his life.
Then, in their eyes, all the unforgivable things will become excusable, or even painstaking.
But...is this the truth that Shisheng of the present life, Jixing of the previous life, really wants?
The stars don't know either.
It huddled silently in the human's arms for a long time before it said to the old human who was holding it: "Grandpa, is there really no other way?"
Qi Nan smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"This is the best solution I can think of."
"But you will die if you do this." Xingxing reminded sullenly.
The familiar hand fell on my head again, and the old man gently persuaded me with relief: "It's okay, Xingxing, I have lived long enough. I have seen both lows and highs in my life. I have no regrets."
Is this really the case?
Then why did he suddenly choose to awaken his "child" after coming to the Exile Planet for decades, until the radiation eroded his body and he was finally at the age of death?
Is it loneliness, or unwillingness, or... is it still some regrets?
"I want you to live." Xingxing pursed her lips, stretched out her hand to grab the corner of his clothes, and said very seriously: "Grandpa, you have to live."
Originally, Xingxing had already planned to use three years to improve Qinan's body. When the monster tide came three years later, the Federation would open an evacuation channel even if it was just to get him, and Qinan would definitely be on the evacuation list at that time.
But the stars are not human after all, so they underestimate the human heart and those who will do whatever it takes to achieve their goals.
Just as it and Shisheng had never thought of Qi Nan's plan for Lin Ye, Xingxing had never thought of the Federation's plan for Qi Nan.
Thinking of this, Xingxing was suddenly stunned. The next second, she suddenly looked up and asked, "Grandpa, you actually knew this day would come, right?"
Therefore, after reaching an agreement with the Federation and being found by Lin Ye by chance, he went with the flow and agreed to let Lin Ye learn mechanical knowledge from him.
As early as that time, Qi Nan had already thought about today, so he had planted Lin Ye as a chess piece early, just for the message that was almost sent out before, and to leave a "back door" for Xingxing.
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