Chapter 158 A "Gift" to Humanity
Qi Nan was not surprised that Xingxing could make this connection.
He stroked the soft hair of the little robot, which was very similar to that of a human baby, and said gently, "I owed him a lot, so the knowledge I taught him and the care I showed him were all real, not hypocritical."
"It's just... the plan was real. I don't feel guilty because my plan for him will not only prevent him from falling into danger, but will also allow him to escape from a deadly situation and leave this exile planet to a more vast sea of stars."
His plan, involving himself and Xingxing, paved a path for Lin Ye to soar to the sky.
The ultimate goal is to hope that Xingxing can escape from the Federation's sight and live well.
Even if I don't live freely, even if I am full of resentment towards him.
Qi Nan originally planned to do so, and was ready to do so, but...
The sudden pop-up option box made Qi Nan hesitate. If he hesitated for a moment, he would be defeated.
That's why he woke up the star and told it the secret that had been buried deep in his heart for so many years. He would rather waste time and put everything in front of the star to let it make its own choice.
The pitch-black night outside the house faded a little, but to the naked eye, both the nearby mist and the distant skylight were still dim and unclear, just like the choice before Xingxing and Qinan at this moment.
If you choose this escape route, Qinan will die, and Xingxing will be imprisoned in a god-level mecha to serve the protagonist again for the rest of his life.
But if he doesn't choose this path, Xingxing will face a start that is tantamount to hell, and Qinan may not be able to survive.
Qi Nan didn't care about his own life which should have died long ago, but Qi Nan wanted to personally entrust Xingxing to someone he could trust, and wanted to see Xingxing safe with his own eyes.
In the darkness and silence of the room, the ball emitted a faint light and stopped on the shoulder of the star. At a certain moment, it flew up and gently bumped into the dazed child.
"Don't be afraid, kid. We still have other options."
Qiuqiu finished speaking quietly and met the child's exceptionally peaceful eyes.
The stars are not afraid, nor impatient.
It held the ball of light in its palm, patted it soothingly, then raised its head and shook its head at the old man who had been quietly waiting for its answer.
As Qi Nan's expression suddenly changed, the little robot smiled with its eyes curved and said to him softly, "Grandpa, I choose to accept the invitation of the Federation and leave this planet with you."
Only by leaving here can Qinan survive.
Even if the hope of survival is slim, it is better than being trapped and dying on this planet, with the internal organs and every inch of bone and flesh being corroded and damaged by radiation, and eventually falling off in pieces.
The little robot made its choice in a calm tone, as if it was sharing that the weather was nice today. It reached out and hugged the human's body, sniffing the faintly decayed old man's scent coming from the other, and gently closed its eyes.
Xingxing didn’t know how Shisheng would react after secretly listening to those “truths”, nor did she know whether his obsession could be eliminated, but Xingxing had truly enjoyed Qi Nan’s “partiality”, so Xingxing didn’t want Qi Nan to repeat the mistakes of his previous life.
It doesn't want Qinan to die for it. It wants Qinan to no longer be that unknown scavenger. In the end, he can only hide his talent and unwillingness, and fall alone on this garbage planet with excessive heavy metals and radiation.
"Grandpa, you can't die here."
The star hugged him and buried her head in his arms. After a moment, she looked up and said to him with curved eyes: "We are going to go under the sun, to a bright and warm planet."
"Grandpa, you are the father of the Federation's machinery and an irreplaceable milestone in the history of mechas. So even if you really have to die, you must die peacefully and without regrets under the bright and warm sunshine, surrounded by countless flowers."
The little robot did not hesitate to talk about human death. In the face of Qi Nan's increasingly helpless and soft expression, it frankly and naively described what it thought was the "death" that best suited Qi Nan.
Finally, it patted the human's body soothingly, which had become increasingly cold after sitting stiffly all night.
"Grandpa, you chose to protect me when you found me, and you humans defended me when I was discovered."
"I want Grandpa to live, and I am grateful to those humans who spoke for me, but I can't name a specific person, so I want to give them a gift, even if it's just for you and them."
Xingxing’s words left Qinan silent for a long time.
He stared at the little robot's pure and sincere eyes, his chest rising and falling silently. After a long while, he sighed and said helplessly: "Xingxing, you think too highly of humans."
Xingxing shook her head.
It reached out and grasped the old man's skinny and trembling fingers, shook them like a spoiled child, and retorted softly: "Grandpa, you have millions of people like you, but you are not millions of bad people."
In fact, the stars are never naive, because they have listened to the darkness and malice in the hearts of countless people in the end of the world. They just cherish every kindness they receive as always.
It is because there are so many people who speak ill of others that kind people shine as brightly as little stars.
Xingxing likes them and also likes Qinan, so she made this choice without any hesitation.
Qi Nan was left speechless by Xingxing's rebuttal.
It’s not that he couldn’t argue with Xingxing, but he was shocked that Xingxing’s ideas were so... simple.
It really looks like a well-protected child.
In a trance, Qi Nan discovered that the original slightly cold and sharp inhuman feeling of Xingxing seemed to have changed a lot at some point in time. It did not become like a human being, but became soft and warm, like a fluffy ball with its thorns retracted, making people want to poke, rub and pinch it, just like the most popular stress-relieving toy on the market.
"Since you have made up your mind..." Qi Nan stared at the kid and said with difficulty: "Then let's wait here for the federal military to come over."
Xingxing nodded obediently at first, then held her little face and reminded him with curved eyes: "Grandpa, surrendering will only make us passive, so we must take the initiative to tell the truth, otherwise the truth will always be hidden, and you will always be misunderstood, and the bad guys will murder more people like you."
In human terms, this is called aiding and abetting evil.
Qi Nan: “…”
Tell the truth?
How would he say it?
Who would believe it?
But Xingxing didn't give Qi Nan time to hesitate. Instead, he knocked on his right eye, and a very obvious stream of data flashed in his eyes.
"Grandpa, guess when I started live streaming?" Xingxing said, blinking at Qi Nan's suddenly changing and complicated expression, and projected the live streaming screen that he had hidden into the air.
Groups of viewers have already gone crazy in the live broadcast room.
God knows how confused they were when they were suddenly woken up by the live broadcast reminder of indiscriminate attacks in the middle of the night. But before they could squeeze into the live broadcast room full of resentment to curse the anchor for the terrible broadcast time, they suddenly found that this live broadcast room seemed a little... familiar?
Take a closer look at the anchor ID… Doesn’t it look familiar? After all, the entire network was paying attention to it during the day. They didn’t know how many curses and malicious comments they had made. The live broadcast room topped the live broadcast platform’s popularity during the day, and they all made considerable contributions.
But wasn’t this live broadcast room just closed by the authorities?
At that time, they also said that the authorities had finally stood up this time and acted quickly, unlike the officials who had been slow to procrastinate in the past.
It's been less than five hours since the ban was imposed? Why is it suddenly open again? Is it a bug on the official website, or has the cause and effect of the incident been investigated and it has nothing to do with Qi Nan?
At that time, everyone in the live broadcast room was speculating, and the screen was filled with suspicious questions, but no one in the darkness in front of the camera was willing to answer their questions.
Even though people reported the live broadcast room countless times, it strangely never got banned again. Instead, when Qi Nan started to talk about those past secrets, it still quietly floated in front of the audience without any danger of being banned.
But the secrets that Qinan mentioned are extremely dangerous!
The audience was "forced" to listen to the past, which made their minds confused and their expressions dazed. Some even suspected that they were dreaming and had not yet woken up.
Otherwise, how come we hear people openly exposing the rotten oranges and rotten garlic of federal officials during live broadcasts, but they are never banned?
Until they saw the relevant departments using seemingly official, but actually somewhat frustrated comments to warn and threaten Qi Nan not to slander and spread rumors...
At that time, the audience who were not stupid knew that it turned out that the authorities were not indifferent, but simply could not do anything about it.
Considering Xingxing’s identity, the audience will of course understand why the authorities can’t do anything about it.
So they gloated over the other's misfortune, complained about the federal departments' corruption, and at the same time pricked up their ears and listened attentively to the old man and the child continuing their "heart-to-heart talk" in the dark.
It is very joyful to eat melons, but eating those dark and dirty melons at the top level is disgusting and joyful at the same time.
That feeling was like happily taking a bite of watermelon, but the flesh turned out to be rotten and smelly. They should have spit it out and thrown away the watermelon in their hands, but the watermelon juice had already flowed down their throats into their stomachs.
I couldn't vomit even if I wanted to.
This is how the audience feels about federal officials, especially those related to mechanical manufacturing.
When they heard that the stars actually came from the god-level mecha "Beidou", the shock they felt was beyond words.
You know, Beidou was created by Qinan himself one or two hundred years ago, but people in the world only know about the god-level mecha "Beidou" but know nothing about the existence of stars!
This means that as early as that time, Qinan’s situation was already very bad, otherwise, he who was able to produce a god-level mecha to benefit the people, would not have gone to so much trouble to hide the existence of the stars.
At that moment, all the viewers in the Federation who were watching this live broadcast at night vaguely understood how many priceless things the Federation had lost when it lost Qinan.
Whether it is Qinan’s talent, the innovation and knowledge in Qinan’s mind, or the stars and the only god-level mecha that can give birth to autonomous life consciousness.
You know, later on, the Federation also created new god-level mechas according to the handwriting and ideas left by Qinan, but the price paid was far greater than Qinan’s original price. The most important thing is... the performance of those mechas is still not as good as the first generation of "Beidou".
Not to mention the autonomous birth of intelligent life consciousness like stars.
However, before the audience's anger and resentment towards those rotten oranges could even erupt, it was easily calmed down by what Xingxing said after making her choice.
The little robot, who was still being speculated and cursed during the day, chose to actively cooperate with the federal investigation and all possible experimental methods in order to allow Qinan to survive and to repay the kindness received during the live broadcast.
It said it was a "gift" to mankind.
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