Chapter 161 The Stars’ “Gift”
Sixth month in the lab.
As usual, Xingxing was carried by her grandfather to the rooftop of the research institute to bask in the sun.
It feels that grandpa raising it is like raising a small flower that needs careful care.
The little flower needs to be watered with nutrient solution at a fixed time and place every day. The little flower needs to go to the rooftop to bask in the sun which is not so scorching. The little flower also needs to listen to nice music and read her favorite bedtime stories.
The warm sunlight shines down in large areas, slowly warming the skin.
The human behind it seemed a little drowsy. He yawned twice in succession after coming up, but his hands were still holding it firmly.
After a while, Xingxing heard Grandpa's steady breathing.
Fell asleep.
After staying awake for three days on nutrient solution in order to catch up with the research progress, Qi Nan's body was completely sleepy. Almost at the moment he touched the sunlight, sleepiness overwhelmed him and completely drowned him.
"Xingxing, the research results are out. They have broken away from the carrier of the god-level mecha and finally awakened the second intelligent life form. These two days they are naming the intelligent life form that has just awakened its self-awareness." Qiuqiu happily told Xingxing the good news.
Since Qi Nan became the main project leader of Xingxing six months ago, the research progress of the laboratory has been greatly improved. At the same time, Polestar, which has long been taken over by the official, is also using the wreckage of the "Beidou" and more god-level mecha data given by Qi Nan to mass-produce god-level mechas with body data comparable to Beidou.
A number of them have already been manufactured. These god-level mechas will not flow into the market, but will be supplied to the military for selection first. After all, god-level mechas have very high requirements on the mental strength level of the mecha pilot. Unless they are S-level or above, it is impossible to easily drive a god-level mecha.
Therefore, after producing that batch of mechas, the mecha development department of Polestar Company shifted its research direction, trying to reduce the mental requirements for the mecha pilot without affecting the various data of the body.
Whether it is the progress of Polestar's mecha research and development and manufacturing, or the research progress of the awakening of intelligent life consciousness in the laboratory here, Qi Nan is almost always the main person in charge, so in the past six months, Qi Nan has hardly had a good night's sleep.
If Xingxing had not found every opportunity to feed Qi Nan the medicinal paste made from spiritual spring water and herbs from the spiritual field, trying his best to prolong Qi Nan's life, according to how hard he worked, he would probably not be sleeping in the sun with Xingxing in his arms, but would have been visiting him in the cemetery.
But Qinan's desperate work finally reaped the best results on this sunny day.
"So, we unanimously decided to name it: Moon Landing."
"It means that when humans first set out from their home planet, the first planet they landed on was also our first step towards the sea of stars."
In the laboratory, which had long been filled with cute and childlike elements, there was a burst of applause.
Everyone looked at the results of their labor over the past half month, which were also the data life forms they personally created, with joy and pride in their eyes.
Qiuqiu squatted on Xingxing's shoulder and looked with it at the small intelligent life form in the form of a little girl that had just awakened self-awareness and was floating in the air. However, what he thought of in his mind was an ancient poem that he had searched for from the human knowledge base in the doomsday world.
We all have a strong desire to fly, and want to reach up to the sky to embrace the bright moon.
Neither Qiuqiu nor Xingxing understood the reading comprehension of the ancients. They just felt that this poem, this name, and this new and special little life were particularly suitable.
Humans are really good at naming.
Not like stars.
Qiuqiu secretly complained for a moment, but soon couldn't help but kiss Xingxing's cheek affectionately, sharing with it the joy of being infected by the crowd.
Humanity did not lose Qinan. Instead, under his guidance, it took a really big step forward.
And the stars finally gave the gift they promised.
It no longer owes the world anything.
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"Are you leaving?" Shi Sheng appeared in the air in front of Xingxing.
Next to Shisheng stood another short girl with an equally cold gaze.
Lan Yue is a new intelligent life form created by Shi Sheng in secret with the cooperation of human Qi Nan.
If it weren't for its help, even if Qi Nan had all the means to reach the sky and the earth, it would have been difficult for him to cultivate a self-awakening intelligent life form so smoothly without a carrier in just six months.
Lan Yue calls Shi Sheng brother.
But in fact, Shisheng has completely taken control of the Star Network and even stuffed his own sub-data into the Star Network main brain. Maybe after a while, humans will usher in a new self-aware Star Network main brain.
But this has nothing to do with the stars now.
It nodded and lay on the small bed specially made for it at its grandfather's house, holding a plant seed neatly enclosed in a glass ball.
Xingxing did not continue the topic of parting with Shisheng. Instead, she turned over and sat up, saying to Shisheng seriously, "Three years will soon be up, and the Exile Star will soon face a wave of alien beasts. Can you monitor that star at any time and remind the humans on the star so that they can prepare early?"
Shi Sheng didn't expect that Xingxing's thoughts would suddenly jump to the Exile Star, and he didn't expect that Xingxing would suddenly think of the upcoming tide of alien beasts.
It fell silent.
It’s not because it’s unwilling or unable to do it, but... in its previous life, it witnessed Qinan die under the impact of a tide of alien beasts in order to protect Lin Ye.
Even though he had let go of his obsession long ago, even though he knew that everything was a misunderstanding, Shi Sheng was still the same as other humans and would subconsciously avoid anything that made him uncomfortable.
But it was only a brief moment of shock, and Shisheng quickly came back to his senses, nodded to Xingxing and agreed: "Okay, I will give an advance warning and apply for the temporary evacuation of children under the age of 10."
Permanent evacuation is impossible. Those on the Exile Planet are all sinners. Even if their descendants are innocent, how can the victims who were once harmed not be innocent?
The criminal law of interstellar law is both harsh and lenient. Planets abandoned by humans have become the final refuge for these criminals.
Therefore, after the alien beast tide is over, these people will return to the Exile Star and continue to survive on that dark and dangerous planet.
"Yeah." Xingxing nodded and didn't ask for anything more.
It is not kind, nor does it feel pity for those humans.
It just saw the shadow of the end of the world from that planet and those human beings.
In the end times, human beings have reached a dead end. Both goodness and evil will be completely eliminated.
Humans always say that children are hope, but the stars don’t know whether the people on the exile planet need this hope.
But it doesn't matter. Xingxing reached out and touched Shisheng's cheek. Her fingertips penetrated the light curtain, and the child's soft voice sounded at the same time: "I also hid a gift for you on that star. When grandpa and I are gone, if you miss us a little, you can go look for it."
After saying that, Xingxing looked towards Shisheng's side.
The little girl who also used her own experimental data and watched it being completed bit by bit with her own eyes, smiled at her, "Lan Yue, I also left a gift for you, it's in this villa."
The former stars will bring the gifts from the human world back to the Space and Time Administration and give them to the other little stars one by one.
Today's stars leave behind one "gift" after another.
The only one who didn't have a gift was Lin Ye.
As early as three months ago, Lin Ye moved out of the villa and went to the affiliated primary school of the First Military Academy of the main star. His starting point also changed from the exiled star with nothing to the main star with everything.
No one, including Lin Ye himself, knew whether he was lucky or unlucky, and whether this turn of fate was good or bad.
At least at the moment he felt fortunate, because he had Qi Nan standing in front of him, and the care of several other elders. The road ahead was less bumpy and would be smoother and more stable. As for whether he could reach the peak again...
“As long as nothing unexpected happens to him, with such a high level of mental strength and so many knowledges in his head that do not belong to this world and this age group, he will still reach the peak and become dazzling again.” Shi Sheng commented calmly.
What's more, Lin Ye's character is eager to get things done. Those who are ambitious and capable of achieving them will always go faster and further than ordinary people.
Xingxing didn't care about Shi Sheng's evaluation of Lin Ye. She nodded randomly but didn't take it to heart.
It doesn't care about Lin Ye's future at all, because it, Shisheng and his grandfather will no longer be the destined stepping stones of the protagonist's fate.
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Coming to the eighth month of the main star.
Cloudy, light rain.
The star took the porcelain white urn from the human's hands.
The raindrops fell silently on it. It should have taken shelter from the rain immediately, but it stood there in a daze for a while holding the small urn.
Until I was woken up by Qiuqiu's worried call.
"Cub, let's go?" Qiuqiu urged it in a low voice.
Xingxing nodded, turned around and sat in the smart aircraft that Shisheng had helped to reserve in advance.
After it successfully boarded the starship, after repeated jumps, the small robot holding the urn finally, in a short jump, used the power of space to scatter the ashes in the box that had already cooled down into the boundless sea of stars.
"Grandpa, I am a star."
"Grandpa, goodbye."
"Star, I will go find your gift. Goodbye."
"Well, bye."
Xingxing waved to the two children in the light curtain and closed his eyes obediently.
The starship's destination is Exile Star.
The bodies that have lost their souls and gone into hibernation will be dumped into this dark planet as garbage.
Perhaps one day in the future it will actually be dug out from the garbage dump and awakened by humans.
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Two months after Qinan’s obituary was published.
Shisheng found the gift that Xingxing left for him.
In that familiar little shabby house, two small flowers were swaying gently in front of the blue-eyed mechanical doll.
There was a note with childish handwriting on the flowerpot: "For the little flowers that Shisheng has, the red ones are called Stars, and the blue ones are called Pole Stars~"
At the same time, Lan Yue also used data scanning to search for another gift left by Xingxing in the main star villa.
A mechanical doll wearing a little skirt and with moon-white eyes.
There was also a note under the doll's body, with some neat yet crooked words written on it: Little moon, always free, always independent, always bright and clear.
This is a mechanical doll made by Xingxing himself.
There are no data directives that must be followed.
It is a "fallback way" left for Lan Yue.
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