Chapter 148: When people have a weak spot, they will be timid
After Qi Nan finished speaking, there was silence in the live broadcast room for a full ten seconds.
Immediately afterwards, a flood of question marks came flooding in.
[??? Qi Nan??? Is that the Qi Nan I was thinking of? Am I dreaming? From which direction did the sun rise today? Or is the capital planet finally going to be conquered by the alien beasts? Otherwise, how could I see a living Qi Nan in a live broadcast room? ]
[I also began to wonder if I was dreaming... Didn't Qi Nan die? The official obituary stated clearly that Qi Nan was killed by space pirates during his interstellar travel. Moreover, the pirates are now exiled to a certain exile planet and are living there!]
[Wait, wait... If this Qi Nan is the real and living Qi Nan I think of, then wouldn't the official obituary be... huh? ? ? ]
[I am going crazy! Can anyone come out and explain this? Why is this person who should have died a long time ago still alive? Why is this living person appearing on the Exile Planet? And he appears in such a… miserable and miserable state? Is this really not an illusion brought about by an AI machine life?]
[It’s terrifying to think about it. I always feel that this universe has suddenly become gloomy. Is the Federation really as glorious and righteous as we imagined? Help...]
[…………]
"You didn't see it wrong." The vicissitudes of life and the hoarse voice still came out from Qi Nan's mouth, clearly reaching the ears of every shocked audience, "I'm still alive. On the day you received the obituary, I was arrested for a serious mecha accident."
At this point, he paused, shook his head at the audience who were listening attentively, and said in a deep voice: "I'm sorry, I can't reveal more of the truth yet, otherwise I'm afraid that the entire Exile Star will no longer be able to receive communications from the universe."
After saying that, Qi Nan raised his hand and rubbed the top of the head of the little robot in his arms. His voice became softer than before. The old mechanical prosthetic eyes stared at the camera, as if looking at the audience, but more like looking at some existence with more say through the camera.
He said, "I know what you want. I can give it to you, but the prerequisite is that you must agree to Xingxing's request just now."
"Besides that, including my death, you can't even think of getting those things."
After the old man said these few words briefly, he ignored the barrage of comments that kept flashing across the screen. Like the stars, he lowered his eyes and waited quietly for a response.
There was not a sound of wind around, and it was so quiet that one could hear the threatening growls of the strange beasts in the distance, as well as the calm and slow heartbeat of the only human being.
Xingxing leaned back and pressed herself against the old human's arms, listening to his weak heartbeat, and became even more curious about the truth.
Qiuqiu said, follow your heart.
A star doesn't have a human heart, but everything it feels is real.
For example, the weak heartbeat of humanity at this moment, the sincere and attentive maintenance before, and the speech made at this moment with the ID of an official federal department.
[We promise, starting from this second, we will give you three years. Within three years, you need to start live streaming every day. After three years, both you and this robot must fulfill the promise just now, otherwise...]
"Otherwise?" Qi Nan seemed to smile, his wrinkled and age-spotted face twitched for a moment, and he sneered, "Don't threaten me. You know I'm not afraid of any of your methods."
The barrage was empty.
The other party seemed to be choked by his words, and for a moment he didn't know whether to continue.
Qi Nan held the light brain and put it back into Xingxing's hand. The camera moved accordingly, and what those people heard in the end was a sentence coming from outside the camera with a slightly complicated tone.
Or, it is a sigh of helplessness:
"But once people have a weak spot, they will become timid."
Everyone understood.
The non-humans didn’t understand.
Xingxing held the laptop and looked at the lively comments on it. He tilted his head and thought quietly for two seconds, then asked softly, "Excuse me, did you promise me?"
The barrage was so lively that it seemed like Chinese New Year. The three words "I agreed" filled the entire screen, and the colorful text effects were so flashing that it hurt people's eyes.
Some people even urged Xingxing to stop just posting comments and start giving rewards as well.
Xingxing shook her head, her beautiful eyes slightly curved, staring at the camera and answering seriously: "No, thank you for liking me, but I cheated on you first, I'm sorry, I can't use your hard-earned money anymore, I won't starve to death, because I have a grandfather, he said he will take good care of me."
The child said thank you and sorry obediently.
When talking about the fact that he has his grandfather to support him now, even though Qi Nan is just a scavenger, he does not feel embarrassed or awkward. Instead, he smiles with his eyes curved and his eyes bright, as if someone has secretly hidden a handful of tiny, brilliant starlight in his eyes.
After finishing speaking, Xingxing waved to the camera, made an appointment with everyone to see each other tomorrow, and then decisively ended the live broadcast.
However, it was not until the screen in the live broadcast room went black that netizens realized something from the child's words and attitude.
[Hiss…Xingbao doesn’t seem to care about the official attitude at all? He speaks as obediently and softly as before. He is really a very obedient robot baby!!]
[I am a little tearful. The cub is really good at saying thank you and sorry at the same time. However, its deception did not hurt anyone. On the contrary, it chose to conceal it temporarily in order to protect itself. It also took the initiative to expose its own uniqueness and put itself in danger. It is really hard for me not to doubt that when it was exposed, it was because the cub felt too guilty that it took the risk to tell us the truth.]
[These days I’ve seen a lot of people saying that machine intelligent life can only pretend and doesn’t understand human emotions at all, but… I’ve never missed any of Xingxing’s live broadcasts. Compared to it, I even think that humans are truly ruthless and indifferent creatures.]
[Yes, I have always wanted to say that I feel warmth from the stars, a warmth that is warmer than me, more sincere than my family, and more frank than my friends. I don’t know if you understand, but I feel that it is really a newborn, fresh, and tender little life, ignorant and cute. I simply cannot associate it with things like “cold and calculating”, “disguised and deceiving”, and “harming humans”.]
[I'm probably not the only one who noticed this. Xingbao seems to be very open about his non-human existence. He doesn't seem to care about his uniqueness. Instead, he is used to it and accepts it. That's why he can face it all so calmly.]
[Me too, me too. When I watched Xingbao live before, even if he didn’t appear on camera, just by listening to his slow speech, I felt that he was well taken care of by someone.]
[Because they don’t want to continue to deceive, they will choose to expose themselves and take risks, they will politely apologize and say sorry, they will also feel sorry for how hard we work to earn money, and finally they will be so happy that their eyes will be curved because they have someone to support them… To be honest, I think Xingxing is cuter than most children. Anyway, I really want to raise one, and I’m already waiting for a flight to the Exile Star within a hundred years.]
[No, everyone, don’t let the little robots get you! Use your brains and think carefully. Besides the little robots, is there someone more amazing that you have overlooked? ? ! That’s Qi Nan! Qi Nan, the father of mechas, who will definitely be mentioned in all mechanical textbooks and all mecha introductory classes! ! !]
[Oh, Qinan, so what? Can he mass-produce countless stars and make sure everyone in the universe has a Star brand robot? If not, just hold it in and don’t make a fuss!]
[you……]
[What's wrong with us? We haven't settled accounts with Qinan yet! He's a mechanic. Look at what kind of junk and scrap metal our planet's body is made of? Hasn't he ever thought about giving his child a more beautiful and durable body? Don't tell me he can only pick up trash now. Anyway, I don't believe that a genius mechanic known as the father of mechas would really be a scavenger on a garbage planet full of abandoned mechas and energy metals.]
[What a coincidence, I don’t believe it either (smile).]
[What’s even more surprising is that the authorities probably don’t believe it either (smile)? So hurry up and think about how to explain to us what really happened back then. Don’t think you can easily fool us by using silence or other public opinions to divert attention!]
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Exile Star.
"I don't think I can live for three years." Qi Nan lowered his head and said to the robot cub who frowned when he put down the light computer in his arms: "Instead of me trying to live for three years, why don't you try hard and find a way to escape from this body and hide in Skynet's big data so that no one will find you again?"
Xingxing looked at him in silence.
She stared at him for five full seconds before she said firmly, "I can't, but you can!"
Qi Nan: “…”
Very good. Even someone as slow as me can tell that the little guy is being naughty.
It has nothing to do with the soft and cute little robot that was shown in the live broadcast just now. If you don’t know, you might really think these are two robots.
Qi Nan rubbed the little head in his arms again, it seemed that he was a little addicted, but he did not delve into it. He just said helplessly to the child: "Now the crisis from the Federation has been temporarily resolved, but there are still countless dangers in the dark that may approach us at any time, so... are you sure you want to stop outside the safe zone and not move forward?"
The place where they are now is only about two hours away from the safe zone. Although Qinan deliberately found a remote place, the probability of being disturbed and attacked here has obviously increased several times compared to before.
Qi Nan originally wanted to find a way to hide the stars in a safe zone before he died.
But it seems that he won't die for a while, so he is not very reassured to hide the little robot cub inside.
Qi Nan planned to go in as well.
Unexpectedly, as soon as this idea was spoken out, it was rejected without hesitation by the little robot.
So after Xingxing nodded to confirm that she would not go any further, Qi Nan still asked, "Why?"
"You hate safe zones," Star replied slowly.
Qi Nan was suddenly stunned.
Even the eyeball of the mechanical prosthetic eye stopped moving at this moment.
He looked at the little robot in his arms, who didn't think there was anything wrong with his answer. After a while, he vaguely found his increasingly hoarse and unpleasant voice, "How did you know that?"
“What I saw with my eyes.”
Xingxing hugged the new mechanical doll Bubble and said slowly in a soft and tender childish voice: "Your friend is in the safe zone, but you haven't been in to look for him for many years. Your captain's child goes to school in the safe zone, and you don't want to get to know him."
"Grandpa, you hate the safe zone, so you don't have to go in for me. You are a free human being, and I won't tie you up with a long rope and lead you around."
Xingxing doesn't understand the principle of not doing to others what you don't want others do to you, nor does he think his behavior is sensible and considerate.
It simply feels that if you hate something, you should stay away from it, and if you can't stay away from it, you shouldn't get involved.
As the zombie king, it has never thought of keeping humans in captivity, and as a small robot, it has never thought of tying Qinan completely to itself.
Humans always have many strange and unique ideas, which the stars don’t quite understand, but they don’t care too much either.
It doesn't understand respect, but it won't force anything either.
"We live here." The little robot said seriously again: "Grandpa, don't go into disgusting places. Wait until it becomes less disgusting, then go in."
"...Okay." Qi Nan heard his own answer in a trance and complicated tone.
After determining the location of its new home, Xingxing no longer cared about anything else and began to fiddle with the two tiny seeds in its hands that were reluctant to germinate.
It found two fist-sized pieces of metal debris as containers, filled them with the scorched earth of the Exile Planet filled with pollution and radiation, then turned around and glanced at Qi Nan who was building a simple house, and while he wasn't paying attention, secretly added some spiritual spring water into the containers.
Qiuqiu squatted on Xingxing's shoulder, stopped Xingxing from wasting energy scanning the soil, and took the initiative to become Xingxing's little helper.
"Boy, the radiation concentration is still a bit high. I guess you need to irrigate it with spiritual spring water."
So Xingxing poured some more spiritual spring water into the container.
Qiuqiu: "Hiss, it still doesn't seem to work, let me check..."
One minute later, Qiuqiu returned after learning.
"Baby, something is wrong. I just thought that the vegetation on this exile planet was too sparse. I just checked the vegetation conditions of all the planets in the entire galaxy online and found some minor problems."
The light ball's tone was a little vague, as if he couldn't figure it out. He said with some disbelief: "In their universe, there is not even a single plant planet, and the plant species are pitifully poor! This is unscientific..."
As he spoke, Qiuqiu's tone suddenly changed, and he suddenly said loudly as if he had suddenly realized something: "I know! No wonder the protagonist started out by following the path of food live streaming, but ended up going completely off the track of leveling up as a dragon and killing monsters in the StarCraft in the middle and late stages! It turns out that there are no plants in this universe that can be used as food, and the protagonist can't always cook meat, right? That would be too greasy for him, if not deadly!!"
It looked as excited as a blind student who had discovered a bright spot. The light on its body changed like the marquee at the door of a hair salon. The stars were frightened by its startled voice and dropped their seeds.
The frightened little robot blinked blankly, lowered its head to pick up the two seeds that were also corroded by the contaminated radiation, then carefully poked the excited ball of light and asked softly: "Can I still plant it?"
The little robot Xingxing held the two seeds he had picked up, with a little nervousness and anticipation in his eyes.
"Boy, it's very difficult to grow polluted plant seeds on the planets of the Central Star Capital. If we grow them here... even if we have spiritual spring water, it will probably be a bit difficult."
Qiuqiu didn't want to pour cold water on Xingxing, but that was the fact. Just like Xingxing could extend Qi Nan's life, it couldn't completely clear the chronic radiation in Qi Nan's body.
It’s not because the power of the stars and the spiritual springs is not enough.
Rather, this planet is the source of radiation pollution, and every living thing on this planet cannot avoid the process of having its vitality eroded.
Qiuqiu tried to explain it to Xingxing as detailed and clear as possible.
But when it finished speaking, it found that the child's mood seemed to drop a little bit.
Even the eyes that were originally bright and full of expectation dimmed a lot.
"..." Qiuqiu was a little flustered, flew over and rubbed the kid's cheek, "It's okay, kid, if you want to keep them alive, you can plant them in the space, or soak them in the spiritual spring first..."
Qiuqiu didn't have time to finish his words of comfort.
Because Xingxing shook his head.
Xingxing held two tiny seeds that seemed to have little vitality, but his eyes were looking straight at the ground in front of him where countless garbage was piled.
“I’m not trying to grow live seeds.”
It whispered, "I want to light up this star."
Without waiting for Qiuqiu to speak, Xingxing slowly shook his head, squatted down, stretched out his hand, and gently touched the charred land under his feet, and whispered: "I thought three years was a very long time, but for this star and these seeds, it doesn't seem long at all."
Xingxing asked the Federation for three years of freedom.
The little zombie only lived for two years in the apocalypse.
Three years is a time it has never lived before, and it is a long time spanning its short life.
But what it thought were three very long years were, in fact, too short and too far away for this dark star and the two withered seeds.
Therefore, the star knows that it cannot light up this star abandoned by humans, and it also knows that it cannot grow these two seeds that are about to lose all vitality on this star.
The only thing it can do is to stay with Qinan for three years.
Just like the three years at Polestar in the previous life.
Thinking of this, Xingxing realized that his mission would be declared a failure in just three years.
It hugged Bubble tightly in its arms, feeling a little sorry for Shisheng who no longer knew where he was.
I followed my heart, but my instinctive choices seemed to make everything worse.
Qinan will still die, and he will be captured by humans for research. He will be under human surveillance and observation at all times, and even the mission will be a mess.
And all of this was messed up by himself, and has nothing to do with the protagonist.
The protagonist did nothing, but the fate of the little robot "Polaris" seemed to become even more chaotic.
Thinking of this, even though she was as calm as the stars, she couldn't help but puff up her cheeks in frustration, poked Bubble's cold abdomen with her fingers, and said sullenly: "Bubble, what if the mission fails?"
Bubble hugged the little master's fingers and comforted him in a soft and cute voice: "It's okay. Bubble's mission is to accompany Xingxing to grow up. Failure of the mission means Xingxing will die. In this case, Bubble will die with Xingxing."
Star:"……"
So, if he failed in his mission, not only would Shi Sheng die, but Qi Nan would also die, and even Paopao would die? ?
No wonder Qiuqiu said this is a high-risk world. It turns out that the danger comes not only from the world, but also from oneself.
Having lost my super powers, I seemed to have lost all ability to deal with crises, making everything out of control and dangerous.
Should I unlock the seal of my superpowers? Xingxing was a little confused. He was not sure what would happen to the situation after he gained superpowers. Would it be better or worse?
It doesn't know.
Its instinct also says: Don't unlock the superpowers.
But do I still have to follow my instinct?
Xingxing hugged Bubble and herself in a daze, staring at the charred soil beneath her feet, motionless and in a daze.
For a moment, the atmosphere around the little robot seemed to become even more depressing. It was so small, squatting sullenly at the newly built door. In Qinan's eyes, it was just like a kitten whose fur was wet by the rain, curled up and refused to go home.
Qi Nan: “…”
It's a bit pitiful, yes, but... isn't it also too cute to be a bit unfair?
He even wanted to start a live broadcast right away to share (show off) his own robot cat kittens with his audience.
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