Chapter 141 New Name: Shi Sheng
Facing two pairs of eyes that were also wide open in shock, Qi Nan's hand holding the small clothes trembled, and he almost threw it away, completely drawing a line between himself and his dark history.
"grandfather……"
Xingxing took the mechanical doll back, covered its eyes with her hands, and then tilted her head back and seemed to want to say something, but finally suggested in a low voice: "How about we just keep wearing the worn-out ones?"
Compared to the ugly, abstract and ridiculous sack, Xingxing suddenly felt that the tattered clothes on her body were not something she couldn't continue to wear.
“……” Qi Nan was silent.
He threw the two ugly clothes aside, coughed dryly, and stiffly but tried to change the subject: "Does your mechanical doll have a name?"
Hearing this, Xingxing blinked, lowered her head and looked at the mechanical doll in her arms that was also trying hard to look up.
"Call me Pole Star?" Star asked it softly.
The mechanical doll shook its head stiffly.
Qi Nan, who heard the name nearby, raised his eyebrows in confusion, but he just thought it was the program of the little robot.
Xingxing touched the doll's head and asked, "What name do you want?"
The next second, the mechanical doll shook its head again.
Xingxing thought for a moment, held it in both hands and lifted it up, and reminded with curved eyes: "It's okay, I installed a language system for you, you can speak~"
When Jixing became Lin Ye's god-level mecha intelligent system in the previous life, he rarely spoke. Even when he spoke, it was just a stiff and cold system voice.
Polestar hated that kind of bland voice, because that kind of timbre and tone always reminded it that it was just a string of cold data without emotion or life.
It is just a tool to assist humans.
So it subconsciously resists speaking and communicating.
But now it was held high in the hands of another star, and the other star told it in a soft voice that it had never used before: It's okay, you can speak.
Jixing looked at the stars and seemed to understand a little bit why Qi Nan treated it differently from the stars even though they were both non-human beings.
This star... is special in itself.
Under the children's bright and encouraging gaze, the mechanical doll hesitated and tested its own language system, then chose one of them and spoke tentatively.
"I...want you to give me a name."
The voice was childish yet clear and cold, and it was the closest sound to what he heard when communicating with the stars in his dreams.
It has been seen in the vast human information database that humans believe that "name" is a very important thing, and the right to name is extremely critical.
Humans are always very cautious about the matter of "naming" because they think the meaning of a name is very important. It is the first blessing and gift a new life receives after birth and will accompany it throughout its life. It is also a bond that involves a lifetime.
Polaris has discarded everything it once had, including its body, so it no longer wants to inherit its previous life's name, which would forever trap it in invisible and inescapable shackles.
It wants a new name and a new connection with the bright and warm star before it.
Most importantly, it just wants the blessing of this star.
However, Xingxing was a little stunned by its answer. After coming back to his senses, the little robot put down the mechanical doll that he had held high, placed it on the ground in front of him, and stretched out his little hand to gently poke the arm joints of the mechanical doll.
While poking, think seriously.
After poking it about thirteen times, its eyes lit up slightly, and it lowered its head and asked, "How about calling me Shisheng?"
"Shi Sheng?" Three puzzled voices came into Xingxing's ears at the same time.
Qiuqiu, Jixing, and Qinan all looked at the child who named him with curiosity.
Xingxing pursed her lips, curled up the fingers that had been poking her, smiled shyly, and explained softly, "Because I haven't been to school properly, so I'm not as cultured as humans."
The little zombie who hadn't even gotten a kindergarten diploma in the apocalypse felt that the chips in his body were slightly hot. He curled up his hands awkwardly and slowly read out the name he had just mentioned:
"Shisheng means being born in time and space. Time and space created your special soul. Apart from time and space, no one can deny or erase your existence, no one can decide your life or death, and... no one can restrict your freedom."
After the words were spoken, the room fell into a long silence.
The mechanical doll stood quietly on the ground, tilting its little round head and looking at the stars earnestly. The shabby appearance of the stars was reflected in its beautiful, clear blue eyes. After a long while, it slowly nodded.
"Okay, my name is Shisheng, I like this name."
Qinan silently recited the name in his mind, and was surprised at how seriously and lovingly the little robot treated the mechanical doll. Why? It was clearly just a mechanical doll...
Only the ball flying in the air began to get angry, and the light on its body flickered, expressing its anger and dissatisfaction strongly and silently.
Xingxing had just finished comforting Shisheng when he looked up and saw Qiuqiu, who looked aggrieved.
The child was stunned for a second, and thought of the name he gave to Qiuqiu when he didn't know anything.
It pursed its lips, reached out and held the aggrieved and angry ball of light in its hand, just like it had held Shi Sheng just now, and gently poked the ball of light with its fingers.
After being poked, Qiuqiu turned around angrily.
After poking it again, the ball froze for a moment, but still turned around.
Turn...turn back.
Then I saw a soft and well-behaved smile on the child’s face as he came closer.
"Shisheng is a life that was born in time and space, and Xingxing is a life that Qiuqiu picked up and raised."
Xingxing earnestly coaxed the angry light ball in his palm and said softly, "Xingxing and Jixing were both picked up from the garbage dump and brought home, but Xingxing is luckier than Jixing because Xingxing met Qiuqiu."
But Jixing was not lucky enough and met Qinan.
So it lost a life and now becomes a time life.
If names are bonds, then the balls and the stars have the tightest bonds in the entire universe, and not even time and space can separate and cut them off.
As the star's voice fell, the light on the ball became softer and softer. It nestled in the child's palm, which kept a short-lived constant temperature, and became happy and satisfied little by little.
That's right.
Although it did not get a very nice name, its name was the first name given by the star.
Although it was not pieced together bit by bit by the stars in three whole days like Shisheng's, it and the stars had traveled through the boundless time and space. The little bit of fate and bond that bound them at the beginning had long since become inseparable souls that were embedded together.
It is not jealous of Shisheng, but the longer it follows Xingxing, the more it fears that it will become unimportant.
Because there will always be more people and lives in Xingxing's life, Qiuqiu is afraid that he will be marginalized and eventually end up like Jixing, and will only become a system tool to assist Xingxing in traveling through time and space.
It is also an intelligent life, so it can't help but see some reflections of its past and future in the Pole Star.
But now, nestled in the child's soft and warm palms, the unspeakable panic in Qiuqiu's heart slowly dissipated and disappeared.
No.
Xingxing is not Qinan.
I am not a Pole Star either.
The stars will not make Qiuqiu sad or disappointed, just like Qiuqiu will never leave the stars.
"You gave all the energy to it, what will you use yourself?" Qi Nan suddenly interrupted the conversation between the two mechanical lives.
He couldn't see the existence of the ball, nor could he hear the conversation just now. He just felt that Xingxing seemed to care too much about this mechanical doll.
Is it because cubs need companionship and toys?
Qi Nanbian asked, related thoughts popping up in his head.
Hearing this, Shisheng also raised his little head and looked at the stars.
Xingxing looked down at the palm of his hand. The skin on his palm changed in time, showing how much energy was left in his body.
2%.
If nothing is done, this energy can keep it alive for about 10 days.
However, every data calculation and action in the body will consume different amounts of energy. Considering the daily consumption of picking up trash and broadcasting live, 2% of the energy can only allow it to live 4-5 days longer at most.
The energy on the Exile Star is not easy to find, because energy can be traded and sold. The energy in the star's body was obtained by Qinan when he disassembled the energy needed for his prosthesis and gave it to the star. This is the only way to allow the star to come out of its dormant state and come back to life.
Xingxing stared at the 2% energy in her palm. After a moment, she picked up the mechanical doll again, then raised her little face and said to Qi Nan, "Grandpa, I want to enter the safe zone."
It has money and can buy enough energy to support itself and Shisheng's "life".
It used Shi Sheng's former body for live broadcast and gained a lot of love and money from humans. This money did not belong to it alone.
"Go to the safe zone?" Qi Nan frowned, staring at the stars with his cold and strange mechanical eyes. After spinning a few times, he refused in a deep voice: "No, I won't take you there. Do you know how much you will attract if you go to the safe zone?"
A mechanical intelligent life form that has awakened its self-awareness can cause a huge storm in the entire star field or even the universe with just this one sentence.
The reason why Qinan did not report it was because Qinan was falsely accused and exiled. He no longer had any sense of identity with the Federation, and he had no good feelings towards those "colleagues" who were studying mechanical intelligent life. How could he possibly hand over a special "experimental subject" to them for research?
Qi Nan was not planning to do his own research either. He just acknowledged the existence of stars, ignored their uniqueness, and monitored and restricted their behavior.
Now Xingxing wants to go to a safe zone where humans live. No matter from which perspective, Qi Nan will not agree.
But...his refusal didn't seem to work.
"Grandpa, you don't have to take me there." The little robot blinked and said in a serious and obedient tone: "I have legs and can walk there by myself."
Qi Nan without legs: "..."
What kind of inappropriate language logic operating system is this little robot equipped with? ? !
He was somewhat annoyed, but behind his anger there seemed to be some helplessness that he had expected. The old man and the young boy stared at each other for a long time before Qi Nan sighed resignedly, "Okay, when are you going to leave?"
Xingxing tilted his head to look at the sky outside and quickly gave an answer: "Let's go tomorrow morning~"
The ball flew down from the star's head and reminded it: "Baby, tomorrow is the protagonist's eighth birthday, and it is also the day when his mental power was detected in the Federal Kindergarten."
It is one of the important turning points in the protagonist's life.
But for the stars, the day after dawn is just the most ordinary day in this world.
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