Chapter 149 You are an obedient old man~
The sky was getting darker and darker. Although there was no sun or moon here, according to the cosmic time, it was time to go to bed. However, Xingxing still grabbed the corner of Qi Nan's clothes and stopped him from continuing to build the house.
"Grandpa, go to sleep." The child's persuasion was particularly concise and to the point.
Qi Nan glanced at the half-built makeshift hut and sighed silently.
This should have been the easiest thing to do, but he was disabled and had little energy left to control the mechanical metal. In addition, he was weak after overdrawing his vitality for a long time, so the complete wind, rain and low-level natural disaster-proof hut that a normal young person could easily build in an hour was only half completed now.
He wanted to continue, but there was a little robot and a little mechanical doll in front of him, both of them stood in front of him with their little hands outstretched, as if they would not give up until he rested.
For some reason, Qi Nan felt helpless but also felt a strange sense of being moved.
In the past, no one ever cared whether he was tired or needed a rest.
Qinan took a rest.
Huddled in a half-built hut, surrounded by warning traps.
The stars are not asleep.
Robots don't need sleep.
It climbed up the garbage mountain next to it.
Sitting on the highest top, holding Qiuqiu and Bubbles, looking up at the dark sky.
Occasionally there are stars twinkling in the sky, but they are all too far away.
This exiled star must be very far away from the central galaxy, just like the most remote mountain village from the capital in the human world.
So, it is in the dark universe, guarding its own darkness without even a companion.
A ball of light lit up, shining in the arms of the stars.
The ball rubbed against the child's soft fingers, providing silent comfort and companionship.
Xingxing hugged her knees with her hands, staring at the endless darkness in a daze.
It actually didn't think about anything, it just quietly emptied itself.
And so we waited until dawn.
The star stood up from the top of the mountain, and the robot's body did not make it feel stiff and uncomfortable due to the long-term unchanged posture.
The child stepped on the unknown debris under his feet, listened to the increasingly agitated roar of the strange beast, and stretched slowly like a human.
"Good morning everyone~"
The camera was focused on the child's delicate yet somewhat old-fashioned face. It blinked gently, pursed its lips, smiled obediently and greeted everyone who entered the live broadcast room.
At this moment after dawn, it began to fulfill the transaction it made yesterday.
"Today's live broadcast is about watching grandpa build a house." Xingxing said softly, then turned the camera to the old human who was still working hard to build a house.
The audience gave it a try.
Barrage can be sent normally.
But the reward channel has indeed been closed.
This also means that what the little robot said yesterday was true, and it did not deliberately act pitifully to market itself and earn more money and sympathy.
Audiences thought it would be boring to watch an old man building a house.
But it turns out that this live broadcast room really seems to have some magic.
Because just by watching the old man build the house, you can hear a lot of wonderful conversations and learn a lot of new and useful skills.
Less than ten minutes into the show, the audience heard the following conversation between an old man and a child:
"Xingxing, I'll lift you up and you can climb up and set it up over there, okay?" This was Qinan, who did not shy away from his physical disability and naturally sought help from the little robot.
"Grandpa, you built the house too high." This was Xingxing's soft comment.
Qi Nan didn't realize the hidden meaning in the child's words. He just thought it was afraid of heights, so he comforted it: "It's okay, this height is not very high. Even if you lose your balance and fall down, I can easily catch you and won't let you fall and hurt yourself."
In front of the camera, the little robot was obviously silent for a moment.
After a short second of hesitation, the little robot chose to speak in a very unemotional way: "...No, I mean, Grandpa, we are all short, so we don't need to build a high house. It's a bit wasteful."
Qi Nan: “…”
It is no exaggeration to say that when the audience saw Qi Nan's face change, no matter what purpose they had in entering the live broadcast room, they all laughed like crazy.
It is said that children tend to hit the nail on the head when they speak. Xingxing's needle didn't just hit the nail on the head, it pierced Qi Nan's heart, right?
This joy reached another climax after the audience discovered that Qi Nan had actually secretly lowered the height of the house.
While building the house, the audience was forced to learn a lot of practical knowledge.
[…If I’m not mistaken, the piece of metal in Qi Nan’s hand was once a discarded product that was once considered useless, right? Why is it that after being integrated with Xingyuan-302 ore, its hardness can be increased by nearly a hundred times? This is unscientific!!!]
[Wait!! Isn't that the hide of the Lolomon? Why can it be added as a defensive building material? Can it really resist attacks from alien beasts and natural disasters? !]
[Ahhhh help! I'm a student studying materials science. The piece of scrap metal he just casually stuffed in is my graduation thesis, but my thesis is to prove that it can't be used directly as a building material, but can only be melted into auxiliary materials ahh ...
[In front of me, I can’t suppress the corners of my mouth, but I will try my best to mourn for you in silence.]
[Hahahahaha, silence +1.]
[……]
It was not until noon that the time of Exile Star gradually approached, and this simple but complete hut was finally built by Qinan and Xingxing with great effort.
The live broadcast room was not closed and Xingxing did not announce the content of the next live broadcast.
Netizens who are studious or curious began to take the initiative to summarize and report today's "learning progress" on the barrage.
They summarized the little-known facts or useful information they had learned from the live broadcast room that day, and were surprised to find that just by building a relatively simple hut, Qi Nan had taught them a lot of knowledge in action.
Moreover, a lot of knowledge cannot be found on Starnet at all, and even their instructors don’t know it.
Any one of them can be patented and the federal government can be applied for cultural exclusive rights protection.
As a genius mechanic who was able to create the god-level mecha "Beidou" two hundred years ago, there is no way that Qi Nan didn't know this.
But he did it without hesitation, without any selfishness or arrogance, like a silent preacher. No matter whether the audience can discover it or not, no matter whether the audience will care and learn the knowledge, he just quietly does what he wants to do.
It was precisely this that aroused the audience's suspicion and rebelliousness towards the Federation.
Because they couldn't imagine how many of Qi Nan's brilliant ideas had been drowned on this exiled planet in the decades since his death was announced, and how much of the brilliant talents of the father of machinery had been wasted.
If he had not "died", if he had not lived in anonymity on the Exile Planet for so many years, if he was still the respected father of machinery, if all his energy and time were used to study mechanical manufacturing, then wouldn't this universe have already undergone one mechanical revolution after another?
Have there already been awakened intelligent mechanical life forms like Stars?
Have they already developed advanced mechas that are more suitable for the general public, or even to the extent of being able to adapt to god-level mechas?
Didn't they already have the opportunity to retake those abandoned planets and drive out those locust-like swarms of alien beasts?
Is it true that... the annual death rate of soldiers on the borders of various star regions on the battlefield can be reduced to an unimaginable level?
Just thinking about the possible changes that Qi Nan's skills might bring, the audience's eyes were red without them realizing it.
It is not pity, not sympathy, but anger, hatred, sorrow and hatred for something that has been lost without ever being obtained.
Maybe no one cares about Qinan’s life or death, but everyone cares about their own gains and losses.
They haven't even gotten it yet, but they are told that they have missed it. What kind of extreme and complex emotions will this pain breed?
These overwhelming emotions always need a channel to digest and vent, and someone needs to bear them.
Qi Nan did nothing wrong, and he still taught them knowledge despite the past grudges.
Xingxing did nothing wrong. Xingxing is just a newly born little robot. It cannot change what happened decades ago.
Then... only the person who caused all this will be held responsible.
Whether it is anger or questioning, hatred or suspicion, federal officials must bear the emotions of hundreds of billions of people in the entire universe, and must do everything they can to resolve them.
The federation needs to give a reasonable explanation.
However, the chaos caused by himself was not within Qinan's concern.
Compared to what is happening in the distant universe, Qi Nan cares more about the bowl of familiar black, bitter paste in front of him.
It was as if he had returned to his childhood overnight, and he used every excuse and trick to avoid taking the medicine.
Even with a growling stomach, he could say that he was not hungry at all without blushing or getting nervous.
Unfortunately, what he couldn't escape when he was a child, he couldn't escape when he was old.
While he was trying to find a way to shirk his responsibility, the little robot Xingxing just held the pot of medicine paste and watched him perform quietly. When he finished, he handed the pot to him, his expression and tone full of seriousness.
"Grandpa, drink it quickly~"
Xingxing tiptoed over with the small pot in hand.
Qi Nan leaned back in time to avoid it, already putting on a mask of pain.
In fact, compared to the bitter taste that can penetrate the soul, he would rather face death earlier.
But Xingxing had sealed his special powers and could not hear his cries of pain. He just kept holding the medicine paste and urging him to drink it quickly.
Qi Nan: “…”
He pinched his nose, choked his throat, closed his eyes, and poured the medicine down his throat with a look of pain on his face.
The next second, the subconscious feeling of nausea urged him to bend over and start dry heaving.
"If you spit it out, there'll be a second pot~" I heard the child's soft and slow "threat".
Qi Nan choked and covered his mouth, using his strong self-control to force the medicine down his throat.
"Grandpa is awesome, you are such an obedient old man~!" The children's satisfied praise came at the right time.
By the way, he also asked Bubble to sing for him as a reward.
Qi Nan: “…”
He had exhausted all his life's speechlessness today.
Qi Nan's "performance" throughout the whole process successfully aroused the audience's strong curiosity.
Because Xingxing was hiding outside the camera the whole time while making the porridge, they didn't know what Xingxing put in it, but Qinan's reaction... the audience even felt it necessary to try it themselves.
As for food, if it tastes bad, they are not interested in it. If it tastes particularly bad, they will sneer at it. But if it tastes so bad that it is outrageous to both humans and gods, it will be difficult for people to resist the temptation to try it.
In other words, Interstellar Express bypassed these exiled stars, otherwise they would have let Qinan Province take a bite out for the audience to draw!
As for Qinan himself, he could keenly sense the changes in his body within ten minutes after drinking the medicine paste.
The most obvious point... was that he sensed the extremely weak mental power in his brain.
The moment he sensed it, Qi Nan froze in his wheelchair and didn't move for a long time.
Mental strength… He hadn’t felt it in nearly forty years.
After experiencing those tortures, his mental strength was completely exhausted and stripped away by special methods, and he became a complete useless person.
For the genius mechanic who once created a god-level mecha, this also means that he will never be able to use his mental power to assist himself in mechanical repairs and calibrations again in his life.
He can still manufacture mechas, but he can no longer manufacture mechas of A level or above.
He can still repair the mecha, but he can only repair the external torso of the mecha. He is no longer qualified to touch any problems inside that are related to the mental connection.
Those people completely deprived him of his dignity and the meaning of life.
They dumped him on this remote and dangerous exile planet like a dead dog. They thought that he would never be able to make a comeback and would only die silently on this exile planet full of garbage.
Just like a rat dying in a stinky ditch, it won't attract any attention from others.
Qi Nan had already accepted his fate.
He also felt that he would die quietly on this planet just as those people had expected.
He didn't want to live. If it weren't for taking care of his companions who were implicated by him, he would have ended his worthless life long ago.
But... he felt the presence of spiritual power.
Even if it is very weak, just like a tiny green sprout quietly poking out from a seed.
But he did sense that this was not an illusion, nor was it some illusory dream.
Qi Nan turned his back to the camera and looked at the stars with complicated eyes. He could never have imagined that the bowl of bitter medicinal paste that looked extremely dark could have such a magical effect.
He only drank it twice. The first time, it effectively eliminated the chronic illness and radiation erosion in his body. The second time, it directly allowed him to sense the spiritual power that had been dormant for decades.
Qi Nan suddenly felt that the medicinal paste created by Xingxing, the first little robot to awaken, might be more valuable for research and more likely to drive people crazy than the paste created by Xingxing.
Although his health was getting better, Qi Nan's mood became heavier.
Sometimes, the audience found that Qinan would suddenly stare at the stars in a daze at very rare times.
Sometimes, Qi Nan would frown and sigh for no apparent reason, as if he had encountered something particularly terrible and difficult.
While the audience was absorbing Professor Qinan's knowledge like a sponge, they were also wildly curious about what Xingxing had done to make Qinan always have such strange expressions.
More than a month passed by unknowingly.
During the live broadcast, Xingxing and Qinan encountered almost no danger, but after turning off the live broadcast every night, their lives were like being suddenly thrown into a battle royale dimension, with countless assassinations, countless transactions, countless threats, inducements and forced robberies.
This exile planet has long been surrounded by garrisons, but it was the first time that Qi Nan discovered that on this barren planet full of garbage, there are actually many forces that are connected to the outside world.
They are a mixed bag, but they all have the same goal.
They all want to take away the stars and make themselves work for them.
Qi Nan refused them all.
If they cannot be refused, they will be suppressed by force.
He couldn't beat everyone, but Xingxing was more ruthless than him. Xingxing never showed mercy and always aimed his weapons at the "fatal points" where chips and energy were loaded.
"If I kill myself, you will get nothing." This is the sentence Xingxing said most often in this month while protecting Qi Nan.
But sometimes, a partial deal is done.
Qi Nan would agree to "teach" them, train some mechanics for them, and help check and repair some advanced mechas.
Qinan doesn't have the ability to repair things, but with his eyesight and experience, he can always spot the problem at a glance and point out the most convenient and effective repair method.
With this move alone, Qinan achieved a kind of magical harmonious coexistence with certain forces in the safe zone on this planet.
They will offer him a lot.
Such as the best purification and anti-radiation equipment on the planet.
For example, some toys and educational books needed to raise children.
For example, Xingxing has a small piece of soil and nutrient solution with extremely low pollution values, as well as a handful of seeds with more vitality.
Even Bubbles wore little new clothes.
A month later, Xingxing was lying on a cushioned stool, reading a children's picture book.
Qi Nan sat in a wheelchair, holding a long metal stick in his hand. He pushed his newly replaced glasses, and his mechanical prosthetic eyes moved. He raised his hand and tapped on the knowledge points he had listed on another light screen, carefully explaining the principles to the studious audience in the live broadcast room.
Qiuqiu squatted on Bubble's head, and the two little ones quietly accompanied Xingxing like assembled little snowmen.
Everything was quiet and peaceful, as if they were no longer on the dangerous exile planet, but were living in seclusion, leading the life they wanted.
But this peace was finally broken one month later.
Xingxing heard the familiar and childish voice before Qinan.
"...I haven't been here before. I don't know if I can find the right ingredients. If I can't find the kind of meat I want, then I can only use the leftover meat from yesterday to make jerky today."
"Huh? Why is there a hut here? It seems we accidentally broke into the territory of other scavengers..."
As Lin Ye's voice got closer, Xingxing closed the picture book and turned her head to look towards the door with Qinan.
As I said before, this cabin is very simple.
It is so simple that you can see each other's facial features clearly inside and outside.
"Grandpa Qi?!" The moment Lin Ye saw Qi Nan clearly, his eyes widened in surprise.
So Xingxing tilted her head and looked outside at Qi Nan.
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