Chapter 256 Ai Lei is worried about you
Chapter 256 Ai Lei is worried about you
In Xu Xi's room.
There is an hourglass.
The glass container is symmetrical up and down, connected by a thin neck in the middle and fixed with an external wooden frame.
The falling sand and gravel indicate the slowness of time.
Carrying people's past, it turns into the eternity of the past.
Amid the gentle sliding sound, Xu Xi opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was the familiar silver-blue eyes.
Ai Lei sat on the edge of the bed, quietly waiting for Xu Xi to wake up, holding a cup of warm golden tonic soup in her hand.
"Master, please drink the soup."
As Xu Xi woke up.
The silver-blue eyes lit up slightly.
Xu Xi wanted to drink the soup from the bowl himself, but was forcefully refused by the robot servant. She pushed Xu Xi back to his original position and fed him mouthful by mouthful.
"Well... thank you for your help, Elle."
Meeting the girl's eyes, Xu Xi couldn't say no.
So.
With the help of Ailei, this bowl of golden tonic soup was fed into Xu Xi's mouth in a gentle and delicate manner.
The soup was mild and not hot.
After drinking it, there is a slight warmth.
This is useless. Perhaps the body full of wounds and the increasingly indifferent mind cannot be solved by a bowl of soup.
But Xu Xi still smiled, controlling his facial muscles and making the corners of his mouth rise stiffly.
"It's very effective, Elly."
"Thanks to your tonic soup, I am feeling pretty good now."
There are still many key points missing in the experiment of the curvature engine. Xu Xi is eager to return to the laboratory and continue to resonate with the machine soul to gain inspiration.
However, he was stopped by Ailei.
"Owner……"
"I'm... worried about you..."
The sound echoed in the air, indescribably hollow and trembling.
When Xu Xi looked back, this was the scene he saw.
The cold robot girl, dressed in a black and white maid outfit, with her hair hanging from her ears, covered her chest with one hand and held Xu Xi with the other.
That picture is broken.
Like a smooth mirror, it was cracked by the hammer called "emotion".
Crackling.
It kept falling to the ground.
Every time a lens breaks, the hand holding Xu Xi will become stronger.
"Please don't... continue..."
Elly's palms are very warm, powered by the furnace, which keeps the mechanical body at a constant temperature around the clock.
She clumsily grasped Xu Xi, trying to pass the warmth on.
Such a posture makes people feel pity and love.
"..."
Xu Xi was silent for a while.
"I'm sorry to have worried you, Elle."
It was no longer a one-sided grip. Xu Xi also held that hand, carefully and gently, holding Ai Lei, who was afraid and confused about the future.
"Actually, you don't have to worry about me."
"I'm fine. I'll be fine no matter what. Trust me, okay?"
The man's voice was very soft, as soft as a candle in the wind.
But inexplicably.
The flickering candlelight turns into a bright lamp in the darkness, illuminating the timid and fearful machine soul and guiding it to a bright future.
Inside the room, the rustling sound of the hourglass was still flowing.
Little by little, drop by drop.
The last of the stock is about to be exhausted at a speed visible to the naked eye.
…
[Simulation of the 500th year, you are 519 years old, and Ailei has been with you for 497 years]
[Your time is squeezed to the limit]
[Machine soul, mechanical force, then machine soul, then mechanical force]
[You push yourself 24 hours a day to comprehend the inspiration provided by the machine spirits, and use mechanical force to shape the inscriptions, and then let Ailei calculate the deeper theory.]
[Ailei is concerned about your health and wants to share your stress as much as possible]
[Aile begins to frequently use her special abilities]
[Aile begins observing the universe]
[Ailei starts observing particles]
[Aile is out of power, she falls into your arms to recharge]
["Master's energy is being replenished. Master is prohibited from making any movements."]
[She held you tightly, preventing you from conducting the experiment. You suspected that the servitor was forcing you to rest in this way, but you had no evidence.]
…
[Simulation of the 564th year, you are 583 years old, and Ailei has been with you for 561 years]
You experienced the eighth death
[This time, with the advancement of gravitational technology, Ailei captured the gravitational waves of the neutron battle star at a faster speed]
[The robot attempts to challenge the "God"]
[Before the starship cluster was destroyed, she controlled all her firepower and pre-aimed a volley of fire]
[The neutron star was unharmed. It did not use any cutting-edge technology. It destroyed everything quietly with its own mass and density.]
[After you revive, Elle comes to you in the spare unit]
[This time, Ailei no longer crawls around to check your body, but instead crashes into your arms, saying that she wants to be quiet.]
…
[Simulation of the 584th year, you are 603 years old, and Ailei has been with you for 581 years]
[With the help of Ailei and her special perspective, you finally uncovered the mystery of space and used gravity technology as a lever to pry open the invisible space and time]
[The prototype of the curvature engine is revealed]
[Although it is a prototype, there is no doubt that you have taken the first real step]
[You began to delve into the research of antimatter engines and element decay engines]
[Faster-than-light travel requires extremely high energy from the starship, which is far beyond the capability of fusion power to provide. Therefore, you have been studying antimatter and element decay.]
[I want to use these two energies to drive the operation of the curvature engine]
[Simulation of the 588th year, you research technology, eat Elly's soft rice, the head of the explosive insect tribe]
[Simulation of the 600th year, you research technology, eat Elly's soft rice, and continue to be the head of the explosive insect tribe]
[There are too many Zergs, and you are helpless]
…
Time goes by year after year.
In the early days, perhaps there was still some humanity and some sentimental feelings.
Now, with the deep erosion of the machine soul, Xu Xi is no longer so concerned about the changes in time.
Only the neutron battle star's attack time is left.
He will pay special attention to you.
The ninth death was about to come, but before that, in the 616th year of the simulation, Xu's fleet stopped advancing.
It's not a glitch, it's not an error.
But it can no longer move forward.
The endless fleet of omnic ships, so numerous that their brilliance was enough to obscure the stars.
Unknowingly, even the vast graveyard of civilization was passed to the end by the fleet, allowing Xu Xi to see the existence of the "wall".
"Am I going too fast?"
"No, it should be the location of the Federation planet, which is already on the edge of the cage."
"It was by sheer chance that I reached the end early."
Xu Xi was standing in the starship's main control room.
The probe that set out first brought him images from farther away: an absolute void, a hollow "wall" that divided the universe and buried hope.
Although they seem to be in the same universe, the starry sky inside and outside the wall is completely separated.
"Space blockade?"
"It's just as hopeless as I expected... In the face of this kind of isolation, conventional navigation methods have lost their meaning."
"Add to that the neutron battle star guarding the gate, what kind of hell is this?"