Chapter 115 Chestnut's Choice
Before this, Mao Li thought her loyalty to her master was only because she had once saved his life.
Even after she became pregnant, gave birth, and gradually fell in love with Xiaobai, he never felt the slightest bit of jealousy.
He was even happy for her because she had found a lover who truly cared about her and valued her more than his own life.
Jealousy is not a emotion among the mechanical race.
Reason tells them that instead of being jealous of others, they should work harder to become more beautiful, stronger, and more charming, so that they can attract people they like and admire.
Similarly, they did not experience the emotions of love turning into hate or love turning into jealousy.
Reason tells them that instead of hating and being jealous because they can't get the favor of a certain person of the opposite sex, they should give her up and find a more suitable partner.
The universe is so vast, there's bound to be someone who's right for you.
Moreover, they are mechanical people, and they are not suitable for intermarriage with other races. Their physical structure is completely different from that of humans, and few humans can accept this.
He had always thought that he would most likely form a family with a woman from his tribe in the future.
They wait for an elder in the clan to pass away peacefully, apply for a quota to have offspring, and then carefully raise and teach their descendants, continuing the path of their ancestors, slowly growing old together.
But when he felt heartbroken because of the impending separation from his master, he finally understood this intense human emotion.
It has nothing to do with loyalty, and it is completely different from friendship and family affection.
The thought of never seeing her again, never hearing a word from her, and that she might completely disappear from his life filled him with a fear far greater than the self-destruction of the chip in his brain.
On his way here, he hid in his room and searched through the database, but he couldn't find a way to keep her.
He knew he was destined to watch her go.
He couldn't keep her, and this pain couldn't be erased by reason and calmness.
All he could do was build her a house she loved with his own hands and wait silently for her to come back one day and stay for even just a month or two, or even just three or five days.
He hadn't understood his own feelings before, so he could calmly watch her fall in love with someone else.
But every day after that, whenever he saw her being intimate with someone else, he could only feel heartache while secretly watching her every smile and frown.
This pain was certainly unbearable, but he had no regrets because he had at least seen his own heart clearly.
Even though he and she were not of the same race, he at least experienced a kind of pure emotion that only her race possessed, a emotion that transcended reason, beauty, wealth, and everything else...
Suddenly, a red light began to flash continuously between the feather fan's eyebrows, instantly snapping Mao Li out of his boundless sorrow.
"Master, Silverwing has lost contact!" Maw Chestnut said anxiously.
The mecha master Mu Hong once said that because Achen was still a minor, as his guardians, Yu Shan and Xiao Bai had set up travel sharing in their communicators so that they could track the child's location at any time.
Once Silverwing loses signal, the parents' communicator will automatically issue an alert, reminding the guardians that the child has lost contact.
Mao Li was also present at the time, so he clearly recorded the method of warning and made an accurate judgment at a glance.
Reminded by him, Yu Shan also came to her senses and hurriedly retrieved the last location where the mecha appeared.
On the other side, Xiao Bai, who was watching Matt use his mental network to probe the entire island and mark the coordinates of abnormal energy fluctuations, reacted the moment the red light between his eyebrows flashed.
"Mat, quickly locate Achen's coordinates!" he shouted urgently.
Before setting off, Matt set up a mental marker for everyone to prevent them from getting separated in case of an accident during the journey.
Ah Chen's mental coordinates were marked when he was a child, and he has reinforced this mark more than once over the years as Matt's superpowers have upgraded.
"At a distance of 36° southeast and 154.33 kilometers in a straight line, there is a valley with jagged rocks and almost no vegetation."
Strange, when I used my mental network to explore the entire island before, I didn't seem to find this valley at all, as if it existed in a blind spot of my mental network.
"This has never happened before, there must be something strange about it!" Matt said with a grave expression.
At the same time, Omar, who was exploring the surrounding area with Lele and Xiaobao, also discovered something unusual.
As an A+ level psychic, Omar naturally left a mental mark on his master. Once his master left the range that his mental power could perceive, the mark could no longer be sensed.
However, this island is only 10,000 square kilometers, and the straight-line distance between the star lord and him could not possibly exceed 300 kilometers, while his perception range is at least 800 kilometers. Logically speaking, it is impossible for him not to be able to perceive it.
In this case, the only explanation is that the Star Lord is no longer in this space.
Everyone quickly gathered together, and Mao Li piloted the warship, swiftly reaching the place where they had lost contact.
Traces of the mech's passage remained in the surrounding area: broken tree branches on high ground, fallen grass on the ground, and large footprints left by the mech.
The feather fan formed hand seals and used the bloodline tracking technique, but to no avail.
"There must be something here that can connect to other spaces, or some kind of force that dragged the mecha directly into another space."
Feather Fan's face darkened as she finally reached this conclusion, causing her heart to clench with anxiety.
“Since it’s so dangerous here, my brother and I should leave immediately and go somewhere safer,” Rachel said.
She was a smart and rational girl. She felt that she and her brother were not good at fighting, and leaving was the best choice.
“You’re right. You can’t help anyway if you stay. You might as well retreat to a safe place first,” Yu Shan nodded.
Yu Shan didn't have much affection for Mao Li's younger sister, who still had a princess complex even though their clan had been wiped out.
However, she was well-behaved and sensible most of the time, so Yu Shan didn't mind her occasional discordant remarks.
"Rachel, let Panda accompany you back to where you were before." Chestnut took out a small flying vehicle, set the route, and handed it to her.
"What? You want me to sail through this dangerous place with a newborn mechanical race who has no fighting ability? If Father and Mother find out how you treat their only daughter after they wake up, they will never forgive you!" Rachel said angrily.
"Then I won't forgive you! Don't forget, we're twins. You're already 436 years old. I have no obligation to protect you like an infant all the time," Mao Li said coldly.
In recent days, he has gradually come to understand his younger sister. In the more than three hundred years since he lost contact with her, perhaps due to the pampering of her family, she has developed a selfish and indifferent personality that he is unfamiliar with.
For example, right now, Ah Chen and the others have gone missing. Everyone is anxious and worried, but she doesn't care about their lives at all; she only cares about her own safety.
"Mao Li, let her go if she wants to. I will not leave until I find A Chen!" Panda also refused without hesitation.
Even if he doesn't have much fighting ability, at least he has a smart brain, and maybe he can be of some help.
After seven years of companionship, he had long regarded Achen's family as his own. As the only robot on Green Algae Star to have developed consciousness, he did not have any so-called group consciousness; he only wanted to follow his master, Feather Fan.
"Hmph! I'll go alone if you want, but give me that device so I can leave with the memories of my father, mother, and people!" Rachel said bitterly.
"Alright! They were with you anyway." Without hesitation, Mao Li took the device out of his space and handed it over to her along with all the raw materials he had purchased to make mechanical bodies.
With tears streaming down her face, Rachel put away the instrument, turned around and started the small flying machine. As she left, she shouted, "From now on, I am the Queen of the Machine Race!"
“Very well, I am willing to relinquish the throne to you.” Mao Li waved goodbye to her.
At that moment, he made up his mind. Rather than living with a group of people who had only reason and intelligence but no human emotions, he would rather follow his master. Even if he died for her one day, at least he would be doing what he wanted.
That device only contains the memories of the tribespeople. Their original bodies are truly dead. Even if those memories are transferred into new bodies, they will just be a group of machines with memories.
Even if they are resurrected, are they really his father, mother, and clansmen?
If he hadn't left the Machine Planet and hadn't spent so much time with his master, perhaps he would now be like Rachel, bound by the rules and regulations of the Machine Race, gradually developing a personality that prioritizes rationality.
Everyone has the right to pursue their own ideals, and he decided to break free from his constraints and forge his own path without hesitation.
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