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    Airey shattered.

    The new body that was barely assembled from the mass of scrapped remains.

    Just walk a few steps.

    It just shattered all over the place.

    The ground is cluttered with many mechanical parts spinning, the sound is harsh and shrill, and some, directly thrown far away from the impact on the wall, emitting a crisp thud.

    “I’m sorry, master ……”

    Not prioritizing himself, the machine servant’s first reaction was to apologize to the Xu system.

    The scattered mechanical parts, whose vocal modules were so badly damaged that it was difficult to discern their contents, expressed their apologies to the Xu system.

    Sorry for the shock to the Hsu Department.

    Sorry I didn’t do a better job.

    Many, many more, too many to mention, so many that Ailee worried if it would be hated by the Xu system.

    The atmosphere grew quieter and quieter, but the man simply crouched down and used his hands to gather the fragmented Aere and bring the pieces together again.

    “No, I should be the one to apologize.”

    The Xu system’s voice was gentle, soothing the uneasy machine soul, “Not only did I not discover your idea, I didn’t carry it out to help, if I had discovered it earlier, I could have used better materials.”

    It’s not.

    That’s not it.

    The loyal machine servant tried to counter for the Xu system.

    But it has no voice.

    Holding the old parts that had fallen off, Xu returned to his workbench and began to target them for repair or to create new parts.

    The lights were hazy, light and shadows were intertwined, and the chirping of machines running resounded in the lab.

    “Master, you are ……”

    “To help you build a better body.”

    “Please leave this kind of thing to me, I can do it too ……”

    “That’s different, Ailee.”

    Watching his master busy and only himself free, the loyal machine servant felt uneasy about it.

    But the gentle voice of the Xu system, interspersed with the echoes of tools rising and falling, managed to dissuade the machine servants who wanted to help.

    “It’s always been Ailee who’s helped me, hasn’t it?”

    “I appreciate and love that about Ailee.”

    “Aiding me in my research, helping me maneuver my power armor, almost every aspect of my life, I am under Ailee’s care.”

    “So I’ve been trying to figure out what would be a good gift.”

    “A gift in return for what Airey did for me.”

    The Xu system said.

    They are serious and rigorous, holding various tools to repair damaged parts of the fuselage, or using their mechanical power to rub out new parts by hand.

    Those words are amazing.

    Not so heavy, not to mention noble.

    Plain and natural.

    But it puzzled Airey in the computer.

    The master is strange ……

    Obviously, in the federal database, the Smartarms are just props for humans, expendable items that can be discarded and replaced at any time.

    But all this time, the master has always acted so strangely, talking about giving back to the machinery or whatever, so it really isn’t quite like a normal person ……

    “At your will.”

    Ailee eventually responded.

    It wanted to help, but it was more important to listen to the Xu system than to help.

    So the machine servant stayed obediently inside the computer, watching the busyness of the Xu system and the sparks bursting out of the workbench.

    ……

    [You’ve concluded your research on automated batteries.]

    [You’re mentally exhausted, but you can’t help but feel exhilarated when you think about the results of this time]

    [You’re about to take a break when you realize something’s wrong with Ailee.]

    [The screen is quiet, the robotic arm is still, and the only camera is shining at the same place without coincidence]

    That’s the junkyard where you keep the mechanical wreckage.

    [You froze for a moment, carefully recalling Ailee’s behavior over the past few days, and realized that your own machine servant seemed to have something on her mind]

    [You asked for it]

    You’ve learned of Elle’s desire for an organism.

    [You readily agree, and when you first contacted Airee, you feared the instability of the rebellion and did not give it the hand and foot parts of a domestic wise weapon]

    But the passage of time will tell. Ailee has become the person you trust.

    [Airey begins to build the body]

    [Irene’s production failed]

    You carefully collect the broken Ailee and decide to use your own strength to help Ailee build a usable body as a gift to Ailee].

    [It’s your heart and your guilt]

    [Ding–]

    [Soul of the machine is mildly amused, your knowledge of self-regulating robots has improved, you understand more technical points, and you’re building faster]

    [Ding–]

    [Your mechanical power resonates with a machine part, and you succeed in increasing its performance by a certain amount.]

    After three days of research and polishing, you finally put down the tools in your hands and look at your “masterpiece”, Airey 1, with a satisfied look.

    “Ailee, try it.”

    “Yes, Master.”

    Three days later.

    Inside the empty laboratory, the blazing white light shone down from the overhead, like a gentle embrace, draping a veil over the rejuvenated plain white body.

    It was motionless, lying in a flat position on the workbench.

    The surface could not be more wrong.

    No mechanical intrinsics can be seen.

    The night was low, and the screens in the lab were synchronized to relay the stars, so a starburst landed and hit the gorgeous eyes that happened to be open.

    “……”

    The Xu system took a few steps back to make room for the awakened body.

    “Master?”

    The plain white body, no, I should say Airee.

    Ailee opened her eyes, meticulously and newly controlling the humanoid body, and after a little bit of getting used to the controls involved, she laid flat on her back with her head on her side, looking over to where the Xu system was.

    The eyes were dazed and confused.

    Smart AI that has been active in data.

    It seems uncomfortable to look at the Hsu system from a “human” perspective.

    It is a little uneasy, with a finger gently pressed the worktable underneath, it is cold and hard texture, more accurately described, is a kind of “nothing” of the texture.

    The processor told Ailee that it had touched something and exactly what it was.

    But a machine is a machine.

    Ailee didn’t have the same tactile nerves as a human.

    That’s what makes her different from people, no real blood or flesh.

    “Ailee, welcome to the world, how does it feel?”

    Ailee was a little uneasy about the new perspective, but the voice of the Xu system gradually restored calm to the cold organism.

    The Xu system smiled, blessed, and welcomed the appearance of Ailee as a “human”.

    “Very well, Master…thank you …… Thank you ……”

    Ailee’s voice broke.

    I don’t know how to describe my feelings.

    Bewilderment in the calm, restlessness in the silence.

    “Really, it’s good that there’s no uncomfortable reaction”, Xu system gently held Ai Lei’s fingers and helped Ai Lei sit up from the workbench, the cold mechanical girl sitting blankly on the metal table, there was a kind of dream that only existed in novels.

    It’s weird.

    Particularly, particularly strange.

    Ailee’s fingers that could not have responded with a touch.

    No matter what is touched, there are only fingers for data transfer.

    She found that when she touched Xu System’s fingertips, there seemed to be a flash of warmth for a moment, as if the black-and-white world was drenched in color.

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