Chapter 247: You See the Change of Heart

A familiar recipe.

Familiar flavor.

In front of that final astral body, any defense is as fragile as paper mache.

Starships crumbled, space-time shattered, and distortion fields visible to the naked eye flooded across the darkness of space, bringing final annihilation.

Wait until all the furor dies down.

The universe returned to silence and the starbursts were no longer disorganized.

The Xu system was revived once more and repeated the last maneuver until Ailee came and picked him up on the safety of a spare starship.

“Master, please rest here.”

Loyal machine servants are unwilling to allow the system to be manipulated.

Take on the task of recycling production on your own.

Take those destroyed starships and remake them into your own units once more.

Force Field Technology, Gravitational Technology, Rate Technology …… Older starship materials are recycled over and quickly rectified into more powerful starship models.

The Xu system stood on the bridge of the spare battleship.

Gaze at the cold, quiet, yet inexplicably hot starship production.

In that unique mechanical aesthetic, in the reshaped assembly of metal, the Xu system’s mind gradually flooded with associations of more things.

“A once-in-a-century strike?”

“No, it’s too early to draw conclusions; even FTL voyages can’t do exactly the same intervals between strikes.”

“Taking a hundred years as a benchmark, there should be a slight deviation present.”

Flowers will eventually fade.

Tender leaves will eventually wither.

A hundred years is the limit of life that ordinary people try their best to live, blooming and beautiful.

System Xu silently calculated in his mind how long he could still live if he took once every hundred years as the standard.

“In my first death, I suffered an orbital strike from the old Federation.”

“In my second death, I was saturated and bombed by insurgent smart weapons in the southern main base city.”

“The third death is the first blow struck in the universe.”

“The fourth death, on the other hand, is today.”

“The Ten Deaths Before the End effect allows me to not actually end the simulation until my tenth death; in other words, I have six lives left.”

“Six lives, six centuries, six hundred years? ……”

On the bridge.

The circulating wind of the Vital System, with a faint warmth, blew against Xu System’s nose.

Soft and warm, like the caress of the morning sun.

Department Xu spread out his palms, and mechanical power surged and undulated in his palms, like an invisible mechanical heart that resonated with the starship at his feet.

Arms power is useful, and Ailee is awesome.

But in front of the absolute strength of the Neutron Battlestar.

Everything is fragile.

It’s not about effort, it’s not about talent, that’s a gap that stems from the time dimension.

On this system of technology, the manipulator civilization of the Neutron Battlestar has walked long enough to be above countless civilizations.

Trying to tie it up with just a few hundred years.

It’s not going to happen.

“Maybe I’ll be able to find loopholes to circumvent the automatic strikes of the Neutron Battlestar?”

“But at this point, one can’t get too hopeful.”

“There are as many extinct civilizations as there are smoky seas, and there is no shortage of those who have sensed that something is wrong; what I can think of, there must have been a civilization that has tried it as well.”

“But they still perish in the deep space of the universe ……”

Xu System mused, speculating that the Neutron Battle Star’s strike program possessed over-the-top detection capabilities and might even involve logic technology.

The wreckage of countless civilizations is a warning.

Proof that it’s hard to escape an extra-terrestrial strike from a neutron war star.

The Hsu system has no regrets about this.

The sci-fi side of the simulation has been going on for 155 years now, far better than the first three simulations.

Whether it’s the knowledge gained or the insights gained along the way, the Hsu Department is satisfied.

He also knew that even if he continued the simulation, he wouldn’t be able to penetrate the nature of the simulator, which was far more mysterious than he thought.

So.

It’s an acceptable thing for the Xu system to know when the sci-fi side of the simulation ends.

“It’s just that when I’m gone, the fate of that child Ailee ……”

The Xu system slowly clenched his palms.

In the bending and squeezing of the five fingers, the mechanical power was ground into fine crumbs of radiance that shimmered with a glistening white light and quickly dissipated into nothingness.

Illusions of birth and death are magical and gorgeous.

As Xu had seen, the brilliant humanity that originated from the heart of the machine servant.

When the simulation ended, the Xu system would return directly to reality, but Ailee couldn’t, she would still be trapped in this starry sky.

Without Xu’s Machine Soul Pleasure and Armor Resonance, the fleet’s strength would plummet, making Ailee’s situation even more dangerous.

Go through one crushing blow at a time.

Wandering in the solitude of space.

Trapped in the prison of eternity.

“Sure enough there’s some reassurance ……,” Xu System sighed softly in his heart.

He wanted to do as much as he could, in the time he still survived, to help the Machine Servant open up the future and escape from this deep, bottomless, supreme prison.

“Master.”

The sound came from far away.

Soft in its calmness.

It was Ailee who arrived with a steaming lunch, claiming that she wanted to use the food as a way to squash the shock Xu system had suffered today.

“Thanks, Ailee.”

The Xu system smiled at the girl.

The two walked side by side and sat down not far from the inset table and chairs, the tabletop covered with a red and white plaid cloth that the machine servant had prepared beforehand.

“Master, please eat.”

Smooth movements tinged with beauty, fingers steadily resting on the dinner plate, the machine servant set the table for the Xu system with a meticulous gesture and a calm, bemused expression.

After.

She then sat quietly on the sidelines.

Hands folded in his lap, he waited for the Xu system to finish their meal.

The body of a Machine Servant cannot digest food, and even if it deliberately imitates a human, it merely transfers the food it swallows, into the holding space called the stomach.

Thus, whenever meal time came, the loyal machine servant would sit beside the Xu system.

With a silver-blue bland face.

Continuously watching the Xu system.

Department Xu had found such an atmosphere too odd, but gradually, he had gotten used to this way of getting along.

“Ailee, how is the recovery of the starship wreckage going?”

“Please be assured that everything is proceeding normally.”

“Is that so? Then I’m relieved… You have recorded the gravitational wave frequencies about the Neutron Battlestar, haven’t you?”

“Yes, the alternate starship has been automatically included.”

Settle your thoughts and leave your worries behind.

In a quiet to pure dining environment.

The conversational sound of words seemed extraordinarily clear, with a simple and warm serenity that was flawless.

“Master, are you …… in a bad mood?”

After a while, the machine servant was keenly aware that Department Xu seemed to be pretending to have something on his mind.

“No, it doesn’t.”

“I just thought of something that I have to do later.”

The Xu system shook its head, dismissing Ailee’s concerns with a smile, chewing the delicious meal in its mouth and complimenting Ailee on her even more improved handiwork.

Moves.

Move again.

Ailee’s ears twitched fast.

“Thank you for your compliments, I will continue to work hard”, a smile bloomed on the machine servant’s face.

After countless times of replicating the data from the database and learning the human smile in the images, to this day, Ailee’s smile is very nice to look at.

Like the bones of a subtle flower, it blooms with a meteoric and beautiful interior.