Chapter 250 – Magical Matching Mechanism

[Simulation 220, you’re 239 years old, and Airey’s been with you for 217 years]

[Simulation of the 230th year, your 249th year, 227 years of Airey’s company]

[Simulation of the 240th year, you are 259 years old, and Airey has been with you for 237 years]

Time passes quickly.

It’s like an arrow, a precise hit on the past that you can’t keep.

It seems like a whisper, echoing in the ears hard to hear.

Like a bubble, the hazy glow breaks at the touch.

The fourth simulation was getting longer and longer, an extra-long simulation that had never been done before, but subtly, the Xu system didn’t feel any difference.

Maybe life on a starship is too homogenous.

Too repetitive and calm.

The Xu system’s current view of time was beginning to converge on the rationality of the Aire, or Intelligent Instrument.

The flow of years and the rush of time gradually became a string of cold numbers.

“It’s kind of a cosmic psychosis, isn’t it?”

The Xu system laughed to itself.

Immediately afterward, he began to lay out the evasion plan, or more accurately, the plan against the Neutron Battlestar.

A new round of strikes is coming.

System Xu wanted to try and try to avoid the Neutron Battle Star’s attack.

To this end, he devised multiple plans as a way to validate the logic of judging the Neutron Battlestar’s attacks.

First, Xu was alone, carrying nothing but the most basic life-supporting equipment and supplies, and was stuck on a primitive, uninhabited planet.

Secondly, the starships clustered in large groups and sailed farther out into the stars.

Third, Ailee maneuvered a starship alone, heading in another direction.

Fourth, unmanned starships that leave behind a large amount of production materials, as well as automated technological equipment.

Fifth, unmanned starships, the execution scenario for the previous strikes, were standardized primary starships, but there was a severe lack of production capacity and no information backup.

Only the Quantum Signal Tower exists for the quantum transfer of Ailee’s machine soul.

Five plans.

Five directions.

As well as more, miniature starships that helped aid in the calculations, equipped to gather data, were scattered in a straight line for ten light years.

“Master, does this really work?”

“I don’t know, but it’s better to do it wrong than not.”

Simulation of the two hundred and fifty-second year.

With Ailee’s help, the Xu system completed the entire setup, wanting to verify the possibility of circumventing the Neutron Battlestar using the technologically devoid earthly methods at hand.

After that again, the Xu system was left alone on the planet.

Waiting for the final result.

Loyal machine servants, on the other hand, maneuvered clusters of starships and sailed off into the cosmic stars as far away as possible.

Avoiding a blow to the main fleet that would spill over to the planetary Xu system.

……

[A new wave of destructive strikes is coming, according to the 100-year strike pattern]

[Before two hundred and fifty-five years had come and gone, you practiced multiple plans, arranging for varying possibilities in an attempt to circumvent the Neutron Battlestar’s strikes]

[For this reason, you came early to a primitive planet]

[Living quietly up there by being alone and digging out tech products]

[You guessed that the strike of a neutron war star would be based on a number of areas such as civilization, technology, knowledge, productivity, etc., which you, alone, obviously have no connection to]

[The more you think it’s feasible, the more you want to avoid the coming blow]

[Time passes from year to year and soon arrives at the time of the calculated strike]

[However, the expected attack didn’t happen, not only you, but also Airey.]

[You choose to keep waiting]

In the 256th year of the simulation, the Neutron Battlestar arrived late, its signature gravitational waves once again disrupting the starry sky, and the main fleet was the first to be destroyed, followed by the starships manned by Ailee and the unmanned starships that had left behind a great deal of their production data.

[In a flash]

[Only Airey, who has a special life form, and the backup starship, which remains silent, are still in a safe condition.]

[Through the micro-communicator, you know the whole situation, and just when you think you’ve managed to escape alone, a vision appears from above your head.]

Twist.

Broken.

Collapse.

Large swaths of space were torn apart and blasted by extreme violent annihilation.

The Neutron Battlestar didn’t utilize any cutting edge technology.

With its own mass alone, it shattered the planet the Xu system was on as easily as it shattered glass.

Inexplicably.

In that glorious explosion of light.

In that dying moment.

The phrase: [The system has matched you with a comparable opponent] surfaced in Xu System’s mind.

It’s good, it’s reasonable.

“KAM-!”

……

[You’re dead, this is your fifth death, ten deaths before the end effect is triggered ……]

[Congratulations, you’ve been given a whole new lease on life.]

[The starry sky is deep and dark, and you carry only a few technological artifacts in order to avoid neutron battle stars, and you have difficulty using them to create an evacuation pod after your resurrection.]

[Good thing you’ve thought about this kind of situation]

[Both on the planet and in nearby space, there are raw materials left that you prepared in advance.]

[After resurrecting, you attached mechanical power to your hands and managed to create a temporary refuge for yourself, waiting for Ailee’s support]

“MASTER!!!”

The familiar darting, the familiar pouncing.

When Ailee maneuvered the only remaining spare starship, probing revealed the presence of the Xu system.

With great speed, she then darted and pounced on the Xu system, a skillful mess of crawling and checking to see if there were any injuries to the Xu system’s body.

The effect of Ten Deaths to End is to restore all injuries.

Rightfully so.

The only result that Airey was able to get was the word healthy.

“Don’t worry, Ailee, I’m fine”, the Xu system smiled and rubbed the top of Ailee’s head to soothe the troubled heart.

“Ailee, can you tell me what happened before?”

Recycle, remodel, reproduce.

Same as previous times.

The cluster of starships that had been devastated by the Neutron Battlestar had once again begun remodeling for production.

In the meantime, System Xu asked Ailee how exactly the Neutron Battlestar strike was going.

“Yes, in your absence the fleet has successively ……”

The machine servant tells it like it is.

Listening to those words, supplemented by his own encounters, Xu Department was somewhat difficult to understand.

“The breakup of the fleet was expected, too large a target and bound to attract the attention of the Neutron Battlestar.”

“The destruction of the starship Ailee was on, and the starship containing the means of production, proves that the Neutron Battlestar’s striking range is not limited to civilization.”

“Rather, it’s an invisible, detection mechanism for technological developments, for high-risk threats.”

“Spare starships are out of the strike because they lack production capacity and are also unmanned?”

“But–“

“Alone, I was struck by the Neutron Battlestar.”

“Is it any wonder that I, as an individual human, am far more of a threat than an alternate starship in the detection judgment of the Neutron Battlestar?”