Chapter 252 – Ailee wants to be with her forever.

“Ailee, can you let go now?”

“That’ll do, Master.”

This touch of the head was, by and large, the longest.

It was so long that Xu System’s arms went numb.

But looking at the return to normal, no longer the same as before, full of fragile and pitifully helpless machine servants, Xu Department felt that this tingling could be endured.

“Was it the high intensity of the war that tired out Ailee’s machine soul?”

“Still ……”

In the main control room of the ecological starship, through the starship’s synchronized projection, Xu System saw the insectoid severed limbs that covered the starry sky, and the mood was one of speechless silence.

The so-called life.

So-called destiny.

Often the twists and turns are painful.

System Xu didn’t have the ability to reverse it, much less a solution to the predicament, and the only thing he could do was to hold Ailee forward as long as he could before the end of the fourth simulation.

Until that Éclat is able to break out of the prison of malice.

……

[Simulating the third hundred years, you are 319 years old, and Airey has been with you for 297 years]

[The passage of time, the abrasions of age, have never been able to take their toll on your body]

This is the first time since the first simulation that you’ve experienced eternal youth, and you’ve stayed at the peak of your physical capabilities because of it, and that, that’s what Airey brings to the table.

“Airey’s soft rice is good for you.

[As you resonate with the machine soul more often, you think more quickly, and to relieve the tedium of long experiments, you regularly take time out to relax with your loyal machine servants]

[During the spring time in the center of the climate, you and the machine servant quietly watch the flowers bloom.]

Spring is the season when everything revives.

Its components are diverse.

Closely linked to the light of the stars and the geology of the planets.

It’s naturally not easy to replicate the brightness of springtime on a cold, mechanical starship, but in front of Ailee, all difficulties become 1+1.

Pounds of arithmetic power, endless intellectual instruments, the combination can do many miracles in the eyes of ordinary people.

Like now.

The warm sun shines through the cold clouds, blowing the surface of the earth green, covering it with a new coat of light green tender plants, and even more flowers bloom silently, wafting the fragrance of flowers.

“Ailee, did you do that?”

The Xu Department was surprised that some of the out-of-season flower species were in stunning bloom in the sea of flowers blowing in the wind.

“Feeling that my master would like it, I did it.”

Airey said as much.

With a graceful gesture, she poured the first cup of hot tea of spring for the Xu system.

According to the databank, this practice seemed to have a special meaning, and although Ailee couldn’t understand it, it didn’t stop her from learning from it.

……

[In the golden summer of the heat wave, you and the mechanic’s maid were fishing in a boat.]

Summer is warm and quiet at the same time.

The temperature of the virtual sun’s light, regulated to a scorching level, creates dazzling golden patches of light that illuminate the Eco-Starship’s habitation area.

As the science and technology system improves and develops.

The size of the eco-starship had long since been expanded several times over.

After the transformation of Ailee, there is even more a vast lake, the water ripples, glittering silver streams of light, for the hot summer days to bring a different kind of add color.

The Xu system sat in the bow of an anti-gravity starship fishing.

Ailee sat a short distance away, her legs rising and falling and swaying as she gazed silently at the splashes.

“Ailee, where did you catch the fish?”

“Master, the fish in the lake are fish-like creatures captured from planet RKS-4546B.”

The Xu system silently put away the fishing rod.

If he remembered correctly.

The creatures of 4546B are all giants of the water that can easily be tens of meters in length, with a ferocity comparable to that of the mythical Leviathan.

“Master, aren’t you fishing?”

“Uh, I suddenly remembered some experiments I didn’t do.”

……

[The fishing trip ended in a hurry, and once again a miracle occurred when the overpowering propulsion of the starship shook out a fish as it started up and slammed down on the surface of the hull]

[You look at the twenty-meter-long behemoth in front of you that nearly crashed the starship and fall into a long silence]

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[Your silence is deafening]

[Elle stands beside you, dignified and elegant, not surprised by the incident.]

[Fall, the season of harvest, is also the season of slight coolness and turning cold]

Falling leaves drifting away.

Withered and fragile.

Xu Department stood in front of the house, looking at the branches of the cowering from afar, watching the once colorful green leaves and flowers, scattered in the wind blowing and falling.

Perhaps the wind was too cool, blowing Xu System’s body a little stiff.

“Master.”

The machine servant brought just the right amount of clothing to drape over Xu’s shoulders, and it was not hard to see that it had been prepared for a long time because of the speed with which it moved.

“Thanks, Ailee.”

The Xu system found the machine servant to be very sweet.

……

[In winter, the world becomes silent with frost and snow]

Considering the normal functioning of a starship, the winter snow drifting session was not set to much colder temperatures.

More than anything, it serves to set the mood.

Xu System sat at the bridge, looking away from the flying snow in the habitation area while gazing at the starry sky scene beside him, finding it exceptionally interesting.

Pure white snowy day.

The darkest sea of stars.

It was magically fused into one.

“Master, are you enjoying the universe?” , Ailee brought hot tea for System Xu.

Seeing Xu System gazing at the universe outside, he cocked his head and asked.

“Can’t say I like it, more of a curiosity.”

The Xu system took the hot tea.

Take a light sip.

The warm tea traveled down his throat, bringing a cozy warmth to his body, and when he shook it, he could still see the distinctive light brown water patterns.

In terms of exploring the universe, the Xu system is actually long past its novelty period.

Frequent exploration of alien civilizations.

Long interstellar voyages.

Long ago all interest was consumed.

The Xu system explained, “I was just thinking about a long time ago, when we were still in the underground lab.”

Ailee remembers those times as the toughest and most rudimentary phase, where the Xu system’s power armor struggled to even recharge.

But.

Why do you have flashbacks for a good reason?

“I thought a long time ago that Ailee loved the stars so much, and how wonderful it would be to one day take Ailee up into the universe and witness the true stars.”

“After all, stargazing from too far away is not the same thing as observing it up close.”

The man’s voice was soft.

Talking about talking.

Laughing out loud to myself, “At the time, I thought this was difficult, but it turned out to be something that could be accomplished casually by now.”

“Time …… really flies.”

The voice was emotional, it was nostalgic for the past and thoughtful about the future.

Inexplicably.

Obviously the Xu system was sitting right in front of him.

With a familiar gesture, he sipped the tea he had prepared.

Instead, Ailee had a strong fuzzy feeling.

It was as if the distance between her and the Xu system had been stretched extremely far and then suddenly drawn extremely close, causing the machine servant to be at a loss for words.

“Thank you ……”

“But I …… am just mindless machine …… not worthy of you.”

The occurrence module seems to have failed.

The words of the machine servant became broken.

She half-squatted down and gently cupped one of Xu System’s hands, feeling the real touch against her cheek.