Chapter 256 – Ailee is worried about you.

In the room of the Hsu system.

An hourglass was placed.

The glass containers, symmetrical at the top and bottom, are connected by a slender neck in the center, which in turn is held in place by an external wooden frame.

The falling gravel speaks of the slowness of time.

Carrying a person’s past into a passing eternity.

At that gentle sliding sound, Xu System opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was the familiar silver-blue machine eyes.

Ailee sat on the edge of the bed, quietly waiting for the Xu system to awaken, and even more so with the warm golden tonic soup in her hands.

“Master, please have some soup.”

With the awakening of the Xu system.

The silver-blue eyes lit up slightly.

Xu Xu system wanted to bring his own bowl of soup, but was forcefully refused by the machine servant, who pressed Xu system back into place and fed Xu system one bite at a time.

“Then …… trouble you, Ailee.”

Meeting the girl’s eyes, Department Xu couldn’t say no.

And so.

This golden bowl of tonic soup, with the help of Ai Lei, was fed into the Xu system’s mouth with a gentle and delicate gesture.

The soup was mild and not too hot.

There was a light warmth while finishing the drink.

This was useless; the Xu system’s body, which was riddled with holes, as well as its mind, which was fading by the day, could not be solved by a bowl of soup.

But the Xu system still smiled, controlling the muscles of his face so that the corners of his mouth lifted in a stiff arc.

“Very effective, Ailee.”

“Thanks to your tonic soup, I’m in pretty good shape.”

The experiments regarding the curvature engine were still missing many key points, and Department Xu was eager to return to the lab and continue resonating the machine’s soul for inspiration.

However, he was pulled back by Ailee’s hand.

“Master ……”

“I’m so…worried about you ……”

The voice echoed through the air, indescribably hollow, quavering.

When the Xu system looked back, it saw this image.

The icy machine maiden, dressed in a black and white maid’s outfit with her hair falling from her ears, lightly covered her chest with one hand while pulling on the Xu system with the other.

That kind of picture is broken.

Like a smooth mirror, it was cracked by a hammer called “emotion”.

Crackle.

One moment falls to the ground.

Each chipped lens caused the palm that was pulling on the Xu system to become harder.

“Please don’t…continue ……”

Ailee’s palms were warm, derived from the supply of the machine furnace that kept the mechanical body at a constant temperature around the clock.

She gripped the Xu system awkwardly, trying to get this warmth to pass through.

A gesture like that makes the heart grow fonder.

“……”

There was some silence in the Xu system.

“I’m sorry, Ailee, for worrying you.”

No longer a one-sided grip, the Xu system similarly held that hand, carefully and gently, holding Ailee, who felt scared and confused about the future.

“Actually, you don’t have to worry about me.”

“I’m in good shape, I’ll be fine no matter what, trust me, okay?”

The man’s voice was soft, so soft that it was like a candle in the wind.

But inexplicably.

The flickering candle flame turns into a bright light in the darkness of the night, illuminating the timid and fearful soul of the machine and guiding it to a bright path.

Inside the room, the rustle of the hourglass still flowed.

A little bit of a grain, a first-class drop.

At a rate visible to the naked eye, the last of the stock was about to be depleted.

……

The 500th year of the analog, you’re 519 years old, and Alette has been with you for 497 years.

[Your time is being squeezed to the limit]

“Soul of a Machine, Mechanical Power, then Soul of a Machine, then Mechanical Power.

You pushed yourself 24/7 to realize the inspiration provided by the spirits, and then used the mechanical power to shape the inscriptions, leaving it to Elle to work out the deeper theories.

“Ailee is worried about your health and wants to take as much pressure off of you as possible.

“Ailee began to use her special powers more often.

[Ailee starts observing the universe]

[Airey starts observing particles]

“Ailee’s battery ran out, and she fell into your arms to recharge.

[“Master’s energy is being replenished. Master is forbidden to move.”]

[She dragged you so tightly that you could not perform the experiment, and you suspected that the machine servant was, in this way, forcing you to take a break, but you had no proof]

……

[Simulation of year 564, you are 583 years old, and Airey has been with you for 561 years]

[You’ve experienced your eighth death.]

[This time, with advances in gravitational technology, Airey captured the gravitational waves of the Neutron Battlestar at a much faster rate]

“The machine servant tries to challenge the gods.”

[Before the starship cluster was destroyed, she maneuvered all of her side’s firepower and pre-targeted a flurry of shots]

[The neutron star was unharmed, it didn’t use cutting-edge technology, just its own mass and density, it calmly broke everything]

“After your resurrection, Airey came to you with a spare body.

[This time Ailee, instead of crawling around and checking out your body, she ran headlong into your arms and said she wanted to be quiet]

……

[Simulation 584, you are 603 years old, and Airey has been with you for 581 years]

[With the help of Ailee, and with that special observation angle, you finally broke through the mystery of space, and used gravitational science and technology as a crowbar to pry open the invisible time and space.]

[The original curvature engine is revealed]

[Even though it’s a prototype, there’s no doubt that you’ve taken the first real step]

[You begin to delve into antimatter engines and elemental decay engines]

[FTL travel requires a lot of energy from the starship, far more than fusion power can provide, so you’ve been researching antimatter and elemental decay]

[Trying to push the curvature engine with these two energies]

[In the 588th year of the simulation, you researched technology, ate Ailee’s soft food, and popped bugs’ heads]

[Simulating the 600th year, you research technology, eat Ailee’s soft food, and continue to blow the heads off of the Bugs.]

[The Bugs are a little too numerous and you’re helpless.]

……

Time passes from year to year.

In the early days, the department of Xu was still in the human nature, and there was still a feeling of emotion.

Now, with the deep erosion of the Machine Soul, System Xu was no longer so concerned about the changes in time.

The only time the neutron war star strikes.

It will be given special attention by him.

The ninth death was coming, but before that, in the simulation’s six hundred and sixteenth year, the Xu system’s fleet stopped moving forward.

Not a malfunction, not an error.

Instead, they can no longer move forward.

An endless fleet of Smartarms, their numbers so great that they spread to obscure the light of the stars.

Unconsciously, even the vast cemetery of civilization was shuttled to the end by the fleet, allowing Xu to see the existence of the “wall”.

“Was I too fast?”

“No, it would have been the location of the Federation planets that would have been on the edge of the Cage.”

“It was only by chance that I reached the end early.”

The Xu system stood in the starship’s main control room.

The probe ships that had gone ahead of him brought him images of something farther away, an absolute void, a “wall” of nothingness that cut off the universe and buried hope.

What appears to still be in the same universe completely separates the stars inside and outside the walls.

“Space blockade?”

“It’s as desperate as expected …… In the face of such isolation, conventional methods of navigation have lost their significance.”

“Plus the Neutron Battlestar at the gate, what the hell difficulty?”