Chapter 263 – Because you’ll be sad

The Hsu system has changed its place of healing.

Wake up.

He was picked up by the machine servant and transferred from the cold, hard healing pod to the soft bed.

Horizontal and vertical wiring, as well as a dense array of instruments, were arranged around the bed, providing the Xu system with the aid of burning life fires.

This is what Airey did.

It’s self-condemnation to the point of grief welling up and still making an attempt at salvation.

Save that one.

Retain that light.

Let the strange, trespassing person who names the machine but wants to be irresponsibly absent, be around for eternity.

“The master must be responsible for Ailee.”

“Because of the master, Ailee became strange.”

“Because master, Ailee can’t calm down.”

“It’s the master’s fault, so the master is responsible for Ailee and can’t just leave.”

At the bedside, the man whose health had further deteriorated, his face pale and thin, his fingers long and withered, covered with the tubes of various life-supporting machines.

Couldn’t bear to see the Xu system like this.

Hate being powerless.

The machine servant’s voice, revealing a deep trembling from calmness, was like a wingless falling bird, completely lost.

She kept her head down.

Not daring to meet those familiar gentle eyes.

The Machine Servant, who should have been loyal, had disobeyed his master’s orders, and the Machine Servant could not forgive himself for this, and the damaged half of his face exhibited a silent cry of grief.

The man on the sickbed was not angry with the machine servant.

Just another one.

Leaning weakly against the bed, he reached out his palm, accompanied by a tired, warm voice, and gently held the five fingers of the machine servant.

“I’m sorry, Ailee, to trouble you to look after me at a time like this.”

……

[You didn’t stop the machine servant from staying]

[You know very well]

[Ending your life with your own hands is such a hard thing for a loyal machine servant to accept]

[If the roles were reversed and Ailee was begging you, you’d have the same trouble making up your mind.]

[So you respect Ailee’s choice]

[No more asking your loyal servants to shut down your life support machine.]

[You lie on your deathbed, your consciousness fading, awake and aware, your own consciousness slowly disintegrating towards the end of its burnout.]

[The 24-hour operation of the life-support machine only helps to slow down your death, it doesn’t really cure you.]

[Elle found out about this]

[Replacing various methods, maximizing arithmetic power, and trying to renew your life as much as possible.]

“Ailee, how was your day?”

“……”

“Really, still working on it, it’s been great.”

“……”

“Well, I’m fine.”

“……”

One failure at a time, exacerbated by another.

No matter what kind of attempts were made, none of them were able to work on the Xu system’s body, much less make the burnt out soul, once again, renewed.

The flame of life in the Xu system is inevitably dying out.

For this result.

The machine servant was unable to change the slightest bit, and could only use his silver-blue machine eyes to watch the figure grow more and more stooped and weak, deep in the agony of life and death.

Time passed, Xu System’s pain deepened, and so did Ailee’s self-blame.

“It’s okay, Ailee, don’t worry about me.”

Xu System was lying on the hospital couch, his face as pale as paper, and every breath seemed unusually difficult, as if he would faint at any moment.

But it’s that kind of physical condition.

Still holding up a smile, he relieved the machine servant who had failed time and time again, so that Ailee wouldn’t have to beat herself up over it.

Sorry ……

Sorry ……

Ailee’s hull trembled terribly.

Another experiment failed, and she returned to the bed where the Xu system had been recuperating, looking at the familiar face with lax eyes and listening to the familiar gentle words of reassurance.

Finally.

The sadness within the heart chambers pushed the limits of the data.

“…… Sorry, master.”

“Because of my incompetence, I put you through too much pain”, the machine servant insisted, she could no longer accept that the Xu system was living in such an agonizing position.

Every comfort from the Hsu system.

All turned into invisible sharp blades.

Noiselessly slashing the soul of that loyal and self-condemning machine.

With a shuddering cry of grief, she asked why the Xu system didn’t take a strong stance and order the life-support machines shut down.

On Permissions.

The Xu system is the creator of the underlying logic of Airey.

Have the highest priority for control.

On Emotion.

The Xu system is the most important person to Ailee.

As long as Xu System requested it many times, even if she was reluctant, Ai Lei would listen to Xu System’s words.

But the Hsu system didn’t do that.

He hadn’t mentioned it since his first request to turn off the life support system, which was denied by Ailee.

The weak and powerless gesture made the machine servant incomprehensible.

“Because that would break Ailee’s heart, wouldn’t it?”

There is no sunlight in the escape pod.

The whitish overhead light, shining down from above, illuminated the edge of Xu’s nose and the hollowed-out eyes.

Force your body to endure the discomfort of emptiness.

Smiling, he explained to Ailee.

There was no particular reason for it, and it wasn’t that they couldn’t feel the pain for the simple reason that they simply didn’t want to upset Ailee.

“But, but you-“, the circulating wind in the cabin, fluttering the hair on her forehead and blurring Ailee’s eyes.

The silver-blue eyes of the calm machine seemed to be layered in that chaotic interplay.

All the grief.

All that wailing.

All through that inhuman anthropomorphic face.

A fifty-fifty presentation before the eyes of the Xu system.

Not knowing how to hide, not knowing how to endure, since rtx-9090 the period of rtx-9090 the machine servant s emotions have all been directly expressed in this way.

“But you, this is too painful,” the voice trembled until it was distorted.

Except there are no real tears.

The machine servant’s expression at this moment was no different from that of a human being, with thick sadness melting into every part of his cheeks, and because of the excessive grief, his features were a bit squeezed.

Ruthless machinery possesses human emotions.

Instead, man takes one step towards nothingness.

That contrast was so strong that the machine servant couldn’t accept it; she didn’t accept that reality.

“It’s okay, Ailee.”

The Xu system reached out with a dry, feeble palm and placed it lightly on the machine servant’s head, giving it a sense of security with the few strength it had, “This has nothing to do with you.”

“Actually, I’ve figured out a lot of things in the meantime.”

The voice was as thin as a wisp and seemed to be fading into the air.

Like falling leaves, the sound is faint and fading.

Like light rain, moistens things without breath.

Also with a dry, weak hoarseness of the throat.

“Between us, we’ve known each other for a long time, haven’t we.”

The Xu system wanted to smile, but there was no way for such an action to be possible for a body that was running out of oil.

The curve of his mouth had just changed when he coughed violently.

“Ahem!”

“Cough cough!”

“Master-“, Ailee said as quickly as she could, helping the weakened Xu system sit up from the bed and smoothing her body’s breathing.

“I’m fine, Ailee,” Xu said, shaking her head gently.

The body is weaker.

The pain became more and more pronounced.

The Xu system did its best to fight that lethargy, forcing itself to meet the machine servant’s eyes with a forced smile.

“Ailee, time really flies, it’s been over seven hundred years since I met you in the underground lab.”

“That was fast ……”