There was darkness in front of him, and a strange sweet smell came from the tip of his nose. Xu Le knew why there was such a smell in the spaceship.
Just like when he was sweeping around with the two Six-barrelled Darlings, there was no way for him to recognize that the broken spaceship that broke through the clouds was the tri-winged spaceship that had saved him from the Empire. There was always a difference in the degree of being broken. Back then, the tri-winged spaceship was still considered to be in good taste, but today, it had become something beyond the imagination of the most absurd human artist.
Because he did not recognize the tri-winged spaceship, he did not expect to hear the old man's voice in the spaceship. The voice was familiar yet strange, and it sounded much younger. In particular, there was a strong sense of mockery in the tone, with the mocking tone of an aristocrat, but it was so unforgettable.
The soft lights turned on one by one, revealing the messy space in the spaceship in front of him. As soon as he entered the light, he could not help but squint his eyes, looking at the dusty console in front of him and the equipment that was welded to the hard alloy plate. He scratched his head and asked in disbelief, "Aren't you dead?"
"I'm not you. You're an ape-like life form made of low-level carbon-based structures. How can you die so easily?"
Someone's voice sounded in the tri-winged spaceship. Xu Le confirmed that this voice belonged to him, and confirmed that it was indeed younger and livelier than before. A smile that came from the deepest part of his heart, mixed with fatigue, rushed to his cheeks. He opened his arms and made a hug to the invisible waves in the air.
He sighed and said, "Don't play the trick of faking your death in the future. For a low-level ape-like life form like us to cry because of the death of a high-level mechanical life form like you, it's not a very glorious thing."
"Have you ever cried?"
Philip asked curiously. The slender mechanical arm in front of the console moved down at high speed, and the video camera at the front was very close to Xu Le's face. It seemed to want to find tears on his slightly dark and thin cheeks, but in the end, it only found some water stains. He said in a bad mood, "I'm the one who splashed the water. When did I cry?"
Xu Le raised his eyebrows and said angrily, "Try crying. I'll see if there's anything on your face in a few months."
"I've never cried before. Although some conflicts in the core program can be compared to human emotions, I've never found any similar emotions. Perhaps there were, but I actively excluded them."
Philip said indifferently. That slender mechanical arm kept waving in front of Xu Le, like a child waving his arm to show that he didn't care about anything and that he had to pretend to be strong because his disguise was mature.
Knowing that this guy was still alive, Xu Le was in a very good mood. He was too lazy to continue the argument that had been repeated many times with him. He turned around and prepared to walk to the rear cabin to prepare for what to do next. Unexpectedly, he tripped over something and almost fell. Looking down, he saw a heavy bag tightly tied to the ground.
"Oh, right, there's something I forgot to tell you …"
The mechanical arm was accompanied by a pleasant hydraulic sound as it quickly extended to his face. Philip's voice was a little strange, as if he was a little nervous.
Xu Le didn't pay attention to what this guy wanted to explain. His gaze left the bag and fell on the depths of the rear cabin. The shock in his eyes didn't disappear for a long time, and he didn't know how to interpret the scene in front of him.
Under the dim and gentle light, there was a little girl wearing fluffy earmuffs. Under her long and slightly trembling eyelashes, her black gem-like eyes narrowed into two crescent moons in the sky. She stood there quietly, hugging an old doll and smiling cutely.
Xu Le felt that his eyes were a little dazzled. He couldn't help but squint, thinking of the little girl he met in the starlight of the Ancient Bell many years ago when he first started to escape.
Six years had passed, and the little girl from back then had become the girl of today. She had grown up a lot, and her swaying black hair, like a watermelon skin, was much softer because it had grown longer, obediently draping over her thin shoulders. However, the old doll in her arms was still the same doll from back then. She still stood there quietly, looking at him with absolute trust, as if she hadn't left for so many years. Even her posture hadn't changed.
Zhong Huoyan looked at him with a smile and said, "Let's go."
Only then did Xu Le confirm that what he saw was real. He opened his mouth helplessly, thinking that even this sentence sounded so familiar. Back then in Xixia State, when this girl tried to run away from home again, sneaking out of the villa and getting into the back seat of the car, it seemed that she had said the same thing?
He closed his eyes, then opened them, covered his forehead, and then let go. He gasped heavily, and his right hand reached out like lightning, grabbing the slender mechanical arm beside him. His fingers grabbed the bottom of the video camera as if he was strangling Philip's throat. He roared angrily, "What the f * ck is going on?!"
"Who am I? I am the omniscient Philip, Xiao Fei. Well, I can only browse the central database now and can't transfer information, but I still know your life quite well. I know who she is, I know her relationship with you, so I believe that even if she knows that I am a living computer, it won't be a terrible thing. Do you have to force me to kill her? Le Le, you are too cold-blooded! "
The slender mechanical arm shook violently in Xu Le's hand, like a weak female hostage trying to escape in horror. Philip cooperated with his emotions at this time, performing a perfect performance, and seemed to be very intoxicated with it.
"Who said I would kill her? You know I'm not talking about this stupid thing! "Xu Le glared at the camera and said angrily," I'm asking why she is on this broken ship of yours! "
Philip felt that Xu Le was really angry at this time, and the slender mechanical arm suddenly quieted down. The sound inside the spaceship instantly became high speed and clear.
"I tried to find you, and then I found Miss Zhong Huoyan outside the Wangdu Prefectural Ming Apartments. After communicating with her, I knew that she was also trying to find you, so two like-minded partners formed a temporary search team. Today, we monitored the government's information and confirmed that we were looking for you, and that you were in a drunken stupor in the Ivy Garden."
"You were looking for me?" Xu Le rubbed his eyebrows and looked at the little girl who was timidly grabbing the corner of his clothes. He frowned and said, "Last time, Tai Zhiyuan told me in prison that now the Nan Xiang family is taking care of you. What happened?"
"Nothing happened." Zhong Huoyan opened her innocent eyes, looked up at him and said, "Sister Nan Xiang is very good to me. Although she wavered for a few seconds when she knew that you were from the Empire, in my opinion, it was already very good. Madam Nan Xiang should also be a beauty when she was young. They even specially invited a professor from the First Academy to give me a theoretical physics lesson. I have a good life in Nan Xiang Manor."
Xu Le released the hand that was tightly holding the slender mechanical arm, reached out and rubbed her hair, and said, "Get to the point. If that's the case, why did you run away?"
"No matter how good it is, it is not my home." Zhong Huoyan struggled to poke her head out from his evil hands and said seriously, "I believe that you will definitely be able to escape, so I sneaked out in advance to meet up with you."
Xu Le said directly, "I am from the Empire."
Zhong Huoyan frowned her thin eyebrows, obviously unhappy because of this sentence. She pouted and said, "Even Sister Nan Xiang only wavered for a few seconds. Brother, do you think this kind of thing will affect me?"
Xu Le felt a little warm in his chest, but there was still no expression on his face. He said coldly, "I'll send you back right away."
"No!" Zhong Huoyan's face turned red and she screamed angrily, "You are my guardian, how can you leave me alone!"
"How can I care? I am now running away, and the whole Federation is chasing me. In the next second, this broken ship may be blown into scattered garbage by a warship's main cannon. Do you want to die with me? "
Xu Le sternly reprimanded, "If you don't want to go back to the Nan Xiang manor, I'll send you to the back mountain of Mochou. If that doesn't work, I'll send you to the engineering department of Harbor City. Shang Qiu is there. Haven't you always liked her?"
Toward the end, his tone had become much gentler, even turning into a kind of pleading. Under such circumstances, he didn't care what kind of danger he would be in if he sent the little girl to these places, because he knew very well that it was the most dangerous thing to follow him in the universe now.
"My ship is not broken."
The slender mechanical arm went around Xu Le's body and lowered to Zhong Huoyan's cheek. It rested on the little girl's shoulder, which was trembling because of anger, and said bitterly, "And you can rest assured that no warship's main cannon can hit us."
When it came to education, the situation where parents had different standpoints was the most frightening. Xu Le's expression slightly stiffened, and he said in a low voice, "Even if it's all right, can you follow us to wander in the universe? You still have to go to school, you still have friends, you can't live an inhuman life with a guy like me and this broken computer. "
"Brother, you said that I am a real genius, and ordinary schools can't teach me at all, so I don't need to go to school!" Zhong Huoyan stared at him and said angrily, "And you know, I don't have any friends at all, so what's wrong with me following you?"
Xu Le shook his head and still refused to agree.
Zhong Huoyan's brows furrowed, and her small mouth tightly pursed, desperately holding back the urge to cry. She stepped forward and grabbed the corner of his clothes, gently shaking it, her clear and tender voice slightly trembling.
"Brother, you will be lonely and bored running away alone. You should have a companion, just like on the Ancient Bell back then. I will accompany you, okay?"
As she spoke, tears that were as clear as spring water overflowed from her eyes and trickled down her face.
The slender mechanical arm slowly left her shoulder, trembling slightly, and then made a strange turn, just like a human wiping their wet eyes. Philip's sad voice kept echoing in the cabin, "It really makes one want to cry. How can someone be so heartless?"
"You're still talking about it?" Xu Le stared fiercely at the front end of the mechanical arm and said in a cold voice, "If you didn't take her on board, would there be such a problem now?"
Philip's voice suddenly became calm and serious as he said, "When I saw this scene, even I was deeply moved, so I decided to take Miss Zhong Yanhua on board the tri-winged warship."
A two-dimensional hologram appeared in the dim cabin. Xu Le frowned and looked at it. Zhong Huoyan turned her head and stood beside him. She also curiously looked at it, her fingers never letting go of the corner of his clothes.
On the hologram screen, in the cold winter wind, a little girl wearing an oversized woolen coat was slowly walking in the falling leaves and snow. The big school bag behind her seemed so heavy, and her steps seemed so strenuous. Her little face was red from the cold, but there was still a hopeful smile on her face. From time to time, she would blow two mouthfuls of warm air into her hands, stomp her feet, and squint her eyes to look at the sky, as if waiting for something.
Zhong Huoyan pointed at the hologram screen in surprise and said to Xu Le beside her, "That's me, that's me."
Philip's voice sounded again, and he softly explained to Xu Le, "At that time, you should still be preparing to escape from prison. She had already left the Nanxiang Manor and was walking through the streets of the capital. She had been to many places, such as the Xishan Courtyard, such as the Wangdu Apartment, just for the small hope of waiting for you. On the cold streets, in the middle of the night, she never gave up. She even tried to take a car to the port to find you."
Xu Le narrowed his eyes and looked at the constantly changing images on the hologram screen. He looked at the little girl who was shivering in the cold wind, squatting at the corner of the street and vigilantly watching the pedestrians. He didn't know why, but his chest was full of a sour taste. He couldn't imagine how the little girl who was alone and had no one to rely on spent so many days in such cold weather, and how much suffering she had suffered. He subconsciously stretched out his hand and tightly held the cold little hand next to him.
Zhong Huoyan smiled and let him hold her hand. She leaned against him contentedly, and her eyes narrowed into cute crescent moons. But in her heart, she was a little nervous and thought silently, in fact, she had been living very well these days, but why did she look so miserable and pitiful on the screen? Should she explain to her brother?
Just as Xu Le was about to say something, a deep male voice full of vicissitudes of life sounded in the space. The most unbearable and tragic memory of when he fled the Empire suddenly appeared in his mind. His face changed dramatically, and with lightning speed, he put the earmuffs on the confused Zhong Huoyan beside him, and then tightly covered his ears.
"The moon falls and the crow cries, it is always a thousand years of wind and frost. The sound of waves is still the same, but there is no night of that year. "
"Today, you and I, how should we repeat the story of yesterday?"
"Can this old ticket board your broken ship?!"
The broken tri-winged ship was flying at high speed on the sea, and the cabin was reverberating with the emotional chanting of ancient poems. After an unknown period of time, the chanting finally stopped, and at the end, there was a faint sound of Philip praising a little girl.
"Good acting."
Zhong Huoyan quietly and cleverly stood beside Xu Le. Her right hand stretched behind her back and gave a thumbs up. She praised in her heart, "Good camera."
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