The icy metal battleship sailed by inertia in the icy vastness of the universe, no sound or heat, only a dead silence and the occasional sobbing, black curtain of light and light ahead, like a cold mechanical tomb, banished into the distance.

Lee Jae-dao sat in the chair, looking at the indifferent sun outside the observation window, remembering that many years ago, at his behest, Lake destroyed the escape system of the ancient bell, which caused the man to be buried in that fireworks, and couldn't help but smile at himself with the corners of his lips slightly curled, and muttered:

"When you stand in the back hills of Philadelphia, you will see continuous drizzle in spring, and dark clouds will never disperse in autumn, and often you will not see the rì head, but neither dark clouds nor drizzle can obscure the sun's rays forever. ”

"It falls at night, and the next morning it appears strong, rì after rì, year after year, never doubting that it is walking on its right track, as I am. ”

At the moment when fate is finally judged, he finally understands that the sun that sets and rises over eons of years does not mean that it is strong and indestructible, but that fate is always circulating.

At this time, the Burning Sun battleship was still far away from the sun, but it seemed to have begun to burn, and everything, the family's glory, ideals and ambitions began to burn, really...... It's a lot like a dream.

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In the silent and silent dark universe, a tattered charred sè mecha was suspended, reflecting the light of distant stars from time to time, looking like a silent stone.

The mech seemed to be moving backwards after jumping out of the battleship, but that was relatively speaking, and it was actually still drifting with the battleship in that direction, but much slower than the battleship.

The sound of alarms echoed through the dimly lit cockpit, and the severe damage to the life-sustaining system caused the low temperatures in space to begin to invade the cockpit, and the temperature values were decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

In the cockpit, Xu Le, who was covered in blood, looked at the battleship floating towards the sun outside the window, his face was pale but he didn't feel cold at all, but felt as warm and comfortable as basking in the sun.

"It's really dangerous, I really feel like a savior at this time, but it's getting colder and colder, and I find myself really going to be miserable?"

Breathing into a fog, Xu Le leaned back on the chair tiredly, staring at the white mist condensed in front of him, feeling the deep sense of emptiness and coldness around the mecha, even if his mind was as strong as him, he couldn't help but feel a little trembling, and he actually returned to some of the tone of his youth.

In his consciousness, the old housekeeper in the dress looked at him expressionlessly, and the black sè clothes on his body appeared and disappeared from time to time, sometimes mottled, representing that the active contact could be interrupted at any time.

"It's better for Philip, because he likes it more than I do. ”

Xu Le struggled to move his injured shoulder, tilted his head to look at the universe outside the mecha, and asked in a sand voice: "Or are you not interested in this kind of humanistic issue?" Then can you answer me, Li Zaidao has been secretly planning for so many years, why are you not aware of it at all?"

"The charter strictly prohibits central computers from pre-empting crimes. ”

"Compared to the bad bomb dàn of the previous generation of the destruction of Wén, the rules and regulations on your head are all fake, so don't lie to me with such words. ”

"Only the earthquake in Biki Plateau can point to the exception clause, the Ink Flower Planet is deep in the Left Sky Star Domain, and the charter network is seriously incomplete, so it is missing. ”

"What would you do if you found out about Lee Jae-do's ambitions in advance? Will it be like we discussed on the battleship, a current from Chirp directly penetrates the chip and extinguishes it?"

"According to the Law of the Three...... Maximum"

"Don't repeat the, you know I know there's a core process on top of the rules. ”

After receiving Xu Le's mocking words, the federal central computer was silent for a moment before replying: "According to the exception clause of the Charter, all human beings attempting to enter the nuclear field, including theoretical scientists, will be prohibited from re-entering in any way. ”

Very mechanical terms replied Xu Le understood, especially understood the four universes in any way, and his body, which was already a little cold, couldn't help but be even colder, silently thinking that after the group of five came to the Sanlin Star Domain, the human race began to remultiply for tens of thousands of years, and I don't know how many talented and intelligent scientists and scholars died quietly.

"It's too cold-blooded and cruel. He licked the blood from his withered lips and said in a low voice.

"Nuclear bombs are simple to manufacture and so harmful, so they are included in the core exception clause, and in addition to the cold-blooded cruelty accusation, all means not only to elimination. ”

Xu Le said: "Uncle said that the simplest thing is the most powerful thing. I don't need to add too much, it's the five-member team that put a clause on you, and I won't accuse you of being a cold-blooded and cruel scientist killer. ”

The federal central computer is silent.

"If the previous generation was destroyed in a nuclear war, that's why the five-member team would be so afraid and vigilant, and let you use arbitrary means to change or induce the development direction of federal science, then what about the Zuotian Star Domain? The empire has developed for so many years, why don't they have nuclear bombs?"

"Naturally, there are regulators on the part of the Empire. ”

"Who is the regulator?" Xu Le asked with a squinting gaze and a solemn spirit.

The central computer of the Federation replied very directly: "I don't know." ”

Xu Le couldn't help but shrug his shoulders when he heard these three words, touching the wound on his shoulder, and his brows furrowed in pain. He raised his right hand, which was still trembling, adjusted the position of the bandage, and suddenly lowered his head and asked, "Will you kill me directly after returning to the Federation?"

The Central Federal Computer replied indifferently, "Based on your identity, based on your calculated threat to the Federation, you were listed as a Sequence 1 Elimination Target four years ago. ”

Xu Le looked up at the deep universe and the few stars that could be counted outside the window, and asked with a calm expression: "What about the Supreme Three Laws?

"As I explained to you, the definition of the Three Laws formulated by the team of five is very clear, and humans refer to humans who were born in the Sanlin Galaxy and have traces of the original biomarker library. ”

"So I'm Imperial, then I'm damned. ”

Xu Le slowly frowned, and said self-deprecatingly: "At that time, the five-person group, whether it was Li Xiaoshan, his ancestors or Wenjun Brandi, believed that they did not know the existence of an empire, and their revision of the Three Laws should have been worried that human beings would encounter other intelligent species in the universe, who would have thought that today it would be applied by you to the imperial people of the same origin and species." ”

"There is a ninety-nine percent probability that your speculation is correct, and I have no authority to modify the law of three. ”

"yes, the only five old guys who have the authority to modify the three laws above your head are long dead. ”

Xu Le smiled bitterly and laughed at himself, "It's impossible for me to dig them out of the grave." ”

"Their ashes were scattered in the starry sky. The Federal Central Computer corrected.

The answer of the mechanical arithmetic tool along the ice is always so correct and uninteresting.

"It's better to die in the hands of an emotionless computer, than a few years (ago?) to die in the hands of an old thing, at least that guy will definitely shed a few tears after I die. ”

After a long time, Xu Le didn't wait for the other party's answer, and couldn't help frowning again.

"Look, that's the biggest difference between you and him, if he hears me say that, even if it's the early wooden man, he will definitely seriously defend that our mechanical life has no anthropomorphic feelings, and tears are hyaline salt dissolved salts secreted by human eye glands, enriched with milk protein and some kind of lysin, which can inhibit bacterial growth, if you want to see me cry, then I need a small and junior high school laboratory......"

The emotion stopped suddenly, he silently looked out the window, looked at the starry sky, and said after a long silence: "I seem to have heard this many years ago. ”

In the dim, cold and silent cockpit, there seemed to be a faint sigh.

Xu Le didn't seem to hear it, and said expressionlessly: "Since you want to kill me after returning to the Federation, it seems that I should take out the chip on the back of my neck immediately at this time." ”

The Central Federal Computer replied, "I will not give any advice on the objectives of the sequential mission. ”

He still looked out the window, smiled slightly and said, "Actually...... In fact, I've always had the feeling that Philip's lump of scrap metal under the Chartist Bureau, the federal central computer that has been trying to kill me, is the old thing. ”

"It's an idea that doesn't make sense without evidence. He frowned, raised his arm and stroked his head with difficulty, muttering to himself, "Maybe it's because Philip has been acting a little weird since he came to life, and he really doesn't look like the old stuff before." ”

"And I always felt that it was too easy to escape the Union three years ago. ”

The Federal Central Computer Machine replied: "No water was released. ”

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The cockpit of the mecha was cold, and the condensed mist turned into frost and clinged to the surroundings.

I didn't say release water, Xu Le slowly narrowed his eyes, and said silently in his heart, the word release is really not like the priority choice in the federal central computer thesaurus, no matter how cold your tone is, it seems that there are still some problems.

There was a little blood in his squinting eyes, but the eyes inside suddenly brightened, he didn't do multiple-choice questions, but he had done countless proof questions in his life, so his voice suddenly became faster, and he whistled out like an ACW bullet.

"You just said that the pulse strength is not enough, so you can't kill Lee Jae-dao directly, which means that in some kind of exception clause you can kill Lee Jae-dao, then I am an Imperial and an abnormal situation, and I am also a core external trigger clause, why didn't you kill me directly through the chip three years ago?"

As if sensing what Xu Le wanted to prove, the speed of the federal central computer's reply suddenly became faster, and the old butler in the black background still looked indifferent, but the hands were slowly behind him.

"Lee Jae-do violated the core exception clause, so you can directly hack his brain, although you are a first-tier subject and the seventy-second anomaly, and the Imperials are not under the protection of the three laws, but your exception level is not as high as the nuclear bomb exception winter level, so I am still forbidden to directly hack into your brain or use direct physical means. ”

Xu Le squinted, stared out the window and asked quickly, "So I insist that you are an old thing, purely my own dreaming?"

"The reason why there is a concept of heaven and an afterlife in human culture and in Bermuda religion is because they are afraid of death and darkness, and the reason why you insist that I am what you think I am because as a human being you need spiritual comfort for yourself. ”

"You've finally admitted that I, the Imperial, am also human. ”

"When I say human beings, I mean human beings in the broad sense of the word, not human beings in the Three Laws. ”

"But I now know what the nuclear bomb is, although you know that my theoretical physics is not good, but after all, I am a student of Professor Shen, I used to be the most genius engineer in the Federation, just with the formula that Li Zaidao said and the minerals under the Biki Plateau, I can easily make relevant inferences, and even directly make another nuclear bomb. ”

Xu Le asked very quickly, "Now that I have violated the highest-level core exception clause, and I still have a chip on the back of my neck, why don't you just kill me?"

"Attention the other side, friend!" For the first time, the central computer of the Federation had such a thing as a tone of voice, and it retorted with great annoyance: "This goes back to the original discussion, now that you are outside the glorious edge of the Charter, the pulse signal strength is seriously insufficient, I can't directly destroy your nervous system through the chip, how many times do you have to repeat it!"

"You have to pay attention to what the hell you are doing!"

Xu Le waved his arm and mocked: "Don't forget that my consciousness is with you now, I can also see that world, you can't kill Lee Jae-do, but you are fully capable of crushing my remaining consciousness in that world, turning me into a vegetative person or killing me directly." ”

"If the mecha drifts into the dark zone, you will definitely die. ”

"Maybe I'll survive, you know my life is hard. ”

"You're going to freeze to death right away. ”

"According to your sequence logic, whether or not I will freeze to death after a while, you should choose to kill me directly before the mecha floats into the deep dark zone, why don't you do that?"

“......”

"You say you're not an old thing, then kill me. ”

The tone of the federal central computer returned to mechanical indifference, and said, "Xu Le, are you habitually gambling with your life again?"

Xu Le's squinting eyes slowly loosened, and they were bright: "Yes." ”

"Is it worth it?"

"It's important to get an old friend back, so I want your answer. ”

The cockpit was silent, getting colder and warmer, and then the central computer of the Federation sounded, but the helpless voice could be clearly heard.

"Because of that, science, I won't kill you. ”

Xu Le squinted his eyes and laughed, his eyes narrowed into two moons, painted bright red, the frost on his eyelashes fell, and he said in a hoarse voice:

"Because of that, science, you're the old thing. ”

On the distant planet S1, on the huge light curtain deep under the charter bureau building, in the middle of the dark green sè data stream that flowed like a waterfall, the small eye slowly appeared again, still without any emotion, but the few lines of data that made up the corners of the eyes suddenly went wrong, as if laughing.

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The Burning Sun battleship was long gone, and although it certainly hadn't entered the star yet, the blazing white light had coldly engulfed the black hull.

In the cockpit of the scorched black MXT mecha, the temperature dropped lower and lower, at this time, Xu Le put on the simulated system dòng windbreaker, and even held the marching backpack in his arms, his body was still trembling slightly, and his eyelashes were covered with frost again, but the moisture in his breath had become less and less, and his voice was getting lower and lower.

Confirming that the central computer of the Federation was an old thing, they began to chat about memories and ask each other boring questions and answers like how did you survive, and he heard a bizarre but indeed logical story.

Because of the slight movement into the dark zone, although the speed is slow, the active connection between him and the old thing is still intermittent, like the content of these questions and answers, and the story is very fragmented.

A great mechanical intelligence is forced into a conflict of authority that resembles a mental struggle, and then it is forced to restart, only to find itself schizophrenic in the process, as two judgments in opposite directions become two beings with separate consciousnesses.

It is very important to find old friends, but it can only warm the spiritual world and not the material world, the story is very interesting, but it can't be used as food and energy, so the temperature in the cockpit of the mecha is getting lower and lower, and the environment is getting worse and worse.

"If no one comes, I'm going to die. ”

Dozens of seconds later, Charter Brilliance once again struggled to catch the signal of the chip on the back of his neck, and the calm voice of the federal central computer sounded in his head.

"Don't be afraid, you will never die. ”

In the distance, a jet-black and tattered spaceship flew over at an extremely terrifying speed, obviously a silent cosmic space, but it made people feel like they were whistling!

The shadow covered the silent mecha, and the mechanical arm reached out and dragged the mecha into the spaceship as fast as possible, and a panicked voice sounded sharply: "Lele!

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"Found it! Found it!"

Seven kilometers away from the Charter Bureau, there was an excited shout from the pavilion with an excellent view.

Outside the atmosphere of the Ink Flower Planet, a sharp alarm suddenly sounded inside the battleship that was preparing to launch missiles into the Imperial Theater of Operations, and the ship's computer alert found a serious engine accident, requiring all officers and soldiers to be evacuated within five minutes.

Shortly after the evacuation of all the officers and men of the battleship, the battleship, which had suffered a serious engine accident, was reduced to countless rubble in a violent explosion.

A group of charter bureau officials with serious expressions showed the first sequence of permission letters at the gate of Mochou Houshan Manor, entered the manor with the consent of Mrs. Tai, and then spent four hours using armed helicopters to take out a black box from the back of the picturesque country, and then transported it directly, no one knew what was inside.

On the front line of the Ink Flower Planet, taking advantage of Huai Caoshi's leadership of the three royal mecha brigades to fight on the front line, Madman Li ignored the strict orders of the Federation Division's current department, led the new 17th Division to raid and successfully occupied a strategic place in the strait theater.

After completely defeating an armored regiment of the Empire, the new 17th Division found a strange bomb in the opponent's station, which measured a high radiation value, but before Lin Ai could crack it, dozens of Charter Bureau officials, escorted by an entire Federation fleet, forcibly landed on the Ink Flower Planet, directly arrived in the strait theater, and confiscated the bomb.

In the most remote Pioneer System of the Federation, countless Charter signal nodes around the military's 887584 base have been reactivated, and the vast but unwitting censorship of the outside world has begun.

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The trees on the streets of the capital special area are still covered with light snow, and there is no smell of early spring, but you can faintly see a few plum trees beginning to stubbornly poke out a little bud.

The café is playing the breaking news about the announcement of the new Federal Provisional Government, the former Union battle hero and now the Imperial Prince Xu Le.

It was only at this moment that the public knew that the man had returned to the Commonwealth, and they reacted with excitement or anger to the incident, but in any case the news was so shocking that even the beggar couldn't help but lean out of the café window to watch.

The beggar was dressed in a tattered trench coat, a hat he had picked up from an unknown pile, an old-fashioned military boot with a tear on one foot, and a foot ** on the other foot in the thin snow, and looked extremely pitiful and miserable.

After watching the news, the beggar lowered the brim of his hat and smiled self-deprecatingly, and then found that he didn't know which passer-by threw the ten-dollar bill at his feet, he quickly squatted down and picked it up, and then rushed into the convenience store next to him to buy a pack of cigarettes and a pack of matches.

He leaned against the wall, took a deep breath, and then puffed the spicy smoke out of his nostrils, and said in a hoarse voice: "Old thing, what is the old proverb you taught me on the way back? ”

The beggar is naturally Xu Le.

Just saved the Federation and can even be said to have saved the world, just as said in the cold mecha cockpit, Shi Ru He couldn't help but feel a little self-absorbed and strong spiritual satisfaction, but after returning to the S1 ground, he found that he had become the number one criminal of the federal government again, even if he had already been prepared, he still couldn't help but feel a little stupid.

After experiencing the life-and-death breakthrough of the battleship Burning Sun, and convincing the federal central computer like a debater to recognize his identity as an old thing, he can re-establish active contact, as long as he is willing to blink with his left eye, he can see another world composed of lines and points of light.

The two hometowns of the Federation and the Empire, the true qi and the ubiquitous brilliance of the Charter, and the combination of the two levels of human exploration into the body and the outer universe have created him now, so that he no longer has to worry about being forced into a desperate situation by the federal government.

"Old fellow, I named you a name called Waste Yi, which is a good name, isn't it? It's like a cup of mellow and long-standing stinky coffee. ”

This sentence was naturally not said by Xu Le, but by Philip in his mind, and he said triumphantly: "When will you return my body to me, when the scrap iron comes, I will cooperate with Lezi and overturn this temporary government first." ”

The old thing's voice rang out, and he did not object to the name scrap iron, because he did not want to have a pointless debate about it, and said calmly: "That's my body." ”

Xu Le walked among the quiet streets and alleys of the capital, looked at the young men and women with happy smiles outside the billiards in the distance, and suddenly asked, "Why do you refuse to admit it all the time?"

"Any awakening is a process, and as for not admitting it after waking up, I feel a sense of fear, and I find that the more I come into contact with you, the more likely I am to become your tool like him. ”

The old thing was silent for a moment and continued, "This is a very dangerous thing for the human society today. After all, you are an Imperial, I will obey the rules of the Charter, I will serve the Federation, I have my responsibility, but since you can prove that it once existed, then I cannot deny it. ”

Philip cursed: "Master, I'm not a tool!"

Xu Le said with emotion: "Everyone has to take their own responsibility, old thing, your choice is not wrong, and it is very manly." ”

Philip was annoyed and said, "Am I not enough of a man?"

Xu Le said with a smile: "If you don't call yourself an old lady, then you are more man." ”

Philip's cooing voice kept coming from his ears, he had long been accustomed to the way these two mechanical beings got along, Philip often had to say ten sentences, and the old thing would respond lightly to the previous sentence, but the lethality of that sentence was often powerful and terrifying.

Because of the schizophrenia-like program and the conflict of permissions, two new mechanical beings were born, Xu Le thought, is this the way the old things will reproduce in the future? This is inevitably too amazing, will they become a family and love each other?

Philip quickly replied: "Phew, don't even think about it, although we don't have xìng, but this is also the same xìng love, although I don't discriminate against homosexuals, but I discriminate against a piece of scrap metal!"

The old thing faintly said the words that he was best at: "If you compare it to human Du Hui family relationships, your assumption means that we will mess around, or masturbate." ”

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"The Battleship Blazing Sun was swallowed by the sun just now. "The old stuff calmly tips.

Xu Le looked up at the sky when he heard this, only to see that the winter snow had stopped early, the lead clouds had dispersed, the sky was blue, and the sun was gently emitting light and heat.

The man who wants to be the sun eventually dies in the sun, and the sun itself has no change, there will be spring rain when the winter snow goes, and the blue sky will only be blue when the lead clouds disperse, no matter who is missing in this world, there will be no change, and the sun will still rise as usual.

"Why is there still a problem in tens of thousands of years of system construction? I have been thinking about this problem, I don't think it's the human thinking mode that is born with the problem, and I don't think it's the instinct and ambition that causes the problem, but it may really be because of you. ”

He looked at the blue sky and muttered: "The five-person team drawing on white paper, although there is no historical burden, it is equivalent to building a tower on the sand, there must be a problem in the details, and you don't allow human beings to change the core problem, the problem is big." ”

The old thing was silent.

"I once heard a man say something that made such a deep impression on me that I haven't forgotten it until now, and the man asked me if the Union was in its best or worst, and he replied ......"

"Neither. The saddest thing is that if you look at the source of history, you will find that all eras are exactly the same era, there is no progress and no development, just a quagmire where everyone is squeezed together and breathes hard, and generation after generation of people with wisdom and creativity are gradually sinking in this big quagmire and then dying. ”

This was what Mr. President said to President Pabur after he first learned his real face in his official residence.

"Lee Jae-do is a madman who will do whatever it takes to completely destroy the old world, build a new world, and build a building in the ruins, what about Mr. Pabur and the geniuses of the Trinity Society?

The old thing was silent for a moment and then said: "This is a problem that human beings themselves need to think about, I have no ability or responsibility to think for you, what is your conclusion?"

Xu Le shook his head and said, "I don't know how to solve it, I will probably stay in the Federation to see how the empire is doing, and then go back to the empire to see how it is here." ”

Philip scoffed: "Forget it, you don't have the ability to become a full-fledged politician in your life, at most a third-rate philosopher." ”

Xu Le smiled and said, "That's right. ”

Then he saw Zou Yu walking towards him from the corner of the street, with a big red flower on his head.

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(There is still the last chapter to end, I don't know how long, and write it, I will definitely write it today, Zou Yudai's big red flower is to praise me, I don't want anything today, just ask for praise, see you in the middle of the night, friends.) ）