Chapter 266: Aile’s Journey to Clean the Starry Sky

All along.

The Mechanical Servant has always had a strong sense of autonomy.

She is loyal and capable, but all her autonomy, all her actions, are primarily aimed at serving Xu Xi.

From the past until today.

The autonomy of the Mechanical Servant.

Has never been used for anything else.

But now, with Xu Xi already “asleep,” the Mechanical Servant must move forward alone, trembling with sorrow, continuously advancing.

She cannot accept that the revived Xu Xi would live in a still dangerous universe.

Even more so, she cannot accept that the creators of the cage, the murderers who repeatedly erased Xu Xi’s life, are still living recklessly.

She must, must do something.

Trembling, she turns around.

In a silence so quiet it’s terrifying, Ailei, with her back to the newly built mound, takes difficult steps forward.

She dares not look back, afraid she might not be able to leave.

That is not allowed.

Absolutely not allowed.

Once, Xu Xi would worry that the Mechanical Servant couldn’t see the stars clearly and would help clean the camera lens.

And now.

The Mechanical Servant will replicate this gentleness, cleaning the stars for Xu Xi.

“Master, Ailei will always protect you…”

The glow of the stars and moon covers the green plants along the way, but that beauty couldn’t keep the Mechanical Servant for even a moment.

She moves from light to darkness.

From warmth to coldness.

Leaving only a monitoring device to ensure the peace of the mound.

Then, activating all systems of the escape pod, using local materials to complete the equipment, she begins to create a new fleet of starships.

“Please wait for me… Master…”

To ensure maximum efficiency, Ailei abandons the use of a humanoid body.

Without Xu Xi now.

Continuing to maintain a humanoid form has no meaning.

She lies flat, letting her beautiful body enter the mechanical pod, lying quietly, closing her eyes.

From then on.

All computing power, all evolution, belongs solely to the high-dimensional Machine Soul itself.

Copying, stacking, infinite production and deployment.

Without Xu Xi’s presence.

The Mechanical Servant has become much colder than before, more aligned with the cold mind of a machine, efficiently controlling everything, producing a vast fleet of starships in an extremely short time.

Ailei leaves some starships to protect the planet where Xu Xi “sleeps.”

The rest.

Carry her Machine Soul.

Sailing into the cosmic starry sky in a spectacular formation.

…

Killing, destroying, plundering.

Enslaving, occupying, warring.

The main theme of the universe has never been peace and friendliness.

Among countless civilizations, there are indeed exceptions of goodwill, but such existences are too rare, too few to be seen.

When two civilizations meet at close range.

The stronger one, naturally, will ignore the wishes of the weaker one.

Technological civilizations.

Interstellar insectoids.

The Calamity of Intelligent Machines.

Cosmic behemoths.

…

The infinite universe, countless galaxies, filled with endless disputes.

This is a common occurrence.

But at some unknown time.

A special event occurred.

Hundreds of years later, a new Calamity of Intelligent Machines emerged, its scale and technological strength far exceeding the normal level of such calamities.

What’s even more unsettling is that this Calamity of Intelligent Machines specifically targets predator civilizations.

Civilizations with severe aggressive tendencies, fond of plundering and destroying weaker civilizations.

Could it be.

That this Calamity of Intelligent Machines loves peace?

“How, how could this be!”

“There are so many warp starships!”

“Madmen, these intelligent machines are all madmen, actually using warp starships for superluminal self-destruction!”

Many civilizations fell into despair and collapse.

The precious warp travel, in the hands of an unknown Calamity of Intelligent Machines, has become a toy to be discarded at will, smashing hundreds of ships at the slightest provocation.

Such dazzling explosions.

Are the collapse of gravitational distortions.

Weaker civilizations simply cannot survive a single round.

Soon, the Mechanical Servant’s Calamity of Intelligent Machines grew even larger, unprecedented in scale, and in the face of such absolute force, countless civilizations became amicable.

Just as all civilizations thought the Mechanical Servant would become a new dominant force.

The intelligent machine troops led by the Mechanical Servant.

Did something that left all civilizations dumbfounded.

It attacked the Starry Pasture of the Breeder Civilization.

A high-level civilization suspected of mastering space technology, beginning to involve dimensional levels, said to have nurtured countless star seas for higher breakthroughs.

Nurturing, harvesting, replenishing itself.

Again and again.

Harvesting the technological concepts of nascent civilizations.

Yet, such an inconceivable existence was attacked by the nascent Calamity of Intelligent Machines.

The Breeder Civilization was furious.

“How dare you, how could you dare!”

“Just a mindless machine, seeking its own death!”

Anger, rage.

The Breeder Civilization launched a counterattack, deploying a fleet of starships equipped with space technology, including numerous planetary fortresses and stellar energy reserves.

Even three neutron war stars as vanguards.

Such a lineup is undoubtedly powerful and world-shaking.

Without any suspense.

The Breeder Civilization, beginning to involve spatial dimensions, easily crushed the intelligent machine fleet still in the superluminal stage.

Everything, it is said, even the main computer of the calamity, was completely destroyed.

This event caused a huge uproar.

Some marveled at the strength of the Breeder Civilization, while others lamented the downfall of the Mechanical Servant.

Yet, four hundred years later.

The iconic intelligent machine fleet attacked again.

With even more advanced technology, equipped with devices suspected to be space weapons, resembling the starships of the Breeder Civilization.

“Master said, if I want to learn, I can learn anything.”

Ailei, reappearing.

Through past battles, she analyzed some characteristics of space weapons and produced an even stronger intelligent machine fleet.

Her consciousness elevated to a high-dimensional perspective.

Linking various parts of the starry sky from a俯瞰 perspective.

A sea of machines, overwhelming the stars, with an endless fleet of intelligent machine starships, bombarding the Starry Pasture of the Breeder Civilization.

With a nearly infinite quantity.

Shattering the high walls of the star sea.