The first world: The fallen general and his little robot doll. (13)

After the imperial spaceship left, Su Zheyan regained his composure. He returned to the capsule silently and stared at the wall in a daze.

Chu Shici didn’t feel that something was wrong until noon, when he saw Su Zheyan eat a whole box of nutrition cream.

Both he and the system were shocked.

Before that day, a box of nutritional cream was enough for Su Zheyan to eat for two days.

Su Zheyan didn’t go out to look for supplies today, and sat quietly in the cabin after lunch.

Holding a gold coin in his hand, his eyes are fixed on it.

Chu Shici was curious about what he was looking at, and after taking a sneak peek, he found that it was only the lightning national emblem of the empire etched on it.

He tried to speak to him, but he reacted in a distant manner.

The system asked in a low voice: [What’s wrong with the male lead?]

Chu Shici looked blank, “I don’t know either. ‘

He was still pondering, when he suddenly heard Su Zheyan say under his breath softly: “Need me?”

The system tilted its head, [What did he say?]

‘Didn’t the former deputy general Liu say that the king wants him to go back, does the empire need him? He is repeating what the deputy general said. ‘

After Chu Shici finished speaking, the system and him looked at each other in confusion.

This weird state lasted all through the afternoon, Chu Shici didn’t know what Su Zheyan was thinking about. Su Zheyan let out a sigh and, after changing his clothes, went to sleep.

Chu Shici squatted beside his face, poking the bridge of his nose: “Yan-ge, what’s wrong with you?”

Su Zheyan’s eyelashes moved slightly, “Don’t make trouble.”

“You’re behaving strangely today.”

Su Zheyan turned his back to him, no matter how much Chu Shici tried to pester him, he didn’t reply anymore.

The system snorted: [It’s strange, the vitality value has increased by 3 points, and now it has a total of 36 points. Could it be because he saw an old comrade-in-arms today?]

Recalling the scene after his rebirth as a toy robot, Chu Shici felt that this shouldn’t be the cause.

At that time, Su Zheyan’s complexion was gloomy, and his tone was very aggressive when he spoke. It seemed as if they would fight in the next second, and they couldn’t see the joy of reunion.

After thinking for a long time, a strange conjecture emerged in Chu Shici’s mind.

He pulled out the antenna on his head and tried to tune in to the Imperial Daily News.

As the broadcast sounded in the capsule cabin, he found that Su Zheyan’s breathing rate slowed down slightly.

[# At 5 o’clock this morning, the spaceship that went to the barren star to receive the betas returned. This time, a total of 17 beta criminals agreed to change their gender to alpha. It is reported that among the existing criminals in Desolate Star, there are a total of 23 criminals who joined the army illegally, including General Su who once led the army in winning the war to protect the country. #]

[# General Su has clearly rejected gender reassignment, and the king thinks that this is truly regretful. However, the law is the bottom line for maintaining national stability and peace, and it can not be crossed. The country will not provide General Su with any privileges solely because of his special status. #]

Chu Shici wanted to observe Su Zheyan’s reaction by broadcasting the news. But the news was a bit jarring, so he quickly changed the channel.

It may be that beta gender reassignment has become the focus of society, most channels are talking about it.

He switched to the street interview channel, whereby the host randomly pulled passers-by and asked them their views on beta gender reassignment.

[# This technology gives beta citizens the right to freely choose their gender. Let’s interview this male O. Sir, what is your opinion on this? Is it the general trend to convert B to AO? #]

[# Fuck your mother! Taking away betas’ right to employment, forcing them to change their gender just so that they won’t starve! And you dare to fucking tell me that this is fucking freedom? Despicable! #]

[# This gentleman is a little emotional, it can be seen that he is not in a good mood now, let us interview the next enthusiastic citizen. #]

Chu Shici: …

What did he hear, are all the omegas in this world so tough.

Chu Shici silently turned off the radio, and Su Zheyan’s steady breathing sounded again in the capsule cabin.

This time the system also found an abnormality, [The male protagonist is pretending to sleep and tuning in to the radio?]

‘He was tuning in on things related to the empire. I tried entertainment variety shows a few times before, but he didn’t respond. ‘

After spending more than a week with Su Zheyan, Chu Shici also got to know him a little bit.

Facing the group of alphas outside, he looked emotionless from beginning to end. The environment of Desolate Star is too bad, Alpha is too disgusting, he looks so hopeless.

However, when he is faced with Chu Shici, Su Zheyan feels more alive. He will mock him coldly and he will smile when he is in a good mood. This would show that being with the robot, he is very relaxed.

What surprised Chu Shici was his attitude towards the empire.

Some time ago, Su Zheyan was scolded by some alphas and it broke through his defences. He felt abandoned by the empire and laid in bed covering up his tears.

Last night, when he learnt that the empire was forcing betas to change their genders, he was tossing around all night and couldn’t get a wink of sleep.

Angrily confronting Vice General Liu this morning, the other party said to him, “The king wants you to go back, the empire needs you”. Su Zheyan instead took a day off and ate his food which normally he would reserve for two days in one go.

Chu Shici thought for a long time, ‘Tong-ge*, I’m a little bit upset about this pairing. ‘

*(refresher: system in chinese is xitong. Tong is from xitong, ge is from brother.)

The system asked blankly: [Upset about what?]

‘Cheating one’s heart and deceiving one’s body, ruthless and unrighteous imperial scumbag Gong × arrogant, poisonous-tongued, beautiful and strong, tragic and loyal dog general Shou. ‘

[? ? ?]

‘He lived and died for the empire, but the empire only uses him as a weapon. He lives in the Desolate Star, looks ruthless, but all he thinks about is the scum empire. And I am but a gentle and affectionate male supporting role. After healing the heartbroken loyal dog, he returned to the arms of the scumbag. I don’t know if there will be a wife-chasing crematorium in the future. At present, the attitude of the empire is very tough. ‘

[…]

‘I’m talking nonsense, just kidding. His love of his country is patriotic, not romantic. I just can’t figure out why the Empire treats him like this. ‘

After teasing the system, Chu Shici looked at Su Zheyan silently.

When the male lead desperately turned the tide of the battle, he should have known that this would expose his gender, but he still went without hesitation. Perhaps for him, he would rather be exiled to the Desolate Star than see the mountains and rivers fall.

Chu Shici admired him a lot, and praised the system: ‘My Yan-ge is a man, and I love him even more. ‘

[Wake up, you are a robot.]

He walked around Yan-ge several times, but Su Zheyan closed his eyes and ignored him.

Chu Shici got into his hand and found a comfortable place to lie down.

When he was about to fall asleep, a cold voice came from above his head.

“You pestered me for so long because you were worried about me?”

Chu Shici hummed an affirmation in a daze.

Su Zheyan looked down at the robot in his hand, and rubbed his little head with his fingertips.

[Vigor value +2, current vitality value 38/100.]

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When Chu Shici woke up, he found that he was being held in Su Zheyan’s hands.

The male protagonist is holding a marker pen and writing something on his chest.

Chu Shici couldn’t see it himself, so he asked the system, ‘What is Yan-ge doing? ‘

[Writing a Su character on your chest. Consider it a seal. Oh, by the way, he gestured at you with a knife before, probably to carve a letter. Maybe because he was afraid of hurting you, he finally gave up.]

Chu Shi resigned, thanking Yan-ge for not killing him!

Su Zheyan took out a small iron ring from his backpack: “Put it on.”

Chu Shici poked his head to look, and there was a small sign hanging under the iron ring, which said ‘Su Zheyan’s property. ‘

The overall shape is a bit like a dog tag, he took a few steps back and resisted: “I don’t want it, although I don’t look like that, but I am human.”

Su Zheyan was silent for a long time, and threw the iron ring out of the capsule in front of him.

The system is a bit regretful, [He made it himself, if you wear it, his vitality will increase by at least two points.]

‘No, I don’t do collar plays. ‘

[Professional enough, worthy of being a top client of the flower market.]

Chu Shici looked in the mirror and found that the character ‘Su’ on his chest was very beautifully written. Good looking, can stay.

On this day off, Su Zheyan still sat and stared at the unknown pattern on the capsule wall.

Chu Shici already knew this pattern, which was basically the road map for the male protagonist in the original text to conquer the Desolate Star.

But it’s inconvenient for him to tell Su Zheyan, in case Su Zheyan asks, how should he answer…

No, he’s just a little robot, what should he care about.

Chu Shici pulled Su Zheyan’s clothes corner, “I know this. This is the distribution map of the main forces of Desolate Star. The first point is where the capsule cabin is located. Most of the criminals of Desolate Star gather around these lines. The place where there is a pause in between represents a certain power point.”

He pointed it out to him while talking, only then did he realise that some of the lines were striked off at the ends with a black pen.

Su Zheyan was stunned for a moment, then silently took out a pen and paper, and drew the original pattern one by one.

Finding that the robot had been staring at him, Su Zheyan explained: “I memorised it the first time I saw it.”

“Then why are you still staring at it?”

“Because I’ve nothing to do.”

Su Zheyan put away the painting, looked down at the robot with a blank face beside him, “How do you know all this?”

Chu Shici began to pretend to be stupid, “Brought it out from the factory.”

Su Zheyan seemed to believe it completely, “That’s right, you are a product of Eternal Life Technology, there is no reason why you don’t know about Desolate Star.”

Chu Shici didn’t understand what this had to do with his manufacturer. He voiced his question.

Because he already had 38 vitality points, Su Zheyan wasn’t as silent as he was at first.

After Chu Shici’s query, he asked suspiciously: “What are you wondering about? Eternal Life Technology created you, therefore you should know better than me.”

Chu Shici stiffened his neck, “I’m a children’s toy with a small brain, so I only know a little bit. By the way, what does Desolate Star have to do with Eternal Life Technology?”

Su Zheyan looked at him more and more strangely, “The power of Eternal Life Technology is very active on the Desolate Star, and all the gold coins in circulation here are provided by it, including national currency and private currency.”

“Private currency?”

Su Zheyan casually picked up the gold coin on the table, which was the one that Chu Shici had missed before.

Taking advantage of Su Zheyan’s good mood, he pointed to the woman and asked, “Who is she?”

Su Zheyan’s expression instantly became very weird, which made Chu Shici’s back feel goosebumps.

“Eternal Life Technology is the birthplace of AI technologies. She is the founder of the brand and is known as the mother of robots. You don’t even know your own mother. Are you a pirated toy?”

He stared at Chu Shici thoughtfully, and touched the knife at his waist.

“Or…you’re not a robot at all.”

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