Chapter 189: Chi Hong, do you feel tired?

Yun Sheng had a child, a girl.

They placed the wrinkly baby on Chi Hong's broad mechanical hand, looking at him with anticipation.

Chi Hong looked at the small bundle in his hand; he didn't cry or fuss, though he was a little ugly, he was unusually well-behaved.

The Logic Core glitched a bit; obviously... obviously they had just gotten married not long ago, right?

No, when did they secretly make this thing?

"Could it be... because I've lived too long?"

Having existed in this world for so many years, his database had already stored an unimaginable amount of data—about combat, about humanity, about philosophy.

After absorbing so much data, Chi Hong's Logic Core completed its self-update; at some point he had learned to think using the contents of his database, as now.

"Why does it feel like time is passing faster and faster?"

Chi Hong remembered a sentence Yun Sheng had said, and also the answer to this question.

"Because you've lived too long."

"You know, when you were two, one year was half your life; but when you're twenty, one year is only one-twentieth of your life."

"Do you understand it like that?"

Back then Chi Hong truly couldn't grasp the meaning of that sentence, but now he seems to understand it a bit.

Although time is equal for every object, Chi Hong really felt that time's passage was getting faster and faster.

Back then Yun Sheng was still that ten-year-old kid in front of him, but now he brought another child to face him, time seeming to have passed in the blink of an eye.

"Chi Hong, what do you think we should call this girl?"

"Hey! What do you think of the name Yunxiao?"

Yun Sheng had a sudden inspiration, this word popped into his mind, and the woman beside him also nodded interestedly.

"This is pretty good."

The woman smiled and reached out to link arms with Yun Sheng.

"Answer: The meaning of the name Yunxiao leans slightly toward male humans, but if applied to a girl it also fits fairly well."

"Alright, then let's call her Yunxiao!"

Yun Sheng looked quite excited; in life, nothing is more worth celebrating than a happy family.

However, although his daughter is a bit ugly now, she'll grow out of it, thanks to his hard work during this period.

"Yunxiao, come~ call Daddy!"

"Ababa..."

"Hey! So obedient!"

"Yun Sheng is now about to turn thirty, in his prime, his strength has reached sixth‑realm Mecha Engineer, and he can already pilot Chi Hong to handle a hundred‑meter‑long giant insect disaster on his own."

"The gap between sixth‑realm and seventh‑realm Mecha Engineer is a watershed; purely speaking of the ether stored inside a Mecha Engineer's body, a sixth‑realm can support a mecha flying in the air for one hour, while a seventh‑realm can basically fly without consumption."

"In other words, as soon as you enter the seventh‑realm Mecha Engineer rank, you truly count as a strong one."

"Judging by Yun Sheng's current situation, do you think he has a high chance of becoming a seventh‑realm strong one? Although his talent isn't exceptional, he is a down‑to‑earth hard worker; going this way, he will surely become a regional powerhouse."

"But... if only everything in the world would develop so beautifully; crises always arrive silently."

"Mechanical Age Year 90: the average centurial insect tide suddenly erupted; as a Major, Yun Sheng received the conscription order and had to go to the front to assist; this insect tide's scale was enormous—within just one day seven planets were simultaneously invaded by insect nests."

"This operation is extremely dangerous; as a prominent figure in the military, Yun Sheng not only has the callsign Odd Soldier, he himself is indeed an Odd Soldier."

"As a sixth‑realm peak Yun Sheng was naturally assigned an extremely dangerous mission; the higher-ups never thought he would fail, after all his fearless fighting style in earlier years had earned glorious achievements, and it was naturally assumed this task belonged to Yun Sheng, of course including Yun Sheng himself."

"Chi Hong, we're going out on a mission tomorrow...."

"Destroying the star‑void insect nest... I'm really being looked up to..."

Yun Sheng, in his new home workshop, looked at the intelligent panel before him and muttered to himself.

Little Yunxiao had already been lulled to sleep; having bonds and weaknesses, Yun Sheng frankly said he didn't really want to take this mission.

"But.... military orders are like mountains; he had no way to refuse."

"After so many times coming through, if this time we screw up it'll be hard to explain..."

Yun Sheng recalled the scene of fighting side‑by‑side with Chi Hong to the brink; the youthful fervor he had already savored thoroughly, a madman with ties is no longer a lone wolf, and a madman who is no longer lone—can he still go crazy?

Sometime his thoughts had changed; upon reaching thirty, about to enter middle age, Yun Sheng no longer with a youthful mindset acted more steadily, and of course he also had more considerations.

"Even if heaven favored him, he couldn't gamble with his life; who walks by the river often doesn't get wet shoes?"

"One or two times surviving shows he's lucky; one or two years without dying shows he has good fortune; what about ten or twenty years?"

"Addendum: Yun Sheng, in contemporary youth slang, what you're saying right now is setting a flag."

"You're so talkative!"

Yun Sheng punched Chi Hong's calf from behind, then fell into wistfulness again.

"Chi Hong, reckon up—you're already ninety this year, right?"

"Before you met me, what did you go through? I want to see."

Yun Sheng suddenly made this request; Chi Hong's Logic Core tried to organize, only to discover with surprise that some irrelevant data had actually been unconsciously deleted.

"Put in human terms, this seems.... to be forgetting."

"And as a machine, why would it have a forgetting function?"

"His database should have recorded everything exactly as it was."

"The Logic Core didn't understand, but he still summarized his log by yearly keywords and sent it to Yun Sheng."

"Half a moment....."

"Wow, that's a lot...."

Yun Sheng helplessly shook his head; everything Chi Hong had gone through seemed more tortuous than he imagined.

"Having gone through all this, Chi Hong, do you feel tired?"

The Logic Core was operating, summarizing, eliminating, and finally came up with a statement that even he himself did not expect.

"Answer: I.... am tired."

"Answer: If put in your human terms, I might... indeed want to rest......"