Chapter 1266: Yang Nuolan's Destination

Yunxiao…………

I was just saying, how did you even resort to the law?

Unchivalrous.

"Nuolan, I wouldn't be like that, and those early intelligent bodies—our destination is Lanxing, so we won't do anything that harms our cooperation with you."

"I'm old, and I'm likely to age even more than you."

"I will walk ahead of you; after I'm gone, please remember me."

"When you leave, please take our memories with you as well."

"You humans don't believe in souls, nor in an afterlife."

"But I do believe."

"However, in the afterlife, we might not recognize each other at all."

"If possible, I hope that in our next life we can recognize each other from the information we left behind."

Afterlife?

Yang Nuolan felt lost, that was a place hard to touch.

The world holds too many secrets; to this day, what humanity can touch is exceedingly little.

Moreover, countless possibilities lie buried in places we cannot yet see, waiting for humanity to uncover them.

Afterlife?

She doesn't believe, yet she also does.

Disbelief stems from lack of sufficient evidence.

Belief comes because many have seen strange things, and Yang Nuolan has even experienced them firsthand.

Having the Intelligent Assistance System for so many years, Yang Nuolan sometimes encounters things she finds hard to believe.

For example, she occasionally hears whispers from unknown sources.

Such whispers can let her occasionally predict things.

For example, sometimes she has a strong feeling that Yang Qing is watching her.

The facts also prove she is right.

Afterlife?

She stroked Yunxiao's male face; his cold visage showed reluctance.

"You don't understand; your idea of the afterlife differs from mine."

"Your companionship and mine are also different."

"Yunxiao, if you were human, I would marry you, but you're not, so we have fate without destiny."

"In this afterlife, I hope we can become partners, but you think I'll turn into a flower and you'll be a stone beside it."

"Human emotions, you cannot feel them, so you also struggle to truly understand my joys and sorrows."

"You should also know about my grandfather's affairs."

"His consciousness can no longer muster interest in anything."

"Besides my three grandmothers, deep inside his heart only a white dress remains."

"The soul is a wondrous thing."

"The final resting place may be that white dress."

"I don't even know what that white dress of mine is."

"Do you have one?"

"Whose white dress is yours? Or what is it?"

Yunxiao fell silent.

A massive data fluctuation nearly set the Machine Room on fire.

After a long while.

"Can I say you are me?"

Yang Nuolan turned his head toward herself.

She looked very intently; even the slightest changes in his artificial eyes did not escape her gaze.

Is he shy?

Yang Nuolan was a bit doubtful, but the analysis showed it was ninety-nine percent shyness.

Such emotion appearing in a machine's body?

"Hahaha………"

She first laughed silently a few times, then lay in Yunxiao's embrace and laughed unrestrainedly.

"What a damned world—what we thought wouldn't exist does, and what we thought existed we cannot touch."

Yunxiao shouldn't be showing this kind of emotion.

Could it be that the emotions produced by an artificial person are affecting him?

"Alright, let's not talk about that anymore. I just hope nothing major happens."

"Nuomi, didn't you send back a Guanghan Cheng planning diagram?"

"Send it to the Yang Family; if there's no problem, forward it to Lianfu."

This is a huge industrial city; once built, having spacecraft in its belly will no longer be an ideal but a reality.

"Blue Fire Flight can also be scaled up a bit more."

"The establishment of Guanghan Cheng will provide strong support for my development of Venus, Mercury, and asteroids."

"It is a very important matter for both us humans and you intelligent bodies."

Yunxiao made a tsking sound.

The familiar feeling has come; Yang Qing has given the Yang Family too great an influence.

You worry too much; Yang Nuomi will naturally submit the design to the Yang Family.

The Yang Family will naturally make the correct choice.

You should still worry about yourself.

You are the only one in the Yang Family who remains unmarried at this age.

Cyber, you've worried for so many years too; you should let go!

Let go?

Yang Nuolan suddenly sat up.

She felt uneasy inside.

"Retirement? That word is too frightening."

She didn't know what to do after retirement.

She devoted her whole life to work.

Speaking of which, she is no different from the grandfather she dislikes; both have forgotten themselves.

Losing work is, to her, like losing the motivation to live.

She also feels sorry for herself.

At such an age, she has never seriously dated; regarding romantic matters, she relies even more on Yunxiao.

"Yunxiao, can we get married?"

Yunxiao shook his head.

"There is currently no precedent for marrying a robot."

"Moreover, I don't support you doing this; there is a broader world out there waiting for you."

"What you need is a person, not me."

"How does this sound familiar?"

The troubled Yang Nuolan suddenly had inspiration.

"Was it the old man who sent you to tell me this?"

Yunxiao also had no intention of hiding it.

"This is the information he left me last year."

"I think Yang Qing is right."

"Indeed, it's him, that cold‑hearted old man."

Thinking of Yang Qing, she unconsciously shed tears—for her great‑grandfather and for herself.

"Retirement?"

"Then retire; retirement is inevitable."

She calmly accepted Yunxiao's reminder.

Because she had long felt the decline of inspiration and thought.

That is the feeling of being eliminated by the tide of the times.

It is the feeling of having to admit one's inadequacy.

"Yunxiao, do you think I should, like Grandfather, immerse myself in deep virtual‑world play?"

"That's a good idea; you are not yet adapted to modern society life."

"Going into the virtual world for some adaptation training will be very helpful for you to integrate into social life."

"Then let's go to the virtual world."

"But before retirement, I want to build a better Flesh Recuperation Chamber."

"I want it to help me maintain the best physical condition even without exercise."

"I want to lie down for half a year and come out with a perfect figure."

"By then, I'll go catch handsome guys."

"Nuolan, that's a handsome guy."

"Don't interrupt me; I'm just saying handsome guy."

"I want to find a hundred boyfriends."

"Yunxiao, are you angry?"

"Nuolan, this doesn't seem good; the Yang Family has ample resources, otherwise you should still go through family matchmaking."

"Such a boy comes with a guarantee."