translator: baumkuchen editors: serefina, glitterypanda
At 23:00, in accordance with the specified requirements, Chi Xiaochi turned in half a cubic metre of Naman metal which had been removed of cosmic radiation and rushed over to meet with Rosie and the others at the decided coordinates.
Most of the Naman metal contained in the stardust was taken by Chi Xiaochi, transformed into cold liquid, and stored in an empty cabin.
With these six bottles of fluid, Blue’s new body was settled at last.
Chi Xiaochi was in a rather good mood, but was unable to resist the double onset of drunkenness and sleepiness. After setting the target coordinates, he said to 061, “I’m going to sleep now.”
061 flipped open a book, “Last time, I read up to……”
Chi Xiaochi was truly exhausted. He reached out his hand and pushed forwards lightly several times, as if trying to cover someone’s mouth. “……I’m going to sleep, don’t fuss.”
061 was stunned for quite a while. Only when he heard regular breathing coming from a place close to his heart did Blue raise his hand, stroke his chest, and feel the subtle sound and movement coming from inside, spellbound.
……Why did he always have so many things on his mind?
He was too smart, and too tired.
……And he very quickly experienced the consequences of “thinking too much”.
It was only when he was surrounded by four specialised mechas did 061 finally realise that there had been people following them for a very long time now.
One of the dark red mechas holding a detector said confidently, “Yes, there’s a very strong Naman metal signal coming from his body.”
Another spider type mecha that was holding a laser gun sneered, “Quickly hand it over. One versus four, can your mecha carry this match? You should be able to calculate it.”
The other two mecha didn’t make a sound, but one infrared ray aimed at Blue’s knee, and another aimed at the power system on his back. If he tried to break through forcefully, he would be put down immediately.
And 061, or rather Blue, hadn’t planned on running at all.
Blue stood in the centre of the encirclement and said politely, “Shh, please keep your voices down. My master is sleeping.”
The spider mecha was amused. “It’s a high intelligence system.”
Blue stared at the detector in the dark red mecha’s hand and instantly analyzed its every function. “According to the rules, no one is allowed to bring in a detector with a radius of more than one kilometre. How did you people bring it in?”
The spider mecha clicked his tongue. His fingers pulled the trigger, sending a snow-white laser into Blue’s back waist.
Blue, clutching his waist, kneeled.
The spider mecha pressed the energy storage button of his laser gun. He said scornfully, “You speak too much. Hand it over, or else you’ll be scrapped here.”
The operator of the dark red mecha was a girl. She didn’t really approve of this kind of behaviour where one opened fire and used weaponry to rob others, but seeing the time tick by and no one in their four-person team being able to find even a fingernail-sized piece of Naman metal, who would be willing to resign themselves to failing?
She said, “Hand it over, and it can be counted as helping us out.”
Blue didn’t speak, nor did he pay her any attention.
The spider mecha threatened, “If you don’t hand it over, we’ll turn you into scrap metal, and then destroy your master’s distress signal transmitter. When the time comes, your master will have to lug along a metal lump and wander around here. Do you know the walking distance from here to the nearest monitoring point? A full ten kilometers. Do you know what you’ll meet on the road if you don’t have a mecha?”
They were all waiting for Blue to surrender.
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After scolding, he pressed the trigger once more.
This time, his target was Blue’s head.
If it was pierced through, Blue’s central core system would undoubtedly be destroyed.
Who knew that when the trigger was pulled, he wouldn’t see any light from the laser.
At some unknown time, Blue had already flashed to his side, his right hand ten centimetres away from the muzzle of his gun, and the laser was gathered into a ball, unable to move any further.
Blue released his left hand that had been pressed to the “damaged area”. In it, was actually a ball of laser energy which had yet to enter its body.
With a slight move of its hand, countless snow-white laser butterflies flew out of the joints in Blue’s mechanical fingers, going off in all directions.
Meanwhile, Blue stood, perfectly unharmed, in front of the dazed spider mecha, and bowed like a gentleman. “I’ve been impolite.”
Everyone was thinking, what the fuck is this damn defense system.
But instinct had already caused them to open fire, with their target, of course, being Blue.
But when those bullets, lasers, and piercing infrared lights reached Blue’s armour, they were all unable to move any further, and were all turned into broken fragments. If one looked closely, they would actually be able to see countless parsed streams of data flowing like water around its body and then dissipating.
Blue reached out a hand and pushed the infrared light that had been about to pierce through the weapon system on his wrist. “Ladies and gentlemen.”
The party of robbers blocking his path had already sunk into a complete daze.
Blue then twisted a laser beam, as if he was playing around with a soft rope. “……I just said, my master is sleeping.”
The two who used infrared guns had already sensed that something was wrong and tried to flee, but found that their power systems had already failed.
They could only forcefully restart their power systems. Who knew that they would then receive a string of error messages.
In their bewilderment, they saw a white laser butterfly leisurely fly past their visualisation system. In an instant, their visualisation systems failed completely.
……When had those things invaded their mechas?
By this time, Blue had already finished modifying all the ammunition. It said gently, “I don’t want to wake him up. So, I hope every one of you will take more care, and not scream too loudly.”
Then, it made a 45 degree bow.
The moment it bent down, the weapons and ammunition that had been frozen in mid-air, moved.
——The infrared rays penetrated the spider mecha’s movement power system, the laser gun exploded the dark red mecha’s detector, and the lasers shot through the other two mechas’ weapon systems.
As Blue rose back up, the other four mechas that had been shot into briquettes fell to the ground.
He looked around. After confirming that the four mechas had been thoroughly wrecked, and they couldn’t even get out of their cabins, he walked over to the side of each mecha, opened the cabins hiding their distress signal transmitters like he was opening the door to his own home, and placed a lock around them like he was placing birthday candles.
As Blue moved them, he said, “I heard from you, Mister Spider here say that the closest monitoring point is around ten kilometres away; as for what people without mechas will meet out here in the wilderness, I’d like to invite you, this good sir to slowly explain to your partners.”
The spider mecha had already begun to panic. “Give those back, give those back to us! ……I’m begging you!”
Blue ignored them. He got up and left, planning on letting them stay here until past midnight before letting them do anything else.
Four white laser butterflies landed on the four distress signal transmitters, fluttering their wings and fanning out a light ripple of data.
After walking for another ten kilometres or so, Chi Xiaochi woke up from his light sleep.
061 asked, “Did you sleep well?”
The interior of the cockpit was soft and comfortable, adjusted to the perfect temperature, and the surroundings were abnormally quiet. It could be said to have been a dark and sweet sleep, without a single dream.
“Not bad.” Chi Xiaochi comfortably stretched. “Blue, what time is it? Where are we?”
Blue carefully felt the movements of Chi Xiaochi in his body. His tone was incredibly gentle. “It’s 11:58 at night. There’s still a few hundred metres before we reach the coordinates of the set meeting point.”
Chi Xiaochi asked, “Did you meet anything on the way?”
Blue replied, “No, it was entirely safe.”
After the mecha wandered for a while, Chi Xiaochi suddenly heard a sharp electronic cry in the distance. When he turned to look, he saw four fireworks exploding in the sky, the beads of light dispersing, like a silver snake spitting out a message, a golden dragon roaring in the air. In the dark, it was especially striking.
061 let out a quick, light laugh.
Chi Xiaochi looked back at him, as if he had a feeling. “Liu-laoshi?”
“Ahem,” 061 coughed gently, “Looks like a team had an accident.”
Chi Xiaochi said, “Then this distress signal of theirs is really filled with a joyful spirit.”
061 didn’t manage to reply before hearing Rosie’s voice come from behind, “……Ji?”
He turned and saw, next to a nearby cliff, Rosie and her mecha Red together, raising their hands and waving at him.
Rosie yelled, “Xiaoqing just finished roasting a wild rabbit, quickly come over. Did you complete your task?”
Chi Xiaochi jumped out of his mecha and purposely said, “Nope, didn’t complete it.”
“That’s great,” Rosie wasn’t concerned. She looked back and shouted to the Wang siblings, “Keep the rabbit leg, just leave him the bones.”
Rosie was originally an easy person to get along with. After a short few hours, Wang Xiaoqing and Wang Xizhou had already gotten very familiar with her.
The three young men and women smiled together. Even Ji Zuoshan raised the corners of his lips, his eyes rippling with humour.
At the same time, below a cliff nearby, waves surged in Zhan Yanchao’s eyes. He clenched his fists even tighter.
It wasn’t like this before.
Before…… it was just Ji Zuoshan and him.
Ji Zuoshan had practically never smiled. Now, when he smiled, it was like an iron tree had bloomed, making people’s hearts move incessantly.
Zhan Yanchao was currently leaning on some rocks, watching balefully. Suddenly, he noticed Ji Zuoshan look around, as if he’d sensed someone spying on him. He immediately shrunk back behind the rocks, pressing down on his mecha’s head and chiding in a soft voice, “Don’t move! Lower your head!”
Seeing the regret value that had risen to 15 points, Chi Xiaochi didn’t say anything and walked up the cliff with Blue.
Zhan Yanchao greedily chased after the sounds of his leaving footsteps until he couldn’t hear them any longer, before he buried his face in his arms with reddened eyes and whispered, “Ji Zuoshan, come back.”
But his voice was too soft, to the point that even he himself couldn’t hear it.
His mecha looked down at him.
Zhan Yanchao sat there, dazed, for a moment, before suddenly thinking of something. He opened his mecha and went in, then gave an order, “Turn off the heat preservation, lighting, and somatosensory systems, only leaving the external warning system.”
Combat mechas would obey all of their masters’ orders without question. It naturally did as he said.
The entire world turned quiet.
Normally, Zhan Yanchao’s senses would merge with his mecha’s, and he of course wouldn’t feel anything. But now, all systems were on strike, leaving only a narrow, cramped, stuffy and dark cabin that was just like a coffin.
……Just like the coffin he’d had made for Ji Zuoshan.
He had always thought that this was just a minor punishment.
Within an hour, he began to get jittery, sweaty, and his heart started to palpitate. His eyes couldn’t see anything, so his thoughts began to run wild.
After two hours, he just felt like ants were biting him all over, and couldn’t help but start scratching the walls of the mecha with his fingers.
From the outside, his mecha asked him if he wanted to come out. In one breath, Zhan Yanchao said in a low, muffled voice that he didn’t need to.
After an unknown amount of time, the mecha felt strong pounding and struggling coming from inside. It immediately implemented an emergency plan and ejected the cockpit.
Zhan Yanchao rolled out of the cabin and collapsed on the ground. His clothes were transparent with sweat. After wiping at his face harshly quite a few times, he asked his mecha in a trembling voice, “What time is it……”
His mecha answered, “Master, it’s four.”
Zhan Yanchao’s entire body went weak. He stared up at the dark night sky before the dawn, thinking. He’d even thought he’d spent half his life in there.
No wonder every time Ji Zuoshan came out of the coffin, he would always be covered from head to toe in cold sweat, and his elbows would be black and blue from striking the walls. He’d even always blamed the other for being too finicky, not knowing to properly reflect on his mistakes and only knowing how to make trouble with him.
He rolled over so he was facing up, buried his face in his arms, and curled up in a ball.
What had he done……
The author has something to say:
I recommend the song 《I’m not a robot》, it really fits Liu-laoshi~
sere: 061 being the knight in shining armor (lmao literally though…)
baum: if you’re wondering about how the text keeps switching from referring to Blue as ‘it’ and ‘he’, it’s because sometimes it’s in Blue’s POV, and sometimes it’s in other people’s POVs.
The current target ZY seems to be more self aware than the previous ones. He seems more of a spoilt brat than a scum guy. I hope his ending isn’t TOO bad. 🤔
Yep I hope so :’)
Idk if he’d ever be good enough for Ji but I hope he can repent for good.
Liu-laoshi playing unfair game with naughty kids. Hehe
Can anyone resist CXC’s charm? Certainly not Liu-laoshi even if he’s become a robot, and me. Hehehe. His boundless charm even made people’s heart ache oof
Thank you so much for the chapter, Baum!
Thanks for the chapter (/^▽^)/~~*
Lol at those pitiful robbers, meeting with Liu laoshi is their greatest misfortune ah XD.
As for Zhao Yanchao, hehe, I won’t be satisfied until he’s coughing up blood and supporting a regret meter that’s at the maximum point (ಠ_ಠ)
Haha, I almost forgot the Zhan guy after all the sweet time with XCX and 061 :’D
Thx for the ch \(≧▽≦)/
I hate this current scum so much. I don’t care how he’s reflecting on his actions. Ignorance is no excuse, especially since he used to be deliberately cruel just to see where the host bottom line was. He can go fvck off and die.
I love that song, now in my heart it’ll be Liu-laoshi song
Thank you for the chapter!
Thanks for the update
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ZY realizing his mistake makes the regret value increase. I dont think JZS wont forgive him but i still hope he change at the end.
Thank you for the chapter
Hehehe Liu-laoshi is awesome. He certainly can be a great bodyguard.
Zhan Yanchao is reflecting on his mistakes, good for him, but he shouldn’t hope something more than indifference from Ji Zuoshan.
Thanks for the chapter!
It hurts me but at least he finally understood what he had done to Ji.
I’m a sucker for redemption arcs, so I love this. Suffer and learn Zhan Yanchao
Yesss
Those regret points better go up alot more than that for what he did to JZ. Arrgghh I’m so mad at that shielding system for lying to CXC. I was really hoping he would find out who mr. system was.
Glad the target is regretting what he has done, but I’m sure thats not all his karma.
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Thank you for the chapter ❤️
thanks for the chapter
Ugh I’m listening to Here with me by Marshmello, CHVCHES and it’s such a good song that I think suites Chi Xiaochi so much
Oooh, now he’s finally realizing how wrong he was. Good, please learn to understand just how serious it was, the stuff that you were doing to him.
It’s a hard way to learn how to be a human being, at least his very thwarted feelings where absolutely sincere, and this show he can learn the empathy he was seriously lacking, then he should know how to care…
I can’t find a single thing to save the previous bad guys, but i sincerely hope this one finds redemption and not only regrets
Ohhh, Zhan Yanchao gradually learns. Hope he becomes a better person too in this lifetime.
Thanks for the chapter! 💕
This regret is like a fine wine~ 🍷 ❤️
Gosh that song really DOES fit well😍
I hope someday if i remember i can make an animatic or something with this song and these two😭
Thank you for the chapter!!💜
At last… He has started to understand. Now I hope the next step will be to question WHY he was even punishing him whenever he felt like it.
It’s like this – just because a person feels regret for the horrible things they’ve done, do the people they’ve done horrible things forgive them? They aren’t entitled to it. (This brat spent his entire life believing he was entitled to JZS’s love and loyalty even though he wasn’t. He doesn’t deserve forgiveness, even if the things he did weren’t completely his fault.)
That said, I feel like the pain he feels from regretting his actions would be a pretty suitable punishment, so I don’t mind if he doesn’t face any outward consequences, if that’s what you meant by getting his karma.
Sorry for the long rant, went a bit off the rails there (・–・;)ゞ
I’m low-key angry right now? The author is making me sympathize with ZYC even though I know that him regretting the things he’s done doesn’t change the fact that he did do them, and dealt irreversible damage to someone he supposedly cares for in the process, and I hate that I’m even able to feel bad for him ughhh
why do i feel like there’s a chance of them getting together again? i hope not!
also, seems like we’ll never have older brother zhan appear again or a love interest for zoushan, so my intuition was wrong (?). 😅
Zhan Yanchao still have self-awareness and real ‘guilt’. But in terms of being with Xiao Ji again… I oppose it. Now that Xiao Ji unbind his shackles, he should just move on. His last life was very unfulfilling and he can make himself better now. Being with ZY again will only be a relationship full of guilt and anxiety. And I don’t think ZY learned the word ‘trust’ just like the synopsis of this world had stated. He’s still steps behind.
One thing I love about CXC is that while the host is his top priority, he always leaves the scum targets a way out. As in his punishments depend on what those guys choose to do if at some point they choose to reflect and work on themselves it will have a different result and example is the last guy who sent a group to attack when 061 asked what would happen If he didn’t do it cxc said he’d just end up with a haircut.
I’m glad to see that this guy is taking this chance to see that what he did was wrong unlike the other guys who only regretted what happened to themselves
That’s true. I just realised that too
I love me some toxic relationship to okaaaay. I want ZY to treat MC properly the next time. I hope MC can forgive and still love ZY.
i lowkey feel bad for this dude now
He can repent, can cry, can change himself slowly.. But getting together with Ji Zuoshan is a big no-no for me.. Ji Zuoshan had gotten rid of the shadow after such a horrible death once .. He should live freely now..
I like this haha I like this development! Now, even if JZ and ZY do not end up together 👏, at the very least, he would not abuse his future partner… hopefully. If he is truly changing and growing an awareness of the impact of his actions, then I wish for a not too bad ending for him 🙏 please 😔
This guy really is just so spoiled and ignorant but in love fr (still it doesn’t mean that he can be forgiven)
I think about this current scum male, he can regret as much as possible, but nothing will change the physical and mental torture he inflicted all these years on the baby, you know?
I think the music “I am not a robot” fits Ji Zuo Shan better, listening to it I imagined the things he had to go through, as if he wasn’t human.
I love that ZYC’s learning! I truly hope he stays away from JZS forever and lets him live in peace considering what he made him go through, but he seems like he’s not gonna be trash forever, which is nice. Wishing him good luck and a fuckton of regrets away from JYS
This kind of redemption is really satisfying!! Lol!! He really is too stupid to empathize with other (but still that’s not the excuse to torment people).
I hope he will experience more of that.
It’s glad to see ZYC realising his cruelty. He is well on his way to becoming a good person, but he shouldn’t expect getting back with Xiao Ji. If he had any sense left, he will know that the best thing he can ever do for him is to let him go.