don't talk to aliens

Taiwei Youyuanyi is an AI, and he is not very talkative AI.

For some reason, its owner rarely exposes his true face, name, and everything in the past to others.

So more often, it just silently records everything that it has 'seen' through the internal chip for a long time in a half-off state.

During this period, as a mechanical life, it is difficult to truly resonate with the emotions between humans.

But with so many years going by.

Taiwei Youyuanyi sometimes wonders what kind of person is his master who is bound to his thoughts and actions.

199X.

It is the place where Taiwei Youyuanyi, as an AI, officially starts working for human beings.

This represents the beginning of its life.

It also means that there is a human being in this world who is about to become the only master in this life who is connected to the terminal of its neural chain reaction.

Prior to this, 'it' did not have the actual human-machine form.

But later, a couple separated it from a host computer named 'Beidou' at the Qinjiang Base Station and took it away as a backup data.

Beidou.

It is the core host of Qinjiang, an amazing city.

Just like the most important host of a computer.

As long as Beidou is still there, even if Qinjiang, a huge city composed of integrated circuits and extensions, is destroyed, it will definitely be rebuilt one day in the future.

People in Qinjiang regard Beidou as their hope, and everything begins with the story of Beidou's creation.

It was the first pair of human beings that Taiwei knew as soon as he opened his eyes.

The man is a beautiful man with outstanding ability and admired by everyone, known as the general.

The woman is a very gentle human being, the general's wife.

They live in Qinjiang, a city where technology has developed to an incredible level overnight since the 90s.

Right now, the couple is about to have their first and, in the future, their only child.

The couple are anxiously looking forward to this, and through the memories of 'Taiwei' at that time, they are preparing all this for the child who is about to come into the world. From the name to what to do in the future, they are full of joy.

What kind of person would that be?

own future master.

This question filled Taiwei's memory for the first time, but soon his wife's labor period came, and he saw the general's son for the first time in a hospital in Qinjiang.

This is the first time Taiwei witnessed the birth of a human being.

Unlike mechanical life forms, the birth of living things is a very laborious and respectable process for mothers.

The general regards "it" as the first gift to his son when he came to this world, hoping that in the future Taiwei will always be with him and help him become a great person.

This wish, in the next 20 years.

It is also about to become Taiwei's biggest target as an AI.

Although initially, the process of getting to know that person was not friendly.

On the contrary, Tai Wei once felt that this guy was not so suitable to be a hero.

Because in the 11 years since his birth, Tai Wei could see this guy every day when he opened his eyes, watching him grow up and become a teenager.

Unfortunately, his character is really bad.

What's more, it's the kind of bad guy who makes Taiwei even have an AI, and can't understand what he is dragging around from morning to night every day.

The first time Taiwei met him as a combat man-machine, this guy looked at something annoying when he saw its existence.

At that time, Taiwei realized that he and this guy were destined not to have a good understanding.

And because of his refusal.

Even as the master, he should have given Taiwei a name.

But at that time, he didn't take it, but kept facing Taiwei as if he was treating something that didn't exist.

Without a name, Taiwei has no way to work as a real AI.

Although the son of the general and his wife is destined not to be a bad guy.

On the contrary, as long as you don't intentionally cause trouble, act like a bad guy, or, relying on your own intelligence and excellence, you can do something that will make the general troublesome.

This guy with a stinky face all day long like he hates everyone approaching, and a cold personality is actually quite likable.

Even if he doesn't speak much, he always cares about others and understands what others need.

Moreover, I also know that on my mother's birthday, I planted a roof of her favorite lilac for her.

Those faint, but very unique scented lilacs.

Later, it became a landscape above the general's house.

Every flowering season, the wife would stand upstairs in her house, look at the flowers and smile gently, and then wait for her husband to come home.

If that boy was just an ordinary person who insisted on his own ideas, proud but ordinary, then many of the later stories would not have happened.

But sometimes fate is just magical.

This is the first story in Taiwei's memory about the boy and others.

It was 199X, a night in October.

A nameless disaster that shocked future generations just happened.

Afterwards, Tai Wei thought over and over again what the cause of the geological disaster was and how it came so suddenly. But at that time, this disaster was devastating to Qin Jiang.

Overnight, base stations, cities, and civilians were all swept up in havoc by the earthquake.

Forty thousand civilians fell into the ground overnight and disappeared.

This includes Madam, and the general who later rescued the civilians trapped in the ground with an aircraft in the first line of sky, but also received bad news ten hours later.

As a hero, the general's life was doomed from the very beginning, and one day in the future he was doomed to walk on such a path.

Everyone knows this in their hearts, but the death of his wife has become an unforgettable event in Taiwei's life.

Taiwei remembered very clearly that it was raining heavily that day, and all the artificial light sources in Qinjiang were cut off at that moment.

The sky and the whole world were plunged into unprecedented darkness.

There are only a lot of dazzling lights coming out of the ground, and the cry of an animal that makes it difficult to see.

In the house collapse and cracks caused by the earthquake, all the disheveled survivors who barely crawled out of the rubble were crying and looking for their families.

But in its memory, the boy who was also trapped in the earthquake ran desperately in the heavy rain, knelt down and tried to find his mother from under the mud.

Just two hours ago, with both feet already sunk below the ground, he firmly grasped a steel bar when the house sank, and relied on it to climb up again.

But it was only by luck that he climbed up desperately, only to find that the others had sunk.

The first time he witnessed all this, he began to try to rescue those who had been pulled down by the crack, but no matter what, more and more people were rescued, without his mother.

This is the first time in memory, Tai Wei sees him showing such an expression.

Fear, trance, almost trembling in pain all over the body, and the determination to persevere through gritted teeth.

That year, he was only 11 years old.

But he didn't cry from beginning to end.

It was as if he could never give up looking for those hopes until the last moment.

During the process, more and more survivors gathered together and started crying because of the boy's actions, while digging the ruins below.

Unfortunately, it was not until five hours later that his wife's body was dug out from the ground, and his hope was completely shattered.

Madame is dead.

The general followed suit and left.

In the end, he did not leave a word to his wife and son about how to inherit his ideals in the future.

But he was covered in blood and dust, and his organs were about to stop functioning, but he supported and waited for the boy's arrival.

He also left the Big Dipper on his only military medal to his child, and for the first time reluctantly called him by his full name as if he were a real adult.

"..., you did very well today, well, you will always do this in the future, you know."

That was the first time Taiwei heard the general call the boy by his name.

The general had never taken the initiative to call his son by his full name before.

He is a strict father who sometimes lacks a little tenderness.

When he and his wife gave birth to this child and gave him this name, they entrusted infinite tenderness, and because of this, at the end of his life, he seriously called his child again.

That night, outside the martyrs ward of Qinjiang Hospital.

No one knew how the son of the general who lost his parents among the 4 people lay motionless on the cold ground all night.

Only Taiwei who was already bound to him saw it.

He even saw the stubborn and stubborn appearance of him covered with scars, covering his eyes tightly and not letting himself shed a tear from the beginning to the end.

Ordinary people may only be immersed in the shadow of a lifetime when they come here.

After all, the impact of this disaster is lifelong.

Even after that, the people of Qinjiang themselves almost dispersed.

But to Tai Wei's surprise, it only found out later that this is actually the real beginning of this story.

December 199X

five years after the disaster

Qin Jiang fell into a long period of losing contact with the outside world due to the complete interruption of communication and the magnetic field chaos caused by the attack of an unknown disaster.

At the same time, the 16-year-old boy started his first wandering in the first half of his life alone on the ruins.

At that time, Qin Jiang was not in place in time because of the post-disaster security.

The city fell into chaos, there were so many refugees and beggars, no one cared who you were, as long as you could survive, everyone began to struggle desperately on these collapsed steel and metal buildings.

So for the first few years, everyone here was really, really bad.

It is hopeless for a normal, young young man to grow up in a ruin that the whole world has no choice but to abandon.

What's more, he has no money on him, and he has to face those ordinary people who are besieging him from time to time for scrambling for post-disaster supplies. This is an ordinary person saved by his parents who sacrificed their lives.

In such an environment, people can easily become bad.

If disease and violence are the soil that is most likely to breed evil, Qin Jiang at that time was shrouded in such a shadow.

Taiwei worried more than once that the boy would lose himself in this way.

But maybe he is really the child of the general and his wife.

No matter how things like hunger, violence, and disease that would kill people, tortured him during those five years of torture.

He has never done a bad thing, even if it makes Taiwei feel a little bit disappointed.

"Mongrel! Mongrel!"

"It's you! A bastard with a father and no mother! You spend all your time tinkering with those scraps of metal thrown in the trash can, let's kill this bastard without a father and mother!"

Those refugees and orphans who appear from time to time talk about the "broken copper and iron" that is too small.

During those days, he and it were in an industrial air-raid shelter in Qinjiang.

Without normal light sources and water sources around him, he could only rely on collecting metal lines from the ruins and then exchange them for money.

He is very skilled, and he would not be bullied casually.

What's more, being beaten and humiliated again and again, no matter how bad a person has gone through a series of catastrophes, he should know how to survive in such an environment.

He fixed it too micro.

Although he still didn't give Taiwei a name.

But at the same time, he seldom spoke, like a mute, even more indifferent than before.

He has no friends, no family, no faith.

Don't trust anyone.

The only thing that supports him is the idea of ​​wanting to live.

What does he really want in his heart?

Tai Wei is also very curious about this question.

And in the fifth year after the disaster, one day, a person who broke through the chaotic magnetic fields from the outside world finally found the trapped Qin Jiang.

Before this matter, Tai Wei did not dare to believe that someone would actually do it.

But when this middle-aged man, who came from the outside world with difficulty, appeared in front of the young man who had been persistently looking for Qin Jiang for five years, he still felt the same kind of love for the light in the other party's gaze, which was exactly the same as the general's. persist in.

He said his name was 'Fish'.

He is from Longjiang who is separated from Qin Jiang.

He and the general were friends when they were young, and they have been looking for the boy for many years.

Now he has a plan, which is to rebuild the Qinjiang Air School and Beidou. This process will take a very long time, and it may be difficult to realize it in the next few decades or 100 years.

Before that, he needs someone to become a hero and solve the disaster in front of everyone.

And the most suitable person in his mind is the boy.

This idea seemed very unrealistic at the time.

The young man who was used to wandering alone in the ruins didn't intend to pay attention to this person at first.

But middle-aged people are patient.

Not only did he use his own methods to transport a large amount of supplies to Qinjiang, which was basically an empty city, during this process, but he also visited the boy frequently.

Because I know that the boy has no friends, and never communicates with anyone. He only occasionally hides and plays with his favorite mechanical models.

Every time he comes, he will seriously bring some gifts.

It was also during this process, from the rejection at the beginning, to the occasional chat with the boy who occasionally met the man on the ruins.

"Do you have any ideals about your future now?"

"You are really talented, and maybe one day in the future you will really become a hero beyond your father, and become a...remarkable person who can protect everyone."

"You may not believe it, but the evil above our heads has never disappeared. Maybe one day, I will not be able to do anything for you anymore, but by then, I hope you have clarified your beliefs and truly walked on that path." Your own path."

Middle-aged people often sigh like this when they look at him.

"But I'll come to see you next time, maybe I can take you and me to meet my son at that time."

"Well, that is a kid who is about your age, he has always admired you, every time I heard his mother tell me that you are only three years older than him, but you already know a lot, and you can make so many mature man-machine models by yourself , will be arguing at home to see you."

"You and him may know each other in the future, and may also walk on the same path."

In this regard, the teenager is noncommittal.

Only later, when the middle-aged man mentioned the child again, he casually said, does he like models? Let me give him one.

This was the first time the boy spoke his first words to him in such a long time.

Before that, he almost thought the child was dumb.

This surprised the middle-aged man, but after that, the boy really gave the middle-aged man's child a black robot model he made.

Under the black robot, there is a flame mark.

Because his name has something to do with it.

So this is his exclusive mark.

But what the young man and Taiwei didn't expect was that afterward, the child whom he had never seen before actually wrote a letter to him afterwards.

【"Brother Huomiao, hello."】

【"Dad took home the robot model you made and gave it to me today, thank you, I have to go to school every day, so I can't go to play with you, but if I have a chance in the future, I will definitely fly there with my parents Look at you, or you come to my house, let's be good friends."]

["I heard from my mother that you have been unhappy because your parents are gone, you are sad, and there are some bad people who always bully you. Fortunately, we have found you now, but you don't cry like this. I After hearing about it, I really admire you, because every time I fall down or get an injection or take medicine, I want to cry, you are so brave, and you are not at all different from an ignorant child like me.]

【"Actually, I don't know how to comfort you, but I still want to tell you a secret. Since I got the model given to me, I haven't cried since the injection."】

【"I had a dream. I dreamed that you turned into this robot in the dream. It looked majestic, fighting monsters for everyone in the sky and protecting others."】

【"You looked really amazing at the time, I could see it clearly in my dream."】

【"Although I haven't seen you with my own eyes yet, my father told me that the one who can protect others and make them no longer afraid is the greatest hero in this world."

——["So, I think, Brother Huomiao, you are the hero in my heart."]

That letter, Taiwei saw the boy read it for a long time alone that night.

Before that, as a mechanical life, it couldn't understand what kind of emotion it was to believe in something like this.

But it was strange, after such a long time, it seemed for the first time that it felt a faint and different light in the heart of the guy who hadn't spoken for a long time.

But unfortunately, sometimes fate is just like that.

Because this letter also became the last thing the middle-aged man brought to the boy that year.

After that, the middle-aged man never came to Qin Jiang again.

But at the last moment, he still left an admission letter from Qinjiang Air School to the boy.

Both Taiwei and the young man knew that what the middle-aged man said about his own destiny had come true, and he, like his father, might no longer be around in order to save more people.

After that, no one in this world can tell him except the boy himself.

It is about the direction of my pursuit of future ideals and beliefs.

This year, when he helped other victims in the ruins of Qinjiang River, he picked up two children.

These two children are a pair of very young brothers.

Because after the disaster, he almost starved to death, so he picked it up.

He divided the money on his body and the things that could be exchanged for money into three parts, and gave the two children a medal each, and said that if he had the opportunity in the future, he would take them out of here together.

This promise will be fulfilled in the near future.

200X.

Tai Wei used to think that he would never leave Qin Jiang for the rest of his life.

In this way, he set off alone, taking Taiwei, who had no name at that time, to Qinjiang Air School, which was destroyed in his youth and has now been rebuilt.

At this time, he was already a young man with faded youthful colors.

He is more and more like his father, or more attractive than the general when he was young, full of radiance, whenever he appears, people will always notice him.

200X.

For the first time he actually joined there as a hero reserve.

During this process, the first person he met in school was a girl surnamed Ma.

This girl is his senior sister.

Her husband is the senior brother of the young man.

In the next five years, he and the husband of this senior sister will join a team and become one of each other's most important teammates.

This year, at the age of only 21, he met a friend who enrolled with him.

This friend came from Longjiang, with a cheerful personality, and he never left his younger brother in three words. He expressed his enthusiasm for Li Xie, a guy who likes to pretend to be cool by nature, and is extremely indifferent to others.

Because he came from Longjiang.

In this way, he and this friend have known each other for many years.

And thus became the longest friend in the future.

The future code name of this person is called house.

A year later, the two pairs of brothers he had rescued in Qinjiang also came to the empty school, so they joined this unformed team and became two mechanical engineers.

They have since been joined by three others.

These three people who changed their names in the past formed the team in the following three years.

Everyone is young this year.

But everyone has a goal in their hearts, that is, no matter what day they leave in the future, as long as one person survives, they must stick to it.

Never, never give up on Qin Jiang.

Abandon the belief that everyone is a hero in the first place.

——And the name of this team, in Taiwei's memory, is Beidou.

——"Number 0019, from now on, you will be directly under the management of the National Bureau of Astronomical Civilization as a city hero."

"Your operation code name will be 'Tree'."

——"This is your bound man-machine AI. Starting today, it will accompany you in all tasks and become your right and left hand for life. Now, you can start exercising your personal rights and name it."

"Dip—please continue to enter the driver's name."

"..."

This was the day that Taiwei Youyuanyi truly possessed the prototype of the human-machine in that year.

Before that, it hadn't heard this guy take the initiative to mention his name for a long, long time.

He is no longer the kid who had to go out with a mask because he didn't want to be stared at by others.

He was no longer the boy who was lying in the air-raid shelter after the disaster, so cold and silent that he seemed to be a dumb boy looking at the foggy sky above his head all day long.

24 years old him.

He changed his name to Li Xie.

Anyone who has seen Li Xie will be attracted by the light on his body.

The white uniform of the Air Force, symbolizing freedom and justice, and the Big Dipper on his shoulder became the symbol of his attraction. After that, he attracted more people to join the Big Dipper and fight together for future freedom and hope.

It was also at this time that Taiwei seemed to remember the name that his parents only talked about when he was born.

……

"How about, our child, let's call him Jiang Ran from now on."

In Taiwei Youyuanyi’s system memo, in the last spring, under the mountain full of spring flowers behind the Qinjiang Base Station, the man who can only see a back, but his name should be Li Shanhai, is holding his wife hand, under the starry sky suddenly had a whim.

"Li, will it burn?"

"Yes, the night will never go out, and the spark will burn, just like the stars in the sky, the Big Dipper, Perseus, Orion, the future children of Li Shanhai and Wang Qiuling, will always be bright and brilliant like the stars in the sky in the future. Will it burn well?"

"Well, it sounds good."

This was the real name that he never told anyone.

Following the call from the communicator, the blue light on the man-machine device in front of him, which was completely black and composed of pieces of metal armor like blades, lit up.

'Taiwei Youyuanyi'.

"..."

"From today on, I will be called Li Xie."

On this day, Taiwei finally had his own name as the Blade of Heroes.

On this day, 24-year-old Li Jiangran finally completely walked out of the long shadow of life, out of the fear, awe, and hatred of the sky when he was a teenager, and out of the unforgettable memory of the death of his relatives in the past.

From that day on, a hero was born in this world.

Ai Taiwei You Yuanyi, who once thought that he might not be able to walk out of Qinjiang with this person in his whole life, will always have his own name, and he will truly be a hero who can protect others.

"Dip—please continue to enter the driver's name."

"Li Xie."

Not just like when I was a child, just be that person's hero.

Not only to be a hero who can only protect himself from being hurt by others, but to shine in the free sky like a real Taiwei star, to be a real hero who can bravely protect the safety of more people...

— City Hero.

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※

A very small perspective, about Li Xie's past.

This is the previous name of Yaya~

Well, by the way, it explained the existence of the senior sister's husband and younger brother, that's it.

Thanks to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated the nutrient solution~