"Then let's do it the same way as before."
Gu Yunzhou suddenly raised his eyes and stared at Ji Zhaoming's face.
Ji Zhaoming was unaware of the turmoil in Gu Yunzhou's heart. She touched her face with her slender white fingers and asked hesitantly, "Is there something on my face?"
"No," Gu Yunzhou said, "I just didn't expect the master's answer to be like this."
Ji Zhaoming chuckled softly a few times: "Hmm? Do I look like the Virgin Mary?"
He looked at the shadow reflected on the black screen.
Hmm...
He smiled at the screen.
The shadow also chuckled.
He frowned again as he looked at the screen.
The shadow also had a bitter face, but its face was naturally delicate, so even in its bitterness, it looked exceptionally endearing.
She does indeed resemble the Virgin Mary.
Ji Zhaoming rubbed his face, his expression returning to normal, and pointed outside with his fingertip: "This is a group of thugs. If it weren't us they would have encountered, someone else would be the one who died."
This place is different from his living environment; it has its own set of rules. Ji Zhaoming is not a saint, nor does he possess great love. He only wants to protect the people who are important to him.
He certainly doesn't want the robots to fight and kill indiscriminately, but that doesn't mean he wants them to keep retreating until they're completely at the mercy of others.
If you can't even protect your own people, how can you talk about great love?
In fact, it seems that the machine race is not like what other races say; they also have their own emotions.
However, their feelings for each other are weak, so they can only entrust their feelings to one or a few people.
Ji Zhaoming was lucky to be included in this category, and since that was the case, he should not let down the machine race's affection.
Ji Zhaoming touched Gu Yunzhou's face.
His face instantly turned bright red.
He originally intended to touch Gu Yunzhou's head, but unexpectedly Gu Yunzhou suddenly stood up, and his hand touched Gu Yunzhou's lips.
Soft and warm.
Ji Zhaoming's face turned as if it were on fire. He saw his own reflection on the screen, quickly lowered his head, and said in a soft, sweet voice, "You guys just be yourselves."
Like a frightened little animal.
Gu Yunzhou said, "Okay."
He looked at Gu He.
Gu He was looking at Wang, who was lost in thought.
He thought: "Wang looks so beautiful, all soft and limp, I want to touch her."
A cold gaze fell upon him, and Gu He shivered, averting his eyes and sitting upright in the auxiliary seat, saying, "Leader, I am ready."
Gu Yunzhou took his seat.
Gu He turned his head to the side again, his eyes starting to wander. Before they could land on Ji Zhaoming, he was immediately met with a cold look from Gu Yunzhou.
Gu He shuddered and dared not look any longer.
"Mm," Gu Yunzhou replied.
"Chief, they're preparing to escape!" Gu He reported.
Gu Yunzhou succinctly replied: "Pursue."
Compared to this one-word command, Gu Yunzhou spoke to Ji Zhaoming in much longer sentences: "Master, we need to speed up, please hold on tight."
Two handles were placed next to Ji Zhaoming.
Fastening his seatbelt, Ji Zhaoming gripped the handle tightly and nodded, "Okay, I'm ready."
Upon receiving the order, the spaceship accelerated and sped off.
This place is quite a distance from the planet inhabited by the machine race. Compared to Gu Yunzhou and his group, the space pirates have been here for a long time, traversing various paths and freely roaming among the rubble.
"They probably didn't catch up, right?" The space pirate glanced back.
However, the machine race's spaceships followed closely behind.
The space pirate cursed under his breath, "Damn it, why are they chasing so closely?"
With a flick of the control stick, the spaceship suddenly veered off course and crashed into a stray rock.
Ji Zhaoming's eyes widened and he blurted out, "Are they planning to destroy themselves?"
“No.” Gu Yunzhou stared quietly at the screen. “He just wants to get rid of us.”
Taking advantage of the machine race's unfamiliarity with the area, the space pirates led their ship into the narrow alley. At the last moment before the collision, the space pirates' ship suddenly changed direction, and the rock crashed into Ji Zhaoming.
Sitting in the spaceship, Ji Zhaoming had the illusion that he was in interstellar space, completely exposed and unprotected by anything.
The stone was so close it looked like it was about to pierce his eye socket, and Ji Zhaoming's heart jumped.
A glimpse of Gu Yunzhou on the control panel in her peripheral vision inexplicably calmed her racing heartbeat.
With Gu Yunzhou by his side, what did he have to be afraid of?
...No, it should be that there was a machine race standing behind him, not just Gu Yunzhou alone.
Ji Zhaoming calmed down and gripped the handle tightly.
At the very least, you shouldn't let yourself become a burden.
With a loud bang.
A deafening explosion rang in my ears.
To be precise, it was simply because the sound was too loud.
Because a second before the explosion, before Ji Zhaoming could react, another pair of hands covered his ears.
After a brief pause at the earlobe, it completely covered his ear.
The lingering sound traveled into my ears through these hands.
Ji Zhaoming didn't need to turn around to know who the hands belonged to.
Besides Gu Yunzhou, who else would dare to touch Ji Zhaoming without his permission?
With his eyes sparkling, Ji Zhaoming touched Gu Yunzhou's hand with his cheek: "Thank you."
Gu Yunzhou shook his head: "It's what I should do."
Gu He: "...So, what leader, are you going to just blow up the enemy's warship?"
The warmth touched him for only a moment, but it lingered in Gu Yunzhou's heart for a long time.
Gu Yunzhou said, "Master, be careful."
Ji Zhaoming's face was burning hot. After hearing this, he said, "Okay, okay."
Capturing space pirates is completely different from simply destroying their warships.
The reason why space pirates choose to rob this place is because it's very chaotic. If they really can't escape, they can just kill their opponents.
Once the warship is destroyed, there is no chance of survival.
Gu Yunzhou released his grip and looked at Gu He: "Explode."
The machine race had been holed up on their planet for a long time and hadn't fought in a long time. Gu He's eyes lit up, and he said decisively, "Yes, leader."
Ji Zhaoming blinked.
In an instant, the enemy warship was shattered, and fire engulfed the entire ship, drawing a brilliant line across the starry sky.
These are the deaths of several lives.
Ji Zhaoming couldn't quite describe how he felt.
He was ultimately not a person of this world, and when life disappeared before his eyes, Ji Zhaoming still felt a sense of loss.
Perhaps he really is a saint.
Ji Zhaoming gave a few bitter laughs.
“Master,” Gu Yunzhou called out.
Ji Zhaoming snapped out of his reverie and asked blankly, "Huh?"
Immediately afterwards, he saw a faint pink blush rise on Gu Yunzhou's usually calm face, like a blooming flower on her fair skin.
Ji Zhaoming was stunned.
Gu Yunzhou knelt beside Ji Zhaoming's legs, "I'm sorry."
The sudden apology made Ji Zhaoming mutter a soft "hmm": "Why are you apologizing?"
“Because there was a mistake,” Gu Yunzhou replied.
Ji Zhaoming: ?
This question truly stumped Ji Zhaoming.
Ji Zhaoming thought it was an apology for the previous order, so he smiled and replied, "That was done with my permission, so you don't need to apologize."
Gu Yunzhou shook his head: "That's not the mistake."
Ji Zhaoming was truly baffled. "What was the mistake?"
“Yes…” Gu Yunzhou raised his eyes, staring intently at Ji Zhaoming, as if trying to etch Ji Zhaoming’s face deeply into his heart. He seemed to be organizing his words, and after a long while, he slowly spoke: “Because I had selfish motives.”
One line in his core code states: Human beings are inviolable.
Gu Yunzhou used to scoff at these codes and didn't like to follow them, so in his mind, only Ji Zhaoming was inviolable.
This was Gu Yunzhou's personal addition, a clause he made without permission.
It turns out there really are people who need to be carefully protected.
Just as Gu Yunzhou had finalized the code and was about to lock it into the core program, he suddenly stopped.
He looked at Gu Yunzhou.