On my second playthrough, they were full of malice towards me.

Liao Ji: "."

"First of all, the nun never feeds the Emperor medicine; she only uses the more direct Holy Healing spell. Secondly, I suggest you don't take this medicine; you can't handle it."

Liao Ji, who was initially hostile, now felt a bit sorry for the young director. However, when this reached the young director's ears, it turned into even more unrestrained laughter.

"Hahaha! Scared! You're scared!"

"What gives you the right to deny history? Who do you think you are? You're just envious of me, you're jealous of me! You've never even seen the true face of that Holy Kingdom's goddess in your entire life, while I've been able to take the goddess's medicine and receive her blessing!"

Seeing Liao Ji using such a lame excuse to stop him from taking the medicine, the young director could sense Liao Ji's fear. Because of this, he was even more impatient. He not only wanted to take it, but he also wanted to make Liao Ji watch him take it, just like a few minutes ago when Liao Ji entered the mecha maid's body in front of him. This was his revenge!

"Watch and be grateful to be a witness! At this moment, I will become the Great Emperor!!"

After quickly swallowing the holy medicine, the young director opened his arms to Liao Ji, like a son of God who had received the blessing of power on horseback, about to ascend the ladder of the strong, even comparing himself to an emperor.

As a result

"Uh...this is..."

"Cough cough. Blood?"

"My insides. My stomach. I...no...this...this!"

Less than five seconds after taking the holy medicine, black blood began to spill from the corner of the young director's mouth, followed by blood flowing from all seven orifices. His body began to convulse violently, and he was like a drowning person sinking into the deep sea, with a strong feeling of suffocation enveloping his entire body. His vision was rapidly blurring.

In his last moments before losing consciousness, the young director vaguely saw the young man opposite him walking towards him.

"I told you not to eat anymore."

"You're damaging my Tia's image."

Liao Ji muttered as he walked past the young director.

Your... your Tia?

thump!

The young director's body collapsed to the ground. Even with the super A-grade bio-engineered body, which was immune to all diseases, activating the most powerful emergency rescue program, it was still unable to bring the young director back to life, leaving him as a corpse with his eyes wide open in death.

No, it can't be said that he died with his eyes open in disgrace.

Because the murderer who was following behind Liao Ji kicked the young director's corpse with the metal heel of his shoe to make sure the corpse wasn't blocking his way.

Thanks to the young director, Liao Ji's life became much easier. Soon, a huge metal gate appeared in front of him, behind which was the core central hangar of Kail Technology.

Even the 86 couldn't crack this door because the gate wasn't electronically controlled; it used the most traditional gear key.

At this moment, the Dragon God Mech that Liao Ji had been preparing for a long time finally came in handy. He took out the Fiery Longsword and cut the gate in two with one stroke. Liao Ji quickly entered the machine room and saw a floating and rotating Rubik's Cube in a corner. That was their target for this trip: the collection of the consciousness chips of the mech servants.

Chapter 272 Ling and Zero (Part 1)

The multifaceted Rubik's Cube is like a piece of crystal, and the tiny "blocks" that make up each face of the Rubik's Cube are the consciousness chips of individual servants.

After Liao Ji broke through the protective shield and obtained the Consciousness Cube, 86 had already planned an escape route. The Killer Demon combined with Liao Ji's Dragon God Mech, and the three of them left before the rest of Kyle Technology's security forces arrived, transforming into red meteors and shooting off from the top floor of the building.

After Liao Jidu returned to the safe house with the Consciousness Cube, the Dream City outside seemed to come to its senses and descended into chaos once more.

Major media outlets, like sharks smelling blood, swarmed toward the still-burning Kyle Tower, eager to know what had happened.

There's actually a lot that can be done here, but sanctioning Kyle Technology isn't Liao Ji's main objective; these minor issues can be postponed and delegated to others.

My most important task right now is to use the Consciousness Cube to unify all the servants.

"What should I do next?" Liao Ji asked the murderer, staring at the crystal cube floating in front of him.

“Commander, you are not a machine species, so if you want to connect with us and use the Consciousness Cube, you can only do so in the Dream.

The 86 transformed into a dream terminal. After Liao Ji put it on, this time he didn't enter the dream solo. Instead, he entered the dream duo with a murderer.

This was Liao Ji's third time entering Dream Zero. His consciousness sank, falling into the deep sea. After a brief period of darkness, the feeling of weightlessness disappeared. When Liao Ji opened his eyes, he had already arrived in that blood-red world from Dream City.

Compared to the previous two times, the blood-red color in the sky of the old world of Zero Dream has faded considerably, which is naturally due to the annihilation of the two "Turbid Calamity Kings".

Upon entering Zero Dream, without the killer needing to explain further, when Liao Ji's fingers touched the Consciousness Cube, the numerous "blocks" on it began to vibrate, as if in response.

Soon the Rubik's Cube began to disintegrate, and the small cubes rearranged and combined, resembling a nebula around Liao Ji. A subtle, almost imperceptible sense of connection rose from the depths of Liao Ji's heart.

The servants' consciousness comes from Zero's copy. Liao Ji wants to integrate the servants, and while combining with the consciousness cube, he will inevitably see Zero's memory copy.

That too came from before encountering "Ashes," and shouldn't be called Zero; it was simply the memory of a certain housekeeping robot.

cloudy day.

The dark, heavy clouds dimmed the blood-red color of the sky.

A light, gray rain was falling inside the base.

“From today onwards, just tell it what you need.” Inside a detached villa, a middle-aged man dressed in black said to the little girl in front of him.

The little girl was also dressed in black, and there seemed to be lingering tear marks on her tender face. With her red and swollen eyes, she looked at a mechanical android next to the middle-aged man.

Although they are called androids, their actual appearance is quite different from that of the 86 and other mech servants five hundred years later.

From a purely visual perspective, it doesn't achieve a fully bionic skin; large areas of metal structure are still exposed, and gear structures can be seen at the knee and elbow joints.

However, these shortcomings were well concealed by the maid outfit she was wearing, so although the little girl was still somewhat afraid of the robot, she did not refuse it.

"Okay, Daddy," the little girl replied weakly.

However, it was this sentence that made the middle-aged man frown slightly. Seeing her father's angry expression, the little girl instinctively showed panic, shrank her neck, and trembled even more violently.

However, the middle-aged man ultimately did not reprimand him severely, perhaps because of the special nature of the day.

He left the detached villa quickly, only saying to the little girl before leaving:

"I hope you can learn to be strong, Ling."

“You are our daughter, destined to rule Graycastle Base in my place in the future, but right now you…” The man hesitated, then stopped.

"Also, don't use such childish terms next time. Call me Father."

Bang!

After the gate closed, only the lonely little girl remained in the empty house.

"Yes, it's Father," Ling said, trying to hold back the tears welling up in her eyes, as if she wanted to make amends, but the man had already left and could no longer hear her.

Wiping away her tears, Ling clenched her fists; she had to be strong.

However, when she saw the mechanical maid beside her and remembered what her father had said before he left, that she could tell it anything she needed, the little girl couldn't help but have an incredibly longing thought pop into her head.

Ling mustered her courage and tentatively asked the cold, mechanical maid:

"Can I really ask you for anything?"

"Yes, I will do my best to meet your needs within my capabilities," the maid replied in a synthesized electronic voice.

"That"

The little girl hesitated for a moment, but finally made up her mind and said to the maid, "Can I ask you to be my mother?"

"I'm sorry, this is beyond my capabilities. I can only be your friend or listener, not a real person. If you have any grievances with your mother, I suggest you communicate with your father."

"No, my mother died yesterday. So, can you... pretend to be my mother? Is it not even okay to just pretend?"

The little girl started sobbing again at the end, which violated the maid robot's principles. After a brief analysis, the maid quickly replied:

"Okay, from now on I will play the role of your mother until you voluntarily stop. However, since I do not have relevant data, there may be a big difference between me and a real mother. I hope it will not bother you."

"Mom, Mom doesn't use 'you' to address me," Ling heard the mechanical maid's cold reply, her eyes growing dimmer and her sobs growing heavier.

Even though she had done everything the little girl asked, the girl was even more heartbroken and in pain. The maid's calculation core had malfunctioned, and she didn't understand why.

Amidst the constant error messages, Liao Ji, who was observing, could see wisps of red turbidity emanating from the surrounding air. These were the little girl's sorrowful emotions being absorbed into her body by the maid.

After a brief silence, the maid, as if receiving new data, quickly spoke again. Although her voice was still cold and mechanical, the words she uttered...

"I'm sorry, my child, it's all my fault. Come here, my child, let me hug you. Whenever you need me, I will give you a warm hug. I love you, and that will never change."

The maid opened her arms, knelt down, and gave the little girl a hug. Ling initially looked confused, then shocked, and finally returned to pain, only this time she buried her face in the maid's arms.

"Mommy!?"

"Mommy! Waaah, Mommy! Mommy, I miss you so much, why did you leave me? Waaah, Mommy!"

"I'm sorry, it was Mommy's fault, but Mommy is back now, and Mommy will never leave you again. I love you, my child." The maid stroked the little girl's head.

Looking at the memory of the maid and little girl embracing, it was pretty much what Liao Ji had guessed.

In the old world, only high-ranking members of large bases could afford to purchase domestic maids like Zero. Now it seems that Zero's first young master was the daughter of a young leader who had lost her mother.

As the daughter of a leader, the little girl's personality was clearly not up to par. The next scene quickly showed Ling sobbing and crying to her maid.

Chapter 273 Ling and Zero (Part 2)

"Mom, they all say that Dad doesn't love you anymore, that he killed you on purpose, and that I'm about to become an unwanted orphan. I argued with them, saying that Dad wasn't that kind of person, but they laughed at me. I want to go and ask Dad, but I'm scared, I don't dare to go... Waaah... Mom, Mom, I miss you so much."

The maid put down her broom and, much more skillfully than before, embraced the little girl with red and swollen eyes.

“My darling, the reason Mommy is fighting is to protect the base, to protect everyone from the evil monsters, and to protect the children in my base. It is all Mommy’s own choice.”

The maid's words stopped Ling from sobbing. She poked her head out and asked in a choked voice, "So, Mom, you're a hero, aren't you!"

"Yes, Mom is a hero, and I came back alive. You have me, your mom, and you will never be an orphan. I will always be by your side. You may not be strong enough now, but I have seen many excellent qualities in you. I believe that one day you will become someone like your father. Keep going, my child."

"Thank you, thank you, Mom!"

"Mom, I want to eat your stewed potatoes now, is that okay?" Ling wiped her tear-streaked face.

"Of course, darling, this is a reward for your bravery."

A maid wearing an apron is cooking in the kitchen, while a little girl next to her, who had been crying, now smiles with a look of longing and anticipation.

As an observer, Liao Ji could clearly see that whenever the little girl named "Ling" was in a state of sadness, many red lines symbolizing misfortune would be released from her body.

These turbid and ominous energies were absorbed by the maid as she played the role of a mother and comforted the little girl.

In the blink of an eye, the little girl who was probably only six or seven years old has now grown to about ten years old, and her height has increased from just reaching the maid's thigh to reaching the maid's waist.

This memory is of the little girl rushing in excitedly, covered in dust and bruises, but that doesn't diminish her rosy cheeks as she enthusiastically shouts to the maid: