Just a magical girl who picks up trash

"Buzz~~~"

This time, a sound like joy came from the branches that had completely occupied the meteorite. When it approached the red horsetail, an emerald green vine emerged from the meteorite and gently wrapped around the other's waist as if acting coquettishly.

"Oh~~ So good, so good~~ You seem to be adapting well~~"

He watched the branch grow with great satisfaction. Seeing that the branch occupying the meteorite seemed to be constantly swallowing up the surrounding white light spots and was also changing every minute and every second, he immediately reached out and gently touched the red ponytail behind the vine. After immediately signaling the other party to let him go, he continued:

"It's still quite weak after taking root, so... hide well and don't get discovered. I'll go get you some nutrients first!"

As he said this, he seemed to be able to feel the obedient response from the vines. Red Ponytail nodded in satisfaction and leaped into the distance with the Earth Blazing Sword in his hand.

……

About a day had passed, and the original pure white had turned into iron gray, and now, under the roots of the branches, it had turned into a completely emerald green. With this meteorite as the center, when the red horsetail and the branches were centered within a radius of several thousand meters, there was no longer any trace of silver energy. She nodded in satisfaction, looking at the branch behind her, which had unknowingly grown from the original finger-sized branch into a small emerald green sapling as thick as her arm, and the red horsetail could not help but smile slightly.

"Alright, the next task of keeping watch on the surrounding silver is now yours. I'll go back and complete my task and find a few construction specialists to start building the space station. Enjoy yourself here!"

As he said this, amid the trembling of joy, the red ponytail disappeared from the spot again in a flash.

In fact, Red Ponytail didn't know the origin of the branch, and even the main brain didn't know what it was, because it was something that the mysterious "System Lady" suddenly gave to her when she took on this task and was worrying about how to build a blank area on the land full of silver.

At first, Red Ponytail clearly didn't quite understand the purpose of this small branch. It wasn't until she saw with her own eyes how the branch had absorbed the silver's power and grown a bit that she suddenly realized...it turned out that this tree needed the silver's power for nourishment?!

This is undoubtedly the nemesis of silver, which is even more decisive than the red horsetail. Especially when there is silver outside, if you just throw this branch outside, then the other party will surely devour the silver world outside without hesitation, and then destroy it while growing. With this kind of growth and decline, destroying silver is obviously not a dream.

Of course, this was the first thought in Red Ponytail's mind when she got the object called "Divine Tree Branch", but she soon discovered something very important:

Although this section of the branch has a 100% inhibitory effect on silver, and can even strengthen itself by swallowing silver, its body also contains a flaw, which is that it is extremely fragile. It is so fragile that silver does not even need to come into contact with it, and an attack similar to a shock wave is enough to destroy it.

In this case, if the twig is really thrown into the space at random, then although the opponent can indeed start to absorb the power of Silver indiscriminately at the beginning, the Silver will surely react and find a way to destroy it as soon as possible, right?

There is only one branch, and no one can guarantee whether there will be a second one of the system girl. Therefore, in this case, Red Ponytail naturally dare not take a gamble casually.

After the main brain calculated this point, it finally formulated the current plan: Red Horsetail will first take the twigs to clear an area in space, and then let the twigs take root and grow there. After growing a part with the nutrients obtained by Red Horsetail, the mechanical planet will quickly eliminate the mechanical life of the construction system through the cleared space and transform the surrounding environment. It must be transformed into an outpost while also protecting the branches of the World Tree... that is, the twigs.

Now, the progress of the first and second steps is obviously very perfect. After all the surrounding silver is destroyed and turned into nutrients for the branches, the thriving saplings begin to take root in the universe little by little. After that, all we need to do is to go to the mechanical planet immediately and bring the architectural body over. Then, the first outpost battle into the universe will be completed!

Under such circumstances, Red Ponytail immediately returned to the mechanical planet without hesitation. However, just as she had just returned to that narrow space, a sudden voice rang in her ears:

"Don't go, you're being followed!"

This one sentence made the girl with red ponytail freeze in place. She didn't react for a long time, and her expression suddenly changed the next second.

"Huff~~~"

A silver-white light suddenly lit up from behind, and its target... was directly towards the heart of Red Ponytail!

30.Who are you?

"Puch~~"

"Uh……"

The sudden white light penetrated the chest of the girl with red ponytail almost instantly. With her eyes wide open in disbelief, the petite figure fell down softly. At this moment, the white light also condensed little by little and finally turned into a silver-white creature like a tentacle.

"Buzz buzz~~~"

As it squirmed, it penetrated the red ponytail, and a little bit of silver-white liquid slowly seeped out from it, then wrapped the red ponytail in it. Just as it was about to devour it, a mocking voice suddenly sounded from behind:

"You're just eating without even checking. Aren't you afraid of getting diarrhea?"

"Om~~"

The grinning voice seemed to make the white tentacles slightly stunned at this moment, and even the speed of erosion slowed down a lot in an instant. It immediately turned slightly and seemed to look towards the source of the sound behind it, but what it saw the next second was... a flash of red light coming towards it.

“Hu~~Puchi~~”

The huge blade formed by the bright red fire instantly split the tentacles in front of her into two parts, and then burned into ashes. The silver-white light was casually absorbed by the red ponytail. Then, she raised the Earth Blazing Sword in her hand and showed a look of shock on her face.

"That was a close call! I almost got ambushed!"

He reached out and patted his barren chest, muttering to himself with an expression of having survived a disaster. Of course, he did not forget to thank the voice that reminded him:

"Thank you, Miss System... Wait, something doesn't seem right. Was that your voice just now, Miss System?"

The words of thanks were halfway through, but Red Ponytail suddenly noticed something was amiss. The system lady's voice should have been that of a mature woman with a hint of mechanical tones, but the one she had just heard was...

"I simply forgot to turn on the music, that's all. And your subsequent thoughts are superfluous. Who says I'm not a mature woman? It's just that my body is developing more slowly. I've already reached adulthood!"

No, no, no, being an adult doesn’t mean you are a mature woman... Wait, was my mind read just now?

The first thought that popped into her mind was to complain, but what Red Ponytail immediately reacted to was... why would the other person know what she was thinking?

"Because you were originally created from fragments of my spirit. In a sense, you are my clone. Of course I know what the clone is thinking!"

So that’s how it is, so that’s how it is…

She nodded in understanding, and the girl with red ponytail immediately showed a look of understanding... That's strange!

"I say you're invading someone's privacy, okay? Mechanical lifeforms have privacy too. Don't you think that's excessive?"

No matter who the other party is, the life-saving grace can be discussed later, but right now, Red Ponytail must make this issue clear... Even if he is a clone, he still has to have the necessary personal privacy. Even if he is the original body, he can't just look at it!

"Uh...I'm just trying to make you believe what I say and not doubt me~~"

It was such a perfunctory explanation that Red Ponytail almost believed it.

"In a sense, this makes me more suspicious that you have ulterior motives!"

A merciless roll of the eyes shot up. Though he couldn't see the other person, it clearly didn't hinder the conversation between them... Perhaps it was because he was truly the other person's clone? It was clearly the first time he had heard the other person's voice, yet the red-tailed girl inexplicably felt a certain intimacy and... a sense of dependence on him?

Illusion!

"Um... okay, sorry, my mistake, I won't watch it anymore!"

As if she had realized that Red Ponytail was in a bad mood, the system lady's voice softened decisively as she apologized. Just as Red Ponytail nodded in satisfaction and was about to generously express her forgiveness as long as she didn't do that next time...

"Anyway, I've already seen everything I need to see. Besides, your core data isn't meant for the mainframe, but it's connected to me. Even if I don't see it, it will be shared with me eventually. It makes no difference!"

The muttering voice made Red Ponytail stunned for a moment, and then... her face instantly turned dark.

About ten minutes later, the red figure floated towards the bottom of the mechanical planet. After passing through the outer layer that was like a steel barrier, the red figure saw the city where she lived right in front of her. However, at this moment, the red figure did not look like she would happily go home after completing the task as usual. Instead, she had an unhappy look on her face, as if... someone owed her money.

If you look carefully at this time, it is not difficult to find that just beside Red Ponytail, a small light curtain of light blue is moving with the other party's movement. From time to time, a beam of data light flashes out from it, and it seems as if something is running. In fact, it is just a voice that only Red Ponytail can hear.

"Alright, alright~~ I was wrong, really wrong. I promise I won't pry into your privacy anymore, okay? Now? For the sake of being half your creator and half your mother, can you please forgive me this time, Xiaobai~~~"

The voice filled with pleading, coupled with the sudden throbbing feeling in her heart, almost made the red-tailed girl waver for a moment. She finally managed to refute with a straight face:

"Don't call me Xiaobai!"

Finally he spoke, so it can be considered a gain, right?

"Then...Xiaohong?"

Just change the name, it’s no big deal, as long as you are willing to speak for yourself!

"Call me Red Ponytail..."

I couldn't help but defend myself, but such a name obviously made people very dissatisfied, and I was immediately refuted without thinking:

"No, that's too common a name. I also have a red ponytail after I transform. It makes us look like strangers!"

"Unfashionable? Great, I couldn't ask for more!"

"It's too much!"

Those unforgiving words immediately caused the "System Lady" to let out an accusing cry, almost as if she were about to burst into tears. Even though she hadn't seen the real person, that tearful voice still sent shockwaves through Red Ponytail... An inexplicable, unpleasant feeling welled up in her heart, as if she could sense the other person's sadness and sorrow, and even though she knew it was fake, she couldn't bear to see it. This uncontrollable feeling...

I must be broken!

31. Starry sky...

After checking my body over and over again, I don't know how many times I have done it, and finally confirmed that there is nothing wrong with my body, but the noisy voice is still ringing in my ears. However, no matter how much I reject it on the surface, I always feel strangely that I don't feel annoyed by these voices in my heart. On the contrary, I occasionally feel that such conversations... are very happy. What the hell is this?

She was convinced that there was something wrong but she couldn't find any reason. Finally, she had no choice but to give up. As she crossed the street and felt the respectful and excited gazes around her, she strode towards her home. However, just as she was approaching the door, the voice of "System Lady" came out again, but compared with the previous one, this time it was obviously a little more serious.

"Okay, time is running out, let's talk about business and stop wasting time!"

Sorry, I feel like talking to you is the biggest waste of time!

Even though she was thinking so in her heart, she still stopped at this moment after hearing the other party's slightly serious words. She seemed to be in a daze, but her eyes were already looking straight at the light curtain in front of her.

At this moment, within the light curtain, the voice had already been heard again, and the first thing it said was a self-introduction:

"First of all... hello, Xiaobai. As I said before, I am your creator and can be considered your 'true self'. You can call me Yuhuan. Of course, I wouldn't object if you called me mother... although I'm not that old!"

In one sentence, Red Ponytail almost smashed the light curtain in front of him. After finally suppressing the impulse, Yu Huan seemed to sense that the other party was on the verge of exploding. He immediately had no intention of continuing to tease, and his tone suddenly became serious and he spoke decisively:

"Right now, I (you) am in a trial... Of course, it's a trial, but before that, I want to tell you that everything you're experiencing is completely real, without any falsehood in it. So, you don't need to worry about being used or anything, or even think about your mission or anything... Just do everything according to your own ideas!"

As soon as he opened his mouth, he said something that made people feel baffled but at the same time, he couldn't help but feel a little solemn. He said that he would get to the point. It was obvious that Yu Huan didn't intend to waste any time. Before the red ponytail could completely digest these words, he immediately spoke again:

"The requirements of the trial are simple: to gain recognition... As for whose recognition, I can't tell you. You'll have to figure it out for yourself. I still say the same thing... just follow your own ideas. Anyway, based on my personality, I still have full confidence in you!"

This... is a compliment, right? But why does the red ponytail feel so weird? And it seems like all this talk, aside from a few words like "it's up to you," is basically just nonsense!

"So what the hell is recognition?"

Unable to resist, Red Ponytail immediately asked the most crucial question of all. She vaguely felt that this was the most crucial point. However, the reason a trial was called a trial was because it was a test that only an individual could pass. Therefore, Yu Huan obviously couldn't give any answer on this point. The only hint she could offer was...

"Remember, no matter what, nothing can happen to the Mechanical Planet. No matter what... protect the Mechanical Planet!"

The voice disappeared at this point, leaving no trace. It was obvious that Yu Huan had unilaterally canceled the conversation. Red Ponytail, with a confused expression on her face, finally wiped away the unresponsive light screen in front of her with some helplessness, turned around and walked towards home, complaining as she walked:

"You're talking about a bunch of nonsense and you haven't finished yet. I hate people like you who only tell half the truth and leave the other half unsaid, trying to be mysterious!"

While saying these unhappy words, Red Ponytail clenched her fists hard, and her face suddenly became full of determination:

"Protecting the mechanical planet... I'd do it even without you telling me. After all, this is... my home!"

No matter whether he is a mechanical life form or the clone of that system lady or something else, he was born on the Mechanical Planet, where he met friends such as Qiqi, Liuli, Xuezhi, etc., and is now respected as the guardian of the Mechanical Planet and is relied upon by all mechanical life forms. Even if it is just to live up to this dependence, it is obvious that Red Ponytail will not let them down.

After a nonsensical conversation, Red Ponytail returned home with this idea in mind. As the electronic door slowly opened, she opened her mouth and said, "Dear, your Xiaobai is back..." But the next second, the electronic door slowly opened, revealing an... empty room.

"Are they all gone?"

Feeling a bit strange, she walked in and looked at the quiet scene around her. Red Ponytail couldn't help but curl her lips as she walked in, and then she casually collapsed on the sofa.

"Is he going on a mission? Then just wait..."

They have been almost inseparable since they met. Come to think of it, this seemed to be the first time that he was separated from Qiqi and the others. Thinking that they might have gone to perform routine tasks, the girl with red ponytail lying on the bed narrowed her eyes slightly, and soon she fell into a deep sleep.

With the sound of even breathing, the petite mechanical girl curled up in the corner of the sofa and fell into a sleep. However, at the same time, under a dazzling white light, the girl with red ponytail slowly opened her eyes in a trance, and then she saw... the starry sky!

It was not the white starry sky that we had seen before, but a starry sky with real stars twinkling in the darkness, and from time to time there were meteor showers passing by... the starry sky!

"here it is……"

This is a familiar starry sky, and there is no sense of strangeness at all. It is obvious that this is not the first time that Red Ponytail has come here. When she looked around, she soon discovered that in this beautiful starry sky, it seemed that... something was missing?

There is one missing... a figure that used to appear frequently in my dreams...?

32. The final story!

(Sprint~~~)

What happened after that?

In the boundless universe, among the twinkling stars in the dark space, countless long-dead "planets" were gathered together. The only remaining weak vitality in them was finally drained away, and it turned into white light and was gathered little by little in the center of this world: on a planet that kept flashing with flickering light.

The Star-Creating Goddess has died, but her last divine power finally made her long-cherished dream come true. After successfully stripping off the last bits and pieces of all the dying worlds, she gathered them all into the world she recreated. Using the remains of the old world, she finally recreated this... a new world!

The goddess exhausted her final divine power, her final vitality, leaving behind this patchwork, shattered world for the remaining lives of countless worlds. Even at the moment of her own death, she transformed her "corpse" into a nail. She ruthlessly froze this "main world," a blend of countless smaller planes, here, ensuring that the smaller worlds would not be destroyed by separation from this main world, nor would the main world be affected in the slightest by the gradual weakening of the surrounding larger worlds.

We just need to protect such a world, then after tens of millions of years or even billions of years, the creatures in these worlds will eventually multiply and thrive, and then after a little bit of development, they will eventually return to this world and reshape this world that has long been destroyed!

The creativity and evolutionary ability of life are endless. The Goddess of Creation obviously has absolute confidence in this point. In the end, after placing such a world and allowing it to develop freely, she also said goodbye to her two close friends and companions who had been with her for countless years and worked hard for all this. Then she closed her eyes forever and fell asleep in this "cemetery" that she created with her own hands and built specifically for herself.

Everything has been settled, and everything seems to be so beautiful. In this world abandoned by the gods, the last and only god, with his compassion, planted the last seed of hope for all living beings, but the price he paid was his precious life.

This is an extremely noble act and an extremely warm devotion. With the goddess' willing sacrifice, all living beings have received their last chance of survival. There is no doubt that they will continue to enjoy the goddess's final gift while developing themselves day by day, until the whole world finally welcomes prosperity after rebirth!

However, even such stories, such legends, such distant information that is not sure whether it is true or false, are not something that everyone is willing to accept!

"I don't accept it, I don't agree... I don't agree!"

At a certain moment, an angry voice rang out from the remains of a dead planet. It was a voice full of anger, coldness, violence, and also deep sadness and dissatisfaction... It suddenly broke out from it. Perhaps it was in response to this anger, this unwillingness, and this sadness that one day, a silvery-white light suddenly... broke out from here!

It was like the purest silver-white liquid gradually wrapped around the abandoned planet that had long been dead and looked like a speck of dust in the universe. Then, under continuous rendering and infiltration, it finally swallowed and assimilated it bit by bit.

An existence called silver, a substance called silver, a god called silver!