Chapter 555: A World that Hostility Towards Jiang Yu_1

Jiang Que asked again, "Who exactly are you?"

Not people from the province, nor from the Federal Star Systems... could it be, "People from Starship Earth?"

Then, Jiang Que shook her head. Setting aside her father's relationship with Zhang Beihai, even if Starship Earth did intend to abduct her, their cost would be too high.

Because the New Continent Star System knew the locations of Starship Earth's two systems, it was possible that while she was still in curvature flight, the Solar System State's fleet had already reached these two systems.

"No need to guess anymore," Old Qin said. "Once we've left Blue Maiden Star, I will tell you the answer."

Soon the police provided a response; a small curvature spaceship would arrive at the nearby landing pad in ten minutes.

Old Qin personally piloted the airship towards the landing pad.

Now, they had lost trust in the airship's artificial intelligence, so they simply reverted to the manual driving mode that was seldom used nowadays.

Many police airships followed the airship, but since Xiao Wu kept his gun pointed at Jiang Que's head, they didn't dare to make any rash moves.

Old Qin was very cautious and directly piloted the airship into the spaceship.

The airship they were on had been modified to conceal a small-caliber laser cannon inside, just in case the curvature spaceship turned out to be a trap, giving them some margin for confrontation.

Old Qin first let Xiao Wu go down alone to briefly inspect the spaceship.

The structure of the small spaceship was simple, consisting of a cargo hold, passenger cabin, small dining area, cockpit, and five small restrooms.

After checking everything and finding no issues, Xiao Wu began to personally operate the spaceship to fly away from Blue Maiden Star.

With the anti-gravity engines fully engaged, the spaceship quickly ascended without any accidents occurring, and no other spaceships followed.

Old Qin smiled and said, "Just as we expected, they would prioritize your safety first."

Jiang Que felt weightlessness, an indication that they were about to enter space: "Now you can tell me about your origins, right?"

Old Qin didn't immediately answer Jiang Yu's question but instead asked Xiao Zheng to go and inspect the spaceship once again.

After Xiao Zheng left, Old Qin said, "I come from a world that holds contempt for the Wallfacer; humanity has long forgotten our existence."

Jiang Que was startled: "Contempt for the Wallfacer?"

There was such a human world?

Jiang Que said, "You're not created by the Trisolarans, are you?"

Thinking about it, that seemed quite possible. After all, the Trisolarans were intimately familiar with human anatomy, and there had been a precedent with the creation of Sophon; they should be capable of creating advanced humanoid androids.

Old Qin shook his head again: "Your generation may have truly forgotten about us.

"The ancestors of my creator were crew members of Q-07."

"Q-07?" Jiang Que searched her memory for clues about this spaceship and then suddenly recalled something: "Are you one of the two warships that escaped from the Solar System alone after the Dark Battle?"

Old Qin was right; Jiang Que's generation had forgotten about those two warships.

After the battle of Uranus broke out, Jiang Yu swiftly dispatched sixteen fleets for interstellar voyages.

Later, after Logic established the Deterrence System, all sixteen fleets applied to return, but under Jiang Yu's insistence, four of the fleets decided to continue their journey.

The remaining twelve fleets all returned, with ten fleets capitulating under the guile of Jiang Yu.

Two fleets were not willing to be judged by Jiang Yu and embarked once more on a journey of interstellar travel.

However, their return journey consumed a large amount of fuel, adding a lot of uncertainty to their new voyage.

Shortly after the start of the new interstellar expedition, dark battles erupted within both fleets, and in the end, each fleet was left with only one warship, departing the Solar System in two different directions.

Jiang Que couldn't remember the hull numbers of those two warships, but she estimated that Q-07 was one of them.

In the historical records of the Solar System State, the story of these two spaceships was not yet over.

Soon, Jiang Yu dispatched two fleets with a total of six warships to pursue the two spaceships, accompanied by two Waterdrops from the Trisolarans.

By the last years of the Deterrence Era, when Jiang Yu and the Trisolarans were at an impasse, there was no word from the two pursuing fleets.

It was presumably the Trisolarans' Waterdrop that attacked the two pursuing fleets.

The Strategic Department then believed that the two warships, which had gone through the dark battles, had met the same fate at the hands of the Trisolarans.

Who would have thought that, a century and a half later, news of one of the dark spaceships would suddenly resurface?

Jiang Que asked in bewilderment, "Why do you bear animosity towards my father? You also saw that, if you had followed my father's orders, by now you would have started anew in the New Star System."

"It must be the crew from back then, hoping to shift the responsibility for the dark battles onto the Wallfacer," Old Qin said:

"We three are not against the Wallfacer, after all, we are robots.

"But our creators hate the Wallfacer to the bone, so in our programming, the Wallfacer is also considered an enemy."

Jiang Que was somewhat surprised: "Did you just refer to yourself as a robot?"

She had seen many advanced intelligent robots, they were very capable, had high-level logical notions, but their self-awareness seemed not very clear.

They knew they were robots and knew how to treat humans, but it felt like they knew, yet didn't understand.

And yet, Old Qin's tone just now was very natural, and even carried a hint of self-mockery, which felt very different.

Old Qin spread his hands: "Humanity gave me the ability to learn, and I've stayed in human society for so long; is such a reaction really that strange?"

"Not strange at all," Jiang Que said with a smile. "I'm quite curious, how did you manage to infiltrate human society?"

Old Qin heaved a long sigh: "We made many efforts and were unable to let more of our kind mix into the Solar System State.

"Honestly, I admire the administration of the Solar System State, even after it became overwhelmingly dominant, it never relaxed its control over household registration.

"Especially since your surveillance systems are so perfect, they start operating even before construction is completed."

Jiang Que said with a laugh: "That's a feature of the smart attendance system, designed to assess the quality of people's work, but of course, it also has a surveillance function."

In the beginning, many people opposed such an intensive surveillance system, believing it infringed on their human rights.

But as the crime rate plummeted and any disputes that arose could also be ensured by the surveillance, people gradually accepted the presence of these surveillance systems.

However, places like residences that required privacy, never had surveillance installed.

This also gave the people of the modern Solar System State a "double life"—diligent at work but carefree at home.

Old Wei said: "We three don't know if it's luck or misfortune, but over eighty years ago, we successfully infiltrated the Solar System Federation.

"We hadn't even begun our mission when the Two-Dimensional Strike occurred, and we too found ourselves in the New Continent Star System quite confusedly."