The ancient mechanical mind had a moment of data ups and downs. The familiar voice seemed to awaken some fragmented memories in the deepest part of the Omega database. The buzzing sound that kept echoing in the server hall first became a little low, but soon returned to normal. He greeted the voice: "I didn't expect you to hear your voice again, Eunya... Madam."

“I didn’t expect that when you left, my consciousness had not even recovered,” Enya said with a smile in the communication, “and when you pay attention to your hometown again, I am no longer active in the eyes of the world.”

Omega was silent for a few seconds and asked, "So, are you now free?"

"Yes, I'm fine now, thank you for that," Eunya said slowly, "What about you? How are you doing there?"

Omega searched his execution endpoints. He saw a young dragon explorer running quickly across the plains and hills. The magnificent and weird crystal minerals poked out from the surface and pointed at the stars from afar. He saw an aerospace shuttle returning to the atmosphere. It crossed the dividing line of day and night and was about to pounce on the forward base on the other side of the planet. The orange-yellow sun was rising on the horizon. The sunlight plated a layer of radiance on the outer shell of the shuttle. One thousand two hundred kilometers away, a drilling car was punching a huge drill bit into the ground, exploring a wonderful heat source reaction. Next to the drilling car, the beacon generator installed last year was slowly rotating under the starlight, conveying him the response of "Everything is OK here."

"I'm very good here," Omega said happily, and he liked this "pleasant" mood. "This is a planet that is completely different from its hometown. During the day, the "O" only occupies a small area in the sky, but its brilliance is extremely bright. At night, nearly one-third of the atmosphere of this planet will emit glow due to active energy reactions. Most areas here have a large temperature difference between day and night, and the dragon may have to barely survive. But near the poles, I found a narrow and gentle area, although there was no life there.

"I originally landed near the equator, but now I moved to the north and built a nest here. The mineral resources are abundant here, and the magic power in the atmosphere is roughly the same as my hometown. It is a comfortable place to live. Although most of the creatures in my hometown should be difficult to survive here, this is not a problem for me and my mechanical creatures."

"...It sounds incredible adventure. Surviving on another planet, I even want to try it out," Enya's voice seemed to have a smile. Then she paused and said, "I'm fine, I just want to ask about your current situation. Hragore and the others should also find an opportunity to contact you. You suddenly left, and many people are guessing where you went."

"In the astronomical scale, I was just a young dragon who had just flew to the door of my house and was lying on the pile of stones in front of the nest and leaning outward," Omega said seriously. "And those who stayed in their hometown would soon take this step, and realize that the real 'scale' of this world is not far away in this small celestial system dominated by 'Ao'. Outside the stellar gravitational circle is the truly vast and deep starry sky."

"Will you explore outside the stellar gravity circle later?"

"Yes, but this is a long-term goal," Omega said enthusiastically about his long-term plan. "I am not able to build an engine that can complete the cross-galaxy mission. The technology recovered from the Settler's legacy cannot be directly applied. Moreover, if I want to take a step outside the stellar gravitational circle, I must prepare well. I want to gain a foothold on this planet first, collect more resources, build larger factories, develop higher technologies, and accumulate more space flight experience. When the time is right, I will first launch a batch of detectors and wait until I find a suitable springboard before moving on to the next step..."

"Great travel plan," Enya exclaimed softly, "So, what?"

"Then, explore the farther planets and look for even more incredible astronomical phenomena," Omega said, a little hesitant, "I think... such a vast universe should be enough for me to explore for a long time."

"It sounds so good," Eunya said with a smile. "I wish I could witness your journey of exploration, too, which should be very interesting."

Listening to Enya's words, Omega immediately said: "If you really have this intention, I can arrange it for you after the Demon Tide..."

"No, Omega, don't care too much about my words. This is just a whim. And you have chosen a path that suits you. You have a life form and development direction that is completely different from carbon-based organisms. Naturally, you don't have to provide 'service' to anyone anymore," Enya's voice was soft, just like Omega remembered. "Of course, if you want to find a travel companion because of loneliness, then there should be many people in the hometown who are willing to travel with you or you can find something else to do? After all, the pure exploration journey is really monotonous."

Omega's server array was buzzing, and some small ups and downs seemed to appear in his thinking thread: "I... don't quite understand what you said. At this stage, the only goal I can think of is to be prepared to visit the stars, but I will try it, try the 'other things' you said."

Speaking of this, he suddenly paused again, and after a brief thought, he added: "Of course, in this process I still need to perform a dormant that lasts for about a year to avoid the impact of the demon tide. Although I am not sure how much it affects me, just like a saying that humans like to say: It is not harmful to be cautious."

"Are you ready to resist the demon wave?"

"Yes, I have set up the program for dormancy and wake-up, and arranged a group of drones with basic logic intelligence to serve as the guards during dormancy. I also strengthened my nest to prevent the server array from being damaged by geological disasters during dormancy. At this point, I feel that I am much lucky than the people in my hometown. I can stop thinking like a machine, just ensure the safety of the hardware to safely survive the magic wave. However, it is difficult for carbon-based creatures to be awakened again after hibernation at the level of soul death..."

Listening to Omega's words, Enya smiled: "This is indeed an enviable 'talent'."

After that, Omega talked to Enya about life in her hometown, exploration in the starry sky, and a lot of plans for the future. Until the night becomes deeper and midnight approaches, this special "interstellar communication" finally ends.

The golden light surrounding it gradually retreated from Gao Wen. The golden dome floating in the air took a step back. Enya withdrew her will and shook her body slightly to Gao Wen: "I'm sorry for having used it for so long and I accidentally chatted too much."

"Don't care," Gao Wen waved his hand indifferently. "It is quite meaningful to me to know Omega's wonderful exploration experience on a different planet. Many of the things he mentioned are important references for us to develop the aerospace industry in the future."

"It's good," a gentle laugh came from the golden dome. "You have the energy and confidence to plan these future things again, and that's exactly what you're good at."

"But it seems that you are better at planning the long-term future than me," Gao Wen shook his head, and then showed a thoughtful expression. "Are you... deliberately guiding Omega? What are you worried about?"

"Maybe it's just worrying about excessiveness, but if a free intelligence like Omega is 'transformed' from basic service-oriented intelligence, no one knows what he will develop into without guidance. After all, there is no element of 'heart' in his original design. When he left this planet, the only extra free part of his mind was 'curiosity', and simple curiosity was far from enough to make him understand what 'humanity'."

Enya said slowly, the golden glow on the surface of the eggshell was soft and undulating.

"He is now a very powerful existence, a ‘super life’ accumulated from engines, weapons and steel giants. This super life can even be regarded as a mechanical empire that operates with extremely high efficiency. At the same time, the mind of this mechanical empire is far from mature enough, and his basic goal at this stage is only one: to devour resources, strengthen itself, and find the next planet. Although he thinks this is in ‘exploration’, in essence... I think this will be an endless spread process.

“If this endless spread tendency is not guided from the root, I am worried that he will eventually miss the opportunity to 'maturity' and become never able to understand the complex emotions his creators once had. It is not great.”

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "So do you think your guidance will have an impact on him?"

"Who knows? I just said that this may be just an over-worry. In essence, Omega is just a child trying to understand this world. He obviously has deep feelings for his hometown, the planet under our feet and the races that survive on this planet. He may not need my guidance at all and will gradually mature by himself," Enya said slowly, "but I think... it is not a bad thing to talk to a child who is away."

Gao Wen laughed, but he was about to say something else, but a sound of footsteps suddenly appeared at the terrace door. Then Betty pushed the door and appeared in front of him. The maid rubbed her eyes while scanning the terrace. After seeing Enya, she suddenly became energetic: "Ah! Ms. Enya! You are indeed here. I said why can't you find you everywhere. The guard also said that you have floated away to the terrace."

Enya was stunned, and then she felt a little embarrassed in her tone: "I just came out to have a breath of wind..."

But Betty interrupted her with a very firm tone without waiting for the other party to finish her speech: "That's not possible. It's too late and you haven't hatched it yet. Sleeping too late is not good for the eggshell, and if you don't have a good rest, you won't hatch it even more..."

After the words came, she turned around and bowed vigorously to Gao Wen: "Your Majesty, I will take Ms. Enya back to her room to sleep! You should also rest early!"

Then the royal chief maid ignored the protests coming from the golden dome, pushed Enya directly and rolled back to the corridor. Gao Wenze didn't react until this time, turning his head to look at Amber with a strange expression: "...Where did Betty learn strange knowledge? When did she know how the dragon egg hatched?"

"If you ask me whom I ask, maybe Pitman teaches you?" Amber spread his hands and said indifferently. Gao Wenze seemed to suddenly remember something, and quickly ran to the door leading to the corridor, shouting far away at Betty who was pushing Enya into the room: "Betty! Push slowly! Don't roll too quickly and dissipate yellow!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Eunya's angry voice coming from afar: "Are you finished? You can't get past this point, right?"

Gao Wen suddenly felt in a good mood.

And at the same time, on the rocky planet far away from Loren and shining by the glory of "O", Omega, who had finished communication, was quietly thinking about some things.

The server array emits a pleasant and low hum in the hall, and countless remote execution nodes are faithfully executing various commands issued by the Omega program, exploring, mining, smelting, research and development, production, and testing. In a series of explosive factories, fortresses and laboratories, his long-term and meaningful plans are being carried out in an orderly manner, like precisely meshing gears, jointly pushing a huge machine to the next planned node.

This is what it has been doing since it landed on the planet several years ago, and it is the only thing it is doing to develop itself and move further away. From the day it left its hometown, its goal has been extremely clear.

But suddenly, he had some questions about simply exploring from one place to another.

After pondering for a long time, he discovered the source of these "abnormal data" that made him produce: communication with his hometown, memories of his hometown, and the involuntary nostalgia and warmth that arise in his mind after hearing the familiar voice again.

"...Lonely, after 'curiosity', another trait related to 'heart'," Omega's thinking thread suddenly emerged. He did not close the suddenly extra thread, but let it run quietly in the server array and deduce it downward. "The pure and repetitive exploration activities have low significance, and simple expansion is essentially mechanical labor. The meaning of travel lies in the process of travel. The travel plan formulated at this stage... has no sufficient significance except for the established goal of 'exploration'.

"Perhaps... something more meaningful should be considered, acting as an embellishment during the travel process to offset the impact of 'losing'. This may also help maintain the most basic connection with the hometown and avoid being unable to communicate with them because of being too heterogeneous..."

Data surged lightly between the server arrays, and hundreds of millions of mimicry neurons were processing all the sudden ideas and plans with extremely high efficiency. After a while, some areas of the deep area of ​​the mother nest suddenly came from the alien exploration. Some spare components were taken out of the warehouse. The huge assembled array began to start the new operation process. The biomass storage tanks that were originally sealed were transported out from the depths of the base. There were biological samples taken away by Omega when he left his hometown. After arriving on this planet, these biological samples could only be frozen in the storage tank because they could not adapt to the environment. But now, Omega suddenly wanted to use them to do some... interesting things.

While the underground production facilities and experimental facilities began to operate, a shuttle hangar on the upper floor of the Omega Nest also opened a passage. A new high-speed exploration vehicle ejected from the passage and disappeared in the aurora curtain under the night. The aircraft flew straight to the north, towards the milder climate area. Next, the data it collected from there might be very useful.

This planet is not suitable for life and survival. At least for species from their hometown, most of them will die quickly in the planet's deadly radioactive atmosphere, day-night temperature difference and toxic environment.
Chapter completed!