“I’m so sorry to bother you,” Hugo said, his words coming so fast they were almost incomprehensible. “We’ll leave right...

The temporary base of “The Homeless Wanderers” was so small there was no extra room to stand. Hugo stood on...

An hour later, only a table of leftovers remained in the dining room. The robot waiter had refilled the omelets...

A few days later, in the morning, on the M29 well-appointed spaceship. Charon routinely opened his eyes from standby mode....

The human in his arms tensed at that moment, like an unsheathed dagger. The metaphor meant that he was ready...

Charon stared at these words with a blank expression. Thanks to the so-called emotional module, how had he not discovered...

“Find a suitable charging socket”—sure, easy for you to say. The Black Book thought weakly: a socket “suitable” for the...

The ringing in his ears grew louder. Everything around him became a rush of white noise. He had almost lost...

Jiang Wenbin’s condition, of course, was not good. His suit was wrinkled, his tie askew, and he had numerous scrapes....

The Black Book’s complaints vanished the moment it saw You Lin. Though the phrase “his condition is terrible” had come...