Transformers: Survival of Defective Products

Chapter 131 A Ball in My Dream

Yin Xiangzong felt that he did not sleep well.

She was really tired and didn't even want to think about who she was.

But there's always someone bothering her from far away.

The sounds came in layers, as if they were coming through a thick metal wall. Sometimes they were near, sometimes far, mixed with words she couldn't understand.

Fateline, Covenant, Variables, Cybertron...

She was incredibly annoyed.

She wanted to continue sleeping, or wake up.

Anyway, it's not about being surrounded by a bunch of voices whose names you don't know, reciting things that sound really troublesome.

So she opened her eyes.

To be precise, she doesn't even know if she has eyes now.

Because when she looked down at herself, she realized that she had no hands, no feet, no exoskeleton, and not even a body.

She turned into a ball.

—A small, slightly oval, bluish-green, fuzzy ball.

The vector remained silent for two seconds: "Chirp?"

A moment of silence fell over the surrounding area.

A boundless space, without a metal floor or any Cybertronian-like appearance.

Pale golden light flowed all around, like countless ancient characters dismantled and slowly drifting through the void. In the distance, thin lines like star trails intersected, then disappeared at some unseen end.

Eleven figures surrounded her.

Tall, ancient, and imposing enough to be written into an epic.

If they weren't all looking at a fluffy little ball, this air of authority could probably have lasted a little longer.

The one standing at the very front held a calm, gleaming sword; he appeared orderly, upright, and radiant.

Xianjue Tian looked down at the small blue-green ball: "She's awake."

Beside him, a primordial being with a gentle and profound aura lowered his head slightly, like a shadow cast silently by time and space.

Yin Tianxing looked at the small ball and said calmly, "She asked us what we did to her."

After a pause: "His tone wasn't very friendly."

The light blue ball immediately chirped again.

Yin Tianxing continued translating: "She added that she was very sleepy."

Xianjue Tian paused for a moment, then said, "We will explain."

The light blue ball wobbled slowly, as if trying to understand.

Then she suddenly sprang up, bumping into Jing Tianwei on the first impact.

Jing Tianwei was bending down to observe her soul structure, completely unexpected that this thing would suddenly take off. The first Combiner was thus knocked back half a step, stunned for a moment:

"...She bumped into me?"

Huan Tianling laughed out loud from the side: "You're the first Combiner."

Jing Tianwei turned to look at him: "What does this have to do with getting hurt by a ball?"

The light blue ball bounced off Jing Tianwei's shoulder, tracing a beautiful arc before colliding with Huan Tianling.

Huan Tianling's laughter stopped abruptly.

Sai Tianjiao stood to the side with her arms crossed, metallic light flowing from the patterns on her body, intense and vivid. She watched as Huan Tianling was slightly thrown off course by the attack, and chuckled, "Pretty accurate."

Huan Tianling composed herself, her expression subtle: "I don't think she did it on purpose."

The light blue ball paused in mid-air for half a second, then turned to him and chirped.

Yin Tianxing translated gently, "She said you were laughing too loudly."

Huan Tianling: "..."

Sai Tianjiao smiled even more happily.

Xianjue Tian tried to turn the tide: "Use vectors."

The small blue ball paused for a moment; the name seemed vaguely familiar to her.

She shook it: "Chirp?"

Yin Tianxing looked at her: "She asked, 'Are you calling me?'"

"Yes," said the First Awakener, "You must listen to us. The future of Cybertron—"

Before the words were even finished, the ball flew out again.

This time, she crashed into Emperor Maximo.

Maximo wasn't standing very close to the camera.

He was quite interested in the summoning, but not so much in being used as a target by a furry little thing. So he stepped back slightly when she first launched herself.

It's a pity that not enough refunds were issued.

The ball struck him precisely in the chest.

Maximo looked down at the small ball that had bounced back, a hint of disbelief in his golden eyes: "This is the variable you chose?"

The light blue ball spun around in mid-air.

Yin Tianxing whispered a reminder: "She can understand the tone of voice."

Maximo smiled: "I wasn't wrong."

The ball hit it a second time, with even greater force.

Maximo took a step back.

Sai Tianjiao raised an eyebrow beside him: "Looks like she doesn't like you."

Maximo straightened the decorations that had been knocked askew, his tone unchanged: "Like many beings lacking judgment, she is easily misled by appearances."

The ball rushed past for the third time, and Maximo finally raised his hand to block it.

Suddenly, she stretched into a long strip in mid-air, like a tattered blue yarn, slipped past his hand, and then bounced back into a ball shape with a "pop," hitting his shoulder armor.

Jing Tianwei was stunned: "She can transform?"

Huan Tianling narrowed his eyes: "It doesn't seem so."

Sai Tianjiao asked, "What is that?"

Huan Tianling pondered for a moment: "She's being unreasonable."

Rui Tianxiao stood silently at the back.

He retained the ancient and serene beastly form, his aura connected to dreams, souls, and death, as if he had emerged from the void itself.

He didn't react to the ball's random bumps; he just watched.

Until the small ball suddenly rushed towards him.

Rui Tianxiao raised his hand, and the small ball hit his palm and stopped.

The emptiness was silent for a fleeting moment.

All the ancestors looked at him.

Rui Tianxiao looked down at the furry little thing in his palm, and the little ball raised its non-existent head to look at him.

"grumble."

After listening, Yin Tianxing couldn't help but chuckle softly.

Rui Tianxiao asked, "What did she say?"

"She said," Yin Tianxing paused, "that you seem rather quiet."

Rui Tianxiao blinked slowly, and the small ball rubbed against his palm, as if he felt that it was indeed not noisy here.

Xianjuetian seized the opportunity to speak: "Can you listen to us now?"

The ball paused for a moment, then bounced off Rui Tianxiao's palm and continued flying.

Rui Tianxiao slowly withdrew his hand: "She said no."

Jing Tianwei looked at Yin Tianxing: "You made the choice."

Yin Tianxing's expression remained gentle: "Yes."

"You chose this one from so many fate lines?"

Xie Tiancui stood on the other side, the golden lens in his hand refracting layers of strange light. He watched the small ball bounce around in the void, his tone still gentle, yet tinged with a hint of confusion:

"Her resilience is greater than expected. With her rational processing ability weakened, her instinct to resist has become very clear."

Jing Tianwei looked down at the spot where he had just been hit: "You call this a defensive instinct?"

Wei Tianxing hovered quietly to one side, much smaller than the other Primordial Ancestors. He hadn't spoken until now, when he added in a low voice, "Very vigorous."

Maxim scoffed, "Yin Tianxing, aren't you going to explain? This furry ball has already wrecked half a circle around us."

Yin Tianxing looked at the small sphere that was trying to bypass the light and shadow of the Awakening Heaven's longsword: "She changed Charon, she shook up the judicial system, she pushed forward the Institute's Asylum Agreement and the Non-Combat Unit Protection Regulations, she changed Megatron, she changed Optimus Prime, and all the other machines."

His tone was calm, yet authoritative: "Didn't she succeed?"

A brief silence fell over the space.

Maximo's lips twitched: "She's trying to kill us now too."

Yin Tianxing glanced at him: "You still look intact."

The ball crashed into it again in the next instant.

Yin Tianxing calmly added, "For now."

Sai Tianjiao laughed so hard that his shoulder armor trembled slightly: "I'm starting to like her."

"You liked it from the beginning," said Xie Tiancui.

Sai Tianjiao said frankly, "That doesn't stop me from liking it even more."

Xianjue Tian finally raised his hand, his sword flashing slightly, gently yet firmly blocking the path in front of the ball: "Enough."

The ball hit it, but didn't break free.

She was bounced back slightly, swaying in mid-air: "Chirp!"

Yin Tianxing translated: "She said, 'You guys are annoying.'"

Xianjue Tian: "..."

Sai Tianjiao turned to look at Yin Tianxing: "Are you sure her rationality has only decreased by 60%?"

Yin Tianxing said, "Approximately."

Huan Tianling immediately looked over: "Approximately?"

"Otherwise, we can't pull her in." Yin Tianxing said calmly, "Her original soul strength was too high. If she had maintained her complete consciousness, she might have been able to break free from the summoning directly."

Upon hearing this, the little ball stopped, and its fuzzy edges seemed to explode.

"grumble?"

Yin Tianxing glanced at her: "She asked what we cut off her."

Xie Tiancui coughed lightly: "It's not a reduction. To be more precise, it's a temporary reduction in some of your rational processing abilities so that you can enter this space."

"Chirp?"

She asked how much the price had been reduced.

He looked towards the path of guiding the heavens.

Yin Tianxing calmly replied, "About 60%."

The ball fell silent.

All the original ancestors were looking at her.

Immediately afterwards, she transformed into a bluish-green afterimage and rushed straight towards Yin Tianxing.

Jing Tianwei instinctively reached out to stop him, but failed.

Huan Tianling conjured a spatial illusion, which she squeezed into a thin sheet and passed through.

Wei Tianxing raised her hand to catch it, but it brushed past the edge of the energy connection, causing her to float back a little.

Finally, the ball slammed into Yin Tianxing's abdomen with a "bang".

The force was considerable, causing Tianxing to take a half-step back.

He looked down at the ball bouncing back into the air, not angry: "She's very energetic."

Maximo looked at him: "How tolerant."

The ball is about to rush over again.

Yin Tianxing raised his hand and opened a small spacetime fold in front of her. The cyan-blue ball crashed into it, bounced out from the other side, and hit Wuchangtian.

Impermanence Heaven was originally observing her.

As a sower and creator of life, he was clearly interested in this unusual form of soul.

Even after being hit, he remained calm as a scientist, watching the ball bounce back.

Then the little ball suddenly stopped, and she stared at Wuchangtian for a few seconds: "Chirp?"

Yin Tianxing looked at her, and for the first time, his expression changed slightly.

The Impermanent One asked, "What did she say?"

Yin Tianxing said, "She said she thinks she knows you."

Wuchangtian paused, and the other primordial ancestors immediately looked over.

The little ball suddenly became excited and darted in front of Wuchangtian, its furry edges even shining a little.

"Chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp!"

Yin Tianxing was silent for a moment.

Sai Tianjiao asked, "What?"

Yin Tianxing said with a hint of a smile, "She said that one of her friends really likes him."

Wuchangtian raised an eyebrow.

"She also said that her friend had told her something," Yin Tianxing continued translating. "She asked if she could have an autograph."

The space was quiet for a moment, then Jing Tianwei burst out laughing, and Sai Tianjiao laughed even more unrestrainedly.

Huan Tianling looked at Wuchangtian: "How do you feel?"

Wu Changtian slowly stroked his chin: "She has good taste."

Maximo chuckled softly, "Finally, a creator recognized by the furball."

Wuchangtian glanced at him: "At least she didn't run into me three times."

The little ball chattered on and on.

Yin Tianxing's expression became subtle after hearing this.

Wuchangtian looked at him: "What did she say now?"

She said, "It seems like you've created something."

Wuchangtian stood there frozen, and Xianjuetian's gaze also darkened slightly.

The little ball shook itself vigorously, as if searching for a fragment of a memory that had been rummaged through.

"Chirp...chirp chirp."

Yin Tianxing paused for a moment: "She said she had temporarily forgotten what it was."

The impermanent heaven remained silent.

Maximo's smile deepened subtly: "Interesting."

Wuchangtian looked at him, his tone frosty: "Shut up."

Maximo shrugged: "I haven't said anything yet."

Sai Tianjiao didn't even bother to glance at him: "You're just as annoying even if you don't say anything."

Zhen Tianzun, this Fallen Vajra, always stood at a more distant position.

He was tall, silent, and exuded a heavy aura, like a weapon stained with too much fire. Shadows shrouded him, and even the pale golden light in the void seemed reluctant to approach.

The small ball had circled Wuchangtian twice before being drawn back by the cold, hard aura and turned to look at Zhentianzun.

Zhen Tianzun also looked at her: "Don't bump into me."

The ball stopped: "Chirp!"

Yin Tianxing translated: "She asked why."

Zhen Tianzun: "Because I don't want to."

The ball blinked and then rushed forward.

Zhen Tianzun did manage to block it, but he also took a half step back.

Sai Tianjiao immediately said, "You withdraw."

Zhen Tianzun said in a deep voice, "No."

"have."

"It's just a way to deflect the force."

"A half-step retreat to deflect the force."

Maximo clapped softly: "True Feel Machine. The strongest warrior, defeated by the fur ball."

Zhen Tianzun slowly turned his head to look at him.

Sai Tianjiao also looked at him with a quiet gaze.

Two pairs of eyes fell on him at the same time, and Maximo's applause stopped.

The little ball understood who deserved a collision, so she lunged at Maximo.

This time, Maximo was well-prepared and unleashed a deceptive illusion.

The ball flew straight through the phantom and collided with the real one.

Huan Tianling clicked her tongue: "Her intuition is troublesome."

Wei Tianxing said in a low voice, "She can do this with just her perception."

Rui Tianxiao looked at the small ball: "She's looking for a way back."

The laughter and playfulness in the room suddenly faded a little.

The ball is still flying around randomly; she's not being silly.

She couldn't understand those words—the universal covenant, destiny line, false god, judgment, memory.

Each word seemed to drift in from a great distance, landing on her hazy, shrewd consciousness.

She was annoyed, she was sleepy, and she found these ancient beings really noisy.

Deeper still, there was an inexplicable anxiety.

She shouldn't be here, trapped in this pale golden light.

There are many sounds from a very far place.

Someone is angry.

Someone is very tired.

Someone was on the verge of losing control.

Some people standing in the crowd could hardly recognize themselves.

She couldn't remember who they were.

But she knew she had to go back.

The cyan-blue ball suddenly lit up, more noticeably than before.

Yin Tianxing looked up, and Xianjue Tian also looked at the distant star trails.

The pale golden light that filled the entire space suddenly trembled, indicating that something extremely important had been moved from its original location somewhere in reality.

The gold-plated lens in Xie Tiancui's hand reflected a beam of light that pierced through the outer layer of the planet.

Wei Tianxing whispered, "The AllSpark has left Cybertron."

In an instant, all the progenitors fell silent.

Wuchangtian's expression turned serious.

Jing Tianwei frowned: "Has so much time passed in the outside world?"

Yin Tianxing looked at the constantly flowing spacetime lines: "Longer than expected."

Huan Tianling stared at the small ball that had started to dart around again, her tone no longer joking: "We haven't finished talking yet."

Maximo said, "To be precise, we hardly said anything."

Sai Tianjiao looked at him and said, "Say less."

Xianjuetian gripped the hilt of his sword tightly: "We can't delay any longer."

He looked at the blue-green sphere, his voice deep and clear: "The vector, you must remember it."

The ball paused briefly in mid-air.

"War is not the end."

"Beyond the sea of ​​stars, there will be those who claim to be creators—"

Too many voices were heard at the same time.

It possesses the uprightness of the Foresight Heaven, the gentleness of the Guide Heaven, the fervor of the Supreme Pride Heaven, the rare urgency of the Impermanent Heaven, and the ancient whispers of the Sharp Heaven.

Those words fell into the little ball's consciousness like fragments.

She tried to listen, but it wasn't complete.

Create, remember, go back.

She instinctively grasped at one last thing—she had to go back.

Wuchangtian finally lowered his pride and tried to coax her: "Didn't you want an autograph? Come here and listen to me first."

The ball paused for a fleeting moment.

Wuchangtian's eyes lit up slightly: "Yes, that's it."

"grumble."

Yin Tianxing remained silent for a moment.

The Impermanent One asked, "What did she say?"

She asked where to sign.

Impermanence Heaven: "...?"

Yin Tianxing added, "She said she didn't have hands."

Sai Tianjiao covered his forehead, chuckled, and quickly suppressed his laughter.

They were pressed for time.

Xianjue Tian tried again to stabilize the space around her with sword light, Huan Tianling unfolded a folding shadow from the other side, and Jing Tianwei and Wei Tianxing tried to block her escape route.

Rui Tianxiao leaned down, enveloped in the aura of dreams and souls, trying to calm her down.

The ball was briefly trapped amidst all the forces.

She was pressed into a flat, bluish-green pancake.

The space fell silent for a second; someone was trying to suppress a laugh.

Maximo looked at the pie: "Was this a success?"

The next second, the ball bounced back to its original shape with a "pop" and then shot out at an even faster speed.

Jing Tianwei: "She bounced back!"

Huan Tianling: "Don't shout, I saw you!"

Sai Tianjiao finally couldn't help but curse, "Where does this little thing get so much strength?"

Yin Tianxing stared at the bluish-green afterimage, his lips twitching almost imperceptibly: "She's always been like this."

Maximo sneered, "You sound very proud."

Yin Tianxing did not deny it.

The ball rushed through a circle of light gold light, then suddenly veered back.

She flew towards the endless void.

There was nothing there, but she sensed a path.

There are many opportunities waiting for her.

She wants to go back.

"grumble!"

Upon hearing this, Yin Tianxing's expression softened slightly.

As he chased after her, he asked, "What did she say?"

Yin Tianxing watched the small blue-green ball desperately trying to rush outwards:

She said she wanted to go home.

A light golden light flowed and vibrated.

Eleven ancient beings moved simultaneously.

They understood her anxiety, but they needed her to hear the ancient prophecy.

The author mentions in this chapter that there is a long popular science article about the original ancestor.