After the last human disappeared, the hotel's cleaning system activated and cleared away the corpse lying on the floor without leaving a trace.
Looking at the empty cockpit, the Machine Savior finally realized that humanity in this world had completely vanished. From this point on, the name "humanity" had become history in this world.
But just as the last human had said, humanity's story was not over yet...
After steadying his somewhat despondent emotions, the Machine Savior turned the spacecraft around and headed toward Earth.
The starting point on the route map had become the destination. Now, he had to take the entire spacecraft across the vast universe and return to the place where it had first set sail.
This journey would still take a long time. The Machine Savior did not know whether any accidents would occur along the way. He could only do his best to fulfill the last human's request and complete humanity's final task in this world...
Stars glittered beyond the glass windows. The spacecraft passed through the densely packed stellar region and entered a desolate zone. The surrounding starlight gradually vanished, leaving behind nothing but boundless darkness. As he piloted the ship, the Machine Savior pondered the last human's words. Yet, having never been instilled with human emotions, he still could not quite understand that obsession with returning home.
In his view, once life had passed, it had passed. The brain's activity gradually stopped, cells died one by one, becoming a mass of matter that would never awaken again. Then that mass of matter slowly scattered, drifting throughout the world...
So-called inheritance was not an inheritance of itself. What was inherited was merely some intangible "spirit."
No matter how difficult it was to erase marks carved into stone, the person who carved them had long