Will androids have digital love?

It all started with a phone call.

The voice on the other side of the phone has a steady tone without ups and downs, and the interval between each word is extremely unnatural. It sounds like an early bionic human in the prototype stage with an incomplete voice system:

"Hello, your bionic man has been disassembled, and all the parts that can be used for recycling have entered the claim process, waiting for recycling, leaving only about 40 kilograms of infrastructure. Would you like to take it back for burial, or let our organization directly destroy?"

"Ah?" The owner of the phone, the Second Monk Qin Yanzhang, was puzzled, "Did you dial the wrong number?"

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone: "Excuse me, is this Mr. Qin Yan?"

"it's me."

"Qin of the state of Qin, Yan of Yan with a beautiful scholar?"

"Yes."

"Is your bionic man a prototype ten years ago, model original, number o419?"

"what……"

"Then I shouldn't have made a wrong call." The mechanical voice calmly tightened Qin Yan's nerves, "Your bionic o419 has been processed, would you like to take back its basic structure?"

Qin Yan was stunned for a moment.

Suddenly cursed a very "human" dirty word.

Jump up from the office chair and run outside.

He just worked overtime for two or three days and didn't come home, so the bionics at home were arrested and dismantled for recycling?

What the hell? !

The organization that called was not far from where Qin Yan worked.

He drove the car on the empty main road during working hours, and rushed to the scheduled location within 10 minutes.

The car was randomly thrown on the side of the road by him.

He didn't even bother to lock the car door. He jumped over the decorative lawn in two steps in three steps, pushed open the door and went straight in. Handling Agency" sign giving a big middle finger.

He had heard of this institution.

As the major bionic human manufacturers have ceased production of old versions of parts, the first batch of bionic human beings manufactured more than ten years ago will predictably "come to the end of their lives."

A group of organizations that took a fancy to this business opportunity sprung up like mushrooms after rain: some organized bionic funerals, some helped with recycling, and some engaged in recycling.

After a period of brutal development, the profit model has gradually stabilized, forming a fixed "three-step trade of bionic human dismantling":

Reclaim androids from owners who want to dispose of old androids.

Clean, disassemble, and obtain parts that can be reused.

Sell ​​parts to owners who want to keep using the same android.

Among similar institutions, "Goodbye Old Models" is a relatively well-known one.

Because it is the innovation leader who took the lead in substituting the concept of "three-step trade" into the industry; also because of its large scale and a large number of branches, it can be seen everywhere in the city; moreover, because of its official background and formal operation, it has almost never exploded "Forcible recycling without owner's authorization" or "kidnapping of stray androids" are common scandals in other small irregular institutions.

...Fuck!

Qin Yan couldn't help but put his middle finger up again when he heard the advertisement of "formal organization, legal operation, no accident report in five years, one million perfect cases..." in the service hall.

"Call your person in charge to come out!" He clamored and patted the desk of the service desk, "Why is there no accident report? What perfect case? You have dismantled my bionic man! I haven't agreed yet! I still want to use it! I I'm still waiting for him to cook when I go home tonight!"

He was furious.

No poise.

Getting this inexplicable news suddenly is enough to make people angry.

And the bionic man working in the service desk seems unable to interpret his emotions—oh, having said that, its model is too old, even the o149 used by Qin Yan is still old, and it does not have human emotion analysis function—mechanically After confirming Qin Yan's identity, he handed him the "handling report" of o419 indiscriminately.

The report is displayed on a pad electronic screen the size of an A4 paper.There are detailed text descriptions.

But Qin Yan was not in the mood to watch.

His attention was completely drawn to the photo below the display.

That's his o419.

The state after being "processed".

Under normal circumstances, androids and humans look alike at first glance.Apart from the QR code on the surface of the body representing the bionic markings, there is little difference when inactive.

Qin Yan has already regarded o419 almost as a human being.

At first glance, when I saw its demolished appearance, I almost didn't recognize it:

The layer of delicate skin on its surface has been completely stripped off, exposing the silver-gray metal skeleton inside, and the protective components inside the skeleton have been dismantled to pieces, leaving only a few core parts that have entered the replacement process and are attached to the on the skeleton.

Qin Yan only felt the first "buzz" in his brain, as if he was hit directly by a heavy blunt object. For a moment, Venus shot out in front of his eyes, and he could hardly breathe.

As if he was afraid that he would not collapse enough, the bionic waiter who received him pressed the screen: "This is the standard photo after the dismantling is completed, and every recycled bionic should take a photo, um, it is equivalent to the 'portrait' of your human beings, right? , please take a look, compare the QR code, and confirm that it is indeed yours..."

The big picture of o419's face suddenly appeared in front of Qin Yan without warning.

Mostly for the convenience of identifying the QR code, the skin on the face was not peeled off, but the eyes were closed, making it look like they were asleep.Under the lower eyelid on the left, the barcode representing the original model is clearly visible.

This is Qin Yan's face for more than ten years.

Under the same roof, sleeping in the same bed, no matter what he does, this face is always by his side.

He leaned against the somewhat too smooth forehead, rubbed against the small upturned nose, kissed the thin lips that were never moist enough, and the eyes with eyelashes like butterfly wings...

this eye...

Qin Yan frowned.

These eyes, and even this face, should be very familiar to him, but looking at them now, they feel a little strange... Bionic people don't have the exact concept of "death", they only have "retirement" and "shutdown" , "Dismantling", and "death" should be just an extended state of "sleep" or "downtime maintenance" for them...

Qin Yan has seen other bionics who have been abandoned and entered the cycle stage.

Even if the head is removed, as long as it is connected to the power supply and the host, it is still full of vigor and vitality.

However, from his own o419 face, he definitely saw "death"...

This is……

"The eyeballs of the original model were discontinued very early," the bionic receptionist's ability to perceive words and expressions went online at an untimely time, and explained following Qin Yan's gaze, "Now it's a commodity that is in short supply, and it will be ordered as soon as it is dismantled..."

"I [beep] [beep] [beep]!" Theoretically speaking, a bionic person shouldn't feel pain, so o419 won't hurt, but as the owner, Qin Yan feels pain for it—he just feels his internal organs suddenly Clenched tightly by an invisible hand, the severe pain forced the veins on his forehead to twitch. He roared and jumped up like a wounded dragon, spitting out the obscenities as angry flames, "Call your supervisors!" Come on! If you don’t figure out what happened today, I’ll never end with you guys!”

The supervisor came quickly.

Also bionics.

The barcode under the lower eyelid of the left eye shows that it is a "sibling" of the same batch and model as o419 - the number is o114, and the appearance is female. To be precise, it should be the "sister" of o419.

Its gentle and decent speech is indeed very "sister" style: "I am also an original type, and I know how terrible it is to stop production of parts. Bionic people of the same type should help each other. We will never give up any companion who can be rescued easily, and even more Don't talk about dismantling them for no reason."

It is probably a problem with the pronunciation program, its way of speaking is somewhat similar to that of o419.

Inexplicably, Qin Yan felt a sense of intimacy—if they were all human beings, shouldn't he call the lady o114 in front of him "auntie"?The weird thought calmed down the man who was still irritable just now, and he calmed down a little.

But this calmness was soon broken by o114's next words:

"However, Mr. Qin Yan, our procedure is completely legal and prudent. In fact, we have received your entrustment and at your strong request to help you scrap and recycle a bionic that can still be used normally. people……"

"Impossible!" Qin Yan jumped up from the chair, "I just..."

o114 didn't let him lose his temper, silently took out two paper documents from his portable folder, arranged them neatly side by side, and pushed them in front of Qin Yan: "This is the application you submitted, and the full authority after approval Please take a look at the power of attorney for processing."

At the bottom of the two documents, there is Qin Yan's signature.

autograph.