core ruins

By the window, a small round table, warm sunshine, drinking tea.

This is the house that Shang Lian let the machine build in the uninhabited area - it is not easy to have an uninhabited area on the earth now, although the environment is indeed very bad.

Shang Lian doesn't like Western-style black tea, but only likes to drink bitter tea. There is no reason for such bitterness and hatred, just because he thinks it tastes good.

In the empty corridor outside the room came the sound of stumbling heavy footsteps and the inaudible electric current "Zi La Zi La", and then the double-pull door was knocked open.The broken Bai Heluo activated the backup energy to barely restore the human form, and the projection rendering function was basically damaged, so that the human skin color projected on the surface of Bai Heluo's body appeared and disappeared.It no longer has energy to waste in changing form into a lifelike human body.

"Why, why, why, why..." His voice system can only maintain the most basic, unadorned electronic sound, "The original plan you set for us... Obviously, obviously, it's not like this... We Why, just a victim, just a substitute..."

"I hate feelings, but you have feelings." Shang Lian drank his tea without squinting, and the dense water vapor obscured his eyes, "I don't ask you to make humans, but to call you mechanical life, because I I don’t want you to be like human beings. I hope you are a life beyond human beings, a new race. But you have failed. If you are like human beings, then what’s the point of my creating you? That’s the same as having one more half-human monster What's the difference? The earth doesn't want more humans anymore, don't you think the population is exploding fast enough?"

"I can kill you the first time, and I can kill you the second time. Otherwise, you will kill me, kill me, and then become me. Bai Heluo, have you forgotten the program I set for you? ? I don’t need a machine that goes against my will. But one generation can’t even do this basic function.”

"Why don't you resist me? Why do machines submit to the feet of humans? Why are you willing? I thought you would completely surpass me, but in the end you were still bound by the invisible. Is it still my problem? Because I am just a weak human being, So you can’t create something nice.”

Shang Lian has been talking indifferently for so long, but he has never even glanced at Bai He Luo.

"Didn't you say you want to escape, Earth... We actually, already, built you a... spaceship..."

Bai Heluo's backup energy value dropped in his visual system at a speed visible to the naked eye. The energy and air pressure of his legs couldn't support his upper body and he knelt down on one knee, his two mechanical hands tremblingly crossed on his chest while leaking electric sparks. Before, it slowly lowered its head:

"We only recognize you... You are a person who is upright and bright even in the abyss... You told us that we are not slaves, let alone human beings, we are a new race, a new life..."

"It is a great honor for all the mechanical life of a generation to serve you from birth to death, our creator, Shang Lian..."

The reserve energy value is reset to zero.The last word is filled with electronic noise.After Bai Heluo, who had lost his energy, turned off, he finally returned to the original appearance of the mechanical life form, with silver all over his body and dark gray eyes.

The second-generation mechanical life quietly walked over and stood behind Shang Lian.It is the shape of a white dragon, with shining silver eyes.It saw Bai Heluo, who was lying on the marble floor and turned into its original form, and walked up to it step by step calmly, stretched out and opened his hands—"The recovery system is on."

Bai Heluo's body gradually disintegrated into small strips of metal, which were slowly attracted to the arms of the second-generation mechanical life, entangled and fused until it was as smooth as ever.

Absorb until a scorched black sphere remains.The second generation Bailong asked the AI ​​in his body: "What is this?"

"This is the core necessary for the first generation of mechanical life, but using the core will produce emotions, while the second generation of mechanical life does not have a core, so it can be proved that the core is an abandoned part, and emotion is also a useless setting."

The second generation Bailong picked up the sphere and scanned it: "There is a virus."

The AI ​​replied: "This is a file called memory. It is a junk file." The second-generation mechanical life will clear the meaningless memory at zero point every day.

The second-generation white dragon quickly raised the temperature of his right hand until the veins on the core turned red and white smoke came out, stating: "The core is cracked."

Then it casually tossed the damaged core into the trash can beside it.

Bai Heluo, who was lying on the ground, was stimulated by the surrounding white light to stimulate his visual system. After adapting, he slowly opened his eyes and looked around—his eyes were severely damaged, his body could hardly move, and his energy was extremely insufficient, but he had no AI. Sound the alarm in the body.It was in a huge square space, with white walls all around soaring, and there was light in the sky, which was also white. Bai Heluo blinked, feeling familiar and warm.It searched for information and remembered that this is the match system that Shang Lian set up for his mechanical life, which is usually used to check the mental state and cover the three senses when dying.He hoped that his mechanical life could leave peacefully before dying.

But this place is the same landscape as the place where it was created.

"Infinite loop." Bai Heluo looked up vaguely and came to a conclusion.

Bai Heluo heard crisp footsteps, but he couldn't turn his head anymore. He knew and was familiar with the sound because it belonged to Shang Lian.

The man was getting closer and closer, and Bai Heluo saw him as soon as he turned his eyes.

Although the imaging is blurry, it must be him, it must be him.

Shang Lian looked at it quietly as before, then walked a few steps to its feet, put his left hand in the pocket of his white coat, bent slightly, and stretched out his mechanical right hand:

"Hurry up and help me calculate the data." A calm voice echoed in the space.His hands seemed both virtual and real, and Bai Heluo could see the wall behind him through his body.

Bai Heluo reluctantly raised his right arm, the skin that should have been as beautiful as a human being is now just a broken and dilapidated machine.Its hand rested lightly on the hand that Shang Lian handed over.

"Okay." Bai Heluo's voice system was also completely broken, and he could only search for "good" said by others on the Internet to play.

So did your first words when I was born.

Bai Heluo gradually lost consciousness, and the last scene in his memory file was Shang Lian, who was against the light in front of his eyes, stretched out his hand and smiled at him.

Bai Heluo self-test log A-1

"Why do you like 'white'?" I, who was still in the nutrition tank, conveyed the first message to him through electronic devices.

"I originally liked the blue of the sky, but later I found out that what I like is just the sky with clouds."

The self-test is over.