The Happy Life of Robot Al

"You feel better?"

Xi Luo woke up at around eight o'clock in the evening. Just after waking up, Al, who was sitting on the ground holding Xi Luo's hand in standby mode, restarted the machine. Looking at Xi Luo with a smile, Al asked.

"Well, it feels like being dead and coming back to life."

Xi Luo pushed the heavy quilt covering her body, looked around, it was an unfamiliar room.

"Want to eat?"

Al probed Xi Luo's forehead, and the temperature was completely normal, but it was obvious that various body functions were still in a weak state, and it seemed that he needed to rest for a while.

"I'm not too hungry."

"Let me make steamed eggs for you." Al suggested, and saw Xi Luo nodded. "I'll take you to take a hot bath after eating, and then go to bed and sleep."

"I have no strength in my whole body."

Xi Luo raised her arm, feeling as if a thousand catties was hanging on her arm, unable to move at all.

"nothing."

Al smiled and patted Xi Luo's head, then walked into the kitchen.

She slept for a long time, so Xi Luo didn't feel sleepy anymore, she just tilted her head and looked at Al's busy figure in the kitchen.

It didn't take long for Al to prepare the food. There were not only steamed eggs, but also a small plate of small red fruits, the kind Ni Qiunan found for himself before, but these looked more moist and tender.

Xi Luo ate a fruit, but I don't know if it was because it was already ripe. The green taste that I tasted before disappeared, and only the sweet and sour taste remained, which was very delicious.

"I think you might have a better appetite if you eat this."

Seeing that Xi Luo smiled after eating the fruit, Al also felt relieved.

Xi Luo ate the steamed eggs slowly, and Al poured him another glass of juice, and told him the situation while watching him eat.

"It seems that the elder also knows the great king."

"It seems so right."

"Since both the empire and the federation once belonged to that king's territory, it's not surprising that people who live in these two places know him. Maybe there are some photos passed down from generation to generation in the family."

Xi Luo said disapprovingly, to be honest, he didn't like people always thinking of Al as the legendary great king. Al was obviously picked up from the garbage dump by him, carefully repaired and cared for by him, and only belonged to him. A person's little robot is not the thing called the king.

I don't know if it's because of his illness, but Xi Luo just felt that he wanted to act like a baby with Al or Zela, because Zela wasn't there, so he stretched out the spoon.

"Feed me, I have no strength."

Xi Luo looked at Al with a smile all over her face, and saw Al sighed helplessly, then took the spoon and fed him.

After taking a bath, Xi Luo felt much refreshed, sitting on the bed and enjoying Al drying her hair, the warmth made him sleepy again.

Xi Luo didn't know how she fell asleep. She only knew that it was already noon on the second day when she opened her eyes again. Although the sun couldn't be seen underground, she could see sunlight falling in the gap specially set aside by the base outside the window.

I don’t know if the residents here discussed something yesterday. Today, there are no crowds around the house full of surprise and vigilance. Everyone has returned to their normal lives. The hawkers on the street and the children running around playing, It looks very ordinary.

"They don't look like researchers."

Xi Luo looked at the scene outside the window with some curiosity. The residents outside seemed to be ordinary residents of remote villages. They didn't even have robots. Everyone lived a farming life and hardly saw any modern electronic products. At home, even washing and cooking are done in a shed built at the door with real fire and water pipes.

"If my guess is correct, they may be descendants of former researchers at this base."

Ni Qiunan walked to Xi Luo's side, raised the curtain on the other side and looked out, and then lowered the curtain.

"All the items in this base are very old. Equipment like this has long been eliminated."

Ni Qiunan pointed to the tools in the kitchen.

Indeed, for safety reasons, open flames are no longer used for cooking in the rooms, and this kind of old-fashioned washing machine, even in Farrhona, has long been eliminated.

What's more, all the lights are not automatically lit, and electrical appliances need to be turned on manually.

"As for why those researchers stayed on this planet and reproduced, I don't know. Besides, it is very strange why there is no one to manage this place, which is clearly the territory of the empire."

It is true that whether it is the Federation or the Empire today, the territory is very large, and the planets covered are difficult to calculate, but because of the convenience of transportation, at least they will record all the living planets under their jurisdiction.

No matter how remote the place is, it will not be forgotten and abandoned like this.

Outside the window, Xi Luo saw a group of people walking towards this side, and the one in the front was a surprisingly aging old man.

Not long after, the doorbell rang, and Ni Qiunan walked over to open the door. Standing outside were Elder Fang and Elder Fang.

"You are still used to living here." The elder walked into the room and sat on the sofa, while Fang stood behind him. The others did not come in, but just guarded the door.

"It's nothing unusual."

Ni Qiunan replied impatiently, and Xi Luo quickly ran over to meet the elder. He knew that if the seniors were asked to communicate, they would definitely break up in the end.

"How is your body?"

Seeing Xi Luo, the elder smiled, and the wrinkles on his face were squeezed together, making one wonder if he was really human.

Because of the development of Zhuyan technology, it is no longer possible to see such an old person. Even if most people die of old age, they can at least maintain the appearance of about 40 years old. It is normal for people to live to be more than 100 years old, and even older people can approach the age of [-] years old.

So this person in front of him is really too old, so old that Xi Luo even wonders if he has lived for thousands of years.

"Recovering very well, although still a bit frail."

Xi Luo smiled, and answered the old man politely, and saw him smiling kindly, and then looked at herself with cloudy eyes.

Xi Luo touched her face unnaturally, afraid that there might be something strange sticking to it.

"It's really like..."

The elder sighed and looked away from Xi Luo's face.

Xi Luo instantly understood who he really looked like. If she guessed right, it should be the woman in the photo she saw at Funola's place.

"Sorry, I was so rude."

As if sensing the change in Xi Luo's face, the elder quickly apologized.

"It's okay, it's also true."

Xi Luo smiled. Although he didn't like it, in fact his face was exactly the same as the woman's face in that photo. If he put on a wig and women's clothing, maybe no one would recognize him as a different person.

The elder reached into his bosom and fumbled for something in his voluminous robe, and after a while, he took out an old photo album.

The metal on the edge of the album has worn away, and there should have been golden patterns on the cover, but now there are only some lines left.

The elder put the photo album on the table, and carefully opened it with trembling hands as if treating a sacred object.

What catches everyone's eyes is the family photos that can be seen everywhere.

If it weren't for the man in the photo with Al's face and the woman with Xi Luo's face, everyone would wonder why the elder would take out such a family photo album.

The photo is very old, the color has almost faded, and the paper has turned yellow, but it was carefully sealed and pasted on the album, at least the face on it can be seen clearly.

Xi Luo flipped through the photo album.

Unlike the photo of the solemn and gorgeous dress seen at Funola, this one looks like just ordinary family photos.

A woman is cooking in the kitchen, looking at the camera with eyes full of love and smiling.

There was a man repairing the mecha looking at the camera with a greasy face.

There are also photos of a woman with a big belly and a man kissing her belly with a happy face, all kinds of selfies, and photos of each other. Next, I saw a lot of photos of babies, a family of three playing in the yard, Photos of a picnic together.

If what I saw at Funola's side was that legendary king who was as far away as a god, then what I saw in front of me now is like a living person like the happy ordinary family next door.

Although to be honest, seeing the picture of my face appearing on a woman and kissing me with a man with Al's face on my face, there is an indescribable weirdness in my heart.

Xi Luo closed the photo album, looked at the elder in front of her with a smile, and waited for his next words.

"This is the place where the king is buried." The elder had a sad expression on his face, "The residents here are, in fact, just the tomb guards."

The elder's words shocked Xi Luo.

He knew the story of the king and had seen his photos, but he never thought that he would actually have a tomb.

The so-called king is becoming a real person step by step, breaking into his life.

Xi Luo stretched out her hand and tightly grasped Al's hand. Just now, when he was flipping through the photos, he felt a wave of uneasiness coming from Al on the side.

After being held by himself, the uneasy fluctuations from Al gradually disappeared.

"Sorry, I don't know what this has to do with us."

Xi Luo held Al's hand and looked at the elder with a smile.

He knew that Al was very scared. As a robot, he was already afraid of the existence of his own life consciousness. If everyone said that he was not actually Al, but a substitute for that king, Al would feel that he would It will be very sad, since he is a copy of that king, then who should Al be?

So Xi Luo was very unhappy. As a man who didn't even leave his name and only had one face, how could he have feelings for someone who had a name, lived with him for so many years, and left so many footprints in this world Al compared.

"I don't have any other consciousness, but a little feeling, seeing the descendants of the king grow up so healthily."

The elder glanced at Al, and didn't mention to him that he was similar to the king.

"Descendants?"

"Hmm." The elder opened the photo album again, and then pointed to the woman, "This woman, if you count, may be my ancestor. The first time Wang met her, he fell in love. That woman Known as the king who is not the king of fireworks in the world, she was pulled down to the world like this, got married, had children, and lived a happy life. Her health was very bad, but she carried out investigation and research tirelessly, so she gave birth to Not long after the child died, he was overwhelmed and passed away. Because Wang had no relatives, he had to leave the child to the woman's family to take care of him, and he devoted himself to the construction of the country. It was not until the last few years of his life that he returned. To this place, to spend the last years of my life with my own children, and to be buried with my loved ones."

The elder wiped his eyes and stared at the smiling faces of the three people in the photo.

"In fact, the king's blood has continued here. Our entire family has volunteered to be the mausoleum guards and has been guarding the king's tomb here. Not only that, every generation after the king is buried in the tomb." Speaking of this , the elder paused for a moment, only to hear him sigh slightly, "It's my fault, I didn't protect Her Majesty the Queen properly, and let her be taken away by that man."

The elder seemed to blame himself very much, his old body was trembling, Fang at the side quickly stepped forward to support the elder, then saw him wave his hand, and gently pushed Fang away.

"That man was like you back then. The spaceship crashed and had to stop on this planet. At that time, the 16-year-old Princess Wang rescued him. I thought it was not a big deal, but I didn't expect that the Queen fell in love with the alien. Man, if it's just love, it's okay to let that man stay with us. Who knows that man is the emperor of the empire. The emperor has already married, not only that, but also has two sons and a daughter. No matter what, he will not divorce the queen. Married the Queen, but even so, the Queen still followed the man and left regardless of opposition. In fact, the emperor treated her very well, and the queen was also a good person to get along with. The Queen would often write back to tell us about her recent situation, until later she pregnant."

"Is there anything wrong?"

Xi Luo asked puzzledly.

"There is nothing bad about it. This is a happy event. The king's bloodline has finally been continued. But all along, the offspring of the king will suffer from genetic diseases, making it difficult to conceive offspring. Even if they are pregnant, it is very easy to give birth. She has been hiding it all the time, because she is afraid that the people from the queen's faction in the palace will harm her child. As a last resort, the princess had to secretly give birth in the deep palace, and then pretended to claim that it was the queen's child. Unfortunately, the princess was in the process of giving birth. At the beginning, we were afraid that the little princess would not be treated well. Later, the queen and the emperor treated Xiao Gongzhong very well, and we didn't ask any more questions. Until the news of the little princess' death came, we I even thought that the king's bloodline would be ruined like this."

The elder lowered his head and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes again.

"It's good to see you now."

Finally, the elder raised his head and looked at Xi Luo with a gratified expression on his face.

"Actually." Xi Luo frowned, "Instead of clinging to those ancient bloodlines and clans, why not take a good look at the further future?"

Xi Luo turned her head and looked outside the open door. There were children in simple clothes running outside the house, vendors setting up stalls on the roadside, and hardworking men and women.

"If I really bleed that man's blood, I will definitely not imprison the progress of mankind because of myself."

Xi Luo looked at the elder again and smiled.

For a moment, the elder seemed to see the expression on the princess's face when she left. At that time, she was standing on the stairs boarding the spaceship, turned her head, and looked down at herself, with the same smile on her face.

"Don't worry about the blood of the king, and lead the people to live a good life."

Her lord princess said this to him at that time.