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Leon stood outside the door of Gu Qing's laboratory, like a pig about to be slaughtered.

Lu Qing's laboratory is actually only him.When he needs help from others, he will go to the laboratories of various branches to assign tasks. When other laboratories have difficulties, he will hand them over to him when he visits regularly every day. No one will come to him to knock on the door.So, whenever he walks in, be alone with him.Leon took two deep breaths, his ribs hurt, and he coughed a few more times—forget it, you won't die if you stay for a while or get scolded, you will die if your bones are really broken.

He tried his fingerprints, and the door opened without a sound.

Gu Qing was not there.

Leon hasn't been here for a long time, it seems that the last time he came was when he was seven or eight years old.The room is neat and tidy, like a model room of a study in a shopping mall.He walked around the house a few times, and saw some auction house brochures on Gu Qing's desk. He flipped through them casually, and there were some very nice ones with amazing starting prices. The money in his small purse In front of that price, it may be approximately equal to zero.

Leon put the booklet back, and in the corner of a wall, he saw a lot of doodles by children, as well as some car crystal stickers, arranged in the shape of stars or hearts.Leon was simply ashamed of himself when he was a child.He took a ruler from the table, sat down with difficulty, and scraped down bit by bit.

He heard people in the laboratory mention that when he was three or four years old, Gu Qing always took him by his side, and these stupid things must have been left behind at that time.The more Leon wiped, the more annoyed he became. He really couldn't believe that he was so unqualified when he was a child. When he grew up, he would go out and fight with people, and he would wipe off the blood on the ground by himself.He tore off the heart-shaped car stickers one by one. After the bottom sticker was torn off, the graffiti of "papa" was revealed underneath.Because it’s been a few years, the stickers have been removed, but the shape of the heart is still there, round at the top and closed at the bottom, with a child’s immature handwriting on the tip of the heart.

Leon suddenly felt that the water in his body had evaporated, and his vocal cords dried into two thin sheets of paper.He immediately picked up the torn stickers on the ground and frantically put them back together, but it was easy to tear off the stickers, but very difficult to put them back on.Enduring the pain in his ribs, Leon repeated the word "papa" over and over according to the shape of the original car, but all failed.

"Why am I here?" Leon said to himself against the wall, "I can go to the hospital to read it myself. I have money, and I don't need to work." He smiled, picked up the ruler, and bit by bit Scratch off those letters.A heart is still a heart, but without pointing, reassuring him.

Leon drew those stickers under his buttocks, not wanting to do it any more. He was afraid that if he opened the other stickers, he would get the same answer, or some more shocking secret.He smoothed out the scratched area a little more, trying to make it look like nothing had happened.At the end, he heard a door behind him open.

"What are you doing?" Gu Qing asked him after he came in.

"Facing the wall and thinking about it." Leon finally scratched the handwriting a few times, "I got into a fight with someone yesterday, and I didn't tell Dad. This is wrong."

"Come here and let me see the injury."

Leon thought about the stickers under his buttocks, and said to him, "It hurts a little when I move now."

Lu Qing walked over with the inspection instrument in his hand, half kneeling in front of him.His hair has grown back, and he is a handsome man with bangs again. After covering his eyebrows and eyes, his aggression is much less aggressive.

Leon took off his vest and put it aside, and smiled at him.

"Put your hand on my shoulder." Gu Qing said to him.

Leon raised his right hand and put it on his white coat.

"Two hands." Gu Qing said again.

Leon scolded himself for being a fool, and then put his left hand on it.Gu Qing moved forward a little more, then turned on the inspection device, moved down along his arm, and slowly moved back and forth on both sides of his ribs.Leon peeked at the top of his head, it's pretty good, he hasn't gone bald even though he's 37.Leon grinned, and Gu Qing's hair near the hairpin was blown a few by him, so scared that he immediately raised his head, held his breath, and maintained the minimum air demand.

"What are you doing with the things on it?" Gu Qing asked.

"I didn't." Leon subconsciously denied.

"I work in this place every day." Gu Qing said.

"It's not pleasing to the eye. Why didn't you bother me when I was posting things indiscriminately when I was young?"

Gu Qing glanced at him, and said to him gently: "That place is the blackboard you used when you were a child, and the whole piece is detachable, but I didn't take it apart. You didn't paste it indiscriminately, it was with my permission."

Leon was a little embarrassed, and said in a low voice: "I said I can't do a few words..."

"No." Lu Qing smiled and shook his head.

"Oh." Leon nodded.

"Let go." Gu Qing said to him.

Leon took back his two arms that were almost entwined with a "whoosh", and put the vest on.He coughed dryly and said to Gu Qing, "Thank you, Dad."

Gu Qing nodded.

The machine beeped a few times, and Gu Qing took a look at it, his smile disappeared, his brows were also wrinkled, and his expression was ugly.Leon's heart beat twice: "Do I have cancer?"

"Bone fracture." Gu Qing glanced at him.

"It's okay, it's okay." Leon said lightly.

"You are about to enter puberty, and your bones will become brittle as you grow taller. Be careful whether you are in gym class or fighting with others."

"They scolded Mingyue, so I got into a fight with them." Leon thought for a while and explained.

Gu Qing nodded: "I know you are not a troublemaker."

Leon felt that spring was here, and the grass that had been pressed into the soil last year was about to pop out again uncontrollably.

"You insist on using that gel. It has the same effect as the bandage. Don't go to fencing class in the near future. I'll get the medicine and send it to you later."

"Understood." Leon straightened his clothes and stood up, "I have an appointment with Mingyue at noon, so let's go first."

"Go." Gu Qing said lightly.

"Dad." Leon couldn't help calling him.

Gu Qing didn't know why, so he raised his head to look at him, his eyes were always focused.Leon regretted it after shouting. He felt that he was an indecisive waste, not worthy of being the son of the Gu family.

"Don't be too tired from work." Leon told him dryly.

"I'm not tired from work." Gu Qing answered seriously.

The child, who was broken but still full of energy, walked out, leaving behind scattered stickers all over the place.Lu Qing looked at the heart-shaped marks on the wall, picked one up and tried to stick it, the car stuck for a moment, then fell off again.Gu Qing stood up, found an envelope, and put away the stickers.

After 1 minute, the child who left came back with a blushing face: "Dad, that sticker..."

"It's already packed," Lu Qing shook the bag, "Go."

Lyon ran into Catherine at lunchtime.She greeted her colleagues, came to him and Mingyue with a plate, and sighed as soon as she sat down.

"What's wrong?" Leon asked while eating.

"I was rejected." Catherine said, "I dressed very beautifully, and I had practiced my eyes in advance, so he didn't look at me very much."

The grass in Leon's heart hit the ground, and he pressed it back hard.He licked his lower lip and asked calmly, "Why did you reject me?"

"To say that I don't like him at all," Catherine pouted, "it's all a man's excuse."

【Didn't you try again? 】Mingyue pushed the small board over.

"I can't say it, what are you talking about? Want to lie on your broad shoulders? Want your slender fingers to hold my face?" Catherine said angrily.

【Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh—stop talking!Fear! o(>﹏<)o]

"Anyway, I was rejected cruelly," she sighed, "Professor Gu seems to have someone he likes."

Leon choked on the soup and coughed twice: "Who is it?"

"He didn't tell me," Catherine said gloomily, "but I think there was someone in him when he turned me down."

[This kind of guessing is not good, is it? 】

"If a beautiful girl like me is rejected, you have to give yourself a reason..."

"There are many people who like you," Leon said to her, "find it slowly."

"Oh, it's a heavy blow, and I need to rest for a while." Catherine shook her head and handed Leon a small bag, "The medicine, prepared by Professor Green, takes the anti-inflammatory medicine for a week without interruption. Don't do mechanical work during this time." If you want to work, you can learn the theory with peace of mind.”

"Got it." Leon took the medicine in her hand.

Leon was suddenly eliminated from the mainstream work in the laboratory, and Mingyue and Sedleia had a lively fight. He was conceiving the first robot in his life facing the computer screen.

What should it look like?

Darcy prefers combat-type intelligent robots. Furthermore, he loves intelligent mechas. He can roam the universe without looking at human faces, and will always recognize his partners.Mingyue likes pet-type robots, and dreams of one day being able to chat with robots to overcome her social phobia.

Lyon don't seem to have any pressing needs.The robot in his heart should be a form that can make human beings more free, but he can't explain what form it is.Leon thought for a long time, but the computer was still blank.He has learned too little to support the results he wants.He looked at Sedleia for a while, packed his schoolbag, and rode home.

There were a few neighbors walking their dogs in the community, who saw Leon and greeted him.Lyon turned to the road at the edge of the community and rode to the door of the house in one breath.There was no one in the house but him and his dear magnolia tree.Spring is here and it will bloom again.The small swing on it was still there, Leon put his empty schoolbag on it, let it swing, and then lay down on the deck chair under the tree.

He likes robots. Their shelf life is longer than that of human flesh, and there is no age limit; their minds can also be edited and purified, without waiting for others to take away their secrets, or make people's souls suffer here.With a robot, he can do many things, and if he can become a robot in the future, none of the problems that bother him will be a problem.

The sun seemed to go down, Catherine seemed to come back, and night seemed to fall.Leon knew what was going on outside, but he didn't care, no one could make him get out of that chair, and no one could stop him from thinking.

When Gu Qing returned home early in the morning, he found his confused and helpless child in the yard.Leon didn't know how long he had been lying on that chair, his lips were whiter than moonlight.

"Get up and mess around." Gu Qing squatted in front of him and said to him.

"Father." He who seemed not in this time and space tremblingly took Gu Qing's hand.

"En." Gu Qing nodded.

"If human thinking can always exist in a machine, wouldn't age and right or wrong no longer matter?"

"Ah."

"If the machine's body could be replaced infinitely, would people be as fragile as they are now?"

"Do you want to achieve human immortality?" Gu Qing asked him again.

"I want to be a robot, I want him to realize..." Leon frowned and thought for a while, then said solemnly: "Eternal." He shook his head immediately after speaking, and asked a little anxiously: "What is the idea? Isn’t it too big? I feel like I can’t finish it before I die, this dream is too big, isn’t it?”

"Don't deny yourself, every great beginning is an insignificant thought."

"I probably should start by imitating..." Leon said to him, "Every robot that Darcy designs is good, I can try it."

"That's Darcy's imagination, and you gain your own experience while working for him."

"Father, is there really eternity in this world?" Leon seemed to have just seen him, and there was bewilderment and pleading in his eyes.

"You have to make that robot," Gu Qing said, "and let him give you the answer."

"Can I?" Leon asked him softly.

"Truth is what people pursue, and they can't stop." Lu Qing smiled and patted his head, "Congratulations, you have taken the most important step in your life."

"But..." Leon said hesitantly.

"I will always support you," Gu Qing said to him immediately, "in any way."

"Can I trouble you with all the small problems?" Leon asked him.

"Yes," Gu Qing nodded, "I have your fingerprints on the door of my laboratory."

Leon nodded.He looked at the hand he was holding on to Gu Qing, it was tightly clenched, and he didn't want to let go at all.

"Father," Leon let go of Gu Qing's hand and whispered, "Thank you."

"It's cold outside, go in quickly." Lu Qing stood up.

"Oh, lying down for too long, I forgot."

"This kind of focused thinking is a good thing." Gu Qing helped him up from the chair, "It happens that you have been injured these days, so I want to take you out once."

"Where to go?"

"To see your parents." Gu Qing patted his head and said comfortingly, "You have grown up."

"I remember." Leon nodded.

He remembered this incident. After he knew that he was adopted, he asked about his parents. Gu Qing said that he would tell him solemnly when he was older.

"We're leaving tomorrow, you should have a good rest tonight." When the two parted in front of the room, Gu Qing said to him.

"Okay, Dad."