"It's too difficult," Calvino said in frustration, "I can't do it."

Ivanisi scribbled a few words on the paper, closed the folder and patted him on the shoulder encouragingly, "It's okay, if you can't do it, no one else can - you're the best, okay Relax, kid, let's practice again."

"When can I go out?"

"Get out?" Ivanesi was a little surprised, "Don't you like their memories?"

"No, I like it very much..."

"That's enough, Calvino, it's dangerous out there, you need to be here, with us."

"..."

Ivanisi softened his heart a bit. After all, Calvino was just a child no matter how powerful he was. He said softly, "What do you want? I can give you my harmonica—you didn't like it very much last time." ?"

"No, no, I'm fine like this, but one of the 'kids' seems to be sick, and I..."

"Calvino, you don't need to worry about these things, we have cut off the synesthesia between you, you don't need to taste these redundant emotions-such as despair and pain."

Calvino seemed a little confused, "Why didn't you save him?"

Ivanisi did not answer this question directly, but asked instead: "Why did we save him?"

"Because I love him..."

"You've adapted well to the branding rules," Ivanisi said. "You do have to love them—these children, copied from your genes, because you're one, and their pain hurts you, so You can't kill each other, you have to love each other, it will be in your nature.

But Calvino, you have to remember, they are all there for you - these kids who know nothing will share memories with you and give you everything they have learned, so they are just there to make you more adaptable society.You love them, it's just a self-preservation mechanism, put in on purpose, and you can't confuse that with real love - even if the human result is indistinguishable from real emotion. "

"Then how is the love of imprinted rules different from real love?"

Ivanesi laughed, "Honey, it's very simple, everything but your clones! You can't really love a clone, but you will always love them, and you will Because branding rules attract each other."

Calvino interrupted him, "But I am also a duplicate, and there were countless Calvinoes before me."

"But you are the best and the most perfect, you will have the power of the gods, and those incomplete products cannot bear these - such as controlling the space, they will be crushed due to the excess energy."

Ivanisi crossed his hands, his gentle blue eyes looked so cold for the first time, "For example, Calvino, you are pure and noble ice and snow, then they can only be asphalt road covered with ice and snow, they are indeed insignificant , you will not socialize at all - they will live their short lives ignorant, and you will live forever, but you will love them - because you will love everyone, and you will work for our society."

"Even if they have the same fingerprints, irises or genes as you, they are just experimental subjects, and they are consumables cultivated with your remnants, but the imprinting rules will bind you tightly, and you will fuck, but remember , this is just an implanted biological command, because we will not allow you to become an emotionless monster without any bonds."

Ice and asphalt, what a cruel metaphor.

Italo Calvino forever remembered this conversation, a grim warning from his masters.

Italo Calvino had never stepped out of this steel fortress before wrecking everything, but he had seen many places—through many borrowed eyes.

There are places like here that are cold all year round, and places that are always burning under the ground are scorching hot, but Calvino's favorite is the child named Lin Luo, who lives in a place where there is sunshine all year round, and there is no thick snow there. , but there are heavy rains, there are no pointed firs, but there are broad-leaved forests and criss-cross rivers, like the blood of the earth.Lin Luo can play the harmonica, likes to walk through the upstairs rooms, and likes to stare at the sky through the shaking tree shadows.

His black eyes will definitely become this blue sky—the blue sky crosses the mountains and rivers and falls into Calvino's eyes, and everything Lin Luo's eyes touch is copied on Calvino's body.

Calvino seemed to hear the boy asking him: Do you like it?

I like it, but I like you more, Lin Luo.

Sometimes Calvino would be glad that synaesthesia is only a one-way transmission, Lin Luo would not like steel, but I only have steel.

It wasn't until Calvino finally took his own freedom that he stood in the sun for the first time, long-wave radiation jumping on his pale skin, and Calvino finally felt the heat and temperature himself.The huge skeleton of the laboratory lay at Calvino's feet, and his silver-gray eyes looked around indifferently.

The prison was broken, but the chain of branding rules was tied around his neck. Calvino still needs to meet his beloved "children", one by one, and break the "love" between them with his own hands. He had already hated this kind of sweet artificial emotion, this kind of emotion that kept reminding him of what he was - a puppet and an artificial product... As for Lin Luo, it should also be one of the goals.

but.

Calvino unconsciously pressed the position of the heart. The metal door in front of him permanently blocked Lin Luo's black eyes. Everything that belonged to Lin Luo flooded into his mind again and was slowly pulled away. He felt the organs in his chest stagnate. It's like the hands of a clock that has run out of electricity. After a while, Calvino will not remember Lin Luo. This name will only be a meaningless combination of two words—like every child killed by him After swallowing the breath.

It seems that everything is fine. After Lin Luo dies, Calvino will be completely free. He will forget everything and think of an ordinary person.

No, no, I don't want to forget, I don't want to!Lin Luo is different, he is different.

"Lin Luo." Calvino struggled to spit out the other party's name, which he had repeated thousands of times in his heart.When he learned the word "love" for the first time, he was as excited as a child who got a new toy, repeating the ridiculous monologue, "I love you, Lin Luo, I love you".

I love you, Calvino murmured to the end of the eyes, I love you.

BadEnding - Fan Ran

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