Electric Sheep Love

The place where Guan Chen woke up was beyond his own expectations.

He saw his own face close at hand.

He thought it was a mirror, until he stretched out his hand and touched a face exactly like his own, he was so frightened that he withdrew his hand like lightning, and stepped back, but a hand was stretched out by his ear, and he dodged aside, Straight to the ground.

Then, he raised his head and saw the mountain-like panorama, piled up in front of his eyes.

Tens of thousands of Guanchen.

Some are incomplete, some are deformed, some are complete, and some are decapitated and separated from their limbs.

Some are moving, as if walking around like everyday, walking back and forth among the twists and turns piled up by tens of thousands of pipes.

There are also those who have lost the ability to move, and only their eyes can see that it is a body that once thought it was a human being.

Guan Chen stared blankly at all this.After an unknown amount of time, he propped himself up on the ground and stood up.

He thought it was a dream.Or the realm of consciousness.

Anything is fine, but never true.

He gets up.

He wants to get away from it all.

As he walked, his pace quickened.At some point, he ran like crazy, rampaging through piles of human bodies. After a long, long time, he found an edge and opened a door. Outside the door, there were pedestrians walking back and forth. Live in the lively and silent as usual.

Guan Chen directly took a passerby's hand, dragged him to the door, and pointed at the tens of thousands of Guan Chen, "Hey, did you see that? There are so many people inside, piled together? Did you see that?"

The pedestrian glanced at it as if obeying the order, and said expressionlessly: "I see."

"What's going on..." Guan Chen couldn't believe that pedestrians would react like this, "Are you someone who works in this clone landfill? Why aren't you surprised? This is a human being, me! They created such a Too many me, and so many people are piled up here! Take a look!!!"

The pedestrian's behavior this time was completely as if he was obeying Guan Chen's order. After taking a look, he still said expressionlessly: "I see."

Guan Chen let go of the pedestrians.He suddenly felt something was wrong.

After taking a step back, Guan Chen thought about it, and finally asked, "Are you a bionic?"

The pedestrian did not speak.

Guan Chen didn't hesitate anymore, grabbed the pedestrian's left arm, opened the built-in terminal, and then pulled hard with his fingertips between the gap between the built-in terminal and the human skin.

The epidermis was torn open, and underneath the bubbling blood was a metal skeleton, a metal upper arm, and even the semi-mechanical bionic internal organs inside the body could be seen from the armpits.

Pedestrians looked at Guan Chen emotionlessly, as if they didn't notice what was happening now.

Guan Chen looked at the pedestrian, "Why don't you even have a normal reaction? It's not right..." He let go of the pedestrian's arm, both hands were artificial blood.

"That's not right." Guan Chen looked at all the people passing by on the roadside, and didn't pay any attention to what happened here.

Either they didn't see it, or they were programmed to treat such an event as if they didn't see it.

However, only bionics may be preset.

Guan Chen thought of an impossible possibility.

Do not.impossible.

He kept chanting to himself, but couldn't control himself and rushed to the nearest pedestrian, shouting, "Stop!"

The pedestrian complied with his command, stopping without reacting further, as an android would follow any single command.

In fact, there is no need to test this reaction posture, but Guan Chen still verified it with the same method just now.

This is also an android.

Guan Chen looked at the indifferent people passing by on the street, and shouted, "Stop!"

The street is still.All pedestrians stopped.Even the air taxi of Tianshang stopped, humming and exhaling, and vibrated slightly.

Guan Chen watched all this.

impossible.

All are androids.

impossible.

He galloped on the street, surpassing the block beyond the sound of his words just now, people were still acting as usual, just like everyone Guan Chen had seen every day in the past.

"Open your skull." Guan Chen grabbed the pedestrian closest to him.

The pedestrian did as he was told, and then remained motionless, the mechanical brain inside the skull exposed to Guan Chen's field of vision.

No.

Guan Chen rushed to another pedestrian, "Remove your chest panel."

The same obedience happened.

Guan Chen looked at everything that happened in front of him, as well as all the pedestrians who turned a blind eye.

He made up his mind to go to the most impossible place to verify.

Half a minute later, he got into the fastest taxi, and the driver turned around and asked, "Where are you going, sir?"

Guan Chen's face was gloomy, "Made by Feng."

In just a few minutes, they stopped at the sky parking lot made by Fengshi.

Before getting out of the car, Guan Chen looked at the back of the driver's head in the front seat, hesitated for a moment and said, "Retrieve the itinerary records of the previous thirty customers you picked up."

The driver didn't answer, didn't even turn his head back, and didn't ask why. At the same time, the screen on the back of the seat in front of Guan Chen had stopped scrolling advertisements and listed a form.

It was the data Guan Chen requested.

This driver is also an android.

Guan Chen's heart became more and more heavy, and when he walked into the company cafeteria, everyone was eating.Guan Chen said, "Laifu, do you have permission to the company's broadcasting system?"

Sure enough, Laifu has taken over the operation of the company, and calls can be heard everywhere.

"The permission to use the broadcasting system has been connected to your arm terminal, Researcher Guan." Laifu said.

Guan Chen looked down at the panel, pressed the broadcast button for the whole building, then raised his hand, and said through the broadcast system: "Mute everyone."

The voice fell, and there was an instant silence in the cafeteria.

The previous noisy conversation stopped, and the admiration from the novice researchers who surrounded Guan Chen in the distance became silent. Everyone was still moving, talking as if they could hear each other, and passing by each other. Greeted from time to time, still receiving dishes and finding a seat to sit down.

Like a gigantic silent film performed by thousands of people.Only the occasional bump of plates and cutlery kept everything silent.

Guan Chen expected that there would be a higher proportion of bionics in the company than known, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be everyone.

"Guan Chen." In the silence, someone actually called his name.

Guan Chen turned around as if he finally took a breath of air after being suffocated, and saw Feng Jinfa standing there.

"Feng Jinfa!" Guan Chen has never seen Feng Jinfa so happy as now, "I found out—"

Guan Chen suddenly stopped talking.Feng Jinfa's expression was one of knowing.

Feng Jinfa knew it, he knew it before.

"Are you a bionic person too?" Guan Chen asked.

Feng Jinfa smiled wryly, "Let's find a table and sit down."

"To answer your question first: I am a bionic person." After the two sat down face to face, Feng Jinfa said.

Guan Chen was already numb.But the people he grew up with were also bionics, but it still made him fall into a deeper trance.

no.Guan Chen forced himself to think, and hit the point straight, "Feng Jinfa, what is the ratio of bionics to native humans in the current world?"

Feng Jinfa smiled wryly again, "There is no such thing as proportion, Guan Chen. It is my father's last wish - the 'father' of all our bionics - to let bionics act like humans and accompany humans through this journey. To be honest, Feng Jinfa and you, who died many years ago, were the last two true original humans. Feng Jinfa left earlier because he had a congenital disease from birth, not as healthy as you."

Guan Chen was stunned for a long time, then he asked dully: "The last two?"

"Yes." Feng Jinfa began to give a complete explanation, "After the last war, human fertility was damaged by nuclear radiation, and most of the children born were defective. Feng Jinfa's early death was also caused by you. The most common fate among generations of children.

"After losing his son, 'Father' did three things: he created me; he founded the clone base; finally, he founded Fengshi Manufacturing.

"His wish was actually very simple, 'If humanity is destined to end, at least we will finish it with dignity.' Cloning technology keeps the same humans alive again and again, and similarly, bionic technology makes the last Humans are not alone. Unfortunately, cloning technology matured too late, and you are the only healthy clone left.

"In comparison, bionic technology is much faster. Moreover, because of the high adaptability and low demand of bionics, they spread human civilization to other galaxies for the first time. Unfortunately, there are not really suitable for human habitation, only suitable for human life." Bionics live."

After hearing this, Guan Chen struggled to digest these words.

"You mean... I'm just one of the clones too?"

"Yes. You have seen it, those of you in the clone base. Cloning is a very inefficient technology, but because human beings have a cultural psychology that is obsessed with authenticity, even if there is only a [-]/[-] survival rate, We're still cloning you."

"Then...there..." Guan Chen found it difficult to speak, "there...is my landfill? Is it me?"

Feng Jinfa sighed, "I always have the same opinion about your point of view: logically you are right, but I don't agree with your words."

Guan Chen was taken aback for a moment, like a first-line proof that a crazy person found that he was not crazy. He slapped the table and stood up, shouting: "You said this sentence in one of my consciousness painting experiments! Are you lying? Me? This is all the consciousness picture environment you set for me, isn’t it?!”

Feng Jinfa waited quietly for Guan Chen to recover.

After a long time, Guan Chen's excitement passed, and he stood slumped at the dining table.Behind him, the silent movie in the restaurant continued, and everyone turned a blind eye to the truth.They have long been part of the truth.

"Guan Chen, you know how to judge whether it is a consciousness painting environment, you can calculate it, even if you use up all the resources, the maximum consciousness painting environment that can be supported by an experiment.

"You also know that you can't get an answer from an object in the Conscious Picture. They can never give you a definite answer to whether this is the Conscious Picture or not.

"It's pretty much like you can't tell the real human condition from an android other than me. You see, too, that 'Father' set all androids other than me to keep this fact in a black box.

"In other words, they will obey what the black box tells them to do, but they don't know what's in the black box."

After more than half an hour, Guan Chen listened to all of Feng Jinfa's narration.

Desperately, he walked back to the sky parking lot, where a taxi was already waiting.

He got into the car, staring at a point in the void.

"To the edge of the city," he said.

The driver drove for a long time, and Guan Chen watched everything around him gradually become desolate and sparse.He had never driven so far before.It was previously stipulated that outside the cities on the tenth ring road, you must travel by plane.

After a day and night, the car stopped.

"Can we still move forward?" Guan Chen asked.

The driver did not speak.

"You wait here for me." After finishing speaking, Guan Chen walked over, with both hands stretched out in front of the perceiver.

After a while, he touched the edge of the city.

Everywhere his fingertips touched, the scenery that looked as far as the horizon, centered on his fingertips, burst into waves like ripples.

This is a grounded dome with realistic pictures inside the dome, giving people the illusion of seeing far away.

It was really like what Feng Jinfa said.Guan Chen thought.

Feng Jinfa said that after the last war, human beings have been living underground, and even the sun is man-made.Because the artificial sun is particularly energy-intensive, the days of overcast clouds are always many and long.

Feng Jinfa also told him that everything outside the city was filled with old information from the past, and the long-distance travel that Guan Chen thought before was the place where the Consciousness painting environment was most useful.

Guan Chen touched the tiny boundary of what he thought was a long life.

The message is false, the ocean is false.The day is false, the past is false.

Guan Chen sat back in the car.For a long time, he couldn't speak a word.

A splitting headache.His head was propped on two palms, his elbows rested on his knees, and his body curled up in pain.

Finally, he decided to face his source.

"Go to the clone base."

The driver didn't say a word, didn't even ask what a clone base was.The car started, and after another day and night, Guan Chen returned to the middle of Guan Chen, where tens of thousands of discarded dolls were piled up.

He returns to where he woke up.He was thrown here, presumably because the next generation of cloning started, and he ended his life.But he was actually just in a coma for a long time, so after a long time, he woke up and found everything.

At this time, the radio suddenly sounded, and many people walked in, and began to test everywhere and record some data.

Guan Chen instinctively hid, until the bionics saw Guan Chen sitting here, they turned a blind eye again and again.

It took Guan Chen a while to realize, yes, what is he thinking of himself again?

He is nothing more than one of the piled up seas of sex.There's no point in even recording him in particular.

At this time, a figure walked towards him.He was so numb that he didn't even want to look up.What's the difference?

Guan Chen's existence itself only has the meaning of existence.He is completely replaceable.He is a consumable.

"Are you okay?" The man really stood still in front of him and really asked him a question.

It's a familiar voice.

Guan Chen looked up in astonishment, it was Jiang Yi.

Jiang Yi's face, Jiang Yi's figure.

He has seen it too many times, and he will never be mistaken.

But this time, he doubted himself.

"Do you know who I am?" he asked.

"Aren't you Guan Chen?" Jiang Yi in front of him replied.

"But there are countless Guan Chens here."

"No, you are 'Guan Chen', the 'boy who gave me my name'. You are the one Jiang Yi loves. Why are you hiding here?"

At that moment, Guan Chen was struck by this huge fact - a sea of ​​people drowned each other, only Jiang Yi recognized him.

Not because he is such a good and irreplaceable Guan Chen, but because Jiang Yi loves him.

Guan Chen looked at Jiang Yi in front of him, and for a moment even forgot the fact that Jiang Yi had been destroyed, and even forgot the fact that Jiang Yi had changed his body and face earlier.

He rushed to hug Jiang Yi, "Thank you for remembering me. Thank you. You don't know how important this is to me."

Jiang Yi pushed him away, "You may have made a mistake."

Seeing Guan Chen's stunned look, this bionic man who was exactly like Jiang Yi smiled slightly and pointed to his temple, "My brain has the memory of loving you, but I'm not the bionic man who loved you. This new model is very good. The batches are also large, so we are used in various places, including here...

"Uh, where is this place? Forget it, it doesn't matter...

"Moreover, the company has set that in order to better serve human beings, there is a very hidden death trigger program in our brains, which will upload memory sharing to understand human behavior before death. Let me see, um, actually, that The android who loved you has been damaged to the point where it can no longer be used, and has no recycling value, and the last record is that it was disposed of in a desert landfill a thousand kilometers away.”

Guan Chen was stunned, "Aren't you Jiang Yi?"

Before he finished speaking, the memories in his mind rushed to him one after another.

why forget.He questioned himself bitterly.

Why forget that Jiang Yi has changed his body and appearance?

Why did you forget that Jiang Yi had already damaged his energy core in order to protect himself?

Why...why, I didn't even look for Jiang Yi in the first place.

Regret and remorse filled his heart. "Guan Chen's Jiang Yi".It turns out that among the five words, the heavier side is Jiang Yi.

It was Jiang Yi who anchored him in this vast universe.It turned out that he couldn't do without Jiang Yi.

Guan Chen looked up at the bionic man in front of him, "I see, you are not Jiang Yi."

The bionic man smiled, "I'm not the Jiang Yi you're looking for. If you want to call me that name, you can, but it means nothing to you and me."

Guan Chen stopped the bionic man's operation, and copied all the memories uploaded by the hidden program before Jiang Yi's death to the miniature terminal on his arm.

Then, he saw Jiang Yi's experience after protecting him.

Jiang Yi's body had been completely destroyed, and his energy core was also shattered. Only his brain was left in his body, which was recovered by the staff at the scene and sold to scrap collectors on the black market.

Then, because of the strange connection method inside Jiang Yi's brain and the traces left over from the overtesting of the limit, it was determined that the cost of acid etching and secondary processing was too high.

In the end, the only remaining part of Jiang Yi was not sold, and after a few more transfers, it was finally identified as worthless and flowed to a landfill in the desert, a thousand kilometers away.