8192

This is impossible.

How long has it been since he left and came back.Pang Huan must have taken 8192 with him when he left.It must be... It must be that I have been drenched in heavy rain for too long, and hallucinations appeared in my mind.Everything I see now is an illusion, not real.

Near the corner, there was something white.Qiao Yichen approached and squatted down, picked it up and looked at it carefully.

It was half a broken artificial eyeball.

The color of the pupil, he will not admit it wrong.

It was dark for a while.Qiao Yichen fell headlong and lost consciousness.

Waking up in the hospital, Qiao Yichen took three seconds to figure out where he was.Then he removed the needle from the bottle and ran out without even his shoes on.The rain had stopped, but Qiao Yichen's mind was unusually clear.He has only one thought now, and that thought supports him like a life-saving straw.It used to say it wouldn't just break down.It won't lie to me.It will be fixed.

Qiao Yichen was going to the store to ask for clarification.

An NHRA recycling truck just drove away in front of the second-hand store.Qiao Yichen's heart was pounding, and he nervously walked into the waste mountain full of metal parts. In the middle of the mountain, there was a slightly new wooden box.

The thrift store manager was standing next to the box.Seeing Qiao Yichen, he lowered his head and pawed in the box a few times, and said relaxedly, "Small."

Qiao Yichen had a sore nose, his legs softened and he sat on the ground.Before he had time to be happy, he heard the store manager's doubtful voice.

"Huh? Where's the memory chip?"

According to the store manager, the robot's memory chip will be set in a very hidden place, and the location of each robot is different.It is to restore the robot when the external force causes irreversible physical damage to the robot.As long as the memory chip is not damaged, even if the body is broken ten times or eight times, a new body is rebuilt, and then the contents of the memory chip are imported, the new robot will basically be the same as the broken one.But now the 8192's memory chip isn't where it should be.The store manager searched the entire box several times but couldn't find it.For this reason, they drove to Ye's house to look for it, but they couldn't find it.Then I contacted 8192 for such a crushing way of destruction, and the store manager who felt strange called the police.After a night of searching, they finally found out the reason for its destruction from the deleted memory of 8192 in the database.

Ye Junhao witnessed the whole process of his mother Pang Huan poisoning his father Ye Hansheng before the car accident.

This truth is so sad.

In this way, the cause of Ye Hansheng's death was not because 8192 was stimulated by giving up the inheritance rights of the Ye family, but because Pang Huan fed him low doses of drugs for many years.The drug was difficult to detect, but it could cause his organs to fail.And poor Ye Hansheng thought he was just suffering from a chronic disease.

Ye Junhao's death is even more embarrassing.He first overheard that his close brother conspired with his uncle to drive him out of the company, and when he returned home angrily, he found that his mother wanted to poison his father.After a quarrel with his mother, he drove out in a car that was manipulated by a wet nurse, and died in a car accident in disappointment and fear.

8192 wakes up with this memory in his arms. It has experienced the death of his father, the departure of his brother, and years of imprisonment and torture.In the end, it was hacked into pieces by the person who regarded him as his biological mother.

Ironically, 8192 never thought of reporting on Pang Huan, and didn't even believe that she would harm it because of this incident.Even the memory in the database is blurry.I don't know if Ye Junhao really didn't see clearly at the time, or Dr. Xu made a mistake when copying the memory.In short, because this memory is too vague, coupled with the age, it is difficult to obtain evidence of the gun used, and in the end it did not become conclusive evidence in court to send Pang Huan to the execution ground.Although the flight was delayed due to heavy rain that day, the police caught Pang Huan who was stranded at the airport in time, but in the end, Pang Huan was only sentenced to life imprisonment for economic crimes.

So, why did 8192 go through this kind of thing?

Qiao Yichen couldn't figure it out at all.

He quarreled many times outside the prison where Pang Huan was detained, and finally, he was forcibly sent to a mental hospital by the police.

I am not sick.Qiao Yichen was very clear.Pang Huan definitely spent money to bribe the police.Including why she was not sentenced to death and why the police did not file a case for intentional homicide.

If the law cannot punish her, Qiao Yichen will use his own strength to make her life worse than death.

It's a pity that Qiao Yichen was given a large amount of medicine every day, and it was impossible for him to have the power to punish her.Since you can't punish her, you can only punish yourself.One day, Qiao Yichen suddenly discovered that there were many scars on his body out of thin air.

Qiao Yichen couldn't remember when he was injured.It wasn't until thick gauze was wrapped around his neck, and Yang Haorui cried and asked him in front of the hospital bed if he had ever thought about his parents' feelings, that Qiao Yichen suddenly realized.Ah, it turns out that these injuries are all my own masterpieces.

"I don't want to die—" Qiao Yichen stared blankly at the peeling skin on the wall.

"Old Yang, I don't want to die."

Yang Haorui looked at him unbearably.

"I just don't know how to see it again."

When humans die, there may still be souls.If you follow the dead, you may even be able to accompany you on the road to Huangquan.But when the robot breaks down, as a human being, what should we do?

When Pang Huan confessed, she had destroyed 8192's memory chip.The manager of the second-hand store also clearly stated that 8192 cannot be repaired.

"If you really don't want to, I can build you a new robot that is exactly the same as 8192. Although your mind is blank, you can cultivate it into what you like."

Qiao Yichen didn't speak.

"Or, the one in the database, the one that is dying all day long. I can also pull it out for you and let it stay with you."

What's the point of being together even when that memory is awakened from the pain?

Qiao Yichen has no right to do that.

That 8192 does not belong to me.

You... you might as well treat it as dead.The store manager said so.

Qiao Yichen also knew in his heart that he would never see it again.The store manager also said before that humans and robots rarely have a happy ending.Even without this incident, the relationship between the two is full of ups and downs.The ethics and morality of society set up countless obstacles for them.

"Go get to know a few more human friends." The store manager said, "It won't take long, and you will forget about it."

It was impossible for Qiao Yichen to forget it.Every night, every night, he dreams about it.

Dreaming of 8192 without legs appearing in front of him in the glass cabinet in the basement of the second-hand store. It said with a blank face:

"Qiao Yichen, it was you who killed me."

After speaking, its body was shattered and turned into a pool of blood-red ashes.

At this time, Qiao Yichen would wake up sweating profusely, then lay on the bedside and vomited violently, and finally stared at the ceiling until dawn.

Yes, he killed it himself.

If that day, I didn't leave it behind and walk away.If you don't fall into the river yourself, you've wasted precious time.

If he didn't convince the reluctant 8192, let him go home and see his mother.If he didn't go to the bar to visit Sun Xiaohong alone, let her track down his residence.

If I hadn't approached it ignorantly, it would have forcibly tampered with its memory because it fell in love with its master.

If I hadn't selected it in the glass cabinet in the basement of the second-hand store at the beginning, it might still lie there quietly, or be bought by others, leading an ordinary but stable life.

The reality gave him countless possibilities to make it survive, but Qiao Yichen pushed it to destruction with his own hands.

He could continue to hate Pang Huan's cold blood and complain about the injustice of fate, but he couldn't excuse himself.

Qiao Yichen knew very well in his heart that even if he dismantled himself into several pieces, he still couldn't get 8192 back intact.Death will only make the unique time spent with 8192 in my memory completely disappear in this world.He couldn't bear to do it.

He chooses to live.

He decided to embrace that precious memory, alone, and live strong.

When Qiao Yichen's condition was controlled to the point where he would not cause harm to society or himself, he was approved to be discharged from the hospital.After leaving the hospital, the first thing he did was quit his job.

His body can no longer adapt to the work of normal people.He is afraid of the dark, the cold, and cannot be tired. Whenever he sees thumbtacks, pins and the like, which remind him of metal fragments, he will vomit violently.He is very grateful that the unit did not fire him and kept his position until now, but he had no choice but to choose to live up to their kindness.

Without a job, there will be no income. Although Qiao Yichen received the mental damage fee for the kidnapping and the damage compensation for the robot from the NHRA afterwards, he did not spend too much money on medical treatment, but he will continue to see a doctor regularly in the future. The less personal expenses the better.He moved out of his old apartment and threw away everything that reminded him of the past.The doctor said that this is conducive to rehabilitation.

Qiao Yichen found it funny, and he said not long ago that he would never forget it.Now, in the name of healing, he can throw away what belongs to it without blinking an eye.

There was only one thing that Qiao Yichen couldn't throw away in the end.

It was after packing the luggage, when Qiao Yichen was cleaning the house, he found a square iron box under the bed.The box was not placed right under the bed, but stood upright against the wall, with a layer of paper of the same color as the wall pasted on the outside.If the bed hadn't been removed during the move, it wouldn't have been discovered during the usual cleaning.It was a brown box of chocolates, the usual brand you can find in supermarkets.Thinking of its origin, Qiao Yichen felt as if he had passed away.On Valentine's Day last year, a female colleague in Qiao Yichen's office failed to confess, so she distributed the undelivered chocolates to people in the same office.Qiao Yichen got two pieces, and he kindly left one piece for 8192.As a result, when I got home, I unscrupulously questioned the origin of the chocolate and lost my temper.In the end, Qiao Yichen had no choice but to go downstairs and buy a special box of chocolates, and it took a long time to persuade him with kind words before the matter was settled.This guy actually keeps this kind of thing, it's really...

Qiao Yichen opened the box.

pat.

Tears dripped on the lid of the iron box, making a "click" sound.

Qiao Yichen smiled quietly.

So you didn't lie to me.

It turns out that you have never left.

In early spring, Qiao Yichen found a new job.The work unit is a church-like welfare home.This job will not be too tiring, and the time will be plentiful. Although the salary will not be too much, it is still enough to support myself.More importantly, Qiao Yichen still had one thing to do, while his body could still hold on.

Qiao Yichen wanted to fulfill its last wish for it.

Because Ye Junming was buried in the cemetery in the backyard of the church.

He lived here before being adopted by the Ye family, and returned to this place after his death.

The name of the orphanage was learned from the mouth of the old housekeeper of the Ye family. The old man passed away three months ago.Qiao Yichen decided to stay.He doesn't know whether it will be successful or not, he can only wait.Fortunately, he still has the time of his life.

Fortunately, when Qiao Yichen worked in the orphanage for one year, his wish came true.On Ye Junming's death day, he met Ye Junming's widow who came to visit the grave.

Xie Yuelin had always been a vigorous young woman in Qiao Yichen's impression. Only when he saw her pale sideburns did he realize how long the eight years of standing still on 8192 were.

The final truth that the two had been searching for for a long time was also revealed.

"He was always in poor health at that time," Xie Yuelin said. "Junhao's death hit him hard, and his father passed away not long after." At one point he had to rely on sleeping pills to fall asleep, she said.

During that period of fighting alone with the Pangs, his body collapsed many times.The belief in protecting 8192 every time supports him to get up again and again.He started to increase the dose secretly, and every time Xie Yuelin quarreled with him, he said he was fine.In the end, he still failed to escape the arrival of death.

That's all 8192 wants to know.

Its older brother never betrayed it.

Should Qiao Yichen be happy about it?

Of the three people who accused Ye Junming of killing Ye Junhao back then, two died unexpectedly, and one was arrested by the police for intentional homicide.

It seems that everyone has received their due punishment.

Now that all the dust has settled, if it is still alive, will it be satisfied with the ending?

Xie Yuelin looked at Qiao Yichen, and spoke hesitantly.

"It, is it okay now?"

Another summer, Qiao Yichen visited a second-hand robot repair shop after a long absence.It's been almost a year since the last time I was here.He specially wrapped a bouquet of lilies, pondered for a long time among the mountains of parts in the yard, and then walked into the shop.

"Have you decided?" the store manager asked.

Qiao Yichen nodded.

It would be a lie to say I'm not nervous.He couldn't see it with a normal heart.But that 8192 didn't have any shared memories between the two.What can Qiao Yichen expect from it?

That's right, Qiao Yichen decided to meet the one who was sleeping in the database, the memory that was deleted by 8192.

The decision to see it was not out of selfishness... Maybe it was a bit selfish, but Qiao Yichen felt that it could not be deprived of its right to meet its relatives.If the source of its pain is really because of Ye Junming's death, then he has the responsibility to tell it the truth.Whether it is indifference or redemption, the choice is its own.Qiao Yichen has no right to make a choice for it.

As for Qiao Yichen's selfishness, he knew that after seeing it, all tiny expectations would be shattered according to the original plan.Although it is 8192, it is not the person you love, and it will never belong to you.It has its own thoughts, has a completely different experience from it, and may even have a completely different personality.Qiao Yichen has already accepted the departure of 8192, and he doesn't need to forcibly retrieve its shadow from another independent individual.He was already mentally prepared, but when things came to an end, his sweaty hands still couldn't help trembling slightly.

The store manager said that he couldn't directly communicate with the personality in the database, and needed a carrier.But the robots here are all second-hand robots, with different personalities and memories from 8192.Implanting this memory into another robot risks personality disorder.The final solution is that the juvenile robot on the verge of being destroyed volunteered to fulfill his last wish for his younger brother.

The store manager told Qiao Yichen in the winter three years ago that the child would not survive the next spring.Qiao Yichen can still see it now, can it be called a miracle?But even Qiao Yichen, who is an outsider, can see that Lele's body is really about to fail.It still smiled innocently, and said: "I know about Xiaoba, and its memory won't cause me any confusion."

The store manager was very distressed, they all knew how inhuman treatment 8192 had experienced.Lele said that this was nothing compared to what her mother did. "Don't worry, I will hide it honestly, obediently let Xiao Ba come out to meet Brother Yi Chen." After finishing speaking, it patted his chest, halfway through the pat, it grimaced in pain.

Lele followed Dr. Xu to the underground operating room.Qiao Yichen waited nervously on a chair in the shop.There is silence in the second-hand store, only the rustling of the leaves blown by the wind outside the window, accompanied by the chirping of birds in early summer, plucking Qiao Yichen's tense heartstrings.Suddenly, there was some movement downstairs, Qiao Yichen leaned over to listen, it seemed like a quarrel.

It, don't want to wake up?

Did I make a wrong decision again?

Qiao Yichen couldn't help becoming depressed.

It might be angry.Being woken up for no reason, the reason is still irrelevant, it has good reasons to refuse this meeting.

Should I leave wisely?

Just about to stand up, the door on the first floor was pushed open.The young robot walked back into the store, but the expression on his face did not belong to the boy named Liang Jiale.

That look can be said to be familiar, or it can be said to be completely unfamiliar.

Qiao Yichen's heart began to beat violently.

32, who possessed Ye Junhao's 8192-year-old personality, walked up to Qiao Yichen, and looked at him speechlessly, with no wavering in his eyes.

Qiao Yichen wanted to speak out, but found that he hadn't spoken for a long time, and his throat was stuck.The store manager was behind it, and said that there is no need to explain, I told it everything, and then closed the door and went into the house.

Qiao Yichen didn't know how far it knew, and he didn't know where to speak.He made unnecessary exaggerated body movements, but couldn't utter a word from his mouth.

8192 didn't urge him, but just stood there expressionless, as if Qiao Yichen didn't exist.

"You... my sister wants to see you." Qiao Yichen said abruptly.

"I mean, your sister-in-law, your brother's... wife."

Its eyes rolled slightly.

"Your brother... Yes, he died in an accident. He always cared about you. The car accident had nothing to do with your brother. "

Qiao Yichen gave Xie Yuelin's contact information to 8192, but it still didn't respond much.That's it.There is nothing I can do for it, and it is time to leave.

Qiao Yichen suppressed the bitterness and said goodbye to 8192, but it didn't answer.Qiao Yichen strode out of the second-hand store.The sooner the better, before I lose my composure.

The wind chimes at the store door jingled, passing the pile of scrap metal parts, and passing through the dilapidated iron gate.The sunlight passed through the trees, casting a halo of light in the messy alley.Suddenly, there was a loud noise from the waste product mountain collapsing behind him, and Ah Huang who was next door even barked twice cooperatively.Qiao Yichen turned back to look at the door of the store in doubt, only to see 8192 stumbled out of the door with bruises all over his body, and limped to Qiao Yichen.

"What's your name."

Even the questioning was cold, without a trace of tone.

Qiao Yichen reported his name in confusion.

"..."

It stared into Qiao Yichen's eyes for a long time, and then said with some effort:

"Thank you, Qiao Yichen."

The wind rustled the leaves, and the birds sang tenderly.

Qiao Yichen smiled, with tears in his eyes.

The author has something to say:

The first part is over.

The second part is going to write the story of Lao Yang and Cheng Xiao.

The follow-up of Qiao Yichen and 32-year-old 8192 is expected to be written in the third part.

Thanks for reading, bows.

8192R