my old robot

"I'm sorry, I can't dance." Xiao Chenmo refused again apologetically.

The other party pulled him into the dance floor without any explanation, the music turned into a bright and intense tune, and the crowd dancing around was like a group of fluttering colorful butterflies, submerging him in the sea of ​​skirts, Xiao Chenmo stood in the crowd of shaking people He touched the simulated human face on his face.Fortunately, there is no problem with the fake face.

"There is nothing wrong with your simulated face." The other party suddenly approached and whispered to Xiao Chenmo.

Xiao Chenmo was so surprised that he forgot to react, and just stared at it blankly.

"Guess how I know?" It chuckled slightly, "I'll tell you after you dance with me after this dance."

"No, I don't want to know the reason." Xiao Chenmo took a step back, standing stiffly on the dance floor, he looked very abrupt, "I'm sorry, I really don't know." He turned around and squeezed out the well-dressed dance floor.

"What a stubborn little thing." The robot that stayed on the spot licked its fingers in recollection, "Essex, I thought you were capable."

Xiao Chenmo went down to the bottom floor without stopping, and walked out of the building all the way.There were only a few low-level machines on the street. Xiao Chenmo thought that human beings in this country were not allowed to go out alone. Standing on the street with a human face on his face had already attracted the attention of some machines.Xiao Chenmo quickly adjusted his pace to learn how those stiff robots walked. In this way, he also looked like a medium-sized robot. Of course, he would not be detected without a detector.

The low-level machines on the road no longer pay attention to him, Xiao Chenmo picks those remote places to walk, so that he doesn't need to learn how to walk like a robot at any time, he just needs to be vigilant and put on a show when there are machines passing by .

This city is really not suitable for human travel, Xiao Chenmo's eyes were almost dazzled by the flashing signal lights in the sky, he found a corner with eaves to stop and rest.Resting with him was an old tabby cat. Seeing that there was a new human being in his territory, the old cat cocked up its tail, bowed its body, and sneaked into a door smartly. An old voice came out, "Little naughty, where have you been playing?"

Xiao Chenmo stood up straight, this was the first elderly voice he heard in this country.

Looking in from the half-covered door, the inside was pitch black, Xiao Chenmo took a few glances and saw nothing, and just as he was about to retract his body, the voice sounded again, "Pry your head, are you What to do?"

Xiao Chenmo quickly retracted his head, "Well, excuse me, I'll leave right away."

Before Xiao Chenmo left, the door opened suddenly, and an old man stood behind the door holding the tabby cat, "Human? Robot?"

"Uh" Xiao Chenmo was thinking about how to answer.

"It turned out to be a human being."

The other party's tone was a little more sarcastic, Xiao Chenmo heard the strange harshness, and he replied with some displeasure, "What's wrong with human beings?"

"Human beings, hehehe" the old man entered the room on his own.

The old man's obvious contemptuous tone made Xiao Chenmo furious, "Hey, is there anyone like you? How did I offend you?"

"You didn't offend me, I just look down on all the humans here."

"You are also a human here."

The old man's wrinkled face was full of vicissitudes, the corners of his mouth were dry to the point of peeling, and there was a tiny cracked bloodshot overflowing from his lips. Xiao Chenmo knew at a glance that he was also a human being, and he could only be a human being. I have seen a robot that is made into an old-age body as soon as it is produced.

"Yes, I am a human being, but I am not a human being here." The old man was dressed in a white cotton coat, and the cuffs were so worn out that there were still a few thread ends showing. There was a bitterness of being poor to the bone, but those eyes were full of arrogance.

"Then why are you here?"

"I'm just stuck here."

"Trapped here? What do you mean?" Xiao Chenmo couldn't understand what he meant by "trapped here". A thought flashed through his mind, and he shook it off again. No, it couldn't be that way .

"Humans who come here will be unable to leave, don't you even know the simplest thing?" The old man's eyes were not only arrogant, but also showed a trace of pity, "You shouldn't have come here in the first place , now even if you want to go back to Bangzi Country, that's impossible."

"I'm not from Bangzi Country." Xiao Chenmo corrected.

The old man ignored him and turned to walk inside, Xiao Chenmo quickly chased after him, "Old man, what do you mean by being trapped here, please tell me."

"You really want to know?" The old man stopped and looked at him.

"En." Xiao Chenmo nodded.

"Then you come in with me." The old man continued to walk in.

Xiao Chenmo went to Kelim twice, but it was the first time he walked into the slums of Kelim. The bottom floor of the entire building was densely packed with small doors. These small doors were either open or closed. Those who open the door can see the layout inside at a glance. There are no windows in the room, and the toilet is separated by the cheapest fabric. Next to the toilet is a small bed. There are some sundries on the cardboard boxes or on the simple counter, and the whole room is so crowded that it makes people feel guilty. It is hard for Xiao Chenmo to imagine that there are still people living in such a simple environment in today's highly developed society.

"Surprised?" The old man looked back at him.

Xiao Chenmo didn't know what to say, there were so many humans living in this place with poor ventilation and light, the stench in the toilet pipe was mixed with the leather smell of cheap shoes and the rotten smell of untreated food residue. The unpleasant smells all rushed into one place and floated in the corridor for a long time. Xiao Chenmo's nasal cavity was full of this disgusting smell.

"If you live here for a long time, you won't be able to smell it. When you live here in the future, you will get used to it."

Xiao Chenmo's brows were wrinkled, he would not live here, nor in this life.

"You don't believe it? Hehehe, you will believe it one day. Did you see that woman? The old man pointed to a woman in the distance in the corridor, "She was once young and beautiful, and a group of robots surrounded her and scrambled to support her, but The time of human beings is too short. It is not only the patent of human beings to like the new and dislike the old. Robots also like younger and more beautiful ones. Soon she has changed from many pursuits to no one cares about.Do you know what happens to the humans who are rejected by robots here?It is the dirtiest and most dilapidated slum area. They gather all the old and decrepit human beings here, and there is no such thing as the life that was sought after by people in the past. Many human beings can't accept this gap and go crazy. Humans who have become lazy and indulgent in captivity can no longer afford a little setback in life. "

The woman was still wearing a summer silk red dress, which was probably the best she had left. A passing cleaning machine scratched her skirt, and she kicked the poor little machine in a fit of rage. No matter how much pointed high-heeled shoes are kicked, it will not cause much damage to the machine, but a lot of patent leather has been kicked off the body of the lowest small machine, turning it into a mottled and ugly cylinder.The little machine rolled its eyes and looked at its body with great distress. Compared with these humans who were gathered in the slums, it was a machine that was even worse than these humans.

Out of breath, the woman twisted her body and walked away, while the little machine stayed where it was whimpering and spinning to suck up the paint that fell off its body.

The old man's eyes followed the swaying woman away, and he sniffed the scent of perfume left in the air with his nose, "Ah, only this woman is willing to spend so extravagantly, but she will spend those things soon, In the end, they become humble human beings with nothing.”

"Why didn't you choose to go out to work?" Xiao Chenmo couldn't understand that many human beings still looked very young, but they chose to stay in such a small place in broad daylight.

"Work?" The old head seemed to have heard a big joke, "You said let humans work in Colim? What kind of jobs are suitable for humans here? This is the mechanical empire. Do you look around and see which jobs are needed? Humans? Even in the slums, there is such a low-level machine to clean up the garbage, what work do humans need to do?"

Xiao Chenmo once saw a human guard in the fighting arena. Although humans have few positions in this country, it is not impossible.

"You are only talking about a very small number of them. Most of them have nothing to do all their lives. This city is full of entertainment places built for human beings, places for shopping for human activities, and various establishments only for human beings. A kind of high-end restaurant. The human beings here have been in such a luxurious and pampered environment since the beginning, and they have already become waste that only enjoys pleasure."

Xiao Chenmo didn't believe that people in the whole country were like this.

"You will believe it in the future. After you have been trapped here for so many years like me, you can see them from the most beautiful boyhood to the abandoned and downcast aging process. This is more interesting than a movie. More, in just a few years you can see all of their lives."

Xiao Chenmo suddenly felt a hairy feeling in his heart. In the entire dark corridor, every small door was either closed or opened, and the human beings lying on the bed with electronic products in the door were eating and waiting to die. , the small cleaning machine that was still whirring, and the old man standing at the junction of light and dark with a malicious smile, all these made him feel cold and uncomfortable from between his toes to his scalp.He heard himself scratching his neck and asking word by word in a mechanical voice, "Why, why a few years?"

"Because the human beings here are the last clones of the gene." The old man leaned into his ear and spoke in a low, cold voice from the ground, "If the one behind is just a robot keeping you in captivity, I think you should gone back."

The surrounding sounds seemed to be stripped away at this moment, all substances in the air were frozen, and even the tiniest dust was suspended under the eyelids and stopped floating, and only the sound of footsteps approaching him from a distance could be heard in his ears. Step by step, getting closer and closer to him.Xiao Chenmo stiffened and turned his head. Essex was walking towards him from the end of this dark corridor. His height was about to reach the ceiling of this low corridor, and his waist-length blond hair was casually scattered, so bright. It was so smooth that it became the brightest color in this gray area. Its mechanical legs stepped on the ground and gave a powerful echo, circling and circling in the entire corridor, hitting his eardrums one by one.

"Essex," he murmured softly.

"I'm here." It had come to him.

He seemed to have not recovered from the shock just now, his eyes were empty and out of focus, Essex caressed his face and frowned deeply, "What did that man tell you just now?"

At the end of Xiao Chen's trembling, the sounds from all around came back, the air began to flow again, the noisy and annoying voice penetrated into the eardrums, and the unbearable smell came from the tip of his nose again.

Xiao Chenmo lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "He said, I'm your little boy."

Essex smiled, "No, I'm your little boy."

"Well, your face is so white, isn't it just a little white face?"

Essex lowered his head and rubbed his face against him, "Mo, let's go home."

"Ah."

Essex walked out of the building with Xiao Chenmo in his arms, Xiao Chenmo turned back to look for the old man just now, the old man had long since disappeared in the long corridor, only the little machine was still standing there stupidly .

"How did you come to such a place?" Essex looked at his lover beside him with long eyelashes.

"I went out for a walk when I was alone at home, and I came here by accident."

"Next time, don't go out alone. You must be accompanied by a robot when you go out here."

"How do you know I'm there?" Xiao Chenmo looked up at it.

"I searched for nearby surveillance."

Xiao Chen got angry at the end, "Didn't you say you should keep a low profile? You search and monitor at will, what if you are noticed?"

"The least low-key is you. Don't you know how much attention you will attract when you travel alone?"

"I have disguised myself."

"Learning to walk like a robot? It's just fooling the lowest machines."

"That was also a lie."

"Don't argue with me, it's because you are lucky. What you encounter are the last-class machines. If you encounter a high-level robot, can you easily pass by?"

Xiao Chenmo muttered in a low voice, "There won't be advanced robots walking on the street, right?"

How could sharp-eared Essex miss any of his words?It rubbed its forehead with a headache, "I think I should punish you well, otherwise you won't have a long memory."

"I warn you, the human body is not comparable to the physical strength of a robot, if you dare to mess around, you"

The second half of Xiao Chenmo's sentence was bitten by Essex's tongue, it bit his lip and gnawed hard with punishment, "I won't spare you this time, I will do it you understand until."