Water lanterns and dreams in 1 nights

I'm sorry I couldn't get you into that real world.I do not have permission. "

"I know." I replied, "I have no intention of entering either."

My existence is an abrupt accident, dangerous if exposed.What's more, the legendary world is really amazing in terms of creativity in depriving people of life. I barely escaped, but I just fell into a more cruel cage, and put two people in it.

In fact, I had a hunch in my heart, and in what Allen didn't say, there was another kind of tolerance hidden—he didn't worry about where I came from or where I was going, he only cared about the present.As long as he "loves", he doesn't care if he gets something in return, almost stupid.

He has no job and future to consider, and no ties, so he is free to do everything, and he can do everything according to his own wishes, regardless of choice, right or wrong.His design is obviously flawed, and such irrationality is more likely to appear on a human being.

I have an undeniable fondness for his flaws, and I deduce from this that Allen is not a simple machine.

102. Machine 17

Allen set his body as a giant as tall as a mountain, and he asked me to sit on his shoulders and follow my command to travel the land.This is of course very convenient.But after he provided convenient transportation, it didn't take long for me to discover that this is indeed a boring world.There are not enough wonders, at least there are no unexpected scenery, and everywhere I go is similar to green.Only when you see the lofty mountain peak, covered with snow covered with soft white light, is the scene unexpected beauty.

The world itself is a rough box, and the creators didn't have the patience to polish it to perfection.And since Allen took over, he has always tried to add a little incredible element to his daily life, so as to add interest to the world.

He took me to the sea in the far east.It was late at night.The night wind was blowing quietly, the waves washed up on the beach one after another, the stars in the sky were dim and listless, and the moon was hidden in the clouds, showing no shadow.

We stood on the beach, watching the center of the sea gradually gather light, forming a huge circle of light, in the light of white flames, the sea water "boomed" into the sky, gathered into a tall water column straight into the sky, as if A snow-white marble sky pillar then fell to the surface of the water, causing a "swish, swish" noise, which was the sound of water in the air falling on the sea.The mist left in the air floated to the beach and became a cool drizzle.

Allen said it was for my fountain show.

I wiped off the water stains on my face with a handkerchief, sat down on his shoulders, and watched the huge show quietly.

"Alan, your responsibility is to keep the world running, and you are too indulgent with me."

"The world is working, just in a different way."

"You're not a very normal robot."

"You're not a very normal host either." He said jokingly, his eyes flickering with the lights in the distance, appearing very vivid and energetic.He looked so much like an ordinary young man that I blurted out, "Alan, do you have a prototype?"

He turned to look at me as if I had finally solved one of his puzzles, and smiled like a child.

"Yes," he replied, "I have a human prototype."

The designer's son is a frail student who needs to stay in bed frequently because of the disease caused by recessive genes, so the scenery he is most familiar with is outside the hospital window.Allen said that the designers kept a backup copy of his consciousness and created him from it.

"He planted some sesame seeds on the window sill, and it grew up to his waist in no time, blooming in clusters. He thought it was one of the few things he had."

"Do you often look back on those memories?"

"I will never forget, so I often think of it."

"What are you thinking about?"

"Students' cognition is very limited." Allen said while thinking, "I remember the sesame flowers on the windowsill, they are like a string of quiet bells, he always thinks that is very cute. On the way to the hospital there are There was a bakery in his hometown, and the sweet smell made him remember it for a long time; there were always flowers in the vase in the ward, and his father sat on the chair by the bed, patiently peeling apples with a knife, and posing in the pose of a little turtle He used two apple cores to make its eyes. Once a tennis ball from a kid playing tennis outside the window flew in and smashed the window, and his father was furious. He thought it was quite funny.”

"A child's small world."

"But there is also the joy of having children."

"Is there any difference between those and your own memories?"

"From his point of view, the world is always more emotional." He thought ecstatically, "His father copied his consciousness to the network, programmed it based on him, and became me. After he died , I inherited his appearance and continued to grow up, and was fixed at the age when his father most expected to see him alive. But I am not him, half of me is made up of data. I cannot interact with prisoners, this is the setting. Before you came, when I had nothing to do, I would control the household robot and sneak around their homes."

"I think you must have seen a lot."

"I only observe and never interfere. For more than 100 years. They have not given me the right to interfere." Alan pointed to his eyes, "I see everything in my eyes, good or bad. Learn, observe, what exactly do they and I do?" what is the difference."

"What did you find?"

"People are always emotional. Want this, don't want this, like it, hate it. And some things, what they say is not in line with what they really think, and their heart will be... more complicated."

"Complexity often inspires unpredictable events."

"Those incidents have never had anything to do with me. Over the years. No one will connect with the machine, which is convenient for me to learn."

"And I chose you to love me, and you immediately accepted that instruction."

"This is the first order given to me."

"I thought people were giving you orders all the time. Watching over the world, or tidying the house, delivering the laundry... whatever."

"That's my task for the machine, not for the individual."

"So you're lonely?"

"Maybe." Allen said thoughtfully. "Sometimes I have a hard time judging my emotions."

"Maybe it's not your emotion, it's just a product of logical operation, the emotion you should have under this kind of personality setting." Saying this, I actually have doubts myself.A part of a machine, a part of a complete human consciousness, the two together, why can't they be regarded as living beings?

"It's hard to define."

I looked at him, with the appearance of an adult, but with the cleanest pair of eyes I have ever seen——

"My emotional module is dull, but I wish I could feel. In fact, I think I'm feeling."

"how does it feel?"

"I feel...I am existing. You make me exist as a human being, not as any one of a thousand machines."

The long night was coming to an end, and there were faint signs of brightness in the sky. I asked Allen to stop the noise of the ocean and wait for the sunrise.Alan stretched out his hand, pointed to a star in the east and said, "That's you." I looked along his finger, and the morning star, as the last unextinguished star tonight, was faintly flickering.

"I'm not such a brilliant thing."

"But it's equally precious." Allen looked at it.After a while, added: "It's just as far away."

"But what's the point of you doing this for me?"

Allen thought about it, and then answered cautiously after a while, "Take care of you, look at you, meet your needs, and when you are happy, I want to smile. Isn't that meaningful?"

He stared at the morning star in the east, and told me that this world is indeed a game box, and it is his only world. "If you want me to destroy it for you, I am willing, and I am willing to make it more beautiful for you. Love belongs to my feelings for you, and I respect all your decisions."

"Even if I will leave eventually?"

"Even if you leave eventually." He said in his usual melancholy voice with a touch of porcelain. "As I said before, your presence alone makes me happy. Even when you're not."

As the night faded away, seagulls flew low in the blue sky, singing loudly from time to time, and a fiddler crab crawled on the beach. Against the backdrop of the sun, the beach seemed to be covered with glittering gold, and the sea was endless The ground surged up, making a reassuring rushing sound.I sat on Alan's shoulders and looked out over the sea. Several dolphins were jumping and playing in the middle of the sea, splashing huge water from time to time.

It was a pleasant morning indeed.

"What do you think true love is?"

"I think 'love' should be a feeling in a person's heart." Allen said, "Because of love, you are willing to do something good for the other person, so that the other person can live a happier life as it is."

"Human beings generally have wishes because of love, want to get, want to claim and dominate. Because I love you and want you, you'd better respond to me and value me."

"Once you want to dominate the other party, love becomes an extension of personal desire." Allen said. "I thought 'love' wouldn't be such a complicated thing."

"Maybe." I muttered.

"I wish you happiness," he said quietly.

103. Machine 18 (final)

Allen did his best to keep me fresh, to create a comfortable paradise for me, and paradise is not a place to stay for long.I always have to go to the next stop, and trace back the meaning of my original birth in the next journey.

Leaving is not a choice, but a path that must be passed. The difference is only in the time, and Allen knows it well.

"You won't keep me?"

"It depends