Water lanterns and dreams in 1 nights

On the road, none of the people passing by cast their eyes on this side, like a fish breaking through the water, people pass by, always dodge when they are about to hit us, and continue talking, laughing and walking.

Although I have always found this a strange and unattractive world, I have never doubted its reality.I am not denying the imagination of a world.

I know that the three months in the ground are always free, as long as it does not cause public panic, people can do whatever they want in private.This rule has never been expressly written in the law or any book, but people just know it naturally, like an imprint in their brains, and perhaps this in itself is a strong evidence for Allen's words.I have never inherited physical memory before, so it can be seen that the memories and identities I accept today are all seeds planted in my mind.

"Violence, pornography, murder, crime, insanity," I whispered, "I rarely see much of it with my own eyes."

"Centipedes avoid exposure to sunlight, you need to know which rock to turn."

Allen allowed me to walk into roadside shops casually, and frequently ran into people entangled together.Dance halls, bars, hotels, and various entertainment facilities, under the operation of machines, extremely boring people go to these places to vent their desires, no matter what kind of aspects.It was getting dark, and I was tired of seeing bleary-smiling crowds of people, so I went outside.In the dark night when the lights are turned off, there are unspeakable noises beside the toilets, fountains, and statues in the central square. In the deep alleys, some people are immersed in hallucinogenic potions, and some people are carrying out killing activities.

We walked along the main road for a long time until we reached a small open space at the end of the underground city, where no buildings had been erected.Now the central lighting goes out, and we, from our dark perch, look out at the lights in the city's innumerable cubicles.

"All this, I've never seen it before." I put my hands in my pockets and looked up at a dark sky.And we are underground, we can't see the sky, and all we can see when we look up is the dark dome underground. "Have you been protecting me?"

"This world is always much crazier than you imagined," Allen lowered his head, "I want to prevent you from seeing this as much as possible."

Ah, another danger signal.The self-righteous desire to protect can easily lead to the desire to try to control.I'm almost sure that the person in this world is Alan.Even the term "person" is open to debate.

I told him to lie on the ground, firmly stepped on his neck from behind, and thought about destroying his chip.If he obeys me completely, it will save a lot of trouble; if he doesn't, I'm comfortable with all the consequences that may happen.Isn't this detection fun?Since he has insisted on loyalty until now.

I'm about to start, if he didn't say suddenly: "Your data has changed once, but numerically, I would have thought you were two different people from five years ago."

Half of his face was stepped on the ground, and his pronunciation inevitably became vague, but the meaning was very clear.

I let him go, but instead of standing up, he got up and knelt on the ground, talking to me with his head up. "The data of everyone who enters here is clearly stored in my brain. You suddenly wake up one day, and you will no longer be the original you."

"So you become my robotic butler, to assess what to do with me. You want to kill me?"

"Until you give me your identity again." Allen stared at me, his eyes reflecting the lights in the distance, creating an illusion of tenderness for him. "The procedure for releasing criminals is very strict. Every criminal's data will be recorded in my master brain in advance. In addition to body data, there is also brain data. But you are not in my database. You suddenly appeared unconventional, like a miracle, I think I have to protect you from the outside world."

"I didn't ask you to do that."

"You gave me a new meaning of existence, which is to love you, then I will automatically learn to block the factors that are not good for you."

"You knew from the beginning that I wasn't the one."

"Yes." Allen said. "But I'm glad you're here."

I lowered my head and thought for a while, then handed over my hand and asked him to help me stand up.

"Ice season really exists?"

"Being and not being," Allen said, sounding like a philosopher again.He pointed to his head, "Anyway, no one will confirm it, and no one will doubt it. That is one of the basic settings of the world."

"Is there an ice season in the world outside?"

"It's original. It exists to give people a legitimate reason to let them go underground. The holidays after a long period of repression are likely to breed riots, and people will be more willing to kill each other. After all, the outside drives criminals here, doesn't it In order for everyone to multiply and grow stronger, the fewer the number, the better."

This is really interesting.Like a speck of flint falling into the grass, a strange flame blazed in my breast, and it gave me the heat to live again.What I'm going through is unprecedented.A completely artificial world, a robot who saw through my identity from the beginning, and more unknowns hidden behind what he didn't say, all gave me long-lost fluctuations.

A thought came to me - I wanted to go back to the ground.Don't disturb the people who are drunk and dreaming underground, just the two of us go back and see what the empty world will look like.I was sure Alan would have his way, and Alan did.

He took my arm and led me to the darker corners on the edge of the underground city.

"Have you found the person you were looking for?"

"maybe."

From my attitude, he may have guessed that the person I am looking for is related to him.

We walked forward for more than 100 meters, Allen let me go, squatted on the ground and groped.The light here is already very weak. As a human being, I can't tell what he is looking for. It seems to be a very small thing. He grabs it and gets up and lifts it up vigorously.He lifted the lid, "Please."

I stretched out one foot and probed, but there was nothing real under my feet, it was nothingness. "I want to go back to the top, not to the lower ground."

"Don't worry." He said patiently, "Please first."

I didn't say much and jumped down.

Things are not as sad as I thought.Instead of Alice falling down a rabbit hole for hours, I hit the ground right away, and it felt almost like jumping into a shallow pit, except here it was literally "out of reach."Then Alan landed beside me and patted my shoulder.

"I'll lead you out."

I nod.I know he can see even in total darkness.That's exactly what it is.

With permission, he took my wrist and led me forward.

"It's time to go up the steps. There are fifteen steps in all."

I counted to fifteen and put my feet on the ground.At this time, we were standing in front of a door, with a white and bluish light shining through the gap. Allen stood beside him and told me to push the door open and return to the ground.

"After opening the door, will the flood come in?"

"No," he said, "I'll always be there for you. I'm turning the switch."

I ignored his so-called "always" and opened the door.

95. Machine 10

In order to avoid glare from the strong light, I closed my eyes in advance, and only slowly raised my eyelids when I felt that I could adapt to the brightness.

"I set the ocean to stay 150 meters above the city. When you look up, you can see the bottom of the sea."

I looked at the sky, and I only felt that I was still in a dream, or that I was in an aquarium that I hadn’t been to for a long time. The sky became an extremely deep blue, almost blue-black, and the silhouette of a big fish slowly crossed from the top of the head, with a wide belly. As wide as the street.Under the faintly shimmering water surface, there is no one else in the whole city except me and Alan.

"Please pay attention." Allen said, as his words fell, the searchlights on the tall buildings on both sides of the street were lit up one by one, forming beams of light shining into the ocean of the sky.I didn't notice until the lights came on that I was back in the industrial area, back on the street where my little one lived.

The projections of beams of light from many searchlights overlap together, illuminating a visible bright spot on the seabed.The area outside the light is dark and treacherous, but in the light, snow is falling from top to bottom in the slightly blue sea water, thousands of snowflakes are falling silently, floating and floating in the sea water, swimming fish and jellyfish walk through Among the snowflakes, there was an unspeakable serenity.The snow fell endlessly, as if it would never stop.

"Is that real snow?"

"No, just some suspended matter in the sea water. The lights make them look more beautiful."

I watched it for a while and told Alan that I wanted to see the city further.I live and work here, but the living area has never been in a small area.

"I think, first of all, restore all power."

Allen immediately interfaced: "It's connected."

"How much authority do you have?"

"All the machinery in this world."

"everything?"

"Anything computer-controlled is fine. Anything that has to be done manually, I can send those ubiquitous robots to do it. So yes, everything."

How contemptuous and arrogant it is to hand over the authority of an entire world to a single robot.Even if this is not a natural world.

"Give me the light," I ordered.As a result, all the lights in the whole world are turned on, and daylight comes suddenly, and the ocean above the head temporarily loses its mystery, and it is more like an aquarium.

"Where do you want to go first?"

I haven't made up my mind yet, and Alan suggested that I could go to the mall first.

"A super mall has opened in the entertainment district. It has twelve floors and is the largest mall in the world. You might as well