When the law of conservation of isolation is broken
Chapter 1 Chongqing Forest
Zhang Luotuo's bird was sick. He found out at 44:[-], when he was about to go out, the bird suddenly called.
The bird usually barks, but today it is different from the past. It is barking as a dog, not a bird, just like it is a puppy.Zhang Luotuo patiently squatted down and held the bird in his palm. The bird weighed only [-] grams, which was as light as an egg. Zhang Luotuo opened his pink feathers and found that the indicator light on its right abdomen turned red, which means There was something wrong with its parts and needed to be repaired, so Zhang Luotuo decided to take it for repairs and put it in a bag.The bird chirped softly, and then the light turned blue, indicating that it was scared and thought it was going to be thrown in the trash.Zhang Luotuo lowered his head and said softly to it: "I'm just taking you to see a doctor, don't be afraid." The little bird trusted him, and Zhang Luotuo would not lie.So it spread its wings obediently and lay in the bag, revealing its pink belly.
Zhang Luotuo went downstairs with the bag. At 46:96, he took the elevator to the [-]th floor, entered the parking lot, boarded his spaceship, carefully put the bag on the co-pilot, and then started the spaceship.The spaceship vibrated and roared, and the roar was very noisy.It's an old model and should have been sitting in the junkyard for maintenance to get rid of.But Zhang Luotuo likes it, just like his little bird.It never occurred to him to buy a new one and throw it in a mechanical breakdown plant.
The spaceship rose and headed for the foggy sky.The weather in Chongqing is always like this, either rainy or cloudy. Zhang Luotuo can’t remember what the night sky and clear sky look like. He has read about the black velvet sky in books, but he can’t imagine it. The sky is very gray, or Because of the neon lights of the city, there is a little pink in the silver.He glanced at the artificial navigator next to the steering wheel. Its case was black and heavy. He pressed the switch button of the artificial navigator. Jumped out, the music played, and after the music ended, the blue frame disappeared, replaced by a pleasant male voice: "Good morning."
Zhang Luotuo's voice was light: "Good morning, Ah Mei, how's the weather today?"
But before he could answer, he encountered a cumulus cloud and gray fog in front of him. He carefully manipulated the spaceship, and the spaceship slid in smoothly. The male voice flickered and disappeared.The surroundings were heavy, like a polluted snow field, Zhang Luotuo carefully maneuvered to avoid hitting other spaceships in the fog. Five minutes later, the gray fog gradually disappeared, and the Yuzhong District of Nuoda flashed a thousand meters below, which was the trace of the city. Above a thousand meters, tens of thousands of spaceships could be seen galloping in it, leaving behind a silver fog.Zhang Luotuo drove towards the center of the city. As he descended, there was only the sound of rain. After 5 minute, there was a buzzing sound like a fly, and the blue frame jumped out again, and Ah Coal's voice was full of guilt: "Sorry, I just lost the signal here." He said full of melancholy, "I'm getting more and more It doesn't fit the times."
Zhang Luotuo shook his head and comforted Ah Mei: "You are still the best navigator I have ever seen."
Amei is an electronic navigator, which was produced a long time ago, but Amei doesn't like this statement, and Zhang Luotuo never mentioned it.Zhang Luotuo was not the first owner of Ah Mei. Ah Mei said that it was made by a scientist in the era when artificial intelligence had just developed.It is the first batch of smart navigators that can think independently, provide weather information, and simply chat and talk with humans.Its birth represents a big step in human progress.Then it was put into the market and entered the arms of the first owner, and then the second navigator was born, which was more powerful than it, and could sense emotions and control the spaceship. Its owner never used it again until later. It goes to the decomposition plant.Then came Zhang Luotuo and its story, he picked it up and repaired it.
Ah Mei didn't understand why Zhang Luotuo chose it, because there are countless navigators in this world.So it asked him.Zhang Luotuo said that he lives alone in the apartment, has no friends, and is lonely.Ah Mei asked Zhang Luotuo, why didn't he find a boyfriend or girlfriend?Zhang Luotuo shook his head frankly, and said with a smile, I don't have anyone I love yet, which is beyond Ah Mei's comprehension. What is love?Is it like weather?Is it like the Milky Way?It didn't know, so it had to change the subject, pretending that it wasn't ignorance, but just not interested.
Ah Coal quickly adjusted its mood. It is a good navigator, not inferior to the latest model: "It is about to land at the Yuzhong District shipyard and arrive at Eleven Company." It said, using the most professional tone, imitating the latest model of navigation instrument.
They entered the central city, the signal in the central city was stable, and countless flying boats passed by Zhang Luotuo.Eight o'clock is the rush hour, and everyone is afraid of being late.The little bird heard the movement, sneaked out of the bag, and looked at everything by the window, hoping to find one of its kind, but it only saw endless spaceships.Some airships are new and shiny silver, while others are very old and look like squids on the bottom of the sea, black and sinking.Countless lights and neon lights flashed across, and a huge advertising image rose in the rain: "Buy a bottle of soda..."
The spaceship slanted to □□ and began to land, circling around the parking lot.Zhang Luotuo aimed at a position, slid towards it smoothly, stopped the spaceship like the pilot in the advertisement, and then braked the ship.
It's always raining in Canterlot.Zhang Luotuo turned off the engine and decided not to take the umbrella. He hugged the bag containing the bird to his chest and carefully got off the spaceship.Ah Mei said goodbye to him before disappearing: "Good work!"
Zhang Luotuo smiled and waved to Ah Mei: "See you tonight!"
Zhang Luotuo works for Eleven Company, and the place where he parks is the open-air parking lot of Eleven Company.Eleven Company is a large company that produces many things. Zhang Luotuo's toy department produces toys, such as sheep, birds, penguins, and so on.These toys are sold to lonely singles, urban people who live alone in apartments, live alone, and watch TV alone at night.Zhang Luotuo's bird toy is produced here, model 1000. There are also peacocks and rhinos at the same time, but everyone loves birds.For a while the little bird was selling so well that everyone had one and they called it the pink bird because it was pink from head to belly.But Zhang Luotuo didn't call it Pink Bird, he named it Mao Mao.
The company is in front of Zhang Luotuo. It is very tall and is a landmark building in the city center. Its exterior is composed of [-] pieces of glass, which looks huge, like a Japanese samurai armor.The glass is opaque, and it is equipped with equipment for the convenience of placing various advertisements. It looks light blue, like a huge swimming pool.Now a soda commercial is being broadcast, and a girl in an orange skirt jumps out of the glass. She is as tall as this building, and looks like a real person, but if you look closely, you can see the glass behind her, and she is just a projected image.She shows off her orange soda to the city with a sweet and divine smile. "Fresh-squeezed soda, your best choice." The rain slid down her face, her voice was so gentle that it spread throughout the city, even a spaceship a kilometer away could hear her whisper.
Zhang Luotuo is also attracted by her, she is very beautiful.He licked his lips, feeling a little thirsty, maybe after get off work, he would also buy a bottle of soda.
"Camels!" came a sudden shout from behind.Zhang Luotuo turned his head and saw a girl waving at him.Zhang Luotuo had been staring at the ad just now and didn't see her.The girl grinned at him like soda, and she wore orange lipstick, which looked bright on the rainy day.
"Zheng Zheng!" Zhang Luotuo said.Stride towards her, she's his friend, they both used to work in the toy department.
Zheng Zheng looked down at the camel's paper bag, and Maomao looked at her: "Are you finally going to change one?" She tried to poke its head with her finger, but Maomao avoided it and pointed her butt at her.
Zhang Luotuo shook his head: "No, I want to have it repaired by the bird toy department. One of its parts is broken."
Zheng Zheng folded his arms, frowned and said: "You are too nostalgic, if all the buyers are like you, the company must have disappeared." She is not exaggerating.Two years ago, they bought a model 1000 toy together, Zhang Luotuo bought a pink bird, Zheng Zheng’s was a penguin, a week later, Zheng Zheng’s penguin was replaced by a peacock, and Zhang Luotuo’s bird remained until now, shining, Brand new.
They walked to the elevator.The parking lot is on the 21st floor, and there is an open-air elevator to provide up and down.Zheng Zheng pressed the button on the 29th floor.She works in the anthropomorphic department, on the ninth floor, and she should go up, but she usually goes to the restaurant on the 29th floor with Zhang Luotuo to have breakfast, and then the two go up together. Zhang Luotuo goes to the toy department on the 48th floor, and she goes to 59th floor.
The elevator reached the 29th floor, the door opened, the restaurant was clean and bright, and the sound of electricity could be heard in the air.The two welcoming ladies stood at the door of the restaurant and bowed to them: "Welcome." They said it again in English and Japanese.
"There is a new batch of fakes." Zheng Zheng said to Zhang Luotuo in a low voice. "The previous fakes had pinker hair and redder lipstick than this one." Zhang Luotuo narrowed his eyes, but he didn't see it.
Zheng Zheng sighed: "If you face a lot of parts every day, you will see it."
Zhang Luotuo knew what she meant. He shrugged and said with a smile, "But you are training a new generation of imitation idol Li Xiangxiang. Be happy." Pink hair draped over her shoulders, waiting for them to go through the door.
Li Xiangxiang is the first imitation idol recently created by Eleven Company. The company hopes that she can become a blockbuster in the market and beat the California girls.What Zheng Zheng is responsible for is to train her thinking, so that her reactions can be closer to human beings, and she can become a qualified imitation idol.Zheng Zheng had said this to Zhang Luotuo before, and she was distressed by Li Xiangxiang's condition at first.She said that Li Xiangxiang is too much like an imitation person, thinking training is like facing a stone.
Zheng Zheng made a face at him to show his disapproval, and walked into the restaurant first.
They picked the middle spot.It was a tall doll with wheat-colored skin and large eyes with a black number at the end of the eyes clearly visible: K-105. "What do you order?" she asked mechanically.Zhang Luotuo said, "A basket of buns, thank you."
Zheng Zheng didn't even think about it: "I want to lose weight, and I want a glass of tomato juice." The imitation man wrote it down and walked towards the kitchen.
Zheng Zheng pinched his waist and complained to Zhang Luotuo: "I've gained a little weight recently, and I'm wondering if I should buy some smart vitamins to control my intake when I eat."
"You're not fat." Zhang Luotuo said sincerely.
Zheng Zheng turned a blind eye to his comfort, she stood up distressed, with a clear goal: "I'm going to the toilet. I heard that emptying the stomach before going to the toilet is good for increasing satiety."
Zheng Zheng walked away, and now only Zhang Luotuo was left at the table.He circled around. Today is Tuesday, a working day, and there are many people.Many office workers like him sit and order food, and some eat while watching TV. "Sweet Life" is playing on TV, an old movie of the last century that was fortunately preserved after the destruction of the old world. In the upper class of the smart age, when Chongqing was founded, it was often used as a nostalgic product, but now it only has the role of a movie in the eyes of many new people.Zhang Luotuo stared at the TV screen, and an officer inside repeated a sentence: "It is impossible for a person to not have a long memory." Zhang Luotuo has heard this line many times.
The lines flowed quietly in the restaurant, everyone was sitting at the table, only the waiters were busy shuttling back and forth under the dim light, they had numbers on the end of their eyes, k-323, k-464, obviously, they were all imitation people .The one closest to Zhang Luotuo is a green-haired doll. Her skin is wheat-colored and she looks human, but everyone knows she is not. She has no facial expressions and makes the sound of a machine running when she walks.
Imitation humans are the flagship product of Eleven Company. They look similar to humans, but they are not humans and have no thoughts and feelings. Most of them follow human instructions and serve as waiters in restaurants and railways to relieve the pressure of human life.I heard that Eleven has been producing fake humans since at least [-].At least that's what Zheng Zheng said.Zheng Zheng doesn't like the fake human department. She prefers the toy department. She thinks the fake human department is too depressing. She always wants to resign, but she doesn't know where else to go. Eleven Company is the largest company in Chongqing. "I have nowhere to go. This situation is like asking me to choose between gaining five kilograms and ten kilograms." Zheng Zheng said.
There was a rattling sound from the bag, and then something overturned, as if Mao Mao had fallen out of the bag.Zhang Luotuo thought it was trying to catch its breath, and stayed in the bag all the time, perhaps not feeling well. "Do you want to come out?" He lowered his head and asked softly.Before he finished speaking, he suddenly smelled a faint forest smell.Zhang Luotuo's first reaction was that the imitation man walked by, but it was obvious that the imitation man was not smart enough to spray perfume.And he is very familiar with this smell.
He looked up.
Joad stood in front of him, meeting his eyes.He was wearing a suit, his face was meticulously sculpted, and his high bridge of nose was stained white by the lighting.His eyes were mechanical and indifferent gray. Zhang Luotuo looked into it, as if seeing a spaceship hidden in the fog passing by outside the company.
"Wang!" A weak cry came from Joad's palm, and Zhang Luotuo lowered his head.He was very familiar with it, it was Mao Mao's cry, when did it run into Joad's hands?Or did Joad catch it?
"Your bird just rolled out of the bag and almost fell to the ground." Joad spread his palms and said indifferently. Mao Mao was in the middle of his palm, with pink hair and metallic eyes. It poked its head four times. Looking down.
Maomao felt uneasy under the light and the gaze of the two of them. This place was too bright for him, and he liked darkness and warmth.It was in Joad's hand, rolling its eyes around, trying to find a perch.Immediately he took aim at a spot that looked warm and damp with no light.It moved there without thinking.Zhang Luotuo's heart skipped a beat—the wrong place, it chose Joad's cuff.
Joad knocked on the table: "I didn't hear it wrong, it just barked like a dog, a typical system disorder. Are you going to throw this thing away?" He didn't notice Mao Mao's move, his tone was normal, and he looked at Zhang Camel .
Zhang Luotuo shook his head. He glanced at Mao Mao and replied absently: "No, I just want to fix it. But I'm missing a part. My apartment doesn't have it. The company has it." Mao Mao is now getting closer to Joe Joad's sleeve, its pink fur clung to Joad's hand like his home.Joad noticed Zhang Luotuo's gaze, and at the same time he himself felt the heat from his hand, which was warm, like a not-so-hot burning crystal.He lowered his eyes, and saw that Mao Mao was trying to get into his sleeve, and now it was halfway in, and the rest of the fluff on the buttocks trembled in the cold air of the restaurant, and his throat let out a feeble cry.
Zhang Luotuo said awkwardly: "I'll take it out right away." He said.reach out.He was a little afraid that Joad would throw Fluffy in the trash.Joad didn't speak, he looked down at the cuffs, his mouth was tightly pursed, obviously very uncomfortable with Mao Mao's actions, but he didn't pull Mao Mao out, maybe because he thought it was dirty.
Zhang Luotuo stretched out his hand, trying to grab Maomao to relieve the awkward atmosphere in front of him.But it was not easy, two-thirds of Momo's body got into Joad's sleeve.It barked softly again, but this time it was overshadowed by the imitation man's "welcome" sound, and someone came to the restaurant again.Zhang Luotuo heard the conversation coming from the other end of the elevator. The voice of the speaker was loud, like a ship occupying the entire port at once.
"This place is dirty." It was a female voice, complaining about the uncleanliness of the restaurant, accompanied by the sharp friction of shoes on the ground, coming here, as if she was an upper-class person who had to fall here.Zhang Luotuo was very familiar with this voice, he raised his head, and there was a familiar figure a few meters away—the person who was complaining was Zhao Yi, the golden ring on her nostrils was shining, and her head was held high, like the people here treating her Not as good as the gum she chewed in her mouth.Behind her is Lu Xing.Zhang Luotuo remembered.They all come from the management department, which is the same department as Joad.
They walked in, their eyes swept and inspected the dining room, and then stopped at Zhang Luotuo.Walk towards his table.
The golden ring on Zhao Yi's nose stopped beside Zhang Luotuo, and the voice passed quickly, Zhang Luotuo could smell the strong mango perfume on her body.
She raised her neck, crossed her arms, and asked in a companion's tone: "Have you checked the restaurant yet? There is a meeting, and you are the only one missing."
Of course, this sentence was not addressed to Zhang Luotuo.After she finished speaking, she looked at Joad and frowned.
An imitation person came out of the kitchen, walked to her side, and was about to pass her by. Zhao Yi noticed it, and quickly avoided it, showing a look of contempt.
"The dummies here are slow and dirty," she said with hostility, within earshot of nearly everyone in the restaurant.But the avatar she dodged paid no heed to the insult.The dummy does not have the function of anger, and she continues to deliver food according to the original route.
Lu Xing, who was following her, also came up, but he didn't comment on Zhao Yi's words.He shrugged directly at Joad, and said calmly, "Let's go, we're going to be late, and the others are still waiting for our meeting." His eye sockets are deep, and he looks friendly but mysterious, and no one knows what he's thinking What.
Joad nodded, then he turned his head slightly and glanced at Zhang Luotuo, as if he wanted to say something.Zhang Luotuo noticed that he turned his head away, but Joad had already turned his head, and he left Zhang Luotuo his side face, cold, proud, and dismissive of others.Zhang Luotuo didn't have time to think about the reason for that look, he was still thinking about his little bird, he wanted to get it back, he said, "Joe De—"
Zhao Yi turned her head sharply, and she looked at Qiao De incredulously, her eyes were suspicious, and her golden nose ring was icy cold.Zhang Luotuo knew why, she thought that except for the people in the management department, no one was qualified to speak to them directly.Zhang Luotuo's "Joe De" violated her rules, and she was always sensitive to these, like a cleaning imitator to hair that fell on the floor in the bathroom.
"Let's go." She moved back, trying to stay as far away from Zhang Luotuo as possible to avoid infecting what she thought was bacteria, she waved to Joad, "The meeting is about to start, you know what we have to discuss." After finishing speaking She just walked towards the door without even waiting for Lu Xing, she couldn't wait to escape from here.
Joad and Lu Xing looked at each other.Lu Xing shrugged at him.It seemed to be saying: "You know her temper." Joad lifted his body slightly from the table against which he was leaning, and the conversation ended. He wanted to leave the restaurant and go to the important meeting they said.A dog barking sounded from his cuff as he moved up and down, it was the sound of Mao Mao.
Zhang Luotuo seemed to wake up from a dream, and cut in line from the conversation of these people: "Sorry, my little bird..."
Joad stopped walking as if he remembered this incident.Zhang Luotuo heaved a sigh of relief, he noticed that Mao Mao's butt could no longer be seen from Joad's cuff.But he found that Joad didn't seem to have the intention of handing Maomao to him. Joad's hands were behind his back, motionless, and half of his face was immersed in the shadow of the lamp.
"Sorry?..." Zhang Luotuo said, frowning, his worries arose spontaneously.Did Joad try to throw Fluffy away?He remembered that he had done it.A year ago, a female employee brought the robot pet without permission, and Qiao De ignored her request and threw it directly into the decomposition plant.
Joad's eyes glanced at his clenched fist, and his voice could not detect any emotion: "The part you want, I will give it to you after get off work, and you wait for me in the coffee shop." Zhang Luotuo was stunned.After Joad finished speaking, he continued to move forward, followed Lu Xing, and left the restaurant without looking back amidst the voices of "Thank you for coming" one after another.
When Zheng Zheng came back, he just saw Qiao De's back arriving at the door. The glass door separated the inside and the outside, and a light and shadow shrouded in rain was projected on the arm of the imitation.She stumbled over, her body trembling from taking too much vitamin medicine: "Why is he here?" She asked Zhang Luotuo in doubt, and cast a blank glance at the slowly closing elevator, Joad's face gradually disappeared in the silver elevator . "It's annoying that he's still so domineering," she said.
The imitator brought up the dishes, and Zheng Zheng smiled at her to thank her, picked up the tomato juice, took a sip, took a breath, leaned on the chair, relieved the dizziness caused by excessive weight loss, and said, "Except for the imitation The people department, the one I hate the most is the management department. They make me feel like..."
She thought about it, and said with a playful smile, "If I will become this kind of person in the future, I might as well be a counterfeit person."
The bird usually barks, but today it is different from the past. It is barking as a dog, not a bird, just like it is a puppy.Zhang Luotuo patiently squatted down and held the bird in his palm. The bird weighed only [-] grams, which was as light as an egg. Zhang Luotuo opened his pink feathers and found that the indicator light on its right abdomen turned red, which means There was something wrong with its parts and needed to be repaired, so Zhang Luotuo decided to take it for repairs and put it in a bag.The bird chirped softly, and then the light turned blue, indicating that it was scared and thought it was going to be thrown in the trash.Zhang Luotuo lowered his head and said softly to it: "I'm just taking you to see a doctor, don't be afraid." The little bird trusted him, and Zhang Luotuo would not lie.So it spread its wings obediently and lay in the bag, revealing its pink belly.
Zhang Luotuo went downstairs with the bag. At 46:96, he took the elevator to the [-]th floor, entered the parking lot, boarded his spaceship, carefully put the bag on the co-pilot, and then started the spaceship.The spaceship vibrated and roared, and the roar was very noisy.It's an old model and should have been sitting in the junkyard for maintenance to get rid of.But Zhang Luotuo likes it, just like his little bird.It never occurred to him to buy a new one and throw it in a mechanical breakdown plant.
The spaceship rose and headed for the foggy sky.The weather in Chongqing is always like this, either rainy or cloudy. Zhang Luotuo can’t remember what the night sky and clear sky look like. He has read about the black velvet sky in books, but he can’t imagine it. The sky is very gray, or Because of the neon lights of the city, there is a little pink in the silver.He glanced at the artificial navigator next to the steering wheel. Its case was black and heavy. He pressed the switch button of the artificial navigator. Jumped out, the music played, and after the music ended, the blue frame disappeared, replaced by a pleasant male voice: "Good morning."
Zhang Luotuo's voice was light: "Good morning, Ah Mei, how's the weather today?"
But before he could answer, he encountered a cumulus cloud and gray fog in front of him. He carefully manipulated the spaceship, and the spaceship slid in smoothly. The male voice flickered and disappeared.The surroundings were heavy, like a polluted snow field, Zhang Luotuo carefully maneuvered to avoid hitting other spaceships in the fog. Five minutes later, the gray fog gradually disappeared, and the Yuzhong District of Nuoda flashed a thousand meters below, which was the trace of the city. Above a thousand meters, tens of thousands of spaceships could be seen galloping in it, leaving behind a silver fog.Zhang Luotuo drove towards the center of the city. As he descended, there was only the sound of rain. After 5 minute, there was a buzzing sound like a fly, and the blue frame jumped out again, and Ah Coal's voice was full of guilt: "Sorry, I just lost the signal here." He said full of melancholy, "I'm getting more and more It doesn't fit the times."
Zhang Luotuo shook his head and comforted Ah Mei: "You are still the best navigator I have ever seen."
Amei is an electronic navigator, which was produced a long time ago, but Amei doesn't like this statement, and Zhang Luotuo never mentioned it.Zhang Luotuo was not the first owner of Ah Mei. Ah Mei said that it was made by a scientist in the era when artificial intelligence had just developed.It is the first batch of smart navigators that can think independently, provide weather information, and simply chat and talk with humans.Its birth represents a big step in human progress.Then it was put into the market and entered the arms of the first owner, and then the second navigator was born, which was more powerful than it, and could sense emotions and control the spaceship. Its owner never used it again until later. It goes to the decomposition plant.Then came Zhang Luotuo and its story, he picked it up and repaired it.
Ah Mei didn't understand why Zhang Luotuo chose it, because there are countless navigators in this world.So it asked him.Zhang Luotuo said that he lives alone in the apartment, has no friends, and is lonely.Ah Mei asked Zhang Luotuo, why didn't he find a boyfriend or girlfriend?Zhang Luotuo shook his head frankly, and said with a smile, I don't have anyone I love yet, which is beyond Ah Mei's comprehension. What is love?Is it like weather?Is it like the Milky Way?It didn't know, so it had to change the subject, pretending that it wasn't ignorance, but just not interested.
Ah Coal quickly adjusted its mood. It is a good navigator, not inferior to the latest model: "It is about to land at the Yuzhong District shipyard and arrive at Eleven Company." It said, using the most professional tone, imitating the latest model of navigation instrument.
They entered the central city, the signal in the central city was stable, and countless flying boats passed by Zhang Luotuo.Eight o'clock is the rush hour, and everyone is afraid of being late.The little bird heard the movement, sneaked out of the bag, and looked at everything by the window, hoping to find one of its kind, but it only saw endless spaceships.Some airships are new and shiny silver, while others are very old and look like squids on the bottom of the sea, black and sinking.Countless lights and neon lights flashed across, and a huge advertising image rose in the rain: "Buy a bottle of soda..."
The spaceship slanted to □□ and began to land, circling around the parking lot.Zhang Luotuo aimed at a position, slid towards it smoothly, stopped the spaceship like the pilot in the advertisement, and then braked the ship.
It's always raining in Canterlot.Zhang Luotuo turned off the engine and decided not to take the umbrella. He hugged the bag containing the bird to his chest and carefully got off the spaceship.Ah Mei said goodbye to him before disappearing: "Good work!"
Zhang Luotuo smiled and waved to Ah Mei: "See you tonight!"
Zhang Luotuo works for Eleven Company, and the place where he parks is the open-air parking lot of Eleven Company.Eleven Company is a large company that produces many things. Zhang Luotuo's toy department produces toys, such as sheep, birds, penguins, and so on.These toys are sold to lonely singles, urban people who live alone in apartments, live alone, and watch TV alone at night.Zhang Luotuo's bird toy is produced here, model 1000. There are also peacocks and rhinos at the same time, but everyone loves birds.For a while the little bird was selling so well that everyone had one and they called it the pink bird because it was pink from head to belly.But Zhang Luotuo didn't call it Pink Bird, he named it Mao Mao.
The company is in front of Zhang Luotuo. It is very tall and is a landmark building in the city center. Its exterior is composed of [-] pieces of glass, which looks huge, like a Japanese samurai armor.The glass is opaque, and it is equipped with equipment for the convenience of placing various advertisements. It looks light blue, like a huge swimming pool.Now a soda commercial is being broadcast, and a girl in an orange skirt jumps out of the glass. She is as tall as this building, and looks like a real person, but if you look closely, you can see the glass behind her, and she is just a projected image.She shows off her orange soda to the city with a sweet and divine smile. "Fresh-squeezed soda, your best choice." The rain slid down her face, her voice was so gentle that it spread throughout the city, even a spaceship a kilometer away could hear her whisper.
Zhang Luotuo is also attracted by her, she is very beautiful.He licked his lips, feeling a little thirsty, maybe after get off work, he would also buy a bottle of soda.
"Camels!" came a sudden shout from behind.Zhang Luotuo turned his head and saw a girl waving at him.Zhang Luotuo had been staring at the ad just now and didn't see her.The girl grinned at him like soda, and she wore orange lipstick, which looked bright on the rainy day.
"Zheng Zheng!" Zhang Luotuo said.Stride towards her, she's his friend, they both used to work in the toy department.
Zheng Zheng looked down at the camel's paper bag, and Maomao looked at her: "Are you finally going to change one?" She tried to poke its head with her finger, but Maomao avoided it and pointed her butt at her.
Zhang Luotuo shook his head: "No, I want to have it repaired by the bird toy department. One of its parts is broken."
Zheng Zheng folded his arms, frowned and said: "You are too nostalgic, if all the buyers are like you, the company must have disappeared." She is not exaggerating.Two years ago, they bought a model 1000 toy together, Zhang Luotuo bought a pink bird, Zheng Zheng’s was a penguin, a week later, Zheng Zheng’s penguin was replaced by a peacock, and Zhang Luotuo’s bird remained until now, shining, Brand new.
They walked to the elevator.The parking lot is on the 21st floor, and there is an open-air elevator to provide up and down.Zheng Zheng pressed the button on the 29th floor.She works in the anthropomorphic department, on the ninth floor, and she should go up, but she usually goes to the restaurant on the 29th floor with Zhang Luotuo to have breakfast, and then the two go up together. Zhang Luotuo goes to the toy department on the 48th floor, and she goes to 59th floor.
The elevator reached the 29th floor, the door opened, the restaurant was clean and bright, and the sound of electricity could be heard in the air.The two welcoming ladies stood at the door of the restaurant and bowed to them: "Welcome." They said it again in English and Japanese.
"There is a new batch of fakes." Zheng Zheng said to Zhang Luotuo in a low voice. "The previous fakes had pinker hair and redder lipstick than this one." Zhang Luotuo narrowed his eyes, but he didn't see it.
Zheng Zheng sighed: "If you face a lot of parts every day, you will see it."
Zhang Luotuo knew what she meant. He shrugged and said with a smile, "But you are training a new generation of imitation idol Li Xiangxiang. Be happy." Pink hair draped over her shoulders, waiting for them to go through the door.
Li Xiangxiang is the first imitation idol recently created by Eleven Company. The company hopes that she can become a blockbuster in the market and beat the California girls.What Zheng Zheng is responsible for is to train her thinking, so that her reactions can be closer to human beings, and she can become a qualified imitation idol.Zheng Zheng had said this to Zhang Luotuo before, and she was distressed by Li Xiangxiang's condition at first.She said that Li Xiangxiang is too much like an imitation person, thinking training is like facing a stone.
Zheng Zheng made a face at him to show his disapproval, and walked into the restaurant first.
They picked the middle spot.It was a tall doll with wheat-colored skin and large eyes with a black number at the end of the eyes clearly visible: K-105. "What do you order?" she asked mechanically.Zhang Luotuo said, "A basket of buns, thank you."
Zheng Zheng didn't even think about it: "I want to lose weight, and I want a glass of tomato juice." The imitation man wrote it down and walked towards the kitchen.
Zheng Zheng pinched his waist and complained to Zhang Luotuo: "I've gained a little weight recently, and I'm wondering if I should buy some smart vitamins to control my intake when I eat."
"You're not fat." Zhang Luotuo said sincerely.
Zheng Zheng turned a blind eye to his comfort, she stood up distressed, with a clear goal: "I'm going to the toilet. I heard that emptying the stomach before going to the toilet is good for increasing satiety."
Zheng Zheng walked away, and now only Zhang Luotuo was left at the table.He circled around. Today is Tuesday, a working day, and there are many people.Many office workers like him sit and order food, and some eat while watching TV. "Sweet Life" is playing on TV, an old movie of the last century that was fortunately preserved after the destruction of the old world. In the upper class of the smart age, when Chongqing was founded, it was often used as a nostalgic product, but now it only has the role of a movie in the eyes of many new people.Zhang Luotuo stared at the TV screen, and an officer inside repeated a sentence: "It is impossible for a person to not have a long memory." Zhang Luotuo has heard this line many times.
The lines flowed quietly in the restaurant, everyone was sitting at the table, only the waiters were busy shuttling back and forth under the dim light, they had numbers on the end of their eyes, k-323, k-464, obviously, they were all imitation people .The one closest to Zhang Luotuo is a green-haired doll. Her skin is wheat-colored and she looks human, but everyone knows she is not. She has no facial expressions and makes the sound of a machine running when she walks.
Imitation humans are the flagship product of Eleven Company. They look similar to humans, but they are not humans and have no thoughts and feelings. Most of them follow human instructions and serve as waiters in restaurants and railways to relieve the pressure of human life.I heard that Eleven has been producing fake humans since at least [-].At least that's what Zheng Zheng said.Zheng Zheng doesn't like the fake human department. She prefers the toy department. She thinks the fake human department is too depressing. She always wants to resign, but she doesn't know where else to go. Eleven Company is the largest company in Chongqing. "I have nowhere to go. This situation is like asking me to choose between gaining five kilograms and ten kilograms." Zheng Zheng said.
There was a rattling sound from the bag, and then something overturned, as if Mao Mao had fallen out of the bag.Zhang Luotuo thought it was trying to catch its breath, and stayed in the bag all the time, perhaps not feeling well. "Do you want to come out?" He lowered his head and asked softly.Before he finished speaking, he suddenly smelled a faint forest smell.Zhang Luotuo's first reaction was that the imitation man walked by, but it was obvious that the imitation man was not smart enough to spray perfume.And he is very familiar with this smell.
He looked up.
Joad stood in front of him, meeting his eyes.He was wearing a suit, his face was meticulously sculpted, and his high bridge of nose was stained white by the lighting.His eyes were mechanical and indifferent gray. Zhang Luotuo looked into it, as if seeing a spaceship hidden in the fog passing by outside the company.
"Wang!" A weak cry came from Joad's palm, and Zhang Luotuo lowered his head.He was very familiar with it, it was Mao Mao's cry, when did it run into Joad's hands?Or did Joad catch it?
"Your bird just rolled out of the bag and almost fell to the ground." Joad spread his palms and said indifferently. Mao Mao was in the middle of his palm, with pink hair and metallic eyes. It poked its head four times. Looking down.
Maomao felt uneasy under the light and the gaze of the two of them. This place was too bright for him, and he liked darkness and warmth.It was in Joad's hand, rolling its eyes around, trying to find a perch.Immediately he took aim at a spot that looked warm and damp with no light.It moved there without thinking.Zhang Luotuo's heart skipped a beat—the wrong place, it chose Joad's cuff.
Joad knocked on the table: "I didn't hear it wrong, it just barked like a dog, a typical system disorder. Are you going to throw this thing away?" He didn't notice Mao Mao's move, his tone was normal, and he looked at Zhang Camel .
Zhang Luotuo shook his head. He glanced at Mao Mao and replied absently: "No, I just want to fix it. But I'm missing a part. My apartment doesn't have it. The company has it." Mao Mao is now getting closer to Joe Joad's sleeve, its pink fur clung to Joad's hand like his home.Joad noticed Zhang Luotuo's gaze, and at the same time he himself felt the heat from his hand, which was warm, like a not-so-hot burning crystal.He lowered his eyes, and saw that Mao Mao was trying to get into his sleeve, and now it was halfway in, and the rest of the fluff on the buttocks trembled in the cold air of the restaurant, and his throat let out a feeble cry.
Zhang Luotuo said awkwardly: "I'll take it out right away." He said.reach out.He was a little afraid that Joad would throw Fluffy in the trash.Joad didn't speak, he looked down at the cuffs, his mouth was tightly pursed, obviously very uncomfortable with Mao Mao's actions, but he didn't pull Mao Mao out, maybe because he thought it was dirty.
Zhang Luotuo stretched out his hand, trying to grab Maomao to relieve the awkward atmosphere in front of him.But it was not easy, two-thirds of Momo's body got into Joad's sleeve.It barked softly again, but this time it was overshadowed by the imitation man's "welcome" sound, and someone came to the restaurant again.Zhang Luotuo heard the conversation coming from the other end of the elevator. The voice of the speaker was loud, like a ship occupying the entire port at once.
"This place is dirty." It was a female voice, complaining about the uncleanliness of the restaurant, accompanied by the sharp friction of shoes on the ground, coming here, as if she was an upper-class person who had to fall here.Zhang Luotuo was very familiar with this voice, he raised his head, and there was a familiar figure a few meters away—the person who was complaining was Zhao Yi, the golden ring on her nostrils was shining, and her head was held high, like the people here treating her Not as good as the gum she chewed in her mouth.Behind her is Lu Xing.Zhang Luotuo remembered.They all come from the management department, which is the same department as Joad.
They walked in, their eyes swept and inspected the dining room, and then stopped at Zhang Luotuo.Walk towards his table.
The golden ring on Zhao Yi's nose stopped beside Zhang Luotuo, and the voice passed quickly, Zhang Luotuo could smell the strong mango perfume on her body.
She raised her neck, crossed her arms, and asked in a companion's tone: "Have you checked the restaurant yet? There is a meeting, and you are the only one missing."
Of course, this sentence was not addressed to Zhang Luotuo.After she finished speaking, she looked at Joad and frowned.
An imitation person came out of the kitchen, walked to her side, and was about to pass her by. Zhao Yi noticed it, and quickly avoided it, showing a look of contempt.
"The dummies here are slow and dirty," she said with hostility, within earshot of nearly everyone in the restaurant.But the avatar she dodged paid no heed to the insult.The dummy does not have the function of anger, and she continues to deliver food according to the original route.
Lu Xing, who was following her, also came up, but he didn't comment on Zhao Yi's words.He shrugged directly at Joad, and said calmly, "Let's go, we're going to be late, and the others are still waiting for our meeting." His eye sockets are deep, and he looks friendly but mysterious, and no one knows what he's thinking What.
Joad nodded, then he turned his head slightly and glanced at Zhang Luotuo, as if he wanted to say something.Zhang Luotuo noticed that he turned his head away, but Joad had already turned his head, and he left Zhang Luotuo his side face, cold, proud, and dismissive of others.Zhang Luotuo didn't have time to think about the reason for that look, he was still thinking about his little bird, he wanted to get it back, he said, "Joe De—"
Zhao Yi turned her head sharply, and she looked at Qiao De incredulously, her eyes were suspicious, and her golden nose ring was icy cold.Zhang Luotuo knew why, she thought that except for the people in the management department, no one was qualified to speak to them directly.Zhang Luotuo's "Joe De" violated her rules, and she was always sensitive to these, like a cleaning imitator to hair that fell on the floor in the bathroom.
"Let's go." She moved back, trying to stay as far away from Zhang Luotuo as possible to avoid infecting what she thought was bacteria, she waved to Joad, "The meeting is about to start, you know what we have to discuss." After finishing speaking She just walked towards the door without even waiting for Lu Xing, she couldn't wait to escape from here.
Joad and Lu Xing looked at each other.Lu Xing shrugged at him.It seemed to be saying: "You know her temper." Joad lifted his body slightly from the table against which he was leaning, and the conversation ended. He wanted to leave the restaurant and go to the important meeting they said.A dog barking sounded from his cuff as he moved up and down, it was the sound of Mao Mao.
Zhang Luotuo seemed to wake up from a dream, and cut in line from the conversation of these people: "Sorry, my little bird..."
Joad stopped walking as if he remembered this incident.Zhang Luotuo heaved a sigh of relief, he noticed that Mao Mao's butt could no longer be seen from Joad's cuff.But he found that Joad didn't seem to have the intention of handing Maomao to him. Joad's hands were behind his back, motionless, and half of his face was immersed in the shadow of the lamp.
"Sorry?..." Zhang Luotuo said, frowning, his worries arose spontaneously.Did Joad try to throw Fluffy away?He remembered that he had done it.A year ago, a female employee brought the robot pet without permission, and Qiao De ignored her request and threw it directly into the decomposition plant.
Joad's eyes glanced at his clenched fist, and his voice could not detect any emotion: "The part you want, I will give it to you after get off work, and you wait for me in the coffee shop." Zhang Luotuo was stunned.After Joad finished speaking, he continued to move forward, followed Lu Xing, and left the restaurant without looking back amidst the voices of "Thank you for coming" one after another.
When Zheng Zheng came back, he just saw Qiao De's back arriving at the door. The glass door separated the inside and the outside, and a light and shadow shrouded in rain was projected on the arm of the imitation.She stumbled over, her body trembling from taking too much vitamin medicine: "Why is he here?" She asked Zhang Luotuo in doubt, and cast a blank glance at the slowly closing elevator, Joad's face gradually disappeared in the silver elevator . "It's annoying that he's still so domineering," she said.
The imitator brought up the dishes, and Zheng Zheng smiled at her to thank her, picked up the tomato juice, took a sip, took a breath, leaned on the chair, relieved the dizziness caused by excessive weight loss, and said, "Except for the imitation The people department, the one I hate the most is the management department. They make me feel like..."
She thought about it, and said with a playful smile, "If I will become this kind of person in the future, I might as well be a counterfeit person."
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