When the law of conservation of isolation is broken

Joad turned his head, his gray eyes fell on Zhang Luotuo and his manager, he frowned in surprise, Zhang Luotuo's appearance obviously caught him by surprise: "What are you doing here?"

"Mr. Qiao, do you know each other?" the agent asked behind them.He looked very nervous as he tucked his arm around his chest.

Zhang Luotuo explained to Qiao De uneasily: "I came to the concert, but he asked me to come here, saying that Li Xiangxiang wanted to see me during the intermission." He noticed that Qiao De's confusion flashed by, and he shrugged Shrugged to show that he didn't know why.

And this is also the question that Zhang Luotuo wants to ask Joad-why is Joad here?He looks like he's been here a long time.

But before Zhang Luotuo could open his mouth, Maomao poked his head out of his pocket. Hearing Joad's voice, he jumped up impatiently. Zhang Luotuo heard a "chirp", and it was like a pink fireball, electronically The dart flew into Joad's arms like a bull's-eye.

"Be careful." Joad caught it from the air.He froze momentarily as Fluffy jumped at him, but got over it in no time.His tone was dry, as if he didn't care, but his movements of stroking the pink fluff were very gentle.

He raised his head, as if he saw Zhang Luotuo's question, and said casually: "I, Zhao Yi and Lu Xing are here to check on Li Xiangxiang's first stage."

Zhang Luotuo didn't expect that he would take the initiative to answer. His chest was hit slightly by this, but a cloud of suspicion immediately replaced the vibration instinctively.Qiao De didn't mention Fan Liu, Zhang Luotuo quickly glanced around, the dressing room was empty, except for Qiao De.Fan Liu was obviously not in this dressing room.

The sound of rushing electricity occupied the space non-stop, and the silence came suddenly. The manager was among them, looking around nervously, as if trying to find something.

Zhang Luotuo thought for a while, cleared his throat, and decided to ask something else.

"……you……"

"……you……"

The voices overlapped, and they spoke at the same time.Joad looked up, the last word had just escaped his mouth. The word "you" floated between them, and they were all stunned.Joad looked away unnaturally and shrugged lightly.Zhang Luotuo laughed, he opened his mouth and decided to say it again.

Suddenly a loud sound erupted at the door, like a firework erupting at night, which covered up Zhang Luotuo's questioning again.It was the knocking sound of high heels approaching rapidly, accompanied by the sound of heavy sequins hitting the skin, like a silver diamond.The sound made the manager wake up as if from sleepwalking. He straightened up suddenly, adjusted the Bluetooth headset, and hurried to the door, as if he wanted to go out.

"Don't move around." He told Zhang Luotuo.But before he could go out, just as he opened the door, a silver whirlwind suddenly passed by him and entered the dressing room.Before Zhang Luotuo could see clearly, the whirlwind had stopped in front of him, Zhang Luotuo instinctively took a step back, his eyes reflected the face of the "silver whirlwind", he had just looked up at her, but now she was in front of him.

"Didn't she come?" she said, out of breath.That silver whirlwind was Li Xiangxiang, wearing a silver wig and a sequined dress, and she looked like she had just dashed from the intermission stage.

"What?" Zhang Luotuo asked instinctively.He was taken aback, but he had to say that Li Xiangxiang was a masterpiece of humanity, she looked flawless.Zhang Luotuo noticed that she was a little different from the stage, she looked a little anxious, as if tears could flow down at any time.

"What?" he asked again, not understanding what was going on.

"I mean Zheng Zheng, isn't Zheng Zheng coming here?" She took a step back, shaking her head slightly, not looking good.

"Mr. Joad, so you are here too." She looked at Joad, as if she had just noticed him.Qiao De stood behind Zhang Luotuo the moment Li Xiangxiang rushed over, with one hand resting on Zhang Luotuo's shoulder vigilantly, with an extremely indifferent expression.

"Zheng Zheng said she didn't want to come to the concert, so she gave me the ticket." Zhang Luotuo replied hesitantly, and he couldn't help but look back at Qiao De.Tonight is like a giant maze, and the events that happened are like a fairy tale, he almost suspects that he is in a hallucination again.

Li Xiangxiang noticed Zhang Luotuo's expression. "Sorry, I didn't force you." Her voice softened, apparently her emotional sensor sensed Zhang Luotuo's bewilderment.

She turned around and closed the door, the sequins all over her body flashed as she turned around.When she turned her head, her anxious expression had been readjusted to a flawless happiness, just like the invincible Li Xiangxiang on the stage.

"I thought she'd come," she said, a little wistfully. "Can you buy me a bottle of wine from outside?" This time she was talking to the agent, who was already petrified, and stood aside coweringly, his movements trembling, for fear that Li Xiangxiang would notice him.Li Xiangxiang's order made him feel relieved.

"Okay." He said awkwardly, his voice was very soft, as if he was talking to a porcelain doll, he walked out the door as if he was relieved, leaving behind a slight knock.

"Do you know Zheng Zheng?" Zhang Luotuo frowned, and couldn't help saying that Li Xiangxiang's question made his tongue numb slightly.

He thought about it, and felt that something was wrong. He shouldn't have asked, "Do you remember her?" He changed the question, "I thought..." he said.

He knew Li Xiangxiang's creative process.The android department creates her, gives her a perfect shape, installs the necessary emotional sensors for an android, and then enters programs and codes like other androids.But that is far from enough. Creating an imitation human idol requires more magical powers. Zhang Luotuo heard from Zheng Zheng that they need to train Li Xiangxiang's talking and searching abilities through talking and asking questions, so that her reactions are closer to humans. Until she performs well enough to make her debut.Then they will clear all her memories of them so that she can serve mankind wholeheartedly. It stands to reason that Li Xiangxiang should not remember Zheng Zheng.

"That's why I'm here." Joad's voice sounded cold, and his fingertips tapped Zhang Luotuo's shoulder lightly.Zhang Luotuo looked back at him. He frowned, but still looked at Li Xiangxiang, "Your abnormal behavior this month has been sent back to the company by text message."

Li Xiangxiang walked to the mirror and fiddled with the crooked earrings.She didn't care about what Qiao De said: "I know what you and other people are doing this time, A Bing has already told me. In the name of the company, take me back to the company after the concert and let me be an emotional sensor Empty the operation, so that I can be stable for at least two or three months. Anyway, you will not send me to the mechanical decomposition plant, I am your cash cow, and it will take too much effort for you to create a fake human like me. "

She grabbed a pack of "Blue Cableway" cigarettes on the table and took out one. Noticing Zhang Luotuo's bewildered expression, she smiled: "You must not be an imitation of the Ministry of Human Resources from Eleven Company. You look like nothing." Know."

She noticed Joad's suspicious look, and narrowed her eyes at him: "Don't worry, I will inject the medicine after the concert and go back to the company with you. I just want to talk to him to relieve boredom." Her expression was so sincere that it was impossible to see other meanings.Qiao De frowned, but the "money cow" was probably right. He didn't step forward to suppress Li Xiangxiang, but acquiesced to her to continue the conversation.

Zhang Luotuo thought for a while and denied it: "I didn't imitate the Human Ministry, but Zheng Zheng told me some things about the imitation of the Human Ministry, but she didn't mention it to me much..." He suddenly stopped, Did not go on.He remembered that Zheng Zheng had complained to him countless times about the distress of working overtime and some annoying things, but she hardly mentioned Li Xiangxiang.

But Li Xiangxiang seems to have understood the answer to this mystery long ago. She played with the cigarette in her hand and raised her head indifferently: "Didn't you mention me? I guess so." She said, sighed, and her tone was calm, "But I thought she was coming to my concert tonight, I thought she was like that, you know, when she was talking to me in the fake department."

"Do you have a good relationship with Zheng Zheng?" Zhang Luotuo asked involuntarily.Joad's proximity reassured him.Confusion bubbled up from under the cloak of fear and bewilderment.

"It was fine for a while—before I confused her too much. But then it got worse." Li Xiangxiang lit a cigarette and put it in her lips.This surprised Zhang Luotuo, he thought that imitation people don't eat grains, maybe idols are an exception.

Smoke jetted out from Li Xiangxiang's lips, and it looked very thick under the light, like the milky white exhaust of spaceships in the city center.

"Confused?" Zhang Luotuo was even more confused. It was hard for him to imagine that Zheng Zheng would be confused. She was always full of energy and would not be convinced by anyone, let alone a fledgling impersonator.

Li Xiangxiang smiled and looked flawless: "I confused her, does that sound like a lot of crap, doesn't it? I guess you wouldn't believe it. So let me tell you, in fact, at first she did it to me She certainly didn't believe it when she was training her mind."

She paused: "You know...?"

Zhang Luotuo understood what she meant, and nodded: "I know, thinking training is to prevent artificial people from sitting in a room with human beings to talk, so as to train the thinking of imitation people."

Li Xiangxiang smiled with satisfaction: "I don't need to explain. Anyway, you know she is responsible for training my mind. Like you said——she won't be confused, because I was like a baby at that time, and I didn't know anything. I don’t understand, and she even taught me the language word by word. But then I evolved too fast, and my ability to digest and think is like an elephant.”

She paused. "I guess that's why she's confused?"

Zhang Luotuo didn't realize that this had anything to do with Zheng Zheng's confusion. He shook his head: "You're making rapid progress, shouldn't she be happy? Because this is what Eleven Company wanted, and she also successfully completed the work... "

Li Xiangxiang nodded thoughtfully: "I guess she was very happy at first, because she was very serious to me, even overly responsible, always asking me what I think, what do I think, and quickly turned me into a thinking imitation Man, god knows I couldn't even understand what 'think' meant at first, because she made me try to think - frankly it was hard, getting off the tide of the internet, copying myself out of thin air, falling, falling, trying again. So I could tell when I started asking a question that I had come up with, like: How tall is the building? How wide is the street? How does math work? She seemed so happy, but there are limits to everything. "

Zhang Luotuo frowned and said tentatively, "Boundary?"

Li Xiangxiang made a negative gesture and smiled, but Zhang Luotuo could tell that the smile was not sincere: "They hope that my questions are within a certain limit, not to deviate from the essence of idols, but I think more and more , The thinking became more and more biased, and finally the question deviated from their planned path, and it was beyond their reach, which was terrible. For example, I always like to ask Zheng Zheng some strange questions, such as what is love? What is the meaning of living? How do you count as living?"

"Zheng Zheng will hate your question?" Zhang Luotuo couldn't help interjecting, this is not Zheng Zheng in her impression, in fact, Zheng Zheng hates the various regulations of Eleven Company, and she violates the regulations of Eleven Company not even.

"No, actually no, she was the most willing to answer among the group of people I asked, but she was also a little confused when she answered me, maybe she didn't expect me to ask these questions, and I noticed her confusion at the time, but I didn't care, and let her confusion deepen a little bit." Li Xiangxiang said, "And the answers she gave me under the confusion helped my thinking, made me think deeper, and made me think of more and more biased things. Questions, and then I kept asking her, and her confusion deepened, like an endless loop."

"But I didn't expect at the time that her confusion would continue to deepen. If this continues, one day she will finally be unable to answer my question." Li Xiangxiang exhaled the last puff of smoke between his lips and tongue, and now there is only the last puff of smoke left. Cut, it looks short, and the smoke looks like the flashing lights of a tiny spaceship.

"That's the confusion I was talking about." Li Xiangxiang said, she glanced at Zhang Luotuo, "Do you want me to tell you?"

Zhang Luotuo gestured to her to let her go. He has never heard Zheng Zheng talk about these things, not a single one. Hearing Zheng Zheng's things from other people's mouths made him feel strange and fresh .

Li Xiangxiang nodded with satisfaction, and continued: "Well, one day, I asked her a question as usual: Have I developed self-awareness in the present tense? She seemed to be stumped by me, confused, and finally, she After thinking about it for three hours, she told me she thought it was, and that was the first sign of the confusion I was talking about."

Li Xiangxiang thought for a while and said: "At that time, my emotional sensor perceived her confusion, but I didn't know why she was confused, because I thought the question was the same as I usually ask, but she spent three full hours I just answered me, I couldn't figure out why, so I spent another three days trying to figure out why she might be so confused: she was so confused, maybe she didn't expect me to ask this kind of question, because she was so confused by other people. There is no doubt about this kind of question, but she answers it openly, but why does she think that I will not ask this kind of question? ——I thought about it for a long time, and thought of a possible reason, maybe because I am different from her , I am a counterfeit, she is a human being, so she is like this. But I don't understand this, I think there is no difference between her and me except that I am a counterfeit, we all have thoughts, and face to face, talk together, discuss issues, Just like everybody else."

"And that's the confusion I was talking about. The next day, I asked her this question, what is the difference between me and her. After listening to me, her pupils dilated, and she froze in place, looking at a loss, as if someone What hit her on the head. She thought about it all afternoon, but she didn't tell me. In the end, she told me that she didn't understand it, and she would tell me when she figured it out. Then she avoided my eyes and walked straight away. I Thought she'd tell me the next day—but since then, for some reason, she hasn't been in the mind training room."

Li Xiangxiang lowered her eyes: "Since then, our relationship has faded, because she no longer came to see me, and there were a lot of people when she saw me. She stood in the crowd, far away from me, and her face looked bad—— "

Zhang Luotuo suddenly remembered that some time ago, Zheng Zheng was always depressed and seemed to be evasive. At that time, he thought it was the reason for working overtime.

"I tried to ask other people this question, but they just told me not to think too much, or just cursed: You scare me! Stop thinking about it!" Li Xiangxiang turned to look at Zhang Luotuo, peeping at him look, trying to find something out of it.

"Would you be afraid?" she said with a little malice, pointing to herself—her beautiful eyes, moving eyeballs.Those eyes are endless black, just like the eyes of the pet dog Liu Liu, bringing peace to people, but hers look even more lonely.

Zhang Luotuo thought for a while, then shook his head truthfully: "I might be surprised, but I won't be afraid." He hugged Maomao without moving his eyes, and let Li Xiangxiang spy on him. He felt that Qiao De seemed to be looking at him gently At a glance, it seemed that he was electrocuted strangely.Zhang Luotuo wanted to turn his head to look at Qiao De, but couldn't move his eyes away, because Li Xiangxiang was staring at him carefully to see if he was lying.

Then she nodded in surprise: "You didn't lie...you are not afraid, just like Zheng Zheng. She was not afraid when she heard my question at that time, but she was completely confused. I can feel it, and emotional perception tells me She wasn't scared. She was just confused and didn't know what to do, and it felt a bit like fear, so she stopped seeing me from that day on because she didn't know the answer."

She thought for a while and sighed: "I guessed that as long as you give her enough time, she will figure it out and come back to tell me the answer—and within a few days—the Department of Imitation Humans announced that I passed the test and can officially debut , took me out of the lab, and I haven't had time to see her since."

"After I made my debut, I never contacted her again, except this time I asked A Bing to give her a concert ticket." Noticing Zhang Luotuo's doubts, she pointed to the door, "A Bing is My manager, the one who went to buy wine, he looks reckless, but he is actually very nice. I thought she would either come or be absent, I didn't expect that she would let you come, Zhang Luotuo."

"You know my name?" Zhang Luotuo said in surprise, Maomao jumped from Joad's arms to his shoulders, he caught it and let it slide from his shoulders to his arms.Li Xiangxiang's words surprised him.

She smiled at him without changing her face: "She mentioned you to me." Zhang Luotuo's surprise was obviously in her expectation. "During the first few days of my thinking exercise. She was talking to me about her friends. There was you, and there was a picture of you. Although I was a baby and couldn't understand the sentences, they were so broken, like Vocabulary, but I remember this vocabulary, which is you, and I put your name and photo in my container."

"Did she ask you to bring me a message?" Li Xiangxiang asked expectantly.

Zhang Luotuo shook his head suspiciously: "No." Zheng Zheng didn't say anything.

Li Xiangxiang's expression suddenly dimmed.

Zhang Luotuo thought for a while, and felt that he had completely understood. He couldn't help but said: "So you invited Zheng Zheng to your concert this time, because you hope she can answer this question and tell you the answer? Actually, you really If you really want to know the answer, you don’t have to ask Zheng Zheng, you can also ask other people—your fans must have many answers, and you don’t have to insist that Zheng Zheng come to you.”

But Li Xiangxiang didn't answer him. She frowned slightly, put down the cigarette, threw it into the ashtray, and stared at it. She didn't speak, as if she was thinking about something.

The smoke in the air faded away, and Zhang Luotuo could see them change from solid to formless air.

After a long time, she said: "No, I sent her the ticket and wanted her to come here. What I really want to know is not the answer—even though this question is also very important to me."

Her voice trembled a little, which made Zhang Luotuo look at her involuntarily.

"...Why is that?" He asked with some doubts.

Li Xiangxiang was silent, she stared at the door unconsciously.

She rubbed her fingers uneasily, as if it wasn't hers.Zhang Luotuo thought for a moment that she would not say anything.

She took a deep breath, as if mustering all her courage.

"...she is the only existence." She said suddenly, and her voice echoed in the air.

Zhang Luotuo was stunned, he didn't understand what she meant.

Li Xiangxiang's expression looked extremely lost and lonely, and she was surrounded by great sadness, as if she was looking at the auditorium on the stage.For a split second she didn't look like a copycat.

"In the lab, she is the only one who talks to me regularly, communicates with me, asks me what I think, and corrects me when I answer wrong, like a mentor." She said, her voice is very soft, "except her, No one pays attention to me. Every night, they all get off work, the laboratory becomes empty, and I am the only one left, the program has not been turned off, lying on the experimental board to receive learning data, listening to the only remaining machines beating in the air Sound. I turned my head and saw the neon lights passing by outside the window, the spaceship was walking alone, and I felt lonely and drenched me like a rainstorm. At this time, I always let myself think about those five hours, and think about what to ask when I talk to her the next day She asks questions and jokes so I feel better and at least have someone to talk to every day."

As she spoke, her eyes wandered, her expression was stubborn and depressed, her voice was almost muttering, and she didn't seem to have any connection with the imitation idol.

"...Those lonely nights, thoughts rush out, she is the only existence, accompany me through the lonely nights."

Zhang Luotuo was stunned.But Li Xiangxiang ignored him, she was completely immersed in her own world.

After a while, she took a deep breath and looked up: "That's why I want her to come here—I want to see her, because she may be the only friend I have in my short life."

She looked at Zhang Luotuo, and perhaps at Qiao De, and smiled wryly, her black eyes shining quietly.

At this moment, even Joad, who stood motionless from the beginning to the end, pursed his lips tightly, and no one could see what he was thinking.

Zhang Luotuo looked at her and didn't know what to say for a while, he couldn't think of any words that could express his thoughts.He was infected by Li Xiangxiang's words.

"Sorry, I lost my temper and said a lot of things I shouldn't have said." Li Xiangxiang coughed, and she found the quiet atmosphere.

Zhang Luotuo quickly shook his head: "It's okay." He didn't know what she meant by loneliness, but he vaguely felt the same.

Li Xiangxiang smiled hastily at him, she turned her head to look at the extinguished cigarette, and seemed to pause: "I know, my emotional sensor tells me that you are not malicious now."

She suddenly turned her head again, opened her mouth with some embarrassment, shut her mouth again, and repeated several times before she spoke: "Since she didn't come, can you give me a sentence?"

Zhang Luotuo was stunned, and then he immediately replied sincerely, but a little clumsily: "Of course, you can tell——I will tell you."

Li Xiangxiang's eyes lit up, but before she could speak, the electronic bell next to the door jingled suddenly, indicating that the second half of the concert would start in 5 minutes.

Distant cheers kept encroaching on their space.

Li Xiangxiang hurriedly turned her head away, picked up the sequined skirt, and thought for a while: "Just tell her that she is my best friend...I love her."

But she immediately bit her lip, as if sensing something subtle, she changed her words again, "...No, just tell her I say hello to her."

Zhang Luotuo nodded solemnly, and said softly: "I will tell her."

Li Xiangxiang rallied, walked to the door, pushed the door open, and the cheers immediately became as fierce as the tide.

"I'm going to play, I hope you won't look down on me. I'm a counterfeit..." She turned her head and said softly.

"No." Zhang Luotuo smiled at her, "If Zheng Zheng is the same as you, then I am the same as you, we are no different." Mao Mao rolled on his chest, its down was slender and soft.What Zhang Luotuo said was the truth, what is the difference?For example, Ah Mei and Mao Mao, what is the difference between them and him?

Zhang Luotuo recalled the afternoon when Maomao took a nap with him, the hot weather and dull mood, it was dying on the quilt, and finally Zhang Luotuo replaced the parts for it, and it regained its usual vitality.Apart from the fact that it is a machine, it is no different from other living things.

Li Xiangxiang smiled, it was not an idol's smile, but more like a smile from the heart, the smile flashed by and was immediately replaced by a smooth expression, she said softly: "When I thought I had self-awareness, I started Smoking, I don't like the taste of it, nor the feeling it brings to people, but I think I should smoke, because smoking is conscious, and only conscious people will smoke."

"But now I've discovered that even if I'm conscious, I don't understand anything."

Her voice echoed in the room.

"Mr. Joad, after the concert, I will take the medicine and go back to the company with you."

Her back disappeared at the door like a shooting star.

Zhang Luotuo turned his head and looked at Qiao De, who hadn't spoken since just now.He lowered his head, and the contours of his face illuminated by the light were extremely clear.Zhang Luotuo thought that Qiao De was impatient, and it took too long for Li Xiangxiang to talk to him.But he immediately realized that there were other things hidden under Joad's complicated expression.He stared at something, as if he was in deep thought without feeling, some emotions flashed across his face, but it was too subtle, Zhang Luotuo couldn't recognize what it was.

"Jode?" Zhang Luotuo called out, tentatively.

A breeze came into the dressing room.