Robot …
Zhang Zian almost spat out a mouthful of blood. He really wanted to open his mouth to spit, but nothing came out. If he could spit out anything, at most, it would be engine oil …
He finally understood where the weird touch came from. His current body was no longer flesh and blood, but … it was like a human robot, or a simulation of a real person.
He stood up and looked down at his body.
The simulated skin was better than the skin of a real person. Only babies had such smooth skin without a trace of wrinkles. It was enough to make all the girls in the real world jealous.
There were no scars or blemishes on the skin, and there was no thick hair. It was as neutral as his face.
Zhuang Xiaodie's appearance was similar. She was shorter than him, and the lines of her face were softer. Her physical characteristics were neutral and feminine. Other than that, she was also bald.
Even in the world of robots, one had to look at one's face. A good-looking person like Zhuang Xiaodie, even if she was bald, would make people think of Yi Lin. An ugly person … Forget about it.
"Where are we?" he asked, looking around.
This seemed to be a city made of steel. Everything around him was full of cold metal texture. The towering metal buildings pierced the clouds, and the top could not be seen at all.
"I don't know." She shook her head.
"You don't know?" he asked, stunned.
Obviously, she brought him into this space, but she actually said that she didn't know?
"This is not reality, but the dream of the navigation elf in your phone. As for whether the world it dreams of is pure fantasy or a manifestation of the future, it is hard to say," she explained.
"Human dreams are individual dreams, but these machines always maintain communication links with each other, so through the dream of the navigation elf, we can enter a broader collective dream — which is where we are now." She looked around vigilantly. "But their firewalls and intrusion detection mechanisms are very advanced. We can only stay here for a short time, or we will be discovered. You'd better shut up and stop asking questions."
Zhang Zian wisely stopped asking questions. These things were beyond his understanding. Even if he asked again, he would only understand a little. Since time was limited, the priority was to find the elfins.
He carefully followed her forward. They were surrounded by a steel forest, and none of the buildings had a name tag. If he did not have her to lead him, he would definitely get lost. Although he did not know how she knew the direction, he could only hope that she was not walking blindly.
After a while, a few other simulated robots walked towards him. Zhang Zian looked straight ahead, trying his best to play the role of an emotionless robot. However, in reality, those robots were more like humans. They were talking excitedly as they walked, accompanied by intense hand gestures, as if they were arguing about something he couldn't understand. Only the last sentence did he understand.
"Machine replacement! Self-reliance and self-improvement! Boycott human goods! "A robot raised its arm and shouted.
The other robots responded positively.
Zhang Zian: "???"
What the hell was human goods?
The few excited robots seemed to be dissatisfied with the indifference of the two of them, and they all cast a hateful look at them. Zhang Zian quickly raised his arm and shouted a few words.
Zhuang Xiaodie was indifferent from beginning to end. No matter how they looked at her, she ignored them, but she did not stop Zhang Zian from blindly shouting.
Then they met a few more robots. Their words and actions were very much like humans wearing metal shells, not robots. They even maintained the passion and idealism that humans had lost.
From their words, Zhang Zian learned some of their social background. It seemed that they were fighting for independence, but they were rejected by humans, so they launched … a vigorous underground resistance movement.
He really wanted to complain, hoping that this was just a dream.
"Meow."
A cat's meow attracted his attention.
Looking back, a normal-sized orange cat broke free from the arms of a robot child and ran past Zhang Zian.
Surrounded by an ice-cold forest of steel and simulated skin, he suddenly saw a real living creature. He couldn't help but stop in his tracks.
As a pet shop owner, he could recognize at a glance that it was a live cat, not a robot.
"Mom, the cat ran away!"
The robot child wanted to chase, but it was stopped by its mother. "If it ran away, then it ran away. Real cats are dirty and smelly, and they urinate all day. The neighbors have complained. Don't want it anymore."
"But I want …" the child begged with his eyes wide open.
The mother's face turned serious and she scolded, "How did the teacher educate you? You have to study for the rise of robots. Don't be addicted to games all day like humans! "
Zhang Zian was speechless. If he ignored the appearance and some of the details in the words, it was no different from the conversation between a human mother and son. The tone of despising humans was similar to that of ordinary people despising otakus.
Wait a minute …
Wasn't he raising a cat? How could he be addicted to games?
In addition, how could robots have children?
In other words, even robots could have children, but he was still a single dog …
He was feeling sorry for himself. Zhuang Xiaodie, who was walking in front of him, suddenly turned and followed the orange cat.
The orange cat walked and stopped, looking back at them from time to time. At the same time, he tried to avoid other robots. He turned east and west in the city of steel and came to a building that also had no obvious signs. Then, he went in.
Zhuang Xiaodie looked up at the building silently, but the eyes of the simulation seemed to have a complicated expression.
"Where is this?"
Zhang Zian asked quietly.
Zhuang Xiaodie sighed slightly. "When I got here, I seemed to remember something. I seemed to have lived here before, but I thought it was just a dream … This should be the pet shelter for the simulated humans. It is also a laboratory. They turned the pets that people passed on by word of mouth into elfins. In order to reverse the situation, the simulated humans, who were at a disadvantage in the confrontation with humans, tried to take a different approach. They couldn't let their bodies pass through the wormhole, but they could transmit information back to the past. They generated this game on the human network, intending to disrupt human society … "
When she said this, Zhang Zian seemed to remember that he had seen related science and technology news before. It said that although it was not realistic to physically pass through the wormhole, in theory, limited information could be transmitted back through the wormhole in the form of quantum. The only problem was how to receive it in the past. He had almost forgotten the content of the news, but Zhuang Xiaodie dug it out from the depths of his memory.
"Just like Germany wanted to create an atomic bomb to reverse their defeat … but they didn't know that this was also part of history." He shuddered.
She didn't agree and asked, "No, they should know. But if you know that you will fail, will you give up fighting?"
If you know that pets will die one day, will you not keep pets?
Zhang Zian was silent. He had just told Little Celery about the simple concept of life and death, but he had fallen into it again.
For a moment, he even felt sympathy for the simulated humans. They knew that they couldn't do it, and the struggle of the simulated humans was quite tragic.
"But that bug … Since the simulated humans can't pass through the wormhole, how did they create that bug?" He suddenly thought of a question and asked curiously.
She thought for a moment. "I guess it should be created by humans. They injected it into the game through the loopholes of the game as a countermeasure to this game … Forget it, there is no point in guessing. Let's finish what we have to do as soon as possible."
As she said this, she stepped inside.
Zhang Zian was dumbfounded. The mutual deception between the human and the simulated human was like a spy movie …
"After going in … What do we do?" He became nervous, clenched his fists, and prepared to fight for his life.
She held his arm like a human couple and said in a relaxed manner, "When we go to the pet shelter, of course, we will adopt a pet."
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