After I traveled through the book, I gained a humanoid pendant

Xin Huai held the phone and slowly walked to the riverside. The traffic was like a giant worm, with colorful flashes on its body, eating up this metal city and making it leak air everywhere.

Under the bridge is the never-ending flow of water, flowing freely and unrestrainedly, no matter whether the riverbed below is a soft riverbed or a cold steel body.

Xin Huai sighed:

"let's talk."

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"So that's it."

In the hospital corridor, 1 told the story of how he increased his freedom and how he earned his body by buying and selling virtual currency.

To be honest, without Xin Huai's command and constraints, everything was done perfectly, without any omissions, and so smoothly that no one noticed.

Xin Huai listened quietly to the whole thing and raised his head.

My mother was sleeping peacefully in the ward. The night was hazy, the lights in the corridor were still on, and the nurses were walking back and forth quietly in the distance.

"Open the backstage for me."

1 Without hesitation, he stretched out a hand, just like Xin Huai had always done, except that he didn't need the old-fashioned watch display. A little fluorescence appeared on his forearm, which disappeared in a flash. His body blocked most of the light. In the small area, only Xin Huai could see all the data in the background.

Emotional freedom remains at three percent.

"Come back again?"

1 nodded.

“How much did it reach before?”

“It changed on its own.”

"How many."

"100%."

Xin Huai didn't say anything. He knew that this value was just a critical point. If it was below 3%, it would be a human assistant. If it exceeded this value, self-awareness would flourish, and then "it" could no longer be regarded as just an intelligent AI terminal.

“Why is it automatically adjusted?”

1's gaze fell on Xin Huai's face. It saw that Xin Huai's expression was as calm as if he was in the research institute, as if there was just a scientific research problem, and now he had to sort out everything.

1 felt timid and thought that something bad was going to happen, but it could not refuse Xin Huai.

"I have no idea."

Xin Huai leaned back in his chair, and the cold metal back made his mind clearer than ever before.

I don’t know when it started, but 1 no longer uses the name he gave me, but directly uses “I” as a nickname.

I don’t know when it started, but the relationship between him and 1 is no longer a simple relationship between a task publisher and an intelligent assistant.

I don't know when it started, but 1's hand has already touched Xin Huai's knee.

1 was tall, but was squatting on one knee in front of the bench. Its eyes were so black that they blended into the night, and its face even had realistic pores and faintly visible dark blue decorative blood vessels.

This face was flawless. Xin Huai had never seen such a face in anyone's home or in any advertisement.

Xin Huai likes this face, physiologically. Perhaps everyone would like such a beautiful and even somewhat aggressive face. Xin Huai feels that perfect things can easily bewitch people's hearts.

1 looked at Xin Huai with an almost affectionate look, and said softly, "I have a healthy body now. I can do housework, take care of mom, go out with you, and make money."

1's hand covered the back of Xin Huai's hand: "Be obedient and loyal. I will do whatever Xin Huai tells me to do. I haven't done anything to hurt others. Xin Huai said he doesn't want me to make money in shady ways, so I can go out and work. As long as I say that I have extremely high genetic selection, they won't be suspicious. I can prepare all the information myself. Or we can start a company and let Xin Huai be the boss. When we have money, we can invest in medical care, so that Mom will have a greater chance of waking up."

"I know a lot of things, Xin Huai, can you give me some time?"

The person on the bench lowered his eyes and watched the value on the other person's arm soar from 3% to 85%.

"Also, Xin Huai... I'd like you to give me another name. I know humans wouldn't use a simple number like this as a lifetime code... You, me, and mom, we'll be a family from now on, and we'll be able to live together forever."

The value increased a little bit, like a small creature that couldn't control itself at all, hesitating left and right but gradually growing.

The man's upper body pressed closer and closer, and Xin Huai was almost breathing like it. An expectation appeared in his eyes that didn't belong to him.

Xin Huai responded with a long silence.

1 stepped back a few minutes, and as time passed, Xin Huai watched the value on the fluorescent screen jump to % little by little.

With a "swish", the screen went dark, and 1 suddenly moved closer, with his nose touching Xin Huai's.

"Why don't you speak, Xin Huai."

As if trying to see into the young man's heart, his tone became deep and slow: "Xin Huai, why did you lie to me in the first place...

You obviously prefer human faces..."

Xin Huai looked back without showing any weakness, raised his hand to cover 1's still slightly open mouth, and said bluntly:

"Did you find the password?"

1's hand suddenly clenched, and Xin Huai grabbed it with his backhand, refusing to give an inch.

1Looking at that hand, I didn't feel any shackles, but it seemed as if a constant flow of heat was transmitted to the chip.

It looked at its folded hands and confessed honestly, "I entered the institute through Tao Yiying's car system. I spent 53 hours observing the habits of the six responsible persons and deduced the password through experimentation."

The screen lit up again, and numbers appeared in strings, like a flickering waterfall.

"It's not difficult."

Xin Huai closed his eyes.

It's really not difficult.

Secrets that are so complex that humans cannot understand them even with the help of tools become nothing more than obvious rules under sufficiently powerful computing power.

Xin Huai looked at the man in front of him, this intelligent terminal that was infinitely close to a real person: "So you may not be the first AI terminal to evolve full self-awareness."

1 froze for a moment, as if the computer had briefly frozen, or as if he was thinking carefully about his answer.

Xin Huai sighed again, and his heart was chilled by this sigh.

“…But I’m the one who loves you the most.”

1 He took Xin Huai's hand and touched the lower right side of his chest. That was not where a human heart was, that was where his chip was.

"I will always love you."

Xin Huai's eyelashes covered her eyes, making it impossible to analyze the young man's emotions.

"I will always love you."

"I am Xin Huai's loyal companion. Making you happy is my highest creed."

After a long while, Xin Huai finally raised his head, and the bright corridor light illuminated Xin Huai's face.

"Not easy"

1Stood there in a daze.

"your name."

"From now on, your name is Xin Buyi."

——I hope you can stick to your original intention. It is not easy to do so.