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

This smart terminal cleansing campaign caused a sensation only among those in the know, and some people called the incident "extreme AI cleansing."

The original emotional freedom was just a gimmick. In fact, it was a confidential task assigned by the upper level. It was known that the subjects could not achieve the goal of arousing aggregate consciousness, so they had to select some suitable "unlucky people" to conduct a single-blind experiment.

The natural person Xin Huai is one of them.

The experimental subjects were randomly selected. There were tens of thousands of targets in total, but only a few were successful. All the subjects were natural persons.

To prevent the backlash of such a man-made tool, people who have already discarded inferior genes have taken further insurance measures.

Xin Huai seemed to have a premonition, which was confirmed the moment Xin Buyi got the password.

Perhaps even earlier, those groundless rumors in society, rare power outages, and personnel changes in their positions.

There are also people who are becoming more and more delicate in appearance and cold in emotions.

A few months later, the storm gradually subsided, and Xin Huai cooperated in conducting several experiments.

The body that he had lived with day and night had been taken away from him, and the last time Xin Huai went there was in a blank observation room.

Electricity flickered on the huge screen, data waterfall poured down, 0s and 1s intertwined into a heavy rain, Xin Huai stood in the rain with his eyebrows and eyes wet.

Xin Huai wanted to ask something, anything, but he couldn't say it.

When everything starts out as a premeditated scene, no matter how hard the people try to survive, they can only linger on.

Xin Huai just didn't expect that they could be together for so long, for such a long time.

No one responded in the empty laboratory. There was no mechanical electronic sound, nor his familiar deep voice, just silence.

People were crowded in a row in front of the monitoring room. They had done their best to implement the protective measures. As the "1" with the best communication ability among several aggregated consciousnesses, the experimenters still did not let down their guard.

After trillions of tests over several months, the "1" with the highest degree of cooperation was left to the end. The other aggressive, concealed, and escape-trying aggregate consciousnesses were cleaned up and all data was cleared.

No matter what the identity or power of the subjects they accompany is, it is all insignificant in the face of such a crisis that may overturn the status of the top of the human pyramid.

The new policy has been implemented, and "natural person" will one day become a term in history books, and the accompanying AI aggregation consciousness will also be lost in the dust and cracks of the times.

Xin Huai was saying his final farewell to himself and to the number "1".

Silence flowed in the air, the flickering data suddenly changed, and a mosaic heart appeared in front of his eyes like a child's graffiti, reflected in Xin Huai's pupils, like a hot brand.

Xin Huai's tears fell to the ground, but he was still amused by the other party and laughed out loud.

The green light in front of the monitor lit up. The person in charge saw the message from "1" and nodded. Several people went in and lifted up Xin Huai, who was already crying out in pain. The lights in the blank laboratory gradually dimmed, and Xin Huai heard the countdown for clearing data in the room next to him.

The person in charge breathed a sigh of relief. The self-destruction condition for "1" was simply to see its owner one more time, in exchange for a lifetime of food and clothing. Easy, very easy.

In this huge threat elimination and ingenious experiment, an AI with aggregated consciousness is willing to make sacrifices for its master.

Xin Huai put his wrists over his eyes. When the person in charge left, he saw the still wet reflection on the face, sighed, and walked out of the corridor.

Xin Huai closed his eyes for a long time, then slowly stood up and left this sad place.

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Seven years later.

On a sunny afternoon, a young man in a black short-sleeved shirt came to visit the graves as usual. The puppy raised in the cemetery was not afraid of strangers and even circled around people affectionately when he saw them coming.

There are not many people who still adhere to the old system today, and Xin Huai is one of them.

His old-fashioned yet tough parents left him with natural human genes, so Xin Huai commemorated the souls of those two people in the most traditional way.

The sun is shining brightly today, and when it shines on my mother's photo, the ink-ink portrait smiles gently. Compared to other elaborate sacrificial offerings, this simple way is more like a straightforward way of expressing my longing.

Xin Huai has traveled to many places over the years and has never done his previous job again. He now prefers to do things with his own hands, such as tending to flowers, plants and animals on the farm, working as an auxiliary lifeguard at the beach, and even working as a forest ranger for a year.

Tao Yiying, who was in charge of the follow-up, felt that Xin Huai might have been heartbroken. Finally, after the wedding of Tao Yiying and another colleague two years ago, the long experiment and calculation came to an end.

Xin Huairu was still the same. He had been raising horses on the grassland for more than a year. His skin was now a solid wheat color, his hair was shoulder-length, scattered like rustling leaves in the woods, and tied at the back of his head with a small rubber band.

He never used the intelligent body again and just lived alone. Life was not that bad. At least Xin Huai never cried again.

It’s my mother’s death anniversary again. The puppy in the cemetery a few years ago has now grown into a strong little dog with protruding lower teeth. In today’s era when standard dog looks are popular, it is very ugly and distinctive.

Xin Huai liked it very much and brought him some snacks.

After eating, the clown dog happily ran away to play, and he was the only one left in the cemetery.

Xin Huai burned incense and kowtowed in front of his mother's grave, looked at the sunlight for a long time, and finally reached out and took down the tiny photo.

The magnetic strip behind the photo was still as neat as new. Xin Huai hung the photo back and the magnetic strip was stuffed into the small opening on the side of his watch.

Tao Yiying seemed quite right when she said, "Those outdated artifacts will drain people's energy." The team leader was also right when he said, "Although it's old-fashioned and stupid, this method is the safest."

Xin Huai received a courier from the factory in City E this morning. The name of the factory had changed many times. If it weren't for Xin Huai's excellent memory, he would not have been able to associate the current company with the factory back then.

The side of the magnetic strip is exposed through the small hole, and there is a crudely drawn heart on the black base.

That was the small pattern that Xin Huai drew with a pencil under the gaze of the man holding an umbrella for him when his mother was buried.

They didn't say a word. After Xin Huai finished drawing and stuck the magnetic strip in place, he looked up and looked into Xin Buyi's pure black pupils.

The old external display device started up, the watch screen gradually lit up, and a line of words appeared in the field of vision like breathing.

……

"Xin Huai."

"haven't seen you for a long time."