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"So, that's probably the case. Maybe it's your love for Cheri that moved the higher-ups, or maybe Cheri chose the way of self-destruction in order to save you, which made the higher-ups think that they should have hope for him, so they acquiesced in his existence. .”

Unbeknownst to Dino, when he passed out next to 24 who should have died, Dr. D was among the people who rushed to the scene with the first search and rescue team.And when Dr. D saw the shattered center with his right-hand assistant, he just looked at each other with a little deep meaning, then lifted the body that was too damaged to be repaired, and took it out from his chest. The power block, revealing a crystal-like object hidden behind the power block, which resembles the crystal shape of the Evolution hub.

And that radiant thing is the real 24.

"Because of my private wishes, I rebuilt the internal structure for Cheri and recreated a unique center for him," Dr. D said when he mentioned 24, his tone was full of kindness, "Because Cheri seems to have self-awareness. I'm always troubled by the problem of not having a heart."

Dr.D and Dino were sitting in the garden of the nursing home, chatting while basking in the sun.

It's just that Dino's eyes are always on 24, who is squatting on the grass in the distance and accompanying the children to feed the rabbits, as if he will lose him again if he can't see him at a glance, so he has to watch carefully all the time.

"2...cough cough, Cheri's body...?"

"Well, Cheri's previous body can no longer be repaired, and the damage is too serious. Originally, it may take less than a month to complete a fifth-generation robot directly from the factory, but we still decided to rebuild at the level of fifth-generation technology. Design it, for example, in addition to the advanced human-like bone structure compared to the first generation, it also specially uses super-dense alloy and encrypted waterproof layer, which improves the pressure resistance and load-bearing performance, not to mention the external skin. Evolution's technology in this area has indeed always been the most advanced, but those user-friendly options have been skipped, because Cheri doesn't need those settings anymore, right?"

Dr.D seemed quite friendly, and patiently explained to Dino, "In order to achieve the same level as Cheri before, we specially recalled the engineers who participated in the production, although some of them are about the same age as me. Now, but the past is clearly in my mind, the appearance of Cheri now is not the slightest difference from the past."

Dino lowered his eyes, feeling that everything sounded to his liking, so he couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled.

"Of course, a large part of it is thanks to Chairman Vincent, if he hadn't let go..."

Mentioning this person, Dino still felt lingering fear, "It's not that I don't understand the responsibility Mr. Vincent bears, so I... Anyway, Cheri is fine now, I... I don't hate him."

"Mr. Dino, do you know the biggest difference between Cheri and ordinary intelligent robots after she has self-awareness?"

"You say?"

"He knows how to feel and understand, but most importantly, he knows how to choose."

Just like the difference between Evo. and 24, Evo. will only calculate and execute according to the program and instructions, but 24 with self-awareness will make independent choices.It's like he chose to stay by Dino's side when he had the opportunity to leave. It's like he knows that there are ten thousand ways to survive even if he doesn't save others, but he still chooses to perish.

"And I guess the one who taught Cheri to make the choices she wanted was you, Mr. Dino."

"where…"

Dino was flattered and seemed to know what to say, but Dr. D had already stood up, and it seemed that he was going to say goodbye.

"Although Cheri has gradually understood the simple emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, many more complicated emotions are still difficult for him to understand. How long will it take him to understand, or maybe he will never understand it? I can't even understand it, do you know this in your heart?"

Dino raised his eyes and looked at Dr. D with such firm eyes for the first time, "I've thought it through a long time ago."

Dr. D smiled and shook his head, turned around and walked on the path paved with bluestone slabs.

"Oh by the way, do you know what the last choice Cheri made was?"

After Dr. D finished speaking, he finally left slowly with his hands behind his back.

"Are you sure you don't want to leave here with us? I think you should know if you do your own calculations. Maybe one day someone will not be able to tolerate you anymore? So it's better to disappear anonymously."

Before coming here, my mother once asked 24.

What was 24 thinking at that time?

Dino watched Dr. D go away, then sat on the long bench, continued to "enjoy" the somewhat dazzling sunlight, and waited until 24 in the distance looked here, then directed at that The little guy waved.

When the two of them finally came face to face, Dino turned cold, put on a preaching attitude, and poked 24 on the forehead while saying to him, "What did you say to me before? Talking doesn't count? Self-sacrifice? What about being together anyway? What about what you promised me? Are you trying to disobey my order? Are you not taking me seriously at all?"

24 crouched down in front of Dino with a slumped head and had nothing to refute, only to be poked and dangled by him.How long has it been? Now that I'm confident, I'm excited again. It's not the time when I was dying for someone else.

"stand up!"

24 stood up sullenly, and was waiting for Dino to say something, when suddenly a palm was stretched out in front of him, holding a small chip on it.

The beautiful eyes flickered suddenly, and before 24 could react, Dino put his arms around his waist and dragged him to his front, then pulled 24 to sit on his intact left leg, close to his Whispered in his ear,

"If you dare to return it to me next time, I'll just design a cage to lock you up, so you won't be able to go anywhere."

24 lowered his head, unwilling to look at Dino again like before.

So he was silent for a while, and said something softly in a milky voice, the same thing he had answered his mother's question back then.

"I, I want to be with Dino."

...................

"Oh! I didn't expect it! I really didn't expect it!"

Lucas sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, full of air, "As expected of Mr. Showmustgoon, who was in charge of playing the prince when he was acting in dramas in college! Feelings are still a lover, why didn't I see it earlier?!"

"It's okay, it's okay, let's start again, it's okay to forget me..."

Jimmie was still imitating what a certain uncle said before with a serious and crying voice.

Dino, this is called hate!

It is said that with 24's company, Dino's spirit and body finally began to recover at the speed of light.

Although sometimes he would occasionally wake up from a nightmare in the middle of the night, but fortunately, 24 would hold Dino's hand in a sensible way in the next second, reminding him every moment that everything that was like a nightmare was over.

And 24 is basically the same as before, but for some reason, he always scans Dino's physical condition with his eyes over and over again when he is free, and if there is a little bit that does not meet the target, it will be "shattering", especially a false alarm.What's more, when he was hugged by Dino, he always put his ears on Dino's chest, listening to the sound of steady heartbeat, he stayed there for a while, as if he was trying to confirm something.

Perhaps that unpleasant memory did not only cast a shadow on Dino as a human being.

But life has to go on, no one will live their whole life with the past forever, 24 is even more so, even if he is close to human beings, he always measures the world through calculation, so he knows what the past is , what is in front of you, what is real, and what is false.

But obviously, as a human being, Dino is not as rational as the 24-year-old.

The consequence of the lingering fear is that whenever he feels scared, he will use crazy kisses to confirm the existence of 24, leaving a new mark on the body that has no healing ability.It seems that only in this way can I relax and believe that everything in front of me is no longer a dream.

When the □□ in the eyes can no longer be suppressed, the blood in the chest is about to rush out... I can only bear it like this... Cough cough~

What's up!Have no idea!His legs are bad!Who made him act foolishly for the past two months!Who do you think it depends on? ! (spreading hands) Who do you blame? !

Dino, this is called hate!

In fact, he was quite a decent person in the beginning. After all, he has been living in a nursing home anyway, and he can't go home.And there are nurses everywhere, although no one can control whoever closes the door, the sound insulation effect seems to be quite good.But no matter how you say this effect is not very good, he understands it all, so he will definitely not be unable to hold back any unnecessary thoughts here.

He just waved at 24 and patted the bed next to him, waited until 24 came over obediently, and asked 24 some shameful questions in a low voice.As for why it is said to be a shameful question, who has to whisper to someone's ear in this room with only two people in broad daylight?

Wait until you finally change the trick and put out what you want to know in 24's mouth, such as "...afterwards, I need to clean up..." or something, and then I still feel that it is not enough, so I leaned over to 24's ear and begged I was talking about something, and a few words came out of my mouth, nothing more than "I just check it for you, I don't do anything", "Hurry up, just a moment." What else is "You don't listen to me Talked?" and so on.

So 24 could only carefully kneel in front of Dino, press Dino's shoulders, let Dino hug his waist, rub his cheek against his chest back and forth, and then slowly put his hands into 24's pants , go back...

Then when he got deep into the immature suit, he couldn't help but bury his face on 24's lower abdomen, gritted his teeth and whispered, "It's so tight...too tight..."

Later, as 24's shoulders were gripped more and more tightly, Dino endured the rising body temperature and took his hands out of 24's pants, and let 24 straddle his lap and bite his crotch hard. lips, and pressed his hand to his already swollen hot face, and then asked 24 in a low voice, "You should calculate it for me, this... can it get in..."

And before 24 could answer him, Dino couldn't help pulling up 24's pants, well, sure enough Mr. Dino's "I can't do anything" a few minutes ago was a lie, and now he can't even I have already decided that I don't need my legs, so if you use them up, it's fine, come on...

duang!

"Take your medicine, Mr. Dino."

The nurse on duty came in with the medicine tray, but she was not at all moved when she saw 24 crawling from Dino and almost fell to the ground. Dino, who stretched out his hand to support 24, said casually, "Pay attention to the influence, your leg can't bear the force now, please restrain yourself, or you will stay here for a longer time."

Dino already wanted to jump into the river, and 24 didn't speak a word to him for a whole day afterwards.

In fact, calm down and think about it, this place is really not suitable for doing such a thing. After all, this is the first time for the two of them in a certain sense. In fact, they should choose at home, or find a hotel with a particularly high B rating. ...It's so romantic, isn't it?

Dino is not stupid, it's not that he doesn't understand these things.

But in the end he couldn't hold back the 24...

At that time, his legs could finally walk without being supported by others, and he could simply climb two floors without any problem. Then he really couldn't wait to press 24 on the bed on a dark and windy night and committed a "violent" crime.

At first 24 would definitely not agree, but Dino has ten thousand ways to make him submit.

When Dino finally entered that dreamed-for place and began to move unbearably crazily, 24 couldn't help but cover his eyes.

Although as a robot, it cannot have the general feeling of a human being.But he still couldn't bear Dino's appearance at this moment, he didn't want to look at him, that made him feel that the crystal in his chest could no longer bear the load, as if the whole center would be broken in the next second.

But the hands covering the eyes were forced onto the bed, and an emotional voice came from beside the ear, "Look at me, 24...you are mine...I love you..."

……

Then I won't say much, anyway, I have done everything that should be done and shouldn't be done.

Ahem, in fact, this is also understandable, after all, there are some things, it really cannot be suppressed for the sake of romance...

Then, within two days, the nursing home notified Dino that he could leave, more than half a month earlier than the expected discharge time.

Dino was quite pleasantly surprised, "Am I all right?"

The head nurse and a few nurses looked at Dino with a smile, "Yeah, of course you're all right. Anyway, it doesn't matter what you do. The rest is for you to go home and recuperate."

Do they dare to let these two continue to rest here? In all fairness, the movement is quite small. After all, the two men can't make any big movements, but although they haven't reached the point of disturbing the people, there is still a little movement. Yes, it's great that the impact can't be shocking, and there are two people with heart disease and high blood pressure living next to them. If one day these two people have a surge, they are fine, and it would be bad if they accidentally hurt innocent people, right?

So Dino and 24 finally returned to their home after a long absence of three months.

The destroyed room has already been redecorated according to the original, and everything is as if nothing happened. The entrance is still the same entrance, the storage room is the same storage room, the living room is the same living room, and the white gauze hanging on the landing balcony door The curtain is still dancing slowly with the breeze.

And what 24 "concerns" the most is obviously the place that only belongs to him.

The moment the switch was turned on, the bright starry sky that had been etched deep in his memory finally surrounded him again, and he finally found a long-lost sense of security.

Suddenly, a white rose appeared in front of her eyes.

24 froze for a moment, turned around and saw Dino looking at him with a smile, obviously he had done everything and experienced so much together, but at this moment his face was still a bit embarrassed, "Give it to you, just... Just buy it casually, it just reminds me of you when I see it, cough."

"Thank you, Guangyi." 24 took the white rose and touched its petals carefully, "I really want to know what the smell of flowers is."

Dino's heart softened when he heard this, and he hugged 24.

"I'll know, we'll have a long life anyway, right?"

24 blinked her beautiful eyes and showed a lovely smile.

"kindness."

Finally, regarding the future of 24, the two of them returned to Evolution on their own initiative.

Director Vincent was not at all surprised by the arrival of the two people, he just reconfirmed the wishes of the two people deeply, "24's existence is top secret, and I bear the burden of the crime, so 24's data must be handed back Overseen by Evolution at all times."

"no problem."

"As 24's guardian, you may not be able to leave T city or even this country casually for the rest of your life. You must report wherever you go, and submit 24's current situation report every once in a while. Can you do it?"

"I can handle it."

Director Vincent sighed helplessly, "He may never know what love is, he will always look like this, and when you become an old man like me, he won't be able to grow old like you, so you won't mind?"

Dino looked at 24 and smiled, "I don't mind."

Director Vincent looked at 24 again, "If you run away like this, there is still time, and no one will find you when you run to the ends of the earth. You may survive forever, but if you choose Dino.K, when he dies, Evolution will Will implement your destruction plan, because you know it well, we still have no way to ensure that you will never change, especially in the absence of him..."

24 looked at Dino beside him, and then said flatly, "I wish for it."

From then on, in that apartment building, in that same family on the 22nd floor, every morning, a young man would hurry to work with a bag and an Evolution badge.Then when it was time to get off work, the young man would rush home even more than when he was at work, and as the door opened, there would always be a soft voice from inside the room saying, "Dino, you are back."

There were two men living in that family, one looked 25 or [-] years old, and the other looked only fifteen or sixteen years old, like a younger brother, still a young man.Occasionally, on weekends, if you have time, you can go to the largest underwater world in T City for a squat, maybe you can see the boy touching the huge glass, staring intently at the fish swimming in it Swim away, and the man behind him who has been watching him is full of pampering.

Or you can sneak into that apartment building at a later time, choose the resident next to that house, put some money in the house, and then go to the balcony, maybe you can see that man and that boy pointing at the starry sky together. Give pointers, and if you are lucky, you may still see some blushing and heartbeating things, such as hugs and kisses.

You have to ask which family this family is.

Looking along the rows of house numbers, there are two nice names engraved in a small metal frame.

One is Dino.K and the other is Cheri.T.

But men usually like to call boy 24, and the boy also chooses to let men call himself that, because that is the name the man gave him.

Later, there was always a rumor circulating in the outside world, saying that there is actually a high-end intelligent robot in this world, which has self-awareness and is no different from a human being. It belongs to an engineer named DK, and it lives between you and me. between.

But no one has ever actually seen that robot, and no one has ever known who the engineer known as DK is.

I only know that after a long, long time, when DK finally left this world at an old age, the robot who had been by his side held his hand and slowly leaned his head on DK's chest, I closed my eyes.And the radiant crystal in the robot's chest finally completely dimmed, terminating all procedures, and shattered into several pieces along with a few unexplainable cracks.

It is said that the crystal fragment containing the intelligent robot was buried with the remains of the engineer, but no one knows their whereabouts.

Like a grain of sand flowing in the long stream of history, it disappeared without a trace...

...................

Dino.K rubbed his eyes and dropped the book in his hand.

He bought this book when he stumbled into a secret shop by accident.

Strange to say, he never went shopping, and he didn't know what kind of madness he had that day. When he passed by the small shop at the end of the alley, he walked in for no reason, turned around inexplicably, and waited until he came to a row of dark bookshelves. A while ago, I was hit on the head by a book covered with thick dust, so I bought it out of nowhere.

After looking through it, I realized that it turned out to be a book about artificial intelligence, which records the life story of an engineer and an intelligent robot with self-awareness.

Hehe, what, after all, it’s just a sci-fi romance novel, I thought it was something like the reveal of artificial intelligence, it’s so annoying.

What's more, the whole article is full of such messy code-like names like DK and 24, and there is no serious name, which makes him feel dizzy.

At this time, the door of Le House was pushed open with a bang, "Hey, Master, the time is coming!"

Dino.K turned his head and saw his counterpart Cheri.T walking towards him quickly.

They are the most popular idol duo in this era, and Xiangfang who is walking towards him is his only true lover.

"Ah, finished reading?"

"Well, my eyes hurt."

"Is it good-looking? What is it about? The author is...unknown? Wow...there are still photos, are they the protagonists? But why can't you see the faces? It's too blurry."

Cheri.T casually flipped through the book in his hand, then put it aside, and was about to stuff a piece of candy into his mouth while there were still a few minutes left.

"It's about...robots and humans falling in love."

"Oh, enough to think about."

"But in the end, I didn't say whether the robot has feelings, whether it loves engineers or not, ah, it's so boring, it's a waste of time."

Dino.K scratched his head, followed his Xiangfang out of the music room, and walked into the studio with flickering lights.

But the question that he uttered casually lingered in his mind all the time. Although he didn't really care about it, he still felt a little concerned that he didn't see the answer to the story.

Later, when I got home, I flipped through the book unconsciously, looking at the photo of two blurred figures, one sitting on a chair and the other standing beside the chair.

"Hey, are you going to sleep?"

"Here comes."

Dino.K stretched himself, turned off the light in the living room, prepared to drink some water, and went to bed.

But it doesn't matter if you wait for this level. The novel that was spread to the last blank page was illuminated by the ultraviolet light in the fish tank to reveal a piece of hidden writing.

Dino.K narrowed his eyes, quickly picked up the book and read it under the ultraviolet light.

It was a piece of text described in No.1 title. If you read it carefully, it turned out to be the confession written by the intelligent robot in the book.

"I don't know whether my existence represents the evolution or degeneration of artificial intelligence. Some people say that I am the perfection of artificial intelligence, I am unique, but some people say that I am an imperfect defective product in artificial intelligence, and I am incomplete. of.

From exploring the meaning of my existence to meeting the person who gives me the meaning of existence, if I compare it with the human world, that person is the sun in my life.

I still don't know what the so-called love of human beings is. I have asked many human friends around me, but their answers are all strange and different.

Maybe what love is, even human beings don't understand.

It seems that this is also one of the things that I have to find out on my own, even though maybe I will not understand it in the end.

But if you just want to choose to be with him, just choose to fulfill the promise with him, just want to see his smile, just want to make him happy, just want to go to the end of life with him, you can Reluctantly allow what I call love,

Well, I love you, idiot. "

"Dino..."

Cheri came to Dino's side at some point, and looked at him in surprise, "Why... are you crying?"

Dino, who was still a little dazed at first, was puzzled when he heard the words, but when he touched his wet eye sockets, he realized that the surroundings had already become cold.

"Eh, eh? I'm crying? I don't think I want to cry?"

Cheri narrowed her eyes with indifference...then turned around and walked quickly to the bedroom, muttering, "Sure enough, my nerves are not normal when I get older..."

"Hey, Cheri, no, I didn't cry, hey, don't go, stop..."

"Sleep, sleep!"

Under the warm blanket, two silly guys huddled together.

"Cheri, we will always be together..."

"Row."

"Okay? That's it?"

"Brother, most of my life is in your hands, is there still time for me to change?"

"Cheri..."

"what happened again?"

"think…"

"...lower back pain."

"You didn't hurt yesterday, did you?"

"Oh, uncle, do you still remember what you did yesterday?"

"Yesterday was yesterday, today is today..."

"You're going to run four..."

"Let's make it six, or even seven..."

"Haha you pervert..."

"…I love you…"

"...I, I love you too..."

The soft voice in the bedroom gradually became quieter and turned into another softer sound, even the moon was so ashamed to hide in the clouds, so don't disturb our sight.

And the book that was left under the ultraviolet lamp was blown by the gentle night wind outside the window, turning over pages one by one.

As the pages were turned, two voices sounded from somewhere, speaking firmly and forcefully.

24, we will always be together.

OK, Dino.

We also want to be together in the next life.

OK, Dino.

And the next life, the next life...we are together life after life.

Okay, Dino, we've been together for life and life.

Finally, the book was put together, leaving only a line of small print on the cover.

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