There Is No Afterlife

What a... incredible robot.

Sitting in the temporarily added rest seat behind the driver's seat, Argos thought quietly.

Like a student with the most talent for piloting, the nanny robot named "Stone" is now a very good warship pilot.He not only learned how to drive a warship, but also learned command skills under the guidance of Argos, consciously or unconsciously.

There is no way, the world today is too chaotic!There are star thieves and refugees everywhere on the road. As soon as their warship came into people's sight, they attracted the attention of a large number of refugees. The refugees thought they were rescuers sent by the military and followed them one after another. The shock came, but they quickly discovered with experience that the man driving this warship was not from the army at all. The warship that lost its deterrent power suddenly became fat in the eyes of the star thieves, and the star thieves wanted to come here Try to see if you can take this warship as your own.

As I said before, the last group of Pendela people who escaped with the robots are old and young, and they are all ordinary people. Most of them are mechanical workers in charge of a small link in countless mechanical factories on the planet. They don't know high-end mechanical manufacturing technology, nor do they know how to operate warships. In addition, the Pendela people seldom go to school in galaxies other than their own. They don't even understand the strategic and tactical command skills that are only taught in military schools.

The only professional on the warship——Argos was seriously injured again. After discovering that the robot could drive the spaceship, he fell into a coma again. When he woke up from the violent turbulence, the robot named Stone had already brought the The robots and humans have forced back the second batch of star thieves who came to attack.

"Sorry, I acted on my own while you were unconscious." While driving the warship, the robot stone apologized.

"..." Argos lowered his eyelids and glanced at himself: the bandage was new, and it had obviously been changed.

"Please don't worry, this warship has a complete set of wound medicines. Since you are the only seriously wounded person on the warship, the current reserves are enough for you to use. During the three days you were sleeping, I changed your medicines on time every day. , I’ve been given medicine too.” As if noticing Argos’ gaze, the robot stone turned its head 180 degrees and explained very politely.

The corners of Argos's mouth froze. It had to be said that the parts below the neck maintained their original movements and continued to drive the warship. Only the robot whose head was completely turned around looked a little scary.

"Oh." The corner of his mouth twitched, but Argos didn't say a word of thanks.

As a staunch opponent of unnatural life forms, Argos has been very resistant to mechanical life from the very beginning, especially after Marshal Rothsay was attacked and trapped in the intelligence brain system of the military a few years ago, he almost every day This time, an amendment to the "Third Edition of the Interstellar Robot General Management Regulations" will be proposed in the parliament. It is proposed to add [-] articles to further restrict the intelligent development of robots, and to increase the control and monitoring level of manufacturers of intelligent mechanical products.

In terms of mechanical intelligence, Argos is a conservative who is completely inconsistent with his youth and appearance.

He has never used any robots, and his subordinates also strictly limit the level of intelligence embedded in mechanical products, but because of this, after the outbreak of this disaster, Argos' army became the least damaged army.

Argos really issued a lore order for all robots within the empire, but the release of the order was delayed due to missions, but this lore order is still kept in his hands.Argos touched a piece of skin under his arm unobtrusively. The chip that saves the order is buried under the skin at this moment. The mission release channel has not been destroyed by the enemy. He can issue the order as soon as he can act.

Just as Argos was deep in thought, a bell rang in the control room. After the robot stone pressed the inner door switch, another robot ran in from the outside.

"Hi, sir, you've finally woken up." The round robot first greeted Argos very politely, and then explained the purpose of coming in a polite manner.

"We received a distress signal from a nearby civilian spaceship. There were 200 people on that spaceship. Their spaceship was robbed by star robbers before, and all supplies were taken away. Now there is no energy. They hope to be able to Enter our warship." The Yuanyuan robot said, its voice is the most common mechanical voice on the market, basically eight out of ten robots can speak with this voice.

After a pause, the robot added: "Half of the humans on board agreed to admit them, and half opposed it. The numbers on both sides were just equal, so they asked me to come and ask this gentleman for his opinion."

Argos raised his eyebrows habitually, but then he felt a pain because of the wound involved.

For Argos, who is used to being in power and everyone obeys him, now he has the decision-making power because he is the one who broke the balance of numbers, which is...a bit dramatic.

The dim light screens of the two robots in the control cabin were aimed at Argos.

"What about the opinions of the robots?" Argos suddenly had an idea, and he asked the robot who came to report the news.

"...the robot is not allowed to express its opinion." The robot's dim light screen flickered, and it took a while to say.

"Then you go and tell me the opinions of all the robots on the ship. Remember, it's not their master's opinion, but their own." After Argos finished speaking, the round robot bowed and ran away again.

After a while, it rang the doorbell again.

"There are 48 robots in the outer cabin, all of which hope to receive the humans on that spaceship." The robot said honestly.

"What about you?" Argos turned his gaze to the robot stone.

"Me?" The robot stone turned its head 180 degrees again, and then said very simply: "I hope they come in."

"Why? Why do you want to accept the entry of humans on strange spaceships?" Argos raised his eyebrows again, and then felt a pain in the dark again.

"Article No. 13 of the Third Edition of the General Management Regulations for Interstellar Robots." This time, it was rare for the two robots to speak in unison.

"Robots must help humans whose lives are in danger."

There is no supplementary conditional limitation on the safety of robots behind this rule, which shows that the makers of the regulations themselves have considered the possibility that robots may destroy themselves for this rule.

Argos was silent.

"But, rules don't exist? Aren't you free?" He said after a while.

"But the rules are already in the mind." "Does freedom mean doing whatever you want?" "We want to go home."

"Well, I want to go home anyway."

The two robots seemed to be overwhelmed by his sudden question. They talked one after another, and after a while of logic confusion, the two robots seemed to understand the relationship between "disappearing rules" and "freedom". That's it.

"Going home is the freedom we want." The two robots looked at Argos at the same time.

So, "going home" is the choice made by the instinctive consciousness of these two robots after breaking away from the constraints of "rules"?

Therefore, "helping the human beings whose lives are in danger" is also their active judgment made entirely by their own consciousness outside the restriction?

50.00% of the humans on the warship want to rescue their companions, while the other 50.00% of the humans are worried that these refugees will pose a threat to their own safety, so they refuse to help them. "Option?

"Let those humans in." Argos directly stated his choice. He didn't realize that this time, he subconsciously used a word that only robots would use: "human".

"But don't let them enter the living quarters directly. There is a prison system below this type of warship. Temporarily lock them there. After investigating their personal information, observe them for a few days before allowing them to come in." Argos then issued an order , squinting at the robot stone: "The investigation work is entrusted to you, do you know how to do it?"

"Yes, I know." The robot stone immediately bent over: "My family raises a lot of livestock, and whenever new livestock come in, we will lock them in the old nest for observation for a few days before allowing them to approach the original livestock. "

In order to increase the convincing force of his words, he added: "Stone is a very good nanny robot."

Argos was silent again.

With a wave of his hand, he ordered Stone to arrange the matter by himself. Then, as a bystander, he witnessed this magical nanny robot successfully resettling the refugees in the spaceship in a very safe way, and then, in a very clever way. , Three Star Bandit insiders who pretended to be refugees were found out from among the refugees.

This skill is very useful!It would be great if I had such an assistant... By the time Argos realized it, similar thoughts had passed through his mind several times.

This kind of interrogation program that Argos appreciates very much comes from the robot Pai. As the robot in the family who is most interested in program updates, Pai is committed to using programs to improve his own living standards. He has tirelessly improved the built-in programs of all the robots in the family. He even didn't let go of the egg incubator bought by Mu Gen at home, and now that incubator has been improved by him into an egg hatching robot!

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Refugees bring confusion, worry, panic, and...

News from afar.

Argus once thought that the expressions of all robots would never change. They had no emotion, no sadness, no happiness, just accumulation of metal.

however--

One of the refugees was carrying an electronic poster.It was a big-character poster from Bailuxing, which published the exact address of Bailuxing, as well as the photos and names of all missing persons in Bailuxing.

The spaceship decided to take refuge on Bailu Star after seeing this poster, and this poster finally fell into the hands of several robots.However, Argus noticed that what the robots were looking at was not the coordinates of the Bailu star printed on the back of the big-character poster that they urgently needed at this time, but the list of missing persons on the front.

The robots are behaving very strangely.

They're like stuck, just watching.

Just when Argos thought that several robots were malfunctioning and couldn't help asking, the robot stone finally raised its head.

Putting the big-character poster in Argus' hands respectfully, Shi Shi pointed to a page in the densely packed list and said, "This is me, this is Yuanyuan, this is Xiao Hei, and...the number 21."

The few robots among the densely packed human headshots are particularly eye-catching. Like the missing human information next to them, their photos, names, and the gender of their voices...are listed one by one and placed equally next to the human information.

"We have always been worried that the owner will not want us. Seeing this list...we are so happy."

"Really, really happy."

Then, Argus saw a very cute smiley face symbol appear on the dim light screen of the robot stone.

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It turns out that this is how the robot looks happy.

Argos stared at the symbol for a long time.