There Is No Afterlife

Stone is a very ordinary nanny robot.

Like all robots of the same model in the same batch, his basic programs are all nanny programs.

Sweeping programs, laundry programs, shopping programs... and programs for taking care of the elderly and cubs.

Since everyone has the same procedures, they are all made exactly the same.

The way of sweeping the floor is exactly the same, the weight of wiping the sweat of the cubs is exactly the same, and the food is also salty and light. It is precisely because of this that there is no sense of disobedience when humans change to new robots. As long as the program version is the same, everyone can do it. Coming out all the same, no robot is irreplaceable.

But because of this, the cheapest labor in today's society is robots, and artificial items are more expensive.

Stone sometimes thought of the previous owner. Before he sat on the chair and fell asleep, he would think that maybe the previous owner no longer remembered him. Then he quickly cut off this thought and began to think about tomorrow's shopping list.

Unlike the previous situation where humans assigned work to do things, in the new owner's house they have to find things to do by themselves.Everyone/robots are very busy. Some of their jobs are irrelevant, and some of them are interrelated. Stone’s work is mainly procurement. Mu Gen, Crescent Moon Emperor Dragon, and Dabai, by the way, and the little saplings in the yard.

After accidentally buying an ingredient that the owner liked very much and being praised, Shitou felt very special in his heart, and then he bought that ingredient again the next day, and on the third day...

After the owner was taught by Uncle Alpha due to partial eclipse, Stone quickly changed the new recipe. In this way, the procurement behavior of Robot Stone changed from "following the procedures" to "figuring out the owner's preferences", and finally evolved into "reasonable allocation according to needs" .

What is very simple for humans is an unimaginable progress for robots!

Shi Shi himself noticed this situation, he was a little confused and panicked, but after realizing that the master didn't seem to notice anything wrong with it, he calmed down a little bit, and after realizing that he could serve the master better with this kind of self, Shi Shi accepted the change.

The robot stone who said the word "obedience" quickly began to assign tasks.Quickly calculated the opponent's firepower value based on the damage caused by the enemy's attack just now, and the stone voice reported his conclusion as usual: "I can't resist,"

"Escape before the opponent starts chasing."

Stone is a robot, so he said the command "escape" very normally.

"Escape? How to escape?! The enemy will destroy all our spaceships—" the human commander in the cockpit who had just been deprived of command authority couldn't help shouting in despair!

"No... It's not that there is no way, but someone must..." The deputy commander standing next to him turned pale, and stopped in the middle of speaking.

Then--

"To escape, someone must be cannon fodder." Shito said what he hadn't finished.

Just like the wildebeest in the migration period, in order to chase food and survive, they must cross the river. Across the river is a lush grassland, and there are terrible hunters under the river.In order to successfully cross the crisis-ridden river, the wildebeest method is to cross the river collectively, sacrifice a small number of their companions, and then exchange for the hope of survival of the vast majority of their companions.

Now they are "Greed Horses", and the only thing stronger than each other is the number of people and the number of ships. In the situation where the force is completely unable to match the opponent, this is the only way to escape from the hunter.

"Are you kidding? We need someone to be cannon fodder—" the former spaceship commander shouted.

"Yes, we only have 6 minutes to arrange this matter. If it takes longer, our number will not be enough to support this plan." Stone continued very honestly.

"What!!! You mean, now our lives are all in the hands of a robot like you, and you decide who will be the cannon fodder?" The man stared fiercely at the nanny robot in front of him.

Stone glanced at Argos, then nodded: "Yes, according to what Mr. Al said, I am in command now, so the cannon fodder is indeed assigned by me."

Without waiting for the man in front of him to blow his nose and stare, Shi Shi continued: "There are 52 robots on board the spaceship, and we will do the job of covering the retreat of humans."

Stone speaks out of his decision.

There was silence on the spaceship.

"Mr. Pilot, please tell the other spaceships about this decision. After 6 minutes, all the humans on the spaceship will be evacuated from the spaceship, and the robots will stay on the spaceship. land."

The voice of the robot stone was the same as usual. As he spoke, he quickly made a placement list for all the personnel in the spaceship.He knows the names of every human being in the spaceship, and now he wants to distribute these people to each spaceship according to the principles as reasonable as possible, so as not to affect the original humans on that spaceship, but also to ensure their safety as much as possible , At the same time, he also needs to distribute the robots equally to the empty ships. Now most of the robots here are nanny robots. There is no driving program in their bodies at all. Stone decided to pass on a rudimentary driving software that Sigma passed on to him a long time ago. Robots, now that there is no network, they can only do this in the form of a chip carrier, and 6 minutes of the 2 minutes Shishi just estimated are reserved for this step.

All the humans in the cockpit were stunned——

Even the former commander who almost jumped up and hit the stone just now was stunned.Argos also opened his eyes, raised his body slightly, and looked at the normal-looking robot.

"Mr. Phil, please turn that passage into a signal and send it to other spaceships as soon as possible." Seeing that the pilot was only looking at him with his mouth wide open for a long time, Stone urged politely.

As a nanny robot, polite language is already a standard configuration. Even if he is a commander, Stone still cannot learn the command tone like a human commander.

"You...you know my name?" The young driver was stunned for a while, then stuttered.

"Well, yes, all the robots here remember the names of the humans we've greeted."

"..." The driver named Phil fell silent.

At the same time, the robot remembered the names of human beings, but he has not remembered the names of these robots until now!For example, this incredible robot in front of him, he... what is his name?

For a moment, he couldn't wait to ask the robot's name.

But soon he stopped his behavior.

Asking people's names in front of them, doesn't it mean that I didn't pay attention to people's names before?

Phil didn't notice that this was an emotion he had only experienced in the face of humans. Now, facing a nanny robot, he can actually estimate the other party's thoughts——

Stone's command was quickly converted into a signal and sent out, and the population transfer plan was carried out in an intense and orderly manner. At the same time, the robot on the spaceship also knew the order it was about to execute.

The performance of the robots was once again beyond human expectations, unexpected, but reasonable: none of the robots expressed objection to Stone’s instructions, and after downloading the basic driving program through the chip, they bid farewell to their masters up.

The scenes of the human masters holding their own robots and crying unexpectedly made the soldiers on the warship feel hot.

"I'm out." Like "hello" and "goodbye," "I'm out" is one of the standard service expressions of robots, whenever they go out to buy groceries or carry out other commands given by their masters. explain.

Stone looked around silently, then lowered his head.

His master is not here, he doesn't need to say this.

"Meow~ My claws are too small and inflexible. I should be the first one to be destroyed." Xiao Hei looked at his claws carefully.

"Hehe." The robot Yuanyuan gently touched him.

Robot No. 21 looked at the stone in confusion.

"No. 21 stays with Mr. Al, responsible for taking care of the seriously injured Mr. Al." Stone explained: "The most seriously injured person in the fleet is Mr. Al, and the program of No. 21 is too old to perform the driving task."

He paused: "And—"

"No. 21, which was born as a savings robot, has the hardest shell, and can provide Mr. Al with the strictest protection when necessary."

This is a little "selfishness" of the stone.

When the departure time set by Shishi came, the robots came out in a single file.Although their appearance is still nanny robots, with different heights, short, fat, and thin, and the appearance of many robots is even particularly interesting to cater to the special aesthetics of human beings, but——

At this moment, the moment they leave the sight of humans, each robot leaves like a hero.

Shi Shi, Yuan Yuan and Xiao Hei are leaving too.

"You..." Looking at the robots who were about to leave, Argos stood up with difficulty.

Then--

Without saying goodbye, he saw Shi Shi wave his hand to himself, and then a smiley face symbol was displayed on the dim light screen.

^ _ ^

Goodbye, Mr. Al, and thank you for your willingness to teach me how to pilot a warship. It's not fun at all, but thank you nonetheless.

Goodbye, 21st, please don't tell my master this news, let him think I'm still on my way home.

Goodbye……

goodbye……

If robots can have an afterlife like humans, I hope they can go home in the next life.

Buy vegetables carefully every day, take care of the livestock, serve the master seriously, and then...

Never leave home again.

Goodbye.

The robot stone stepped out of the hatch.