Little Robot on the Run

The pilot, the little prince and the rose.

Nan'an got into Lin Ze's car.

They set off from the school and passed through countless high-rise buildings along the way, but Lin Ze did not slow down.

The neon lights outside the window flowed into the car, and none of them spoke.

It was eight o'clock in the evening when we arrived at the hospital.

Two hours have passed since Jill mutated.

Nan'an hurriedly followed Lin Ze to the medical monitoring room, and saw Professor Biddle standing outside the monitoring room at some point.Seeing Lin Ze, he sighed and shook his head.

Lin Ze: "How's the situation?"

Professor Biddle: "Sedated, now quiet."

"However, no infected chip was found." Professor Biddle said, "We checked all the robotic arms and parts he had implanted, and found no abnormalities at all. Moreover, he has never been implanted with artificial chips, so From this point of view, it should be a wound infection."

Lin Ze was silent for a few seconds: "There is no medium."

"You are right, the chip is not contagious, but now, the chip mutation among humans has indeed occurred." Professor Biddle said, "This is just a case, as long as it is injured by the alienated chip, there will be an infection if there is a wound. risk, but I don't know how much there will be in the future..."

"What about the second city?" Lin Ze asked.

"All mutated chips have been stopped for sale, so they are safe for the time being, and there are no reports of chip infections." Professor Biddle said, "They even suspended the development of artificial intelligence brains, which is much more cautious than ours."

Nan An couldn't understand these words.

He obediently lay down in front of the glass window, stood on tiptoe, and looked in quietly—seeing Jill lying on the bed, his limbs turned into long mechanical arms, like the feet of a beetle, which was cold. s color.Going up, the skin also turned silver, just like the mutant humans seen in Nan'an, with large dry spots, as if alive, constantly crawling and spreading outward.

So Nanan watched for a long time, the incandescent light of the hospital hit his long eyelashes, making him look more and more fragile, until Lin Ze's voice came from behind him, he came back to his senses and turned to look at Lin Ze.

"Let's go." Lin Ze said.

Nan An lowered his eyes: "Yes."

He followed Lin Ze out of the hospital.

There are still people coming and going on the road, and the cold rain is hitting the ground. Nan'an can see the reflection of the tall buildings behind him from the dirty pond-the operation of this city has not stopped for half a minute because of the chip out of control, on the contrary, it is Go forward non-stop.

And now they are too.

Nan'an felt sad but didn't feel right. This was a very magical emotion, an ability he didn't have as a little robot.

But now, he is becoming more and more like a human being, able to perceive all this, and even getting closer with emotion.

Nan'an took the umbrella from Lin Ze and went to the parking lot together.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Nan'an will read storybooks with the cubs and then go to sleep.Lin Ze has a meeting on the top floor of the school—because most of the researchers are at the school tonight, conducting a series of science popularization for the cubs.

Nan'an arrived on the second floor.

At this time, many cubs had already fallen asleep, and the purple-blue light in the rainy night softly hit their faces, looking peaceful and beautiful.However, there are still a few naughty ones, holding toys aside, making a lot of noise.

In fact, Nan'an was also sleepy. Like a human cub, he yawned a little, rubbed his eyes, and moaned softly.

But after humming, he raised his eyes and saw Lin Ze looking at him, and he woke up instantly.

In fact, when making the bed before, he also made a small bed for himself, with a candy pillow on it, and two small pink dolls, plus a plush stick that looks like a cat teaser.

——referred to as Nan'an-style small nest.

Behind him is a row of bookshelves with colorful story books, crayons, and electronic tablets.

So Nan'an pulled the disobedient cubs to his crib, surrounded them, and read storybooks together.

Just when Nan An took out a book, he saw Lin Ze sitting not far away, typing away at the computer, without any sign of a meeting.

"Aren't you going to the top floor?" Nan'an asked.

Lin Ze: "Biddle just left the hospital, wait until he arrives before going up."

Nan'an: "Oh."

He didn't say anything more to this human being, he decided to keep talking, otherwise he would be caught in the tail again and his salary would be deducted.

So he randomly took out a book from the bookshelf, covered half of his face, and glanced at Lin Ze quietly.Seeing that he was still working expressionlessly, Nan An had no choice but to open the book.

This is a book called "Words and Things", wrapped in simple parchment, very plain.

Nan'an turned to the first page.

"Teacher, what is it talking about here?" A certain cub was lying beside Nan'an's bed, looking at him with wide eyes.

Nan An didn't understand either, he frowned and turned several pages.

I saw the origin of human beings after the Renaissance, human psychology, human finiteness, etc. written on it, which were so densely packed that Nan'an couldn't understand.So he thought, maybe this book is not suitable for cubs to read at all, including him, a mechanical cub.

He decided to change a book.

Just when he turned to the last page and was about to close it, his movements suddenly paused, and a sentence caught his eyes.

"Humanity will eventually be erased, like a face in the sand by the sea."

Nan An was taken aback.

He stared blankly at this sentence for a few seconds, then subconsciously looked forward, looking for more information.Nan An browsed through this chapter and found that it was about the disappearance of human beings. According to the book, this is a recurring fact in deconstruction. Human beings will grow because of science, and also because of various other reasons, such as neuroscience. Learning, the rise of language structure and disappear completely.

Nan An didn't understand these awkward words, just like the cubs around him, he only wanted to read simple fairy tale books.

But he smelled a crisis, as if human beings were not as powerful as he imagined.

So he put down this "Words and Objects", and stuffed this book at the end of the bookshelf, completely ignoring it.Nan An pouted, squinted his eyes and picked another book from the bookshelf.

Just turning a page, Nan An said "wow".

——It was the previous book The Little Prince.

Compared with the previous book, there are three-dimensional illustrations on it, and each page is full of planets, deserts, and small roses, which are sprinkled with sparkling loose powder and are lifelike.On the side is an electronic built-in thin screen, which is the background color of the starry sky, vast and splendid, with light green text scrolling on it, which is the chapter content of this page.

Seeing that Nan An was so addicted, the cubs gathered around and stretched their necks to watch.

"Teacher, what is this book about—"

"We want to watch too!!"

"Teacher, please read to us."

Seeing the cubs gathered around, Nan An was very happy.He turned the pages of the little prince very seriously: "Just start reading from this page."

The cubs nodded in unison.

"Maybe there are five thousand flowers that are exactly like you in the world, but only you are my unique rose." Nan An read softly, "The time you spend on your roses makes your roses so important ..."

"I have watched the sunset 44 times. When people are sad, they will fall in love with watching the sunset."

Accompanied by Nan'an's soft, soft-toned tone, the cubs quieted down.

They gathered around him, wide-eyed, listening to the boy who was only a little older than them read fairy tales.

Time seemed to stop at this moment.

No mutated chips, no cloudy rainy days.In this small room, there seems to be a Milky Way flowing. Nan An is immersed in it. Occasionally, when he gets tired of reading, he rubs his eyes, hugs the pillow and hums with the cub, and then continues to read aloud.

"Love is you, the wind blows the wheat and the waves are you, and the footsteps that are far and near are you." Nan'an paused, "The flowers on the stars are also you."

Cub: "Wow, so romantic."

Hearing the cub's exclamation, Nan'an smiled again. He was about to turn the next page when he suddenly paused.For some reason, he suddenly raised his head and met Lin Ze's gaze.

Their gazes meet in the air.

Nan'an suddenly felt dazed for a moment, because in those silver eyes, there was an emotion he had never seen before, like a galaxy in the universe.

Like the stars all over the sky, gentle and powerful, although this look is fleeting, Nan'an feels that he has indeed seen it today.

This human scientist doesn't seem to be so fierce anymore.

In a daze, he heard the cub beside him urging: "Teacher, please read the next page—"

Only then did Nan An come back to his senses, he looked away and turned to the next page.Instead of reading directly as before, he asked the cubs: "Do you know why the stars shine?"

"I don't know." A cub immediately replied, "I've never seen a star!"

All the cubs coaxed a laugh.

Another cub asked, "Has the teacher seen it?"

"I..." Nan'an thought for a while, and deliberately concealed: "I haven't seen it either."

"Then do you want to see him?" the cub tilted his head and asked.

Nan An nodded: "Of course."

He loves stars so much.

At that time, when he went to the south, he would no longer see those towering city walls and iron walls, and he would have the starry sky again.

At that time, he will meet those old friends named by him again—Uncle Star, Mr. Sagittarius and Miss Sun, and then wave his hand and tell them the adventure stories of the human world.

Thinking of this, Nan An couldn't help murmuring in a low voice: "I really want...I really want to see the stars again."

As he spoke, he turned to the next page and continued to read to the cub.

Accompanied by the gentle reading aloud, Nan'an was completely intoxicated again. He seemed to hear the sound of Lin Ze's communicator and the beep of the emergency frequency, but when he looked up again, Lin Ze was no longer there.

Nan An suddenly felt empty in his heart.

But he knew that Lin Ze was the hope of the entire Rose City, and the burden of preventing the chip infection could only fall on him.

Nan An continued to read, until the cub in front of him fell asleep, and then he tiptoedly put away the book.

Lin Ze left a note on the table.

——After the evening care is over, go to the staff room beside you to rest.Lin Ze.

Nan An didn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

But if you don't go, you may have your salary deducted by this big villain again.

Nan'an: "."

He frowned and pouted his mouth a little angrily, so he quietly moved to the lounge step by step.

Very reluctantly.

So much so that when he went out, he ignored an extremely slight movement. It was a mechanical sound, coming from the operation of an abnormal chip, and it was quietly sounding from the stairs downstairs. The smell of blood.

Nan'an gently closed the door and walked to the staff room.

The room was empty.

The collected books were piled up on the table, and the cub's water cups and toys were all in a mess -- no matter how you looked at it, it didn't seem like a place for him to rest.

Staring at the books in the room for a few seconds, Nan'an realized that he was deceived by this human being again, and he had no way to resist.

Nan'an: "..."

Really pissed off.

Thinking of this, Nan An snorted a little, clutching his fists, his eyelashes curled up in anger.Just when he decided to turn around and leave, and no longer believed any of Lin Ze's words, he accidentally stepped on a hard object.

So Nan An looked down——

A rectangular remote control.

He didn't know when this thing appeared. In his impression, there was no such thing in the staff room.

Could it be that Lin Ze fell?

With doubts, Nan An squatted down and fiddled with his hands a few times.

When he dialed the blue button, there was a soft click.

Like something started.

In an instant, the entire room was covered by soft white light, spreading in every corner.

Nan'an stood where he was, without moving for a long time.

A few hours before, Nan'an had told the cub that he wanted to see the stars.Although he didn't say the reason, but thinking about it, he knew that he had been in the human world for too long, and all he saw when he looked up was the rainy night that would never disappear, and the hazy fog.

He has long forgotten how the stars twinkle.

And now-

It was the full screen of the Milky Way, the universe that spanned thousands of miles, and it was projected on the wall opposite him, bright and eye-catching.

The author says:

Dr. Lin's true fragrance journey has begun.

This book is about to enter v, and strive for the next chapter to be thick and long, some excerpts are from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince" and Foucault's "Words and Things".

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!