Little Robot on the Run

Does he... go back?

Nan'an found the passage to the 45th floor.

After coming out of the monitoring room, he walked around the deserted corridor, surrounded by wall dust, and broken chips fell on the ground—it seemed that the robot had a fierce fight with the investigation team before.

Nan'an stepped across the glass slag all over the place.

In the crisp creaking sound, Biddle's words appeared beside his ears——

"There is only one way now."

"As a bionic man made by Yinling, you have experienced several months of human society, so you can only rely on your brain to splice with the half of the data in the rose area."

"Because of this, it is considered a complete program."

Nan'an hurried past while recalling.

There are several robots near the turning corner. They are leaning against the wall, and the mechanical arms are barely connected to the body, and they are precarious.

But Nan'an couldn't take care of it anymore, his mind was full of the words Biddle said to him.

And, that price.

Nan'an took a breath, probably because he walked too fast, he bumped into a robot in the corner.

Before he could react, the mechanical arm, together with its hard metal body, slammed into the ground and instantly fell apart.

The crisp sound brought him back to the previous conversation——

"cost?"

He who was in the monitoring room at that time asked in a low voice: "What is that? What do I need to pay?"

Biddleton took a few seconds and said, "Your experience."

"What's the meaning?"

"To put it simply, when you plan to hand over your intellectual brain to the Rose area and let them start the program, you will not be the Nan'an you are now."

"You will forget everything before, and there is a high probability that it will be irreversible. Those people or things you meet in your memory will disappear completely." Biddle said, "The most important point is that a robot cannot be without an intelligent brain, especially a bionic human. ——This is something that survives, once it is lost, then the language mechanism, logic, emotional acceptance, etc. have a probability of problems.”

Nan'an pushed away the robot in front of him.

Parts on the ground, he stepped over in small steps and walked into the emergency exit.

Under the flickering light, the freight elevator leading to the 45th floor appeared in front of his eyes.

There was no one around, so Nan An looked around for a few seconds before walking directly into the freight elevator.Despite the mess in the hallway, the elevator appeared to be working.He clicked the floor button on the right, and in an instant, a mechanically sweet female voice sounded.

The elevator went up slowly.

Nan An leaned in the elevator, watching quietly the elevator floors above kept jumping, from floor 35 to floor [-], and then to forty—the numbers were reflected in his amber pupils, but he could not see any emotion from this young man , calm like a wisp of misty dust in the universe, it seems that it will be completely dispersed with a slight blow.

And Nan'an still seemed to be thinking, even though the elevator was shaking and ascending rapidly, he still didn't regain his senses.

He recalled the past again.

At the moment when he lost contact with Biddle an hour ago, across the big screen, he saw an old figure appearing behind Biddle, and slowly raised his gun.

But Biddle seemed to ignore it, and continued to talk to Nan'an along the previous topic.

"I can only say a certain probability, child."

"But as a robot, you don't have to contribute to the human group. This is not your obligation."

"Now you are free, you can go anywhere, leave the human world, go to an oasis, go to a distant place, go wherever you want—"

A shot went off.

Mixed with Curiel's scarlet eyes, the screen completely went dark in front of Nan An.

……

The sweet mechanical female voice sounded at the right time: "The 45th floor has arrived."

The elevator door gradually opened, and the incandescent light shone in, falling into Nan'an's eyes—corridors, laboratories, robots, all of which made up this floor.

According to what Lin Ze said before, there will be someone docking on the left platform of the 45th floor, who can take him back to the rose area.

But is he really going back?

Nan An lowered his eyelashes.

After making a simple judgment, he walked towards the left platform.

Like the Rose Base, Yinling also has complex corridors, with tiny cameras in every corner, covering almost no blind spots.

But the current Yinling will not be the same as before, the camera is not working, and Nan'an passes in front of him without any sirens.

It looks like the investigation team has taken control of the Yinling base.

Nan An couldn't help pulling the corner of his mouth. He stood in the scanning area for a few seconds, the mechanical door in the corridor on the left automatically opened, and the platform appeared in the field of vision——

This is a sunken area with about three floors.

Surrounded by iron frame ladders, there are two on each side, rotating and winding down, passing through several floors until reaching the lowest floor.It was a flat field separated by glass panels, and the rose logo was suspended in the air and projected on it.

Nan'an's eyes fell on it for a few seconds, and he suddenly realized that this was the pause point of the investigation team.

And Lin Ze asked him to come here just because he wanted to take him back with him.

Nan'an trembled.

Does he... go back?

Biddle said he was free, and the dispute between Rose and Silver Bell would not affect him.

He doesn’t have to worry about exposing himself every day, and he doesn’t have to be afraid of those robots who attack him. He can go wherever he wants without worry, and the oasis and the distance have become so within reach——

So what is he hesitating about now?

Nan'an didn't know.

But every time he thought of this, there was always a very complicated emotion welling up in his heart, overwhelming him.

He looked at the rose logo for a long time, and at this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps behind him.

Nan'an went down one floor and hid behind the cargo box next to the stairs.

"Dr. Lin, 80.00% of the area of ​​Yinling Base is under the control of the investigation team." The man said, "The police force led by Eden will come later to help recover the robots in the bionic experiment."

"It's work."

It was just the two words of coldness, which made Nan'an tremble again.

"Your prediction was very accurate. During the recovery plan, you deliberately released false news about the loss of contact, and deliberately left a loophole in the Rose Base, so that Yinling felt that you could take advantage of the opportunity." The man said, "It's just a pity that we In the end, there is no synthetic procedure, and there is still a crisis of chip infection in the rose area."

The man paused for a few seconds: "We didn't expect this. The investigation team wanted to search for the half of Yinling's information, but they couldn't find it no matter how hard they searched—it seems that Flo must have hidden it in the most hidden place." The place."

Lin Ze: "Further investigation is required."

"Yes, you are quite right. But the problem now is that we can't wait so long. The data in the rose area was taken away by Flo, as long as Yinling combines the half they have, then the bionic technology will Complete it thoroughly, and by then, the situation will be even worse than it is now."

"What about the opinion of the police department?"

"Now we have gathered at the twelve towers."

"Contact Eden." Lin Ze said, "Let him send the real-time video to the base and recover all the robots in the tower laboratory."

A brief silence.

When the man spoke again, his voice trembled: "Could it be that you want to investigate yourself?"

"Ah."

"It's impossible, tens of millions of robots, do you want to obtain the data of Yinling one by one? I know that Yinling has rules to follow in the process of designing robots, and following the laws of evolution, it may be possible to push to bionic technology, But the risk is too great."

As he said that, the man's tone gradually became agitated: "Just like when you were at the base, finding a robot with consciousness is not a difficult problem, but in the process, you cannot guarantee your absolute safety, because the robot is always there. risk of mutation."

"I have my measure."

Another long silence.

Just when Nan'an felt that Lin Ze would not say anything more, he heard the other party say lightly: "The robot formation RB23 needs personnel to connect. Ellie is over there, and come here to gather after you finish processing."

The researcher said nothing more.

The footsteps gradually faded away, Nan'an speculated that he went to the freight elevator and waited for the descending elevator.

The platform gradually became silent. Nan An leaned on the cargo box beside him, listening to their movements. Just as he was picking up the cardboard box and sticking his head out—the communicator in his pocket fell to the ground.

The clang of metal shells.

Nan'an panicked for a moment, he hurriedly picked up the communicator, fearing that Lin Ze would hear it.

And at the moment he picked up the communicator, there was a slight click by his ear, and he hadn't responded yet, and it could even be said that something touched his forehead the second after the sound was made.

The cold touch made Nan An shiver, and raised his head directly——

It's Lin Ze.

He was pointing a silver gun at him.

Nan An's eyes widened, but he didn't react at all. He raised his head in a daze, and met Lin Ze's eyes directly.Those cold, thin silver eyes pierced through him like a bullet.

They stared at each other for a few seconds.

Although the minutes and seconds are short, Nan'an still thinks of many scenes.

He seemed to see the robots that were penetrated by Lin Ze, and the robots that were reduced by atomizing bombs, with dark gun holes, standing in front of him as if they were prosecuting a crime.

In a daze, Lin Ze put away his gun.

He lowered his head and pressed something on the communicator.

Accompanied by a few drops, a mechanical voice came from it: "Hello, Dr. Lin. You have confirmed the safety of the platform through the machine's infrared ray 15 minutes ago. Do you want to continue to start the security screening?"

Lin Ze: "Confirm."

After the voice fell, there was a clear beeping sound, accompanied by the sound of the software running, and the mechanical female voice continued to sound——

"checking……"

"Initial screening has been completed to confirm the underlying security."

"The security of the first layer of the platform is being confirmed, and it has been confirmed."

"Confirmation on the second floor of the platform..."

Nan'an hugged her knees and stayed quietly aside.Listening to the voice in the communicator, he suddenly realized that Lin Ze was reconfirming the security of the platform layer.

Even though he is a bionic robot, the human still reconfirms the safety of the surroundings the moment he sees him.

Thinking of this, Nan'an suddenly couldn't stop trembling.

Some images appeared in front of his eyes, and the beautiful experiences of the past appeared in his mind like this, but he seemed to be unable to grasp them. Since the separation of the two cities, they have gradually drifted away.

Nan'an knew that as a robot, or Yinling's bionic human, the ending for him and Lin Ze could only be to part ways.

"The platform layer has been confirmed."

The last words fell.

The entire platform fell into a silent dead silence.

There are no researchers here, probably because they have missions, they all left the pause point.So Nan'an wrapped himself up even smaller, with the communicator aside, but he just rolled himself into a small ball, with his head deeply buried in it.

At this moment, he heard Lin Ze approaching and picked up his communicator.

"The screen is broken?"

A cold voice sounded.

Nan'an trembled slightly, and gave a vague "hmm".

Lin Ze glanced at him and handed him the communicator.

Without saying anything, Nan An lowered his head and took it.

His fingertips trembled involuntarily, but he tried his best to restrain himself.When the communicator returned to his hand, he almost held it tightly with both hands.

Seeing Lin Ze's gaze falling, his eyebrows drooped slightly, as if he was making a decision.After a while, he got up and took a step back, and said calmly, "I broke it on purpose."

This is the final decision made by Nan'an after thinking about it until now.

Whether it is an oasis, a distant star, or a vast sea and a lighthouse, as long as it exists in the good memory, in the photos that the human being in front of him showed him, it is enough.

——This is the only way to give the brain to Lin Ze.

"I came to get close to you with a purpose." Nan'an said slowly, "For the half of Rose's data, I colluded with Flo, let him tamper with the previous inspection, and successfully entered the research institute."

The author says:

Little fool, how could Dr. Lin believe it?

Sorry guys, I've been sick for the past few days, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to adjust my mood and state. I want to get the glass shards over quickly but my physical strength is not enough qwq. I'm writing the second correction, and I will try my best to write it well.