Give the slag and accept the end

The artificial human is a "new new human" who has undergone genetic modification and is far superior to the three generations of new human beings in all aspects of physical function and intelligence.

The Huaying Empire, the most powerful in the universe, was ruled by the head of the empire, Rongxian. During the 200 years, he fought fiercely all the way, leading the Huaying Empire to the peak of prosperity.

And now, with the days of the mighty monarch drawing to a close, the empire's splendor has begun to wane.

The powerful enemies around are staring at each other, just waiting for the moment when the monarch's life is over, tearing the agreement signed in the early years into pieces, and raising troops to capture this blue planet full of wealth.

Little did they know, it had been expected that today's Rong Xian, in order to cultivate qualified successors, had already started a "new new human project" that would shock the entire universe in the private forbidden area of ​​the head of state and the chief general of the empire.

They are no longer satisfied with making changes to the human body through injections or surgery, they want to fundamentally cut off all the weak roots of human beings.

The Huaying Empire needs a perfect, fearsome and extremely powerful new leader.

Thus, Rong Ji was born.

Rong Ji spent the first eight years in the petri dish. In those eight years, he was like a baby living in the mother's womb, without any consciousness, except for breathing.

From leaving the petri dish to now, Rong Ji has only been in this world for half a year.

It only took him one month from learning to walk to learning various daily behaviors, and it only took him three months from barely understanding the expressions and language of the people around him to being able to use basic daily language.

Now, he has begun to learn general knowledge like a child of the same age, and his learning speed is amazing. His memory and super knowledge comprehension ability allow him to pass three months of continuous reading and learning. Ordinary secondary school examination.

This kind of learning speed is not fast for the first batch of artificial humans.

The fastest, it doesn't even take half a year. Everything that human beings should learn has been "instilled" into their brains before they are "born".

But this kind of artificial human that violates the laws of human growth often has an extremely short lifespan. Before Rong Ji, seven consecutive people had died in the first month, the second month, and the third month.

Rong Ji was the only one who survived three months.

And before he survived, he also experienced a "death", and that "death" made him turn gray overnight.

"What is the meaning of life?" Rong Ji, who was just four months old and barely learned to read, asked his "father" Rong Xian.

Perhaps because of his extraordinary IQ, Rong Ji just learned the word "meaning" when many adults hadn't figured it out, and asked this shocking sentence.

But Rong Xian was not shocked, he took it for granted.

If the artificial man who has spent so much money, energy, and time can't even reach this level, he might as well cultivate artificial intelligence in the first place.

To this esoteric question, Rong Xian answered very directly: "There is no need for meaning."

"why?"

"If you don't need it, you don't need it, just like the tree outside the door, because of the rain and sunshine, it grew there."

"what about me?"

"You were born for the Huaying Empire."

"why?"

"No why."

"Why no why?"

Rong Xian frowned: "Bering, tell him to shut up."

Rong Ji, who is new to this world, has many things that he can't understand.

He asked the people around him, but the people around him were extremely stupid, either they didn't know, or they couldn't answer him satisfactorily, so he started to think about these questions by himself.

After thinking about it for about a month, even with his eyes closed at night, he did not fall asleep for a second.

Then one day a month later, overnight, his entire physical condition changed, and his black hair became white. When the researchers went to observe Rong Ji's condition the next day, they found that his breathing was weak, almost near death.

After being rescued, Rong Ji didn't speak for a long time, as if he was dumb.Rong Xian was so annoyed by this that he almost destroyed him on the spot, but was stopped by Bering.

It took nearly half a month, and the researchers finally got him to speak in various ways.

"I just want to know the difference between being dead and being alive," Rong Ji said.

It turns out that death is dominated by himself, and the artificial man can not only control the time he lives, but even control his own death.

That is, if he wanted to stop his heart, he could.

This shocked the researchers, and the main person in charge of the project, Dr. Bai Ling, was even more worried about it.

If it is said that Rong Ji can die if he wants to, then their experiment may fail at any time.

Obviously, no matter from any point of view, Rong Ji's performance is perfect to the extreme, but there is such a fatal problem.

If such a miraculous man-made dies, they don't have the confidence to train another one in a short time.

Because of Rong Ji's strong curiosity about death, Bai Ling had a headache for a long time.

Until one day, a researcher said to him: "Doctor, why do you think we humans want to live and live a long life?"

Bering asked him to speak.

"Because a lot of things we do have meaning, don't they?"

"and then?"

"Then, have you ever wondered how the abstract concept of 'meaning' arises?"

Bering was so upset that he didn't want to play tricks on him: "Aren't human beings the kind of creatures who love themselves and find trouble for themselves? It's just an instinct to find any reason to survive."

The researcher smiled: "Yes, survival instinct."

Bering asked, "What exactly do you want to say?"

The researcher looked at Rong Ji who was sitting on the edge of the bed, looking out of the window motionlessly. He was obviously only an eight and a half year old child, but he didn't have a trace of the liveliness and cuteness of a young child.

From birth to now, there seems to have been no obvious emotional fluctuations on his face, and there is no trace of joy, anger, sorrow or joy on his body.

Because the head of state said that his heirs don't need useless emotions, so when they were cultivating human bodies, they had already deprived Rong Ji's emotions on a large scale through genetic means, leaving only the necessary basic emotions to maintain basic emotions. judgment ability.

But now it seems that it is precisely because of emotional deprivation that Rong Ji fell into the process of thinking about this empty meaning prematurely.

"If one day, I don't feel all my emotions, I don't think I will understand the 'meaning' thing."

"Meaning" is something that makes people happy, without meaning there is no happiness, and there is no hope in life.

Losing emotions means not feeling happy.Without happiness, there is no meaning.

Bering, who discovered the fundamental problem, immediately carried out a repair plan. They decided to repair it from the inside of Rong Ji's brain through surgery. However, due to the particularity of Rong Ji's own body, the surgical repair plan was too risky to implement.

As a last resort, they had to take conservative treatment and regularly stimulate the brain through virtual reality therapy.

This method has a relatively high success rate and is relatively safe, but the process is extremely slow and the effect may not be obvious.

After thinking about it, they can only adopt this method when the technology is not yet mature.

Thus, the No. [-] treatment procedure—Su Ying was born.

Then... During the first meeting between the No. [-] treatment program and its owner, it died unfortunately before it played any role.

Rong Ji looked at the debris and broken balls on the ground and said, "I crushed it."

"..." It really wasn't an ordinary person's hand strength.

Seeing this, Bering sighed, bent down and carefully took out a silver chip the size of a small thumbnail from the damaged ball, and said, "Fortunately, the chip wasn't broken, otherwise you will lose Su Ying forever."

"lose?"

Bering handed the silver chip to the assistant on the side, and explained to him: "That is to say, you will never see the No. [-] treatment procedure again, which is what we just named Su Ying."

Rong Ji tilted his head: "Death?"

"Well, almost, but the word death can only be applied to people, it is a machine, and it can only be called destruction."

This is broken and you have to reset the program data, which is really troublesome.

Sure enough, it is not enough to just set up etiquette and morality teaching. "Emotional simulation" should also be set as a compulsory course. Using virtual reality to treat people through dreams in sleep should be more effective.

Thinking of this, Bering hurried away with the chip in the box, asked his assistant to help take care of the child, and went to the next-door laboratory to explain the new task.

But he didn't notice that Rong Ji, who was left behind, blinked at the few broken thin metal pieces on the ground, tilted his head, as if he was thinking about something.

"Come on, little Highness, stand aside a little, and I'll clean this place." The assistant knelt down and picked up the pieces bit by bit with gloves on. These pieces are all rare materials, and a little bit of waste is a luxury.

Rong Ji stood over a little.

"Don't use so much force next time, just be gentle." The assistant was already a mother, so she taught Rong Ji like a child.

After rambling on for a while, she didn't know if Rong Ji listened or not. She looked at Rong Ji's expressionless face and sighed in her heart, thinking that her child was still cute.

Someone like Rong Ji who doesn't respond to anything, is no different from a robot in human skin, sometimes just looking at it is creepy.

"It's a tool." When she was about to leave, Rong Ji said suddenly.

"what?"

Rong Ji pointed to the pile of debris in her hand and said, "The machine is a tool, and it is written in a book."

The assistant was stunned: "That's right, the machine is a tool."

Why are you saying this all of a sudden?

Rong Ji seemed to know what she was thinking, and it was rare for him to say a few more words to her: "The tool is broken."

"Uh……"

"So." Rong Ji said, "I didn't make a mistake."

"..." I didn't quite understand what he was talking about.

Rong Ji didn't explain to her again, he went to the window and sat down, picked up the book and read.

A machine is a tool, and a broken tool does not mean death, but destruction.

So, it doesn't matter if Su Ying is gone.