dramatic death

Where does human fear come from?

Most people would define fear as a state of mental activity, calling it a strong "stressful emotion."In the current stage of medical science, people have learned to use drugs to control the impact of this mood on the human body.

They call this control "conditioning," claiming that it is a "cure" that enables human progress.In a way, it helps people to focus better without subjecting important things to psychological factors.

However, some scientists pointed out: "What is the difference between this kind of human being and a machine?"

Immediately afterwards, someone retorted: "Isn't it an improvement to combine the machine with the human body?"

It depends on one's definition of "human".

Some people once called creatures that "can make and use things, and have the ability to think and judge" as humans, and asserted that as long as they have independent thinking and can evolve, they are all human beings.Then when the machine is initially equipped with a human form, when the terminal computer living in the underground of the hexagonal attic opens its eyes, and when Eve appears in the public eye, can she be defined as a "human being"?

If she starts talking with her mouth, tastes with her tongue, expresses doubts with her eyes, and expresses joy with her actions, how different is she from "human beings"?

Yin Tong did not understand.

He couldn't even tell whether the petite girl who pulled out the chair opposite him and sat in front of him was a "human being" in the traditional sense, or a "new human being" built on a terminal computer.

After all, in the text message Chen Yan sent him, Christie was already dead.

He didn't know who to trust.

……

【"Does Chief Wen believe in resurrection from the dead?"】

Ke Xuan heard Xu Jingchen ask such a question through the city surveillance at window No. [-].She saw the other party leaning on the back of the chair with a smile, looking up at Wen Qi behind him, Captain Wen's gun was still pressed against his temple, as if he didn't care that he was in danger at all.

He seemed to have anticipated the current situation, with a pleasant smile on his lips.Ke Xuan saw that he turned on the sharing mode of the mobile terminal floating in front of him, revealing the scene in the video call.

He said: [Mr. Wen, modern science defines the soul as a kind of data information with a fixed code. If this data information is stuffed into a machine that will never die, will human beings achieve immortality to some extent? "]

【"What defines people's feelings? Does death depend on the moment when brain activity stops?"】

【"If a person once lost all life reactions and is now activated again, is he resurrected from the dead?"】

【"How can we be sure that he is the one who came back to life?"】

Ke Xuan saw Xu Jingchen smile.Sitting in that small office, his body was covered with the soft light of the setting sun, his smiling eyes were slightly bent, like a child who found a toy.

He leaned on the back of the chair, raised his hand, and lightly picked the buttons on Wen Qi's uniform with his fingertips.

He said: ["Mr. Wen, do you think this 'resurrection' can be achieved?"]

Ke Xuan suddenly felt a strange feeling.

Xu Jingchen on the opposite side of the light screen was too calm, his expression remained unchanged as if he had already watched the plot once.He knew why Wen Qi came, the reason why all this happened, and he even knew what would happen next, because.

Ke Xuan turned her head abruptly, she bumped into Tang Yue's sight, and read a similar shock from the other's pupils.

She thought it was because all of this had already been written in Xu Jingchen's script.

There was no sound in the main control room. Adjutant Tang circled the approximate area of ​​police force deployment while checking the virtual light screen.He said: "Someone has already gone there, but currently only Captain Wen is inside. We don't have a search warrant, so rushing in doesn't comply with the regulations."

"There are no rules," Ke Xuan grabbed his wrist and ordered to the light screen in mid-air, "Break in, I will take care of things. By the way, I will notify the technical department, and I request to apply for a near-surveillance system for No. [-] city surveillance." ground authority."

But it was too late.

In just a few short breaths, Xu Jingchen has enlarged the interface of the video call.

The clear sight was locking on the girl in a gauze dress through the window full of plush toys. Ke Xuan suddenly raised her head. In the monitoring interface of window No. 3206, the experimental product A[-] was sitting opposite the girl.

……

"Chen Yan said, you want to talk to me."

Yintong kept smiling and pushed the cappuccino in front of Christie.

The petite girl sat down at the round table.She lowered her head, frowning and looking at her folded hands, her slightly drooping eye feathers were like trembling cicada wings, showing a delicate and fragile look for no reason.

She said, "Tongtong, I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry" has many definitions.

It is usually used as a reflection and apology for an incident, and occasionally it becomes the beginning of the perpetrator's plea for mercy. It is only composed of three short words, but it can always win the sympathy of the listener to the maximum extent.

So when these words came out of Christie's mouth, Yintong felt that he probably still had a lot to listen to.

He looked at Christie's small earlobes and her slender neck. He tried to distinguish the difference between her and a "traditional human" from the appearance, and tried to find clues of the installation interface from Christie's soft hair.He felt like a clumsy criminal, trying his best to get rid of the crime, but he had no clue about the real criminal, and every step he took, he walked on thin ice with trepidation.

Yin Tong's gaze flicked over Christie's temples, meeting her clear and bright eyes.

She said, "Tongtong, I know you don't believe me."

"But in this world, only I can protect you."

……

Ke Xuan took a puff of cigarette irritably.

She has been sending applications to the technical department continuously since 3 minutes ago, but the receipt is always only a rejection.The other party claimed that the city surveillance is currently the highest authority of the Central City.

What is Central City's "Supreme Authority"?

The last time Ke Xuan heard this word was when the old men above decided to adjust the air network data.At that time, the highest authority of Central City was in the hands of Eve, and all data information would be processed and filtered by her, and then put into various departments for implementation.

But now the insiders know that the girl Eve broke the pillar and disappeared out of thin air. They can't even find anyone. Where can they get the "highest authority"?

Ke Xuan took a big puff irritably, and crushed the cigarette on the armrest.

In the second window, Xu Jingchen, who is suspected to be the mastermind of the bombing in the commercial street, has been firmly tied up.Ke Xuan felt a headache even after looking at him, so he simply drove the city surveillance and went around the inside of ELF company.

This company does not look big, and the employees are pitifully small.Ke Xuan looked at it for a long time and suddenly realized that something was wrong. When she raised her head, she happened to bump into Tang Yue's line of sight.

"Where's Wen Qi?"

Adjutant Tang just hung up the phone, his face was full of irritability which is rare.He said: "Captain Wen didn't know what he saw in Xu Jingchen's terminal just now. As soon as our people rushed in, we saw him running out like crazy."

"Where is he going?"

"I didn't see clearly," Tang Yue frowned and made another call, "When they said they noticed, Captain Wen had already entered the driveway, and the direction should be towards the commercial street."

Ke Xuan frowned and stood up from the chair. She adjusted the position of the monitoring window in front of her, and saw Xu Jingchen in the second window being tied up and taken out of the studio.

There was still a smile on the corner of his lips, and he tilted his head to look in the direction of the city surveillance. It was as if he saw Ke Xuan behind the screen through a small electronic eye. His thin lips were slightly parted, and a simple word was outlined between the opening and closing.

He said.

"boom!"

The sound of glass shattering exploded in the No. [-] window. Ke Xuan suddenly looked up, and before all the windows turned into smooth sand, he saw a bloody face.

……

Christie is laughing.

The bullet that passed through the window instantly pierced her fragile head, and with the sound of shattering glass, she fell into the bright red sunset.

Yin Tong watched as she staggered two steps, leaned forward and fell on the round table in front of her.Like a doll who lost her balance, she knocked over the cappuccino and small cakes on the table, and the snow-white gauze skirt was gradually soaked with brown coffee liquid, tick-tocking in a panic.

She didn't stand up, though, as if the nerves in her brain that communicated upright had been severed.She lay on the round table with her head upturned, her pale body was exposed on the half of her head hit by the bullet, her gelatinous eyeballs rolled upwards, firmly locked on the direction of Yintong.

She is still laughing.

The other half of her head still maintains the same appearance as it was a few breaths ago. There is still a slight blush on the fair skin, and the small red lips are like cherries that have just been picked. Every part is amazingly beautiful.

Yin Tong looked at her soft hair framing the small earlobes, each strand of hair seemed to be finely detailed.He looked at the fine sand scattered on the seams of her face. Opposite the smooth sand, where she was hit by a bullet, her pale body was like inferior plastic.

Yin Tong stood up and took two steps back slowly.

He had imagined countless possibilities, guessing that Christie might be a secret sentinel sent by the Academy of Sciences to monitor her, or maybe a humanoid machine with self-thinking, but he never thought that the girl who had been with him for three years was not even a robot.

She is just a piece of data, a virtual image that cannot be condensed if the carrier is destroyed.All her expressions and actions are pre-set by humans, so of course Yintong's struggle cannot be understood, because she has no "ideas" at all, and only "orders" that should be executed in her database.

She only has the judgment ability that data should have, and her "thinking" is completely composed of 1 and 0.

She is just a system.

The "possessiveness" of the system is equivalent to "imprisonment".

Yin Tong took half a step back.

He suddenly remembered that Chen Yan had said a long time ago: "Christie will never be angry with you on this matter." At that time, he thought it was Chen Yan's persuasion that changed Christie's mind, but now he realized that Christie would not be angry, Because she doesn't have the "ability" to be angry.

If Chen Yan can change Christie's data, if he can tamper with the judgment conditions, then Christie will never execute the "angry" option.

That's why Chen Yan was so determined.

That's why he was allowed to get close to Christie under the high-pressure monitoring of the Academy of Sciences.

Yin Tong staggered out of the gate of the dessert house and wandered aimlessly on the street.He did not know where he should go, nor in what direction he could escape.

Standing in the middle of the road, he felt dizzy.He saw the overwhelming dusk falling in his field of vision, and countless swaying figures appeared on the empty commercial street, with their heads drooping, dragging their dirty and rotten bodies as they continued to move forward.

The scorching sunset left mottled spots of light on the ground, and Yin Tong saw Christie lying on the table with her head twisted in the window of the dessert house.

She is laughing.

The girl with only half of her head twisted her head and looked at him with an ecstatic expression.

She said, "Tongtong, only I can protect you."

Then in an instant, passers-by on the entire street turned their heads.