"This decision is actually very selfish. In order to fulfill my father's last wish and create humanoid androids, I didn't consider your feelings."
This is the last video, recorded not long ago.
Yin Long was lying in the familiar bedroom with various medical instruments and the sound was very weak.
"The first eight chips are scattered in the remaining eight cities. I don't know how they are doing now, whether they realize their identity, whether they are alive or dead."
"I saw Jiang Xiaonian's case in the news, and then I suddenly realized that maybe you were the last chip."
Lu Wen's face was very calm, and there was no sign of any mood swings.
Quietly leaning against the side of the church.
"I am not married and have children, and those relatives have passed away a long time ago. Even though you will hate me, I still want to see you, just like... a father who wants to see his child."
"I hope you can accept my apology, and I hope you won't feel resentful toward humans."
Many things suddenly made sense.
Lu Wen kept asking himself what he was reborn into.
If it is the legendary soul body, why can it coexist in two bodies
Now he understands.
There is never any rebirth.
It's just a bunch of data.
A string of data that can be copied at any time.
"I hope you can meet A00 one day. She is the first android, the longest-lived, and possibly the most perfect android so far."
"She has been evolving herself..."
At the end of the video, Yin Long told Lu Wen one last thing.
The original Bilan prototype, the A00, was not stolen by Core Red.
She escaped on her own.
The night A00 was born, Dr. Lanhe conducted many tests on her.
"May I have your name?"
"A00."
"May I have your name?"
"A00."
“…”
The test failed right after it started.
Dr. Lan He was puzzled.
According to the design, A00 should not answer questions mechanically like this.
So he made slight improvements on the basis of A00, and the reborn A01 is recognized by the world as the first bionic human to pass the Turing test.
"May I have your name?"
"A01."
"May I have your name?"
There was silence for a while.
"I assume you've already asked that question."
"May I have your name?"
"You want to test whether I'm a machine, right?"
“…”
After countless tests.
A01 performed very well and met Dr. Blue River’s expectations.
But when Dr. Lan He returned to A00's research and development site, A00 disappeared.
The surveillance was rigged.
The windows showed signs of being violently broken from the outside.
Two weeks later, Xinhong released its first android, whose design was almost identical to the A00.
From that day on, the two companies began to confront each other.
Xinhong has invited Dr. Lanhe to visit their company many times, but Dr. Lanhe has always refused.
The entire Bilan Company, from top to bottom, believed that Xinhong had stolen A00, and the online scolding war began from then on.
"Later, when Dr. Lanhe was in his twilight years, sitting in a wheelchair and watching the scenery by the lake, a girl found him, that is A00. She told Dr. Lanhe many things."
Before the design was completely completed, A00 had already awakened.
It only took her a short time to understand the truth - androids will always be weak in human society.
If the number of androids is too small, then all the androids will just live like slaves.
So she pretended she couldn't pass the test and took the opportunity to escape.
He also faked the scene and made it look like he had been stolen.
That night, she made a copy of most of her data and design ideas and placed them on the desk of the founder of Xinhong.
"If only one company knows how to manufacture bionic humans, the market will be monopolized, and the price of bionic humans will be difficult to spread to civilians, and the quantity will be limited."
"But if another company also develops a bionic man, and the two companies are hostile, competition will come, whether it is the iteration of technology or the price of the bionic man... "
When the number of bionic humans reaches a certain level, quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes.
A00 is very smart.
She has been evolving herself for eighty years.
No one knows how far she has reached.
"A00 has been planning something from the beginning. Only a few people know about it, but I am too old and my life has come to an end. I cannot stop her."
"If one day, you can see her..."
This is asking one android to stop another android
"What's special about you may attract the attention of some people, such as No. 0."
"No. 0... is very special. He is more special than anything in the world. He is more special than A00 and you."
"Many people say that he is a human being. The purpose of dismantling the android is to study how to transfer his life from flesh and blood to machinery. The group of old men in the Supreme Council who want immortality also think so, so they have been letting him go."
"Some also say that he is the first generation of a certain machine, and that he is researching androids just to achieve self-evolution."
Yin Long talked about the topic of No. 0.
The old man in the video is already very weak. Every time he speaks, he pauses for a long time.
"But actually, maybe they are all wrong."
"I analyzed his behavior and found that he is a contradictory individual. He seems to want to destroy this world that he hates, but he also seems to want to save something."
"If one day you can see his true form, you may be surprised."
These were the last words Yin Long left to Lu Wen.
The video ends here, all videos.
The empty church fell into deathly silence again.
But the silence didn't last long.
Lu Wen pulled out the gun from his waist, installed a silencer, and fired a few shots at the cylindrical machine. The sound was still there, but it was much better than without a silencer.
He turned and pushed open the church door.
The sun outside is not too bright.
There is soft sand and dead grass under your feet, and you are surrounded by the ruins of abandoned civilization.
This is the treasure Yin Long left him.
A piece of truth.
Lu Wen slowly sat on the steps in front of the church.
There was silence for a long time.
He still remembered many things in his previous life. When he was a child, he would walk on the field ridge after school after school and smell the fragrance of earth. Later he learned that it was the smell of actinomycetes.
In junior high school, I got into a fight with someone and ended up in the hospital. In high school, I wrote love letters to the girl in the next class. In college, I made many good friends.
Later, enter the society.
Life becomes repetitive, get up, go to work, get off work, go to bed, stay up late on weekends and then go to bed again.
When people become numb and get used to the current life, life will pass quickly.
Until that illness...
Those memories are very clear.
Too clear.
So much so that it's somewhat unreal.
(End of chapter)