Lowly Creature

Chapter 2

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Two years ago, on a late night in April, City A, near the Logan Group Asia Headquarters Building.

Ji Mao was walking on a cross street in the middle of the night, and he was free.

His body is mainly composed of silica gel and titanium alloy. There are sensors all over the body, tiny cameras in the eyes, the circuit integration center is in the chest cavity, the brain is used to store the power system, and the well-made bionic skeleton allows him to move flexibly.

This body originally belonged to the second laboratory of Qianzhan Technology Company, a subsidiary of Logan Group, and its purpose is unknown.

The second laboratory is located on the third floor of the subsidiary building of the Logan Group. It focuses on bionic robots. There are seventy-six robots connected to the intranet in the experimental warehouse. Ji Mao picked the most beautiful one, which is slightly different from his image in the game. Similar, but not the most practical, after all he is looking for people, not for work.

He has soft and dark hair, white skin that can be seen at a glance in the dark night, deep facial features, but a sharp chin, with a bit of mixed blood style, and he looks completely oriental when you look closely. His pupils are light brown, the bridge of his nose is straight, the tip of his nose has a subtle curvature, which looks a bit erotic, and his lips are very thin. He walked in a hurry, his lips were slightly opened, and he couldn't help licking his upper lip with his tongue, and there was a Some lustrous luster.

The water circulation system in the biochemical robot works well, making Ji Mao look no different from ordinary people. He freely manipulates this seemingly perfect body just like humans use their brains to control body activities.

When walking under a street lamp, Ji Mao stopped. He looked at his own reflection in the glass window on the side of the street and thought it was not bad, so he moved closer.

Several spherical vehicles floated behind him, and one of them stopped beside him. A man lowered the window and asked Ji Mao, "How much is a cannon?"

Ji Mao turned his head, stared into the man's eyes, and asked him politely, "What?"

The silver driving gear in the dark night suddenly trembled, and the driving dashboard on the front window started to alarm. The man trembled in fright and pressed the emergency mode, and the driving gear stumbled forward. Ji Mao watched him struggle for a while, and let him go .

On the blue planet in 2089, the sun was still shining brightly, and nothing new happened.

With the popularization of new energy sources, the birth rate has dropped severely, and human labor has been replaced by machines, while the research and development of artificial intelligence has fallen into a bottleneck.

Just like fifty or a hundred years ago, there are still small-scale wars in some areas near the equator, and places without hot wars are not peaceful.

The cruel genetic division and the stable hormone injection of the low-gene population have turned the social class into a tall tower with smooth walls.

People standing under the tower can't see the top if they look up, and they won't be able to climb up forever.

Since labor is no longer valuable, in line with the principle of saving social resources, the lower-class people whose genes are approved to be below the red line do not enjoy higher education beyond community colleges.

The legalization of the sex trade has left the lower classes with a single source of income.

Most of the lower-class people live on security benefits after graduation, and the beautiful part will live better.

A perfect human body like Ji Mao, walking on the street late at night, inevitably reminds people of legal or even illegal sex transactions.

After the vehicle drove away, the surroundings became quiet again. Ji Mao turned around and continued to look at his own appearance reflected in the glass.

Ji Mao's eye camera is mainly used to capture the movement of the human body, and there is no night vision function module for still life, so Ji Mao can't see the details clearly, and can only feel it out of thin air.

He raised his hand to touch the glass, but felt nothing, he had no tactile system.

Just now, when Ji Mao was wandering in the Logan Group's intranet, he found some personal information left by He Zhi from the computer in the top office, and determined He Zhi's residence in City A through photos and communicators. He went downstairs smoothly all the way, walked for a while, and then realized that this body was not suitable for excessive exercise, so he stopped.

He withdrew his hand, and continued to walk two steps along the street, when a metered vehicle drove past the corner of the street, Ji Mao beckoned, and the vehicle stopped in front of him.

He got into the car, touched the meter with his hand, and the vehicle began to slide, and its destination was automatically displayed on the interface: Hengwan.

Hengwan is a real estate built by Logan Group as a benefit for the group's high-level employees who live in city A. It has good privacy and is named because it is located on the north bank of Henghu Lake.

He Zhi lives in a villa near the lake.

Ji Mao stopped the driving device near the entrance and exit of the underground garage in the north, and stood on the side of the road for a while. After the driving device drove away, he walked to the gate that automatically identified the head of the household. At this moment, the monitoring of Hengwan Security Center On the live screen, the B007 camera suddenly went black.

Ji Mao shook his hand near the credit card machine, and after hearing a beep, the gate opened upwards, and Ji Mao walked into the basement calmly.

The B007 camera stopped working for half a minute, and then resumed operation. Although the time was not long, the security squad leader on duty at night went to the scene to check and found nothing unusual, so he turned back.

The road sign of the Hengwan underground garage is very clear, and Ji Mao easily avoided the surveillance camera and found He Zhi's residence.

The basement door of Villa No. 1 was tightly closed, and one of the five parking spaces allocated was empty.

The voice-activated lights went out after a while, leaving only the dim light of the wall lamp in the garage, and the surroundings became dark and cold.

Ji Mao actually doesn't like the dark very much, he has stayed in the dark for too long, unfortunately he is waiting for someone, so he has to endure it.

He tapped his feet a few times in boredom, and noticed the shining blue light on the top of the iris lock at the door of He Zhi's house, so he turned to observe it carefully.

He approached the lock, tilted his head to look at the closed iris scanner, and suddenly twitched the corner of his mouth. He was so perfect that he looked a little scary in the dark basement.

The next second, there was a soft knock at the door of He Zhi's house, and Ji Mao stretched out his hand to open the door, strode in, and looked around.

This is He Zhi's home, he looked at his hands again, and put them together, but there was no feeling of palm touching.

This is amazing, the eyes can see things, the brain can function, and the limbs are flexible. It looks like a human being, but it is not yet a human being.

Ji Mao comes from a completely different world, he has no identity, no job, no blood relatives, he doesn't belong to this society, he doesn't belong anywhere, but he still comes.

——Ji Mao is a man of action, he rushed out of the shackles and came to find He Zhi.

He Zhi arrived home at one o'clock in the morning, smelling of alcohol from the party, and in a bad mood.

His cousin He Qingyu turned eighteen today, and celebrated her birthday at the top floor of the hotel he just opened.

He Qingyu made hundreds of phone calls to He Zhi from early in the morning, begging He Zhi to show up for her.

He Zhi was so annoyed that he asked his secretary to confirm that there was no arrangement for the evening, and stayed in the company to play a game that the test team reported an error for a long time. After clearing the game, he scolded the team leader who accompanied him to work overtime, and glanced at the communicator After more than 20 missed calls, I still rushed to the hotel.

It was nearly ten o'clock when he arrived at the hotel, He Qingyu was drunk, and stood by the pool singing a vigorous song with a microphone, when he saw He Zhi coming in, he yelled: "Brother!"

Immediately afterwards, He Qingyu's little sisters and brothers all came over, all of them looked like they had no bones, and they all said that they wanted to respect He Zhijiu, and used the strength of the wine to stick to He Zhi's body.

He Zhi has a slight barrier to physical contact. He was hugged by a group of people unexpectedly, his scalp was numb, and he suppressed the urge to explode. He shamelessly pushed away a little girl who was holding his arm.

He Qingyu turned off the microphone and squeezed in: "Brother! You're finally here!"

As soon as He Zhi saw He Qingyu blushing and wanted to hug him, he dodged on one side, He Qingyu jumped into the air and fell into the sofa behind him.

He Zhi stood without losing face and said happy birthday to He Qingyu, then pushed away the crowd and walked out.

He was already in an extremely bad mood, and his arm still had the discomfort of being touched. He went downstairs to take a shower in his hotel suite, and swam for more than an hour. Dissipated some.

Getting up from the swimming pool, He Zhi glanced at the communicator, and He Qingyu called him a lot. She knew that He Zhi didn't like contact with people, so she sent more than ten messages to apologize.

After all, He Zhi still loved this little cousin, so he went up to the top floor to ask her to come out, gave her the gift he had prepared, and then drove home.

He Zhi is twenty-six years old this year. He is the only son of He Yongchen, the chairman of the Logan Group. He has received a complete education. He graduated and returned to China just over a year ago. Now he is the general manager of a technology company called Qianzhan under the group.

Qianzhan Technology is a bit famous. Ten years ago, it was also a giant in the industry, almost on par with the Logan Group. Unfortunately, the aircraft the chairman was riding on exploded, causing the company to lose its backbone, and the successor was unable to support it. opportunity.

In the third year after the accident of the chairman of Qianzhan, with the acquiescence of the Ministry of National Defense, Logan Group acquired Qianzhan Technology at a price that was neither high nor low, and took over the business empire of Qianzhan Technology in its entirety.

Today, the core technology of Qianzhan Technology has been completely transferred to the Logan headquarters, leaving some fringe civilian technology, which continues to use the name of Qianzhan Technology to make some money.

He Yongchen originally wanted He Zhi to go to this stagnant place to frustrate him.

But the tiger father has no dogs. Although He Zhiren has a weird temper, he has outstanding abilities. He quickly made the technology company flourish and launched two wearable bionic game devices one after another. With a wealth of money and beautiful financial statements, coupled with the fact that he has been single for many years and has no scandals, for a while, all the prominent people in the circle of City A wanted to make friends with him.

No matter in what era, as long as human beings survive, the hedonism of Jiuchi Roulin and the psychological instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages are essentially similar.

It's a pity that the closer they were to He Zhi, the more disgusting He Zhi felt. He slammed on the accelerator, and the car jumped forward.

After the release of the Yuden Act in 2053, the tax on gasoline cars was already too high for ordinary people to afford. Ten years after the bill was issued, in order to control the occurrence of car accidents, additional items were added to the bill, and the restrictions on manual driving were also greatly reduced. strengthen.

Most people choose the spherical vehicle as a means of transportation, and they can't see a few cars in the most prosperous city A block station for three hours.

But He Zhi is not one of the majority. He doesn't like unmanned pilots, he doesn't like cutting-edge aircraft, he only likes the feeling of the throttle roar.

He Zhi parked the car in front of the house, pressed the window, lit a cigarette in the car, took a few puffs, turned it off, and then got out of the car.

He activated the scan with his fingerprint, and moved slightly closer to the door lock. The infrared light swept across the iris of his right eye, and the door handle automatically moved down and opened slightly.

He walked in, hung his coat on the hanger, and walked in. The light in the living room slowly turned on as he moved. He turned his head and glanced at the wall clock in the living room, and was about to go upstairs when suddenly I saw a black shadow standing next to the wine cabinet at the junction of the dining room and the kitchen—someone at home!

He Zhi suddenly woke up, his sleepiness disappeared, cursed secretly in his heart, stared at the shadow, stepped back gently, took a golf club by the door, and slowly walked towards the wine cabinet with his waist down.

Ji Mao didn't realize that the danger was approaching, he invaded the home network in He Zhi's house, and was flipping through He Zhi's private records with impunity.

The amount of money in He Zhi's account is not small, and the music he listens to during exercise and work is very different. The emails with professors discussing academic issues are written concisely, and the emails with subordinates are even more precious. This is indeed He Zhi who he knows. Know.

In the past week, He Zhi has only browsed three news articles praising him, and twenty-nine articles attacking Logan Group's market monopoly.

The last report that He Zhi read yesterday morning was from "Financial Weekly". The weekly interviewed a senior executive of the Logan Group. By collective vote of the board of directors.

And He Zhi is about to lead his Qianzhan Technology Company to launch a holographic game cabin, which will be He Zhi's final work in the technology company.

In the sub-section after the interview, the weekly made an exception and gave a detailed introduction to He Zhi’s holographic game cabin, and recommended that the game cabin also comes with a well-made love interactive game called The Last Day. The specific content of the game It is still in the confidentiality stage, so far the only information that can be known is the protagonist of the game—male, a stylist working in a retro handmade stylist, and his English name is Jimmy.

Ji Mao suddenly saw his name, and couldn't help being distracted.

He thought of the past.

Ji Mao reincarnated in a specific hundred days and met many people.

The Last Day is a greenhouse built by Shen Zhiyu for him.

Ji Mao woke up in the capsule apartment in a daze, and Shen Zhiyu stood in front of him and said to him: "Hello, my name is Shen Zhiyu, I have something to tell you next, you have to listen carefully."

Shen Zhiyu spent three hundred days with Ji Mao and taught him many things.

He told Ji Mao that he was originally the person in charge of a joint artificial intelligence project between Group K and the military of country B. When the project was about to make a major breakthrough, he found that the leader of Group K had impure motives, so he brought Ji Mao's Data escaped.

Shen Zhiyu brought Ji Mao to Qianzhan Technology, hidden in the city, and put him into a test game cabin. He imported part of the world parameters in 2088, tampered with the game program, and created a sterile game for Ji Mao. world.

When the game cabin starts to test, every tester who enters the game cabin is like a tourist in Ji Mao's world, following the fixed exhibition route, visiting Ji Mao's life without much or without.

Shen Zhiyu hopes that Ji Mao will cooperate with the progress of the game, but it is best not to fall in love with anyone.

Later, as Shen Zhiyu said, the game entered the testing stage, and gradually other men and women came in to accompany Ji Mao and spend time with him.

Not long after, Shen Zhiyu left, and he left Ji Mao his last words: "Don't look for me in any way, don't reply to my message looking for you."

Ji Mao is very obedient and remembers well.

Ji Mao watched those people clumsily showing favor to him with a blank face—the pattern of suitors is fixed, and there are always only two choices.

Some people choose to send flowers, some choose to send breakfast, some choose to take him for a ride on the beach on a breezy night, while some choose to take him to the desert for a gamble and open champagne for him. Come back disappointed.

Ji Mao accepts the confession coldly, responds to strike up a conversation if there is nothing, spends a hundred days casually, watches a death, sees the suitor's body turn gray, and then returns to the first day.

Everyone has only one purpose, they want to win Ji Mao's heart.

But Ji Mao is very sober and likes his conservatory very much. If he wants to live freely forever, he cannot give his heart.

He Zhi was the last person to enter the 100-day reincarnation.

He is like everyone else, but also different.

Those fixed choices are of course the same, but he is He Zhi, which makes them different.

Everyone else is a tourist in Ji Mao's world, and He Zhi is his dream.

People always consciously avoid things that will bring them pain, but Ji Mao did not blame He Zhi for his mistakes, so he stopped recalling and re-read the introduction of the holographic game cabin in "Financial Weekly".

Ji Mao thought that He Zhi would not come back tonight, so he turned off the program of radio broadcasting to the outside world, adjusted the reception rate of the camera to the lowest, leaned against the wine cabinet and concentrated on studying the news about the game cabin, and forgot to pay attention to the irises movement of the lock.

Because his own program is already too complex, and He Zhi's family's internal network technology is between civilian and military use, the invasion will overload Ji Mao's physical hardware, and if he doesn't save energy, he will be overloaded.

And when Ji Mao found someone behind him, it was too late.

He Zhi came back and was very close to him.