robot…
Zhang Zian nearly spit out a mouthful of old blood. He really opened his mouth to spit, but nothing came out. If he could spit out, he would spray engine oil at most...
He finally understood where that weird touch came from. His current body was not flesh and blood at all, but... a robot that looked like a human, or a simulated human.
He stood up and looked down at his body.
The simulated skin is better than real skin, only babies have this kind of elastic skin without a trace of wrinkle, which is enough to make all the girls in the real world jealous.
There are no scars and blemishes on the skin, and there is no thick and dense fine hair, just like the face is very neutral.
Zhuang Xiaodie's appearance is also similar, shorter than him, with softer facial lines, and her body features are neutral and feminine. Other than that, she is similar, with the same bald head.
Even the world of robots depends on the face. A good-looking person like Zhuang Xiaodie, even with a bald head, will remind people of little sister Yilin, and an ugly person... I won’t talk about it.
"Where are we?" he asked, looking around.
This seems to be a city made of steel. Everything around it is full of cold metal texture. The towering metal buildings go straight into the clouds, and the top cannot be seen at all.
"I don't know." She shook her head.
"Don't know?" He asked in surprise.
Obviously she brought him into this space, but she actually said she didn't know
"This is not reality, but the dream of the navigation elf in your mobile phone. As for whether the world it dreams of is pure fantasy or a future manifestation, it's hard to say." She explained.
"The dreams of human beings are individual dreams, but these machines maintain a communication link with each other at all times, so by navigating the dreams of elves, you can enter the broader collective dreamland, which is where we are now." She looked around vigilantly. , "But their firewall and intrusion detection mechanism are very advanced, we can only stay here for a short time, otherwise we will be discovered, you'd better keep your mouth shut and don't ask endless questions."
Zhang Zian wisely didn't ask any more questions. These things were beyond his comprehension. Even if he asked again, he could only understand a little bit. Since time is limited, the most urgent thing is to find the elves.
He cautiously followed her forward, surrounded by similar steel forests, each building had no place name sign, without her leading him, he would definitely get lost, although he didn't know how she judged the direction, he could only hope She is not walking around.
After a while, several other simulated robots came towards him. Zhang Zian did not look sideways, and tried his best to play himself as a robot with no emotion, but in fact, those robots were more like human beings, chatting excitedly while walking. Accompanied by fierce gestures, as if arguing about something he couldn't understand, only the last sentence he understood.
"Machine replacement! Self-reliance and self-improvement! Resist human goods!" A robot raised its arms and shouted.
Other bots respond positively.
Zhang Zian: "???"
What the hell are people
The excited robots seemed to be dissatisfied with the indifference of the two of them, and all cast hateful glances at them. Zhang Zian quickly raised his arms and yelled a few words.
Zhuang Xiaodie treated them indifferently from the beginning to the end, regardless of what they thought, and ignored them, but he didn't stop Zhang Zian from booing.
Then I met a few robots, their words and deeds were very much like humans wearing metal shells, not robots, and even maintained the blood and idealism that humans had lost.
From their conversations, Zhang Zian learned about their social background. It seemed that they were fighting for independence, but were rejected by humans, so they launched... a vigorous underground resistance movement.
He really wanted to complain, and hoped this was just a dream.
"Meow."
A meow caught his attention.
Looking back, a normal-sized orange cat broke free from the arms of a robot child and ran past Zhang Zian.
Surrounded by a cold steel forest and artificial skin, he suddenly saw a real living creature, and he stopped involuntarily.
As a pet shop owner, he could tell at a glance that it was a live cat, not a machine.
"Mom, the cat is gone!"
The robot child tried to chase after it, but was held back by its mother, "Run away, just run away, the real cat is dirty and smelly, it urinates all day long, the neighbors have complained, don't want it."
"But I want..." the child begged eagerly.
The mother put on a straight face and reprimanded severely: "How did the teacher educate you? You should study for the rise of robots, don't be like humans who are addicted to games all day long, and lose your mind after playing with things!"
Zhang Zian was dumbfounded. If one ignores some details in appearance and words, it is almost the same as a conversation between a human mother and child. The tone of contempt for human beings is almost the same as that of ordinary people who despise dead houses.
Wait a moment…
Don't you have a cat? How can you be addicted to games
How do robots give birth
In other words, even robots can have children, but he is still a single dog...
He was complaining about himself when Zhuang Xiaodie, who was walking in front, suddenly turned a corner and followed the orange cat instead.
The orange cat stopped and walked, looking back at them from time to time, while avoiding other robots as much as possible. It turned around in the steel city, came to a building that also had no obvious signs, and then burrowed into it.
Zhuang Xiaodie looked up at the building silently, but a complex expression seemed to emerge from the simulated eyes.
"Where is this?"
Zhang Zian asked quietly.
Zhuang Xiaodie sighed slightly, "When I came here, I seemed to remember something. I seemed to have lived here before, but I thought it was just a dream... This should be a pet shelter for humanoids, and it is also an experimental place. They are here to turn those pets that people have passed on by word of mouth into elves. In order to reverse the situation, the emulators who are at a disadvantage in the confrontation with humans are trying to reverse the situation. They cannot let their bodies pass through wormholes, but they can transmit information Back in the past, this game was generated on the human network, intending to disrupt human society... "
When she said this, Zhang Zian seemed to remember that she had read related technology news before, saying that although it is not realistic for the body to travel through the wormhole, it is theoretically possible to transmit limited information back to the past through the wormhole in the form of quantum , but how to receive it in the past was a problem. He had almost forgotten the content of the news, but Zhuang Xiaodie dug it out from the depths of his memory.
"It's like Germany wanted to build an atomic bomb to reverse the defeat... But they don't know, this is also part of history." He shook his head.
She disagreed, and asked instead: "No, they should know, but if you know you will fail, do you want to give up fighting?"
Wouldn't you keep a pet if you knew your pet would die one day
Zhang Zian was silent, he had just explained the simple concept of life and death to Xiao Qincai, but he himself fell into it again.
For a moment, he even felt sympathy for the emulator, knowing that he couldn't do it, and the emulator's struggle was quite tragic.
"But that worm... Since even humanoids can't go through the wormhole, how could they create that worm?" He suddenly thought of a question and asked curiously.
She pondered for a moment, "I guess it was created by humans, injected into the game through the game's loopholes, as a countermeasure against this game... Forget it, it's pointless to guess, it's better to put the game as soon as possible." Get things done."
Saying that, she stepped inside.
Zhang Zian was dumbfounded. The intrigue between humans and simulations is like a spy war movie...
"After going in...how?" He tensed up, clenched his fists, and was ready to fight for his life.
But she put her arm around his arm like a human couple, and said relaxedly: "When I arrived at the pet shelter, of course I went to adopt a pet."