Qin Minghui used her skills in tending flowers and plants to grow these wild fruits, and also spent some time making some daily necessities for herself.
On the way, they came across a tree so thick that two people could hug it together. 01 cut a branch under her instruction. The branch was at least 20 centimeters long. After she hollowed it out and polished it, she made a set of wooden plates and bowls, as well as washbasins and water cups.
While doing this, 01 gave her great help. In a short period of time, she developed many new practical life functions from 01, which originally had a simple and crude attack method.
The first time he made a bowl with wood, Qin Minghui asked him if he had a knife. 01 suddenly ejected a high-temperature flame knife that was more than ten meters long and two meters wide from his left palm - the kind that could directly cut a building in half.
Qin Minghui was so scared that she squatted down with her legs hugged, and touched her hair with lingering fear. She was so close, what if her hair got burned
She taught 01 for a long time before he learned to use such a big hand to make a bowl smaller than his fingertips.
01Nowadays, you can extend a drill or a small knife from your fingers, easily dig out a circle or other shape on the wood, and then use the high-speed rotating fingers to polish it.
Qin Minghui, who was in charge of the guidance, was very satisfied with the way he taught this killer weapon to be more and more applicable to daily life. She felt that 01 was really like a blank slate, and needed guidance from others.
This is strange, he is a robot, but he needs to be taught some things, rather than being programmed.
This kind of interaction sometimes made Qin Minghui feel like she was interacting with a "human". However, every time she looked up and saw 01's tall figure, this feeling would slowly dissipate.
01After all, it was too big, and he couldn't do anything more delicate. Qin Minghui did the rough processing and then the detailed processing. His hands, which had never worked before, soon had many blisters.
"01, you are too big. It would be better if you could become a little smaller." Qin Minghui said casually.
After a while, she found that 01 suddenly made a clicking sound, and folded its entire body up, squatting on the ground like a huge stone.
"01…? What are you doing?"
[Little Miss, 01, get smaller.]
Qin Minghui was touched by the cuteness of this big iron lump. She covered her chest and unconsciously revealed an expression as if she saw a cute little animal. "01, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. Both the big robot and the small robot are good, each has its own strengths. You were already good before."
She walked forward and touched 01's head stuck on the ground. Even if it was deformed, he still remembered that the head could not turn randomly, lest the wild strawberries and small wild fruit trees on the head fall over.
"Such a big 01 makes me feel safe, really."
Although she knew that he was not human, Qin Minghui could not help but treat him subconsciously as she would treat her own kind when she was with him, and was even more gentle and patient. After all, he was ignorant and kept learning from her, just like a silly child.
01 stretched his body back to its original shape and carried his little lady around. Passing by a tree, he turned his head and stopped to ask:
[Little Miss Tree.]
Qin Minghui understood immediately that he was asking her if she wanted to cut more branches to make something.
Last time, she made a lot of utensils with tree branches. Qin Minghui, who was originally prepared to refuse, suddenly felt that it was not good to discourage 01's enthusiasm. His behavior of taking the initiative to speak was worth maintaining, just like you cannot discourage a child's enthusiasm.
So he changed the subject and said, "I also want to make a small chair and a small table. 01, please cut a branch for me."
[Yes, little miss. Which branch would you like?]
He held Qin Minghui up and asked her to go to the tree to pick one up. Qin Minghui pointed to a branch about 30 centimeters in diameter and said, "This one."
01A large serrated knife stretched out from his other hand. Just as he was about to cut the branch, Qin Minghui saw two little birds flying up from the branch.
"Wait a minute, 01." Qin Minghui looked carefully and found that there seemed to be a bird's nest on the top of the branch.
"There's a bird's nest on this branch, 01. Let's take the one next to it."
01They cut the branches silently, and under Qin Minghui's guidance, they worked together to make an ugly chair and a small table.
Qin Minghui sat on the small chair, feeling very accomplished. She moved the chairs and table to the top of 01's head and placed them next to the wild strawberry balcony. She then tied some large leaves and branches from the roadside together to serve as a parasol and had an afternoon tea with a pastoral flavor.
The tea was made of mint leaves soaked in water, and paired with a few freshly picked wild strawberries. Everything was very simple, even the shoes on Qin Minghui's feet were made by her herself. But she sat on a small chair holding a wooden cup, looking at the green world under the bright sunshine, feeling calm and comfortable.
Every night is their fixed communication time. Qin Minghui would ask 01 what he had learned and understood that day.
That night, when Qin Minghui asked him the same question again, 01 told her:
[Little Miss, 01 understands, branches with bird nests cannot be cut.]
Qin Minghui was very surprised because she had not told 01 this before. She just mentioned it casually. Unexpectedly, 01 seemed to have a deep impression of it. He not only remembered it, but also came to this conclusion himself. Qin Minghui's first reaction was relief, but then she felt a little distressed.
Finally, she said hesitantly: "01, this is a bit complicated."
“If I need a branch and there are two branches in front of me, one with a bird’s nest and one without, I will choose the one without the nest.”
"If I need a branch badly and there's only one branch in front of me, I'll cut it down even if there's a bird's nest on it."
"So, when it comes to branches with bird nests, the question is not whether you can cut them, but whether you need to cut them."
Sometimes we cannot avoid hurt, but we can avoid unnecessary hurt. Qin Minghui has always felt this way, and she also hopes that the robot 01 who accompanies her can understand this.
—It sounds incredible. He hasn't even unlocked the learning and emotional templates, but she hopes he can understand such a complicated problem.
Unconsciously, she had many expectations of him as a human being.
01 took a long time to react before he spoke out to respond to her words.
[Little Miss, 01, saved.]
"Although I didn't understand it, I remembered it." Qin Minghui smiled. Today's 01 also responded well to her expectations.
They passed another village. This village looked like it had been abandoned for a long time. The roofs of the mud houses were broken, and weeds grew to half a person's height, fluttering out of the houses.
The trees "reclaimed" the reclaimed fields around the village and reoccupied them.
Qin Minghui searched everywhere for food left behind by the farmers who used to live here. The food grew out of the wild and became food for small animals such as voles, moles, squirrels, rabbits, weasels, etc.
Qin Minghui, who had no experience in identifying crops, searched around for plants she recognized as if she was treasure hunting.
"01! Look, this is chili!" Qin Minghui happily showed it to 01.
[Yes, little miss, red peppers, they are beautiful.]
He can now add a few adjectives.
Qin Minghui plans to transplant the peppers onto 01's head so that she can grow a small vegetable garden.
Finding food to fill her stomach and making tools to improve her quality of life are all Qin Minghui's daily work, but she spends most of her day studying the notebook and the interface of 01.
Whether it was farming and watering the fields or communicating with 01, she did it during her long brainstorming sessions.
She would stop at a place with water and big rocks, use a burnt branch as a charcoal pencil, write and draw on the big rocks, and try to translate the unknown text. When she left, she would wash away the black marks on the rocks with water.
Qin Minghui often had her hands full of black ash, and she would squat in front of the stone with her knees hugged, mumbling to herself. Sometimes she would be so engrossed that she would forget that 01 was still beside her. He was too quiet and never spoke at such times.
However, he would squat beside the little lady and use his huge body to shield her from the strong sunlight at noon.
As the sun moved, he moved with it, always keeping the little lady in the shade.
Qin Minghui noticed his behavior for the first time and was so moved that she put a finger on the big guy and praised him for five minutes. 01 also listened to her praise quietly for five minutes. Finally, he said:
[Thank you, little miss, for the many compliments.]
Helping her block the sun, was this his own behavior? Was this also part of his protection program? Qin Minghui was willing to think in a more romantic direction. She thought, 01He is a very gentle robot.
"Gentleness" does not belong only to humans, but to all things in the world.
The clouds in the sky overlapped and piled up, gradually covering the sky. The color of the clouds became darker, indicating that a heavy rain was coming. Qin Minghui stood in the room on 01's chest. There were many small scars, and her white and tender hands were no longer able to quickly input the complex text on the interface.
She had already translated a small part of the work notebook, but she had not tried to modify the setting interface of 01 because she was worried that she would accidentally damage 01 if she didn't understand it all. But this rain was like a thunderstorm, and the occasional thunder in the clouds was frightening.
As they walked on the plain, Qin Minghui was a little worried that 01's big size would attract lightning, so this was the first time she modified 01's interface.
She wanted to open a protective shield for him.
It would be best if it could be protected from lightning, and it would be even better if it could be protected from rain, although he probably isn't afraid of getting wet.
There is a protection shield function in the 01 system, but this function seems to have been deleted in the past.
Qin Minghui remembered that in that movie, as a killing machine that started a war, 01 was often attacked by many people who hated him. Even though he was very strong, his body surface was eventually covered with scars and several weapon systems were broken.
At that time, he had no ability to protect himself from beginning to end.
The heavy rain fell down with a crackling sound, hitting the surface of 01's body, making a clear sound.
Listening to the sound of rain outside, Qin Minghui moved her hands faster. She checked the complex program commands she had entered twice and stored them using her authority.
"Okay, 01, try and see if the protective shield can be used?" Qin Minghui stuck his head out of the room and was hit on the head by raindrops.
[Yes, little miss.]
[Shield is activated.]
As soon as the voice fell, the raindrops that hit her face disappeared. Qin Minghui wiped the water off her face and saw that 01 was surrounded by an invisible protective shield for several meters, and the rain could no longer hit him.
01Put down your raised hand.
Qin Minghui looked at his action in surprise, "01, you raised your hands just now, were you trying to shield my orchard and vegetable garden from the rain?"
[Yes, little miss.]