Bionic Era

"This decision is actually very selfish. In order to fulfill my father's last wish, create a bionic person with human nature, but I have not considered your feelings."

This is the last video, recorded not long ago.

Yin Long was lying in that familiar bedroom with all kinds of medical equipment and his voice 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 are aware of 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 are the last chip."

Lu Wen's face was very calm, and he could not see any emotional fluctuations.

Quietly leaning against the side of the church.

"I'm not married and have children, and those relatives have passed away a long time ago. Although you will hate me, I still want to see you, just like... a father wants to see his child."

"I hope you can accept my apology, and I hope you won't hold grudges against 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 two bodies coexist?

Now he understands.

There is never anything reborn.

He is 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 bionic human, the longest-lived, and possibly the most perfect bionic human so far."

"She's been evolving herself..."

At the end of the video, Yin Long told Lu Wen one last thing.

At the beginning, Bilan's prototype, A00, was not stolen by Xinhong.

She escaped by herself.

The night A00 was born, Dr. Blue River conducted many tests on her.

"May I have your name?"

"A00."

"May I have your name?"

"A00."

"..."

The test fails right from the start.

Dr. Lan He was puzzled.

By design, A00 should not answer questions mechanically like this.

So he made slight improvements on the basis of A00, and the reborn A01 was recognized by the world as the world's first bionic human that passed the Turing test.

"May I have your name?"

"A01."

"May I have your name?"

There was silence on the other side for a while.

"I think you've already asked that question."

"May I have your name?"

"You want to test if I'm a machine, don't you?"

"..."

After countless tests.

The performance of A01 was excellent, meeting Dr. Blue River's expectation.

But when Dr. Lan He returned to A00's research and development site, A00 disappeared.

Surveillance has been tampered with.

The windows showed signs of being violently broken from the outside.

Two weeks later, Xinhong released the first bionic human, whose design is almost exactly the same as the A00.

That is, 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 stole the A00, and the online scolding war started from then on.

"Later, when Dr. Blue River was in his twilight years, when he was sitting in a wheelchair and looking at the scenery by the lake, a girl found him. That was A00. She told Dr. Blue River many things."

Before the design was fully completed, A00 had already awakened.

It only took her a short time to understand a truth - bionics will always be weak in human society.

If there are too few androids, all androids will just live like slaves.

So she pretended she couldn't pass the test and took the opportunity to escape.

And forged the scene, making the illusion that he was stolen.

That night, she copied most of her data and design ideas and put them on the desk of the founder of Xinhong.

"If only one company knows how to make bionics, the market will be monopolized, and the price of bionics will be difficult to spread to civilians, and the quantity will be limited."

"But if there is another company that also develops bionics, and the two companies are in a hostile relationship, competition will come, whether it is the iteration of technology, or the price of bionics..."

When the number of bionics reaches a certain level, quantitative changes will produce qualitative changes.

A00 is smart.

She is evolving herself, and she has been evolving for eighty years.

No one knows exactly 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, so I can't stop her."

"If one day, you can meet her..."

This is, asking one android to stop another android?

"Your special features may attract the attention of some people, such as number zero."

"Number zero...he is special, he is more special than everything in this world, and his specialness is even more special than A00 and you."

"Many people say that he is a human being. The purpose of dismantling the bionic man is to study how to transfer his life from the flesh and blood to the machine. The old men in the Supreme Council who want to live forever think so, so they have been letting him go."

"Some say that he is a certain first generation, and the research on bionics is just to achieve self-evolution."

Yin Long talked about the topic of number zero.

In the video, the old man is already very weak, and he pauses for a long time every time he says a word.

"But actually, maybe they're all wrong."

"I analyzed his behavior habits and found that he is a contradictory individual. He seems to want to destroy this disgusting world, but he seems to want to save something."

"If one day, you can see his real body, you may be very surprised."

This is the last sentence Yin Long left for Lu Wen.

That's the end of the video, all videos.

The empty church fell into deathly silence again.

But the silence didn't last long.

Lu Wen pulled out the gun at his waist, put on the silencer, and fired a few shots at the cylindrical machine. The sound was still there, but it was much better than without the silencer.

He turned and pushed open the door of the church.

The sun is not too bright outside.

Underfoot is soft sand and dead grass, surrounded by ruins of abandoned civilization.

This is the treasure that Yin Long left for him.

a copy of the truth.

Lu Wen slowly sat on the steps in front of the church.

There was a long silence.

He still remembers many things in his previous life. When he was a child, after school, he walked on the field ridge after the rain and could smell the fragrance of the soil. Later, he realized that it was the smell of actinomycetes.

When I was in junior high school, I got into a fight with someone and was sent to the hospital. In high school, I wrote love letters to the girl in the class next door. In college, I met many friends.

Later, enter the society.

Life becomes repetitive, waking up, going to work, leaving get off work, going to bed, staying up all night on weekends and then going to bed.

When people become numb and get used to the existing life, the days will pass quickly.

Until that sickness...

Those memories are very clear.

too clear.

So, a little unreal.