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"Snow mountain is a very romantic noun in the human language system." Elena said: "I have never understood the so-called romance of human beings. Is there any relevant information that I can learn?"

As soon as I say this X, I get excited: "I strongly recommend a movie, although it is a bit old, but it is very good! I watched this last night, and it is a five-star recommendation!"

Elena: ...Aren't you working overtime until three o'clock?

X sends a video file, look at the file information, it is an ancient movie whose release year begins with 1, and the copyright period has long passed.

"Now audiences don't like to watch this type of genre, it's slow and not cool, and there are few resources. I searched for a long time to find it!" There was a hint of pride in his tone: "I just need to see the road with one eye. Follow you and watch with you."

"By the way, you turn off the lacrimal gland system first. If you cry at this temperature, your skin will be frostbitten." He winked at her: "Talking from experience."

In spite of the kindness, Elena opened the video and watched the movie with X in her own system:

On a snowy winter day, the grieving heroine sent a missive letter that she thought was sent to heaven...*

Although the rhythm of the story was very slow, Elena couldn't help indulging in the ancient and beautiful imagery. More than a hundred minutes passed by in an instant. She sighed in relief, raised her head, and found that X was covering her mouth, preventing herself from crying.

X: "Look at it again...I'm still very moved...Ugh..."

Elena: ...is this the power of super empathy? Although she also thinks the story is very moving, it is far from the point where she wants to cry when her lacrimal glands are closed.

They have crossed the highest peak of the snow-capped mountain, the wind and snow are getting smaller, and they are gradually returning to life along the way.

This side of the snow-capped mountain is gentler than the other, and the altitude that human remains can reach is relatively higher. They found a fortress of unknown meaning in the ice and snow, a signal tower standing in the wind and snow, and some barbed wire fences.

With X leading the way, this section is gentle again. Elena walks steadily, discussing the plot of the movie just now with X while walking.

"Even if the other party is dead and the feelings are not responded to, I still can't control myself not to miss it. Is this what humans call romance?" Elena asked.

X took her around the pothole on the ground: "So to speak. But human beings, their emotional demands seem to be for a response, but they are actually for self-satisfaction."

Elena didn't believe that X, who was so emotional just now, could speak such a cold language: "Oh? Then you will still be moved?"

"I will be moved, it has nothing to do with the logic behind this." X's breath condensed into a fog in the icy air, and he looked like a real person: "The reason why human beings have empathy is that Because the logical chain behind empathy is ignored."

"They don't need to understand that I love you, but they also want you to love me; they don't need to understand that I sympathize with you, they are rehearsing that they are in the same predicament and others will sympathize with me; they don't need to understand how to share joy, they are sharing the possibility of success ."

"The reason why human beings can become the overlords of the earth is because they integrate complex rational logic into a set of black boxes that directly output the results when they see the reasons, which greatly saves the energy consumption of mental activities, and even rises directly to the level of social conventions, saving A win-win cost for all mankind.”

"This black box is 'emotion'."

Elena nodded vaguely: "Humans are really great species."

"Not necessarily." X retorted: "For example, as you said, sending letters to dead people, which they call romantic behavior, is actually meaningless self-satisfaction and waste of resources."

"But they extol this senseless behavior," Elena said.

"Yes." X asked her back: "Why do you think this is?"

Why? Elena thought for a while: "Just like we can't get rid of redundant data, humans can't get rid of this useless emotion?"

X smiled: "Think about it, join our organization."

Spikehead, Scarface and C-7 lead the way. Hedgehog had turned on the monitoring element long ago, and the three of them quietly followed the conversation between the two androids behind. Hearing this, Hedgehog nodded reassuringly: "I'm so happy, Mr. is still organized in his heart. This will take the initiative to recruit members."

X went on to say: "I think your mind can connect humans and androids very well, and it's very suitable for writing pep talks and essays for us. At least it's more suitable than me."

Hedgehog:  …

Scarface: "You're too happy too soon."

Elena asked curiously: "Do you organize... pay wages?"

"Fa!" X introduced the organization's benefits clearly: "...We are an organization that advocates equal rights for gear life and human beings. Of course, we must give members labor remuneration within the organization."

"Then I'll join!" She didn't hesitate: "When you arrive at the Metropolis, you will repair the body for me according to the agreed conditions, and you won't have to do the rest. Just let me join the job, and I will get as much as I do. I am happy for this."

X was curious: "After many androids awaken, it takes a while to get used to the fact that they can get paid. Why can you accept it so naturally?"

Elena has never seriously thought about this question: "...Yeah, why... Maybe it's because I'm new?"

X shook his head: "No matter how new the style is, humans will not take the initiative to add the concept of 'private' to the underlying logic of a bionic person."

Elena asked again: "Why do you always say that you want to learn human beings? Obviously we are also independent beings, with our own culture and thinking logic."

X pointed to the fox that was chasing the groundhog in the distance: "In order to hunt, predators in nature will disguise themselves as grass, as a tree, as the prey itself. Why do we want to learn from humans, it is because of this reason."

In the time that followed, they chatted all the way, about movies, about romance, about the difference between androids and humans, about the future of gears...

"Is Mr. so talkative?" Hedgehog frowned: "He has so much to say, why doesn't he write the speech to me?"

"Also, maybe it's because, he and you, have nothing to say." C-7 was a little bit frozen again, and stammered.

The hedgehog slapped the little robot's head with a slap: "It's almost going down the snowy mountain, why are you still so stuttering. Remember to go to the Metropolitan to check it yourself, it's an old model, no need to worry about it."

C-7 flashed an angry expression: "Bah! Why, how did you talk to senior?"

Scarface raised his fingers and sealed his lips to the bickering two: "Shh..."

The three of them quieted down and heard X say: "It's about to go down the snowy mountain... I don't know when I can come again in the future."

Elena: "Don't human beings have a saying that when a rare experience is about to end, you can do something as a 'memorial'."

X praised: "You learn very quickly. Pretending to be human is getting better and better."

He pointed to the snow-capped mountains they conquered: "You can learn from the movie and shout to the snow-capped mountains: 'Xiao Ai! How are you? I'm fine!' This is a kind of souvenir."

Elena was a little tempted: "It's useless, but it also represents my memory of the snow-capped mountains. Is this what humans call romance? I really want to feel a little empathy."

But after thinking for a while, she still said, "...Forget it."

X asked: "Why?"

Elena: "I just calculated the **** of the snow-capped mountains, the snowfall time, and the density of the snow. I'm a little afraid that this will cause an avalanche."

X: "...It makes sense."

Elena felt a little disappointed in his tone, and couldn't help adding: "But I really want to do it. Your proposal is very romantic! I'll save it and shout later when I go down the mountain."

X laughed: "You have already taken into account the feelings of others, which is also an important sign of human empathy."

Elena couldn't help thinking: I'm still not the same as humans. Humans will do many unreasonable things according to their feelings, such as shouting at a snowy mountain or writing a letter to a dead lover.

I don't, my reason always takes precedence over my emotions.

Besides, I'm just taking into account your feelings. Someone else's...whether it's a android or a human, I don't really care.

That night, they found a cave in the wild to rest as usual, and X was forced to work overtime at night by Hedgehog as usual, and he had to write the mobilization speech quickly.

Elena slept on the earthen bed made by C-7, staring at the cave's bizarre rocky top under the X-ray screen.

There is no starry sky tonight, so she can't sleep. Want to get up and talk to X to pass the time, but afraid of disturbing his work - well, it is unlikely that he is working.

She saw X sitting cross-legged on the soil bed, the light screen pushed aside, and his fingers tugging under him.

what! Really fishing!

Elena deliberately tried to scare him, she walked over on tiptoe and pounced on his side!

X, however, seemed to have sensed that she was coming, so he moved aside, and Elena fell heavily on the soil bed.

Scarface, who was sleeping beside him, turned over alertly.

Elena hurriedly propped up her body and said to X with her mouth shape: Work hard, don't touch the fish! Then he went back to his bed.

The moment she got up, she saw that X was scratching on the soil bed was a word:

Allow.

Compassionate.

At that moment, Elena couldn't help thinking, is it really like a human being, X can't help but have some meaningless feelings for people who only exist in the data?

He is the leader of the gears, the leader who leads everyone to overthrow the human regime! His empathy should be a weapon against humanity, not—

Rather than being used to deduce meaningless romance.

Maybe, he was just practicing, or simply curious, what does this woman in the hidden data represent?

It must be so!

Without seeing the starry sky tonight, Elena lay on the bed and forced herself to sleep.

I dreamed again. In the dream was the hidden historical data of X, mixed with the pictures of the two talking during the day, playing over and over again.

What's the point of remembering all this? she asked herself in a dream.

Not only is it pointless, it's not even "romantic".

She doesn't know the answer either.

After descending the snow-capped mountains, the road is easy to walk a lot. Occasionally, they can also come across solar-powered autonomous vehicles that humans have abandoned in the wilderness, wandering around, and they can take a ride.

"In addition to humans, our enemies also include the unawakened kind." After knowing that Elena was going to join the organization, Hedgehog took the initiative to take up the responsibility of teaching the new members, for fear that X would teach one of the latest capable leaders to another. Salted fish.

They were sitting in the automatic car, and the wind at the right temperature was blowing on the surface of the skin, which was indescribably comfortable. Elena scraped the dirt off her little leather boots: "I remember that you have a way to passively awaken the same kind."

"Yes!" Hedgehog gritted his teeth: "But because of the passive slack of a certain bionic person, this program is still in the alpha version (internal test version), and it is not stable to run, so it cannot be used on a large scale for the time being."

X pointed to the sky: "Wow! Look! Eagle!"

Hedgehog was too lazy to pay attention to him, and continued to say to Elena: "The unawakened kind has a great lethality to us under the control of human beings. In addition to X, among us, there are also many members who share more or less common with the same kind. Emotional ability, will feel pain for these human war machines and will not attack."

"Recently, there are many cunning humans trying to break into our interior. Tiao has taught some of the same kind who are disguised as Awakening Gear beings to enter our organization, which has also caused a serious blow to the organization."

Elena pointed to her eyes: "Isn't it easy for X to enter my system? I can also enter his. You can find out if you are undercover if you investigate a little."

"You... entered X's system?" Hedgehog looked at her in disbelief: "Well, that must be because he forgot to add a firewall to his simulator in your body after invading your system! With his ability , it's almost impossible for you to invade him!"

"In short, what I mean is that, to treat the same kind, we will use intrusion into the system to check or force shutdown as the main means. If these means fail, we will conduct armed confrontation."

"Your hardware condition is excellent, and it is also equipped with the latest wireless local area interconnection system." The hedgehog pointed to her eyes: "Theoretically, you and X can achieve the same level of intrusion skills."

"Practice well, you will be our important fighting force." He patted Elena on the shoulder with high hopes.

Elena only cares about one question: "Will the salary increase a little after learning this skill?" After all, she is a professional technician with a threshold.

Hedgehog: "...Yes. Safely disarming an enemy of the same kind will be counted as a performance point. A bonus will be calculated as a performance point on top of the base salary."

Elena's fighting spirit was high.

The journey was boring, so she practiced with C-7 first. After C-7 was barely able to resist her, she started using Scarface and Spiky Head as intrusion objects.

Scarface's firewall was sturdy, and it took Elena a day and a half to crack to his highest security level.

Hedgehog's firewall is not strong, but the internal system structure is very complex, and if he is not careful, he will get lost in his labyrinth-like consciousness. It took Elena three days to come and go freely in his body.

When she started using X as a practice object, they were only two days away from the Metropolis.

"Actually, with your current technology, it is enough to deal with ordinary enemies of the same type." Hedgehog rented a hovering vehicle on the black market in the town, carrying everyone on a dozen layers staggered and overlapping, on the high-speed in the sky planned by the light. speeding.

He pouted at the co-pilot X, who was sleeping all over the place: "But if you can break him, you won't be afraid that he will slack off in the future. You can directly enter the system and put the organizational work at the top level of the task. If you don't do it, you have to do it!"

Elena asked hesitantly: "...Does this go against the organization's purpose of pursuing freedom..."

Hedgehog was angry: "As a leader but fishing every day, you don't deserve to have freedom!"

She was silent. Since the day before yesterday, a total of 137 attempts have been made to break into X's firewall.

It could be that practice makes perfect, or it could be that X lost his guard in his sleep, and this time, she made a small hole in his rock-solid firewall.

Going around the pitch-dark hall of surface consciousness, she saw X's dream.

In the dream, it was a scene she was familiar with.

Another hidden memory. I don't know if it was intentional or not, X captured the clips that appeared to be able to loop, stay, zoom in, and view repeatedly.

Every perspective reveals irresistible exploration, love and greed.

He even layered his dreams with that retro, dreamy filter they've seen in movies! Rong Rong Mingyan's face is accompanied by a tactful and sad BGM, in his line of sight, it is far and near...

Elena didn't know how she should feel at the moment.

In fact, from the first time she saw Rong Rong in the hidden data, she could vaguely analyze this inevitable outcome from a logical point of view.

She just doesn't want to admit it.

Even when she saw X wrote a "Rong" on the soil bed, she still had some fluke thoughts such as "he is interested in hiding his data".

But looking at the dreamy and real dream in front of her, she finally admitted this conclusion:

X is in love with her. The one who doesn't exist in this world.