rainy night talk

"Are you hurt? Is it hard?"

Chen Zhen shook his head, avoiding William's hand.He felt that the negative emotions in his body were like a flood that had been released at this time, raging through the nerves of his whole body like a beast.

Stop... Chen Zhen roared in his heart, he clenched his teeth and clenched his trembling hands tightly.

"Is there a problem, Captain?" A young man in military uniform stood on the steps of the two-story platform and looked out.

Hearing the sound, Chen Zhen looked down, and saw that the group of mercenaries just now had fallen silently, and the soldiers were swiftly carrying their group into the miniature ship that opened at some time.

Chen Zhen's pupils shrank slightly, and something was running at high speed in his brain. "How did you find out that the professor..." He turned to look at William, but the other party didn't look at him.

William said to the soldiers: "It's okay here, go down." The indifferent language and the aura of calmness made him feel strange.

Chen Zhen opened his mouth, his voice hoarse, "You know everything?" It was an interrogative sentence, but it was in an affirmative tone.

William: "Now is not the time to talk about that..."

"What did you see in my mental image?" Chen Zhen interrupted him.He couldn't find any information from William, the mental link was no longer effective, and simply observing expressions or movements didn't help—William should have received some kind of training.This state made him feel uneasy and anxious. Chen Zhen, who knows the operation of emotional programs, knows that this is not a good sign. He should be more irritable and even angry in the future. Rational thinking will be replaced by more emotional programs. It's only going to get worse, but even so, he can't stop.

In the spiritual picture, his spiritual body—Xiao Chen Zhen told him: a strange outsider broke into this place,

In the boundless snow and ice, he passed through the blizzard, stepped over the black iron thorns, fell into the frozen lake of memory, and finally stood wet and dragged a body of ice slag in front of the stone castle gate—the outsider should be in front of him. When he tried his best to open the mental barrier, he entered William's consciousness in his mental image.

"He stood in front of the door for a long time." Xiao Chen Zhen folded her arms, and her immature face had a depth that didn't match her age.Through his description, Chen Zhen seemed to have really seen William in a panic in the cold wind.

"Just when I thought he had frozen into an ice sculpture..." Xiao Chen Zhen said, "He left."

Why did William leave?He obviously won the bet, he won.

Why?Chen Zhen really wanted to ask, but once she thought about this question, the answer seemed to come out.

The memory covering the uppermost layer of the lake is a schedulable memory. Through it, William will find that his place in the memory should have been replaced by Louis. Once he finds doubts, William will definitely go deeper. The lower the layer, he will be able to see the memory It has been modified and perfected one after another, and it is used as the cornerstone to shape his personality as Chen Zhen. If he dives deep enough, he can see the initial memory of the AI ​​​​sedimented at the bottom when it was created.

Chen Zhen repeated mechanically, "You know everything..." So this was William's choice.

A signal came from the communicator, and William glanced downstairs and said, "According to the plan." In the blink of an eye, the soldiers disappeared silently into the docking cabin.

Chen Zhen blinked his pantothenic acid eyes and took a deep breath, "I thought you were still receiving treatment at the military hospital, shouldn't you have just finished the operation?"

William was silent for a while, his Adam's apple slipped up and down, "I'm sorry, because someone is following my trail, so that case—"

"It's fake." Chen Zhen stared, his lips pursed into a straight line.

"sorry."

"Why are you saying sorry? What are you sorry for? Sorry for reading my memory? Or sorry for keeping me in the dark? Or..." Sorry, I can't accept that you are an AI.

William's eyes showed shame and intolerance, but Chen Zhen couldn't prove whether his emotions were true at this time.His words may be fake, his expression is also fake, probably only the spiritual link that no longer exists is real, oh no, that is just a simulation of technology, and it is also fake.Chen Zhen laughed at himself. He felt very irritable. There was a kind of anger like a boulder pressing on his chest, and he could hardly breathe.

What he believed, and what he wished to believe, had betrayed him.At one time, he waited anxiously for news from the other party, vowing that as long as the other party was safe and sound, he would accept any punishment, but now, how ironic these wishful thinking are.

Deliberately fabricating news to make Professor Maslow relax his vigilance, and then sending people to follow up secretly—maybe those sentinels to the Supervision Council were disguised eyeliners. It was a bold and careful plan to find the starship through the original transportation company's information and ambush it in advance.

You are just a pawn.A voice told him so.

Chen Zhen: "Now, are you here to arrest me?"

William shook his head, "I'm here to save you."

help me?Save me back to the human world?Chen Zhen almost burst out laughing. Once he returns, he will be reduced to an object after losing his human identity, and will be disassembled and studied at will. If his humanity is confirmed, waiting for him will not be recognized, but destroyed—— That would be a victory for the AI ​​threat theorists.If it weren't for what William did on the beach, maybe he would still be able to continue pretending to be human.

Chen Zhen felt fear and anger, his brain was hot, and the raging emotions seemed to burn him, the voice said: "It's all his fault."

The communicator lit up again: "Everything is ready, please instruct."

William turned around and called up a structure diagram of the starship. He marked a circle on the driver's cab, "Stand by, I'll be right over."

With a "click", Chen Zhen picked up the quantum gun on the corpse beside him, and pointed the silver muzzle at the back of William's head.

William turned around slowly, staring at Chen Zhen with blue pupils, he said firmly, "No, you won't."

Chen Zhen looked calm, as if he was relieved of everything, he decided to listen to the voice in his head, "You know what I am, so you should know if I can."

"You won't." William took a step towards him, his gaze firm, without any timidity.

"You are always so confident, William, and this kind of confidence is so annoying." Chen Zhen sneered and put the gun on the other's forehead, "I am not Chen Zhen, I will not show mercy. Now, stop you plan, you don’t want to take any of the people on this starship away.”

William looked at him, convinced that what he said was serious, he asked in frustration, "Is this your choice?"

"I have no choice!" Chen Zhen shouted.If possible, he also hopes to live as Chen Zhen forever.

"I thought I'd given you the choice," William said. "You've been resisting the relationship, and I've been trying to get you to change it. Do you remember what I told you?" William said slowly. Slowly repeated: "'I long to follow the direction guided by fate, and walk straight into your heart calmly, without hesitation, remorse, or jealousy.' This is not only a confession, but also a guarantee. As a sentinel, I have many problems, Not only the sensitive five senses, but also the ups and downs of emotions, I try my best to control myself not to let myself fall into emotional extremes, but I failed.”

There was thick color rolling in Wang Yang's eyes, and William lowered his head, "Jealousy made me lose my mind, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have forced you that day." His voice became low and hoarse, "I didn't make it , I broke my promise, I made an impulsive move because of jealousy, I threatened you. I was so selfish, I knew your spirit body was there at that time, but I had no face to see him, I was ashamed of it, So I walked away. I interrupted the spiritual link, you get rid of the shackles, Chen Zhen, whether you are human or AI, I want you to be free."

Tears filled his eyes again, and Chen Zhen tried his best to steady his trembling hands, "But you are not selfish in doing this, and you made a choice that you thought was for me..." His hands clasped the handle of the gun tightly. "I hate you." I hate you for approaching without arbitrariness, and hate you for leaving on your own.

"I'm sorry." William kept repeating his apology, "Actually, I shouldn't have come, but there is one thing I want to tell you personally, I pay attention to you because you are Chen Zhen, but I love you because of you It's you. If you still hate me..." William gripped the barrel of the gun tightly, moving it to his chest. "Then please shoot here... shoot this heart that loves you."