Walking against the light - rebuilding Homo sapiens

"I'm sorry! Dan~" Hu's voice broke the silence, like an ice hammer, hitting the ice hard, "Reagan and I also escaped from origc."

Dan rested for a while, and his emotions gradually calmed down. He lowered his head, wanting to know the details of Hu and Reagan more than ever.

"As you can see, I am a software engineer, and Reagan's specialty is biochemical research. We have served origc before, and it has been like our home for many years, but..." Hu sat in the seat that Reagan sat in before. That chair, with elbows on his knees, bowed his body, "But in origc, there are too many people who are stronger than us! Too many, too many! Even any doctor's assistant can do decathlon, It is several blocks away from us. It is impossible to achieve a career in origc, save enough money as soon as possible, and move to the planet Butla. At this time, there is an opportunity, a person who can earn a lot as long as he uses his expertise opportunity, so Reagan and I escaped from origc!"

Dan didn't expect that he and his fate still have origc, raised his head slightly, with a puzzled look on his face: "So, is it your new master's intention to tie me up in the pale laboratory?"

"This~" Hu took a deep breath, although as a robot, he didn't have to do this, "Yes, no, the guy who came here just now is a queen star, he came here to pick up the goods, we just don't want to reveal your identity, It was really to protect you that I tied you up and pretended to be our test subject!"

Dan shook his head vigorously, put his hands on the ground, and raised his body slightly: "Huh? Like tying a criminal, tied me to the bed to protect me? What do you think I am?"

"What is it?" Hu straightened up, leaning his head against the back of the chair behind him, "I said friend, would you believe me?"

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"Robots don't need friends!" Allen waved his hand, and the clingy octopus rolled away like flying.

"Hey, hey, hey~" Octopus was not reconciled, and chased after him again. He sized up Lens next to Allen, "Don't say that! The guy next to you will be sad~"

Allen turned his head following the sound of the octopus, and glanced back at Lance. He continued to walk forward with a faint smile on his face.

"Okay! Then I won't force you to be friends with me! But our boss, I have to trouble you to go again." Octopus said, shaking its eight tentacles happily back and forth.

"I gave him all the money that should be paid back. What do you want me to do?" Allen stopped and stared straight at the octopus. Its green body suddenly turned purple, and it seemed a little scared.

"This~that~" Octopus stammered.

"Hehe," Lance smiled and patted Allen on the shoulder, "Don't look at people like that, it's scary, after all, it's a living thing, not a machine."

Allen withdrew his gaze, pulled Lance, and continued to move forward—in order to fulfill his promise, he was going to fight back to the casino for a big ticket.

"I said~" Lance approached Allen, avoiding the octopus, and whispered in Allen's ear, "Why don't you just go and see, what is that old monster trying to do? Aren't you also curious about the little girl before?" Well?"

Allen stopped again, looked at the smiling Lance, and then at the octopus in the distance whose color had not completely changed, and shook his head: "That guy is not a good person, let's stay away from him!"

"Oh!" Lance nodded and said nothing, just quietly side by side with Allen.

Turning into the casino street controlled by the fantl stars, I was immediately surrounded by curses and laughter. Allen suddenly regained his energy, as if full of vitality, and his steps became brisk.

"Allen, on the surface you don't care about anyone, but you are actually a person who really wants to prove yourself!" Lance said this for some reason.

"is it?"

"Well! Others come to the casino just for fun or to make money, but you just want to win!" Lance leaned closer to Allen's ear, "You are a very competitive guy!"

"Hehe~" Allen didn't answer him, but just lowered his head slightly, and got into "Godeyes" - the casino that Allen frequented most on the Wooll star.

The outside world still thought that Allen was the only person in the world who could beat the queen genius Qiang Zilla. Allen didn't bother to explain to everyone that he didn't win that night, but Qiang Zilla deliberately lost.Everything unfolds in an atmosphere of ambiguity.People from aliens who passed by here specially brought enough interstellar coins to see Allen's demeanor, and of course he accepted them all - in Allen's view, this is similar to picking up money.

Lance became Allen's treasurer - watched the game start, watched Allen give the answer first, watched the system judge Allen as the winner, shook hands with the person opposite, and pocketed the winnings by the way.

Seven or eight hours passed before they knew it, and Allen and Lance came out of "Godeyes" with mechanical joints. The morning light on Wooll is always accompanied by blobs of magenta clouds. Allen stretched his arms in a hug-like position.The fantl stars beside them, naked and blue-faced, softened a lot in the red light. They smiled, took a tip from Lance's fingertips, and then patted the shoulders of the two brothers: "Come again at night!"

Allen ignored those guys who followed the wind and walked straight towards the morning light.Lance quickly caught up with Allen, and the two walked side by side on the street of the largest casino in Wooll Star.Facing the morning light, the two opened their arms, absorbing as much light as possible, filling their bodies with energy.

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"Friend? Hehe~" Dan smiled and shook his head, with a helpless expression on his face, "As the only human being on this planet, I don't think I deserve to have friends. After all, you are all machines!"

"Proud guy!" Hearing this, Reagan couldn't help but rushed out of the laboratory inside, "Who do you think you are? To origc, you are a baby, but to me, you are just like the one in the sealed jar." A bio-meal is no different, it's just a bunch of living cells!"

"Hehe!" Dan had no strength left, "Don't say you are so great, as if you are my savior, you just caught me, a guinea pig! It's the feeling of holding someone else's life in your hands. It's fun, right?"

"Me!" Reagan said, clenched his fists and almost rushed forward, "Don't be ignorant of flattery!"

"Don't, don't~" Hu stood between Reagan and Dan, "I'm not done yet. Reagan, let me tell Dan the truth! Reagan!"

Reagan is one of the few short-tempered people among humanized robots. He must have had a violent temper before he started mechanization.At this moment, being blocked by Hu, he couldn't do anything, so he had to carry the toolbox and climb up a ladder in the car that went straight to the roof: "I'll go overhaul!"

Hearing that Reagan closed the small door leading to the roof heavily, Hu continued: "You're right, we didn't pick you up by accident. It was because we knew that Homo sapiens in origc was lost, so we opened the door. The life detector is looking for the past! At that time, we really wanted to use you as a guinea pig for experiments. After all, this is too precious! Reagan’s current project is closely related to biochemical humans. If we use you as a test subject, it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort! But ..."

"Hehe, okay! Come on! Anyway, I'm a person who doesn't feel pain, and you don't even need to prepare anesthesia!" Dan's eyes were full of resentment.

"But, we gave up! We had a great time with you! You reminded us of the days before we did mechanized transformation. With you, we found the feeling of being human again! So... ...I promise you, I will protect you in the future! Are you willing to be our friend?" Hu said, stretching out his arm.

I have lived with these two guys for so many days, chatted and looked at the stars together, if anyone regards each other as friends, Dan must have regarded each other as his friends long ago.Dan couldn't help clenching his teeth for this late invitation.

"Still don't want to believe me?" Hu smiled, stretching his arms a little further in Dan's direction.

"Huh?" Hu shook his arm again, motioning to Dan.

"If I stretch out my arms now, will you think I'm innocent and stupid?" Dan, who hesitated again and again, slowly let go of his tightly biting lips, and said this.

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