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Opening the door and walking into the dark room, Qiao Yichen took off his tie, threw his bag on the floor, went into the bedroom and fell on the bed.

Not interesting.

The meal has not been eaten, the clothes have not been washed, and the house is even more messy.It's been just over a week, and the house is back to how it was when the guy wasn't here.Obviously, when I lived alone before, I often cooked by myself, and I would clean up the house when I was free.In the university dormitory, Qiao Yichen felt that he was one of the less sloppy boys.When I get home, my mother will always talk about cleaning the room frequently.Why can't I get up to do anything now?Where does the sense of loss that is difficult to resolve in my heart come from?

Is it lonely?

What's so lonely about me.Parents are alive and there are many friends.If you invite people out for dinner now, Qiao Yichen should be able to call a large group immediately.Growing up in an environment with no worries about food and clothing, he had a beautiful childhood similar to most people, rebellious adolescence and confused adulthood.At present, my family is healthy, I have income and savings, and it is not really impossible to find my girlfriend if I am determined to find her.I have no reason to hurt the spring and the autumn.

because of it?

Qiao Yichen thought of his mother's beloved dog.

When I was young, my father often traveled on business because of his work, and he and his mother also spent less time together.My mother is a strong person, and she never said anything wrong about her father in front of her.Qiao Yichen understood her thoughts, so every time he just welcomed his father home with a happy face, never mentioning the word loneliness.After I was admitted to university and moved out of the house, I heard from my father that my mother was crying at home alone.At that time, Qiao Yichen thought it was a woman's menopause, and her mood fluctuated greatly, so she didn't take it seriously at all.For this reason, my father bought a brown and white Chihuahua to keep at home, and actively applied for job transfer with the unit.My mother liked that little thing very much, named it after her favorite Italian actor, and got tired of it all day long, so that when she came home from vacation, she was left out in the cold and shouted at her: "Do you want a dog or a dog?" Your son!?"

More than a year ago, "Georgia" went downstairs to hang out and never came back.Since I haven't been with it for a long time, and I have the hatred of "stealing my mother", Qiao Yichen was not very sad, and said to his mother who was crying faintly: "I will buy you the same one after I get paid."

The result was the first slap since I grew up.

Now that my father has transferred his post, he no longer needs to run around the world, and the old couple can finally live together in a down-to-earth manner.But the mother left a knot in her heart that could never be untied.Is it out of guilt for naming the inanimate robot "Georgia"?

It looks like a human being and can talk and laugh.He also has his own little mind, which can think and make choices.Apart from not aging, Qiao Yichen couldn't tell the difference between it and humans.It said it was gentle, but Qiao Yichen disagreed.It's just that the education I have received since I was a child is to be kind to the people around me.He didn't want to exchange these so-called good intentions for something, and he didn't want to see it almost scrapping his whole body for the trivial matter of keeping himself warm.

Did he do something wrong?Or use the wrong method?

Perhaps the owner of the second-hand store is right, maintaining a sense of distance between people and machines is the correct way to get along.

Why can't I do it myself?

What exactly do you want from it?

Qiao Yichen closed his eyes in the dark, feeling the unknown negative emotions in his chest, slowly eating away at his whole body like a black hole.

Ah, so man is such a lonely creature?

The answer could not be simpler.

Qiao Yichen once didn't understand why her mother was crying when she was only going to school a 40-minute drive away; she also didn't understand that it was just the loss of a dog that made her so heartbroken that she needed to be sent to the hospital for an injection.Opening her eyes, looking at the empty home, breathing the air without any temperature, Qiao Yichen finally understood how she felt.

I just want to find someone to accompany me.

Especially after having a short-term warmth, the loneliness of gaining and losing is even more hurtful.

Maybe it's time to get serious about getting a girlfriend.Not just to reassure your parents, but also for yourself.

There was a sound at the door.

Qiao Yichen sat up and heard the rustling of metal in the keyhole.

Jumping out of bed with bare feet, my heart started beating uncontrollably.

The one with the house key, no one else.

He rushed to the porch with such vigor that he could knock the door open with his bare hands, and unlocked the door. Before the people outside had time to squeeze the key, it fell to the ground with a crisp sound of "Ding--".

Qiao Yichen panted heavily, stared blankly at the familiar face outside the door, and slowly burst into a soft smile:

"I'm back, Joe—Yi—Chen—"

A hot current gushed out of my heart.Not knowing where the impulse came from, Qiao Yichen rushed up to give it a bear hug.He hugged its neck tightly, and heard the "hum" sound of the machine running in his ears.It's back and it's really all right...

The corners of his eyes were sour, and he couldn't help it, Qiao Yichen said in his heart that it was terrible, and he was going to lose adults now.

The robot in his arms slowly shrugged his shoulders, Qiao Yichen let go of it puzzled, saw it move its upper body again, and frowned.

"What's wrong?" asked it.

The bot just said sorry, wait for me.It first pressed down its shoulders to adjust its position, and then turned its elbows vigorously, with a distressed expression on its face from time to time.Qiao Yichen was confused, but he didn't stop him.Then it pressed its chin against its forehead, and Qiao Yichen felt its stiff arms slowly tighten.

It hugged itself back.

Qiao Yichen laughed through tears, stretched out his hand to hug it again, and just kept saying: "Idiot, you idiot..."

Before she had time to savor the joy of Georgia's return home, the annoying phone rang harshly.Qiao Yichen answered the phone angrily, and then heard the owner of the second-hand store shout angrily on the other end of the phone: "Is that troublemaker with you?!"

He said that the guy ran away as soon as his leg was repaired.If there is a next time, he will definitely repair his arm first.

A feeling of love and pity filled my heart.If that guy was a woman, Qiao Yichen was afraid that he wouldn't be able to resist kissing it.

But he obviously won't do that.After hanging up the phone, Qiao Yichen put on a bad face and stared at that guy without saying a word.Georgia immediately looked away with a guilty expression.Going up and grabbing it by the back collar, Qiao Yichen yelled like a teacher who caught a kid playing truant: "Go! Go back and apologize to your father!"

***

Georgia was turned off and lay quietly on the operating table surrounded by instruments in the basement.

This time, the boss finally let himself into that room.It is said that it will take four and a half days to repair the arm.

Seeing him wearing a magnifying glass and leaning over Georgia doing some delicate work, Qiao Yichen suddenly felt a little sorry for him.

Although it is a lifetime warranty, but this kind of troublesome people will not get a penny.Qiao Yichen still didn't feel too bad about it.

He looked too young and didn't know where his family was.Living alone in this place full of robots, staring at a magnifying glass and tinkering all day long, if someone has a headache, maybe no one will know.

The boss took off the magnifying glass, rubbed the corners of his eyes, and took a deep breath.

"The difference is too much, this matter can't be rushed. Huh? Why haven't you left yet?"

Qiao Yichen looked at him in embarrassment and laughed dryly.

"Would you like some coffee?"

I thought he would go upstairs to get it, but Qiao Yichen wondered if he should do him a favor and go up for him.Who would have thought that the boss just cleared his throat, was lucky enough, and then howled in his subwoofer-like voice: "Little-smash-! Coffee-coffee-!!!"

The sound went all the way along the corridor, and Qiao Yichen felt that the whole small building shook three times.

"By the way, I forgot to tell it..." The boss clicked his tongue, and once again mobilized his dantian: "Two-cup-smash-!!!"

After a while, the sound of footsteps came to my ears, and I thought I knew who was coming.

The boy at the head of the bird's nest held the coffee pot, held a cup in each hand, and put the things on the table next to him with a smile.Then it crackled out a large bag of sugar and creamer from its trouser pocket, and asked how much it wanted to add.

"I want two bags of sugar." The boss said shyly.

"Go ahead and dream." Lele rolled his eyes at him, "Besides, I'll ask Dr. Zhang to come over and give you two injections!"

It seemed that I was worrying for nothing just now.

Reluctantly picking up the sugar-free coffee, the boss took a sip with his lips pouted, and then drove Lele upstairs to "sleep".

Qiao Yichen also tasted the coffee, and then looked at Georgia's quiet "sleeping face".Neither of them spoke.

"Then what..." The boss spoke first. "This guy, what is... to you?"

Are you going to persuasion with non-human speech again?

"Family, friends, significant others."

"yes……"

the boss sighed.

"Then when you get married in the future, will you keep it by your side?"

Strange why he would ask such a question, Qiao Yichen replied: "I will communicate with my wife first and try to get her consent. Even if it doesn't work, I will never abandon it."

"Ah That's good……"

I don't know what he said is good, Qiao Yichen asked him: "Didn't you say before that don't treat it as a human being? Why do you say yes now."

The boss put down the cup and said with a wry smile, "I don't mean to tell you to mistreat it on purpose. After all, it can be regarded as my child. If you are willing to treat it well, I am very grateful to you. But..." The man raised his head, eyes I don't know where to look far away, "I have seen too many tragedies between humans and robots, I just hope that you don't repeat the same mistakes."

The man's appearance made Qiao Yichen speechless.

Man and robot.tragedy.Repeat the same mistakes.Qiao Yichen suddenly remembered something and asked, "Is that why it doesn't have the original memory?"

"It even told you this?" The man was a little surprised.Seeing his serious expression, he didn't deliberately avoid the topic.

"That's right, the previous owner brought it too many painful memories, so... this is what it asked for."

"Where is the previous owner now?"

"Dead, many years ago."

"..."

"Don't worry, I've changed its face, and the previous acquaintances can't recognize it. The memory is gone. Except for the serial number, there is nothing related to the past. It is completely yours now."

Thinking of the woman staring at it in the supermarket, Qiao Yichen didn't express his worries.

"Of course, if you feel unlucky, I can change it for you..."

"You know I won't change it." Qiao Yichen said flatly.

As if there was nothing he could do about it, the boss scratched his head indiscriminately.

"It used to... what happened, can you tell me?"

Not out of curiosity, but out of concern about it.Qiao Yichen asked tentatively.

The man fell silent.

While regretting that he shouldn't have said such a thing, he suddenly said, "It's not impossible."

There was an uneasy commotion in my heart.

"I can pull out the information for you to read right now...but..." the man paused, "Although we are not relatives, I still want to advise you..." He assumed the posture of an elder.

"It's better not to touch the memory that can make it painful enough to self-destruct."

Qiao Yichen could not refute.

"Of course, the choice is yours."

This sentence is clearly shirking responsibility.

Silence fell again.Georgia's sleeping face beside her was still quiet and peaceful.

"I can also put the backup file back on it to remind it of the past, and you can just ask it yourself." Seeing that his expression was getting more and more wrong, the boss shrugged quickly and said, "You just think I'm farting." .”

"I see." The coffee was completely cold, and Qiao Yichen drank it in one gulp, "I won't ask any more. Thank you."

Just about to get up and leave, Qiao Yichen thought of something and stopped again.

"Boss, do robots... feel pain?"

"Of course, why do you ask that?" The man asked in confusion.

At the door of the house just now, the way Georgia painfully tried to move her arm woke her up.Now, the guess in my heart finally has an answer.

"Nothing, just ask casually."

"If you don't design them to feel pain, they will just chop their hands and feet for fun. It's not fun."

The boss thought his joke was funny.

"..."

Seeing that he was not in the mood to joke, he straightened his face and said:

"It's similar to the reason why human beings feel pain. It can be regarded as a way of self-protection."

"Then... will there be some robots that are naturally dull and don't make a sound even though they are in pain?"

Only then did the man realize: "Are you talking about it?" Qiao Yichen nodded.

He stood up, walked over to the console, and touched Georgia's face with his hand.

"This child is not slow, it's just... more tolerant..."

***

After bidding farewell to the store manager, Qiao Yichen walked into the bleak autumn street.The sun has gone down, and there is only the last ray of light in the sky.Just now, I learned too much at once, and while my mind was confused, Qiao Yichen couldn't tell what kind of mood he was in right now.Nor was he sure of keeping his composure when facing it four and a half days later.As sensitive as it is, you will definitely notice changes in your attitude.It must also say that nothing is all right, sadness is just an alarm, and pain is also an alarm.Looking up at the sky, Qiao Yichen wanted to relieve the depression in his heart, but was dazzled by the yellow sand rolled up by the autumn wind.

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