my old robot

After a few months, I came to this city of machinery again, and the road was completely empty, with no one at all.Of course, there were no traces of humans before, but at least there were low-level robots walking the streets.But now, several roads are coming, and apart from a few sporadic cars running, not even a robot can be seen.

Xiao Chenmo lay on the car window and looked out the whole way. Not only was the road deserted, but many shops were also closed. Those playgrounds that only provided services for human beings were all hung with closed signs.

"Why is it so deserted?" Xiao Chenmo frowned, if it weren't for the signal lights that were still flashing from above, this desertedness would make this mechanical city look more like a dead city.

The car slowly drove into the underground garage of a building, Xiao Chenmo followed Old Man Ke to get out of the car.Take the elevator of the building up, and the internal layout of the building is presented in front of you. Countless small grid rooms appear densely in front of you. Unlike the deserted condition of the external streets, this place is still overcrowded.

"What are we doing here?" Xiao Chenmo asked Old Man Ke in a low voice.

"Don't talk." Old man Ke waved at him.

Passing through the long and guilt-ridden corridor until reaching the last room, Old Man Ke took out the key to open the door.Xiao Chenmo was startled by the key in his hand, and he waited until he entered the door before he couldn't help asking, "Why do you have a house here?"

"To be precise, this is not my house, but Essex's." Old man Ke put the key on the cabinet, and he turned on the lights in the room.

"What?" Xiao Chenmo thought he heard it wrong, it was Essex's?How can this be?

"Do you remember the first time you were brought here by the deep sea? At that time, Essex removed all the smart receiving devices and pretended to be a low-level machine to sneak in. It was here that I installed the smart devices back for it."

Xiao Chenmo didn't know that there was still such a period in the process of Essex coming to rescue him, so he turned his head and looked at the room.This room is twice the size of the latticed rooms outside, and it seems that the original two rooms were connected after being opened up. Although it is still very simple, at least it looks spacious, and it is not so crowded when three people stand.

"Do you have any impression of this place?" Old Man Ke asked the robot.

The robot nodded, "It's just a few fragments, but I don't know what the purpose of coming here is, and I don't have you in my memory." It walked to the corner of the room and scratched the dent on the wall with its fingertips, " I remember there is something here." Its fingers suddenly inserted into the dent, and the bricks on the wall were pulled out by it with bare hands, but there was nothing inside.

"Did you remember it wrong?" Xiao Chenmo asked casually.

"Maybe."

Xiao Chenmo turned to Old Man Ke, "Shall we stay here first?"

"Yeah." Old man Ke looked around, it was a little bit reluctant to stay here, but it was the most convenient place.

"But there are so many people here, isn't it good?"

"It's the miscellaneous people who are easy to handle. In the entire mechanical city, only the slums have the least surveillance. This is a place where they are exiled. All clones will be sent here to fend for themselves when they reach a certain age. We met here. The person who did the chip duplication for Essex had the greatest chance."

"But Essex is an advanced version of the robot, wouldn't it be weird to appear here?"

A robot like Essex is already very conspicuous among the robot crowd, and it stands out even more among the human crowd, let alone in such a slum.

"Of course it can't walk back and forth directly from the corridor, not only it, but also you, it's better not to walk through the corridor, your current identity is also a machine."

"Then how do we get out?"

"Go down through the window."

Old man Ke turned to the toilet. Unlike the other cubicles that didn't even have a window, this innermost room had a window in the toilet. Opposite the window was another building only one meter away.There is an extremely narrow alley at the bottom that can only be passed by one person. Entering and exiting from this alley is really much more hidden than entering and exiting from the front.

"Although it's a bit far from the ground, fortunately, the bottom floors are closed garages. You will all come in and out from here in the future, which will save a lot of unnecessary trouble."

Xiao Chenmo calculated the distance from this floor to the ground. This distance is not a problem for robots, but he is a human being after all, not a real robot.

"I have no problem going up. I can support the walls on both sides with my feet and hands, but it is difficult to go down."

Old man Ke opened his tool bag and took out a small crab claw hook from it, "Who told you to climb with bare hands? You launch this to the window, hang the other end on your waist, click the switch and you will come up." gone."

A crab claw is separated in half with a very thin wire connected in the middle, as long as the retract button is activated, that wire will automatically retract the other crab claw, so Xiao Chenmo can use this wire without any effort. Filament back here.

"Did Essex wear this in and out of here before?"

"It doesn't need it, just jump directly from such a small distance."

Xiao Chenmo: "..."

In order to avoid attracting attention, Xiao Chenmo took the robot out of the slums through the main entrance first, and Old Man Ke also told him to find the building full of computers that Essex remembered.

"This is the Mechanic City, and any remote-controlled smart devices will be found here, so you and Essex can only go out and look for them one by one. I will be in charge of finding out if there are any people who understand machinery in the slums. .”

"Then Essex and I will go out to check and come back here to gather at night."

Xiao Chenmo was driving slowly along the street. A lame mechanical cat was jumping out of the window of a building. Its owner was lying on the window, waving his arms at the escaped cat and yelling ferociously. Thinking about something, Xiao Chenmo slowed down the car and was about to turn on the simultaneous translator on his ears to hear what that person was calling.Suddenly, a circular monitor fell from the sky directly in front of the car. After the monitor landed, several spider-like claws popped out and ran towards the mechanical cat quickly.Soon it chased the cat, and the spider-like claw instantly became longer, grabbing the mechanical cat's body and pinching it tightly in its claws.

Xiao Chenmo was shocked by this scene, he had never observed the layout of this city as carefully as he did now when he came to this city several times.Surveillance equipment is everywhere on the street, and there is one every ten steps away. He used to think that this kind of surveillance that could rotate 360 ​​degrees was very interesting, but he didn't expect that this small ball could also serve as a city guard.There are so many surveillance cameras in this mechanical city, as old man Ke said, I am afraid that any remote-controlled smart device will be detected by these surveillance cameras.

After the cat was caught, the street returned to calm. Xiao Chenmo looked from the rear mirror of the car at the monitor that caught the cat moving fast. He had to admit that the machinery and equipment here were more advanced than those in human society.But if human society has set up so many surveillance systems like this mechanical city, then are the human beings living under surveillance safer?Or is it less safe?In short, this kind of result makes people feel hair standing on end just imagining it, which is terrible.

It was probably Xiao Chenmo's emotions that infected the robot around him, it stretched out its hand and held his hand, interlocking its five fingers tightly wrapping his hand in its palm.

Even though this hand was not warm at all, Xiao Chenmo was still full of joy at this moment. This was a rare initiative for Essex to approach him in so many days, and he also held that hand vigorously.

The car passed by the entrance of a casino, Xiao Chenmo took a few more glances at the casino sign, he and Essex had won a lot of money here, maybe going in and walking around can help its memory?What's more, Xiao Chenmo once saw it in an eight o'clock TV series, saying that casinos and brothels are the best places to inquire about information, and maybe he can find useful information there.

"Do you want to take a walk inside?" Xiao Chenmo asked for its opinion.

The robot glanced at the signboard of the casino and said, "OK."

Unlike the crowded situation when I first came, the business in the casino was also much deserted.But deserted is deserted, and the human beings who spend a lot of money here are still enthusiastic.

"Want to gamble?" Xiao Chenmo asked it.

The robot looked at Xiao Chenmo and said, "This place only provides services for humans."

"I know, I'll play, you can see where to play." Xiao Chenmo exchanged a few chips, and pulled the robot into it.

"The bigger one or the smaller one?" he asked it in a low voice.

"Just press one."

The disappointment in Xiao Chenmo's heart overflowed uncontrollably. He still clearly remembered the moment when Essex took his hand and pressed all the chips on the table, and the moment when the dealer opened the cover, his whole body became tense and his heart beat faster. A sense of excitement.But now, Essex was obviously by his side, but he felt endlessly lonely, and he casually threw the chips on the table.The dealer opened the cover, which happened to be the number he pressed.

This is simply luck, Xiao Chenmo himself can't believe that he won like this.He piled the pile of doubled codes on the table again, anyway, it doesn't matter if he loses, these are accidental talents.

However, the points after opening the cover were just pressed by Xiao Chenmo, and the chips that had doubled were doubled again.If once is luck, twice is a bit lucky.Xiao Chenmo's disbelief turned into astonishment, he suddenly had a strange idea, could it be that the God of Wealth just passed by and stood behind me today?No, this kind of statement is just a kind of self-narcotic thought in the mind of a gambler. With two accidental wins in a row, it can only be said that his shit luck is really overwhelmed.

Although he knew it was one thing in his heart, Xiao Chenmo still turned around and looked behind him.At this glance, he didn't see any God of Wealth passing by behind him, but a man not far away made him tremble all over.

"What's the matter?" The robot that was very close to Xiao Chenmo obviously felt his stiffness. It was about to turn its head to see what was behind it, when Xiao Chenmo stopped in a low voice, "Don't move!" .”

"Don't turn your head, someone is following us." Xiao Chenmo's hands holding the chips started to shake, he didn't expect that the cleaner could follow here.

A new round of betting started again, Xiao Chenmo's thoughts were all on the person behind, and he pushed all the chips in his hand without even thinking about it.This time, many of the gamblers at the same table cast their eyes on him. A young man like him who gambled recklessly and won several times in a row always attracted a lot of envious looks.As soon as the dealer lifted the cover, Xiao Chen's last bet won again, which made him, who had already received several attention salutes, even more attention in an instant.

Xiao Chenmo also realized that he was paying too much attention. Even if he didn't turn around, he could still feel the eyes behind him staring at him. Make the other person more alert.

He had to find a way to get rid of that person, his mind was spinning rapidly, thinking about the best way to leave.It's not an option to stop gambling now. If you lose money and leave, no one will notice. On the contrary, if you win money and leave, it will attract a large number of people's attention.He had never hoped that he could lose a game like now, at least he couldn't walk with so many chips in his hand, and these chips were equivalent to a moving light source.

He muttered softly, "Can't win, can't win." Half of the chips in his hand were piled on the table.This time, it was probably his mind that defeated the God of Wealth. He thought about losing, but he really lost this time.

This inexplicable power of thought made Xiao Chenmo stunned for a moment, and after a while, he was so happy that he almost jumped up to celebrate. At last most of the eyes from around him were backed away. It seems that this person's There are only a few pieces of shit luck.

Now that Xiao Chenmo leaves this table, no one will suspect anything. Gamblers in the casino often change tables and continue to gamble when their luck is not good. turn.

Xiao Chenmo held the pile of winning chips in one hand, and lifted the communicator on his wrist with the other pretending to watch the time. The outer layer of his communicator had a circle of metal edging, which could reflect the scene in the casino. That The man in the hat was also following him, not too far away, just a few tables away.

If there were too many people in the casino, they could still create chaos and take the opportunity to escape, but there are so few people in the casino now, even if they create chaos, they can still see the target in the crowd at a glance.Xiao Chenmo still remembered the power of the ablation gun fired when he and Essex were escaping in the hospital. If the cleaner shot at Essex's head and directly ablated its chip, then He also doesn't have to look for Essex's memory, which he will lose forever.

Thinking of this, Xiao Chenmo began to break out in cold sweat layer by layer. He wandered around the casino looking for the best position, at least a little closer to the gate. If the opportunity came, he could escape. The closer to the gate, the better the chance of success. bigger.

"Hold your breath, hold your breath." He said to himself over and over again.