Chapter 154 In the interstellar age...are there cockroaches too?
The days on the Exile Star passed one after another.
Xingxing would broadcast live every day cooking some weird meals or picking up some weird garbage.
Qinan will also use part of his daily live broadcast to teach the audience a lot of knowledge, and will also use discarded garbage to assemble many substitutes for mechanical products in front of the camera.
Sometimes he and Xingxing would go out together to pick up trash.
He would tell the audience in front of the camera what the garbage he picked up was used for, and would also sigh helplessly at the strange things he picked up from the stars.
In addition, Lin Ye would come to study with Qinan for a whole day every week.
Gradually, the stars and the woods became familiar, and a small house appeared next to the cabin.
It is not for living. It has long been filled with useful garbage and some finished machines that can be sold directly in the safe zone.
Qi Nan and Xingxing didn’t know whether Lin Ye had paid attention to their special live broadcast room on Star Internet in the past few months, nor did they know whether Lin Ye knew that Xingxing was an awakened intelligent life.
But they tacitly agreed not to say anything and not to ask anything.
Everything is progressing step by step, and the days are like a slowly winding stream.
At least, in the eyes of Qinan and many viewers, this is correct.
Just when they all thought that they would be able to live peacefully and calmly for three years, an accident completely broke this peace.
The first case of a companion robot maliciously injuring someone occurred in the Federation.
Moreover, the companion robot that hurt people happened to be a mechanical product from the same company as Xingxing.
They all come from Polestar.
The mechanical number of that little robot is: Polestar-2538.
Once the news was verified, the entire federation was shocked.
The heated discussion on whether intelligent mechanical products possess life consciousness, which had just died down not long ago, has once again swept across the entire Star Network like a raging fire.
Xingxing and Qinan were dragged out again.
But this time, the remarks are no longer as rational as before.
At first, Xingxing acted harmless enough in front of the camera, and now that he was in exile, his pitiful and miserable appearance always prevented people from making too many malicious speculations.
But this time it's different.
This time, it was a completely heinous incident of injury, an attack that could happen to anyone at any time.
After all, what family doesn’t use Polestar’s mechanical products to assist their lives?
Companion robots, household robots, medical robots, various mechanical products and the most important mecha products, 80% of these mechanical products circulating on the market come from Polestar.
With such a product monopoly market, all citizens of the Federation fell into panic and suspicion after the news came out.
They pulled out the star and compared it with Polestar-2538 in the video in all aspects.
They singled out Qi Nan and launched all-round attacks and questioning against him, the former shareholder and mechanical manufacturer of Polestar Company.
When this incident became a big deal, Qi Nan happened to be telling the audience in the live broadcast room that all mechanical products on the market have three command programs programmed into them before leaving the factory.
The audience watched the video of the robot injuring people, and then reread what Qi Nan said in the live broadcast. For a moment, they felt it was extremely ironic.
They began to occupy and cover the original barrage of comments in the live broadcast room with overwhelming questioning.
[Can you explain why the companion robots manufactured by your company always have accidents of one kind or another? Previously, they awakened life consciousness, and now they intentionally hurt people. As a former shareholder and mechanic of Polestar, you should have something to say, right?]
[This is so funny, are you treating us consumers like monsters? We spend money on quality, safety and peace of mind, not on something that can awaken consciousness and maliciously hurt people!!]
[I am just a passerby. When I watched the live streaming of the slice-up online before, I felt that this little robot named Xingxing was really good at pretending and acting. It was terrifying every time I thought about it. But at that time, it had many fans, so I didn’t dare to say it. Now I finally dare to say it out loud.]
[+1, I don't know how you can have so much kindness and love for an unknown life form that you don't know whether it is good or evil. Anyway, I can't do it. When I think that the companion robot I bought will suddenly attack or even kill me without my knowledge, I feel terrified! I can't like this kind of mechanical life at all. ]
[I apologize to the federal officials. I suspected they had some kind of conspiracy before, but it turns out they had seen the potential dangers long ago, and only dealt with Qinan in secret to avoid causing widespread panic. I should have firmly believed in the officials!]
[Apology +1, I'm back after watching the video, now I just want to pack up all the Polestar products in my house and throw them out! ]
[I agree with the above. It would be best to pack up all these mechanical garbage and transport them to the exile planet where Qinan is. Let him and his ghost things get along well with each other. He calls them grandpa and stars so affectionately every day. He really treats the robots as his grandsons. He is not afraid of backlash. Just wait for that day.]
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Countless comments, either malicious or sarcastic, completely covered the screen of the live broadcast room.
When Qi Nan saw the first related comment, he frowned unconsciously and stopped teaching.
He stood in front of the camera, quietly watching the words and speculations slowly passing by on the screen. After a while, he said in a deep voice to the countless people pouring into the live broadcast room in the quiet little room: "It's impossible. Polestar-2538 can never awaken life consciousness out of thin air, and it is even more impossible to hurt people maliciously, unless there is someone behind it controlling it, or someone maliciously changed its core command code."
He spoke with such confidence that after he finished speaking, everyone in the live broadcast room who were waiting to see his reaction were stunned unconsciously.
After a second of silence, all the malicious doubts turned into dense question marks that flooded in like a tide.
After the question mark, there are more intensive doubts and questions.
[??? Is there something wrong with my ears? Why do I suddenly have trouble understanding what people are saying? ? ]
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[No... Can anyone tell me, is what he said true? How can he be so sure? Mingming Xingxing is a special case, isn't he? Why can he refute it without hesitation? Is he trying to pass on the blame?! ]
[Guess +1, I always feel that this old man doesn't look like a good person. Time and environment can change a person very quickly. Anyway, I saw that he was quite handsome in the photos before, but now he has become unrecognizable. So you can't blame me for judging people by appearance, right?]
[An insider would say that, according to common sense, what he just said is correct, but he is the father of machinery that we must learn in our textbooks, and he is the absolute boss at the top of the pyramid of this industry. In addition, there is an example of awakened life consciousness right next to him, so... In fact, insiders can't tell whether he is telling the truth or just shirking responsibility. Now I just hope that the federal government can conduct a strict investigation.]
[I have @ed the officials of various mechanical industries in the Federation, and also @ed the three military and political departments. I believe the results of the investigation will be out soon.]
[I'm making a guess, just a guess, that is... could it be that the three years Xingxing and Qinan asked for were not actually for Qinan to live through three years, but for him to use these three years to stir up trouble, develop secretly, and then after three years, completely control all the major mechanical intelligent products of the Federation, and finally overthrow or even imprison us humans?]
[Fuck, this is terrifying when I think about it. I blame myself for being too naive at the time. I only thought about the emotional bond between mechanical products and humans, and never thought about anything else!]
[Ahhhhh help me, originally I really liked Xingxing and Teacher Qi, but…but this matter is really hard to say, I’ve read too many netizens’ speculations now, and when I look at Teacher Qi and Xingxing again, I always feel that they are both weird, as if they are hiding some conspiracy that cannot be seen by others, even their faces seem to have become scary! ]
[I have stopped being a fan. It turns out that being a fan of mechanical products will not end well. So why is this live broadcast room still alive? Hasn’t the official shut it down yet?]
[Yes, but the Federation should act quickly. I heard that the military has surrounded the Polestar headquarters and various branches and is investigating the employees. I believe that it won’t be long before Qi Nan will be arrested. After all, this batch of numbered companion robots were designed and released by Qi Nan himself. He might be the culprit of everything.]
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Amid the speculation among netizens, Qi Nan calmly closed the live broadcast room.
Before going off the air, he said to the camera: "That's all for today, we'll continue tomorrow."
The screen went black.
But the barrage of comments that flashed across the screen seemed to have exploded and become more and more numerous.
They laughed at him for being timid, suspected that he wanted to escape out of fear, speculated that he was the mastermind, and accused him of having been in cahoots with the intelligent life stars.
The most copied sentence is: [When you find a cockroach in a corner of the room, it means that there are so many cockroaches in the dark that there is almost no room for them.]
outside the house.
Standing in another small room, Xingxing, who learned about this from Qiuqiu and Shisheng, and was also following Qi Nan's live broadcast room, also saw this line of comments that were copied and pasted over and over again.
Shi Sheng looked at it worriedly.
Qiuqiu was so anxious that he turned into a thousand-clawed fish and kept refuting those malicious words on the Internet.
But the stars were surprisingly calm.
Or rather, a little out of shape.
It stared blankly at the same line of words that kept passing across the light screen. Not only did it not feel the sharp sarcasm in the words, it also tilted its head in confusion.
In the interstellar age...are there cockroaches too?
Are there any flies and mosquitoes?
At the end of the world, Uncle Hu and humans were most wary of these mutated insects, trying every way to prevent and kill them. If they existed in the interstellar space...then why not write a letter to Uncle Hu and ask humans to research the drug for the zombie virus, or find a way to quickly research cockroaches and mosquitoes?
Strange yet seemingly logical thoughts flashed through Xingxing's little head from time to time. It stood there quietly, and the light of the barrage special effects on the light curtain kept flashing in its dark pupils.
Shisheng's image stayed in the air like a light curtain, and it was also observing the stars.
It wondered how the stars would react when they knew this and saw the malice of these humans.
But it waited and waited.
Xingxing held the small pot for boiling medicine and said nothing.
"…No matter what you think, I definitely didn't do this." Shi Sheng suddenly defended himself.
Xingxing was awakened and looked at it blankly, "What did you do? A cockroach?"
Shi Sheng: “…”
Sometimes it also wants to secretly take apart the star's mechanical head to see if there are any magical changes happening inside.
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