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Hearing footsteps behind him, Ding Can turned around and saw Yu Fu walking towards him from the end of the corridor. He was holding a diamond-patterned blanket in his hand and handed it to him as he approached.
"Put it on. It's still quite cold here even though the temperature has dropped at night."
"Yeah." Ding Can took it, put his feet together on the stool, spread out the blanket, and covered his whole body tightly.
Yu Fu followed her gaze and looked out the window: "What are you looking at?"
"Stars, I just don't know how many times I can see them again. I've experienced nights many times in so many dungeons before, but back then I just thought they were commonplace. Even with the bright moon and stars, I never felt the night sky was so precious."
Because at that time I thought that after leaving the training camp, there would be many opportunities to see the same or even more beautiful sky.
But it is different now. Even though she knows that everything in front of her is an illusion in a sense, she still hopes to remember it more deeply, and preferably never forget it.
Yu Fu was standing, and from this angle, he could only see the street with lighted streets. Even further, it was blocked by nearby buildings.
He bent down slightly and squatted on one leg, then he could gradually see the scenery higher up. On the warm yellow wall illuminated by the light, pointed eaves began to appear first, and then the deep blue sky unfolded before his eyes.
It was the sky she was talking about.
"Every night sky is different, so it should be precious to everyone." He understood why Ding Can was in a low mood.
But most of the time, she always seems to be the one standing in front of everyone, the one who most hopes to pass the level and leave the copy.
Even though she had no memories of the training camp during those times, her goal remained unchanged.
Yu Fu raised his eyes and saw a profile with very clear outlines. When the moonlight shone down, the whole person around him was covered with a soft halo.
He smiled unconsciously. "Actually, many times, changing your perspective can give you a completely different experience. Now that I think about it, if I hadn't been attracted to the human world, I wouldn't have helped that student, wouldn't have been sent to the training camp building, and wouldn't have met these people."
Nor will I see her in different identities.
Yu Fu lowered his voice unconsciously. In fact, ever since he learned the truth, he had always been curious about why Ding Can insisted on forcibly entering the training camp system and wanted to bring himself back to his original position.
The underlying tone of data is cold and lonely. For humans, in the tens of thousands of years of history, they actually have no concept of time.
It is just that day after day, without interruption, it serves as the foundation to make the entire system run more perfectly in order to achieve the ultimate research results.
The recent experiences may be very difficult for other students, but in the eyes of data, they are just a blink of an eye.
Ding Can gathered the blanket closer and said, "Yes, this is what they call destiny."
"Do you regret it?" Yu Fu asked suddenly.
He didn't say what he regretted, but Ding Can understood it all at once. He was worried that he might think he was implicated. After actually arriving at the training camp, he found that everything was different from what he had imagined.
The expectant eyes looked at him, as if there was no need to say no. If he hesitated for a moment in answering, he would immediately feel sad.
"No, but I can't really explain what initially drove me to do this. Is it because we've been with each other for a long time?"
After Ding Can said this, he felt a little confused. Logically speaking, they would not be endowed with the function of emotion.
But in the vast world of data, these two outliers appeared and broke away from the original trajectory.
It is undeniable that both of them identify more with their current identities.
Yu Fu was silent for a moment. "It wasn't my intention to come to the training camp, but you came here on your own initiative. You know, in the end, we might still have to return to our previous world."
Everything they were doing now was to help the trainees escape the constraints of the training camp system. Even if everyone tried their best and really found a way home, it would only be these trainees who left.
As for himself and Ding Can, they actually had nowhere to go and continued to become two pieces of data floating in the void.
"Do you still remember the forum posts from the day before you came here? Even though we haven't met in person, I can still sense everyone's feelings from those few words."
Ding Can had no intention of denying it. He knew that he was soft-hearted because of those expectations. If he could help them, even if he went back again, it wouldn't be so difficult.
She thought of something else: "But if they leave, it will definitely cause damage to the system, and it will also affect the data running within it..."
Yu Fu interrupted her: "I will always be by your side."
*
Ding Can squinted her eyes and turned over in bed. She had a sound sleep. She stretched herself and saw that it was still early, so she thought about sleeping a little longer.
I have an interview with a librarian today, and it's in an hour and a half, so there's still a lot of time left.
When she went to bed yesterday, she only closed the inner gauze curtain, which could not block the sunlight. The morning light shone into the room, casting a very soft glow on a corner of the bedroom just right.
Outside, I could hear the sound of children playing, and the light fragrance of flowers in the yard wafted into my nose.
This kind of weather is actually quite suitable for doing some outdoor activities. When you have nothing to do in the afternoon waiting for the interview results, you don’t even have to go too far, you can just do it on your own lawn.
She casually assumed a comfortable side-lying position, intending to check her phone to see if there were any updated group messages.
The black screen first appeared on my face, then it lit up naturally due to the sensor, and the mobile phone desktop appeared in front of me.
Ding Can was suddenly stunned and realized that from the beginning, he seemed to be very satisfied with his current life.
Just forgetting the original purpose of entering the copy for such a short period of time was enough to arouse her vigilance.
Perhaps this is not a coincidence, but a subtle influence. The longer you stay here, the more you will forget some of the things you once insisted on.
She pushed open the door and saw Shi Yan's room next to her. She saw her squatting in front of the kitten with a gentle expression. The kitten was eating cat food, and she was watching with satisfaction.
Shi Yan's work schedule was irregular before, and she lived alone. She really wanted to get a pet, but was worried that she didn't have time to take care of it. When she came in two days ago, she saw the cat and held it in her arms for a long time.
"You're awake." Shi Yan just greeted her when she heard the voice, then turned around to change the cat's drinking water.
"Aren't we going to the community service center later? I can't go back to sleep anyway, so I thought I'd just take a stroll first."
Shi Yan nodded: "Well, I have to go outside and look for birds that fly slower..."
She hesitated mid-sentence and said, "Yeah, how could I have forgotten about this? It's all because Huihui kept stepping on me this morning."
Huihui is the name she gave to the kitten.
Ding Can raised his eyes: "I'm afraid we need to speed up the process."
*
There were already more than a dozen interviewees waiting in the waiting area outside the community service center's conference room.
Because the library has people coming in and out every day and cannot be idle for too long, the service center decided to finalize the selection today.
Ding Can was standing at a later position in the queue and only walked into the office after his name was called.
When she pushed the door open, she first noticed that the interviewer sitting at the desk was not a real person, but a robot with only half a body.
In order to save materials and energy, the office robot is designed with an upper body that moves more frequently, and its abdomen is connected to the metal swivel chair underneath.
This allows you to move freely in the office and the electricity you consume is very small.
In addition, if the artificial legs of a conventional robot are used, the movement speed cannot be guaranteed, so this robot chair has high-speed rotating wheels at the bottom.
Under special circumstances, being able to achieve very high speeds is considered particularly efficient.
"Please take a seat." Seeing that the interviewee was still standing at the door, the robot spoke politely. A circular light flashed in the position of its eyes, as if scanning the person from top to bottom.
Ding Can walked to the empty chair opposite it, but did not sit down. He still had the fake smile on his face that he had maintained since he entered the door.
"Hello interviewer, I'm Ding Can."
"Hello, you can call me RK012. I hope you will feel comfortable during the following interview."
RK012 raised his arm again to signal her to sit down, but Ding Can moved closer to the table. "Why don't we shake hands first?"
If there are just two ordinary people facing each other like this, after both of them stand up and lean forward, it will of course be easy for them to shake hands.
But the opponent was a robot that could not stand up or lean forward, so even if he stretched his arms very long, there was still a distance between his two hands.
The robot had probably never received such a request before, but the program told it that this was an action that humans often make in office social interactions, so it did not refute it, but continued to work hard to extend its robotic arm forward.
Despite trying hard, they failed to achieve their goal because there was still a distance of a dozen centimeters between them.
"No need to go through so much trouble. Just wait, I'll be there." Ding Can walked around the table to the robot and held its metallic fingers.
RK012 noticed that the handshake lasted a bit too long, and guessed the other party's intentions through the program that had been input in advance, and then explained aloud.
"Although our appearance is different, our other functions are primarily designed to serve humans. To prevent temperature differences from our colleagues during normal work, our metal skin temperature is roughly the same as humans."
Ding Can was certainly not surprised by this incident. The reason she prolonged the handshake was that she wanted to explore whether there were any traces of the system left on the robot.
What we have obtained so far is exactly what we expected.
If I had known that when I came to the library yesterday, I would have encountered a row of robot dogs parked by the door in the lobby and should have taken the opportunity to touch them. That way, I could have known this information a day earlier.
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