Chapter 457 Abandoned Zone 4
B8017913 retorted with a confident tone, "Do you think I'm stupid?"
Caught swearing, Yu Xunge instinctively retorted politely, "No way!"
B8017913: "It is often only when one believes that the other person has done something wrong and suffered a bad outcome that one asks whether the other person regrets it."
Yu Xunge stopped struggling: "...Fine, so do you regret it?"
She had figured out the condition of these abandoned robots: their consciousness was immortal and their spirit was eternal, but they were unable to do anything.
If you're lucky, you'll be thrown face up, so you can at least see the sky.
But it will soon be buried by new abandoned robots.
All the mechanical beings who could still speak were trying to communicate with her, even though at this moment, there were countless noises around her and B8017913.
This is simply the most terrible punishment in the world.
A robot that develops self-awareness and begins to think loses its ability to act, so it can only use thinking to combat boredom and loneliness day after day and year after year.
B8017913 answered very quickly, almost instantly: "I regret it so much."
Yu Xunge was amused and laughed, even letting out two laughs: "Did you know beforehand that you would be punished by the gods for doing that?"
B8017913: "Of course, everything I do is calculated."
Yu Xunge's smile faded slightly: "Oh, that's amazing."
B8017913: "It seems my ending taught you a lesson."
Yu Xunge corrected, "No, your ending encouraged me, it encouraged me to continue being a bad person."
B8017913: "Okay, you're welcome."
Yu Xunge talked about another reason why he came to find B8017913: "And... I may have caused one of your kind to start to awaken as well."
She lay down on the pile of abandoned mechanical beings, admiring the ninth-order Rubik's Cube above her head as if it were the moon, and slowly recounted how she met L12187777.
B8017913 commented: "A heartbreaker."
Yu Xunge: "...Where did you download your Chinese system from? It's so outdated. This joke is as old as my grandma's age."
B8017913: "Given by the idiot god, thank you, idiot god."
Yu Xunge: "..."
B8017913: "Are you feeling guilty? Do you feel like you hurt it? Do you want to ask me how to save it?"
“No! No!” Yu Xunge immediately denied. “Absolutely not. I’m just living my own life. I’m not responsible for other people’s fates. I don’t think I did anything special, and I don’t think I need to be responsible for it or atone for it.”
B8017913: "Then why did you come to see me?"
Yu Xunge said, "I left the 1211 shopping district in a hurry. I actually really wanted to chat with you then. I heard you were left here and had nothing to do, so I thought I'd come and look for you. If I found you, we could continue chatting; if not, then forget it."
B8017913 remained silent for a long time before saying, "You're very good at coaxing the mechanical race. No wonder L12187777 was so charmed by you that she fell in love for the first time."
Yu Xunge: "…………Is your vocabulary broken? You don't use it like that when you're first falling in love."
B8017913: "Whatever, what can I do?"
Yu Xunge no longer wanted to talk to B8017913. After chatting with B8017913 for a while and learning about B8017913's ending, and letting another being know the beginning of L12187777's story, she had no regrets.
She stood up, dusted herself off, and said, "I'm leaving."
B8017913: "Where are you going?"
Yu Xunge: "Find a way to leave this place."
B8017913 suddenly said, "The game has reached 14 hours, 12 minutes and 22 seconds."
Yu Xunge stopped what she was doing. She also thought of the intelligence that B8017913 had mentioned. She looked down at the robot and waited quietly for it to say something next.
B8017913: "Is this your real purpose for coming to me? To extract more information about the Y-series robots?"
For the first time, Yu Xunge felt like she had no way to defend herself.
She has many calculations, and most of the things she does are purposeful, at least to the point of having a visible benefit.
But this time, she came to find B8017913, just like when she returned to L12187777 to ask if it wanted to fly again...
She was unusually pure, yet B8017913 suspected her of having ulterior motives.
Yu Xunge smiled silently: "Yes."
B8017913's eye screen flickered: "Why don't you refute this? I know you didn't come here for this intelligence."
Yu Xunge was exasperated by the robot's inconsistent attitude, so she had to sit down again and try to understand B8017913's feelings with the same attitude she used when reading scripts and writing character biographies.
B8017913 didn't say anything more.
After a long while, Yu Xunge said, "Were you throwing a tantrum just now? Because I said I was leaving, so you got angry at me and said that on purpose?"
The B8017913 eye-screen went completely black.
Yu Xunge, unusually, didn't get impatient with someone throwing a tantrum at her. Looking at the mountain of garbage in her line of sight, she felt a pang of sadness and asked, "With a personality like yours, how will you get through this?"
B8017913's eye screen lit up again: "If I tell you how to leave, would you take me to your planet?"
Yu Xunge replied without hesitation, "I can't. You're too dangerous. I can't."
A robot capable of killing inspectors, possessing intelligence, and even willing to break the rules and sacrifice itself to defy the gods in order to preserve more of the Machine Race—a being with courage, wisdom, and a sense of racial honor—is terrifying.
Bringing back a load of wine would be like inviting a wolf into the house.
B8017913: "I thought you would lie to me."
This sounds familiar.
It seemed like someone else had cried and said the exact same thing to her.
Yu Xunge frowned and asked with a troubled expression, "Do I look like someone who likes to lie?"
B8017913: "You'll know if you look in the mirror."
Yu Xunge: "...Would you believe me if I lied to you?"
B8017913: "Of course, because you are the only one who came to see me after I was punished by the gods."
Yu Xunge scratched her hair in frustration. She remembered who the last person had said they thought she would lie to her was—Little Machi.
B8017913: "So, would you like to take me to your planet?"
Yu Xunge shook her head again: "I really don't want to."
She always had some principles that she herself couldn't understand.
Even if becoming stronger would bring great benefits to Zaijiu, she still wouldn't steal from people on Zaijiu Star who had no grudge against her.
She could be a shameful, despicable pickpocket, thief, or burglar in Zeran, but she was unwilling to deceive little Machi, who was an undead.
Even now, even though B8017913 has given her a perfect way out, she still doesn't want to go down.
Otherwise, every time she looks up at the moon, she'll remember a robot she deceived and then abandoned there...
That's utterly terrible.
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