268 The Eleventh Store
◎Everyone buys two books.◎
Most of the people on the airship are robots, and their shapes are different.
They are not limited to human shapes, there are cuboids, cars, robots with mechanical wings, and even dogs.
When they are not talking, their expressions and attitudes cannot be seen, but now they are all crowded together and sitting opposite each other. Their attitude of breaking away from the store owner is obvious, and the dream-fulfilling system is anxious. The
dream-fulfilling system will collect information along the way. Lu Yao casually looked at the interior of the airship for a few times and then retracted her gaze. She couldn't show that it was her first time on an airship. She lowered her head and took out a book from the cloth bag she carried with her and opened it.
The airship was very stable, without any bumps, and she couldn't even feel that the airship was moving. She didn't feel dizzy when reading.
Lu Yao leaned on the soft back of the chair, with his left hand under his right elbow, holding the book with one hand, and folding the page behind him after reading.
0666 swore that he just looked at the opposite side subconsciously, and the words hit his eyes.
As the person opposite him kept turning the pages, he also finished reading most of the words on the pages.
Because the pages of the book are very thin, the mechanical eyes are different from the naked human eyes. The line of sight can completely penetrate the paper and even the words on the back can be scanned.
The airship was unusually quiet. The robot sat in his seat motionless, and only the sound of turning pages was heard occasionally.
It's not that Lu Yao couldn't feel the sight of the opposite side. After all, more than a dozen pairs of mechanical eyes were staring intently at the book in her hand.
About ten minutes later, the airship stopped in front of a huge silver geometric building. A mechanical prompt sounded. Lu Yao put away the book and slowly stood up: "Go straight down?"
The jailers and sniper team looked away, a little embarrassed to look at her, and a little regretful that they were watching the exciting part but it ended.
0666 stood up and personally escorted Lu Yao off the airship, then led her a few steps towards the silver geometric building: "This is the seventh district, and that building is the Mental Value Research Center. You need to do some basic physical examinations. There are nursing robots on the upper floor to guide you. Just go up directly."
Lu Yao suddenly thought of a serious problem: "Do I have to pay for the examination myself or..."
0666 immediately said: "There are very few people on the island who need to do physical examinations. You are a native, so the examination will be easier because only people who come into contact with prisoners need to do physical examinations, so you don't have to worry about the cost. If the test results are no problem, you can go back directly after you come out."
0666 escorted Lu Yao to the door of the research center and left. They still had to escort Gus back to the prison cell in the sixth district.
As for Lu Yao's physical examination report, the results will be automatically sent to him and related personnel, and they don't need to wait here.
The Mental Value Research Center is behind the interrogation building. The whole building has 200 floors. It is like a Tetris cube, connected by cubes of different shapes to form a tall building.
After a preliminary scan, the Dream Yuanming System told Lu Yao: "This building has 200 floors, 50 floors underground, and 150 floors above ground."
Lu Yao wants to go to the 15th floor above ground. There is a guidance robot at the door.
The guidance robot is about 1.78 meters tall, very close to the appearance of humans, wearing a blue work suit, and guides Lu Yao to take the elevator upstairs.
The elevators in the interstellar world are rectangular, with a horizontal row of metal grids and numbered doors, a bit like seats on a staircase.
Lu Yao walked into door number three, which was just enough space for one person. There was no floor button, and the elevator began to ascend after a voice instruction.
The elevator stopped on the fifteenth floor, and when Lu Yao got off, he met a nursing robot.
The voice system on this robot was similar to that of a human female. She was two meters tall, covered in light gold metal, with square legs and a head, mini tracks installed under her feet, and her arms were made into primate-like simulated robotic arms, which were thicker and longer than ordinary human arms. She
wore a light blue nursing uniform, and only her arms were covered with simulated skin, which was still warm to the touch.
Her eyes are a bit like Gus's, they are simulated mechanical eyes, with dark and bright pupils and very long eyelashes.
The nursing robot is a service robot with a particularly gentle voice. It handed Lu Yao a set of light blue hospital gown and led her to the locker room to change clothes.
When Lu Yao came out after changing her clothes, the huge nursing robot accompanied her throughout the examination.
There seemed to be no staff on this floor, all the robots with programmed functions were busy.
The operating program of the detection machine has also been set in advance. People just need to lie on the instrument according to the instructions, and it will be finished in a few minutes.
After that, the examination results will be automatically sent to the Star Ring and will also be automatically archived.
Lu Yao didn't understand these machines. She tested her mental state three times. The test instrument issued a red alarm. The nursing robot calmly reset the instrument. She thought it was normal. After
the mental state test, the nursing robot led Lu Yao forward and did four more inspections before it was over.
Lu Yao came out of the research center alone. The airship at the door had already left.
She stood on the side of the road for a few minutes, waiting for the Dream Fulfilling System to scan the surroundings and draw a map.
There are public airships in Guandao, but because not many people take them, the flight intervals are longer.
When Lu Yao came out of the research center, an airship had just left downstairs. It would take half an hour for the next one.
Lu Yao planned to walk back to the eighth district.
Not long ago, Gus also went from the seventh district to the eighth district, and it didn't seem to take much time.
Lu Yao completely ignored the fundamental difference between robots and native humans.
In this world, the price of replacing a mechanical body is actually very expensive, but many people are willing to sell their houses to buy a mechanical body.
In addition to wanting to gain immortality through machines, the efficiency and kinetic energy of mechanical bodies far exceed the limits of human bodies. People can use mechanical bodies to run faster and more powerfully, without feeling hungry, getting sick, or having physiological needs.
It may only take Gus eight minutes to run from the seventh district to the eighth district at full speed, while Lu Yao has to walk forty minutes.
There are not many people on the road, but there are surveillance.
Lu Yao asked the Dream Fulfilling System to find a blind spot for surveillance, and she wanted to take out the skateboard from her portable warehouse.
I wanted to take out my electric bike, but I was caught on camera and thought it was a bit exaggerated, so I kept a low profile on the skateboard.
The roads in Guandao are very flat, and the modified skateboard is stable and fast.
Luyao rode on the skateboard, with the Dream Fulfilling System responsible for navigation, and rushed all the way to the eighth district.
Luyao encountered a crawler garbage truck halfway, as huge as a ship, moving slowly on the wide road.
There is not much domestic garbage on Guandao Island, but a lot of service robots are needed.
The garbage truck was full of scrapped robots, and various metal sheets that resembled biological limbs were piled up like a hill, as if it was loaded with corpses. Lu Yao
jumped off the skateboard, dodged to the side of the road, and watched the garbage truck pass by.
Suddenly, a series of crisp noises came from the truck.
Bang -
a tattered metal robot rolled off the garbage truck and fell on the side of the road.
The garbage truck did not stop, but moved forward slowly. Lu
Yao walked over, bent down, and picked up the shabby metal robot.
This seems to be a mini cleaning robot, small in stature, only reaching Lu Yao's knees, with a round head and bright mechanical simulated eyes that do not conflict with its face. It also wears an orange goggles on its head, with a dark blue coating on its body and bright yellow stripes on its arms and collar.
Lu Yao occasionally sees such robots passing by the door of the bookstore in groups, scrubbing the road diligently.
She likes this kind of small and cute robot very much.
However, the cleaning robot in front of her has been scrapped, with a mottled metal coating on the surface, a broken arm, and a fist-sized hole on its round head, revealing the rusted parts inside.
Lu Yao picked up the robot and looked around, thinking it would be a pity to throw it away, so she wanted to take it back to the store as a mascot.
The tattered robot suddenly moved, its little head flexibly turning left and right, making a grunting sound.
It broke away from Lu Yao's arm, rolled to the ground, got up by itself, turned around and ran towards the trash can.
Lu Yao followed it for a few minutes and found that it was looking for discarded parts, as if trying to repair the hole in its head. Lu Yao
walked over and tried to communicate: "I opened a bookstore in the eighth district. Come back to the store with me and I will help you fix the hole in your head, okay?"
The little robot lay in the trash can, ignoring Lu Yao, and kept muttering "My head is broken, my head is broken."
Lu Yao communicated a few more times, and the little robot jumped off the trash can, ignored her, and continued to run to the next trash can.
There is no way there are parts of cleaning robots in the trash cans on the roadside.
The Dream-Fulfilling System suddenly reminded: "It's break time, guests are coming!"
A day in Guandao is very long. Robots basically don't feel tired, and they don't need to eat or go to the toilet, but prisoners generally have a half-hour break every four hours.
Working too long, the prisoners' mental values are rioting, and there is a possibility of violence.
The balloon banners released by Lu Yao in the morning seem to have worked. The prisoners basically work in District 9 and stop their activities when they hear the break bell. People are walking towards District 8 one after another.
The monitoring network temporarily opened by the Dream-Fulfilling System captured the whereabouts of the guests. They have crossed the border between Districts 9 and 8 and are standing on the roadside observing the balloon banners floating in the air.
Lu Yao took out a palm-sized golden mask from his pocket, walked behind the mini cleaning robot, blocked the small hole on its head with the golden mask, and activated its power to make it blend with the original shell of the cleaning robot.
The mask was "welded" perfectly, like a small decoration hanging on the side of the cleaning robot's face, filling the small hole and making this robot different from other cleaning robots.
However, the cleaning robot was unaware and still rushed into the trash can.
Lu Yao stopped bothering it, took out the skateboard again, stepped on it and rushed straight to the eighth district.
She would work hard to make money, and one day she would have a decisive battle with some bastard god in the Supreme Temple! ! !
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On the way back to the bookstore, the Dream-Fulfilling System was thankful: "They didn't seem interested in us this morning, but I didn't expect anyone to come."
Lu Yao: "Two reasons. First, some people are interested in my brain, just like they treated the new store owner before. Second, some people are indeed attracted to the bookstore."
The Dream-Fulfilling System still didn't quite understand: "We didn't do any activities for the opening this time, nor did we distribute flyers to promote it. They were attracted just by seeing those balloons?"
In the early days of the opening of the stores on the shopping street, most of them had discount cards and discount activities. The last errand shop was a good example.
This time, the bookstore not only didn't have an opening event, but the first customer, Gus, spent more than 100,000 yuan on books, and the owner gave him a two-yuan pen.
Lu Yao: "Your thinking is limited by existing cognition, because you see that books are very cheap in my world, so you believe that the value of books is just that. In fact, in the long history of mankind, books have also been expensive luxury goods.
"Even now, in some countries in the world, paper books are also quite expensive because of good intellectual property protection.
"The other day we chatted with the manager of the Ji's chain bookstore. He said that because of the chaos in the market and rampant piracy, genuine books have a difficult road ahead.
"But even if piracy is rampant, the price of books is getting lower and lower, and the door of knowledge is always open to humans, but in recent years, fewer and fewer people are willing to buy and read books. The demise of physical books in Guandao's world may be the future of physical books in my world.
"You seem to think that opening a bookstore in Guandao is a bad idea, but I think this era and this world are absolutely fertile ground for physical books.
" "I won't sell those carefully selected great works at low prices like packaged end-of-life products. I will pick them up from the deep mud of the long river of time and make them shine in this poor world without books." "
The Dream System was convinced and even gradually became justified.
The books on the shelves of their store are the fine products selected by the store owner one by one. The employees of the entire shopping street and some customers spent a lot of time and money to obtain genuine channels, translation, proofreading, printing, binding... The store owner and they have spent a lot of effort and energy.
Just based on the time and energy spent on these tasks, the price of the books should not be too low, not to mention that those books are the crystallization of great ideas that absolutely do not exist in this era.
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Lu Yao bumped into several customers at the door of the bookstore. The customers were standing in front of the store reading the sign Lu Yao left.
Lu Yao jumped off the skateboard, held the board in one hand, and slowly walked towards them: "It's the first day of opening. There is a reading room in the store. New books are available for trial reading. If you are not busy, please come in and have a seat."
The four robots at the door are basically humanoid, with different limb details.
A three-meter-tall, black, metallic muscleman; a mini red mecha that seemed to be fused with a mecha, estimated to be two meters and eighty centimeters tall; and two silver-gray robots that looked identical in appearance, slightly shorter than the metallic muscleman and the red mecha, estimated to be two meters tall.
All four wore blue and white striped prison uniforms, with inconspicuous electronic handcuffs on their ankles. Lu Yao
went to the seventh district and took a quick look at the prison guards and arrest robots. They did not have those kind of handcuffs on their metal limbs.
The four turned their heads slowly, expressionless, and did not speak. When the robots looked over, there was an inexplicable meaning, as if a beast had discovered its prey.
The silver-gray robot on the far left suddenly moved, running towards Lu Yao, with his right arm raised and slightly bent, his palm open.
The image in the robot's mind was that it was rushing over to cover the store owner's face, pinning her down, and playing with her brain before the jailer found out and chased after her.
One of the biggest differences between native humans and machines is pain perception. Robots basically can't feel physical pain, but more mental humiliation, while native humans are completely different. They will feel both physical and mental torture.
This native human is so young and so ignorant that she dared to enter Guandao without using a mechanical body. It was absolutely exciting to dig her brain.
The silver-gray robot's hand was less than five centimeters away from the store owner's face. The tragedy was about to unfold.
The native human's head would explode like a ripe tomato, and red, white, and yellow slurry would overflow, which was much more interesting than torturing the robot's spiritual body.
The black skateboard pressed against the palm of the silver-grey robot. Lu Yao gently grasped his wrist with his left hand and looked directly into his eyes. His eyes were clear and even contained a faint smile.
"Are the raw materials of the mechanical limbs extracted from ore?"
The silver-grey robot lowered his head abruptly. He couldn't pull out his arm and couldn't understand what this native human was saying.
Lu Yao tilted his head slightly, looking past the robot in front of him and sweeping his eyes to the three people watching the show behind him. He said word by word: "Maybe it's a bit unfortunate. I can be regarded as the nemesis of robots." As
soon as the owner finished speaking, complex golden emblems appeared from her wrist and gradually wrapped around her arm.
If you look closely, you can see that a flowing black "river" is embedded in the middle of those golden lines that emit soft light. It is looming and so thin that it is almost indistinguishable.
The silver-grey robot couldn't break free, and the state of its mechanical limbs began to become a little strange - the extremely hard metal skeleton suddenly became soft and collapsed as if it had melted.
The other silver-grey robot that had been standing by the door without moving began to move, but before he could get close, the shopkeeper raised his left hand and casually threw the lump of metal that had become somewhat close to the original ore form, smashing it directly into the arms of the robot that had suddenly attacked.
The silver-grey robot suddenly held a heavy piece of raw ore in his hand, and his movement froze, and his wrist was accidentally pinched by the shopkeeper.
He didn't dare to move.
Lu Yao's eyes were gentle and his tone was soft: "The four of you, each go in and buy two books, and this matter will be over."
The metal muscle man and the red mecha man couldn't help but scream in disbelief.
I was just passing by to eat some watermelon, but you forced me to buy it?
Lu Yao laughed maliciously and asked sincerely: "You like hunting shop owners so much, have you ever thought about becoming prey one day? Maybe you also want to replace a mechanical body?"
Dream-making system: "... Lu Yao, don't do this, I'm scared."
After the shop owner got the half-body token from Mo Zhu, he did not merge it with the Ruler of Admonition, but integrated it with Fula's blessing.
Not only that, Fula's blessing also perfectly responded to the shop owner's expectations, allowing Mo Zhu's ability to be qualitatively improved in the hands of the shop owner.
Two days ago, Lu Yao just got this new ability and excitedly went to the errand shop to find Mo Zhu.
Mo Zhu saw the shopkeeper casually extracting rare elements from the ore and easily restoring it to the ore state. He was silent for a few seconds and complained weakly: "What's the use of this? I'm not a researcher! I know, I know, my ability is just so useless!!!"
Today, the Dream Yuanmeng System finally understood why Lu Yao smiled and said nothing at that time.
This ability is simply a nightmare for the robots of Guandao!
The metal muscle man Del and the mecha man Kani swept towards the pile of scrap iron in Yuan's arms, and the alarm in their minds was raised to the highest level.
The two turned their heads silently, walked silently to the sensor door, and strode in.
Although I don’t know what a book is, it’s okay to buy two, right? Replacing a mechanical body is much more expensive than buying a book.
The silver-grey robot is named Yuan, and the scrap iron he holds is called Xi.
In terms of kinship, they are twins.
They were born together, grew up together, and even went to jail together. They have never been separated.
Lu Yao shook his wrist lightly and walked past the two brothers holding a skateboard in one hand.
Yuan called Lu Yao: "Xi's body..."
Lu Yao said without turning his head: "If he buys five books, it will be restored."
The mecha man Carney showed half of his head from behind the bookshelf: "Can it be restored?"
Lu Yao walked to the cashier and stood still: "Believe it or not, it's your freedom."
Carney stared at Lu Yao's back, slowly moved one step to the side, then another step, lowered his head to talk to Del: "Who is this store owner?"
When Lu Yao was decorating the interior of the bookstore, she referred to past data and roughly understood the general size and height of robots.
The bookshelves in the store are taller than ordinary bookshelves, and the bookshelves are made of grand and solid materials. The distance between the bookshelves is also wide, enough for a three or four meter tall robot to sit on the ground, and there is still space for the aisle next to it.
Del was sitting on the floor at this time, holding a book for trial reading in his hand, and he said "hmm" softly.
Carney: "She has her back to us, should we raid?"
Del: "...hmm."
Carney felt something was wrong, and looked down at Del: "...what are you doing?"
Del raised his head: "This book...seems okay."
Carney didn't want to continue to argue with the owner, so he sat down next to Del and casually pulled out a book with a black cover from the bookshelf.
The book was covered with plastic, but Carney didn't care.
He was about to tear it open when he saw a sticker on the plastic cover reminding him - the book is expensive, there are sample books for trial reading on the bookshelf, please do not damage the plastic cover of the new book, and please compensate for the damage at the original price!
Carney turned to the back of the book and saw the price in the lower right corner - 99,000 star coins. He quietly put the book back to its original place and sat down to breathe heavily.
Damn it, it seems they have encountered a scam!
Three bookshelves away from Del and Carney, someone was sweating even more.
When Yuan and Xi heard the owner say that buying a few books would make the matter less serious, they really thought that the matter would just pass.
Until they entered the bookstore, Yuan took Xi to take books from the bookshelf, opened a book for 58,000, changed to another one for 66,000, and then opened another one for 99,000...
There was no book with a unit price of less than 50,000. Seven books for two people would cost at least 300,000 or 400,000 star coins.
Everyone was numb.
Are books such expensive things?
Compared to replacing the mechanical body, the price of the books was not so high that he could not afford it, but these things were useless. The thought of spending hundreds of thousands of star coins on useless things made Yuan Hexi's heart bleed.
Del picked out the books he wanted to buy the fastest, and he took one more than Lu Yao had specified.
A collection of Borges' poems and two novels, one of which was the 99,000 book that Carney picked up and put down again, called "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
Del opened the book for trial reading and was deeply attracted by the first sentence of the opening.
When it came time to pay, he couldn't bear to part with any of the three books, so he gritted his teeth and bought all of them.
Carney bought two books, a collection of poems for 66,000 and a novel for 68,000.
The small treasury that he had saved for half a year was emptied by two books. He hated it!
But there is always someone worse off than the other. Del and Kani seemed to calm down a little when they saw Yuan put a pile of books on the cash register and put the useless brother next to it.
After scanning the barcode, the shopkeeper bent down to take the bag of books: "316,000 star coins."
Del and Kani were a little surprised. It was much cheaper than the total price they expected.
Yuan took out the star ring and didn't pay immediately: "Restore Xi's body first."
Lu Yao didn't pull it, nor was he afraid that they would run away. He put his left hand on the metal lump that was infinitely close to the original ore and restored Xi's mechanical body.
Yuan happily scanned the star ring and paid.
Lu Yao took out a brand new notebook and two pens and put them into the bag of books: "This is a gift."
Del and Kani also had gifts.
There were only pens, but they didn't care.
The four of them came in a neat row and left in a neat row.
Before leaving the store, Carney was still saying, "Why are seven books so cheap? I thought it would cost at least 400,000."
Yuan took out two books with bright covers from his book bag: "I found cheap books in the innermost corner."
[Author's words]
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