277 ? The eleventh store.

277 The Eleventh Store.

◎ Atticus. ◎

Zhu Wei's spirit body has changed. She cannot return to the cell immediately. She has to stay in the seventh area for observation. Maybe she will no longer need the stimulation of mental interrogation in the future and will move to the ninth area for activities.

0496's tense mood since she found that Zhu Wei's spirit body signal was weak finally relaxed a little.

While Zhu Wei continued to stay in the mental interrogation room for observation, 0496 sat in the prison rest area of ​​the seventh area for a few minutes, and then stood up and went out.

Her rationality and self-control, which she was proud of, seemed to have malfunctioned. After confirming that Zhu Wei's spirit body was reactivated, her mind was full of thoughts about books.

I had planned to go to the bookstore during lunch break or after work in the afternoon. It was fine when I was busy, but when I was free, I would keep thinking about the unsatisfied things.

0496 could not bear it any longer, so he came out of the Psychiatric Interrogation Department and strode towards the Eighth District. His steps became faster and faster until he started running.

0496 heard the timer ring on the bookstore street, and then saw prisoners coming out of the bookstore one after another, holding one or two books in their hands, and walking towards the Ninth District.

The popularity of the bookstore was unexpectedly high.

Since its establishment, the Eighth District has introduced at least dozens of resident merchants, and no store has ever been so successful.

The owner is a native human who has not changed his mechanical body. Opening a store in the poorest and most vicious place in the entire star region is originally an extremely dangerous adventure.

As a prison guard, 0496 knows the prisoners best.

But in this store, everyone's quality seems to have improved a lot, and they are extremely obedient.

Thinking of the owner who was attacked as soon as he came in the morning, 0496 silently suppressed his worries.

The owner is definitely a native human who has received professional training, and his mental value is not low, perhaps similar to the mental values ​​of those prisoners in the three inner island areas.

People with such high mental values ​​are actually quite rare, not from aristocratic families, without a criminal record, and not in the military.

0496 was standing on the roadside, lost in thought. Finally, all the customers in the bookstore left.

Except for her and a group of mini cleaning robots, there was no one else on the street. She walked back to the bookstore.

When 0496 came in, Lu Yao had returned to his breakfast seat. He was about to take a look at the data brought back by the system. Seeing 0496 who had been away for a long time and came back, he nodded slightly.

0496 squeezed her wallet. This time she was going to make a big purchase. She was particularly confident and held her head high.

The bookstore was like a canteen that became deserted after the break. 0496 had the entire space to herself. She did not go to the reading room. When she saw a book that interested her, she would take it out and flip through it at will.

Although thinking about Scarlett's story, 0496 still took out "To Kill a Mockingbird" first.

The corners of the brand new trial sample book burst, and the cover and inner pages had traces of bending. It was obviously read many times, indicating that someone came to read it during every break.

0496 couldn't help but become more curious about the content of this book.

While the guests were immersed in the world of the book, Lu Yao was also reading the data summarized from all investigations.

In this world, at least on Guandao, there are no books, but each district has an archive room, including files of staff, files of prisoners, work records of prison guards...all kinds of information are recorded in the database.

They all mixed in the world of Qimingxing, and they also made countless attempts to escape.

The star network system of Guandao is indeed rigorous, but in the eyes of all, it is far inferior to the cage of Qimingxing. If you look carefully, you can find more than one way to get in. It

comprehensively screens the accessible data in the database, and roughly sorts out the information that Lu Yao may be interested in. The amount of information summarized is very huge. If it is printed into a book, it will be more than that thick "Piao". Lu Yao began to read the book as if he was practicing in the illusion. The huge amount of information seemed to unfold in his mind, constructing a different scene. Two hundred years ago, the traditional marriage system was removed from the laws of the star field. Marriage is still a free pursuit of mankind, but marriage is no longer protected by special laws. At that time, mechanical body technology was developing rapidly, and the marriage system gradually disappeared in the wave of continuous technological innovation. Since then, only some remote indigenous settlements still retain the traditional marriage system, but today's families are different from those two hundred years ago. Humans are gradually freed from the long-standing contractual relationship. As mechanical body technology matures, humans even begin to get rid of the shackles of decaying flesh and aging. With the help of mechanical bodies, humans get rid of the constraints of various instinctive needs such as food, water, shelter, etc., and even abandon the biological instinct to reproduce and the desire for love. Until this era, every human being has become an absolutely free and independent individual, and everyone can pursue whatever he wants. While Lu Yao quickly browsed the information, he unconsciously recalled the new books that were recently put on the shelves. Fortunately, a lot of annotations were made during the translation, otherwise it would be difficult for customers to understand. Among the data organized by the Dream Yuanmeng system, there is a file on Zhu Wei. Zhu Wei was born in a gathering place for native people, and her parents are native people who live according to the traditional marriage system. There is sufficient evidence for the trial of her case, and there is probably no wrong judgment. The emergence of mechanical bodies has promoted the systematization of mental value research and measurement, and human research on consciousness and the brain has tended to be diversified. The spirit value is similar to a quantifiable force value. Under the unified standard, a high-level spirit value can suppress a low-level spirit value, and even directly invade the other party's brain to read his experience and memory. This is an extremely violent invasion. The vigorous development of mechanical body technology has become a powerful weapon to assist the spirit value, making some low-spirited humans gradually move towards machines, and they need effective means to protect themselves. But the world always has its own dark river, and it never flows according to the will of others. Having said that, after Zhu Wei was arrested, because she had chosen to abandon her body and upload her consciousness to the electronic computer, the high-spirit value reviewer directly extracted the memory fragments of the murder scene from her brain. Under the most direct evidence, Zhu Wei's crime is irrefutable. But is the memory seen by invading other people's consciousness the truth? Lu Yao has doubts about this.

Memories will keep changing as time goes by.

Humans often deceive themselves in order to believe in something they want to believe in.

Zhu Wei had replaced her mechanical body a year ago, which was equivalent to abandoning all the previous sixteen years of her life.

Even if Lu Yao asked Alfred to come over, he could not find the truth in her mechanical skeleton.

...

Next to the bookshelf, 0496 quickly flipped through "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Compared with "Floating", this book seems very easy to read, but some things hidden in the story do not seem to be easy to understand, and some plot settings are so bizarre that they are difficult to understand.

Although the story has been read, there is a breath stuck in her heart, neither up nor down.

0496 slightly leaned sideways and glanced at the shop owner who was sitting by the window facing the light of the artificial star.

What should I do?

Should I ask her?

As long as you can understand the difficult parts of this book, maybe you can understand the reasons for the fluctuations in Zhu Wei's mental value.

Lu Yao felt a prying gaze, pulled himself out of his thoughts, and looked over.

0496 suddenly felt that real human eyes seemed to be not bad. Although they were not as functional as mechanical eyes, they could vividly convey various emotions. For example, she could read "encouragement" from the eyes of the store owner at this time.

The difference between a mechanical body and an original human body is that the mechanical body is completely controlled by the brain's consciousness and will never have a reaction similar to muscle memory.

Only when the brain gives a clear command will the body move.

0496 hesitated for a few seconds, and finally made up his mind. He turned his feet slightly and walked towards the store owner.

Lu Yao smiled and waited for the guest to come over. He stood up and extended his hand, asking her to sit down opposite him.

0496 paused for a moment, then sat down obediently opposite him, holding up the book in her hand: "I have some questions about this book."

Lu Yao closed the plant atlas, moved the snack fruit plate in the middle of the table and the coffee beside him, and rested his hands on the edge of the table: "You go ahead."

0496's eyes paused on the plant atlas for a moment, and looked up at Lu Yao: "Who is the author of this book? Why did he create such a strange and illogical world?"

It is understandable that the protagonist and her brother live with their father. 0496 has also lived with her father since she was a child.

She was a baby born in an incubator. She has no biological parents, only a legal father.

Her father suddenly wanted to have a child after becoming a robot for 20 years, but he did not preserve his sperm and cells in advance when he was young, so he had to spend a lot of money to "customize" a baby in the hospital.

This baby is 0496, who has the best genes in the world at that time.

0496 was lucky. Although her father was lazy and lacked the stability of an adult, he still raised her well until she was 20 years old.

However, when 0496 was 30 years old, she was transferred to Guandao Island and gave up her original body and replaced it with a mechanical body. Now it has been ten years.

0496 had seen many native people before going to the island, but she had never seen a native person like Atticus.

Not only Atticus, many characters in the book are very special, and some plots are also very strange.

She doesn't understand why skin color can bring so much prejudice, she doesn't understand why Atticus's defense is so difficult, she doesn't understand why Tom obviously wanted to help others, but in the end he died in the silence of the crowd.

She also doesn't understand why Zhu Wei was so hurt by this book that her soul twitched.

0496 was clear in his thinking, but a little emotional. He threw out all his questions at once, and then sat obediently opposite, staring at the owner with his gray-green mechanical eyes.

"In any case, some of the plots are too low-level in design, and the characters that appear are all native humans. Why are there no robots?"

Someone finally asked this question.

Lu Yao raised his lips a little: "You seem to think that the world in the story is a completely fictional product?"

0496: "Isn't it?"

Lu Yao: "Let's go back to your last question first-why are there no robots in the books in the bookstore? In fact, I also have a question, why don't robots write books with themselves as the protagonist?"

0496 was stunned.

She reacted quickly.

The owner meant that these books were originally the works of native humans, and most of them were presenting the lives and predicaments of native humans, physiological predicaments, survival predicaments, spiritual predicaments... Small and hidden threads weave various traps, they are so fragile, but if they are twisted into a strand, they are so deadly.

As for the owner's question, it was completely a satire on her.

The robot just changed into a steel body, but has it forgotten where its roots are?

0496 thought of Zhu Wei, and suddenly seemed to have grasped a clue.

Did she see herself in that book?

Was it the protagonist Scooter?

No.

0496 thought about it but couldn't find a character that matched Zhu Wei's experience, and finally even thought of Tom.

But the evidence of Zhu Wei's murder was objective and real. Lu

Yao looked at the customer's mechanical eyes rolling around, and tapped the table with his fingertips.

"You will never really understand a person unless you walk around in his shoes and consider the problem from his perspective (1). Isn't this easy for you?"

0496 smiled slightly.

The owner seems angry?

【Author's words】

Note (1): The original sentence is quoted from Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird".

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