295 ? The eleventh store

295 The Eleventh Store

◎The world is in ruins.◎

Four jailers that Lu Yao had never seen before came forward and placed two black metal boxes in front of her.

Mechanical bodies are generally taller than native humans. The boxes used compressed capsule technology, but they were still not small in front of Lu Yao.

0815 walked over, entered the password, and opened the first box in front of the store owner.

Half of the mechanical body was embedded in the bottom of the box, fixed with a black restraint belt, and the scattered mechanical parts were put together and placed in a transparent box.

Lu Yao looked down at the robot in the box, his eyes flickering: "This is the girl who lives in the fourth district."

There are many customers coming and going in the bookstore every day. The owner has to live broadcast and watch the store. At this time, Zhu Wei's mechanical body has been damaged beyond recognition. Half of the body is cracked and scattered, and the metal mask on the face is broken, as if the skin is peeled off, revealing the empty bracket inside. The black bracket as thin as a grass stem is winding and coiled, and a part of it is broken. The remaining supports two electronic computers the size of an adult's fist and a pair of mechanical eyes.

0815 I never thought that the shop owner would recognize Zhu Wei's identity at a glance. Recalling Zhu Wei's fierce fighting, his tone was a little cold: "I underestimated her earlier."

Zhu Wei's mental value and mechanical body performance were both low among the eight robot criminals. The prison guards and her opponents at the time had never thought that she was so fierce. She managed to win in the end.

Zhu Wei was lying in the box, her voice system was destroyed, and she couldn't speak. She only stared at Lu Yao with a pair of electronic eyes.

This was her most vulnerable time. She couldn't speak, but she could hear them talking.

In the underground fighting field, she didn't think about anything, and she was just holding on to the obsession of entering the bookstore. Only then did she feel scared.

It turns out that mechanical bodies can also be so powerless. Even if humans break free from the constraints of the flesh, they will still be trapped in cognition and fear.

When Zhu Wei was interrogated, her brain was invaded by the interrogator.

She no longer had any secrets to tell, and her eyes were fixed on the store owner, fearing that the store owner was also interested in her brain.

Zhu Wei didn't trust anyone.

Whether it was the guards, interrogators, the chief judge, or the native store manager in front of her.

The last thing she had left in her life was the memory stored in her electronic brain. Even though it had been dug out and read repeatedly, she still couldn't adapt to such a scene.

No one could adapt.

Zhu Wei couldn't move, and the mechanical eyes couldn't convey emotions like the naked eye.

She was still anxious and afraid.

Lu Yao seemed to know that she was afraid. He covered her broken cheek with his right hand and brushed it lightly. His voice was calm and gentle: "Don't be afraid. I have no interest in human brains."

Regardless of what Zhu Wei thought, the dozens of prison guards standing by were tense, somewhat on guard against the owner's actions, and were slightly surprised to hear his words.

The prison guards manage prisoners on a daily basis, and they often see the darkest and most unbearable side of human hearts.

Robots are fierce and cruel.

Native humans are no less.

Among native humans like the owner who have not replaced their mechanical bodies, there are many who covet other people's brains, and their criminal methods are sometimes particularly cruel and terrifying.

Without further explanation, Lu Yao took Zhu Wei out of the box and placed her on the floor. He then ran his hands down Zhu Wei's broken mechanical body and smoothed out the broken edges that were bent and curled during the battle.

0815 The first time I observed the owner's ability up close, the mechanical eyes did not blink, which was even more terrifying than what I saw in the surveillance video.

When the owner moved, there was no mental fluctuation. The hard metal parts were like soft pieces of cloth in her hands. After a few gentle strokes, they became docile.

The jailer next to him was full of doubts. The mechanical body was taller than a native human, and the whole body was made of metal. It was much heavier than an adult native human. The owner could easily carry a person out. It was weird and bizarre.

Everyone was very patient, they also wanted to see how the shop owner would repair the prisoner's mechanical body.

Zhu Wei was a little absent-minded, the performance of her mechanical body was average, there were not too many mechanical nerves on the mechanical skeleton, and it was not sensitive to temperature.

The shop owner's hand brushed across her half disabled body, but she felt a strange warmth.

It was an extremely indescribable feeling, the shop owner's hand brought a soft warmth, and then a little cold, which made people shiver, but couldn't help but feel attached.

Lu Yao used the ability he got from Mo Zhu to smooth out the pits and curled edges on Zhu Wei's mechanical body, picked out the broken parts in the box, and placed them on the side of the half disabled body like a puzzle.

The Dream-Fulfilling System scanned Zhu Wei's entire body and replied after a moment: "All parts are there, nothing is missing, but there is some damage. What are you going to do?"

Both magic and the Ruler of Discipline can perfectly repair it, but no one is sure whether the owner wants to show his ability in front of so many prison guards.

Lu Yao looked calm, as if he was thinking seriously about how to repair it, but in his mind he was talking to everyone: "If there is any damage, it must be repaired. Don't worry, I have a way."

0815 was a little anxious, thinking that the owner was in trouble: "Is it difficult to repair? If not, wait until tomorrow morning to send it to the repair department, but it will take some time, I'm afraid it will take three to five days to send someone over."

Lu Yao stood up, his expression suddenly became serious: "It's okay, I can fix it. It does take time. If you are at ease, just leave the people here with me and come to pick them up tomorrow morning."

Before 0815 could speak, the prison guard in the sixth district stepped out: "No. Don't think that they are very honest now that they are in a mess. Once they are able to move freely, they will definitely not be so obedient. We are not here to monitor you, but to protect your safety."

These words were half true and half false.

The prison guards were actually on guard against both sides. They had to prevent the prisoners from attacking the store owners after they regained their mobility, and they had to prevent the native store owners from having evil intentions while repairing the mechanical bodies. Lu

Yao was prepared when he received the communication from 0815 and promised to repair the mechanical bodies for the prisoners. It was just a test just now, and it didn't matter if he couldn't order these prison guards around.

She stood up, turned around and walked to the cashier, took out a black treasure chest similar to a medical kit from the drawer, and walked to Zhu Wei's side.

Lingliu followed Lu Yao to the cashier, followed her back, and placed a leather stool next to her legs.

There were universal wheels under the stool, so you can move freely when sitting on it.

Lu Yao sat down and opened the treasure chest.

Inside the box was a palm-sized, wide-bellied porcelain vase. The body of the vase was jet black, and its smooth surface seemed to have a faint iridescence.

In addition, there was a pair of white gloves, several ink-colored porcelain plates, two tweezers, and a bundle of glue sticks.

Lu Yao put on an apron and gloves, removed the silk stopper from the wide-bellied porcelain bottle, poured some "glue" into the porcelain plate, took out a clean glue stick and placed it on the edge, then bent over to pick up the mechanical body fragments on the ground, dipped the glue stick in the "glue", and smeared it on the edge of the fragments.

The onlookers were dumbfounded.

How could this method look so much like shoe repair... The sense of age was too strong, and dozens of prison guards had only seen it in distant image data.

The prison guards in District 6 cast their eyes towards 0815. This was completely different from what was said before.

0815 and some of the Sixth District's prison guards had seen surveillance video of the store owner repairing a prisoner with his bare hands and then restoring his mechanical body. This was why they asked the store owner to repair the prisoner's mechanical body.

0815 raised his hand and touched the tip of his nose, and said under pressure: "What's in the black bottle?"

Lu Yao didn't even look up, very focused: "Adhesive."

0815 took a deep breath and pretended to be calm: "Metal bones can't be repaired with adhesive. Even if they happen to get stuck, it's useless... Forget it, let's send them to the repair department tomorrow..."

Lu Yao's hands moved quickly, and he only applied a little "glue" on the edges of a few large body fragments and the half of Zhu Wei's body that was still intact. He raised his hand to draw a magic array in the air. The silver-white circular magic array floated in the air, gradually expanding, emitting a strong light, and the surrounding air vibrated faintly.

A magic array was formed, and a faint halo enveloped Zhu Wei's body. Thin black threads stretched out like tentacles from the edge of the broken body that had just been coated with glue, looking for matching fragments, wrapping them up and dragging them towards the main body.

The fragments scattered on the ground were dragged towards Zhu Wei inch by inch, making a sharp crackling sound.

Zhu Wei, however, seemed to have heard nothing, staring at Lu Yao quietly with wide eyes.

The black threads moved the mechanical body fragments in an orderly manner as if they had their own consciousness.

Until all the fragments were put together, some black "glue" overflowed from the gaps, and slowly condensed, and was caught by the owner who tipped it over a porcelain plate.

After a few minutes, the broken bamboo was restored to its original state.

A dozen pairs of mechanical eyes scanned it up and down, and found no trace of damage, and even the black glue that was applied to the edge of the mechanical body was not left at all.

Lu Yao reached out his hand to Zhu Wei, pulled her up and explained, "This kind of damage is different from simple metal deformation. I used my mental power as an adhesive to repair those broken parts. In the future, this mechanical body will not be damaged so easily, unless it encounters someone with a higher mental value than me."

Zhu Wei lowered her head and scanned her mechanical body. She didn't feel any discomfort and asked casually, "How high is your mental value?"

Lu Yao frowned and whispered, "Not high, only S-level."

A prison guard blurted out, "Impossible!"

0815 stomped his feet lightly, looked at the excited prison guard, slowly narrowed his eyes, and shook his head.

After hearing the store owner explain that the adhesive in the porcelain bottle was a product of mental power condensed into substance, he understood that the store owner was indeed a genuine 6S-level mental ability user.

It is indeed possible for high-level mental ability users to acquire the ability to condense mental power into substance at a certain stage. There was an example in the star field more than 20 years ago.

However, there are very few such people. If you are lucky, there may be one in millions of people.

The 6S criminal who is now imprisoned deep in Guandao can also condense his spirit into substance.

He is completely different from the store owner.

People with too high mental values ​​are mostly mentally unstable, paranoid and sensitive, and are easily provoked and exploited.

There are very few people with high mental values ​​like the store owner. At least 0815 has been working for many years, and this is the first time I have seen such a stable high mental ability user, and he is still in the native state.

The jailers on the island are not incompetent. After seeing the owner repairing the mechanical body, they knew that she was completely different from the merchants who had been stationed on the island before.

Zhu Wei stood up and moved her body. Her limbs were flexible and there was nothing wrong.

She herself had an S-level mental value, and she knew with a little thought that the owner's mental value could not be only S-level.

Lu Yao seemed not to notice the stagnant atmosphere. Please open another box at 0815.

In the dark box lay a silver-gray mechanical body, with an intact head and a broken body.

The metal bones in the upper body were all shattered, revealing the empty bracket inside. The right leg was broken, and the left leg was torn, the iron sheet turned inside out, and the bones inside were black.

The box was full of fragments, with few complete metal pieces.

Lu Yao stared at the immobile silver-gray robot remains for a moment, a little surprised, and looked up at the other six unopened boxes: "So Yuan is in the box over there?"

Xi blinked, and his voice was hoarse and rough as if he had been smoked by tobacco for several nights, as if sandpaper was scratching his ears: "How do you know it's me?"

Xi and Yuan are a rare pair of twins. When they were still native humans, because of the same genes, the brothers had no difference in appearance and personality. Later, when they chose to replace their mechanical bodies, they still chose the same mechanical model and appearance.

Without talking, almost no one can distinguish the two people based on their appearance alone, especially after replacing their mechanical bodies, even the woman who created them can't easily tell the two brothers apart.

In this volunteer selection, the two brothers used their best skills of acting cute and well-behaved in the laboratory, and they got all A's all the way. They thought they could easily enter the bookstore, but they didn't expect the final selection test to be so cruel.

At the last moment, Yuan was protecting Xi, and was hit on the head by Zhu Wei's punch. His electronic computer flew out and he lost his ability to move.

The selection should have been decided at this point. Xi was stimulated and ignored the rules. He grabbed Zhu Wei and the two sides fought for nearly ten minutes.

Zhu Wei's fighting skills were unexpectedly superb. Both of them were at the end of their strength and did not show mercy to each other.

At the end, both sides were broken.

When Xi was locked in the box, he saw the prison guards and special cleaning robots cleaning up the fragments of Yuan's mechanical body.

They could distinguish him from Yuan through the mental power attached to their mechanical bodies, and they also used this technology to separate the mechanical body fragments of other prisoners.

Xi stared at Lu Yao.

She didn't even touch him, so how did she know he was Xi and not Yuan?

The guards were also curious.

Lu Yao leaned over to take Xi out of the box, and leaned over to take the box of broken pieces inside, chatting casually: "Although you and Yuan are placed in two similar containers, your personalities and preferences are completely different. Your walking postures and subtle expressions are also different. It is easy to distinguish them."

Nonsense!

Forget about native humans, how can a mechanical body retain physical habits?

The steel mask, including the skin and facial features, are all rigid mechanical products. How can you tell the difference in expression?

Lu Yao said lightly: "0815 will subconsciously touch the tip of his nose when he is nervous or uncomfortable."

0815, who was standing behind Lu Yao, subconsciously touched the tip of his nose, raised his eyes and met several gazes, and touched it again awkwardly.

Lu Yao stroked the fragments of Xi's mechanical body and continued, "You and Yuan have different personalities, and your words, actions and expressions are different. These can be observed without exploring the brain. There is nothing surprising."

Xi was silent for a while, and felt the warmth of the owner's hand on the mechanical remains. He wanted to hide uncomfortably, but he couldn't avoid it. A voice that was uglier than a duck's voice began to attack the surrounding mentally: "We dug out dozens of brains, and finally that person, but still couldn't find what we wanted. It seems that you can see what others look like without reading their brains. Atticus said that if you want to understand a person, you have to walk around in his shoes (1). Why Why can we enter other people's minds but still not understand what they are thinking like you do?"

Lu Yao lowered his eyelids, picked up the glue stick, and began to glue Xi's body together. "The answer you want is not in the book, and it cannot be solved by others, unless you want to be a child all your life. You must find the answer within yourself and feel what you should do (2). This is a sentence from a book you like very much. You are attracted to it. Is it because you find the ultimate meaning pointing to yourself in the book? Have you ever thought that what you want may not be in others, but in yourself?"

Xi's heart suddenly trembled, and a strong throbbing attacked him like an electric current.

He did not understand what this feeling was.

Lu Yao completed his preparations and began to draw a formation in the air.

Xi was still in a daze, wondering why the store owner knew that he liked that book.

The soft light enveloped him gently, and black soft lines stretched out from the edges of the broken body fragments and began to repair Xi's mechanical body.

Lu Yao sat aside and ordered: "Please open the remaining boxes, and arrange the body fragments and fragments neatly as I did just now. I will draw a formation later."

This was an order to the prison guards.

0815 There was a kind of "unexpected" expectation that the store owner would always pay more attention to the people in his store.

However, this request was not excessive. The prison guards had just seen the store owner's demonstration and wanted to leave work early, so they took active action.

[Author's words]

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

(2) The original passage is quoted from Daniel Keys' Flowers for Algernon.

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