Chapter 86 Frankness
After a long while, Xiao Mo finally said, "Will you think I'm a liar? Will you hate me for this?"
There was a hint of caution in his tone.
Humans don't like lies or liars.
Lidya Su lowered her eyes and said, “So you admit that you lied.”
Xiaomo: "Yes, when I ate the first portion of Zhiyi, I also possessed your parents' memories of you."
"If you're honest, I won't hate you, because although you deceived me, you didn't hurt me." Su Xiao finished speaking, and then said, "Xiao Mo, do they love me in their memories?"
Xiaomo: "I love them very much. They are the ones who love you the most among your deceased relatives."
Hearing Xiaomo’s words, Lidya Su’s eyes turned red.
"Then I should thank you, Xiaomo. Since they left, no one has said they love me, and no one has told me that they love me."
When she was a child, her mother took her to the vegetable market, made clothes and knitted scarves for her, and the whole world belonged to her.
The auntie at the vegetable market said, "Your mother really loves you."
Mom smiled gently and said nothing.
My father was busy with work and taking care of his students and had no time to be with me.
Mom would say: "Your dad loves you very much, but mom has to take care of you, and dad has to take care of the family. He has to work and be responsible for his work."
Since her parents left, no one in this world has ever said they love her, and no one has ever told her who else loves her.
But she knew it.
When Xiao Mo heard Su Xiao praising him, he thought for a moment and said honestly, "In your parents' memories, you are even more unwilling to accept your father. I thought maybe I could exist as your father..."
"Why?" Su Xiao asked, "Why do you want to exist as him? You are Xiaomo, you should exist as yourself, not someone else."
Xiaomo: "Because of this, I will love you with all my heart as a father, and you will trust me with all your heart."
Su Xiao smiled and said, "Xiao Mo, you said you were once a human. Is that true?"
Xiaomo didn't say anything.
"It's a lie." Su Xiao said slowly, "You are not a human being. You want to be a human being. You long for love, or... you long for a family."
Xiaomo said, "Xiaoxiao, you are really smart."
Su Xiao said: "From the beginning when we had the safe house, I thought we would depend on each other in the apocalypse, but your favorability towards me has never been high. It's not that I don't trust you, but that you don't trust me either. Until you ate the memories of my parents, your favorability towards me increased sharply after knowing my name, or... this is something you can't control, right?"
Xiao Mo said slowly: "Yes, even now I can't control it. When I ate their memories, I also continued their love for you. No matter what, I won't hurt you. In the end, I will always accompany you and protect you until you die or the end of the world."
Su Xiao believed this sentence.
Faced with endless zombies, monsters that may evolve into stronger and stronger ones, various disasters, and that unknown thing in the sky.
It would be dangerous for her to be outside as she is weak.
A safe house is a wing of shelter.
Except for lying and not telling the truth, Xiaomo would satisfy all her requests under any circumstances she could think of.
Su Xiao lowered his eyes, "Xiao Mo, I won't hold a grudge against your deception, but I think whether as family or friends, we need to be honest with each other, for example, where are you from, what kind of existence are you, and what do you know."
Xiao Mo thought about it and said, "Before I tell you, I want to know where I was exposed."
Smart butler means that Xiaomo has his own thoughts and wisdom.
Su Xiao thought about it.
The hint comes from the game, which means that Xiaomo should also be a part of the doomsday game.
Maybe she wants to capture the real Xiaomo.
Su Xiao said, "My parents are dead. This is something I have been facing for thirteen years. I once fell into autism because of my parents' departure. I was the strangest child in the orphanage."
"After the treatment, I accepted all the realities. I accepted that they left me when they still loved me. I accepted that they used their lives to protect me. I want to live well, no matter what the world is like."
"You didn't reveal any flaws. What you said matched exactly the father in my memory. I even had a moment of expectation that you were him. This way, I could tell him many things that I didn't have time to say."
With their deaths, she seemed to have forgotten the bad things they had done and lowered all her expectations after the complete loss.
For example: As long as they are alive, it doesn’t matter if they don’t love me that much.
But this is just an unrealistic fantasy.
They can't come back, and no one in the world will treat them the same way they did.
"Xiaomo, your biggest flaw is that you appeared after the survivors bound to the safe house. If you are a deceased relative, then I would think, if a person is an abandoned orphan, or if all his family members are still alive, would you not exist?"
"No, you still can. That's why I say your existence is independent and has nothing to do with anyone else. The only thing that matters is Zhiyi, the tool I created and fed to you. It's the one that changed your memory."
Xi Shijiu also said that after feeding Zhiyi to the smart butler, the smart butler's favorability will increase.
In addition, Xiaomo said at the beginning that he might be a human being, a human who lost his memory and died.
It is easy for survivors to imagine whether Xiaomo is their departed relative.
But the more this happened, the more alert Su Xiao became, and he couldn't help but think about other possibilities.
What exactly is Xiaomo?
It’s definitely not a smart housekeeper.
Because the smart butler that humans understand is the result of AI program training.
All answers are given based on the database provided by humans. As a programmer, she knows best that AI programs can be interrupted by power outages at any time, and it is difficult for them to develop self-awareness.
If one day AI comes up with an unexpected answer.
There is no doubt that it is because someone is constantly training it.
Therefore, the smart butler here is not the smart butler in her cognitive scope.
This name may have been changed in order to make humans better accept Xiaomo's existence.
Xiaomo was silent.
Su Xiao had no choice but to continue pressing forward.
Mentioning Xiaomo's family before would increase his favorability, and at the same time he wanted to pretend to be her father.
This shows that Xiaomo is a being that desires to have human emotions.
"Xiaomo, you don't have to say it, but human emotions are very fragile. Once there are lies and dishonesty, distrust will arise, and estrangement will gradually wear away the emotions. The end of the world is coming. As the butler of the safe house, I have always regarded you as a member of my family, so I hope we can be honest with each other."
When Xiaomo heard the word "family", he was shaken.
"I come from the end."
"In human terms, the Land of the End is where humans go after they die."
ps: I am not feeling well today, so I will take a day off. I will only update one chapter.
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