From the moment the child appeared, Xia Chuhe kept a close eye on the mother and daughter.
At that moment, seeing his mother contemplating suicide, Xia Chuhe also lunged forward and narrowly grabbed the woman's ankle.
Xia Chuhe quickly grabbed the other foot as well, lowered his body, and with a half-stance, lifted the woman up and threw her to the ground.
"Why are you trying to kill yourself? Your child will need another surgery in a few years. If you die, who will make money for her?" Xia Chuhe, wearing earplugs, shouted loudly.
The woman retorted defiantly, "She's not my child! She's a monster! She's not human, and she's not a machine! What do you call her?!"
The woman glanced at the child, then rushed over like a madwoman: "What's the point of keeping such a monster alive? I'll just take it with me!"
Having witnessed a woman jump off a building, Li Qiusheng was prepared. He rushed forward and stopped the woman, shouting, "Don't worry, don't worry, your child is fine."
Xia Chuhe smiled at the doctor: "Dr. Hao, could you please take the child off..."
Dr. Hao sighed, "I've never seen parents like this before. They agreed to the surgery without thinking it through. Luckily, it wasn't done. Wouldn't that have harmed the child?"
Dr. Hao tapped and pounded on the child's body, and the mechanical shell came off, revealing the child's soft body dressed in close-fitting pajamas.
The child was slow to react, and hesitantly called out "Mommy".
The woman's screams stopped abruptly, and Liu'er, who was watching the commotion with her legs crossed, was so shocked that she almost slipped off her chair.
An eerie silence fell both inside and outside the operating room.
The woman asked dryly, "Doctor, why didn't you perform surgery on my child?"
Dr. Hao glanced at Xia Chuhe and said, "Just now we were putting on the outer shell to show you the effect. Although we will apply a simulation coating later, I estimate that even with the simulation coating, you won't be able to accept the changes in your child. Judging from your reaction, let's call off the surgery. Use the remaining credits to buy some good food and drinks for the child. Try to fulfill any wishes the patient may have."
The woman looked at the child, then at Liu'er, and asked, "What...what should we do?"
Liu'er murmured, "How could this happen? Shouldn't the procedure be to proceed directly to surgery?"
Xia Chuhe tilted his head, removed an earplug, and placed his hand by his ear, ready to put it back at any moment.
She kindly explained, "I told Dr. Hao that some people have weak psychological resilience, so I specifically asked her to make a protective shell for the child first, so you could see the effect. See, I'm glad I had the foresight, otherwise two lives would have been lost for nothing."
If you're wondering who Dr. Hao is and why we followed Xia Chuhe's advice...
She is... the medical examiner who made two thousand yuan in anger because Xia Chuhe cheated and swindled her.
No, it wasn't just two thousand. Xia Chuhe staged accidents at several stores, causing Dr. Hao's income to skyrocket that day, earning more in one day than he did in a month.
Since it was just a suggestion that would benefit no harm, Dr. Hao naturally followed it.
Liu'er's cheeks twitched: "It's good that you thought it through, otherwise if she jumped off the building and became a spirit, neither you nor Xiao Qiu would have survived."
Xia Chuhe sighed helplessly: "It's not like we encouraged the child to have the surgery, so what does it have to do with us? Now that we've saved this mother and daughter and helped them realize their true feelings, please let us go."
Liu'er's cheeks continued to twitch.
Li Qiusheng muttered, "What's with the 'pulsing'? How can a mechanically made face be exactly the same as a human's nerves?"
Wearing earplugs, she thought her voice was very quiet, but everyone else present could hear her clearly.
Dr. Hao sensed the danger, quietly lifted the child, retreated into the operating room, and locked the door.
Enraged, Liu'er summoned countless drones from the sky, and various other equipment gathered downstairs, launching a merciless attack on the building.
At the same time, she began to sing that song that evoked painful memories.
Sleep well, baby.
Not afraid of the long night
..."
Xia Chuhe quickly put in his earplugs and took out the evidence he found from the farm: a purchase contract from the citizen interface. It clearly stated that Liu'er was the 111th batch of androids, possessing human-like intelligence and emotions, almost indistinguishable from a real person.
The purpose of Liu'er's birth was to serve as a switchboard operator for the citizen interface, handling the trivial matters of real humans.
After all, in a highly developed twin city, humans can be freed from hard, dirty, and tiring work.
The ball that greets tourists is mechanical, the construction team on the road is mechanical, the operator who gets yelled at is mechanical, the patrol officer who walks 30,000 steps a day is mechanical...
Passengers are people, citizens who complain about the hovercars are people, people who smashed the hotel statues are people, and supervisors are people...
Liu'er is not human; she only realized this long after she was created.
Just as Xia Chuhe saw through her true identity, a black crack appeared in the sky.
Xia Chuhe held up the purchase contract: "Liu'er, calm down! Think back to how Xiao Qiu and I treated you. We've always treated you like a human being."
Liu'er's face twisted in disgust: "If you treated me like a human being, why would you go to such lengths to get this purchase contract?! Liar! Liar!"
The drone whizzed by, and Xia Chuhe ducked to avoid it.
The high-speed spinning propeller did not slow down at all, slicing through the dazed mother and child.
The propeller was moving too fast, and the woman's head slowly slid off her neck. She lowered her eyelids, looked at her body, and slowly blinked.
...
Xia Chuhe ran to Li Qiusheng's side and handed her an iron rod.
The two men wielded two sticks with great force, shooting down the approaching drones one by one.
However, the downed drone quickly took off again, wobbling and swaying, proving even more troublesome than an unkillable zombie.
Xia Chuhe shouted into Li Qiusheng's ear, "You defend, I'll go dismantle the drone."
Whether it's drones or construction teams, they are all made for human use. Even with extremely high levels of automation, humans will still install a one-button shut-off function on the machinery for their own safety.
Liu'er's fictional world was shattered the moment the purchase contract appeared, exposing all the previously hidden buttons.
Xia Chuhe crouched down, pressed down on the drones that had been shot down, and shut them down one by one.
More and more drones are being shut down, and the cracks in the sky are getting bigger and lower.
"Run outside! Get the construction team!" Xia Chuhe shouted, leading the way as he rushed out of the hospital building.
Although Li Qiusheng couldn't hear Xia Chuhe's shouts, he still dutifully protected her from all dangers.
...
The construction crew was repeatedly stopped, and the crack in the sky widened to a meter wide, almost within reach.
Beyond the crack, there was a gray sky.
The construction crew, still in operation, was frantically digging at the building's foundation, causing the building to teeter on the brink of collapse.
It's too late...
Xia Chuhe took out his grappling hook, swung it upwards, and got it into the crevice. He then climbed up the rope and finally jumped out of the crevice.
Li Qiusheng grabbed the end of the rope, but Xia Chuhe pulled him up with force.
The building collapsed with a crash.
The sound kept echoing in her ears—
There is a clear pond in my dream
The old gears, too, turned gently.
Roses bloom in my heart
..."
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