Chapter 54: The Victory of Black Technology

While Su Yun secretly complained about Zhuang Long's silly smile, the plot of the movie continued.

The robot dancer Joe, who had a delicate and charming face, coaxed the female customer, and then according to the agreement on the necklace brand communicator, he twisted his body in a dance-like pace through the colorful night city and hurriedly came to a hotel room.

However, this was a trap set for him.

The audience began to feel uneasy as they watched the husband, who had cruelly killed his wife because he was jealous of her going out to have fun with a lover-type robot dancer, kiss the corpse on the shoulder with an almost morbid expression.

But this cruel husband did not deal with Qiao - because he knew that many humans at this time hated robots because robots took away their rights. Therefore, when humans and robots coexist, if something happens to humans, then regardless of whether it is the robot's fault or not, the robot will be destroyed.

In desperation, Qiao escaped from the room and had to cut off the license label on his chest that represented the legal operation, and from then on became a wandering robot without an identity.

The scene switches back to the little robot Mary. In the forest under the night sky, she is looking for a way while telling Teddy Bear why she wants to find the Blue Fairy.

"The Blue Fairy turned Pinocchio into a real child. She must be able to turn me into a real child too." The little robot Mary staggered, "There must be someone in this world who knows where she lives. I must find her. I must become a real person..."

Before little Mary could finish her words, a truck suddenly drove into the forest, suddenly breaking the silence of the forest at night.

The toppled body parts looked like a pile of fallen debris. Witnessing up close this steel mountain that looked like a sea of ​​corpses and blood, before the surprised little Mary and the audience could react, a group of tattered figures walked out of the darkness one after another.

They are a group of broken robots that were abandoned by the humans who created or owned them for various reasons and wandered in the forest.

Those with broken faces would take out the eyes, ears, mouths, noses, brains, chins, etc. that could be used and put them together; those who were missing arms and legs would pick up broken arms and legs from the garbage dump and try to sense their own broken ends and reassemble their limbs...

Every close-up would cause the audience, whose sanity levels had dropped dramatically, to exclaim in surprise: Even though we know it’s fake, it looks too real!

Hollywood's special effects technology only started to take off in the 1960s, and today's sci-fi horror zombie movies are still as thrilling as the first generation zombie movie "Night of the Living Dead" a few years ago. Now, with the post-production of horror movie lover Su Yun, who has been washed over and over by zombie movies, this scene with a robot picking up garbage to repair its own plot, which referenced the weird and scary style of zombie movies, has successfully raised the film's rating to PG.

In the current movie rating system, below the R level is the PG level (special guidance level), and children under the age of 13 must be accompanied by their parents to watch the movie. The more detailed and accurate PG-13 level was officially adopted in 1984.

Listening to the screams from all around, Su Yun felt that horror movies were indeed the best choice for a small investment and a big win: looking at this group of inexperienced and playful people, they covered their faces in fear and couldn't help but peek through their fingers, and they were so scared that they couldn't bear to watch...

The horror and surprise switch between the characters. Under the cover of night, Joe, who escaped to the forest, was also attracted by the movement and looked down from a small slope.

Behind the slender figure in the windbreaker, a bright "full moon" also rises——

"The moon has risen!" As the amputee robot screamed, the robots that were picking up spare parts fled in all directions with terrified looks on their faces.

Little Marie was short and had short legs, so she soon fell to the back of the group.

Just as the audience was worried, little Mary's self-protection instinct was activated, as if she remembered her foster mother's instructions before she left. She rushed over and grabbed the broken robot closest to her: "Save me! Protect me!"

The robot, which was so badly damaged that it had no skin on its face and was left with only a steel skeleton, had a flash of red light in its eyes, and it was obvious that the cry for help had activated some program.

"There actually are such antique-level soldier-type robots! These things are the most difficult to deal with!" The hunters driving the Crescent Moon Giant Lantern spaceship cursed, and while firing at the broken robot that was guarding something, they also dispatched a large group of "hounds" driving cool motorcycles to capture other stray robots that took the opportunity to escape.

When the broken robot that had been holding out to buy its companions some time to escape exploded into pieces, little Mary, who had used the robot to escape the magnet with her teddy bear, also followed the crowd into the shantytown in a panic.

But in the end, all of them, a group of robots hiding in the dilapidated shed, were caught in the big net sprayed by the hunter and sent to the cage of the machine slaughterhouse.

The teddy bear fell from the sky because it was not caught in the net due to its size, and followed the "moon" all the way to the door of the robot slaughterhouse, which was as lively as a celebration.

Seeing the teddy bear chasing along with its fat, furry little legs, yelling for its owner and thus sneaking into the lost and found office disguised as a low-intelligence toy, the audience couldn't help but feel sad and distressed.

Thanks to the help of Teddy Bear and the fact that Little Mary was the latest model that had not yet been launched on the market, the people at the management office thought they had caught a real child by mistake and immediately rushed over to investigate.

Unfortunately, under the searchlight, the mechanical skeleton under little Mary's skin was exposed.

Even though they knew that this "child" was indeed a robot, the people in the management office were still very confused: "Why is it made to look like a child?"

Lover-types like the robot dancers are for adults to enjoy, guide-types like the teddy bears are toys for children, and the antique soldier-types I encountered earlier are a relic of the days when robots were used to replace human soldiers to perform dangerous missions...

Who needs a robot child?

"Perhaps it's a high-end product custom-made by a lonely rich woman who lost her child." Johnson, the Hunter's supervisor, is also the person in charge of the execution activities in the robot slaughterhouse. When he saw little Mary's appearance, his eyes immediately lit up with a glimmer of rare goods.

Little Mary was so frightened that she took a few steps back and tightly grabbed Joe's hand in the corner.

When Hunter Supervisor Johnson forcibly dragged little Mary and the captured Joe onto the "stage", it unsurprisingly caused a chorus of "No".

The money that Monica left for little Mary scattered all over the floor was like their broken glass hearts that were trampled by the plot.

However, the Hunter Director confidently said that little robots like Little Mary were scrap metal demons that existed to deceive humans and replace real children, and that they were an insult to human dignity... The audience's anger almost exploded to the point!

Seeing little Mary and Joe tied to the stage, with the hot oil dripping from the ceiling and emitting white smoke, little Mary was so scared that she cried and screamed, and the audience outside the movie were all worried. Finally, an audience member in the audience stood up and said, "Robots don't beg for mercy! Who is she?!"

"We're just trying to make it look 'real' to disarm us. We're just destroying the androids!" Hunter Director Johnson continued to preside over the scene. "Let real humans without simulators throw the first stone!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a stone hit him.

Johnson, who thought the customer's aim was bad, forced a smile and was about to say something to smooth things over, when angry spectators stood up one after another and rained down the stones they had used to hit the robot: "She's just a child! Johnson, you're a monster! Let go of the child!"

Taking advantage of the chaos, little Mary and Joe broke free, holding hands and running away with their teddy bear in the fire.

"Yes! That's right!" The audience in the movie fought for the two men's chance to escape, and the audience outside the movie also cheered with satisfaction for the two men's escape.

In the forest, a little robot girl who was born to serve human women and a robot dancer who focused on serving human women looked at the real moon in the sky, chatting across servers with their own words, yet strangely and harmoniously continued each other's conversation.

Little Mary wants to find the Blue Fairy, and Joe believes that no woman can escape his charm, so these two robots, who are not sure whether to call them mature or childish, one wants to find a mother and the other wants to find a girl, travel together to the prosperous Happy City.

"That's too much! Don't bring children to such places. Haha!" The funny scene after the tension and excitement made the audience burst into laughter.

But this Happy City is indeed full of cyberpunk style. It is more colorful and gorgeous than the streets that Joe had strolled around before. It makes people deeply fascinated and immersed in it at first sight.

Fortunately, Joe was still an honest robot. After taking little Mary through a colorful world, the two came to a room that looked like a small dark room.

In the center of the room, there is a giant computer for customers to search for information, known as "Dr. Know-It-All".

Putting all the remaining money on them into it, the two tried several times and finally triggered the hidden message, guiding them that the blue fairy only exists at the end of the world where the lion sheds tears.

Joe's expression changed when he heard this: "Many people have gone to the end of the world and never come back - that's why they call the end of the world 'Manhattan'."

Qiao suspected that what they triggered was not the information left by the robots that had awakened their self-awareness, but a "honeypot" set up by humans to capture awakened robots.

"What if the message from the Blue Fairy was just deliberately set up by humans to disrupt the brain of artificial intelligence?" Joe was once framed and later saw the robot slaughterhouse, which made him wary of everything. "You know - humans hate us."

"My mother doesn't hate me! Because I am unique, one of a kind!" Facing Joe's objection, little Mary, who couldn't cry, could only insist on arguing with tears in her eyes, "My mother loves Martin because he is a real person. When I become a real person, my mother will tell me stories, coax me to sleep, sing to me... She will hug me and tell me that she loves me!"

"But the truth is, she doesn't love you." Joe's gaze at this moment was like a real sword, "She can't love you because you are not flesh and blood."

"You, like me, were designed and manufactured by humans for a purpose, and now you are alone because they got tired of you or replaced you with a newer model."

"They built us too many, too fast, too smart, and we are now reaping the consequences of their actions."

"When the end comes, we will be the only ones left alive - that's why humans hate us."

But this quarrel could not stop little Mary's determination to become a real person. She ignored Joe's attempts to keep her and went out with the teddy bear. But when she turned around, she found that Joe was caught in the car by the police who were chasing after her.

Next to it was parked the land, sea and air vehicle that brought the police here.

Little Mary put the teddy bear on the passenger seat and jumped into the driver's seat herself, perfectly implementing the equation of "naughty child = naughty child". She controlled the autopilot aircraft and crashed it into chaos, and managed to rescue Joe from the chaos.

After smiling at each other, the two drove the aircraft together and headed for the legendary robot restricted area Manhattan.

The flood scene that once shocked Warner employees finally appeared on the big screen again.

Under the bright sunlight, above the sparkling water, only the top and high-rise silhouettes of tall buildings slowly emerged as the aircraft approached. The autopilot flexibly turned the fuselage sideways and flew through the wind, and an arm with a torch that was already faintly green appeared in front of everyone.

That is the symbol of a strong country.

It used to be.

"Destination reached." The autopilot issued a synthetic electronic voice prompt.

"This is Manhattan, the lost city in the sea at the end of the world after the glaciers melted and the sea level rose." Joe's gentle words hit many people's hearts like a heavy hammer.

The audience, who were mostly college students, were even more shocked: there had been a lot of propaganda about protecting the environment in college, all kinds of slogans that said protecting the environment and stopping the melting of polar glaciers would benefit future generations of mankind... At that moment, none of them seemed to compare to the desolate mood they felt when they witnessed the scene of the city being flooded.

When the core of literature and art is wrapped in a commercial coat, perhaps... it will be able to break through the boundary between the refined and the popular.

This extremely realistic and natural black-tech special effects production has astonished not only the current generation.

Many, many years later, when people who revisit the classic see this, they can't help but shout from the bottom of their hearts: Is this really a movie that could have been made in the 1970s?!

How many geniuses emerged in that golden age that has long since passed away with time?

A lot of information cannot be traced back or explored due to the long time, but the names of those famous figures who remained in the light and shadow have long been written in the beautiful dreams of history and memory.