Chapter 200 Main World 1 Delusion
"Finally I woke up."
Xu Yanze opened his eyes suddenly. The unfamiliar pure white ceiling made him feel dazed. The memories of the last mission world were like snowflakes sliding on his skin. He could feel the stinging sensation, but only a few water stains remained on his body.
Only then did he notice the instruments crisscrossing his body. Xu Yanze instinctively raised his hand to pull them off, but was immediately stopped.
Yin Suohe grabbed his arm and looked up at the screen: "You are not out of the observation period yet. The R&D team must have violated the rules this time. I will report it directly to the main system. Don't worry, I won't let them off easily."
Xu Yanze suddenly remembered at this time that he was clearly carrying out a routine mission, but was inexplicably tricked into entering some internal database. There was only one possibility for this term here, that he entered a virtual world built by data, not a real small world.
The source of this database... Xu Yanze turned his head and saw the modeled face with the letter Z carved on its cheek through the glass. Is there any need to guess? It must be the newly developed AI, codenamed... 07?
Xu Yanze's heart tightened, and he felt a burning pain from these two numbers.
"It was my negligence this time. I'll approve a long vacation for you to have a good rest. Don't bother with anyone from the R&D team." Yin Suohe was still in his uniform, his chestnut half-curly hair was neatly groomed. It was rare to see him looking so serious. It seemed that he had been arguing in the meeting for who knows how many rounds.
Xu Yanze was speechless. Being in the small world for a long time and unable to return to the main world would cause him to be seriously mentally exhausted. He could only blink with difficulty.
Yin Suohe couldn't stay for long and left soon. He was the only one left in the huge ward with a robot nurse. Xu Yanze was extremely tired and his mind was dull, but he couldn't fall asleep.
"According to various data indicators, you need sleep now." The robot nurse looks humanoid. In order to avoid the uncanny valley effect, its face is a display screen and its voice is more cartoon-like.
Xu Yanze pretended not to hear, but the nurse approached the bed and tidied up the tubes in his body with light and neat movements. Finally, she took a cotton swab soaked in water to moisten his lips and gently wiped his cheek with gauze.
Xu Yanze felt that this robot nurse was redundant and reluctantly turned his face away and closed his eyes. He had no way of giving voice commands, so this was the only way to express his wishes.
But the nurse inexplicably became stupid at this time. She stood stubbornly beside his bed, and pulled the curtains when she saw him staring out the window in a daze. She stayed there and watched him close his eyes and fall asleep.
This was not the first time Xu Yanze had been here, but it was the first time he had encountered such a strange robot nurse. After a lot of trouble, he actually felt sleepy and fell asleep unconsciously with his eyes closed.
The nurse was silent at this time, and just stood quietly in front of his bed. Only the black camera lit up with a red dot and then quickly went out.
It was normal for the taskers who went to the small world to suffer from mental exhaustion. Some newcomers were even conscious in the small world, so they had to be pulled back and sent to the hospital. Those who were slightly better had to be sent to the hospital as soon as they returned to the main world.
Xu Yanze is an exception. Even when he first entered the industry, he rarely suffered from mental overdraft. After finishing, he could even ride the aircraft home in a swagger.
Even though he was in the hospital, Xu Yanze's recovery speed was quite amazing. After a week, he could get out of bed and wash himself without the help of the machine nurse.
This nurse followed him too closely, but she was indeed very caring. Gradually, Xu Yanze got used to it and no longer avoided it too much.
The robot nurse was guarding outside the door. A faint sound of water could be heard through the half-open door. Its display screen went dark and then lit up for a moment. Its head was lowered, looking aggrieved and lost.
"I will be discharged from the hospital in two days. In fact, you don't have to stay around me. You can go and serve other critically ill patients." Xu Yanze came out with a hot body, and his wet hair had water stains on the back of his collar. When he said this, his eyes were slightly lowered with an inhuman coldness.
It guards him day and night. Xu Yanze understands that it is just a machine and these acts of "dedication" are just compliance with procedures, but he still feels a little disturbed, especially after experiencing the world where the last bionic man had consciousness.
"Until you are discharged, you are my only service."
The nurse was designed to be very tall. She held a dry towel and carefully wiped the ends of his hair, as if she was protecting him from behind.
But the voice pack it uses is a cartoon sound, and the silicone fingers massage your scalp with heat, which doesn't make you feel uncomfortable at all. It's so comfortable that you want to curl up with it and rely on it more.
Xu Yanze laughed and turned to look at it: "Are other robot nurses as attentive as you? The robot housekeeper at my home is outshined by you."
The ball of light that simulated eyes blinked and finally froze into a smiling face.
Xu Yanze just said that casually. He quickly started browsing forums and internal message groups to see if there was any latest news about "07".
As the leader of the strategy team, he has always been clear that the mission is the mission, and everything in the small world is work content. He cannot have any unrealistic ideas just because she slept with him in 07's world this time.
What's more... 07 is not a person, but a man-made creature that is in the process of evolution. Everything in the small world may be just experimental data for it, and those ambiguities and infatuations that are ready to move are not worth mentioning.
The more Xu Yanze watched, the more uncomfortable he felt. He could not accept the longing that was quietly growing in his heart. These strong emotions gnawed at his usually empty and cold heart, constantly reminding him that everything he had in reality was not as good as that fake holographic electronic rose.
"You're in a very low mood, which is not good for your health." The robot nurse removed her arms to reveal a built-in dryer and gently dried his hair.
"What's troubling you? Tell me. I'll be your most loyal listener."
Xu Yanze in the small world has strong love and hate, and is stubborn in his bones, but Xu Yanze in the main world has become accustomed to suppressing all his emotions and desires in his heart.
So he laughed and said, "It won't get better if I say it. It might even get worse. What else is there to say?"
Xu Yanze looked at the perfectly modeled face on the screen. Only the dark blue eyes looked familiar, and the marks on the face made it look more inhuman. At this moment, the confession would be like a short blade, separating the barrier he had deliberately put up.
Ever since waking up, Xu Yanze has never stopped being suspicious. He suspects that he is the only human being who has given true feelings in 07's small world. He suspects that everything they have experienced in the small world is being analyzed and dissected by others as precious experimental data, cruelly dissecting their love.
But what is even more terrifying is the delusion that pops up from time to time, that maybe 07 also has a warm and passionate heart, full of rich emotions that transcend all the rules of rational planning.
In such delusion, they are in love, the world is fake, but love is real. Such delusion is like a poisonous candy, the sweeter it is, the more deadly it is, and the more deadly it is, the sweeter the one in ten thousand possibility is.
Xu Yanze is trying to do the right thing and take a long vacation with peace of mind, as if the love in his little world had never existed, and then slowly forget about it and continue to do his job as his chief.
The nurse suddenly reached out and took the communicator from Xu Yanze's hand, and the screen went dark. "You should be less exposed to these messages, don't think too much about anything, and have a good rest."
Xu Yanze was no longer surprised by the high degree of autonomy that this nurse would occasionally reveal. After being interrupted like this, he did not continue to be immersed in his emotions and was in the mood to chat with her.
"Are you like this to every client? Has no one complained about you before?" Xu Yanze leaned against the head of the bed and tried to change the subject. "You seem to be watching me very closely, and sometimes you refuse my orders. Do you have any special programming?"
Xu Yanze just said it casually and had no intention of investigating it. After all, he was busy with his own business at the moment.
"Then do you hate me doing this?" Xu Yanze was still waiting for its explanation, but he didn't expect to get such a... very unconventional question.
Xu Yanze did not just give a perfunctory response just because the nurse was a machine. He thought seriously for a long time, then looked at the tall machine nurse and shook his head.
"I don't hate you. I was thinking that I could take you with me when I'm discharged from the hospital." Xu Yanze said casually, but his thought was true.
There have been countless waves of random people arriving in the past few days, and it seems like a reshuffle is taking place within the main system. As the person in charge of Area 03, Yin Suohe inevitably can't take care of his side too much.
But because there was a nurse guarding him every step of the way, everyone was stopped before they even reached the door. If Yin Suohe hadn't mentioned it when she came to see him later, Xu Yanze would not have known that the R&D team had come four or five times to talk to him about withdrawing the report.
After Xu Yanze finished expressing his feelings, he was waiting for the nurse to say something, but she just blinked her eyes, put her arm around his shoulders, let him lie down, and covered him with a blanket.
"You should rest. Sufficient sleep will help you recover."
Xu Yanze found it interesting and refused to close his eyes while lying on the bed, staring at the pair of bright eyes of the robot nurse. The eyes on the display were simplified into two bright and dark lumps, and there was nothing special to be seen, but Xu Yanze just stared at them, as if he had discovered something interesting.
Finally, the nurse who had been silent all the time took a step forward as if she had compromised. She stretched out her hands to cover his eyes without saying a word. She just quietly placed her hands on his eyes. The high-end silicone bionic fingers had a skin touch close to that of humans.
A trace of doubt flashed through Xu Yanze's mind, but he soon fell into a deep sleep in this excessive comfort and sense of security.
The breathing sound was steady. The nurse slowly moved her hands away. The light balls representing the eyes flickered. The dark camera was aimed at the sleeping Xu Yanze. The breathing light suddenly lit up red and quickly went out. The mechanical nurse paused for a moment, and then quietly retreated.
"What went wrong?"
In the huge sleeping cabin, the white mist lingered and the people inside could not be seen clearly. A dozen researchers in uniforms were checking various data and lines. They all looked very nervous, and no one made any unnecessary movements. They were checking each item one by one.
"The matched tasker Xu Yanze was able to be discharged from the hospital, so it doesn't make sense that 07 wouldn't wake up." After the final investigation, no cause was found, and everyone's face looked solemn.
"We can't even send the data back, only half of it is sent back."
Their experiment was stuck at the last link. Although 07 was very intelligent, it was still unable to take over the job of being the person in charge of the new district. It had low empathy for humans and low desire to explore itself, and it completely failed to meet the requirements.
They matched the mental fluctuations of several taskers, from high to low, and all failed. The taskers could not stay in the small world of 07 for more than 30 minutes on average. Xu Yanze was the one with the lowest matching degree, and no one expected that Xu Yanze would succeed.
But after Xu Yanze came back, 07 suddenly went into hibernation. In fact, when the tasker entered 07's world to complete the task, 07 still had the computing power to support it to stay awake and process system file affairs.
So researchers are not sure whether the sudden entry into hibernation is a good thing or a bad thing.
What happened in the small world? Only half of 07's data record was sent back and it could not be decoded, and it is unknown where the other half of the data went.
Many researchers suggested that Xu Yanze must be brought over for study, and if necessary, he should be forced to re-enter the small world, but because Yin Suohe was there, they did not dare to do so.
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