There was a knock on the door, and a young man's gentle voice came from inside.

"Come in."

Yan Shan, wearing a neat white work suit and holding a stack of reports in her hand, gently pushed open the door.

As soon as she opened the door a crack, she smelled a faint fragrance from inside. She glanced in and saw the perfume bottle on the table over there.

The room was tidy, with files neatly arranged in piles and labeled to classify them.

Yan Shan couldn't help but admire in her heart.

The director is indeed a clean, tidy and tasteful person.

According to the sisters in the bureau, the director is young and handsome, and it seems that he doesn't have a partner. No one knows why he is still single.

Yan Shan was as confused as her sisters.

She heard that the director would talk to a woman in the office when no one was around, but no one had ever seen other women enter the director's room.

I don’t know what secrets the director is hiding. Lin Hao sat in front of the computer. There were five or six screens in front of him, with numbers and charts jumping on them that Yan Shan couldn’t understand.

He was wearing the same gold-rimmed glasses as always and the same work clothes as Yan Shan, except that there was an extra badge on the front of his work clothes.

It says "Disaster Reconstruction Bureau" on it.

Although Yan Shan had come in, Lin Hao did not look back. He seemed to be still busy with some key content, typing away on the keyboard.

The screen in front of him also changed.

Yan Shan didn't say anything. She just quietly watched Lin Hao working hard, waiting for him to finish first.

"Excuse me."

Lin Hao finally pressed a key, and all the screens went into lock mode.

He took off his gold-rimmed glasses, rubbed his eyes, then turned around and looked at Yan Shan who had been waiting for a while.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting."

"It's okay, Chief. It's already off work now, and I have nothing to do."

Yan Shan waved her hands and said with a smile that it was okay for her. However, she was still thinking in her heart: Actually, it doesn’t matter if I look at it a little longer.

"So, is there something going on?"

Lin Hao put his glasses back on. The light in the room shone on his cheeks, reflecting off the lenses.

"These are the results of the last Zombie Bill of Rights survey."

Yan Shan handed the report over, Lin Hao took it, put it on the table and started reading.

"Well, let me take a look at the basics."

Seeing that Lin Hao was serious again, Yan Shan couldn't help but move closer and looked at him together, ready to answer his questions at any time.

Lin Hao realized that Yan Shan was approaching, so he moved a little bit away without leaving a trace, but the movement was so small that Yan Shan didn't notice.

“Indeed, most people still have concerns in this regard.”

"Hey, everyone seems to agree with the observation period, and some people even think it's too long."

Lin Hao looked at it and talked to himself, then turned on a screen and wrote down some key points he thought were on it.

He stopped typing halfway and looked at Yan Shan beside him, who was caught off guard by the sudden gaze.

I wanted to turn my head away but couldn't bear to.

"Yan Shan, what do you think?"

Lin Hao's glasses fell slightly on his nose, and his hair was combed back meticulously.

Yan Shan stared at Lin Hao in a daze, then suddenly reacted.

"Ah? Director, you're asking me?"

Lin Hao nodded.

“Yeah, I also want to hear your opinion on the Zombie Bill of Rights.”

Yan Shan's heart was pounding, but she seemed to have thought about this issue a long time ago, so she answered right away.

"Well, I think the definition of zombies that can be 'naturalized' is still a bit vague."

“It may be necessary to set more specific indicators and conduct a certain degree of experimentation with such a set of standards, adjust the relevant values, and then…”

As she spoke, Yan Shan seemed to have forgotten her purpose and began to talk incessantly about her views on the "Zombie Human Rights Act."

As Lin Hao listened to Yan Shan's words, his eyes gradually brightened, and he couldn't help but push up his glasses that were about to fall off his nose.

"That makes sense. It seems I should communicate with you more."

When Yan Shan heard the words "communicate with you more", she almost jumped for joy, but she remained calm on the surface.

"You are welcome to contact me at any time~"

Lin Hao nodded and stopped talking. He sorted out the reports and prepared to put them away to read slowly.

Suddenly realizing that Yan Shan hadn't left yet, he couldn't help but turn around and ask:

"Do you have anything else to do?"

Yan Shan was a little flustered.

"Ah, me."

Suddenly, Lin Hao seemed to have seen something, walked over and came to Yan Shan's side.

Yan Shan's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and she even began to imagine the plots in those romance novels. She was so nervous that her face turned red.

But Lin Hao just pointed at a button next to her work clothes and said.

"This one is about to fall off, you might not have noticed."

Lin Hao's eyes were full of calmness, and if you looked closely, there was a feeling that he was keeping people at a distance.

Yan Shan also noticed Lin Hao's look, and the thoughts that were churning in her mind suddenly died down.

"Thank you, Chief."

She seemed to be in a low mood. She originally thought that she was special, but now it seems that she is not.

But she still wanted to be brave and give it a try, so she patted her head and told herself.

'Yan Shan, don't forget your purpose today!'

Over there, Lin Hao suddenly turned on all the screens again and sat on the chair.

Yan Shan was attracted by his actions and subconsciously looked over there, and suddenly she felt her breath stop.

On the desktops of those screens, there was the same photo, a wedding photo of a young couple, and the groom was Lin Hao.

He was wearing his current pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and in the photo he showed a gentle smile that no one in the bureau had ever seen before.

At this moment, the idea of ​​inviting the director to dinner was extinguished in an instant.

Yan Shan felt a little confused.

The crackling sound of Lin Hao's keyboard typing soon sounded again, and the desktops of those screens were replaced by various charts and codes.

"Director, are you married?"

When asking this question, Yan Shan kept shouting to herself in her heart:

'Hey! ! Yan Shan! ! What kind of weird questions are you asking! ! ! '

"Um?"

Lin Hao turned around and was about to say something when he suddenly saw Yan Shan's expression and suddenly realized something.

Then he did not explain anything, but nodded slightly and said:

"Um."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Shan interrupted him awkwardly: "Ah, the weather is really nice today. It's getting late. Director, I'm going to have dinner first. You can take your time!"

Before Lin Hao could say anything, Yan Shan ran away in panic, jumping and skipping as if her feet were burned by the floor.

“Pah.”

Yan Shan closed the door of Lin Hao's office and leaned against it, covering her face, feeling her face burning.

I am so embarrassed. "Gurgle gurgle."

Her stomach growled for dinner, bringing her back to reality. Yan Shan patted her cheeks to cheer herself up.

Forget it, let’s eat first!!

She walked to the elevator, pressed the button, and prepared to go to the cafeteria.

“Ding Dong~”

The elevator arrived before she pressed the ↓ button, and the ↓ button she had just pressed turned gray again.

The door slowly opened, revealing two girls who were so beautiful that words cannot describe them.

They both had long silver hair and looked almost identical, except that one had lake blue eyes and the other had amber eyes.

She had fair skin, a small nose, cherry-colored lips, and wore a beautiful dress. One of them even wore a black baseball cap with a scalpel painted on it.

Yan Shan walked into the elevator and looked at the two figures walking towards Lin Hao's office, her mind full of confusion.

Are they twins? Why are they here to see the director? Are they daughters? No, the age doesn't match either, they are a little older.

Well, let’s think about what to eat tonight.

Yan Shan didn't think much about it and started thinking about the dishes in the cafeteria today.

Lin Hao was sitting in the office. The charts and codes that had originally filled the screen had all disappeared, but his computer was making the sound of a fan running at full load.

There seems to be some resource-intensive program running.

He just stared blankly at the wedding photo of him and Lin Xiaolu on the table, falling into deep thought.

"You're daydreaming again."

Suddenly, a window popped up on the screen, with only a series of sound ripples on it. It was from here that the female voice came.

Lin Hao suddenly laughed, leaned back and leaned on the chair.

“Looking at our pictures.”

"Is that the wedding photo?"

The female voice on the screen asked a question.

"You just look at the photos and never come to talk to me."

Before Lin Hao finished speaking, she seemed to add another sentence.

"That little girl just now seemed to be interested in you. How about you consider it?"

Lin Hao's expression was somewhat awkward, and he could only smile bitterly and turn the chair with his feet.

"Don't joke around, Xiaolu. I didn't pay attention to the distance. I will pay attention to it next time."

"snort."

The female voice on the screen snorted mischievously and stopped talking.

Lin Hao glanced at the log in the lower right corner. The program seemed to have entered a paused state, waiting for him to start the topic again.

“Knock, knock, knock.”

The knock on the door sounded again, and this time even Lin Hao didn't know who it was.

"Who?"

His hands were already on the keyboard, ready to lock all the screens again.

"It's me."

A cold voice came from outside the door.

Upon hearing this, Lin Hao lay back down on his chair, looking relaxed.

"Come in~ When did you learn to knock on the door?"

Ning Yu turned the doorknob and walked in with Ning Xuan.

"Would you be more accustomed to going through the window?"

"No, ventilation ducts are more your style, huh?"

Lin Hao turned his chair around and suddenly saw a girl who looked similar to Ning Yu standing next to her.

"This is the one you mentioned"

"Ning Xuan, my sister."

Ning Yu took Ning Xuan's hand and introduced her to Lin Hao.

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Ning Yu took Ning Xuan to Lin Hao's computer.

"Are there friends coming?"

The sound waves on the computer screen responded again, and the female voice asked a new question.

"Yes, Xiaolu, this is my friend, Ning Yu."

"You have quite a few female friends."

A jealous voice came from the screen, and Lin Hao could only smile awkwardly.

"This is.?"

Ning Yu looked at the program on Lin Hao's screen curiously. She had just clearly heard Lin Hao call it Xiaolu.

“This is a new AI program I developed, called Refrain.”

Lin Hao explained.

“You can use a brain-computer interface to retrieve the memory of a person in your mind.”

“Extract all the voices of that person, and simulate that person’s voice through multi-layer neural network training.”

"And through all your communication and conversations, convert them into text, segment them into words, and then make them into vectors."

"stop!"

Ning Yu stopped Lin Hao from continuing to explain the implementation details.

"In simple terms, this is an experiment you do on yourself."

"Yes, I extracted all my memories about Xiaolu."

Lin Hao nodded.

"Hey, you said I was AI again, I'm ignoring you."

There was a complaining voice coming from the other side of the screen, and then the other side really stopped talking.

"It's quite real. What are you going to do next? Are you going to create a body for her?"

Ning Yu held her chin with her hand, thinking about the use of Refrain.

When Lin Hao heard Ning Yu's question, he answered with a smile.

"Well, it depends on the situation. I certainly think about it, but it has a greater purpose."

"There must be countless people who have also lost loved ones in this disaster."

"If this method can be used to allow them to see their loved ones again, even if it is just an AI simulated based on memory."

“When that person can stand in front of you again, talk to you and joke with you in a voice that you are familiar with.”

“Maybe it can alleviate some of the damage caused by this disaster to people.”

Ning Yu listened in fascination. She didn't expect that Lin Hao had thought so far.

"That's really your style, but it sounds great."

She didn't skimp on her praise.

"Come to think of it, why did you come to see me today?"

Lin Hao suddenly turned to look at Ning Yu, not understanding why she brought her sister to see him today.

"Give her a new body. She wants to get rid of those prosthetic devices on her body."

Ning Yu lifted Ning Xuan's arm, and the arm instantly turned into a blade emitting cold light, and then changed back into a hand.

Lin Hao was a little confused.

"Is this body in bad shape? I'm afraid he will live longer than ordinary people."

"That's how I explained it to her, but she said she wanted to become a real human being."

Ning Yu spread her hands, grabbed her sister's hair and started playing with it.

"Sister, if it's troublesome, then..."

"Hey, stop it."

Ning Yu stopped Ning Xuan from backing out and patted Lin Hao on the shoulder.

"This guy is really amazing. Look at the AI ​​he created, the vectors, the neural networks, etc."

“It’s a neural network”

Lin Hao corrected Ning Yu somewhat helplessly, then turned to look at Ning Xuan.

"Are you sure? Is it because the cybernetic device affects the expression of emotions?"

"And once you're transformed back, you may never be able to be cybernetic again."

With more and more research now, people are gradually discovering some negative effects of cyborgization on humans.

"Um."

“I want to become a flesh-and-blood person.”

Ning Xuan looked at Ning Yu, took Ning Yu's hand, and leaned lightly on Ning Yu's shoulder.