Chapter 57 Scene 15 The Name of This World
“Ding-ling-ling——”
He Yuezhe pressed the doorbell according to the meal delivery procedure.
A black box soon emerged from the wall beside the door, and there was nothing inside.
The lunch box was still steaming with fragrance, so He Yuezhe put it in, along with a few small pendants she had bought earlier.
“Ding-ling-ling——”
The doorbell rang again.
“Hello, thank you for enjoying our service. We will continue to serve you well!”
A plate extended from the black box, covering everything inside, and then retracted.
He Yuezhe stood at the door and waited for a few seconds.
A notice board was handed out in a black box, with a neat but slightly twisted handwriting on it saying:
【Thanks. 】
There was another piece of chalk in the box. Although the workmanship didn't look very good, He Yuezhe recognized it at a glance.
This inexplicably strong sense of familiarity once again suppressed any doubts in her heart.
She picked up the pen and quickly wrote a line of words with her hand covering it -
【Just like it^^】
“…Why add emoticons?”
"You can talk."
"Of course I can talk! And don't change the subject."
"Oh, emojis, because they seem so humane."
After putting the things back, He Yuezhe successfully completed his meal delivery mission for the day.
I just don't know what would happen if she was discovered giving small gifts to humans in private. The meaning of her body seems to be quite extraordinary.
"Hey, why is the road we took here gone?" He Yuezhe put the bag used to hold the lunch box back on her back. She looked at the empty world beside her and couldn't help but wonder.
Behind him was a cold, dark cube-shaped house, and in front of him was thick darkness.
Pipes crisscrossed in the darkness, and countless identical black blocks floated in the air, so densely packed that it made the robots feel nauseous.
"Host, there seems to be some problem with your memory."
"How did you know?"
"Miss, I am the host's closest person. If I don't know, do I need to let you know?"
"Isn't that right, host?"
"But, what's the problem?"
He Yuezhe saw the section of pipe closest to her, and she remembered that she seemed to have come from there.
But didn’t I get here by walking?
On the body...
No, I don’t have anything on me?
“Host, ████████████████████████!!”
"Um?"
He Yuezhe kept hearing the system's telegram-like voice in her head. She covered her ears and tried to stop the system physically.
"Um, um, aren't you leaving yet?"
With a creak, the door opened.
The girl's voice came muffled through the door: "Do you want me to return the box to you?"
“…” He Yuezhe turned around and saw the girl’s lifeless eyes filled with pain.
She widened her eyes and murmured in the silence: "...Chen Shu?"
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"166954801, you're awake."
When He Yuezhe regained her sight, she had already left Area 1 and was sitting on a bus, enjoying the old air conditioning.
"Bang!"
"Well……!"
Before He Yuezhe could wake up, her head hit the bus window hard, making a dull sound.
"This is your first time riding the return bus, right?" a voice came from the front of the bus. "I'm the driver of this bus, a scrapped robot with no serial number."
"The return bus is mainly responsible for taking you robots from the catering department back to the factory."
"Of course, when we're not available, you'll usually be memory-wiped and transported back to the factory."
"But this is your first day on a mission. Even though the transport mechanism has been triggered, as one of the most experienced bus drivers, I still came here to take you back to the factory."
"Are you the robot I met on Park Avenue?"
He Yuezhe didn't expect that she could find someone who was extremely similar to this person from her memory.
The driver was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "Do you know why I was scrapped?"
"I don't want to know."
The words of the robot behind him were drowned out by the whistling wind, but Wuming could still hear them clearly, and then he couldn't help laughing out loud.
"What are you laughing at?"
"I say, you really don't know how to chat at all." Wudanyi held the steering wheel with both hands, supported his head with his left hand, leaned against the open window, and said softly: "Forget it, if you don't want to listen, just pretend I'm talking to someone else."
Today, Wuming received less than 100 calls, 99 to be exact.
Each of these 99 people can be calculated as 1 yuan, but we have to deduct the one who was forcibly pulled up, so there are 98 people in total, and a total of 98 yuan.
This is all Wuming’s income today.
If we also deduct the cost of bus maintenance and daily supplies...
Wuming calculated carefully and realized that he might lose all his savings this month.
I was too impulsive at that time.
"I used to be an employee of the factory security department," Wuming said slowly, choosing his words carefully. "My daily job was to stand at the factory gate... and defend against foreign enemies."
"foreign enemy?"
"Oh yes, I almost forgot. You probably don't know the history of this world yet."
"Yeah, you have a really bad memory."
“…”
Tsk, no, why is this robot talking so sarcastically?!
It's not even mocking itself!!
Wuming looked helpless and glanced through the rearview mirror of the bus.
As a result, this glance collided directly with the robot's gaze.
The robot tilted its head with a smile and said, "Are you curious about me?"
"...Yeah," Wuming admitted generously, "As the experimental subject of those old men, there should be few people who wouldn't be curious about you, right?"
"I see."
"So shall I continue?"
…
"'Homeland' is the name of this world."
"After humans settled here, our homeland went from the first freezing period to the warm period."
"With rising temperatures and more oxygen... our homes are starting to get better and better, and this one-time warm spell is gradually becoming a thing of the past."
"The freeze, as the name suggests, is a period of extremely cold weather and extremely difficult to survive."
"So most people who have experienced the freezing period think they are superior to others."
"Although this isn't a good custom, no one dares to object. After all, those humans have indeed made contributions to this homeland, and no one can deny this contribution."
“As for the warm period, it’s actually just a transitional period with a name.”
"If you delve deeper into the history of our homeland, you'll find that there were actually quite a few transitional periods, but they were brief. Most people don't consider them to be proper warm periods, so they haven't been named."
“After the warm period, humans ushered in their first hot period.”
"The prosperity of the hot season home is one of the best in the entire homeland."
"The skyscrapers and small vegetable markets are just a reproduction of the city model of that time, but the effect has already shocked everyone."
"But the first hot period ended very quickly. There's no specific record of it in history, and it's hard for us, the descendants, to guess."
"In short, after this hot period, even though humans had the means to record it, there was still a gap of hundreds of years in the history of our homeland."
"The next phase was the second hot period, which occurred in 1960."
"There's no difference between hot seasons. It's just as bustling and bustling."
"However, during this boom, the first factories were born. That was at the end of the second boom, in 1976."
"At that time, factories almost monopolized all industries in the homeland. They manufactured various products and funded the development of industries. All people dreamed of entering a factory and working in it one day."
"I remember that in the early days, there were two leaders of the factory, a loving couple, each of whom had achieved outstanding results in their industry."
“…”
“…”
"The modeling industry has started to take off, and many young girls and boys have dedicated a long period of their youth to it."
“Some of them became famous, but most ended their careers in obscurity.”
“…”
“…”
“It is also because of this that robots began to be developed and produced.”
"At the beginning, all the manufacturing processes were very crude, and the appearance and performance of the robots were not even guaranteed."
"A lot of people just gave up, but the factory didn't."
“…”
“…”
"It's really strange. After so much time, I didn't expect..."
“…”
“…”
"The Second Heat Period ended in 1982 on Homeworld, and an unprecedented freeze period arrived due to the alien invasion."
"Human casualties were heavy, and cities were destroyed by the war."
"So many people jokingly call this period of history the 'Moving Period', because during this period, all humans were constantly moving, unable to even stop."
"I was created during this period to... defend against foreign enemies."
"And I'm the only one of my batch still alive."
"It's just unfortunate that I was crippled in order to protect a child who was nearly caught in the war."
"Huh...a scrap factory isn't a good place to be."
"It was like a beehive in there. The whole wall was filled with robot maintenance bays. I was assigned a spot pretty close to the top. When I opened my eyes, I was almost scared to death."
"A person like me who is overflowing with compassion really shouldn't live in this home."
"Asleep?"
"Forget it, I wasn't talking to anyone. I was just talking to myself."
"It's been a secret for so many years, no matter if anyone can hear it or not, I have to tell it."
"——Peer."
"Every robot has its own counterpart. More than one, that's right, more than one."
“…”
"Yes, I just followed what was written on the paper you gave me. I shouldn't have asked..."
——"You've said too much."
"Oh, I thought I had to read them all. Oh, okay, okay."
“…”
"...Are you in my car? Why? I use this car to make money, not to serve you."
“…”
"...That's different. I still prefer to use the money I earn myself."
“…”
"...Since you give me 150,000 every month, it doesn't matter how much I earn, right?"
“…”
"...Anyway, you're not allowed to cause another accident. The repair bills will be hefty!"
“…”
"...No, no, the factory has asked me, and I can't explain it clearly."
“…”
"...I'm not dumb! But Shi Wu, why do you always scold me every time I talk to you?"
“…”
"...Didn't I also give you some advice?"
“…”
"...Why not?! If it weren't for my plan, this story might not have been told for a while!"
“…”
"...Hmph, okay, I get it. I won't argue with you anymore."
“…”
"...Hey, stop taking advantage of me and acting like a good kid. Why aren't you talking?"
“…”
"……you!"
“…”
"...Never mind, that's it. You should have a good rest. I will continue to finish it."
“…”
"...Yeah, that's it. I'm hanging up."
There was a beep from the seat next to me as the phone was hung up.
He Yuezhe lowered her head and looked at the "culprit" who caused her heart palpitations, then turned the volume down to zero bit by bit.
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