harm
Blood flowed from the wound. Even though the girl tried her best to endure it, the pain still made her face change instantly.
"What the hell are you doing?!"
Mu Qingyan screamed and looked in disbelief at the man she once thought was the gentlest person in the world.
She didn't know what went wrong that caused Kins to become like this.
The huge emotional fluctuations doubled the efficiency of the brain. Mu Qingyan stared at the location of the wound and said his answer word by word:
"She is, a robot."
The knife was pulled out and stabbed back.
This time the injury was on the girl's shoulder.
"I'll give you another chance."
"robot."
Another blow. This time, it pierced the heart.
"She's a robot." Mu Qingyan still insisted, "Kins, you know I'm always right."
The blade was slowly pulled out, and this time, it was clean.
The girl's beautiful big eyes suddenly flashed, and then lost their luster.
Mu Qingyan walked over and tore off her own clothes to use as strips of cloth to bandage the man's wound.
Her movements were slow because all her strength was used to suppress the pain and helplessness in her heart.
"Yan, how did you guess that?"
The voice was still the same as usual, and it didn't seem to think that he had done anything remarkable.
Mu Qingyan closed her eyes and forced herself to answer the other party's question:
"Her face is exactly like that of a female scientist from the 19th century."
The appearance of robots is becoming more and more similar to that of humans, but in order to avoid having faces that look like familiar people around them, their models are based on human faces from hundreds of years ago.
The female scientist's research field was different from Mu Qingyan's, so she had only seen it once in the information, and the rest depended on the memory palace.
Kins immediately understood what she meant and continued to ask:
"But Yan, you saw her injuries, yet you still insisted it was a robot. Don't you have anything to ask me?"
"Those who died suddenly from illness in the community had nanorobots with special properties discovered in their bodies. They consume human life as energy, transforming humans into nanorobot parasites. I'm guessing that, in addition to this, BI has also developed a reverse nanorobot? One that can transform robots into humans? This girl must have been undergoing experiments for some time. Her limbs are now indistinguishable from those of a normal human; she can feel pain and bleed. However, the location of her heart is still just some mechanical components."
——So, is this a human or a robot? Is that answer really correct?
After the bandage was finished, Mu Qingyan shook his head, dispelling these useless thoughts. After a while, he asked the next question:
"Did you kill Lawrence Bedford in the same way?"
When she saw the image of Lawrence Bedford in Dustin's ward before, she felt that the man's body movements were always a little awkward. She thought it was because of his age, but now it seems that is not the case.
Lawrence Bedford believes that robots are more powerful beings. He has been researching higher-performance nanorobots for decades, and even experimented on humans to turn them into real robots.
So, would he do the same to himself?
Mu Qingyan looked at the expression of the person in front of him and understood that the truth was almost certain.
"Originally, we were just partners, and I could have let Lawrence Bedford go. But he did everything he could to bring me to BI headquarters in an attempt to control me."
It might have been possible before, but the speed of his processor has changed dramatically since it was equipped with the computing power of the Infinity positron operating core.
It would be very easy for him to control BI.
"Where are Terrence Bedford and the teacher?"
"They shouldn't have continued to exist, Yan. Look at me and Qi Yin. It's not a big deal that identical people appear. It's just that you don't understand. This isn't right."
"Where are the heads of those families?"
"They would have died at the hands of Lawrence Bedford anyway. You don't need to worry about that."
Mu Qingyan didn't dare to imagine what was happening on the other floors of the BI Building, but the silence here when she arrived already explained a lot.
She turned around and looked the man in front of her up and down:
"Kins, is this also the purpose behind your collaboration with Lawrence Bedford?"
Mu Qingyan still remembers that Kins was listening to the story of "Double Hundred People":
A robot gave up his immortality in order to become a real human. But in the end, he was granted "human citizenship" and died as a human.
— Human nationality? What a ridiculous statement.
"Kins, do you want to become a human? Because of me?"
The man slowly squatted down in front of her, his fingers gently stroked her eyebrows and slowly moved down her hair, and the familiar smile appeared on his handsome face again.
"A large part of it is indeed because of you, Yan. You know how important you are to me, and I also know how much you care about me. Being a robot is sometimes too inconvenient for many things."
Mu Qingyan did not delve into the meaning of his words and continued to ask:
"And part of what is it?"
"Because..." Kins' smile froze, and his eyes became sharp. "Do you remember the quarrel between you and Qi Yin? You fell into a coma after returning to the car, and I carried you back to the ward. Dustin and York were there at the time, and I told them that Yan knew who would not hurt her. But Yan, guess what Dustin said? You once described to me Dustin's feelings towards robots. If there is an equal rights movement for robots and humans in the future, he will definitely be the first human to support it. But Dustin told me -
Do you consider yourself a human being?"
Mu Qingyan knew what this meant——
You see, even Dustin can't escape his anti-robot bias.
In fact, there is a similar situation in this robot accident. It is obviously the fault of humans in the final analysis, but all the humans affected blame the robots.
They were kept away, imprisoned, stoned, and spit upon...
Mu Qingyan suddenly didn't know how to persuade him.
"This is the inherent weakness of human nature, Kins. Don't be affected by such a shameful thing..."
She said this without confidence.
"It's too late... Yan, now let me ask you, do you think my feelings for you can't compare to Qi Yin's?"
"Kins, don't do this..."
"Let me tell you, this robot—" he pointed at the injured girl, "she and Dustin met because of a strange online chess match, and later did a lot for Infinity. She once said that whether it was playing or chatting, Dustin's presence made her emotionally charged and comfortable. Later, after she gradually regained consciousness during the transformation process, she finally understood what that feeling meant. Yan, guess why she sent the photo to Dustin? It wasn't a mistake, nor was it a cry for help. It was because Dustin had never actually met her, and she wanted Dustin to remember what she looked like. Yan, what do you think this kind of emotion a robot has? "
Amidst the questions, countless emotions surged in Mu Qingyan's heart. Many voices emerged one after another, making her completely unable to sort out her thoughts and she didn't know how to answer.
So she intuitively asked a similar question:
"Kins, do you want me to interpret your feelings for me as 'love'?"
It sounds a bit like a tongue twister, but the logic is simple for robots.
"Yan, I think I can really say that I love—"
"But you're hurting me."
“…”
This sentence was obviously more impactful than anything else that had just happened. It was like the devil hidden in the jar had finally revealed its true face, bringing only fear that could not be dispelled no matter how many wishes were made.
“Kins…”
Mu Qingyan placed her hand on the chest of the man in front of her. There was no heartbeat, only a pulse signal of electricity flowing through it.
"The teacher said he wanted robots to become another form of life, so your positronic brain isn't bound by the Three Laws. But, can you really tell the difference between 'love' and 'harm' right now?"
"Yan, I didn't..."
"You know Dustin and York are my friends, but because you manipulated the robot, you hurt them and Infinity. Xiao Yin is very important to me, but I would be very sad and upset if you treated him like this. Do you really want to see me like this?"
Kins' expression grew colder. "After all, is it still because of him?"
Mu Qingyan shook her head, sighed, and pointed at the girl lying on her legs:
"Have you ever thought about what would have happened if my teacher hadn't rescued me back then? I was just a test subject in Lawrence Bedford's eyes. Do you think I'd be luckier than her? Did you feel uncomfortable when you hurt her just now?"
——If he hadn’t escaped, the one lying here now would be Mu Qingyan.
——And who stabbed her?
Mu Qingyan felt the body trembling slightly under her palm. She didn't know if he would also encounter "machine difficulties" like ordinary robots, but it was obvious that he already understood what she was saying.
"Kins, you are hurting me. Just because it's me doesn't mean you understand what 'hurt' means."
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