The blue monotonous sea was endless, they walked forward under the sky, looking down from a high altitude, they were just two small dots like gravel, moving forward slowly.

Following their footsteps, the surface of the water has begun to become turbulent, and the waves are churning and building higher and higher, condensing into a vague entity.This field is made up of data, and they retrieved the corresponding memory, and the data presented in the form of seawater changed.

"If there is any critical situation, I will deal with it," Deng Huailing arranged the tactics, "You come to open the 'tunnel'. Although Chen Wei said that the possibility of accidents is extremely small, it is still just in case."

He subconsciously touched the Tang Dao on his back, only to realize that the weapons in reality could not be brought in, and the black ring on his finger also failed, and they were thrown into Mary Ellis's memory naked.

"Okay." Rosie obeyed.The two walked through the entity formed by the seawater, where steel bars and columns intersected layer upon layer, changing dynamically, forming a huge architectural forest.Their shells became clearer and harder, transforming from fluid to solid, and finally settled inside a pure white building.

The white fluorescent wall came into view, and Deng Huailing only felt his vision shake violently. When he took a closer look, a bearded face was very close to him, and the strong smell of alcohol filled the air.From top to bottom, he kept looking at him.

Even though he came from the notorious group of bounty hunters and was used to being surrounded by alcoholics, Deng Huailing felt that the other party drank too much.Rolla in the HOPE bar also often drinks heavily, but the person in front of him obviously doesn't have Rolla's drinking capacity, and his footsteps are sloppy, as if he will fall down in the next second.

He frowned, trying to distance himself from the other party, but found that he couldn't move freely.

A sales android came over."Mr. Ellis, you have a good vision. This is the Mary-03 generation bionic that was just put on the market last month. Compared with the Mary-02 generation, it has upgraded the housekeeping module, supports 235 different languages, and has more than 3,000 cookbooks., not only can complete simple tasks such as mowing the lawn and purchasing, but also can control your nutritional intake during fitness and teach your children math..."

"I don't have a lawn at home," the drunk interrupted. "I don't shop a lot, I don't work out, and I don't have kids."

Deng Huailing understood that he was in the first perspective of Mary Ellis, observing the world through her eyes, and the drunk standing in front of him was Mary's first owner, Jason Ellis.

The feeling of the first perspective is very weird, Rosie has already switched out, standing in the corner and beckoning to him with a smile, Deng Huailing quickly cut to the free perspective.

They are in a CyberRose chain store of bionics, each floor-to-ceiling window is a translucent holographic screen, showing a blooming flower-shaped logo, and the famous slogan "The past is like smoke, but your life is a rose".

According to the date and time, this is Cecina seven years ago.It was at this store that Mary Ellis was bought to become Jason Ellis' domestic android.

"That's right, Mary's functions are more than those mentioned above. She can take care of all the housework, no matter what you order, or what you haven't thought of for the time being." The salesman gushed, "Make your house not onlyA house, but a 'home'."

Hearing these words, Jason raised his head slightly, and there was a little light in his chaotic eyes."Could you help me with the cat?" He stared at Mary through his mop of hair.

"Of course!" The sales android smiled exaggeratedly, "It's a simple job, isn't it?"

"Pack up the painting utensils and tidy up the room?"

"certainly."

Jason opened his mouth, but stopped talking.The sales android immediately observed his facial expression and reacted: "Mr. Ellis, you don't have to pay in one lump sum. CyberRose can provide installments and only charge very low interest."

"... what is the longest period?"

The sales android glanced at the clothes of the other party, and several floating frames appeared in the field of vision. The brand, price, and year of manufacture were all attached to Jason's beret, tattered jacket, and jeans.stuff.Jason Ellis' personal ID information then emerged. He was a poor painter who lived in a "hive" in the city, with a monthly income of less than 50,000 credits.

"Thirty years, sir. With only 35,000 credits per month, you can have the most caring domestic android in history."

Mary stood on the display stand, already activated, and smiled at Jason Ellis upon hearing this.

"Are bionics so expensive?" In the corner, Deng Huailing couldn't help but glance at Rosie, "I remember that the ones displayed in the window are very cheap, and you..." He stopped the topic just in time.

"Mr. Deng, do you want to say that I was given away by the company for free?" Rosie could understand more and more his implication, "Mary Ellis is expensive because the technology was immature seven years ago, and the cost of the bionic humanIt’s high. Mine was expensive too—but you’re a bounty hunter, and the government pays for it for you.”

"Oh, so it is." Deng Huailing had a faint smile in his eyes.

"What are you laughing at?" Rosie knew that the administrator was laughing at her when she saw the expression on her face. "I'm already very expensive!"

"Yes, you are very expensive." Deng Huailing followed his words.

"…" Rosie flexed her knuckles.If it weren't for the program's explicit prohibition of harming the administrator, he would have thought of pressing Deng Huailing to the ground like when he first met.

During the conversation, Jason Ellis had already come to the front desk, raised his hand to scan the ID chip, and confirmed the transaction.He rejected the clerk's suggestion to pack Mary, and led the domestic android out, Deng Huailing and Rosie hurriedly followed.

This is the largest CyberRose specialty store. All the way they left the housekeeping area, dozens of sales androids pulled customers and chatted endlessly in front of various booths. The voices of conversations were everywhere, making people dizzy and tinnitus.

Jason was supposed to leave here, but slowed down in the art area near the door.The Art Zone happened to be holding a special press conference. CyberRose’s much-anticipated new-generation art bionics were released today. Reporters rushed forward and rushed to shoot the scene on the stage.

He hesitated for a moment, then pushed his way into the crowd of onlookers, and Mary trotted after him.

In front of the flickering cameras of the media, there are artistic bionics with expressionless faces.It sketches on the canvas with a pen, which is completely out of the order of ordinary painters. It seems that it has already divided different colors and layers, and uses both hands to change the brush quickly, as if the fast-forward button has been pressed.

"In the last generation, the company designed a direct spray painting method for artistic bionics, using a positively charged canvas to attract negatively charged paint droplets, but unfortunately the effect is not ideal." The spokesperson said, "Everyone here mustI also read the report "In this case, why not just build a printer?", so in the new generation, we let the bionic man pick up the paintbrush, and the paintbrush has a soul."

It took only a minute or two for him to narrate this speech, and the bionic man had already completed the painting.On the canvas, the dim yellow sky is sinking down, the huge emerald waves are rolling, and the sails on the mast are fluttering, forming a triangular composition with the passengers on board.

"The so-called soul-is to be closer to human beings. Ladies and gentlemen, please look, this is the famous painting "The Raft of the Medusa" copied by artistic bionics. It does not restore the original work exactly, but simulates it with algorithmsThere are minor flaws, and on the basis of the original, I added my own play."

Jason Ellis looked at the work of the bionic man with dull eyes and cold sweat on his forehead.He is a painter by profession. Although he earns a meager income from selling paintings, he can distinguish between good and bad.He used to think that in the art industry, human beings would never be replaced by bionics, but at this moment he was staring at the painting, as if falling into an ice cellar.

Butterflies flap their wings, and a storm is about to sweep Cecina's art world.In the past few years, such storms have been set off in the industry, finance and even the education industry, resulting in a sudden increase in the unemployment rate in the city.Now, he's likely to lose his job—and he's just bought a domestic android in installments.

Mary watched him timidly, not understanding what had happened to the new owner.She tried to comfort her, but Jason roughly shook off her hand, turned around and left angrily.

"Mr. . . . Mr. Ellis?"

This memory fragment ends here, and the surrounding data is disturbed like water waves, reorganizing into a new scene.

They show up at Jason Ellis' apartment, very similar to where Deng Huailing lives, and Jason also lives in a "hive".The room was extremely small and smelled disgusting, the windows were heavily curtained, glass wine bottles and aluminum cans rolled around, and only a corner of the easel was cleared.

Rosie was extremely thankful that they couldn't interact with the world, otherwise he and Deng Huailing would have kicked the rolling trash all over the place, and Jason and Mary would have bumped into them.

Looking at the time, Jason had just brought Mary home from the android store, and while kicking open the wine bottle on the ground, he muttered without looking back: "I think, you have a lot to do...Help me feed the cat, clean up the cat poop, wash the dishes, and get all the trash out of the room, but don't touch the things over the easel, Ouch!"

A cat jumped off the wardrobe with a thud and landed on his head.

"Mr. Ellis!" cried Mary, trying to help him catch the cat away. "You are not hurt?"

"Don't touch it." Jason reflexively led the cat away, with an expression of indifference and wariness that couldn't be concealed.Seeing the android retract his hand in a daze and lower his head, his tone softened a bit, "I'm fine. That, I mean, it's called Ouch."

"A very special name." Mary immediately smiled innocently, as if nothing had happened.She picked up a few wine bottles, put them in the trash, and started tidying up the room.

The biggest advantage of bionics is that they never hold grudges against humans.No matter how rudely offended they were, or their dignity was repeatedly trampled on the ground, they didn't care, and they still paid 120% enthusiasm to the administrator.The same goes for Rosie, Deng Huailing suddenly thought, if he wasn't Rosie's administrator, would the other party tolerate his coldness and rejection at the beginning?

This is an unsolvable proposition. He never thinks about non-existent problems, but for some reason, this hypothesis keeps reappearing in his mind, so that the content of the following paragraph seems to be superficial.Similar to the situation when he met Rosie, it didn't take long for Jason to be moved by Mary's sincerity, and his attitude slowly became kind.

Jason is scruffy, uncaring about anything, and wants everyone to keep him at arm's length.The domestic android is purchased purely because life is a mess and you have to hire someone to take care of it.At first he didn't allow Mary to touch his cat, and he didn't allow Mary to approach him while he was painting, and he couldn't even make a sound. Later, these iron rules melted away like ice and washed away with the spring water.

Later, while he was painting, Mary could sing along while operating the vacuum cleaner, and Jason didn't mind it, even smiled.

Mary Ellis's memory pump cuts and weaves these heartwarming moments, and they flow before them like fleeting images.The process from alienation to acceptance made Deng Huailing feel familiar, and gradually frowned, while Rosie watched everything leisurely, not noticing that the people around her were deep in thought.

It turns out that these processes can be copied and trust each other, but this is a common occurrence between humans and bionics.Deng Huailing thought.It's not Rosie, it can be another bionic person; if Chen Wei didn't choose Deng Huailing, Rosie's administrator could be someone else...

……?

He clenched his fingers, suddenly wanting to punch that non-existent person.