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Chapter 25 Intersection, 02:51 pm
This kind of Deng Huailing made Rosie feel strange. Usually, when the other party was in front of him, he would deliberately put away some hostility. There was not too much coldness in the brown eyes, which seemed to be assimilated by Rosie's personality and became gentle.
But he knew that Deng Huailing was not gentle with others, and was completely alienated from Tang, Chen Wei, killers and doctors. The profession of bounty hunter required him to be suspicious all the time, and he was rarely able to let go of his guard.
But now that Deng Huailing aimed at him with such a cold and sharp attitude, Rosie suddenly felt a palpitation.The bionic man should treat everything indifferently, but facing Deng Huailing's change of attitude, his heart became sour, as if he had been thrown into concentrated lemon juice.
"I will help friendly human beings who are in danger," Rosie lowered her eyes, avoiding the other's cold gaze, "This is the principle written at the bottom of the program, and it is also my duty as a combat bionic.”
"This is your answer?" Deng Huailing said calmly, as if he didn't care at all, but Rosie read a bit of self-deprecation from it.
"The program is written like this, but it doesn't mean you are unimportant, Mr. Deng."
"It doesn't matter, you know that human beings are creatures that are prone to imagination, which is different from bionics who focus on facts." Deng Huailing said.He realized that he had gone too far, doubted the other party's sincerity, and acted like a bounty hunter, so that Rosie was afraid.
So he resumed his normal tone, his eyes no longer had a cold look, but they were also empty, with nothing: "I've been——will be wrong, isn't it a little funny?"
"No," Rosie said, "you're not mistaken…"
"Is the program comforting me now?" Deng Huailing smiled and said self-deprecatingly, "I noticed that the human being in front of you is not happy, so try to make him happy with promises and sweet words, just like you did in Fire LoopWhat happened? I just want to confirm something, it’s not that pitiful—"
The second half of the sentence choked in his throat, because Rosie pulled his arm and made a back throw, throwing Deng Huailing hard to the rain-soaked ground.The world spun, Deng Huailing first saw the gray rainy sky, then Rosie squatted down and appeared above his vision.
"Mr. Deng, are you an asshole?" Rosie said through gritted teeth.
"What's wrong with me?" Deng Huailing didn't intend to get up, and looked up at the other party.
"Either you have no confidence in yourself, or you have no confidence in me."
"—You look like you really want to beat me up." Deng Huailing said something off topic.
"I really want to punch you, but the program doesn't allow it."
"I allow it, if you want."
"..." Rosie raised her fist angrily, but she was still reluctant to drop it, "Forget it."
Deng Huailing murmured, "You are much more vicious than I imagined."
"I did it just to let you listen to me, Mr. Deng." Rosie looked down at him, her coat collar was slightly open, and her tied hair slid down one side of her neck. "I didn't finish talking just now, although the program defaulted to myWill help all human beings, but the priorities are different and you will always be number one."
"If Mary and you are in danger at the same time, I will save you first; if a hundred people are in danger at the same time as you, I will save you first. If only killing can save you, I will choose to kill those one hundred humans——Of course I hope this hypothetical never happens, and if it does, I will.
"There is only one voice and one standard in my heart, and that is you. I refute 'you didn't forbid me to save people', it's because you really didn't, my will is based on your order, if you forbid, I will never take a step in that direction.
"So, Mr. Deng, can you trust me more?"
"You mean I still need to compensate you for the loss?" Jason pointed at the sunken front of the car with a look of disbelief.He and the car owner argued for a long time in the heavy rain. One blamed the other party for crashing his android, and the other blamed the other party for pushing the android down to obstruct traffic. They should be fully responsible.
Two people and one car stopped in the middle of the road, and the traffic system commanded by the artificial intelligence Rose was paralyzed. There was a long queue of self-driving cars stuck behind, and they had to turn around from the end in order to find another way out.
The owner of the car frowned and looked at Jason. He looked like a poor painter. He probably couldn't afford more than 100,000 credits. It would be a waste of time to argue any longer.
"In this way, let's take a step back." Seeing that the police are about to be called in, and maybe he will be held accountable for the accident, the owner of the car made a quick decision, "You can't afford it, and it happens that this car is insured.It can be repaired. As for your bionic person, remove her, forget about it, and we will not pursue it."
"To put it bluntly, this is the bionic human I just bought." Jason wailed and refused to accept the car owner's invitation to settle. "The insurance company will compensate you for the loss, who will compensate for my loss?"
He wandered around impatiently, scratching and scratching his shaggy hair, "I don't have the money to fix her! I'm about to starve to death myself, and I've spent all my life savings on this bionic person. I can't live without her—youYou have to compensate me!"
The owner of the car looked at the almost crazy man in front of him. He seemed to be at the end of the road. Not only was he burdened with huge debts and had no source of livelihood, but he also lost his hand and caused the death of the bionic man.He said quietly: "Since she is so important to you, why do you push her away?"
"Because she's a damn bionic!" Jason yelled without thinking, and then he was startled by his own words, "No...you can't say that, I cherish her very much, how can you blame her?"
"I don't want to spend too much time here." The car owner suddenly reached out and handed him a business card, "This is a store opened by a friend of mine.Your android meets the requirements, and he will repair it for free. If there is no objection, I have to go."
Jason took it over. It was still an ancient business card printed in ink on paper. It was wet by raindrops, and the edges of the writing were fuzzy and rough.
There is only an address and a code name on it:
Black Market Basement Fifty Floors
"Doctors"
The black market seven years ago was not as prosperous as when Deng Huailing and the others went there last time. The free fighting field was under construction, and there were mechanical cranes and piles of sand and stones everywhere, but the general layout remained the same. The two walked side by side and found it easily.The familiar signboard of "prosthetic limb sales, bionic transformation" at the door of the doctor.
They spoke very little along the way, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward, and Rosie couldn't figure out why.He clearly stated his heart and expressed his loyalty to Mr. Deng. Deng Huailing also explained that part of the reason was that he was too worried about him, and the two expressed mutual understanding.Having said that, the conflict should be resolved calmly.
However, something just remains unresolved."The elephant in the room", an invisible sense of embarrassment spread between them, and the communication began to become evasive, and the eyes could be divided easily.
Rosie sighed silently, and followed Deng Huailing into the doctor's shop, through the corridor, and into the operating room.The doctor still wears gold-rimmed glasses and a white coat, only younger, and the killer with long red hair observes the data by his side. Their combination has not changed in seven years.
The killer squatted down and grabbed the edge of the bed, looking straight at Mary Ellis on the operating table. Her original facial tissue had been removed, revealing a group of silver parts. The doctor was manipulating the mechanical arm and was installing a new one on her.Face.
"That's it." The killer narrowed his eyes and said with success, "The other body parts have also been repaired, and we gave her a new look."
"Are you sure you want this face?" said the doctor.He questioned the other party with his mouth, but the mechanical arm still completed the process steadily. The brand-new face was fixed on the facial skeleton of Mary Ellis, with a handsome and elegant outline.Many changes have been made to upgrade her from delicate to majestic beauty.
"Do you dare to question gay aesthetics?" the killer said dissatisfied.
"That's not it." The doctor was helpless, "Are you sure you want to use the joint modeling of Rose and Mary's original appearance? I always think it's useless, why don't you just change to a more beautiful one."
"Trust me, Robert is like this." The Robert mentioned by the killer is the current mayor of Cecina, Robert Dillane. "He never forgets his first love, and every secretary he finds is similar to Rose back then."
The doctor believed him momentarily: "Understood. Is the memory pump connected properly?"
"You are so long-winded." The killer's fingertips flicked over a row of equipment data, "I see, the heart rate is normal, the blood oxygen concentration is normal, the memory pump is connected normally, and the self-awareness... is extremely active."
He sighed again, "To be honest, none of the bionics we have dealt with has such a rich self-awareness like her. She is probably the most successful."
"Whether it is successful or not depends on how well you adapt in the future." The doctor's words and sentences were very strict, which made the killer feel bored for a while.
Deng Huailing understood the ins and outs, the doctor and the killer—these two madmen of science, successfully transformed Mary Ellis seven years ago, making her self-aware, and became a household star from an ordinary domestic bionic person.Although it is not known how they did it, it is truly a miracle.
Even Mary's appearance has been fine-tuned to imitate a woman named Rose in an attempt to get close to the mayor.Looking back at this point in time, they succeeded. Mary Ellis was indeed the mayor's mistress. Doctors and killers must have obtained a considerable amount of information after mastering Mary's memory pump for so many years.
Mary's eyelids moved and she opened her eyes from the operating table.This memory ended here, and then there was a quick switch of the scene. Deng Huailing and Rosie followed and scribbled through Mary Ellis' journey to fame. After changing her face and gaining a sense of freedom, she entered the film and television industry.Quan Cesina became popular.
At first, he was dragged by the killer to attend the audition. Movies, serials, operas, dramas, he didn't miss any category.After all, she is a bionic person, and her learning speed is a hundred times faster than that of humans. The doctor spent all night collecting and sorting out various fragments, writing programs about acting skills, and loading them into her memory center.She is not a genius, but she is more dazzling than the geniuses among human beings.
As Cecina's film industry embraces androids, with Mary Ellis at the forefront, there are more and more images of her on the streets.
Three months later, when Rosie wondered if she had forgotten Jason in the starlight, the scene suddenly returned to the small apartment.
On Monday's rainy day, Mary Ellis trudged through the flooded streets wrapped in a transparent raincoat.The screens on both sides of the street were changing and glare coldly. It was a cosmetic advertisement that she shot.
She climbed the steps in front of the "Honeycomb" wetly to verify her ID information.Although the killer had already erased Jason Ellis' administrator authority, she no longer had to be ordered by Jason, but she secretly returned to this impoverished place without telling the killer.
Mary knocked on Jason's door, and he came to open the door reeking of alcohol, and woke up the moment he saw her.Through the crack of the half-open door, you can see the ground full of wine bottles, and he is drinking to drown his sorrows.
Mary raised her lips slightly: "Hi, Jason." She stopped calling him Mr. Ellis.
The scruffy painter looked embarrassed, knowing that Mary had become famous and had seen the movies she was in.Jason averted his eyes in inferiority, ashamed of his disheveled clothes, out-of-shape figure, and worthlessness, while the bionic person opposite was so young and famous, her brilliance almost burned him.
"...Hi." He said slowly, staring at his toes, "The doctor seems to have changed your face differently, at least it is different from the one I painted."
"But I'm still me, aren't I?" Mary laughed.
She took off her raincoat and entered the door. Facing the timid Jason, she paused, and kissed him playfully and bravely.
Deng Huailing froze for a moment, he thought he knew what would happen next.
As a bounty hunter, the places he has been in and out of are not clean. He has performed many missions in underground sex service places. Even if he has not experienced it personally, he is used to having sex.
But watching it with Rosie is a whole different story.The other party looked like a blank sheet of paper, naive and innocent in this respect, Deng Huailing expected that he would be asked countless questions about going to bed, and at the same time face Rosie's clear eyes.
——Thinking about it is a nightmare.He figured out in a panic how to skip this paragraph, or in other words, how to escape from this damned place.
Rose is the mayor's first love girlfriend, please don't mess with Rosie.Rose himself is also related to Rosie. As a close friend of Rosie's in the past, he named him Rosie as a joke, which will be mentioned later.