Robert Dillane was waiting for someone in his office.

As the mayor of Cesina, he was still very young, with thick and neat dark brown hair, with two locks falling intentionally on his forehead, which to some extent diluted the seriousness.With deep eye sockets and elegant and charming thin lips, she often smiles gracefully in front of the camera.The overall lines of the face are soft, but when he stares at you for a long time, it will give people a deep coercion.

Deng Huailing noticed that Rosie has been very restless since they ended the previous scene and switched to the mayor's office.His android seemed to resist the mayor sitting behind the desk, standing far away and refusing to approach, but glanced at that position every so often, so that he wanted to ask Rosie what the hell he was looking at.

Robert Dillane himself is indeed very personable. It is said that he was born in a military academy. After graduation, he founded CyberRose and promoted the bionic technology to the whole city. In the subsequent general elections, he was elected mayor for several terms.Due to political needs, he no longer holds a position in CyberRose, but he is still a shadow director behind the company, controlling actual affairs.

Deng Huailing doesn't care much about politics, but he knows that he is a genius who has made achievements in business, science, and politics.The only thing he cared about was that Rosie was staring at him for too long, as if he knew him very well.

He thought for a while, and without asking, he went straight to Robert Dylan's side so that he could observe the other's movements.The mayor paused his work and glanced imperceptibly at the time on the wall. From his indifferent expression, Deng Huailing still saw a trace of anxiety.

The mayor adjusted his tie, looked at the time again, and then twisted the signature pen in his hand.Deng Huailing curled his lips gloatingly, laughing at the embarrassment of this great man.

He knew who the mayor was waiting for—Mary Ellis.

In the scene in the hallway of the apartment, they watched the killer threaten Mary. Mary tried to resist, but the killer was too intuitive to let her play tricks.After being twisted by the wrist, the memory stopped abruptly. Deng Huailing and Rosie discussed for a while, and they both thought that the killer thought it was troublesome, so they directly shut down Mary's power core and took her away.

According to later memories, the killer made a stunning appearance at a dinner party with Mary Ellis, posing as a broker.Of course, the banquet was a well-planned chess game, and the assassin deliberately put down the bait and invited the mayor to eat it, preparing for the final checkmate.

Sure enough, the mayor stepped into the trap. He was very interested in Mary Ellis, a rising star, and took the initiative to make an appointment with her for the next day's meeting on the grounds of city publicity.He eagerly proposed to make her the representative face of Cecina, but Mary, just like the killer taught her, pretended to be uninterested, neither agreed nor refused, shook his hand shallowly and left.

This aroused the mayor's interest even more.Now he was sitting in the office, and the time agreed with Mary was approaching, but there was no sign of her showing up.

Robert Dilan frowned deeply, and turned his gaze to a framed photo on the desk.He seemed lost in some kind of thought, and while he waited for Mary Ellis to arrive, he took the frame and examined it before his eyes.

Inside the digital frame is a photo of Robert himself, taken on the day of the mayor's inaugural address, raising his arms ambitiously to make a statement to the crowd.When Deng Huailing was full of prejudice guessing whether the other party was a narcissist, Robert touched the photo with his fingertips, and a slight reminder sounded, and all the pixels changed colors.

The photo frame was replaced with another photo, which was a group photo of Robert and two other people.The time in the memory pump is seven years ago, but this photo seems to have been taken longer ago. Robert is wearing a crisp military uniform, shoulder to shoulder with the other two.The face of the person on the right was marked with a bright red cross, and on the left was a young and beautiful girl, who compared the word "V" to the camera, and did not forget to turn her head to smile at the people around her.

This is a warm picture—boys and girls, college-style buildings, which make the red cross particularly dazzling.If the mayor doesn't want to see the person on the right, he can just delete the image, which can be completely flawless with the current technology; but Robert painted out the person's face to make the photo look eerie.

The girl on the left is obviously the one mentioned by the killer, Robert's first love girlfriend in military school, named Rose.She looked very much like Mary Ellis, or rather, Mary looked like her.

Through surgery, the killer changed Mary's appearance and personality, and even her frank and brave temperament was exactly the same as Rose in the photo.

No wonder the killer was so sure that the mayor would be interested in Mary Ellis, Deng Huailing thought, this was already planned.He winked at Rosie to look at the photo, but his android kept its eyes glued to Robert's face and didn't receive his instructions.

"What the hell are you looking at?" he finally couldn't bear to ask, Rosie's behavior was so weird.

"Ah, Mr. Deng." Rosie came back to her senses, her eyes were a little lost, which made Deng Huailing inexplicably unhappy, "Sorry, I seem to have seen this person somewhere, so I took a few more glances."

"He's the mayor. Isn't it strange that you haven't seen him?" Deng Huailing said, "He's on the advertising screens all over the city."

"I have a familiar feeling," Rosie tried hard to describe, clenched her hands into fists, clutching the jacket on her chest, "heart rate and breathing rate increased, blood flow rate increased, and abnormal fluctuations occurred in the memory center—"

"It sounds like a heartbeat, so do you like this hanging?" Deng Huailing asked casually.

"No, I'd rather punch him in the face." Rosie replied, looking around for a weapon that was at hand.It's a pity that they can't interact with the sea of memory, he can only look at Robert with regret and sigh.

"What kind of hatred do you have with the mayor? You are just a combat-type bionic human that just left the factory, and you shouldn't have such a bias."

"I don't know, I just feel annoyed when I see this face." Rosie hesitated for a while, then said.

"..." Deng Huailing gave up on asking, because there were so many doubts about the other party that he lost his enthusiasm for doubting.No matter what past Rosie has with whomever, whether it can be uncovered or not, he thinks that Rosie is a reliable partner-at least for now.

He has been procrastinating, unwilling to pursue the huge secret behind his partner.The moment the secret was revealed, maybe the moment Rosie left his side.

There was a sudden knock on the door, and the two cut off the conversation and looked out.Robert Dillane stood up suddenly from his seat, pressed his hands on the table, and tried his best to keep his voice calm:

"come in."

Mary Ellis stepped through the door.She has deliberately dressed up today, but it is not gaudy. She wears a white knee-length skirt with hollowed-out shoulders, and the cuffs cover her wrists all the way.The sunlight danced lightly at the ends of her blond hair, and the ends of her almond eyes were turned up, revealing a smile.

She walked to the mayor's desk, glanced at him suggestively, put down her handbag, and held out her right hand reservedly: "Mary Ellis."

The mayor adjusted the photo frame to the previous photo and put it back in place.He smiled too, and held her hand: "Robert Dylan."

Time continues to move forward, and since this meeting, Mary has become the mayor's mistress, until seven years later, she was shot dead in a club called "The Feast".During this period, she didn't meet Jason in private, as if she was already intoxicated in the colorful life.

With Robert's support, her star path went smoothly to the extreme, and in the end, no more honors could be placed on her head.No matter what kind of script or billions of credits invested in the production, as long as she asks, the mayor will deliver it to her.For the seventh year in a row she topped the "Faces of Cecina" list, and the residence was piled high with golden trophies and medals.

Ask the citizens of Cecina "your favorite movie star," and nine out of ten will answer Mary Ellis.She has become legendary, not even a person anymore, but a symbol, a sign.

Before browsing Mary's memory, she is also a symbol to Deng Huailing.But after observing her joy, anger, and mourning at close range, he found that the other party was just a poor bionic person, a puppet who was dominated. He had to obey the killer's orders and deal with scheming politicians like Robert Dillane..

She is not living a happy life. What Robert loves is the face that resembles Rose. She needs to try her best to guess and imitate the unknown girl, so as not to annoy the mayor.

Even at work, under the spotlight and on the red carpet, she can't be herself. No one has ever loved her, so "Mary Ellis" was abandoned in an unknown corner.

Except for Rosie and Deng Huailing who watched her memories seven years later, no one actually knew the loneliness of this glorious star—Mary wanted to go back to that cramped apartment and continue to be Jason's domestic android.

Working the vacuum cleaner and tidying up her paint supplies made her happy, even if Jason was poor and had no bright future ahead of him.

She silently missed Jason, but never saw him.The poor painter made countless efforts to find her: snapping up tickets for her premiere, sneaking into a press conference, and even hanging outside her office disguised as a glass cleaner, but every time Jason stood stupidlyWhen she was in front of her, Mary always kept her mouth shut and turned away.

On a moonless night, the spotlights were shining.She finished the premiere of her new film and left the scene in a limousine.The mayor attended with her and was already waiting for her in his car.

Surrounded by fanatical fans, they tried to break through the blockade of the guards and greet their idols through the car window.Mary Ellis smiled brightly at them, waved her hand, and suddenly the smile froze.

Jason desperately broke free from the guards and came to her.His forehead accidentally hit the ground, but he quickly got up, leaned on the car window and shouted at her: "Mary! Mary!"

There was a commotion at the scene. The guard grabbed Jason's arm and tried to take him away. Robert frowned with a slightly disgusted expression.

He was annoyed at the incompetence of the guards, and he was even more wary when Mary sat beside him distraughtly, pulling out of shape the pearl bracelet he had bought her.

"Drive." He gave an order to the automatic driving system in a cold voice, the engine started slowly, and the scenery outside the window began to move.

Jason pressed against the car window, desperately patting on the glass: "Mary!" He could hardly maintain his figure and was dragged backward.

Mary shivered and closed her eyes, covering her cheeks with her hands, not wanting to see each other.There was a scream through the car window, followed by exclamations from the crowd and shouts from the guards. She raised her eyes hastily, but Jason was no longer seen outside the window.

The texture of the wheel running over it was a little strange, as if it was... someone's leg.

Shrouded in fear, Mary opened the car door recklessly and stepped out.At this moment, Robert pressed her wrist and shook his head at her: "The reporters are all outside, what news do you want to be fabricated?"

"Don't touch me." Mary stared at him presumptuously for the first time, but her voice was choked, suppressing the pain, "Don't, touch, me."

Then she shook off his hand and rushed out.Jason fell into a pool of sticky blood, she rushed over and hugged the painter tightly, she couldn't help crying.The surrounding pale spotlights lit up, reflecting on the dress decorated with sequins, she curled up in tears, like a sea blue dehydrated fish.