Simmons changed his previous attitude and was unexpectedly tough in refusing the subjects to accept food other than "exchange".

For the experimental subjects, they have been used to this rule in the past, and it is inevitable that they will feel uncomfortable and awkward when they are suddenly broken.

But Simmons' reaction made them confront the matter of whether giving necessarily means getting something in return.

There is no doubt that when 76 and 77 do something for each other, the most fundamental purpose is to do something for each other, not to get the same "exchange items".

It's not just 76, other experimental subjects, stars, Simmons, 77 are also willing to do something for them, under the condition that they won't get anything in return.

Simmons told them: "What can be exchanged with a clear price is only a transaction, not a relationship."

Simmons looked at the experimental subjects who lowered their heads and began to think seriously. After a while, the experimental subjects asked Simmons about their experiences in the laboratory.

"Emotion includes love too?" they asked.

"Yes." Simmons nodded.

"So, if you treat us well with the intention of wanting something from us in the first place, it's not love, right?"

Simmons looked at the experimental subjects around him seriously, and they looked at him without blinking, as if they were looking forward to the answer to this question.

During this period of time, Simmons had already guessed the origins of the experimental subjects. He could easily guess that the person mentioned by the experimental subjects should be the researcher who raised them in the past.

He knows that in many cases, people will choose to tell some white lies.

For example, now, he can tell the experimental subjects that maybe those researchers who have used them still have some love for them, but people always have a lot of difficulties.This will not make them feel that they have never received their true love, that they have not been expected from birth.

But Simmons thought that no creature, no matter what it was, could live a lie all the time.

So he looked at the experimental subjects, and when he said the words in his mouth, it was a little difficult: "Yes."

"This is not love."

"They never loved you," he said.

——

Even under the guidance of Simmons during this period, the experimental subjects had vaguely guessed that "mother" had never loved them, but when facing this fact, some experimental subjects were still a little sad.

Although Simmons tried hard to tell them that there was not only "mother" in their lives, but also other experimental subjects who were always by their side.

But they all know that the meaning of "mother" is different.

——

After the experimental subjects left, Simmons was unlucky enough to be "partially rained".

However, compared to the last time, the scene this time was much smaller. There were sporadic raindrops on his face, which gradually stopped after he raised his head.

But the dark clouds above his head never dissipated, and he followed Simmons wherever he went, and thundered from time to time as if threatening.

He hurriedly dodged around the dark clouds, and when he looked up, he saw the stars staring at him suspiciously dissatisfied.

——

Simmons' words made 77 a little lower for a few days.

But soon, soon the chirping birds and stars in the cave distracted him.

The little bird that has begun to grow feathers is unexpectedly annoying. It probably regards 76 and 77 as its parents, so no matter what it does, it wants to see them. It chirps behind its tail, which quickly disturbs 77's random thoughts.thoughts.

After Xing Xing noticed the low mood of the experimental subjects, he came to the door one after another. He didn't know how to make them feel better. After thinking for a long time, Xing Xing appeared in front of them with things that the experimental subjects liked.They feel better when they see this.

77 was stunned for a moment when he saw the stars, and then was pushed by the stars to a big prey.

After handing over the prey to 77, he asked: "I remember you like to eat this, will you feel better after eating?"

77 looked down at the still struggling prey, then at the stars.

"Why did you treat us so well?" 77 began to ask this question again.

Xing Xing thought about it seriously, and then gave the answer: "You are the life I have been looking forward to before the last sleep."

When the two snakes looked over, his brows and eyes were bent, and he made an awkward smile: "I have been looking forward to your birth for a long, long time."

"How long was that?"

"That should be many times longer than your life span." Xing Xing looked at them gently, "At that time, life had just been born on this planet."

"Then what do you want us to do for you?" 76 and 77 asked.

They seem to have never been able to bring anything to the stars. All their supplies come from this planet. In a sense, they have been using things that belong to the stars.

"But I look forward to your birth, and I never need you to do anything for me."

"You can appear in front of me and live a peaceful and smooth life, which is already very happy for me."

He stood on tiptoe, then stretched out his hand, and gently touched the top of 77's head: "And I hope you will always be happy."

He thought about it seriously: "If you must do something for me, as long as you chat with me occasionally, that should be enough."

In the last meeting with Simmons, the star was kept by Simmons.Regarding the experimental subjects' understanding of "love" and "giving", Simmons told Xingxing a lot. Although there are some words that even Xingxing can't understand, simple Xingxing can still understand.

Simmons told him that there are big problems with these concepts of the experimental subjects. In this matter, he successfully convinced the stars.

Stars doesn't have as much vocabulary as Simmons, so his language is lacking in a sense.

"I neither like nor dislike the flowers on the roadside, nor the smell of the berries in the bushes."

"For me, they are just like the sun rising from the east and the moon waxing and waning every day. They are normal and don't care about natural phenomena." They have been repeated on the planet for many years, but the stars have never thought about itto understand.

His only preference is this group of experimental subjects.

The stars are always extraordinarily patient and gentle at such times: "But in the past, when you saw beautiful flowers and delicious berries on the road and brought them to me, I saw them."

"I began to find that the flowers are very beautiful and have a good fragrance. The berries are sweet, but they will have a sour taste if they are not ripe." For the stars, it is the experimental subjects who endow them with meaning.

"Simmons said, you have never understood the true meaning of 'love'." Xing Xing looked at them seriously, "I don't understand, what is 'love'." After all, he is just a planet, how can he be bornKnow how to love this emotion.

"But I think this should be one of the kinds of love Simmons is talking about."

——

After Xingxing left, 76 and 77 thought about it for a long time.

The words of the stars hit them in a sense.

But it has to be admitted that the existence of the stars, in a sense, began to replace the original position of the researchers in the hearts of the experimental subjects.

But it was Simmons' words that finally made them slowly begin to let go of the existence of the researchers.

After getting acquainted slowly, he finally began to tell the experimental subjects about the past of the laboratory.

After understanding, Simmons also gradually understood why the experimental subjects had such strange ideas.

Simmons cheered himself up. Although the goal seemed to be far away, at least he could see the light now, right?

After learning about the past of the experimental subjects, Simmons found a way to gather all the experimental subjects together.

"You will recognize the researchers as 'mothers' because they are the first thing you see when you wake up, and they will continue to provide you with food, right?" Simmons looked at the experimental subjects around him, and got a piece ofnod.

Seeing this, Simmons pulled 76 and 77 over, and asked them, "Did you bring that little bird over?"

77 took a look at him, and handed the somewhat rounded bird to Simmons for no apparent reason.

"Should you all have seen the bird raised by 77?"

The experimental subjects nodded.

"Then do you think 76 and 77 are its parents?" The subjects showed hesitation on their faces. Although 76 and 77 have been raising this bird, they all know that this bird's parents are the same bird as it.

76 and 77 subconsciously denied it, but the rest of the subjects hesitated, as if they were struggling with this issue.

Seeing their hesitation, Simmons continued to ask: "What if 76 and 77 are the ones it sees as soon as it breaks its shell?"

The hesitation on the faces of the experimental subjects increased, and the last experimental subject hesitated and said, "I don't think so..." When he answered, he subconsciously glanced at Simmons.

After him, soon there were also experimental subjects who gave the same answer one after another.

"Since you all feel that 76 and 77 are not the parents of this bird, why can't you accept who is not your 'mother'?"

"They did not personally conceive you to be born."

"And humans and you are not two species."

Although Simmons said so, the long-term thinking of the experimental subjects was still deeply ingrained, and it was difficult to shake.

Simmons thought for a while, and then said: "If you must find someone who can become a 'mother', the most qualified one should be the planet under your feet."