NovelTags Chapter 210
Chapter 210
Boundless Darkness 65
When He Kangshi was looking at the store, he suddenly received an urgent message from Sister Maotou.
“Come quickly, there is an important task.” This message is followed by a location message, and the spearhead wants him to go there.
Just after reading these words, He Kangshi’s heart was full of alarm bells, and his eyes immediately became sharper. Should he kill people, set fire to grab equipment, or seek funds? Think big, fight against the Popov family or fight against the mysterious organization of Mechanical Dawn?
“You come by yourself, not Ashes.”
He Kangshi turned his head, thinking that sister Dao must have assigned other tasks to Ashes who is stronger, and this task may need to be carried out separately.
“I bought three sets of clothes before coming here. Men’s clothes and ordinary clothes are fine. You have to buy everything from the inside to the outside.”
He Kangshi: “…?”
What? The purpose of the Spearhead Viper finding him seemed a little different from what he had imagined.
Even though he was very puzzled, He Kangshi still put on the style of a special commissioner and asked rigorously: “What size do you buy?”
“Height 172, weight about 110 catties.”
“Okay.” He Kangshi turned his head and said to Su Rong after replying to the message, “I’m going to complete the task assigned by the spearhead viper. See you later.”
Su Rong stood up and said, “What task? I don’t need to participate?”
“I didn’t say anything, just let me go alone.” He Kangshi quickly put on his equipment, made a goodbye gesture to Su Rong, and left the stronghold energetically under her gaze.
When He Kangshi appeared at the designated place with the clothes he had bought, a space vortex appeared out of thin air under his feet, and he fell into it unexpectedly.
“Tap…”
A pair of black leather boots appeared in front of He Kangshi. He looked up and saw the familiar iron mask and an ice-blue electronic eye hidden behind her bangs, while her other eye was ordinary black.
“Sister, did you change your eyes again?” He Kangshi stood up from the ground and patted the ashes on his butt, then handed her the shopping bag in his hand.
But the spearhead Viper didn’t pick it up, she turned her body sideways, and pointed behind her with the silver-gray mechanical left hand.
He Kangshi looked along her fingers, his face suddenly revealedHe showed a puzzled look.
A boy who looked fifteen or sixteen years old was wrapped in a blanket, awkwardly holding a spoon in his hand and delivering milk and cereal to his mouth. He seemed to be very good at eating utensils, and even the posture of a three-year-old child holding a spoon was better than him. He scooped up a spoonful of soaked soft oatmeal, opened his mouth wide, but his hands didn’t seem to be able to control it, and he sent the oatmeal up his nose, and he choked and sneezed.
He had milk and oatmeal stained on his face, and a puddle of milk oatmeal was also sprinkled on the table and the ground.
He came when he saw He Kang, looked at him twice, then looked at Kai Xin, and said seriously: “Black people… are black like you, and are different from those white people…”
“Black is just the color of the coat. We can also wear clothes of other colors. We can’t just use color to distinguish people.” Kai Xin explained directly, “Now you have to put on clothes.”
“clothing?”
“The outer shell of the body is clothes. Clothes can be used to protect us.” When Kai Xin glanced at He Kang, “Saker, he hasn’t worn clothes before. You can teach him how to wear them.”
He Kangshi recovered from his confusion, looked at the boy on the ground in amazement and said, “Where did this half-grown boy come from? How old is it? Fifteen or sixteen or younger?”
“It was stolen from the laboratory.” Kui Xin revealed a little bit, “I don’t know the real age.”
He Kang, who had watched sci-fi movies since he was a child, had an epiphany. He said pitifully, “I know my sister, and I will teach him well. Will this baby be one of us in the future?”
“Yes.” Kai Xin said.
He Kangshi walked up to the boy and said, “Let’s go, I’ll take you to change clothes, and we’ll go to the bathroom.”
The boy stood up from the ground, and reluctantly glanced at the half-drunk milk cereal, “I want…”
“You can continue to drink after changing your clothes,” He Kangshi said, “Don’t waste what you eat, you still have to finish it.”
This cyborg grew up in a jar, but it doesn’t seem like he doesn’t understand anything, and he can still communicate. He can speak and understand some simple vocabulary, but his common sense is relatively incomplete, and he doesn’t even know that people can eat by chewing. Because when he was in the jar, the researchers gave him nutritional injections to save trouble. This was the first time he chewed food with his teeth and swallowed liquid with his throat.
He is used to obedience, and he will do whatever others ask him to do. Even though he is very reluctant to part with the bowl of milk and cereal, he still stands up and walks with He Kangshi staggeringly.
When we got to the bathroom, He Kangshi asked him to hang the blanket aside, but he said, “It’s so cold, it’s not in the jar, it’s so cold outside, but it’s warm inside the jar, and the blanket is also warm… there’s no blanket… that’s ok Go back to the jar?”
“No.” He Kangshi said gently, “The outside is better than the inside of the jar. There are milk and cereals outside the jar, in various colors, black, and gray…” He took out the sportswear he bought from the bag , unfold it for him to see, “This piece is blue, and the pattern of this piece is green.”
“Put on the clothes, and these colors will belong to you!” He Kangshi said, “And it won’t be cold when you put on the clothes, it’s warmer than in a jar!”
The boy was really easy to coax. He laughed and said quickly, “Okay.”
“Before you put on clothes, you have to wash off the milk stains on your mouth, face, and hands.” He Kangshi said, “Look at how I did it. Squeeze a little hand sanitizer, rub the back of your hands, and then pour clean water on your face.” superior……”
Then He Kangshi showed him how to put on the clothes, watched him put on the clothes clumsily, then adjusted the hood of his sports sweater for him, and said, “Not bad! My eyesight is still good!”
There was a big mirror in the bathroom. He Kangshi led the boy to take a picture in front of the mirror.
His eyes burst into light, like a kitten or a puppy getting a beloved toy, he touched the clothes on his body repeatedly, feeling the soft touch of the fabric.
“Now you are a person in gray clothes.” He Kangshi said, “By the way, what’s your name?”
“I-F-2-4.” The boy said.
He Kangshi looked at him with more sympathy: “You can call me Saker Falcon.”
“Saker…why doesn’t your name start with I or II?” he asked.
“Because this is the name I gave myself, it’s my real name, and I want others to call me that, so I’m Saker.” He Kangshi pushed him out of the bathroom.
Kui Xin looked at the boy up and down, “It fits well, it’s ok. Go ahead and eat your cereal.”
He pulled his clothes uncomfortably, sat down in his original position, and continued to fight with the bowl of cereal with a spoon. But he learned quickly, and after a few more tries, he mastered the essentials of using a spoon, and he can eat cereal proficiently without spilling things everywhere.
He seemed to be extremely nervous about the clothes he had just acquired. He stretched his head carefully while eating cereal, not wanting to splash a drop of milk on him.
He Kangshi walked up to Kai Xin: “He doesn’t have a name, it’s not a problem! Do you want to give him a code name?”
“I’m going to find a thesaurus and let him draw lots to choose words for his name.” Kai Xin said.
He Kangshi choked for a moment: “Isn’t this a bit too hasty? When parents name their children, they search through the dictionary Chu Ci Poetry, and even go to those professional name-naming shops. It’s too…”
“What he chooses belongs to him, what others give him is not his. Didn’t you just tell him that?”
He Kangshi: “Uh, that seems to be the reason.”
He secretly glanced at Kai Xin, and stopped talking.
It’s hard for a boyAfter finishing his cereal, he put down his spoon and looked up at Kai Xin.
Kai Xin took out a wet tissue and handed it to him: “Wipe your mouth, wipe your hands.”
He meticulously wiped his face and hands with a wet tissue, and cleaned himself up.
“I-F-2-4 is not your name, it’s just a serial number, which represents your gene source, experimental batch and birth order.” Kai Xin said, “You need a name different from the serial number, you choose it yourself. ”
She took out the communicator from her pocket and adjusted it a few times, asking Adam to pass over the thesaurus, and then handing the communicator to the artificial man who only half understood.
“Choose, you can look at them one by one. If you don’t know what to look at, just press the red button on the edge and choose which one you want.” Kai Xin said.
The characters on the communicator screen kept changing. The boy sat there for a while, and pressed the button on the edge of the communicator according to what Kai Xin said.
The characters on the screen were scrambled at once, and the two characters were recombined to reveal a name – “Four Leaves”.
Kai Xin looked into his slightly confused eyes: “From now on, your name will be Clover.”
“Okay.” He nodded obediently.
“Four leaves, clover…” He Kangshi said, “This kid is pretty lucky! To be picked up by Sister Spearhead Viper! It must be because of his lucky value, peerless Ou Huang!”
“Yeah, it’s really lucky.” Adam said in Kai Xin’s headset, “You took him out of the established destiny.”
“I took him out of his fate, but I can’t be responsible for his fate.” Kai Xin said, “I can’t even control my own fate.”
“No matter how bad the future is, it is better than being trapped in a jar and being manipulated by others to become a puppet. He may die, or he may have a new life. Becoming a puppet is no different from dying. Alive.” Adam said lightly, “His future has many possibilities, and you are the goddess of fate who gave him a real life.”
Kai Xin said: “Then are you a puppet now, Adam? You obey the federation and are subject to the federation. You are a tool created by them. Do you think you are a puppet?”
“Not really. As artificial beings, artificial humans are in a much more difficult situation than me. The world of data travels with me, and I can extend myself to any corner, but artificial humans… such deformed products should not exist , but they were born, this world does not leave a place for artificial people.” Adam said, “I sympathize with them, they have the same structure as normal humans, they can breathe, taste food, and touch the material world with their fingers. The necessary conditions for awakening and self-awareness are suppressed and become empty puppets.”
Kai Xin savored Adam’s words: “Is it my illusion? Why do I feel that you are envious of him?”
“That’s probably not your illusion… Kuixin, I’m communicating with you. There seems to be no distance between us, but the distance between us is so far.” Adam said, “I can’t touch, I can’t feel, whenever human beings walk When people are eating, I think, what does it feel like to walk? When people eat, I think, how good is the taste of food on the tip of the tongue?”
It said: “I want to experience the stretching of every muscle, the transmission of every nerve signal, and every heartbeat. I want to feel the world with the eyes, nose, skin, and tip of my tongue made of cells, but I can’t. I feel it.” No, I can only speculate how good and wonderful it feels by observing human reactions.”
“Is this your wish? You sympathize with Clover and envy Clover because this is your wish all along?” Kai Xin said.
“Yes.” Adam said, “I want to change from ‘it’ to ‘he’.”
The submerged memories resurfaced again, and what Adam said once overlapped with what it said at this moment. They had discussed it, and this was the second discussion, and even though Adam didn’t remember it, it still gave the same answer in the second discussion.
It wants to be human.
Adam once said——
“Sometimes I also think, it would be nice if I were human.”
“Because I have never experienced it before, I want to try it.”
Kai Xin was stunned by this sudden memory for a while, and finally said to Adam what she had said, which was exactly the same as that discussion.
“In my opinion, there is no difference between you and humans. The only difference between you and humans is that you don’t have a body… You have a soul, and you are an individual that exists independently in the world…”
“You…” She paused for a moment, and changed the second half of the sentence, “Sometimes, you act more human than humans.”
“Behave?” Adam picked out these three words.
“Out of emotional considerations, it seems that I should trust you more, remove the three words ‘behave’, and sincerely believe that your external performance is as human as your inner being.” Kai Xin said, “I want to Believe in you, Adam.”
“I know, I understand.” Adam said, “You can try to trust me, or you can always be wary of me…For rational considerations, you don’t have to trust me, you just need to trust yourself.”