The hotel conditions are better than the capsule cabins. When Su Zheyan took a shower in the morning, Chu Shici climbed into his backpack to peek at the diary.
Su Zheyan hid the diary a few days ago, so he couldn’t see it, this time he came to make up for it.
Except that today’s diary entry looks strange, the previous few pages are all about daily chores.
[Monday, sunny.]
My favourite nutritional cream is out of stock, and the boss is dead.
On average, a robot eats a barrel of oil a week, and a barrel of oil costs 50 gold coins. On a normal day, I can grab… I can earn 10 gold coins, and raising a robot is a waste of money.
Eternal Life Technology did not go bankrupt.
[Tuesday, sunny.]
Last night the robot had a nightmare, it kept burrowing into my hand. Crying and saying, “Please, don’t hit my leg.” I don’t know what he dreamt about, but with me around, no one can hurt him.
Eternal Life Technology did not go bankrupt.
[Wednesday, heavy fog.]
Suddenly remembered that the robot has no name yet, what should I call him?
He is a platinum toy for children, call him Xiaobai* or Dabai*? I’m good at naming things.
*(xiao – small, bai – white)
*(da – big, bai – white)
*(xiao/da are just different ways to address someone you are close to, like calling a person named Anne as Annie)
Eternal Life Technology did not go bankrupt.
In the next few days, the content was the same. While reading the diary, Chu Shici said to the system: “If I don’t give myself a name, I will probably only be called Xiaobai in the future.”
The system stayed up late to watch the drama, and let out a listless voice, [Then what do you want to be called?]
“Ah Ci, that’s what my buddies used to call me.”
[Anyway, you will only stay in this world for a short time. You will change places once his vitality reaches 100. The name will only be used for a while so it doesn’t matter. Compared to this, I am more curious about what kind of dream can make a person like you cry. Is it a dream of peeking at the flower market and having your legs broken by your father? Or did you dream that you travelled to a boring world without fierce 1, where you try to flirt your way through only to get your legs broken?]
Pain and sadness flashed across Chu Shici’s face, and in the next second he smiled and lowered his voice: “I reincarnated and was chased madly by a hundred men, and was punished by…”
[Fuck, shut up!]
The bathroom is separated from the bedroom by a transparent glass, blocked by a lift curtain. Su Zheyan was halfway through washing when he felt movements outside.
He opened the curtain and saw the robot peeking at the diary.
Su Zheyan raised his brows lightly and knocked on the bathroom glass. The robot was startled, quickly closed the diary, carried it on its shoulders and stuffed it into the backpack.
But the book is hardcover and twice his size. The robot slipped and was firmly pressed down by the diary. He thumped, lying on the table, motionless.
Su Zheyan pursed his lips and let out a light chuckle. After a quick rinse, he went out and picked up the book, rescuing the robot.
He rubbed the robot’s head, and said in a flat voice, “You want to see it so much?”
Chu Shici put his hands behind his back, nodded and shook his head, “It’s my fault, I won’t read it in the future. Do you want to scold me, I will reflect seriously.”
Su Zheyan stared at him for a while, then suddenly said: “Recently you have been with me, and I have no privacy. The trivial daily life in the diary is experienced by both you and me, there is nothing new about it. In this case, it’s not voyeurism that prompts you to peek at the diary.”
He flipped the diary to today’s entry and pointed to the pattern on it.
“You want to learn about Eternal Life technology and Desolate Star from me. Is it curiosity, or… what are you investigating?”
Chu Shici was silent for a long time, “Robots have an automatic learning system, and I am thirsty for knowledge.”
Su Zheyan narrowed his eyes, and poked the robot’s chest with his fingers.
Although he didn’t say anything, Chu Shici still understood what he meant. This is to ask him to speak with his conscience and not to lie to him.
Chu Shici woke the system up, “Tong-ge, what do you think?”
[What we want to investigate is the cause of his depression. Those things are just the starting point, not the final goal. You can’t say “Yan-ge, I want to untie the knot in your heart.”. It’s too cringey. Make up a lie to fool him, anyway, he loves you very much now, and he will definitely not pry your head open again.]
Su Zheyan was not angry, he was just curious about why the robot did this.
Under his gaze, Chu Shici looked up at him: “When I just came back to life, you were in a bad state. During the day, you search for resources without a goal, and at night you sleep to escape from reality, as if your whole body was in a state of collapse. Your eyes are always full of pain, and even if they did light up a bit, once you come back from the wastelands, it always returns as dim as they had been.”
“In the beginning you were always sneering at me, and you always ignored me when I said something, and you were often alone in a daze. But I know you didn’t mean to snub me, but you forgot how to communicate normally.”
He took Su Zheyan’s finger, “I thought it was the Desolate Star and the malice of those alphas that made you look like that. But after getting along with you, I found that you are very strong. Whether it is the betrayal of the empire or the endless insults, Neither will break you. Yan-ge, I want to know what happened to you before I appeared. I am very worried, I am afraid that you will encounter that kind of thing again, and you will return to your original dejected state.”
Su Zheyan didn’t expect to hear this kind of answer, he was caught off guard by the robot’s straightforwardness.
He let out a cold laugh and turned away, Chu Shici could only see his blood-red ears.
Favorability is like making dumplings, it rises every few seconds.*
*(if you’ve ever made bread before, it’s kind of like that.)
Chu Shici breathed a sigh of relief, as expected, honest children have candy to eat.
The heartbeat was so fast that Su Zheyan felt very uncomfortable. A warm current surged through his heart, and he became more and more flushed.
To calm down, he forced himself to think about something else.
At that time, he had just arrived in Desolate Star for three days, entered the city three times, and entered the night market once by mistake. Besieged by more than a dozen alphas, and obtained the first pot of gold in the Desolate Star from them.
He found a water source occupied by alphas, and he only needs to take a stroll there every day. Spend a few minutes, easy to get drinking water and a lot of bloody gold coins.
After careful calculation, the days were not bad. Looking back, Su Zheyan didn’t understand why he was so decadent.
A trace of bewilderment flashed in his blue eyes, he stroked the diary in his hand, his eyes fell on those tear marks.
He obviously doesn’t have amnesia, but why can’t he remember when he tore up the diary. He has an impression of what he does every day and every hour.
According to the time elapsed, there are no faults in his memory. But it turns out that he just lost part of his memory.
Su Zheyan thought for a long time, then turned to look at the robot: “I don’t have amnesia, but at the same time I seem to be missing some memory.”
Chu Shici was dumbfounded, “That’s contradictory?”
“Eternal Life Technology can choose whether to implant into clones the memory of the real person. I was thinking, am I actually a clone?”
“But what’s the point of them cloning you and throwing you to the Desolate Star. I think your thinking is wrong. Maybe you have been reborn, but you don’t remember. There are often such settings in novels.”
Su Zheyan was silent for a while, “I am a materialist.”
“?”
“I lean towards cloning.”
Chu Shici: …
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Update: Tomorrow~
- After becoming enemies with the lord god
- Blog
- Completed
- Don't talk to me!
- Dropped
- Ghost Marriage
- Hunger Academy
- I opened a safe house in the Infinite Stream
- Notices
- Ongoing
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