Chapter 123: The Last Day of the Competition

The plot of the movie is also more exciting, telling the love story between the male protagonist and the female android, from the master-servant relationship in peacetime to mutual dependence in wartime. In the end, the self-sacrifice of the male protagonist protected the bionic female protagonist.

The surrounding scenes are constantly switching, how to say it, such a sense of substitution is indeed strong and terrifying. Seeing that Xiao Chu was there in tears at the end. Others were also more or less impressed.

Merely... The line that appears at the end of the movie is a bit of a drama: under the leadership of Mayor S, the war in the movie will never happen in reality!

"This kind of love across species is so touching!" Xiao Chu said while crying.

"Okay, Xiao Chu is just a movie." Chen Xin comforted Xiao Chu as usual.

By the way, the reason for the war in the movie is because of the conflict between androids and humans... The Crisis of the Mind Machine that is often seen in science fiction movies.

Although this city is set 300 years later, this is a virtual world created by the modern Taoyuan system, as well as highly intelligent AI, Chen Xingying glanced at Betty, and remembered GM "Taoyuan".

"However, looking at the final cast, the heroine is really a bionic person, and she can't see it at all if she doesn't say it. Such a beautiful android, who cares if she is human or not. Wang Xuanjun said suddenly.

"There's actually a very interesting theory here, called the uncanny valley mentality."

For some reason, Wang Xuanjun's words seemed to touch a certain switch of Chen Xingying, and he was anxious to share his strange knowledge.

"Uncanny Valley? Sounds scary. Chen Xin seemed very interested.

Well, it means that human beings will like things similar to themselves, such as talking animals in cartoons, and small animals in real life will be universally loved by people when they make close actions to people. But there are psychologists who have analyzed... As these things become more and more similar to a certain level, human reactions and attitudes towards them will suddenly become extremely disgusted and fearful. It is not until it is more similar to that it is almost indistinguishable from human beings that it will return to normal preferences. For example, the walking dead, horror dolls, etc. ”

"It seems that this is indeed the case, is this why people are so afraid of ghosts?" Xiaopeng is rarely smart.

"Yes, so to speak, a species that resembles a human but is not a human is what humans fear the most."

I don't know why, speaking of this, those white monsters on the desert before flashed in Chen Xingying's mind. And it seems that others have thought of it as well. A bad look on his face.

"Your theory is actually a household name in our time and city." Betty suddenly said this.

"After all, the previous crisis with androids was caused by the fact that androids are both human-like and have obvious differences, which led to people's fear of them."

Betty is probably referring to the human rights movement about androids decades ago.

"So I don't think it's the success of the human rights movement that has been able to achieve the balance that we have now, but the fact that the androids are almost indistinguishable from humans."

Except for the sharp translation... Chen Xingying muttered in her heart.

Walking out of the theater, the time has come to seven o'clock in the evening.

"As a result, I didn't encounter any other teams today except for fighting those NPCs of the Salvation Society." Looking into the distance, Xiaoyu said to Chen Xingying.

"yes, I thought it would be a three-way scuffle. The reason for today's uneventful day, I don't think it's that there are many other teams left to fight, or the official can separate the teams that participate in the battle. Chen Xingying analyzed.

"All in all, look at tomorrow, I believe tomorrow is the day of the real decisive battle."

The two came to a consensus... In fact, it was raining all day outside, but before I knew it, as Betty said, the people here had long been accustomed to this kind of weather.

……

Calling a taxi again, after everyone returned to the teahouse in Chinatown, they decided to disband, on the one hand, they could only wait for tomorrow's events, and on the other hand, since the goal was established, they should go offline as soon as possible to avoid encountering the enemy's team, if they met Neil or Wall's team, it was bound to fight to the death.

So, Xiaopeng's team decided to set the teleportation point in the teahouse, and the three of them would not leave Shangcheng District. Chen Xingying and the others followed Betty back to her car and left Uptown within the allotted 12 hours.

"Then tomorrow when the time comes, let's go to Roger's house first, and then we'll take you to Crown Garden in the afternoon after we're done with our things." Back downstairs at the hotel, Betty spoke to the trio.

It was not the hotel of the previous night, and it is estimated that this night's sleep did not cause a psychological shadow to Betty, and this time she changed to another high-end hotel in Midtown.

"Okay, then see you tomorrow, come on, everyone! Prepare for the decisive battle. Chen Xingying said to Chen Xin and Xiao Chu.

"Then I'll see you tomorrow." Saying that, Chen Xin logged out of the system, and Xiao Chu also followed.

Chen Xingying was also about to log out, but after thinking about it, she raised her head and said to Betty, who had not left yet,

"Thank you for taking care of you these days, I have added a lot of trouble to you."

Betty was silent at first, and then suddenly smiled,

"It's okay, it's been a long time since I've ventured with a young man like you, and I want to thank you for letting me go back to being young in the truest sense of the word." Betty said.

"Well, tomorrow then... On the last day, I'm asking you to take care of it. Chen Xingying also responded to her smile.

"Yes! Brother Golden! Betty pretended to salute and said with a smile.

……

Back in the real world, this time it went offline early, so there was still a while before going to bed.

Chen Xingying sat in front of the computer, opened the search engine, and began to do the good things she wanted in Sky City before... Search for information about the Taoyuan World Competition. See if the other teams have left any traces on real-world online sites.

Since the contest lasted for four days, there was a lot of talk on the internal forum of the Taoyuan system testers. Many testers who have nothing to do with the game world have participated in the discussion.

Many people are anxiously asking how the race is going now... There are eliminated people who leave messages and complain there.

"I spent so much money to buy equipment, but as soon as I came up, I met the ace players of the national region and was eliminated directly, which is really unlucky!"

One of them said that it seemed to be a member of the team that had been eliminated by him in Downtown.

"We finally made it to Uptown, but before we could see the enemy, we were eliminated."

Reply downstairs:

"What, how do you guys play games, it's obvious that Neil Anderson, the ace professional player in North America, eliminated us, didn't you see anything?"

Then there's a long section of a team that only sees the content of the quarrel... It seems that Neil has also eliminated at least one team, and he is also in Uptown... It's good that I didn't meet him, otherwise I would have been chased by him again... Chen Xingying thought to herself.

Next, at the end, there was no relevant message from the team that was not eliminated, and it seems that everyone is very careful about protecting their own information.

In addition to turning to the bottom, the latest message:

"All the teams that are still competing, have you all received invitations to the carnival? Looking forward to tomorrow's finals. ”

I don't know if it was the contestant who left a message, at least someone and Chen Xingying thought of going together.

A whimsical city in the sky, never seeing the light of day, a variety of contradictory settings and a hierarchical social structure... Tomorrow is the last day anyway, and in the worst case, you might even fight both Neil and Wall's squad.

Although my ability has improved through training, I am still not completely sure how to deal with this situation... You can only take one step at a time. While thinking about this, Chen Xingying entered the dream.

……

It's time to come to the fourth day of this competition.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Chen Xingying and his entourage returned to Roger's apartment building under the leadership of Betty.

"Oh, you're just in time, I'm done."

Unexpectedly, Roger actually took the initiative to open the door this time. After arriving at his workshop, everyone looked around, but they didn't find an extra android or anything.

"So Roger, where is the thing you made?" Betty asked.

"Right here!" Roger said, pointing to his computer screen.

"Huh?" Everyone looked at the computer screen and saw a cute cartoon image of a monkey appear on the computer screen.

The cartoon monkey wears a yellow vest and looks at the crowd in front of the computer screen with wide, watery eyes.

"Hey, are these Rogers VIPs?" The cartoon monkey actually spoke directly.

"Yes, they are your new masters." Roger also spoke to the person on the computer screen.

"Hi guys, my name is Teddy, what do you call it? My masters? The cartoon monkey waved at Chen Xingying and said.

"What's going on? Didn't you say that you want to recreate a android? Betty asked in surprise, and the other three looked at Roger with a confused expression.

"This is remanufactured, I made this virtual android in the cyber world of the chip through a complete set of programming, how cute is the cartoon character!" Roger said smugly.

"But what's the use of that? We're going to take him over and open the Tower of Babel to meet Mayor S. Betty yelled at Roger angrily.

"For this purpose, of course, needless to say, it's more convenient." Roger said as he soothed Betty.

"Grandpa, so what's going on? How can I take him to the venue? Chen Xingying asked Roger seriously.

"Oh, actually, this avatar can be attached to the basic program used by your VIPs." Roger said something that surprised Chen Xingying.