Year 2080.

Human beings have transitioned from the Internet era to the era of comprehensive artificial intelligence.

"Manpower has been completely liberated, and mankind has entered an era of unprecedented freedom." This is how the world is defined.

But is there really such a thing as freedom?

Every day, there are people who choose to leave this world without knowing why they are living. The physical body dies out, and the spiritual world that once existed can still be stored in the afterlife database in the form of code, as new data for artificial intelligence.

When a human being is free from the bondage of the flesh, is that person still a human being? What is the future of humanity? Philosophers think all day and all night.

"Thinking is the last dignity of human existence," the philosophers say.

"But why do you have to think about it every day?" Lime often sighs.

Lime works for the world's largest artificial intelligence robot company "Beyond Island", with an annual salary of one million, and is responsible for pinching the robot's face.

Pinching the face is not as simple as setting facial features on the robot's face, and the biomimetic materials used by robots can age at any time like human skin and muscles.

The face pincher needs to put the complex "muscle" lines of the human face on the skeleton. Of course, this process is also done by the machine through code.

A face with "muscles" and "skin" should make sure that it can make the expression of joy and sorrow of a bionic human. General robots don't have delicate expressions, the face assembly line can be completed, and the face pinching artists are specially customized robots.

For example, robots used in theater require extremely rich expressions. Pinching your face is a complicated and painstaking job.

This is the way it is in this era, where humans transition their efforts and time to artificial intelligence, and then replace human work with artificial intelligence. Because artificial intelligence is more perfect than humans. Lime often finds this ridiculous, but she doesn't dare to give up her job, because Lime is afraid that if she gives up her job, she will abandon her body in a moment, just like those humans who don't know why.

Lime works five hours a day, and after work she goes to the "Old World" until night before going home to sleep.

The Old World Zone is a relatively complete human reservation area, and there are no robots on the streets, and humans will still work and live with labor.

"Labor is the last dignity of human beings," said the people of the Old World. They regard labor as the most important ritual in their lives and do everything personally.

Lime is not a resident of the Old World District, and her salary is not enough to live in the Old World District, all she can do is try to get a number plate and eat a bowl of ramen made by the master himself; Reserve a spot in the bookstore in advance to see paper books printed in pencil letters, or watch the rich people teasing cats through the garden fence.

Everything in the Old World is real, and truth is the most expensive in this era.

The shallots and beef ramen in the ramen shop cost 1,000 yuan a bowl, and the eel rice bowl costs 2,000 yuan a bowl, which is a little light compared to the machine and the price is more than 100 times. But I still try to eat lime more than a few times a month.

Watching the ramen chef pull a lump of noodles into thin strips and throw them into a steaming cauldron, sprinkle a handful of green onion and coriander in the noodle soup, there is always an indescribable feeling in my heart, even in the era of highly developed artificial intelligence, that feeling is difficult to find a cheap replacement, you must pay a high price to sit in the store, see the master work, like a religious ritual, when the mouth of noodles is eaten, there will be a special taste.

Sometimes Lime reminds herself that she lives to be able to eat a bowl of ramen pulled by man.

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