After the meeting, Qiao Lu returned to his home, temporarily ending the busy day.

"Welcome back."

At the door of the villa, 2B greeted him back in full clothes.

Since learning to cook with Luke's aunt on the planet Tatooine, 2B's job is gradually no longer limited to protecting Jolu's personal safety, and has begun to take care of daily life, becoming more and more like living together.

It's a pity that Qiao Lu has to be busy until late every day to come back, and spending the night in other places is even more commonplace, so he really doesn't have much leisure time to enjoy it all.

After coming back, Qiao Lu took a break and said to 2B as if he remembered something:

"By the way, 2B, can you help with a picture?"

"Drawing?"

2B obviously didn't expect Qiao Lu to suddenly make such a request, and asked at a loss, "What to draw?" ”

"Anything, you name it."

Despite her confusion, 2B would hardly refuse any of Qiao Lu's requests, and after a slight hesitation, she took out a pencil and paper from the drawer and drew silently.

Her pen was as precise and swift as a printer, and her long, white and slender fingers did not pause for a moment, as if they were gently stirring the strings, and it was completed in less than half a minute.

It's just that after it was done, 2B hesitated a little more, and seemed to be a little embarrassed.

"Well, how's that?"

Qiao Lu curiously leaned over to look at it, and found that the 2B painting was like himself, as if the photo was washed out, without even a slight difference.

"I'm sorry, I didn't ······ unconsciously"

2B quickly hid the painting, not wanting Qiao Lu to see it again.

"It's okay, that's what I asked for."

In addition to painting himself, Qiao Lu probably expected this to be the result.

"But I'd rather see a different kind of painting, not just a picture of something. Imagine something that doesn't exist, something you've never seen before. 2B, you have to try to draw something that doesn't exist in reality. ”

This is what Qiao Lu wants 2B to try, and after listening to Zhang Bin's analysis of machine civilization, he thought of knowing whether 2B, as a member of the Jiye Army, has such a thing as imagination.

It's the first time 2B has encountered such a strange request, in the past, no one in the Leaf Sending Force would ask her to use her imagination, and even her emotions had to be hidden.

She picked up the pencil again, and it was very different from the feeling she had felt like a god when she had written it before, and this time she hesitated for a long time, not knowing what to do.

Her powerful performance allows her to draw anything in her memory, but Qiao Lu's request is something that does not exist in reality, and memory is meaningless.

Seeing that she was so annoyed, Qiao Lu further mentioned: "If you find it difficult, you can try to close your eyes and concentrate on thinking, maybe you can feel something." ”

According to Qiao Lu, 2B gently closed his eyes, his eyelashes fluttering slightly, as if thinking about something.

Qiao Lu didn't bother her anymore, just to see what 2B could draw.

Finally, after a long silence, the pencil in 2B's hand moved again, neatly outlining lines on the paper, as if everything was already in his mind.

When the painting was finally completed, Qiao Lu found that the person in it was still himself, but he looked much older, and he had become an old man with a wrinkled face.

At the same time, 2B also painted herself in the back, but her appearance still did not change at all, in stark contrast to Qiao Lu's aging.

"Are you and me years later?"

Qiao Lu immediately grasped the meaning of the painting 2B, which indeed met his requirements, at least the reality has not yet happened.

For some reason, 2B looked a little lost, and she probably didn't expect to draw such a scene.

"Anyway, you're qualified. This painting proves once again that you are not mere machines, but flesh and soul beings. ”

Although flesh and blood are made in imitation of human beings, the imaginative soul is undoubtedly out of the realm of machines.

Just when Qiao Lu wanted to have a good discussion with 2B, Zhang Bin sent an emergency call, it seemed that something had happened on the mother's side, and he needed to rush over to deal with it immediately.

Qiao Lu had no choice but to stop the topic and immediately set off for the Central Academy of Sciences.

For him, it is not uncommon for him to have any emergencies that need to be dealt with.

Qiao Lu hurried to the Central Academy of Sciences, it was already the third watch in the middle of the night, but it was still brightly lit here, and a group of experts, including Zhang Bin, were still studying the code in the matrix, so of course it was important to call him over.

Zhang Bin said to him: "The mobile phone you left before is trying to contact us, and this is the third call. ”

"Morpheus?"

Jolu immediately realized that this was Zion's attempt to contact the Wandering Earth, and he only left the phone with Morpheus, essentially connecting with the Zion Resistance.

It's just that Qiao Lu also warned Morpheus not to take the initiative to try to contact him. Using this mobile phone to talk in the mother's body will immediately attract the pursuit of agents, and Qiao Lu has personal experience of this.

"Did you reply?"

Zhang Bin replied: "No, the moment the call is established, it will attract the attention of the mother, and we will not make such a mistake again." ”

Although Qiao Lu wanted to contact Zion, in this case, if Morpheus revealed his location and was caught by the agents, it would be in vain.

The other party obviously underestimated the seriousness of Qiao Lu's warning, thinking that there would not be too much of a problem, if he was approached by an agent, maybe he thought it was a trap deliberately set by Qiao Lu.

"Well, is there a way to send a message over without drawing the mother's attention?" Qiao Lu asked.

According to Qiao Lu's understanding, Morpheus probably wouldn't have done such an unwise act, it may be that other people in Zion want to test the truth of what Qiao Lu said.

In this case, it is still necessary to explain to them why they can't contact them directly.

Zhang Bin hesitated for a moment and replied: "Yes, but you can't make a call, you can only send text messages, and you can only contact us unilaterally, and the amount of data must be strictly limited, and it can't exceed 14 bytes at most in an hour." ”

"That's seven words, right?"

This is really troublesome, I can't say anything clearly in 7 words, and I'm afraid it's difficult for the other party to understand what's going on.

"Then send a sentence first - don't answer !!"

In order to avoid being noticed by the parent body when the other party replies to the text message, this message is definitely the most important.

"Then find a place in the matrix, compress the address to 14 bytes, and send it an hour later. We'll meet at that place tomorrow, and they'll probably understand what we mean. ”

If you can't use your mobile phone to talk, you can only meet in the mother's body, of course, Qiao Lu has to go over in person for a while!