Coming out of Zhong's studio, everyone was full of question marks, and after a brief discussion, it was decided that they should all go back to the restaurant as a base camp for the time being. When I passed by the infirmary, I went in and found a medicine to inject the mud man with an injection, and the mud man was already sleepy and couldn't open his eyes. There were two sleeping women in the infirmary, one a doctor and one a nurse. Both men were curled up in their chairs and fell asleep, as if they were working.

"Hey, she's a replicant too." Suddenly, Rose pointed to the nurse and said firmly.

"Rose, how can you be sure?"

"Ray, after I was injured, she and a few robots took care of me, I made an appointment with Dian to travel to the high road, although she didn't go, but she also needs to wait for me to go back to work together. There were only two humans working in the infirmary, and the rest were robots. ”

"Yes, the chances of modern people getting sick are very small, negligible. Except for the place where human organs are replaced, there is almost no place where doctors and nurses can be used. In the city where I work, there are no doctors and nurses at all, let alone an infirmary. The tree said.

"Uncle Mud, are you better, don't walk with your eyes closed, it's not a joke to roll the stairs." Jie and Meizi have always been by the side of the mud man.

"I'm so sleepy, I'm still sleepy after getting a needle." The mud man said sluggishly.

"Jie, try another medicine."

"Okay, Joan, there are four refreshing injections here, and you can only inject one more at most, otherwise there will be side effects."

"Yes, mud brother, if you don't sleep, don't get a needle." Joan asked, looking at the mud man who was about to fall asleep.

"If you don't sleep, what if you leave me when you fall asleep." The mud man said in an instant.

"Uncle mud, it's not good to have too many needles, you can bear with it. Otherwise, when you really sleep, we won't be able to take you away. ”

"Clean girl, I endure, I endure, none of you can carry me." The mud man muttered, but he also cheered up and followed everyone downstairs.

Descending another flight of stairs, Ray suddenly stopped, looked at the sleeping old man in the studio next to him and asked, "Rose, he still works here, I thought he should retire." ”

"Lei Lao, do you know him?"

"Zhong, there shouldn't be a few people here who don't know him, when I left the ring high, he and the mechanical assistant helped me go through the resignation and retirement procedures. He's a decade younger than me. ”

"Yes, he is the person in charge of this work here, and when I pretended to be sick and fled from the ring high school, he was the one who talked to me and revoked my doctor's qualification. He's been working in the ring until now. Joan followed.

"Ray, Joan, he also left his post and retired, but there is still his studio here, he belongs to the senior consultant level, and there are also robots to assist the successor human here, which is the young man in the studio next to him."

"Alas, there are so few human beings on the earth, and they are still young, and this successor can be eighty years old." Meizi sighed.

"Meizi, can you not look at people so thoroughly, just look at the surface."

"No way, who told me to do the job of replacing parts. It looks like he's young, but at least he's changed..."

"Stop, the occupational disease is committed again. Hurry downstairs, hungry again. ”

"It's time to be hungry, we probably missed bedtime. It's strange that you're not tired or hungry after climbing the stairs. ”

"Ray, isn't it a little strange, it's been almost a day, and I really don't feel how hungry or tired I am." Iron Leg took over and spoke.

"It's a treasure in the belly, and the two children have eaten a few times of instant food. A few of us are hungry, only a few of you are not hungry. ”

"Meizi, didn't you just say a word about you, you took revenge so quickly, women are really stingy." Iron Legs laughed.

"Hey, it occurred to me that you guys were all picking up stones from the other side of the woods?"

"Zhong, what do you mean, that kind of stone is still full?"

"Quite possibly, you see that the sleeping people here are holding a stone, and the mud man has carried the stone to make a mark, and a few of you have also picked up the stone. You don't love to be hungry, and mud people are luxuriant. It's all about stones. ”

"yes, stone? Hey, there are a lot of rocks on the road outside, let's experiment. Iron Leg said half-truthfully.

"Bad idea, if they are all asleep, who will wake up in this city, and who will wake up the sleeping people here. Maybe the earth is asleep? ”

"It's not a good idea, if all the cities are asleep, there will be no difference between the earth and death, it's a terrible thing to think about. Let's go, let's eat. ”

"Poor leg, you have such a big heart." Plum teased.

"Don't see women in general, stinky plums." The two of them joked and returned to the dining room, where the two sleeping chefs were still asleep soundly. After eating fast food and solid water, everyone began to sleep.

"Hey, why aren't you sleepy at all?"

"yes, I can't sleep, I'm tired and sleepy, Joan, are we all sick?" Everyone tossed and turned for a long time, and finally someone couldn't help but ask.

"Everyone is not sick, it's the stone here." Zhong stood up and said.

"yes, it's probably the stone. Zhong, Ray, it seems that we still can't stay in this building for long. It's wise to go out there. ”

"Rose, but there are stones out there, too?"

"Stupid, it's not an enclosed space outside, as long as we don't touch the stones."

"Everyone filled their backpacks with food and water, and we all went outside, and if we didn't need to rest, we walked around the city to see if the humans in the city were also sleeping." Zhong decisively decided.

"Okay, I agree, let's all go out and have a look, and then decide how to wake up the city and the people here."

"Rose, your words sound awkward, as if we don't belong to people." Denki said as he loaded his backpack with quick food.

"Just grasp the spirit."

Everyone left the building, only to find that it was late at night outside. The sky was overcast as if it was going to rain, and the lights on both sides of the highway were dim and unrefreshed. And the stones that I had seen during the day were scattered there shiningly, very striking and weird.

"A shining stone, a sleeping stone, a full stone, well, who can tell what color the stone is?"

"Blue, no, red."

"I see it orange from this angle."

"Stand here with me and look, it's still green."

"Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple are all complete, and the colors of the rainbow are complete."

"Well, Iron Legs, this time it's poor and reliable, it's really the color of the rainbow."

"How about a name for them, the Rainbow Stone?"

"It's not good, if it's a good thing for the earth, it's okay to call it a rainbow stone, if it's to destroy the earth, they don't deserve such a name."

"Don't argue about things that don't matter, it's just a code name. Let's call it the Rainbow Stone, if it's really the one who came to destroy the earth, it's going to change its name. Hey, mud brother, don't move the rocks, if you're asleep, we'll have to leave you here. ”

"Brother Lei, I resolutely don't sleep, it's just fun to look at the sparkling stones."

"Muddy grandpa, you're an old man, and you're still thinking about playing, it's really embarrassing." Zhong's son, Den's daughter, said together.

"Babies, Grandpa Mud doesn't dare to play when it's time to play, the beasts in the mountains don't give a chance, Grandpa Mud can't hide from them, how can you have time to play."

"Grandpa Mud, we don't understand what you're saying."

"You'll understand when you're older. Grandpa Mud doesn't play with stones anymore, and those stones are terrible. ”

"Zhong, I'm afraid it's going to rain like this, so we need to find a place to shelter from the rain."

"Yes, Rose, you live in this city, do you know where to stay in the rain?"

"There's no need to look for it at all, the most buildings in the city right now are. There is no manpower and energy to demolish it, and there is no place to decompose the old building materials, and wherever it is placed, it will pollute the environment. It can only be re-inhabited after reinforcement, the number of people is small, and there are too many idle places, so just find a place to live casually. ”

"Yes, now every city is the same, one person has one floor, dozens of people have a community, and thousands of people have a city. Huangaocheng is the largest city, with a population of less than 10,000. Okay, let's go to the south, there are all high-rise buildings, there are relatively more people, it's not far from where I live, let's go to my house tomorrow. ”

"Rose, won't there be a copy of you at home?"

"Electricity, if you don't make such a joke, it will be scary."

"If Rose has a replicant in her house, that's a serious problem. Hey, Zhong, you said that your home is in a town, then you come to work in the Huangao Bureau, and there will be your place to live, so go to your home and have a look. ”

"Welcome, the Environmental High Bureau has approved a place of residence for me and Jie, I haven't seen it yet, and the specific location still has to be found in my password instruction. I'm afraid there are two replicants in the family, me and Jie. ”

"Zhong, you also talk nonsense, how is this possible, according to this reasoning, is there a replicant in every room, where to find so many humans."

"What Jie said makes sense, all the people who work in the high-rise building stick to their posts, and the specific role is still unclear, whether there are people in the place where human beings live, this is not important. Also, it's still a matter of wonder where the robots in the building and the robots in the city have gone. Why is there no trace of a shadow at all? ”

As we walked along the southbound road, the glowing stones gradually decreased, and occasionally a few of them looked like old shiny floor lamps, reflecting the city lights on both sides of the road. Not far ahead, there is a dense complex of buildings where the lights are lit up and the rest of the place is dark.

"The one with the light is inhabited, and the dark one is the unused house, so let's go to that building, where there is only one place where the light is on."

"It's really one floor for one person."

There are also 20 high-rise buildings in this area, all of which are around 30 floors. The gate of the community is still flashing with the neon sign of the xx community. It is obviously a historical imprint left by the old days. Walking into this community, there is no shadow of a human being at all, there are many types of cars parked in an orderly manner downstairs, and the body is also covered with thick dust, although it cannot be compared with the dust of no man's land, it looks like it has been thick for several years.

"It's the same as the city I live in, I only see cars and can't see people."

"Isn't it true that all of us live in places that were overcrowded in the old days and pitiful in modern times. The earth is cold. ”