"I know, I understand, but I just want to hear you say with my own ears to rest assured, I've been thinking about your words for the past two nights, it's all you, causing people to stay up all night, in fact, you are very handsome, I like it very much..."

Vito heard her praise herself, her heart was like eating honey, sweet, in fact, Vito had never carefully observed his appearance, looking at himself from his own point of view, he felt that he was very ordinary, after all, there were a thousand people who were exactly the same as himself at the same time out of the brood, from the perspective of quantity, he was indeed very ordinary, but what he didn't know was that his prototype basic motif was one of the most well-known film and television actors in Asia more than a hundred years ago, and he was an idol figure who swept the world.

Being favored by a woman is a very proud thing in itself, not to mention that this woman is still the object of his love in his ignorant emotional world, which makes him feel even more fortunate.

"Ellie, please allow me to call you that, if you are willing to agree, in the future, when we are alone, please call me Vito, I will call you Ellie, this is what we call each other, okay?"

When he saw Ellie nodding slightly, Vito's emotions were released.

"Ellie, I like you, you are so charming, I have dreamed of you in my dreams, I want to talk to you, I want to hold your hand, and stay quietly with you."

Ellie's face flushed, she was deeply moved by Vito's slightly jerky love words, she felt embarrassed like a girl who was just starting to fall in love, but wasn't this exactly what she was expecting! She bravely put down her reserve and asked him about her doubts, didn't she just want to get such an expected answer!

"Vito, thank you for saying that, I'm really happy, in fact, that's what I want." Ellie was overjoyed by Vito's blunt words, which was exactly what she had hoped to see.

"But even though we're in the same office every day, and there are so many eyes and machines around us, it's impossible for us to talk to each other like that, so I thought... I think there will only be time in the evening, and if I can, I would like to see you in the evening, and we can find a secluded place to spend alone together for a while. Elle quietly and naturally expressed her inner desire.

"Of course, of course." Vito burst out without thinking, but as soon as he finished speaking, he hesitated again when he remembered the annoying noise on the train and the rules of the community management system.

The Code of Conduct for Citizens of the Republic stipulates that when synthetic organisms in the same community visit each other, they must explain the reason to the cultural administrator of the other community, and the time of entering and leaving the community must be strictly controlled, and if the reason is not sufficient, the application will be rejected by the cultural administrator; However, it is forbidden for synthetic organisms to visit each other at night, and the time to choose to apply can only be during the day; Synthetic organisms from different communities visit each other, and the application process is more complicated, which requires the approval of the community cultural administrator, and then goes to the cultural administrator of the unit building to explain the reason. Although the rules for natural persons are not as strict as those for synthetic persons, there are still certain constraints, and the Code prohibits natural persons from visiting the homes of female synthetic persons at will. All those who violate the terms of the Code will be punished with hard labor or purge.

So whether Ellie comes to Vito's house or Vito goes to Ellie's house, it is a very troublesome thing, but Ellie offered to find a remote place to meet, which is a qualitative leap in the relationship between them, which is what Vito has been looking forward to, not to mention that the other party is still a woman.

Just when Vito hesitated, Ellie spoke again: "I also heard the notice just now, I know that time will be very short, but let's stay for a while, you return within the specified time, and it will be fine, okay?" ”

"All right, Ellie, my heart's desire is only more urgent than yours, my heart is already impatient, but where shall we choose to meet? Every street, every corner, is full of machine eyes, and there are SWAT officers on duty, they are riding airships, wandering non-stop, the whole city is under their control, their tentacles can reach any corner, can we find that place? Vito's expression was very frustrated.

"Yes, I have it over there, just around the corner at the end of Street 11, there's a building ready to be demolished, it's easy to find, and when I went back yesterday, I saw that the building's electrical system was out of service, probably demolished, and the machines around it were out of action, and I thought we could stay there for a while."

The frustration on Vito's face was suddenly swept away, and he said in surprise, "Really? It's just wonderful. ”

Elle smiled and nodded: "Vito, let's separate for the time being, at 19 o'clock, I will wait for you on the first floor of the building, you must come." ”

Ellie stretched out her delicate softness and shook Vito's hand, as if to give him strength and determination.

"I will, I will, I have to hurry home now, my hurry!" Vito smiled mischievously, which eased Ellie's nervous expression.

"Go, it's time for me to go back, I've got to hurry." With that, Elle let go of Vito's grip and walked away with brisk and hurried steps.

Vito waited for a while, watching Elle walk away, he came out of the corner, looked at the service station, there were not many people inside, Vito walked into the service station, received a bottle of vegetable oil and a few bags of instant noodles, he decided to eat instant noodles to save time, turned around and left the service station, and walked towards his neighborhood.

He buried his head in a moment, thinking about what he was going to do, how long it would take to cook and eat, how long it would take to get from home to 11th Street, how long it would take to come back, and how long it would take for him and Ellie. He estimated the time it would take, thinking about what would happen between him and Ellie, but whatever it would be was very exciting.

When he raised his head, he suddenly saw a white object in the green belt on the side of the road, a white object was shaking slightly, and when he took a few steps closer, he was surprised to find that it was a piece of paper, sandwiched between two low landscape trees, gently swaying with the evening breeze.

The paper was very white, unlike the books he read yesterday, the paper inside was yellowed, and in their daily life, it was already difficult to see a white paper, as if the paper had lost its own function, and was almost completely replaced by computers and the Internet.

It is strange for a piece of paper to appear next to the clean and tidy street, and it seems that it has escaped the eyes of the cleaners, who are too negligent in their work.

Vito raised his head, and on a concrete pillar on the left side of the street, a machine hung high, its big dark eyes scanning the street vigilantly, and nothing could hide from its shroud and the eyes behind it.

Vito deflected his steps to the left, and slowly walked to the two dwarf landscape trees, suddenly, his hand was loosened, and the bottle containing vegetable oil slipped to the ground, Vito quickly bent down, looked very embarrassed, picked up the oil bottle, turned his back, blocked the big black eyes, picked up the piece of paper, crumpled it, and held it in the palm of his hand.

When Vito closed the door with a worried heart, he let out a long breath, and his panicked heart gradually began to calm down, and he put down what he was holding and walked into the bathroom.

I opened the crumpled paper, which was damp with damp marks, the result of the sweat stains that had penetrated from my nervous hands.

Unfolded and smoothed, as Vito imagined, there were words on the paper, like a letter or a poem.

To the citizens of the Greater Alliance for Freedom and Peace\Open your blinded eyes\See clearly this world of lies and sin\The gloom hangs over our heads at all times\Distorted thoughts imprison our hearts\Violence binds our wings of freedom\Mighty hides in dark corners and peeps into our lives\Wake up, enslaved citizens\We have been fooled by lies for too long\The world needs the brightest lightning bolt to pierce the lifeless sky\Resist, oppressed souls\ Your eyes need to be washed with blood to see again \ Let us spread fire all over the place, and one day, it will burn all over the prairie ....

At the end of the poem, the inscription is the voice of freedom shouting.

"Voices of Freedom, Voices of Freedom." Vito muttered, and he suddenly remembered the topic that his colleagues had been talking about in the office this morning.

Yes, it's a flyer, a flyer that the chief called the thugs last night, and the street cleaners swept away.

Lies, sin, power, violence, oppression, and defiance, these words are rolling in Vito's mind at this moment.

Is this true? Is it really as it says, that it is surrounded by these things? Is the world really so scary? Vito was confused, he now didn't know what was real and what was fake. David. Hume told him that human nature is free. But he found that the freedom he now has is incompatible with, or even contrary to, the freedom described in "A Treatise on Human Nature" and other books.

Am I free? Vito couldn't help but ask himself: I am free, because my body is free, but my heart is not free, who limits my freedom? Machines, cultural administrators, mounted police, Wharton, chiefs, laws, it is they who bind me, I am not free....

"Di Di Di", there was a rapid prompt sound from the photoelectric watch, yah! I can't afford to delay any longer, I need to get going.

He hid the leaflet, then brewed a bowl of instant noodles with water, ate some casually, and decided to leave, and when his feet were about to step out of the threshold, he suddenly stopped, he went back to the bedroom, pulled out the book from behind him, hid it under the bed, and then left the house.