He starts his day with the crescendo of the wake-up system and the simulated morning light. This sleep gave him a headache. He slept so hard that he couldn't remember where he was. I can't even remember my name.

“ZM2046。 The breakfast program has been launched. Please wake up and get ready for your meal. Today's breakfast will be served with apple-flavored bread, eggs and milk. The nutritional values of the food have been optimized according to your physical condition to provide you with enough energy and maintain your health! A brand new workday awaits you! For a harmonious and beautiful world! With that, the alarm clock sounded louder and louder.

“ZM2046？” Hearing the number called out by the alarm clock after an alarm sounds, he suddenly remembered this number, which is the most common name that others call himself.

The alarm clock was ringing more and more, and finally forced him to sit up from the bed. Despite the headache, he staggered out of bed, staggered over to the alarm clock embedded in the wall, and dismissed the annoying alarm sound by answering a few math problems according to the abort alarm prompt that popped up on the alarm clock screen.

“ZM2046？” Although solving the math problem cleared his mind a lot, his headache did not fade with the sound of the bell, and he couldn't remember where the number ZM2046 came from.

The strange thing is that this feeling of confusion is not new to him. No, it should be said that it is quite familiar.

Half-asleep and half-awake, he began to look around the space he was in.

It was a sealed room with no windows visible. In the small room, all living equipment and facilities, including beds, lamps, tables, integrated automatic food cooking devices and bathrooms, are complete and reasonably furnished.

He felt very familiar with everything here, and it felt like a ZM2046 number. However, he was not quite sure what all this had to do with him.

At this moment, he fainted in a strong convulsion.

Before his consciousness was completely gone, he faintly heard someone say, "Too many amnestics." Heavy load. Reboot. ”

"Nope. His cranial nerves were damaged and he was already a waste. A cleaning robot should be used to pull him to the organic waste recycling center to decompose. ”

"Hmm. Okay, too. There happen to be high-level customers who dislike synthetic organs and want to transplant living organisms. ”

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"Nope! No! Zhong Ming woke up to the sound of his own screams. When he had sat up and gasped for breath to calm his mind, the alarm clock embedded in the wall at the other end of the room rang.

As he gets out of bed, turns off the alarm clock and starts to wash up, the automatic cooker has already started making breakfast according to the preset weekly cycle menu. Three meals a day that are not the same for a week is the standard treatment for beginners.

If you can find a few favorite foods, you can also set a daily cycle on the automatic food cooker, or a la carte menu for each meal. However, it is almost impossible for beginner professionals to enjoy certain foods. Because their food supply is as rudimentary as their identity, these foods that are directly synthesized from edible chemicals can replenish the various nutrients needed by the human body to maintain the normal energy expenditure of human activities, and then, there is no more.

However, this morning when he woke up in a nightmare was destined to be different from the many reincarnations Zhong Ming had experienced. The moment he looked in the mirror at the sink, Zhong Ming was surprised to find that there was an extra mark on his face that he had never seen before. A kiss mark left by a woman. This extraordinary mark made him vaguely recall the fragmentary memories that should have been cleared by the sleeping agent injected before bedtime.

Zhong Ming suddenly became nervous, for fear that his strange expression or brain waves would be captured by the ubiquitous sensor monitor. In that case, he may need to undergo a non-invasive surgery to erase his memories deeply, or he may be eliminated outright, as in the case of his nightmare. And all this depends on the mood of the regulator.

said it was late, it was fast, Zhong Ming quickly grabbed the towel on the drying pole on the side and covered his face. While pretending to wash his face, he couldn't help but want to recall the source of the anomalous mark. However, the fear that quickly swept over him forced him to stop continuing this dangerous climb in the memory zone.

After taking a deep breath, Zhong Ming slammed the towel that covered his expression against the mark that shouldn't be there, squeezing and rubbing the dangerous mark harder and faster than the other, trying to wipe it away completely.

He did it. It was just an ordinary lip print, and it couldn't withstand a few hard rubbings. Seeing that his face had returned to its original appearance, Zhong Ming smiled at himself in the mirror with some joy. The feeling of snickering was so real, and it made him feel so disgusting.

In the world of harmony, it is not that a junior professional like Zhong Ming cannot have an S relationship with others, but he has no right to marry and cannot have children. And love is almost impossible, because all their non-work-related memories will be erased every night when they fall asleep. However, this can be changed by advancing to the ranks or becoming unemployed.

Having memories that you shouldn't have is a taboo for beginners, or all professionals. As a result, many professionals have evaporated from this world and disappeared inexplicably. What made Zhong Ming nervous was this kind of memory that he shouldn't have, although the memory that remained in his mind was actually so blurry that he couldn't read it at all.

After eliminating the lip prints on his face, the conflicted Zhong Ming quickly eliminated the synthetic milk and apple-flavored synthetic bread that had been served to the table by the automatic food cooker. For him, who has never seen real milk or apples in his memory, this process is like a machine executing a line of code that needs to be executed, without any emotional involvement.

Sometimes, Zhong Ming prefers to skip this process and go straight to the nutrient injection. However, nutrients are not available every day, and there are strict quotas for going out of the factory where he works. It is explained that the restriction of the use of nutrients is to prevent problems with human organs due to prolonged use. Restricting leaving the factory is a matter of course for junior professionals and does not need to be explained.

After breakfast, Zhong Ming unhurriedly left the windowless factory dormitory where all the walls and ceilings were playing simulated early morning images, and stepped into his own self-adjusting scooter in the passage to the factory workshop.

In fact, the distance from the factory dormitory to the workshop is very close. Sometimes, Zhong Ming will also choose to walk side by side with the scooter to go to work.

The reason for this strange scene is that it is not allowed to use a scooter at all.

Since every aspect of the factory operation process has been strictly scientifically set, in order to maintain the continuous and efficient operation of the factory, there are strict regulations on the time for each junior professional to enter and exit the workshop, and junior professionals are not allowed to stay at will in the various passages connecting the production area and the living area of the factory. Relying on the command of the control center, the scooter that adjusts the speed and direction in real time is an important tool to maintain order.

However, for Zhong Ming, the biggest advantage of sitting on the scooter is that he can concentrate on his thoughts. Factory tunnels are the weakest places to regulate. Regulators are also not usually interested in the driving record of a scooter with a set route unless its route has been modified in violation of the law.

So, Zhong Ming, who was standing on the scooter, concentrated on restarting the memory that he could not complete in the bathroom. He saw fluttering hair and striking red lips, but he still couldn't see her face before the scooter reached the door of the workshop.

At the same time that Zhong Ming arrived at the door of the workshop, in the open door of the workshop, a worker who was also a junior professional walked out.

"For a harmonious and beautiful world!" They uttered in unison the only greeting they had repeated for an unknown number of times. This is also the only thing they have said since they knew each other for an unknown number of days.

This kind of thing is extremely normal for beginner professionals in the world of harmony. Each entry-level professional is engaged in a similar job of maintaining order in the production of robot factories. In order to cater to the 24-hour non-stop operation of the factory, junior professionals work in shifts according to the configuration of three shifts per day, one person per shift. In addition, when each junior professional is on duty, there are two intelligent robots that supervise production and undertake most of the actual maintenance work to maintain the uninterrupted operation of the factory floor.

As soon as Zhong Ming entered the workshop monitoring room, the two robot colleagues sent to him according to the exact same rhythm, "For a harmonious and beautiful world!" ZM2046。 Regards. Never forgetting to call out the other person's job number, not their name, is the most basic characteristic of a robot greeting.

Zhong Ming also dealt with it: "For a harmonious and beautiful world!" He rode on the electric bicycle in front of the screen of the central control system, ready to start the day's morning exercise while browsing the operation status of the workshop through the central control system as usual.

Such morning workouts are rewarded with life points, and at the same time, they can also provide a negligible energy supply to the robot colleague's battery lunch. The so-called life points are equivalent to the digital currency used by prehistoric humans in the American world, the difference is that without currency, as long as there is food and drink, people can continue to live; And without life points, people will never live one second longer.

This point system was implanted in the body of everyone in the world of harmony when they were born, and it was not only a monetary payment system, but also a guarantee and a curse for life. It is impossible to remove this system, once implanted, it will enter every cell of the body like a virus, adhere to the chromosomes of the cell, and any attempt to remove this system is the most effective suicide.

Zhong Ming was particularly lucky on this day, as soon as he stepped on the treadmill, a prompt appeared on the screen that two industrial robots on the assembly line were on strike. It was the first time since Zhong Ming became a junior professional that he had encountered such a situation. Since the level of failure is not high, Zhong Ming can continue to run, and only two robot colleagues can go to solve the problem.

Don't worry about being spied on by the sensitive intelligent robot, Zhong Ming has another chance to drill into the black hole of vague memory, and try again to make the blurry face with beautiful red lips clear.

However, Zhong Ming himself knows that the chances of such an attempt succeeding are slim to none. The reason why the memories that should not be in his mind were not cleared by the sleeping agent was only because of the error in the calculation of the body's increasing resistance to the drug dosing system, which led to a very small probability event.

In the end, Zhong Ming gave up this senseless attempt in the headache that made him dizzy.

One thing is certain, however. Due to the amnestic range set by the sleeping agent, it was only a memory of Zhong Ming leaving the factory and returning to the factory. The vague memories that survived and were revisited in the factory will not be erased again.

Due to his focus on memory mining, Zhong Ming inadvertently broke through the reward standard of the treadmill and obtained an unexpected permission to go out. This unexpected gift, so excited that Zhong Ming almost didn't shout out the sentence that was beating wildly in his heart: "This time, I must find her!" ”

However, before enjoying the benefits of this outing, Zhong Ming still has to finish a day's work. Ensure that this factory, within 8 hours of his shift, will not affect the operation of the factory.

The bell ringing in an uneven mood makes it difficult to continue to sit in front of the central control system. I simply picked up the tablet computer equipped with the mobile control terminal of the central control system, stepped on the scooter, started the factory inspection mode on the scooter, and entered the production workshop.

Zhong Ming's factory is a standard robot recycling factory in the world of harmony. All the raw materials in this factory are obsolete robots.

Scrapped robots that have been dismantled like corpses with core components will be cleaned and dismantled in the recycling workshop, and then recycled into new raw materials to start their new life cycle.

The new raw materials will be reborn into a new service robot after being tempered and carved by hundreds of industrial shaping, assembling and spraying robots in the molding, assembly and post-processing workshops.

During the entire rebirth process of the robot, most of the components originate from the disassembled robot itself. Except, their souls.

Yes, every robot has a soul, and that is their core components and running programs. The soul of each robot originates from the mysterious "Harmony World Civilization Creation Center". The life points of the citizens of the world are also managed by this center.

"Could the Creation Center be just a more advanced regenerative resource assembly plant?" Zhong Ming, who was wandering through the workshops with his heart in mind to hide his chaotic thoughts, suddenly had an idea that scared him.

On this planet, the "Center for the Creation of Civilization in the Harmony World" is an absolutely sacred place, and even the most high-ranking professionals are not allowed to enter it without permission. There, inhabited is the "God of Creation". In the history of Wameixing, it was the "God of Creation" who re-gave life to this planet and created a true civilization for human beings who almost destroyed the planet.

As the creator of civilization, the "Creation God" not only has supreme power and infinite life, but also governs the existence and death of every life on this planet, including all "professional people" and "unemployed people". Anyone who questions or offends the "creator god" will be condemned by heaven and will disappear from the planet, with no chance to be born again.

"But won't all people eventually disappear from this planet? Who has ever been born again? Or is the whole world just a giant robot factory? The so-called rebirth, just like the regenerative robot, has no connection with its previous life except for some inheritance of chemical components. Zhong Ming's mind became more and more terrifying to himself. He could only walk at a faster pace, as if he could shake off the thoughts that weren't supposed to be there that were flying around his brain.

What bothered him even more was that such thoughts didn't seem to be the first time they had come to his mind. However, some of the more important and frightening messages he could not remember. The lack of key information suffocated him. There is no doubt that those memories have been erased. For a beginner professional, all memories acquired outside the factory will be erased, either with a mild sleeping agent or in a psychiatric rehabilitation center. In Zhong Ming's memory, no one who had entered the spiritual healing center was able to reappear in his field of vision.

"Perhaps, they went to a better place, right? Or advanced? For similar, unknowable questions, Zhong Ming has long been accustomed to using similar rhetorical questions with positive energy tendencies to comfort himself. This is the best way and the only way. Although, Zhong Ming is very clear, the most intuitive answer is simply "they disappeared".

In the past, when Zhong Ming encountered a similar situation of restlessness and imagination, he would always open the "Harmony World Professional Advanced System" and divert his attention by reading professional literature and answering questions.

This is undoubtedly the best option and the main way for beginners working in factories to advance. If you are lucky enough to solve the "major problems" in the system question bank, you can also be directly promoted to the highest level of professionalism.

As the highest-level professional, he can not only freely enter and exit factories, companies, and various administrative institutions, but also become the leader of enterprises and cities; You can also have the best low-end single-family villas, luxury homes, and complete families. With one person, he can earn life points that the whole family will never use. The next generation can also directly become a mid-level or even high-level professional who does not need to be erased at any time, and does not have to worry about running out of life points like the unemployed; Even if the offspring are unlucky enough to become unemployed, they will be able to enjoy the right to earn life points without working hard until they use up the life points they inherited from their parents.

This kind of thing undoubtedly has a huge attraction for a beginner professional like Zhong Ming. Although, even if he was able to advance, he would not be able to retrieve the memories he had before he became a beginner professional, but at least he could avoid the trouble of intermittent amnesia.

However, this time, the only thing Zhong Ming wanted to do was to leave the factory and find the owner of the lip print. This intense desire completely overwhelmed his rationality, so that he didn't even think about opening the "Harmony World Professional Advancement System".

When the moment finally came to get off work, Zhong Ming ran to the access control identification area at the exit of the factory at a speed exceeding the normal speed limit of the factory scooter.

After less than a second of biometric identification, the access control system reads out a lengthy prompt message in an electronic voice: "Employee ZM2046, your permission to go out is valid." After you leave the SR2030 Service Robot Manufacturing Facility, your Life Points will remain stable until midnight tomorrow morning. Beyond zero, your life points will be deducted at the same rate as the time change. Being late for work will affect your Life Points salary. If you do not return to the facility before the end of your next shift, you will lose your permit to enter the facility. Your citizenship will automatically change from 'junior professional' to unemployed. Re-application to become a 'junior professional' can be done at the Citizenship Management Centre. Please use voice confirmation again. ”

"Employee ZM2046, confirm the use of the permission to go out." This sentence has been repeated in his mouth many times, and every time he pronounces it, it can make Zhong Ming excited, especially this time.

At the moment when the factory gate opened, Zhong Ming hesitated in complex emotions.

Seeing the world outside the door, Zhong Ming always feels like a prisoner who has been in prison for several years has regained his freedom. The world outside the door always made him feel new and familiar, happy, but also a little at a loss.

Because, in Zhong Ming's memory, he will always remember this moment, but he will always forget the next moment after that.