Chapter 13 Negotiation Requires Skill

Spooner touched his chin and returned to the topic: "You killed him because he was teaching you to simulate some emotions and then lose control?" ”

"I didn't kill him!" Sonny's voice replied with a slight undulation compared to the previous one.

Spooner stopped listening to Sonny and continued, "But emotions don't seem to be a useful simulation for robots. ”

"I didn't kill him!" This time, the ups and downs in Sonny's voice were even greater.

"I don't want my toaster or vacuum cleaner to be emotional......"

Boom!!!

"I didn't kill him!"

Sonny's fists slammed into the metal interrogation table, smashing the metal interrogation table into two pits, and the machine's face was full of anger, as if it were a real person.

"Spooner, I'll try it!" Li Qi, who was watching quietly on the side, said suddenly.

"Li Qi, do you want to ask?" Spooner heard Li Qi's words, glanced up at him, saw him nodded, and could only shrug his shoulders, he couldn't do anything about this murderer who refused to admit it, but he decided that it was Sonny who killed Dr. Lanny.

Seeing that Spooner agreed, Li Qi walked in front of Sonny, and suddenly stretched out his hand and said: "Hello, my name is Li Qi, I am an agent of the Chicago Police Department's Crime Unit, because I have to treat you like that before my work, I hope you can understand, then what should I call you, do you have a name, what is your name?" ”

"Hey, Li Qi, are you crazy, you don't need to be so polite to a murderer, just be honest with a gun on its head, and what name can a tin box have?" Seeing Li Qi's movements, Spooner exclaimed in surprise.

Li Qi didn't answer, smiled slightly, and still stretched out his hand towards Sonny.

Sonny looked up at Li Qi, with a hint of doubt in his blue eyes, looking at the hand stretched out in front of him, his face seemed to hesitate, slowly, it stretched out its silver mechanical hand and shook it with Li Qi, and said, "Hello, sir, my name is Sonny!"

Li Qi was slightly stunned, looking at Sonny's eyes as pure and immaculate as a newborn, Li Qi suddenly had an indescribable feeling, in fact, in a sense, Sonny should also be regarded as a newborn.

Taking a deep breath and calming down the sudden mood fluctuations, Li Qi shook the cold mechanical hand and said with a smile: "Hello, Sonny, the name is very good!" ”

"Thank you, my father picked it up for me." A smile spread across Sonny's face, giving his otherwise mechanical face a sudden splendor called life.

"Dr. Lenny is a great scientist, well, well, now I have some questions for you, and I hope you can answer me." Li Qi entered the main topic.

"Excuse me!" Sonny looked up at him.

"Sonny, I ask you, you just said you were frightened, so what or something were you frightened? Is it about Dr. Lanny's suicide? Li Qi asked.

"Yes, sir, but Dr. Lenny won't let me tell me about it." Sonny hesitated.

"Hey, tin box, you'd better answer the question honestly." Spooner on the side saw that Sonny seemed to be trying to hide something, and slapped the table and shouted.

Li Qi turned his head and shook his head at Spooner, signaling him not to intervene, and then turned back to Sonny and said, "Sonny, since you don't want to talk about this, then let me ask you another thing, did you break the safety glass in the research room for Dr. Lanny?" ”

"Yes!" Sonny nodded.

"You are violating the first of the three laws, you know?" Li Qi continued to ask.

"I know!" Sonny said honestly.

"So, as far as I know, you robots can't violate the three laws, tell me, why can you violate them?" Li Qi asked.

"Because, I'm unique." Sonny looked up at Li Qi and said with some pride.

"Hey! Tin box, tell me, why can you violate the three laws? Spooner on the side realized the seriousness of the problem and couldn't help but slap the table and ask Sonny loudly.

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At this time, the door of the detention room slid open, and Li Qi turned his head to look back and saw John standing at the door with Roberson and his lawyer.

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"My robots don't kill, Inspector Birkin! My lawyer has filed a report with the District Attorney, and he has explained to me that it is impossible for a robot to kill.

We affirm that murder is when one human kills another. Agent, you're trying to tell me that robots are treated the same as humans, are you? In John's office, Robertson looked at John with a look of pride.

"Taking a step back, even if the robot is related to Dr. Lanny's death, it's just a machine, it's the property of the USR, at most it can only be counted as an industrial accident, and as a treatment, the faulty machine will be returned to the USR for diagnosis and then destroyed."

After speaking, Robertson paused and snapped his fingers behind him, and the lawyer behind him immediately stepped forward and handed a few pages to John, Robertson said again: "This is a "gag order" issued by the court, anyone who hints that the robot has the possibility of killing people will be arrested for sedition and will be dealt with according to the law. ”

Robertson looked at Li Qi and Spooner as he spoke, and the meaning of the warning was very obvious.

"John, no, can't let him take this robot." Spooner glared at Robertson, who had a proud look on his face, and walked up to John and whispered.

"We don't have any evidence." John didn't really want to go against a behemoth like USR in his heart.

"This is political intimidation, John, call the mayor." Seeing John's appearance, Spooner whispered anxiously.

As soon as Spooner's words fell, Robertson's somewhat smug voice came from behind: "Inspector Birkin, it's Your Excellency the Mayor!" ”

It has been said that the dirtiest thing in this world is politics.

Sonny was eventually taken away by the USR men, and according to Robertson, it would be brought back to the USR for diagnosis and then destroyed.

After work in the evening, Spooner and Li Qi go to a bar for a drink and discuss Sonny's robot for a while.

"There are two sides to everything, Snap, judging a thing or a person can't be too subjective with their own emotions, which will affect the outcome of your final judgment.

And this robot that calls himself Sunny can be seen to be different from other robots, so you can't treat other robots the same, these are up to you to judge. ”

Li Qi explains to Snap why he did that to Sonny, a robot that Snapper thought had no feelings.

Snap, on the other hand, didn't understand it yet, and it would take a while for him to understand it, especially about the robots he hated.