Chapter 34: Searching for the Illusory in the Real World
"Do you feel okay as a robot?" Lin π felt as if he had woken up in a box, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he heard Dina's question.
Lin π looked around and found himself in a warm and pink girl's room, and he went out the window to look out, this large, well-lit room was in the corner of a fairytale castle, gorgeous and huge, and a few well-dressed servants walked by on the grass from time to time.
Lin π Ke was secretly surprised - Dina had previously said that she was poor in the real world, how could she live in such a luxurious place?
Dina seemed to see Lin π's thoughts, and she smiled embarrassedly and said, "The decoration in the house and the scenery outside the house are holographic, and there is also a 360-degree X 360-degree all-angle terrain converter under your feet." Actually, I live in a public rental house, which is only 64 cubic meters. ”
Lin π remembered that he did mention these things in a book about urban construction, but he didn't expect the full-angle terrain converter to feel so real. He looked down and saw that the floor was the color and texture of wood, and he couldn't see any other mystery at all. Curiously, he walked up the stairs that led to the attic in the corner of the room, and it was normal to step on the stairs.
Dina hurriedly stopped him: "Don't go to the attic, my body sleeps there!" ”
"I said how do you look like in the game!" Lin π Ke reacted at this time: "It turns out that you can also wear equipment in the real world. ”
"It's not equipment!" Dina said: "It's a machine body, before introducing you into Mo Dong's body, I was afraid that you wouldn't be able to get used to my original appearance when you woke up, so I bought it on purpose." ”
Lin π Ke took a few more steps up the stairs, Dina was so anxious that she hugged him tightly, and said coquettishly: "Please, don't look at it, our bodies here are only used to renew residence permits, in order to save energy, it doesn't look good, you just need to remember what I look like in the game." ”
Lin π Ke saw that Dina was very cute, and gently flicked her head and said, "Don't worry, am I the kind of person who only looks at faces?" ”
"You're that kind of person!" Dina kept nodding: "You don't like Haoyue because she is not good-looking, and you don't need to dress up well." ”
"What nonsense do you say you like or dislike?" Lin π compromise and said: "Okay, I won't look at you anymore, I can always look in the mirror and see what I look like now, right?" ”
Dina led Lin π into a ring of mirrors, and the strange thing is that the curved mirror does not distort the image in the mirror, but can reflect any side, allowing people to observe themselves without dead ends.
Lin π laughed as soon as he saw his current robot body.
In the mirror, he had a huge head and a short body, with round limbs, a snow-white fat body still wearing a blue jumpsuit with fat out, and a small plush round tail peeking out of his back.
He looked at the funny cartoon face in the mirror and couldn't help but smile and ask Dina, "Why did you choose such a funny appearance for your robot?" ”
Dina said a little lonely, "The free appearance is stupid, so that the elite can laugh at us......"
Lin π first noticed that Dina also had a less heartless moment, and he followed her topic and asked, "Then how do you all make money in the real world?" When I read the book, I found that the number of jobs has become very few. ”
"Yes, except for scientists and artists, robots do all the work," Dina said...... Although people can also do robot work, most people are willing to receive basic living allowances, live in the game forever, and forget their real social status. ”
Lin π Ke had read a general idea in the book before, but when he heard the description of a close person, the shock was doubled, and he asked cautiously: "The book says that people nowadays are all bred in the laboratory, so there is no parental funding, right?" ”
Dina said: "That's right, our generation is the last generation of biological people cultivated by humans, and since then, humans have invented the technology of physical immortality, coupled with brain data storage, there is no need to cultivate species from the biological level." ”
Lin π asked, "Then how old are you?" ”
Dina smiled shyly: "5 million years old." ”
Although he was prepared, Lin π Ke was still shocked, but in order not to hurt Dina, he still tried to joke: "This age is the youngest among biological people!" ”
Dina said confidently: "Of course, I am actually younger than you, although you think you are only 17 years old, but there are even functions written 6 million years ago in the code that make up your code...... So, I should call you brother......"
Lin π frowned and pretended to think: "There's nothing wrong!" You are all genetically modified people now, and there must be no ancestral DNA left over from ancient times in your genes! ”
Dina slapped him lightly on the head and urged him, "Don't waste time at home, let's go out for a visit, shall we?" ”
Lin π Ke twisted his fat mechanical body and walked outside with Dina.
As in the book, there are no criss-crossing streets, no neon lights, just square and round houses arranged in beehives.
"Don't look at it!" Dina said: "Except for the different colors and patterns, the shapes are all the same. ”
Lin π turned to look ahead, and there was a white star hanging in the fiery red sky, which was probably Dina's sun.
The sun shone on Lin π Ke's body, without any temperature, Lin π remembered that he had browsed the real-world robot design books before, which said that in addition to the special requirements of customers, ordinary robots are designed to be Iron Man without touch and pain, so as to protect the owner in special situations.
Dina pointed to a few flying machines parked in a large open space at the entrance of the gathering area and said, "That's a rental plane, I'll take you on a tour of the planet." ”
Lin π Ke came to the spirit: "This is the end star?" ”
Dina sneered, "Where can I afford to live in such an expensive place?" I only have a backup on the finish star, and your mother Eliza lives on the finish star. My star is closer to the center of the universe and is called the Dangdian Star. ”
Lin π Ke smiled: "You people here are really self-deprecating. ”
Dina opened a rental machine and got into it with Lin π. The space in the rental machine was cramped, and Lin π and Dina were almost close to each other.
"You're going to be there!" "That's how cheap taxis are crowded," Dina said. ”
Lin π Ke hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay, my father's car is also very small." ”
Speaking of his father, Lin π ke's mood suddenly fell - his father was also killed in the epicenter, and his mother said that he had been taken out, so does he have a legal identity now, or is he hiding in his mother's house as a black robot? Dad is an unknown person in the game, and even Lin π Ke himself only remembered him when he mentioned it casually.
"Can I go see Mom and Dad?" Lin π Ke suddenly spoke to Dina.
Dina pushed back and said: "You better not go, your mother has played a lot of games, and there should be a lot of sons exported, you only have her mother, just enjoy the mother's love occasionally in the game, why bother to see yourself as a tenth of hers?" ”
"But dad only has one son!" Lin π Ke said unwillingly: "He still wants to see me, right?" ”
Dina fiddled with the arrow keys in the taxi plane, flying through the air like a roller coaster, and after a few minutes, she lowered her head and replied to Lin π: "I don't have the money to fly that far, let's shake the stars and shake it...... I'll take you to see where our elite live here. ”
Lin π Ke hesitated for a while and then asked, "You don't usually work, do you?" ”
Dina smiled wryly and said, "Job opportunities don't mean they exist. ”
Lin π said worriedly: "How can we live well in this world? ”
Dina spread her hands: "Everyone is alive and well, although the body can't go far, but the game world is infinite, in addition to your "Peak", there are many fun games, and when I go back to my house, I will take you to play other games......"
Lin π Ke asked puzzledly, "Do you really just play games every day?" ”
Dina said calmly: "All the people I know are like this, you don't believe I can take you to a friend's house to see, you know that everyone is playing games, there is no problem, we have a good time in the game." ”
Lin π Ke looked at the magnificent scenery of the other world outside the window, but he couldn't be happy at all, he said: "I can't accept this kind of life without ambition!" ”
Dina crooked her mouth and smiled, slightly mocking: "What kind of elite? Don't forget you're just being played! ”
Lin π Ke was so choked by her that he couldn't speak.
Dina hurriedly put away her sneering expression, touched the head of Lin π's machine with her hand and said, "Just kidding, don't be angry, I know you are so smart, much more useful than real-world waste wood like me." ”
Lin π Ke looked out of the window in anger, there were some plants growing here and there were some plants on the barren orange land, and the terraced hills were as low and endless as the hills, but he was now sad about his insignificant position in the universe, and he couldn't lift his spirits when he saw anything.
Dina hugged Lin π Ke from behind, leaned her head on his shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Don't be angry, okay, I was wrong, I was really wrong, I won't say that kind of stupid thing anymore, although you are from an NPC, you will definitely be the elite of the universe in the future, and now even robots have become palace-level scientists, and you will be in the future......"
Lin π didn't look back, patted Dina's head with his backhand, and said in a relaxed tone: "I don't care about waste wood like you, I'm as smart as me, I'm thinking about how to save money to go to the finish star to see my father." ”
Dina rubbed her hair against his neck and said, "The mission of this trip is not completed yet, let's go meet the Thunder Emperor first and inquire about Luo Lang's situation, right?" ”