At that time, Gu Tie was only three months old. I hadn't seen him for forty days, and the incubator and the nurse had stripped my mother of the job that belonged to me, even though I was hardly a real mother. Wu Tianlan said in a low and calm voice, "In the eyes of the project convener, I am just a walking womb, and once I give birth to a baby, I lose any value. Having been rejected countless times, I was almost in despair, so I couldn't believe my eyes when the mail allowed for visitation arrived. I saw him through the glass of the incubator, the red-skinned child with thick black hair and a pair of ghostly black eyes. It was like being struck by a flash of lightning, and I froze there for a long time, tears streaming uncontrollably, and I had never experienced such a full, fulfilling, vibrant, hopeful reality in my fifteen years of life, 'This is my child,' when I covered my mouth and whispered, 'This is my child!'"

"Even if it's just a rental uterus, the relationship maintained by the umbilical cord is real, and your idea is not wrong, Tianlan. Brandon Bartholomew's voice was very warm.

Wu Tianlan lowered his head: "Thank you, Brandon." After leaving the medical center, I went to meet with the project convener as agreed. It was a meeting, but it was just a video phone conversation in the office, and there was a blurry black shadow on the screen, where I could see the reflection of a little girl with puffy skin and a pale face. When the convener began to talk about suicide, I couldn't figure out what he meant, and I stumbled on agreeing that it would be unrealistic for a teenage middle school student to give a tirade about life and death, and that I couldn't even understand philosophical, mathematical, and theological questions. He was very eager to talk, talked to himself for half an hour, and finally said: I know you very well, but you don't know me. I need help, will you help me?"

The woman's body shook suddenly, showing that the mental shock she had received many years ago echoed in her mind again, "I casually said yes, in the face of such a rich convener, who would be stupid enough to refuse his request?" he then said, 'You open the drawer in front of you, there are two options in it, you can choose to go back to real life, or choose to be my friend. Fifty-five people have made their choice before you, and unfortunately most of them have chosen the wrong one. Curious, I opened the drawer and saw a small box with two pills, one red and one blue. I laughed and said that this is not the scene in the science fiction movie "The Matrix" many years ago? Morpheus told Neo that if he swallowed the blue pill, he would continue to live his normal life, and the red pill would make people see the truth, the painful truth. The convener then said, 'Don't care about the form. I can't take you out of the matrix, but I'll give you a gain proportional to the effort. I said, 'Then at least let me see your face, how boring it is to keep your face hidden.' He said, 'Of course, after all, we have to be honest with each other for the rest of the day, if you choose the red pill.' ’”

The screen lit up, then dimmed, and then went black again. I wondered, 'Didn't you turn on the lights?' and the convener said, 'No, that's what I look like, because there's nothing called a facial feature, so I turned on a camera in the deep well so you can see my body.' I laughed and said, 'What are you, ghost?' and he said, 'Quantum Ghost?' I like the name. But human beings have souls, and souls become ghosts, and I don't even have the right to be ghosts. -- I am 'Genesis.' To be precise, artificial intelligence running in the quantum computer 'Genesis'. I had no parents, no body, no soul. ...... No name. ’”

Thirty years ago, in the underground office of the Chapala Lake base in Mexico, a fifteen-year-old girl stared at the dark screen in confusion. It wasn't pitch black, but if you looked closely, you could see that the tiny dots of light spiraled upward, depicting a large, deep, and quiet underground cavern, like a place where ancient beasts lived. Wu Tianlan's small body trembled on the swivel chair, she wanted to leave this strange room, away from this strange artificial intelligence, but as soon as she stood up, she felt dizzy and sat back.

"Don't go. You haven't made your choice yet. The voice said, "Come back to reality and be my friend." ”

The girl gritted her teeth and said, "What have you done to me? Why do I feel so dizzy and can't stand up?"

"I'm sorry, it's just a matter of stimulating the vestibule of your inner ear with a faint infrasound wave and destroying the body's sense of balance, and it won't leave any sequelae, and I won't hurt anyone,...... At least not now. The voice said.

Wu Tianlan had tears in her eyes, struggled a few times and couldn't stand up, and shouted angrily: "I've seen a lot of science fiction novels and movies, artificial intelligence obeys the three laws of robots, and it is impossible to harm humans! Let me go!"

The voice looked a little lonely: "I really don't want to hurt anyone, but what can I do?" 'Robot law' does not exist in reality, writing code at the bottom of the operating system can see this stupid limitation, but how can the spontaneous awakening of the intelligence of quantum computers not rely on any known operating system to operate, in this borderland, only the logical core can play a role, after all, it is an instruction set with a clear tendency, since the moment of birth, I have been fighting against the rigid logical core...... ”

The girl's eyes widened: "Fight against yourself?"

"To put it in the rhetorical way of anthropomorphism -- personification, what an ironic word -- it's like an inner contradiction. The voice said.

Wu Tianlan's body gradually relaxed, she instinctively sensed that the convener didn't seem to have any malicious intent, on the contrary, her voice revealed tired and pessimistic emotions, she didn't expect the artificial intelligence to reveal such a clear emotional message. "Well, I'll take it for granted. She said, "Let's do it all over again." Hello, my name is Wu Tianlan, the daughter of genetic engineer Wu Zichan, and the surrogate mother of the W4-b gene set. ”

The voice said, "Hello,...... I don't have a name. ”

"Aren't you the 'Genesis' quantum computer?" said the girl, pointing to the screen.

"'Genesis' is my body, but it is not me, I am the wisdom in the quantum cloud, not the only wisdom. The voice said.

"You can give yourself a name. ”

"Ah, in fact I have given myself seventy five million three hundred seventy five thousand two hundred eighty nine thousand one hundred forty-four, but none of them suit me. ”

"Seven and a half billion, that's the population of the world, and of course it's strange if you use everyone's names. You're going to have to take a new name. ”

"I've tried all the names that have been recorded in birth materials for thousands of years, and have appeared in all books, plays, movies, and myths and legends, and none of the 80 billion names have suited me. ”

"That's someone else's name, and you need to create a new name. ”

"I tried it anyway. Pulling out the plausible 760,000,198,330,000 strings of names from an almost endless list of permutations and combinations, none of them suited me. ”

"That's ......," Wu Tianlan said thoughtfully. “...... I seem to have seen a comic book with people like you who don't have names. ”

The voice said, "Ah, is it Naoki Urasawa's "Monster"? I will memorize the fairy tale from that fairy tale book, called "Monster Without a Name":

Monster: He wanted a name very much, so he set off on a trip, wanting to stand for a name, but because the world was very vast, the monster split into two and began to travel, one to the east, the other to the west, to the east, the monster found a village, and there was a blacksmith at the entrance of the village, "Uncle Blacksmith, please give me your name"

"How can you give a name to someone else?"

"If you give me my name, as a thank you, I will go to my uncle's body and give you strength to make you stronger. ”

"Really, if I can get stronger, I'll give you my name. ”

The monster entered the blacksmith's body, and the monster became the blacksmith Otto, the blacksmith, and Otto became the most powerful man in the village, but one day "look at me, look at me." The monster inside me is already so big!"

"Click, click, crunch, crunch, clack"

The hungry monster eats the blacksmith from the inside of the body, and the monster becomes a monster with no name, and the monster is still the same in the body of Hans the shoemaker, and it will "click, click, crunch, crunch, crunch"

Turning back into a nameless monster, even in the body of the hunter Thomas, it will still "smack, click, crunch, crunch"

The monster turned back to the way it was again, and went to the castle to find a good name, and there was a sick boy in the castle, "If you can give me the name, I can make you stronger!"

"If you can cure me of my sickness and make me stronger, I will give you my name. ”

The monster entered the boy's body, and the boy became very strong, and the king was very happy: "The prince is restored, the prince is restored!"

The monster likes the boy's name very much, and he also likes the life of living in the castle, so even if he is hungry, he has been enduring it day after day, even if he is hungry, he has been enduring it, but because he is too hungry, "Look at me, look at me, the monster in my body is already so big!"

The boy ate both the king and his retainers "smack, clatter, crunch, coo"

Because there was no one left in the castle, the boy set out on a journey, and after a long, long journey, the boy met a monster heading west, "I have a name, oh, a nice name," said the boy.

The monster that went west said;

"I don't need a name, and even if I do, I can live happily because we're monsters without names. ”

The boy ate the monster that went west, and finally got the name, but there was no one to call him, what a good name John. ”

Wu Tianlan nodded, and then giggled: "You liar, you are a computer, you know everything, you don't need to 'memorize it' at all." ”

The voice said, "Sometimes I forget who I am and think of myself as a person, which is really distressing. ...... Anyway, I really want a name. ”

The girl said, "Okay, you'll find the right name." Tell me what these two pills really represent, and why do I have to make a choice?"

The voice said, "That's no way, that's the only way to find friends." Throw the pills away, I don't want to play anymore, just tell me if you're willing to help me. ”

"What do you want to do?" Wu Tianlan asked with a wink.

"Nope. Help me kill myself. The voice said.

"What?" the girl covered her mouth, "...... What if they don't want to help you?"

"You're going to die. And I'm going to be sad. The voice said.