Among all modern modes of transportation, Lu Zhengkang likes sky rails the most. But he is not a fan of sky rails and cannot tell the development history and classic models of sky rails. His preference is just to use them as his first choice for travel. A kind of

If a vehicle carries someone's childhood memories, it will always be special in their heart. If a person is dazzling in other people's childhood, then he is definitely special to that person.

Lu Zhengkang, Zhang Yingxuan, Su Xiangli and Qiu Qiongzhu, the same names, different people. The chairs with backrests sitting opposite each other were lined up on both sides. The male students and the female students looked at each other across from each other. The atmosphere was somehow dull.

Zou Xiagu put on VR glasses and played a mobile game, and intense game sound effects came from the headphone jack. Jiang Jin lowered his head and wrung his hands. In addition to being introverted and serious as before, he was more shy and anxious.

Su Xiangli stared straight at Lu Zhengkang, winking constantly, while Lu Zhengkang kept tapping his thigh with his fingers, his eyes wandering. Zhang Yingxuan pretended to watch the video, but his mind was not settled. The progress bar had ended, and he was still motionless.

Among these people, only Qiu Qiongzhu seemed to be the most relaxed. She started eating chewing gum as soon as she got on the rail. She stuffed five or six pieces in a row and chewed them together, making her mouth bulging. She sat in the middle, looking left and right, taking in all their expressions. It seemed that

I wanted to say something, but still didn't speak.

The group got off at Binhai Wetland Park Station, which was still two kilometers away from their destination. This section of the road can be reached in a short time by public electric vehicles.

Lu Zhengkang suggested that he would come to the park for a relaxing tour after finishing his business. Jiang Jin mustered up the courage and said, "You go ahead, I'll wait for you in the park."

"Wow, you Jiang Jin, you actually want to be a deserter!" Zou Xiagu kindly found a way for her.

"No, I won't go. I can't afford the cost of making the memory." Jiang Jin took a deep breath, "I checked and it's not a small amount of money. I won't pay for such a dispensable virtual service.

.I don’t want others to spend money on my behalf.”

Every child with ordinary family conditions has learned early to refuse, refuse worthless enjoyment, refuse large amounts of consumption, and refuse to make financial sacrifices for the sake of being gregarious. This is a good skill that can help people in difficulty survive.

Going down can also help confused people find a suitable way out.

Jiang Jin is a girl with character. Everyone is well aware of many realistic things. In order to take care of the dignity of her companions, they will never be brought to the table. But Jiang Jin is not afraid of claiming that she is poor. This should not be hers.

Mistake, all the ridicule and criticism that came from it should not hurt her.

Everyone was at a loss for a while. To persuade someone like Jiang Jin could not be done with a few white lies or sweet words.

Among this group of students, the only one who truly understands Jiang Jin is Lu Zhengkang, who has lived in two lifetimes.

Su Xiangli suddenly came to the rescue: "This is part of the work of the society. All expenses should be counted among the collective and regarded as public investment."

Zhang Yingxuan nodded quickly, "Yes, this money will be calculated into the club's account. When our project becomes profitable, we can make up for these expenses."

Zou Xiagu patted his belly and looked very cheerful, "That's what I'm saying. We are not doing this for fun, we are all doing this for our career. Why does it look like we died before we left the battlefield?"

Jiang Jin's expression changed, he lowered his head and no longer objected.

This group of students waited all morning for vocabulary reading disks and finally got the disks that stored their memories. Lu Zhengkang collected these disks and prepared to go back and use AI to create avatars. After lunch, everyone wandered around the Wetland Park.

With a student ID card, you can play for free.

Similar to the attractions at the beginning of the century, various consumer goods in the park have serious price premiums. Fortunately, the vending machines here also provide free supplies, including oatmeal cookies with added dietary fiber, zero-sugar buns, assorted fruit hard candies, and

Small whistle, small water gun, drum trumpet, thumb paint cannon, colorful flag windmill and 25ml bottle of bubble water.

Friends who are short of money or don’t want to pay the IQ tax in scenic spots will choose these free toys.

All of you here are mature and stable high school students. These gadgets are too childish for them, but a group of college students in the park had a great time playing them.

The Wetland Park occupies a vast area and is not comparable to those cramped small flower beds in ordinary cities. As we walked, we dispersed and agreed to meet at the south exit of the park at 3:30 pm.

Lu Zhengkang and Su Xiangli were always inseparable from each other, but this time Su Xiangli took the initiative to leave Lu Zhengkang behind. She noticed Qiu Qiongzhu going to the forest greenhouse exhibition hall alone, so she followed quietly.

"Wow, wow, wow, severing all ties, abandoning husband and son." Lu Zhengkang stayed where he was and said a few nonsense words, muttering to himself and squatting on the side of the road instead of wandering around, concentrating on waiting for news about Su Xiangli.

Others looked at it and said: "That man looks like a dog squatting on the roadside."

Female high school student Jiang Jin came to feed the stray dogs, "Would you like some water?"

Lu Zhengkang looked up and saw Jiang Jin handing over a can of sea salt soda. Her petite figure blocked the afternoon sun, and the outline of her cheeks was as white as silver. She was like every male student's fantasy, taking them out of their boring lives.

Just like the beautiful miracle that was saved here.

"Drink, definitely drink." Lu Zhengkang showed a rogue smile, "How can you not drink if you give it to me for free!"

Jiang Jin also squatted down on the roadside and adjusted her long skirt to prevent it from being exposed, but she could still see her plain and slender calves. Her skin was dry and pale, like birch wood cores displayed in the open air. The white cotton socks at her ankles were light and

They are thin, like all old socks, with loose and pleated edges, like the skirt of white fungus.

Lu Zhengkang took out the parasol from his backpack and handed it to Jiang Jin, "No." He put the soda water to his lips, but there was a warm smile in his eyes.

Jiang Jin hesitated and opened the umbrella. They hid under the shade of the umbrella, like two little people hiding under a mushroom cap to avoid the rain.

We have not yet entered the hot world, and the early summer in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is quite gentle, but it is still different from the cloudy sky in Jiangnan in Lu Zhengkang’s memory. The hardened roads in the city have a profound impact on the natural water cycle, reducing water vapor evaporation, and the hills

It was largely flattened and opened up, which also reduced local updrafts. Because cloud formation became more difficult, the sky at the end of the century was actually bluer and clearer.

"Are you always looking at the sky?" Jiang Jin said this as if he had nothing to say.

"Yes, I am a child of the sky, and I am looking at my hometown." Lu Zhengkang said the second line in a calm tone.

"What's in the sky? Apart from clouds, there are no cities." Jiang Jin actually followed his words.

"If the city in the sky was so easy to be discovered, the ancients would have written it down in books long ago." Lu Zhengkang shrugged, "Actually, I have never seen it, but I know that one day, I will return to the sky and board the

throne."

Jiang Jin couldn't hold it any longer, she pursed her lips and smiled, "Okay, don't forget your old classmates then."

"It's terrible."

"What?"

"Some people you know will disappear in your life for no apparent reason. Everyone will discuss it at first, but as time goes by, no one will mention the disappeared person anymore, as if that person never appeared."

"What's more terrible than death is oblivion. That's true."

"That transfer student, her name is Qiu Qiongzhu. When I, Su Xiangli, and Zhang Yingxuan were in kindergarten, we had a classmate, a good friend, with the same name as her and a very similar appearance. After finishing kindergarten, Qiu Qiongzhu

Left Jiangzhe City."

"That's the transfer student?"

"No. Although the three of us all think she is, she doesn't admit it herself. It might just be a coincidence." Lu Zhengkang touched the data disk in his pocket, "The truth will come out soon."

Jiang Jin seemed to have noticed. She has always been straightforward. She either doesn't say anything or won't hide it if she does. "Can you really convert memory into digital life? There is no such technology on the market for the time being. I only found a lot of top publications.

Papers all say that this technology is not yet mature."

"You think of me as a virtual God? I'm still a digital life. I'm not going to be a planetary propulsion machine, so I don't need that high-end technology. I'm just a strong intelligent AI at best." Lu Zheng was happy, but his words were just prevaricating.

Perfunctory.

Jiang Jin avoided his hateful smile, lowered his head, and sighed softly, "For a genius like you, life must be easy, right? This world is just like your playground."

"I don't think so. If this world is a playground, then it is also a paradise that the whole society strives to create for students. I don't think my life is very carefree. At school, it depends on the teacher's face, and at home, it depends on the parents' face.

, I have to take care of my classmates and Su Xiangli outside. Sometimes I really want to leave everything here, travel alone, go to a world where no one knows me, participate in an adventure, and then die as a hero in a foreign land."

"No wonder you always look so indifferent. Do you want to be Nietzsche's sun?"

"Everyone fantasizes about saving the world, but Nietzsche died of a mental breakdown." Lu Zhengkang became irritated, "The last glimmer of personal heroism has disappeared in the First World War of the last century. All philosophers who tried to save the world must die.

I have become crazy, or become a vassal or a clown. I don’t want to be anyone’s sun, as long as I can take care of the people around me, or just take care of my memories.”

"You lied."

Jiang Jin was shocked by Lu Zhengkang's fierce statement, but she quickly came to her senses.

"I'm not lying. I'm an ordinary student. Isn't it normal for me to have such naive wishes?"

"You are not an ordinary student, you are a child of the sky." Jiang Jin replied seriously.

Now Lu Zhengkang couldn't hold himself any longer, "You're really good." He raised his hands in surrender. The soda water flew out of the bottle and poured onto Jiang Jin's clothes.

"It's okay." Jiang Jin wiped it briefly, "Your girlfriend is here."

Lu Zhengkang poked his head out from under the parasol and waved to Su Xiangli.

Su Xiangli raised his eyebrows and ran over quickly.

Jiang Jin originally thought that Su Xiangli would be angry and get into trouble with Lu Zhengkang, so she was ready to apologize. But when Su Xiangli came over, he just got under the umbrella with a smile and said comfortably: "Wow, you guys can take shelter here.

Ah. Add me."

Lu Zhengkang adjusted the umbrella surface to be larger, closer to the large parasols used at fruit stalls in summer, and then took the handle of the umbrella to prevent the wind from blowing and making the delicate and frail Jiang Jin unable to hold it.

"Did you ask anything?" Lu Zhengkang asked agent Su Xiangli about the situation.

"She's not the one we know, and she doesn't have twin sisters. But she's pretty nice."

The person is not bad, which means his attitude is neither cold nor indifferent.

Lu Zhengkang nodded, "Even if you are not the same person as before, it doesn't prevent you from making friends."

Su Xiangli was noncommittal and buried her face in Lu Zhengkang's arms. Jiang Jin turned away and looked at the forest greenhouse exhibition hall with sparse traffic.

That night, Lu Zhengkang started a new construction project. The knowledge he learned from the system was very solid, and some of the content was beyond the times. Because of this, sometimes he could create things in simple conditions like a citizen scientist in a science fiction movie.

It has technological products that cannot be matched even by advanced research institutes.

He first used his own personality memory as a prototype to create a virtual AI. After completing the Turing test, he named it Mechanical Deer.

Lu Zhengkang had his first conversation with his virtual copy.

The camera was pointed at him and he sat upright.

"Hello." Lu Zhengkang approached the microphone and waved to the camera.
To be continued...