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Postscript at the end of volume 8

Is Lu Zhengkang really back?

In fact, even Su Xiangli didn't know clearly. Whenever she returned to the dormitory and saw the ginger-yellow dog standing in the corner, she might feel that her life was a dream, and pinned her extra resentment against the unfairness of life on Hao.

In Hao's pile of books, his longing for Lu Zhengkang was placed in a machine.

As time went by, the mechanical deer still couldn't speak, but its actions became more and more like a normal person, more and more like the person in Su Xiangli's memory. Sometimes, she would wonder if everything in her past was gone.

Is it a lie? Has there never been a person named Lu Zhengkang? He is just a figment of Su Xiangli's imagination, a simulated personality of a mechanical deer.

But everything proves that Lu Zhengkang really existed.

A living person, born in the early morning of June 22, 2077.

Before he participated in the Secret War, he was at best a talented boy. The trajectory of his life could be traced and left behind. It was simple to a bit ordinary, but he was such a child who completed the salvation of mankind.

League, the boy's name Lu Zhengkang has been sung by countless people.

Su Xiangli was just in an ivory tower, in such a closed environment, disconnected from the outside world, so he had such a strange doubt.

The intelligence of the mechanical deer is constantly improving, but it is not clear whether it is the Fautud who controls it or the memory that is improving.

It's a black box.

Su Xiangli continued to study, and she would recite "Nawu Luyuan Bodhisattva" silently every night.

This behavior itself is also a kind of emotional sustenance, but it has brought her practical benefits-increased wisdom.

Learning has become easy for her, and her innate talents are constantly expanding, both physically and mentally, becoming perfect. This is the last gift Xiaolu promised her.

Inheriting Lu Zhengkang's attributes in the system, Su Xiangli experienced the kind of synaesthesia that penetrated the soul more and more often.

Whenever she has a strong subjective awareness of the world, such as seeing a cherry stained with dew glowing like agate in the sun, or when she analyzes mathematics and understands the logic at the bottom of the universe, the mechanical deer always

It will shake twice excitedly.

Su Xiangli took the college entrance examination and got her wish. She scored 743 out of 750 points.

In September 2095, she entered Peking University to study electronic intelligence.

During his college days, as his knowledge level continued to expand, Su Xiangli found the performance of the mechanical deer more and more interesting.

It indeed had the ability to think, and even when he stood as usual, he seemed to be meditating.

A major event also occurred this year: the "Earth Civilization Federation Draft" was signed, and hundreds of countries and regions around the world will be merged into a loose political collective in four years.

In 2096, androids from all over the world united to establish a country on a small island in the Pacific Ocean and actively carried out diplomatic activities.

In the same year, the first batch of androids entered the school.

Su Xiangli has an android classmate named Connor, who looks like a white male.

"Connor, I'm curious about how your machine sees the world."

"I think there shouldn't be much difference from humans." Connor shrugged.

"I asked a bad question. What I want to know is, what is the difference between the subjective experience of machine senses and human senses? Can you talk about your usual cognitive logic?"

"For academic purposes?"

"No, it's more personal." Su Xiangli rubbed his eyebrows, "You know I have a robot friend. His situation is quite special."

Connor nodded, "That's it. Of course I'm happy to help. But I would like to ask your friend to meet. Androids can identify each other's intelligence level."

"I'll go back and ask him... By the way, after rA9's death, will your group of advanced androids no longer be able to expand?"

Connor smiled just right, but it changed the topic.

Su Xiangli made an appointment to meet Connor again, and then went back to the dormitory to look for the mechanical deer.

When she entered the door, she first looked into the corner of the living room, but could not see the familiar ginger figure.

"Lulu, where are you?"

There was a sound of basin tilting in the study room. After a sudden noise, there was an awkward silence. Su Xiangli was waiting at the door. After more than ten seconds, the door of the study room opened a crack, and a mechanical deer with a determined expression poked its head out.

Come.

Su Xiangli had a warm smile as if she had caught a child playing a prank, but she turned serious and said, "Lulu, what's the matter with you?"

"...I'm sorry." The mechanical deer's voice was gentle. After all, it always said the same thing, but now it knew how to excerpt it.

Su Xiangli's pretentious expression immediately collapsed. She stepped forward and hugged the mechanical deer gently. The cold and hard metal gave her an incomparable comfort.

"What are you doing?" Su Xiangli looked over the mechanical deer's shoulder toward the crack in the door. In the dark room, a bright and dazzling light beam extended from the gap in the curtains and spread diagonally on the back of an easel. The edge of the painting board was blurred with gold.

The quiet matte edge is like a border; outside the window

The sky is clear and blue, with sparse clouds, and there is a vague sky of cobalt blue and pure white on the canvas; the sunlight cuts a long and narrow section on the wooden floor, the palette and brush, ink fall on the ground, and the paint splashes

Everywhere, dots of colorful stains reflect pure white light.

The scene itself looks like a painting.

"Are you painting?" Su Xiangli asked and answered herself. She was used to it.

The mechanical deer silently took two steps back, opened the door, but seemed to be very shy, and huddled silently into the corner of the study, partnering with a small pot of spider plant next to the bookcase.

Su Xiangli sneered and turned on the light so that he could see clearly what was on the canvas.

It was a starless night, and the strokes of clouds and night were so entwined that it was almost overflowing with romanticism. Su Xiangli looked carefully and found that there were actually stars. In the gaps covered by clouds, the night was

A piece of shading cloth covers the bright day, but there are still brilliant colors that are unwilling to surrender. They are not only white and gold, but also purple, orange, indigo, indigo, etc. The cobalt blue queen of the night is endless.

Gorgeous universe.

Under such a starry sky, there is also the rippling Mirror Lake, which is thickened with the appearance of the night. The waves and cloud colors are indistinguishable. Su Xiangli looked at the boundary between the lake and the sky and saw the undulating black mountains, and there was a faint shadow.

A line of short pedestrians, with brown and gray outlines, marching from right to left.

"Did you come up with this yourself?" Su Xiangli was full of surprise. She took a photo of the painting and began to identify it. Indeed, there was no similar painting on the Internet.

This is the work of Mechanical Deer.

Su Xiangli took it to see Connor, and the android immediately said: "He is a companion."

The mechanical deer completed the evolution of intelligence during its years with Su Xiangli.

"Why don't you speak? Can you understand what I mean?"

The mechanical deer doesn't speak, he just paints.


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