There Is No Afterlife

The corners of Argos' mouth froze. It had to be said that the part below the neck maintained its original movements and continued to drive the warship. Only the robot with its head turned around looked a bit scary.

oh. "Tickling the corner of his mouth, Argos did not say a word of thanks.

As a staunch opponent of unnatural life forms, Argos has been very resistant to mechanical life forms from the beginning, especially after Marshal Rothesay was attacked and trapped in the military intelligence system a few years ago. This city proposed an amendment bill to the "53rd Edition of the General Management Regulations for Interstellar Robots" in the parliament. It is recommended to add 50 clauses to further restrict the development of robot intelligence, and to increase control over manufacturers of intelligent mechanical products. Monitoring level.

In terms of mechanical intelligence, Argos is a conservative who is completely inconsistent with his youth and appearance.

He never uses any robots, and his subordinates also strictly limit the level of intelligence embedded in mechanical products. However, because of this, after the disaster broke out, Argos's army became the least damaged army.

Argos really issued a killing order for all robots in the empire, but the issuance of the order was delayed due to the mission, but the killing order is still in his hands to this day. Argos touched a piece of skin under his arm without leaving a trace. The chip that saved the order was buried under this skin at the moment. The channel for issuing the mission had not been destroyed by the enemy. He could issue the order as soon as he could take action.

Just when Argos was deep in thought, a bell suddenly rang in the control room. After Robot Stone pressed the inner door switch, another robot ran in from the outside.

Hello sir, you are finally awake. "The round robot first greeted Argos very politely, and then explained the purpose of his visit in a formal manner.

We received a distress signal from a nearby civilian spacecraft. There were two hundred people on that spacecraft. Their spacecraft had been robbed by star thieves before, and all the supplies were taken away. Now there is no energy source. They hope to enter Our warships. "The round robot said. Its voice is the most versatile mechanical voice on the market. Basically, eight out of ten robots can speak with this voice.

After a pause, the robot added: Half of the humans on the ship agreed to accept them, and half opposed it. The number of people on both sides was exactly equal, so they asked me to come over and ask this gentleman for his opinion. "

Argos raised his eyebrows habitually, but then he felt a secret pain because of the wound involved.

For Argos, who was used to having great power and everyone taking orders, now he got the decision-making power because he was the one who broke the balance of numbers. This was... a bit dramatic.

The dim light screens of the two robots in the control cabin were aimed at Argos.

What do the robots think? "Argos suddenly had an idea, and he asked the robot who came to report the news.

…bots were not allowed to express their opinions. "The robot's dim light screen flashed, and he said after a while.

Then go and tell me the opinions of all the robots on the ship. Remember, it is not their master's opinion, but their own. "After Argos finished speaking, the round robot bowed and ran away again.

After a while, it rang the doorbell again.

There are a total of forty-eight robots in the outer cabin, all of which hope to accept the humans on the spacecraft. "The robot said honestly.

how about you? "Argos's eyes slanted and turned to the robot stone.

I? "Robot Stone turned his head 180 degrees again, and then said very crisply: I hope they come in."

why? Why would you want to accept humans on a strange spaceship? "Argos raised his eyebrows again, and then felt a secret pain again.

Article 13 of the 53rd Edition of the General Management Regulations for Interstellar Robots. "This time, the two robots rarely spoke in unison.

Robots must help humans who are in life-threatening danger. "

This rule is not followed by any additional conditions for robot safety, which shows that the makers of the regulations themselves considered the possibility that robots may destroy themselves for this rule.

Argos was silent.

But don’t the rules no longer exist? Aren’t you free? "He said after a long while.

But the rules have already been memorized in my mind. "Is freedom the freedom to do whatever you want?" We want to go home. "

Well, I want to go home anyway. "

The two robots seemed to be overwhelmed by his sudden questions. They talked to each other one by one. After a period of confusion in logic, the two robots seemed to straighten out the relationship between the disappearing rules and freedom. .

Going home is the freedom we want. "The two robots looked at Argos at the same time.

So, is "going home" a choice made by the instinctive consciousness of these two robots after breaking away from the constraints of the rules?

Therefore, "helping human beings whose lives are in danger" is also an initiative made by them outside of constraints and entirely due to their own consciousness.

Judgment?

Fifty percent of the humans on the warship hope to rescue their companions, while the other 50% are worried that these refugees will pose a threat to their safety and refuse to help them. At the same time, all free-minded people Did the robot choose the "rescue" option 100% of the time?

Let those humans in. "Argos directly stated his choice. He did not realize that this time, he subconsciously used a word that only robots would use: human."

But don't let them directly enter the living quarters. This type of warship has a prison system underneath. They can be temporarily locked up somewhere. Their personal information should be investigated clearly and they should be observed for a few days before they are allowed to come in. "Argos then issued an order and glanced at the robot stone sideways: The investigation work is left to you. Do you know how to do it?"

Yes I know. "Robot Stone immediately bent over: My family raises a lot of livestock. Whenever new livestock comes in, we will lock them in an old nest and observe them for a few days before allowing them to approach the original livestock."

In order to increase the credibility of his words, he added: Shitou is a very good nanny robot. "

Argos was silent again.

With a wave of his hand, he ordered Shitou to arrange the matter on his own. As a bystander, he witnessed this magical nanny robot successfully settling the refugees in the spacecraft in a very reliable way, and then using a very clever method. , three Star Thief spies disguised as refugees were unearthed from the refugees.

This skill is very practical! It would be great if I had such an assistant... By the time Argos realized it, similar thoughts had already passed through his mind several times.

This kind of interrogation program that Argos admires very much comes from Robot Pi. As the robot in the family who is most interested in program updates, Pai is committed to using programs to improve his own living standards. He tirelessly improves the built-in programs of all the robots in his family. Even the egg incubator Mugen bought at home was not spared. Now that egg incubator has been improved into an egg-hatching robot by him!

~\\(≧▽≦)/~

Refugees bring confusion, worry, panic, and...

News from afar.

Argos once thought that the expressions of all robots would never change. They had no emotions, no understanding of sadness, no happiness, and were just accumulations of metal.

However--

One of the refugees carried an electronic big-character poster with him. It was a big-character poster from Bai Luxing, which published the exact address of Bai Luxing, as well as the photos and names of all the missing people in Bailu Xing.

The spaceship decided to take refuge on the White Dew Star after seeing this big-character poster, and this big-character poster finally fell into the hands of several robots. However, Argos noticed that what the robots were looking at was not the coordinates of the White Dew Star printed on the back of the big-character poster that they urgently needed at this time, but the list of missing persons on the front.

The robots are behaving very strangely.

They were like stuck, just watching.

Just when Argos thought that several robots were malfunctioning and couldn't help asking, the robot stone finally raised its head.

Putting the big-character poster respectfully into Argos's hand, Shitou pointed at a page in the dense list and said:

This is me, this is Yuanyuan, this is Xiao Hei, and...number 21. "

The few robots mixed in the densely packed human portraits are particularly eye-catching. Like the information about the missing humans next to them, their photos, names, and the gender of their speaking voices... are listed one by one and placed equally next to the human information.

We have been worried that the owner will no longer want us, and seeing this list... we are so happy. "

Really, really happy. "

Then, Argos saw a very cute smiley face symbol appear on the dim light screen of the robot stone.

^_^

It turns out that this is how the robot looks happy.

Argos stared at the symbol for a long time.

The author has something to say: When I was writing this chapter at the end, I suddenly remembered a lyric: "Home is not far away, just five hundred miles away."

The title of the song is "Five Hundred Miles". I will post it on Weibo later. If you are interested, you can listen to it.

☆、Chapter 216

Heading in the direction of the White Dew Star, the Pandra (← the current name of this warship) not only had the number of people in the cabin triple as before, but the fleet behind it also formed a very spectacular scale. Although the number of people exceeded More and more people are coming, but under the control of Robot Stone, all the work is in order, and everyone has only one goal: to go to Bailu Star!

Supplies began to be seriously scarce, but after they rescued several mobile restaurant spaceships three days ago, this problem was successfully solved.