degradation

Chapter 11

The alarm clock hadn't rung when Dino woke up.

I opened my sleepy eyes and looked at the ceiling that I couldn't see clearly. The person who never woke up without the alarm ringing seven or eight times a day has been waking up earlier than the alarm clock recently.

And there is still a kind of silent little expectation in my heart, my vision is blurred but I keep staring at the bedroom door intentionally or unintentionally.

Not long after, there was a knock on the door and an alarm bell. Dino lay on the bed and waved his hand to turn off the sensor alarm clock, then turned over and said with a little hoarse voice, "Come in."

Then he tilted his head on the pillow and watched a vague figure walk to the bed and squatted down, and handed over a pair of glasses, "Good morning, sir."

Dino rubbed his face into the pillow twice, then sat up vigorously, reached out to take 24's prepared glasses and put them on, finally seeing 24's appearance clearly.

For a moment, I feel good.

24 no longer needs to hide in the not-so-spacious storage room for standby every day.

Dino revoked and overwrote the command he had said to it a while ago, "24, you don't need to avoid me anymore."

He was already tired of the days when he had to call to see 24 every day, and he had to admit that he was somewhat used to the feeling of 24 staying by his side.

24 looked at Dino questioningly, "Sir, don't you hate seeing me?"

It's just that when this question was put on the table, Dino still couldn't say anything, "I, I, I didn't say I didn't hate seeing you, I meant that my, your work was made easier to do, so I always What a hindrance to hide..."

This bunch of unconventional grammar made 24 freeze again, "Sir, I can't understand what you say."

Dino closed his eyes and rubbed his temples in frustration, and finally said in a low voice, "In short...you can move about at home as you like, and you don't need to avoid me anymore."

24 nodded obediently, "Okay, sir."

Dino opened his eyes and looked at 24 again, and smiled slightly.

A slightly different life from the past begins.

For such a change, Dino can't say whether he likes it or not, but feels all this with complicated emotions.

Since entering college, Dino has rented a bachelor apartment and lived alone.He has always lived a life of going home alone and leaving home alone. Unless his friends come to make it more lively, he usually enjoys a quiet and comfortable hour by himself.It can't be said that he will feel lonely, Dino can always find something to do for himself, either studying or playing games. Lucas asked him, wouldn't it be boring to stay at home by himself? At that time, Dino still felt that he didn't understand the meaning of asking this question.

After graduation, 24 was imposed on him like an additional condition, or he was also imposed on 24 by fate. Neither a robot nor a human has the right to choose independently, so they slowly live together .

So the family is not the same as before.

No need to clean the room alone anymore, and no need to come back to do laundry in the middle of the night.When he woke up in the morning, he was greeted with a steaming breakfast on the table, and no matter how late he came back in the evening, there was a prepared dinner on the table.After the earthquake, 24 cleaned up the house together, and after a fall and injury, 24 accompanied him to take care of him. In the game, he would never find his opponent again. Even when he needed help, 24 would be on call regardless of the time.Even though 24 would not appear in front of him for a lot of time, there was still an inexplicable atmosphere in the whole house, telling him that he was no longer alone.

So even when he couldn't see 24, Dino began to slowly feel what loneliness is.

So 24 didn't need to hide anymore, Dino blew on the hot soup in the bowl and took a sip, and when he raised his eyes, he could see 24 sitting on the floor in the living room sorting out the scattered magazines.Although there is no dialogue between the two, the other party is a robot, so they don't feel any awkwardness in the atmosphere; not only are they comfortable staying together, but there is always someone poking around, which inexplicably adds a sense of fulfillment.

In fact, at the beginning 24 was not as comfortable as it is now, it would always stand aside and watch Dino eat.

It's uncomfortable to be stared at like this, so Dino told 24 that you can do whatever you want.

Then 24 began to scan Dino's actions and actions with his eyes over and over again, wondering what kind of analysis and calculations he was doing with its central processing unit.

After drinking miso soup for a while, Dino finally found that he was still being stared at, and finally couldn't take it anymore, "Didn't I tell you that you can do whatever you want?!"

24 froze for a moment, "Sir? Is the soup too hot?"

"Ah, ah?"

"Your face is very red, and your body temperature is a little high..."

"You, you, stop staring at me!"

"Ok sir."

Then 24 quickly ran away, leaving only Dino at the dining table fanning his face with his hands. Why does this constant temperature room make people feel so dry, so he lowered the thermostat by two degrees .

24 doesn't need to hide from Dino anymore, so Dino finally doesn't want to play hide-and-seek with him like before, eh.

But sometimes when Dino returns home, he still can’t see 24.

At this time, Dino would always stand at the door and call 24's name a little uneasy, and he would be slightly relieved until 24 appeared at the entrance, and then his eyes would be filled with displeasure, "Where were you just now?"

"In the locker room, sir."

"What are you doing there?"

"Standby, sir."

"Why do you have to wait?"

"I have no work to do, sir."

"Then there's no work you need to do... You can do it too, you can do something else..."

24 looked at Dino with some doubts again.

Later, Dino tossed and turned, held back all night, and finally, when he was about to leave the house the next day, he pointed awkwardly at the entrance and told 24, "From now on, I will stand here waiting for me to come back at night!"

In the end, I enjoyed seeing 24 standing at the door saying "You're back" in a nice boyish voice every day when I came back from get off work. After that, it got even worse, and I even asked 24 to wake him up in the morning. The excuse is that he is short-sighted and needs 24 to get him glasses.

Well, the reason he needs 24 to wake him up every morning is because he needs 24 to hand him glasses.

Comrades, everyone is optimistic. A person who has been short-sighted since the age of 13 will live to the age of 24 and needs someone to get up in the morning to hand him glasses.

In fact, the real excuse is that Dino’s personality of a primary school student can come up with comfort to comfort himself. It’s definitely not because he wants to see 24 as soon as he opens his eyes. If Lucas hears about it, he might laugh out loud. Living alone and myopia for so many years, I can't reach out to pick up the glasses on the bedside table and put them on myself.

24 is getting closer and closer to Dino, and Dino's life is more and more inseparable from 24.

He couldn't say whether he liked it or not, but he felt all this with complicated emotions.

Say you like it, but still vaguely resist it in your heart.

Say you don't like it, but you can't control your acceptance of 24.

Even worse, no matter how much you want to ignore it, you can't deny that he doesn't hate 24.

Not only is it not annoying, it's even a little...

In short, maybe if this goes on like this, Dino will really accept 24 completely soon, and even no longer look at it with that kind of resistance.

Just when Dino finished another day of work, rejected the invitation of two juniors from the Propaganda Department, and was about to go home quickly, he saw two aunts who were making a fuss in the after-sales department. boy.

The content of the quarrel fell into my ears intermittently. It turned out that the confused boy was a fourth-generation robot, and the two people who were arguing happily were fighting for the boy's ownership.

Dino has always been not very interested in other people's gossip, but the juniors around him seemed to have heard about this matter, so they chatted casually.

"It's been going on for several days. The robot got separated from its original owner. As a result, an accident caused a head injury, and the central system was also damaged, so I couldn't find it by myself. Later, it was picked up by another person. Here , that blonde lady."

"Didn't ask to return it?"

"No, I just found a knowledgeable person to rebuild the robot, but the data was all emptied, and I just kept it for myself, but the original owner met him again and made a fuss about taking the robot back."

"Well, such things still happen."

Dino was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and asked one of the juniors, "In the end, it should be returned to the original owner, right?"

"But she insists that the robot belongs to her, and now the robot really only stores the data about the second owner."

"All the products we sell have files, right? There should be no doubt about the ownership." Dino continued, "As for the data, it would be good to back up the data again."

"The aunt is miserable because she has not backed up the data, but there is no dispute about this matter. Senior is right, there are files to be found, so it must be returned." The cute junior smiled with the bag in both hands, "That's right. The robot is 'miserable', and the data has to be reorganized again."

The other junior smiled noncommittally, "The two masters are also miserable, one is not worth the loss, and the other has to face that robot again."

"No way, the data with the original owner has been cleared long ago, and there is no backup, so let's start over."

"The original owner must be feeling uncomfortable."

"But there is no other way."

The two juniors were going in the opposite direction to Dino, so they were about to leave.

At the time of parting, I heard the light-haired junior sigh, "I'm not human after all..."

Dino looked at the sky in the distance, and the scene of the boy holding the hand of the yellow-haired owner and hiding behind her flashed in front of his eyes. It turned out that the one who was hidden by it was its original owner.But it doesn't know her at all, just because its data has been cleared.

Thinking of this, Dino couldn't help but think of a figure, so he bit his lip.

Not human after all...

Something in his eyes slowly dimmed, and he didn't know what he was thinking.