This is a very simple little robot.

It does not have many internal instructions.

In a sense, it is more like a chat bot.

You can simply talk to people and perform a series of actions through the instructions you get.

"Squeak..."

Lu Wen held the little robot and opened the door of the toy store.

The wind howling in the city took away the dust from the streets.

At a glance, there are two toy stores on this street alone.

"This little robot, in that era, should be very famous, but not everyone has money to afford it."

Lu Wen walked to the vehicle.

Yin June pressed the glass window and saw the robot in his hand, a little curious.

"What are you doing with this?"

"This...may be the prototype of body zero."

"Are you serious? For this kind of robot with only a few simple instructions, I can make it by myself in half an hour."

Lu Wen handed the little robot to Yin June.

After charging for a while, this robot can barely be used for a few minutes.

"Eighty years have passed, and it can still be turned on. Will the internal battery not age?" Yin June marveled at the robot's ability to span the years.

She took a closer look, and had a few conversations with the little robot by the way.

Finally, I determined my thoughts.

"This is a simple chat bot." Yin June affirmed.

"In fact, besides chat, this robot has other functions." Dr. Jiang, who was sitting in the back row, said with a smile: "Somehow it is possible to carry out some simple actions through instructions given by humans."

"Doctor, you knew it a long time ago?"

"I only found out after I met with Zero yesterday. After I got the data on her underground fortress, it was also incredible."

Lu Wen returned to the main driving position.

The vehicle continued to move towards the center of the city.

According to the coordinates given by the doctor, the place where the main body of No. 0 is located should be the central square of the city.

This was considered a relatively large city back then.

It takes half an hour from entering the city to the central square.

There are many collapsed buildings along the way.

That battle destroyed a half of the city. Countless people were displaced and exhausted, living in fear and anxiety every day. No one can know if they can see the dawn of the next day.

The glass on the exterior walls of high-rise buildings has long been shattered.

The windows of black holes, like the eyes of a dead giant, looked at the visitors on the street.

"Drive slowly, maybe we can meet her." Dr. Jiang said.

"Row."

Lu Wen slowed down the car.

In this ruined city, there is not much scenery to speak of.

Desolation and death are eternal themes.

Photographers and painters may like this kind of place, but the remote no man's land keeps them away.

"Doctor, a chat robot with simple instructions, can it really evolve into zero as it is now?" Yin June asked.

"In theory, this kind of robot has no possibility of evolution at all." Dr. Jiang replied: "It has no willingness to take the initiative to acquire knowledge from the outside world, and there is no such rule in its program."

Dr. Jiang took the lecture very seriously.

He projected a picture for Yin June to understand.

"Human growth is quite strong. From childhood to old age, it is a process of continuously acquiring knowledge."

The projection picture shows a human being gradually getting older.

"Later, when designing the bionics, we also referred to human beings, so there was a learning chip. This chip was not only used to learn human behavior and expressions, but also gave the bionics a willingness to acquire knowledge from the outside world."

Only by continuous learning can we continue to evolve.

Smart bionics will even learn programming knowledge and transform themselves.

But for this kind of chat bot 80 years ago, all programming and internal data are fixed.

"The zero machine is actually not as good as the so-called old machine we have now. If you want to increase the knowledge it has, you can only manually remove the internal memory card, download the content you need, and then install the memory card back."

"That said, the zero number that is often messing up outside shouldn't exist at all?"

"Correct."

A creature that shouldn't exist.

If nothing happens.

This little robot should only have the simplest functions from booting to the final disposal.

But she just broke all common sense and appeared in front of the world.

Is this a miracle or a miracle?

"It is also possible that the person who bought the body of No. 0 has made improvements to No. 0 so that she has the ability to acquire knowledge from the outside world." Dr. Jiang said.

Everything is just speculation.

Six o'clock in the afternoon.

The light of dusk shines on this dead city.

The crimson glow is dotted with gold.

It seems to have a different kind of beauty.

Lu Wen parked his car not far from the central square.

They can no longer move forward.

The road was blocked.

The scene in front of him was unspeakable and unspeakable, and the three of them were stunned.

【Canned Fruit·Expired】

【Dried meat】

【Unidentified Decay】

【Canned Beef·Expired】

【……】

This is a big square.

There are streets leading to this square in four directions.

But now the square and the four extended streets are occupied by countless foods, most of which are already rotten.

More are disappeared in the dust of history.

Eighty years.

Except for some rusty cans, there is only a small amount of meat, which is air-dried in the dry wind and sand in no man's land, but they are all rotten.

...

...

More than eighty years ago.

That sudden war awakened countless people in their sleep.

Local wars began to spread to countless cities and countries.

The social order collapsed.

Countless people took to the streets and smashed the street shops just to grab enough survival supplies before the end of this doomsday war.

"The big country in the north has fought against the country in the west, and now there is a lot of chaos over there."

People in the South sit in front of the TV every day, waiting for the latest news.

Everyone is praying, hoping that the war will not spread to the south.

Anxiety began to spread in the south.

The little boy held the robot in his arms and sat by the window sill, looking at the twinkling stars outside.

"Zero, I heard that there are wars between the north and the west. Fortunately, we live in the south."

"Skyman, number zero, always guarding you by your side!"

There are many different styles of this little robot.

Some will say ‘Protect your safety’ when starting up, some will say ‘Guardian by your side’, and some will just say ‘Follow me to clean up those evils’.

The little boy is twelve years old.

This little robot has been with him for two years, and something seems to be wrong.

The dialogue function is invalid.

No matter what you say to her, she will always repeat this sentence when you turn on the phone.

"Dad, she has a problem with zero, can you fix it for me?"

The little boy’s father is a mechanical engineer. He is busy on weekdays and doesn’t have much time to spend with his family.

So he spent a lot of money to buy this little robot back as a compensation for the child.

"What's the problem?" Father smiled. "The slogan of No. 0 is clearly written. It can be used for ten years. If you repair it frequently, she can accompany you for the rest of your life."

"She can only say a word now."

"Oh? A procedural problem?"

The father took the little robot less than one meter tall from the child.

He spent his free time disassembling and studying the little robot.

As a mechanical engineer, it is not difficult to figure out the principle of this robot.

"Maybe it can make her smarter."

The father decided to surprise the child.

He copied all the data of No. 0, copied it to his computer, and carried out a secondary design on the original program framework.

This process was intermittent and lasted for a long time.

Because of fear that the child will be bored.

So the father first returned the original zero robot to the little boy, and promised that one month later, zero will be upgraded.

This is a very long month.

The flames of war spread.

Meteor-like shells poured into the city, the air defense system was breached, and the night was turned into day by artillery fire.

Flames burned in the ruins.

In the devastated city, there are wailing and weeping everywhere, like purgatory on earth.

The little boy sat on the ruins and looked around blankly.

Not long ago, his parents went to the front line, but now... the whole world is the front line.

"Don't hide in open areas!"

Someone in the distance yelled in the dark.

Thick billowing smoke covered the sky, so that the original twinkling starlight was obscured.

There are not too many survivors.

Some people set off into the distance, looking for places that have not been affected by the war.

Others stayed temporarily, looking for their relatives in the ruins, or waiting for those compatriots who have not yet returned.

After the war, there was madness and despair.

Humanity is shown to the fullest in the desperate situation.

"No. Zero, I'm hungry and want to eat."

"Skyman, number zero, always guarding you by your side!"

The collapsed medical system turned the so-called small lesions into death's sickle.

The rancid smell of the corpse permeated the air.

The little boy has spent a long time with this machine, and he is here waiting for his parents to return.

There are fewer and fewer people in this city.

He is sick.

Become weak and lose weight.

The little robot goes out every day, looking for food for him in the broken city.

The city is very big, but not much food can be found. The food in the supermarket on the street and the shops around it has been robbed by people.

So this little robot looked for among the ruins, under the collapsed floor, maybe there was a buried refrigerator, or something else.

She came back later and later.

Someday.

The little boy suddenly felt that he might be alive soon.

He exhausted all his strength and tremblingly walked out of the refuge where he had been lying for a long time.

This shabby city is empty.

Empty streets.

People don't know where they are.

He staggered down the street, and finally fell on the central square.

The little robot found him late in the day.

"Crack..."

She put the can in her hand on the ground and turned her head.

In her program, there was no meaning of ‘dead’, so she couldn’t understand why the little boy stopped eating.

The days just passed day by day.

This city is very big.

She walked through every store, every supermarket, she climbed among the tall buildings that hadn't collapsed, walked into every house, opened their refrigerator, and searched for their kitchen.

When the battery is low, she will stand in the sun, and the back panel will slowly turn over, exposing the solar panel.

The years have left many marks on her body.

The housing material is aging and faded.

Rust began to spread in some places.

Time will slowly corrode an unmaintained robot. Eighty years seems to be just a short moment.

Under the sunset of this day.

She dragged the corroded shell and staggered back to the central square.

Every step is very slow.

The rays of the setting sun were reddish, shining on the street where the wind and sand were blowing, and a long shadow was drawn behind this little robot.

"She can't support her body for long~lightnovelpub.net~ The three of them stood on the street in the distance, looking at the body of No. 0.

Holding a rusty iron box in his hand, the little robot passed through countless piles of rotten food to the center of the square.

There was a dried corpse lying there.

She gently placed the iron box next to the corpse.

This is a music box.

The rusty shell turned slowly.

Very soft tune, the city in the sky.

The breeze blew across the city, and a simple sound came from the wind, ding dong.

In this deadly city, there is always a lonely and busy figure.

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