After raining for half a month, the sun finally shone in the bay. In the morning the sea was deep and quiet, and there was a light mist. After the glow, the surface of the spring was as clear as a mirror, and the color of the blue became brighter with the increasing burning sunlight. It's really hard to believe that just 150 years ago it was still a deadly dry bare land with pungent odor. A few sailboats came out of the mist. As the mist dispersed, the white sails of the sailboats shone against the light in the sunlight. Looking from afar, the ship's wake in the calm sea carved roads that curved light, not scattered for a long time.
Time seemed stop at this moment.
Slender trees stood randomly on the coast; all are vibrant new lives. They stood like a welcome troop, bathing the first rays of the sun.
Is these small green creatures that make the most of the vicissitudes? Very incredible.
The whole Earth Town is almost all covered by green, not escaped the Axiom. Looking out from the ship's Bridge, half the porthole was covered by vines, projecting shadow of strings over the Bridge's ground under the light of the sun. The leaves of these vines withered in winter, as if they had lost their vigor completely. But when the winter went away, these vines restored to their upright at a visible speed. The yellow leaves had all completed their mission and began to fall in large tracts. When there was a little rain, these leaves would glue to the porthole of the Axiom, which appeared a cluster of brown and black. From the threads of clutter made by leaves, the hazy green patches of the rainy outside could be seen. When these withered leaves are finally washed away by rain, it couldn't judge when the vines had been hung on the tender yellow leaf buds, some even had begun to stretch their own glowing shiny thin body, dancing wantonly in the breeze.
It's not quite the same as the description in the Axiom's data. Wouldn't the leaves fall in autumn?
During the three months, Auto copied the computer data into the spare memory banks first. After discussion with the mayor, he repaired the Axiom's monitor system, reinforced the reactor and repaired the computer extremely cautiously step by step. At present, in addition to the lights control, engine operating system and other functions, the computer had been basically restored the capability to respond to the other parts of the spacecraft. After all, in the present of human condition, it was not necessary.
At the beginning Auto found that there was a lot of data in the computer had lost. It did not need to repair if the lost data is just the recording about the operation of the various departments in the ship. The important thing was to keep the data of Earth that was stored before the ship was ignited. But facing this broken knowledge base, he knew that there were only two ways to fix the data base: one was to send request of the data backup to another starship, the other was to complete it with hands-on experience.
There is no doubt that the second method is absurd. But the first one was equally hopeless. When in space, the Axiom had sent out the high-power contact signal more than once, but only received negligible replies. Now the spacecraft had been stranding on the ground, he did not know whether this signal can be burst into space, to be received by even only one BNL ship.
Still, he activated the ultra-range signal launch system of the ship. He did not know whether the sound of the slight increase of power from the ship's inside out had penetrated the vast plain. But no one seemed to concern about this as a possible sound as something might take off. He felt a bit empty after the message transmitting was finished. There was nothing more he could do. The only hope is to wait until the faint message had been received by anyone and successfully transmitted back to Earth.
Although Han's parents didn't know so much science and technology, at least they kept their words. They didn't tell anyone about the awoken of Auto. Not until on the harvest celebration the mayor announced in front of the public that he had been rebooted did the Earth Town people know. Some people were wrathful at that time. The mayor asked them to state their reason, almost all were just out of the concern about the warning given by Captain McCrea. The mayor had already taken it into account, he calmly explained it and let Eve and Wall-E testify that Auto was not dangerous anymore. The affirmative response from Eve and Wall-E immediately calmed people down.
Auto watched the whole celebration through a small video recorder quietly placed by mayor next to the square.
And that was the whole story. No one else came up to the Bridge and visit him later. After learning that he would not do anything to intimidate people, the news quickly lost its value.
That's the way it was. After more than 100 years, who would talked about him still with a pale face? The passing of time and memory made everything fade away. Unless the devil really appeared in front of people, otherwise even listening to the Devil's story every night when was a child, when people grow up they would said: Oh, that's a little scary.
Moreover, the devil has been turned. Or it was not the devil at all.
In these 3 months, Han got what he wanted. He was finally able to run to the Axiom every day. He could slam a shovel to the ground even in front of the big boys. A week later, he began to wonder about what he could see today as he climbed the staircase to the Bridge. It's not just about what he wants to learn, but also the pleasantly improved condition of the Bridge.
It was not until Auto began to teach him did Han found himself only had little knowledge of computer science compared to Auto. Han could not say whether the teacher is good or bad because Auto's teaching method was different from what he had seen in the video before. Auto barely spoke. When Han didn't understand something , he just quickly "flew" to a part of the console, press a number of buttons to pop holo screens, then let Han see by himself. Auto would only spoke unless the computer failed to show what he wanted to show, but even if he did, it would not be more than 20 words at a time.
In addition to speaking too little, Han found Auto had never shown hostility by the time. He didn't even realize that he was becoming more and more presumptuous in talking to Auto. Once he accidentally blurted a swearword in front of Auto. Actually he did not mean to aim at Auto, but he realize the mistake just after he said the word. He looked at the red optic in front of himself, feeling chill running through his body. But Auto did not say anything, just continue to explain the question to the boy.
Han suddenly realized that the wheel like robot seemed to have changed his way of speaking. He thought for a while and found that Auto seemed to have not spoken in monotone for a long time, and the content in his sentences was much richer than before. When did this begin? Han couldn't figure out the answer. But he did feel that it is a good thing because he did not need to ask Auto for repetition or questioning because of the robot's monotones and minimalist answers.
Sometimes Auto would ask Han something about the Earth. What surprised Han was Auto's question was going to extremes. Some of the questions in Han's view even a 3-year-old children would not ask, but for some other questions often made the boy suppressed. These questions were not that Han couldn't understand. He know the phenomenon that Auto talked about but he just couldn't know why.
This day Han jumped off the bed and began to run towards the Axiom near the dawn. Auto told him a few days ago that he would be able to leave the Bridge. Han was really curious about this; he constantly asking Auto by insinuating ways how he could do that, even let Auto say affirmative or negative to match his own conjecture. But as an old slick who had worked for 700 years, it was possible for Auto to fool a young teenager. He faced the various temptations of Han and the answers were always ambiguous. Auto just told Han to wait and see.
"W…will you leave the bridge without saying anything? " Helplessly, Han asked Auto.
"Negative." Auto answered.
"So…are you going to wait for me first and then leave?" Han asked further.
"Affirmative."
Han became excited after hearing this. Every day he would wake up early but excitingly and rushed to the Axiom to see what Auto was planning. He was disappointed on the first few days. Han was not so excited as before days after. The rest part of him was really reluctant to leave the bed early, but curiosity overcame his tiredness.
But when he got out of the staircase, he paused immediately. Auto was hanging right in front of him, but something seemed wrong.
Not working upon the console busily or watching the video that had been accelerate, Auto was just hanging quietly, facing the staircase, the red optic now was dark. The boy approach the robot, puzzling.
"Auto?" Han whispered, quietly asking.
No response.
Too tired? Must not possible… Han thought to himself. He could not help proceeding further.
"Auto?" He called again.
Still no response.
Suddenly he realized something. He stretched his arm up and opened the lid that cover the switch of the robot, and the state of the board made him jump into the air.
Sure enough, someone had went up to the bridge to turn him off! He reached up and pressed the manual switch back to auto, and then waited for the red light appear from the central of the inert wheel.
But something was completely wrong. Even by doing this Auto didn't respond. Han checked the switch again and finally found out why. The sign on the panel now was all dark. Even in manual mode, the sign should be half lit.
That was the worst of the worst. Some vital wires inside the robot must have been disconnected, the energy was not supply to him either. Han trembled and patted himself hurriedly, annoyed to find that he didn't carry any tools. Great. Han thought in panic. He had to rush back home to get the tools or had to call the engineer robots, but neither of these options was good. Who knew how long Auto had been in this condition? What would happen in this case ...
If that was an accident, his functional data might have fiercely lost.
So... will him still be him?
Han was jolted by his terrible thought. He immediately rushed to the console, typing instructions to call a repair robot up to the Bridge.
He had just run two paces, suddenly behind him came a strange, metallic cold voice that he had never heard before.
"What are you doing?"
Han froze. He stopped and turned around, what he saw made him staggered back a few steps, cause him almost hit the rear of the console.
An silver-gray android was standing next to the back console, looking at him. There was only one optic on the central of the android's face. Now the optic was dark, which was a little scary. The android seemed quite different from other aboard robots. Some words was engraved on his left chest. In addition, there was no other decoration on his body, yet the blue waist lines that were commonly seen in other robot crews cannot be found in this android. He only got the dull all-silver shell. He looked a little bit like a NAN-E on the Axiom, but obviously he was not the same type. This strange android really scared the boy.
"Who ... Who are you? " Han asked, frightening.
The android pointing to Auto hanging in the center of the Bridge.
Han's eye balls almost fall out. The boy looked like being choked with a walnut, he seemed to be frozen on the Bridge.
"I won't believe it." Han finally thawed out from the slack, trying to keep calm. "Who the hell are you?"
The android who claimed himself as Auto pressed a button on the console and a holographic screen popped out. He pointed to the holo screen to let Han watch it on his own. The boy slowly approached the holographic screen with vigilance, during which time he stared at the unidentified android. His muscles are taut and ready to flee or guard against the potential attack from the android.
Seeing this, the android took a step back, keeping a distance between Han. The boy stared at the android several times in a suspicious manner, until he confirmed that the android seemed to have shown no signs of attack, then he dared to focus on the holographic screen to see what was playing.
After a few seconds he finally recognized what was in it. That's the surveillance footage of the ship. More exactly it was the surveillance footage of the Bridge. The content on the screen is dark, indicating that it should be a nighttime shot. In the picture, Auto moving surprisingly fast up the console. Studying with Auto for three months Han judged that though Auto's action is logical and quick, he would not moving that fast. He knew it was a accelerate play.
Han was suddenly attracted by the came scene. In the screen, Auto arrived where he had stopped in the middle of the Bridge now and didn't move more. Han can see the red light in the optic of Auto was still exist, indicating that he was not in the standby mode. He looked as if he was waiting for something.
Ten more seconds later, about four or five robots flew into the Bridge. Han couldn't help closing to the holographic screen. He saw two of the robots were carrying a cuboid subject. Han couldn't tell what it was in the dark. Auto's red light flashed almost imperceptibly for several times, and the robots quickly dispersed. One of the robots quickly worked on that cuboid unknown object, and the other, at the same time, was doing something strange and rapid. Han couldn't tell what he was doing. Another flew near the console, as if to fetch something. And just then, Auto's red light suddenly disappeared.
Han was puzzled for a second to discover that there was a robot seemed to stick to the vicinity of Auto. In the dark, Auto and the robot's figure were the two groups that look stuck together in the shadow.
There was no light in the Bridge now. Han could only faintly see that in the screen was a group of moving shadows. About three minutes these groups of shadows were together, Han can only see a very small movement. At first, Han thought that the video was buffering . When he found that the video was not stuck, he began to sip his mouth and count the time impatiently for a few seconds.
When the boy was about to turn around very impatiently, the contents of the video changed. The shadows began to dissolve. Only three of them were still there. The others quickly went to the console for a round and then back to the center of the Bridge, but at this time they were not as close as they had been previously. Each black regiment kept a little distance from the big shadow in the center.
Suddenly, near the edge of the shadow a red spot shone, almost facing the camera. Han could clearly see that the red spot was not as bright as a few minutes ago, but it was staring at him straightly, round and empty. The frightening level of this scene could definitely be selected as the alternative segment of a horror movie. Han felt all of his hairs were fixed. Fortunately, his curiosity still occupies an absolute advantage, he was not scared to shut the screen immediately.
Then the shadows began to move again. Two of them came to the center of the shadow, which movement could hardly be seen. After more than 10 seconds, the red spot moved. It turned from the first position that the whole optic faced the camera to shine like Auto back to the video just started. But this red spot did not move as fast as how Auto moved, instead, it moved very slowly and each movement was just around a small range.
Since the red spot came out of the center big shadow, it was wrapped in another small shadow. The other shadow back to the center shadow to continue working. Han found that the robots carried the unknown rectangle object, slowly moving to the staircase and then disappeared. What left in the screen was the completely dark figure of Auto and the new red-glowing shadow that had approached the console.
There was a very light click sound before Han could further react, the holographic screen in front of Han disappeared. Han turned his head, confronting the robot, the protagonist of a horror movie who had just switched the screen off.
"See?" The android spoke. His voice was not as low as Auto's, but his tone was not high either. For now, he had not spoken anything in flat tone.
Han knew what was going on. He gave the silver android with an indefinable look and looked at the droid again and again. The droid was not very tall, just about 5 feet 5 inches. He noticed that the markings on the left chest of the droid were different from those of other crew robots, which embossed the EP-003 words.
"What is the EP?" The boy was still alert.
"ExPlorer." The android answered calmly. This time, he no longer pointed at Han with his round dark optic, instead he turned to the console and operated rapidly without looking at the buttons. A holographic screen immediately came out. Familiar interface presented in front of the Han, the boy finally felt a little comfortable.
Han still didn't quite believe it. He stood still on the middle of Bridge and stared at the android but was thinking fast. He wanted to ask the android what he had been impressed with before, but he was overruled by himself because that being was not a human and could not prove it. Asking some knowledge about the Axiom was also probably not a good choice to clarify a robot for they could share data.
The android waited silently for Han to tidy up. Just like Auto always did. For a moment, Han wanted to disarm and surrender, no matter what the hell exactly that droid was, just accept his identity. But somehow, the idea made him silent and forced him to shook.
"You ... This ... "Han frowned and struggled to tidy up his own language," Not ... "
The boy took a deep breath. He calmed himself down, and then he said. "I still don't believe it. You have to come up with more conclusive evidence."
Hearing this, the android swayed for a very little range, which was hardly to be perceived. He seemed to be thinking too. The boy looked at the droid alertly but firmly.
"Han." The cold voice suddenly occurred. "The only way to prove it does not apply now. "
"What?" Han didn't understand.
The android said nothing. He looked over the lifeless steering wheel hanging on the middle and seemed search for something. Then he took his eye back. "The core chip has been put here now. " The android pointed on the surface of his own processor, " but I cannot show you. If you don't believe it, you can go there to check by yourself. You will find the slot of this chip is now empty. " Then the droid pointed at the wheel.
Han suspiciously looked at the android, and went to the centre of the Bridge. He managed to reach for the processor area and was surprised after he opened the protective shell that shouldn't have been so easily to open. When he finally saw the empty slot in the dark inside, he no more felt the doubts in his heart.
"There may be have a chance to verify it later." The android looked at the boy's movements and spoke again, "Have no reason lie to you. "
That did sounded like what Auto would say. Han paused after hearing it. Thoughts were swirling again in the boy's mind. That's right. Han thought. The worst case is—if the android was the fake Auto, then why he tried so hard to convince me, what was the purpose? Letting me trust him and then confess anything? But he doesn't need anything from me ... Definitely he can get much more from the ship computer and other crew robots and other humans ... There's really no reason ...
And who the hell on Earth would have such knowledge to do such a thing to deceive me? Han continued to think. Some of the imaginative answers jumped out in the mind, the boy shook his head hard to shake these strange ideas out. But his constant vigilance is still unable to let him trust this matter.
"I should have told you all about this earlier." The android suddenly spoke. "Letting you guess is not a good idea."
Han stared at the android and couldn't help stepping back to the console. His Wall of Distrust sudden tumbling down. He actually guessed a few days ago that Auto might change the body to get out of the ship, but he could not imaging which kind of crew bots can be fitted with Auto and all these robots just seemed not right when putting Auto in. BNL crew robots were designed as the master of proper single functions. He couldn't imagine which specific work will Auto do. So he rejected the answer from the beginning. He thought Auto would more likely to put a lot of monitoring equipments on the Earth, or using a holographic projection device to get off the ship indirectly.
But he looked at the droid's back, a baffling strange feeling occurred. He had seen so many robots. Except teaching robots(NAN-E) that look a little humanoid, there was no robot have the structure that almost completely imitated a human being like this. looking at the silver material of Auto's new body, he found it very different from the other crew robots. This was not the usual style of the BNL company.
And—Han suddenly remembered—he had definitely given Auto this option, but Auto reject all of them!
The boy did not know where he got the courage and punched the android's shoulder mercilessly, who was operating the console. But to his surprise, Auto could hardly resist such a push. Luckily he stretched out his hand at once to the edge of the console, or he would fall to the ground.
"Don't push." At the same time Auto spoke to him. Han swore to himself he had heard some plea in the metallic voice.
Obviously, Auto was not very adaptable to the new body. Han also discovered that Auto had hardly ever get away of the console. He had a bunch of words to get out of his mouth, but those words just spun round in the throat and couldn't come out. He could only stare at the android. Auto seemed to know what he wanted to say as usual, so he just stood quietly and waited. The Bridge left an awkward silence.
"Are you going to leave today?" Finally, Han ask the sentence he waited for several days. It was just not as he had imagined.
"Not today." Auto turned his optic to the window, "Still have something to be done. "
"Oh yes," Han suddenly remembered the question he had just wanted to ask when he was watching the video, and he tapped the android's arm. "How do you feel now?"
"Feel?" The dark optic was set on Han's face. Han noticed the sensitive changes in the aperture.
"Just ... What's your condition?"
"Compatible." Auto replied. "Not in the best status."
Han frowned. The boy rubbed his face with his hand. He certainly knew Auto was adapting to the body but that was not the answer he wanted to hear. But he couldn't tell what he wanted to know.
It seems that there's never have such the problem when asking the same with people. He suddenly thought.
The unique buzzing sound of the operating robot echoed inside the staircase. Han turned. A few flying robots carried some black plastic film with their own clips appeared in the staircase. To his surprise, the flying bots did not heed the shell of their former boss, who was hanging in the middle of the Bridge, and they looked unanimously toward Auto, who had already change the body, staying in the corner of the Bridge. They just waited for further instructions without any surprise reaction.
Auto motioned them to the French window, and as usual, he retreated to the rear of the bridge to make a chunk of space for the robots. Han also unconsciously receded back, standing beside the android.
Han looked at the robots in amazement. They went straight to the French windows facing the outside, putting down their loads and picked up only one piece of membrane close to the window first. Han found that the two sides of the membrane seem to be somewhat different, one side is totally black, and the other side of the membrane seems to be against the glare of the sun from outside. A few flying robots worked together to expand the black plastic membrane with their claws, pulling the upper corners straight, then approaching the glass window with the machine's peculiar precision, and glued the upper part of the first membrane to the glass with amazing synchronization. The boy saw the reflective side toward the outside, the black side is toward the bridge. Then they straightened up the lower part of the film to straighten it down, and the first film was completely covered in the first part of the bridge French window in almost the same steps. The whole bridge seemed to darken down a bit.
Han glanced at Auto in puzzle, the robot explained.
"Prevents the sunlight from damaging the console."
When they done, the bridge became totally dark. Han suddenly was aware that there seems to be a little strange happened around. Looking back, he was almost startled—the familiar red light was slowly brightening in the optic of the android, and eventually the bright red light was completely filled with the entire optic, as if an evil soul had awakened from it.
"Infrared is on." The android noticed Han's startled expression and explained it without emotion.
Auto went to another part of console in the dark Bridge and lit a holographic screen with something playing rapidly. He stared motionless at the holographic screen of the quick-changing scene, seemingly unaware that Han had come behind him. The boy looked at it curiously for a moment and found that it was all describing the Earth.
"What are you watching at?" Han couldn't help asking.
"Earth."
" I know it's Earth. Why? "
"I have to know the situation."
The boy's face twisted. It's safe on the ground now, he couldn't imagine that the robot actually had to take a theory class. Anyway, one would know if one go down and try.
" Are you scared? "
"... No. "
I tell you, this are useless." Han was a little skeptical when he heard such a hesitant answer, but he continued. "You have to go out on your own to know what to do, just look at these are useless."
"Better than knowing nothing." Replied Auto.
In Han's view, this kind of behavior was very ridiculous. But he somehow didn't want to laugh at Auto. Han thought for a while, eventually gave up the further inquiry, went to his usual part of the console, began to watch videos in bored.
Since Auto began to take over the task of repairing the computer, Han felt that he was exactly an extra person, all he could do was only watch Auto skillfully use the various functions of the computer and the console. And Auto was just burying his hands. He wouldn't find help unless he had to take the tools he didn't find inside the bridge. By the time Han finally could touch the console, those glitches had been handled cleanly, leaving him with almost flawless panels left. Click on what, basically is a normal state, no fun fault left for him.
Suddenly, the boy felt the communicator in his pocket vibrate a bit. He took it out and saw the message was come from the mayor.
【What's the status of the min computer? Two days later is the Landing Day, you can ask Auto if he would like to watch the live broadcast of our celebration. 】
Han chuckled. He looked nervously at Auto, fortunately found that the robot was still immersed in the fast-jumping video. Han decided to play a trick.
【I think the main computer is quite well.】Han inputted characters, while glancing secretly at Auto, 【Mr. Grande, he said no need to put the camera, 'cuz he will show himself at the scene.】
【What do you mean?】
【He's changed a body, and he can come down. 】
【Good news. I'll announce it to the villagers. 】
Han stared at the message, grinning from ear to ear.
【Well, Mr. Grande, he said it will be a surprise, so there is no need to announce it. 】
【Well, we have surprises waiting for him too.】
Han was unable to restrain the silent huge smile as if to drop the chin. Suddenly, he realized that Auto's red eye was staring at him. The boy shut his mouth at once, and at the same time nervously glanced back. Sure enough, the robot was staring at him. At once, Han immediately turned to the video being played in front of him, and began to laugh recklessly, regardless of whether there was any laughing point on it.
The android stared at him for a while, turning his head back to his theory class.
"Hey man." After Han laughed and found that Auto was not suspicious, he asked," When are you going to leave? "
"Depends on how much I need to know."
"Come on, I'll tell you all these stuff, that's a lot more useful than you are watching at now. " Through months of getting along with Auto, Han found that Auto was actually very easygoing. Sometimes he tried to get in touch with the robot, and the robot didn't jumped away or became malignant. So now he's putting his hand on Auto's shoulder. "The Morning after tomorrow, okay?"
"Alright."
Han smiled. "Great!" He said, "You shall wait for me on the bridge, I'll take you out."
" There is no need. "
Han stared at the robot, "Of course you need it." He said, "Beware of getting into trouble when the first dirt stick on your feet."
"Alright." Even so, Auto couldn't understand why getting into trouble with the first step.
The sudden rise of Han's mood had long alerted Auto. His 700 years of running memory told him that although human behavior always lack logic, there was a general causal relationship. Seeing that Han didn't point it out, Auto decided to look for the reason by himself. For 700 years, this habit had always enabled him to get the most information with the least amount of resources.
He first asked from the ACNS what day it was after two days, and compared the time of the Axiom to confirm that the information was reliable. Then he got a crucial message from someone who couldn't tell whether he was afraid of him or just too lax to explain that Han was so excited—All the new members who joined the Earth Village in the past year would get a special and interesting welcoming ceremony on that day.
【What kind of welcoming ceremony?】Auto asked,without alerting the other robot.
【Well, it depends on those humans ... Anyway, since I came off the ship, every time the welcome ceremony was different. 】
【Like?】
【The first time it was to welcome the SECUR-Ts and it rained that day, so they all got a mud bath.】
Auto didn't respond.
【The second time is to welcome the rest of the EVEs, uh ... That one was a disaster, 'cuz they almost blasted the whole square over.】
Guessed it. Auto thought silently.
【Boss, you're coming to the celebration, right?】 The robot realized why Auto asked these. 【That will be big news.】
【I WILL NOT COME】Auto answered him with a few uppercase characters.
【Er er ...】 the robot paused for a long time without responding, as if searching for the words, 【boss, even if the ELEs didn't say, your tag of the ACNS has changed, we all know that you can come out now.】
If Auto had a face, it would twist.
【And even if you don't come, probably things going to be worse on the bridge ...】
【How?】
【Er ... I... I don't know ... 】even far away from Auto, he seemed to be facing Auto's torture directly. 【I'm telling you, those humans, they're going to trick you in various ways, you can't hold it ...】 after a while he suddenly added, 【I'm serious! I'm not kidding! How I dare!】
Things came as a surprise to Auto. Is that why Han told him that foot clay would cause trouble?
He suddenly pulled himself out of the ACNS, turned his head and scanned the bridge for a round, there was no sign of the boy. The slick quietly slipped away when he didn't know about it.
This had never been a problem before. Auto was surprised by his lax level. He used to be sensitive to any change in the surroundings, whether at that time is busy or idle, as long as not in standby mode. The body gave him very strange feelings. Even with the storage space of several series larger than before, the sensitivity did not make him feel a corresponding improvement.
Technically, his original core chip was embedded intact into the body, so all the data was well kept, including the previous action cache. Even in the transfer, those ELEs must have carefully packaged the original program according to the instructions, in theory, he should not have the inertia of the previous behavior now, and he should be able to adapt immediately. But he still felt that his every move was very awkward.
When the body was running, there would be a lot of system files that he simply couldn't find that were valuable, and these things would quickly take up the storage space that would have predicted optimistic. He soon found himself running at an unstable pace than before. And he was restless to find himself unable to categorize the stored data constantly, and the files did not seem to move in his will. The original chip seemed to have turned into a read-only memory card: He can view the contents of all the files, but all the programs inside seem to be unable to run. He's even more annoyed.
Why annoyed easily? Auto suddenly realized that his emotions changed much swifter than before, and each time he was given an illusion that almost into bursting.
The area of the emotional module could not be found and could not be set.
If he can, he would have a sour face.
Even with a black reflective film, he knew it was dark outside. The data request signal sent some time ago has not been answered until now, even he knew it had to take time even in the fastest response, he decided to send it again just in case.
In fact, before he sent the request, he faintly felt that there seemed to be something wrong with his body. But because he had never felt a similar feeling before, and the body did not pop up any warning message, he did not aware. He pressed the send box, and heard a sound of powering up that seemed to be increasing from the inside out of the Axiom. As he was about to move, an indescribable feeling suddenly rushed from the knee to his treatment unit, and then felt that the servo motor near the knee joint suddenly seemed to be disconnected, almost let him fall forward. Before he could react, the body seemed to help him make a choice. He looked up and found his metal hand clinging tight to the edge of the console.
He didn't know why he knew he was going to do it. It was only when the red dots of the hovering chairs retained in the ship gradually appeared in the holographic screen in front of him that he had just realized him seemed to have typed something hustle and bustle in the console. He froze as he typed the keyboard on the console. Then he raised his hand and looked at it. Without knowing why, now the end of the limb came a lot more intense than the original body. Presumably other parts would have the same change.
This body worked very different from the previous wheel-like body. It's not just the difference between appearance and simple functions, more came from the inside—although so far it seemed to obey his instructions, he felt that the reaction would often be overdone. So far, at least, the body has never given him a pop-up window for A part state warning, and the result has always waited until he was really unwell before he realized it. He also wanted to figure out how to use the newly added parts in the beginning, to his frustration, the components that were clearly there just could not be initiated.
There are instructions for his new body. But the manual, which was supposed to be much thicker than any other crew robot, was unexpectedly thin. It seems to be meant to be cursory, just been cursory wrote town to reluctantly get the minimum space of passed the BNL Company's audit conditions, then was hastily printed out to storage into the box.
After he had looked through the material carefully, he looked again at the absence of important information might embedded in it. After confirmation, the manual was put into the decomposition beam without hesitation.
Although the plastic film could block most of the sunlight, in the Bridge Auto could still perceive the light changes from the outside. Just like closed eyes can still feel the light moving near the eyelids. It was slowly getting brighter outside.
The holo-screen in front of him still had 10% left of all progress. Auto had once again speeded up the video. There should be no more important information left.
Actually things really run as they did. Human videos were full of junk.
If you ask why he didn't connect to the computer and download all the information from it, the answer is he had tried it already and failed. Even if the two had passed the agreement, when he opened his storage space from the computer, he found that nothing can be displayed, so as other files.
He gradually moved the focus from the video content to his own thinking.
What's going to happen today? He began to anticipate.
Fortunately, no matter where the data is stored, what he was looking for would appear quickly without errors.
It seemed harder to concentrate as he used to be, but his mind was still clear.
Unconsciously he didn't realize the video.
He ran the human's schedule of this day over and over again, carefully singling out his route, simulating all the countermeasures that might be encountered ...
Wait, is it possible that he could finish all the countermeasures?
There's no time to think about whether it would be done. More and more events flooded in, so that he could not spare more space thinking about rationality at all. The speed of the inrush was still accelerating, and events somehow was no longer a simulation but had actually happened. He had never experienced anything like that on the ship, but he had came out a perfect solution before the next incident.
Does this prove that the theory class is effective?
It was hard to finally slow down. With a little review, he creepy found that the original things had long been experienced. When? Certainly not in space.
"Auto?"
All the processes stuck.
The optic lit up at once. Half a second later he jerked up from the console.
Why on the console? Auto quickly scanned the position he had just pressed. Have I had just typed some repeating or weird things ...
"Have you stayed up all night?" Han pointed to a holographic screen that no longer played, and looked at bewildered Auto in pity.
Auto said nothing, just silently shutting down the holographic screen.
"It's time to go, be energetic." "Han took two steps back and stood in the middle of the Bridge.
Auto reluctantly set the computer to sleep mode, then he said.
"Slick." This was the first time that Auto ever used such a appellation to Han. The boy turned to the android, astonished. " Prepared well to trick me?"
Han's jaw dropped, "You have already know all of this…"
"If you dare to trick-"
"you will kill us all?" Han interrupted him.
"…" Auto paused at the boy's words, "Just watch out."
To tell the truth, Han was quite afraid. So he began show coercion with inducement. "Think about you've kept a good record for 3 months, if you break it again, I can't save you."
" None of you gave me the chance to keep it. "
"Hey, this is exactly a chance, Auto." Han chuckled, but said it in a serious tone, "if you put up with it, your impression will be changed and make us feel that you are actually quite kind—"
"Wrong." Auto said. " I don't strike back doesn't mean that I am friendly."
This really was a surprise to Han. Did such an easygoing impression that Auto gave him was fake? he couldn't help but pull himself away from Auto.
"Well ... You... leave or not? " He stammered.
"Leave." Auto, as always, gave a reply almost as soon as Han said. "You lead the way, you promised."
"Oh." Han squeezed out a sound.
For the first time, Han felt that the robot, which he once trusted, was now very dangerous. He walked stiffly in front, without noticing that he had been forced to focus on the distance and intensity of his stride.
Compared to the teenager who was walking in front, Auto did not care about any strange from the boy He looked at the inside of the Axiom at ease. It's the first time he didn't see it from the surveillance. The dry data didn't come to life until now. The Axiom was just too enormous, but was empty and cold.
The footsteps echoed in the cabin.
They passed one gate after another, and the bright light outside shone into the cold cabin. A lattice of bright and dark stripes is projected in the huge inner space of the ship.
"Why not go out from the first gate?" After walking through several boarding ports, Auto asked.
"Now there's water down there and we cannot going to the right side." Replied Han. After a while he add, "Actually if you want you can still get to the land, but I don't want get my clothes wet."
Han finally turned to an gate. Auto went out without thinking more. But as soon as he stepped out, he couldn't help but stopped on the boarding platform.
Unlike the environment in the bridge, even very different from when he was in the cabin. Countless new data poured into his processor in an instant. He couldn't immediately realize what these things really were. Reflected in the optic was a clear and unparalleled scenery, three-dimensional and living, not the same as what he had seen. At first he didn't realize what the whoop was ringing through the audio receiver. It was only when a stream of air pushed him hard that he gradually recalled the explanation he had seen on the Axiom. The reaction was slower than every reaction before. There's no data to tell him that's the wind. Even after recognizing that this was the wind, the description in the computer was accurate.
Han wanted to urge Auto to follow him, but after seeing Auto's performance, he stopped silently on the slope, waiting for the bewildered android to slowly adapt himself.
The powerful sunlight of the late spring slowly left countless fingerprints with temperature on his shell. Auto could not help but reach his hand. A warm and damp air surged across the boarding platform, sometimes stroking and shoving the two small individuals standing on the platform. And at that point, Auto suddenly discovered something completely new.
He didn't know what it was. He had never experienced it, but there were indeed some elements that seeped into his sensors.
Is that what Captain B. McCrea called? Auto asked himself. Is this freedom?
Unlike the excitement that most people hold when got back to Earth, Auto did not feel any excitement. Although he was still immersing in the new feeling from all over the body, his thinking at this time was unusually calm, calm to almost empty.
He lowered the blind on the optic. Without visual input, the rest of the feeling became clearer. There seemed to be something in the ethereal mind. In the next moment, he was surprised to feel that his circuit seemed to have been activated, and the messy data began organize their own new activities. An unprecedented shock stirred him from the inside out. By the time all this was finally calmed down, the mind was already full of queues that had taken on meaning.
"Let's go." Han heard the android finally spoke. The boy turned and tried to endure the sharp pull of his grin, bathing in the wet warm sun of late spring and walking down the platform.
A/N: Sorry everyone. For now I am the Medical student of the second year and I have to get my GPAs from now on. So After uploading this chapter I don't know whether I have time to upload the next chapter in English. But the good news is the Chinese Stardust (Which is known for 《彗核》) will be regularly updated every month. I know it is hard for you to read in Chinese and you have to use a Google translator or something else, but that is what I can do the best. If you have any question about the story after you use the translator, please review. Thank you for your understanding.
