2 13 1 year, with the rapid development of human science and technology, people live in a world full of high-tech products everywhere. I have changed this year.

My name is Liu Hai, and I work in a world-famous intelligent robot manufacturing company. My working time is 2 1 15. Although my position in the company is not high, as a technician, I can say that my income is not thin. In addition to maintaining the normal life of the whole family, my salary every quarter will leave a lot of money for investment, and sometimes I will save some money for my family to travel. To put it bluntly, I am also a semi-successful person.

2 129, I am 39 years old. Unfortunately, I was diagnosed with an incurable disease during my physical examination. The attending doctor told me that with the maintenance of drugs, I can live for five years at most. It can also be simply understood as prolonging life with drugs. I worked hard for 14 years and achieved a medium level in my original company. At the same time, I have also engaged in several sideline businesses after work, and I am not short of money. The medicine is expensive, but I can bear it. Dr. Li told me that during the medication, the rate of body tissue necrosis will decrease, but the side effect is intermittent numbness. Life is worse than death. I was treated by Dr. Li.

During the medication, my body can continue to function normally. However, in addition to numbness, the side effects are accompanied by gastrointestinal discomfort, and vomiting has become a common occurrence. In the face of illness, I once had the idea of suicide, but the thought that my parents are still alive, my children are still studying, and my wife loves me as always and will never leave me gives me the motivation to live. As long as the company doesn't fire me, I will still work, and I will leave a large legacy to my family after my death. In this way, I spent a year in illness.

From 265438 to 030, our company and the "brain project" research institute are cooperating to build a project. The ultimate goal of this project is "eternal life". This "eternal life" is not the eternal life of the body, but the eternal life of human consciousness. Its core technology is to extract human consciousness and memory, and then input it into a super processor (artificial brain). In this way, we can abandon our original bodies and act by machinery. Because the ultimate goal of this project is a little anti-human, in order to prevent some unnecessary troubles, both parties limit the personnel involved in the project to a fixed range of activities during their work, and even communication is restricted. Except for household words, research projects are not allowed at all. Although I dragged my body like this, I was lucky to be selected by the company. I became one of them for a generous reward. It is also because of my health that the company allows me to go home regularly for a short stay. (Bugs and cameras must be installed)

Our company is mainly responsible for the manufacture of mechanical bodies, and the "brain project" is to completely extract biological consciousness. As for the combination of life consciousness and mechanical body, it can only be realized by the joint efforts of both sides. I am one of the heads of the mechanical body, and I built the most important driving system. During this period, my colleagues and I discussed the transmission mechanism of body force for a whole month. Finally, it is decided to take the traditional hydraulic system as the main body and mechanical components as the auxiliary driving system. The core of its hydraulic power is the controllable hydraulic oil pump driven by electric energy. Due to the high pursuit of our company, the materials used to make oil pumps are very expensive alloys (Martian minerals, meteorites and some metals on the earth, etc.). After testing, the oil pump can run for 300 years under the full load of the simulated engine body.

Nine months later, the "eternal life" project is coming to an end. I gave full play to my intelligence in the high-intensity work. The company pays me both salary and bonus. After getting paid, the company gave us a short vacation and I went home. 2 1 30 65438+1October 21At 7 o'clock in the evening, my family specially cooked a sumptuous meal to celebrate my temporary relief from busy work.

Money is a good thing. But "making money" is a bit ironic to me. When I was young, I forgot to eat and sleep, and exchanged health for money. After my illness, I used money to maintain my fragmented body. Now, for the sake of my family, I once again force myself to support this dying body with faith. The family had dinner in a happy atmosphere, and I could laugh even if I was uncomfortable. But everyone in my family knows that my face is much worse than before I joined the project. Presumably after dinner, they will come together to persuade me to resign!

Sure enough, half an hour after dinner, my wife and my mother came to persuade me. But how can I change my mind easily? I cleverly persuaded them with this natural golden mouth and jade words. After working continuously for nine months, my broken body became worse. May not live for a year. I must do something good for my family.

The "Eternal Life" project is progressing very smoothly, except for in vivo experiments. The top management of the company has made a lot of efforts in this regard, relying on extensive contacts, and found five death row prisoners and three permanently frozen prisoners from prisons in some remote cities. Of course, once an agreement is reached with the prison, the company will definitely use some funds to buy life. Thinking that his time was running out, he took the initiative to talk to the company's top management about experimental cooperation without telling his family. I have a lot of contacts in the company, and signed an agreement with the company on the relationship between layers. The general idea is that whether it is successful or not, the company will not bear any responsibility, but at the same time, I must carry out eternal transformation after three successful cases. I know I'm selfish about life. I once traded the lives of three death row inmates for inner peace, and anyone would think I was a scumbag. Of course, this matter is also a secret agreement. I won't let my colleagues know, let alone my family know.

Before the formal transformation, I lay flat on the designated position of the consciousness extraction manipulator. I recall my parents' meticulous care for me when I was a child, the first time I went to school, the first time I made friends in this strange environment of college, the first time I met my wife, and then I became a happy father. I think of all kinds of good memories of the past. The warning sound interrupted my memory. I closed my eyes and greeted this upcoming freshman nervously and excitedly.

"instruction! Select the C memory area. "

"Are you sure?"

"confirm."

"C memory area is selected!"

I gradually became conscious, but I could only open my eyes and couldn't move my limbs.

When I saw my colleagues around me, they all looked happy.

"I ... did I succeed?"

"Liu, congratulations! How do you feel now? " My immediate boss, Mr. Li, asked urgently.

"My head is a little dizzy, I have some difficulties in speaking, and my body is a little conscious, but I can't move. Besides, your voice is so strange. "

"It's okay, liu. Don't mention the difficulty, you are now in the adaptation period. We will explain it to you later. " As soon as the voice fell, the technician next to him put on a helmet with three pipes attached.

After a long time, my head feels much more comfortable, but my body still can't move. I opened my eyes and could only look at the white ceiling. The light is bright, but I don't feel dazzling at all. After a while, a noisy footstep came to my side.

Manager Li leaned over. "Liu, you don't try so hard, the next step is the time for the staff of the program development department to explain to you. You'll get used to it after listening. "

A man in white casual clothes stood in front of me with a thick book in his hand, which looked elegant. He opened the white book and put his hand around his neck. "Liu, then let me explain to you the basic information and operation steps of the eternal life control system. The first is the memory area. The system hard disk is divided into five storage areas, namely, area A, area B, area C, area D and area E ... Among them, area A is the control center, which is similar to the part where the human brain sends instructions, so there is little memory in area A, and the memory inside is only the instinct of some people. B, C, D and E can be simply understood as the memory hard disk of the computer, and each area has a large storage capacity. By the way, we put the memories extracted from your brain in the B area. In order to make you better adapt to and accept this change, we reduced the space in the B area, only to accommodate your memories before standby, and the saved space was divided equally among the other four areas. Everything you see, hear and feel after waking up will be regarded as memory by the system and automatically stored in area C. Similarly, when the space in area C runs out, the next area will be automatically started for information storage. Storage space is large, but it is also limited. If you have lived with this body for hundreds of years, the remaining four areas must be filled. At this time, you can selectively delete some unimportant memories. Moreover, this system also has a function of "virtual space". Under normal circumstances, the memory area is coherent and will be in direct contact with area A. However, if you choose one of B, C, D and E alone, you will lose contact with other areas and be treated separately. At that time, your consciousness will enter a virtual restoration scene, where you will feel and will not respond to external stimuli. There are some operating rules that I don't need to introduce one by one. You can start the overall control yourself. You will learn more about the control interface, and of course there are some necessary settings. "

"How to start?"

"You think about the memory area in your mind, and then there will be five memory areas in front of you. Start now! "

I'm thinking about the' memory area' in my mind. "I saw it, and then what?"

"At this time, you need voice selection, and now start saying' instructions! Select a storage area. "

"instruction! Select a memory area. " Sure enough, after this operation, I saw a lot of information about my current body on the interface, as well as the operation and settings.

"Liu, you should see the interface now. In order to avoid unnecessary accidents, I suggest that you put the real-time image of body induction in your field of vision, which contains important body operation parameters such as electricity, temperature and vibration value. This information will truly reflect the operation of your body. Ok, I will introduce so much, Director Liu, you can adapt yourself slowly. " Say that finish, he closed the book and turned to go.

"Thank you. What's your name?"

"You're welcome, my name is He Fei. Goodbye, Director Liu. "

"Goodbye." I waved my hand.

"Congratulations, director liu. I didn't expect you to adapt to this system so quickly. " He Fei held my hand with both hands excitedly.

"Director Liu, try walking upright."

"ok." I stood up slowly and got out of bed. Walk in front of the crowd.

"Xiao He, I have no problem with acting now, but I have no sense of touch."

"It doesn't matter, we will install a tactile system, a bit like skin grafting. The texture of the skin is copied according to your original figure. The skin condition of any age can be selected, and as for the face, it can be considered. "

"consider what?"

"Do you need a makeover?"

"Why should I change my face?"

"In short, your" rebirth "is secret, and people around you don't know about it. If you live as before, you can't avoid exposing the truth, which will be hard for them to accept. A makeover is a change of identity. You can take care of your family and friends like a stranger. "

"I ... think about it." At this point, I am very entangled.

Finally I decided to use my face. However, at 25, you have to use your face. I want a lot of sweet words to deal with my family, and the company has its own high-level arrangements.

The process went unexpectedly smoothly, and I became 25 years old. I haven't been home for three weeks. I miss my family.

"Li, ho and everyone, thank you very much. Thank you very much for your kindness in recreating me. "

"It's okay! Lao Liu, go home quickly! " Li suddenly coughed for a while. "Cough ... cough, nothing, I'm tired these days."

"Is it really important?" I'm nervous.

"Nothing!" Mr. Li covered his mouth with one hand and waved to me and everyone with the other.

After greeting everyone, I went home. When I first met my wife, I was shocked. After some explanation, I convinced my family that I had an artificial organ reconstruction operation and changed my face by the way. When I was at home, I lied that I was not hungry or had eaten because I couldn't eat normally. I opened a dining hall with my family, specifically, I charged and my family ate. Whenever I am with my family, I am the happiest. I look forward to a bright future, and of course I should be well aware of the future separation.

But no one can predict the future. I never thought that General Li's illness would be the beginning of a' new world'. 2 13 1 March 12 is the eighth day of my renovation. During my vacation, I heard that Mr. Li had a bad cold and was in hospital. Mr Li is not only my colleague for many years, but also my benefactor. When I learned about it, I went to the hospital at once.

On the way to the hospital, I felt something was wrong. When driving, you will see some pedestrians coughing from time to time. It's the same when you get to the hospital. There are too many people hospitalized with a bad cold, and all other wards are occupied. Mr. Li was lying in a single ward, surrounded by his family and our colleagues. When I arrived, Mr. Li looked happy.

"Liu, you see I have a cold. Why don't you spend more time with your family? What are you doing here? Cough ... "Li smiled and coughed.

"Li, you should have a good rest. We are all workaholics and can understand each other best. Don't be exhausted. "

"Little things, little things."

"instruction! Exit the selection.

"Are you sure?"

"confirm."

"Exit memory selection."

I dare not recall that time. Stood up and walked towards the provincial library. The streets in all towns are the same, and there is no smell of strangers. Memory choice can make me go back to the past time, but I avoid going back to the beginning of the end. Every time, near that time, I will come out early. I don't want to go back, and I don't want to delete bad memories, because these memories will become historical records.

Just because you don't remember, doesn't mean you won't remember. When I passed a hospital, my memory was ticked. This is the so-called touching the scene! I clearly remember Mr. Li's memory from knowing me to his illness and death.

Manager Li had no sooner finished than something happened. His breathing became rapid and loud, his face was pale and he was sweating all over. We all panicked, but we didn't forget to call the doctor. But it's too late, to be exact, it's useless. It's no more than 2 minutes since General Li died of illness. The medical staff who came in a hurry said that the rescue was invalid and told us that this was the second case in the hospital. Since then, the flu has officially broken out. The arrival of the virus swept away the crowd in an instant like a scourge. My family also died in the full-scale outbreak of influenza, and no one around me was spared. At this time, I was very sad, watching them leave me, but there was nothing I could do but look at them.

I hope it's a good thing. In repeated sufferings, human beings have survived and evolved with firm belief. But now, people rely on the' World Center for Disease Control and Prevention' to study the new influenza virus that caused this incident only halfway. Why are we halfway there? Because the epidemic prevention personnel, with the cooperation of Qi Xin, analyzed the structure, pathology and transmission mode of influenza virus. Just as the epidemic prevention personnel were preparing to develop the vaccine, basically all the staff were infected for a period of time. In fact, when the World Center for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed the virus, some related experts expected this result. This virus was temporarily named "doomsday" by epidemic prevention personnel. )

"Doomsday" can spread through air, saliva, blood and other conventional ways, and can be attached to microorganisms in the air, so it will survive for a long time. It kills people because there is a special substance in human body fluids. When the "doomsday" enters the human body, exposure to this substance will greatly increase the virus reproduction rate, far exceeding the clearance rate of the human immune system. Although the "doomsday" of the monomer will not have much impact on the human body, a large number of "doomsday" parasites in the human body, making the contact between viruses become frequent. When these viruses come into contact with each other, they will merge and become a super virus with strong aggression. Because super virus needs a lot of heat when it is active, it will gather in a large number of muscle cells of human body, which is also the reason why sick people die of heart failure. This virus has a short incubation period, basically within 10, so it is not easy to be detected. After the virus raged, almost all healthy people died before treatment, and the rest were terminally ill and dying. No one can explain, because there are almost no one who can explain. Some devout believers think that God is punishing mankind, while others say that nature's "immune system" began to clean up the creatures that invaded the earth's resources. Either way, people have not escaped this disaster in their fearful remarks.

My mechanical body is very strong. After seeing familiar people leaving one after another, I decided to try my best to save mankind. I can travel thousands of miles in every town every day, and it took me decades to find a living person. Unfortunately, when I searched everywhere I could reach, I didn't find anyone alive.

The state of the world is a foregone conclusion, and perhaps only God can save it.

I am alive. During my aimless trip, I used various means of transportation to carry the necessities that can maintain my exercise. (spare oil pump, spare battery, portable generator, solar photovoltaic panel, hydraulic oil, lubricating oil and spare parts. ) I'm walking and looking for something that can keep me going longer.

Whenever people are faced with a choice, they will struggle, but "choice" is inevitable. Because of my choice, I have an immortal body. It is also because I chose "dual drive" when choosing the drive system, so I can continue to run when a drive system fails, or I can manually repair the failed drive system. ('dual drive' means that I have two complete drive systems in my body. Under normal circumstances, one is running and the other is in standby state. ) Slowly, during my journey of collecting resources, I collected resources that can be used in about 1000 years.

"Living" should have a purpose.

After collecting a lot of resources, I lost my goal again. I traveled alone for a long time, wandering like a ghost in those familiar and unfamiliar towns. 2331February 10, I passed by the national library, which attracted me with a magical power. After I went in, I saw a lot of dust inside, but it didn't look like a disaster at all. Some important books are well preserved by advanced equipment. I opened a locker and took out a book. After a brief look, this is an old code. When I was alive, people lost interest in reading. Even reading a book is reading an e-book, and it should be equipped with audio and video, because only in this way can people read it. I think this is probably because the relevant institutions in those years displayed paper books as "old objects". Looking at these preserved books, I have a new purpose. From this day on, I began a journey to protect the intellectual heritage of mankind. Many years have passed, and I have been to various book protection institutions. It has become my mission to eliminate hidden dangers and classify and save books.

Today is1May 23rd, 932. On the way to the provincial library, I unfortunately passed by the ruins of the hospital. Looking at the tattered cross reminds me of the past. After a moment's hesitation, I continued on my way.

Finally arrived. I saw that the door of the library was sealed regularly, gently removed the obstacles, habitually walked into the first locker in the central hall and opened it. I was about to record with the piezoelectric recorder in my hand, but I found there was another one inside. I took out the one in the cupboard, grabbed the sensor with my left hand and pressed the play button with my right hand. "Hello, my name is Liu Hai, and I can be said to be the last' survivor' on earth. I'm glad you found the voice message I left. Although I'm not sure if you can understand human language, I still want to tell you or you that this planet was once named Earth, and it was named after a human like me. Our human civilization has lasted for 3 million years on the earth. With the rapid development of human science and technology, a kind of flu called' doomsday' led to the extinction of human beings. When I was still active, I protected books, videos and electronic materials bearing the knowledge of human civilization to a certain extent. That's all I can do. I hope your civilization can learn from or learn from human civilization, and don't destroy it. September 30th, 269 1 year. " I'm a little confused. Have I been here before? I asked myself this question.

I locked the cabinet and sealed the entrance of the library (because some high-tech equipment was not completely broken, I used scientific methods to turn the library into a fortress where barbaric civilization could not enter, in order to prevent the internal data from being destroyed. ) and left, ready for the next destination.

25 12 On July 24th, at dusk, the sun was about to set. I protected the last library in the world. And once again, I lost my goal and walked blankly on the green streets. Watching the animals shuttle through the grass, full of vitality, and then watching me wear this broken and yellow skin, like a zombie foraging around a deserted city. I froze and sat on the ground. Maybe it's time to "sleep". At this moment, a fox is chasing a rabbit. Two small animals ran past me. "No, I'm not a machine. I am still' alive'. " I can't stay here like an abandoned robot. I want to move with my goal.

I traveled for a long time and arrived at the original place again. I sat on the pedestal of a giant titanium alloy artwork in front of the National Library.

"instruction! Memory deletion from 2331February11June 10 to this moment. "

"Are you sure?"

"confirm."

"Delete, delete finished!"

"I haven't finished sorting out all the national libraries, so why should I rely on it? This can't be done, we have to work quickly. " I want to accomplish the great task of "protecting human civilization" while my body can still move.

I opened the front door of the library effortlessly and stepped into the main hall, trying to take a closer look at what kind of protection measures this great treasure house of civilization needs.

After inspection, it was found that all the books in this library were impeccably preserved.

"The former staff was really hard!" I thought to myself.

I walked into the reception desk and sat down straight. At this time, I am like a librarian, guarding these books. I casually opened a drawer in the counter, which contained few things and several electronic products. I took a look and found that there are three piezoelectric recording pens, all of which can be used. A new idea came into being, and I want to leave my voice.

After the recording, I put the recorded tape recorder in the first locker in the central hall. Considering that other libraries may not all have recording pens, I put the remaining two in my suitcase.

I pulled the box to prepare for my next destination. When I was about to leave, I found that the door was not very tight. In case there is any barbaric civilization, this defense is not enough. So I strengthened the door with my own knowledge and experience. After work, I went directly to another city without hesitation.