The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 332 All cruel pleasures must end in cruelty!

Although a week has passed, Wu Heng still has a fresh memory of the first concept trailer released by "The Matrix".

The animated short film is in the form of two-dimensional hand-painted, well-made, and magnificent style, obviously from the animation studio of DreamWorks, ink.

Although it is only an animated short film, the story is quite smooth, and the plot has twists and turns.

It is about the future world, a society where people and robots live in harmony. Almost every household uses smart products. Robots can cook, walk dogs, and deliver couriers. Apart from being unable to have children, there are few things they can’t replace. Work.

In addition to being productive and assisting human life and work, intelligent machines for emotional companionship, dolls, pets and even bionic human intelligence have also been born.

A couple was frozen because their child suffered from a rare and serious disease, hoping to wait for the cure. The parents customized an expensive bionic robot in order to relieve the pain. Boy, treat him like a son.

However, a cure soon appeared, and their child woke up and was cured. As a result, the little boy's robot "fell out of favor" and was abandoned by the couple. According to the procedure, it will be recycled and destroyed by the robot company.

But the little boy overheard the communication between the "mother" and the robot company's customer service on the phone, so he escaped from the house secretly.

On the way of wandering, the little boy met a general-purpose robot who was also wandering, and this robot also escaped from the owner's house.

This general-purpose robot model is very old. He has been serving a family for more than 20 years, because the owner he served saw the new model robot in the TV advertisement, and the robot company also launched a trade-in discount in the advertisement. Activity.

The family wanted to upgrade the service robot at home.

This strange general-purpose robot also escaped from the house.

Although intelligent robots have already penetrated into all aspects of human society, human defense against robots is written into the code, and the bottom-level code of robots is not to harm humans.

Escape robots that develop feelings or self-preservation behaviors are rare, but not uncommon.

The little boy and this old model universal robot are special "escape robots".

However, "wandering and ownerless" robots without master control cannot survive in the city for a long time, because once they are found, they will be taken to the robot recycling factory and returned to the furnace for destruction. Because of the emergence of bionics, there are many convenient robot detection instruments , like a flashlight, even bionic robots can't get away with their human-like appearance.

Therefore, under the leadership of Universal Robots, the two wandering robots hid in a remote and inaccessible mountain forest.

This is the "Robot Graveyard".

Although escaping homeless robots are rare, there are still quite a few over time. This is where the homeless robots hide before they die.

Because there has never been a robot injury incident, and the wandering robot has been running for a long time, because the battery is exhausted, the parts cannot be replaced, and it will slowly "die". So humans don't have to spend a lot of effort to find them.

Here, the little boy met a fluffy teddy bear missing an arm. The teddy bear was originally a companion educational robot sold by a pair of parents to their children.

It was originally the little master's favorite toy, and he had to hug it to sleep every night, but the good times didn't last long. The little master's cousin wanted to stay at their house temporarily. One of the bear's arms was removed. If the adults hadn't stopped it, the teddy bear might have been torn apart.

The little master got angry and fought with his cousin, but the cousin reconciled with the little master with a piece of candy, and the two children played together intimately again.

In the middle of the night, while the little master fell asleep, the teddy bear broke free from his embrace and stumbled out of the house.

The teddy bear walking on the road in the dead of night doesn't know why he is running away, nor where he is going, but there seems to be some kind of guidance in his brain chip, which makes him come to the "robot" in the forest. cemetery".

The teddy bear is originally a smart toy designed to accompany children. Because of the program, it is also naturally close to children.

So in the forest the teddy bear soon befriends the little bionic robot boy.

The three robots also encounter various other wandering robots in this "robot graveyard".

However, the "Robot Cemetery" is not a paradise. Some people know that there seem to be many stray robots living here, and some vicious teenagers occasionally form a group to "play" here.

Playing is killing and destroying, and the target is these stray robots.

There are always times in a person's life, or there are always some people who will have some violent thoughts.

Usually the bearers of these violent thoughts are sandbags, small insects, toys, or intelligent robots—they are toys.

And intelligent robots, no matter whether they can think or not, even some of them still have emotions, but they are not human beings, and they have no human rights, they are just property.

A robot with an owner is private property, and a wandering robot without an owner is unowned property.

Damage to private property is subject to civil liability.

Taking pleasure in unclaimed property does not entail any responsibility.

Because the bottom-level code of a robot is not to harm humans, even if some robots have a body that surpasses that of a human, and a body made of machinery that is far superior to muscles, they have no way to resist any human, and all they can do is escape.

And chasing fleeing prey is also a pleasure for man.

During the chase, the robots were caught one by one. In order to protect the little boy, his two friends, the old general-purpose robot and the teddy bear, were caught by the evil boys who laughed and chased after their prey.

Under the terrified gaze of the little boy, the "hunter" tortured and killed the captured robot in various ways.

The old general-purpose robot was torn apart by the chainsaw, but it kept staring at the little boy until the brain chip on its chest was destroyed. The mechanical mouth without lips opened and closed, as if comforting the little boy, and at the same time seeming to the little boy What message or words are conveyed.

Teddy bears are treated like footballs and kicked around by vicious teenagers.

It seems that a certain switch was broken during the kicking and whipping, and the teddy bear, which itself was designed as a companion educational toy, made a musical sound.

It is a nursery rhyme.

Amidst the laughter of the villainous boys, the teddy bear was passed around like a football, sometimes hitting a tree, sometimes flying through the air, and the nursery rhymes were intermittent.

Even when one of them volleyed vigorously, the furry bear's head separated from the bear's body and fell to the ground, the children's singing did not stop, but the singing was a little out of tune, like a phonograph with a worn turntable.

One person raised his foot and stomped hard twice, deforming the separated teddy bear's head to stop the tone-changing nursery rhyme.

The vicious boys turned around and looked at the little boy who hadn't taken the opportunity to escape before, but looked at them with a scared expression.

It seems that the cute human image of the little boy played a role. Some people seemed to have a little compassion and suggested that the little boy should be let go.

But this proposal seems to have annoyed the leading teenager, who sneered and escaped from the flashlight-like machine, which emitted a white light and shone on the little boy. The arms block the front, but the mechanical lines under the arms, head and part of the exposed cheeks are clearly visible.

The leader shouted fiercely that this is a robot, so there is nothing to worry about.

It seems that the real face of the little boy exposed under the light of the robot detector made the villainous boys pass the hurdle in their hearts and returned to their laughing faces.

The teenagers laughed and yelled strangely, surrounded the little boy, and approached slowly. The leader grabbed the little boy by the collar and lifted him up. He laughed and showed it to everyone, teasing that the little robot must have been killed by the boy. I was so frightened that I didn't run away.

But the laughter stopped abruptly, and the little boy pulled out the knife from the waist of the boy in front of him, and stabbed the boy in the chest.

The young man who was stabbed by it fell to the ground in disbelief while clutching his chest.

The little boy fell to the ground, and it looked at the knife in its hand blankly, as if it couldn't believe that it would make such a move, and the blood-stained knife fell from its hand.

The other teenagers were stunned in shock, and couldn't react for a while. There had never been a case of a robot harming a human being, which made them all at a loss.

For a long time, in their eyes, robots just obey their masters unconditionally, never resist humans, at most they can only run away, they can get whatever they want from robots, and they never thought that robots would dare to resist or even hurt them.

After a while, they rushed up angrily, grabbed the little boy and pressed him to the tree, asking him why he did this.

At this time, the little boy suddenly showed an innocent smile, and said the silent words that the old general-purpose robot conveyed to it when it was torn apart:
"All cruel pleasures must end in cruelty!"

A teenager angrily picked up the chainsaw that had previously destroyed the universal robot and threw it at the little boy.

Then the screen turned, and a few milky white flowers splashed on the ground.

Wu Heng still vaguely remembers the shock, sadness and strong anger he felt when he watched this animated short film a week ago. This animated short film not only has an extremely smooth plot, but also is quite full of emotions. Although the relationship between human beings and machines in the future era is not very meaningful Depth, but extremely powerful.

But he still doesn't know what this animated short has to do with The Matrix.

With the lessons learned from the "Suspect Tracker" trailer, he naturally wouldn't think that DreamWorks sent the wrong trailer.

"Matrix" is definitely not an animated movie. Could it be that "Matrix" is also the background of intelligent robots?
Doesn't it mean that this movie is a kung fu movie?

Is it a robot working hard?This is new.

Wu Heng, who has been tormented by the "Matrix" trailer for a week, watched the second concept trailer of "The Matrix" that was buffering. Perhaps his questions could be answered in this trailer?

　I mainly refer to Spielberg's "Artificial Intelligence" ("AI") for the plot of this animated short film. This movie is very classic. If you haven't seen it, I strongly recommend it.

　　"All cruel pleasures must end in violence!" From Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", quoted many times in the science fiction drama "Westworld"
　　


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