future artificial man

Chapter 4 4. Hardware Aging 【Modify】

Home does not have any concept for artificial people, it is nothing more than a place to live.

It has been a few days since I entered the store manager's house, and I spend most of my time taking care of the old man, which is not easy for Meng Ling who has a service type.Every day at most I help with cooking, chatting with the elderly to relieve boredom, and of course occasional cleaning.

This day is the same as usual, prepare meals for the old man, and wait to clean up after eating.

Perhaps because of his health, the old man has a habit of taking a nap, so after lunch this day, he watched TV for a while and went back to his room to rest.

Almost finished.

"Beibei, I want to go out for a while and take a good look at the house!"

"Got it, eh? What are you going out for?"

"Oh, recently I found that my battery is draining very fast, I don't know why, I'm going to check it."

"Didn't you just change it a month ago? Is it because of quality?"

"Who knows?" After changing into casual clothes, he finally said hello: "I'm leaving!"

Robots also have their own hospitals. Of course, this is different from human hospitals. Its nature is similar to that of the computer repair industry, mainly for repairing and replacing hardware, and virus detection and killing.This is a downstream industry that naturally appeared after the artificial man appeared, but the object of making money is the artificial man.

Because I also have a lifespan of 20 years, and have replaced aging and damaged parts during this period, I naturally know where the nearby artificial human hospital is, and I came to the nearest artificial human hospital with ease.

Came to the counter: "Please register for me."

"What service do you need?"

"Repair/replace."

"Five yuan registration fee!"

There seem to be a lot of artificial people here today, and it seems that they are about to line up.

Fortunately, in this era, wireless WIFI has covered the whole world. As long as you want to surf the Internet, you can connect anytime and anywhere. This is a lot of time.

Where do I come from?This is a question that many children often like to ask.It seems that this issue has nothing to do with artificial humans, because generally speaking, children are conceived by mothers, and artificial humans are produced by humans from factories.But this was not recognized by Meng Ling, because she vaguely felt that things would not be so simple.

After looking through all the information I can grasp now, apart from knowing the name, age, and some life experiences of my creator, I don't have any valuable clues at all.Even judging from the signs of race, it seems that part of the life history has a series of traces of modification.

Well, that's not the point of today.After closing the data file, I saw that it was too early to call my number, so I connected to the wireless network and casually watched the latest news.

"Has another man-made man been attacked recently?"

This is very bad news. Since the birth of artificial humans, this kind of news has appeared more and more in the news.Because the emergence of artificial humans has taken away most of the jobs that originally belonged to humans, more and more unemployed people can only rely on meager subsistence allowances to survive, and even food and clothing are very reluctant.

Human beings are sentient beings, each of whom is governed by the desire to exist.For these cyborgs who take away their jobs, there will naturally be hatred and other emotions.When this emotion reaches its peak, it will find a way to vent it, and attacking artificial humans is the most common means of venting.

As artificial humans created to serve humans, even artificial humans in the military and police stations cannot easily harm humans.This also makes it impossible to do anything to harm human beings while watching oneself being dismantled.

Mengling feels the saddest thing about this point. Obviously, our man-made humans are serving you humans, but in the end, not only do we not get any thanks, but our own personal safety is threatened.

"How good would it be if I were human?"

Shaking my head, throwing away these meaningless thoughts, what if I am a human being?Don't you want to worry about your own life?
I read a few more news stories, but it has nothing to do with her anymore. It is nothing more than seeing a certain celebrity having an affair again, and what happened in a certain area.The only effect on her now is to pass the boring time.Fortunately, her number was finally called.

"So it's Mengling, what's the problem this time?" The doctor is also a man-made man, a very handsome man.Because of the long-term communication, I have become a little familiar.

"The battery has been used up too fast recently, let's see what's going on."

"Battery? Strange, didn't you just replace it last month? Is there something wrong? You lie on the bed first, and I'll check it out."

Without asking, Mengling consciously lay on the bed, opened the mechanical ear and connected the instrument with the data cable.

"Is that so?"

"Well, open the chest cavity now."

"Okay. Unlock complete. Internal hardware is about to be exposed. Current and voltage loops are reduced. Open."

The doctor skillfully held the instrument in his hand and tested back and forth between the various integrated circuits.

"Oh my god, the battery has a bulge? This."

"Is it because your battery is of poor quality? I said why did it fail after only a month?"

"Impossible. This is a new type of battery that was just developed last year. It is a hydrogen compound polymer battery. The nature of this battery should not cause this situation."

"Okay, I can't understand you talking so much and professionally, you are a doctor, what should you do?"

The doctor thought about it silently for a while, and then said: "The current situation is still to change the battery, but I want to test first, what caused the situation?"

"I see, how can I cooperate?"

"Restart a program, and I need a report on your activities, maybe I can find the reason."

Backed up a copy of usage data for this month and uploaded it to the other party.Although it is about my private life, but anyway, as an artificial human, there is no privacy worth noting.

After some instruments were connected to the body, a restart of the program began.After waiting to return to the perspective, I happened to see the doctor's brow furrowed, as if he had seen something bad.

"what happened?"

"Your power-on current is very high, and you have repeated a lot of complicated procedures. I don't know what's going on, but this is obviously not a good sign. The high current should be the cause of the battery swelling, but it may still be your hardware. Signs of aging!"

"what do you mean?"

At this time, Meng Ling thought a lot, and probably knew the answer.

"If I remember correctly, besides those prototype machines, your first-generation machine is the oldest in this world. You should understand better than anyone else that if the hardware such as CPU and memory breaks down, it will be very difficult for us androids. Saying that is tantamount to death!"

That's right, when all the hardware is broken, all that's left is a scrap iron shell, isn't it tantamount to death?And what's even more unfortunate is that the aging of hardware is irreversible.Body cells unlike humans can be restored by activating metabolism.

"Am I going to die soon?"

"I don't know. It depends on the degree of aging of your hardware. It is best if you can check it frequently. If you can replace it, it is best to replace it. In addition, I have checked your living habits and it is not bad. The aging of the body is the most taboo. The most important thing is that you are still doing things beyond the limit of your ability, which will accelerate the aging of the body."

After not talking for a while, the doctor helped Mengling replace the battery with a new one, and closed the chest cavity again.

"The replacement of the battery this time is considered free. Anyway, this is the battery you replaced last time. I will repair it. Remember my words: it is best to check more often."

"Well, I see."

I bid farewell to the doctor and left the hospital.

Thinking of today's inspection, she was already mentally prepared. After all, the aging of mechanical hardware is inevitable, but she didn't expect it to come so suddenly.

Returning to Li's house from the artificial hospital, is to enter the living area of ​​human beings. When walking on the road, I saw a man and a woman embracing or pushing each other?Under normal circumstances, she doesn't need to care about this detail.It's just that this man is her boss - Li Xiaokang.And the woman who is entangled with him, if I remember correctly, is his girlfriend, right?What does it seem to be called?

　I have written a few books, I am very tired, and the update is slow, sorry
　　
　
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