Chapter 16 Eight, between life and death

It was almost ten o'clock at night.Every night from ten o'clock to one o'clock in the morning is grandpa's sleep time.There is no doubt that if RB Keane tampers with grandpa, it can only be at this time.She decided to stay by the Power Sleeper tonight.Grandpa and Keen came in. Grandpa's mood had improved, and he asked his granddaughter with a smile: "Night owl, why don't you go to rest?" "Grandpa, I'd like to see your use of a power sleep machine. No one on earth uses such a machine, even those who once zealously gave up on it. The fashion now is 'by God' Rhythm' walks a lifetime."

Grandpa said dejectedly: "They are right, but I am running a race against death, that's all I can do." He slept well on the platform of the sleep machine, and Keane skillfully installed various sensors and hypnotic pulse transmitters, and then started the machine.Grandpa closed his eyes, the machine hummed evenly, and the old man fell into a deep sleep two minutes later.His face was very serene, with a smile on his lips.Ruyi couldn't help but think that this unsuspecting old man was brutally uncovered in such peace, injected with some kind of poison or did other things. hate.

Keen had already finished all the necessary procedures, he smiled and persuaded Ruyi: "Miss, I will stay here until he wakes up, please go back and rest." "No, I want to observe the whole process, and I will stay here tonight." "Okay," Keane didn't force himself, and sat down opposite Ruyi, narrowing his eyes.Ruyi guarded vigilantly, but soon she felt her head went numb and her eyes were dry. She struggled to hold her eyelids to prevent herself from falling asleep, but her eyelids became heavier and heavier.In the dream, she realized that it was Keen who was playing tricks, and aimed at herself the hypnotic pulse that was originally directed at grandpa, but it was too late, and the silent hypnotic pulse quickly sent her into a sweet dreamland.

She awoke from her sleep, and immediately resumed the awareness of the moment before sleep: Keen had manipulated her!The vigilance drove her drowsiness away immediately, she opened her eyes, and saw that the clock was one o'clock in the morning, and RB Keane was entering the wake-up procedure for the old man.He looked at Ruyi who was rubbing his eyes, and asked with a smile, "Miss, are you awake? I think you are too sleepy, so I didn't wake you up." His smile is still very sincere, but at this moment, this kind of "sincerity" makes Ruyi's back shiver.Seeing a blanket on her body, she forced a smile and said, "Yes, I was too tired last night, thank you for covering me with the blanket."

She thought that Keen might know she had detected an anomaly, but he had no intention of stopping the operation.Ruyi began to regret that she didn't let Jianming go with her. At least yesterday, she should have sent back the danger signal. Now, who knows whether Keen has cut off the communication channels with the outside world?Grandpa's body began to move, he opened his eyes, and immediately became very awake and full of energy.He sat up from the platform and said with a smile, "Ruyi, have you really been on guard for three hours? Go and rest, I'm going to work." Ruyi took the opportunity to leave: "Okay, I'm really sleepy, good night, grandpa, no, it's time to say good morning."

When she approached the door, Grandpa called her: "Oh, there is one more thing. Get ready, I will go back to Earth with you today." Ruyi's eyes widened: "Really?" Grandpa smiled and nodded.This was originally a happy thing, but Ruyi couldn't laugh.The stubborn grandfather agreed to his granddaughter's request this time. The question is whether Keane will let them go smoothly.She went back to her room and fell asleep in a state of anxiety. Grandpa was still in good spirits at breakfast, and he didn't look like he had worked all night. He told Keane while eating: "Help me prepare it. We will leave after dinner and return tomorrow."

Ruyi observed Kean quietly, and couldn't see any signs in his calm expression.She smiled and asked her grandpa: "Grandpa, why did you suddenly change your mind?" "It's nothing, I just suddenly want to meet the guy who cheated my granddaughter." Ruyi blushed and said, "Grandpa, don't talk nonsense!" Although she was smiling on the surface, she was always heavy with lead in her heart. She thought that Keen might not let the master return to the earth with the scar on his head.In the past two days, although it has been confirmed that "Kean is carrying out some kind of conspiracy", Ruyi has actually been puzzled.What the hell is Keane going to do?If he wanted to take revenge on his surly master, he didn't seem to have to go through so much trouble.Moreover, how could the main computer Julius - which is just a calm and objective machine - collude with Keane, who is the main criminal and who is the accomplice here?Does it also contain deeper reasons?

She couldn't answer these questions. There was a huge missing link in the chain of reasoning. At this moment, Kean was calm as usual, packed up the tableware, and put the owner's belongings into a small suitcase: "Mr. Ji, are you leaving now?" "Well, let's go early, have you contacted the space station?" "Contacted." Keane helped the old man put on the space suit, carefully checked the seal between the space cap and the clothes, and then turned down the gold-plated mask.His hands and feet seemed sluggish, but he worked hard.Ruyi watched with cold eyes, and couldn't help feeling afraid of this "loyal servant".

The three of them walked out of the space island through the decompression cabin. As soon as the outer cabin door opened, Ruyi immediately screamed, and the two-person spaceship tethered outside the cabin door had disappeared without a trace!Resentment swelled in her heart, and she remembered very well how carefully she had fastened the metal hasp on the anchor post when she moored the boat the day before yesterday.Besides, space is not a bay, and there are no currents here that can wash away ships.There is no doubt that Keane played tricks.The problem didn't stop there, Keane wouldn't be clear that his trick could be easily seen through, but he didn't care about it.Ruyi stared at Kean angrily, and asked in a cold tone:

"Uncle Keene, do you know what's going on?" Keen sincerely apologized again and again: "It's all my fault, it's my negligence. I should have checked the lady last night. Please go back first, and I will contact you with a new ship right away." He said into the intercom: "Juliu Sis, please open the airtight door, we are going back." The airtight door slowly opened, and Keane helped the old man go in.During the pressurization process, Ruyi remained silent with a sullen face.Keane was apologetic, and Grandpa looked at the two of them without saying a word.Back in the space ball, when Keen was busy contacting the spaceship with Earth, Yoshino Ami stared into Ruyi's eyes and asked, "Ruyi, what happened?"

Ruyi sighed "poor old man" in her heart. Although he is a profound scholar, he is very incompetent in daily life-he doesn't even know that his head has been lifted, what can you expect? What is he?She doesn't want to tell Grandpa the truth, who knows, maybe Kean (Julius?) has already bugged the little space ball.She forced a smile and said: "It's nothing. I'm angry with myself. I was too sloppy when I docked the boat the day before yesterday. Grandpa, your schedule has to be postponed for two days. The spaceport still has to wait for a suitable launch window." After two days of idleness, Jianming was busy again.When the police station's B system was first built, it was considered a redundant configuration, because the B-type people produced from the bio-factory were all models of loyalty.But now the direction of the wind has changed a bit, and there are small troubles among these loyal servants.Today Jianming dealt with a case of a humanoid servant leaving without authorization. It was almost noon when he found time to hang up the phone of Space Island, and heard Ruyi say urgently: "My God! Looking forward to your call!" Jianming was taken aback, didn't she send a safe signal yesterday?Today it suddenly became "extremely dangerous"!On the surface, he joked quietly: "You are my God, I have already asked for leave, and I am going to go to Space Island to accompany you." "You can come today, you know, my spaceship has drifted away, and I'm worrying about how to get back. Jianming, you're going to come in a spaceship with four people. Grandpa also wants to go back to Earth, and Keen .” Jianming heard her subtext, of course the spaceship will not drift away for no reason.On the screen, Grandpa is still writing at his desk, and RB Keane is busy with something in the living room. He looks calm on the surface, but there is anxiety hidden deep in his eyes.He stared into Ruyi's eyes and said, "Okay, I'll book the boat ticket right away. Don't worry, just wait patiently for me, do you hear me?" Ruyi also stared at him and nodded vigorously.After hanging up the phone, he pondered nervously for a while, and immediately asked for Director Gao's phone number, and said into the microphone, "Yuhe Jianming has something urgent to see."It has been a long time since he pressed the button to agree to accept the conversation. Jianming became anxious. He wanted to go upstairs and knock on the chief's door.At this time, the screen turned on, and the director smiled and asked: "Jianming, what's the matter?" Jianming explained the situation in a few words: "Director, I don't know if something really happened there, but according to our agreement before we left, my fiancée must have discovered some kind of danger. I want to go and have a look immediately .” "Also because of the humanoid servant?" "Very likely." The director hesitated for a moment, then said bluntly: "Okay, I'll ask the secretary to contact you with the nearest flight. Are you bringing a few people with you?" "Thank you, Director, I think one person can handle it." "Well, you go alone first, and give me a call as soon as you arrive at Space Island. I will contact the Space Police Department here. If you don't see your call within two hours after arriving, they will send a police spacecraft to Accept you." "Thank you, Director, you are really thoughtful." The director smiled and said, "When did I learn to be polite? Of course I have to be considerate. I don't want to lose a competent subordinate." In the director's office, he cut off the call, and Yu He Jianming's face disappeared from the phone screen.But on the other computer screen was still Jianming's profile picture, and his detailed information was also listed.A pudgy, middle-aged police officer who had interrupted the conversation just now was waiting.When the director turned around, he asked suspiciously: "Why such a coincidence? Could it be that he heard the wind and wanted to escape?" The director shook his head: "No, he greeted me two days ago. Go ahead." "As I said just now, this kind of error is extremely rare. We all know that type B people are made with artificial DNA, but the genetic codes related to fingerprints were carefully removed in the early stage of production, and even more so in various stages of production. Therefore, among the 350 million type B people produced in the past 30 years, no exceptions with fingerprints have ever been found. Yuhe Jianming is the only case that has been found so far." The director pondered: "What is the background of Qi Hongde, who provided the information?" "Director, you must remember the case of a humanoid forging fingerprints. The fingerprints were forged flawlessly. Thanks to Yu He Jianming, it was exposed. The female humanoid involved in the case was destroyed. Qi Hongde was just the fiancé of that female humanoid." The fat police officer knew. The director's thoughts at this time took the initiative to explain, "Of course Qi Hongde just threatened to retaliate. There is no need to doubt this. Unfortunately, the facts he revealed are true. We have repeatedly verified that they are indeed true. It has been found out that Yu He Jianming's father was the chief engineer of the RB factory. He loved his products to the point of losing his mind, so he used his professional knowledge and familiarity with the factory's security system to carefully plan and create a B-type human baby with natural fingerprints. And cheated the inspection procedures at all levels, took him home secretly; and used his wife to fake childbirth to forge a legal identity for him." Director Gao was silent for a long time, playing with a pen in his hand, and the fat police officer waited patiently.It took a long time for the director to ask: "Don't Yu He Jianming know?" "He didn't know. From all indications, his father never told him." "Where's his father?" "He lives in seclusion in the Xixia Mountains. We are considering monitoring him. Chief, I can't bear it either. Yu He Jianming is a good policeman with outstanding work ability. If it weren't for him, the fake fingerprint of that female humanoid would not be there. Being exposed - Jianming's identity will not be exposed. Damn, what is this all about." The chief sighed softly: "Yes, a good policeman." He paced the room, thinking for a long time, the fat policeman's head turned around with him.After a long time, the director stopped and said slowly while thinking: "There is no difference in body structure between humans and Type Bs except for fingerprints. In other words, if someone does have natural fingerprints, even if we know he is a Type B, we cannot legally identify him. For him , can only implement the legal norm of 'presumption of innocence', although there is no similar case so far, but it is good from the legal provisions. Am I right?" The fat police officer said knowingly: "Yes, that's right." The director's thinking has been clarified, and his speech has become fluent. He waved his hand decisively: "This case still needs to be tried according to normal procedures. No one has the guts or the right to pursue selfishness with a Type B person. But you find a clever The lawyer should make a careful calculation. Since Yuhe Jianming is the only lucky one among the 350 million type B people, and he has not concealed his identity subjectively, let him escape from the eyes of the law. Of course, even if If he can live, he can't stay in the police station any longer." "Okay, I'll do it now. Officer Yuhe's place..." "Temporary confidentiality, I will tell him personally after he returns to Earth. In addition, contact the Space Police Department to implement 24-hour surveillance on the space island, so that he can respond in time if he encounters trouble. On the other hand, if He himself...we can also take precautions." He said with a heavy heart: "This is the first humanoid discovered in System B in thirty years, we have to think about the worst, and it is a time of trouble." The fat police officer admired the chief's meticulousness and thoughtfulness, and he said, "Okay, I'll go to a lawyer right away, I think it's okay to save his life." He stood up, and the chief stopped him with another finger: "I have to trouble you to do one more thing." The fat police officer grinned: "Why, the chief is being polite to me." "I need you to do one thing." The bureau chief repeated, "Go and see Yu He Jianming off, and find a way to install a bug on him." The bureau chief said heavily.The fat officer frowned in embarrassment.It's not that this matter is difficult, but...yesterday, he was a buddy pushing cups and changing cups, but today he has to take precautions!This turn is too steep.He bared his teeth like a toothache: "Okay, I'll go. Who made us eat this bowl of rice, who made him a humanoid. Damn, what's going on!" Yoshino Chen quickly put aside his worldly troubles and concentrated on writing.He saw that his granddaughter and Keane were a little dirty, but he thought that even if there were some small troubles, the clever granddaughter would take care of them.Ji Pingruyi tried her best to maintain her superficial calm. She made coffee for Grandpa, chatted with him, and went to the kitchen to help Kean prepare meals.Keane was doing the routine chores in an orderly manner, and he was still very frank and friendly when talking to Ruyi.This kind of camouflage made Ruyi very afraid. From the beginning to the end, she kept grandpa in her sight.She wants to protect grandpa until her fiancé arrives.Of course she didn't believe that the insidious Keen would stop plotting since then—it's a pity that she hasn't guessed what kind of tricks he is up to—but since she has already communicated with Jianming, since Jianming will arrive soon , I believe Keane would not dare to blatantly tear his face openly and lay a poisonous hand on them. Jianming called every two hours, and he told Ruyi that he was on the other side of the earth now, and it would take eight hours to catch up with the appropriate launch window, and he would arrive here at about two o'clock tomorrow morning.He looked deeply at those big eyes that implied worry on the screen, and exhorted: "Rest well and wait for me to arrive." Grandpa is still writing like no one else. RB Keane is currently doing routine checks on the space island life support system, including air circulation, food regeneration, and temperature control.Ruyi couldn't help thinking that if he wanted to play tricks on the life support system, it would be easy, but Ruyi couldn't do anything about it, she wasn't familiar with these things.Human beings get rid of the tedious labor and hand them over to machine slaves and humanoid servants. However, while being pampered and pampered, they will inevitably lose some vital rights and guarantees, and have to pin their survival on the loyalty of machines and humanoids.This trend is inevitable and unavoidable. She wondered why Kean was so calm?Since he released the spaceship at the risk of being discovered, it means that his conspiracy cannot be stopped.But why didn't he keep doing it?There's an eerie air to Space Island: false friendliness, tacit wariness, well-disguised fear.This atmosphere is suffocating and drives people crazy, and only talking with Jianming every two hours can bring her back to the normal world.At two o'clock in the afternoon, Jianming called for the last time, saying that he was about to leave for the space port: "See you on Space Island. Before I come, you should have a good rest." She knew what Jianming actually said: You must remain calm before I come.Now, she counts the time wholeheartedly, hoping that Jianming will arrive here sooner. The dimming glass slowly darkens, blocking the strong sunlight and creating a nighttime twilight inside the ball.At ten o'clock, Grandpa and Keane walked to the sleep machine as usual.Before this, Ruyi had thought about it for a long time, and wondered if she would dare to let her grandpa still use power sleep tonight.If she suddenly asked them to stop using it, she couldn't come up with a strong reason, and she was afraid that Grandpa would have doubts.In the end she gritted her teeth and decided to keep going as usual and see what Kean could do in the last four hours.She picked up a collection of Li Shangyin's poems and followed them, smiling and saying: "Grandpa, Uncle Keen, I don't feel sleepy tonight, I'll stay here with you." Keane joked lightly: "Are you going to stay up all night, waiting for Mr. Jianming? Three days apart is like three autumns." Ruyi gritted her teeth with hatred, and said with a sweet smile, "He's not worth waiting for, I just don't want to sleep." Kean expertly went through the routine, and Grandpa immediately fell into a deep sleep.Ruyi spread out the collection of poems and stood quietly aside. In fact, she kept covering Grandpa and Keen with the corner of her vision.A few minutes later, the same situation as last night reappeared. She felt numb, her eyes were dry, and her eyelids were heavy.She condensed her willpower firmly, trying to lift her eyelids up, down and then up again... She suddenly woke up, and saw that there was no one in front of her, Keen was not there, and grandpa and the platform under him were gone.Ruyi's forehead was dripping with cold sweat immediately, she took out her pistol, and lightly checked each room. She found it without any difficulty. There was a secret room not far away. She hadn't entered it in the past two days. At this time, the door was ajar, revealing a white light.She walked over cautiously and peeped through the crack of the door, and immediately felt like she had been hit hard, and her fear made her almost vomit.In that cabin, Grandpa—and Keene!Their heads were all uncovered, exposing Bai Sensen's brain, and their eyes were tightly closed.Accompanied by a slight buzzing sound, a pair of dexterous mechanical hands moved to Grandpa's head, a very thin red light flashed between the fingers, and cut off a small piece of brain tissue in the frontal lobe, and then removed it very gently. As a doctor, she knew that she was witnessing a typical non-destructive transplantation of brain tissue, and the red light was the so-called "thickness-free laser".Now that the scalpel was hanging over Grandpa’s head, she didn’t dare to move, she just watched the mechanical hand move this piece of brain tissue and put it aside; cut off the same small piece of the same part of Kean’s brain, Then the robotic hand embedded the piece of grandpa's brain tissue into the gap in Keane's brain. Then, the robotic hand moved the piece of Kean's brain tissue over and gently embedded it on Grandpa's brain.Then the mechanical hand applied bio-glue to the sections of the skulls of the two, covered the skulls, and straightened the messy short hair.All of this is done with great proficiency and ease. Only then did Ruyi know the purpose of the operation.It turned out that they were using Grandpa's healthy brain tissue to treat Kean's disease!Ruyi stared at the calm mechanical hands with hatred, her lips were bitten.From the circumstances of the operation, she thought, there was no doubt that Julius, the main computer, was also a participant in a conspiracy, a combination of humanoid and computer intelligence against an unsuspecting old man.The operation is over, and Ruyi thinks she can shoot the murderer.At this moment, Keane opened his eyes, his eyes were very clear, he didn't look like he had just undergone brain surgery, he stood up, staggered to his grandpa who was still sleeping, and looked at his brain, Said with satisfaction: "Okay, this is the last time. Thank you, Julius, this ten-year operation can come to a successful conclusion." Julius's melodious bass voice sounded in the room: "I am also very happy to see today's success. Is Miss Ruyi outside the door? Please come in." Ruyi kicked open the door and rushed in.Her eyes were burning with anger, and the black muzzle of the gun was pointed at Kean's chest.Keane didn't show any fear. On the contrary, his expression looked quite smug. He smiled and said, "Miss Ruyi, are you awake? The operation happened to be over. Now, I can tell you the whole story." Ruyi couldn't bear it anymore, she yelled furiously: "I want to kill you devil!" She pulled the trigger amidst the shouting. The space ball KW0002 was slowly spinning in the dazzling sunlight, all the porthole glass had been darkened, and it looked like deep black holes from a distance.Yu He Jianming arrived here on the X303 space motorboat, turned on the anti-jet brake, gently docked outside the decompression chamber, and turned on the intercom to call: "Grandpa, Ruyi, I have arrived, please open the hatch." There was silence on the intercom for a few seconds, and then a pleasant bass voice said: "Is this Mr. Yu He Jianming? I am the main computer Julius. Some accidents just happened in the space ball. Mr. Ji and Ms. Ruyi will I can't even talk to you. Now I make the decision on behalf of the master." Jianming's heart sank suddenly, and he blurted out, "Are they... still alive?" "Don't worry, they are all safe. Please come in." The outer cabin door slowly opened, Jianming moored the ship, entered the decompression cabin, the outer cabin door closed slowly, and the air pressure gradually increased.While waiting for the inner cabin door to open, Jian Ming erected the spikes all over his body. The situation in the space island is unknown, and it is impossible to predict what dangers are waiting for him. Before taking off the space suit, he is almost powerless to fight back. .The inner cabin door was opened. According to the work and rest time of the space island, it is now morning, and the morning light in the ball is hazy.Jianming quickly took off his space suit and turned on the light switch. Under the bright light, there was no one in front of him.He took out his pistol, turned on the machine head, and began to search, calling softly, "Ruyi, Grandpa, where are you?" There was movement in a hut. Through the half-open door, I saw Ru Yiping holding that small pistol and pointing at the two people in front of him. One was Keen, and the other was... Grandpa!Mr. Ji's eyes shot fire, but he was forced to sit still under the threat of a pistol.Keane leaned against the wall with a white hemostatic gauze on his left chest, seemingly in a coma.Jianming hurriedly called Ruyi, stepped into the room, and Ruyi immediately aimed the gun at his chest: "Don't move! Who are you?" Jianming was taken aback, and said anxiously: "It's me, Yuhe Jianming, Ruyi, what's wrong with you?" "Say the signal! Quick, or I'm going to shoot!" Jianming quickly replied: "Plants represent safety, animals represent danger, if you are extremely dangerous, say my God!" "When was our first date? Tell me!" Jianming smiled wryly: "I can't remember the exact time, but I remember it was three weeks after I met you for the first time in the hospital, and the date was in the gazebo in the park." Ruyi felt relieved, and cried and threw herself into Jianming's arms.Yoshino Omi stood up and cursed angrily: "This madwoman!" Ruyi immediately raised the gun from her fiancé's arms, and ordered: "Don't move! Grandpa, don't move!" Jianming was always alert and sharp, but at this moment he was also confused.He smiled wryly and asked, "Ruyi, what's going on? Who is the enemy?" Ruyi's tears flowed out like a flood that opened the gate. She sobbed and said, "Jianming, I don't know, I can't figure it out. Julius and RB Keen colluded to exchange for Keen and Grandpa. Now he," she pointed to Grandpa, "is Grandpa's body and mind, but it's Keane's brain. He," she pointed to Keene, "has Grandpa's brain in his skull, but it's Keene's brain. En's mind and body. I really don't know who to kill and who to protect. When you came in, I couldn't even believe you. Jianming, what do you say?" Yoshino Chen couldn't take it anymore, he shouted sharply: "Hurry up and drop the gun of this lunatic woman! I am Yoshino Chen, the master of this space island!" Jianming frowned, unable to make a decision for a while.At this time, Julius' voice sounded: "Hello, Mr. Yu He Jianming, let me tell you the truth of the matter." Ruyi said frantically: "Jianming, don't trust him! He is an accomplice, and he performed the operation!" Julius smiled and said, "Not an accomplice, but an assistant. Mr. Yuhe, Miss Ruyi, and my master, please listen to me patiently before making your judgment, okay?" Yoshinochen and Jianming looked at each other and agreed at the same time: "Okay." "Then, please allow me to deal with Keane's trauma first, okay?" Ten minutes later, the robotic arm took out the bullet for Keane, bandaged it up, and gave him another booster shot.The bullet was in the upper left of the heart and was not fatal.When the manipulator was performing surgery, Yu He Jianming kept pointing his gun at Kean and Grandpa vigilantly.Ruyi leaned on her lover's shoulder, choked up and told her lover that when she shot Ke En with hatred just now, she suddenly remembered what Ke En said just now: "This is the last time." That is to say, the relationship between Ke En and Grandpa The brains have all been swapped so far.If the brain is the most important carrier of personality, then the one she was about to shoot was her grandfather, so she raised the gun at the last moment. "At that time, I thought again that the original grandpa I was protecting with all my strength had actually been replaced by an enemy. However, although he had been replaced by Keen's brain, his behavior and thoughts and memories were clearly grandpa's. I don't know what to do!" Her tears flowed down again, and Jianming wiped away the tears for her, frowning and thinking, while closely monitoring the two people who didn't know whether they were enemies or friends.At this time, a screen in the house was automatically turned on, and a virtual man's head appeared on the screen, nodding to everyone: "I'm Julius. Are you ready? I'm going to start telling the story. Ten years ago, my master, Mr. Yoshino Omi, was already suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and his brain began to have organic lesions. Atrophy and hollow spaces in the brain. This disease develops very quickly, and within five years he will lose the ability to work. Modern medicine is not powerless, but unfortunately human laws and morals do not allow it. Because," he said on the screen Staring into the eyes of the owner, "As Mr. Ji believes, aging and death are the most important attributes of human beings, and they must not be alienated, let alone use artificial nerve tissue to repair the natural human brain. Am I right, my Owner?" Apparently, Yoshino Omi had an attitude of "just listening to it", and nodded coldly at this moment: "Yes, even if the artificial nerve tissue can be faked in terms of structure, its value will never be comparable to that of the natural human brain. The original works cannot replace the genuine works of Wang Xizhi or Van Gogh." Julius just smiled lightly at the master's point of view, and continued: "At that time, Keen came to discuss with me. He said that Mr. Ji's masterpiece had not yet been completed, and he could not bear to let Mr. Ji go to old age and death like this, but artificial It is obvious that brain tissue can not obtain his consent. So he persuaded me to perform a secret operation on the owner, replacing the old brain tissue with Keen's healthy brain tissue. This operation is planned to last for ten years, and only three times a day will be replaced. One thousandth. Why do you do this? Why not replace it all at once? I think Ms. Ruyi must know the reason. Because, according to the latest research results of medical science, as long as the newly embedded brain tissue does not exceed 3000th of the brain First, the information in the original brain will quickly spread over the new neurons, flushing out the memory brought in by the new neurons from the outside world, and then the information in the original brain will return to its original strength within a day or two. This situation is very Similar to the hematopoietic process of the human body after blood loss. Although the functions of each area of ​​the human brain are specialized, the brain is a unity and a complex three-dimensional network. Losing one-thousandth of the information does not affect memory Total capacity, it’s like a hologram—even if a corner of the negative of the hologram is off, a complete photo can still be developed. In short, one third of a thousandth is replaced every day, and the cycle continues like this, changing brains Both of them can maintain their personalities, thoughts and memories. When Ms. Ruyi arrived here, there were only the last two operations left. In order to complete the operations, Keane had to secretly release the spaceship. Now the operation is finally over , and with complete success, as you have seen with your own eyes." Yoshino Omi was furious: "It's nonsense! Don't listen to his nonsense, even if I am old and stupid, I will not be ignorant of the foreign body embedded in my brain." Jianming and Ruyi exchanged glances, and Ruyi said with a wry smile: "Julius' words may be true, I saw the last operation with my own eyes. Now, since Grandpa is very healthy and Keen is old, then they will It is really treating grandpa instead of harming him. By the way, there is another point that can be used as circumstantial evidence: I felt something abnormal when I came the day before yesterday, but I never knew what it was. I just remembered it because Grandpa got rid of some old habits, such as often raising his eyebrows when talking, walking with a slightly higher left shoulder, etc., but these old habits ran to Keen! This shows that they have indeed changed their brains, but the external memories behind the changes cannot be changed. Wash it away completely, and keep some more or less.” Yoshino Chen stopped talking, hesitation clearly appeared in his eyes.Jianming thought for a moment, then suddenly asked Julius: "Then, why do you have to use Keen's brain tissue to replace it? Type B body parts are readily available commodities. You can buy another type B brain, and the surgery will be easier." Julius smiled slightly: "You are absolutely right, this is exactly my original plan. But Kean insisted on changing his brain with the master, even though it would obviously make the operation more difficult. Do you know why?" He intentionally pauses to make people think.Ruyi looked at Jianming in bewilderment, and shook her head slightly.Jian Ming somewhat guessed something, but he also remained silent, waiting for Julius to speak out.After a while, Julius continued: "I think there are two reasons for Keane's decision. One is the stubborn loyal servant complex. He must 'personally' replace the master's aging death. The second," The head portrait of Julius smiled meaningfully, "Kean used this kind of self-sacrifice to prove his self-worth and the value of Type B people. There is no need to say more about this." Both Ruyi and Jianming cast their eyes on Grandpa, then quickly slipped away, not daring to let Grandpa see their pity.Julius made it clear enough that now, this stubborn old man, Mr. Yoshino Omi, who tried his best to maintain the sanctity of the natural human brain, was sustained by the brain tissue of the B-type person.Strictly speaking, although he still maintains Yoshino Omi's thinking and loves and dislikes, he has actually become the B-type person he always despises. The room was very quiet, only the slight panting of the wounded could be heard.Exhausted from the blood loss, Keene leaned against the wall with his eyes closed.Jianming said sternly: "Julius, you and Keane performed surgery on him without the owner's consent. Don't you know that this is completely illegal? According to the law's definition of 'dangerous tendencies' for computers and Type B people, Neither you nor Keen can escape the fate of being destroyed." Julius said with a smile: "There is still such an instruction in my memory bank: if it is a special situation involving the master's life, you don't have to wait or even disobey the master's order. For example, if the master orders me to assist him in committing suicide, I will Will you obey?" Yu He Jianming was silent. RB Keane has recovered. He struggled to get up, searched for the master with his eyes, and raised his eyebrows to talk to the master.This familiar movement made Yoshino Omi tremble, his eyes revealing extreme despair and sadness.He stood up abruptly and walked away resolutely.Before Ruyi and Jianming could react, Keen eagerly pointed at his back and shouted: "Go and stop him from committing suicide!..." When the two rushed to the study, they saw that grandpa had taken out a pistol from the drawer and put it on his temple.Ruyi rushed over crying: "Grandpa, grandpa, don't do this!" At this moment, she completely forgot about the "defense against Yi and Xia" in her heart, and forgot her doubts about the old man's true identity.Grandpa immediately turned his gun on her—his movements were as agile as a middle-aged man, and he shouted angrily: "Don't come here, or I'll shoot you first!" He moved the muzzle of the gun to his forehead again, and Ruyi cried and rushed towards her again, a gunshot sounded, and the bullet flew over her head, Ruyi was startled, stopped her steps, but still walked forward firmly after a while: “爷爷，你要自杀，就先把我打死吧。” 她涕泪俱下地喊着，爷爷冷淡地看她一眼，不再理她，自顾把枪口移向额头。剑鸣突然高声喝道： “不要开枪！……如仪你快停下，不要再往前走。爷爷，你的自杀是一个纯粹的、完完全全的逻辑错误，请你听完我的分析，如果那时还要自杀，我们决不拦你，行吗？”他嬉笑自若地说。 他的指责太奇特了——逻辑错误！也许，正是这种奇特的指责起了作用，素以智力自负的老人脸上浮出疑惑，他没有说话，但枪口分明抬高了一点儿。剑鸣笑道： “我知道你是想以一死来维护人类的纯洁性，我对爷爷的节操非常钦敬。但你既然能作出这样的决定，就说明你仍保持着自然人的坚定信仰，保持着自然人的爱憎，你并没有因为大脑的代用就蜕变为类人。我想你知道，每个人从哌哌坠地直到衰老死亡，他全身的细胞（只有脑细胞除外）都在不断地分裂、死亡、以旧换新，一生中他的身体实际上已经更换多次，比如皮肤吧，一个人在七十年中能更换四十八公斤！所谓今日之我已非昨日之我，但这并不影响他作为一个特定人的连续性和独特性。每个生命都是一具特殊的时空构体，它基于特定的物质架构又独立于它，因此才能在一个'流动'的身体上保持一个'相对恒定'的生命。既然如此，你何妨达观一点，把这次的脑细胞更换也看作是其它细胞的正常代换呢？” 他看见老人似有所动，便笑着说下去：“换个角度说，假如你仍然坚持认为你已经被异化——那好，你已经变成了B型人，请你按B型人的视点去考虑问题吧，你干嘛要自杀？干嘛非要去维护'主人'的纯洁性？这样做是否太'自作多情'了？” “所以，”他笑着总结道，“无论你认为自己是否异化，都没必要自杀。我的三段论推理没有漏洞吧。” 在剑鸣嬉笑自若地神侃时，如仪非常担心，她怕这种调侃不敬的态度会对爷爷的狂怒火上加油。但是很奇怪，这番话看来是水而不是油，爷爷的狂躁之火慢慢减弱，神色渐归平静。她含悲带喜地走过去，扑进爷爷的怀里，哽咽着说： “爷爷，你仍然是我的好爷爷。” 爷爷没有说话，但把她揽入怀中，他的情绪分明有了突变。剑鸣偷偷擦把冷汗——刚才他心里并不像表面那样镇静自若——也嬉笑着凑过来：“爷爷，不要把疼爱全给了孙女，还有孙女婿呢。” 如仪佯怒地推他一把：“去，去，油嘴滑舌，今天我才发现你这人很不可靠。” 剑鸣笑着说：“你这不是过河拆桥吗？” 两人这么逗着嘴，爷爷的嘴角也绽出笑意。忽然他把如仪从怀中推出去，用目光向外示意。原来基恩正扶着墙，歪歪斜斜地走过来，他的伤口挣开了，鲜血洇红了绷带。如仪和剑鸣急忙过去扶他进来，把他安顿在座椅上。RB基恩仰望着主人，嘴唇抖颤着说不出话来。吉野臣冷漠地看着他，他对基恩擅自为他换脑仍然极为恼火，那使他今后将处于极为尴尬的境地。但基恩的用心是好的，如果没有这个手术，恐怕死神早已找上门了。这里的是是非非没法子掰清楚，他看了很久，终于走过来，把基恩揽入怀中。 如仪和剑鸣你望望我，我望望你，忽然大笑着拥作一团，热烈地吻着对方。如仪喃喃地说： “剑鸣，我太高兴了，我真没料到是这样圆满的结局。” 她笑靥如花，但两行清泪却抑止不住地淌下来。