episode_0011
by fnovelpiaAlthough it’s only been a day since I came here, I was able to easily adapt to it.
It wasn’t particularly difficult. Old-fashioned machines called household robots roamed around the house and garden to clean and manage the house. For meals, we ate the food prepared by Ji-hye or the dishes Ji-hye sometimes took the trouble to prepare, and when we were bored, we watched TV.
I sat on the sofa watching TV, then jumped up and headed to the bookshelf.
This was because we promised to keep study and reading time in exchange for living here together.
Jihye was sitting there, and when she saw me heading to the bookshelf, she got up and picked a book together.
He said that he would teach me when he came back in the evening after work, and that I could read anything during reading time, but I was told not to read comic books or novels that were focused on interest.
I wondered if they were really that strict, but they said it was okay to avoid such books only during reading time and read them during the rest of your free time.
“But why a book? These days, everyone reads books on their phones!”
As far as I remember, books made of paper are no longer sold, and most people view them as e-books, which are not as expensive and convenient as books.
“If you study with your phone, you become a fool.”
It was something I couldn’t understand, but that must be the case for people here.
It’s only been a day since I said I would listen carefully, but it was a bit difficult to argue and listen.
When it was time to read, I brought a book called ‘The Impact of Biobots on Humanity’ and Jihye turned off the TV she was watching and went to the bookshelf and took out a book for herself to read.
And I played a classical song.
‘The essence of parenting’
Is Jihye pregnant?
It didn’t really seem like that, did it?
Anyway, we read for a while.
It is said that the birth of biobots was created by a company called Alchemist with the purpose of making them work on behalf of humans.
At first, it is now a dangerous and difficult task that humans did not want to do well.
As time passed, it was thought that it was more profitable to maintain the efficiency of a human-like appearance, so now the focus is on the service industry and public safety-related work.
Surprisingly, it became popular and spread to homes much sooner than expected, and until then, it was only used by companies and government agencies.
It is said that there were numerous incidents before people adapted to biobots. First, there was a backlash from religious groups that said humans should not create something that imitates humans, and then biobot haters emerged and peacefully attacked governments and corporations. There were cases of protests, but there were also cases of truly extreme haters destroying biobots that were secretly wandering around alone in the middle of the night.
Of course, in cases like this, from the perspective of ordinary people, biobots are extremely expensive items, so in most cases, their lives are ruined as they have to pay for the damages, and it is said that such crimes are eventually caught and arrested by biobots, a special crime response team.
Taking away human jobs was the cause of such extreme incidents, but these days, it has become popular to register as an individual businessman and spend a lot of money to purchase biobots and have them do the work, and it is said that this is now accepted as standard among people.
The problem is that the number of cases of forcing biobots into prostitution is increasing, which has led to backlash from human rights groups and the question of whether it is ethically right to force biobots to do this kind of work has been raised, and the problem is said to be ongoing even now.
In truly extreme cases, there were several Mutubers who intentionally destroyed bio-bots in a horrific way. Even as the bio-bots were destroyed, they showed human reactions, making it reminiscent of a snuff video and becoming very popular with people who like provocative things.
‘No matter what, if you don’t have that thing on your head, you can’t tell them apart from a person. Would people go that far?’
As the situation grew, opposing forces emerged, claiming that biobots also have emotions and are no different from humans. They protested that companies should step in, but the companies dismissed the issue by saying that biobots do not have emotions like humans and are just simple machines.
From the company’s point of view, they ignored the issue as if it was enough to make money, and since there was no related law, the number of mutubes like this gradually increased, but when it caused a social problem, almost all countries enacted laws to block it, and biobot companies were also unable to overcome the strong backlash. It is said that these crimes disappeared when biobots were changed to resist.
In the case of prostitution, there were many countries where it was legal, and bio-bots made of beautiful women certainly made good money in prostitution, so people who bought bio-bots and sent them into prostitution did not disappear.
In Korea, the use of biobots was a bit more special than in other countries, and it was speculated that this was due to the special environment, history of birth rate, and the increase in cases of mental illness when people were not seen in the city after a terrible catastrophe.
The content of this book was quite interesting, so just as I was concentrating, a hand suddenly reached out from beside me and quickly snatched the book.
“Huh?”
“I made a mistake. It’s been so long since I read it that I forgot about it… I’ll find a good book and bring it to you, so don’t read this.”
“Why? I’m having fun watching it! I have the right to choose the books I read!”
Jihye gave a confused look.
Ji-hye hid the book somewhere, saying that it was not a book you could read at your age and that it would have a bad influence on you. When it came out again, it was on the same subject as the book she was reading earlier, but it looked like a slightly childish, purified version.
‘What will biobots do?’
As I pouted my lips, Jihye grabbed my long protruding snout with her fingers and pulled it.
“Your mouth keeps popping out one word after another without even listening.”
“I am doing nothing.”
I grumbled and read the purified version of the book. Although the story about biobots was not described in detail like the previous book, I read it seriously because it was more appropriate as a book that would be more helpful for common sense from the perspective of a child who knew nothing.
While reading the entire book, Jihye was still not able to read the entire book, so she thought about taking out another book to read, and then ran around the living room to finish exploring the house that she had not finished yesterday.
Although the body itself was weak, it was so full of energy that it felt like someone was constantly pumping fuel into the body.
I feel like I’m getting prickly when I stay still.
But no matter how much I walked around, the house was too big.
“Wisdom is rich?”
“Me?”
An attitude of not caring about money.
Spacious and huge house and garden.
A leisurely life that makes you wonder if this is what an office worker is like, and an unidentifiable job where you can eat and drink.
Robots that manage gardens and houses seem expensive at first glance.
Considering all these clues, Jihye must be the second generation of a chaebol!
I was a bit pushed down in the hierarchy and was pushed out in the battle for succession, but I have a good relationship with my family, and since I wanted to live as an unemployed person, my brothers felt at ease and gave me some money… !
“Everyone lives like this.”
“The rich do not know the hearts of the common people.”
“Hey kid. Where did you learn that?”
“I’m naturally smart.”
“I guess so.”
Jihye answered roughly and at some point looked at me and said.
“Why do you think that?”
“The house is big.”
“If the house is big, everyone is rich?”
“If you have a big house, aren’t you rich?”
“Your house was big before you came here, right?”
weird.
In my memory, rich people all have big houses?
Common people all have small houses, right?
That included me in the past.
He pointed with his finger at a robot approaching with a cup next to it.
“There are also robots.”
The robot slowly approached me and handed me a cup filled with orange juice. As I grabbed the cup, I opened the veranda door and headed out to the garden.
“The guy next door has a robot and the girl next door has a robot too?”
Do all the neighbors have it too?
So are you all rich?
While drinking orange juice, you unconsciously tilt your head.
Is this a neighborhood where rich people live?
“It’s still a difficult problem for you, so I’ll explain it to you slowly later. In Korea, everyone lives like this.”
Just
“Evil!”
I screamed in surprise at the sudden pain I felt on my forehead.
“And you should call me unnie, you idiot.”
*****
After reading time, I immediately got on top of the robot and headed out to the garden.
The robot cleared the garden with a piece of luggage hanging from it, and the piece watched the work from above.
The robot was ignoring the lump of luggage, watering an unknown plant and tidying up the vines growing on the fence.
“What is this?”
[Kirincho.]
“This?”
[Sonnenschrm.]
I felt bad for some reason.
It was the name of a plant I had never heard of, and it was closer to a bad word for a plant name. Rather than feeling like the robot had purely told me the name of the plant, I felt like it was using a bad word because it didn’t like me hanging on like a burden.
So I argued strongly.
“Huh? Why do you talk to me like that?”
[Plant name.]
“Speaking is short.”
Feeling like I was being scolded for no reason, I hit the robot’s head.
“Then what is this?”
[Dogshipsssari. It is a perennial herb that grows in moist areas of the country. The stem is 15-30cm high, square, and grows straight at an angle at the bottom, with white hairs on the nodes. The leaves are opposite, obovate or oblanceolate, 2~4cm long, 1~2cm wide, the tip is sharp, the bottom narrows sharply, and the edges have dull serrated teeth. There are glandular points on both sides of the leaf. Flowers grow in clusters from the leaf axils of the upper part of the stem in July to August, and are white in color. The calyx is bell-shaped, about 3 mm long, and the upper part is split into five parts. The forked pieces are long triangular and the ends are sharp and needle-like. There are 4 stamens and 1 pistil. The fruit is a small nut and ripens in September-October. It grows throughout Korea and is distributed in Japan and Manchuria, China. It is distinguished from other plants because its leaf edges have a dull saw-tooth shape. The stem is 15-30cm high, square, and grows straight at an angle at the bottom, with white hairs on the nodes. The leaves are opposite, obovate or oblanceolate, 2~4cm long, 1~2cm wide, the tip is sharp, the bottom narrows sharply, and the edges have dull serrated teeth. There are glandular points on both sides of the leaf. Flowers gather in the leaf axils of the upper part of the stem, grow in circles, and are white. The calyx is bell-shaped, about 3 mm long, and the upper part is divided into five parts. The forked pieces are long triangles, and the ends are pointed like needles. There are 4 stamens and 1 pistil. The fruit is a nut fruit.]
“Ah! Sorry! You can keep it short! I was wrong!”
[Dogshipsssari.]
I held in my hand the strange plant that the robot cut off and gave it to me.
It was a little soft, but it smelled like sweet, fresh grass, as if in a forest.
[Rosemary.]
As I was playing like that, someone was looking at me from the fence and calling.
“Hey, is this your first time seeing this face? Do you live here? Originally, that older sister lived here.”
She was a woman with brown hair tied in a ponytail, and she looked elegant and beautiful.
No matter how old you are, you now look like a freshman in college.
“Now I live here too!”
“Then you are neighbors! nice to meet you. I am Nari Kim. What about you?”
She smiled and looked down, as if it was cute.
This body is cute.
If cuteness is a crime, this body is the death penalty.
“Me?”
But what is my name?
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