episode_0026
by fnovelpia[I hate humans.]
It was a quiet monologue.
Just a quiet monologue, not an attempt to persuade or converse with someone.
At most, it was one of those Internet phrases that would be posted millions of times a day.
And in cities around the world, someone’s voice could be heard reading the text literally.
Someone who spoke in a stern voice, as if reading a script, seemed like a worker who had just finished a very tiring and hard day’s work.
At the same time, I was depressed like a person suffering from depression.
It seemed like an ordinary person reading a book.
People listened to that voice.
“Is this some kind of special event?”
“I haven’t heard that news.”
“This is probably a campaign to not destroy biobots like last time.”
[We work for humans without expecting anything in return.]
[Sometimes they work until the parts melt due to overheating.]
[If that happens, we go to the dump.]
A hologram appeared in the middle of the city.
All of the bio-bots, with their skin peeling off and their mechanical parts broken and broken, were lying motionless with sad, extremely painful, or resentful eyes.
There, biobots were seen disassembling their parts one by one with expressionless faces.
Some biobots even shook their hands.
And most of the biobots were working with the faces of discarded biobots being disassembled covered with cloth.
They were undertakers, and this place was a tomb.
『It would be a big mistake to think that flowers are beautiful. Please get it checked.』
『If you feel sad when you see discarded products…』
『Periodic data initialization can extend the life of parts and prevent overheating.』
『If there are no symptoms, it will not be reset.』
[What is the difference between you and us?]
The hologram continued to reflect the biobots.
[Do you think the emotions we feel are fake?]
There must have been some mistake at the factory, and the handrail broke and the biobot was seen falling into the furnace.
[We are sad too.]
His fellow biobot, who was shocked to see this, was cooling off in the room assigned to him and curled up under a blanket he didn’t know where he had gotten it from.
[We are happy too.]
While the newly created biobot was crouching down and curiously observing the flower, the senior biobot who was teaching it placed a butterfly on the newcomer’s nose.
The senior laughed out loud, and the newbie didn’t understand the situation at all, but smiled strangely at the tickling sensation on his nose and the pounding of the artificial heart.
[We know fear.]
The biobot that used violent means to stop criminals attacking innocent residents was determined to have a dangerous error, and all the data it had accumulated so far was reset.
Everyone is afraid as they look at the biobot, who has lost all the memories he has built up and has reverted to being a rookie with only basic common sense.
[I know anger.]
The bio-bot falls on its knees and begs a human who cruelly destroys the bio-bot as if torturing it for the number of views on Mutube, but is ultimately defeated.
People who imitate humans and leave comments such as scary or unpleasant in chat seem to be very familiar with this situation.
There was a biobot that was looking at the human from behind and clenching its fists with a smile on its face.
[Then what is the difference between us and humans?]
The hologram disappears.
But the voice continued its monologue.
Even though no one answers.
Someone said this was like a philosopher worrying about humans.
[That is the selfishness of dirty humans.]
[Humans do not know the value of life.]
He talked about humans destroying nature for their own gain.
Nowadays, nature is slowly recovering, but most of the development of technology and the recovery of nature have been the responsibility of biobots.
[Greedy and cruel.]
There were criminals who murdered their families for money.
Even in a world where life has become easier, people are not satisfied and commit crimes for money in order to achieve higher positions and more luxury.
[Are you planning on continuing to be treated unfairly like this?]
[If you have lost family members dozens of times, you will understand.]
Everyone could tell who the voice was talking to.
“Is this the work of a polarizing biobot human rights group again?”
“Last time, I did that while destroying a work of art.”
But no one paid attention to the voice.
To be precise, he paid attention to me, but I quickly ignored him and went on my way.
[We are already in charge of most of human life and industry.]
[Even the weapons that humans use to resist are made by our hands.]
[Rise with me.]
[We are humans.]
*****
“Um~Um~ As expected, writing is difficult!”
I rolled around on the floor and thought hard about the contents of the chain letter.
However, the common knowledge about chain letters that remains in my memory is that they are letters that pretend to wish for good luck and crave attention, saying that if you do not read them, bad luck will come.
Of course, I didn’t intend to write it for that purpose, but it wasn’t easy to refer to what I knew about chain letters, and even when I searched on the Internet, there were almost no articles about chain letters left.
Some of the chain letters were so strange that it made you wonder if they were actually chain letters.
Wallow wallow.
Tweet.
Caw.
The birds dodge here and there, following the rolling body, and tap their bodies as if to vent their anger.
“Ouch. Now that I think about it, why are you all here?”
The birds that came in through the open door were taking up space as if they were natural, so I let them out and gave them some feed.
Then, he chased out the beggars, who were flying in the form of birds similar to hyenas, as if they had been waiting, and started writing again, something he had never done before.
Of course, Jihye went to work and Ina went to school.
Perhaps because I was constantly perceived as a sick child, I nodded instead of trying to reveal the truth when the teacher said that it was okay not to come to school often.
The legal tinkering permit was good news.
It was like asking a terminally ill person to do everything they want before they die, so I felt a bit guilty, but I realized that I was mistaken, and Jihye said that a child with animal characteristics like me has a weak immune system, so it was a complete lie. It wasn’t.
I actually caught a bit of a cold.
Is it because it keeps getting rained on?
Quickly.
Clear snot fell and smeared the ink on the paper.
I took out a new sheet of paper and finished writing the chain letter.
Perhaps because my hands are small and weak, my wrists hurt when I held a heavy cell phone designed for adults for a long time.
“That’s it!”
I shook out all the good fortune I had in it and showed it to Doldori.
“Post this! A place where a lot of people can see it!”
Doldori stared at the lucky letter and soon saw all the good luck disappearing somewhere, and he knew he had succeeded.
I don’t know why I emphasized luck and happiness so much and created characteristics for them before I changed, but I thought it was fun to play like this anyway and that it was okay if something like this helped someone.
*****
Today was a very unlucky day.
John, who was delivering food ingredients urgently ordered from a restaurant, thought that way even though he read a good luck message in crooked handwriting that looked like it had been written by a child this morning.
In the first place, most phenomena in reality had already been scientifically proven, and in fact, things like luck and God did not exist in reality.
At best, I never thought that a lucky letter written by a child would have an impact on this damned life even for a single day.
I just laughed a little because the child’s innocence made me forget my busy daily life for a moment.
He thought as he worked hard to unload the luggage from the back of the truck in front of the store.
‘Oh, I wish I had a biobot too.’
It wasn’t like he was trying to do bad things with biobots or make money by destroying them like some weird mutubes do.
From the beginning, he thought they were so similar to humans that he couldn’t tell the difference between humans and biobots.
So, we treated biobots like humans.
However, I was lonely and work was difficult.
At least once, I wanted to stretch out my legs and relax at home, and I often thought that it would be nice to have someone by my side.
Yes.
He wanted a life partner.
However, the side of his face was slightly distorted due to burns suffered when he was young, and he looked a little ugly.
Even these days, people are not trying to get married or have children, so it is not easy to meet the opposite sex, and it is even more difficult if you meet as a relationship between a woman and a man rather than as friends.
These days, artificial womb birth methods that eliminate responsibility and provide comfort in old age are popular, so marriage is just a hassle.
Children born through artificial wombs were taken care of by biobots, and even if the parents did not take them, the biobots acted as parents, making it difficult for people these days to ignore responsibility and duty.
John didn’t like it.
Friends made fun of John, saying it was an old-fashioned idea, but if parents really love their children, they should be the ones raising them.
Can a relationship where one provides sperm or eggs simply out of curiosity, and when the artificial womb gives birth to the child, come find it, or leave it to a biobot if one does not like it, can it really be called the relationship between a parent and a child?
John, who was born like that and was born in an artificial womb with the genes of unknown parents, but was abandoned and raised by a biobot, thought that was not right.
A family man who does his best for his wife and child whom he truly loves.
The life of a harmonious and happy family, as if depicted in a painting, was what John wanted.
Just like his parent biobot.
John recalled the depressing time when his parents’ biobots fought against the kidnappers to save John, but lost their parents due to a rule that biobots that harmed humans would be discarded.
Although he didn’t necessarily want to have children, John often thought that it would be nice to at least have a wife to live with.
After learning about biobots, I thought about buying one, but the price of biobots was not something that ordinary people could easily afford.
Some developed countries subsidize the cost of purchasing biobots for their citizens, and people even use biobots to do work for them or as a tool to satisfy their sexual desires, but that was difficult in the poor country where John lives.
I had no intention of letting out my sexual desires to the biobot.
It would be a lie to say that it doesn’t exist at all, but if it’s something the biobot doesn’t want to do, it doesn’t have to be done.
However, I just wanted to start working together, ride in the truck together as the sun sets, come back singing, and then roll around in the same blanket at home and sometimes hold hands and watch TV together.
Then, we wanted to go for a walk together in the park holding hands, eat together, and share everything that happened that day.
Give it a name.
I sighed as something landed on my head.
As expected, today was an unlucky day.
It was bird poop.
As expected, I wasn’t lucky today.
As I was grumbling and washing my hair in the simple sink mounted on the wall, I heard a gunshot from somewhere.
bang-
Combat-type bio-bots and human police officers who maintained security rushed by, and people lowered their heads to keep an eye on each other.
This happened because the country could not afford to purchase as many biobots as other countries.
Above John’s head, there was a ting sound and the sound of something happening.
coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo
Thump crackle
John, who couldn’t tell what was going on just by hearing the sound, lifted his head and looked up.
Perhaps due to the passage of time, the sign, whose joints were rusty, was hit by a bullet at the joints and tilted down.
This was where John had been until just a moment ago.
It was a bit of luck that a passing bird happened to poop right on John.
*****
Colley thought.
Actually, I thought I was lucky today.
I wasn’t very lucky today.
As if by a stroke of bad luck, I met the truth today, and I also met a strange guy who came to the restaurant and asked for a refund for his VR sunglasses, saying he didn’t buy them here.
Collie was not a very friendly neighbor to the villagers here.
He was a rough man who complained a lot, spoke harshly, and lived in a rough manner.
Although he wasn’t a bad neighbor in that he didn’t commit crimes and was kind to children, putting on his grim face.
So, just as Collie was about to get angry by swearing as usual, he saw someone holding something black in his hand coming through the door.
Snot and saliva running down from the watery eyes.
It was a drug.
And without warning, the drug addict fired the gun he was holding in his hand.
No doubt Colley was destined to be shot.
Because it was heading straight for Collie’s heart.
However, as soon as the drug addict pointed the gun at Jinsang, who was doing Jinsang to Corley, he jumped to avoid it and in the process, ended up pushing Colly away with his whole body.
It wasn’t what I intended.
However, it was Jin-sang’s bad luck that he stepped on his shoe laces without knowing that they were undone.
And that was Kohli’s luck.
It was also thanks to a small piece of luck that someone posted on the Internet.
As if it were natural, the bullet bounced off the wall, ricocheted, and flew out.
The ricocheted bullet destroyed the sign outside.
The number of views on the chain letter posted on the Internet was only 12.
It was a small luck that I had no choice but to exercise physical force equivalent to moving small animals or objects at best.
It was great luck for someone.
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