At the end of his life, Yamamoto did not find a girlfriend, let alone a so-called robot companion. Maybe he is a perfectionist, or maybe he doesn't need a partner at all...
Who knows?
There are probably more than a thousand elderly people who left the world in this batch. Many scientists came to see them off, especially their counterparts in Unreal Labs, who silently bid farewell to these pioneers who had made great achievements.
Listening to the conversation between the two, they all showed a sad look.
Several staff carried these old people one by one into the hibernation chamber-like device.
Yamamoto lay down quietly, put on his helmet, and opened his eyes wide. His old eyes seemed to want to take a last look at the world.
He said, "Let's go."
Zhang Yuan's throat twitched, but he still didn't say anything in the end.
Life in the virtual world will be chosen by oneself, what exactly you want to do, and what will happen, no one can predict, and there is nothing to order.
Even the time spent in Kunlun Mountains is just a short period of time in the long cycle of reincarnation. This is the beginning of life, not the end.
"Do you have any regrets?" the nurse nearby asked.
"No more." After a long time, Yamamoto replied.
"Please close your eyes."
The warehouse door was slowly closed, and after the consciousness was uploaded, all the vegetative remains would be used for biological research, especially the research on the human auxiliary brain...
Everyone exited the room and left in silence.
Zhang Yuan leaned on crutches, sighed deeply, and walked slowly in the corridor without crying or laughing. It's like a passing cloud, a little numb.
A robot nurse has been following behind him, always paying attention to his health. After all, if this kind of old man accidentally falls, he might go straight away, and the government departments are also very concerned about their physical condition.
His wife Lin Xuanxuan also attended a similar farewell ceremony in the next room. She just exited the room and kept wiping her eyes. She is not like Zhang Yuan. She has experienced this kind of thing many times, but she still can't help crying.
Zhang Yuan stayed by her side silently for a long time before Lin Xuanxuan gradually returned to normal.
"Let's go, let's go outside to see the stars!" Zhang Yuan greeted.
"I don't know if I should go first, or you should go first, or leave this world together?" Lin Xuanxuan followed behind, whispering.
"In a few years, let's be together at that time... There is always a benefit to living a long life. Even if your physical condition is getting worse and worse, you always want to stay here." Zhang Yuan said: "We came to this world alone, and we should leave alone. Anyway, it is impossible to take anything with us. Oh, the only thing that can be taken away is memory, but not drinking Mengpo soup is not necessarily a good thing!"
"You're so cruel, aren't you feeling sad...My good friend left, and I'll never see you again."
Zhang Yuan said: "Sadness...sadness is really a good thing. Without such negative feedback, it is impossible for human beings to learn anything. Without such emotions, human beings may have become extinct in primitive times! But the sadness of such things has no meaning."
The two walked to the observatory and sat down quietly. Their physical conditions no longer allow them to go outside to the zero-gravity zone.
This observatory is placed on the ring-shaped centrifugal wheel, and the entire starry sky rotates with the centrifugal wheel.
The bright universe can always soothe the soul. Whether it is a great scientist or a high-level civilization, compared with the great universe, the life and death of an individual, the ebb and flow, all seem so insignificant, even negligible.
Even the stars will go out, let alone human beings?
Lin Xuanxuan suddenly said: "A long time ago, my grandma said that every star represents a person, and when a meteor falls, it means that someone has passed away."
"Really, but you can't see meteors in this place...the number of stars in the Milky Way may be more than that of human beings. So many stars, could they be cats or dogs?" Zhang Yuan joked.
Lin Xuanxuan has long been used to Zhang Yuan's way of thinking, "You are really... However, for many people, cats and dogs are like relatives, and they will be sad when they die. Humans are really fragile creatures. The older they are, the more they are used to staying in the environment they are accustomed to. Even the glass glass they use often breaks, and they will feel sad."
"But we all know that any hug in this world will end in letting go."
Zhang Yuan nodded in agreement: "What happened cannot be reversed, and the past cannot be turned back. Compared with the present, the past is an eternal loss. What do you miss the most?"
Lin Xuanxuan pondered for a while, and said: "Maybe it's to say goodbye to grandma before leaving the earth. My parents are very supportive of my decision to be on the Earth Times, but grandma is different. I don't know why, but I can still recall grandma's tears. Maybe she is very afraid that she will not see me in the future."
"... I was immersed in the excitement of the upcoming space travel. This excitement was greater than the sadness of parting. It was difficult to experience the nostalgia of the elderly."
"In a blink of an eye, I also became a grandma. It's really embarrassing... What about you? What impresses you the most?"
Zhang Yuan said again: "It should be after graduating and parting with my classmates. It started a long time ago, when I just graduated from university, I was the last person to leave in the dormitory."
"I can still vividly remember the scenes of them moving out one by one. When Ma Yidong left, I was sleeping on the bed. When he left, he patted my bed and said goodbye. When he walked out the door and saw his empty bed, I really felt that we would never have the opportunity to live together like this. Suddenly, there was no desire to sleep at all."
"Then came Li Wu. He was admitted to the school as a graduate student and continued to stay in his school. After I helped him carry his things down, I watched him push his bicycle away. But even if he stayed in his school, I also knew that we might never see each other again for a long time like a few days ago."
"The last is Zhang Jun. His family's conditions are not very good, and he started working before graduation."
"He came back from the outside one day, packed up in a hurry and left. I stood at the door and asked him, let's give him a ride. He said no, so he carried a messenger bag. He flicked the bag. I quietly watched him slowly leave along the corridor at the door of the bedroom."
"Then he suddenly turned around and came back, and hugged me..."
Zhang Yuan said calmly: "This is a farewell. Sometimes a full stop, an exclamation point, or an ellipsis must be filled in by hand."
"Advise you to drink more wine, there is no old friend when you leave Yangguan in the west."