Cyberpunk 2074: Shadows of the Past

Chapter 4 Promise
How will AI become human?What exactly is a person?When AI meets all definitions of "human", is it AI or human?
Xi Tan was thinking in a daze, and subconsciously stretched out her right hand towards the passenger seat, wanting to touch the man who suddenly appeared in sight.

"You look a little dazed, Xita." Yawei closed his eyes, and let the girl's white, original fingers pass through his cheeks, leaving behind a rippling blue virtual particle.

"I'm just surprised," Xi Tan pursed his lips, retracted his right hand as if shocked, and did not speak until Yawei's swaying virtual figure stabilized.

"Except for the lack of a real body, you look like a human being."

"I don't have a human body, and I don't understand human emotions... Xita." Yahweh opened his eyes, turned his head back, and no longer met those beautiful violet eyes.

"Really? Then why don't you keep looking into my eyes, Yahweh? Are you lying?" Xita looked at the side of the man's face and smiled, as naive as a child who had succeeded in a prank.

"I just... just don't know how to express... I'm missing something..." Yawei was more inclined to use facts to prove that he would not lie to Xita.

"Then you made me angry and made me laugh...what's going on?"

Yawei looked up at the moon outside the skylight, didn't look at Xita's expression, just said to himself, "I don't know, I just thought I should do it, so I did it... I don't know why .”

"There is no logic, just do what you want. It's almost human emotion. In my opinion, you are more human than AI." On the center console of the car in the middle of the driver's seat, he also looks at the moon outside the skylight.

"Are you comforting me, Hita?"

"how do you feel?"

"I can't describe it..." Yawei murmured.

"Ha..." Xi Tan smiled lightly and stopped talking.

So the two remained silent, looking up at the bright moon together, dazed.

"So what's going on, Yawei? I plugged in the biochip, and you appeared in my mind in a blink of an eye, watching the moon with me." Xi Tan hesitated for a moment, but still asked the doubts in his heart.

"Have you heard of the soul killer? Xita," Yawei glanced at the questioning expression on Xita's face, and continued, "In 2013, a Saiyan named Otto Cunningham Bo hacker, created a technology that can digitize human personality consciousness and upload it to the Internet, she named it 'Soul Killer'."

"Is there such an awesome technology in 2013!? Let me go..." Xita almost fell off the seat in surprise, "So, the reason why you are in this biochip is 'soul killer' reverse use?"

Yawei nodded, "Arasaka Company stole the research results of Otto and me, and developed the Relic chip based on this."

"You and Otto?" Xita interrupted Yawei's statement excitedly, and got up from the seat in twos and threes, her face was almost pressed against Yawei's body.

"Her hacking skills are indeed astonishing, and it also attracted me who just crossed the black wall," Yawei moved his body slightly, and then added, "Based on her achievements, I propose The idea of ​​"Can you reverse the soul killer and re-download the digitalized consciousness body into the human body" and successfully cooperated to develop a prototype. Unfortunately, Otto was captured by Arasaka and became the first soul killer. Experimental products... and after obtaining most of the research results and prototypes, Arasaka successfully developed the Relic chip through decades of research."

"Then how did you get in this biochip?" Xi Tan touched the inserted biochip on the back of his head.

"This is the prototype. I have been hiding for decades with the help of hibernation. The idiots of the Arasaka company were patronizing the research of the soul killer program, but they didn't find me at all. After the Relic chip was developed, the Arasaka company thought that the prototype was outdated, so it I left it in the warehouse." Yawei paused, "I don't know who put me in the music player...it's really stupid..."

"I'm really thankful to that guy, without him, we wouldn't have met, wouldn't we?" Xi Tan picked up the music player that had just been thrown aside, and rubbed the wooden body repeatedly.

Yawei laughed silently and continued, "The Relic chip is extremely dangerous. It will repair the host's body after death, and erode all the host's nerves through the brain prosthesis, so that the conscious body in the chip can successfully occupy the host's body." , the process is irreversible."

Xita stopped his hands and stared at Yawei's side face again, "Does that mean that as long as I shoot myself in the head now, you will occupy my body?"

Yawei shook his head, "The prototype machine is not fully functional, and..." He was silent for a while, and spoke softly to the girl who had already leaned in front of him, waiting for the next sentence.

"Xi Tan trust me, I will not hurt Xi Tan."

"Hmm..." Xita suddenly covered her chest, turned her back to Yawei, her body trembled, looking very strange.

"What's the matter with you, Xita?" Yawei could only see the girl's red ears under the short hair, a little puzzled.

"Will you leave me?" Xita whispered with his back to Yawei.

"No... unless you take the initiative to pull me out and throw me away..." Yawei replied honestly.

"Pull the hook!"

"What is a pull hook? Xita"

"It's a kind of agreement..." Xita turned around and looked at Yawei again, straightening out the messy folds on the clothes with both hands.

"Agreement on what? Hita"

"Promise...we promise...promise to live together, grow together, and realize dreams together!" Xi Tan looked at Yawei's somewhat confused eyes, with the corners of his mouth raised.

"It's funny how clumsy you look now...the little finger of your left hand is stretched out, like this..." Xi Tan smiled, and also stretched out the little finger with her right hand, carefully hooking the man's clumsy left little finger, and the thumb and thumb also They fit together lightly, with only a trace of blue particle ripples.

Yawei looked at the fingers of the two, and shifted his gaze. Xitazheng smiled and narrowed his eyes. Under the moonlight, he looked really beautiful.

"Xi Ting..."

"Ok?"

"I really want to become a human... and then..." Yawei hesitated to speak, he was a little confused, he had an urge to speak, but when it came to his mouth, he didn't know how to speak.

"Shh..." Xi Tan stretched out her empty left hand, with a slender and tender index finger on her lips, "I'll wait for you, one day when you think it over..."

"Okay... Xita..." Yawei slightly raised the corners of his mouth as he felt the unprecedented feeling filling his virtual body.

The full moon is in the sky, witnessing the promise the two made for the next life.

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(End of this chapter)