FVN Chapter 352
Chapter 352
Chapter 352: Chapter 36: Never Seeing Each Other in This Life_3 Chapter 352: Chapter 36: Never Seeing Each Other in This Life_3 “It’s indeed a magical feeling,” she mused, “even though we’re meeting for the first time today, for you it must have been dozens or hundreds of times already?”
“Not that many.”
Lin Xian laughed softly, head bowed:
“Just a few dozen times, to be exact, 60 times over two months, that’s all, just two months...”
Yes.
Just two months.
Compared to the 200 years of vast ocean-like spans, how insignificant it is.
Lin Xian stood up and looked down at the trash can robot:
“VV, after I input and run the last ten lines of your code in 2023, you probably won’t remember me anymore, right?”
“Of course, the 130,000 lines of code I gave you do not contain any memory data.”
The trash can robot said:
“That was one of the requirements you gave me at the start, and I think it’s the best approach.
Memories are just pure data, the amount of code to recite is astronomical...
it’s like asking you to write a diary for a lifetime, way too long.”@@@@
“Let alone a lifetime, even a day’s diary, what you see and hear, turned into storage data, would take you over a year to memorize.”
Lin Xian said nothing.
Remembering every night arguing with VV, being lectured by VV, staying up late to study, Lin Xian felt a bit reluctant to let go.
...
He once complained to VV that the 13 lines of code you gave me didn’t contain any ingredient of ‘drama queen’.
If they do, hurry up and delete all that playing to the gallery and drama queen parts!
Don’t take up my precious brain capacity!
But now, Lin Xian suddenly felt...
if only he had known that it would take only two months to memorize, he should have asked VV not to be so extreme in slimming down the code, even if it meant leaving behind some memory data, some pleasant banter would have been so nice.
Reflecting on the past.
Every switch in dreamscape was so sudden, unexpected; there was never a need to face goodbyes, nor time for it.
But today was different.
This was the first time he was saying this eternal farewell to a friend in his dreamscape.
Eternal absence.
Never to meet in this life.
“Lin Xian?”
The trash can robot, noticing Lin Xian’s silence, rolled its treads forward, came in front of Lin Xian, and lifted its head high, looking at the bowed Lin Xian:
“Could it be...
you are feeling sad?”
Lin Xian nodded and honestly replied:
“A little, yes.”
The trashcan robot wobbled from side to side, its eyes flickering:
“Sadness...
seems to be a human emotion that I, as an artificial intelligence, will never be able to comprehend.”
“I can learn many things and become extremely smart, but I will never understand the feeling of sadness that you humans have.
I have wondered for a long time, the reason I don’t feel sad...
is probably because I can’t experience true death, don’t understand the separation that means never seeing someone again, which is why I don’t know sadness.”
The violent shaking almost caused Lin Xian to lose his footing.
He looked around in astonishment, turning to the AI VV, the control hub of Sky City, at his side.
Only to see...
This AI that always liked to play jokes, a drama queen, smiley and playful, was now silently bowing its head.
That dim flickering green light, in this very moment, seemed like tears streaming down:
“Never meeting in life, restless as the stars of Vega and Altair; what night can be like this one, sharing this candlelight.”
Lin Xian’s eyes widened...
VV’s voice had changed!
This flat mechanical sound was not the voice of the super AI VV!
It was the most original sound of this trash can robot!
Without emotion...
Yet full of emotion.
What was happening?
In confusion, the trash can robot slowly lifted its head, looking at Lin Xian:
“Miss Zhao Yingjun once told me this story...
Vega and Altair are two stars, one rising in the east and the other setting in the west; they can never appear together in the same night sky, that is the furthest distance...
never meeting in life.”
Lin Xian was stunned in place.
Looking at the trash can robot that was so eloquent.
Who exactly was this?
Which VV was this?
It was neither the old, foolish, simple-minded trash can, nor the mischievous, drama queen, jokester super AI!
Had these two VVs merged into one at this moment!?
Or was it...
Click!
The trash can robot moved forward on its treads, extending its mechanical grabbers to firmly lock onto Lin Xian’s ankle.
It lifted its head, looking into Lin Xian’s eyes:
“If you ever get to see Miss Zhao Yingjun again, please send her my regards—”
“VV...
has always missed her.”
Boom!!!!!
Boom!!!!!
Boom!!!!!
The searing white light arrived as promised, incinerating everything in the world.
...
...
...
In a corner of the bedroom, Lin Xian opened his eyes.
He turned his head to see the digital clock beside him.
August 29, 2023
00:42