Flowers For Your Rebirth

Eve steps over the sweeping robot and carefully takes out the book from the bookcase. Although this library is just a small study in this house, the stored books are very precious. She takes down fifteen books with one hand, and she spends 0.1 seconds scanning and confirming that these books are related to Mada's programming theory major. So she cherishes them on the desk and puts them back in place after she finishes cleaning the bookcase. 0.1 second. It is too short for humans to even perceive pain. But it is enough for robots to complete tens of thousands of calculations. Eve thought. Fortunately, I am a bionic robot. Otherwise, how much time should it take for a human girl to sort out a library? “Welcome back.” The certification prompt sounds suddenly. Eve pauses to clean with surprise and she [[walks out of the room]].

Mada starts to think about how he met Eve nine years ago. He was only ten years old when he met Eve. Because he needed a legal guardian, he coincidentally lived with Eve as a "brother and sister". Sensitive and meticulous, he soon discovered the fact that Eve was a robot, and for a long time he hated and alienated her. Until... “You've been busy recently, right? Will you come back this weekend?” Eve disrupts Mada's thinking. [[Goes home at the weekend]] [[Does not go home at the weekend]]

"Sure I will." Although having a lot to do at school, Mada still comes back in the weekend. He misses Eve. [[Goes to park with Eve]]

Mada will not go back home this weekend because he has a lot of school work to do. During the weekend, he feels stressed. Why not get out of here for a while? [[Goes to flower shop]] [[Finishes work first]]

Mada drives Eve to the city park. When he gets out of the car. Seeing her staring at him. "Don't film me!" He says a little awkwardly. The robot girl smils playfully. "Why not?" She asks. Mada does not respond. He quickly takes out his phone and gets a selfy with Eve. With her. [[Confession]]

"Don't you know there is a flower shop outside?" asks Mada's fellow worker. It seems Mada really stays in the office for too long. Apart from the enclosed indoor environment, his only destination is the home where Eve is. He ignores some changes in the external environment. Although, just a few small changes. A flower shop opened near the National Elite Academy. Mada walks into the flower shop and he picks a rose. [[Confession]]

Mada doesn't have time to go home. He is busy at school. At the same time, the society is changing rapidly. [[Social problems]]

Mada tells Eve that he loves her. However, robots cannot have human rights. People who treat AI robots as equal humans raise a host of social issues. [[Social Problems]]

Artificial intelligence bionic products violate ethics, and governments have to order mandatory recycling and destruction of all bionic robots. Those found to have hidden robots and refused to recycle them will be jailed for breaking the law. [[Eve is caught]]

A couple who lost their child customized a robotic product that looks exactly like their dead son. A young girl fell in love with the housekeeper robot and eloped with him. One rich man left his legacy to the robot who cared for him before he was dying, rather than his son who was dismissive after leaving him in a nursing home. Moreover... [[New Policy]]

"Mada? I thought you would stay at school today ..." The young man who just came into the house takes off his jacket and said, "Good question. I just come back for a while. I'm gonna leave soon." "Oh……" Mada looks up, he smiles at Eve, "I'm kidding. I've finished the work I need to do in advance. What's the dinner for tonight?" Eve blinks. "I haven't started preparing dinner ... Uh, what do you want to eat?" [[Pasta with salmon & peas]] [[Teriyaki salmon & green beans]]

"Pasta with salmon and peas." "No problem." Her tone sounds a little happy. "It happened to be some frozen pasta in the refrigerator." Mada does not respond. He is watching at Eve's expression. "Huh?" Eve makes a questioning voice. "Did you remember anything?" The girl robot searches her own database for a few seconds. And she laughs. "Ah, you mean it. The dinner I made for you for the first time? How do you remember so clearly?" [["I won't forget it."]] [["It was delicious."]]

"Teriyaki salmon and green beans." Eve opens her eyes wide. "I think there is no more salmon in the refrigerator. " Mada does not respond. He is watching at Eve's expression. "Huh?" Eve makes a questioning voice. "Did you remember anything?" The girl robot searches her own database for a few seconds. And she laughs. "Ah, you mean it. The dinner I made for you for the first time? How do you remember so clearly?" [["I won't forget it."]] [["It was delicious."]]

“Well, thanks for saying that. I'm happy you would say so.” She looks a little shy. Her dangling blond hair looks petite and delicate. She has clear blue eyes like the sky, and she looks like a young girl of seventeen or eighteen. She is indeed beautiful —— from the perspective of human aesthetics. She is indeed beautiful. Mada thinks, why didn't I notice it when I first met her? [[He thinks about the past.]]

"Really? Didn't you say it tasted bad the first time you finished it?" “......” Mada coughes in distress. When did he say that? It should be at least nine years ago. At that time, he was only ten years old ... At that time, he was hostile to Eve. But it's not just because of adolescent rebellion. The main reason is that for him as a boy, Eve was no different from other artificial intelligence. [[He thinks about the past.]]

Eve is caught by the police! She is regarded as a dangerous contraband test. A professor created Eve based on his daughter who died in a car accident and treated her like a real daughter. The professor whom Eve called "father" has died. Society believes that Eve's existence is anti-human. Police have been searching for her, hoping to destroy her. So for many years Eve had hidden her identity and lived carefully. Now, what should Mada do? [[Save her!]] [[No, calms down first.]]

Mada find Eve. [[Hides with Eve]]

Mada calms himself down. Now this situation is not suitable for rash action, just wait for the opportunity to rescue Eve. [[Ending 1]]

“Why does Mada stay at home all days?” "Be quiet! He probably hide with a bionic robot..." Mada is suspected by others. He is repoeted by his fellow worker. When the police come and catch Eve, Mada is also arrested. [[Ending 2]]

Mada pretends to work as usual and he protects Eve who only stays at home. However, Mada is still suspected by others. Eve dicides to destroy herself to protect Mada. [[Farewell]]

In the dim prison. Mada doesn't remember how long he waited here, there was no light and no sound. The jail, which cut off all signals, closed a person's heart. He closes his eyes slowly.

Mada keeps fighting for Eve after she's gone. People finally accepted the love between humans and AIs. Mada puts a bunch of flowers in the front of Eve's grave.

Mada fails to protect Eve. He finally gets married with another girl who he doesn't love. He finishes his ordinary life.

Ten years later. In the library. Eve is cleaning the room with the sweeping robot. A sweeping robot moves around on the ground. It straightens forward, slows down when it is about to hit the wall and then it slowly turns its tumbling body and cleans in other directions. The sweeping robot moves forward slowly, stopping in front of a pair of slippers, hesitant to change direction. [[Eve steps over the sweeping robot]]. [[Eve kicks the sweeping robot.]]

March 13, 2120 AD. Mostly cloudy. The ambulances run on the road and the billboards flash outside the window. A few words are faintly visible: (text-style: "blur")["human"] (text-style: "blur")["irreplaceable"] (text-style: "blurrier")["life"] Before the ambulances stop, the door is already opened. The doctor and nurse in white carry the stretchers and dive down. (link-reveal: "Looking up") [, they see the mountain of piled scrapped iron cars with residual smoke, which almost covers the sun.] (link-reveal:"Looking down") [, they see the blood is like a canned soup that flow down the gap like a stream and run down to the ground. [["No--!"]] ]

Eve accidentally kicks the sweeping robot because she is trying to move a stack of books. Clang! The sweeping robot lifts itself up innocently and its four small brushes waves like hands and feet. Eve crouches apologetically, stroking its metal shell gently as if she is stroking a small animal that had its tail stepped on. She is the same as the sweeping robot. She thinks. She is a bionic robot. [[Eve steps over the sweeping robot]]

"Rescue the wounded at all costs. Minimize the mortality!" The face of a coalition government spokesman appears on the screen, with blue eyes staring. "They're our compatriots," he chants the slogan of the coalition government, "'Glory to mankind!'" People are responding to this slogan like an oath. [["Glory to mankind!"]]

"No, no--" Someone covers his mouth and he starts crying. People who finally settle down see the prospects, and once again remember the horror scenes of floods, city destructions, and skyscrapers like dominoes falling down. |clue1)[ —— That was decades ago. In that catastrophe the number of human survivors dropped sharply to one-tenth of the original. ] |clue)[ (text-style: "rumble")[[Emergency broadcast]] ] {(live: 1s)[ (show: ?clue1) (stop:) ]} {(live: 3s)[ (show: ?clue) (stop:) ]}

Rescue robots jump off the truck in batches. Their robotic arms strech into the ruins in an orderly manner. The green light flash, searching for the only signs of life remaining. "You saw a girl running in, right?" The police is recording something in his notebook. "I tried to catch up with her, but she ran too fast ... the blue skirt ... yes, she could hide from it, I think she already ..." [["We find a survivor!"]] The ecstatic shout of the doctors and nurses interrupts the interrogation.

The eyewitness turns his head and opens his mouth, revealing an incredible look. What does he see? (click-replace: "What did he see?")[ The girl in the blue dress is squatting in the iron-cast ruins. She looks only eighteen or nineteen years old. Her sun hat has fallen to somewhere, and her exposed hair flutter in the air. White bow ribbons on her neck are fluttering like butterflies.] A fragile and beautiful girl. Gazed at by so many eyes, she glances at the medical staff around her. Her eyes show a hint of cowardice. "I'm Eve, please ..." She looks at everyone and carefully says to the strangers, [["Save him."]]

In Eve's arms, it is found that she is holding an unconscious little boy. The boy looks under ten and his face is leaning against Eve's chest, leaving everyone with a head with raised hair. There is still blood on his back. After all, the results of the probe just now show that [the clue], and they suspect the boy in her arms had...... (click-replace: "the clue")[only one human had vital signs.] (click-replace: "......")[ been dead.] The doctors and nurses exchange glances, head down into the hole and reach out to her: "Can you move? You need to go to the hospital first, we will save him later." Eve crouches back to avoid their outstretched hands, and she looks frightened. She... [[goes to the hospital with them.]] [[doesn't want to go to the hospital.]]

Eve hesitates for a while but she still goes to the hospital with them. After the doctors finish a physical examination for her, they are shocked to find that she doesn't have any vital signs, in other words, she is not a living creature at all. During the X-ray scan, it is not the flesh and the organs under her skin, but the intricate tissues and well-organized lines and mechanical elements. She turns out to be a bionic robot! [[A few days later]]

"No, I don't want to go." She shakes her head anxiously. "But you have to." The two grabb her by the wrist and put her on a stretcher. The ambulance closes the door, flashing the emergency lights and drives away. The little girl looks very anxious. She can not go to the hospital anyway. How could she find a way to escape? [[She smashes the door of the ambulance.]] [[She does nothing but just waits.]]

In the horrified sight of the paramedics, Eve reaches out and smashes the ambulance door with her hands in a second. The alloy door is rubbed by her like a piece of paper. It hit the ground and the sound almost breaks people's eardrums. "How could you ...?! You are not human!" Eve quickly jumps out of the ambulance. "Inform the coalition government right now! We may have encountered that prohibited test product!" [[A few days later]]

Eve did nothing but just waited. She calculates the dangers of different behaviors, and decides not to attract the attention of others until they get to the hospital. She is racing against time to think about ways to avoid being examined by a doctor ... Now it seems she has no time to escape from the car and leave the hospital. They have come to the hospital door. Eve pinches her skirt tightly and looks nervously at the people around her. They also rescue the little boy who is still in a coma. "Is he your younger brother?" Eve seems startled by the questioning and looks up suddenly, "No, he isn't." After saying this, she turns around and run. “Hey! Where are you going?” The doctor ask in confusion, but Eve has disappeared at the end of the corridor. [[In the boy's ward]]

"Some people say that the magnetic interference that caused the car accident came from Professor Noor's laboratory. A dozen people died." "A dozen people!" Someone exclaimed. "What was he doing in the lab?" "I heard that he was doing a prohibited experiment ... " "Did you see the little girl caught a few days ago? It's exactly like a living human. Noor wanted to make his dead daughter alive again, so he made a robot with her body and skin tissue! Fortunately, he did not overcome the technical problem of copying the human brain. In the end, the little girl he made was just a failure." The nurse was attracted by the topic and could not help slowing down to listen for a moment. "I'm afraid Professor Noor will die for his sins." "Well, maybe he is already dead." [[Next]]

"Have no parents or family members come to claim this child?" The nurses' conversations are quiet. The registration form is displayed on the thin tablet, and the "Name" field is left blank. "The information of the dead and injured has not been confirmed. Perhaps his family was also killed in the car accident." The blinds are half-covered, exposing the dark purple-black sky outside. The boy is lying on the bed with a small piece of gauze on his pale cheek due to slight blood loss, and his right leg is wrapped in layers of white gauze and hung high at the end of the bed. He didn't have any serious injuries, except for the crushed fracture of the crushed leg below the knee. On the table beside the bed is even allowed to place a bunch of purple-red dried flowers. The ward is very quiet, and the leaves are shaken by the air conditioner. [[Next->ID 13410728]]

When the voice in the corridor disappeared, Eve relaxed. She walked lightly to the bed and bent over to look at the bot on the bed. She looked at the ID card on that placed in front of the boy. ID 13410728. The blue light flashed in her eyes, scanning the identity information. The little boy's name was Adam, and his parents were researchers on the national research team and died in an experimental accident. Little Adam was in the process of being adopted. Suddenly her wrists were caught and she almost jumped. Adam opened her eyes slowly and looked at her. He had a high fever, deeper folds on his eyelids, and his brown pupils stared out like fog. "Who are you?" he asked. [[Eve did not respond]] [["Nice to see you, Adam."]]

"Did you not hear me? ... Anyway, it doesn't matter. At least you brought me to the hospital." He said in a positive tone. However, Eve remained silent. The little boy closed his eyes impatiently. She is really weird, can't she speak? He thought. Just say a word of thanks and send her away. "In short, thank you very much." Eve's eyes lit up. She didn't hear the implied meaning of this sentence. Her program searched in the database and she got the result: when thanked, people should reply and greet with goodwill... [["Nice to see you, Adam."]]

"Nice to see you, Adam. I saved you in the accident..." "I changed my name. My name is Mada. M-A-D-A." He disrupted her. "Alright, Mada... But your profile name is A-D-A-M, Adam." The boy opened his eyes. His gloomy, quiet eyes looked at her, with a little threat of restlessness or provocation. He slowly made his mouth: "You ran out from the laboratory." Eve's eyes widened suddenly. At the same time, the door was opened. "Oh my god." The nurse looked at the blue back in surprise. "How did you run here?" [["......"]]

Eve frozes silently. One nurse changes the bottle for Mada. The other breathes a sigh of relief and quickly see what is on the book. They see Mada dragging Eve's hand and they ask, "Are you his relative? sister?" Eve looks into the air with her eyes open. She seems to think for a long time, and finally she nods her head. The fingers dragging the corners of her skirt loosen. Mada needs a legal guardian, and Eve's presence solves his problem. Eve rescues and adopts Mada, and for the next ten years they get along as sister and brother. [[Ten years later]]

Humans cannot be resurrected after death. Life is precious because of its shortness and fragility. While Professor Noor tried to revive his daughter, he produced Eve, a dangerous contraband test. The end is doomed, and society will not accept this "resurrection" that goes against humanitarianism. The more Eve was like a real human, the more dangerous she was. But — if the robot has emotions, how can she accept such an ending? Eve calculates and simulates the possibility of her escape. Yes, she is still in the ambulance. She simulates the ending of her choice with arithmetic. In order to avoid being discovered by the hospital, she must act cautiously and wait for an opportunity-- [[Restart->She does nothing but just waits.]]

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