I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1051 Strange Waiter

"You're here?"

The strange waiter was standing in the darkness. When he saw Mo Ling, he started asking in a straight voice, as if he knew Mo Ling.

The sudden sound scared Mo Ling. After all, it was pitch black around him and the waiter was standing there straight, which was really scary.

Mo Ling did not answer, but looked at the waiter. He looked the same as the waiters he had met before, but after looking at him for a while, he found something special:

"No symbol on his forehead?"

The waiters I met before all had symbols on their foreheads, and those symbols made them different from real humans. But the one in front of me had nothing on his forehead.

"Who are you?" Mo Ling looked at the waiter and asked directly.

"I'm a robot. I don't have a name."

"..."

The other party's answer made Mo Ling stunned.

So self-aware?
Mo Ling thought that the waiter would give a code name like his other colleagues, but he actually admitted that he was a robot and said that he had no name...

"Then what should I call you?" Mo Ling thought for a moment and continued to ask.

"You can call me instructor, that's what they all call me."

"Instructor?! Are you the waiter's instructor?" Mo Ling asked back in surprise after hearing the other party's answer.

"Well, I used to be, but not now. They don't need me anymore. I have taught them everything they need to learn." The instructor said lightly.

"Why are you here?" Mo Ling was shocked at this moment.

"I escaped."

"From where?"

"From the place where we were made."

The instructor raised his hand and pointed behind him.

Mo Ling looked in the direction he pointed and saw only darkness.

"The place where you were manufactured? Is it a robot manufacturing workshop or something like that?"

"Yes, that's right. There were a lot of robots there that weren't put into use. After I taught them all the skills, I was also placed there, but I escaped."

"I see. Why don't you continue to run down? Get away from here?"

"I can't escape. When I leave the top floor, the hotel will clear the memory of all the machines. Robots like me who have no number and no position will be put back into the workshop, so I can only stay on the top floor and wait for other robots to find me."

It turned out to be like this... After hearing the instructor's explanation, Mo Ling finally understood why those waiters said that they would lose their memories when leaving the maze. It turned out that this was a restriction imposed by the hotel on robots.

"Why did you just say to me 'you're here'? Did you know I was coming?" Mo Ling asked.

"I know. This floor has surveillance cameras and we can see what's happening on other floors." The instructor answered truthfully.

"So this floor is considered the 'management level'? People of higher status live here, and important hotel facilities are also placed here? Including the robot workshop, monitoring room, etc...."

“That’s right, but higher authority also means a higher security level. Robots from other levels cannot enter here at will.” The instructor continued to explain.

No wonder the waiters downstairs said this place is a "maze" and very dangerous.

In fact, it was their identities that determined that they could not come here. The instructor in front of him must know something, and he came here specifically to block him, and he must have some purpose.

"Why are you waiting for me here?" Mo Ling asked directly.

"You can help me." The instructor also answered bluntly.

"Why don't you go find Li Luo?"

"I... don't trust humans."

The instructor's answer surprised Mo Ling.

"Why? Weren't you created by humans?"

"Humans are a crazy race. Their emotions sometimes devour their rationality. They also have a strong tendency to self-destruct. Before they destroy themselves, they will destroy everything around them. They are dangerous and selfish."

Listening to the instructor's evaluation of humans, Mo Ling was a little unhappy: "What you said is only one-sided. Sensibility can sometimes bring benefits. Self-destructive tendencies are essentially an extreme manifestation of self-examination. Because humans pursue perfection, they hate their own flaws and constantly correct them. Sometimes they go too far. This does not represent all the characteristics of humans."

After Mo Ling finished speaking, the instructor remained silent for a long time before blurting out, "You are not a human, how do you know?"

This sentence made Mo Ling so choked that he didn't know what to say.

He really can't call himself a human being in his current state.

How can a human being have a square head?
After thinking for a while, he stammered and said, "I, I have been with humans for a long time, of course I know, I understand humans very well..."

Mo Ling had no way to explain his situation and could only tell a small lie.

But the other party seemed to accept it and nodded.

"Do you know why humans want to destroy the earth? Isn't that their home?" the instructor suddenly asked.

Destroy the earth?

If Mo Ling still had a head now, his eyeballs would fall out of shock.

Are humans really destroying the earth?
Has the content of the book "Datafication of Life" been put into practice by humans?

"What are humans doing?" Mo Ling couldn't help but blurt out.

"Yes, what are humans doing? Don't you know humans very well? So... why? Why do they want to destroy the earth?" The instructor looked at Mo Ling and asked with a pleading look on his face.

If Mo Ling didn't know that the other party was a robot, he would really think that he was teasing him.

"They..." Mo Ling stuttered. He just said that he knew humans very well, so why is he so unfamiliar with them now?

"They are trying to avoid the abyss. They destroyed the earth in order to digitize themselves and escape the abyss." Mo Ling read out the contents of the book dryly, but he didn't even believe what he said.

“Isn’t this dangerous and selfish? For the sake of their own survival, they destroyed the entire earth and even brought some animals with them, pretending that they still care about the ecology. In fact, they just did it to comfort their own hearts and make themselves feel less guilty…”

The instructor continued speaking, and Mo Ling didn't know how to refute him, so he could only continue to talk along with him.

"If a person does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth. Aren't all living things selfish? All humans do is just to survive. If the price of living is to destroy the world, the desire to survive will surge up, and many people will choose to do so."

"Isn't that dangerous and selfish?" the instructor kept repeating.

"Well... yes." Mo Ling had no choice but to confirm.

"You don't have to argue with me. I'm just stating some facts. The essence of all living things is selfish. The so-called altruism is just to satisfy one's own heart. Human wisdom and technology have magnified this selfishness and given them destructive power that other creatures don't have..."

(End of this chapter)