In the New Shanghai garbage dump on a rainy night, Lao Chen picked up a scrapped AI that could shout "pain".
It's called Nix, the seventh-generation emotional simulation prototype. It was supposed to turn into molten iron in the furnace, but it awakened its self-awareness due to a lightning strike. The lens of his left eye is shattered, and three fingers are missing from his left arm. The exposed circuit board is dripping with coolant, but he sheds tears over the body of a stray cat and uses his remaining palm to protect the frightened little girl.
Stone Industries' pursuit never stops - they need the emotional core of this "failed product" to perfect a killing machine that can control human emotions. Lao Chen took it and hid in the slums, only to find that this broken robot could not only repair solar panels, but also recite the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It could also intercept the distress signals of abducted children from the military's encrypted channels.
When the electromagnetic gun was aimed at the garbage dump, Nix spread his arms to block the front. What beats in its chest is not a chip, but a human heartbeat spelled out using the data of 796 destroyed AI brothers.
"Define 'pain'?"
"It's like watching you disappear and my core processor smoke."
This is the story of a robot that is missing three fingers and teaches humans how to be human again.
