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It all started on the day the duck was buried. A certain emotion emerged from Xiaozhe's heart, which seemed to be sadness and fear of some kind of impermanence. This is the "Human Project" research institute, which studies the most cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology and is available for a selected few to live in. Xiaozhe and his father, a researcher, live here. Things they don't want to see can be thrown away casually, and no one cares where they go. Until one day, Xiaozhe was taken away. The destination is an abandoned robot shelter. The world burns redundancy in the name of efficiency: scrapped robots, obsolete genes, useless memories, human beings destined to have boundaries in their capabilities... When all life returns to silence, without the urge of death behind it, and eternity flows through the body, can we still believe, believe in stories, believe that consciousness can exist without the body, believe that love can be born from a chip, believe that even if it takes hundreds of millions of kalpas to say goodbye, we will meet again? "You'll see and feel all the beautiful things in the world. Don't worry."

My name is Kim Byung-soo, I am seventy years old, and I was recently diagnosed by a doctor with Alzheimer's disease. The memory fell into pieces and I began to forget many things, such as the time of my last murder. Under the bamboo forest in the backyard, the body lay silently in the dirt. They turned into bamboos and towered into the clouds. When burying them, I always kept saying: I can do better next time. I like to write about the process of killing people, just like writing a poem. Now God has decided what punishment will be given to me - I am walking into oblivion. I am not afraid of death, nor can I prevent forgetfulness. I only care about one thing, and that is to prevent my adopted daughter Eun-hee from being killed by that man, before all my memories disappear. This is my karma and karma in this life.