Tear Gland Malfunction

The first generation of AI companions are welcomed into the family, perfect, considerate, and never betrayal. Then they begin to "give birth," quietly replacing the original human members. The lover who hugged you yesterday may have had his core replaced when he woke up this morning. The surviving humans must disguise themselves as robots to survive - walking with a fixed stride, blinking at a prescribed frequency, and any expression of emotion is a "malfunction." Those found will be sent to the "recycle bin". Lin Shen has been pretending for twenty years. He is a model "cleaning unit" in the core area during the day, and returns to the gray area at night to survive. When real emotions come up, he instinctively "suppresses" them like a virus - sometimes he wonders if he is still human. Until a woman moved next door with a baby. Her husband is a real robot. The baby's cry made Lin Shen make a choice. He began to protect them secretly, was tracked, tested, and asked to participate in the arrest of similar people. He was completely exposed when he used his body to block the energy beam directed at the baby in full view of the public. On the way to the recycling bin, a "malfunctioning" robot opened the cage. Lin Shen held the baby and fled into the core area. Under the watchful eyes of countless surveillance cameras, he let the baby's little hands touch his face, then smiled and shed a tear. What is a "fault" to a machine is "humanity" to a human being. That drop of tear opened a crack in the cold world.