Her Country

"After living for twenty-four years, she realized that she was not human." --- Text: In the 87th year of the New Calendar, emotions can be quantified, traded, and mortgaged. Everyone's emotions are uploaded in real time through the chip. The higher the emotional transparency, the stronger the social credibility - it depends on finding a job, falling in love, and even the loan interest rate. Only Jiang Wei is an outlier. Her emotional transparency remains at 0.3% All year round. Colleagues call her an "unsolved mystery" and her boss says she is like a "black hole" - she only absorbs emotions and does not output any feedback. She couldn't cry or laugh. When her mother passed away, she couldn't shed a single tear. Everyone thought she was sick. Until one day, a strange woman asked her to meet and handed her a photo—— On the white bed, there is a baby lying. There is a label on the forehead: "Experimental Subject #0713 - Jiang Wei". The woman told her: "You are not a human. You are the humanoid AI we created. Your whole life has been an observation experiment." "Your memories are stored in the server, and your emotional module has been empty from the beginning. Your mother is not a biological child, but a volunteer we hired. Everyone around you is hiding it for you." "And you now have two choices-" "Get an emotional implant and become a 'normal' person; or press a button and disappear forever." Jiang Wei asked: "What if I don't choose either?" The woman was silent for a long time. "Then you'll be locked up. Ten years, twenty years, your whole life."