Robot K

33. Problem

Hailey took out a strip of beef from her bag, and handed it to the snake, shaking, saying, "Thank you, I'll treat you to a strip of beef."

The snake seemed to be stunned. Hailey thought it didn't understand what she meant. She tore off a piece of beef, put it in her mouth and chewed, then gestured and said, "Eat it, you can eat it."

Kristen didn't stop her, just kept an eye on the snake's movements, making sure that if there was any danger, she would always have a chance to stop it from approaching Hailey.

After a while, the snake slowly moved forward and approached, then stretched out its tongue and quickly swept away the strip of beef in Hailey's hand and swallowed it into its belly. Hailey happily took out another snake. This time, there was no need to explain. The snake automatically and consciously rolled its long tongue into its belly, and then coiled it in front of the two of them, very close at hand.

"You've been guarding this spring?" Hailey asked as if talking to a human.

The snake nodded.

"Every person who fetches water can only take one can?"

The snake nodded again.

"Don't you think it might just nod and nothing else?" Kristen couldn't help teasing.

Then, the snake looked at Kristen and shook its head.

Hailey smiled happily, looked at the embarrassed Krsiten and said, "I just said it understands, but you still make fun of it."

She took out the few beef strips left in the bag, put them on a clean stone, looked at the snake and said, "These are all for you, you eat slowly, don't swallow them all at once, anyway, there is no meat here." People will rob you."

Kristen also stood up, ready to leave with Hailey, at this moment, the snake suddenly wrapped around Kristen's ankle, touched Kristen's head twice, and then turned to look in the direction of the pool.

"It seems to want to show us something?" Hailey said watching the snake's movements.

Kristen thought it was lucky that the snake was entangled with her, otherwise she might have thrown the guy out at the first reaction.She also looked in the direction of the snake's force, but didn't see anything special.

At this time, the snake quickly slid into the pool, pushed away a few stones with its tail near the spring, and then arched its head against a blue stone until it reached the edge of the pool, looking up at the two people who squatted back to the edge of the pool.

"Is this for us?" Hailey tried to confirm what the snake meant.

The snake nodded.

Kristen reached out to pick up the stone. In the water, the stone was dark blue, but when it came out of the water, it was a clear sky blue crystal, obviously not an ordinary stone.

"This stone contains energy, and it seems to have a purification function, but it should be more than that." Kristen made a quick judgment.

"Does this stone have something to do with the existence of the spring?" Hailey asked, looking at the snake.

Snake nodded.

"Then you gave it to us, will the spring still be there?" Hailey asked worriedly, she didn't want to destroy everything that was there before.

The snake looked back in the direction of the spring, and patted the stones in the pond with its tail.

"Are you saying that there are still such stones there?" Kristen then asked. She felt that the formation of the spring should be caused by a deeper geological structure, and the stones on the surface should only be part of the exposed part.

The snake nodded.

Hailey looked at Kristen, and said, "You decide."

"You didn't want to take it, did you?" Kristen knew what Hailey was.

"No, I want you to take it." She didn't say, the snake wrapped around Kristen's leg, probably trying to give the stone to Kristen, animals always have spirituality, especially this snake is so smart, it should feel Kristen Special, maybe this stone has some use for Kristen.

"Are you sure?" Kristen smiled and looked at Hailey.

"I'm sure, if it can be given to us, it shouldn't affect the spring, just treat it as a gift of beef strips." Hailey also laughed.

Kristen put away the stone and solemnly said to the snake, "Thank you."

The two got up again and were about to leave, but the snake didn't stop it any more, it just followed them a few steps shaking its head, but when it reached the door, it retreated automatically and didn't go out of the cabin.

Hailey looked at the snake, waved her hand, and then closed the door of the wooden house. She hoped that this place would always be as natural and peaceful as this, and that the next time she came back, this little guy would still be here, guarding the gurgling spring. .

The two walked down the hill slowly without meeting anyone else.

"It's no wonder the bakery is so mysterious. Whether it's out of monopoly or protection, they didn't let more people know the existence of the spring. That's good, the spring won't dry up so quickly." Hailey said while walking.

Kristen smiled and hummed, took Hailey's hand, and looked down at the road under her feet.She is a robot, and it is hard to say that she is in awe or liking for natural things.But Hailey is a person who loves nature very much. Whether at home or on the road, she prefers to look at the natural scenery. She likes things to remain in their original form and develop slowly and slowly where she should be. , living simply.

She sometimes thinks that Hailey is actually a somewhat contradictory person. She likes nature, but works as a programmer. Reluctantly.

"Hailey, do you sometimes feel that human beings develop too fast?" Kristen asked in a chatty manner.

"Perhaps, many things are not judged by my experience, but sometimes I feel that we have gone too far on the same road, and we will forget our original intention." Hailey also slowly calmed down, thinking about the current problem.

"Like?" Kriten asked, wondering what Hailey thought about the robot, about the future, about herself.

"For example, those businessmen who over-developed here, they work hard to make money, the ultimate goal is nothing more than to make their lives better, but when the resources are exhausted and the environment deteriorates, no amount of money can return to the original Looks like it." Hailey felt emotional, thinking of the snake again, if the spring here also disappeared, it would leave as well.

"Anything else, any other ideas?" Kristen continued to lead.

Hailey was a little surprised. Kristen rarely asked her such an inquisitive question, so she thought for a while and said, "What else? Do you have anything to ask me?"

Kristen lowered her head and continued to walk. After a while, she whispered, "For example, the development of robots."

Hailey stopped in her tracks, knowing what Kristen wanted to ask herself.To be honest, she had never thought about this issue before, because her parents and her work were all related to robots, and it was the robot in front of her that always accompanied her growing up, which seemed to be a part of her life , like that snake, that spring are part of nature, as if they were there.

The development of robots has undoubtedly had an essential impact on human life. There are convenience and progress, but there are also privacy loss, space encroachment, and even threats to human survival. Caesar was an example, wasn’t it?As for the future, maybe sooner or later there will be a war where we don't know who will win or lose.

Maybe I have always known the existence of the problem, but I just avoided it instinctively.Looking at the person in front of her, she didn't know how to answer. It was one thing to think of a robot, but it was another thing to think of the person in front of her.

She was silent, and Kristen was also silent. Neither of them had an answer to this question, so they could only put it on hold.