Durin's Diary

Chapter 1020 Teng Fengyu

"How's your new body?"

The moment Shiyi opened her eyes, he... oh no, it should be her now.

In short, she heard Luo Houtu's inquiry.

So Eleven sat up and raised his hand.

Under the operating lights, the artificial body's skin covered her mechanical skeleton like jade, and the simulated muscle groups controlled the mechanical skeleton to complete precise operations that were difficult for them to control.

Beneath the skin, the bionic blood vessels flow with simulated blood—this is all-purpose blood used to provide life in times of crisis, and even if it is all lost, it will not matter to the prosthetic body.

But there are nearly 5,000 milliliters of this blood in Eleven's body, and it is all blood that can be used to save lives.

Similarly, all the organs inside Eleven's body are bionic and can be transplanted into humans.

“It’s pretty good,” Eleven replied, jumping off the hospital table and walking to the mirror to look at her brand-new body.

"I'm curious why you and Daju both use such weak configurations." Luo Houtu walked to his younger sister's side, looking at his companion with great curiosity.

Eleven turned to look at Luo Houtu: "Daju and I have both decided to help Dulin protect his family business."

“I remember you’ve always disliked these large, powerful families, thinking they were turning back the clock,” Luo Houtu said with a smile.

"Yes, but Dulin is right. Every step in history is not necessarily progress, nor is every step in civilization. So what if a family is large and prosperous? It's all about doing one's best and leaving the rest to fate. What's wrong with that? Given Dulin's contributions to this land, is it too much for me to protect his family for three generations?"

"It's not excessive. After the third generation, you can decide for yourself. I won't advise you. I can only say that spending a long time with a family is a foolish way for us to make mechanical beings fall in love with living beings." Luo Houtu sighed as he said this.

"Let's talk about the future later." After Eleven finished speaking, she took a long dress from the android and put it on very quickly. Then she looked at her new appearance in the mirror.

Her hair changed, sometimes so long it dragged on the ground, sometimes so short it reached her shoulders. Finally, she decided to braid herself into two pigtails and hang them on her chest.

"This is too vulgar."

"As long as Dulin is happy."

Faced with his brother's sigh, Eleven smiled and said.

"You haven't really fallen in love with him, have you?"

When Luo Houtu pressed her for answers, his sister responded with a smile and offered a completely new explanation.

"At least I will live in this world like a person, daring to love and hate, just as my father hoped."

These words made Luo Houtu take a deep breath. He finally smiled and took two steps back: "I thought that after such a long separation, you would have grown up. Just as your father thought, you have indeed grown up and are more like a person than us older brothers and sisters."

"Thank you. Perhaps many years from now, the Elsh family will become a family that is completely unfamiliar to me. Maybe at that time, I will come back and live with you." Eleven looked at her brother.

"Then I will definitely bring my brothers and sisters to welcome you on the platform, and I will also have the newly created younger brothers and sisters say welcome back to you."

"Thank you, brother." Eleven smiled as she looked at her brother, while Luo Houtu smiled back.

In the end, Eleven chose to give her 'compatriot' brother a hug. "You've learned to hug, so fast, faster than all of us older brothers and sisters," Luo Houtu sighed. "But this is also Father's wish, my sister. You must live well like a human being and find a new way for us androids to survive, a way that is different from the androids' resistance against human tyranny in historical operas, movies, and novels."

"I know, brother, then... I'm leaving." He nodded at eleven o'clock.

"Let me see you out."

The two prosthetic bodies walked through the corridor and the hall. Eleven said goodbye to Shimizu in the hall, who smiled and nodded: "Have you thought about your new name?"

"I've thought about it a lot, but none of them seem right, so from now on I'll be Luo Shiyi," Shiyi replied with a smile.

Shimizu shook his head: "It doesn't sound good. It doesn't sound like a name a living being should have. It's too perfunctory."

"Whether our names sound good or bad is not important to us androids. What matters is whether our names can make people happy to call them out." With that, Eleven smiled and hugged her older sister goodbye.

“Alright, Eleven, go and fulfill your father’s wish, go and live like a human being.” Shimizu smiled, and after the sisters parted, she patted Eleven’s face with a smile: “When you first came, you were just a ball of a ball, and now you’ve grown into a big girl.”

Luo Houtu stood to the side, laughing heartily.

Eleven smiled and nodded: "Yes, girls change a lot as they grow up."

Luo Qingshui gestured for them to go together: "As your older sister, I'll come with you."

………………

Finally, when Shiyi stood on the platform, Luo Qingshui also stood on it.

"Aren't you coming up with me?" she asked. "I know you have responsibilities, but once you leave for National Day, I don't know when you'll be back."

"It's alright, you can go. I have my own responsibilities, so I won't go on the platform." As he said this, Luo Houtu looked at Shiyi, his big eyes wide open: "Shiyi, you go. Your brothers and sisters are all here. This land needs our responsibility."

“Yes, I know. Ever since you told me about my father’s wish, I’ve also felt a sense of responsibility.” Eleven nodded vigorously.

She waved until the platform rose to the position of the shaft, where she could no longer see Luo Houtu.

"Hou Tu's responsibility is to protect the refuge; he will never leave there," Luo Qingshui said softly.

Eleven looked at her: "What about you, sister?"

“My first responsibility is to help Pang Juan, but Pang Juan is old. I once thought I would help Mr. Du Lin, after all, he has a different perspective from this world, but I didn’t expect him to have his own responsibilities.” At this point, Luo Qingshui looked at her sister: “What about you? You said you have your own responsibility, is it to live like a human being?”

“No, it’s about protecting children.” Eleven answered the question without a trace of a smile. “My father told me to live like a human being, and I feel that everyone has responsibilities in life. So I decided to be like Dulin. He said he wasn’t a good person, but everything he did seemed good to me. So I decided to follow his example and protect children—those who have lost their families and relatives in the years to come. I want to do everything I can to help and protect them…”

At this point, Eleven looked at her older sister and said, "Do you think I'm living like this, like a human being?"

Luo Qingshui remained silent for a while, then finally smiled and nodded.

“Like him.” She chuckled softly. “My sister is destined to be the one among Father’s children who lives the life he wished for most.”

(End of this chapter)