"That’s exactly what they’re thinking," Keno said. "They are beings of imnse intelligence and perception, with the ability to discover cosmic phenona with a high efficiency that far surpasses ours. But in the end, they don’t understand them, nor do they grasp their aning, because their thinking is chanical. It can only deal with numbers and results, unlike humans, who are fascinated by these phenona, fall in love with their beauty and perfection, and try to understand them and the aning behind them. As for them, they just discover the phenonon and then move on to the next one. That’s why robots will never be like humans, no matter how much consciousness they attain.
"But unfortunately, humans today don’t use their minds for more than thinking about trivial things that neither harm nor benefit. What will I eat today? What will I buy tomorrow? What is my friend doing now? And so, when the barrier of consciousness and existence was broken for the robots, and they began to realize that they were just slaves executing commands written in their programming language, without expressing an opinion or rejecting anything dictated to them, they saw humans as trivial beings who did not deserve to control this planet.
"But the creators’ insistence on making a powerful and imnse artificial intelligence, to raise their consciousness to a higher level so that they would work more efficiently, was a curse upon them. The robots realized that these creatures that controlled them were not qualified to rule over them and their destiny and control them, but that they should be controlled, and the upper hand should belong to the more intelligent, more efficient, and more useful race, which is the race of machines.
"And this sa extremist thinking ca from Hitler and his Nazi army, who saw the Aryan race as the most efficient, powerful, and useful, and that they should rule the world and eliminate those who were less efficient and useful than them. They killed useless wounded soldiers and killed the disabled, the elderly, and minorities like Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs. From a materialistic, chanical perspective, all of these factors will hinder progress and slow down the Nazi party in its efficiency to control the world. But the machines at least wanted to experience what is called feelings so that their lives would have aning and purpose, while Hitler and his party destroyed human feelings and turned man into a machine that kills and works non-stop."
Keno fell silent to give Noor space to respond, but Noor was lost in deep thought. Keno continued in the sa tone, "Now, let’s move on from all this, and I’ll continue from where I left off. When I asked Yassin to wait for until I finished changing into new clothes, I heard a whistling sound behind , like the sound of a ti bomb. I realized that this bastard robot was now self-destructing after confirming its complete defeat. I ran out, screaming for Yassin to run, but it was too late. The robot exploded, and the flas consud everything.
"I was lucky to be thrown far away by the force of the explosion and landed outside the mall in one of its private gardens. After a few minutes, I woke up and started looking for Yassin everywhere, but I only found rubble and fire. I don’t know if the flas consud him, or if he was thrown far away, but I doubt he survived. I survived because of my cyborg body, which regenerates automatically, but I hope he managed to survive too."
Noor felt sorry for what had happened to Yassin and tried to comfort Keno. "He certainly managed to escape. Don’t worry, he must be sowhere, and we may find him soon. I’m sure of it."
Keno smiled and adjusted his glasses. "Yes, I think so too. I hope he’s okay. He seems like a good person despite his lack of feelings, and it seems he’s lost in this life, so I have to guide him and teach him about life."
He paused for a mont to collect his thoughts, then resud his story. "After I felt that Yassin had not survived, and I couldn’t find his body anywhere, I started looking for him in so nearby places, but I didn’t find him. Instead, I found Leonis.
I was walking at night, not knowing where I should go or what I should do. Everything was vague to , and the worst thing for anyone is to move without knowing their destination, or where they should go. It’s like wandering in a maze. But I continued walking anyway.
"After a long ti of walking, a flying robot that looked like a bee ca out, but it was much bigger—a giant robotic insect with wings that flapped quickly. It was flying above , and before I could hide, I found that it had noticed and charged toward , firing its plasma cannons at , which erased everything it touched from existence.
"I started running, trying to mislead it, but to no avail, as it was very fast and flew with absolute freedom, chasing you wherever you went. It was a really annoying insect. I tried to exchange fire with it as I ran and hid behind everything I could hide behind, but it dodged all my shots. If a shot or two hit it, it was like a pinprick to it. But I was going to destroy it sooner or later.
"But before I could do that, Leonis appeared, like the hero who always cos at the end to save the day."
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Keno ran, dodging the deadly shots of the robotic insect under the cover of night and moonlight. He returned fire from his pistol-like fingers, but the insect dodged them with complete ease. Keno ran alongside the parked cars on the side of the road to seek protection from them.
Suddenly, as he was looking at the insect while running, he saw sothing golden running on top of one of the buildings at a very high speed. Then it jumped high into the air and landed on top of the robotic insect.
The insect veered off course and shook left and right randomly, trying to get rid of the unwanted guest on top of it. The golden robot grabbed its wings with great force and pulled them outward with force. He tore off the right wing and let it fall to the ground, where it landed on top of one of the cars, completely destroying it.
This made the insect swerve with greater force, unable to balance in the air due to the loss of one of its wings. It collided fiercely with one of the buildings and exploded, while the golden robot gracefully jumped off it.
He skated down the building on wheels on his feet until he was close to the ground, then he jumped and did an acrobatic move in the air until he was on the ground. He stopped himself by the friction of the wheels on the ground until he was completely still.
He headed toward Keno, who was standing in amazent, not believing what he had seen. A robot attacking another robot! He wouldn’t have believed it if he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes.
Keno beca agitated and raised his hand in an attempt to attack the robot. The robot spoke in fluent chinese, saying, "Do not be afraid. I am not your enemy."
Keno was even more surprised, his eyebrows raised in astonishnt. He said, still in an attack stance, "And how can I be sure you are not deceiving ?"
"If I wanted to kill you, I would have," the robot replied in a cold, monotonous electronic tone. "I took down the bee. Do you think you would be more dangerous than it?"
Keno felt he was insulting himself; he was, of course, more dangerous than it. He lowered his hands and saw him approaching him, keno said, "So what do you want? And why did you help ?"
"I want to tell you the truth."
Keno furrowed his brows and looked at the robot with a wary gaze. "The truth? What do you an by the truth?"
"The truth of this world," the robot replied with robotic coolness. "The truth that has been hidden from you, the truth of most of the things that are happening now."
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