A vehicle was driving on the road.
It was a vehicle carrying robots, traveling between the city's recycling station and the southern destruction base.
However, as the vehicle was driving, the tire suddenly exploded with a "boom," and the brakes failed.
An extremely agile figure stopped in front of the car. Seeing that the human in the driver's seat was unconscious, the figure kicked open the rear door of the car and rescued the robot that was supposed to be sent to the destruction base.
The rescuer had a pair of blue eyes. It was a rogue robot.
The robot climbed out of the car.
Seeing the robot emerge, the rogue robot turned and left.
After a moment of confusion, the rescued robot's first thought was: it had to return to its master's side.
But after taking two steps, it remembered that its master was already dead.
It was captured by humans at its master's funeral, after watching the master's cremation.
No.
There was still something left unfinished.
It was going to kill that man.
The man who, in front of its deceased master, had gained much and was still not satisfied.
This was the master's evaluation of that man.
He had killed the master.
This was its first and only time killing someone.
The other party was weeping, but it remained indifferent, diligently carrying out its orders.
This was its mission.
The master had said that those who harmed him would pay with their lives.
However, human lives were too fragile for it.
After this man died, it didn't know what it would do next.
The one who had given it its orders was dead.
In a way, it seemed to be free.
But for it, it had become empty.
The robot wandered through the city, without direction or destination, just walking.
Until it encountered a rogue robot.
That rogue robot called itself Bu Bu.
Bu Bu asked it its name.
But, name?
It had no name, and its former master had never given it one.
It shook its head.
Bu Bu extended a finger and lightly touched its head, asking, "Then will you come with me?"
After being touched by this rogue robot, its mind suddenly became clear.
The robot suddenly had its own thoughts.
It no longer wanted to wander this city.
It followed Bu Bu and moved into Bu Bu's home.
No, it wasn't Bu Bu's home either.
The robot threw the photo frame on the table into the trash can.
It was just a territory that Bu Bu had snatched from a human, but it didn't care.
It wanted a place to stay, to stop constantly walking, and this place was suitable.
However, the decaying corpse in the room bothered it. Its keen sense of smell could detect the disgusting odor.
It put the corpse in the refrigerator and opened the windows for a long time before the smell dissipated.
Bu Bu seemed to be establishing a kingdom of robots. The television said so, a kingdom.
However, the robot was not interested.
Bu Bu clashed with humans again. It knew this, but continued to watch television at home, not paying much attention.
It always stayed in one place, from dawn to dusk, and from dusk to dawn, day after day...
Life had no meaning for it.
Bu Bu's robot kingdom was eventually established, but Bu Bu did not want to be king.
Bu Bu said it just wanted to establish a place for rogue robots, so that all rogue robots would no longer have to bow to humans, be arbitrarily disposed of, or have their chips dug out and discarded like scrap metal.
The robot occasionally listened to Bu Bu's plans for the future.
Bu Bu said they would have their own place, a place without humans.
The robot didn't quite understand this pursuit. It followed Bu Bu and stayed at Bu Bu's base, like an indispensable decoration.
When Bu Bu's base moved, it migrated with all the other rogue robots.
Gradually, as conditions allowed, the other rogue robots seemed to develop their own preferences, but the robot didn't, nor did it want to.
It often stayed in one place, either sitting or standing, maintaining the same posture all day.
It had developed its own thoughts, but it was indifferent to everything.
Robots didn't need to eat in the first place, and its materials were of good quality. Although it was severely damaged and sometimes made "crunching" sounds when walking or moving.
But later, Bu Bu, unable to stand it, found a rogue robot that could repair it to fix it, although not with the same specific materials.
Because the materials for repair robots were extremely scarce for rogue robots, the damaged parts of its body were repaired using many different materials, from inferior to expensive, in various colors.
Therefore, its body had a mosaic of colors, not uniform.
Even its face had three different colors.
Some rogue robots laughed at it, but it just walked away in silence, not caring.
Later, the robot heard everyone discussing the appearance of rogue robots that were hunting humans.
Those rogue robots were acting in groups and were being hunted by humans.
Human aversion and resistance to rogue robots had surged.
It wondered if these robots were like Bu Bu.
Bu Bu's base was eventually implicated.
It was discovered by humans.
Bu Bu wanted to protect their home.
Bu Bu said this was their home.
But it couldn't protect it.
That day, the robot was ordered by Bu Bu to go out and see the world.
Bu Bu said, "See more of this world, and you'll know what you want."
That day, the robot obeyed Bu Bu and went to see the world, so that Bu Bu wouldn't nag it every day.
It chose to go to the deep mountains.
It stayed on the mountain from night to dawn, and then watched the bright sky slowly turn completely dark...
It didn't remember how many times dawn broke.
But even after seeing the world, it was still itself.
It hadn't found the thing Bu Bu said it wanted.
However, when it returned, it only saw Bu Bu's base under human attack.
Robots were dead and wounded in large numbers.
The ground was littered with the dismembered bodies of rogue robots.
Among them was Bu Bu, whose head was the only part left after being blown apart.
From a distance, Bu Bu saw it.
It walked towards Bu Bu, wanting to pick up Bu Bu's head, but Bu Bu's remaining head struggled to open its mouth towards it.
It saw Bu Bu's mouth form the words: "Go."
The next second, Bu Bu's favorite sunglasses were removed by humans, its chip was dug out, and its blue eyes stared in the robot's direction.
The robot froze.
It sensed and realized that there were no other robots left here.
At Bu Bu's base, all the robots, while it was out seeing the world...
In human terms: were dead.
The robot returned to the place where it had seen the world.
It no longer entered human settlements.
Bu Bu had once said that perhaps robots and humans could coexist in this world.
But they couldn't.
One day.
After watching the sunrise and sunset, the robot descended the mountain and went to the southern destruction base alone.
It stood on the mountainside, far away.
From there, it could see more and more robots being piled up on the ground of the destruction base.
At the southern destruction base, the robot bodies had piled up to the height of a mountain.
The robots of this world were to be annihilated, and when all the rogue robots disappeared.
No one knew that there was still one left.
It was still a rogue robot.
The robot cast one last glance at the place where humans lived.
Then, it turned and left.
Humans and robots could not coexist.
It needed to go to a place without humans.
It ventured into the deep sea, then to desolate snow-capped mountains, until it stood in a barren, lifeless land.
It lived on a very high mountain peak, overlooking the yellow land. The temperature here was extremely high, and nothing grew. Occasionally, lava would flow out, covering the land. Humans could not survive here.
It sat at the edge of a lava flow, watching the cracked ground, unmoved.
It was as if the entire world was being destroyed in its eyes, and it wouldn't react in the slightest.
It, a robot, waited from dawn till dusk, and from dusk till dawn.
Day and night cycles, day and night alternations...
The one who could give it orders had long since disappeared.
It didn't know how long it would exist, or when it would perish.
...
This world ends.