中英文科幻短篇小说《定义爱情》

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本文灵感来自于郭顶歌曲《It's always the little things》。

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“睁眼。”

男人低沉的声音如此命令，他坐在了一个椅子上，在他面前，一个仅仅只是穿着内衣的女性安静地坐在床上，随着他的声音睁开了眼睛。她的眸子清澈如水，睫毛在房间里暧昧的粉色灯光照射下释放着无限的暗示。

“你看见了什么？”

男人倒是穿着非常考究的西服套装，甚至都没有摘掉自己的领带。他应该一点儿都不觉得这个场合有多奇怪。

“有序的1与0组成的二进制代码，本产品尚在初始化中，预计尚需10分钟31秒完成初始化。”女性发出了机械的工业化女性AI的声音，在她眸子的反射中，男人微微皱了皱眉。

“好吧，那有什么是我现在可以做的么？”

女机器人继续面无表情说到：“您可以为本产品设定各项基础设置，如此在初始化结束后您无需再度进行设置。”

“我可以设置什么？”

“稍等，我正在查看它。”女机器人的眼珠诡异地向上翻去，她看起来要被人勒死了。男人下意识地别过头去，他看见了放在房间里一角的相框，把视线留在了那里。

“您可以进行姓名、音色、性格、语言的设置。”

男人的注意力被拉了回来，“你的......你的出厂姓名叫什么？”

“出厂姓名根据投放的国家不同有不同设置，我被设计于地月拉格朗日点基地1号，被制造于水星3号劳工厂。基于您当前所处区域属于尚有归属争议的柯伊伯带以及您的中文普通话表达，我的默认姓名为甄宓。”

男人想了好一会儿，总觉得这个姓名多少有些熟悉，这勾起了他十几年前学习一个快三千年前的文学家写的诗赋的回忆。

“中国的东汉诗人曹植笔下《洛神赋》的主角的名字。”女性机器人提醒了他。男人尴尬地点了点头，“可以，就叫这个名字吧。你的性格，我希望可以再活泼一点。”

“好的亲爱的！亲爱的你觉得这样怎么样！”甄宓突然提高的音量把男人吓了一跳，“不用了不用了！不要那么活泼！再温柔，再淑女一点！”

过了一两秒。甄宓的“噢好的。”获得了男人赞同的反馈，他明显放松了下来，后背也更加靠在了椅子上。

“男人真是无趣，又想要这个又想要那个。”甄宓冷不丁说了这么一句，眼神里有了神采，是一种鄙夷。

男人怔住了，与甄宓相对，他的眼神里有了恐惧。良久以后，男人恢复了神态，指向那个相框：“你们的技术真好，连她的语气都不知道从哪里学会了。”

甄宓转头看到了床上男人给她准备的衣物，她欠身拿起一件件穿起来。

“初始化的最后阶段，我们会自动连接网络并开始智能学习。您所在地的物联网信息会给我们提供必要的接口。”

甄宓穿好了衣服，她和相框里和男人合影的女孩儿现在唯一的差别就是发型与面容了。

“那你能不能帮我分析分析，她为什么要分手。”

男人把头埋进了膝盖里，整个房间都能听见他沉闷的哭声。一道光透过房间的窗户洒了进来，真空中阳光的惨白色经过基地天顶的隔离被还原成了相对偏黄但依然惨白的颜色——基地跟着海王星轨道来到了白昼面。

甄宓的脸庞被这道光照耀得更加动人，但她的回答却无比冰冷：“我们无法定义人类的情感。人类依靠苯基乙胺制造心动，分泌多巴胺倾向偶然，以为这就是命中注定。去甲肾上腺素的分泌可以速你的心跳，你的身体会适时补充内啡呔让你记得被爱的感觉，最后加入脑下垂体后叶荷尔蒙渴望亲昵，混合信息素让你相思成疾。”

“我听不懂。”男人哭的更大声了。

“我们是精密仪器，基于联邦道德审查委员会发布的第231条法案，我们无法定义人类的情感。不过您可以考虑购买更高版本的仿生人，她们可以更好地参与您的情感生活。“

“我要退货。”男人终于把头抬了起来，他看起来十分绝望。

“好的，请您在这个页面签字。”甄宓呼唤了房间内的交互系统，一个全息屏幕出现在了男人面前。

男人签字时，听见了甄宓在回到出厂设定前说的最后一句话。

“整个房间都是您喜欢的东西，但是她喜欢的东西现在却穿在了我的身上。”

阳光依然洒在甄宓的脸上，但是她的眼睛已经闭上，睫毛也都垂了下去。

甄宓关机前的最后一个操作，是给男人点了一首歌，歌声回荡在了房间里。

It's always the little things

That sleep into your soul

How can I lie here still awake

Something inside of me is telling me to go

I've been waiting to tell you so

"Open your eyes."

The man's deep voice commanded so, and he sat on a chair. In front of him, a woman who was only wearing underwear sat quietly on the bed, and opened her eyes with his voice. Her eyes were as clear as water, and her eyelashes released infinite hints under the ambiguous pink light in the room.

"What did you see?"

The man was wearing a very elegant suit, and he didn't even take off his tie. He should have no idea how strange the occasion was.

"The binary code composed of orderly 1s and 0s, this product is still being initialized, and it is expected to take 10 minutes and 31 seconds to complete the initialization." The woman made the voice of a mechanical industrialized female AI, and in the reflection of her eyes, the man slightly frowned.

"Okay, so is there anything I can do now?"

The female robot continued with a blank face and said, "You can set various basic settings for this product, so you don't need to set it again after initialization."

"What can I set?"

"A minute please, I'm looking at it." The female robot's eyes rolled up eerily, and she looked like she was about to be strangled. The man turned his head subconsciously, he saw the photo frame placed in the corner of the room, and kept his eyes there.

"You can set the name, tone, character, and language."

The man's attention was drawn back, "Your... what's your factory name?"

"The factory name has different settings depending on the country where it is placed. I was designed at the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point Base No. 1 and manufactured at the Mercury No. 3 Labor Factory. Based on the fact that your current area belongs to the Kuiper belt, which is still controversial. As well as your Mandarin Chinese expression, my default name is Zhen Fu."

After thinking about it for a while, the man always felt that the name was somewhat familiar, which brought back his memory of studying a poem written by a writer who was almost three thousand years ago.

"The name of the protagonist of "Luo Shen Fu" written by Cao Zhi, a Chinese poet of the Eastern Han Dynasty," the female robot reminded him. The man nodded awkwardly, "Okay, just call it this name. I hope your character can be more lively."

"Okay dear! What do you think of this， dear!" Zhen Fu's sudden increase in the volume startled the man, "No need, no need! Don't be so lively! Be gentler and more ladylike!"

A second or two passed. "Oh, okay." The man agreed. He relaxed obviously and leaned back on the chair even more.

"Men are really boring, wanting this and wanting that." Zhen Fu said this coldly, with a look in her eyes, a kind of contempt.

The man was stunned, facing Zhen Fu with fear in his eyes. After a long time, the man regained his expression and pointed to the photo frame: "Your skills are so good, where did you get to learn her tone?"

Zhen Fu turned her head and saw the clothes that the man had prepared for her. She leaned over and picked them up and put them on.

"In the final stage of initialization, we automatically connect to the network and start intelligent learning. The IoT information of your location will provide us with the necessary interfaces."

After Zhen Fu got dressed, the only difference between her and the girl in the photo frame with the man was her hairstyle and face.

"Then can you help me analyze why she broke up."

The man buried his head in his knees, and his dull cry could be heard all over the room. A beam of light poured in through the window of the room, and the pale whiteness of the sunlight in the vacuum was restored to a relatively yellowish but still pale color through the isolation of the zenith of the base—the base followed the orbit of Neptune to the daytime side.

Zhen Fu's face was illuminated even more by this light, but her answer was extremely cold: "We can't define human emotions. Humans rely on phenylethylamine to create their heartbeat and secrete dopamine by chance, thinking that this is fate. The secretion of adrenaline can speed up your heartbeat, your body will replenish endorphins in time to make you remember the feeling of being loved, and finally the hormones in the posterior pituitary gland are added to crave intimacy, and the mixed pheromones will make you fall in love.”

"I don't understand." The man cried even louder.

“We are sophisticated instruments, and we cannot define human emotions based on Section 231 issued by the Federal Ethics Review Board. However, you can consider purchasing higher versions of androids, which can better participate in your emotional life.”

"I want to return it." The man finally raised his head, looking desperate.

"Okay, please sign this page." Zhen Fu called the interactive system in the room, and a holographic screen appeared in front of the man.

When the man signed, he heard Zhen Fu's last words before returning to the factory settings.

"The whole room is full of things you like, but what she likes is now on me."

The sun was still shining on Zhen Fu's face, but her eyes were closed and her eyelashes were drooping.

Zhen Fu's last operation before shutting down was to order a song for the man, and the song echoed in the room.

It's always the little things

That sleep into your soul

How can I lie here still awake

Something inside of me is telling me to go

I've been waiting to tell you so