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"Only the elderly and children can stay in this town. When the children grow up, they naturally want to go to lively places." The old lady said with emotion: "The same goes for little Solan. When she was a child, she said that she would live here for the rest of her life. .”

According to the current average life expectancy in District 019, when Solan moved to this town, the bakery owner and others were no more than 30 or 40 years old at most. People have a different kind of love for Solan.

Yes, it is kindness.

Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for a person in his prime to have the infinitely tolerant mentality of an old man towards children. This should be the nickname given to her by the people who lived here in the previous generation, people of her age.

The official life expectancy of Master Solan is 125 years old, which means that it has been a hundred years since she left Tintin Flower Town. A hundred years ago, there were many children in this town. It is also close to one hundred and forty years old. If the offspring is born earlier, there will be several generations of children and grandchildren.

However, in Solan's social network, there is no mention of his companion who grew up in Tintin Flower Town.

"They moved away very early, and later, like little Solan, they never came back." The old lady thought for a while and said, "I heard that some of them moved to other districts, and some of them died at a young age. Unexpectedly, as for whether I have contacted little Solan, I don't know."

"Did they move away when Master Solan was twenty?" Xu Huo asked.

The old lady glanced at him, "That's not true. They left one after another. After all, they are getting older. Little Solan also moved away within two years."

Xu Huo asked the names of several town friends who had a good relationship with Solan, and asked the old lady if she had collected Solan's paintings.

Before Suo Lan became famous, there were many paintings, but after he became famous, most of them were exposed, and most of them were sold at high prices. People in Tintin Flower Town may not have them, but it is not a disadvantage to ask.

The old lady really kept one.

She took out the painting hanging in the bedroom, it was a small portrait.

"The baby by the bed." The old lady stroked the painting a few times before handing it to Xu Huo.

Xu Huo took it with both hands, trying not to touch the painting itself, "The baby by the bed, there is no painted bed."

The old lady laughed, "Isn't the painting itself a bed? The painting of the baby beside the bed is not a baby, but a mother."

Indeed, if the picture frame is used as a bed, the object of the baby with open eyes should be the person who takes care of him.

"A lot of people love kids, but don't like the hassle of raising them, so they leave it all to the robots."

"Robots can't compare with real people, let alone mothers. I have seen some children raised by robots. Their eyes are different from those raised by humans."

"That's what a child is raised by a mother."

The old man was determined and authentic, and stroked the child's eyes, "Look at his eyes, they are not as cold as a robot."

The benefits brought by technology are not necessarily all benefits. Although the use of robots can save the hard work of raising children, and in many cases even pregnancy and childbirth do not need to be done by yourself, this also makes the relationship between blood relatives relatively indifferent, especially in This indifference is bound to intensify as the lifespan becomes very long.

Of course, let alone District 019, where technology is highly developed, even District 014 has passed the historical stage where a family needs to work together to survive. The weaker the bond between people, the weaker the relationship.

However, it is instinctive for people to have emotional needs, but it is suppressed in the fast-paced division of District 019. Therefore, after passing through the prime of life, when people are getting old, they will especially long for emotions. This is an inevitable and cyclical stage. .

Even after many years, there will be human reflection again, and a wave of "emotion" will be set off again in the machine world.

This is how human society develops. When there is a shortage of materials, materials are everything. When you want to live a good life, money is everything. But the end of the pursuit will always return to human beings, and people will gradually realize the importance of spiritual needs. , and re-examine everything that was blindly pursued or carnivaled.

There are people like Solan who are always sober and independent.

The old lady took back her painting and said with emotion: "Things outside the body can't bring much happiness, especially after living long enough. Life is just tomorrow repeating today. Only by finding your own heart can you live better."

She turned to look at Xu Huo, "No matter how much you sell for a painting, it's just a number."

"Maybe everyone is not necessarily doing it for money, maybe they just want to live." Xu Huo looked at the sun that was gradually setting outside, "The sunset is really beautiful, but in the eyes of people like us, it is more like a countdown to life."

The old lady can also understand, after all, not every district is as peaceful as District 019, and the lives of players are even more precarious. If divided according to the living environment, players like Xu Huo should be at the bottom of society, because They may die at any time and have to run around in order to survive.

"You, like little Solan, are exhausted people."

Xu Huo paused slightly, and said again: "I heard that Master Suo Lan often goes to the nearby mountains to play, can I trouble you to point out the way?"

The old lady gave him an electronic map, on which several places were circled, "These places were frequented by little Solan before, and some of them have been remodeled."

Xu Huo nodded, and was about to say goodbye and leave, when a notification sounded from the kitchen, the old lady quickly pulled away from her emotions, got up and walked to the kitchen, saying: "It happens that the meal is ready, you can leave after eating."

Xu Huo was not polite, he took the initiative to wash his hands and went to help.

The old lady roasted a whole chicken, which was not small in size. The spices and food were marinated and roasted at a high temperature to form a rich aroma. He cut the roasted chicken according to the old lady's instructions, and wrapped some cloves in it. The town's specialty vegetables and fruits.

The old lady gave him a tomato-like fruit, "Little Solan likes this the most."

Xu Huo picked the fruit on the plate, and after the thin skin was broken, the red flesh flowed out like water, filling the bottom of the plate brightly.

He took a sip and nodded, "It's delicious."

The old lady was very interested during the meal, and she talked a lot intermittently, about Solan, about Tintin Flower Town, and which piece of the nearby fruit forest is the best, or which family failed to grow this year Good food, and the weather interferes with the lack of maintenance of the equipment. The heavy rain washed out the mines that used to be mined. There are housekeeping robots in the town, and no suitable person has been found to repair them.

"Does the government care about this?" Xu Huo interrupted.

"Those are small mines, which have been opened long ago. The mines and pits are buried on the spot. It is easy to wash away when it rains heavily. There is no profit, and it is far away from the residential area. The town can only clean it up."