"...
Heart untethered, I was chosen
To be a victim without knowing
You see beyond all my doubt
All I'm hiding, you bring it out
I lose myself to your control when you touch me
I'm almost human
..."
The stirring music rang out as the heavy truck sped through the wilderness. Quite a few of the various robots that had come here were also playing music through their own speakers, and some vehicles had even arrived, but all those speakers combined were still nowhere near as loud as the sound coming from this truck.
What was more, the song was strangely fitting, making the players controlling those mechanical bodies glance over.
As Shen Feng controlled the nursing robot to drive the heavy truck, he asked Jingwei:
"This song's pretty good. Why does it sound kind of familiar?"
Jingwei reclined in the passenger seat with her feet planted directly against the windshield, saying lazily:
"It's about an AI that falls hopelessly in love with a human and feels like it has almost become human. It's the theme song of Blade Runner 2049. Of course it sounds familiar."
As she spoke, she softly hummed along to the song.
Shen Feng suddenly understood and said:
"No wonder it sounded so familiar. I watched that movie twice back then. The first time, I fell asleep halfway through. Later, I forced myself through a second viewing with coffee keeping me alive. Other than the pacing being too slow, it was absolutely a masterpiece."
Jingwei laughed and said:
"These dystopian movies always like to make everything all cryptic and mysterious. If I were filming it, I'd make the male lead's AI holographic girlfriend the protagonist. Replicants, old humans—before AI robots, they're all little brothers. Then the AI mechanical legion could slaughter them all, and replicants