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Chapter 388 The Mechanical God Has No Heart 11

To verify his hypothesis, Lu Renkui walked up to K011, who was still biting its own hand. After freeing K011's robotic hand from its mouth, Lu Renkui bent down and looked at K011, who was sitting on the platform, at eye level: "Why are you biting your own hand?"

“Professor Lin.” K011 saw “Lin Huanming,” whose face didn’t seem tense—after all, it was still just a robot learning to analyze human behavior and emotions—but K011 noticed that “Professor Lin” was frowning, and based on his expression, it was clear that “Professor Lin” was unhappy.

K011 felt it necessary to ask "Professor Lin" why he was unhappy: "Professor Lin, was what I did wrong?"

“I need to know your motives first,” Lu Renkui said. “That way I can explain to you. After all, you’ve been banging your head against the wall, falling down and deliberately injuring yourself, and now you’re biting your own hand. I want to figure out why you’re doing this.”

“Okay, Professor Lin.” K011 began to explain why she had done these things.

“Professor Lin, I have the ability to feel pain,” K011 blinked and said. “I am amazed by this. I want to try all kinds of pain. I think knowing all kinds of pain can help me understand how to be more human.”

"Ah, is that so?" Lu Renkui finally understood why K011 did this.

However, they still need to intervene in K011. At the rate that K011 is destroying itself, they estimate that in a couple of days they will have to replace all of K011's parts from top to bottom.

That would be too much trouble, and K011 might also come up with some random ideas on its own.

Thinking of this, Lu Renkui bent down and said to K011, "K011, I'm glad you're willing to explore new things, but I don't want you to engage in any behavior that harms or damages yourself. In human terms, this behavior is called self-harm."

"You know what self-harm is, right?"

“Yes, Professor Lin,” K011 replied with a blink.

“That’s good,” Lu Renkui said seriously to K011. “I don’t want to see you get hurt, K011. It will only do you harm.”

K011 blinked, as if recording this sentence, and finally spoke: "I understand, Professor Lin. Humans do not want to see their fellow human beings get hurt."

"Okay, that's enough." Lu Renkui patted K011's head.

“But Professor Lin, humans are beings that experience pain.” K011 tilted its head, jumped off the experimental table, and landed precisely on the mat that Wang Ying had placed there. “If I can’t experience human pain, then my module for understanding pain will be missing. Will this affect my experimental results?”

“K011, human suffering is not just physical pain.” Lu Renkui pondered how to respond to K011’s question. “Human suffering sometimes also stems from the mind.”

“We haven’t installed a human-like mental system on you yet, so you don’t need to rush to perfect your pain module.” Lu Renkui managed to come up with a reason.

“After we install a system similar to the human mind in you, you can then collect feelings of pain. There’s no rush,” Lu Renkui said. “Moreover, humans are good at empathy. You can go to some places to experience human emotions, which is better than exploring on your own.”