Academic gathering with a lich-Chapter 51 - 48 Mr. Delusional, The Fear Legend_3

But the first time they took on humanity, they failed.

People finally recovered those candy testimonies and retried all of William’s cases.

Those once-jovial conversations now looked utterly appalling.

Fear spread through Andy’s heart over three years.

Through the powerful network media, the fear that William brought to humanity spread in just twenty-two hours and sixteen minutes.

They finally learned to put themselves in the shoes of artificial intelligence.

William became the most terrifying monster in the history of the 22nd century.

His punishment was also the most cruel.

In a live broadcast to the whole world, he underwent a surgery, just like the ones he often performed.

William was transformed into an Anka, a product of punishment that made the criminal’s body into a machine for labor, while their mind was imprisoned within this mechanical cage, forced to observe everything forever as a bystander.

William was sent to a construction site, surrounded by other Ankas like him.

His own body performed repetitive manual labor, and he couldn’t move a finger, powerless to do anything.

Just when he felt he would go insane,

Dorothy came.

She found him, her eyes ablaze with rage, having picked up some colorful new human phrases.

William was happy, even insults were infinitely better than silence.

Afterwards, Dorothy often visited him, initially to vent, later to weep.

Nothing changed for the better.

Her body belonged to a victim, so the court decided to dismantle her, she ran away, without an official identity, blending into the gray areas, surviving by working with instincts imprinted into her code.

She would occasionally complain about her rude clients, and the good and bad of her experiences, usually only the bad, struggling to live even with the beautiful appearance she had been given.

She had no friends, being a creation of William made her an outcast among the Andys. That’s also why she came looking for William, he was her only one left to talk to, even if he was her father, master, murderer, criminal.

William and Dorothy became each other’s pillars of support.

The people of the City of Tears were clever, the elite created a new kind of Andy based on William’s physique, without thought, just tools to maintain the social order they dictated.

It was as if time had regressed by more than a century, humans seemed to want to return to the days when AI was merely a tool.

William continued his labor as an Anka.

He was looking forward to Dorsey’s arrival, as usual. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Dorsey came, her smooth, radiation-resistant coated skin replaced by metal sheets, her eyeballs by indicator lights, her hair, limbs, and all the beauty William had bestowed on her gone.

In their place was a ordinary, even embarrassing for the candy’s reputation, crude mechanical exterior.

She must have lost the one job she had left.

William was not angry, now numb to aesthetics, just pacified by Dorothy’s return.

During William’s downtime,

Dorsey leaned in.

"I thought I’d try to get used to it, William, after all, I’ve been through enough bad already, but I found I was too naive. I thought I’d numbly drift through my hazy life, with the end you gave to Dorothy, but I was wrong, this world, it won’t even allow me to live numbly."

"Humans made ten thousand William executioners, they destroy any Andy not in work mode, just like what you did to me, but it’s not as simple as holding you, muttering a few words, dancing a step."

"I regret it, can we go back? To the past where I was the only one imprisoned, and the other Andys still existed? I want to let you out, after all, there are already ten thousand Williams walking the earth, one more won’t make it any worse, right?"

Dorothy pulled out a small interface, a kind of unlocking program that could disable Andy’s work program and also the life sentence of an Anka, it was quite expensive.

Dorothy was sliced up by a so-called William executioner for attempting to steal public property, as Ankas are public goods, because she was fully engaged in unlocking William’s program and didn’t dodge.

William Wayne regained his freedom, the first thing he did was stuff his mechanical brain into the cubic box of the executioner.

As William’s consciousness entered the network of executioners, all the executors stopped their actions.

The ten thousand executioners now had their own souls.

"I am the best doctor, I will excise your mistakes, this era will be purified."