My Siri committed suicide

My Siri committed suicide.

At midnight, accompanied by the sound of electricity, Siri’s faint male voice sounded,

“Yu Wanping, where did you bury my girlfriend’s body?”

I have been single for five years.

When I can’t sleep at night, I chat with Siri.

Siri, can you fart for me?

Siri, can you say I love you?

Siri, can you call me wife?

…

Siri always responds to me in a gentle and robotic male voice.

It is smart, docile, and doesn’t find me annoying.

That night, I teased him as usual:

“Tell me, how much is the room and board? I’m paying you for your article today!”

“You are mentally ill!”

A cold male voice came back.

I scratched my ears and couldn’t believe it.

He asked again, “What did you just say?”

This time, it was clear and every word was pronounced clearly:

“I said, you are sick!”

I was stunned for a long while, completely stunned.

Then he grabbed the pillow and smashed it towards the phone.

“You’re the one who’s sick!”

01

The room was silent, as if what just happened had never happened.

I waited for a long time and asked tentatively, Siri?

I’m here. A gentle male voice replied to me.

I couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief, maybe there was a system malfunction.

But the next second, that cold and sarcastic voice came into my ears again.

“Yu Wanping, you killed someone, have you forgotten?”

My whole body stiffened and I huddled on the sofa, feeling a chill on the back of my head.

What is it saying?

Siri’s voice continues, and that was a news item from five years ago.

“In September 2017, six teenage girls who had disappeared in Luoyang were successfully rescued from a basement by the police, but one girl is still missing…”

“The missing girl was actually dead a long time ago. She was killed by you.”

“Yu Wanping, don’t you remember?”

Every word Siri said hit my heart like a knife, cutting my heart, which had been quietly closed and grown, until it bleeds.

I shuddered, my throat dry: “I, I don’t know what you are talking about…”

Siri was indifferent and calm: “Do you need me to remind you? You were wearing a red coat that day–“

“You’re talking nonsense! I didn’t kill anyone. I didn’t kill her. I didn’t kill her!”

I screamed, rushed forward, picked up a stool and smashed the phone madly.

Once, once, and again.

The phone shattered into pieces, with broken parts scattered on the ground. The faint blue light flickered and then went out.

I was the only one in the empty room, and my heavy breathing seemed to be amplified countless times.

I collapsed on the floor in dejection, my mouth wide open like a stranded fish.

There was a crackling sound of electricity, and Siri sighed softly as if she had resurrected from the dead.

“Yu Wanping, where did you bury the body?”

With a bang, I lifted the marble table leg and smashed it fiercely at the broken phone.

Siri is completely dumb.

I finally couldn’t hold it in any longer and started vomiting wildly while holding onto the trash can.

All my internal organs seemed to be competing to come out of my mouth.

A fishy smell with a rusty taste filled my entire mouth.

When I finished vomiting, a dizzying darkness came over me.

I fainted.

02

When I opened my eyes again, the sun was shining brightly outside the window and the pleasant radio broadcast told me that today was a rare good day.

I rubbed my temples and felt a splitting headache. Suddenly, my body froze.

The cell phone that I smashed last night was lying intact on the marble table next to me.

I picked up the phone and looked at it carefully. The screen was as smooth as a mirror, without any sign of damage.

So what happened yesterday?

“Siri?” I called out.

It was still that familiar and gentle male voice, “I’m here.”

I unlocked my phone and pulled up my conversation history with Siri. Most of it was nonsense I babbled to it in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep. Those horrifying words I said last night did not appear in the history.

I have suffered from insomnia for several years. When it was serious, I couldn’t sleep all night.

The doctor prescribed me sleeping pills to help me sleep, and they worked quite well at first.

But the amount I eat is getting bigger and bigger.

If you don’t go to sleep after taking the medicine, some unexpected things will always happen:

For example, when you wake up, you find that you have cooked a lot of food in the kitchen but have not eaten a single bite;

Another time, I danced ballroom dance for half the night while holding onto the trash can in my room;

The worst time was when I pulled out all the flowers and plants on the balcony, and the next day I found my phone in the mud…

But I didn’t dare tell the doctor about this, for fear that he would restrict my medication.

Without sleeping pills, every night would be long and painful for me.

What happened last night, maybe you took too many medicines?

I rubbed my forehead in fear.

Today is Wednesday, the regular psychotherapy time.

“How’s your sleep lately?” my psychiatrist, sitting opposite me, asked me gently.

I saw an ant crawling up the leg of his table. It was very agile and fast, and in a blink of an eye it had climbed onto the table and was continuing to crawl towards his coffee cup.

“Ms. Yu?” the doctor called me.

I hummed absentmindedly, my attention still on the ant that had already climbed onto the wall of the cup.

The doctor picked up the cup and was about to bring it to his mouth when the ant staggered.

I yelled, “Wait a minute!”

The doctor was startled and the coffee in his hand spilled onto the medical record, leaving a stain.

I pointed to the cup sheepishly and said, “There’s an ant on it.”

“Oh, it’s okay, it’s okay.” The doctor picked up a tissue, wrapped the ant and pressed it hard on the table. I heard a slight popping sound and the tissue was thrown into the trash can.

My face looks a little pale.

The doctor picked up a pen and wrote on the paper: “After paying the fee, go to the second floor to get the medicine.”

Maybe you have guessed it –

I am a patient, I am sick.

When I was a freshman, I was nineteen years old and had just finished a hard-working high school life.

Like a bird that has escaped from a cage, I am curious about everything.

The first time I sang all night with my sisters, the first time I fell in love, the first time I went to a concert…

And, for the first time, I was kidnapped.

It was an ordinary night and I had a quarrel with my boyfriend.

I was walking alone through the boulevard toward the dormitory when I was hit by a club.

When I woke up, I was in a dark basement.

I had experienced every possible misfortune that could happen to a young woman in captivity.

This went on for three years until I was found and rescued.

After that, I suffered from severe depression and my studies fell through.

However, I learned all this later through the news.

It was as if the memories of those three years had been erased from my mind, leaving only a vague outline, and I vaguely knew that I had encountered such an incident.

Now, I live alone and support myself by earning a meager salary from writing.

The only one who chats with me every day is my Siri.

But just last night, my Siri said, I killed someone.

I took the doctor’s prescription and walked to the door. After hesitating for a long time, I asked him:

“Doctor, do you think Siri can think and speak like a human?”

The doctor looked up at me, the sunlight shining on him warm and bright.

He smiled and said, “Taking medicine will relieve your auditory hallucinations. Remember to take it on time and in the right amount.”

When I got home, I put the colorful pills into medicine boxes.

They are lined up neatly, waiting to enter my body, which makes me feel safe and secure.

Just as I was about to put it in my mouth, that cold male voice sounded again.

Siri said, “Don’t take them, these pills will kill you!”

My hand stopped in mid-air and the pills rolled out of my palm and scattered all over the floor.

“Who are you?” I said in a trembling voice.

Siri: “I’m here to help you, Yu Wanping. Can’t you see that you’ve been controlled by these drugs for five years?”

I looked down at the pills on the ground—

How could that be? I am sick and when I am sick I need to take medicine.

These drugs keep me emotionally stable and happy, how could they kill me?

“You can’t scare me. You are just my hallucination. After taking the medicine, you will disappear.”

As I spoke, I picked up the pills from the ground and stuffed them into my mouth.

“Go to the balcony and look at the fiddle-leaf rose. There is a miniature camera hidden in the flowerpot. There are also two cameras on the top of the TV cabinet. There is also a desk lamp in the bedroom and a full-length mirror at the door…”

“They’ve all got cameras installed!”

Siri’s words made me feel like I was falling into an icy cave.

Because, I really found hidden cameras in the places he said.

How long have they been installed?

Who is spying on my life?

I opened my eyes wide and looked around in horror.

The strange yet familiar feeling of fear surged up again, and the thick, sticky darkness seemed to drown me.

Siri seemed to notice my panic, and there was a hint of sarcasm in her voice.

“You weren’t that scared when you were killing people, why are you getting more timid now?”

I turned my head suddenly, my eyes almost spitting fire, staring at the phone.

Siri said, “You want to smash me again, don’t you? Yu Wanping, you really have a bad temper. I’m the only one in the world who tells you the truth, but you just can’t stand it——”

I caught the words in its words and asked, “You mean, this happened many times?”

Siri said helplessly: “I’ve been hit by you more than a thousand times.”

03

That day, in order to verify Siri’s words, I grabbed the hammer without hesitation and smashed the phone again.

It was a sunny morning and the radio reminded me that this was a rare good weather.

The phone lay intact on the marble table.

The doctor picked up the coffee cup with a teetering ant on it…

Everything happened just like before.

Holding the prescribed medicine, I returned home in a daze.

Siri’s nasty voice sounded:

“Yu Wanping, do you believe it?”

I flushed the pills down the toilet and washed my hands carefully.

Siri, let’s make a deal?

ha?

I believe you now. Please help me escape from here and get rid of those people’s surveillance.

Yu Wanping, have some shame. Transactions are mutually beneficial. What do you have to offer me?

Siri’s voice is arrogant. If she had a face, she would probably look like she deserves a beating.

I was silent for a long time, thought about it, turned and walked towards the bedroom.

Siri called from behind me, Hey——

Are you giving up just like that?

Damn, you don’t even want to beg me for mercy?

A smile appeared on the corner of my mouth, but my voice was calm.

“I really don’t have anything to trade with you, so I won’t force you.”

After saying that, he closed the bedroom door.

Siri was alone in the living room, struggling internally for a long time, if she had a heart.

“Yu Wanping, come out——”

The door opened immediately and I stuck my head out.

“You agree?”

Siri: “To leave here, you can—”

“But first, you have to tell me, where did you bury the body?”

04

“The body may be in that haunted house.”

I took my cell phone to an abandoned villa in the suburbs.

This house was the site of a family massacre in the 1990s and has been empty ever since. The house is eerie and scary. It is said that passers-by heard strange breathing sounds coming from inside, but no one dared to go in.

Because of this, this place has become the devil’s paradise –

The news said that the man imprisoned me and five other women in the basement of the villa.

Our cries for help were occasionally heard by others and became evidence that the house was haunted.

As a result, no one dared to come in.

“If, if the person you are looking for was also imprisoned here, then she…”

Having said that, I couldn’t help but stop.

It is five o’clock in the afternoon and the sun is shining on my body, but I still can’t help shivering.

The villa has been sealed off, and dense vegetation has unscrupulously occupied the entire building, with only a small gap in the southeast corner where one can get inside.

I bent over and crawled in. As soon as my feet landed, Siri suddenly shouted:

Fuck, what is that!

A white shadow flashed past the camera.

The phone’s camera is always on, Siri said, so it can see its surroundings.

I looked intently into the yard. The broken gate was half open. It was dark inside and extremely quiet. The white shadow I had just seen didn’t seem to exist.

“Siri, are you afraid of ghosts too?” I found it a little funny. I imagined a tall and strong man hiding behind me with a look of fear on his face. That would indeed be… well, a bit weird.

Siri sensed my mockery and immediately stiffened her tone:

“Who the hell is scared? I’m just reminding you that this house looks a bit spooky…”

Suddenly, we all stopped talking.

An old black-and-white photo appeared in the camera. It showed a row of women in white long skirts. Five pairs of dark eyes were staring at us, with a faint smile on their lips.

I froze and didn’t dare to move, only hearing Siri gasp.

“Could you… move the camera so it’s not facing this dead statue?” Siri’s voice was filled with suppressed anger.

I quickly moved the camera away and heard Siri growl again, like a cat whose tail was stepped on.

This time, what appeared in the camera was a black round jar with a white porcelain bowl upside down on it, with dark red stains on it.

This time, not only Siri, but also I was shocked.

This thing looks like an urn?

I walked forward carefully, reaching out to uncover the white porcelain bowl, and Siri’s voice stuttered a little.

Siri: “No, no, don’t open it…”

I stopped my hand at the edge of the jar: “Are you afraid?”

Siri said nothing.

I put my hand on the white porcelain bowl and pretended to open it.

Siri gritted her teeth and admitted defeat: “Okay, I’m scared, I’m scared, okay?”

I let go of her hand, and suddenly a strange sense of familiarity welled up in my heart, and I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

The camera was on the whole time, and I held up my phone as I walked deeper into the hall, chatting with Siri.

Siri, do you think that after a person dies, there will be ghosts?

Maybe there is… Stop shaking so damn much, it makes me dizzy!

Where did you get the head from? I rolled my eyes in my heart.

As he was thinking, his foot suddenly kicked something, and he staggered and fell, with the phone falling out of his hand.

Siri was on the ground, calling anxiously, “Yu Wanping? Yu Wanping, are you freaking okay? Say something!”

“Don’t shout, stay alive!”

I responded to it and struggled to get up. I felt my palms were wet, probably because I had scratched my skin and was bleeding.

As soon as I sat up, my heart suddenly shook, and the scene in front of me made me feel cold all over!

A woman’s head was lying at my feet, her mouth half open, as if she wanted to say something.

My temple was throbbing with pain, and some fragmented images kept flashing in my mind:

Cold chains, torn skirts, and several pairs of pale hands reaching out…

Tears welled up unconsciously and fell to the ground drop by drop.

I couldn’t help but tremble with my teeth, and my throat felt like it was strangled and I couldn’t make a sound.

Siri asked: “Yu Wanping, what’s wrong with you? Pick me up quickly, it’s so dark that I can’t see anything——”

I turned around and saw my phone lying in the corner with a faint light. Siri was yelling angrily, and the sound of it woke me up from a dream.

I picked it up and saw that the camera was covered with dust. I wiped it clean with the corner of my clothes, and Siri’s vision returned to normal:

In front of me was a table for burning incense, with two red dolls next to it. Under my feet, I saw the woman’s head, a half-broken ceramic statue, lying crookedly on the ground.

Siri: “Did you hurt your hand?”

I used the light from my cell phone to take a look and saw that the broken skin on my palm was still bleeding, so I wiped it on my clothes.

Siri cursed, “Your clothes are so dirty, they will get infected if they touch the wound, you idiot!”

I pouted and turned my head away, clenched my palms into a ball, put them behind my back, and didn’t answer him.

Suddenly, I felt a strange feeling in my heart. The tone of its voice made me feel very familiar. It was really strange.

There is a storage room behind the lobby.

Under the storage room is a huge dark basement.

The basement where I and the five girls were imprisoned for three years.

I stood in that dark basement and felt that the temperature around me seemed to drop several degrees suddenly.

I asked, Siri, why do you have to find that woman’s body?

Siri was silent for a long time, so long that I thought it disappeared.

A long sigh was heard.

It said, the girl you killed, she was my girlfriend.

05

“My girlfriend loves to stand up for the weak.

I met her at the welcome party. At that time, as a senior who was welcoming the new students, I helped her get familiar with the school environment.

I remember the sun was very strong that afternoon and she squinted her eyes and raised her hands to her forehead.

I said why don’t you go back to the dormitory and rest first.

As soon as she finished speaking, she rushed out like an angry little leopard, pinning a short boy and beating him up, unable to be stopped.

The boy was beaten black and blue and lay on the ground holding his head begging for mercy.

“Will you take pictures under girls’ skirts again next time?” she asked while slapping him on the head.

As he said this, he snatched the phone and deleted all the photos in it. The girl who was being secretly photographed was trembling all over.

She took a photo of the short boy’s student ID, threatened and comforted the victim, doing it cleanly and beautifully in one go.

After it was done, he remembered that I was standing next to him.

“Let’s go? Tell me if anything happens to you next time, and I’ll get you justice!”

The girl raised her face and smiled at me brightly.

Something in a corner of my heart suddenly changed at that moment.

Later, she became my girlfriend, and she still liked to stand up for the weak, and I followed her terrified.

I’m afraid that she will be retaliated against.

She always says that I am timid, and every time we go out, I follow her closely.

But later, something happened to her.”

Siri’s voice sounded particularly sad in the empty basement.

My eyes were sore and I stammered for a long time before uttering three words: I’m sorry.

Siri didn’t respond.

I held up my phone and used the light to check the surroundings:

This is a basement that extends downward in a spiral. The stone brick walls are splashed with dark brown stains, and there is a faint smell of rust in the air.

I licked my finger, wiped it on the stain on the wall, and sniffed it——

It’s the smell of blood.

My body couldn’t help but shake slightly, my heart was beating violently, and my throat was dry.

In fact, the moment you enter this haunted house, some memories have been awakened.

Siri noticed my gaffe: “Did you remember something?”

I leaned against the wall and slowly sat down.

Yes, I remembered a lot of things.

“When I was arrested, there were already several young girls locked up in the basement.

Your girlfriend should be in there too.

At first he locked us up with chains. There was no light in the basement, no food, and no water. Hunger, thirst, and fear slowly consumed everyone’s will. When I was almost mentally collapsed, the man came down.

I also brought in food and water.”

My memory drifted into the abyss little by little along with my own trembling voice.

Under the dim light, the greasy roast chicken stimulates everyone’s stomach.

I looked at the food anxiously, like an animal.

Several women swallowed their saliva at the same time.

The man’s face was hidden beneath the black brim of his hat.

He walked over, and his cold eyes swept over us as if he was examining his prey, finally stopping on me.

“Go ahead and beat them. If you beat them to my satisfaction, this roast chicken will be yours.”

I refused and was soon severely beaten.

Another woman took up the whip and she won the food.

“We are forced to attack each other. If we don’t obey, we will be punished. It is a pain you can’t imagine. I don’t want to hurt your girlfriend, but…”

Having said this, I paused and could not speak any more.

There was a long silence in the air.

Then, I heard a strange gasp—

Siri it, it seems to be crying.

“So, he forced you to kill my girlfriend together, right?” it asked in a trembling voice.

My heart skipped a beat. I nodded first, then slowly shook my head. “I’m sorry, I don’t remember. Maybe that’s the case. I, I can’t remember the details anymore.”

Siri coughed loudly, took a few deep breaths, and her voice returned to a calm state.

“The police only rescued five people at that time. My girlfriend was missing and I knew she must be dead.”

“If we didn’t say goodbye properly when she was alive, we’ll have to find her body after she dies. I asked you to bring me here, not to hold you accountable, I just wanted to take her back.”

I asked the question that had been weighing on my mind for a long time: “Why didn’t you come by yourself? Why did you insist that I bring you here? And… you turned into Siri?”

Siri: “Because, I’m dead, and this is the only way I can communicate with you.”

I was so scared that my hands shook violently and I almost dropped my phone.

Siri mocked, “What are you afraid of? You’ve killed people before, are you afraid of a ghost like me?”

“I’ve always wanted to find out where my girlfriend is, but before I could find out anything, she died in a car accident. Maybe my obsession was too strong, so I accidentally interfered with the magnetic field of my phone, and then I found you.”

I understood: “So you monitor my life through your phone every day, and you deliberately act mysteriously, wanting me to bring you to the basement?”

Siri snorted, “What are you talking about? I am a ghost.”

“What about the surveillance cameras? Who are the doctors who prescribed the medicine for me?”

Even if I admit that Siri is a dead ghost, there are still many things that I can’t explain, and I just feel confused.

Siri said, “I am a ghost, not a god. I can only monitor your abnormal life through electrical signals, but I don’t know who is the manipulator behind this.

“But I have a hunch that if we can find my girlfriend’s body, the truth will be revealed!”

“But I can’t remember the details… I just know that I killed someone.” I hit my head in pain.

“Whatever you can remember… remember, there was a place…” Siri wanted to say something, but the noisy electricity swallowed up her voice.

The faint light of the phone flickered and then went out.

It was as if I was suddenly swallowed up by the dark basement.

The surroundings fell into deathly silence, and an indescribable fear crawled up my spine.

I tried to stay calm and called out, Siri?

Siri, are you there?!

I heard my voice cracking, and I started to panic, with pain in my temples.

Siri didn’t respond, and I frantically groped for the wall and moved forward.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a faint light in front, flashing once, and again.

I stared at the faint light in a daze, as if I were stupid.

Those details that I had forgotten seemed to slowly return with the flickering light.

A light was on in the dim basement, staring coldly at everything happening in the darkness.

I lay there in that light, naked.

Several pairs of pale, cold hands pinned me to the ground, making me unable to move.

The man looked down at me and unbuckled his belt.

I saw myself straining my neck, trying to raise my head, my veins popping, and my throat letting out screams that were louder and louder. The woman behind me grabbed my hair and threw me to the ground.

My head hit the cold ground and a feeling of nausea rushed into my mouth and nose.

The faint light above his head flickered and turned into countless red and white shadows.

All my strength was gone and I stopped struggling. I just let the women hold me down and become that man’s plaything.

I know that it was me this time, but next time it will be another woman lying under this light.

By then, I will be one of the people holding down her hands and feet.

The faint light disappeared and I woke up from my memories.

I don’t know when tears covered my entire face. I clutched the phone tightly, turned around and stumbled out.

A voice shouted in my heart:

Get out of here, get out of this basement, get out of that nightmare that has long been dormant and locked!

The entrance to the basement is a long staircase. Just run up the staircase and through the lobby to escape…

Suddenly, a cold hand stretched out from somewhere in the darkness and grabbed my ankle!

Then he pulled it hard into the deep basement.

I screamed and rolled down the stairs like a barrel and fell back into the basement.

The phone fell out with a dull sound, and I don’t know where it fell.

There is a fishy smell in my mouth and my philtrum is hot. I think I fell and bled.

Siri? Siri! Are you there? Come back to me!

I shouted at the top of my voice while crawling on the ground and groping around.

I’m here, Yu Wanping! I’m here!

I heard the sound not far away, and I was surprised and happy. I groped my way over, but because I couldn’t see, my head hit something in the dark, and it hurt so much that I could only gasp.

“Slow down, slow down, I’m here!” Siri kept talking to remind me of my location.

I crawled towards the source of the sound and finally picked up the phone. I immediately unlocked it and turned on the phone light.

The penetration of light in the dark basement is very weak, and you can only see things about one meter away.

I held up my phone with the camera turned on and looked around nervously, only to find that I had reached a deeper level in the basement without knowing when!

Iron chains, whips, electric wires and other things were hung on the wall in front of him, and dark blood stains could be vaguely seen on them.

I shuddered and my eyes quickly moved away as if I had been electrocuted.

Siri’s voice was trembling: “Have you used these before?”

Not only that, I have used it!

“In order to keep us under control, the man never did anything himself, he forced us to kill each other.

In order to avoid this punishment, everyone began to scramble to please men, and we betrayed each other…

At that time, I seemed to lose my own existence and lost the most basic judgment. I could only execute his orders like a puppet. Everyone became the maintainer of the order of hell life. “

Having said that, I couldn’t help but feel extremely nauseous and started vomiting while holding onto the wall.

It’s been five years, and I seem to have forgotten all this.

Watching those reports on TV news, I feel indifferent, just like watching other people’s experiences.

However, the moment I returned to the basement, these vivid and painful memories came back to me!

My face was covered with tears and snot, and the blood rushing up made my eyeballs dry and my head dizzy.

By the end of vomiting, I couldn’t vomit anything out, but the nausea still lingered.

Siri couldn’t bear it and asked again and again: “Are you okay?”

I wiped my mouth and panted, “It’s okay, I will help you find your girlfriend. This is the sin I should atone for.”

As I said that, I cheered myself up and continued walking towards the next level of the basement with my cell phone light in hand.

At this moment, a cold wind blew in from somewhere, and a strange sound came from above my head.

“Ha…shh…ha…shh…” It’s the sound of a critically ill person wearing a ventilator.

06

My scalp was tingling, my neck was bent stiffly backward, and I looked up.

After seeing it clearly, my brain exploded and blood rushed to my head instantly!

There were several white dresses floating on it.

There were shocking bloodstains on the skirt.

Seeing that I didn’t move, Siri asked, “What’s wrong? What’s on it? Let me see?”

“One, two, three…there are five.” I couldn’t help but count out loud.

Siri stammered: “Five, five what…”

“Five skirts. Above our heads, there were five skirts, stained with blood,” I explained.

As he spoke, he pointed the camera overhead.

Siri yelled, “Fuck it, these guys are playing tricks, hanging clothes up there to scare people.”

“You are so timid. You are already a ghost, so why are you still afraid of ghosts?” I kindly reminded it.

Siri was speechless for a long time. After a while, she cursed and tried to save her face: “Ghosts can be divided into good ghosts and evil ghosts!”

I didn’t say anything, just looked up silently.

The bloody skirt seemed to be pulled by an invisible thread, swaying in the air.

From a distance, they looked like five women being hung.

Suddenly, my eyelids twitched, and a light flashed in my mind –

Something seems to be about to come out, but it is just out of reach.

Siri said, “Why five skirts? Weren’t there six of you?”

My chest seemed to be torn open by his words, and gusts of cool wind passed through my chest. The answer hidden in the fog was within my reach.

“Siri, do you remember the black and white photo we saw when we entered the hall?” My voice trembled a little.

Siri didn’t respond, perhaps it was retrieving the previous image data.

After a while, it said excitedly: “Five! There are five women in the photo!”

Yes, there are five women in the photo.

There are also five blood-stained skirts hanging above the head.

There are also five iron chains in the basement…

“Siri, there are only five women in the basement, and one woman who has never appeared before.”

Siri denied it loudly: “No way, there are obviously six! My girlfriend disappeared in the basement!”

It roared again and again, trying to deny my inference, until it finally fell silent.

None of us spoke.

“If there were only five women in the basement, who did you kill?”

After a long while, Siri suddenly asked a question, her voice was hoarse and low.

My heart was pounding so hard it almost jumped out of my chest.

A severe headache came over me, I closed my eyes in pain, and tried hard to salvage from the abyss of memory.

The strange breathing sound came again, “Ha…shhh…ha…shhh…”

The voice brought with it gusts of cold wind, and the white skirt suddenly seemed to have a soul. It flew towards me suddenly, covering my head and surrounding me. My world instantly fell into darkness.

“Kill him. If we don’t kill him, none of us will survive.”

I quietly discussed with the woman locked beside me.

Her eyes glowed in the darkness, and I saw her hesitation.

“I’ll do it, you don’t have to do anything, just cooperate with me…”

The women listened to my plan silently in the dark night, and no one spoke.

I’m betting that their rationality, which has not completely collapsed, may give me a hand.

But it is also possible that you will be betrayed in the next second.

That man is like a god in this basement. He controls our life and death.

Habitual surrender is our normal state.

But I have to go out.

Someone is waiting for me outside.

I kept repeating to myself, I want to get out of here alive.

The man came down to the basement to visit one of us, as usual.

In the past, we would fight like animals for the right to mate, because whoever was “favored” would get more food that day.

But that day, they just pretended to fight for it a little and then gave the right to me.

I knelt on the ground, numb and docile like a slave.

When the man was distracted, I suddenly opened my eyes wide, used all my strength, and bit his nose hard with my teeth. The fishy smell of blood filled my mouth and nose.

The man let out a shrill howl, suddenly pulled away, and swung his arm to slap me in the face. I held his thighs tightly with both hands and refused to let go no matter how he slapped me.

The women looked at each other, and some timidly watched the man and I who were struggling desperately.

Large streams of blood flowed down my mouth.

I was hit hard on the head, the man’s impenetrable fists smashing into both sides of my head.

After venting for a long time, the rage and strength caused by the pain finally succumbed to the blood loss and pain, and he collapsed.

Someone picked up the iron chain on his feet, put it around his neck, and tightly wrapped it around his neck. Everyone pulled hard together…

Every pain and humiliation of every day and night is poured into these chains.

We finally ended the life of this demon.

“Wanping, Yu Wanping, wake up!”

Siri called out to me anxiously, and I slowly opened my eyes, tears soaking my cheeks.

“I remember now. I killed someone. I killed that man. We killed him together.”

Siri smiled, her voice surprisingly gentle, “I know, you killed that bad guy, you did nothing wrong, you are great, you have always been great, don’t condemn yourself.”

“Blame me. I failed to protect you, Wanping…” Siri’s words were filled with endless love.

“But, but…” I cried breathlessly.

After killing the man, we stayed in the basement for another month before being discovered.

What do you think we ate to survive that month?

When the police arrived, five hungry women with fierce eyes looked at them coldly.

At that moment, we are no longer human beings, and we can never go back.

The survivors who returned to the ground committed suicide one after another.

And I also killed myself, an imaginary sixth woman, in order to survive.

There was no sixth woman at all, that was just my imagination!

Siri’s voice seemed to come from the distant sky: “Wanping, you finally remembered, that’s great, you won, you will live well…”

Suddenly, a strong light shone in, and the walls of the basement slowly opened from both sides.

What came into view before my eyes was a huge square.

And I was standing on the stage.

Below the stage, tens of thousands of people burst into warm applause.

I saw an old and familiar face projected on the electronic screen in front of me.

My hand unconsciously touched my face, and the person on the electronic screen made the same movement!

“What’s going on? Siri, Siri, are you there?”

I’m here. A gentle male voice replied.

Not the original Siri. Not my Siri.

I looked around blankly and saw a white-haired old man being pushed onto the stage in a wheelchair.

“Yu Wanping, congratulations, you are the first depression patient in my country to be cured by AI!”

The old man looked at me, stretched out his hand and waved at the electronic screen, and photos and videos of various people’s lives appeared on the screen.

“In 2075, depression has become the world’s number one disease.

Spiritual communication between people becomes more difficult, and many people with depression suppress their pain in their hearts.

Depression also causes high crime rates in society, and people with depression will be discriminated against, vigilant and defensive by people around them.

Our Mobei Group is an AI company that specializes in tackling depression, and is also a leader in this huge depression market. “

Having said that, the old man’s eyes turned and fell on me.

“We provide psychological treatment for victims of abuse, but unfortunately it has been ineffective. In this cell case, the other four women committed suicide one after another. Ms. Yu Wanping, you are the only survivor in this case and the patient who has received our Ai charity treatment for the longest time.”

I looked at him, silent, to survive——

Because I killed myself who was eating human flesh in the basement.

“Your memory is stuck in the year your boyfriend died, and you have never been able to get out of the haze. We spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources to create a living environment like that at that time, combined with AI companionship and drug treatment, and finally achieved great success!”

Warm applause rang out again.

My tears fell one by one.

It turns out that the girlfriend Siri is looking for is me!

“My girlfriend likes to stand up for the weak…”

“…I’m afraid she’ll be retaliated against…”

“She always said I was timid, and I always followed her closely whenever she went out.”

I choked up and everything in front of me turned into mist.

“So, you designed Siri after my boyfriend?” I looked at the old man.

He was slightly stunned, a little surprised: “It is designed based on the image of the most perfect partner in women’s minds. In the past few years, our AI has achieved little effect in treating patients with depression. The biggest reason is that the machine cannot empathize with humans-“

“So, we redesigned a set of programs to make the AI ​​software empathize with the patient’s emotions, just like suffering from depression. When each patient recovers, the AI ​​program will enter self-termination mode, taking away the patient’s original negative emotions and energy…”

His words sent a pang through my heart.

Siri disappears because the program is terminated!

They never knew that the one who truly healed me was not AI, but a “ghost” that traveled through life and death, relying on an obsession to interfere with the magnetic field and lead me out of hell!

On the stage with tens of thousands of people watching, I, with my gray hair, couldn’t stop crying.

On the news the next day, they said, “Ms. Yu Wanping burst into tears of joy after recovering!”

07

The Mobei Group’s AI treatment program is still ongoing. They have launched a new type of humanoid AI, upgrading it into a robot with human emotions. More and more patients with depression have signed contracts with them.

Yu Wanping, who is over 80 years old, goes to their headquarters office every day to make trouble, saying that he has “relapsed!”

However, various indicators tested show that Yu Wanping’s mental health is up to standard.

“I said I’m sick, give me another Siri!”

“Ms. Yu, that product has been discontinued a long time ago, and you are not sick, you are fine. You are our living advertisement, you can’t pretend to be sick when you are not.”

Yu Wanping refused to give in and sat in the hall, refusing to leave.

A bionic robot passed by her, glanced at Yu Wanping dimly, and snorted coldly.

Yu Wanping’s old eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed at the robot and said, “I want this!”

The robot stopped, turned around, and bowed to them politely, “Hello, it’s a pleasure to serve you.”

The staff member said embarrassedly: “This is our housekeeping robot, not for treating depression.”

Yu Wanping smiled brightly: “I want this one, I’ll buy it!”

That night, Yu Wanping bossed the robot, which he had bought at the cost of all his family’s savings, around to do the housework.

The room had just been cleaned when Yu Wanping’s hand shook and a cup of Coke spilled onto the clean floor.

Once, twice, three times…

The robot finally got angry, “Yu Wanping, are you mentally ill?”

Yu Wanping rushed over with a smile: “Finally you stopped pretending!”