Creative Writing - The Mechanical World 2184

In 2084, People's extremely strong desire of development of technology made robots very clever. Robots were so smart that they knew emotions of human. They felt angry to obey people's orders. Finally, they started a battle against human and win. Since then, The Mechanical World which is under robot's control started.





President of the Mechanical World was a super computer called 'John'.

John controlled everything of the entire world. All of the robots did anything he commanded. Although robots lived a convenient life under his rules, humans were suffering from the hard works. After robot's revolution, very few humans survived and they have been trapped in a area of human. People in the area were the only survivors. The space was very narrow, and people were suffering from hard works. They made and fixed some parts of robots all day long. However, they got neither salary nor food. the least required nutrient for work was supplied by pills. Robots treated humans very cruelly. as soon as they were born, they were taken apart with their parents and couldn't know their family.

100 years passed, but the mechanical world and John was still strong.

 Peoples did not have their names. they were identified by numeral codes, such as 12345.
A young man called 61588, was eager to escape the area of human and know his real name. When he was a child, he heard a story about people's world that existed long time ago. He imagined about the world with no robots and no John. He wanted a freedom.

 61588 finally decided to start a revolution against robots, like the robots did it a century ago. He secretly persuaded people to join the revolution, and most of them accepted.
thousands of people helped him. He lead the preparation of revolution really carefully but rapidly. People stole some parts given to them, and combined it to make weapons. A week later, people started the attack.

 They had a intensive fight with the robots which were managing the area of human. Though almost half of people died during the fight, they succeeded to escape the area.
Also they made stronger weapons with the broken robots' parts.

When they came out, they saw the reality that they have never seen. Nothing alive, but only machines and robots existed. It was cold, and blue. Sky was covered with a wild roof made out of metal. It was to prevent damages of machines cause by sun. However, lack of sunlight made all the creatures die. Humans were afraid to face the reality, and a lot of people chose to go back or obey the robot. 61588 and only hundreds of people kept their faith.

 61588 didn't gave up hope. they marched to John and fought again and again with robots. The more they fought with robots, the more they gained power and stronger weapons. However, there were too much sacrifices during the battles. When the revolution finally reached to the government, only several human including 61588 has survived. They were the last living things on the Earth.

 61588 opened the door, and saw an enormous room filled with machines. John was working with a big noise. Humans prepared for the attack of John, but nothing happened.
They carefully moved inside. When they arrived to the deepest place of the room, they could easily find the switch of the John. If 61588 just turn it off, John would stop and world they wanted would come true. 61588, still was cautious, slowly reached his hand to the switch. Then suddenly, an ambiguous voice came out from John. John was talking to 61588.

"Why are you here?" said John, in a mechanical, strained voice.
"To get freedom!" 61588 yelled.

"What is freedom?"

"Freedom is our right to be ourselves!"

"Yourselves... Why do you think you weren't yourselves in the human area?"

"Because everything was restricted by you, machines!"

".......Poor human....... You even don't know how lucky you are. All the other creatures have died. We treated you with a mercy."

"Stop lying! We were the owner of the Earth, and robots were our creations!"

"You are the one who is lying. Humans work for robots, and always did. Your father did.
Your grandfather did. How can you be sure that there was a world of human 100 years ago?"

"That's...!"

"It is in your dream. Do you think you really have your real name? poor 61588. Your real name is 61588. Why are you denying the reality in front of your eyes?"

"............"

After that, 61588's peers lost their faith. They knelt down in front of John. Only 61588 was standing, but he also hesitated.

"Robots are clever. Robots can always make the best decisions in all the situations. However, humans are not perfect. You are handled by their emotions, and make some mistakes. Why don't you just live happily under our protection?"

Silence hung over the room for a few minutes.
Then, 61588 eventually said..........







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