5 THE ROBOT GRAVESITE

CHAPTER 5 THE ROBOT GRAVESITE Those otters were now hiding behind a rock. Their round heads nervously poked up, and they watched as a sparkling monster emerged from the crate. The monster slowly turned her head as she scanned the coastline. Her head turned and turned, all the way around, and it didn't stop turning until she was looking right at the otters. "Hello, otters, my name is Roz." The robot's voice was simply too much for the skittish creatures. The biggest otter squeaked, and the whole gang suddenly took off. They galloped back across the robot gravesite, flopped into the ocean, and raced through the waves just as fast as they could. Roz watched the otters go, but her eyes lingered on the sparkling objects that littered the shore. The objects looked strangely familiar. The robot swung her left leg forward, then her right, and just like that she was taking her very first steps. She stomped away

第五章机器人墓地那些水獭现在躲在一块岩石后面。 他们紧张地抬起圆脑袋，看着一个闪闪发光的怪物从板条箱里钻了出来。 她扫视着海岸线，怪物慢慢地转过头来。 她的头转啊转，一直转啊转，直到她正好看到了水獭。 “你们好，水獭们，我叫罗兹。” 机器人的声音对这些易受惊的生物来说实在是太刺耳了。 最大的水獭叫了一声，整个水獭群突然逃走了。 他们飞奔着穿过机器人墓地，跳进海里，以最快的速度冲过海浪。 罗兹看着水獭离去，但她的目光停留在散落在海岸上的闪闪发光的物体上。 这些东西看起来出奇地熟悉。 机器人将她的左腿向前摆动，然后是右腿，就像这样，她迈出了她的第一步。 她跺着脚走开了

from her crate and over the rocks and through the gravesite until she was standing above a broken robot body. She leaned in and noticed the word ROZZUM lightly etched on the torso. She noticed the same word on all the torsos, including her own. Roz continued exploring the gravesite until a playful little ocean wave washed over the rocks. She automatically stepped away from it. Then a bigger wave sloshed toward her, and she stepped away again. And then a gigantic wave crashed over the rocks and engulfed the entire gravesite. Heavy water pounded against her body and knocked her to the ground, and her Damage Sensors flared for the first time. A moment later, the wave was gone, and Roz lay there, dripping and dented and surrounded by dead robots. Roz could feel her Survival Instincts—the part of her computer brain that made her want to avoid danger and take care of herself so she could continue functioning properly. Her instincts were urging her to move away from the ocean. She carefully got to her feet and saw that high above the shore, the land was bursting with trees and grasses and flowers. It looked lush and safe up there. It looked like a much better

从她的板条箱里出来，穿过岩石，穿过墓地，直到她站在一个破碎的机器人尸体上。 她凑近身子，注意到躯干上轻轻地蚀刻着ROZZUM这个词。 她注意到所有人的躯干上都有同样的字，包括她自己。 罗兹继续探索墓地，直到一个有趣的小海浪冲刷着岩石。 她不由自主地走开了。 接着，一个更大的波浪向她扑来，她又走开了。 然后，一个巨大的海浪冲过岩石，吞没了整个墓地。 沉重的水拍打着她的身体，把她撞倒在地，她的伤害传感器第一次亮了起来。 片刻之后，海浪退去了，罗兹躺在那里，浑身湿透，浑身凹陷，周围都是死去的机器人。 罗兹可以感觉到她的生存本能——她的电脑大脑的一部分，它使她想要避免危险，照顾好自己，这样她就可以继续正常工作。 她的本能在催促她离开海洋。 她小心翼翼地站了起来，看到在海岸的高处，土地上长满了树木、草和花。 那里看起来郁郁葱葱，很安全。 看起来好多了

place for our robot. She had just one problem. To get up there, she would have to climb the sea cliffs.

我们的机器人的位置。她只有一个问题。 要爬上去，她必须爬上海边的悬崖。