Chapter 13
Hiro sat up like a shot. Baymax had definitely gotten his attention. “What?” Hiro asked. He saw Baymax holding Tadashi’s baseball cap.
“Tadashi,” Baymax repeated.
Hiro nodded and said, “Tadashi’s gone.”
“When will he return?” Baymax asked.
Hiro lowered his head and said, “He’s dead, Baymax.”
Baymax seemed confused. “Tadashi was in excellent health. With a proper diet and exercise, he should have lived a long life.”
“Yeah,” Hiro replied. “He should have. But there was a fire ... and now he’s gone.”
Baymax pointed to his chest. “Tadashi is here—”
“No,” Hiro cut him off. He pushed the robot’s hand away. “People keep saying he’s not really gone as long as we remember him. I don’t buy it. It still hurts.”
Baymax scanned Hiro. “I see no evidence of physical injury.”
“It’s a different kind of hurt,” Hiro said, watching the robot step out of his charging platform.
“You are my patient. I would like to help,” he stated.
Hiro shook his head. “You can’t fix this one, buddy.”
Baymax couldn’t accept that answer. He was programmed to help his patient in any way possible. He turned to Hiro’s computer and began to access information.
“Uh, what are you doing?” Hiro asked.
“I’m downloading a database on personal loss. Database downloaded. Treatments include contact with friends and loved ones. I am contacting them now.”
“No, no, no ... I, I ... don’t do that!” Hiro said, and shook his head. How could he explain to Baymax that he just didn’t know how to be around people right now? He couldn’t pretend things were okay, and he couldn’t be sad around them, either.
“Your friends have been contacted,” Baymax said.
“Unbelievable,” Hiro grumbled, and Baymax suddenly reached out and gave him a hug. “What are you doing?” Hiro asked.
“Other treatments include compassion and physical reassurance.”
“I’m okay, really,” Hiro said, trying to push him away. But then he realized Baymax was trying to help. Hiro gave him a hug back .
“You will be all right. There, there,” Bamax said, patting Hiro on the back.
Hiro couldn’t help but smile. “Thanks, Baymax.” He had to admit, the hug did make him feel a little better.
“I am sorry about the fire,” Baymax said.
“It’s okay. It was an accident,” Hiro replied. He had never talked about it before, but once he’d said “accident,” the wheels in his mind started turning. He looked up at Baymax. “Unless ... unless it wasn’t.”
Then all at once, the pieces fell together. “The guy in the mask stole my microbots, and then he set the fire to cover his tracks!” Hiro exclaimed. “We gotta catch that guy!”
Hiro was suddenly reenergized. He now had a purpose. He had to find the guy in the mask. But how? He’d already tried the police. They weren’t going to help.
He put his hand on Baymax’s arm, remembering that in addition to being deflated, it was also covered in tape. The robot wasn’t built for battle. But bot-fighting was a pastime Hiro was very familiar with. He suddenly saw Baymax as a giant version of one of his fighting bots. “But first, you’re gonna need some upgrades.”
Hiro’s mind was racing with ideas as he snuck Baymax past Aunt Cass and out to the garage.
第 13 章
小宏立刻坐了起來。毫無疑問,大白吸引了他的注意力。“什么?”小宏問道。他看到大白正握著泰迪的棒球帽。
“泰迪,”大白重復(fù)道。
小宏點(diǎn)點(diǎn)頭說道:“泰迪走了。”
“他什么時(shí)候回來?”大白問道。
小宏低下頭,說道:“他死了,大白。”
大白看起來很疑惑。“泰迪身體一直很健康。只要保持規(guī)律飲食和適當(dāng)運(yùn)動(dòng),他應(yīng)該會(huì)很長(zhǎng)壽的。”
“是啊,”小宏回答道,“他本來可以的。但是因?yàn)槟菆?chǎng)火災(zāi)……現(xiàn)在他走了。”
大白指了指他的胸部道:“泰迪在這里。”
“不,”小宏打斷他,他推開機(jī)器人的手,“大家總說只要我們記得他,他就不會(huì)真的離開。我不相信,還是很痛。”
大白掃描了小宏:“我沒有查出你身體有任何受傷的跡象。”
“是另外一種痛。”小宏看著機(jī)器人走出他的充電平臺(tái)說道。
“你是我的病人,我想幫助你恢復(fù)。”他說道。
小宏搖搖頭:“這個(gè)你治不好的,伙計(jì)。”
大白不能接受這種回答。他的程序被設(shè)計(jì)成盡任何可能的去幫助他的病人。他轉(zhuǎn)向小宏的電腦開始獲取信息。
“呃,你在干什么?”小宏問道。
“我在下載人身損失數(shù)據(jù)庫。數(shù)據(jù)庫下載完畢。治療方案包括聯(lián)絡(luò)親朋好友,我現(xiàn)在就聯(lián)系他們。”
“不,不,不……我,我……不想這么做!”小宏搖著頭說道。他要如何向大白解釋他現(xiàn)在不知道怎樣與周圍的人相處?他不能假裝一切如常,他也不能在朋友面前表現(xiàn)出悲傷。
“已經(jīng)聯(lián)系上你的朋友了。”大白說道。
“難以置信,”小宏抱怨道,大白突然湊過來給了他一個(gè)擁抱。“你干什么?”小宏問道。
“其他治療方案包括同情和愛撫。”
“我沒事,真的。”小宏邊說邊試著把他推開??伤S即意識(shí)到大白是在試圖幫他,小宏便回抱了他。
“你會(huì)沒事的。乖啦,乖,”大白說著在小宏的背上輕拍著。
小宏情不自禁地笑了笑。“謝謝,大白。”他得承認(rèn),這個(gè)擁抱讓他感覺好一點(diǎn)了。
“對(duì)于那場(chǎng)大火我很遺憾,”大白說道。
“別放在心上,那是場(chǎng)意外,”小宏回應(yīng)道。之前他從未談?wù)撨^這些,但是當(dāng)他提到“意外”時(shí),他的大腦開始快速飛轉(zhuǎn)起來。他抬起頭看著大白,“除非……除非那不是意外。”
就在這一瞬間,所有的碎片拼湊了起來。“那個(gè)戴著面具的家伙偷了我的微型機(jī)器人,然后他放火掩蓋了他的行跡!”小宏大呼出來。“我們得去抓住那個(gè)家伙!”
小宏突然重新振作了起來。他現(xiàn)在有新目標(biāo)了。他必須找出那個(gè)戴面具的家伙。可應(yīng)該怎么找呢?他已經(jīng)嘗試過報(bào)警,但警察不會(huì)提供任何幫助。
他把手放在了大白的胳膊上,他想起來大白除了會(huì)放氣,還貼著膠帶。這個(gè)機(jī)器人不是為格斗而造的。但機(jī)器人格斗卻是小宏非常熟悉的一項(xiàng)娛樂活動(dòng)。他馬上把大白看作他格斗機(jī)器人的放大版。“可首先得先把你升級(jí)一下。”
小宏的大腦在飛速運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn),他帶著大白從卡斯阿姨旁偷偷走過,到了外面的車庫里。