Chapter 14 Hauntology(1/3)
The ship docked in front of the pier of the artificial island. Ryusei returned to his [home] in Shinto City——
——To be honest, when he saw this house for the first time, he had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu. It seemed as if he had been here a long, long time ago.
This is not the space-time disturbance phenomenon in e204863. Meteor has read many books and is very sure in his heart that he has never been to this place.
But where does this terrifying sense of familiarity come from?
[Before you moved in, the drone responsible for the engineering infrastructure renovated this house. It is a style you are familiar with, right?]
Meteor nodded and pushed open the door. Apart from the buzzing sound at the moment when DNA unlocked the door when he held the doorknob, the apartment's soft partitions, furniture placement and other designs were just like his old house in K.
.
He has no home in the underground world, just like Xueming.
Aohen Mingde will not arrange real estate for passengers, and Meteor and Xueming have no intention of buying a house. Anonymous's work is like flowing water, and it is impossible to stay in one place for a long time.
But in this strange city, Bu Liuxing actually found the feeling of "home", which made him start to have doubts - to question human nature itself.
What constitutes this sense of familiarity?
What makes him himself?
[Meteor boy, it’s time for you to sleep. I know you are a curious baby, but you need to rest now.]
Meteor tore off his ragged pants, opened the closet, and saw a familiar set of pajamas. It was his favorite pink seal head, which surprised and frightened him.
[Don't be afraid, you don't need to make a fuss about this.]
[In your world, mobile phones also have this function. You only need to use your lips and say a few spells, and Pinduoduo will immediately arrange corresponding advertisements for you. Your mobile phone, like mine, is monitored all the time.
you.]
Meteor didn't reply. He took out a set of underwear and ran to take a shower. After changing his clothes, he sat in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the vast black ocean outside the window and the dark sky and earth.
"Refeng, why do I feel that everything here is fine?"
[good?]
"Yes, I live quite comfortably here. I don't have to worry about food or clothing. It seems that I can survive by mortgaging my memory - if I have a job and my friends can live here, we can
We can meet once in a while”
[So you think it’s good?]
"Otherwise? I" Meteor was suddenly speechless. He could feel the anger of Hot Wind.
That kind of anger almost burned through his heart and melted him - Meteor quickly defended.
"That's not what I meant. I think there are so many people in the world who are still hungry and suffering from the cold."
"It would be great if they could live this kind of life, at least they wouldn't die."
"I have been fighting against the Crazy Butterfly Holy Cult for six years. I am a warrior - you should know this."
"I lurked in enemy-occupied areas to carry out sabotage, and mingled with people from different cities and towns. They more or less relied on psychic powers to take shortcuts - but the end was extremely tragic."
"Shinto City is different from these cities. It seems to be very civilized, gentle and advanced."
"If Brother Ping An hadn't smashed the tomb of the Six Shinto Divisions, or if Brother Ping An hadn't broken the rules of artificial intelligence, he wouldn't have been punished by the night patrol - maybe he would have been like an ordinary tourist like me."
[I probably understand what you mean, Meteor Boy.]
[You don’t seem to understand]
"Yes, I just don't quite understand." Bu Liuxing nodded quickly: "If you were once an aboriginal of this city and an aboriginal of the Ryukyu Islands, what is the reason that makes you hate this place so much?"
"It won't let you starve, won't let you freeze, and won't let you die in an unknown way, compared to other areas."
[The word "bi" is very interesting. Meteor Boy refers to two daggers put together. If you want to duel with someone, it will be a fight to the death.]
[I told you this, I am just an angry young idiot, I just don’t like this city - I want to smash it, smash it to pieces, there is no need to talk about this matter]
Meteor was silent for a long time and finally asked.
"Can you tell me why?"
[Then listen carefully and follow the meteor.]
[The urban ecology of the Ryukyu Islands was originally a mess——]
[——Around 1950, the area I lived in was the most terrifying and barbaric area in the entire underground world.]
[Due to the geological activity of the Pacific Rim plate, an urban area can be divided into three or four narrow and crowded temporary shelters by an earthquake, and the information blockage caused by traffic interruption can last up to six years.]
[In this environment, countless strange and crazy butterfly cults have spawned, but the railway department cannot let go of this area. Like the moon, it has a large amount of rare earth resources - in addition to fissile raw materials.]
[People live a day-to-day life. The most expensive thing is alcohol, because it can lead to drunkenness. The cheapest thing is human life, because there will always be new pioneering teams to fill in.]
[The entire scientific research process in Shinto City started with the iron-nickel core of Mother Earth. The extraction and preparation process of this material is very dangerous, but once this technology is mastered - a large number of psychics will emerge. Just gather with Mimir Hot Spring
The development process of the city is the same.]
[Ancient warriors drank from the fountain of wisdom and became powerful warriors with magic, able to drive away wild beasts and build city-states.]
[We have taken away the essence of Mother Earth and turned the spirit body into an extremely precise instrument and a new generation of industrial machine. With the support of mineral resources and nuclear energy, our research on materials science has advanced by leaps and bounds.]
[The purpose of developing artificial intelligence that is more in line with the human mind based on nanomaterials is actually to better contain and control human nature. In the context of the explosion of technology, management costs are also rapidly expanding.]
[Any small scientific research team may burst out with astonishing power to change the entire social production structure - bloated political and legal teams and various groups, with scientific researchers and parliamentary officials who have their own opinions, colluding inside and outside to make money and power transactions.
]
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! [These useless efforts have turned into a huge disaster, and the imbalance of social resources is essentially a huge waste. In the end, it is better to leave it all to manual labor
Intelligence - machines will not be corrupt, machines will not have monstrous desires, machines will not have human sophistication, and machines will have no future or past.]
[Our pain comes from the trembling earth.]
[Our happiness comes from the solid earth.]
[Fifty-one giant towers stand on this land, like a keystone to crucify the earth dragon. They bring peace and tranquility to this land, but they also obliterate humanity.]
"Refeng" Meteor sat cross-legged on the ground with a complicated expression: "You seem to be very angry."
[I will always be angry and passionate - because this is my Riemannian thinking model and this is who I am.]
[If we say that at the beginning, we were desperately trying to survive through technology, trying to use large-scale machine production to solve the difficulties we encountered in survival, this must be justice for human beings.]
[But later, everything changed and became hateful.]
Meteor still didn't understand, he felt like he was talking to a person from the future——
——It’s true if you think about it carefully, he comes from the 21st century, but Shinto City’s scientific research projects are almost fifty or one hundred years later.
In order to fight against natural disasters, the people of the Ryukyu Islands resorted to all possible means. They seized part of the iron-nickel core, controlled the sacred beasts, made nanomaterials, studied human brain science, and turned the Riemannian thinking model into a social manager.
A little tired——
——Axing decided to take a nap first and let his brain rest for a while.
[Okay.]
Hot Wind can understand Meteor's thoughts. When sleepiness strikes, this artificial intelligence immediately turns into a butler, lighting the bedside lamp for the owner and turning off other light sources.
[We have to go to [Elysium Space]. When you are dreaming, this public network space will open the door to you, and you can contact real human beings in [Elysium Space].]
Bu Liuxing climbed onto the bed and asked curiously.
"Refeng, you said many people are living in [Elysium]? They have given their bodies to artificial intelligence? What are they doing? Indulging in surfing the Internet?"
[Connection being established]
[Since I am an illegal agency, the time will be a bit long.]
[As for your previous question, why not think back to your time.]
[Fifty years ago, we were looking forward to the future, always imagining a beautiful universe.]
[Our rocket first flies to Mars, then turns into a spaceship and goes out of the solar system.]
[The smartest people on earth are working hard to think about the ultimate answer to the universe and seek happiness for all mankind.]
[Fifty years later, we are nostalgic for the past, always dreaming of returning to a prosperous and barbaric era full of opportunities.]
[Our army marched into a certain lord's castle, and the women became our wives, giving birth to a group of mentally retarded children who were unable to fight the epidemic. When they grew up, they began to fight each other to fight for the power we left behind - this is called epidemic
literature.]
[A group of the smartest people on earth are working hard to think of the ultimate answer to the Internet, so that people whose intelligence level test does not exceed 100 points will lose everything in happiness and satisfaction in curious content and soft porn services.
The concentration required to voluntarily click on the ads created by these geniuses.]
[After working hours are over, we will still go to the virtual world to continue working, because people themselves love labor, such as the membership level of community forums, the sign-in system of mobile games, and spending money to buy classes. The more you get, the happier you will be.]
[We will indulge in the story and donate money to the good life of various KL opinion leaders. Although they already have huge wealth - there are still poor people who are willing to give money to these rich people and spend money to have a look at the life of the rich.
, try to become a rich man in the virtual world, realize the process of robbing the poor to help the rich, and perform a self-sacrifice ceremony.]
[In the era of industrialization, human nature is weak and declining]
[There is a terrible similarity between our era and your era——]
[——People in the past used tools, but today’s tools use humans.]
To be continued...