Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 2014 Metaverse...?
When Lin Sanjiu found Yu Yuan again, he was looking up at the real-time public speech of the No. 17 acting mayor of Peanut Town.

The appearance of the No.17 acting mayor is somewhat similar to the photo of the former mayor hanging in the mayor's mansion; the difference is that he is more majestic and taller, and he can stir up countless people with a wave of his hand in the air. cheers and applause.

Lin Sanjiu seemed to have just caught up with the end of the mayor's speech.

The No.17 acting mayor on the screen is standing on the balcony of a majestic building, with lights, crowds under his feet, and a line of scrolling small words "The mayor delivered a celebratory speech"; in the night sky behind him, is The fireworks gradually dispersed, and the mayor announced in a loud voice: "...Under our joint construction, Peanut Town will definitely get better and better!"

Before he finished speaking, he was already drowned out by the overwhelming applause from below.

"What...what's the situation?" Lin Sanjiu approached step by step, as if hypnotized, it was difficult to tear his eyes away from the screen, and for a moment he even forgot what happened just now. "Isn't there no No.17 acting mayor? Isn't this building the mayor's mansion?"

Once doubts start, it is very difficult to press back. "Aren't we in the mayor's mansion now? Where did the fireworks, speeches and crowds come from? I was upstairs just now, and it was as quiet as a tomb outside-ah, I see, is this a previous video? He is the mayor of the previous generation?"

Only then did Yu Yuan turn his head and glance at her.

"No," his voice was soft, as if to make it easier for Lin Sanjiu to digest. "This is the No.17 Acting Mayor. According to this evening real-time news, the No.17 Acting Mayor is standing on the balcony on the second floor above us at this moment, and has just delivered a speech to the people gathered outside the mansion."

Lin Sanjiu opened his mouth, but said nothing.Silence flooded into the underground hall and the mayor's mansion above again, only the faint sound of footsteps in the distance, probably belonging to Chief Kron's guard.

"……I don't know."

"There is a long-planned celebration tonight, mainly to celebrate the population of Peanut Town breaking the [-] mark," Yu Yuan still explained patiently.

What is this all about?
Yu Yuan looked at his watch and said: "The No. 17 acting mayor boarded the balcony of the mayor's mansion 15 minutes ago, delivered a celebratory speech, and broadcast it live. Apart from the town officials and representatives In addition, there are many lucky people who witnessed the fireworks tonight."

Lin Sanjiu almost suspected that there was something wrong with his mind. "what are you talking about?"

Yu Yuan smiled softly, compared the screens, and said: "If you are a townsman in Peanut Town, using the 'tutoring machine', TV, radio and private telescreen, then this is the reality you live in .”

"What?" Lin Sanjiu was almost overwhelmed, "That is to say, they all thought that the previous shootout was actually setting off fireworks? The guards' raids in the town were... organizing a celebration?"

"That's right," Yu Yuan turned away from the screen and said, "The gun battle in the safe and peaceful Peanut Town is of course a rumor. According to some residents of Peanut Town, 'Why didn't the gun battle kill the person who started the rumor? ’, ‘A bullet hit you in the head? You knew it was a gunfight?’”

Lin Sanjiu rubbed her temples vigorously a few times. "Wait, I don't understand. Even if the fireworks can be set off immediately, as long as they go out and walk to the mayor's mansion to have a look, they won't have anything—oh, they won't be allowed to come near."

Yu Yuan stood silently in front of a large instrument, but just watched it not move.

"The people who were searched by the town police before, could it be..."

"'My house received the town guards tonight,'" Yu Yuan clicked on the instrument a few times, and read a line on the screen: "'Such a big event, why don't you check it out in advance to ensure safety? It is definitely uneasy and kind to be able to spread rumors'."

Lin Sanjiu was already confused. "Did he really think so after his house was searched? Or is he covering it up?"

Yu Yuan looked back at her and said, "Who knows."

Lin Sanjiu found that she always opened her mouth tonight but couldn't find anything to say.

"All these live broadcasts, news, videos... are all generated by the 'Aoye Mayor' system," Yu Yuan looked at the device and said slowly: "Including the No.17 acting mayor you saw. In Peanut In the minds of the townspeople, the No.17 acting mayor has been in office for more than ten years. Meetings, speeches, inspections... all have countless records. In this town, you and I are just rumors, and the mayor is the truth .”

"Aren't you going to shut down this part of the system?" Lin Sanjiu took a while to recover from the shock, and asked, "Why does it continue to generate these images? If it can't be shut down, we can destroy all these instruments."

Yu Yuan didn't speak, but held the edge of the machine with both hands, and pulled it aside vigorously——Amidst the sound of metal friction, Lin Sanjiu revealed the row of machines behind it; or, The machine that was supposed to appear behind it.

She couldn't tell the fragments in front of her eyes, how many machines they were originally; Yu Yuan was obviously very careful in the process of destroying, as far as her eyes could see, she couldn't see a single wire that was still intact, and a piece that hadn't been broken into pieces. At least two halves of the chip board.A pile of debris like a hill was piled up to her thigh.

"It's useless." Yu Yuan was still calm, but his calm at this moment was different from the calm when he was a data body. It was like a piece of tightly stretched cloth, the surface was smooth and smooth, and every fiber was covered. Stretched to the extreme. "I destroyed the backbone of this part, and I thought that the production of news entertainment and educational content would also stop because of it."

"Why didn't you stop?" Lin Sanjiu asked in a daze.

"The 'Aoye Mayor' system automatically allocates another part of the computing power responsible for people's livelihood and town affairs, replacing the module I destroyed." Yu Yuan explained, "That is to say, 'news, entertainment and education' are part of the system. The most important and the highest priority part, no water, electricity and heating is as important as this. If I destroy a machine, another machine will give up its original task and replace it.

"The most important thing is that although the 'Aoye Mayor' system generated these things, the generated program is a process of feeding each other."

Lin Sanjiu didn't understand too much: "Feed each other? What do you mean?"

"The 'Aoye Mayor' system is not a mature AI and has no self-awareness. It is only acting according to some basic principles. For example, when the gunshots sounded, someone who lived far away asked on the public screen, 'Who was it just now? Didn’t someone set off fireworks?’, and then some people with higher status and more weight in the town began to stand up and say that they heard that the town was planning a celebration. The ‘Aoye Mayor’ system immediately grasped The most appropriate explanation was taken, the announcement of the celebration was made, and then amidst the constant dissemination of the townspeople, the celebration became 'real'."

Yu Yuan sighed and laughed—when they were arguing with the housekeeper, the huge humming machine group had been running and working.

"Unless I destroy all the machines in the underground hall... But in that case, as the butler said, the livelihood of the people in Peanut Town will not be guaranteed at all, and chaos, death and injury will inevitably occur."

The word "housekeeper" finally made Lin Sanjiu startled, remembering what he was doing back in the underground hall.

Strange to say, she originally thought that this moment was another "key node", but until she finished talking about the murder of the butler, the key node that made her choose Yu Yuan's behavior did not come up.

"It doesn't make any difference whether the people living in the mayor's mansion are the mayor, Krona or the housekeeper." Yu Yuan frowned, his expression serious: "Because in fact it is the 'Aoye Township' that keeps Peanut Town running. All the residents of Peanut Town believe in the 'No. 17 Acting Mayor' system... Judging from Krona's actions tonight, he is probably fully aware of the existence of the 'Aoye Mayor' system..."

Lin Sanjiu suddenly raised his head.

"Those who have mastered the 'Aoye Mayor' system will master Peanut Town," she murmured, "Krona only needs to be a shadow controller. This also means..."

After Krona gained control of the mayor's mansion, the first place he would come to would be——

Turning my mind to this, the footsteps of a group of people and the sound of light clashes of machine guns have already poured down the stairs like a tide; accompanied by the command of "here", a series of gunshots rang out immediately, echoing back and forth to every side of the underground hall The wall firmly trapped Lin Sanjiu and Yu Yuan in the center.

　Recently, I found that the censorship of the starting point has been strengthened, and one of the words I wrote before was deleted in half.I sometimes wonder, if Doomsday is taken off the shelves one day, will I not have to write the ending...?By the way, the title of today's chapter is very hype. I am now acting like an A-share, but unfortunately, the popularity is the same as the A-share index, and the hype can't go up.

(From an ordinary netizen who is full of resentment because he became poor overnight by trading in stocks.)
　
(End of this chapter)