Overturned Tower

The speculation of Dr. Leyuan can only be imagined by researchers who have worked in a research institution directly under the head office for a long time, and who have the ability and qualifications to get in touch with high-level personnel.

At least at the same time, you need to have research experience and be able to lead research at the personal level, in order to have such a high level of vision.

For ordinary people, even for ordinary researchers, it is impossible to understand... why you have to take a hostage first when you are invited to do research.

After all, the head office is just a company after all.

They have no legislative or judicial power, and the people on this land have nothing to do with them... They are not subordinate to the head office. Up is quite different.

Because there is no country, there is no "nationality".

The coming and going of this kind of high-end talents is purely based on which company has a good research environment and where the money is paid... There are even some who directly take the project with them.As long as the company pays compensation, the company can only suffer a dull loss and watch them poach talents away.

But the company is naturally not an easy person-they will get ruthless if they suffer a loss.

So there was room for the mercenaries to work.

Destroy or steal a certain piece of information, destroy the laboratory, kidnap or directly assassinate the defecting researcher, and destroy the knowledge in the opponent's mind.The other family will also invite people to guard the target... In a sense, this is actually just a very large-scale business war.

It's just that one of them is called Tianen Group, and the other is called Shenzhi Heavy Industry.

Just the prelude involved the death of several people, and four or five forces were affected by it.From the perspective of ordinary people, the high-ranking "hero" and "chief reporter" have become consumables and pawns.

Now that Russell thought about it again, he found that this possibility was much more reasonable than targeting the emperor.

It is entirely understandable for companies to play this heavy hand when they are vying for key talent and competing for a monopoly technology that is very useful to both parties.

"Tiansong" was originally a hero supported by the branch director of Shenzhi Heavy Industry in Happy Island. His task itself was to do this kind of dirty work for the director behind him.

Although he lives on the Happy Island, he is essentially a hero who belongs to Shenzhi Heavy Industry. It is very reasonable to come to kill the people on Happy Island for the benefit of Shenzhi Heavy Industry.Tiansong is staying here for the time being, just because the media and entertainment industries of Happy Island are well developed, and heroes can easily earn more money.

If that director returns to the head office to take over work and a new director comes over, Tiansong will also be taken away by him.So Tiansong has nothing to be afraid of...

From this point of view, Tiansong will attack the emperor... probably not because of the infighting in the hero club, but because he, as a "outsider's hero", has objections to the emperor, a veteran local hero.

Because Tiansong knew in advance that this incident was just a prelude, a preparation for a war that did not know when it would start or end.

Any individual involved in it will not get any benefits, and will only be crushed under the squeeze of the two behemoths... Therefore, he designed to send Miss Bingshui to the head, and then attack Miss Bingshui, to come Drag the emperor in?

If you think about it carefully, if you want to attack the emperor, a veteran hero who has a good personal relationship with the director, is prudent and prudent, and has a lot of popularity in the entire Happy Island, you can only bring in the power of the outer island.

Then it seems reasonable.

"If it's really a war between the two head offices..."

Mr. "Detective" thought: "Then the gold content of this technology may be greater than we imagined."

"That's none of my business."

Dr. Paradise sneered gleefully: "What about the head office, media reporters, or people from outer islands... I don't care about them. It's best for them all to die together.

"The more fierce they are fighting now, the more interesting I find it. It's just a broken technology that I left behind. After you drove me away, did you start to pick up that little thing as a treasure?"

The old man made no secret of his dissatisfaction and resentment towards the company: "I can even guess what their research is. Theosophical Heavy Industry has a very close relationship with the Cyber ​​Church, and they are probably looking for a way to 'cyber immortality'... Although they The purpose is quite different.”

The cyber immortality technology pursued by the Cyber ​​Church is to store all human beings in the same server, so as to realize the "birth of God".

—This is not piety, quite the contrary.

Those who have a little understanding of the nature of the power of the Holy Order will know that this is the greatest rebellion and heresy.It's the same plan as the artificial angel...

Since the essence of "God" is the collection of group subconscious.So if the subconscious minds of all people are collected in the same place and imprisoned, it means that they also imprisoned the "god" at the same time.

God will either exist in this server, or be the server itself.And they can use technology to directly control this server...or go around in a circle and influence everyone's consciousness—to indirectly control God.

That is the ultimate goal of the Cyber ​​Church.

"The pursuit of spiritual work is different from that of the Cyber ​​Church."

Dr. Paradise obviously also knows Shenzhi Heavy Industry very well: "They also wanted to pull me... When I was driven away, someone came to contact me. They gave me a starting salary of 200 million points per year, and unlimited The upper limit of the research quota for reimbursement. But I rejected them loudly!

"After I asked, I found out that Shenzhi Heavy Industry is also pursuing cyber immortality technology, but their purpose is different from that of the church.

"They are to store everyone's thinking memory in the network cloud and download it at any time... In this way, the 'living space and resources necessary for all human beings' can be greatly compressed.

"Destroy all unnecessary human beings and archive them in the cloud, greatly compressing the living space, causing these uploaded human beings to fall into an eternal fantasy, and leaving the remaining real resources for a few 'real people' to use... …When needed, some humans will be downloaded into mechanical bodies that can be consumed at will.

"Those who are downloaded must accept their control, because the 'real ones' who have the power to remain in reality have the power to kill the 'uploaders'. And their relationships in the eternal dream make those who are also real The 'uploader' becomes the kidnapped."

Dr. Paradise sneered: "Yes, it's similar to the current situation."

Chapter 51 The Betrayer of Mankind

"No wonder……"

"Detective" murmured.

He was a little surprised before, why Shenzhi Heavy Industry's prosthetic body thinking is so strange.

The concept held by his mentor Sally Ruth, in Russell's view, is already quite correct - relying on but not relying on, using the power of the prosthetic body but not forgetting the reality and indulging in it.And the thinking of Shenzhi Heavy Industry is somewhat overkill.

In name, it is "performance first", but this kind of words can only fool ordinary people who don't know how to do it.

Bionics has never been a discipline for the sake of looking good.

If you really want to consider the performance, it is impossible to completely separate from the human body... For example, it is the prosthetic hand made by Shenzhi Heavy Industry.

The resident singer that Russell met in the Hive nightclub before, the prosthetic hand she used was the style of Shenzhi Heavy Industry.It was a ferocious mechanical flying claw.

It is true that it can fly out directly, grab something to bring people over, and can also grab lighter things... But this also makes it impossible for it to have a tactile module and a sensing module.In order to specialize the grasping ability and improve the success rate of capture, it is naturally difficult to complete the fine work that requires finger division.

And Shenzhi Heavy Industry has another kind of prosthetic hand, which directly removes the fingers and replaces them with stitches like medical robots.Whether it is precision electric welding or suturing flesh and blood, it is more precise than ordinary fingers. When every minor assembles a prosthesis for the first time, many people prefer to let the old prosthetic doctor who uses this precision prosthesis do it.

Although these days, pure machines can also complete neural connections, and there is no evidence that humans are more suitable for assembling prosthetic bodies than machines, but people are always more willing to believe in such professionally transformed old technicians, as if this is the result of technology and experience. the perfect combination.

Before that, Russell really thought that this was Shenzhi Heavy Industry's marketing routine - by making customers "look more professional" to seize the market in disguise.

But now, Dr. Paradise's words finally let Russell understand what Shenzhi Heavy Industry is doing.

——Their goal is the ultimate specialization.

For ordinary people, this is obviously impossible.

It is very normal for ordinary people to change jobs in three to four fields in their lifetime. Few people can always work in the same industry from birth to death.

But if cyber immortality is completed, then this is different.

When people come out of the virtual world to work for the "real", they must not stay in the real world for a long time, and they will be released back after working for a short period of time.

The reason why Shenzhi Heavy Industry has always opposed the artificial prosthetic body is because they don't want people to be able to regain the feeling of "alive" through the prosthetic body.I don't want people to be able to live as before they were uploaded after being re-downloaded.

For ordinary people, if returning to reality is no longer a hard job, but a rare time to relax, then the virtual world will in turn become another cage.

"...Before that, I thought cyber immortality was a good thing."

"Detective" sighed, his face was genuinely sad: "I used to really believe in that kind of thing."

Two tears of pity gradually rolled down his face.The white light blooming on his body suddenly became brighter.

This time, his grief was real, not staged.

Long before Russell came to this world, he thought that only cyber immortality and mind uploading could solve all problems in reality—that is, put real problems outside reality to solve them.Realize true equality—everyone becomes a piece of data, which is absolute equality in the nature of existence.

This is also the reason why he has such a high natural affection for the Cyber ​​Church... For Russell, the Cyber ​​Church can also be regarded as his fellow traveler.

But now after hearing the news, he suddenly realized the crux of the problem.

The problem is not in the part of cyber immortality and thought uploading...

The real problem is that the server that accommodates the "soul" is not under the control of the individual.And never will be... because it's impossible to satisfy everyone's wishes.

Even if everyone uploads to the server, the server itself needs maintenance.In the end, a group of people still need to be downloaded to maintain the server...and as long as someone can control the server, it means that they can control these uploaded thoughts.

This part of the "first batch of downloaded" humans, they can do whatever they want with these "souls".

For those who have not been downloaded, these human beings who can control the consciousness of others are actually gods who can decide everything.The only thing that can stop these gods from doing anything wrong is the illusory "morality" and "self-esteem".

"Come on, detective..."

Although Dr. Paradise also knows that this old friend is indeed a tear-prone character.

But after more than ten years of absence, when we met again and saw him cry out of compassion again, I couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable in my heart.

The old man sighed: "There is nothing wrong with technology, what is wrong is the greed of people.

"I believe that the vast majority of people in the church are working hard to achieve eternal happiness in the 'Holy Code' server."

"Of course, I also believe that ... if they are called to come back to reality and do some short-term work that robots can't do, they will be happy to accept it."

The detective sighed slowly: "When people really live in a comfortable and happy world, hostility and evil thoughts will be gradually worn away. After they have been satisfied, they will want to help others... so labor becomes A kind of happiness.

"But when everyone is kind, the only person with evil thoughts can manipulate the fate of these people at will. People living inside the server cannot give any feedback to the outside world... In a sense, they are Imprisoned forever."

Even if it is unlimited monthly reading, at least it can still keep a body in reality.

If it is true that cyber is immortal, the body must be abandoned.The remaining body will be used as a precious material for production or research.

"...but I certainly wouldn't say it's a technical problem.

"——If people can download their real bodies again, or when they download their consciousness, they can truly perceive the real world... When people have the right to enter the cyber world at any time, they also have the power to get out of the cyber world at any time. This is true, free immortality.”

"But that's impossible."

Hang Hang interrupted coldly: "As long as one person chooses to betray, all previous efforts will be in vain.

"It seems that this traitor has already appeared. But the church... huh. It seems that the church has not turned back."

he sarcastically.

Knowing that the purpose of Shenzhi Heavy Industry is to control all human beings through cyber immortality—turning living humans into animal husbandry resources, the church has not terminated their cooperation and is still relying on Shenzhi Heavy Industry to research this technology.

This shows that either the church's concept of cyber immortality is not pure, or they have long been prepared to backstab the mind.

"In any case, the church is not going anywhere clean.

"In the final analysis, the church is just another company that is more 'idol'. A company that sells dreams and hopes for a living."

Hanging made no secret of his dissatisfaction and disgust with the church, as well as his suspicion of detectives.

He stared at the detective, and said word by word: "What angels, what priests...are just idiots who help others, or hypocritical villains."

The detective looked up and looked at Strangling.

The tears on the face of the middle-aged man have not disappeared, and his eyes are still so compassionate, as if he can see through the fragility and sadness in his heart.

This kind of gaze made Hang Shou extremely hateful, and just being looked at made him feel like he was about to be unable to suppress the killing intent in his heart.

"Then, strangle..."

The fallen angel who had lost his aura asked softly: "Your master, godfather—what does he think?

"What does he want to change the world into?"

Chapter 52 I am the Godfather's enemy

"--master?"

Hang Hang was silent for a while, then snorted and said coldly: "It's a joke. No one can be my master."

There was no blood-red flame burning in his pupils, but there seemed to be an inexhaustible anger, sticking to the irises like dead flesh.

"I obey the godfather because he is stronger than me now.

"I follow his orders because I am learning from his every move and complementing myself. Also because there are some things that only he can do. Like bringing everyone together... like admitting people from Uptown into the 'family '.

"There is no doubt that I will not be able to achieve that kind of greatness."

Hang Hang criticizes himself without euphemism: "I don't have that kind of stamina, nor that kind of charm. I'm used to the leadership life in the White Lion Group, and my vision has become too narrow, and I can only accommodate the people around me; She doesn't have the patience to communicate with outsiders, nor the ability to persuade them; in terms of leadership and command ability, it's limited to a small organization like the White Lion Group... I guess it's not even as good as the woman in Malt Wine.

"Even the purity of my anger is not as good as that of the Godfather. That man is a person who is angry for the world from the bottom of his heart... Even the way of the furnace, he has gone further than me. I am absolutely chasing less height."

Although the white lion praised the godfather sincerely, the other people present always felt a strange sense of dislocation:

Because what was revealed in the strangled words was neither flattery nor loyalty... what ignited in his eyes was a flame called "ambition".

"That's why I want to follow him. Just like those young people in the White Lion Group, it's better for them to follow me than the leaders of those small organizations. Because I will protect them, and I won't easily crush them to death— —Man is born to follow the strongest. Following the weak will only bring misfortune, because the gathering of the weak and the weak will only bring greater disasters.

"I will learn his every move and hone my own abilities. Later, one day...when the godfather becomes weaker, I may not be able to sit in that position."

Even in front of the bad guys that the godfather recruited himself, strangulation never hides his ambition.

That is also the pride of strangling.

"Aren't you worried that I will tell the godfather?"