Overturned Tower

"Judging by the style, I think...you should come from the 'veil of ignorance', right?"

Chapter 30 Nerve Strengthening Surgery

"I think we still need the help of angels."

Xia ignited the floating vehicle into the air, and glanced at the delphinium through the rearview mirror: "Can you help me to contact Miss Paradise Bird?"

"That's what I thought. In fact, I've messaged the kid. I think they'll come as soon as they see it."

Delphinium leaned on the back seat of the floating car, responding calmly and calmly.Her words revealed a kind of self-confidence and control over the situation.

"Where is the exact location? I mean where they landed last... Sister, you should be able to find it out, right?"

"of course."

Delphinium replied, "It's the water tower in the pendulum area."

"Water tower? Is it the tallest building in the Pendulum District..."

Xia heard this and fell into deep thought: "Does this mean that they didn't respond? So they couldn't find any other flat land where the helicopter could land quietly without being noticed..."

"No, Fredericka. Even if they have the means to block the cameras, it is not so easy for helicopters to 'land quietly'. Rather, the main purpose of their means of blocking the cameras should be to delay time.

"Because if you really want to investigate, it's easy to find out—not to mention, the helicopter they snatched is an advertising helicopter of Tianen Daily, with advertising banners and department logos hanging on it, from far away The place can be seen at a glance...you know what that means, right?"

"I think that means they won't be in the helicopter. Because a lot of people will know where the helicopter ended up..."

"So where do you think they're going after they drop the helicopter?"

"I do not know."

Without any hesitation, Xia replied sincerely: "I don't want my best friend to miss the chance of rescue that he could have had because of the wrong guess I made. I have no room for willfulness, and there is no place to show My ridiculous 'personal power' space."

"—So you came to me and Russell, in fact, so that we can help you make decisions? Because you can't bear the price of your own wrong decision...so you plan to pass it on to others."

Delphinium's tone was light and lively, but her words were as sharp as a knife.

This cut Xia's heart severely, causing her complexion to change repeatedly.

"……I see."

Xia slowly began to speed up, and at the same time her voice became lower: "They took the ice water away to threaten Mr. Emperor. As early as this morning, Mr. Emperor had received a threat letter, and he notified you as soon as possible. Me, let me help protect the ice water.

"But I... I failed to do this well. But because of this... I noticed it immediately after the ice water disappeared.

"I rushed over immediately after notifying the emperor. Since their goal is the emperor, the ice water should be safe before the emperor comes here!

"Since this is the case, the ice water should be in a safe place that is soundproof, will not be disturbed by outsiders, and has enough space. I think the most likely place should be a nearby hotel room."

"Well said."

Delphinium asked quietly: "Then, you have penetrated to this extent... Are you finally ready to kill someone?"

Xayah didn't answer right away.

She just held the hard mask-like respirator hanging on her chest, put it on her mouth and took a deep breath.

Those are cognitive enhancers.

Originally, Xia didn't need this kind of medicine.

And with the inhalation of the medicine, the sensitive nerves trembling all over her body were stabilized.The information around her quickly poured into her brain, and her ability to control her body increased accordingly.

"I have been preparing for a long time."

She replied softly with a hoarse voice as if she had just smoked a cigarette.

Delphinium sighed helplessly.

She knew a long time ago that such a day would come.

"Why are you doing this..."

Delphinium shook her head and murmured.

This matter dates back to the month when Bingshui became the chief reporter.

For the first time, Xia left her usual safe living environment and entered the lower city.She was just one step away from being attacked and killed by the uncoded ones - surely with the ice water.

And after Bingshui became the chief reporter, Xia finally woke up from her muddled life.

She no longer wants to be a star or an idol.

She just wants to gain power... at least to be able to protect the ice water and practice her thoughts.

She wasn't bright, and she didn't have the charm to follow.She can only walk her own way, and the people she cares about must rely on herself to protect... The strength gained through power will eventually be lost along with the loss of power.

Wanting to be strong - such a simple and traditional, traditional and primitive desire.It seems that it is incompatible with the environment of this steel city floating island.

But Xia was serious.

Fortunately... in this era, as long as you have money, many things are not a problem.

She has depended on her father since she was born.Relying on his money, his patience, his connections, and his tolerance.

And she used to fantasize about being independent—that she was outstanding, righteous, and shining.

Until that day... that night when the moon could not be seen, changed Bingshui's fate and Xia's will.

After being personally guided by Russell, Xia finally realized her willfulness and innocence.

Instead of trying to shed her father's traces, she began to think seriously about what she could do through Dodgson's influence.

So Zai Xia seriously explained to her father, Dodgson, what she wanted to do, and after Dodgson's persuasion was ineffective... this stubborn girl, with her father's sigh, chose the highest standard of ampoule biomedical " Nerve Strengthening Surgery".

"I still remember that after your operation, you were vomiting for several days. You couldn't eat a bite of food, and you had to rely on infusions to survive."

Delphinium murmured softly, "Isn't it alright now?"

"It's almost recovered," Xia said in a very calm tone. "The surgery has greatly strengthened my perception and reflexes, allowing me to ascend to the sky and become a 'strong man' like my elder brother. And with such rapid growth, Naturally, there is a price to pay.

"I have been lucky enough. This operation is so expensive that it can even buy a third of the community where my elder brother lives; and it even has a 20% death or paralysis rate. People who want to do it but have no money, do it People who have undergone surgery but can't make it through... Compared with them, I'm already very lucky.

"My own savings can't even support the postoperative recuperation of this operation. My father loves me so much and trusts me. He believes that this is not a temporary capriciousness and fantasy, so he will pay for my operation. And when he loves me so much, he can still endure the fear of the failure of the operation and comfort me in turn...

"I am really lucky to have such a father."

"Do you regret it?"

Delphinium asked softly: "Speaking of which, I haven't asked you yet, the operation is painful, right?"

"Ah, yes. Metaphorically... well, it's like a toothache. Only it doesn't hurt on the tooth, it hurts everywhere in the body - from the depths of the brain to all the skin The skin was cut open, and the nerves were pulled out, spliced, strengthened, and replaced inch by inch. This process cannot be anesthetized, but my ability to control the body is deprived. I can't even move a finger.

"Rather than surgery, it's more like torture. With the strengthening of the nerves, the pain will not be numb, but will continue to deepen. If it weren't for the gag device, I would have bitten off my tongue or screamed to the point of pain." Throat shattered.

"But even so, in the middle of the operation, I started to vomit continuously. I didn't choke to death by myself because the nurse who had prepared earlier drained my vomit in time.

"I would vomit because my skin sensed the smell of blood and the particles in the air. Because I sensed electromagnetic waves sweeping through my body, and felt tiny electric currents rushing through my body. I didn't feel it before. Things rushed over in one breath. At the back, I can even taste the feeling when the nano-tweezers cut my nerves, and feel the external foreign body gradually become one with me.

"It's like what I felt when I ate later. I could feel the food vibrating, teeth gnashing, tongue churning. The food was being churned into a disgusting residue that slowly slid down the esophagus...and I could even be conscious. Tiny bits of food are still clinging to my esophagus. That foreign body sensation makes me want to throw up constantly.

"...If I say I regret it or not, I definitely regret it. If I had to choose again, I might not have the courage to choose to undergo surgery; if I had another surgery like this, I would not have the confidence to survive it. Not to mention After that, there are other operations of cutting limbs and fitting prosthetics-the perception of ordinary people may not be so easy to recognize the difference between their bodies and prosthetics, but I am not the same.

"That foreign body sensation is with me all the time. It makes me miserable, it makes me sick, it makes me awake. It also makes me more agile... to be able to perform prosthetic performance that other people are far from being able to perform.

"I'm afraid of that damn operation, I'm afraid of it. It has brought so much inconvenience to my life, why can I not regret it?

"...But now. I'm so thankful that I have undergone such an operation. This allows me to protect you from killing the past, and gives me the confidence to come here in person instead of being a vase standing in the farthest place. , the safest place to pray."

When Xia said this, she paused slightly.

"If you don't regret it... I think only a natural hero like my brother will not regret it. After all, I am just a man-made fake, a mass-produced machine created on the assembly line.

"But at first I just thought... Even if I were a vase, I would have to bite my teeth and be a solid steel vase made of money, steel, flesh and blood and pain.

"Even in the ugliest and most embarrassing posture - I have to personally participate in it and use my own strength to protect and save. Instead of standing aside, sympathizing with others and standing by.

"I just want to smash the heads of those scumbags with my own hands, and let these wanton lunatics bleed... Even if the price of all this is to smash my comfortable life so far, smash myself...

"...I don't hesitate at all."

Chapter 31 The Ignorant

Hearing what Bing Shui said, the two guards suddenly fell into a strange silence.

The two men wearing full-face helmets looked at each other without saying a word.

Bing Shui just said to himself: "I know what you believe in.

"That was a trend of thought that was quite popular in the lower city-it was proposed by the [Discordant], and its members once expanded to occupy more than 30% of the lower city area. In the [Godfather], the lower city was reshuffled and reorganized into After the Fuji Society, the backbone of them was not merged into the Fuji Society, nor was it eliminated. Instead, they disappeared without a sound.

"According to the information I have, the 'Discordant' should be an elf. He has the power and money to accommodate his former followers. Now more than [-]% of the former members of the 'Veil of Ignorance' are in the Taoyuan Trading Company and its affiliated companies, and the remaining [-]% will work in small companies affiliated to Tianen Group...Of course there will also be Tianen Daily and Tianen TV Station.”

"Then you should also know what [The Veil of Ignorance] advocates."

"Bull", the senior editor and director of Tianen Daily, lowered his voice and lowered his eyes.

"I know."

Bing Shui smiled, and made an illusory and ethereal voice like a dream: "Suppose there is such a curtain - it keeps all people under the curtain in a state of 'ignorance'. Neither knows other people People don't know their own and other people's identities, they don't know their own and other people's abilities, they don't know what position they and others are in, whether they are strong or weak.

"Similarly, they don't know what the outside world has become like, and how far social technology has developed. They don't know what popular culture is, and they don't know what the bottom line is at the political level, and they don't know everyone. Economic status. It’s like a box covered with a black cloth. Before opening, everything inside is unknown. No one will know what role they will be in after leaving the curtain.

"In this situation, everyone comes to discuss their various roles in society and how they should be treated by everyone. Because everyone doesn't know where they are, and they don't know what they will become when they leave the curtain. What identity, so they can get rid of the constraints of prejudice and position, and set the height of each role equally and fairly.

"They will allow even the weakest characters to be fully protected and guaranteed power, because they cannot be sure that they will not be that role; similarly, they will try not to make the strongest characters too strong, because they I can't be sure whether there will be my opponent or someone I don't like to become that kind of character.

"This is the 'last justice' promised by the 'discordant'. A complete reversal of the state of society today... Am I right?"

"...Are you also a member of the Veil of Ignorance?"

Hearing Bingshui's concept of the veil of ignorance, he understood so deeply.

The young man "Year Progress" couldn't help but blurted out.

It is reasonable to have such an idea-if you are not interested in it, why can you say it without hesitation without reading any information? Even most members of the Veil of Ignorance cannot fully say it. core idea?

This made them feel regretful for a moment whether they caught the wrong person or chose the wrong target.

If Bing Shui answered according to their thoughts, I am afraid that the pain of flesh and blood can be relieved immediately.Maybe you can also directly join this plan.

However, Bing Shui rejected it without hesitation.

"No, I'm not. It's just that a gentleman I respect once told me that if I really want to oppose an idea, I must first understand it thoroughly. Without investigation, there is no right to speak."

Miss Diqi asked back: "You really don't realize, is there any problem in this?"

"...What could be wrong with this?"

The voice of "Bull" cooled down: "This is the most fair and ideal way to resolve all conflicts. People like you who are born to be the daughter of heroes and who have never suffered anything will definitely not understand. Yes... yes, presumably what you want most is to maintain the status quo?"

"Of course there are problems, and there are more than one."

Bing Shui smiled, and asked back: "How can you be so sure that all the people involved are doing good?

"Compared to having everyone work hard and make everyone live well, some people would rather let everyone suck together and let everyone live badly."

"That's because they haven't had a good life yet, so they gave up hope."

"Maybe. But I think you don't deny one thing—that is, the experience from birth to the present will change people's ideas."

Bing Shui spoke in a relaxed manner, and raised one leg.

She is like a speaker and a teacher.So patiently explaining the shortcomings of the problem to stubborn students: "Since what everyone wants is to get a better 'now' through change. Let those who are 'now affected' replace others Is it fair to decide 'now'?

"Most people have only learned very little knowledge, and the world they have come into contact with is only a small part of the world around them. They don't know anything about industries other than themselves, and they don't know what kind of difficulties they face. What is the pain that only people in this industry can explain clearly. They will feel that many industries are so easy, without any pressure, and have high income; but their own industry is so painful and tiring.

"Is there a possibility that what they really know deeply is only their own field?"

Bing Shui said, looking at Bull: "I remember, Mr. Bull. You hate laymen commanding experts the most, because they will cause you trouble.

"Then how do you make sure that those who do coolies don't feel that 'writing and directing is a higher-paying job', so 'the salary needs to be reduced more'? Let those programmers and network engineers who work overtime every day think, 'directing Is it an easy job', so 'need to add more working hours'? Even if you know that this industry doesn't require so many working hours, it doesn't mean it's an easy job.

"Just like now, you see my father is the hero with the highest income in Happy Island, so you also think that a hero is an easy life and a big man on the top. But I think you may have forgotten that Happy Island has produced a total of 20 years. There are 97 heroes, and now there are only ten. This is a 20% mortality rate every 90.00 years... most of them did not survive a year. And now Happy Island is just an idol who earns more than my father, There are close to ten... Can it be said that idols are an overpaid occupation and need to be restricted?"

"Of course," the middle-aged man finally found an opportunity, and said in a cold voice, "The entertainment industry on Happy Island is completely deformed. Other sky islands don't have such a well-developed entertainment industry. I would say that these industries should be restricted .”

"So, are actors also restricted?"

"Yes."

"What about games?"

"The same."