Overturned Tower

He knew from the very beginning that it was not the real Sai Lun who was talking to him.Obviously, her appearance, thoughts, soul, and personality were perfectly imprinted by Russell, but he still recognized at a glance that this was not his comrade in arms.However, the dragon was not angry because of this, but rather sad.

Like an old man, he babbled about the battles they participated in in the past, about the embarrassing things about Sai Lun in the past, about every quarrel they had, and the stupidity of pouring beer into his intellectual core after drinking too much Actions... Then they talked about the beauty of the starry sky, the gorgeous brilliance of the breathing stars, and mentioned the "corrupted" dragons who went crazy and fell to their deaths.

They were not shot down.

When the dragons detected that they might be corrupted, they chose to self-destruct.In the returning fleet, one after another sparks quietly exploded, blooming a brilliant white halo.When the people on the ground raised their heads, they could see more and more fallen dragons approaching the earth.

They are like wandering suns one after another, and like white meteors across the sky.

"Sai Lun" quietly listened to his words.That era of prosperity, prosperity, and hope gradually outlined a more concrete image in Russell's mind.

And it calmly gave an ultimatum in the same sad words:

"When human civilization is on the verge of destruction—that is, when the social chaos exceeds the threshold, the number of giant dragons decreases, the new twilight species has hatched, the 'dream has awakened', the total population has continued to decline for 20 consecutive years, and humans are trying to open' Ash Dome Device' or 'Tower of Omega', when both of the above two conditions are satisfied:

"If in the next 50 years, civilization significantly retreats from the current era—that is, from that moment on, human civilization begins to retreat continuously, or when there is no sign of recovery half a century after a short-term destruction, we It will be judged that human civilization has entered the stage of self-destruction. According to the preset setting of the earth government, we will take the final measures: prepare to preserve all specimens of human civilization, escape from the earth before the complete destruction of human civilization, and start drifting. This is not a request, nor Not a threat, but an announcement.

"I hope you can understand that I also don't want to see that future, Sai Lun.

"I hope that you, the forerunners, caretakers and guardians of humanity, have given this world the possibility of the 'Greater Good' for the past 1000 years. But now... the time for the exam."

Kübler's words were full of sadness.

After listening to Sai Lun's report, Amirus fell into deep thought: "In other words, the dragon hopes that we will not make a move?"

"Well, Kubler asked me to go to the ground after I dealt with it. As a supervisor, he will send me to the dream world. And you should be notified soon that you can't use the identity and power of the elf to treat humans Make any statement, guide, control, or destroy the social situation.

"We are no longer human beings, but just 'forerunners, caretakers and guardians', unable to speak for human civilization. Therefore, dragons cannot determine the life and death of civilization, and we elves cannot determine the direction of civilization, just like parents and Teachers can't take exams for children. Human beings have to get by on their own alone—that is, they don't give up when they understand that the world's resources are running out.

"If they choose madness and depravity, the dragon will abandon them...but as long as they choose to persevere, the dragon will order us to persevere to the end—even if the end result of persevering is to destroy them together, we will never will give up.

"In the final analysis, the giant dragon could have taken us 'specimen' out of here at any time. If you want them to stay and save other humans, you have to come up with something.

"Because the zeroth order held by the giant dragon is to 'do everything possible to continue human civilization', not to allow individual human beings to survive, nor to preserve the number of 'biological' human beings. Therefore, if the giant dragon judges that human beings have been When the illusion is corrupted to the point of no cure, the gecko will dock its tail without hesitation."

Sai Lun sneered and said, "But it's hard, Amirus. It's not just human beings who have fallen."

"Yes……"

Amirus sighed: "And our compatriots, right?"

"For the past 1000 years, the elves have basically been eating dry food."

Sai Lun sneered and said: "If we strictly follow the plan thousands of years ago, we have already completed the unification and evolution on the ground. There can be no wars of mages and teachings, let alone living in the sky today. Island. Originally we were the purest human beings—but even humans themselves gave up saving human civilization, don’t you think it’s ridiculous?”

"Are we really still human?"

The old man smiled self-deprecatingly: "Since they modified the mother tree system... I feel that they have been corrupted by illusions. They are no longer worthy of being human."

The mother tree system was originally a sage inheritance system.

Generations of "forerunners, caretakers and guardians" pass on memory and knowledge, look at the world from a different perspective, get close to mortals, teach them, lead them, and protect them.

"But look, what have they done? They have eroded generation after generation of successors, and the digital undead have seized the young and hopeful corpses, holding on to the key to longevity."

"—but do they really want to live forever?"

Sai Lun asked back: "I can't see it. I think they are just a group of hysterical wretches. Because they can't see any hope when they look up, they give up on themselves - like a young teacher who once did his duty and was passionate. , finally gave up his mission and confirmed that these students are completely hopeless."

"They are just mortals after all."

Amirus sighed: "It's all about driving ducks to the shelves."

Different from the selection of the best among other elves - the 84 people who bear their destiny are not sages worthy of inheriting human civilization.They were just the few remaining psykers who returned with the ship, those who could still maintain their rationality after receiving the "demon transplant operation".

Among them are soldiers, engineers, captains, scientists... But there is not even a "real leader".

They are just the last survivors of the old age, but they have gained the authority to rule the new world, a future full of ruins and despair, compatriots who have become dull like beasts, and a life span that is long enough to torture.

"Saar died, but he didn't start the inheritance ceremony of the mother tree system, he just gave you the symbolic name. This is the original 'inheritance'. He is an old captain worthy of respect, and even more worthy of respect. Dear forerunner...so I decided to do the same." Amirus said calmly: "After I die, I will not be born again.

"The name Amirus... what do you think of Wuming?"

"I feel pretty good."

Sai Lun replied: "But if you hold on, he still has a job that belongs to him—and, if you don't regenerate, what about the 'miracle'?"

"Then let the person who has newly awakened this psychic ability be responsible."

The old man squinted his eyes, a little sleepy: "The crisis of the new generation should be solved by the people of the new generation... We are all just old things from the old age. I'm serious... Now that you have made up your mind to open that Two seals, why don't we wash 'us' directly?

"Otherwise, even if there is no dusk, no dragons, the 'directors' will still exist. Name-bearing elves will still rule this world for thousands of generations. Power and longevity-once such things are picked up, how many people will have them?" Can you let it go willingly?"

"The crisis of the new era will be handed over to the human beings of the new era..."

Sai Lun muttered to himself.

She thought for a while, then turned her head: "I have a better idea."

"what?"

"Anyway, I'm going to go to the ground...or I'll stop by and blow up the mother tree system first."

Sai Lun said lightly.

Chapter 13 He is like a mantis

"I'm not speaking out for Xiao Liuli, nor for Ultramarine, or even for Dailan——

"I'm speaking out for the thousands of poor people. I'm speaking out for those who just want to live but can't do anything about it!"

Xia was drinking coffee and watching the video of the recent fire.

She knows this video host.In other words, Xia has been paying attention to him for a long time.

He is called "Mark in the Sunset", and he used to be a big fan of Xiao Liuli. He seems to be a music major, and he may also be a literature major.He often deeply analyzes the meaning of the lyrics in some songs, explaining why the arranger teacher uses such a tune here, what kind of emotion he wants to highlight, and what meaning it serves... Among them, the most analyzed songs are Xiao Liuli's songs.

This is also normal.After all, Xiao Liuli used to be the hottest singer, and she herself is the endorsement of traffic. At the same time, her appearance, posture, songwriting ability, singing skills and even dancing are all top-notch.

Although each item is not the best, but the overall level is the highest.With such hard power, coupled with the promotion of capital, countless people follow her behind just to eat - in addition to analyzing songs that are biased towards hardcore dry goods, there are also various hype gossips, some gossip, Covering and dancing, recomposing, rewriting lyrics... Even in nightclubs, there are public relations of "Xiao Liuli".Spiritual relatives, height, appearance, plus plastic surgery and prosthetic modification, at least [-]% of the similarity is easy.

But after Xiao Liuli died, these people dispersed one after another.

Although Xiao Liuli is still that excellent girl, although the living will never be as perfect as the dead... But the various new-generation idols that Tianen Group has continuously launched still attract people's attention.

At that time, there were only a few die-hard fans who were still creating content related to Xiao Liuli.Among them Mark is the highest quality among them.

Many people persuaded him, but he could actually follow suit; told him that Xiao Liuli was dead after all, she would no longer produce new works, and he couldn't make these old things for a lifetime - chewing over and over again was just consuming People get tired of dead people eventually.

He is professional.He is going to transform after all.

Of course Mark knew this too.He is not a wealthy family. He has to support himself and his family.

He can only succumb to the market.

Xiao Liuli's standard color is Liuli blue, which is her support color and her logo color.Her song CDs are usually large blue with other colors.Open Mark's historical submissions, and you can see a large piece of glazed blue cover a few years ago... After the death of Xiaoliuli, the proportion of other colors gradually began to increase and become colorful.

But Xayah could tell that Mark was upset.When he was creating videos related to Xiao Liuli, he was full of enthusiasm and drive—that was the passion to get out of Amway, who was passionate about what he liked.After being touched, I want to share the restlessness of this touch.

However, when the color of his video cover gradually changed to bright yellow, blood-like crimson, black and white, brown and green, light blue and yellow, and neon purple and blue, Mark was full of confusion.His video analysis is like something mass-produced by applying a certain formula.

Like those "canned mass-produced pop songs" that he himself once criticized.

Until a while ago, the barber announced that he was Xiao Liuli.

From then on, Mark seemed to come to life again.His videos are again patches of azure blue—but that's not limited to the music.

He began to walk out of his narrow rental room, and walked into the sunshine he had not seen for a long time.

His skin was pale and rough, his stubble stubbled and his hair was disheveled.He looked thin and frail, but there was a light in his eyes.

Guided by the tasks issued by the Aid Society, he began to try to help others.

But he really knows almost nothing, because although his family conditions are not good, his parents love him very much.He is the kind of lazy dog ​​who doesn't even know how to cook, and even asks his roommate to help him take out the food.On weekdays, he doesn't even brush his teeth and wash his face every day, but only when he thinks about it.

That is, the avatar allows him to maintain a neat appearance. The mellow and magnetic bubbly voice of "Mark in the Sunset", his calm and almost hypnotic tone, and the poetic and beautiful video copywriting make him look like a middle-aged man full of knowledge and charm.

But he didn't actually even go to college.

In order to be able to write a beautiful video copy, he scratched his head and thought hard, almost desperate.He read various poetry collections over and over again, read a lot of books, and then tried to write a lot of poems by himself.

But only one-fiftieth of them are useful; the rest are stupid, shallow, and artificial.

"That was my dream image.

"I imagine that I can be such a person who gives people a sense of security and can be trusted. I hope that I am really cultured and stylish, and I can say those beautiful sentences as lightly as flowers, and It’s not about brooding over it and pretending it’s an understatement.”

In his first live-action appearance, Mark didn't have any makeup, no grooming, or even a shaved beard.

Just washed his face and hair, and then took this video in normal clothes.He talked plainly about his hard work and despair, and easily shattered the beautiful persona he had created in the past.

A large number of fans unfollow, but there are also a large number of new fans following.Because the calm, real, and down-to-earth form has given people too much impact.His dim and messy room gave people a shock——

"It wasn't until then that I realized that... I, who lived by analyzing 'idols', turned out to be an idol in some people's minds."

In the second video, Mark said so self-deprecatingly.

He filmed the process of accepting the mission of the Fuji Society and then carrying it out into a daily vlog with a sense of variety.He was already good at these things, and he had the help of a team.

And compared with the design of those variety shows, he seems so real - because he is really full of enthusiasm without knowing anything.

At the very beginning, he even blamed and scolded the task issuer.

He accidentally lost a child in kindergarten, and it took more than an hour to find it; he made a mess when he cleaned other people's homes, which was basically not much different from no cleaning; The pot is broken, and the time of delivery is always overtime... Only when I write love letters for others and accompany others to confess, nothing goes wrong.

He was of course ridiculed online too.People said that he was "pretending to be crazy and acting stupid", saying that he was "getting popular", and some people criticized him for "if you don't know how to do it, don't come out to make trouble", "it's better not to help than to help".

But his enthusiasm is evident.The video that is updated every day tells people how fast people can change if they really want to do one thing as quickly as possible.

If you watch the video in chronological order, you can find that Mark is growing up at a speed visible to the naked eye.He learned to pick clothes, learned to cook, and learned to tidy up the room.Gradually, someone thanked him, someone sent him fruit, someone taught him how to make up as a thank you, someone gave him handmade jewelry as a thank you gift - it was a fist-sized, majestic, hand-carved stone Made of white bull.

Yes, Mark's soul relatives are cows.

He has a pair of curved horns and a stubborn heart like a cow.

Last week, on the "Emperor Talk Show", Dai Lan spoke out for the missing Ultramarine and the barber, and leaked a lot of secrets after being sniped, which caused chaos in the entire Happy Island.

Not only the Internet, people are constantly chatting about related things even offline.

And this incident was just the beginning - chaos began to spread.

One after another, secrets have been revealed one after another: psychic chips, psychics, reengineering organs, Peter Pan...

People began to seriously consider whether resources are really going to run out?

Then the panic started to spread.

People are snapping up those supermarket items like crazy, buying them in bulk and piling them up at home.A large number of videos teaching people how to use "self-defense" to paralyze or kill others began to appear on the Internet, countless experts began to scare people or "refute rumors" one after another, and a large number of commodities began to increase in price—even if they cost almost none.

Recently, people have finally started to realize that these goods come from the factory in the lower city.

So since yesterday, there have been cases of assaulting automatic factories and looting goods.Although the robbers were killed by the security system on the spot, some people still said on the Internet that they had successfully robbed.

The executive department and network security department of Tianen Group have also become lame and blind.

In the past, these people will be arrested and these messages will be deleted.But now they haven't made any movement... It can't be said that there is nothing at all, but their stop can be said to be powerless.

Then today, things started to get more dire.

There is no monitoring outside the factory in Xiacheng District.The former uncoded people lived here and killed each other here.

Today, a full video of a group of young students preparing to rob a factory was captured, tortured, and then killed by a group of heavily armed gangsters suddenly appeared on the Internet, and it has not been deleted for a long time.

As a result, people became more panicked and angrier—this anger was first directed at those without codes, especially those "mercenaries."Because they have indeed done this kind of thing before, and Dai Lan just revealed the truth of "how the uncoded people will deal with people after they are arrested".

Immediately afterwards, for unknown reasons, the wave of denunciations directed at the Fuji Society.Because the backbone of the Fuji Society is those uncoded people in the lower city.

It is inevitable - there are really a lot of mercenaries.People asked the relief society to drive out these uncoded people, and some even demanded that they be deported or executed.Because people finally realized that the factory in the lower city is a very important resource point.

If the resources are about to run out, then the lower urban area is easier to obtain resources than the upper urban area.Others began to fled to the lower city with their families and gangs.Even if experts have repeatedly stated that the exhaustion of resources will be at least 100 years later, it will not help—people selectively believe part of the facts.

Anxious people believe the facts that make them more anxious, aggressive people believe the facts that make them more radical, conservative people believe the most conservative facts, and people who believe nothing still believe nothing .

Among these facts, some are lies and some are one-sided truths.There is also a small part of the truth, or an exaggerated truth.

And there is another group of people who chose another path—they abandoned their family property and jobs, fled the Happy Island with gold bars, and went to the empty island that they thought would be better.They even brought out the "truth" they believed in.

Truths, secrets and rumors spread like the plague.unstoppable.

At this time, Mark made a move.

He recorded a video, telling people that the more they are at this time, the more they need to unite; they are not enemies among the poor, and chips, which are artificially delineated by the Big Seven, should not be regarded as mutual discrimination. The basis for attacking each other; and the Fuji Society is trustworthy at this time, and in the current situation where the value of currency is about to become chaotic, "human feelings" are the most reliable primitive currency.

But at this time, no one is willing to listen to him say these calm and rational words.

People attacked him, as if they had finally found an outlet for their pressure, venting their panic, anxiety, mistrust and hostility.Together with the news of the corruption of the Helping Society, people also threw it out. Mark seemed to have become a traitor in an instant—he just asked people to keep calm and didn’t want to go crazy with them, so he became a member of the Big Seven. running dog.