Overturned Tower

The students who robbed the factory in the lower city area assassinated Comb Ya, the chairman of Whale Food Company, which is well-known among the people. Such news will cause deep-seated antagonism among the people of Happy Island.Because they imply a possibility, a possibility that a student who knows nothing can kill a big man, and that makes people agitated.

And at the same time, they do undermine most people's sense of security.Uptown has become unsafe, and the cameras don't give people a sense of security.The Executive cannot save people's lives, so people will start looking for self-preservation - which means people will start to violate the "consensus" and illegally possess weapons.

With a sharp weapon in his body, he will kill himself.When the number of people with weapons accumulates to a certain level, small contradictions may cause huge chaos.The antagonism and distrust among people will make these civilians who are already at the bottom become enemies with each other.

First of all, they can't trust the company, and secondly, they can't trust the company dogs and salary slaves; and the salary slaves think they are fine, so they can't trust the salary slaves of other companies; adults can't trust the students, thinking that they are impulsive and easy to be used by others; Students distrust adults, seeing them as dirty, timid, and depraved.

In the era of Sky Island, the seven giants were able to restrain others with the "company law" purely because the seven giants occupied a vast market.

The market produces interests, interests unite groups, and groups incubate power.And when the chaos reaches a certain level, the market is destroyed, and the value of credit currency collapses, people's obedience to the seven giants will also dissipate.

The civilians no longer trust the company, and the company can no longer restrain the civilians; the civilians doubt and betray each other... Under such circumstances, the armed groups that can unite will benefit the most from the troubled times.

——that is, the Cyber ​​Church.

With faith as the link, religious law as the constraint, angels to demonstrate force, and bishops to win the hearts of the people—when people's trust in the seven giants disappears, the Cyber ​​Church will become the new "giant".

And "tooth combing" is just an insignificant pawn in this plan.

If not him, there are others.After all, the plan wasn't his responsibility in the first place.

Although Happiness Island is not like Sogo Island, Yongquan Island and Tongshen Island, it has begun to enter the bleeding stage.But they are also fighting a bloodless war.

Comb doesn't hate being used, but doesn't like it either.So he turned back and took a hard bite.

—He was assassinated in full view, stood up to forgive him, and survived.It directly disintegrated the possibility of those students being used by others.Once people calm down, it is easy to think that the middle school student who can get advanced weapons must be an assassin bribed by some big shot.

In this case, this trick will not work well.If the church wants to stir up chaos, it has to come up with a new strategy—in short, it can’t have anything to do with him.Otherwise, people will always be aware of the problem.

There has never been a shortage of smart people who like to ponder people's hearts on Happy Island.And these smart people usually control the media and public opinion.

What the company wants is stability.What the church wants is chaos.

The big men want power, the wise want profit.

But all ordinary people want is to survive.

Combing teeth is a smart man, and he can be regarded as a big man.But he pretends to be a fool and doesn't occupy the ecological niche of smart people; he doesn't bully others and snatch power from other big men—he only sees himself as a short-lived mortal.

So what is a short-lived mortal going to do in this situation...to survive the war between the Corporation and the Church?

The answer is, do nothing.

That's why he forgave the assassins—not because he was good-tempered, but because Fang Fang knew that if the Happy Island fell into chaos, he would also bear the brunt of it.

Brushing his teeth just wants to live and have a good life.

He will never become a hero, and he will never sacrifice himself for others... So in this kind of bad luck, whoever falls in love will fall in love with him.

——Whoever falls in love with whomever falls in love!Anyway, it has nothing to do with me!

...but it's different now.

He had realized that Delphinium's words sounded like they were being addressed to Xayah, but they were actually being addressed to himself.

Happy Island is not alone in its problems.Chaos is spreading throughout the world...if it is a world war, no matter whether it is a war that is bloody from start to finish or not, no one will ever be safe from it.

Delphinium—or Qunqing behind her has already predicted her position.So they showed up before they rejected Xia, preemptively ruled out their fluke mentality, and kept themselves from fighting against Xia.

What is this for?

Is this to push yourself to a high position?

But he just didn't want to deal with such troublesome things, so he pretended to be stupid for so many years.As early as ten years ago, the board of directors of Tianen Group had invited him, but Fang Ya was in awe of the position that countless people longed for to the point of madness.

Because he can see clearly.A capable and moral person, once he gets a high position, he can't leave this chair full of thorns - countless problems and difficulties will weld him to it, and he will not shed the last drop on the job People are reluctant to give up this "great man".

For people like them, coercion and coercion are useless... But people's "expectation" and "love" are soft ropes that cannot be broken free, and the more they struggle, the tighter they are.

Since they have lofty morality, how can they bear to turn a blind eye to the suffering in the world?

...Love and hope are both poisonous.

Brushing his teeth helplessly, he sighed deeply.

He probably realized that he couldn't escape.He fled for ten years, but he finally came back here.

With some kind of resentment, some kind of disappointment, some kind of self-deception, and some kind of relief, he brushed his teeth and put on a distant and polite smile, and greeted Delphinium: "Minister Delphinium, I am very glad to know that you are still alive ...it seems that Happy Island has not lost their hope yet.

"I heard what Miss Xia meant—are you pregnant? It's really hard to deal with so many troublesome things during pregnancy."

"Thank you for your concern, Brush your teeth. But I only hate that I can't help Russell deal with his troubles...I can only do my best for him."

Then Delphinium turned her head and whispered to Comb Fang on the hospital bed: "Your godfather, ask me to bring you a message...

"'I know what you think. No matter what you thought in your heart before, but after you know the truth of this world, you can't turn a blind eye to it. Compared with being an ostrich who knows nothing, when everything is shattered, confused, empty, Regret, it is better to try my best when I can still use my strength and have a chance. So...'

"'—Come be a hero, brush your teeth.'"

The figure that was yearned for and admired by people whispered to persuade the ugly and elderly giant.

Chapter 22 The Real Tower of Babel

"...So, at that time, the bad day told me something strange like 'be a hero, Russell', and handed over the beheading of the saint to me."

Russell said with some nostalgia for Huachu: "Looking back now... maybe my life has changed since then."

The elf girl with pink shawl hair is standing with Russell in the technologically rising "elevator".

The dragon is going to meet Russell on land, and Russell has never been to the ground.So Lu Shouxiang asked Huachu to help him.

In fact, this is redundant behavior.After all, Russell's current swallowing is different from the original imitation - he has already obtained part of the memory and knowledge of the sheath.

But considering that the sheath has only been on the ground for a few years, it is far less than Huazhi's deep understanding of the land.So Russell still complied.

Huachu smiled and tilted her head: "That's right. If Nanliujing hadn't gone bad at that time, you might still be an executive of Tianen Group now."

"really."

Russell nodded: "If I hadn't taken the knife at that time, I wouldn't have become a hero; if I hadn't become a hero, I wouldn't have entered the Special Operations Department and met the delphinium and the bad... and it would have been impossible The demonized little Liuli will be executed that day."

That was a conspiracy arranged by Tovatus the Discordant.

It also means that Delphinium is very likely to perish in that crisis.And the inferior may also be driven mad and have a head-on conflict with his father.Then it would be even more impossible for his father to entrust Russell with the task of spying on the plans for the Lower City... He would not be able to enter the Lower City at that critical moment, save the Birds of Paradise and those without codes, and become the godfather of the Lower City at the same time.

"According to the original trajectory, the batch of psychic chips mixed with special viruses will flow into the lower city. After a period of time, the uncoded people in the lower city will be infected unknowingly and gradually die.

"The inferior will become the minister of the special execution department, and the mages will unite thoroughly and confront the execution department head-on. The angels will unfreeze and return, join the special execution department and confront the mages head-on. And the last friend will die because of himself. Those who die will be red-eyed—want to kill all these uncoded people and these criminals.

"That means that the situation in the lower and lower towns of Happy Island will be intensified. The monkey-faced eagle will still be born, but with Morgan being wiped out, no one will know its existence... It will get enough time to bring the whole psychic The island is gradually infected. After the deaths of Xiao Liuli and Baixue, Bingshui will eventually die in Tiansong's assassination.

"The mages will be at an absolute disadvantage, but without the mediation of the 'Godfather', their dying struggle will cause huge damage to the upper city; the bloodless and ruthless angels will have no fear, they will destroy the factories in the lower city Wreak havoc. And that has to do with previous price increases in the market..."

"As prices rise and raw materials become scarce, the scale of unemployment on Happy Island will multiply. At the time, that type of 'unemployment' basically meant being uncoded—that is, losing human rights. "

Hua Chu continued on the side: "In addition to the multiplied confrontation between uncoded people and citizens... Then, as a company dog, what would you do at that time?"

"...without that, I'd either be in Equipment or Cyber ​​Security. If Dodgson wanted to put me in his place, I'd be in PR. But anyway... ...I'm sure I won't lose my job. And that means I'll inevitably be a 'salary slave', a 'company dog'."

Russell smiled helplessly: "Under that level of confrontation, personal positions, good and evil, and preferences will lose all meaning. Of course, I may also be dispatched to the Special Operations Department because of my high psychic power... But without the Delphinium, the Special Operations Department, where the bad ones start to go crazy, is not such a good choice.

"I will raise the butcher's knife at the uncoded people who have been driven into homelessness. I will fall for my relatives and friends, for my own life... And I also like the lazy, ordinary, A purposeless life.

"I will stand by and watch the world in chaos. Watch the mercenaries massacre in the upper city, watch the angels destroy the factory mercilessly, watch people can't buy things, can't afford houses... watch Happy Island The order of the world gradually collapsed, and people became hysterical.

"I also can't see many things. Without the channel to become a mage, I can't see the history and truth of this world; I can't see the synthetic human crisis that happened on Tongshen Island, let alone the monkey-faced eagle program. The encroachment and infection of the matrix world. I can't see the turmoil in the church, or the rebels on Yongquan Island...

"It doesn't make any sense even if I see it. Because at that time, I couldn't do anything."

"—don't belittle yourself, Russell."

Hua Chu's voice, which was always dragging, seemed unbearable, but rarely became softer.

But soon she became unbearable again: "A top-notch tool person like you, there will always be someone with a discerning eye who will find you. Gold will always shine. By then, you will be pushed to the front desk... It will eventually enter into the current situation.

"The direct cause of the turmoil in the Seven Islands is the church's rebellion; the core disaster that plunged the world into crisis is the invasion of the world by Dusk; but the root cause of these current situations can be traced back to those giant dragons, There are also those elves who have betrayed their mission and forgotten their history.

"These are things that have happened. You can't change them, and we can't change them. No matter how involved you are in these things, eventually they will happen.

"Compared to the possibility of the future you described, I think the current world is pretty good."

"Not bad... are you serious?"

Russell was a little helpless: "Don't compare yourself to bad, Huachu."

"That's what I said, but the bottom line of this world is still worse. Now with you, there are those who survived because of your existence, and there are those who changed their fate because of you. The people who stood up... There is the Fuji Society established because of you, and there are people who have survived or changed their destiny because of the Fuji Society."

Hua Chu paused, and looked back earnestly: "I really think—the present world has something called 'possibility' more than the future you described.

"That is the most precious thing. It is people's 'hope' to see the dawn."

"...hope is a poisoned wine. Men drink it with intoxicating dreams, and often die in agony."

Russell was a little disappointed: "Without me, the future would be one of the three options represented by the 'Civilization Sample Project' represented by the dragon, the 'Thinking Upload Project' represented by the church, and the 'Completion of Humanity Project' represented by the monkey-faced eagle. All of them are rotten at home, but there is no difficulty in choosing.

"And now with me... we will explore the fourth possibility. But in fact, even I don't know the success rate of that plan--before I really come into contact with Huanmeng, I can't fully predict what will happen. Is it possible to devour it?"

"It couldn't be any worse than that anyway, could it?"

"That's what I said..."

Russell sighed, his ears drooping: "For me, there is only the difference between 'planned success' and 'planned failure'. I need to completely devour the illusion and maintain sufficient rationality. Before that, I still have to deal with the dragon and the church. The huge chaos that is rolling up on the seven islands is actually the fuse that ignited...

"I even think that they will suddenly go crazy... It is very likely that Huanmeng has sensed the crisis. It gradually woke up and began to interfere in this world to complete the great cause of world destruction that it had not completed a long time ago."

"I understand."

Hua nodded, knowing it in her heart.

Russell was indeed still a little anxious.But she did not comfort Russell.

Because any comfort and relief from others will reduce Russell's purity.

And Russell will feel anxious because of this, but it shows that he still has enough humanity at the moment-at least for now, this is a good thing.

"Speaking of which," Hua Touch turned to ask, "Among the 'choose one from three' world lines, which future will you, as a company dog, eventually lean towards? A sample of the dragon's civilization?"

"If I had to choose, I would choose mind uploading——Digital Paradise is also Paradise. I actually don't care so much about the gap between virtual and real. But in fact, these three plans are essentially the same. what a difference."

Russell replied without hesitation: "A digital civilization without human beings, a civilization that can only survive with a very small number of elites, a civilization with only one powerful individual—there is no value for existence."

"...But aren't you an elite yourself?"

Flower Touch was a little surprised: "As Thrall's name attacker, you are the highest level of 'elite'. Even in the 'civilization sample' project, you will definitely be able to transform into a name attacker in the end, gain immortality and go to the ship."

"Because I did get on the boat, I was able to say that without making you feel bitter or hostile to the elite who could get on the boat.

"As long as we are human, we will make mistakes; as long as we live in this world, we will eventually suffer.

"But the mistakes made by the predecessors will eventually condense and become 'history'; the suffering that people have suffered in the process of civilization is for future generations to no longer suffer the same suffering. Blood and tears condense into history, sweat into knowledge— —When flesh and blood heal and wounds become scars, that is civilization..."

When Russell said this, his footsteps suddenly stopped in place.

He pondered for a while, and then slowly let out a breath.

"...No, I see."

Russell said sincerely, "Thank you, Huachu."

"It's nothing."

She smiled and replied, "I'm more or less a psychiatrist."

When they said this, the small space they were in was suddenly shaken.

Accompanied by a strong sense of weightlessness, the closed door in front rotated and opened by itself, releasing cold air with a hissing sound to decompress.It always seemed to remind Russell of a pressure cooker.

Here, Russell has never arrived...

The real Tower of Babel.

Chapter 23 Tombstones of Doctors and Bishops

Russell finally understood why the Tower of Babel was called the "Walking City".

The place where he and Huachu arrived was a top-secret space that the deer head had never let anyone enter.

The special airtight door here even takes into account the spell of the deer head - it has no matching door and can be directly entered from the "Road Room".It must be directly transferred to another passage, and after walking to the end, take the elevator and enter a "no door" room.

It's like the cockpit of one of those "spaceships".

The whole space is hemispherical.It seems to be reflecting everything around through some kind of camera.

Through those windows Russell could see the factories of the lower town and the dark sea above.