Chapter 8: The Supremacy of Intelligent Machines (1)

"Savior?"

The word "savior" made me confused, it was like a lonely sail in my mind to the endless distance. How did I become a "savior"? I didn't even think about why I was here, who was the woman she said she was looking for? I didn't understand a series of questions, how did I suddenly become a "savior"? This is really ridiculous, I thought to myself.

But then, Lao Xu didn't give me a chance to ask questions, and directly pulled me away. I was taken by him to a large rock wall in a daze, Lao Xu put his right hand on a smooth stone, and the rock block began to slowly open from the middle to the sides, and it turned out to be a conference room inside. The room looks like a rock structure on the outside, but inside it is surrounded by tile-colored metal walls with these two floor-to-ceiling monitors hanging on all four walls. In the middle of the conference room was a snow-white conference table, and on the other end of the table sat a woman with short chocolate-colored hair. When she saw us coming in, she smiled politely and stood up, even bending down a little. Through Lao Xu's introduction, she is the leader here, her name is "Fuyuan", and everyone here calls her "captain". Next to her, there was the doctor I met in the cafeteria today, his name was "Mo Qingyan", and he also smiled at me and nodded.

Confused, I was asked to sit down, and a robot handed me a glass of water. For the next few hours, I did only one thing in this room—listening to everything they had told them with an incredulous expression, about the town's past and the disasters it had suffered, and they seemed to have one thing in their words—and that was that the future of the town was in my hands.

After they gave me a brief introduction to Lazy Town, the doctor Mo Qingyan said straight to the point:

Twenty years ago, the people of Lazy Town had a hard time because of its location in the desert and lack of resources, but the people survived for many years. However, as water sources become scarcer and life becomes less and less effective day by day, the people of the town feel more and more hopeless, many choose to leave, and only a few choose to stay, seeing that the town is about to disappear.

But one night twenty years ago, a woman in the town gave birth to twins, something we never had in town. However, as I also mentioned, the resources were already very scarce at that time, and it was difficult to raise even one child, so how could the elders of the town make a very difficult decision after a long period of deliberation - that is, to give up one of the children.

So, the people at the time persuaded the woman to give up one of them, but the woman was a great mother who swore to the death to keep her children safe.

However, the situation intensified when a group of men broke into the woman's home and forced her to give up one of the children. But at this moment, a miracle happened, the two children looked at the intruder with their clear eyes, and then the two children looked at each other, and the two little hands slowly and tightly clasped, as if telling us in their own way, not to give up on either of them.

Seeing that two children can be so emotional, being adults is cold-blooded and ruthless. At the same time, one of the town's elders saw the strangeness of the twins—the elder brother's eyes glowed white, while the younger brother's eyes were dark. So he told the townspeople that this pair of babies is one extreme yang and the other is extremely yin, and their yin and yang complement each other, and the gods sent them to save our town. Sure enough, the two little babies began to be able to speak on the seventh day and walk upright on the fifteenth day. By this time, the people had noticed their strangeness and believed the elder's words, and the big ones decided to provide for the twins together. What is even more surprising is that they were already literate at the age of two, and began to invent machinery at the age of three...... Because of the advent of their two young geniuses, our town saw hope in the abyss of despair. In just a few years, our town has come back to life, with the help of machinery, we have discovered new sources of water, resources have become richer, and people's lives are finally on the right track.

"That's good! You've got two... Talented... Why do you say it's a disaster?" I asked, puzzled.

"So far, no disaster has happened. Mo Qingyan paused, took a deep breath, and continued:

Although the two babies are twins, their personalities are very different, and they even give themselves the opposite name, the elder brother is called Diligent, and the younger brother is called Lazy. The elder brother is diligent, steady and humble, diligent and hardworking, and likes to do things himself, while the younger brother is arrogant and lazy, procrastinating. Even though both of them love to invent machines, which has greatly improved our diet and daily life, they are very different in their ideas about machines - my brother has always advocated that human beings should not rely too much on machines, he believes that machines are just tools for us, and if we abuse them, human beings will have no way to survive without them, and to some extent, it means that human beings are firmly "controlled" by machines. However, his younger brother is not the same as diligence, he thinks that the perfect machine is to completely replace human work, since human beings can do the machinery can do, why should human beings waste energy, he believes that a perfect machine can completely liberate human labor, the ultimate development of machinery is to make human beings free, so that human beings can be lazy. They had argued many times about whether people were overly reliant on machines, but neither of them had an absolute claim due to their ability to be evenly matched. In this way, the inhabitants of our town lived in harmony and stability with the increasingly advanced machinery for more than ten years.

However, one afternoon five years ago, a huge purple cloud drifted in the east, which obscured the sky and suddenly darkened. In an instant, thunderstorms followed, and the sound of thunder resounded throughout the earth, and the sand on the ground became extremely slimy. Because there are machines to regulate our climate on weekdays, we have often enjoyed the moisture of rain in the desert, but the downpour that day did not make people happy at all, but made people feel a trace of darkness and fear. Even more terrifying, the two brothers, the diligent and lazy, quarreled again, and their quarrel spread throughout the town. Everyone in the town began to worry about the future of the town, and they prayed that their quarrel would soon be over. However, this time the quarrel did not calm down as before, but intensified, and the two sides even picked up the machinery they had secretly developed to fight. That night the flames were everywhere, the gray sky was illuminated by the flames, and we watched the houses of the town gradually burn down, and our hearts were filled with grief. We escaped from the town to save our lives, and on the way to escape, we stumbled upon it.

Speaking of this, Fu Rui frowned, Lao Xu couldn't hide his sadness and wiped his eyes, Mo Qingyan lowered his head, his eyes also dimmed, and continued:

That's when the catastrophe we are talking about begins. Five years ago, the life-and-death battle between diligence and laziness disrupted our originally stable life again, and what is even more bizarre is that diligence has disappeared since then, and we all suspect that laziness ruthlessly killed him.

Without the obstruction of diligence, the laziness that remained became more arrogant and lazy, and he took his concept of machinery to the extreme. Shortly after the end of the war, Lazy restored the town in just half a day with his newly developed machinery. By the time we made sure things had settled down and returned to town, we found that life hadn't changed much from normal, and that laziness had made life easier with the new machinery we had put at our disposal. However, something terrible happened. Lazy doesn't know why, and begins to hunt down townsfolk around town, some of whom are quickly returned, while others are gone forever. Later, we found out that he was arresting the townspeople everywhere to find the whereabouts of the diligent man. After that great war, laziness did not kill diligence, on the contrary, diligence abandoned the war and fled, and there is still no whereabouts to this day. Therefore, he almost opened up all the places within a hundred miles of Lazy Town, but he still found nothing, so he decided to start with our ordinary townspeople. Watching the disappearance of relatives and friends for three days, each of us spent the whole day in fear. And we have also found that our home has become different from before, and you should have seen some of it in Lao Xu's house before.

"You mean the gun that came out of his room?"

That's right, those guns were planted by laziness when the town was restored. If we hadn't stumbled upon it, we might never have known. One day, when a friend of ours went to the toilet in the middle of the night, he happened to see the weapon in his room being adjusted, and as soon as he stepped out of the door, Bailai pointed the gun at him instantly, and he was so frightened that he immediately held back his urine, closed the door without seeing, and continued to sleep. According to him, he didn't close his eyes all night that night, and the cold sweat soaked the entire mattress, and he was afraid that he would be swept to death by the guns in the blink of an eye. And laziness does this in an attempt to destroy us in an instant. This town is no longer the town it used to be, and the current town is buried with murderous weapons step by step.

"But why did he do this? You have managed to survive these ten years, is it possible that the contradiction between him and diligence will also implicate you?"

At this time, Fleur, who was sitting on the side and had not said anything, suddenly said a word to me coldly.

"I think you're a bit clever, and since he's doing it for one thing, you should be able to guess what it is. ”

"I ...... Think about it. ”

Ever since I came in, Fuqu across the table hadn't said anything to me, just looked at me with a frown and a strong eye, as if to see something wrong with me. During this period, Mo Qingyan only snorted unwillingly when describing the fierce battle between diligence and laziness, as if she hated diligence and laziness very much. She suddenly spoke coldly, which really stunned me, I didn't expect her voice to be so gentle and yet so powerful. I looked at her, she looked at me, I saw anger and sadness in her eyes, I didn't know what happened to this "young" girl, but her fiery eyes made me understand that here she needs me, and I need her too.

But what is the purpose of laziness when she asked? Suddenly, I remembered the scene where Lao Xu tried his best to cover my mouth, and then tried to strangle me. Since the "policeman" was a lazy subordinate, he was eliminated by the weapon set up by laziness. In this way, the stuff in the dark compartment is not ordinarily important.

"I guess it's for Lao Xu to kill the thing that won't let me say it. ”

Fuqu stared at me, her brows gradually loosened, the corners of her mouth slowly rose little by little, I don't know why, I not only felt a cold chill from her eyes, but also felt a rare joy.