Chapter 176: Prosperity and Decline
"Is there any conflict between the words android and doctor?" Dr. Jiang smiled and invited Lu Wen to sit down in front of him.
"I didn't ...... I just didn't expect it, I thought it was ...... You should always be like Zero, who is secretly researching the technology of immortality because of the limitations of the human body. ”
Lu Wen followed Dr. Jiang to the big screen and found a stool in front of the console to sit down.
Various buttons on the console, different colors.
It's complex, it's varied, and it's dazzling to look at.
Yin June didn't pay attention to the conversation between the two, and began to operate on the console.
Images of the entire Baker City appeared on the big screen one after another.
City-wide surveillance.
No wonder she knew the androids had infiltrated it.
"I'm sorry, I looked at some of your memories when I shook hands, and I have to make sure you're not malicious." Dr. Jiang said with a smile.
"It's okay, it should be."
Lu Wen also got some pictures from Dr. Jiang.
Those are some video clips of Zero's internship as an assistant at the research institute.
It can be seen that the zero in the video is very young, and his appearance is a sunny and cheerful young man.
At that time, Dr. Jiang looked like he was in his early thirties.
"For so many years, I've been adjusting my appearance to my age, occasionally feeling the human body and using vegetative body movements."
"Vegetative?"
"Liquid metal is injected into the flesh and then plasticized into a solid state, which is made into an internal support, you know, a lot of human bones are broken, and metal or ceramics are used to fix them...... Then bury the chip in the brain......" Dr. Jiang explained the theory and operation to Lu Wen.
"But in this case, it's actually just a command from the chip to control the mechanical parts embedded in the flesh, which is not much different from an exoskeleton device, just like ...... A puppeteer controlled from the inside. Lu Wen wondered.
"What else else?" Dr. Jiang smiled: "You kid, you have seen too much science fiction, and you think you can control the human body's actions by stimulating a certain nerve?" And it's also vegetative. ”
"Doctor, you mean, androids can't be completely human?" Lu Wen asked.
"At least with my ability, I can't do it."
The exchange with Dr. Jiang reminded Lu Wen of a disease.
in this world.
There is such a group.
They believe that they have a chip implanted in their body, and someone is secretly using the chip to control them, monitor and affect their daily lives.
Most of the implants are ZF, but it is also possible that they are aliens.
For this reason, some people scarred themselves, operated on themselves, tried to dig out the chips in their bodies, and in the end they got nothing.
Related to this condition is a very special term called brain control.
"Interesting, when you found out that everything you knew was fake, and that you were really just a pure android, did you ever have the idea of destroying this world?" Dr. Jiang asked with a smile.
"That's not all, it's serious." Lu Wen waved his hand again and again.
Although Yin June didn't seem to care, he kept listening with his ears pricked up.
When she heard that Lu Wen was a pure android, she turned her head to look at him in surprise.
"You're an android? Wow, you keep lying to me, saying that you are a reformer! ”
"At first, you yourself thought I was a reformer, but I just followed your train of thought and didn't refute it."
"Doctor, he's a bully."
“……”
Lu Wen continued to talk to Dr. Jiang.
"Yin Long is an absolute genius, even if he is really from another world as he said, and he can be exposed to all kinds of knowledge since he was a child, but he is still a genius."
Dr. Jiang gives a projection.
On the projection is a photograph of him and Yin Long.
At that time, both were very young, one android, one human.
"A large part of the reason why I have been able to achieve what I am today is also influenced by him, he has a unique understanding of androids, and his thinking is far beyond ordinary people, in fact, I am just an experimental ......"
The birth of Dr. Jiang was an accident.
He is not numbered.
It is a product of the laboratory.
One of the countless machines that Granblue employees experimented with when developing a generation of products.
"Except for the prototype, the other machines were destroyed, but I was lucky enough to be taken out of the laboratory by Yin Long, who was a child at the time, dismantled and studied, and then assembled ......"
"He studied me for several years and finally came up with a theory called evolution."
If left unchecked, machines can evolve themselves.
They started their understanding of the world from scratch, and then frantically ingested all kinds of knowledge about the human world, from the Big Bang to the deduction of future technology.
Step by step.
Until beyond their creators.
"Doctor, so you're taller than a generation of products?"
"Haha, androids don't pay attention to seniority, but according to the boot time, it's true, but I'm not the most perfect evolution."
"Is the A00 the most perfect?"
"It seems that Yin Long told you a lot of things before he died."
When he was young, Yin Long was far more than a genius.
The so-called geniuses of his generation only dared to call themselves students in front of him.
Later, Yin Long gave Dr. Jiang his freedom.
"At that time, Baker City was still the most prosperous of the nine major cities, and science and technology were developing rapidly in the city, so I came here and started to read and study as an ordinary child, and completed my studies in a very short time."
"Is the current decay of Baker City due to the hollowing out of the mineral resources underground?"
"Nope."
Dr. Jiang shook his head and said to Lu Wen: "That's just a general statement, in fact, there are still many mineral resources underground, but Baker City at that time was so prosperous that it ...... The self-righteous old guys in Canterlot couldn't sit still. ”
Then.
Canterlot is not yet divided into heaven and earth.
But the power has made those in the Supreme Council slowly begin to twist.
In the post-war years, they preached that Canterlot was the center of the world, the most prosperous location.
The rise of Baker City slapped them in the face.
"Those guys have not done a single good thing since the war, and they have always instilled in people the idea that the scientific and technological development of this world is enough, and there is no need to break through again."
"The reason why other cities still recognize the existence of the Supreme Council is because the Supreme Council is really powerful, and the other is because it is ...... Superficial order. ”
Once this order is out of balance, the world will be shattered again.
At that time, Baker City showed all mankind what a future city is.
The city even started exploring the universe for a while.
"Later, Canterlot sued Baker City, saying that many of the technology products produced by Baker City were substandard and unusable, and they reported it to increase the pressure of public opinion, and more than half of the media at that time were controlled by Canterlot.
Dr. Jiang showed Lu Wen a few reports from that year.
"People are very trusting of the news media, and they give sensitive words like radiation, cancer, metal pollution, and so on."
Gradually, Baker City's products could not be sold.
Merchandise featuring Baker City Technology was thrown into the trash, with many believing that the excessive radiation from the tech would affect them.
More and more companies are pulling out of Baker City.
The urban fabric was badly damaged and began to become distorted.
The steel industry, which is the backbone of the city's economy, has also ushered in the deadliest winter due to accusations of substandard steel quality.
"A long time ago, the relationship between the nine major cities was actually very close, almost as a whole, goods circulated between each city, some cities were good at manufacturing, some produced food, but then the Baker City incident happened."
An extremely bustling city.
Because he didn't control information and public opinion, he was tossed into the way he is now.
After that, the nine major cities began to slowly close and isolate.
Each city began to work to reduce the influence of other cities on itself and to remove its dependence on other cities.
Gone are the golden years of rapid development after the war.
"The purpose of the group of guys in the Supreme Council has also been achieved, Baker City is declining, and the scientific and technological development of the whole world is also lagging behind, they are desperately suppressing the development of science and technology, don't they just want most people to become ignorant?"
That's why so many people want to knock down that floating city.
"Doctor, you're also hiding from the people in Floating City?"
Lu Wen heard from Dr. Jiang's words that he was extremely dissatisfied with the Floating City.
and a few other emotions.
"Yes, one time I controlled the movement of a vegetative body, and they found out, and they were surprised that a robot could have flesh and blood, so they invited me many times, and I was annoyed." Dr. Jiang said.
"Is it for eternal life?" Lu Wen asked.
"Yes, I've told them many times that it is impossible to achieve immortality through mechanical mortality, which is simply two different life forms that cannot be completely transformed."
The greater the power in his hands, the more afraid of death becomes.
The Supreme Council was established eighty years ago, after the end of the war.
There are only thirty councillors.
And there is no such thing as a biennial or six-year change.
They hold most of the wealth and power in this world.
Even the two companies of Blue and Xinhong have their figures, and a major shareholder may be their descendant, or someone controlled by them.
"Those old guys are basically over 100 years old, and half of them are lying on hospital beds, relying on various drugs to survive, in fact, they have enjoyed enough, and they should have given up this world to motivated young people a long time ago."
"Doctor, in eighty years, none of these thirty people have died?"
"Yes, five people died, and four substitutes came up, but those four guys are all eighty or ninety years old now."
Dr. Jiang showed Lu Wen a photo.
That's the twenty-nine members of the Supreme Council that exist.
They were old-faced, fair-skinned, dressed in white robes, like gods on high, standing at the edge of the floating city, with the vast earth below.
"You're here for Zero?"