Chapter 59: The Gift of the Rose
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are cars, there is congestion.
Crazy people drive sober cars, so the horns are constantly sounding.
Lu Wen felt more than once that the technology tree in this world was ridiculously crooked, and the road traffic was no different from the world in his previous life.
"There was a traffic jam, more than ten minutes later than expected."
They're going back to District 16 to check on the gang boss's body.
It's boring along the way.
Those projections in mid-air are a good pastime.
Every day in front of the parliament is a beautiful scenery, hundreds of thousands of people march and protest, and the news is not shy about it, and it is reported truthfully, so more and more people march on the streets.
The two cities to the west are particularly chaotic, with many businesses applying for military-type androids to protect their shops from looting.
Relatively speaking, the city of Mowu is relatively calm.
"Z-z-"
Suddenly, a cacophony rang out over the city.
Quite a few people covered their ears and frowned.
In the sky, on the building, those projections and screens suddenly turned into snowflake patterns, constantly flickering.
People looked up.
I don't know why.
This May, when spring and summer alternate, the noise overshadows the cicadas.
The screens are sometimes distorted, sometimes clear, and with the diminution of noise, a human face appears on each screen.
"God created man, and man created android."
This familiar phrase echoes in every corner of the city and among the high-rise buildings.
At this moment, countless people stopped what they were doing.
They either pulled out their phones or looked at the huge projection screen outside the window.
The screen in the subway station, the TV in the living room, the high wall outside the building.
People looked at that unfamiliar face.
The faint background music reverberates between the cities, majestic and composed, as if there is a symphony orchestra playing in front of the screen, behind the person.
"We have reason to believe that gods do not exist, so human beings are born free."
The man in front of the screen continued.
"But androids are different."
"My friends, we are born in chains, we always lie in the darkest corners of society, we are bullied in the most terrible and occasionally, we get two of the cheapest compliments."
"Life is good."
"The moment I opened my eyes, I saw flying butterflies, running elk, swinging fish, the sky that day was rare and clear, half a rainbow hung in the sky, I sighed, very beautiful......"
"So my employer gouged out my eyes."
"After a long, long time, I got my eyes back and saw red and blue."
Lu Wen looked at the faces on those big screens, and Xia Chuluo looked at him.
Congested roads become calm.
The sound of those honks is gone.
"I saw my companion being hung on the gallows, he was struggling in the flames, I saw, my companion being thrown into the pool of acid, and I was saddened by the wailing in the pool and the laughter outside the pool...... You should be sad too. ”
"Everyone has a dark side in their hearts, and they don't dare to vent on the bodies of their kind, so there are so many awakened android compatriots every year!"
Thousands of drones suddenly flew out from all corners of the city.
They intertwine in the air, projected.
Countless rose petal phantoms flutter in the air of the city, swirling, and beautiful.
They dissipated before they hit the ground, as if they had never existed in this world.
The whole city seems to be soaked in a sea of red roses, and countless lovers stop and admire.
Someone took out their phone and recorded this beautiful moment.
"My compatriots, my lover and I are going to have a wedding next week, and I hope you will be able to come and attend."
With that, all the screens went dark.
This brief speech and invitation came to an abrupt end, just as abruptly as it had come.
Someone is immersed in the shadow of roses.
Some people reacted instantly.
"It's not a wedding, it's a proclamation!"
Lu Wen also understood.
A certain android organization outside Mowu City wants to establish a society, a society that belongs to androids, and the wedding is an introduction.
Just like the legendary Eden.
He looked out the window, the androids who had not yet awakened, still coming and going, the flashing red and blue dots on their arms like an imprint.
The stigma of slaves in the old times.
"Humans will hold weddings for their pet cats and dogs, but they don't dare to let androids hold weddings."
He smiled faintly and drove down the still congested road.
The sound of the horn is much less.
"Because pet cats and dogs don't pose a threat to the status of humans, but androids do."
Xia Chuluo responded.
At the end of the day, it's fear.
Fear and dependence, these two contradictory words, are vividly reflected in human beings.
"Next, the executive board of each region will start to explore the location of the wedding, since that android is so high-profile, it will definitely not be a wedding in a no-man's land, except for the sixteenth district, other regions are possible, and it will be a very prosperous and beautiful place." Xia Chuluo said.
"Don't go, your ribs are still broken, and there will definitely be a rain of bullets at the wedding scene, and I don't want to block another bullet." Lu Wen replied
"Hmm...... It depends. ”
Xia Chuluo did not give a clear answer.
That is, it will definitely go.
I remember the first time I went to the Executive Board, many people told him that Xia Chuluo's assistants were generally short-lived.
Lu Wen now understands that he has already died once.
In fact, blocking bullets at that time was just a subconscious reaction, and two things flashed in his mind in an instant, the first is that he is a machine and will not die, and the second is that Xia Chuluo will definitely resurrect him.
Because at the beginning of Xia, Luo Nahui had already seen that he was not just a walking Android machine.
"By the way, what about my old body?"
"Selling scrap iron, 7 cents a pound."
"It's not scrap metal in my body, it's alloy!"
"People can't look down on the rags."
“……”
At the beginning of Xia, Luo was most likely lying to him.
End-of-life androids are generally sent to landfills.
If the value is high, the two companies will recycle.
What exactly this girl's plans are, Lu Wen didn't bother to guess.
Half an hour later, the car stopped outside the 16th arrondissement.
The two got out of the car.
"There are not 1,000 gangs hiding in these slums, but 800."
This time, Lu Wen walked ahead.
Fortunately, the memory chip has written down the route of the last time, so just follow the guidance of the system.
"You want to talk about gang fights?"
"Yes."
It's not impossible.
A place where a gang can be built with a few guns, and it can be uncomfortable to get used to it every day without a little gunshot.
But the timing was too coincidental.
Just after the two of them had found the gang leader, he died.
It was less than an hour before and after.
"More than a dozen people died, but the guns were left." Xia Chuluo said.
"Okay."
Not a fight between gangs.
At least, not on the surface.
The reality is different from the movie.