A turmoil seems to have come to an end, and a strong friendship has been established between Concubine De and Concubine Kang, which has brought a lot of convenience to Murong Yuhua and Gu San, and she can often play with Gu San. Autumn passed quickly, and the leaves in the Qingyin Pavilion were full of fallen leaves, and the grains, fruits and vegetables that had been planted at the beginning had already matured. At this time, the clusters of chrysanthemums planted by Xiao Chengzi also bloomed. Although it is not as delicate as those flower farmers in the Imperial Garden, it has a unique flavor in this small courtyard.

The servants in the palace now have a saying in private, it is better to go anywhere than to go to Qingyin Pavilion and Linyu Palace, and in other places, slaves are slaves, only these two places, the master is willing to treat the slave as a human being.

The grass and trees in the courtyard were gradually withering little by little, Murong Yuhua sat on the arhat step, lying on the window and looking out, Xiao Chengzi and Bixi were harvesting dried cotton in the yard. In fact, Concubine Kang's palace has long been restored to its original form, her belly is getting bigger day by day, and the emperor is taking care of her wholeheartedly, which one who is not long-sighted dares to snub her? But Concubine Kang herself was fascinated by the appearance of such an ordinary courtyard.

Murong Yuhua held her face and looked out the window, she was wearing a pale pink skirt today, wrapped in a warm jacket outside, and the pair of white shoes placed next to the Luohan Pagoda were made by Concubine De, and there were fluffy balls on the toe. Gu San was lying on the rocking chair next to her, she had been here for almost a year, and she had slowly adapted to such a leisurely life. At this moment, I was bored looking at a book with a book in my hand.

Concubine Kang and Concubine De stayed in the study, Concubine Kang was painting again, and Concubine De was playing the piano, playing the guqin, and the sound of the faint qin could be heard coming from the study, but I couldn't hear what music was playing.

Murong Yuhua stared at the two people working outside the window for a long time, and sat back with a lack of interest, she shook her legs and looked at Gu San, "You said you want to go, when can we go?" ”

"Isn't it good for you to be a little princess here?"

"It's good to be a princess, but I don't know why, occasionally Concubine De will sigh when she sees me, like I'm a little princess, it's not good at all, Concubine Kang always hopes that she will be pregnant with a little prince instead of a little princess. Why? Murong Yuhua said this coldly, and Gu San put down the book and looked at her.

There was a cold wind outside the house, but the house had already prepared for a charcoal fire in advance, and the whole house was warm. She looked at the little princess, and it would be more difficult to see the difference in the sex in the child, it was true. Many things will become more and more distinct when they become adults because of the continuous influence of the people they come into contact with and the environment in which they live.

A girl is more like a woman, and a boy is more like a man, both ancient and modern, at least in the environment that Gu San was exposed to.

She can only tell her with her limited experience, "because people in the past would feel that being a man would be better able to have everything." And women will be more likely to become the prey of others, to become the wife of a certain person, to whom they are subordinate. Gu San paused slightly, and looked at the study meaningfully.

Murong Yuhua said, "Look, this is what makes me feel the strangest thing. While there were many things I hated about my time, the ubiquitous surveillance or the control of people's minds and the stark hierarchy of dignity and inferiority – at least one thing, we don't distinguish between genders. Men, women, first and foremost, are free and have thoughts, and the ratio of men and women is the same in the hierarchy of distinctions, and in that elitist society you will find as many women as men who have wisdom. No one can be subordinate to anyone. ”

"That's your world. In this woman, she is a fertility resource, such as Concubine Kang, who laughed at herself as nothing more than a tool to give birth to an heir for the emperor. ”

"Another difference."

Gu San was a little curious: "I remember you mentioned that there is no concept of 'parents' and 'family' in your world. She closed the book and leaned forward with her hands folded, "Why?" As long as there are people, as long as there is a newborn born, there will be a 'family' and 'parents', this is a natural law and cannot be changed. ”

"The city in the sky is the place where the most basic laws of nature are changed. We don't have names, we just numbers, because we are all 'broods'. It's completely public, and I can show you there when you wake up. Murong Yuhua described it to her, "It's like another huge factory, full of petri dishes, where children grow, and then wait for maturity to take them out." ”

"And who raised you?"

"Suzaku. A large and complete core AI system, controlled by a central system, equipped with robots that will take care of babies to ensure that they grow up safely, and after the age of three, they will be divided into nurseries in groups of three, and then enter different levels of living areas according to the age of five, eight, and ten. By the age of twelve, you will be able to have your own room. ”

"So, you should have grown up under strict guarding, so how did you escape to the ground when you were young?"

Murong Yuhua nodded his head, "I'm smart enough." Smarter than most people, although the Suzaku system seems to be very versatile, but the baby care component is very mentally retarded, and its overall program is very easy to crack, in fact, I did it when I was six years old, and it wasn't until I was eight years old that a friend brought me flight equipment, and I was really able to implement my plan. ”

"I still wonder why you would want to leave such a place where you don't have to worry about food and clothing. You're only eight years old, and I don't believe you had the 'free will' rhetoric you have at that time. ”

Murong Yuhua scratched his head embarrassedly, "Okay...... In fact, at first I just listened to 742, and he told me that there was another world outside of Sky City. ”

"742, your friend? Can you tell your age directly from the size of the numbers?

"Basically, yes, every two thousand is a batch of newborns, and we are the fourth batch. A batch is produced every two years. ”

"Sounds ...... It's ridiculous too. So do you have any other friends? ”

"6286, 4759, these are all things that I grew up with. But at least I know that 742 and 6286 are not the natives of Sky City, they escaped from the ground, only they are 'brothers and sisters', as you said, we don't have the concept of family at all. And 742 told me a lot about the ground. ”

"Have you never doubted it before?"

"What if you doubt it? Anyway, I think it's normal for people to have a desire to survive. At first, I naively thought it shouldn't be difficult, but it wasn't until I was eight years old that I went to the ground once that I realized that they must have some special channel, otherwise how could they escape here in a mass of corpses? ”

Gu San interrupted her, "Wait, you said there are still people on the ground who fled to Sky City?" Didn't you say that it was completely controlled by AI there? Being monitored from birth to adulthood, how did your friends do that? ”

"If it was a few years ago, the system was not so strong in recognition ability, and I heard that in the early days, the barcode on everyone's chest was scanned. So ......"

"As long as you find a way to enter the sky city you said, and then, grab someone else's barcode, you can continue to live in his place."

Murong Yuhua pursed his lips, almost agreeing with what he said. What other reasons could there be? Gu San can basically guess the whole picture through her simple descriptions.

First of all, the Sky City that Murong Yuhua said could not appear out of thin air, there must be someone involved in the construction, and this brother and sister, obviously they saw how this project was progressing, or there were people around them who were involved, maybe it was their elders.

Then something happened, in short, the brother and sister entered the Sky City, managed to get in, met Murong Yuhua, told him about the ground, and gave him the idea of going out to the ground.

"But even if I guessed that, 742 would never take the initiative to bring up their past, and as for 6286, she acted more like a person from Sky City than I did." Murong Yuhua laughed to himself, "Instead, I only think about how to open the Sky City to all those who are still struggling to survive on the ground. ”

Gu San looked at her with a slightly helpless expression: "Maybe you want to keep my brain active, you can use all this mess, show me the real world, and let me get familiar with it in advance." ”

"I've thought about it too, but some parameters in the real world are too easy to be detected by the Suzaku system, although we have worked together several times before and have found the key to breaking through the original first rule, but all these experiments I have done are illegal."

"You mentioned the First Rule to me, and you said that I had assembled a whole new piece of metadata that could replace the existence of the First Rule."

"That's right. The first rule is that no program can break the first rule. But we've broken it, and the moment I successfully import your mind data back into the mechanical body, you're completely out of the control of the First Rule. In fact, even I may be under the first rule and monitored by the Suzaku system. Speaking of this, Murong Yuhua became excited again, "But when I use these old civilizations as part of the metadata stream, coupled with your performance, we are completely outside the Sky City data stream, we are like a group of pirates, a group of rogue criminals, we have stolen some basic algorithms that belong to the first rule, but created our own free city-state on this basis." ”

"Stop, stop, that's it, you're starting to say something I don't understand again."

"Think of the first rule as this palace, and we're the uncertainties that are ready to flee or overthrow." Murong Yuhua stepped down from Luohan and shook Gu San's hand, "As long as you believe a little, I will definitely let you return to reality before the first rule destroys all my achievements." ”