Chapter Twenty-Six: The Window of Hell
"It should be just a matter of education, and the schools of the corporate alliance have long since eliminated the geography and history courses that have no practical value."
Zhou Zhi felt that Carl was alarmist, or rather, he hoped that Carl was alarmist, and he had also cheered for the era of abundance created by the all-powerful crop, and fought bloodily for the freedom and equality promised by the corporate alliance, not wanting to believe that all this was just to create a shackle to enslave humanity.
Carl's cleanliness seemed to have been cured by alcohol, and he stumbled over to Zhou Zhen and sat down, reached out and grabbed his shoulder and whispered, "You might as well give it a try, tell them something, and see if they can remember." ”
Zhou Zhen looked at the other three, Amiko had fallen asleep, Solomon chewed the venison with a puzzled expression, and Zhong Xiaoguang lowered his head and pulled his hair.
"yes, why have I never asked these questions, and no one has ever asked me, where on earth are we? What was the world like before? ”
Zhong Xiaoguang's voice was hoarse and low, and he felt a bottomless fear that he had lost some of his basic human needs, his curiosity about human history, and his thinking about self-worth.
Without these needs, what difference would there be between a man who was busy surviving and a donkey who grinded all day long?
"Lao Zhou, tell me about it, let's start with geography, okay?"
Zhong Xiaoguang raised his head with a solemn expression.
"Where we are now, geographically speaking, is located in the southeast corner of the Eurasian continent, belongs to the South Asian region, we are surrounded by a volcanic belt of twenty-three volcanoes, the volcanic belt is serpentine, before the energy crisis, it is a famous scenic area, known as the volcanic snake, and the name of this generation in history is Baoshan."
Zhou Zhi explained slowly, his eyes never left Zhong Xiaoguang and Solomon.
The two of them listened to these messages, which were already common sense to Zhou Zhen, and their expressions gradually became painful and distorted.
"Their memory of this kind of knowledge will not exceed three minutes, which is the memory lock set by Shennong Group for human beings through full nutrition food."
Karl snorted wine next to Zhou's ear, and Zhouzhi silently counted the time, praying to all the ancient gods he could think of, begging them not to make Carl's drinking words come true.
But the gods have apparently abandoned this religiously unaffiliated world.
Less than two minutes passed, Zhong Xiaoguang stretched his waist and muttered: "You are sleepy after drinking, why did you suddenly wander." ”
Solomon took the kettle, poured some cold water in the palm of his hand, patted it on his face, and then went to cut off some pieces of roast venison, and put them in front of the men.
Zhou Zhen suddenly felt like ashes, and the loneliness he felt in the energy laboratory as if he was in hell hit him again.
"How do you know all this?" Perimeter turned to Karl.
"Me? I'm from the countryside, and when I was a kid before the all-purpose crop spread to Bavaria, I discovered an anomaly when I was studying at A01, and the big ship was like a ghost ship in an old nautical story to me, and I was the only living person on board. ”
Carl grabbed the venison on the ground and took a bite, stood up and waved his hand to Zhou Qian: "Can you, accompany me to pee." ”
Zhou Zhi hummed and followed him to a secluded boulder by the stream, Carl peed on the stream, and Zhou Zhi leaned against the boulder and lit a cigarette.
With the sound of water release, Carl continued: "The books I have read, the stories I have heard, the way I think about problems, my classmates and teachers cannot understand them, and if you discuss those problems with them, they will definitely forget them in three minutes." ”
Carl lifted his pants, the flush on his face from drunkenness subsided slightly, and his steps were a little steady, and he asked Zhou Zhen for a cigarette, squatting on the ground and smoking.
"I'm an engineer, I won't talk nonsense without a lot of testing, I've been testing people around me for nearly ten years, and I can tell by my eyes who has been poisoned by whole nutritious food."
"But how do you know it's food?"
Zhou Zhen threw away the cigarette butt and lit another one, only a large amount of nicotine could slightly soothe the heavy anxiety in his heart.
Carl was clearly not a smoker, and every puff was accompanied by a violent cough.
"I tried to find the truth, secretly conducted a lot of experiments, and found a lot of strange phenomena, such as I had processed all-round crops into all-nutritious food according to the recipe published within the enterprise alliance, but the volume and weight have not been consistent with the processed by Shennong Group, so I tested the ingredients of all-nutritious food, in addition to ingredients and condiments, there are some things, including more than a dozen genetic drug ingredients, and some other substances, very other... of substances. ”
"What substance?"
Zhou asked, Carl shook his head: "I don't know, these substances are very radioactive, in the animal experiments I have done, these substances can seriously interfere with the memory of mice and dogs, and even make them lose some of their innate stress responses, and more interestingly, the total mass of these substances is negative." ”
Mass is negative, antimatter? Zhou Zhen chuckled in his heart, could it be related to the energy experiment? He didn't want Carl to know about the energy experiment, so he changed the subject and said, "Then why are you still working in the Big Four companies, don't you think this is aiding and abetting?" ”
Carl coughed and laughed, "Why should I feel that? If I were the chairman of Shennong Group, I would do the same thing, don't forget, the purpose of the existence of the enterprise is to pursue profits, launch an energy war, force the government to dissolve, isn't it just to get rid of taxes and regulations, and even more reckless profit-seeking? Do you really believe all that about freedom and equality? ”
Zhou Zhen was silent, he had killed people for these bullshit and left blood, and he had lost his own brother.
Carl looked at his expression and laughed even harder, and the cigarette fell to the ground on his fingertips.
"As for why I want to stay at Mayyaz Technology, because I will always be on the side of the winners, and because 99% of the employees of the Big Four companies are idiots fed with full nutrition, I enjoy the feeling of being a wise man in a group of idiots, which makes me feel safe, so that I can quickly climb to the top of the mountain, the higher I climb, the more I understand the corporate alliance, and the more I know about them, the safer I am."
Carl bent down to pick up the fallen cigarette, but immediately relapsed again, he threw away the cigarette, rubbed his fingers on his pants, and his expression suddenly became a little lost: "It's a pity that you robbed my parasitic system and hindered my work, originally as long as the parasitic system can be imitated, the next CEO of Mayez Technology must be me, and I will be replaced next year, and I don't know if it's too late." ”
Zhou Zhen looked at the skinny middle-aged man in front of him, as if he saw a hungry hyena, human beings are like a herd of bison running wildly towards the cliff, the hyena is dormant in the grass below the mountain, waiting to eat the broken corpses of the bison.
He tossed Carl a cigarette and lit it for him: "I wish you success, and we may have more opportunities to work together then." ”
Carl waved his hand again and again: "No, no, no, you still wish me safety, the enlarged meeting at the end of the year is over, I will take back the phantom system, we have nothing to do with it, no matter what you want to do next, it is too dangerous for me, I only care about myself, and I am not interested in other people's affairs." ”
Zhou Zhen felt a little relieved, if the CEOs of the four major companies are selfish hyenas, then a group of tacit cooperation armor rats are enough to become their equal opponents.
He shook off the fire match and smiled: "Okay, but I have a hunch that you will come to me after all." ”
After returning to the camp, the two groups of friends, friends and foes, officially parted ways.
Zhou Zhen woke up Amiko and Zhong Xiaoguang to go to the bandit barracks.
Solomon and Karl. Carl also decided to travel overnight to avoid encountering the bandit squad during the day, lost the parasitic system, and was disarmed by Zhou Qian, and the two of them have no ability to resist now.
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The next morning, in front of the entrance of the bandit barracks.
Amiko still hesitated, squatting on the ground and refusing to get up: "Dad, can I wait for you right here?" Or I'll go back to A21 Armor Mouse Company with Xiao Zhong to wait for you, I admit defeat, I can't protect you, and I want you to save me, you can not keep that promise. ”
"No, there are some things you have to deal with in the past."
Zhou Zhen stepped forward and touched her head: "Besides, you still have an ID chip in your body now, and you will be located at any time, and the corporate alliance is likely to round you up again, A21 and the jungle are as dangerous to you." ”
Zhong Xiaoguang also stepped forward to persuade her: "Now that the enterprise alliance knows the location of the military camp, the bandits may be transferred soon, and you won't be able to find Lao Zhou at that time." ”
After a while, Amiko reluctantly stood up, lowered her head and fiddled with the doll on the placket: "Xiao Zhong, when you arrive at A21, can you help me get some marble soda." ”
"Okay, no problem." Zhong Xiaoguang walked to the iron door as he spoke, and rang the bell on the door frame.
Zhou Zhen quickly followed Zhong Xiaoguang, looked back at Amiko, and made sure that she hadn't noticed herself, so he pressed Zhong Xiaoguang's ear and asked, "You promised to be happy, do you know what marble soda is?" ”
Zhong Xiaoguang muttered in a low voice: "Don't take me for a fool, eggs and pork are mixed with water, it's just pork egg soup." ”