Like most other shops, the tattoo parlor now has a few machines inside. Hou Dong's patronage seems to be doing good business, there are many people queuing up in the waiting area to chat, Hou Dong chose the pattern he wanted, came to the waiting area to wait.

There are more than a dozen seats in the waiting area, as well as a small automated bar. As if to show off its personality, the store has a special block of the Internet, and there is a very simple, side-wriggling puppeteer behind the bar, with a picture of the proprietress on its face, and a flowing line of words flashing on the puppeteer's arm with 1ed: "Don't smoke, or watch out for me jumping out of the hibernation cabinet." ”

Most of the people who came to get tattoos looked older than Hou Dong, some of them had a lot of tattoos on their bodies, and some of them were the same as Hou Dong, and they couldn't see anything. Hou Dong sat down opposite a man with many numbers tattooed on his hand and asked, "These numbers, hibernation time?" ”

"It's time to wake up," the person on the other side raised his head and gave Wu Zhe a large amount, "You're here for the first time." ”

"Yes."

"What's going on? Lost love, or someone in the family is gone. ”

"Is my expression obvious?" Hou Dong thinks that he only regrets his brother's death, but it should not be written on his face.

"It's not an expression," said the man, "and most people like you, who come to get a tattoo for the first time, suddenly want to remember something...... Falling out of love and death, most of the people I met anyway were for these two reasons. ”

Hou Dong nodded: "It's my brother." ”

"Medical malpractice?"

"No," Hou Dong knew it was a little hard to believe it. "Natural death."

The face of the person opposite changed, and then he sighed: "There are not many such people now...... Then he must be pessimistic about the future. ”

"Are you optimistic?"

"I can't talk about it, but at least I want to live."

"And what are you here for?"

"No why," said the man, taking off his coat and rolling up his sleeves to his arms, revealing a neat string of numbers,,, behind several numbers, and some names tattooed on them. "The longer you hibernate. The easier it is to confuse things from many different generations...... I tattoo some important moments on my body, and if I need to reminisce one day in the future, I don't have to go online and take off my clothes. That's my life. ”

Hou Dong did not speak. Because this man has already said everything he wants to say.

Get out of the tattoo parlor. Hou Dong looked at his wrist, Hou Zhen. For the first time in his life, he felt a fear of the unknown and long future. This was the sixth time he had woken up, and if it weren't for his brother, he would have woken up after 4o years - hibernation was like a drug, at the beginning, a few months, a year, two years. But as the body and brain begin to get used to the jump in time, the hibernation strategy will become more and more daring.

Just like this time, when he finishes his brother's business, he is ready to use up all his savings at once, hibernate for 15o years or more - the automated shops on the streets of this era, the large crowd of people who have nothing to do, already make him feel a change, a hidden, huge, earth-shaking change. He said he couldn't tell what the change would be, bad or good, maybe as everyone said now, the future people will be ruled by machines, or like government propaganda, and they will quickly enter the times, but he can feel it, and he looks forward to it in his heart - like surfing the sea, waiting for the next roar of the sea.

Leaving the tattoo parlor, Hou Dong was about to hail a taxi at the door, but as soon as he raised his head, a car stopped in front of him, and a person rolled down the window and asked, "Is it in the car?" I can send you. ”

Hou Dong looked at him, glanced at the steering wheel he was holding, remembered some rumors circulating on the Internet, how expensive the manual service was, and still refused: "Don't bother, I go a little far away, and I have a lot ......of things to do."

"It's okay, it's okay", the owner of the car has taken the initiative to open the car door and say, "No matter how long it takes, no matter how many things, I will send you to do it, and it's free." ”

This sentence made Hou Dong even more afraid to get on it, the owner saw this, and handed his mobile phone to Hou Dong - the interface is the homepage of the national intelligent network, as well as the owner's question, and the official message under the question. Hou Dong glanced at it briefly, the owner of the car asked about depression consultation, and the official advice to him included free driving.

"Where are you going?" After Hou Dong got into the car, the driver asked.

"City Hall, Service Center."

The driver moved the car, stepped on the accelerator, and added and turned very unfamiliarly, which made Hou Dong subconsciously a little nervous. The driver looked at him and said, "Just woke up, right?" ”

"yes, in a few days."

"Are you going for a divorce?"

"I'm not married...... My brother died, go and cancel his identity. Hou Dong thought of the interface he saw just now, and asked, "That intelligent network, the answers in it are all machine qì people." ”

"What a machine, that's artificial intelligence."

"That's not the same thing."

"It's far worse," said the driver, "and the streets are full of people, and artificial intelligence ...... There are only a few of these things in the country. ”

Hou Dong has read a lot of articles written by his brother on the website these days, and he also knows that Hou Zhen does not hibernate, and the biggest reason may be because he is worried about this thing. He had never been able to understand his brother's worries and fears, and in Hou Dong's mind, the words artificial intelligence were at best an ethereal concept - like a computer virus in the past. No matter how mysterious it is, no matter how godly it is, there is also the government in charge, and it is a bit unfounded for an ordinary person to worry about this.

"When are you from?" Hou Dong asked habitually.

"Locals, haven't hibernated yet." The driver laughed at himself, "I've been playing the game for 3o years, and I suddenly didn't want to play it some time ago...... Looking for something to do. In this society, no one wants to work at all, and I thought, even if it is a backward payment, as long as it allows me to do something. ”

"Then why don't you hibernate? 3o years, saved a lot of money, right? ”

"Not much." The driver pouted, "Half of it was thrown in the game...... Hibernation...... Wait until I'm 5o years old to go, just hibernate once. I've heard that it's easy to get depression when you wake up often, and if I don't hibernate, I'm going to get it soon, and if I wake up a few more times, I'm not going crazy. ”

"It still depends on the person and the mentality," Hou Dong said, "I feel pretty good...... But your age ...... It's hard to find a job. ”

Hou Dong's original job was to invest in stock funds. When I woke up this time, I checked my yield by the way. And put it together with all the previous investment returns, and made a table - in the long run, it is still decreasing. This is easy to understand in economics, because a large number of people give their wealth to the bank, and the interest rate naturally decreases. Competition between capitals intensifies. Naturally, the income is not high.

Those are the most lucrative areas. Including electricity, intelligence, games, movies...... The first two domestic controls are reflected in the stock price, that is, it rises a little. Immediately there was bad news, half-dead. Games, movies, make a lot of money, but the risk is high, you can't see the top when you look up when you're good, you can't see your pants when you look down when you're in a bad situation, as for manufacturing, real estate...... It's no different from depositing in a bank.

When he woke up 6o years ago, Hou Dong also thought about buying candle stocks - fortunately, he had an older brother who was a police officer, which saved him from a catastrophe. However, because of the hibernation tax, Hou Dong's amount of funds has not been able to rise, and he sometimes thinks about it, carefully stop for 5 years, specifically to make short-term money, and then rely on himself to pull projects - what to build spaceships, research antimatter, lunar bases, nanomachines...... Just like that Wu Zhe, there are so many concepts of making money now, just grab one, maybe the money you earn is enough to hibernate until the end of the world.

But the current Hou Dong is no longer the Hou Dong of the past, especially when he wakes up this time and sees that his brother in his impression has become a dying old man in the morgue - his courage to take risks is completely gone.

"Service center," the driver stopped, pointed to a building opposite, lit with the national emblem and the national flag fluttering, "I'll park the car here, and remember to look for me when you come out." ”

The service center is the grassroots government office of this era, and it is also the first intelligent government department, which is very simple, just a few rows of touchscreen computers and seats, and there are two employees on the side, and it seems that there is nothing to do. When Hou Zhen came in, they just glanced at themselves and saw that Hou Dong had gone to the computer to operate by himself, so they didn't ask.

Hou Zhen only saw it on the Internet, saying that now domestic affairs are basically docking with programs, that is, AI. When he saw the computer, Hou Zhen was a little unaccustomed, and this was also his first contact with AI.

"Hello, Hou Dong," Hou Dong had just opened the interface, and the computer took the initiative to chat with him, "I am the No. 3 clerk of the National Intelligence Center, you can call me Chen Gang, this is the first time we have met, you are here for your brother's business." ”

Hou Dong nodded, and at the same time checked the name Chen Gang with his mobile phone - very famous, there are now a total of 5 AI in China, he is the clerk who appears most frequently, specializing in trivial government affairs, so far, he has more than 4o years of work experience.

"We have prepared all the information about Hou Zhen," Chen Gang said, "and in addition to his property, there is also a part of Hou Zhen's work experience before his death." But because part of Hou Zhen's work involves the principle of confidentiality, we can't hand you over all of it, as Hou Zhen's custodian, we can let you know about this part of the information, but you must keep the information you know basically confidential, and it will bring more restrictions on entry and exit, can you do it? Of course, you can also give up understanding. ”

This incident was mentioned in Hou Zhen's last words to himself, and the state now allows some family members who are secretly operating to find out about the work and career of their relatives in some cases - but Hou Zhen mentioned that not to be curious about these things will do no good except to give yourself a little more trouble and disgust, and unnecessary fear.

"No, I give up my right to know this information." This sentence was checked on the Internet by Hou Dong before he came. He was very clear about the nature of his brother's work - sometimes he even secretly wondered if it was the intention of the state and the organization that he did not go to hibernation.

But he didn't dare to guess about this aspect of things, and he never dared to ask.

It didn't take 1o minutes for Hou Dong to leave the service center, and he had just gotten into the car and was about to tell the driver to go to the funeral home when he received a phone call.

"Is it Hou Dong?" It was a female voice, "I'm Lu Jingwen." ”

Another person mentioned in his brother's will also tried not to get involved in the trouble, and even the answer was also thought of: "Miss Lu, I just finished running errands in the government affairs center, and I have given up on the things you want to know, which is also what my brother meant." ”

The phone was answered by another person: "I'm Wu Zhe...... I was asking for the address of the funeral, we just got off the plane. ”

"The funeral is the day after tomorrow...... The list and location have not yet been decided, so how about I get to your phone before noon tomorrow. ”

"Okay, thank you then."

"You're welcome." Hou Dong put down the phone and smiled at the stunned driver on the side.

Other people can ignore Hou Dong, Wu Zhe is a rich man, and he must have a relationship. Although I don't want him to do anything now, I can't guarantee that I won't need him one day in the future - no one in this world can do without money, especially in the era of hibernation, money is sometimes life.

"Wu Zhe," the driver asked, his eyes widened, and he didn't accept it, "it can't be the Holland Wu Zhe, right?" ”

Hou Dong nodded, and said with a little deliberate modesty: "He is an old friend of my brother, and he came back to attend his funeral this time." ”

"Hey," the driver said enviously, "I heard that Wu Zhe's money is enough to buy half of Europe now." ”

"That's nonsense on the Internet," Hou Dong has also carefully learned about it in the past two days, "but it shouldn't be a big problem to buy a small country." ”

"But what makes a difference between buying and not buying for his kind of person, as long as he has money, he doesn't live like an emperor anywhere."

"The world of the rich, hey." Both sighed.

"But the world is reversed, the richer you are, the less you enjoy," the driver reassures himself, "they spend most of their time in the hibernation cabinet." On the contrary, there are people like us who have no money...... Feel free and don't have to think about anything. ”

"When you're seventy or eighty, you won't think like that."

"Maybe when I'm seventy or eighty, I'll have some anti-aging medicine...... Then I will live a lifetime longer than others. "The driver stops," the funeral home ...... Hey, by the way, do the dead still use to burn now? ”

"Now funeral parlors have corpse freezing services, which are much cheaper than hibernation, and they don't have to pay taxes," Hou Dong said, "There are still people like you, thinking that they can come back to life in the future." (To be continued!)

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