Chapter 57: Happiness for Children (2-in-1)
By sacrificing his privacy, Russell directly stabilized the situation on the Brokers' side.
Of course, this behavior is also an offense to the privacy of Delphinium. After all, she doesn't like to be in the limelight, but because of this, she is exposed to the people of the whole Sky Island, and even suffers from the malice of fanatical fans.
But there is no way around it.
As long as Russell is still a "hero", a celebrity on the island of happiness, and his own fans and supporters, this future is inevitable.
Therefore, Russell also anticipated this possibility for a long time.
More than a month ago, when Russell had just confirmed his relationship with Delphinium, he had already asked Delphinium in advance as part of his mind.
If the delphinium is really unwilling to show its head, then Russell will find a way not to involve the delphinium in his "plan".
However, what touched and relieved Russell was ...... Delphinium accepted Russell's plan without hesitation.
- You know, Russell hadn't even decided on the route of the "Brokers" at that time.
Russell just knew that sooner or later he would have the opportunity to pull out this matter to attract the attention of the people or attract their attention...... For Russell, who is accustomed to manipulating public opinion at will, this "big secret that can be revealed at any time" is itself a kind of ammunition and a hole card.
He carefully told Delphinium what he might want to do in the future. It was also at that time that the delphinium was also surprised to discover that Russell actually understood this.
Although Delphinium had not met Russell seriously for public relations at that time, Delphinium still chose to believe Russell.
She believes that Russell will never harm herself, and she will definitely be able to make the most of this resource...... and use it in the way of righteousness.
Because despite being in front of Russell, she seems very soft...... But in fact, the delphinium belongs to the kind of calm and cold rational character, and it is a captain-type personality that can be fully trusted. She is actually much more rational than Russell.
This makes delphinium almost never take chances - from the moment she is tortured by the demon and confirms that she does have a crush on Russell, she knows that the romance will inevitably be exposed.
Paper can't hold fire.
After arriving on Happiness Island and reconnecting to the network of Happiness, Russell was able to reconnect with Delphinium. At that time, he had already told Delphinium what he was going to do—and Delphinium immediately matched perfectly.
According to Delphinium's original character, even if Russell announced his relationship in front of the camera, Delphinium would not show such a shy, gentle and happy expression, nor would she kiss Russell sweetly.
She would only smile clearly, then pinch Russell's ear demonstratively, and then gently bite his neck in front of the camera, leaving a scarring tooth mark — as a provocation and a show-off.
That can only mean that your dream lover will be mine from now on, and it is useless to covet his body, and I am the only one who can enjoy it.
Because delphinium is never afraid of things.
Rather than a somewhat forward-looking Russell and the inferior, she is more of a forward-looking type - like the trap set by the discordant for the delphinium at the Hive nightclub.
If the person who unlocked it was Delphinium, even if she knew that there was a trap in front of her, she would never back down, but dared to gamble her life.
"You will win", this is the self-confidence of the delphinch.
…… But that's too provocative.
Therefore, the delphinium deliberately acted gently, and even grabbed Russell's arm and leaned gently on his shoulder.
But this made Delphinium feel a little excited—just thinking about it, although she seemed weak and docile during the day, at night she could wrap his neck around the neck with the "tail" that Russell had implanted for herself, press him on the bed, hold his hands, and kiss his earlobes, which would give Delphinium a sense of "you never imagined how we would play at night".
I don't know if it's an illusion, but after Delphinium felt that she was with Russell, her acting skills soon increased significantly......
And Russell's plan doesn't end there.
The interview is still ongoing—but the subject matter is no longer controlled by Miss Delan, but completely influenced and held in Russell's hands.
Miss Dailan is still glad that her brain has not been shut down due to the excessive amount of information, and she can still come up with a very suitable topic to ask questions.
In reality, however, she didn't come up with it herself. It was Russell who induced her to remember.
For example, after the official announcement, Russell did not just call out the delphinch, but specially mentioned "her name is the delphinch" - this directly announced her code name, which means that people can easily find out the identity of the delphinch. This is an explicit statement, meaning that Russell does not intend to hide the identity of the delphinch.
But he didn't directly say the identity and occupation of the delphinch, which was specially left for Dailan.
When Russell was on the airboat, he had already written a script for Delphinium in advance. After the airship landed, he sent it to the delphinium along with his plan.
Almost instinctively, she asks what Miss Delphinium does, or how she met Ultramarine.
At this time, Delphinium can naturally lead to the identity of the head of his executive department.
Relying on this identity, she can in turn consolidate Russell's character. As Russell's colleague and direct leader, it is obviously very reasonable that she would fall in love with Russell...... And her "private evaluation" of Russell will naturally become a point of curiosity.
Similarly, Delphinium vaguely mentions that she and Russell have been living together for a long time. But he doesn't talk a word about life and work.
Then of course, Dailan will also be curious.
Such an amateur reporter will think that she has "captured the news", so she will blurt out "what kind of person is Ultramarine in life".
So Delphinium can talk about some small details of her life with Russell on weekdays, and increase people's recognition of their couple through the method of "wide-area sugar", so as to convert Russell's girlfriend fans into CP fans as much as possible.
At this time, Russell can make up some "exploits that people don't know belong to delphinium". People will find that what the delphinium does is not inferior to Russell, but it is not in the limelight.
Then Dailan's mind will naturally be guided in the direction of "Then why did you suddenly decide to be in the limelight again?"
After asking the question, Russell was able to steer the conversation to the island of Tongshen. Tell me how difficult the mission was and why Delphinium was worried about herself - and then bring up that the airships had been shot down by the outlaws of Tongshen Island.
It's only been a few days, and people have certainly not forgotten it. If it weren't for the sudden big news about combing your teeth, people would probably still be discussing it.
And along with this incident, Russell can naturally lead the topic to "how evil is Tongshen Island", "how xenophobic the people of Tongshen Island", and "how difficult the rules of Tongshen Island are". He began to talk about what he had seen and heard.
Russell believed that the evils of Tongshen Island would shock and incomprehensible the inhabitants of Happiness Island – just like Russell himself did back then. He also thought that Happiness Island was the most sinful one...... Until he went out and took a look himself.
The most powerful thing is that in the dialogue between Russell and Dailan, there is no sentence that deliberately leads the other party to ask questions; And all the answers he answered were sincere and true.
Nature is a charm, and sincerity is a strength.
It's clear that Russell is being interviewed, but he looks like a talk show actor who is answering "audience comments".
He stood in front of the empty boat and told what he had seen and heard along the way—but the residents of Happy Island, who had come to eat melons, listened with relish. After all, not everyone can go to other air islands, and even if they can leave, based on the basic law of "currency is not common between air islands", most of them will not be exposed to this level of secrecy in a short time.
Russell also mentioned Miss Ringo by the way, popularized the basic rules of Sun Island, criticized how immoral her mentor was, and actually used a large number of teenage girls as experiments and living advertisements that would almost inevitably be scrapped in the future.
And when people felt pity for the "child" of Sun Island, Russell's long-standing topic was finally able to unfold smoothly:
“…… But compared with Tongshen Island, the children of Sun Island who are 'forced breeding' may still be considered lucky. ”
"But, but you didn't mean ......"
Dai Lan was suddenly a little stunned: "The children who study in the university of Sun Island are forced to have children with people they don't know just because they owe money to the research institute...... Will even the children born be sold? ”
"That's true. It seems to me that this is undoubtedly sin and depravity. Compared to the evil research on Tongshen Island, Sun Island even seems to have a glorious human nature......"
Speaking of this, Russell's face was sad: "At least after they have cultivated excellent children, they are trained as 'excellent scholars in the future'."
"—and on Tongshen Island, they will even use these children as 'consumables.'"
“…… Supplies? ”
"Yes, that is, directly consumed in the study – in the form of babies."
Subsequently, Russell seriously popularized the "synthetic man research" of Tongshen Island to the audience.
"The flesh and blood of the whole body were stripped away, and even the brains were sucked out. After consciousness and sanity are extracted from the body, the original body, even if it can grow, will only become demented. Of course it would have to be 'abandoned' - but it was a living baby!
"I don't even know what exactly they do with this 'material'...... Just thinking about the possibilities makes me feel a throbbing pain in my heart and I feel sick to my stomach and want to vomit. I think that any person with a conscience should be indignant at this evil study! Friends, 'anger' here is an act of justice! ”
Dailan's eyes widened, completely shocked that she couldn't say a word.
Russell also recounts the children's suffering: "They were all flesh and blood like us, and they also had their own fathers and mothers, and they were all conceived and born. It's just that their parents were either killed, or simply the perpetrators of child trafficking.
And when they opened their eyes and awoke for the first time from their purely mechanical bodies, about seven or eight years old, they had all the knowledge and experience of adults. Their most carefree 'innocence' is like a void. Their childhood was dug straight out of their lives...... And it's not just these that have been brutally dug up.
"These kids, imprisoned in the lab by the researchers. The vast majority of them never left the lab in their entire lives – they studied things that we would only study when we were grad students or even PhDs. That's not by reading a book, but by learning in an artificial intelligence mode that is poured into their mechanical brains.
"They sit there, like flesh and blood, sentient computing centers. Constantly calculating puzzles that were meaningless to them to fund the Institute. ”
Russell's words are not half exaggerated, they are all true.
He didn't bother to lie, because sincerity had power—his anger was so real that the mere retelling of it made his childhole burn with a white flame.
"They are only a few years old, and the oldest is only a teenager, and they are not even minors according to the rules of Happiness Island. And since they were conscious, they have never left the blank and empty research institute. Any synths who leave the institute are considered 'rebels' and are killed by direct fire and bombardment. ”
Russell's face was heavy.
The Internet, which had been boiling over because of his official announcement, became quiet, and the smiles on the faces of the audience who listened with relish because of the story he told gradually disappeared.
And when their mental load is at its limit...... Miss Dailan," Russell called out to Dailan suddenly, "do you know what they're up against?" ”
“…… Will they go crazy? ”
"More cruel and more ruthless than that...... They will delete their personality and reconstruct a new personality from the 'memories' recorded on their hard drives. They call it 'Nirvana'. ”
“…… Oh, my God. ”
"But that's all they can do, or the program will go wrong. And this fate is even more sad.
"Every time they delete their personality, they kill themselves once. To distinguish between them, they would add a number to their name to indicate the number of times they have achieved 'nirvana'. For example, 'ethanol-5' or 'lemon-7'.
"And a kid I know, she's called Bubble-30.
"Yes, Bubbles killed himself a full thirty times. If she doesn't, the consciousness program will go wrong and everything that used to be will crumble and disintegrate. ”
Russell said softly: "They are all a good group of children, but they don't even get basic human rights on Tongshen Island.
"Because Tongshen Island has finally realized that it seems too early for their current technology to study synths.
"Therefore, they even want to abolish these 'synths'! Or rather—scrapped! ”
Looking at the camera, Russell's voice was filled with compassion and anger: "Just because there are synths participating in the rebellion, they want to scrap all the synths." 'Scrap' these children who are transformed from flesh and blood and carry their true personalities, souls and lives!
"—I can't accept it."
Russell said word by word.
As he spoke, he turned back and led the delphinium towards the airship.
He took two steps, looked at Dai Lan, who was still stunned, and whispered, "Please follow me, Miss Dai Lan." ”
Let's get off the book
"Ah...... Be......! ”
Dai Lan immediately beckoned the camera to follow.
On the way, Russell lowered his voice to Dailan, but let his voice be picked up by the microphone: "Those kids...... Really cute.
"They are so desperate to live, but even the civilians of the island don't want them to live. Just because they have the potential to threaten their work.
"That's just a hundred or so children – I can only have a pessimistic expectation of how long they will live. They approached me and wanted me to get them out of there......
So I came back a day late...... It's just to prepare the empty boat. Bring them back. ”
With that, Russell entered the cabin with Dailan.
"Oh my God!"
She exclaimed.
The voice was not fear, but the exclamation of something lovely.
Clusters of small white balls sat obediently in place.
Their holes are so clear, and their faces are so handsome.
As soon as Dailan entered, two children brought warm drinks, and then obediently lowered their heads and let Dailan touch their heads.
“…… Can I really? ”
After Dai Lan got permission, she touched her head gently.
The corners of her mouth crossed the arc of happiness.
"One hundred and seventy-three people in all. I brought them all back...... I will raise them with Delphinium until they can find a job and integrate into the island of happiness.
"I hope that people can give these kids a chance to accept these cute kids who aren't flesh and blood – at least give them a chance to show themselves. And don't be like Tongshen Island, don't even give them a chance to live.
"I brought them back to Happiness Island in the hope that these abandoned children can get their own happiness here...... I also hope that one day in the future, these pure and innocent children can also bring everyone the happiness of pure and kind people. ”
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