Lately, the workers of Night City have noticeably felt that the atmosphere inside the city has become noticeably more tense.

It's rare to see patrolling sheriffs on the streets in droves, patrolling the streets 24 hours a day, each with a gun on their backs, to disperse any form of crowd that has gathered, to drive workers home with a few shots, or to simply knock down workers they feel suspicious and put them in jail.

The muddy streets, mixed with ice slag and snow, became even more deserted, and it was difficult to see other workers wandering the streets except for the sheriffs who patrolled back and forth.

At first, people thought that it was only the chairman of the board of directors who had made these sheriffs patrol intensively in order to strengthen law and order and manage them&ash;&ash; after all, no matter how well they covered it up afterwards, the battle movement that night and the sound of the cannon fire could not be concealed, and all kinds of rumors soon spread.

And the sheriffs, even if they arrested a few people who started to spread rumors in the first place, could not stop the workers from trying to gossip.

The version of the story is passed on by word of mouth, and it gradually ferments and tastes.

From the very beginning, late one night, the sheriff led people to destroy a shack where the workers lived with small artillery, as if the family was still inhabited by a pair of teenage brothers and sisters, the children of former engineers or something. This kind of gossip, which is a little more realistic, is gradually becoming more and more outrageous.

For example, the brother and sister were found to have anti-human tendencies, and were discovered and executed by the sheriffs in time.

For example, they preached to others that workers should unite to defend their interests, and were killed by the sheriffs with small artillery guns in the process of resisting arrest.

There are even rumors that they wanted to improve the living conditions of the workers, hoping to unite the workers to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the chairman.

Among these conversations passed down by the workers by word of mouth, the third is undoubtedly the most talked about, the most processed and the most widely circulated.

First, usually those fierce magistrates only need to rush up and use the butt of a gun to open people's heads, and there are very few occasions to even shoot, and those who can pull small artillery to carry out humane destruction are certainly not good, although the workers have only studied general education for a few years, but in the history textbooks there is a record of how the chairman of the board of directors treated those troublemakers.

Grapekey bombs were fired on the streets, causing great casualties to the group of workers who participated in the protests.

Second, the spread of memes is also selective, because different memes themselves, like genes, compete with each other. It's just that genes are selfishly and desperately trying to enter the bodies of the next generation, and the competition between memes is even more intense, and they need to be constantly expanded and disseminated, into other people's brains, into other people's minds, and even into books, languages, and even all the media that can record culture.

Therefore, the more interesting the meme, the simpler the structure and easy to retell, the more competitive it is in the process of dissemination, and the easier it is to be spread by word of mouth.

Third, no one may dare to admit it, but the vast majority of workers are eager for this kind of thing to happen in their hearts.

They are not ignorant puppets, nor are they bloodless and tearless robots, and many workers will have ideas in their hearts when they see that those old men can live a much better life than them without working at high intensity.

Of course, like he can take his place, the prince will have a kind of Xiangning? Most of them couldn't say these words, and if they really didn't have the slightest rebellion, then when the engineer led them to revolt a few times ago, there wouldn't have been so many workers actively responding.

However, when the entire city restricts heating for the third time, and frequently reduces the level of heating, even the most sluggish workers should notice that things are not simple.

Some of the older workers, who have more experience, turn their worried eyes to the center of the city from time to time

Toward.

The energy tower still stands there, and the top of the tower is still spewing out high-temperature steam, but in the eyes of some people, the energy tower that seems to stand up to the sky is already in danger.

The fire has been extinguished.

Things went from bad to worse over the next few days, and the power output of the Portals in the heart of Night City dropped again and again.

At the behest of the chairman, several lowhouseries and industrial parks with less important output ceased operations, dismissed a large number of workers, and further reduced the level of heating in order to relieve the pressure on the energy tower.

For a time, a large number of workers lost their jobs, and further crowded the existing jobs in Night City, social unrest, and the sound of sheriffs shooting in the streets and alleys was incessant.

It is clear to all who have experienced it that the facilities of the Portal are once again on the verge of limit.

Everyone was waiting for the fire ceremony to start again, but they didn't wait.

On this day, the cold winter came.

With the earth-shattering sound coming from the energy tower, flames erupted from the energy tower's vent like fireworks, and the blue-white plasma was pushed into the sky by the tremendous pressure, forming a belt of plasma flames that penetrated the sky and the earth.

A large number of charged particles are projected into the sky, forming wisps of colorful 'streamers' in the sky.

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