Cyber Heroes

Liu Er unloaded himself on time, without showing any nostalgia or attachment.

Perhaps "nostalgia" and "attachment" are both unique to human beings.

The young man was very sad.

He couldn't let go of the incident for several days, let alone go out to work.

But in that space city, all "work" is assigned by the management AI. Management AI will divide a large project into countless simple small tasks that "one person can complete in a short time", and the rewards are settled for a single task. Therefore, as long as the boy refuses the job assigned to him by the AI, he will not be recorded as absent from work.

The boy was suspended in his room like this - the weak gravity of the space city made this kind of thing commonplace. Humanity has not developed the technology of artificial gravity, but basic human transformation surgery and prosthetics can allow humans to ignore the negative effects of long-term space living.

The boy was like this, not touching the ground, the ceiling, or the wall. He was just suspended in the room.

——What did you send?

- Nothing seems to happen. I didn't experience anything.

Liu Er told the boy a story about the "Chinese Room" a long time ago. The story assumes a sealed room with a person who speaks only English. The man, who only spoke English, carried a book with a Chinese translation program. There are enough manuscript papers, pencils and cupboards in the room. A piece of paper written in Chinese was sent into the room through the small window.

People in the room can use his book to translate the words and reply in Chinese. Although he does not speak Chinese at all, through this process, the person in the room who only speaks English can make anyone outside the room think that he speaks Chinese.

But in fact, the "Chinese-speaking person in the room" is just a fictional image created by people outside the room, and no such person exists.

Sixty-two is not a human being. Some AIs are like this...things that make people think they are human. This "non-human thing" carries with him a complete book of "How to Speak Humans". Everything about Liu Er's personality was imagined by the young man himself.

He just lost a tool that developers thought was not very useful.

From this point of view, the boy should have nothing to lose.

Just like the more than a thousand days and nights since he left his father, nothing happened in these few days.

but……

The young man's hand was undoubtedly on his face. Unconsciously, his fingers became harder and harder.

He felt like there was something wrong with his face.

It wasn't until his eyes went dark that the young man realized that he had accidentally destroyed his prosthetic eye.

Because of a certain bug... he felt that there was something wrong with the nerve signals transmitted from the outside of the prosthetic eye to the brain. But that should have nothing to do with the visual center. His instinct felt that he shouldn't like this, so he tried to touch his eyes with his hands.

In the next six months, the boy connected the camera to the connector and relied on those external optical devices to move.

This period of time can be said to be long or short. During this period of time, he has been viewing his walking, sitting and lying from a third-party perspective.

As if it was not his own body. It's like he's just playing a fixed-perspective third-person game.

In such chaotic days, the young man's mind seemed to be in chaos.

——It’s true... obviously nothing happened...

he thought.

This place is "hell where nothing happens."

More than half a year later, he got a new pair of eyes.

It may be that the new prosthetic eye model is too different from the previous one. When he regained the "first-person perspective", he felt that his vision had changed and he could no longer go back to the past.

This space city society, which operates as precisely as a machine, is already a "hell where nothing happens." This is a place where humans cannot even protect their souls with imaginary stories.

Before being strong enough to face all the cruelty of reality, human beings can build imaginary stories into eggshells, use this eggshell to protect their hearts, and wait for the moment when their wings become full. Some anthropology scholars believe that humans have become the most powerful species on earth precisely because of "stories."

But these cities don’t even have room for stories.

Many years later, the boy grew into a young man. He left this city and went to the Dream City in the asteroid belt.

Here, he came into contact with "chivalry" for the first time.

For a period of time, the young man was a "technician" among the knights of that generation. He was somewhat famous and even published a little research. At least Liuer is an AI that works to encourage students to learn. The foundation of youth is quite good.

But not long after, the young man realized a problem.

The knight wants to establish a "modern society" with strict order and closer to what it was before the "Secret War".

The young man was horrified by this. He thought about his childhood.

Under the current system, human beings can create such... that kind of hell without a story.

Isn't the "modern society" in the knight's ideal more harsh?

From this moment on, the young man gradually broke away from chivalry.

And his activities at the academic level also attracted the attention of another mysterious force.

Many years later, he took over the task of "entering the green forest".

He didn't seem to hate Green Forest that much. Although Green Forest is stupid, Green Forest has a story.

It's a pity that he has never been like a green forest.

The man didn't notice this until he was dying.

Perhaps because he noticed this, the memory that he had almost forgotten was rekindled.

Tianji Sanren wants people to know these things.

"That kind of division of labor and cooperation separates people from their own labor. The connection between people is no longer important." Tianji Sanren said, "The joys and sorrows of human beings are no longer connected with their own lives. Such a world , it’s hell.”

"And living as a green forest is very happy, really happy. Just like a carefree barbarian, a carefree life, full of spirit."

"If humans develop civilization in order to have a better future for themselves, then I can say that on this trajectory, humans will not be happy."

"The exploration of the green forest..."

"As long as Green Forest can overcome its own shortcomings..."

"This is equivalent to using technological means to re-evolve the superstructure of the entire civilization from the hunting and gathering era."

Xiang Shan slowly pulled out the storage device: "That's right. Modernization... the first modernization of mankind was brilliant and great, but the first modernization of mankind was also a piece of shit. Although your words are wrong, they are not wrong either. It doesn’t make any sense.”

"For the sake of the information you provided, I took note of it."

Xiang Shan said, crushing the storage device.