Night Hacker

   Chapter 119

   "The endless technological expansion of mankind will only lead to destruction and return to nothingness."

  Gu He put her arms around Jane's waist. She said while pedaling her bicycle, without stopping along the way.

   If she is his client, he will be relieved whether he is a psychiatrist or a cowherd, she is too willing to communicate.

   She said that the low-class people hate that two people face each other but are silent, and they hate that they can’t speak and don’t want to speak without a machine.

   "It is always said that technology makes people close to each other, but with the current development, doesn't it make people more and more distant from each other. People are chasing the illusion, but they are blind to the things in front of them."

  Gu He listened silently, understood their ideas, and did not make any judgments. Low-level subjects are a kind of thing.

   But maybe Jane was talking too much, too fast, and he didn't sleep well last night, so he couldn't help yawning...

   If it wasn't for the cold night rain hitting his face and the neon lights shining too brightly, he would have fallen asleep next to Jane's back.

  Who is the Tang monk...

   "How long will it take?" Gu He asked, thinking that she had been riding for almost an hour.

"Come on." Jane's voice is still strong, not a little tired or hoarse, not just because she is an extraordinary person, "The low-class people face the reality, whether it is **** or broken, we live in reality. "

  Gu He closed his sleepy eyes and leaned on her shoulder, wanting to live in a dream temporarily...

   Kabukicho, as one of the oldest districts in Liuguang City, has an inch of land and gold, and there is no wasteland.

Although Gu He has been to Sanjiao District and Chengzhai District this month, he has never been out of Shouhui Street. At this time, while half asleep, he passed Caoyuan Street and saw the rows of wooden trees along the street. Antique buildings, but a little bit of neon light.

  Jane was driving to the southwest, along a railway track, the sound of the subway roaring past woke Gu He up.

   "Is the subway considered high-tech?" Gu He asked, "What about cars, don't you all use cars?"

   "Use it, but try to use it as little as possible." Jane found a new topic. "The development of transportation and communication has both advantages and disadvantages. It makes us lose the ability to care. I ask for care, and I ask for anxiety about the distance."

  What is an assertion? This is an assertion, Gu He thought, she couldn't say anything even in the cookie.

  Jane said that she did not go back to the low-level land every day because she had to pedal a bicycle for several hours every time she came and went. She is usually active in the Li Cai club area on Shouhui Street, and sleeps in a capsule hotel at night.

   After riding along the railway for a long time, Gu He did not recognize the place. Jane said it was located in the area of ​​Liufang Street and was about to arrive.

  The bicycles gradually left the busy streets and headed for the iron bridge of a big river. The metal of the iron bridge reflected the dazzling bridge lights, but they did not go up the bridge, but to a riverside under the bridge.

  Gu He could see from a distance that in the misty night rain, there was a candlelight different from the lights by the riverside, and the dots were like fluorescent lights.

   He was suddenly surprised again. Hearing Jane talking about it just now, he thought that the living environment of the low-class people was actually in order.

   However, that piece of low-ke land was clearly composed of dilapidated and messy canopies, tents and tin huts. It looked like a gathering place for homeless people, but the flag of the low-ke tribe was raised, and some people were guarding and patrolling.

  Jane returned to her heart like an arrow, stepped on the bicycle faster, and rushed to the low-level land that made her worry.

   "Big Dog, Fishbone, Fuyuase, are you vigilant tonight, I'm back!"

   "Jenny, Jenny! Who is this guy in your car?" "Are you a man?" "Finally brought a man back!"

  Jane did not stop, and greeted the guards with a smile while driving over.

"Uh, hello everyone." Gu He also waved to them. They were all dressed in simple or even tattered clothes, smiling brightly. .

   When he saw that there were cars, he stopped by the river bank, and there were still a lot of them, especially pickup trucks.

   It seems that Jane is a low-tech fanatic, so she insists on riding a bicycle...

   But the bicycle has a good point, allowing her to drive directly into the small street between the shantytowns in Lowkodi.

   "I'm back!" Jane rang the bell of the bicycle, and some children playing on the road ran up to chase the bicycle, laughing and laughing, and they all asked who Gu He was and whether it was Jane's boyfriend.

   "None of the low-class children became street children. On the contrary, many street children became low-class children."

  Jane's tone was proud and vaguely reminiscent, "I am like that."

  Gu He really saw a lot of children, as if all those street mice came here.

   He also noticed that almost all the guards and passersby were tattooed all over their bodies.

  Jane also has some delicate tattoos on her forearms and some patterns on her neck, but not on her face.

  Tattoo is a low-class fashion. Instead of tossing with technology, they toss with their own bodies; instead of watching TV to pay attention to others, they have time to take care of themselves.

   He heard loud and lively music again, and there were a lot of audio equipment installed between the shanties.

   "This is also considered low-tech?" Gu He wondered, the effect of this surround sound...

   "Music is an important part of our lives." Jane explained, "Music won't make you indulge in fantasy, but it can make you feel more real."

   "What is low science and what is high science, who made these?" Gu He couldn't help but ask, is it reasonable?

"Low Kochi." Jane's voice suddenly filled with respect, "but no one can find him, he left thirty years ago, like Mumbo-La Paz, Roton-Loud. Low Kochi established The low-class people in each city created the professional department of power-off workers and are our spiritual leaders."

   Only then did Gu He know that there is such a historical figure, a low-koch man, okay.

   "Jane, Jane, Jane!"

   At this time, when the bicycle approached a lively small square, Jane stopped the car. A group of middle-aged men and women came, led by a middle-aged man in tattered clothes, wrapped in a checkered turban, and dancing with pigtails.

  The middle-aged man said happily: "Who is this, let me guess, your boyfriend, oh, you guessed wrong."

   "His name is Captain Swing." Jane introduced to Gu He, "Our boss here."

   "Temporary boss." Captain Swing is obviously a good joker, "Sooner or later he will be replaced by Jane." Several other middle-aged men and women agreed with a smile.

   "Uh, hello, I'm from the fish pond." Gu He said, getting off his bicycle.

   "Then I know." Captain Swing nodded and sighed: "I and Miss Caiyin have known each other for many years. When she was as old as Jane, hoho man, one more look at her can kill you."

  Gu He knew that he had no special mission on this trip. He just followed the low-class people and went to the street as an intermediary. It was a routine procedure for the low-class people to cooperate with Yakuza.

"We're broken here, we don't have much money." Captain Swing laughed. "We'll make some handicrafts, sell some garbage, and do some work in the wilderness. But we're free to live, please, and have fun. ."

  Gu He did indeed see smiles on the faces of the people here, and there was laughter everywhere.

"Big companies like Santo use technology to fabricate the so-called reality for people, controlling people's attention and thinking, so that people can indulge in it, and they can see, think, and talk, but they won't act on reality." Jane took the opportunity to speak again.

   "Huh, man, she really knows what to say." Captain Swing was amused, "I really don't know who taught her, it wasn't me anyway. This is an angry girl, full of energy."

   "Captain, you taught me that to lose anger is to lose happiness, and to lose happiness is to lose everything."

  Jane was too lazy to listen to their jokes, took Gu He's hand and walked to the small square in front, "I'll take you to a dance, we have a dance every night here, rain or shine."

  Gu He walked into the square, it was crowded and lively, there were people of all ages, who played musical instruments, sang and danced, and also had Kabuki performances, laughing face to face.

  No one is watching TV, playing with mobile phones or anything, they are living a retro life.

  Jane pulled Gu He's arrival, causing everyone to cheer and cheer, and immediately made the two dance.

  Gu He is not a great dancer, but everyone didn't ask for anything, so he swayed along with Jane a few times.

   "Jenny, Gu He! Jenny, Gu He!" People applauded, with a collective appeal.

   However, Gu He always has a little sense of falling into the MLM gang...

   But he knew it wasn't, Miss Caiyin said that the low-class people are not bad guys and lunatics, they just have different ideas. They have their own set of understanding of life, so they have a unique way of life, have their own fun, and do not listen to the fabrications of capital.

  After the dance, the night was getting darker, and the crowd in the square dispersed in a joke.

   "Where do I sleep tonight?" Gu He looked at the iron sheds and tents around him. Is there an air-conditioned room?

   "You sleep with me tonight." Jane said, "I can't let you run around."

   Good guy... Be careful when you speak. But Gu He really got used to it today, "Then where do you sleep?"

   Not long after, Jane took Gu He to a tent at the bottom of the bridge.

  The outside of the tent is a bit shabby, just a few pieces of old cardboard are covered to block the wind. The inside of the tent is fairly neat, with no furniture, sleeping carpets, full of tattered or exquisite handicrafts, and some girl's things.

  Jane lit a candle, and Gu He could look at those handicrafts more clearly, most of them were pottery sculptures, and also used worn metal materials to make various steam-mechanical things, which were quite exquisite.

   But, isn't this just sleeping under the bridge...

  Gu He hesitated, although the weather was cool, it didn't need to be so cool.

"The natural wind is much stronger than the air-conditioned wind." Jane walked to the side of the tent and pulled open a piece of windshield cardboard, revealing a large hole for ventilation. She could also see the dark night outside, the rushing river and the Neon neighborhood.

   "Look at this scenery, I can see it all day." She praised, "Welcome to the real world."

   Gu He really didn't expect that there would be such a day when mentor Xiao He would be taught incessantly.

   He looked over the tent hole and saw the dimly lit night rain outside…

   "But this window...isn't it also a small frame?"

   he asked, saying it was a window and not a hole.

   "It's a real little frame," Jane said, her freckles beautifully reflected by the candlelight, and her voice confident, "It allows us to face ourselves, not to be illusory. Ourselves, the most wonderful."

   (end of this chapter)