Overturned Tower

Completely different from Sanos Heavy Industry's style and sin.

If the original sin of Theosophy Heavy Industry is greed, then Thoth Psychic Power is arrogance——

Not only does the triple sun disk divide people into four distinct power classes... It can be seen from Ringo's endorsement that Thoth psychic power does not care about human rights that much.

The other psychics on Sky Island are either criminals, heroes, or white gloves of the Executive Department. But no matter what, the status is at least not low.

But on the Sun Island, the sky island governed by the psychic power of Thoth, where the people are most familiar with psykers, after the psykers lost their mysterious aura, they became expendable tools.

Those "war suits" require various permanent modifications before they can be worn. After the company closed down and the project was aborted, those psychics who had undergone profound transformation and were unable to adapt to other new suits were forced to lose their jobs. Even if the plan is progressing normally, if the suit is updated, many previous modifications will become meaningless or even weaken the performance.

Not to mention, there are also tentatively developed experimental-level suits - such suits are usually only used by the experimental subjects themselves. It may be that after assembling and obtaining data, it only takes a few days to eliminate and produce a new, more optimized product. For older suits, after technical support is cut off and version updates and maintenance are stopped, it may even be difficult to obtain repair parts.

As a salesman, a living advertisement, a test subject, and a spokesperson model, Ringo and the others certainly cannot accept personal transformation as they wish. In that case, it will undoubtedly weaken the performance of your own products, and may even be exposed by rival companies. Even if as a consumer, mixing different modifications is the most cost-effective, but Ringo cannot do this - it is undoubtedly a violation of the contract.

After graduation, how long this suit can be used before it becomes obsolete, or how far the version is updated and the old modifications are invalidated... these have nothing to do with one's own efforts. Because there are so many psykers, they are just consumables.

If it is for the sake of truth, optimization, and performance, scholars can let the renewable resource "human beings" be consumed without hesitation.

In the face of greater truth, there is no need to care about the life and death of mere individuals.

And based on this concept, other evils will also be born.

For example, what Ringo is telling Russell now is the open secret of Sun Island - the so-called "population optimization" theory.

Sun Island is an "optimizationist" society that has completely cut off clans, clans, and kinship.

In Russell's understanding, it is a social Darwinian concept with wisdom, scholarship and research as its sole core. The "physical class" of the triple disc is to continuously eliminate the degraded upper ones, collect the "benign mutants" born in the lower ones, and put them into the first disc for breeding. The entire triple disk is like a set of giant petri dishes.

Although wisdom cannot be completely inherited through blood, and there is a very small chance that parents with the same spiritual relatives will be born from parents with completely different spiritual relatives, but whether it is intelligence, talent or psychic adaptability, it is obviously related to some degree of genes.

Therefore, there is a special underground trade in Sun Island...that is, borrowing seeds.

The sperm of some scholars, wise men, and doctors, as well as high-quality sperm bought from other islands and smuggled in refrigerated transport, are sold at high prices on the black market of the second and third discs. Many families use artificial insemination on the black market to try to create smart children with a higher probability and change the fate of their parents.

It’s like if you can’t draw out the goods by drawing a card, you just buy an initial number...

Likewise, there is another, deeper sin based on this situation.

——That is human trafficking.

Whether they are male or female, whether they are from the island or from outside the island... the mercenaries of Sun Island will specifically hunt highly educated talents with doctorates or above. They capture doctors not necessarily to kidnap them to obtain money or technology... Even if doctors serve them, they may not be able to research anything valuable. In other words, they simply do not have the resources to support research that produces reports.

Just like stealing expensive mobile phones and computers, removing the CPU from them and extracting trace amounts of gold - this is a business with no cost-effectiveness at all. These mercenaries hunt doctors in order to smuggle them to the second or third disc to sell their heirs. Just like matching a horse to a breeder, you don't even need to pay if you don't get pregnant. From this point of view, most of the captured ones are male doctors... because the breeding efficiency will be higher.

"In addition, Sun Island also has a business called 'Replacement'..."

After Ringo was coaxed by Russell, he sat on the edge of the bed with him.

The girl put her hands between her legs and braced herself on the edge of the bed. The upper body tilted forward at a dangerous angle, as if it was about to fall at any time.

"I am a replacement."

"What is a permutation?" Russell asked.

"I told you before... the doctors of the first disk will be sent to the second disk to raise their children after they give birth. And those who can be selected from the third disk are the most outstanding ones. Geniuses. They can stand out in the educational environment of the third disc, and it is usually easier to show their excellence in the second disc.

"...So, there will be some 'doctors'. Because their children's academic performance is not good and they are disappointed, they use the company that does the 'replacement child' business to exchange the chips of two people through chip living transplantation technology. , to exchange social identities. That is to say, secretly replace your stupid child with a smarter child in the early childhood stage to ensure that the child can enter the first circle.

"In addition to doctors, there are also big businessmen doing business in the second disk... They will also directly buy a smart child to exchange identities with the children they give birth to."

"But you also completed your studies at Nephthys University."

Russell's voice became softer: "You are not bad."

Ringo suddenly raised his head and took a deep breath.

"Yeah, I'm not bad..."

She murmured in a low voice: "But I have tried my best."

There was a hint of sadness on her raised face, but there were no tears in her eyes.

"After that exchange, until I entered college, they would regularly send me some money and some living expenses. I didn't think much of it at the time, that is, I had a sister who was much smarter than me. But during the final exam of my freshman year, I ranked twelfth in a class. I didn't even get into the top ten.

"I haven't seen them since then...and the tuition is gone."

Ringo smiled bitterly.

Her voice was low, as if she was drunk, and she seemed to be whispering: "I earned tuition by participating in experiments. Because I was still holding my breath...thinking, how can they look down on me so much? I just didn't study seriously. If I took it seriously, I could still rush to the front row.

"I must be admitted to graduate school and get a doctorate. Not to impress them, but to let them know what they have given up."

Ringo's voice became so calm for the first time.

She is neither as cute and mellow as usual, nor as sweet and sweet as she was just now.

Instead, it became low and ordinary, sounding a little intellectual - metaphorically speaking, it is reminiscent of the voice of a young teacher who has just graduated and taught junior high school.

This should be her true pronunciation. This cold tone was her normal tone of voice.