Overturned Tower

“I am not speaking out for Xiao Liuli, nor am I speaking out for Ultramarine, nor even Dailan——

"I speak for the thousands of poor people. I speak for those who just want to live but can't do anything!"

Kasumi drank coffee and watched the recent popular video.

She knows this video owner. In other words, Xia has been paying attention to him for a long time.

His name is "Mark in the Sunset". He used to be a big fan of Xiao Liuli. He seems to be a music major or maybe a literature major. He often deeply analyzes the meaning of the lyrics in some songs, explaining why the arranger uses such a tune here, what kind of emotion he wants to highlight, and what meaning it has... The song that has been analyzed the most is Xiao Liuli's song.

This is also normal. After all, Xiao Liuli was once the most popular singer, and she was the spokesperson for her popularity. At the same time, her appearance, figure, songwriting ability, singing skills and even dancing were all considered top-notch.

Although each item is not the best, the overall level is the highest. With such hard power and the promotion of capital, countless people are following her. In addition to those who analyze songs and tend to be hard-core dry goods, there are also all kinds of people who hype scandals and spread some gossip. Singing and dancing, re-composing music, re-writing lyrics... Even in nightclubs, there are "imitation Xiao Liuli" public relations. Spiritual relatives, height, appearance, plus plastic surgery and prosthetic body modification, it is easy to achieve at least 90% similarity.

But after Xiao Liuli died, these people dispersed one after another.

Although Xiao Liuli is still the same outstanding girl, even though the living can never be as perfect as the dead... the various new generation idols that Tianen Group continues to launch still attract people's attention.

At that time, there were only a few die-hard fans who were still creating content related to Xiao Liuli. Among them, Mark is the highest quality among them.

Many people advised him that he could actually follow the trend; they told him that Xiao Liuli was dead after all, and she would no longer produce new works, and that he could not make these old things for a lifetime - chewing them over and over was just consumption. People will eventually get tired of dead people.

He is professional. He will eventually transform.

Of course Mark knows this too. He does not come from a wealthy family. He wants to support himself and his family.

He can only surrender to the market.

Xiao Liuli’s standard color is Liuli blue, which is her support color and her signature color. Her song CDs are usually large blue with other colors. Opening Mark's historical contributions, you can see that a few years ago there were large swaths of glazed blue covers... but after Xiao Liuli died, the proportions of other colors gradually began to increase and became colorful.

But Xia could tell that Mark was upset. When he created videos related to Xiao Liuli, he was full of enthusiasm and motivation - the passion to express his passion for what he likes. It is the restlessness of wanting to share this feeling after being moved.

However, when the colors of his video cover gradually changed to bright yellow, blood-like crimson, black and white, brown and green, light blue and yellow, neon-like purple and blue, Mark was filled with confusion. His video analysis is like something mass-produced using a certain formula.

It's like those "canned mass-produced pop songs" that he himself once criticized.

Until some time ago, the barber announced that he was Xiao Liuli.

From that moment on, Mark seemed to come alive again. His videos turn into patches of blue again—but that's no longer limited to music.

He began to walk out of his narrow rental house and walked into the sunshine that he had not seen for a long time.

His skin was pale and rough, he had a stubble, and his hair was messy. He looked thin and weak, but his eyes were shining.

Guided by the mission issued by Fuji Society, he began to try to help others.

But he really knows almost nothing, because although his family conditions are not good, his parents love him very much. He is the kind of lazy dog ​​who can't even cook and even needs help from his roommates to get takeout. On weekdays, he doesn't even brush his teeth and wash his face every day. He does it only when he remembers.

That is, the avatar allows him to maintain a neat appearance. The mellow and magnetic bubbly voice of "Mark in the Sunset", his soothing and almost hypnotic tone, and the poetic and beautiful video copy make him look like a middle-aged man full of knowledge and charm.

But he didn’t actually even go to college.

In order to be able to write beautiful video copy, he scratched his head, thought hard and almost despaired. He flipped through various poetry anthologies, read a lot of books, and then tried to write a lot of poems by himself.

But only one-fifty of them are useful; the rest are stupid, shallow, and artificial.

“That was my dream image.

"I imagined that I could be such a person who gives people a sense of security and trust. I hope that I am really educated and stylish, and can say those beautiful sentences as easily as I can twist a flower. It’s not about brooding over it and then playing it off.”

Mark, who appeared in live action for the first time, wore no makeup, no grooming, or even a shave.

I just washed my face and hair, then wore regular clothes and took this video. He talked plainly about his hard work and despair, easily shattering the beautiful character he had created in the past.

A large number of fans have unfollowed, but there are also a large number of new fans following. Because that kind of calm, real and down-to-earth form has given people a huge impact. His dark and messy room shocked people even more——

"It wasn't until then that I realized... that I, who live by analyzing 'idols', turned out to be an idol in some people's minds."

In the second video, Mark said so self-deprecatingly.

He filmed the process of accepting a mission from the Fuji Society and then executing it into a daily vlog with a variety show feel. He was already good at this, and he had a team to help him.

And compared with the designs of those variety shows, he seems so real - because he is really full of enthusiasm even though he knows nothing.

At the beginning, he would even be blamed and scolded by the person who issued the task.

He accidentally lost his kindergarten child and it took him more than an hour to find it; he made a mess when cleaning other people's homes, which was basically the same as if he had not cleaned it; he made a mess when cooking for others. The pots were broken, and the delivery time was always overtime... It was only when I was writing love letters to others and accompanying others to confess their feelings that I didn't have any problems.

He was certainly ridiculed online. People said that he was "pretending to be crazy" and that he was "taking advantage of the popularity". Others criticized him for "if you don't know how to do it, then don't come out to cause trouble" and "it would be better not to help than to be a waste of help."

But his enthusiasm is evident. The videos updated every day tell people how quickly people can change if they really want to do something as quickly as possible.

If you watch the videos in chronological order, you can see that Mark is growing up at a speed visible to the naked eye. He learned to pick out clothes, learn to cook, and learn to clean the room. Gradually, some people began to thank him, some brought him fruits, some taught him how to put on makeup as a thank you, and some gave him handmade jewelry as a thank you gift - it was a fist-sized, majestic head carved by hand from stone. Made of white cow.

Yes, Mark’s spiritual relative is the cow.

He has a pair of curved horns and a heart as stubborn as a cow.

Last week, Dailan spoke out for the missing Ultramarine and the Barber on "The Emperor's Talk Show" and leaked a lot of secrets after being sniped, causing chaos in the entire Happy Island.

Not just on the Internet, people are constantly chatting about related things even offline.

And this incident was just the beginning - chaos began to spread.

One secret after another is revealed one after another: psychic chips, psykers, reconstruction mechanisms, Peter Pan...

People began to seriously consider whether resources were really going to be exhausted?

Then panic began to spread.

People are snapping up those items in supermarkets like crazy, buying them in bulk and piling them up in their homes. A large number of videos began to appear on the Internet teaching people how to use "self-defense techniques" to paralyze or kill others. Countless experts began to scaremonger or "refute rumors" one after another, and a large number of products began to increase in price - even if their cost was close to none.

Recently, people have finally begun to realize that these goods come from the Lower City factory.

So starting yesterday, there began to be cases of attacks on automatic factories and robbery of goods. Although the robber was killed on the spot by the security system, some people still said on the Internet that their robbery was successful.

The execution department and network security department of Tianen Group have also become like lame and blind men.

In the past, these people would have been arrested and these messages would have been deleted. But now there is no movement from them... It cannot be said that there is no movement at all, but their efforts to stop it can be said to be powerless.

Then today, things started to get more serious.

There is no surveillance outside the factory in Xiacheng District. The former Uncoded people lived here and fought with each other here.

Today, a complete video of a group of young students preparing to rob a factory was caught, tortured and then killed by a group of heavily armed thugs suddenly appeared on the Internet, and it has not been deleted for a long time.

So people began to become more panicked and angry - this anger was first directed at the uncoded people, especially those "mercenaries". Because they have done this kind of thing before, and Dailan just revealed the truth about "how the Uncoded will deal with people after they arrest them" not long ago.

Immediately afterwards, for some unknown reason, the wave of condemnation was directed at the Fuji Society. Because the backbone of Fuji Society are the uncoded people in Xiacheng District.

It is inevitable that there are a large number of mercenaries. People asked the Fuji Society to drive out these uncoded people, and some even demanded that they be expelled or executed. Because people finally realized that the Xiacheng District factory is a very important resource point.

If resources are about to be exhausted, then it is easier to obtain resources in the lower city than in the upper city. Some people began to flee toward the lower city, dragging their families and forming gangs. Even if experts repeatedly state that it will be at least a hundred years before resources are exhausted, it will not help - people selectively believe some of the facts.

Anxious people believe the facts that make them more anxious, radical people believe the facts that make them more radical, conservative people believe the most conservative facts, and people who believe nothing still believe nothing. .

Among these facts, some are lies and some are one-sided truths. Others are a small part of the truth, or an exaggerated version of the truth.

And there are other people who chose another path - they gave up their family property and jobs, took the gold bars and fled the Happy Island, and went to the empty island that they thought would be better. They took the "truth" they believed in with them.

Truths, secrets and rumors spread like the plague. Unstoppable.

At this time, Mark took action.

He recorded a video to tell people that at times like this, the more they need to unite; they, the poor, are not enemies, and factors such as chips artificially defined by the Seven Giants should not be used to discriminate against each other. The basis for attacking each other; and Fuji Society is trustworthy at this time. In the current situation where the value of currency is about to become chaotic, "favor" is the most practical primitive currency.

But no one was willing to listen to his calm and rational words at this time.

People attacked him, as if they had finally found an outlet for their stress, venting their panic, anxiety, distrust and hostility. Along with the news that the Fuji Society had been corrupted, Mark seemed to have turned into a traitor in an instant - he just asked people to stay calm and was not willing to go crazy with them, so he became a traitor to the Seven Giants. running dog.

He just stood before the wave of the times and shouted with all his strength. But no one could hear his voice, and not many people stopped to listen to him.

Just like a mantis using its arms as a chariot.

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