The legend of Tiga

Chapter 1990 Meaning and meaninglessness

Just separated by a wall, it seems like two different worlds.

The outside of the wall is mottled and dilapidated, but the inside is full of flowers.

The fifty-meter-long and six-meter-wide stone road leads from the main gate to the five-story building in front. Every ten meters on both sides of the road, there is a towering tree. The huge tree canopy blocks the scorching sun and casts shadows. Walking on this road, you can't feel any heat at all, only full of coolness.

Various flowers and plants are planted between these big trees. It is the season when the grass is fresh and the petals are colorful. Walking among them, it feels like being in a garden. The scenery is beautiful and intoxicating.

At first glance, Hui Jujian fell in love with the lush flowers and plants. She felt as if she was in a sea of ​​flowers. The fragrance filled her nose and made her smile with joy. All the worries that had been accumulated in her heart disappeared, and she felt so relaxed that she just wanted to appreciate the flowers and trees.

But as she was watching, she was suddenly startled and woke up suddenly with an intoxicated smile on her face. Her eyes were still blurred, but she was terrified in her heart.

Before entering the door, she was still full of vigilance, but after stepping in here, she was dazzled and blinded by the flowers and plants, and completely forgot about everything else. In her eyes and in her heart, there was only this magnificent flower tea.

"What's going on?" Iruma Hui was horrified inwardly, but her expression remained unchanged. She still looked dazzled, and the smile on her face remained unchanged.

But his hand had quietly reached for his waist, and only when he touched a few hard points did he feel a little relieved. This was a small female pistol for self-defense. It had average power, but it was better than nothing. What's more, Dagu and Lina were following them, and they would definitely rush in as soon as the gun was fired.

Therefore, Iruma Kei continued to follow Mrs. Nakano inside, and her mind was already on high alert. She kept looking around with her peripheral vision, looking for anything unusual.

But after looking all the way and about to enter the building, I couldn't find anything wrong, as if this was just an ordinary garden.

If it weren't for what happened just now, Hui Jujian might have believed it, but the confusion just now made Hui Jujian realize that this was definitely not normal and it must be related to the "reform of good people" of those children.

Not to mention anything else, the fact that Ijuma Hui herself almost got lost among the flowers and plants just now was enough to determine that something was wrong here.

After entering the building, the view inside suddenly becomes clear.

From the outside it looked like a small building with several floors, but inside it was actually a large open room, like a warehouse, twenty meters from the ground to the ceiling, a hundred meters long, and thirty to forty meters wide.

This is the real appearance of the four-story building that looks like a teaching building from the outside.

Iruma Hui was full of vigilance. She was standing at the door and was about to take a closer look at the huge room, but she saw Mrs. Nakano smiling and saying, "Yes, I'm here again. No, no, no, my child is fine. It's this lady. Her daughter is very naughty. She wants you to be kind and help her and make her a good child."

Who is she talking to?

Iruma Hui was so surprised that he immediately reached into his clothes and grabbed the small pistol for self-defense. He quickly scanned the area but saw nothing. There was nothing around except brick walls and floors.

Ok?
Iruma Hui was startled, and immediately turned around and looked behind him. What he saw was a vast expanse of white fog. The concrete floor suddenly disappeared a few meters behind him. He didn't know whether it was submerged by the fog or...
At this time, Mrs. Nakano turned around and asked, "By the way, what's your name?"

"I"

Iruma Hui hesitated and was about to say the identity he had made up in advance, but suddenly a third voice sounded, neither male nor female, and it was impossible to tell whether it was old or young, which seemed like a synthesis.

"Iruma Kei, former Victory Captain, TPC Intelligence Bureau Staff Officer, welcome!"

Swish!
When the strange voice called out her name, Iruma Kei had already pulled out the pistol from her arms and pointed it in the direction where the voice came from as she turned her body.

I saw a ball of faint blue flame floating in the air which was empty just now. It was about one meter high and more than thirty centimeters at its widest point. It was floating in the air half a meter above the ground, but it was frozen without any leaping of the burning flame, as if it was frozen.

"This is..." Although Iruma Hui knew that something was wrong here, he also guessed who might be responsible. The most common assumption was that it was an alien, but he never expected that it would be such a strange thing without a head or limbs. It was so sloppy, as if they had just found a picture and pasted it on, without even having to make a leather cover.

Since the other party had recognized her, Ikuma Hui simply stopped pretending and pulled off her camouflage hood. She still pointed the gun at the flames and said, "Shouldn't you introduce yourself?"

"I'm from Narcissus. As for my name, it has no meaning on our planet."

The flame-like Narcissian continued to speak in a rigid, emotionless tone, which was shocking:
"We used advanced technology to wipe out the negative emotions in everyone's hearts and connect everyone together, so that Narcissus no longer has any fighting or conflicts, and has become a peaceful planet."

"Erased the negative emotions? Everyone is connected as one? What does this mean?"

Iruma Kei was shocked by what the other party said.

She could understand erasing negative emotions. After all, humans also have a lot of negative emotions, and even she would have some negative emotions to a certain extent.

As for using technology to erase negative emotions, it is not impossible. In the last century, humans used surgical cutting of the frontal lobe to treat some mental illnesses, but it was eventually stopped due to the serious sequelae.

But this is for a physical body, and the flame in front of me looks like an illusion. How can I erase the so-called negative emotions?
And what does it mean to be connected as one?
Is the Internet like that?

However, the Narcissians answered every question and said without hiding anything: "We have erased negative emotions, and there is only love in our hearts, without deception and harm. In order to share knowledge and maximize work efficiency, we will connect with each other and become a whole."

"what?"

Although she had some guesses, when the Narcissian told it, it still made Iruma Hui feel incredible.

They are connected to each other and become a whole.

Isn't this just like the Internet?

Computers are connected to the server via network cables, and by uploading to the server, resource sharing and content sharing can be achieved.

The Narcissians reminded Hui Iruma of the robots on the intelligent assembly line. As soon as the previous robot completes a process, it will be taken over by the next robot. There are hundreds or thousands of robots on an assembly line, all coordinated by computer programs. There is no need for communication between robots, and no conflicts will arise.

Iruma Hui has visited an advanced smart factory. There is no one in the factory of hundreds of thousands of square meters. All the equipment, including the transport trucks and unloading forklifts, are unmanned. Even the maintenance robots are managed by special robots. Looking around, in the huge factory, large and small vehicles shuttle back and forth, but there are no traffic lights, no need to slow down or wait, and under the control of the intelligent program, they can cross and shuttle in a ten-centimeter gap.

The production and logistics efficiency is more than ten times higher than that of manual factories.

And this is just a transformed smart factory. It is reported that an experimental fully smart factory is currently under construction, which has even eliminated the roads and replaced them all with robotic arms and slide rails. It only needs one-tenth of the area to achieve the efficiency of a factory of the same area.

According to the Narcissians, aren’t they no different from the robots in human smart factories?
Although Narcissus has advanced technology and does not use precious "people" like robots, just like the Earth today, due to the development of technology, people have been rescued from the heavy and repetitive assembly lines and are no longer treated like beasts of burden, but connecting brains together and turning them into computers is scary enough.

There is no privacy, not even a sense of self.

Even if humans currently just use mobile phones and computers to browse information on the Internet, they will be affected by the videos, texts and other information recommended by big data. If they use brain-computer interfaces and directly face the vast ocean of information, the impact will be even greater.

However, these are just speculations, and what happens on the planet Narcis is the concern of the Narcis people. As Earthlings, we should not be involved in their decisions and practices.

Therefore, Iruma Hui suppressed his inner fear and said in a deep voice: "Since you only have love and kindness, then why did you come to Earth?"

"Share the love and kindness we have learned with humanity!"

The Narcissians, who will never lie, will answer any questions you ask and are very patient.

"Share it with humans?"

Iruma Kei heard this unexpected yet expected answer.

Because she thought of those children who had turned over a new leaf. They were originally bad people, habitual liars, hurting their parents with words and actions, and liked to scare strangers and enjoy it, etc. But now, not only are they well-behaved and obedient, they have also started to study hard. Compared with before, they have completely changed.

"The children?"

"We hope to complete the study of humans on Earth through them, and eventually make all humans become like us."

"Absolutely not." Iruma Hui was frightened by the words of the Narcissians. Turning humans into Narcissians?
It's simply horrifying!

"Humanity didn't invite you to Earth, much less ask you to transform us humans. What qualifications do you have to make decisions for humans?"

Iruma Kei said excitedly, appearing very angry.

They keep talking about love and kindness, but then they turn around and start studying and transforming humans. They even want to turn all humans into like them, and they have an "I'm doing this for your own good" attitude. It's really despicable.

"Their parents asked us to do this."

But Narcissian's words made Iruma Kei's eyes widen, and then she heard Mrs. Nakano next to her say: "Yes, I ask the gods to change my child back."

"Change back?"

Iruma Kei turned her head and looked at Mrs. Nakano in surprise. Her expression was serious and her words were not as rigid as those of the Narcissians. She was probably not mind controlled and said the truth. However, what she said and did was very shocking.

"You asked it to change the child back?"

"My child is well-behaved and obedient. He became like that because of the influence of those bad kids. That's why we quarrel all the time. So as long as he changes back to his original state, all conflicts will be resolved and our family will return to its original warmth." Mrs. Nakano said excitedly, words that made Iruma Kei unable to understand.

"But this is just what you want. Have you asked Akita? Does he want to stay like this forever?"

"He's just a child, he doesn't know anything, I'm doing this for his own good," Mrs. Nakano became even more agitated and shouted loudly, "If he doesn't study hard now, what will he do in the future? If he can't get into a good university, he won't have a good job in the future, and he will have to do hard work that doesn't pay much."

"He is only in his teens, and less than one-fifth of his life has passed. How can you predict what his future life will be like?"

"Why can't I think of this? I have walked more roads than he has crossed bridges. I am his mother. Will I harm him?"

"You are harming him now." Iruma Hui couldn't help but raise his voice, raised his hand and pointed at the 'flame' picture next to him, and shouted: "Or do you want him to become like this?"

"I" Mrs. Nakano paused for a moment, then said, "I just want him to be sensible, to know the benefits of learning, to understand our painstaking efforts, and to stop doing those meaningless things."

"Meaningless? That's just what you think. Have you ever thought about it from his perspective? If that's the case, then there are too many meaningless things in this world. Chatting with your neighbors is meaningless. Why don't you use the time to study and enrich yourself? Watching soap operas is also meaningless. Why don't you use the time to learn about the latest technology?"

Iruma Kei said a lot in one breath, leaving Mrs. Nakano speechless.

Roller skating is meaningless, so what can you get from watching soap operas? What can you get from chatting with neighbors and friends?

You get nothing out of it, it's just a way to kill time.

And by the definition of meaninglessness, these things are also meaningless.

"You are just imposing your own ideas on the child. What you want is not a living child, but a child that suits your own wishes."

Iruma Kei did not "press on for victory" but made a summary speech. In order to strengthen his own point, he turned his head to look at the Narcissians who did not answer or interrupt unless asked, and said: "They succeeded. No one will do meaningless things. But is such a life really meaningful?"

Mrs. Nakano could not answer. Her knowledge was not enough to handle such a profound question. She just stood there confused and looked at him blankly, not knowing what to say or what to think.

(End of this chapter)