Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 760
Chen Yan followed Ma Zai, who was wearing a gray octagonal hat, onto the gangway. After a few short steps, he stepped into the cabin, and saw black plastic bags piled up in the cramped space inside the cabin.

These plastic bags were randomly piled up in the corners like rubbish, without any moisture-proof treatment, as if just plastic bags could withstand the severe humidity at sea—even a layman like Chen Yan knew that they should be used during the voyage. Add an extra layer of protection to electronic products, but Thomas Gilbert's clerks obviously don't know this, and they leave those delicate electronic products in the corner to be attacked by moisture, or waiting to be broken down by static electricity.

"This batch of goods can't be processed for the time being. You have to find a way to store this batch of goods for two days."

Ma Zai didn't have any "sorry" emotions when he said the plan that was beyond the scope of discussion. Chen Yan thought that this might be because they were used to all kinds of "accidents" in the process of doing business.

"The C-17 area has been under repair since the riot happened yesterday. It is not open. The store we cooperate with is there... I will give you the phone number of the partner, but you may not be able to get through. They are in some trouble. , must be sheltered from the limelight."

Just now Thomas Gilbert mentioned Area C-17, which is the area where the gunpowder store was wiped out.

The words in Ma Zai's words made Chen Yan find something quite interesting - he clearly said "cooperation", and according to the meaning expressed by Thomas Gilbert before, the repairers of electronic products should belong to the razor party. right.

Chen Yan asked:

"What about after delivering these items to the store in Block C-17?"

Ma Zai glanced at him, and the expression on his face seemed to say, "You don't know anything, so you came here to do business?".

Although he was impatient, Ma Zai still gave an explanation:

"The store will take care of the shipment, so it's none of your business."

This is indeed not the matter of Chen Yan. According to the original agreement, Chen Yan is only as an investor, injecting capital into Thomas Gilbert's "business", not the executor of any stage of the plan.

Chen Yan refused the cigarettes handed over by the other party out of habit, and continued to test without giving up:

"These things are not easy to sell."

Ma Zai glanced at the two strong men behind Chen Yan—he first glanced at Jack Baldo's hand hidden in his jacket pocket, and then he stayed on Swarm's bald head for two more eyes.

He realized that the other party was not easy to provoke, so he didn't attack immediately when faced with unnecessary questions as usual, but covered his impatience and irritability with the act of smoking fiercely, and then said in vague words :
"Who knows, Tommy says it can be sold, so it will be sold... Don't ask any more, that's the business of the guys in the store."

According to the addressing habits of the people of the Empire, the name Thomas has many names. Those who are not familiar with him are called Thomas, and those who are acquainted are usually called Tom, and those who are more familiar and have a closer relationship call Thomas Tommy.

Chen Yan understood from his answer that Thomas Gilbert probably played the role of "raw material provider" in this transaction - the electronic waste from Yanan City was the raw material he provided, and the electronic waste The "maintenance" and "sale" processes were completed independently by other forces on Days Island.

Chen Yan took the note he handed over, and saw the phone number written on the note: Dea-27661321
This phone number is much longer than the phone number in Nan City, and it must be because there are already enough people using mobile phones.

After Chen Yan boarded the pier, he didn't see the lighthouse, but his mobile phone signal was full, which meant that there must be a huge lighthouse somewhere on Days Island.

Chen Yan didn't ask any more questions, and with the help of Ma Zai, he set up a trolley and transported a total of six bags of electronic waste back to his boat.

After returning to the boat, with the help of the shrimp people, the four of them spread out the electronic waste in the cabin on the ground floor. Chen Yan found that most of the electronic waste was mobile phones, including functional phones and smart phones. The only common feature was that none of them could be turned on.

Under Chen Yan's instruction, the shrimp man George Lebster quickly disassembled several mobile phones, and restarted the mobile phones through simple methods such as wiring or overcharging.

"Ha, most of these mobile phones are just losing power, and they can continue to be used after activating the electronics."

George Lebster picks up another phone with its circuit boards removed:
"This chip is broken, there is no way to repair it, and it is completely scrapped."

He showed the other three people the mobile phone chip held in the tweezers in his hand.

The fingernail-sized chip seems to have no pins, and there is no such thing as an input or output port. It is just a small, soft metal piece of unknown texture.

"It's a strange material that responds strangely to electrical stimulation."

Xiaren was originally an electrician. After Yanan City entered the Internet era, he learned more knowledge about weak electricity through the Internet, and this knowledge is in use today.

The Shrimp touches the chip with what looks like an electric pen, and presses a button on the pen.

There is no such thing as "electric light" on the iron tip, but the chip has changed - the surface of the chip seems to have undergone a slight "collapse inward", and the process of collapse is accompanied by some changes in the chip itself , Chen Yan didn't know what the change was, but inexplicably felt an emotion similar to "burning pain" in the air.

This chip...

is alive?
But how can something like a chip have pain nerves?
To endow a chip with life and pain, what is the Mechanical Ascension Secret Society going to do?
Chen Yan knew that the mobile phone was something made by the Machine Repair Society, but he still didn't understand the significance of them letting everyone have a mobile phone. After experiencing so many things about the Machine Repair Society these days, Chen Yan faintly noticed something about the Machine Repair Society Purpose - to let the machine have "real life".

He didn't know if his guess was right.

He took the chip from the shrimp man, and the synaesthesia immediately produced all the information that the chip had ever processed—phone calls received, text messages sent, software operated, etc.

All the operation behaviors generated by the chip are perceived by him, and it is enough to draw a conclusion:
Although this chip has something similar to "vital signs", it does not have "subjective consciousness" itself.

Looking at the chip, he quickly had another thought in his mind:
'Once [subjective consciousness] is involved, the Society of Mechanics will be hindered, and their plans will usually come to a standstill here. '

But only in terms of "vital signs", once an electronic chip composed of a certain structure of single crystal silicon has life, it is a serious "silicon-based life body".

Thinking of this, and thinking about what the Machine Repair Society did before, Chen Yan felt that the true purpose of the Machine Repair Society became more and more visible.

There are many other living chips like this, but none of them has any "subjective consciousness".

Chen Yan thought, from this point of view, the consciousness of Cyborg Quinn born from the mobile phone should be regarded as a complete "silicon-based life", because Cyborg Quinn uses the mobile phone as his consciousness. The carrier itself has a complete "subjective consciousness".

Thinking of this, Chen Yan suddenly thought, the current Cyborg Quinn, since he was born in the mobile phone, has been sealed by the North Bureau with his IP address, once he appears now, if he is targeted by the Mechanic Society...

I hope that Cyborg Quinn's tricks will be bright, and he will not be so reckless in the online world, otherwise, once he is captured by a mysterious force like the Machine Repair Society, which has almost no information to follow, Chen Yan will not be able to save him anyway, nor will he It will not cost much to find him.

Looking at the chip, Chen Yan thought, what a surprise it was to suddenly discover the secret of the chip at this time.

Chen Yan thought, looking at it from another perspective, perhaps it was not he who "discovered" the secret of the chip, but the secret of the chip that met him—maybe something like "silicon-based life forms will be born in the chip" There were already enough of them, and their scope was wide enough, enough to be touched by someone with a little supernatural knowledge like him.

Chen Yan came into contact with knowledge that was previously unknown to him. He believed that this was due to his contact with the world—the normal logic should be: he came to Days Island, where a lot of resources were invested by the empire, and he stood in the The most cutting-edge and fast-growing island in the world, so you can come into contact with a lot of things like "chips", thus broadening your horizons.

Sooner or later, people in Yanan City will come into contact with mobile phone chips, but can Yanan City have more opportunities to contact the world than chips?

Chen Yan felt that Yanan City would not have too many such opportunities.

The situation in Yanan City is not optimistic. The people who seem to have returned to calm hide even more explosive contradictions. If those contradictions cannot be alleviated by the employment opportunities brought by the airport, Yanan City may become a big thunderstorm and blow up the entire city. The Northern Federation could not recover for a long time.

Chen Yan didn't want that kind of ending - partly based on this consideration, he organized the night school, hoping that the talents brought to society by the night school could slow down the conflict, and even stop it to a certain extent.

The development that education brings to society is indirect, and it will take many years to see the results, and it will take some years for the accumulation and outbreak of social conflicts——Chen Yan compares the situation of Yanan City with some dynasties in his previous life , I feel that Yanan City still has at least ten years to live.

Ten years is not enough to give education some opportunities and bring enough changes to society.

But this was the only way Chen Yan could think of.

As far as he is concerned—for him who was exiled from Yanan City, the current situation is not adversity at all. He can take this opportunity to see many things that he could not see before—standing on Days Island, Standing on the island chain of the empire, looking at the huge Internet of Things system built by the empire to divert all contradictions and move towards an unknown future, and looking at all the technologies put into it, Chen Yan readily found that he was keeping up with the development of the world. The trend is also going to the fastest growing place in the world.

Or maybe...

Or maybe it's just the trend that engulfs him. Whether it's on the island chain or in Yanan City, he will inevitably be involved in the torrent of the world's progress, irresistible and unable to choose.

Perhaps, his self-righteous chuckle is only derived from the ignorance in his heart and the fearlessness born of ignorance.

Chen Yan held the chip and thought about it several times.

Although he is no longer confused now, he doesn't know how to participate in the process of world development.

He thought to himself, maybe mastering a part of the means of production and becoming capital itself is a way to participate in the development of the world.

So he participated in Thomas Gilbert's seemingly completely unreliable e-waste smuggling - he wanted to use a "relatively normal" way to participate in the circulation of means of production and the operation of capital, instead of using the mass of modular apartments Electricity forcibly participates in all processes with the attitude of disrupting the market.

After deciding on this matter, his mood was very similar to that before he came to Yanan City, when he submitted his resume on the ferry to Shanghai to find a job, he was extremely looking forward to and extremely anxious, not knowing what his future would be like.

Fortunately, he has experienced enough, and those experiences are enough to calm him down.

"Can these e-waste be repaired?"

Chen Yan asked shrimp man George LeBost.

The shrimp man picked up an old-fashioned mobile phone, which was the first-generation functional phone issued when the lighthouse was first established in Yanan City.

"This kind of functional machine can almost be repaired, because the structure is relatively simple, there are no special parts, as long as the chip is not broken, there is basically no problem."

He picked up another smartphone, which is a product of upgrading after the lighthouse was fully established:
"Smartphones are not easy to handle, there are too many parts, and I just checked that many screens are broken. The screen is a whole thing. If a small part is broken, it cannot be repaired. You can only replace it with a new one, or wear a broken screen. use.

As for the others... those with water ingress and capacitors broken down by static electricity are particularly difficult to deal with.

Smartphone parts are complicated and highly integrated. If you want to repair, you can definitely repair some of them, but once it involves special tiny electronic components, there is no way. "

The shrimp man groped around in the plastic bag for a while, and put several different devices on the table one after another.

"These are switches, repeaters, server hard drives...these are all electronic equipment, and it's not impossible to repair, but it's extremely troublesome to repair. Professional equipment and parts are needed, because the equipment for repairing electronic equipment and ordinary electrical appliances Repair equipment is different."

Chen Yan nodded and said:
"So more professional repair tools and matching parts are needed, no problem, I will find a way."

Chen Yan turned around and asked Jack Baldo:

"You seem to have learned similar things before?"

Jack Baldo says:
"These things are more or less the same, if you learn it, it's not difficult."

Jack Baldo could even handle the center console of the first-generation mining machine before, but now he is facing such a relatively small technological content, it should be no problem.

"In this way - you try to repair as much as you can. I will go to the C-17 area to check the situation and see if I can buy maintenance equipment. If it is possible, we will do this business ourselves."

After Chen Yan finished speaking, he took Swarm, left the ship, and headed to the C-17 area in the direction of the center of Days Island.

(End of this chapter)