Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 288 I'm done...?
light.

sound.

"...Patient...Heart Rate Index..."

light.

"...critical value!...rescue..."

sound,

"electric shock!"

Bang.

A white light flashed in his head, Zheng Zhuo jumped up from the operating table, and fell heavily on the stage again.

"Come again!"

Bang.

...beep...beep...beep...beep...

The beeping is loud.

Bang.

Another electric shock.

Zheng Zhuo's eyes opened briefly.

He saw many doctors in green surgical suits surrounding him, holding defibrillators in their hands.Behind them, there are many colorful screens.

The numbers on the screen kept jumping.

"(It looks so advanced.)"

Now it turns out that there are already medical instruments with this level of technology.

Zheng Zhuo thought in a haze.

Ok?
When thinking of this, a small sense of disobedience suddenly emerged.

Already... Have you?Now……

no, no... i remember...

Remember……

remember what?
just now……

is now, when?
……

现在是2077年12月10日下午15点34分27秒。

Zheng Zhuo looked at the clock embedded under the transparent acrylic cladding on the wall, and said to himself.

The sunlight came in through a small opening and cast on his body through the radiation mirror, making him feel an ethereal warmth.

He briefly looked away from the clock.He looks indoors.

This is a large indoor courtyard.The ground is covered with clean and tidy turf.

The courtyard is circular.no horns.The walls all around are pure white, wrapped in thick cushions.There are some chairs on the edge of the lawn, also round.

There were some other people in the courtyard.They were all dressed in white with huge Velcro closures.

Some people are in a daze, some people are concentrating on playing something.

Some people looked at Zheng Zhuo.

Zheng Zhuo didn't think about anything.He stood there, looking at them.

After a while, one of them walked towards Zheng Zhuo.

"Hey new here."

Zheng Zhuo looked away.He looked towards the comer.

It was a man with nails on the brow bone, the bridge of the nose and the ears.He looked ruffian and stood slack.

"I'm going to live here for a while. Let's get to know each other."

The man stretched out his hand to Zheng Zhuo.

"..."

Zheng Zhuo's head turned very slowly.He didn't move for a while, just stood there.

"……what."

Seeing that he didn't respond, the man on the opposite side laughed out loud with his nose.

"As expected of a legendary cyberpsycho who entered Fox's building single-handedly and deleted all their most important information? This air is just different from ordinary people."

what?
Legendary Cyber ​​Psycho?I?
Zheng Zhuo had no impression at all.

However, he always felt that something was not right.

Not that part of the legendary cyberpsychosis.Rather... single-handedly...

He doesn't remember anything about the Foss Building at all, but he vaguely remembers that he is not alone...

Not alone what?
Zheng Zhuo frowned.

However, I still can't remember anything.

His memory was blank.Like the walls here.

"Hello." Seeing that Zheng Zhuo hadn't responded, the man got bored and turned to the people nearby, "Do you think so?"

"..."

Those people let it go, and those who play with grass play with grass.No one answered him either.

"Hey."

The man with nails all over his face sighed exaggeratedly.

"Are all guys recovering from cyberpsychosis this kind of virtue? I lived in a single room for three months, and I thought I could finally relax and chat with living people... The results are all like this? All related to injuries like a brain?"

"...That's right... If I can be judged to be able to contact outsiders, I'm probably going to be a useless person... Hey, I said I'm not crazy, it's just a little bit too much! Those guys don't believe it... Now it's good... This But it's even more boring, God, why don't you let me go back to the 'trash dump'..."

The man was chanting, circling in the courtyard.

The guy lived in a single room for three months.

And me?

Zheng Zhuo recalled slowly.

He seems to have some memories... About him being pushed into the ward after being rescued, and then transferred from the ward to a single room... About him sitting in a single room every day, only regular delivery of meals, medicines and health checks...

How long have I lived?
He doesn't remember the elapsed time.

The man walked around the venue for a long time.Probably because he was too bored, he returned to Zheng Zhuo.

"Hey, Zheng. Hey—"

He stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Zheng Zhuo's eyes.

Zheng Zhuo didn't even blink his eyes.

"Please."

The man slumped his shoulders.

"At least tell me about your brave deeds. You killed a whole team of security guards by yourself, and you persisted until the data in the computer room was deleted, Zheng."

Zheng?
This is calling...

"...Who are you calling...?"

"!"

Zheng Zhuo spoke slowly.He startled the man.

"Oh! You reacted!"

"..."

a.

"...Okay. I knew it."

The man was discouraged, and he pointed to the sign on his chest.

"Our names are all written on our chests. Isn't your name 'Zheng Zhuo'? In Luodu, there is probably only one person with this name."

Zheng Zhuo lowered his head slowly.

Sure enough, he saw "Zheng Zhuo" written on the badge.

My name is Zheng Zhuo?
He couldn't even think of that at all.

……

After the air time was over, Zheng Zhuo returned to the room as requested by the broadcast.After that, he may or may not have slept.

Every day, he has the same process.Sit in the room, wait for the release, release, return to the room, wait for the release.

It's been a long time.Occasionally, he could see an airship passing through the narrow windows that streamed in sunlight.

A man with nails all over his face is called a "coyote".Probably because Zheng Zhuo is a celebrity, after that day, he always came to talk to Zheng Zhuo.

He said that he did not have a name, and that the name was given to him by the people in the "garbage dump".He also told how he had fought so valiantly against the assessment point system and the Flowserve lackeys that day in Docklands.

Of course, in addition to these things about himself, he also said a lot about Zheng Zhuo and about the organization.

He let Zheng Zhuo know that he and Zheng Zhuo were finally arrested.They were judged as "cyber psychosis"... a neurological disease caused by excessive use of evaluation points, and they were imprisoned in a specialized institution in Luodu for recuperation.

Zheng Zhuo also knew about evaluation points, which is a numerical indicator for judging a person's ability in a certain aspect.When a natural person is born, all exponents are 1 point.However, if you want to increase your points and get a good job, you need to pass a special training course that takes a lot of time and energy, or buy nanochips at astronomical prices.

"Of course, our points are all back to 1 point."

Coyote said so.

"Hey! Fortunately, before I came in, I gritted my teeth and bought the [Flesh Body] to level 2... If I knew it, I would use it to buy a container. At least I still have a place to live..."

"...But you don't have to worry! I heard from the medical staff when I went for the examination that you are very cooperative and all the indicators are perfect. Did you know that those with good indicators will get an injection from level 1 to level 2?" , and then do some simple work.”

Zheng Zhuo didn't know it at the time.

A few days later, however, several medical staff opened the door to his ward with boxes of injections.

……

"Give it a shot."

He heard a medical staff say this.

The box was opened.Five potions are placed in the middle of the black cushioning fleece.

"Which one do you like?"

Is it my choice?

Zheng Zhuo saw labels with different names on them.

But to him, it's all the same.

Zheng Zhuo stretched out his hand dumbly.

He was about to pick one up at random...

Suddenly.

Something is different.

"..."

Zheng Zhuo blinked.

He saw a light green box appear beside the box.

On the box, there is text, and...

Jumping bars and numbers.

……

【problem】

【Which injection should I choose? 】

【Option [-]】

【flesh】

【Option [-]】

【intelligence】

【Option [-]】

【Response capability】

【Option [-]】

【technical skills】

【Option [-]】

【Calm】

【Option [-]】

【Hit all】

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