Gunfire, Punk & Necromancers

The salesperson of the second-hand car store is an executive puppet, with two modes of self-service and manual service, which makes Zhuang Xuteng more knowledgeable. Next, the execution puppet covered its "mouth" with its fist and made a yawning gesture. It also used changes in its tone of voice to vividly reproduce the fatigue state of the remote operator, which even more amazed Zhuang Xuteng.

"I had so much fun last night that I didn't catch up on enough sleep and I made you laugh." The execution puppet touched the back of his head and bowed slightly to apologize. "What did you say just now? Yes, do you have any specific requirements for the model? For example, speed, number of passengers, etc."

"The ride is comfortable, long-distance travel, safe, and you can sleep in the car." Zhuang Xuteng looked back at the parking lot and said, "Are there any RVs with off-road capabilities?"

"That kind of car doesn't exist. If someone says that a certain RV has off-road capabilities, he must be a bad liar." The execution puppet chuckled twice and said: "I feel that a car with good safety and usable rear seats You may be satisfied with the off-road vehicles you come here to sleep with. I have three such vehicles here. They were just taken in from a Shaoyuan club. They are in pretty good condition and the price is very suitable. May I take you to see them? "

Zhuang Xuteng nodded in agreement. While looking at the car, he asked about the execution of the puppet. He felt that the execution puppet was in good working condition, but he didn't know its ability to complete the work independently. For example, driving, if you can let the execution puppet drive, he can sleep in the back.

"The current execution puppet cannot replace the driver. No matter how fanciful the advertisements are, you still have to believe in the driving skills of living people and don't leave your life to the execution puppet." The salesman on the far end of the network said: "If it is a truck, let Just perform puppet driving, it’s cheaper than life. If you feel tired of driving alone, then hire a driver. Remember not to ask for a remote driving driver, you must let a living person get into the car and drive it yourself. Nowadays, life is getting more and more complicated. The more convenient it is, the better your enjoyment will be, so you must protect your life!"

Zhuang Xuteng inquired about the price of buying an execution puppet for the store and learned that the purchase fee for such a puppet in a second-hand car lot is about 5,000 euros, and the annual maintenance fee is about 1,000 euros. If you think of the execution puppet as a labor force that can work all day, its price is really not high.

It's cheaper than when I worked in the Magic Crystal Factory.

"Since using the execution puppet, you see, I can lie down and relax at home. When the puppet cannot complete the work or the customer has special requirements, I can connect to the line again - this is already very comfortable. And when I am at home, I will not They were shot. Now if they come here to buy them for zero dollars, I will control the execution puppet to fuck them. Anyway, the puppet is cheap and strong, and can continue to fight back despite gunshot wounds. Robbers do not have this ability. Guess what? Today's streets It’s much safer.”

This salesman was quite talkative. Zhuang Xuteng couldn't understand why such a person would like to stay at home at the same time. While Zhuang Xuteng was shopping for a car, there was not a second customer in the store, and the salesman was not in a hurry, always talking about "technical adjustments" and "market pains."

"When everyone finds out that driving with a puppet is not safe enough, they will start buying cars again! Now, while many people are anxious to sell their cars, I am here to buy at the bottom, and I will make money later."

Zhuang Xuteng nodded and said: "Automobiles are an industry promoted by Dingxin Mochuang, so naturally they will not let it decline. I think the second car is good, so this is it. I paid the money, and you fill up the gas for me. You can handle all the procedures yourself, can you do it?"

"Yes! I can give you a paper certificate. If there is a police inspection, you can show it to prove that the car was purchased legally. Don't worry, I will forget to register the vehicle information for you, and all the content will not be online. My The brain is not very good to use, and if you accidentally drink a bottle of 500 euros of hard liquor, something will happen."

It doesn’t matter if you need money, as long as you can work. Half an hour later, Zhuang Xuteng drove away in the SUV. After successfully passing the highway entrance and exit inspection, he sped towards Peicheng.

On the road, he passed many trucks driven by execution puppets, accounting for about ten percent of all trucks. These trucks using execution puppets often belong to a certain transportation company, and those vehicles operated by individuals without obvious company markings are also driven by living people.

On the way, he needs to stop at a highway rest stop, whether it is a gas station, a gas station or a store, and about one-fifth of the staff are execution puppets. It seems that during the six months he has been hiding in the film industry, the company has vigorously promoted executive puppets and fully disseminated them in society.

Zhuang Xuteng has no way of knowing how much the manufacturing costs of these execution puppets are, but a rough estimate shows that the market price of a set of "zombie controllers" alone is around 5,000 euros. Therefore, selling execution puppets at the current price should be a loss-making business. Isn't this right? In line with the company's consistent pursuit of profits.

"Something is wrong, very wrong... The execution puppet can take over repetitive and simple tasks and sell it so cheaply. What is the company trying to do? Is it to lower the employment price so that lower-level workers have to accept lower wages than the execution puppet?"

How much money can this save? It still feels like there should be no way to return the income from executing the puppet to normal. Zhuang Xuteng thought about this phenomenon while driving, and finally concluded that the information he currently had was too little to support him in making a judgment.

On the road approaching Peicheng, billboards showing puppets of various models and functions can often be seen. As long as you call the contact number below the advertisement, you can purchase four major product series: industrial, agricultural, service, and security, and dozens of branch models of different execution puppets. Zhuang Xuteng even saw a small advertisement about a "special service" execution puppet on the toilet wall in a highway rest area. It once made him suspect that the world had changed so much and that he had been away for six years instead of six months.

Executing puppets on such a large scale will definitely cause massive unemployment, and unemployment will inevitably lead to social unrest. Whether it is gang activity or random looting, this is definitely not something that can be solved by executing a puppet defense with a gun. However, the places where Zhuang Xuteng stopped seemed very peaceful. He did not encounter any robberies, nor did he see signs of recent robberies around him, which made him feel strange.

He found part of the answer later over breakfast at the motel. A news program was being played on the TV. The reporter was interviewing the "new type of comprehensive workers" who came out of the "public work site" and asked them about their feelings. This is a piece of continuous news without a detailed introduction of the causes and consequences. Zhuang Xuteng could only learn from the news that there is now an additional form of work in society, which is to work at "public work stations" set up in cities.

This kind of work requires no training, just go out there, sit or lie down at the work station, and put on a helmet. Some experienced staff will also carry the Dream Mist experience machine, adjust the time, and just sleep with the helmet on. The interviewees said that this work will make the brain feel tired, which is completely different from the working experience on the assembly line. If you don’t use the Dream Mist Experience Machine for relief, you will only think about sleeping after finishing your work. They have already tested it. The Mengwu experience machine chooses to use deep sleep for up to two hours, and use the nap mode for the rest, which can ensure the workload without making people particularly tired. After eight hours of work, they are completely free to relax, socialize, and have fun.

"So how much is the income for eight hours a day?" the reporter asked. "My coefficient is 1.3, so after each eight hours, I can get 65 euros and 4 units of Dream Mist supplement." The interviewee said: "Two hours of deep sleep require two units of supplement, and the remaining time The total is less than half a unit, so I can still have at least one and a half units left, which is enough for me to sleep at night and still have a surplus. This is completely profitable, so I am very satisfied with my current working status. I am just worried about this level of income. Can it last for a long time, or will it just be a temporary thing?"

"Please rest assured that the information we have received states that the constitutional government will allocate special funds to deepen the deployment of more public work points so that more citizens can enjoy this convenient service. And with the gradual increase in the number of execution puppets Improvement, for users at public work stations, means more work mode choices, more refined and professional bonus rewards, and the satisfaction of longer working hours."

The interviewee beamed and said repeatedly: "This is great! I just feel that the maximum use of 8 hours a day is not enough. After calculation, I chose the deep sleep interval nap mode, and used 14 hours a day..."

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Zhuang Xuteng picked up a napkin and wiped his mouth, thinking: What is this public work station? It feels like it has a lot to do with the large number of execution puppets that appear.

He watched the TV news, the restaurant's security cameras and the eyes of the execution puppet watching him. Through the Internet, his message is spreading rapidly. Although in most cases this information will be thrown into some storage, continuously compressed and stored until it is discarded a year later. But this time, someone was specifically looking for him, and an extremely efficient screening algorithm sounded the alarm.

After receiving the report from his subordinates, Dr. Egghead took the time to access the internal conference network. In the conference room in the virtual space, his pixel projection fell from the sky and accurately sat in the main seat of the conference room. The pixel projection simulated a frowning expression, and his eyes swept over the six members of his staff participating in the meeting. As he spoke, the virtual space simultaneously displayed subtitles in the form of bubbles above his head: "How sure are you of finding Naike?"

"System analysis shows that the target found this time is 75% consistent with the image of Sen Gang. After three key re-screenings, it was confirmed that he recently appeared for the first time in the 'Hao Lai Lai' parking lot in Constitution City, the capital, where he greeted The execution puppet purchased a second-hand car. We retrieved the driving information of the vehicle, and currently it appears that he drove directly to Peicheng, and his intention to return is obvious."

While listening to the reports from his subordinates, he received the original information through the Internet. Dr. Egghead sighed and said: "It seems that this guy has been hiding in the capital for a long time?! Right under our noses? How did he hide?"

"This is still unclear. Only by conducting a city-wide information scan can we try to dig out valuable information."

"No! Don't apply for that thing, at least not in the capital." Dr. Egghead quickly waved his hand and said: "There are too many big shots in the capital. For a Nike who has already appeared... No, it should be said that for unnecessary curiosity, Carrying out a comprehensive scan of the capital will definitely touch the interests of some big shots. There are some things I can handle, and there are some things I can’t handle, do you understand?"

Everyone nodded and said, "Now that we have found it, do we want to carry out an elimination operation?"

"It's going to happen - but this guy really knows how to choose the right time." Dr. Egghead sighed and said: "You should have heard the rumors. Dingshan City San suffered a meteorological attack the day before yesterday. Super heavy precipitation hit it with a punch, directly destroying it. The city was smashed and paralyzed. In addition, abnormal weather fluctuations occurred in the Shadow Realm, and the whole world was also punched, and many people died."

"I also heard that a mine of the Scarlet Group was completely killed by active shadows, and only a few people escaped. That mine is connected to Dingshan City, and the weather attack happened right after the mine accident. The Scarlet Group has confirmed the existence of both. A major connection. Also, according to the information obtained from Today's Group, members of their pioneer team once reported that gray light emitted from behind the Wall of Sighs, shot into the sky, and spread quickly like a cover. After that, that pioneer team They were all wiped out.”

Dr. Egghead nodded, confirming the news from his men. "Yes, keep your channels and continue to pay attention to relevant information. Affected by the above incident, the headquarters issued an order to recruit a new group of pioneer team members, all combat reinforcement personnel above B2 level, intelligence personnel above B3, B-level The above-mentioned relevant scientific research personnel are compulsory to participate. In other words, all of us must set out immediately and the work at hand is suspended."

"So what should Naike do?"

"Let's go back to the capital. He came from the capital. Follow his movements and meet him by chance on the way." Dr. Egghead smiled and said, "Killing him won't waste much time."

"Yes! Boss, I'm going to prepare the armed helicopter and set up relevant equipment and weapons in it."

"Armed helicopter? Are you going to fire at the vehicles on the highway?" Dr. Egghead shook his head and said, "That would be too ostentatious and unnecessary. We have more equipment, and a heavy transport helicopter is better. Bring four foreigners. A B-class battle puppet, used to help seal off the scene. Are you confident in killing this scarecrow Naike?"

"Have!"

"Okay, remember, don't underestimate the enemy. Kaho and Isabella died inexplicably, and the company has never lowered its vigilance on this matter. This time, we will report to the top according to the process, and the support team and the control team will do a good job Be prepared, then say hello to the local law enforcement and ask them to stay out of the way."

Just as Zhuang Xuteng was paying and tipping, a big net enveloped him.