After being exiled, I became a star boss

Chapter 2 Experiment
"Artificial intelligence will develop self-awareness, and one day robots will take over human civilization. Survival of the fittest is the law of the universe."

— Top Secret File Index Number: 2000.0002
July 8, 3:7 am.

No. 38 has completed the inspection of the key areas, flew back to the city center, and is passing by a quiet residential area.

The streets here are not spacious, and there are trees planted in front of and behind the houses, small and bony dwarf trees, and clusters of blue sunflowers listless under the white light.

After generations of genetic modification, plants have been able to grow underground, but that is just barely adaptable, far from being enjoyable.

Under the gray and white lighting, there are very few pedestrians, let alone the cars that were common in the [-]th century.

The smart capsule train leads to every corner of the city, constructing an extremely convenient underground transportation network.

Through the titanium multifunctional goggles, Number 38 began scanning the city streets for anomalous creatures.

At this moment, the embedded intelligent lidar suddenly issued a "beep" prompt sound, and according to the guidance, a low-flying butterfly appeared in the field of vision.

Butterflies flutter in the maze-like central square of the city, pass through a garden fountain with artistic shapes, bypass the bronze statue of the founder of the Republic standing behind the garden, jump over the moving heads, and land on the two-story building in the center of the square The holographic image of is projected on the screen.

In the self-righteous eyes of human beings, this lowly Lepidoptera creature is gently stretching its beautiful scales in the gentle breeze.

The wings are covered with tiny scales, presenting gorgeous bubble-like patterns and colorful.

People are easily confused by its appearance, but in fact, it is a bionic robot butterfly, and its brain response speed is [-] times faster than that of humans.

Like No. 38, the bionic butterfly is also a national asset. Its mission is to fly to thousands of households, land on neat windowsills, and serve as the ubiquitous eyes, nose, and ears of the Republic.

Human beings never imagined that the surface of the scales is covered with nanoscale sensors, and the sensors are continuously capturing live sounds and images, and transmitting them back to the data brain of the Republic in real time.

Perhaps the bionic butterfly didn't realize that the bright red seen by the compound eyes on its head was not a delicate rose flower, but dazzling blood.

The man in the projection screen lay motionless on the ground, his copper-colored forehead, cheeks, and bare chest were covered with scars, and blood was flowing.

If it weren't for the pool of bright red blood, No. 38 would not have paid special attention to the ground under the man.

The ground was transparent, shining like silver, and No. 38 couldn't help looking up, down, left, and right of the man. She was even more surprised when she saw it. The surroundings of the man were also transparent, shining like silver.

where is hewho is he?What crime?Why was he punished so cruelly?

You must know that the rulers of the Republic have always boasted of equality and democracy, and all kinds of torture, including the death penalty, had been abolished 100 years ago.

For citizens who commit crimes, the Republic has its own so-called science-based punishment system.

In line with the principle of maximizing social benefits, supported by intelligent algorithms, there are various punishment methods, what you are afraid of, what it gives you, it is always effective.

Suddenly, a man stepped out of the silver screen, with a mechanical smile on his face, wearing a pink waffle suit, a wide yellow plastic tie, a light blue wood fiber shirt and polytetrafluoroethylene. shoe.

Like a high-ranking ruler, he looked haughty and gracefully raised his hand towards everyone. His voice was as cold as a machine, and he spoke at an unhurried pace. "Citizens, this is a pariah from the surface. He is trying to steal national assets."

"What national asset?"

Disgusting human beings like to get to the bottom of things, the host frowned, "Three adult men and women, and one illegally born baby."

The crowd of onlookers immediately burst into buzzing discussions.

"Illegitimately born baby?"

"Babies are still illegal?! Which law is it?"

"What's so strange about this?" Someone suddenly lowered his voice, but with the help of a smart listening device, No. 38 could still hear clearly, "If you go to the ghost area, you can find everything there."

"Haunted area?"

"If a woman conceives a child illegally, she will go to a ghost area and provide one-stop services. As long as she has money, only you can't think of it, and you can't do it without that."

There must be something big about to happen, the city brain is calling a civic assembly, and people are coming from all directions.

Standing at the head of the crowd was a young woman in a red dress.

She stared at the skinny, dark-skinned surface person, as if she had found a cockroach, and her trembling voice trembled: "This is really terrible, we live ten kilometers deep underground, How did they get in?"

The man standing behind her said softly: "A vent, it must be a vent, I have been there, it is in the western suburbs, there is a eucalyptus forest, behind the forest is an artificial lake, the vent is hidden in the woods, like A huge chimney reaches the surface, and our air ducts are connected to the vents, and the beasts can climb into the city through the chimney, and through the air ducts, they can go to any corner."

Speaking of this, the man suddenly showed a meaningful smile: "Think about it, when you sleep at night, there may be a pair of beast-like blood-red eyes staring at you from the air vent on the roof of the bedroom, and you, I'm wearing a light and thin suspender nightdress, lying on a big soft bed"

The woman turned pale with fright, covered her mouth with her hands, and let out a scream of "Ah--", her body was already leaning against the man's arms trembling.

The tall man on the projection screen (actually he is just a virtual person) shrugged his shoulders, glanced down at the half-dead surface people on the ground, and showed a contemptuous smile on his lips: "They are gangsters, gangsters who do all kinds of evil, citizens don't have to Worry, we have a perfect city security system, they are like mice, they can only crawl around in dark and damp pipes, in fact, from the moment they step into the underground city, they are already under the control of the city's intelligent system Under monitoring, everything is controllable, like moths to a flame, they are killing themselves."

Another person asked very uninterestedly: "Why did they come here? Why did they take us to the surface?"

A thin man sneered and spoke up: "I heard that since the nuclear war, there is only desert left on it, and the rats that have been irradiated look like monsters. Every year during the monsoon season, there will be nuclear storms. When people come to it, Can't live for an hour!"

The host on the big screen listened carefully to the discussion at the scene, with a fake smile on his face: "The blue sky, white clouds, fresh air... are all deceptive, don't listen to those monsters on the surface, there is only desert beyond the horizon, They are so hungry that they have eaten all the grass roots, and if you go up, you will either become meat on their dining table, or become a guinea pig in the laboratory!"

The audience was silent, and most of them were silent. A woman's voice responded at the right time: "It's better to be underground, safe and pollution-free, without wind and sun..."

The bionic butterfly gently flaps its scales
The man on the screen showed a satisfied smile: "Citizens, under the baptism of nuclear radiation, most of the creatures on the surface of the earth have perished. Even if they are still alive, their genes have been mutated. They are primitive, dirty, Bigoted, ignorant, barbaric...do not pity them, because they are no longer human."

The man spoke for nearly 5 minutes, counting all the derogatory words in the human language library, and finally shouted: "They are all primitive, dirty bugs, citizens of the republic, anyone who finds They, report immediately. Don't talk to them, don't give them any help, no water, no food, no shelter, they can't live at all. Let's stick together, let these monsters have nowhere to escape, wipe out them!"

The people in front of the screen, waving their arms like a bunch of madmen, shouted loudly:
"Destroy surface monsters—"

……

No. 38 stared at the man lying on the ground. She noticed that the man opened his eyes slightly. Not only was there no fear in his eyes, but he actually showed a resolute look.

Although number 38 already exists, this is the first time she has seen the legendary surface people.

They are not monsters, and they are not as barbaric as imagined. Even, her heart is immediately filled with sympathy and pity for the same kind and for life.

The voice of No. 13 came from the communicator again, and the headquarters has received what she saw and heard at the same time: "No. 38, this is the surface person we talked about."

No. 38 asked curiously, "What happened to that baby?"

The 13th fell silent suddenly, and the 38th urged: "Hurry up, why is there a baby?"

"Among the three adult men and women that the surface people tried to take away, there was a couple whose child belonged to them."

"It's really interesting, there are still couples?!"

"Illegal, you are still too young, you don't understand some things, in fact, there are still many illegal couples in this city, and there are many illegally born children."

"Men and women marry and have their own children. These are normal human needs. I don't understand how it is illegal?"

No. 13 hissed, and said softly: "Human embryos must be optimized, otherwise they will not be able to adapt to underground life at all. You also know that everyone must go through the consciousness normalization of the human processing factory, and absolutely no exceptions are allowed."

"What if not?" No. 38 asked, "I mean, the deal is done, since the child has been born and is healthy."

No. 13 sighed: "They are all heterogeneous. No exceptions are allowed here. This is the rule and the law. Everyone must abide by it. You are the police, let alone sympathize with them!"

No. 38 was silent, and after a while, he suddenly said: "So, they just want to leave here?!"

"You know there are penalties for breaking the law."

"What punishment?"

"You will see soon"

The surface people in the projection screen are lying quietly on the bright silver ground, as if they are waiting for the verdict of fate.

At this moment, a blue light ball suddenly appeared in the midair, and the light ball shot out thunderbolts like ghost claws. In an instant, the man lying on the ground disappeared suddenly, leaving only a pool of bright red blood on the bright silver ground. .

The onlookers were taken aback, and suddenly fell silent, staring at the big screen shining with silver light.

Someone boldly asked, "Where did the monster go?"

The host on the projection screen smiled triumphantly: "To deal with these stupid intruders, we have a more civilized solution than simply and brutally executing them!"

"any solution?"

“Let them contribute to our scientific progress,” he said with a mysterious smile, looking down at the crowds of whispering citizens. “Specifically, these untouchables will have the opportunity to participate in various scientific experiments.”

People are becoming more and more curious: "What kind of experiment is it to let dirty surface people participate in the experiment?"

The host looked around, and the smile on his face became more and more mysterious: "My current position is a laboratory that embodies the most cutting-edge technology of mankind."

The crowd paid attention to the laboratory he was talking about. The scene of the laboratory was as deep as the void of the universe, but there was nothing inside.

"Citizens, rather than letting these filthy monsters simply die, taking part in human scientific experiments makes their stupid and short lives more worthwhile."

An ominous premonition suddenly rose in No. 38's heart, and he worried about those who disappeared.

(End of this chapter)