Abyss Express

Foreword:

Every day is a brand new day.

— Ernest Miller Hemingway

[Part① God of the Night]

Volume 6 of "Shan Hai Jing" and "Overseas South Classics" explain that Erbashen is in the east of Yumin, and there are sixteen people with small cheeks and red shoulders.

The twenty-eight refers to the number, which means that there are sixteen gods on tour day and night.

The gods of hundreds of counties and towns in the sixteen cities of Shinto are sixteen typical people. The night patrol is responsible for the security of the surrounding satellite towns, arresting criminals, hunting wild animals, funeral executions, handing over precious materials to the Japanese patrol, etc. .

They are higher-level elite soldiers than the terrorist squad and the medical insurance team, but today, Shiqiu Town, which is far away from the core area of ​​Shendao City, no longer has these low-level troops-the reason is that ordinary people have already entered [Elysium Space] to lie down. For the elderly, the elite units used to maintain regional law and order cannot be expanded. Every elite unit on night patrol needs supporting equipment support. Management costs are on the one hand, and logistics supplies are on the other.

These clones of Hot Wind Boy are not emotionless robots. Chang Shi bound them with various suppressors. From Xue Ming and Meteor's point of view, these bionics' fighting will will not collapse, nor will they show obvious mood swings.

"So, we are going to the Metropolitan Police Department now?" Meteor sat cross-legged on the bed, fully awake: "Brother Ping'an's stick is probably there, isn't it?"

[That’s right, specifically it’s called [Night Patrol Center], the name is simple and easy to understand—the refresh point for typical Night Patrol people. ]

Meteor pouted, full of annoyance: "I brought Brother Ming's equipment out, Belloberg and Dragon Sword, my Iron Knight, and Galaxy Sniper Rifle are all on Brother Hei, and these things are also there ?"

[It should be almost the same, unless it is very important material, it will be handed over to the local night watch center for safekeeping before the case is closed, and it will be sent to Ginza Town after the case is closed. ]

Meteor: "Then what are you waiting for! Let's go!"

[You need to replenish your stamina, use your electrolyte solution. ]

Meteor raised his arm, and saw that all the values ​​of the VENOM mechanism had almost bottomed out. He stayed in the Bliss Space for 16 hours.

"Didn't it be forty-eight hours as promised? A bottle of medicine can last for forty-eight hours!"

[Your VR training intensity is too high. The strenuous exercise in the blissful space, especially the near-death experience, will make your body secrete various hormones. Let's look down. ]

Meteor lowered his head, the sheets were wet, and there was a strong smell of sweat, which was the trace left by the accelerated metabolism driven by the violent heartbeat.

He got up immediately, and was about to run to the bathroom to take a shower, and pulled clean clothes from the closet.

[Deduct 450 pyroxene currency. ]

"It still costs money?" Meteor heard this prompt when he ran into the shower room, and asked in surprise, "Isn't this my thing?"

[Just like the water bar in the express hotel, the products prepared for you in the closet do not belong to you. When you use them, it is a purchase behavior. ]

Ah Xing was about to reach out to touch the shower gel: "You're really stingy!"

But halfway through reaching out, he stopped again.

"This thing doesn't cost money, does it?"

[In this era, using glycerin-based lotions is extremely environmentally unfriendly. In fact, the water source provided by the shower has some cleaning agents. You don’t need this bottle of shower gel-if you insist on using it, then Need to pay 40 pyroxene currency. ]

"It's too bad!" Meteor squeezed the bottle of shower gel ferociously, and put it back.

He doesn't know how much debt he can bear, and now the debt figure of the VENOM agency has reached [-9450], which is the money for two electrolyte solvents and a set of clothes.

The warm water washed over his head and woke him up instantly.

"Does water cost money?"

[No, Shinto City’s water and electricity public resources are free. ]

"Do you want to pay this bill?"

[If you're going to smash this city with me, don't think about repaying your debts. I'm still wondering why you care so much about your debts, you kid—are you really planning to take care of your debts?] Work? Return all the money to the Shinto people? ]

"Didn't I turn my head around?" Ah Xing looked embarrassed, took the shower gel away, and added a bill to his VENOM.

After a while, a strange singing sound came from the bathroom.

"I love to take a bath and have good skin! Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!~"~"

[Boy, can you be quiet? ]

"I sing badly?"

[It's not that you're embarrassing me. ]

"Hahahahahaha! I get slippery when I put on body wash! Rinse it off with water and I'll be in a good mood! When you feel better, you should sing!"

[Are you a child? ]

"You're the brat! Only brats like to pretend to be adults! I'm twenty-six!"

[childish]

"Heat, I just lost a good friend! I have to pull myself together! Bad guys are waiting for me! I need to pull myself together! So I have to sing!"

[really inexplicable]

A gust of warm water vapor emerged from the bathroom, Meteor changed into a new suit, and started shopping recklessly.

When he opened the refrigerator, he saw drinks neatly arranged inside.

Hot Wind didn't bother to report the debt count for Meteor, watching the kid start to eat and drink.

[Electrolyte solution can provide the energy you need for activities, why eat? ]

"No wonder I don't feel hungry at all!" A Xing sat in the dining room, hugged Coke and a big chicken leg, and gnawed his mouth full of oil: "You ask me why I eat? These things appeared in my refrigerator, my Isn’t it just waiting for me to eat in the kitchen?”

[This is an additional product, if you want to experience gourmet food, you can enter [Elysium Space], where you can completely.]

Meteor interrupted: "Eat electronic mustard?"

[Er. It can be said that all your actions in the Elysium space can receive corresponding neural signals. ]

[You can taste the taste in the virtual world, feel the ups and downs, and distinguish the smell - you don't have to worry about the digestive problems of the body, and there will be no kitchen waste. Originally, the electrolyte solvent was produced to solve food safety problems, and it is a standard food. ]

Meteor tore off the chicken leg meat, crushed the cartilage and swallowed it into his stomach.

"don't want!"

He cleaned up the dinner plate and threw it back into the cupboard.

[These foods are additional services, people spend time eating, which itself is a waste for VENOM—like now, I want you to leave immediately, but you spend more than 20 minutes taking a shower and eating , which I don't understand. Maybe a few hours later, you still have to waste time to defecate. If you still care about the bill, let me remind you that the toilet is also charged, and it is expensive. ]

"You have to pay for shit? This is too ridiculous!" Meteor muttered: "Don't rush, don't rush! Let's go right away!"

He didn't have a weapon on him, and when he came to the outer edge of the artificial island, he heard a beep from the apartment building, and a drone flew from the island's lounge, sending the goods that Meteor had just consumed into the room.

[Part ② Can't finish killing]

Being far away, Ah Xing couldn't see clearly what those drones were doing, Hot Wind immediately explained.

[That is the logistics supply drone of the Japanese patrol. The food and daily necessities you consume in the room will be replenished according to the situation. This logistics system supports the economy of Shinto City. ]

[In order to consume in this system, people need to work to earn money, and the content of the work is to maintain the Shinto system, like an infinite loop of knots. ]

[You like the real experience, I can understand this, after all, rich people like to play for real, shooting in the virtual world is definitely not as exciting as in reality. ]

[In Elysium, you can eat and drink, you can buy cheap hormone services, you can experience food, but you still like to be awake and experience real substances in real life, right? ]

Meteor: "Indeed."

[Elysium has a very high level of fidelity, it is more and more like the real world, the more modules Kurome Senju collects, the more complete Eternal Life is - People never want to return to this Shinto city full of painful memories, so You can see that many office workers have handed over their physical bodies to artificial intelligence, entrusted them to VENOM, and let robots come to work. ]

Meteor: "In the office buildings in Guandong City, those white-collar workers"

[It’s just the tip of the iceberg. People have a private community in [Elysium Space], and they don’t have to work with others in an office building with an average per capita of less than 10 square meters or 20 square meters. ]

[Artificial intelligence has no personality, it can smooth out the edges and corners for work, and there will be friction between people. Seeing that the team leader has a larger office and better office conditions, irreconcilable conflicts will arise, and people will be jealous and will Weakness, will be compared - this is what I have said to you repeatedly, it is the weakness of human nature. ]

[In the real world, there are not many people like you who are obsessed with real consumption, so people here hand over their bodies to VENOM, and occasionally come back to take a look. ]

[It's like your mobile games, occasionally returning to the game world to take a look at the virtual characters I raised. ]

[Illusion and reality seem to have completed the positional transition, and the price of electrolyte solvents is also rising year by year. After all, no one buys the goods in reality, so consumption must be stimulated from the four dimensions of birth, old age, illness and death. ]

[In short, the people in the city have become the living dead, you don't have to care about other people's eyes, when they work, there may only be a physical body here. ]

[They are very obedient and do not require much management costs. The law enforcement team is also decreasing year by year, and the crime rate is almost zero. Occasionally, individuals with split personality in [Elysium] will cause some troubles. There are not many riot squads and medical insurance units. Now that I am alive, all the important matters concerning the two major items of the dead and the living have been handed over to my clone, to the two gods, Si Ye and Si Ri. ]

At this moment, Ah Xing pulled out the reel projection screen from VENOM.

He wanted to choose a means of transportation to go to the law enforcement agency in Xiaoguandong, to the night patrol center thirty-seven kilometers away.

[There are more than a dozen travel methods and different line combinations. ]

[You can choose public transportation, ship vehicles, drones, or install a swimming module and change to a strong artificial heart and lungs.]

Meteor pointed to a motorboat: "I want this!"

Hot Wind was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't quite understand Meteor's choice.

[From the perspective of safety, if you go by water, if you don’t care about money, then I recommend you.]

Meteor: "I want this! I'm motion sick and sea sick, and I only know how to drive a jet ski."

[If you have requirements for vehicles, I actually recommend that you install the corresponding mods to transform your brain—to treat your motion sickness.]

Meteor: "No change! I want this!"

To make a digression, when Meteor was arguing with Hot Wind, when they were enjoying their lives, preparing to destroy the servos of the Shinto followers, and finally repaying the debt——

——Xue Ming had just finished packing up the second typical night watchman, and he was awarded the highest level of arrest warrant in the security center system.

It is probably the difference between Ah Xing's side where the years are still quiet and Xue Ming's rock concert just started.

Another 45,000 yuan was spent, and Meteor Xi mentioned a motor boat. This thing is made of carbon fiber, with a streamlined shape and powerful output. It has a thousand-horsepower electric push engine. Too much.

The night patrol workers worked hard to make money. When Ah Xing was caught, a typical person would ask the security center if the boy could exchange money—because the pyroxene currency can be exchanged for better equipment, the Shinto people have imposed additional restrictions on these violent agencies. A more complex promotion mechanism, including various sights in the observation system, supporting upgrades for weapons, transportation vehicles and logistics, and these typical people will be charged for energy replenishment every time they return to the night patrol center.

It's like a set of talent tree system and weapon system created by game designers for players.

A typical person on night watch will work hard for these things, upgrade their hardware and software, and obey the orders of the security center when catching criminals. Without the permission of the security center, they can't even unlock the upgraded high-frequency weapons they bought.

When Ah Xing drove the motorboat to the night patrol center, Hot Wind explained all these things clearly to Meteor.

Meteor only felt more and more outrageous.

"Isn't the security center afraid of night patrol rebellion?"

[All equipment is produced in the industrial system of the Shinto congregation, including these typical people. If a guy quits on strike, a new typical person will immediately take over. ]

"You mean, these guys are invincible? Will they be resurrected?"

[That's right, my clone was born in a factory that raises angel babies. The Japanese patrol will nurture these angel babies, let them grow up, install modules for them, turn me into an imaginary enemy, and practice their combat skills. ]

[As long as the angel baby factory still exists, the school of typical people is still operating, and the Japanese patrol is still working, then this assembly line will continuously produce new typical people, install software and hardware for them, and become a standard violence institution. ]

[The basic promise of the Shinto people to every typical night watchman is to live forever, to be immortal, to become one of the gods of the night watchman. ]

[Even if they die during the execution of the security protection mission, all the mission record data during their lifetime will be preserved, and a soft prosthetic skeleton will be created in [Elysium Space], and they will continue to live in that world and continue to perform the security mission of defending the virtual community. ]

Meteor just felt that it was outrageous: "I finished my job while alive, so I have to continue to work after I die?"

[There will always be accidents. Qiantang can find the software skeleton of the night watchman. Maybe it is because of the rebels in this system, the personality cracked, and asked other Internet police to execute the anti-virus program. After the harmless treatment, it finally fell into the In Qiantang's hands. ]

The pitch-black sea rises and falls with the tidal force of the earth and the moon, and the lights of distant cities flicker, creating distorted reflections in the ocean. The sea water service ship passes by at a high speed, setting off waves of white ripples. Ah Xing looks at all this, but still Knowing what happened, perhaps new crimes appeared somewhere in the city, and new rebels appeared, and the police ships of Haiphong were required to chase and intercept them.

Ah Xing thought pessimistically, these chess pieces could not escape the palms of the Shinto crowd after all.

How could an angel baby jump out of the worldview defined by the designer?

Their survivability, combat ability, language communication, and cognitive system are all given by the Shinto people. It is easy for the Shinto people to take these things away.

It’s just that Ah Xing was wrong this time——

——Those police boats were going after Jiang Xueming. The gunsmith had taken 22 lives on his body at this time, and had already killed through the industrial area of ​​Kanto City. The KDA, which had been asleep for 184 days, began to rise again , from the northeast of the city to the Qifan Garment Factory, and towards the old city Canal Street, Juezan was fleeing.

After the thirty-seven kilometers of waterway was completed, Ah Xing set foot on the solid ground again.

In the layers of buildings, the conveyor belts of various factories are constantly circulating, and the night patrol center is almost fully powered, producing new soldiers to go into battle.

[There is a situation, Meteor Boy, something is not quite right.]

The long box was surrounded by polymer materials that spanned several thousand meters, and there were bursts of deep roars.

The illuminated security indicator light indicated that this depot was constantly processing new angel babies.

Carbon workshops and semiconductor processing centers send a variety of parts, and all the equipment on the standard soldiers on night patrol can be found in these complicated box conveyor belts. Occasionally, you can still see the parts of the night watch executioners, the artificial remains of the arms or torso, artificial neural exoskeletons, etc., but compared with the prosthetic parts of ordinary soldiers, the number of artificial organs in these elite units is scarce.

"What's wrong?"

Meteor still doesn't understand, doesn't know exactly what happened.

[The security of the sentry has changed from drones to riot squads, which is so strange! ]

[Originally, there was no security post in the night patrol center. In this era, the night patrol center does not need a security post. Only when a state of emergency is entered will citizens be recruited from the city, and a terrorist squad will be temporarily formed to protect the night patrol center. ]

Meteor: "What do you mean?!"

[It means that the city has been attacked by terrorists, spiritual disasters, or natural disasters such as earthquakes and torrents. All the police forces are transferred to the urban area, and the production lines are also opened. They are doing their best to manufacture ordinary soldiers and elite units——Angel The number of babies is declining and there has been a massive attrition. ]

[Is your Ping An brother wreaking havoc in the city? ]

Meteor shook his head excitedly.

"I don't know! Brother Pingan is not the opponent of these typical people!?"

[That's another person, another person who can destroy the night watch security system. ]

Looking along the road to the city, the road signs on both sides have changed from yellow to red, prohibiting the passage of civilian vehicles.

Bu Meteor was eager to try: "Would you like to see it?"

[Now is the weakest time for the Night Watch Center, as long as you can blow up this delivery room, you can eliminate one of the six Shinto divisions in Xiaoguandong. ]