Chapter 44: Dark Alley
Xu Yang sat in the seat where he had eaten with Mateo in Jingquan House, and everything that day was still vivid in his mind.
People often say not to be blinded for a little profit, but what about 100 million? Who can refuse this 100 million?
Xu Yang took out his cash card, held it into the air, and stared at the number in the upper right corner. He was too stubborn to spend, and there was more than 96 million left, which was already an endless amount of money for a person.
We try our best, but in the end we are not what we do.
As long as I find a way to eliminate my wanted in the Kyushu, I will be truly free.
How can we eliminate the wanted?
They must confirm death, otherwise the giant enterprises will never give up.
I am a Level 2 neural network engineer. Those guys who are stronger than me in the world are very few. There are only 2 or 3 people in Kyushu, which are better than me in this regard. After all, I can be regarded as a talent in the company. A talent carefully trained by them, but with an extremely meager salary, which means that the value I create is very low.
After all, what I do every day is nothing more than checking the networking situation of each device and resisting external intrusions. Such things can be completely thrown to the AI for processing.
The torrent of the times has arrived. There is no doubt that neural network engineers will become historical terms within a few years, and this industry will completely disappear, like barbers, shopping guides, and assembly line employees, stay in textbooks and movies forever. When artificial intelligence is not yet developed, humans can still rely on their digital minds to perform complex tasks, but once artificial intelligence technology is mature, the skills we master are not worth mentioning.
That's it, capital.
It erases feelings, beliefs, enthusiasm between people, suppresses gentle families and reliable friendships, and suppresses people's value and personality. Make people a workpiece and a screw, not only makes people doubt their own value, but also consumes their daily energy and squeezes their time to think independently.
People are too small for companies.
But should we be trampled on if we are small? As humans, should we accept our fate obediently? Either lower our heads and act as a dog raised by a company, live a life of silence until we die of exhaustion, or be abandoned by them and abandoned...
Thinking of this, Xu Yang's ideas gradually became clear.
Is it more than 100 million yuan?
Many for most people, but far from enough for someone who wants to end the corporate rule, the assets of giant enterprises are calculated in hundreds of trillions, almost astronomical.
How to do it?
If you want to start resisting with poor and weak individuals, it is meaningless and you must connect with a stronger force.
A force with combat effectiveness and influence, a force that can develop productivity, a force that can break through technological constraints, and a force that is dissatisfied with the company...
Witch!
Get out of this underground and find ways to contact more witches.
Even fragile and perishable humans have the will to resist, and those witches with natural strength will inevitably have a stronger fighting spirit.
If you have power, you will seek power. This is the nature of wise creatures. In the last era, the witches secretly manipulate the world, which shows that they are by no means good people.
All I need is patience and direction.
Find the right direction and act.
Xu Yang walked through the restaurant, and the geisha robot was still lying on the sofa with pale makeup. He swam in the fish tank with mosaic projection fish. He walked to the kitchen and found the automatic noodles cooking robot and asked it to make noodles.
"The first customer today!" said the noodle cooking robot, "Customers are really scarce. Is the service in our store not outstanding enough?"
"It's because of escape." Xu Yang talked to the robot. If the other party was a first-generation AI, he would only reply according to the established procedures, but it seems that the other party is at least a second-generation AI, and there is still the possibility of communication.
"The inventory in our store has greatly overflowed, and I'll give you a big gift package!"
After making the noodles, it gave Xu Yang a lot of snacks, including yam soup, chocolate and jerky pork.
Xu Yang didn't expect that there would be such a good thing. He put these things in his pocket and stuffed them all over.
While eating noodles, Xu Yang's imagination was interrupted by a message sent by Lila. Xu Yang kept turning off his network communication module to avoid tracking. Only the built-in mailbox opened permissions to Lila. Only Lila can send him remotely in the world.
"Please go to this place." She transferred a map coordinate.
Xu Yang glanced at it and was not far away from the nearby area, just around a block away. It was not far from the Highland No. 26, but it was quite remote.
"What's wrong?"
"Please look for Ye Zi; I'm fighting someone." Lila cut off the communication.
Who can Lila fight with? Xu Yang felt a little nervous. Could it be that the rat man is approaching? But Lila did not ask for help, but asked herself to find Ye Zi, which shows that she is confident of winning.
Xu Yang left the noodles, hurriedly left Jingquanwu Ramen Shop, and walked through the nearby blocks to look for traces of leaves.
Walking here, the air is very turbid.
The roads are dim and the buildings are low. The screen on the dome that imitates the sky has not yet been operated, throwing suffocating darkness, making people breathless.
Just like walking through prisons, there are a wide range of advertisements in every area, promoting cigarettes, wine, diamond rings, technology philosophers and philosophers, and brain-enhancing chips that attract attention.
Companies are like hungry wolves, but they are not fighting for flesh and blood, but fighting for human concentration. People's daily attention is limited. Once their time is occupied by the products of a certain company, they have no time to consume another company. This is a bloody competition called "stock competition", which is particularly cruel in this era when productivity is gradually becoming bottlenecks.
Step by step... A sound of footsteps sounded.
Not sure whether it was an enemy or a friend, Xu Yang hid in the alley behind his back and saw a ferocious female rat man facing him.
Its hair was gray all over, holding a meat chopping knife in his hand and a dirty bag on his chest, looking around.
"Squeak--" The mother rat man made a sound to call his partner, but there was no response. It looked around angrily and kept sniffing, as if it was an outlier mother rat man.
Perhaps the rats have been dispatched. After such a long time, the rats must have prepared all the attacks, just waiting to break through the pass at the No. 1 connection and turn Huicheng District into a sea of blood.
Therefore, they gathered the team and didn't even care about the important female rats who fell behind.
The female rat man waved the meat chopping knife and continued to search for the target.
"Wow—" A scream rang out, followed by the sound of someone falling heavily to the ground.
It's a leaf!
"Kill you!" The female rat man rushed over immediately in the sound.
Xu Yang rushed out with a quick step, pulled out the gun he carried with him, and followed closely behind.
Ye Zi fell off several large cardboard boxes, his hands full of mud, as if he wanted to try to climb the wall, but he slipped. She didn't bother to cry out for pain, and immediately hugged her big shoulder bag, and even turned a blind eye to the female rat man who was close to him, subconsciously opened the zipper to check if the game data card inside had been broken.
Xu Yang immediately fired.
Bang!
The bullet deviated from the target and hit the wall. The female rat man shook quickly as if he was shot. It didn't care about Xu Yang and Ye Zi anymore, and turned around and ran away in order to avoid the bullet.
"Xu...Xu Yang!" Ye Zi turned to see Xu Yang and was shocked, "Why are you here?"
"I'll save you." Xu Yang said.
"I...I don't need your help!" Ye Zi stood up and carried the bag, "I'll be able to get to the connection soon."
"Nonsense, you are obviously forced into a desperate situation by the rat man. Do you want to climb that thing?" Xu Yang saw a water pipe on the big cardboard box that could lead to the window of another house, but the leaves slipped before falling off.
"A problem of luck." Ye Zi lowered her head and wrapped her fingers around her hair, "How do you know I'm here?"
"Lila controlled me from remotely," Xu Yang explained, "Why are you walking into such a dangerous alley alone? Even in this kind of place, it will cause trouble."
"I want to take the shortcut and go directly to the No. 1 connection. OK, don't ask anymore." Ye Zi waved his hand.
"Who asked you to do this?" Xu Yang realized something was wrong.
"No, no, no...no, no, oh...please don't ask any more questions." She pursed her lips tightly.
"I saved you several times, why are you so cold?"
"That's because..." Ye Zi sighed, "It's because I feel that I'm really tired of you too much, so I feel very uneasy."
"No need, I won't say anything. I will do whatever I want, whether it's helping you or bullying you, do whatever I want."
"What if I want to leave?" Ye Zi was anxious, "What would you think if I want to leave?"
"casual."
"But I haven't repayed my kindness yet? How can I leave without repaying my kindness! Don't think that I usually act so strangely, and just treat me as a person without a tutor!"
“It doesn’t matter.”
"Yes, yes, that's it," Ye Zi said happily, "It's indeed... instead of striking indirectly, it's better to come to you in person. I thought that level of casualness and laziness was just a kind of disguise...but you are indeed an easy-going person."
"Speak quickly if you have something to do."
Ye Zi knelt solemnly on the ground and leaned in front of Xu Yang.
Why should she take this great gift? Xu Yang saw Ye Zi solemnly for the first time.
"I really bothered you many times before!" She pressed her forehead against the ground. "I, Xiaoshidao Yezi, have indeed survived so many dangers through your help, further discovered her potential, and met more people. Please don't worry, I will give you a big gift soon!"
"Great gift..." Before Xu Yang could think of how to respond, Ye Zi stood up, carried his bag and happily left the alley.
What big gift can Ye Zi give me?
Xu Yang put his hands in his pockets and slowly followed him out.
He heard the rustling sound behind him, turned his head and saw the female mouse man sitting on several cardboard boxes, calling out the cubs he had been hiding before. It was holding three mouse man, and one mouse man crawled onto its back.
The mice had no hair, they were pink and tender, and kept sucking greedily. The female rat was very quiet, not as fierce as before, and her body seemed to be sucked dry and skinny.
After the three mice were drinking milk, the little mice on their backs screamed and asked for milk to drink.
There was no milk for feeding. The female mouse man grabbed the mouse man on his back and pinched his neck. His hands became more and more forceful. The pinned mouse struggled in pain.
The female rat man is proficient in movements, and it seems that it is not the first time he has done this.
"Hey." Xu Yang walked over.
The female rat man immediately stopped and looked at Xu Yang vigilantly, protecting the mouse people behind him. The pinched mouse man was also released. It fell to the ground and hugged his mother's feet and did not escape from his mother because of being pinched.
"Who is threatening you, who is commanding you?"
"Sally." The female rat man unconsciously said a name that was very important to it.
"Who is that?"
"Saint, leader."
"You can't win when fighting with the company. It was like this 50 years ago and it's the same now." Xu Yang took out the jerky pork, yam soup and chocolate in his pocket. "For you all this, you can take the children back into the pit."
The female rat man showed a very contemptuous expression.
"...Why can we only treat pits as our home?" said the female rat man.
She strangled the mouse man who was crying at her feet to death, crawled away with her three children on her back, and disappeared into the darkness.
Chapter completed!