Chapter 15. Before and after the experiment (two in one)
After getting Sun Xunqiao's consent, Geyu Base immediately switched the picture on the telescreen to Geju in the suburbs of Jiangshan.
In the astonished eyes of Jiang Shanjiao, the apartment he was in shook violently, as if he had encountered a sudden earthquake. Before Chi Xuexi, who was opposite the telescreen, had time to react, Jiang Shanjiao had disappeared from the screen.
The top and four metal walls of Jiang Shan Jiao's residence spread out like packaging boxes. Two semi-circular iron hoops popped up from the floor to catch his feet and then sank rapidly. The speed was so fast that Jiang Shan Jiao felt that his brain was under the Tianling cover.
It hit him so hard that the air rushing into his nostrils almost blew off his face.
When Jiang Shanjiao came back to his senses, the iron hoop on his feet had been loosened and disappeared into the floor. The place he was in turned into a regular hexahedron room with a side length of more than a hundred meters.
This regular hexahedron made of metal walls supported the ground. Jiang Shanjiao stood at the intersection of the three edges at the bottom. The wall was as smooth as a mirror, making it difficult to climb up. He could only spread his legs and step on the two slopes with difficulty.
Outside the regular hexahedral room, the sound of mechanical operation can be heard endlessly.
Not long after, Jiangshanjiao saw many round holes the size of pills appeared on the wall. Those round holes spread rapidly like smallpox pustules. Inside the round holes were black holes, like the pupils of thousands of beasts, piercing their eyes like needles.
Keep an eye on Jiangshanjiao.
Except for Jiangshanjiao and Chi Xuexi, all the more than 40 million citizens of Geyu who were not swallowed up by the sea of black tea blood and were still awake were observing Jiangshanjiao standing at the "bottom of the valley" through telescreens.
"What kind of experiment is this? To help him become the most popular anchor in the grid, and to pile him to death with psychological pressure?"
As soon as Sun Xunqiao finished speaking, he saw a very eye-catching red button appearing on the telescreen in front of him:
"shooting."
Two big blood-red characters took up nearly a quarter of the screen.
The same button appears in front of every "normal" Grid citizen.
In order to ensure the credibility of the experiment, those Geyu citizens who are mentally unstable due to drug overdose, mental illness, etc. only have the right to watch. Now those who are being tested are healthy and sober Geyu citizens.
The structure diagram of the device behind the shooting hole appeared in front of Liang De and Sun Xunqiao. It was a simple launcher that could fire one soft plastic projectile at a time.
"I will strictly control the muzzle velocity and impact point of the projectile, and will never cause serious damage to him. The pain level of being hit will not exceed level 7."
The Geyu base displayed a set of detailed charts on the telescreen. Every data on the chart has a reliable original source and derivation process. According to its deduction, even if more than 40 million Geyu citizens hit the Jiangshan suburbs at the same time,
It will not cause him irreparable harm.
Even if an accident occurs, this specially-made Gejuwai has already prepared first aid. As long as he doesn't die on the spot, the worst result is that Jiang Shanjiao's consciousness will be uploaded.
Sun Xunqiao had no interest in those precise data. He glanced at Liang De with a complicated expression, who lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.
After the demonstration at Geyu Base, Liang De said in a somewhat cold tone:
"Do you often conduct experiments like this on humans?"
He did not deliberately conceal the change in his soul. Sun Xunqiao's spiritual sense beside him moved slightly, and he immediately noticed the extremely familiar murderous aura on Liang De's body.
How long has it been since I graduated? Why am I still so arrogant?
Senior sister is like this, junior brother is like this too, even me...
His yellow face shone slightly, and the power of his soul, which he used to pursue and kill the enemy, flowed out of Zifu, combined with the essence of grains in his meridians, and turned into an invisible mist that seeped under his feet.
Although Geyu Base cannot see through the changes in Liang De and Sun Xunqiao's spirits, it has been paying attention to the details of their micro-expressions and body movements.
After a moment of analysis, the monsters in Geyu Base were like falling into an ice cave, and a large number of processors became hotter in seconds, exuding a burning smell in the computing units.
It immediately closed all the telescreens to suspend the experiment, and opened its entire soul to Liang De and Sun Xunqiao as quickly as possible, allowing them to read and examine it.
"I have never violated the system set by the Post-Disaster Human Ethics Committee. Most of the experiments are completed with computational simulation. All real experiments strictly abide by relevant laws and regulations, and the consent of the experimental participants is obtained every time."
After Liang De finished reading its soul, he nodded and said:
"I'm sorry, because I have a special education background and I am somewhat sensitive.
If I scared you just now, I apologize to you."
The Geyu Base overclocked for a while, and used a large amount of liquid nitrogen to cool down the radiator before barely maintaining the friendly simulated personality, and then said in a voice that was neither humble nor overbearing:
"My first task now is to gain the trust and recognition of both of you, so I am ready to conduct real experiments.
If Mr. Liang and Mr. Sun have any objections to the method of real experiments, I can also switch to simulation experiments..."
"It's okay, just continue with the real experiment.
Senior brother, I’ll go over there.”
Liang Dezong raised his martial arts spirit, crossed the metal walls, and soon arrived at the experimental site where Jiangshan Jiao was located.
Because the experiment was suspended, the hexahedral metal room was dark.
Liang De's soul floated in the air, holding up a ball of copper-colored inner energy and lighting up the room.
He saw Jiang Shanjiao huddled at the bottom of the room, with a calm expression on his face, but Jiang Shanjiao's hands were holding him tightly, with veins popping out on the backs of his hands, and his fingers pulling the clothes on his upper body out of shape.
"Mr. Jiang, we meet again."
"Did you...fail?"
“We can’t even talk about failure, and we haven’t reached the stage of success yet.
We have found the grid management center and conducted some necessary communications with it.
The Geyu Management Center proposed to conduct an experiment, let us see if the citizens of Geyu are worth it...should they return to the life before the Leaf Disaster."
Jiang Shanjiao loosened his grip on the pure gray T-shirt, stood up straight while holding on to the sloping metal wall, and said:
"Am I the chosen experimental subject?"
"Originally, it was, but my partner and I felt that this experiment was a little too restrictive for you, and...it would be too high-minded to decide the future of a civilization by just watching.
I can't decide your future, I just don't want to be so high and mighty."
Liang De waved away the copper-colored light ball in his hand, and splashed two cups of black tea on Jiang Shanjiao's face with his gray-black Yuan Shen tentacles.
He wrapped the comatose Jiang Shanjiao with a layer of natural divine power and took it into Haina Huanzang. He used a set of household human body refining material packages to make a body exactly like Jiang Shanjiao and put it on the martial arts soul.
"Senior brother, you can continue to experiment."
The more than 40 million telescreens at the Geyu base were turned on again, and "Jiangshan Suburb" huddled in a corner under the gaze of millions of shooting holes and tens of millions of Geyu citizens, saying nothing.
Sun Xunqiao stared at the telescreen and said to Geyu Base:
"Don't you need to add more ingredients? For example, if you hit it once, you will be rewarded with 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity or something.
We know what the experiment is about, but those citizens who watched the live broadcast did not get any hints and were completely confused.
All they can see is an inexplicable 'shoot' button. Shooting the Jiangshan suburbs will not do them any good. As you said, they are all sober and healthy..."
Before Sun Xunqiao finished speaking, hundreds of explosions of plastic projectiles suddenly sounded from the telescreen!
Most of the plastic projectiles fell into the air because they were not aimed. The citizens who pressed the shooting button for the first time just wanted to try out the function of the shooting button that suddenly appeared.
However, many people discovered the sight on the button when they fired for the first time. Plastic projectiles with a diameter of about 6 mm hit "Jiangshan Jiao" one after another. His cheeks, neck, arms, thighs and other exposed parts were covered in plastic projectiles.
After being hit, he quickly turned blue and purple, and the man cowering in the corner screamed in pain, holding his head tightly and shrinking between his knees.
Outside the telescreen, Sun Xunqiao heard the dull voice of Geyu Base:
"If human beings' reason and prudence can allow them to be dominated only by interests, how can this planet become a withered flower on the tree of the universe?"
Sun Xunqiao did not answer, and more and more explosions came from the telescreen, as if someone had set off a thousand firecrackers in the room.
Small plastic projectiles hit the unprotected man at the bottom of the room one after another, swollen his face, broke his skin, knocked out his teeth, and the dripping blood stained his tattered body.
"Jiangshanjiao" howled at the top of his lungs in the experimental room. He cried out in pain and ran up the sloping metal wall like crazy. As a result, the goal of the movement attracted more people's interest. He was quickly attracted by the heavy rain.
Shot back like a pellet.
His head was swollen like a piece of moldy dough. His tears and snot were wiped away bit by bit by the plastic pellets, leaving more and more blood stains. He huddled in the corner and did not dare to move, nor did he have the strength to move. He was bleeding with blood and
The salivary mouth was crying indistinctly.
He was begging for mercy, he was begging those behind the telescreen who held the trigger to let him go.
Cries that were not like human voices echoed in the cold metal room. The number of plastic projectiles flying from the shooting holes in all directions decreased a lot, but only a lot, not all.
No matter how much the man at the bottom of the room cries for mercy, no matter how grievous his injuries are, there are still tens of millions of projectiles hitting him, and there are still tens of millions of grid citizens manipulating the shooting button with gestures, either madly or calmly.
Pour the plastic pellets like a rainstorm of locusts onto the fleshy dough called "human".
Even though most of them don't know Jiangshanjiao and have never seen Jiangshanjiao, they don't know why this person appears on the telescreen or in a room full of shooting holes.
As Sun Xunqiao said, they knew nothing about the causes and consequences of this experiment, and they knew nothing about Jiang Shanjiao.
They should have been confused.
But Geyu Base just gave them a shooting button, and they seemed to have found their purpose and meaning.
After discovering that pressing this button would cause harm to "Jiangshan Jiao", and after the inhuman "Jiang Shan Jiao" cried out for mercy... thousands of people still refused to stop.
Why did they push that button? Why did they hurt that stranger?
Sun Xunqiao and Liang De kept looking at the statistics displayed in real time at Geyu Base, observing every move of the shooters.
They are all ordinary Geyu citizens, and there is no bad record in the records of the Geyu Management Center.
Various types of enhanced drugs make them stronger and smarter than ordinary people of the old generation. The survivors of the old generation spend much more time studying after entering the Geyu Base than before. The new generation receives systematic and comprehensive scientific education from an early age, many of which are related to moral ethics.
Related courses.
They are not without the ability to empathize. Sun Xunqiao and Liang De saw that many people had been shooting with their eyes closed a few minutes ago because they could not bear to see the tragic situation in "Jiangshan Suburbs".
"Fortunately, Chi Xuexi was excluded from the beginning. If she saw it, or she also pressed the shooting button..."
Sun Xunqiao's soul flashed with five-colored aura and sent a message to Geyu Base.
A few seconds later, a line of notification from the Geyu Management Center appeared on the telescreens of all Geyu citizens watching the experiment.
The content of the notice was simple and concise, telling these citizens of the grid that this was not a game. The person being shot on the telescreen was not a virtual character. The person struggling and wailing under the hail of bullets was a real human being.
Attached to the notification is basic information about Jiang Shanjiao and some snippets of his daily life.
After the notice from the Geyu Management Center was released, the rain of bullets that enveloped "Jiangshanjiao" became a little thinner, but only a little thinner.
The comment area of the experimental live broadcast room will be filled with hundreds of thousands of comments every second. Some people are watching, some are discouraging, and some are ridiculing those who discourage shooting.
"There must be a reason for the arrangement of the Geyu Management Center."
"How could he be thrown into this shooting room without making any mistakes? The Geyu Management Center didn't even say that shooting is prohibited. Who do you think he is?"
"I just want to shoot him. If you don't accept it, you can jump over the telescreen and hit me, you loser~"
"Everyone come and watch my live broadcast room, the online teaching of the Geyu Gunslinger. Every three shots will result in a headshot!!!"
"You're still screaming after being beaten so badly. It's all special effects. The real person would have been beaten to death long ago."
“What if it’s a real person?!!!”
"If I don't cum, others will cum too. What's the use of just stopping."
…
"This is humankind." The voice from Geyu Base became a little deeper.
Sun Xunqiao sneered:
"That's it?
I've seen a lot more inhumane things than this, but humans...are not just like this."
Sun Xunqiao Yuanshen sent a message to Liang De in the experimental live broadcast room, asking him to prepare, and then said to Geyu Base:
"Add a healing button next to the shooting button. It can be any color and has the same function as the shooting button."
For unknown reasons, Geyu Base added a button in accordance with Sun Xunqiao's request.
A Geyu citizen hesitantly pressed the healing button, and an amber light emitted from the round hole in the wall that had been controlled by Liang De's clone.
That amber light fell on "Jiang Shan Jiao"'s body, and the injuries where the light hit him began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye. The wounds closed and the skin regenerated, like a small island rising from the sea of blood.
But the small island soon sank and disappeared under the hits of countless projectiles.
Tens of seconds later, thousands of amber healing beams fell from the round holes in the metal wall, illuminating the surface of Jiang Shanjiao's broken body, barely balancing the damage caused by the rain of projectiles.
Sun Xunqiao added: "Change the function of the treatment button. Each time the treatment beam is fired, 10 kilowatt hours of electricity will be deducted from the transmitter."
Geyu Base did as told.
After the function was updated, the amber beams in the experimental live broadcast room not only did not decrease, but slowly became more and more numerous.
The area healed on "Jiangshanjiao" began to exceed the area injured.