There are some things you can’t pretend not to know once you know them, and some things you must take care of once you know them. However, the Lannos are still figuring out one similar thing after another. The Eternal Star Territory is far from what it seems on the surface.
Prosperity, on the contrary, is because people in this world are more worldly and their pursuit of immortality lacks purity, which has resulted in more disastrous consequences.
The First Demon Star Sea is one of the many galaxies revolving around the Eternal Ancient Star. It is a galaxy composed of one star and multiple planets similar to the solar system.
Lan Nuo also came here to inspect the people's livelihood here. This time he no longer came with nothing, but followed their example of looking for people who were about to end their lives every time, and then secretly followed them.
At the moment of natural death, their replacement is completed.
In the past, they needed evolutionary space to help them do such things. Now, they can do this kind of thing themselves, and even when they choose their own targets, the effect is much better.
This time, the target he chose was an ordinary office worker. Of course, he was not the kind who likes to look at the Mona Lisa. He was a really ordinary type, living in a rental house, leaving work early and returning late every day, and his own career
He is a designer assistant. According to Lan Nuo's investigation of him and reading of his superficial thinking, we can know that this person studied design in school in his early years.
But after entering the workplace, he could only exist as a designer assistant for many years. The work was very hard, but judging from his current living situation, he did not save much money.
This is actually the norm for many ordinary office workers. According to the calculations of Lanno, the wealth they have obtained should not be small in theory. In fact, if they can work normally for about ten years, it will be enough to earn a lot of money.
The down payment for a house was made in a relatively prosperous area of the city.
Although this kind of pressure is not small, in theory it should not make each of these office workers look so miserable. After asking about the specific situation, Lan Nuo found such a person who was in extremely poor health and could be at risk at any time.
The individual who died suddenly took over his identity after his death.
The name of the body currently used by Lan Nuo is Wang De. It is twenty-eight years old, but it looks like it is almost forty. It has a bald patch on the top of its head, and the body itself also has many pathological changes.
After taking possession of this body, Lan Nuo roughly understood what happened. He discovered that the spine of this body was not natural, but an artificial cervical vertebra. And what about the quality of this artificial cervical vertebra?
What to say...
The quality of this artificial spine is very poor, and it is not an inferior product, but is specially produced to look like this.
Many industrial products actually design an end-of-life date for themselves. This design is normal because industrial products are constantly being updated. If a generation of products is too durable, they will also encounter certain problems when outdated production capacity is eliminated.
level of trouble.
However, with the penetration of capital power and the deepening of marketization, this kind of design scrapping has become more and more rampant. Some things that could have been used for most of their lives are deliberately used when designing and manufacturing them.
The reason for the key parts that are easily damaged is also very simple. If the old ones are not broken, why should consumers replace them with new ones?
Lan Nuo found the original owner's personal computer. There are also computers on this planet. Although they do not use semiconductors, they have the same goal as the computers on Earth. In the end, they are still computer systems composed of gate circuits and integrated circuits. After logging into the network,
It is also a very convenient type for information query.
Lan Nuo quickly found out from the shopping records of the original owner a few years ago. What happened before? Fortunately, he found the conversation between him and the customer service.
The general development process of the matter is as follows. Wang De, who has just joined the company, is still a very energetic young man. He has just graduated and is full of hope and motivation for his future.
But after he joined the company, he discovered that his colleagues were much more motivated than him, and his boss respected the wolf culture. The one who could compete the most and the one who pushed the hardest would be promoted.
And he found that no matter how hard he worked, he never seemed to be able to compete with his colleagues. No matter how hard he tried, his colleagues always did better than him, were more able to persist in their jobs, and each one of them did the best.
Their perverted boss likes this upright sitting posture, thinking that it means that the employees are more awake.
At that time, he didn't know that the boss of the company actually secretly had a cooperation agreement with the artificial spine company. If more than one of his employees had artificial spines installed, he would get a sizable dividend.
Wang De could only rely on his body as much as possible and maintain that posture. But over time, working more than fourteen hours a day still made his body unable to bear it.
He cautiously tried to search for what to do about back pain. In this era, searching for symptoms on the Internet is a very dangerous thing. Facts have proved that he did not escape the capture of big data in the end. The day after he finished his search
, his personal computer is filled with advertisements for artificial spines.
These are all included with the software he uses, and in this era, software without advertisements can no longer be found. Removing advertisements from software without permission will be regarded as a serious infringement, and the fine will be as high as Wang De's.
Compensation to the point of bankruptcy.
As for the rich people who don’t want to see ads, what should we do? Just block them. The cost of blocking ads may be very expensive for workers, but it doesn’t matter to them at all. As for practitioners, as long as they reach the secret realm of the Taoist Palace,
They can be free of advertising for life, and even protect them by law. No application is allowed to serve ads to them without their permission.
In such an environment, Wang De endured the harassment of advertisements and the deterioration of his body every day. In the end, he had to choose to have surgery and replace his spine amid the advertisements repeated over and over again and the stern warnings from his boss.
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The price almost bankrupted him. However, even if he did all this, he failed to get promoted. The person who got promoted was the colleague sitting next to him, and the boss told everyone: "You are not wolf enough to know him."
Why was he promoted? He replaced the artificial stomach bag. He does not need to eat. He only needs to inject nutrient solution into the stomach bag, and he does not need to go to the toilet.
Nowadays, the culture of paid pooping in the company is getting worse and worse. We must put an end to this culture. In order to limit the behavior of paid pooping, I declare that from now on, everyone should not go to the toilet for more than ten minutes every day. For every minute exceeded,
It will be deducted from your salary accordingly."
So, after the artificial spine, Wang De had to start saving money for an artificial stomach bag. He believed that as long as he could get a promotion and a salary increase, everything would be fine. Then his salary would no longer make ends meet, and at least he could save up.
Some, you can slowly start to improve your living conditions.
It is precisely with such a goal that he works harder and harder, but this society has already arranged the destiny for these ordinary people, and every time it interrupts their accumulation of wealth, leaving them unable to escape from the society and make a living for themselves.
With the constructed frame, what does it look like in the higher sky?
After five years of working in a cramped partition the size of a bathroom stall, his artificial spine broke eight times, and each repair almost cost him all the little money he had just saved.
After each repair, due to lack of wealth, part of the artificial spine's authority would be shut down. Just after the last repair, the pain-relieving function of the artificial spine was also shut down.
He returned to the way he had suffered from back pain after doing it for a while. But this time, if he wanted to block this piercing back pain, he would either have to watch an extremely lengthy advertisement or pay to experience the pain relief function for a period of time.
And every time he forced himself to endure it. Maybe as long as he survived this period, the pain would not be so painful next time. After this period, he could save some money.
In this way, the body's remaining lifespan was continuously consumed, and finally, during an overtime shift, he died suddenly and silently.
After Lan Nuo saw all this, a rare trace of fear appeared deep in his heart. If he was still the ordinary person he once was and fell into such a trap, would it be possible to climb out?
If he is now in the same situation and has lost all his special abilities, including higher thinking speed, can he escape? Maybe, but it may be difficult.
The traps of this society that can be seen from Wang De are already extremely dangerous, and the malice of this society towards these screw-like beings will always be much deeper than what Wang De has experienced.
Even those employees who successfully got promotions and salary increases and reached higher positions did not get a good ending in the end. In their later years, they will gradually discover that artificial organs are not as good as their original organs after all.
As they age, the damage caused by the operation of these organs to their bodies will gradually become apparent, and they will need to spend more than before to replace these artificial organs with their original living ones.
And these are actually reconnected with the underground black market. These older individuals who have accumulated a little wealth are actually also major consumers of organs in the black market, but in their view, the sources of these organs are all
It is legal and has been cleaned up.
No one knows how many of these are the scarred organs replaced by former office workers, and how many of them are those who are in debt and unable to pay off, and are captured by human traffickers in dark corners, squeezing out the last of their value.
Batch people.
As for how people persevere in such a high-tech, low-life cyberpunk society? Lan Nuo also found the answer in that work. The solution for cyberpunk is the neural connection game.
, the reality is too cruel, people often come to the virtual world to escape.
In the virtual world, there is indeed a lot of happiness that cannot be achieved in reality. At least they can use the cheapest means to experience content that they can never feel in reality.
For example, high-end food, comfortable living environment, bloody and exciting game content, or a meticulous, considerate, gentle and capable opposite-sex partner. Although everyone knows that this is fake, they will not forget this when they get along with each other.
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In order to create such realistic hallucinations, a large number of hallucinogenic drugs and hormone drugs are used during the neural connection game, which is actually quite damaging to the human body.
Of course, there is a harmless version of this technology, but it is not something that these workers can afford.
In such a world of cyber science fiction, in addition to these relatively formal traps, life is also full of other traps that may lead to fatal consequences. For example, you may be knocked at the tasting stalls that can be seen everywhere.
Once you try addictive drugs, it is basically impossible to get rid of them, and you will end up falling into the abyss step by step.
Lan Nuo closed the body's owner's personal computer, which was full of advertisements, and did not carry out excessive repairs on the body. He only repaired it from the edge of sudden death to a point where it could barely be used normally.
Lan Nuo wanted to see if he could revitalize this abandoned account with his own abilities.
To be honest, even he doesn't have the confidence. This kind of start is really a high-end game for Lan Nuo.
And this is also a verification. If even his will cannot save these people who have fallen into the abyss, then it can be said that it is not these people who are wrong, but the world.
During the next period of controlling this body, Lan Nuo will separate part of his autonomous consciousness and inject it into this body, and block out additional knowledge, only mastering the knowledge of the body itself, and try to see if he can control it in such a body.
Change your destiny under society.
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"This feeling of ignorance is so uncomfortable. Well... my current body can still function stably for about three months. During these three months, my waist will become more and more painful, but this is not a good thing for me.
It should be bearable, but after three months, this pain will cause continuous damage to the nerves. This damage cannot be solved by willpower alone, and the damaged parts must be replaced.
So now I need to save a certain amount of money, and I can't leave my current stable job, otherwise..." Lan Nuo has already figured it out from his other selves. There will be no relief after falling from the social class. Faced with
