Giant corporations are enviably powerful entities that have strong control over their respective jurisdictions, and every corporation relies on them to survive.
Rare technologies such as digital mind are only owned by giant companies. Even if these technologies are stolen, it will be difficult for other ordinary companies to use them because they cannot obtain the matching skill files. As a result, it is impossible to inject corresponding skills into the minds of employees.
Knowledge and technical barriers are difficult to overcome.
The same goes for Xu Yang. He not only possesses a digital mind, but also has neural training engraved in his mind, plus accumulated work experience. The combination of these three factors constitutes his current level of neural hacker.
This is also why employees of giant companies can have the effect of reducing dimensionality in the outside world. They are better than civilian enthusiasts and members of small companies at every level.
Zi Zi naturally understood the value of members of giant companies. She was very curious as to why Xu Yang gave up such a superior environment and ran outside. But she was shy and embarrassed to ask.
Falosa was still staring at the various novelties in the vending machine.
"Let's take a good look at the inventions and creations of mankind," Xu Yang said, "Human beings have not lived in vain for a thousand years."
"The machines here cost more." Ye Zi turned to the other vending machines nearby, which sold some sundries.
"I'm too lazy to do it," Xu Yang took out the cash card, "I'll transfer you some money, and you can use it to swipe it."
"Oh?" Ye Zi took out a blank cash card from the big bag, and Xu Yang transferred 5,000 to her, which shocked her again, "So much?"
"Five thousand is a small amount of money to me, and it is to you too."
"It was really a small amount of money to me a long time ago, but now? I have the ability to live on 5,000 yuan for 10 months."
"Then you will have no worries about food and clothing for the next 10 months."
"I will pay you back when I make money."
"Need not."
Xu Yang has too much money, and 100 million cannot be spent casually.
"It's so rich, very rich." Ye Zi couldn't help but repeat.
She has been unable to save money at all over the years, and the money she earns from playing games can only be used to maintain expenses. Sometimes she has to borrow money, and the money on her cash card has never exceeded 2,000.
Xu Yang gave her 5,000, which made Ye Zi really happy.
"You can buy whatever you want now," Ye Zi ran to the vending machine and started purchasing excitedly.
"How long can you live on 5,000? How much do you usually spend a month?" Falosa observed Xu Yang.
"I used to live for free when I was in the company," Xu Yang said, "I didn't spend any money on food, accommodation, and clothing."
"Happiness." Ye Zi concluded.
"But every month's salary is used to pay off debts, and you can't get anything that belongs to you," Xu Yang said. "Under the corporatist system, all the value you create belongs to the company. You pay too much and get too little. I can't
When a shameless person is consumed like a human battery, he still thanks the company for not killing him."
The movement of the leaves stopped.
When she thought of Xu Yang's words, she recalled more complicated things.
She had seen some strange things that happened in her mother's company. Some people jumped off the building in despair because they were fired. Some people died before receiving their pensions. Some people were smart and elegant, but they were hysterical in fighting for a position.
Among the huge buildings in the cloud, she saw people crawling around like ants.
"Scary." Ye Zi shook his head.
She took Falosa's hand and went to the toilet in the shopping mall together. On the way, Ye Zi seemed to have carefully tidied up her appearance. When she came back, Xu Yang felt completely new.
Ye Zi was addicted to the Internet before and didn't pay much attention to dressing up. Now she has combed her hair and is quite beautiful. Her facial features are sweet and cute, her eyes are also very lively, and she looks happy.
Now the leaves look young and pure, and in a few years they will become more mature and will surely be more attractive.
In contrast, Falosa simply washed her face.
"I want to take a shower," Falosa said.
"There is no hot water here." Xu Yang scanned the structural diagram of the building.
Shopping malls are not a place for people to bathe. People in the Lijia group should go to their homes or go to a hotel to bathe. This place is used for office work and selling goods.
"I want to clean my elegant body." Falosa said, "The filth and stench along the way have made me unbearable, especially the 'toilet' we just visited."
"You were praising it just now." Ye Zi said.
"Because there is such a wonderful and convenient prop as 'toilet paper'," Falosa said.
"Actually, this place is pretty good, better than many Internet cafes." Ye Zi said.
Xu Yang was just about to say something when he felt faint.
He pressed his head. Apparently, the unrepaired brain implant was beginning to damage his health again. He felt dizzy and couldn't even stand still.
Farosha helped Xu Yang sit on the ground. He closed his eyes and breathed repeatedly. This feeling was extremely disturbing, as if a thousand computers were turned on at the same time in his head, making him at a loss.
"We must..." Xu Yang gasped, "We must find a prosthetic clinic."
"Your implant was not repaired?" Ye Zi asked.
"It's only a little repaired." Xu Yang sat on the ground, feeling pain all over his body, as if an electric spark was traveling through his body, torturing every blood vessel in his body until it was about to tear them all to pieces.
The sound of jet propulsion approached, and cleaning robots shuttled back and forth around them, mopping away blood, dirt, and bullet casings everywhere.
Not far away, corpses were lifted up one by one by their robotic arms and loaded into the large trash can at the back. The movements were efficient and skillful, as if they had already built-in a program to clean up the corpses.
"Our cleaning, your smiling face!" These cleaning robots would also broadcast such a voice while working. They sounded very happy. The supermarket was filled with cheerful electronic sounds, which made Xu Yang even more uncomfortable.
"Those big trash cans are filled with dead and stagnant dreams." Falosa looked at their corpse buckets.
"But ours still needs to flow." Xu Yang looked at the shelves outside.
There are many types of robots that can assist people in various aspects of life, but now, when it comes to Xu Yang's implant disorder problem, neither maintenance robots nor medical robots can help.
Find a prosthetic doctor...
Xu Yang felt exhausted.
Only professional prosthetists can help me. They have experienced hundreds of battles and have seen a lot. In this chaotic world, there is no implant that has not been repaired.
"Quick," Xu Yang looked at Ye Zi, "lend me your phone and see if there is a prosthetic clinic nearby."
"Mobile phones are very private," Ye Zi shook his head fiercely, "Uncle, where is your own mobile phone?"
"When I took a shuttle across the sea, I threw it out of the window." Keeping my phone will only make me tracked.
"So you can use your personal experience to prove that a modern person can live a healthy life without a mobile phone." Ye Zi suddenly thought of something interesting.
"Do I look healthy to you? Come on."
"What idiot would show his phone to others?" Ye Zi hugged his phone and didn't want to have sex.
"What kind of idiot is he who carries a 10-kilogram bag wherever he goes?"
"These are my treasures."
Xu Yang suspected that the dizziness was because the cache was not cleared.
The functions of his current digital mind are really very primitive. After the hand prosthesis was repaired, only part of the interface was restored to provide basic functions. The brain prosthesis is related to the more core processor and memory space, and they are still damaged.
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The previous hacking work has accumulated some data fragments, which will affect the work of his brain if not carefully cleaned. However, this is only a temporary measure, and it is best to find a prosthetic doctor to fully repair it.
"Now is not the time to talk nonsense, please help me find the prosthetic clinics around me." Xu Yang said.
"...One of them is still open." Ye Zi stared at the screen of his mobile phone, "Hey, there is a video in the latest notification. I wonder what they recorded."
video?
"Put it on the ground and let's take a look." Xu Yang said.
Ye Zi laid her mobile phone flat on the ground. Her mobile phone was a very old model, it was the "Thunder 10" mobile phone produced by Modern Entertainment Company, which is no longer popular.
She pressed the play button.
When the video file was run, Xu Yang saw a middle-aged man wearing glasses, with messy hair, and a tired face. His expression was ugly, as if he had a bad look at everything around him, and he seemed to have some resentment.
The surrounding environment is dark and filled with parts, garbage and second-hand furniture.
Next to him, stood a hooded "ghost" whose face could not be seen at all. He was wrapped in a thick cloak. He seemed to have been highly modified and did not want to expose his twisted body.
"Hey, everyone who saw this video, 'Old Cui Prosthetics Shop' is going to close down." Xu Yang saw the middle-aged man stretching out his hand as if to support the camera, while pointing angrily outside, "I'm going to die."
It’s over! My store and I are going to be doomed, and while you’re watching this video, I should have been eaten by rats.”
The video footage was transferred to the basement door.
"Before I die, I want to tell you the truth!" the middle-aged man yelled at the screen, "I want to upload this video to the bulletin board so that you can have a chance to see that the world is rotten and it is all done by the company.
Good thing, companies torture everyone! If we want to survive, if we want to live decently and freely, we must clean up all companies! This is the only way out, I am a genius, so you don’t
Listen to how I demonstrate this answer in detail, and you just need to know that I am right!"
When Xu Yang saw that there were still 2/3 of the video, he felt that he didn’t have time to finish it slowly before helping.
He saw that the video was uploaded only 5 minutes ago, and he probably still had a chance to save them both.
Compared with this middle-aged man, the "ghost" next to him was obsessed with the work at hand and completely ignored him. He didn't seem to care that the two of them would be eaten by rats.
"That's it!" the middle-aged man continued to shout, "The company is running the 'Giant Tower Project', this is a fact! An absolute fact! All the rumors about the 'Giant Tower Project' are true, damn 'Giant Tower'
Plan', hey, this is the first time I have said these words so loudly..."
Xu Yang's heart skipped a beat.
"Ignore him." Xu Yang stood up suddenly, "Turn off the video."
"They're being attacked by ratmen," Farossa said, "and didn't you say they needed repairs?"
Giant tower plan.
Xu Yang was warned by his teacher on several principles on his first day at the company's elementary school.
——“Dear company kids, ‘Project Giant Tower’ absolutely does not exist.”
“In the future, once you hear someone promoting it or talking about it in your life, please immediately record their description, name, and image by all means, and send it to the special processing department of the company alliance, and then wait where you are, and department personnel will
We will arrive within 3 minutes and perform memory erasure work on you. This service will not harm your health, so please feel free to use it."
"Be sure to stay away from anyone who talks about the 'Tower Project' and never have any contact with them. Once you come into contact, please send your description, name and image to the special handling department of the corporate alliance."
"If anyone claims that the 'Tower Project' exists, they are lying, and those who lie are not worthy of belief."
The education he received as a child came to mind, and Xu Yang just wanted to escape from the madness on the screen.