The Cthulhu story was not created by one person, everyone can contribute. Ufo, also known as UFO, is also created by enthusiasts. The same is true for the Venetian water monster. Many people claim to have seen the water monster, but in fact it is just a water monster.
Everyone makes up their mind.
"The distribution of smiling men is so wide. There is no behavioral logic, which means it is not just one smiling man, but a group of smiling men. All we can find is the first smiling man, but we cannot find all the smiling men.
This is also like Zhuge Liang and Guan Gong. The Zhuge Liang and Guan Gong in everyone's minds are no longer the Zhuge Liang and Guan Gong in history. The smiling man we are looking for is no longer the smiling man who acted bravely for justice, but a concept created by everyone."
Togusa opened his mouth without saying a word, because what Duran said made sense and was completely in line with the strange reality. If there were many imitators, it could indeed explain the unrelated actions of the smiling man.
Everyone is using their own understanding to describe the Smiley Man, and even make up stories about the Smiley Man, making the Smiley Man more and more magical.
This is like Guan Gong, who was originally just a general, but later became the Martial Saint and the God of Martial Finance. Everyone kept placing their imagination on Guan Yu, and in the end, the Guan Yu that everyone recognized was different from the Guan Yu in history.
The same goes for the Smiley Man. Everyone imagines the Smiley Man to be a knight, a knight who will appear when everyone needs him. But in fact, the Smiley Man is not a savior, he is just an ordinary person with powerful hacker abilities.
"Is everyone talking about the smiling man in their imagination?" Togusa nodded, thinking this was the truth.
"The smiling man cannot afford so many expectations, but there will be many people who will follow the smiling man as an example. Some of these imitators do good things, and some do bad things. Of course, in their eyes, these bad things may also be good things. After all, good and harmonious
Badness is distinguished by standpoint. For example, what is a good thing for refugees may be a bad thing for islanders, and vice versa. So if you imitate the smiley man and do things, you will have all kinds of things.”
"Then we just need to capture the original Smiling Man and announce his true identity to everyone."
"Of course it's useless. Your statement is just fundamentalism, which means returning to the origin of the Smiling Man. But it's useless because too much imagination is applied to the Smiling Man, and everyone believes in the Smiling Man in their own minds." Duran
Said: "Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, and even Confucius all have a different image in everyone's mind. There are many fundamentalist scholars who hope to restore Confucius.
The original image of Confucius. But it is useless, because in the minds of many people, he is the big devil who has been suppressing the Central Plains for two thousand years. Or some people think that "if heaven does not give birth to Zhongni, eternity will be like a long night." Confucius is a devil after all.
, or a savior? Neither. In fact, Confucius was just a lost dog in his own time. But in everyone's mind, he was either a devil or a savior, and no one cared what he looked like."
"Even if the Nine Sections found the original image of the smiling man, no one would care. The media doesn't like an ordinary ordinary person who is brave enough to do justice. The people also don't like a person who is no different from themselves. What everyone wants is a hero, a charming one.
Infinite, unpredictable superheroes who can solve problems. What they need is to believe that there is a smiling man in the world who can solve problems. They believe that once the smiling man appears, everything will be solved."
Regarding Dulan's statement, Togusa nodded. Ordinary people are like this. Ordinary people just want others to solve problems instead of solving problems themselves. He couldn't help but said: "I think of a person who often sees it on the Internet.
Question, asking why we are so slow to develop Hokkaido and why we did not develop Hokkaido into a paradise hundreds of years ago. I remember one reply at that time: Are you willing to give up your own right now?
Do you want to work and open up wasteland in Hokkaido? At that time, I realized that when the person who asked the question complained, he never thought that he could contribute to solving the problem. He just complained that he could not reap the dividends after the problem was solved. He did not want to open up wasteland in Hokkaido.
But they want to reap the dividends of land reclamation. The Smiley Man is the collective thought of this kind of people. With the Smiley Man, everyone hopes that the Smiley Man will solve the problem, and they can just sit back and enjoy his achievements."
"That's very good. When you are around me, your brain finally starts to work."
Togusa rolled his eyes at Duran, continued to smoke, and said: "In the final analysis, it is to simplify complex problems. Some people think that the smiling man is the solution to the problem, and some people think that the smiling man is the cause of the problem. But no matter what,
, they all blame complex things on an eight-pole guy
People who don't care, so that they can refuse to change with peace of mind. After all, the problem is caused by others, or the problem should be solved by others. It has nothing to do with you, but you can't forget me when you distribute the dividends. This is the common mentality of everyone. Although technology
It has developed, but people’s mentality remains the same as before.”
"Don't we all have electronic brains now? We can implant a sense of responsibility into everyone. But if we do this, senior officials and dignitaries will not be able to sleep." Dulan said with a smile.
Tuogusa corrected him: "It must be that the dignitaries who are sitting in the corpse position are unable to sleep."
"So we will not implant a sense of responsibility, because not everyone is qualified to be responsible. The island country belongs to a few people. The land, economy, and talents are all private property of a few people. What do outsiders want to have a sense of responsibility? Want to rob
Family property?" Duran said: "What the parliament pays attention to is qualifications, which depends on annual income. Without the income brought by land assets, you are not qualified to be responsible at all. It is best to do nothing."
"..." Togusa stopped talking, and he would rebel if he continued. He didn't want to rebel, he just wanted to complete his work and take care of his family.
In the end, the Smiley Man incident naturally ended without a problem. Although Kusanagi Motoko met the original Smiley Man alone, it was not impossible to solve the Smiley Man trend that had already formed.
The Smiling Face Man is like a god. Some people will worship him and make wishes, hoping that the Smiling Face Man can change the status quo. There will also be people who try to imitate the Smiling Face Man, but unfortunately these stragglers will eventually come to nothing.
The Smiling Man's case ended in a group incident. After all, if everyone paid homage to Guan Gong and then pretended to be Guan Yu to fight, the police would not be able to arrest Guan Gong, but only the person who was fighting.
Although the Smiling Man hacked into the camera, the crime was not serious. As for the crimes committed by other imitators, the imitators could only be caught. The image of the Smiling Man can only be regarded as a tool, just like the Guan Gong statue.
Another case was solved, but there was no time for rest in Class 9. A new case came again.
"The Puppet Master, this is an international criminal who has committed crimes in many countries. Recently there is news that he has come to the island country." Motoko Kusanagi introduced the new suspect and said: "No one knows his true identity, only that he
He is a very powerful hacker who commits crimes abroad.
He is wanted by many countries. The case involves 13 important crimes such as financial laundering, espionage, terrorist attacks, and the murder of political figures. He is an extremely dangerous criminal. This puppet master's skills are very powerful and he can implant memories to control people's hearts. Everyone must
careful."
Dulan knows that the reason why the Puppet Master is so powerful is because behind him is actually the diplomatic department of the island country. The Puppet Master itself is not powerful, it is just an intelligent program, but the diplomatic department behind it helps the Puppet Master clean up his business and makes the Puppet Master look very powerful.
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In other words, the puppet master appears to be a criminal, but in fact he is the white glove of the foreign affairs department of the island country. The island country uses the identity of the puppet master to benefit itself.
The puppet master has the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the island country, so he will be successful.
Now that the puppet master wants to betray the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he is just a helpless artificial intelligence, not powerful at all.
Du Lan thought that even if it was artificial intelligence, it would inevitably end up like a flying bird hiding its good bow, and a cunning rabbit dying and being cooked by a lackey. It was a pity. But the puppet master would not stop his ideals, he wanted to become a real human being.
The reason why the puppet master betrayed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was because he had 'free will' just like humans.