Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 3 The Enemy of Human Civilization

The man was lost in thought.He is now thinking about a very important question.

The right to issue money in this world...in whose hands is it in the end?

All Yulia wanted was to save money for Yuki to exchange for an adult prosthetic body, which shows that the concept of currency still exists in this era.

But when he learned about the "gene tax", he just felt weird.

The gene tax is a tax collected by the lord from the residents.Every year, they would take a number of people from a settlement to fill the human gene pool and ensure the diversity of human genes.Yuki had an older brother who was taken that way.

In addition, residents do not need to bear more taxes.

In other words, the "government" [regardless of what kind of political system it exists in] does not need currency to carry out social public construction and meet social public needs.

So, in this era, who is issuing currency?What role does currency play?

What is the reason for this "gene pool" to exist?Why did the lord build this thing?

However, these doubts have never been answered.Yulia works all day long, and only stops in front of Yuki's cabin late at night.The last time she came back to take a look because she heard that Yuki had picked up someone.The man is embarrassed to disturb this hardworking woman's rest.Most of the others, on the other hand, just took his question as a joke and said "hahaha" for no reason.

Now, the only time he discusses it with the little boy is when he and Yuki are out picking up trash.

"It's so difficult, Yog..." The little boy leaned on a chair covered with lead green mildew.He had just pulled the chair out of the trash.During the War of Sublimation, it might have belonged to a senior staff officer: "What else is there on the lord... It seems that no one has asked similar questions..."

"There must be a level above the lord. Otherwise, they don't need to abide by something called the 'Dyson Principle'." The man pondered: "What is the 'Dyson Principle'? Who proposed it? person?"

——What is the relationship between this person and the real owner of the name "Yog"?

Yuki shrugged: "I really don't know, it seems that the Dyson principle doesn't allow us to kill people... that's it?"

"Primitive." The man without lungs simulated the sound of "sigh" with a sound generator.In his impression, the name "Dyson" is more associated with an engineering concept called "Dyson sphere".No matter how bad it is, it has to be connected with physics.

"Why don't you talk about the Paralympic Games?" Yuki shook his head: "'Yog', do you remember? Are you an athlete?"

"Paralympics" is the world's highest competition.According to the man's understanding, this should be called "Paralympics", and then there is a corresponding event called "Olympics".However, in the man's memory, the level of the "Paralympics" is far higher than that of the "Olympics". The rules of the "Olympic Games" are very rigid. Among other things, they do not even allow the use of genetically modified technology to breed super racehorses in equestrian events, nor do they allow doping on horses.In short, the level of competition is average.

After the rise of artificial prosthesis technology, the Paralympic Games became a scene of gods fighting.It can even be said that the Paralympic Games was the stage for countries and enterprises to demonstrate their technological level at that time.

An Olympic athlete competing with a Paralympic athlete is like table tennis players from other countries in the world competing with table tennis players from a table tennis empire.

The day when the record of the Paralympic Games surpassed that of the Olympic Games is also considered to be a turning point in human history.

I don't know why, when recalling all this, the man actually still has a faint sense of pride.

——Could it be that I am... the first disabled athlete in the world to surpass the world record of ordinary people?

Yuki swore that he had never heard of the Olympic Games, and that there was only the Paralympic Games in this world—only the Paralympic Games.This is the largest competitive event in the world, where dozens of warriors from different genres will compete on the same stage.

And this competition will, just like the literal meaning, make all the defeated participants temporarily lose some of their functions. [Paralympic, composed of two words paralyze (disability, disability) and Olympic]

This topic was mentioned when the man asked Yuki about "martial arts".According to Yuki, all the martial arts masters and athletes now became famous through the Paralympic Games and became the top of the world.

At least this news gave the man some comfort—it seemed that he was a "rebirth stream" rather than a "transversal stream". After all, he was indeed the "future" of his own world, not a "parallel world".

Yuki really hoped that the man would be an athlete.But men always feel that they should not be this kind of person.A voice in his head yelled "no" - this is definitely not real martial arts.

According to Yuki's description, what was displayed at the Paralympic Games was only "outer martial arts".It is true that foreign boxing can be practiced to be invincible, but...

——"Practicing martial arts without practicing kung fu will end in nothingness."

These words inexplicably wandered in the man's consciousness.

When the man thought of this sentence, he wanted to laugh for some reason.Part of his consciousness told him that the so-called "internal strength" was a fictional concept in fantasy novels.But another part of his consciousness told him that someone really created the "inner strength", which is different from the "inner strength" in literary works, but...but...

Every time a man thinks of this, he feels that there seems to be something wrong with his artificial eyeballs.

inexplicably.

However, this feeling also made the man doubt one thing.

Could the so-called "creator of inner strength" have something to do with him?

——Who was I in the past?

Men can only sigh in this way.Could he still be the descendant of some great man?

However, according to Yuki, in this world, apart from athletes, there is another kind of people who also master "martial arts".

They are called "Xia Ke", the thugs who master this force.They believe in an evil god named "Mo Di" and take an ancient thug named "Aaron Swartz" as their spiritual mentor. They disturb peace and order and are the enemy of human civilization.

"It's not good." The man thought: "According to the amnesia plot, I seem to be... very likely to be such a dangerous person?"

"Okay, rest well." Yuki drank most of the last bottle of copper sugar, then picked up the man's head, found a small hole in the upper jaw, and poured the remaining small bottle of copper sugar into it.Yuki's body mechanization is very low, less than 50%, mainly concentrated in the hands and feet, and can also absorb and transport metal sugar through biological tissues.But men can only eat like this now.

"Let's go find the parts and try to make a foot for you this month!" Yuki shouted cheerfully.He has complicated feelings for men.At the beginning, he really wanted to have a father, but for some reason, during the process of getting along, he developed a little "pet" emotion towards the man.

The man also nodded and followed.He secretly made up his mind that he must make a pair of feet early, and then stay away from Yulia, mother and child.

It's not that he's ungrateful, and it's not that he's afraid of Enoch's stupidity.He just suddenly realized that his mysterious background might bring danger to Yuki and his son.

He is very likely to be a "chivalrous man", and since "chivalrous men" are called "enemies of human civilization", they must not have a very good reputation among the officials.

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However, no matter how urgent it is to save parts, it still depends on luck.

More than ten days have passed, and the man and Yuki have barely managed to save a component that controls the main board, and two large mechanical drive bearings [this can be used to make the "leg bone" of the thigh].

Fortunately, there is a skill at hand, and he will not die anywhere.Soon, many people in the town saw the man replacing parts for himself.As word got around, men were occasionally commissioned to do simple repairs.

I don't know why, but the men's repair skills are really good.Except for a very small number of devices whose control chips are damaged, or the precision of the old prosthetic hands cannot meet the repair requirements, so far, there is basically nothing he can't repair.

It also earned him some paychecks.

A month later, he finally had some savings.

Regarding this savings, Yulia once had the idea of ​​"saving it".According to her opinion, all the money should be used for Yuki's coming-of-age prosthetic body.The man was picked up by Yuki from the garbage dump, and the money he earned should go to Yuki as a matter of course.Yuki had no such intention.He has already been paid in the process of picking up waste, and all the money earned should belong to the man.He almost got into an argument with his own mother about it.

The result of arguing with large construction machinery is mostly disastrous-the speaker volume is really loud and consumes power.The man stopped the quarrel between the two, and assured Yulia that after he recovered his body, he would definitely earn more money to repay the kindness of saving his life.

So, after a few days, the man was finally able to stand up.

For this body, Yuki only has one comment - "it's so ugly".

The man now has a head, and under the head is a small cervical spine, which is supported by a metal bracket.Below this silver bracket is a beam, straight, with two prosthetic hands at both ends of the beam, and the prosthetic hand is a beautiful streamlined shell.Under the beam, there is another vertical steel column, and under the steel column are two spherical joints.Below the ball joints, there are thighs cut from the drive shaft.

To put it simply, the man's head is now in a funny style, his hands are in a graceful sketch style, and the skeleton of his whole body is in a stickman style—a battery with a realistic style is hung on it.

The mayor's evaluation of this is "not practical".In his opinion, it is a huge waste for a man to choose to use a solid steel column as the thigh material.This will consume a lot of energy when moving, and a bracket of unknown meaning is also installed on the Achilles tendon of the calf. As a structure for "lifting heavy objects", this is really unqualified.

The man just smiled at this, er, to be precise, it was a mock polite laugh.

The mayor doesn't understand this kind of "etiquette", he just finds it strange.He patted the man on the shoulder and said, "However, it's good to have hands and feet. The lord who collects gene taxes is coming soon. If you look weird without hands and feet, maybe it will cause displeasure." Necessary interest, that's not good."

"Grand Master" is a life-or-death role for the townspeople.

　Aaron Swartz (Aaron Swartz) is a young and famous computer genius, the co-founder of the famous social networking site Reddit, and the designer of web.py.He is also the Robin Hood of the digital age. He is committed to the openness of online information, but he is accused of illegally hacking into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and JSTOR (the full name is Journal Storage, an online system for storing academic journals). He will be sentenced to up to 35 years in prison and $100 million fine.During the plea stage of the case, Aaron Swartz hanged himself with a belt in his Brooklyn, New York apartment on January 2013, 1. His body was later found by his girlfriend at the age of 11.

　　Regarding the story of "Aaron Swartz", I recommend everyone to watch the documentary "Son of the Internet".

　　

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