Why it never ends

Chapter 370 Forbidden
After taking a few deep breaths, Hesta took the folder on Anna's lap again.

"You seem to like to analyze people." She lowered her head and continued to flip through the documents. "To be honest, this bothers me a bit."

"...It was me who was offended."

"No, not to offend, but to disturb." Hesta whispered, "On the surface, every word of yours is talking about me, but in fact I am forced to listen to what kind of person you are—— There are so many people obsessed with the Golden Age, her literature, her technology, her near-perfect picture of life for all...and when I express shock at your bad reviews, your first reaction is me 'Gensokyo' isn't about to be crushed.

"Have you ever thought that this is the projection you put on me?" Hesta suddenly changed the topic, she raised her head, "Anna, has your 'Gensokyo' been shattered by someone?"

Before Anna could answer, Hesta had already looked away, and said again, "No need to answer, I'm not interested in this question, I just don't want to keep facing your inflated ego from these questions—this huge The narcissism is a kind of disturbance to me.

"Of course, you can also say that these are my defenses—"

"I didn't say that," Anna laughed. "My curiosity is always inappropriate. Please forgive me."

Hesta flipped through another page of the document expressionlessly, and she saw some photos, which showed a few workers with confused expressions and a pile of metal skeletons that hadn't been filled with simulation materials.

"Let's go back to the story just now..." Hesta said softly, "Then, have those cases been solved?"

"They were all detected, and the speed was very fast... It should be said very fast. Several murderers and other masterminds behind the scenes were executed No. 16 days after the verdict was issued. families of the victims.”

"Yeah, that's not bad... At least the police in the golden age didn't just eat nothing."

"Because the perpetrators left all the evidence of the crime - the whole process of dismemberment was broadcast live, and they also specially recorded it and edited it into different clips for later sale."

"...to whom?"

"This is about to start from the other end," Anna whispered, "Do you still remember the production documents for the simulation human?"

"Remember, produced a lot, made a lot of money...whatever."

"Yes, but the emergence of these emulators has accidentally stimulated other markets... Let me give you an example, you know, at the end of the Silver Age, human beings have realized that child marriage is immoral, but some men Always heat only sexually immature children.

"At the same time, these men are very aware that their behavior will attract strong anger from the entire society, so they can only look for some alternatives;
"From the time when the first batch of high-priced emulators flowed into the civilian market, their spring has come - the emulator is a commercial product, although it has some operating specifications, but no one will use a product according to the product manual. As long as A thing that looks like a child, feels like a child, and speaks like a child, then it can arouse the emotions of children in the human heart, which is too precious, after all, what these people could not place in the past Lust, finally has a solution that does not harm society."

"These people are not the only ones who have also been liberated. People have all kinds of hobbies—some people like to kill, some like to be imprisoned, and some like to have just died... Some of them are willing to take risks for pleasure, but more of those people He doesn't have the guts to commit crimes, and he doesn't want to give up his peaceful life.

"After the emergence of humanoids, everything began to change. These people also longed to 'go out into the sun', because today they can be completely 'harmless'. It is like a person buying a washing machine and coming home. He is Whether he would like to dismantle the machine or make peace with it is entirely his personal freedom—from now on, their existence will not harm anyone's interests, so they should no longer endure the criticism of others for their own predestined preferences. "

Anna reached out and flipped through the files in the file folder a few pages back.

"As a result, different 'dark side movements' broke out around the world." She whispered, "'The moon has a dark side, so do I', this is their slogan."

"...does it work?"

"It still leveraged some resources. At that time, several places even allowed private holographic live broadcasts. Paying viewers can participate in different projects from the first perspective-this also includes some high-priced customized services. Hundreds of Thousands of paying viewers in their respective homes, hearing the same sound, feeling the same touch, enjoying the same—”

"I don't need to go into details..." Hesta flipped the material in his hand to the next page in disgust, "What does this have to do with the previous murder?"

"Dims are not cheap."

"so?"

"Behaviors that can cause fatal harm to people will also cause irreversible damage to the parts of the simulated human. Although the damaged parts can be replaced in theory, the effect will be greatly reduced..." Anna looked at Hesta The file folder on his lap, "In particular, to be able to bleed, scream, and beg for mercy like real people when they are severely injured... Most of these simulation figures need to be specially ordered-after all, ordinary household robots do not need to add blood or blood at all. Enter a strong startle response."

Anna looked at Hesta, "And the simulation is not cheap."

Hesta finally understood.

"Golden Age," Anna repeated the name again, "I guess it must be the freest era in the history of human civilization. For the first time, human beings have the ability to actively adjust the population - in the middle and late stages of the Golden Age, there are about 70 people in the world. % of human beings are born from artificial wombs, and the rest insist on giving birth to mothers for religious reasons... But this is also freedom, and the residents of the Golden Age will always have the freedom of choice.

"It can only be said that it is a pity that these past events have not been preserved. An era of major power outages has completely destroyed these details of history. Otherwise, people today can only marvel at the imagination of their ancestors, and then sigh at themselves."

Hesta continued to flip through the folder on her lap, her expression was indifferent, but her left hand was trembling slightly.She once again saw a batch of official documents from the 16th District, from rectification, production reduction, to the complete ban on the sale of humanoid robots in Nanzhou...it took about [-] years.

"So you don't have to wonder why the base has the ability to manufacture perfect prosthetic bodies, but never makes artificial humans," Anna said softly, "because all technological behaviors that blur the boundary between humans and machines are strictly prohibited by the mother city."

(End of this chapter)