Prison Island

Chapter 513: Standing in a Circle and Meowing

Sonata has entered the Tiger level and has many SSR modules, but he has no idea about it.

Instead, he said with a sad face: "Can you please not let me kill anyone? I...I'm also a red name."

Whoosh, biological energy flashed beside his head and formed a substitute, two meters tall, with flying hair and flesh, it was Gao Xin.

This is Gao Xin's biological energy, and the substitute formed is also Gao Xin. It is oneself who becomes his own substitute.

In this way, there is no need to control the sonata and just appear outside.

The molecular level detail made him look lifelike, and Gao Xin also drew a wisp of life mist from the small throne to replace his own organs.

At this moment, he was no different from a real human body.

If I have to say, it is that it has no genes, it is just a bionic body.

It will dissipate after it explodes, leaving no substance behind.

"You're out...are you leaving?" Sonata was surprised.

Gao Xin shook his head and told him that it was just a substitute.

The real him is still in his mind.

Sonata looked very disappointed, which made Gao Xin laugh. This guy had no idea how great an opportunity this was.

On the other side, the old man was ecstatic because Gao Xin cured Xiaoye.

He was well aware of how great an opportunity this was and thanked Gao Xin repeatedly.

However, Xiaoye stared at his smooth legs in a daze. He couldn't get up for a long time and said in horror: "I... I'm not a cyborg anymore. I can't walk again."

The old man rubbed his hands nervously and said, "You haven't used your legs to walk for a long time. You just need to get used to it."

He helped his daughter to stand up, but Xiaoye still couldn't stand steadily.

Gao Xin frowned: "That's not right. You don't need to adapt."

"You...you haven't forgotten how to walk?"

Xiaoye raised her head: "It's too inconvenient for me to control myself when walking."

"Ah?" Gao Xin was stunned.

"Are you speaking human language?"

Xiaoye blinked and said, "If it becomes disabled, just get a prosthetic limb. It's controlled by a computer. With just a thought, it will walk on its own, and it can also run and jump."

"It's great that I don't feel any pain or get tired."

"Okay?" Gao Xin squatted down and pinched the prosthetic limb that had been melted by the heat wave of the previous battle. Except for the metal frame, the rest was filled with plastic.

Xiaoye nodded: "The doctor said that the carbon-based body is just a cocoon for the soul."

"Really? Then even the cocoon room will be replaced with plastic!" Gao Xin sneered, rubbing the plastic that had been burned into tar, and black residue fell off.

Xiaoye was stunned, then said: "That...that's because I'm poor."

"If I had a hundred thousand credits, I could buy a better bionic limb."

Gao Xin raised his eyebrows: "Then do you have 100,000 credit points?"

“……” Xiaoye was speechless.

Citizens have 3,000 credit points per month, and commoners have 1,000 per month. Even if they had previous citizenship, they would have to save for three years without eating or drinking. And she couldn't just go without eating or drinking, so in fact she would have to save for more than ten years.

Gao Xin added: "Even if you have so much money, what you pursue is only a bionic body..."

"Now that you have real legs, why do you need fake ones?"

"Of course, if you don't want it, I can chop it off again."

Xiaoye was stunned.

The old man hurriedly said, "The little girl is ignorant. She has really been brainwashed by the mechanical ascension faction that has emerged on the Internet. Please don't be offended."

Gao Xin chuckled and of course he wouldn't be angry with her.

The old man put his arm around Xiaoye's shoulders, helped her adjust to walking, and said, "Silly child, only the things you can control are yours, otherwise they are just given to you by others."

Gao Xin clapped his hands: "That's right."

He really admired this old guy. Maybe this was quite common on the Prison Island, but it was very rare to remain sober in the outside world.

The old man sighed, "After this incident, I can see clearly that a group of people are blocking the edge of the city and dare not even take a step out."

"It's not just that they're afraid of being reduced to commoners, but also because their prosthetics or bionic organs will run out of power once they leave the city..."

"In the past two years, there have been more and more cyborgs."

Gao Xin nodded. He was also an ordinary person outside more than a year ago, so he naturally knew all this.

Because the global government was just established in the early years, rebels were active and there was unrest and fighting everywhere.

So many people became disabled and later had prosthetic bodies replaced.

The butt determines the head, and naturally, the idea of ​​mechanical ascension will be formed, and some people even deliberately abandon their physical bodies and take the initiative to replace them with prosthetics.

In addition, it is not conducive for radiators to grow up in society, so if they want to be stronger, run faster, see farther, and have more energy, becoming a cyborg is almost the only way.

Therefore, the number of cyborgs is increasing and has been growing explosively.

But Gao Xin didn't know that Cyborg would run out of power when he left the city.

What's more, they can't even walk and are controlled by computers. Doesn't that mean that giant companies can control these cyborgs at any time if they want?
"How many cyborgs are there now?" Gao Xin asked.

The old man shook his head, not very clear either.

Xiaoye, on the other hand, knew them all by heart: "This month, the number of cyborgs has reached 42 billion, accounting for 71% of the total population."

"This..." Gao Xin was shocked. He had heard that there was a breakthrough of 50% before he went to the island.

I didn’t expect that it would reach 70% in just one year.

"42 billion cyborgs... and I remember there were 10 billion irradiators, which makes 52 billion, so there are only 8 million ordinary humans left?"

Sonata finally spoke up: "There are already more than 10 billion radiators. Before we knew it, glass people like me have become a rare species."

"I'm almost 30 and have no interest in having children. My biggest wish is to find an AI wife to spend the rest of my life with."

Gao Xin squinted at him and said, "You are already a radiator."

Sonata was startled for a moment, then reacted: "Oh, yes, I am a radiator! You transformed me, I... I am not a human anymore."

Gao Xin rolled his eyes. This guy's brain was really slow. He was already at Tiger level before he realized that he was a radiator.

"How come they are not human anymore? They just evolved."

"And it's not the kind of evolution that kills off a generation, it's a life leap."

"The demise of the glass man is an inevitable trend. Now it's just a matter of choosing between the genetic ascension route or the mechanical ascension route, or..."

Gao Xin didn’t finish what he said, which is that there is another route, which is the spiritual ascension route.

But this is the most difficult, and only he can make it. Once he sets foot on it, both genes and machinery can be accommodated.

Sonata was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked in ecstasy: "I became a radiator, and I seemed very strong just now. So can I find a job? Can I work and earn money?"

“……” Gao Xin looked at him blankly.

The old man said quietly, "You are now a red name, so you can only go to the Prison Island."

Sonata was stiff all over and cried out, "No, I was forced. I just want to find a job. I don't want to go to the Prison Island."

Gao Xin told him calmly: "You are on the Prison Island, there is plenty of work for you to do..."

Zou Ming glared: "Are you serious?"

Then he realized, "Wait a minute... What kind of hellish place is Sin Prison Island? It's not going to make me do hard labor or kill people, is it?"

"I don't want to. I just want to do something simple, preferably standing in circles or imitating a cat's meow, which is a job with no threshold."

Gao Xin was confused: "Stand in a circle? Meow like a cat?"

Sonata said excitedly and yearningly: "Yes, the Circle Station is a brand new position provided for our young people by the son of the Governor of Bird of Paradise City."

"One day, he had a sudden urge to go to Chidori Park, where we ordinary people often go, to play flying skateboard with others. At first, everyone there praised him and gave in to him, hoping that they could introduce us to jobs."

"Later, he got tired of being asked this question, so he said he would give a job to whoever could beat him in skateboarding... Then those skateboarding teenagers showed their true strength and crushed him with their skills, causing him to lose miserably."

“So he drew a small circle in each corner of the park and asked the group of youths to stand in it.”

"Standing eight hours a day gives you one thousand credit points! That's thirty thousand a month! Ten times the citizen security fund!"

Gao Xin was shocked: "Is this what you call work?"

Sonata nodded desperately: "Of course it's work. I can get paid when I go to work every day. There are specific job positions. If this isn't work, what is it?"

"There's still so much fighting over this! Because there's no threshold, you just need to be able to stand."

"The only drawback is that I have to spend a lot of time working every day and I can't play."

"I remember that a few years later, the Governor's son challenged that group of youths to a skateboarding competition again, and he won completely, surpassing those top skateboarders in terms of skills."

Gao Xin looked strange: "Is this what you call overtaking? Isn't this just wasting people's youth and wearing out their legs by working?"

He could imagine the young people who used to run around the park full of youth and energy, giving up their beloved skateboards, being trapped in circles that they thought were work, and standing there until they were numb.

Zou Ming was stunned and said, "So... so what? This is the price of work. They made money."

"Later, a reward system was added to this position. Whoever stands the straightest and the longest will receive an extra 20% bonus every month."

“I wrote my resume several times and waited in line for half a year before I was selected for the internship.”

"Unfortunately, interns have to stand in front of the post and compete with the old employees. Only after standing longer than the people in the circle for three consecutive months can they be converted to regular employees and replace the people in the circle."

"Those old employees were so good at standing that in order to avoid being replaced, they stood for more than 18 hours a day. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I gave up."

"I can't help it. I'm a glass man. I can't compete with cyborgs and radiators. It's just too difficult for glass men to find jobs."

Gao Xin was dumbfounded, thinking, is this how it can be played?

The old man sneered, "What kind of reward system is that? Why don't you just say that the person who stands in the circle the shortest and worst time each month will have 20% deducted."

"So the wages paid are the same, but people are asked to stand from eight hours at the beginning to 18 hours per person."

"And how long have you not paid attention? In order to avoid being replaced by newcomers, some people have been involved in the circle and don't go home. They eat, drink, defecate and urinate in the circle."

Gao Xin looked at him: "Are you concerned about these?"

The old guy sighed, "Because my job...is to stand in circles."

"Okay..." Gao Xin looked at him: "Are you the skateboarder?"

The old guy shook his head: "No, I squeezed out the skateboarder's job. I've been in wars and fought with rebels. My physical fitness is not comparable to theirs."

"I feel guilty when I say this. The skateboarder I replaced worked diligently for several years and saved some money. The most important thing was that he had a job so he could take out a loan. He used the money to buy two houses for rent and hired a mechanical maid, which made his life better." "But I replaced him. He couldn't find another job, so he stopped paying his mortgage and his house was taken away."

"Later I heard that he was stealing everywhere to protect his mechanical wife, and was caught and had a finger chopped off."

"In the end, my mechanical wife was taken away, and I was sent to the Island of Sin... It's been six years now."

As the old man spoke, he sighed and felt somewhat guilty.

Zou Ming shuddered: "Too tragic, my AI wife has been taken away, this is unbearable! If someone takes my AI wife away, let alone stealing, I will dare to kill people!"

Gao Xin glanced at him and said, "You talk as if you have a wife."

The sonata is silent.

Gao Xin felt that what the old man said sounded familiar, so he asked, "What's the name of this person you're talking about?"

The old guy said, "Oh, his name is Kerry."

Gao Xin's mouth twitched. It turned out to be Kerry. Is this how he got four fingers?

No wonder he is obsessed with renting a house. I haven't heard him mention his AI wife, but obviously he wouldn't tell anyone about such a thing.

Speaking of which, Kerry's dream has always been to live a simple life, something he couldn't do outside, but he went to the Prison Island and successfully became a landlord, realizing his dream.

The only disadvantage is that it is insecure, but that was in the past. Now under my rule, it is extremely safe. I can count money and play around every day. It feels so free.

With this comparison, as long as everyone's life and property are protected, life on Sin Prison Island is indeed more dignified than outside.

……

Three days later, in Chaoge City.

The entire Shuihuang community is now covered with green plants, and almost all ground buildings have been demolished.

A giant hourglass-shaped building stands in a green park landscape.

It is three thousand meters long, two thousand meters wide, eight hundred meters high, and covers an area of ​​more than nine thousand acres. It is magnificent.

This is the so-called super tower, which is actually a population gathering area.

It has hospitals, schools, public security, fire protection, entertainment and administrative agencies.

This one building alone houses a community with a population of one million.

People are gathered together to live in giant towers, but the scope of the city has not changed, and it has even become larger.

This allows urban construction outside to be designed from an artistic and aesthetic perspective without considering any public convenience or traffic issues.

The Ministry of Urban Construction has moved almost all the scenery in the world into this city, including lakes, deserts, and dense forests.

Even hundreds of square kilometers of area were used to place an artificial snow mountain, and ski resorts and hot spring hotels were built around it.

There are four super towers in the whole Chaoge City, guarding the wealthy area in the center, which is the silver-white islands hanging in the sky.

Big and small, high and low, densely scattered and suspended.

The highest peak is a crystal-like gyroscope-shaped building, shining brightly, with a white beam of light penetrating the sky and the earth from the middle.

Gao Xin returned here again, but he didn't recognize it anymore.

On the one hand, he had never been out of the super tower before and had never seen this city from the outside.

He seemed to be an ordinary person before, but in fact he was a mentally ill person disguised as an ordinary person. He lived an extremely numb, monotonous and muddle-headed life.

On the other hand, this city-state has undergone tremendous changes in just one year.

Gao Xin thought that it should be related to Lu Youchang's coming to power. This guy came to power two months before he was exiled.

It was said that many policies were introduced at that time, but he didn't care about such things.

"Tai...Tai Sui, you are actually a senior executive of the Emperor Penguin's Safety and Supervision Department!" Xiaoye followed closely behind Sonata with shining eyes.

Sonata was carrying a large bag with a small throne inside. He turned around and said, "Don't talk to me. He doesn't want to pay attention to you."

They first arrived at Guangdong and Hong Kong by yacht, and then took a flying train to Chaoge City.

Logically, they would be arrested as soon as they reached the shore.

You don't even have to go ashore, the next batch of RoboCop will immediately chase you.

However, after Gao Xin created that little throne, no one came anymore.

With just a light tap, he changed everyone's chips from red to blue.

Among them, the chip of Sonata has even become a purple name.

Purple names are usually only given to senior management of giant companies. This allows them to not only be caught by no one after they go ashore, but also pass various places for free and use any public facilities.

"Zou Ming, go directly to the self-service registration desk of Shuihuang Community to check your household registration, using the identity I gave you." Gao Xin urged in his mind.

"Oh." Sonata did as he was told.

He registered with a chip in a room made of extremely smooth materials.

The login was passed quickly and the identity was a retired general of the Emperor Penguin Safety and Supervision Department!
Everyone covered their mouths and exclaimed, it turned out to be the general! Where did Tai Sui get this identity?

However, Gao Xin was very solemn, because this might expose him, and he could only use it in this kind of civilian facilities.

"Just ask it to retrieve all the information about everyone coming in and out and transmit it to you."

Gao Xin did not let Sonata check here, but received the data first.

After a while, they got the data and left.

Then they entered a small rented room. At the same time, Gao Xin secretly asked Xiaoyuan to start integrating the data. Soon, they found Haima, Luo Yan and others.

"Where are they now?"

Madoka said, "In the 'Prayer Factory'..."

"Huh?" Gao Xin was stunned.

Why go to the factory instead of waiting for him in the giant tower?

In a flash, Gao Xin appeared beside the old man in his substitute form: "What is the prayer factory for?"

The old guy is obviously not someone who indulges in entertainment. He is more concerned about changes in the world. He explained: "It's a place similar to standing in a circle and learning to meow like a cat."

"It was invented by a bunch of young masters from the Emperor Penguin Group."

"It seems to have spread from Chaoge. Their governor, Lu Youchang, implemented a lot of policies to boost the economy as soon as he came to power last year."

"For example, in order to increase the employment rate, he directly spent money to build an industrial park, and then recruited hundreds of thousands of employees. All the living, resting and entertainment facilities that a factory should have were available, but there was no work for them in the factory. The only job was to learn to meow like a cat."

"Starting work at 8 a.m., employees have to arrive at their respective workstations and start learning to meow. There is a computer in front of each workbench to receive the meows. It is impossible not to learn it well."

"In addition, each workshop has a time-limited and quantitative task. Employees can take a break, but they can only take turns. Otherwise, if the collective task is not completed, they will be punished collectively."

Gao Xin said coldly: "It's just pure domestication work, just to give people something to do. It doesn't matter what they do."

"It's like the trainers in the circus who tame pets, numb their spirits, train them to be obedient, and just give them money, which in turn stimulates consumption."

"Through entertainment products and daily necessities, the money will eventually flow back, and this cycle will repeat, forming a stable, active, but dead civilization."

The old man frowned and said, "Yeah, meowing and standing in circles are just one of them."

"The success of the [cat meowing industry] made the governor of Chaoge taste the sweetness, and he subsequently launched many other industries with no barriers to entry, such as the [prayer industry] and the [praise industry]."

"All I have to do is stand at my work station and pray or sing something in front of the screen every day."

"If you do a good job, you can get a promotion and a raise. There are people who patrol each workshop to pray for quality. There are also some administrative positions and technical positions."

"As a result, Chaoge City has risen to become an imperial-level city-state, and its economy has taken off. Other city-states are now scrambling to imitate it and build this virtual economic system."

Gao Xin sneered repeatedly, and finally narrowed his eyes and said, "There are still technical positions? What kind of technology? The technique of praying vocally?"

The old man shook his head and said, "No, meowing and praying are just the most basic jobs. You can't get promoted if you can only meow. This is a pure labor job."

"The company has systematic rules and regulations, strict technical standards, and even a review system."

"As for technical positions, employees are required to spend their spare time memorizing, studying, and evaluating the mythological teaching materials issued by the higher-ups, which have obtained multiple patents."

Gao Xin suddenly realized, mythology teaching materials? So that's how the Son of God Club promoted the establishment of the pantheon.

Standing in a circle and meowing like a cat are just tests; praying to the factory is a more explicit way.

Although most people are eager to work, it is impossible to expect them to have true faith, because they have collectively given up, and what they really want is a life of parasites.

So we first use the simplest methods such as learning to meow, standing in circles, and praying every day to tame them and make them accustomed to it.

Afterwards, we will screen out those who are ambitious through promotion channels, let them learn new myths, and let them join a new religion. These talents will become the broad mass base of the "new gods" in the future.

As for the people at the lower level, they don’t even need to understand the content of the myth. They just need to obey and indulge in the endless cycle of making money and consuming.

As the people from the Son of God Club gradually begin to take power, the entire society is rapidly alienating.

"This Lu Youchang is awesome. He directly made prayer and praise as part of his job, institutionalized it, and formed a religious company."

"Playing with people, playing with them to the extreme."

Gao Xin murmured, "But why are Kaiba and the others going to work in the prayer factory?"

Thinking of this, he slapped himself on the head: "Damn, I forgot, they have no money."

In the outside world, life is guaranteed and everyone has no worries about food and clothing.

But instead of giving food and drinks directly, they give credit points. They are distributed at a fixed time every month, and after they are distributed, they can use the credit points to make purchases.

Although he solved the identity problem for Kaiba and the others, they had no money.

Moreover, the identities of Keld and others certainly cannot be used in official facilities.

Haiba must have seen the news as well. In order to avoid being exposed before reuniting with him, he naturally acted very cautiously and did not dare to alert the enemy.

Moreover, after Lu Youchang came to power, there was no "gray area" in the entire city-state, and cyber medical practice without relevant certificates was strangled.

Xia Heng probably didn't expect that the outside world had become so grim that they couldn't make any money with their skills.

Finally, I had no choice but to go to work...

"Check on Milan, has she arrived?" Gao Xin asked Xiaoyuan.

Xiao Yuan said, "Milan has been arrested. She is being studied at the Chaoge Research Institute."

"Ah this..." Gao Xin was shocked.

"Milan is so strong, how could he be caught? Is the security department of Chaoge City so strong?"

Madoka said, "Uh...it was you...or the demon tree that defeated her."

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(End of this chapter)