Physics God

After much discussion with the senior management of the Layton Group, Ling Hao earned 7,500 credits, or 7.5 billion Inars, with extremely low or even no costs, making him a very profitable maneuver.

Mu Kange discovered that Z-people were quite useful for running errands. Although they couldn't be relied on in combat, they were perfectly capable of doing odd jobs. Ling Hao and Layton Group had a long-term cooperation, during which Z-people were the ones running errands. Even if they died, it wouldn't be a pity.

While Ling Hao was working with the Layton Group to take down the Rocky Gang, Mu Kange took advantage of the time before the Dragon Tiger Martial Arts Tournament to go out for a stroll alone, hoping to see if anyone wanted to kill Ling Hao or anyone else who wanted to kill him.

Throughout her time on the barbarian island, Mu Yi never explicitly stated that her goal was to kill Mu Kange, so it's quite normal for someone to come and kill Mu Kange later, and the methods might even be more radical.

As for Huang Cheng, Mu Kange was unclear about his motives, as was Wei Hua's. However, it was a given that the military wanted to kill Ling Hao, so Ling Hao naturally wouldn't choose to clash with the military. Therefore, as soon as Ling Hao entered the metropolitan area, he planned to use the divine crystal to run away to other universes to hide.

"Let's take a stroll through the underground city." Mu Kange walked around the streets in stealth mode, noticing that very few people walked on the ground, and they were all in stealth mode.

Invisibility mode doesn't mean you're completely invisible; it retains a blurry outline to allow others to avoid you. So what's the point of invisibility mode? The answer is to express an attitude: "Don't touch me."

So Mu Kange wanted to see if the underground city would be any better than the indifference of the surface city, so he took the elevator to the underground city.

However, to his surprise, as soon as he stepped out of the elevator, he saw a rather eye-catching sign that was lit up in red: "Welcome to Hell. Never incur the debt of the devil."

The sign faced the elevator. Before even starting to explore, Mu Kange smelled a non-existent stench of blood, not from the fighting on the battlefield, but emanating from the steel jungle.

Ling Hao once told him that the Martian wilderness was already considered good, because at least there was a degree of freedom there. In contrast, in urban areas, surface cities were the middle class, sky cities were the upper class, and underground cities, which were the bottom class, could not even guarantee freedom.

Mukango walked on the streets of the underground city. Because of the widespread use of nuclear fusion, the underground city was not short of light sources and had all kinds of facilities.

However, the people walking on the street are either missing limbs or seriously ill. Only a few can be fitted with cybernetic bodies, but they are all lifeless, and even the children lack the vitality they should have.

Cyberpunk: High Technology, Low Life?

No, no, no, please don't misunderstand. This is because the Martian underground city operates a permanent employment system. These laborers are not slaves, but a group of contract workers who will never be able to pay off their debts even if they work their whole lives. Consequently, they will never be without work.

forever.

A leap to solve all your troubles? Haha, what era is this? This is the interstellar era! The city is filled with nanobots. Your soul wants to break free of its shackles, but your body cannot release it. Even if you successfully commit suicide, advanced medical technology will make your already indebted debts even worse.

In theory, there is a possibility that they can redeem their freedom, but the probability is close to zero. Even if they die of old age, the debt will become an inescapable family heirloom.

As for those debtors who don't want to have children, with the company's encouragement to have children, some of them will change their minds to some extent. And since there are so many debtors, even if only 10% of them have children, it's still a win for them.

From a moral standpoint, the Federation of Humanity would not stand idly by in this situation, but this is Mars, so they have no choice but to pretend they can't do anything about it. After all, if someone were truly capable, they wouldn't be exiled to Mars. This has led to the underground cities on Mars being so lowly that they are comparable to or even surpass Africa on their side.

It's not that Chen Yang deliberately exploits ordinary people; he doesn't care about anything. It's just that the companies' spontaneous actions were initially restrained, but because no one was in charge, they gradually became unscrupulous, thus forming this kind of society.

In fact, given the productivity of a lower-level civilization in space, they wouldn't even consider this level of production value. But who can blame them when those big bosses enjoy watching others suffer?

It is called an underground city, but in reality it is an underground hell.

"How pathetic," Mu Kange couldn't help but sigh. His emotional side wanted to change the situation, but his rational side held him back because he didn't have the ability yet.

However, unlike ordinary people who might forget such thoughts as soon as they turn their heads, Mu Kange will keep them firmly in his heart and return one day to fulfill his wishes.

Meanwhile, in the city on the surface, Ling Hao, who was discussing with the Layton Group in the virtual world how to continue the Rocky Gang, suddenly used quantum computing to see what Mu Kange was seeing and hearing.

"Do you want to intervene? What would I have done if it were the old me?" Ling Hao thought to himself, trying to figure out how his younger, impetuous self would have handled the situation.

This is one of the many ways Ling Hao tries to salvage his emotional side. After studying "Cause and Effect and Potential," his rational side almost crushed his emotional side. Since he had nothing to hold him back, he had to hypnotize himself and regard Mu Kange as an important person in order to barely maintain his humanity.

The subsequent emotional therapy involved constantly projecting one's past self into Mu Kange's perspective to rediscover the emotional Ling Hao.

The scene shifts back to the underground city, where Mu Kange is watching with great interest the robots that resemble patrolling soldiers on the streets. These are products of the Layton Corporation, which specializes in security. In this era, the more cost-effective option is not training psionicists, but rather creating robots.

Robots are essentially larger cyborgs, and the characteristics of cyborgs are a high floor and low fluctuation. However, with similar configurations, cyborgs can achieve their upper limit or even exceed it through skillful manipulation. But human nature can also lower their floor.

However, robots don't have this problem, since they are controlled by AI, which is extremely stable. Because of this stability, their combat power is basically unaffected.

Unfortunately, these robots are used to suppress the poor; otherwise, with so many robots, a total annihilation of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council could have been staged.

Mukango was watching the robot, and someone else was watching Mukango. In the underground city of the David City metropolitan area, a man saw Mukango appear in the underground city and immediately issued an order on his terminal:

"Deploy the virus immediately!"