National Juggernaut

Chapter 242 Jokes and Regional Darkness
Life is like a box of chocolates, you will never know what the next one will taste like. Of course, it is only limited to handmade products, not professional machines with molds.

"The greatest joy of the journey is the unknown and the difference. You never know who or what you will meet in the next moment. Of course, the premise is that you can survive in any environment and monsters. Uh, Digital City is an exception —— Great Poet and Traveler Andre T. Drama."

Digital City and his people seem to be mass products made by professional abrasive tools, which are accurate, efficient, and boring.

But after the initial good impression passed, everyone responded with quite subtle feelings.

At the beginning, the shopping ladies rushed from one store to the next excitedly, trying to find local specialties and popular models.

But soon, they found their purpose.

"Golden thread? Isn't this a rare protective material? It's a good price, but this style"

On the hanger is a row of dresses with the same design. Although their colors and materials are different, they are all the same from the cut to the lace.

"Oh, don't you guys like the classic 12317? Check out 23131 and 31234."

There are dozens of shelves in four rooms, but there are only 3 styles.

Although the colors and materials are different, and even include bulletproof and luminous settings, fireproof equipment, and even a civilian artificial spiritual weapon, there are still only three types.

"Oh, you are outsiders? In order to facilitate production and sales here, the products in each store are made according to the assigned styles. You can choose the functions and types you want according to your needs."

This weird scene frightened the ladies.

And when they arrived at the next store, sure enough, there were three more styles. They looked up the store names on the Internet, and each store threw their own three patterns on the door plate. Shoppers are rushing straight to their destination.

If a store, a factory, or a tailor shop focuses on one style, it will greatly reduce costs and save manpower. They can even produce on an artificial assembly line, but this is a bit too much.
"The same style has a wide range? Why do you think so? Their functions and materials are all different, right? The appearance? That doesn't matter at all. Although I don't know why the government always pushes new styles now, this is not to reopen Molding and training skilled workers, resources are wasted. You look outside, everyone doesn’t care much about appearance, my cold jade dress is particularly good at resisting fire and blocking ultraviolet rays, and many people like it.”

It took the ladies a moment to comprehend this seemingly ordinary and eerie scene.

They seem to know why many people on the street are dressed in very weird clothes. They randomly found tops and pants and put them together. Ladies and gentlemen don't care about the color and matching at all.

Because many people choose to shop nearby, the similarity rate of styles is also terribly high.

Can this approach really save manpower and resources?Even if it can really reduce consumption, the savings are quite limited.

But maybe it was that little advantage that ultimately led to this choice. This is the result of countless times when efficiency is the first priority, and it has created a strange local cultural system.

The ladies are back with just two laps, and a nice trip to see the beautiful dresses.
"Who can continue to go shopping, it has become a difference-finding and Lianliankan!"

After the initial entanglement, they were even more entangled in how many styles there were in this shopping mall. The result of repeated comparisons was that there were no more than 30 types, and there were almost two or three types of clothes in one category.

Can this kind of clothes with a high hit rate really be bought and worn?
But if they are digital people, they will be told that this is an amazing misconception and prejudice.

The styles of each store are different, and the complete similarity is also a waste, a waste of store resources.

This cognitive difference is because many styles have different numbers. In fact, there is one more button and one less purse, and outsiders will not notice it.

There are countless variants of the classic models that are convenient for mass production and easy to use, and they are flooding the market. After all, digital human shopkeepers are not stupid, and they know how to pick and buy good ones. In the eyes of outsiders, it becomes a "find the difference" game .

Many of the ladies go shopping for the pleasure of "discovery", but now it is decided that it is better to directly look at the pictures on the Internet, so they can only go back with a face full of helplessness.

The second disappointment is the chef group and the foraging group.

The chef group found that the most popular combination of liquid food and various cans, all kinds of packaged food accounted for half of the market. Although the taste and nutrition are quite good, there are also many flavors.

But Wu Sanjun felt that this completely assembly-line processed product seemed to have nothing to do with his cooking skills.

He was a little hesitant, whether to introduce a canning production line, and he was surprised to find that it was not mass-produced by a machine in a high-sealing state, but a processed product of a worker's assembly line.

"How did they manage to prepare it with workers, and the taste and quality are so close?"

While puzzled, he naturally gave up his plan to learn canning technology. In the food warehouse of any large truck, there are always various canned food at the bottom of the press box.

Yinghuo also returned disappointed, with a lot of ice cream and snacks added, but the frustration on his face couldn't be concealed.

After the initial surprise, she was surprised to find that the ice cream in the shop next door had the same sweetness and taste. Obviously, the same kind of processing and materials were added, resulting in a weird scene where the flavor was not changed when changing shops.

"The sweetness of ice cream is divided into seven levels. With different types, you can combine endless flavors! There are only four sweetness levels that are acceptable, and there are not many types of fruit in fruit ice cream, which are obviously convenient for planting and mass production. of!"

In the final analysis, it is just that function and efficiency are prioritized to the core.

A little inquiry into the historical records of Digital City shows that this is still a kind of historical progress. For a long time, at least three to five hundred years, people in Digital City wore the same uniform and ate liquid food for work meals.

ice cream?beautiful clothes?Snacks with different flavors?Isn't that a waste of survival resources?

The current half-baked appearance is already the product of the digital city's official efforts to promote reforms in recent years.

Judging from the results, there is still a long way to go, and some things have been engraved on the genetic level.

Social ethos, aesthetics, and values ​​have also been passed down from generation to generation, so it's no wonder that some things never go out of style.

"You are in the black digital city again? Do you know that regional black is a stupid, immoral and low-quality behavior?"

"I just talked about the situation in my hometown as requested by others. I am a digital person. Do you have any opinions on my hometown?"

The jokes about Digital City and Digital People are timeless. Zheng Li and most of the Peace Corps really took those jokes and stories as jokes, and they were blackmailed in the area, but now they find out that they are true.

This feeling is getting more and more subtle. It is estimated that even if you go back and talk about your travel experience, others will think that you are hacking other people's digital cities again, and you are a regional hacker with no moral quality at all.

In fact, it was also the people of the Peace Corps who found the wrong target. They should not go to the shopping centers and shops of the digital people, but go directly to the settlements of foreigners. The situation there is much more normal, and there are many local specialties.

This is also the result that most of the members of the Peace Corps are newcomers. Liu Yuan and Zhao Yuzhen's warband lives in the area where outsiders gather, and they are led by veterans.

Zheng Li knew the real situation here, probably only the guest veterans who had been invited. He didn't know what Zheng Li's specific plans were, and he didn't plan to intervene until he got familiar with it.

Originally, when a battle group arrived in a strange city, they would take two days off to let everyone relax when they were not busy with tasks, but this time, they came back quickly one by one.

"I finally understand why many travelers have such subtle expressions when they mention Digital City. They want to be black but dare not, and they want to complain but don't know where to start. Many media people are really not regional black , they said, 'Digital City is super boring, I wouldn't come if I beat them to death', and I seem to have sprayed them too when I was criticized to the point of apologizing."

(End of this chapter)