Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

"It's still the same as last year, but the shape is different."

A man angrily held a cylindrical air quality regulator, which has three functions: humidification, cooling, and heating. However, this quality and energy machine is defective. When controlling indoor air, it always inhales some dust, causing the machine to There is too much dust inside and needs to be cleaned regularly.

For a thing worth over 50 yuan, its service life is also shortened due to excessive dust accumulation inside it. Some problems may occur after three months of use, but this upgraded version of the air quality conditioner is no different from the previous generation product. What an improvement.

"You've been using it for a month, and you can't return it anymore."

The boss said with a smile, and called up the sales time of the machine from his mobile phone. The man picked up the machine and left angrily.

There are many similar situations. Many machines that are claimed to be upgraded are actually not much different from the previous generation of products. Most companies just change the casing, add some functions, and then sell them.

Some people who are in pursuit of freshness have basically been deceived, especially some home appliances that keep warm for cooking. Take thermal stoves and electromagnetic stoves as examples. The former uses electric energy to heat the panel and generates high heat. You only need to put the pot on it to heat it. Heating, the latter uses the eddy current of electromagnetic efficiency to heat.

But the core of both is bacterial battery. In recent years, there have been many bacterial battery leakage problems, because bacterial batteries are much more economical than using electricity directly. However, most businesses have started to use the two accidents to take advantage of the accidents. A variety of cooking utensils contain bacterial batteries, causing many people to complain and claim that this is a conspiracy by the merchants.

In order to save electricity bills, most people can only buy new models and save money.

At this time, a large number of people gathered in front of a large company to protest against the company.

This was a large-scale protest against the Hotson family. As an industrial giant in the city, the Hotson family, in addition to producing a variety of construction machines, has begun to extend industrial manufacturing to families in recent years.

The Hossen family did not directly enter the home appliance market, but made a complete set of home service electrical systems.

From the decoration to the layout, all the appliances in the room are in one set. The price is much cheaper than buying some household appliances individually. Now there are nearly 300,000 home service system users. Originally, the business should It was prosperous, but along with a scandal, a big problem suddenly appeared in the Huosen family.

The reason lies in the insecurity of this kind of home service system. In the entire home, you can control the system with voice, facial expressions and gestures. It is very convenient because it is equipped with AI. But recently, some people have put some home images on the Internet. , instantly made most people in the city feel that this kind of home system was not safe, and their privacy was being spied on.

Even though the culprit hacker has been arrested and the leaked images have been deleted from the Internet, many dirty and dirty things in private have been exposed in the entire city because of this scandal storm.

"You losers, tell me, what do you want me to do now?"

Field, the young head of the Hotson family, stood angrily in the office lobby on the 19th floor, looking at the crowd surrounding the company below.

Lawyers from some companies are looking at the lawsuits received from the Law Hall. There are currently a total of 12,571 lawsuits, as well as the social sensation caused by this leak, especially those involving money and power transactions, money and sex transactions, and businessmen. People in the power industry and family members were all exposed under the surveillance of the family service system. One dirty thing after another, the scandal caused the whole city to explode. One month has passed since the incident, and there is no way to calm it down.

Originally, the Huosen family's next plan was to launch home service robots. Nowadays, the Huoson family's largest trading target is the military. They manufacture the military's weapons and equipment. However, in the past few years, the military's orders have decreased. Heavy industrial machinery has also reached saturation. Once the lawsuit is lost, the entire Huosen family will be in danger. In addition, due to the occurrence of detailed incidents, Field has been receiving calls from other families, people in the power industry, and businessmen in the past month. The entire family is now like a rat crossing the street, and has begun to be ostracized by all major forces.

"Hu Youran, what do you think we should do now?"

Field looked at a man in his 30s sitting at the bottom of the conference room wearing glasses. He was an expert in economics and well-known in the circle. With his help, the Huosen family once opened up technology During those days, he successfully avoided risks in advance. Hu Youran was just a member of the company's audit department at that time.

In the end, the previous patriarch of the Huosen family listened to his advice. In the early days of the slow opening up of urban technology, he directly gave up the production and manufacturing of old products, and instead began to gradually research new technologies and produce new products. Many people felt that , the development should not be that fast, but the development speed has exceeded many people's expectations. Hu Youran's economic foresight has helped the Huosen family.

"Unfortunately, Mr. Field, I reminded you three years ago that any problems with the family service system may lead to a huge crisis for the Hotson family. I have already said that we should slow down the pace of development. Continue to settle and wait for the next era of technological innovation to come. The city's economy has not yet improved to the point where robots can be used to replace humans."

Field stared at Hu Youran angrily.

"I'm asking you for a solution!"

Hu Youran stopped talking. He knew very well that the Huosen family was in big trouble this time.

"You guys, come up with a solution for me. I'll go to Phoebus' house first."

Field turned around and picked up the suit on the seat, and walked out of the conference room hall accompanied by several bodyguards. He looked back at the people in the conference room, and his expression became sad. Before anything happened, these guys were all alone. Everyone is taking credit, and after something goes wrong, everyone is shirking responsibility from each other.

People from the inspection team are already investigating this leak, but Field knows very well that this accident is indeed caused by the immature technology within the company. AI technology was provided by Congress, and they relied on the developable source code provided by Congress to develop An AI system that can be used for all aspects of home services was developed, but it failed.

After a while, Field sat in the car. He raised his head and looked blankly at the angry protestors who still gathered at the entrance of the company. All this was a disaster for the family, and the disaster was about to begin.

"Drive slowly, I want to think about something."

Field pondered. This is an industrial building area located in the middle of the west. The huge black chimneys on the opposite side are still emitting black smoke. In addition, Congress recently planned to provide a particle-level waste treatment technology that can directly treat waste. The particles are drawn into the treatment box, and it is planned to directly transport the processed waste and the unrecyclable parts to the formed gully through this method for disposal.

The new waste treatment technology requires a complete transformation of the factory, and it also requires a lot of time and money to carry out the renovation. The factory may be shut down as a result. Most factory owners have directly opposed Congress's approach. This matter has been Leave it at that.

At this time, the car drove into a road connected to the ring commercial street next door. As a burst of cheerful music sounded, Field asked the driver to stop the car. The bodyguard team following behind also stopped, and Field got out of the car. , quietly looking at the top of a building in the distance, there is a robot that is changing form from time to time. This is a fresh marketing tool for this restaurant, a 10-meter-high robot model that can transform into 10 forms.

Field showed a bright smile. He still remembered that when Gene came to his home to do errands in the past, he would tell himself that the future might be an era of robots.

Field has wanted to build robots since he was a child because he thought it was cool. Later, he actually implemented it. First, he had to let people experience the convenience of AI, and then he began to gradually launch home service robots. It is a pity that this idea has now collapsed. .

"Who is that guy?"

Field looked at a young handsome guy standing on a makeshift platform on the street, making an impassioned speech. There were many women around him, most of whom were looking at this handsome guy's face instead of listening to him. speech.

Field glanced at the time, which was just 9 o'clock, and walked over slowly.

"Sir, that's a lunatic. He's always giving speeches here in the industrial area recently."

"Crazy!"

The industry has begun to show faults and is falling. This is an established fact that many industrial people have realized. In addition to medical technology, which is still open, industrial technology has stopped opening. The latest industrial technology is the quality and energy technology that was opened 5 years ago. Conversion technology, many people want the aerodynamic technology currently reserved for Congress, but Congress has been reluctant to open it up.

This technology, which directly absorbs external air into the internal pressure furnace and then instantly emits extremely powerful airflow, can make metal fly easily. It is considered a new type of energy. However, Congress has blocked the technology, and this technology has been delayed. No trace.

"Are you satisfied with the current products? Many of today's mechanical products are shoddily manufactured. These industrial products are related to all aspects of our lives. However, the so-called new products released by many merchants this year, from home appliances to mobile phones, are just reskinned games. Instead of carrying out technical innovation on the original basis, we continue to squeeze everyone's wallets in this way. We have a very bad attitude towards many returns. Please take action and boycott this kind of old-for-new sales. We are consumers in the city, and we have the right to choose better products instead of the old products from five or even ten years ago. We should not compromise with these unscrupulous merchants again and again, because many merchants, None of them have their own scientific research department.”

Lin Xiao said and drank some water. He felt that his throat was burning. It had been nearly an hour. Lin Xiao had been feeling a little tired recently.

"Lin Xiao, stop talking. You promised us that you would celebrate the festival with us."

Lin Xiao hummed, smiled and started to pack up. He had already sensitively noticed that the scene in front of him was very similar to when he returned home to inherit the family business the year he graduated. The cold winter period for industrial products was coming.

In the past 10 years of development, the market for industrial products has begun to become saturated. Most industrial companies, except for different product designs, have almost the same internal contents.

The R\u0026D and innovation of the same technology require a lot of investment of time and money, and may even lead to problems such as R\u0026D failure. Most businessmen who took advantage of the development boom to enter the industrial market have now made enough money and have begun to withdraw. Injecting funds into the property market, many people have noticed that the industrial products market is saturated and have withdrawn.

Those people who were originally engaged in industry are probably in unspeakable pain now. Industry is their pillar industry and they cannot change careers at all. Most of the speculators left after making a lot of money. This should not have been the case. The rapidly growing industrial market shrank ahead of schedule.

In the end, the bitter consequences can only be left to the originally large companies to bear alone.

Lin Xiao was still slowly cleaning up. He had to find a way to unite the industry so that speculators could not enter the market as they pleased and destroy the stability of the market.

During this year, Lin Xiao traveled to many places. The one he remembered most was his own electrical appliance store that closed down. Although those appliances were old, they would last for at least six or seven years. However, a large number of speculators and losers entered the industrial market. The pace of urban development has been increased, and the market will soon die.

The harm has begun to become apparent, and citizens who have adapted to the rapid development have begun to make strange noises.

Looking at the old microphones and audio equipment he used, which were products from 10 years ago, Lin Xiao felt a little sad. New products are bound to eliminate old products, but the speed is too fast.

It seems that many elderly and frail people have been marginalized. Recently, there have been many news about empty nesters dying at home. They are a group of people who have not caught up with the life-span vaccine, and they are also the original builders of this city. , some have children, but they are all struggling to make ends meet, while some have no children.

At this time, a car pulling many old electrical appliances came over.

"Haha, Lin Xiao, I heard you are buying it, haha, I only want you 5 yuan for one unit."

Lin Xiao took a look and found that most of these electrical appliances were products from six or seven years ago and have been eliminated. Most businessmen would rather use new materials to make industrial products than recycle these old electrical appliances because the contents inside would be difficult to dispose of. , it is too troublesome and the cost is not generally high.

"Help me transport it to the old place."

After Lin Xiao clicked lightly, he paid 205 yuan to the person who drove over. At this time, several girls pestered Lin Xiao and asked Lin Xiao to take them to play.

Lin Xiao could only smile and nod. The girls were willing to help him because of his appearance, and their purpose was just to get Lin Xiao as a temporary partner at tonight's banquet.

"What are you doing collecting electrical appliances?"

Out of the blue, Lin Xiao saw a man slightly older than himself walking over. He was wearing a beautiful black suit and had many bodyguards behind him. Lin Xiao shook his head and said with a smile.

"It's just a collection."

Lin Xiao was about to leave, but at this moment several bodyguards came over and quickly separated the girls who were pestering Lin Xiao.

"Is something wrong, sir?"

Lin Xiao didn't know if this smiling guy was going to cause trouble for him, but brown particles were already flying around his eyes.

"My name is Field Hosen. Mr. Lin, I'm not here to trouble you. I just want to talk to you. Do you think you are free now?"

A few minutes later, Lin Xiao got into Field's car, driving very slowly on the congested street.

"Why do you say those words that incite others? You are not suitable for Mr. Lin Xiao."

Lin Xiao smiled and shook his head.

"I don't know what to say, because I made an agreement with a few friends to do social activities, but I don't have any direction."

"Are you a friend of that Wu Qun?"

Lin Xiao was a little surprised. As expected, Wu Qun and Pullman's social activities were very successful. Wu Qun's talk show-like street speech brought joy and something useful to the listeners, while Pullman himself because of his Even lawyers, everything they do within the scope of their profession, the justice of the law, can more arouse the desire of the weak for justice, because there are more weak people in the city.

As for the other people, Lin Xiao had not heard any news about them. There was a report about Freya a while ago, but now there is no news about Freya.

"What do you think the future of industry will be? I want to hear your opinion, Mr. Lin Xiao."

Lin Xiao smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"The industrial market that was saturated early has been completely destroyed, and the saboteurs who came in without permission left after eating and wiping themselves clean. The industry has no future."

Several quarrying bases and mines on the edge of the city have stopped production several times. Field laughed. Three of their mines have been closed. The demand for industry is getting smaller and smaller, and many workers have also been laid off. Large-scale layoffs and a new wave of unemployment began.

The surplus of raw materials has resulted in countless discarded industrial products, which are like garbage and are transported from the upper, middle and lower floors to the garbage dump in the outer circle for disposal.

"I remember that ten years ago, our small electrical appliance store was doing very well, but it completely closed down a few years ago. I just felt helpless."

Field looked at the guy in front of him who was several years younger than him. After contacting him, he found that he was very calm. In the past year, this guy who often gave speeches in this area, Field wanted to talk to him several times. He talked about it, but ultimately gave up.

“Where do you think the future of industry lies?”

Lin Xiao thought thoughtfully for a while, then looked out the window.

"Only the gods know."

Field was shocked for a moment. Hu Youran had long said that this was intentional by the gods to slow down the progress of industry. The reason is that too rapid development will lead to a decrease in the stability of the city. Too many incidents have occurred in recent years. times of inflation, which is an extremely unfavorable signal for a large city with a just solid foundation.

"Or maybe it's for other reasons."

"Now I'm going to take a walk around the Phoebus family's manor. Do you want to come with me?"

Lin Xiao shook his head.

"That kind of place is not suitable for a street wanderer like me. After all, I have appointments with those girls first. I'm sorry, Mr. Field. Let's talk next time."

While the car was still moving, Lin Xiao opened the door and jumped onto the street. Looking at the closed door, Field laughed, but the smile gradually became bitter, with a hint of sadness.

Field has been on the verge of collapse recently. The workers are demanding work day and night. If they want to cut some costs due to their family's huge industrial scale, they can only bear the reputation of being a vampire. A market that should have been slow and progressive has been ruined. It's unbearable, and with the current leaks, the taste of this bitter pill is really bitter.

The city wants to develop, but the city will not take into account anyone's feelings, because the city is a monster created by everyone, Field laughed.

"They are really ridiculous feeders. Everyone is happy to be the monster's feeder. When the monster eats the food it throws and becomes bigger and bigger, everyone claps and applauds. And when the monster starts When you open your big mouth and swallow everything, everyone can only run away!"

"Are you really going to do this?"

Hawke looked at the gods who were debugging a machine in the research room in disbelief, his eyes filled with fear.

"Of course. How can a person see the future? What do you think? Hawke."

Deguna asked, and Hawk swallowed.

"This approach is good for the city."

Hawke did not continue to say anything. In the past 10 years, the city has developed too fast, causing many industries to become deformed. With the managers being fully corrupt, the city has returned to its old state. The gods were cultivated by the forces they belonged to before. The students are still running schools, but the students who left the school began to be colored by the city after they became managers.

Because the entire social environment is inseparable from money and power, and is moving closer to money and power. The first 32 schools authorized by the gods to be opened by their former students have provided a large number of talents for urban management. , but now the first batch of people to go out, after taking control of the power, are beginning to move closer to money.

"It's not that we don't want to make changes, but people are unwilling to make changes. The whole chaotic scene must be dealt with by two strong hands, the regulations of all walks of life, the regulation of the city, and We need to create an environment where managers cannot be corrupt."

As Gu Yi said, Hawke knew very well that this time the gods were serious and they would spend a longer time cultivating a group of omnipotent people.

Students have been notified early this morning that they can go home at 2 noon, while students who have no home to return to can choose to stay in school.

This is the first time they have seen the outside after a year, and it may also be the only chance to go out in 10 years. When they return to school, the college will be completely closed for 10 years. During this period, no one is allowed to go out. A student stepping out of school is cruel to these students.

"Hoke, no matter how full the outside world becomes in the past ten years, you have to do everything you can to get through it."

Rose exhaled a puff of smoke as she spoke, and Hawke looked solemn.

"Hoke, if you want these students to be able to see the future and be able to carry the city, they must be able to see the future! In these 10 years, we will teach them everything. Science and technology will be dozens of times more advanced than the outside world, and even those things that we have sealed away halfway through research will be taken out. The students will seem to be in a small, highly developed technological society, while the outside world will remain as it is, waiting for them to get out. At that time, the outside world may have remained unchanged, but students have mastered science and technology that can lead the outside world for more than a century. Do you think they can see the future?"

Hawke looked at Jean blankly. This is the true purpose of the gods. Absolute control, powerful power, powerful technology, and elites from all walks of life who are different from ordinary people. Once they step out from here, they will You can easily hold the city in your hands and decide its future direction.

"You are really cruel. Maybe many of the children here are not suitable or they can have a different future."

"Hoke, since they have been selected, they must complete their studies and shoulder the future of the city, and even the future of mankind, because no matter what the era is, there must be people who can shoulder the entire era. If not, It’s up to us to cultivate them, and the only thing to blame is them. On the day of the interview, they passed!”

Tang Rao said, lit a cigarette, looked at the two machines in front of him, and smiled.

"Okay, now you can go up and give them the best gift this year, the uniforms of the administrative department!"