Overturned Tower

Russell added in his heart.

But judging from his calm expression when he saw his medical report, Amirus probably guessed that he had awakened his psychic powers when Russell was fighting the mercenary.The psychic weapon named "Saint Beheading" was just to cover up his identity as a psychic.

If there is no accident, Russell will be assigned to the Special Operations Department after the entry medical examination is over.

But on one point, Amirus still guessed wrong.

——Russell's psychic awakening did not bypass the protection of the chip.

When Russell graduated from graduate school, the results of Russell's physical examination were red shift 1 and blue shift 2, which are standard normal values.

It was on the airship, after recovering the memory of the previous life... Russell's redshift and blueshift values ​​improved significantly.

This was originally the psychic power he had awakened before he was born—the psychic power condensed from his previous life's memories, desires, obsessions, and personality!

Chapter 18 The Sword of Damocles

After the physical examination, Russell lay down on the treatment bed and began to receive treatment.

After the wound on the back was carefully cleaned, its true shape finally appeared.

It was only then that Russell learned that the injury he had suffered was quite serious—only the largest wound was two and a half fingers thick, and the length was even closer to a palm.Besides that time, there were five or six smaller wounds on the back...but if they were small, it was probably equivalent to being gently scratched by a sharp knife.

"It's a muscular injury."

Doctor Niutau made a deep voice, and warned Russell: "Another centimeter will hurt your spine!"

He first sprayed a light mist of medicine on Russell's wound, and then applied a pale yellow cold ointment to the wound.

Except when he was just sprayed with the potion... After that, Russell didn't feel the slightest irritation.

Even rubbing alcohol on the wound after cutting a finger hurts a lot more than that.

It should be a kind of medicine mist for pain relief or paralysis of wounds.

Russell's heart skipped a beat.

This thing is not bad...you can do a little.

After the ointment was fully applied, the white coats took out a milky white and delicate paste attached to the transparent film, and covered them layer by layer on the ointment very gently, and then peeled off the film. open.

... That skillful technique reminded Russell of the master who put film on the mobile phone in the night market in his previous life.

Each time they applied a layer, they irradiated it with a handheld UV lamp for a brief moment before applying another layer.

This process only lasted less than 5 minutes.

After the three of them dispersed, they motioned Russell to reach out and touch the wound on his back.

In addition to feeling that the wound was still a little hot, what he reached out and touched was the same delicate touch as his own skin.

Russell couldn't feel the pain at all, and couldn't even detect the existence of the wound.

"This is not to heal your injury immediately, it can only be regarded as a high-end bandage. It can temporarily replace your defective skin tissue and accelerate healing... When your injury is almost recovered, it can be directly transformed into The base of your newborn tissue does not need to be removed separately."

Another white coat said: "You can also take a bath, see water, and rain normally without worrying about the wound being contaminated and inflamed. It only takes 48 hours for a wound of this level to heal. But if you do it within the next two days If the back is seriously injured, the hemostatic material may be contaminated due to bleeding. In that case, remember to come here to change the dressing, otherwise it may cause spondylitis."

After Russell nodded, the three of them bid farewell to Amirus.

After that, Amyrus took Russell away.

What Russell didn't expect was that... Amyrus didn't have a real home on Happy Island.

He has no house of his own.So he took Russell directly to the most luxurious hotel in Happy Island—the "Taohuayuan" hot spring hotel named after the Taoyuan Firm.

This is a hot spring hotel built on top of the snow-covered mountains, which is far away from the city center of Happy Island.

The 49-story hotel looks more like a minaret or obelisk than a normal hotel.The gate of this hotel is not on the first floor, but on the 49th floor - if you want to go to or leave here, you can only take a floating car.And if you want to enter here, you need to make an appointment some time in advance...or more distinguished guests, you can directly register your car number here.

Because the appointment time does not have to be long, and the floating car must be in his own hands during this time.This means that at least one floating car is required to meet the basic requirements for entering this hot spring hotel.

Russell was brought into the hotel by Amirus.

They passed the elevator and went straight down to the lowest floor—to Russell's surprise, it turned out to be on the bottom of the sea.

They are in a wall with high transparency, and the light is quite dim.And outside this wall is the deep black sea water, and you can also see many strange-shaped fish swimming around that can only be found in the deep sea...

But in theory, it is impossible for him to reach the deep sea.

Even if this hotel is at the lowest level, it is absolutely impossible to reach the bottom of the sea, and it is even impossible to touch the surface of the sea.Because it's not even deep into downtown yet.

Because the gravity of the downtown area is reversed, it is very easy to judge.

As long as you jump from various deep underground wells and exceed a certain height, you can reach the "Shadow City" on the other side of the floating island.

Russell heard from his instructor... Many years ago, when the lower city was first built, it was for the "automatic production mechanism" that produced various living materials, the "regeneration judgment mechanism" that was responsible for resource regeneration and garbage destruction, and the "regeneration judgment mechanism" that was responsible for sea water. The three types of necessary factories of the "water source management agency" that purify sewage discharge should not occupy the living space on the surface of the empty island.Only in recent decades has it become a shadow city where mercenaries, criminal organizations, and illegal psykers are active.

And even the lower city is very far away from the sea.For them, the sea is the sky, and there is no sun above the "sky".

That is to say, the black sea water that is confined by the transparent cover outside is actually an "artificial seabed" made by technological means.

Not only do they imitate the unique color of the dull seabed, but they can even allow the creatures captured from the seabed to live safely-just being able to catch the seabed creatures is already incredible.More than [-]% of the world's fish, shrimp and shellfish are freshwater fish.Because the cost of fishing from the sea is too great, let alone the deep sea.Even the best university on Chongguang Island has never taught what is deep-sea life and what is the deep-sea environment... Even if you search on the Internet, you can't find this kind of knowledge at all.

Russell could barely recognize that these were deep-sea creatures, and this was a deep-sea environment, thanks to the knowledge of his previous life.

"Here, a deep-sea environment with almost constant temperature at a depth of 500 meters below sea level is simulated."

Amirus explained with a chuckle aside: "By the way, the second floor of the hotel is in a shallow sea environment, which is much more beautiful than this side, as if solidified in azure blue amber. I brought you here, it is really Because that experience is pretty rare."

indeed.

Russell couldn't help but nodded.

Even in his previous life, he had never eaten in such a "deep sea restaurant".

This is indeed a unique and rare experience.

Russell couldn't resist taking a few photos - he doesn't have a prosthetic eye, so he can't take super high-resolution photos, adjust filters, contrast, etc., but at least normal definition photography is still possible of.

As for the taste of the food, there is no need to say much.

Food quality has always been closely related to technology.With the blessing of technology in this era, the most top-notch and high-end restaurants will certainly not be inferior.

The space here is so wide that you can even play football in the dining room.

But there weren't many customers inside...or rather, they didn't all dine in the restaurant on the first floor.

After all, this deep-sea restaurant is too dark.It's okay to come once or twice because of curiosity. If you come too much, you will not feel happy, but will feel scared.

The only guest dining here is Amirus, an elf.The other human beings are the type whose soul relatives obviously like the dark.

For example, the lizard man who enthusiastically came to ask Russell if he could take a picture with him.His head is indistinguishable from that of a lizard.The skin on most of the body is covered with scales;

There is also a middle-aged man with a serious Chinese character face and some owl features, who came to flatter Amirus in a low voice, and his tone and attitude towards Russell were also very good.

Although the coat on Russell's body was still stained with blood, it had a slight smell, and it was not considered clean and hygienic.

However, these high-class people who can enter the "Peach Blossom Spring" for dinner, each of them responded with a sincere smile to Russell, who was dressed in rags and dirty clothes.

Their smiles are really, really real - as real as possible.

But with Russell's sensitivity, he can still tell... hidden under their smiles are tiredness, vigilance, disgust, fear and many other complex emotions.

That is the fear of "heroes".

It wasn't until this moment that Russell finally realized what the over-entertained title of "hero" really meant...

Why are so many people fascinated and worshiped by it——

In this world without written laws, as long as it is reasonable... Even murder can be forgiven.

The consortium controls the media, and the media manipulates public opinion.And public opinion is constantly shaping heroes.

But "heroes" have the ability and possibility to overturn the table, so they are feared by people.

He might only be able to make a reasonable shot once.Once he abuses people's favor towards him, he will capsize one day... As long as he makes a small mistake and under the right opportunity, he will become the target of public criticism.

Going over old accounts, taking out of context... under the attack of various forms of public opinion, the name of a hero will soon collapse.

Because of this, some people try to sell the value of this name in exchange for benefits, just like a star who sells the naming rights to unpopular products while he is still popular... Some people never consume it, but in exchange for it. power and voice.

Like a sword of Damocles hanging high.

When the hanging sword really fell, it would not be scary anymore.It is no different from falling rocks and falling ice picks, and it loses all the magic power that can shock people's hearts.

If you just hold up this sword, it is no different from a mob, it is really just an ordinary... a sword that can be blocked and shot down.

But if it hangs quietly and high all the time, it can make the tyrants aloft and terrified all day long.

—The hero must remain silent.

Russell raised his head and looked at Amyrus who was smiling at him.

There was some hesitation in his heart.

...Your Excellency Amirus brought himself here specifically to show himself the deterrent power of a "hero"...?

But what good will this do for Amirus?

Chapter 19 The Bad

Early the next morning, Russell boarded Amyrus' floating car and headed to the Tianen Group in the city center.

The good weather lasted only a short day.

It was only seven o'clock in the morning, and the sky had already turned dark black.

It is now mid-May, not long after Russell's birthday, but the weather is still not getting warmer.

The wet and cold wind blowing outside the window rolled up the young leaves and brought the warning of heavy rain.

[At 5:18 a.m. on May 8, there will be a rain warning in Luopan District and Tianen District]

[It has been detected that you are in Tianen District.There will be moderate to heavy rain at the current location within one hour, please take shelter from the rain in advance and be careful of catching cold]

When the floating car gradually stopped and began to descend, two lines of prompts appeared before Russell's eyes.

This information comes from a special organization called "Annealing Nerve Center" affiliated to Hudson Ocean Mining Company.

It is built on every empty island, inside the head office and branch of Hudson Ocean Mining.The specific equipment is a commercial secret, and even if they are the same as the Big Seven, other companies have no right to intervene.

It continuously analyzes and calculates a lot of data every day, which is used to accurately predict natural phenomena such as rainfall, typhoons, and abnormal waves.

The analyzed data will be delivered to each terminal as soon as possible.

"Please also thank Your Excellency Amirus for me."

Russell stood outside the car and bowed politely to the driver who had only leopard ears all over his body and no signs of relatives.

——If it is on Sogo Island, the driver of the floating car can only be AI.

But in Happy Island, jobs are a very important data indicator-all people with chips must have the possibility of having at least three jobs.If you lose your job, you can immediately enter the next position selection; or if you are well prepared, jump to the top position selection.

Any work that can be done without the use of AI and without automation must be done by real people as much as possible... For example, drivers, waiters, couriers, etc., are "backward occupations" that have long been replaced by artificial intelligence in other sky islands.

Tianen Group uses this method to create as many meaningless jobs as possible.Even if the social efficiency will be reduced a lot, and the error rate and failure rate will be greatly increased, they seem to have no intention of changing this strategy.

"Please take care of yourself, sir."

The driver also made a hoarse and magnetic voice, and raised the door again.

Watching the floating car take off, Russell turned and looked at the park behind him.

This is the headquarters of Tianen Group.

The entire park alone occupies half of the "Tian'en District", and the rest is the surrounding residential and commercial districts.Russell didn't even dare to think about how high the housing prices in Tian'en District were...

"Tianen Group" is not just a tall building or a mansion, but an entire park.It’s not just the building area—it’s just the land area of ​​600 million square meters, accommodating [-] direct employees working in different branches of Tianen Group, and there are even built-in overpasses, highways, and airports in the park.

There are artificial lakes, artificial rivers, and artificial waterfalls.There is a closed-loop sky train that runs continuously in the park, and the viewing cable car is used for ascending and descending... There are also cruise ships that follow the river like a bus.

In the middle of the entire park is an extremely huge statue that Russell can see from the gate of the park.

Not stone statues, but statues with colors and almost realistic textures.

It was a female elf with a slender figure and a delicate and beautiful face.She was wearing a floor-length white dress, and her wavy platinum hair hung down to the hem of the skirt like a cape.

She smiled like a loving mother, holding a sun-like crystal ball with pink light on her chest.

The ball is suspended between the hands, and from any angle, a cartoon heart shape with a darker color can be seen from the center of the crystal ball, and this is also the logo of Tianen Group.The strange thing is that Russell could clearly see the pink radiance of the crystal ball from the gate of the park, but the radiance of the crystal ball did not dye the statue or the surrounding buildings pink.

This elf woman who looks like a god is Sai Lun, the chairman of Tianen Group.He is also one of the "84 people", and in terms of status, he is one level higher than Amirus.

Russell stood at the gate of the park, hesitating for a while.