Most Wanted [Interstellar]

Chapter 13

Planck's proposal is not complicated. He wants to revise the definition of "death" in the Constitution.Grotius looked at the materials he gave patiently, and sighed heavily: "Is it for Erwin's business?"

"It's not just that, the definition of life has to be revised with the progress of science."

Grotius glanced at him from behind the glasses: "If you change it according to your opinion, then Alvin died 50 years ago."

"In this way, the Omega Promotion Association will not be able to interfere with our actions. Dead people have no human rights."

"Amending the constitution will shake the foundation of society. Are you sure now is a good time? Just for one person?"

"The Omega Promotion Association has helped human beings of the omega gender obtain criminal immunity through the parliament. With this immunity, there is no way to give him the real death penalty, no matter how much evidence I provide. Under such a premise, What's the use of catching him again? But I don't want to be enemies of all omega-related groups, this is my only last resort."

Grotius closed the monitor: "What does the President think?"

"He wants to get rid of him as soon as possible."

Grotius' mind flashed to the president, a beta with a calculating personality appropriate to his gender, who Grotius could always spot in a crowd every time he went to the Capitol He is not tall in stature.Having done so many years of legal work, Grotius is well versed in the ways of betas. If the president is determined to kill Irwin, even the Omega Promotion Council will not be able to stop him.

But, Plank, are you sure you won't be the president's outcast?

Grotius did not point out: "Alpha is a necessary condition for the expansion of the Federation. Only enough alpha can guarantee the current expansion speed. Omega is the only gender that can give birth to alpha, so Congress and core companies will unconditionally protect the omega maintenance association. Rights and interests. You know, alpha is a 'consumable' after all, no matter how much it is, no one is stupid, do you really think that amending the constitution can avoid the interests of these people?"

"If I choose to assassinate him, will you agree?" Plank propped his head with his hands.

"Either way," Grotius shrugged, "you end up losing yourself."

"You don't seem to be so disgusted with the 'illegal' way." Plank smiled at him.

Grotius didn't answer his words, he turned on the display screen again: "The process of amending the constitution is very long, even if someone proposes it, it will take a long time before it is implemented, and the people in the parliament actually don't understand anything , believe me, they will oppose for the sake of opposing."

"This is Mr. President's business. All I have to do is make this recommendation and give reasonable reasons."

Grotius read his subtext, but he said anyway: "I thought there was some kind of friendship between us."

"Thank you for your suggestion just now," Plank knew what he wanted to say, "I know the future will be very difficult, but Erwin is my student, I let him go astray, and I cannot shirk my responsibility, if... I deserve it all."

Alvin... Grotius looked out the window at the gray horizon, he thought of that person, Omega always made him unable to see through—sometimes very rational and persistent, sometimes suddenly emotional and unable to extricate himself, He thought that Erwin would be an exception, but he didn't expect...he became abnormal like the president of the Omega Promotion Association.

"We are old friends, Plank. I still hope that you can get out of it unscathed... hey... I don't think Alvin is such a scourge. If I were you, I would have considered having a good talk with him back then."

Plank rarely interrupts others, but this time he interrupted him: "When talking to me, he had already written the preset program into the Owen mainframe, and this behavior touched my bottom line."

Grotius shook his head. He felt that Planck was an excellent scientist, but he should not be a good negotiator, but he had no intention of trying to persuade him.He stood up and walked to the wine cabinet, opening a bottle of wine for the first time.

"Do you want to congratulate me?" Plank smiled and took the wine glass.

"Congratulations, you are very likely to redefine death." Grotius said dryly, "Hey, I'm really afraid that my wife will kill me. If she wants to kill me, I will definitely die completely, you It doesn't matter whether the constitution is changed or not, hiccup...have another drink..."

That day Grotius spent the night in his office in order to escape his wife, and Planck immediately rushed to the next stop of his journey.If the vast universe is a long and narrow passage, then he will pass by the president of the Omega Dimension Promotion Association, but fortunately the universe is very vast. When the president arrived in Delft, Planck had already left for three years. God.

As soon as the president arrived in Delft, she felt the oppressive atmosphere. The secretary who received her had a serious and indifferent expression, and her tone was full of routine.If the capital has always maintained a delicate balance because it is the capital, it would be a bit extreme for these residents to be biased towards a single planet.

Beta doesn't like alphas, because they think alphas are too strong, but they don't like omega even more, they think omega are crazy, these crazy like to love to death, falling in love with them is not easy, breaking up is even harder.For beta, omega is not a good partner, but an estrus that smells good. It is still enjoyable to smell it, but when you think of having a certain relationship and spending the rest of your life with these emotional creatures, beta still thinks... who likes it Who will go.

The secretary took a deep breath and smelled it before sending the beautiful president into the reception room—it smelled really good—but that was all, the secretary closed the door and left without looking back.

Maybe the only one who doesn't find omega annoying is alpha.If it was Grotius' secretary who fell on the SWEEPS-98167[7] astronomical monitoring station, he might have killed Irwin long ago. Beta is dedicated to work, but very impatient with life.

Would Schlieffen find Alvin annoying?It's hard to say.

After that day's confrontation, they seemed to give up trying to test each other, falling into a silence that was all too real, like two prisoners waiting to be shot.

It doesn't matter what day it is on the federal calendar. Schlieffen just figured out the time to come to see Erwin and help him change the bandage on his leg.

As time went by, Alvin's pain flare-ups became more frequent and the sedatives less effective, and this time, Schlieffen saw red patches on his feet after removing the bandages.

"what happened?"

"Your foot is not bleeding well, and a lump has already appeared." Schlieffen paused, "I'm not doing it for myself, I'm just suggesting...you should choose to try for help. I can't cure you, and I'm not a doctor."

"..." Alvin looked at his leg, he couldn't see the redness and swelling, but he could imagine how he was festering.

"If we contact Oswald prison, the prison will provide you with treatment under human rights law. There is no point in insisting on it. You will die in the end."

"Can you sit upright for me? I can't see the main control screen clearly because I'm crooked."

Shilieffen shook his head helplessly and helped him sit down.

"terribly sorry."

"?"

"It's about electrifying you." Alvin's tone was very sincere, "I know the feeling of electrifying the nerve embolus, I'm really sorry. Before you landed, my detector detected your mech, I Should choose to send you away, but I didn't, it's my fault."

"..."

"I was cowardly. I wondered if it was a living person inside. If it was a living person, would I feel better? After all, dying alone is a kind of torture."

"..."

"I'm thinking, could it be a beta, with a docile personality and abiding by her duties... Then she will be frightened by me."

"Betas are generally mecha repairers, and they are unlikely to sit on mechas."

"...Yeah, problems can still happen when a person is in a trance." Alvin shook his head, and it was difficult for him to shake his head at the moment.

"Well, I believe your words, because you looked disappointed when you saw me at first glance, more disappointed than surprised."

"Oh? Then you will believe what I say next?"

"what do you want to say?"

"Tell me something you're curious about."

"Why say it?"

"If we don't say..." Erwin sighed, "What else can we say... It seems that we have nothing else to say now." Erwin maneuvered the wheelchair to turn to the main control screen with difficulty.

This tone made Schlieffen a little embarrassed. In order to cover up the embarrassment, he took a bandage and began to treat him with poor efficacy.

"Do you think there are no problems in this world? Alpha is responsible for expansion, beta is responsible for production, and omega is responsible for producing more alphas. Maybe in a few thousand years, humans will fill the universe. Schlieffen, is there really no problem in such a world?"

"Based on this, it seems that humans on the ancient earth were doing similar things." Schlieffen didn't know what he wanted to say.

"Yes, expansion, production, expansion, reproduction, it's just that the three genders are more efficient than the first gender, and the Owen system is more orderly than the Owen system. Schlieffen, the criminals in Oswald Prison Is it missing?"

"so?"

"So I wrote a new program, hoping to terminate the human's existing unlimited gene repair technology."

"You mean, you want human beings to become... like people on the ancient earth... only live for a hundred years?" Although this seems to have nothing to do with most alphas, Schlieffen was still surprised.

"From sexism to three genders, from a disorderly society to an orderly society, human civilization has come to an end. Schlieffen, this is obvious. This is the technology I developed, and I have the right to take it back."

"Then what are you going to do? You are murdering because our civilization has come to an end? What's more, I don't think our civilization has come to an end. Alvin, this idea is really strange. You are a person with a strange idea." Schlieffen's surprise It was not calmed down by Alvin's next explanation, "That's why you are defined as a first-degree criminal! This is the murder of all mankind!"

"Don't you think that human beings are automatically differentiated into three genders? This is the choice made by human beings in the last days of leaving the earth, not the choice made by all human beings, but the choice made by a few people .In the case of immature genetic modification technology, a few people helped everyone make a choice. Just for the advancement of civilization, we have become what we are now! Now we need to improve again."

"Wait." Schlieffen interrupted him, and he sorted out his thoughts, "I want to know where we are going to improve."

"A gateway to higher dimensions."

"Huh?" Although the prison guard who likes to read has no higher education, he kind of understands the meaning of this Frankenstein. "You mean four dimensions?"

"Desire, narrowness, including fear of being alone... These inherent traits of human beings will not disappear with genetic modification. The way we express civilization is expansion and plunder. Now we seem to be progressing, but in fact what we are doing now It's still what people on the ancient earth did. You're right, we're still just a speck of dust. A gray parrot flew by the window. It's not hard to teach it to rap, but it will never Can't understand human civilization, now we are gray parrots flying through the window, we have learned to rap, but we can't understand the higher civilization."

Schlieffen smiled now: "How do you know the existence of four dimensions?"

"Look at the main screen." Alvin looked at the screen, and the characters flashing on the screen at high speed suddenly stopped, "This is not my independent research result, as I said just now, we have already flown over the civilization window, but not everyone understands it."

The screen displayed numbers and characters, and some formulas were mentioned in the elementary textbooks published by the federal government, but Schlieffen still couldn't understand them, not at all.

"A small number of people can understand these contents with the help of characters through long-term study, but this is only a small number of people, most people will never understand, as if trying to explain the three-dimensional world to a two-dimensional creature is not feasible The understanding of a few people can only be transformed into products to create a hypocritical civilization. How fragile such a civilization is, Schlieffen. Many people can't even understand the operating principle of radio, let alone more things. If human beings do not seek their own progress, immortality It's just a big joke."

"But you are going to die now," Schlieffen pointed to his swollen feet, "You have understood everything, but you are still anxious and afraid of death. Just like I tried to calmly understand everything you said, but I still couldn't bear it." I can’t stop caring about that mecha that can help me escape.”

"..."

"Although it would be unbelievable to say it," Schlieffen said with a relaxed tone, "I can't understand those symbols, but I understand part of what you mean, I just want to ask a question - how much do you know about death Maybe I know more about this aspect of knowledge.” Schlieffen smiled, “Death is not disappearance, destruction, or even a moment. Death is pain, remorse, and reluctance. If we are as emotional as people on the ancient earth If it is rich, death can be compared to an irreversible parting, but unfortunately you and I can no longer understand parting, maybe it is more appropriate to compare it to your festering legs." After saying this, Schlieffen squatted down and continued to wipe the remaining The lower bandage was tied up.

Erwin looked at his legs again, he could only see the knees, as if the legs were cut off from there, the dialogue between Schlieffen and him reminded him of Planck, he didn't know if he was in his eyes A rotten leg, but he did throw it away as a rotting organ.

Planck, have you ever understood death?

Have I understood death?

"..." He raised his head, "Give me a sip of wine, I want a sip of wine."