mini people

Xu Hong asked him back: "Do you still remember the population explosion disaster in country E in 1013?"

Of course, Shen Jiyun remembers that although 1013 has been a while since the global disaster in 999, in the long ten years since then, due to the previous catastrophe, cities have persisted for several years after lingering. It is inevitable to escape the fate of paralysis.

The population explosion of country E in 1013 was the most severe and most influential in recent years, because the capital of country E, Wencheng, was the first to collapse at that time—it was a cultural capital with a long history, and it was also the economic center of the country.

Shen Jiyun was still very young that year, and he remembered that his family was sitting in front of the TV, watching the filming team from country A go to shoot a documentary about the paralyzed city of Wencheng.

The helicopter flew over the silent city, like a lonely eagle, shuttling through the silent steel forest, and the bottom was dark, with no lights and no living people.

Occasionally, corpses piled up in front of shops and in hidden places on street corners are seen. Those are people who trampled each other to death while fleeing the city, and many of them died of starvation, but those tragedies were thickly stamped in the post-processing of the camera team. In the mosaic, only clusters of dark shadows can be seen.

The historic castle, the beautiful Lin Palace, the bell tower on the River of Time... Those landmark buildings of country E that used to appear on postcards are now covered in a layer of dust. Dimly withered in the silence.

The roads are full of cars that have run out of fuel and electricity, like lumps of iron, clogging the blood vessels of the city.

However, the blood in the veins no longer flows, the heart of the city has stopped beating, it has completely died.

Shen Jiyun asked her mother at the time: "Why is there no one there?"

Shen's mother held him on her lap, hugged him and said worriedly: "Because the city is paralyzed, the traffic is stopped, there is no electricity, no water, and there is no longer food in the store. If you continue to stay there, you will only have a dead end, so Everyone has to go somewhere else."

Shen Yuze next to him also asked childishly: "Then where did they go?"

Shen's mother frowned and said, "Maybe go to a nearby city, a city with water, electricity and food."

At that time, Shen Jiyun couldn't imagine how much impact it would have on people's lives when there was no electricity in a city and no water in the water pipes.

He didn't know that those people had nowhere to go, because the population of the nearby cities had already been saturated.

Because of the outflow of Wencheng's population, two important nearby cities were paralyzed one after another...

A large number of people who originally maintained the city's operation died, disappeared, and immigrated to other countries in that disaster. As a result, country E turned from prosperity to decline, and completely declined.

At that time, the news had been reported for a long time, and Shen Jiyun vaguely remembered that after the disaster, country E seemed to be assisted by other countries and helped resettle a large number of refugees.

But the young Shen Jiyun didn't think about it deeply, because his father told him that it was not their turn to worry about those things, and the government would arrange everything, so he was relieved.

At this moment, Shen Jiyun looked at Xu Hong again. He knew that the other party would not mention this matter for no reason, so he boldly guessed: "Could it be that the refugees at that time were all reduced?"

Xu Hong said: "I can't say everything, MWCC has received at least 70.00%."

Shen Jiyun's face paled - based on this inference, the overflowing population, deported and homeless population in any place, not just E country, may disappear from their sight forever and become miniature people.

Xu Hong saw that his face was not good-looking, and asked him back: "The number of refugees in country E is hundreds of millions. If MWCC does not accept them, which country can absorb such a sudden increase in population?"

Yes, this is the population explosion. When a city collapses, the survivors left behind will become the pressure on other cities, like dominoes. If one falls, there will be a second, and a third... If it is not stopped in time, the entire population will be destroyed. The cities of the world are going into dire vicious circles.

Xu Hong looked at the silent Shen Jiyun, and asked again: "At that time, our country also nominally expressed its willingness to help and accept 3000 million people from country E who had nowhere to live. How much stress are our cities causing?"

Naturally, Shen Jiyun didn't think about these questions when he was a child, but now thinking about it, he was breaking out in a cold sweat.

Because he found that after the population explosion of country E, although the country extended a helping hand, they did not feel that the environment in which they lived became more crowded—since there was no change, where did the extra people go? ?

Xu Hong said: "So you understand, it's not that you don't know, but that you have never suspected where they went."

Shen Jiyun was speechless.

This is the ordinary people in developed countries. Indeed, most of them have humanitarian spirit and compassion, but all this is only based on the fact that their living conditions are not threatened.

Richness breeds kindness, poverty breeds meanness.

And charitable acts seem to be the obligations of the government and have nothing to do with them.

Shen Jiyun sat on the chair, stroked his face with both hands uncomfortably, and asked in a muffled voice: "Then why don't you make MWCC's practice public? Since those refugees can enjoy a better life in Mini World, there should be many Are people willing to take the initiative to accept transformation?"

Xu Hong looked at Shen Jiyun firmly, and said: "All the people in the miniature world don't know that they have become smaller."

Shen Jiyun raised his head in astonishment: "Why don't you know?"

"It's not necessary, because the process of transforming them into minifigures will make them lose all their memories." Xu Hong simply explained to Shen Jiyun the principle of transforming minifigures.

Shen Jiyun's whole body was sluggish, causing people to lose their original memory, and their consciousness was transferred to a new body... Then, can this person still be the original him?

Shen Jiyun was shocked, and suddenly thought of his younger brother again. No wonder he still received his younger brother's "corpse". In this way, Shen Yuze also lost his memory during the transformation process, and completely forgot... himself?

Shen Jiyun's heart throbbed, and he tried to suppress his turbulent emotions, and asked: "Is there no other way to let them know who they were before they were transformed? For example, record a memory image or something."

"You may not understand what I mean," Xu Hong said, "It's not just that the transformation experiment will make them lose their memory, MWCC originally didn't intend to allow them to continue their identities, because that would be too much work and inconvenient for subsequent management. "

Shen Jiyun: "..."

Xu Hong: "In the early days of MWCC's establishment, a group of death-row prisoners were recruited from the government for comparative experiments. One group of death-row prisoners were transformed into minifigures, and they were also told that they were normal human beings, while the other group, We chose to hide the truth from them. They didn't know the existence of normal people at all, thinking they were born that way... Guess what? After a period of time, we gave two groups of minifigures separate psychological tests, and those who were concealed the truth The life happiness of mini-humans is much higher than that of those who know the truth, because people who know the truth are always thinking about a series of issues such as dignity and rights, and are even full of guard and hostility towards us."

Shen Jiyun smiled wryly, and also guessed the result.

Xu Hong said: "So I think that sometimes ignorance is a kind of happiness. They just need to know that they can continue to live happily in the new world, and that's enough."

At this moment, Shen Jiyun can no longer use common sense to judge whether MWCC's approach is right or wrong.

Xu Hong smiled and said: "Okay, don't think too much, isn't your test score very high? This kind of thing should be easy to accept, right? Come, let me take you to visit the headquarters of MWCC first."

As Xu Hong walked out, he continued to introduce the details of MWCC: "The operating rules of MWCC were drafted after discussions among all the founders. Three companies initially established MWCC—Xinglin Group, the richest man in country A, and Guohua Group B. Sheng Group and C Country Futai Group—both have government backgrounds, and later the governments of other countries also invested and joined in the name of the company, and each took a certain share in the organization."

"MWCC is essentially just a partnership company?" Shen Jiyun has heard the name of Xinglin Group. This company is involved in a wide range of fields, from biological science to electronic technology. They are all contracted by the research and development institutions under the Xinglin Group.

He is not familiar with Huasheng Group in country B and Futai Group in country C, but they should also be national giants.

"It can be said that, after all, the establishment of Mini World is basically a charity project. Without the financial support of investors, it would be difficult to operate." Xu Hong said, leading Shen Jiyun into the elevator that only internal personnel can ride. He also told him that because the fingerprints had already been entered, Shen Jiyun would be able to use the elevators of the internal personnel by himself in the future.

Shen Jiyun tried to unlock the floor with his fingerprint, and successfully pressed a number according to Xu Hong's instruction.

In the elevator, Xu Hong said again: "I see that you just seemed a little worried about whether the organization's decision-making is too arbitrary and unfair... In fact, it is the opposite. It is precisely because MWCC is not led by the government that it can be fair and just to refugees around the world. .In a way, we are a truly borderless organization, and we treat refugees from any country equally. Moreover, although MWCC is mainly controlled by the giants of the three countries, all our actions are monitored by the governments of various countries, especially It's the Human Rights Protection Association—that group of guys who don't do anything often threaten us with 'disclosing the truth', once it is made public, it will inevitably cause condemnation from all walks of life." Xu Hong shrugged his shoulders and made a " "I can't afford to mess with you" expression, said: "So, we dare not make any mistakes."

Shen Jiyun wondered: "How did they agree to the establishment of this organization in the first place?"

Such a shocking existence, most normal people probably can't accept it after hearing it, right?

Xu Hong blinked at Shen Jiyun, and said with a sly smile: "Because the son of an important person in the association was disabled the day after tomorrow, we genetically modified his son to obtain a healthy body in the mini world, and let him live a happy life there." Life."

Shen Jiyun: "..."

Xu Hong: "Actually, we don't disclose this matter to the public because we want to protect the mini world and those mini people. Because the base construction is not perfect now, and the size gap between mini people and normal people is so big. Once the news leaks, it will be would bring danger to them..."

With a slight beep, the elevator arrived at one of the floors.

Xu Hong took advantage of the situation and said: "MWCC has many centers and departments. The ten floors up from this floor are the areas of the human transformation center, and it is also the place where you can get in touch with the transformation of miniature people at the closest distance. There are several departments under the transformation center. , there is the Pharmaceutical Department, the Gene Modifier Department, and the Power User Research Department..."

Shen Jiyun asked curiously: "What is a superpower?"

Xu Hong waved his hand: "I'll explain to you slowly later... Ah, we're here, you were recruited by Expert Chen, from now on you can follow him to work in the plague defense department, this is a temporary department."

Shen Jiyun frowned, recalling Expert Chen's original explanation, and asked doubtfully, "Could it be that this plague was caused by the bite of a miniature?"

Xu Hong rubbed his temples with a headache, and said, "Yes, there is a big loophole in the research department in country C."