Overturned Tower

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Waiting for Xiaoya to leave, the prosthetic doctor who was silently performing the nerve connection smiled lightly: "The heart may not be beating too fast, Mr. Strangler. You can relax a little bit."

"...Sorry. I was nervous."

"That's not the case... Forget it, it doesn't matter."

The well-informed prosthetic doctor smiled, noncommittal.

He changed the subject lightly: "Actually, it's common sense... We generally recommend that amputation and prosthetic body assembly should be separated for a period of time. Because amputation will always damage vitality, it is best to adjust it and wait until you are full of energy... That way it’s less likely to have cyberpsychosis.”

"I don't have time."

Hang Hang whispered: "I came here with a mission... I must recover my fighting power as soon as possible."

"Mr. Hanged is really a good employee."

"Ah."

Hang Hang sneered: "I made a promise, sooner or later he will betray me...that boss."

When he was about to say it, he swallowed the name of Godfather again.

For some reason, he always does not want others to know that he is serving the godfather.

"Speak to your boss?"

"Yes."

Hang Hang replied flatly: "Because I am destined to betray."

From the time he was awakened by Tovatus, it was decided that he would repay the elf's favor sooner or later.

And since the confrontation between the godfather and Tovatus... Strangling knew that sooner or later he would severely betray the godfather.

But he's reminded -- he's reminded many times.

But the prosthetic doctor's casual words made Hang Sha frowned: "Can the betrayal announced in advance really be considered a betrayal?"

"As long as there is the fruit of betrayal, it is betrayal."

Hang Hang retorted without hesitation: "It has nothing to do with motivation, preparation, and process. Betrayal is a job that only needs to judge the final result... In front of the result, the stupidity, wit, goodness, and evil in the process and motivation have nothing to do with it." any sense."

"You're still a consequentialist."

"I always have been."

Hang Ling closed his eyes: "Let's change the subject."

And the prosthetic doctor who is good at talking is also very calm: "Back to the problem of the prosthetic body - two operations, in fact, will have its disadvantages. It is not only a matter of delaying time, but also to adapt to the feeling of missing an arm, Get used to the feeling of growing out arms again... that will inevitably cause an imbalance in the physical sense of the two arms, and many jobs that require a high degree of cooperation between the hands will take a long time to return to the previous state. About two 21 days.

"And for you, Mr. Strangled, there is another thing that is difficult to adapt to. That is 'weight'. The lack of an arm will make your body's center of gravity shift...and if you get back the prosthetic body after a month, There will be another offset. This will seriously affect the balance. Thinking about it this way, you only need to bear some less than 3% cyberpsychosis risks, and you can save so much time... Isn’t it also very cost-effective?”

"You really talk to people when you see them." Hang Sha sarcastically said.

"In order to reassure patients. We have worked very hard. We hope to convince patients that their choices are not wrong, so we can only tell part of the truth."

The prosthetic doctor responded casually while inhaling cognitive enhancers and performing neural connections.

He said softly: "Price and cost-effectiveness, risk and result... how many choices are there for the 'only good' in this world? Aren't they all choosing the lesser of the two good and the lesser of the two evils? Since you can't choose the 'single good' ' option, at least it can make them less regretful."

"... really eloquent."

Hang Ling was silent for a while, and sighed in a low voice: "Are all of you aquatic relatives so good at talking?"

"Besides me and Xiaoya, has Mr. Hang said hello to other aquatic souls?"

"Well, I know two gentlemen whose spiritual relatives are whales. There is a 'baleen whale' on Happy Island, and I also met a 'pill-headed whale' when I first came here."

"...Strictly speaking, a pilot whale is not exactly a whale."

"Ok?"

Stretch remembered: "He did say, 'Sure enough, I look like a whale too, right', and he seemed very complacent."

"Because the pilot whale ... the short-finned pilot whale is actually a dolphin. It's a whale in the general sense because it's a cetacean. But it's not a whale because it's a dolphin. .”

The prosthetic doctor said casually: "It just looks like a whale, its size is like a whale, and its behavior is like a whale. So people call it a pilot whale.

"Let's put it this way... If there is a 'werewolf' in this world, he is actually completely different from the human beings of the wolf spirit. But he looks like a human, acts like a human, and has the same social communication as a human, So is he fully human?

"Some people say yes, because they're consequentialists; some people think no, because they're essentialists. But in general, you can say you're right. But neither is quite right."

"You are really rigorous when you talk around circles. Are you so afraid of offending people?"

Hang Hang sneered: "If there is really a werewolf...he looks like a human, feels like a human, and kills like a human—then he is a human. I wonder if there are so many of them, can they be eaten?"

"So you are a consequentialist."

"I think most people should be the same as me. How can there be so many philosophers who are full to explore the essence..."

"Because you need to do your best just to survive."

The prosthetic doctor sighed: "Probably because of this...the legend of the 'werewolf' is so popular."

"... What legend about werewolves?"

Hang Kill frowned: "Explain in detail."

Chapter 71 Isn't this a rush?

When meeting Xiaoya for the first time yesterday, Hang Zhan heard the legend about the "werewolf" on Yongquan Island from her.

The self-proclaimed "Werewolf" serial killer is ostensibly an anti-chip activist.He fanatically attacked the top executives of various companies and demanded that newborn babies no longer be equipped with chips.

This appeal sounds as if it reveals some kind of divinity, with a great sense of cleanliness of self-sacrifice for others.After all, the "werewolf"'s appeal has nothing to do with him, and he will not get any benefits from it.

But a smarter person will realize that this is an absolutely impossible request.Nowadays, the order, commerce, finance, and even the development of various industries in the sky island are all based on "chip" technology. Suddenly removing the chip is like taking away the base of a tall building out of thin air.

Since everyone knows that the werewolf's demands are absolutely impossible to come true...then there are only two possibilities.

One possibility is that His Excellency the "Werewolf" is a hard-headed lunatic.Knowing that he will not get any results, he would rather burn his life to death... His behavior is actually no different from committing suicide by hitting a wall.They all terrified people with heroic deaths, but they couldn't change anything.

Another possibility... is that everything he does is a show.

The chip is not important at all, what is important is the existence of "werewolves" in people's cognition.Just like the words strangling said to Xiaoya before... As long as werewolves are still active, many crimes can be labeled as werewolves.

When night falls, people put on wolf skins and eat people.But when the day comes again, everyone takes off their wolf skins, and there are gentle and nice gentlemen inside.After "werewolves" became some kind of public perception, all this has been irreparable.

Even if the executive department of Yongquan Island really arrested the original "werewolf", the carnival would not stop because of this.People have a thousand reasons to deny that the werewolf has been captured; they have a thousand excuses to say with certainty that this is just another show and that what was caught was just a stand-in, an actor, an innocent scapegoat lamb.

—In the end, it’s because people need werewolves.That's why werewolves came into being.

But Xiaoya is not very interested in this kind of urban legend after all, and werewolves are just a small adjustment in people's lives now.Although it has been put on the table, it has not become the focus of the topic... So the information given by Xiaoya is not complete.

And from the mouth of this prosthetic doctor who talked a lot, Hang Ling got more and more detailed information:

"Werewolf" is actually a legend with quite a history.It can even be traced back to the earthly age.

There is a race of people who usually look like normal people...but when the full moon comes, they will go berserk and become upright wolves.This race is called "Werewolves".If bitten by a mad werewolf, it will also be infected and become a new werewolf.

"Is it infected..."

Hang Hang murmured in a low voice: "A werewolf can make more people become werewolves and suffer from a contagious madness. That's why he was named a werewolf..."

No wonder.

He finally understood why the other party was called this name.

Strangling can even roughly imagine the opponent's appearance——

In Strangling's intuition, the "werewolf" should be a man in his 30s.According to the experience of strangling, this "werewolf" should be a paranoid and autistic conspirator.He was probably bespectacled, decadent, unshaven, and taciturn.He probably won't have any friends... because his personal ability will far exceed the social circle around him, and his personality will make him unacceptable.

If such a guy gains the ability to change the world one day, he will become very terrifying.Because he has no fears, only a melancholy that cannot be expressed.And he doesn't have any friends who can talk, share, discuss with him, and stop his overly radical thoughts.

Judging from the current chaos in Yongquan Island, the werewolf should be happy to see this kind of chaos, and even take the initiative to contribute to it.

Although the "Werewolf" is just a mortal, he is bound to become a disaster—a disaster that even the company cannot resist.Because the werewolf is not a person, he is the aggregate of evil thoughts in everyone's hearts, and he is the key to open the prison of evil thoughts in people.The prison door has been opened, evil thoughts and malice have been released, and his own existence is meaningless.

Even killing the werewolf would not help.

Things are up to now... sooner or later, the "werewolf" will land on the island of happiness.Because he is not for any ideal, nor does he have any clear purpose.A person with direction, his actions can be blocked, and his behavior can be predicted.But he didn't think about anything, if he just wanted to cause chaos...

Such people are the most terrifying.

To be honest, Strangling really wants to see the Godfather and the werewolf touch each other.

Because from the werewolf, Hanging vaguely saw the taste of "the veil of ignorance".

Although Hang Ling has not been to school...he has no culture, but he is not stupid.Able to break free from his father's grip, able to remain intact in the company's machinations, and ultimately able to find his way among the major powers of the downtown area, he is irascible, but he is by no means a dull man.

He is very clear that the "final justice" brought by the veil of ignorance promised by the "discordants"-the kind of complete subversion of the current social state, is just a lie.

Because people are not omniscient, every decision they make will be wrong to a certain extent; because people will make mistakes, people cannot be fully responsible for all their decisions.

The premise of the kind of democratic voting that excludes all positions and decides all matters pursued by the veil of ignorance is omniscience-people must thoroughly understand the hardships, work content, and task requirements of all walks of life, understand their difficulties and interests, and understand The degree to which society needs them and how their various products are digested in all aspects of society.Otherwise, it must be selfish to vote based solely on one's own position.

Such a "veil of ignorance" will never usher in absolute fairness and justice - but will only bring infinite disputes, internal chaos, and self-destruction.

——Only after people have "omniscience" can they take a step back and talk about "ignorance".

That is the scenery that can only be seen after having everything and giving it up.Instead of pretending that you have given them up when you don't have them all at the very beginning.Whether you have had it or not, and whether you can have it is a very important difference.

The ignorant are just stirring up trouble.

But he never imagined...

As an elf director, he was unable to provoke a dispute, but now in Yongquan Island, it has been realized in exactly the same way as he was back then.

"The person who hurt you came from the 'Werewolf' group."

The prosthetic doctor sighed and ended the long operation.

"Where are the 'Werewolves' groups?"

"Well. Although there is only one real werewolf, the people who 'worship' werewolves have formed various groups. There are real anti-chip idiots who worship werewolves as real; Temporary dark parts formed for the purpose of laying black hands on enemies and stirring up trouble; there are also idiots who simply enjoy the collapse of order and hate everyone, and gather together to plan revenge on society.

"Regardless of what the original 'werewolf' thought, the 'werewolf' era has begun. A lot of people don't want it to end like this."

The doctor took off his breathing mask while packing his things: "They probably thought that you were here to deal with the werewolf incident... Be careful, they will come again if they can come once. There are probably some of them in the relief agency." people. They are everywhere... just to start a war..."

"—Can I assemble the prosthetic body?"

Strangling couldn't wait to interrupt the prosthetic doctor's words. With a stiff and urinating body, he slowly got up from the operating chair and moved the small part of his arm that he welded to the prosthetic chassis: "Just plug it in, right? ?”

"You have to wait for two hours," the doctor said lazily, "plug it in now, and you'll die of pain.

"Go to the toilet first, and wait for Xiaoya to bring you breakfast. After eating, come back and get two bottles of 5% concentration cognitive enhancer intravenous infusion. When the heart rate drops below 50, it will be easier to plug it in. good……"

But at this moment, the doctor suddenly changed his expression.

He seemed to have received some news, and his whole body suddenly became tense.

He put down the equipment in his hand directly, and walked over to Hang Ling in two steps.

He just wanted to reach out to touch the strangulation, but his hand was stretched halfway, but he retracted again.

"what happened?"

Hang Kill impatiently asked, "Don't be such a bitch, what happened?"

"Xiaoya sent a message...something happened to her."

The doctor was silent for a while, but he still spoke.

Hang Sha also changed his face when he heard the words, and his face was serious: "Where is it? What's the situation? How many people?"

"It's very close! Go out and turn left, 300 meters... It's not that something happened to her, but when she came back, she ran into a large-scale gang fight. I don't know how many people, but small and medium-sized mecha soldiers were used, and there was still There are some mages... Now she is hiding in a nearby store, I don't know how long I can hold on... I have to find Mr. Huang first! Damn, I don't know where he is..."

But as soon as the doctor said this, Hang Sha pressed his shoulder.

"Don't worry, doctor."

With a sullen face, he whispered: "Connect the prosthetic hand to me first."

"...It hurts to death for you to pick up this thing now."

The prosthetic doctor understood the meaning of strangulation in an instant, but he frowned and warned, "It's not much more comfortable than inserting a steel needle in your shoulder. If it hurts like that, it's useless even if you run over."

"Hey. I thought it was going to hurt, that's all?"

Hang Sha sneered and said, "Just say if you can take it."

"Can be sure..."

The doctor took a deep look at Stretch: "You said this yourself. Don't blame me for the pain."

"Don't disgust me. I'm not that kind of person."