Overturned Tower

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However, Sally Ruth told Russell that she would rather not advise Russell to tie his name to it-this is not necessarily a good thing, and may even lead to strong hatred.

After thinking about it, Russell decided to believe Sally Ruth.Therefore, under Russell's wishes, Sally Ruth decided to sell it at cost price, and generously assumed all the manufacturing principal.Sell ​​it to every family at a very low price as a device for social welfare positioning.

In Russell's eyes, this is one of the very few creations that can reflect the "temperature of technology" in this evil era.

...What made Russell feel complicated was that Sally Ruth's words were correct.

Because the technology of this thing is not complicated...just because the prosthetic body technology is too advanced and versatile, so people tend to use the prosthetic body to solve all problems-if the prosthetic body can't solve it, they can use professional machines or intelligent machine servants , but no one thought of this kind of idea of ​​using cheap external technology to "strengthen the human body" and focus on a cost-effective idea.

Once you realize that there is still this kind of thinking, it is too simple to develop an upgraded version of the technology.On Sogo Island, people are afraid of the director of the elves and dare not imitate them in person.But on other sky islands, there will soon be an upgraded version.

Most of them have lost their original function of "assisting the elderly to walk", but have become labor tools that are convenient for carrying heavy objects and working more efficiently.

For example, Yongquan Island.

Yongquan Island was the first to develop a professional mining version, which allows miners to mine and transport effortlessly without losing balance and falling to the ground.

It has indeed greatly reduced the labor pressure, allowing each worker to spend only one-tenth of the effort and one-third of the working time to complete the daily work with quality and quantity.After all, the mining demand in the mining area is not unlimited, but there is a fixed delivery amount every month.After the work is done, it can be vacation.

But at that time, the young Russell did not expect... the workers in Yongquan Island did not get 20 days of free vacation time per month, but more than half of them lost their jobs because of this.

Later, various models of civilian exoskeletons soon appeared.At the end of the development, Sogo Island also developed a newer application model... They combined the mechanical servants with weak driving force but the ability to learn with exoskeletons, completely optimizing the bottom-level workers.

Even though people's jobs have been replaced by machine servants for a large part.However, the cost of cultivating a servitor is still quite high after all... It needs to be carefully selected and purchased, patiently studied and cultivated, and it can be used normally after a long period of training.It can be said that a well-trained servitor is more valuable than hired employees - high obedience, no need to pay salaries, strong learning ability, no low-level mistakes, unlimited overtime, no job-hopping, and no thinking To replace it.

The servitors used in many shops are actually domestic servitors that the owner has cultivated for a long time... For example, Langyin's servitor "Xi" is a domestic servitor, and she only works part-time in the bar.

But with the exoskeleton, even some jobs that might cause damage to the servants and were originally performed by highly prosthetic workers—such as moving goods, packing and unloading, and disaster relief—have begun to be equipped. Servitors with reinforced exoskeletons gradually replaced them.In the end, the unemployment wave returned to Sogo Island.

And this wave was initially triggered by an idea of ​​Russell.

It was then that Russell fully realized why no one had developed such a simple technique.

Not all inventors ignore the needs of people's livelihood - for a hundred years, there must have been smart people who realized this.

But they are too smart and too moral.

After the analysis, the inventors realized what would happen once the technology was seen by "improved inventors" who were less talented than themselves... So they finally chose to remain silent and did not publish this invention.

The population will not disappear out of thin air, it will only become uncoded.And the uncoded will bring social turmoil.

Surely they will realize that this is the future that must and will come.

But they hope that they can delay this inevitable future for as long as possible, at least so that they and their children will not be involved in this wave when they are still alive.

Sally Ruth understood all this.

That's why she tried her best to prevent Russell from binding her name to this exoskeleton-according to Russell's original plan, it should be called "Russell Device". Auxiliary Devices".

If it is Russell now, he will surely understand what kind of new generation it will bring.But just as a "genius student", Russell, who was only a young man back then, did not understand why his "great invention" had such consequences.

At first, Russell, who was just a freshman, was even a little swelled when he saw that his invention helped so many elderly people.At that time, Sally Ruth just covered her mouth with a fan, smiled at the corners of her eyes, and slowly agreed with Russell's words, saying "then we might as well wait a little longer and see other good things in the future".

... Looking back now, what he once thought was "the mentor's approval of him", but it was full of ridicule and yin and yang.

From this perspective, the last step of Sogo Island's "full automation" and the unemployment frenzy in other sky islands that have not ended until today are also promoted by Russell himself.

So after that, when Russell really became Sally Ruth's graduate student, he became humble instead.It can even be said to be a little inferior and a little confused.

The complete transformation of his personality transformation, in a sense, started from this "walking assist device".Before that, Russell always believed that he was an outstanding genius, completely different from ordinary people in terms of talent and performance-he believed that he could change the world, and he did not follow the advice of the bishop to "guard against arrogance and impetuosity", "think twice before "I can do it", "Think a few more steps in everything, and think a few more steps after your goals and results", "Talents that are too publicized will be used by others" and other clichés in mind.

——Yes, among the elders that Russell came into contact with, the bishop was the only one who had advised Russell many times.

Alice has never interfered with Russell's development and decisions, while Lang Yin is a standard elitist and a Shedist, and Sally Ruth is a pure fun person... They all have high expectations for Russell .

And at that time, the only person who would throw cold water on him was His Excellency the Bishop.

...It's just that he splashed a little more.

In the end, Russell became the kind of humble and low-key when he first came to Happy Island, even a little timid when encountering problems.It was because Russell had perfectly learned the way of thinking of the bishop—the way of thinking three steps after the result, that made him dare not touch this or that.

This is like a social animal, one day reborn on campus.Although it was a beautiful, golden, and carefree life...but he has fully understood the pressure of survival in the future, and he can no longer let go of all these to enjoy campus life.Every wild release and depravity will bring him a strong sense of anxiety and guilt.

This is exactly what it looks like because it knows "the future a few steps away".

The world must be sick—Russell at the time, full of disillusionment with the fallen and sinful world, saw himself as something “outside the world.”That's why he accepted the memories of his previous life so easily... because after Alice's death, he didn't have any sense of belonging to this world.

And the person who changed Russell again was Delphinium.

"If it is said that the world is sick, I would feel relieved. After all, as long as it is a disease, there will be a day when it will be cured.

"It's better to say that what I'm afraid of is that it is not sick; what I am afraid of is that this world should be like this—that is the deepest despair."

That was the first sentence of delphinium engraved in Russell's heart, the first sentence that moved him.

The first whisper touched Russell's heart and soothed his pain.

That is also the real starting point of this "love" of mutual understanding and mutual support.

Chapter 61 The Final Puzzle of Truth

Since the bishop had something to do, Russell didn't step forward to disturb him.

He took the delphinium and waited patiently in the shadow of the door, politely not eavesdropping on their conversation.When the old lady's voice suddenly became louder, Russell knew that they had finished talking.

"Oh, thank you very much..."

"You're welcome. This is what I should do."

The bishop nodded, with a solemn expression: "My condolences."

"You've worked hard too." The old man sighed, but there was no sadness on his face.

After watching the old man leave the church, the bishop looked back at Russell and cast a questioning look.

Only then did Russell put his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker, and leaned out his upper body from the shadows, while Delphinium remained quietly in the shadows behind him.

"Is that old lady here to ask you to pray for your deathbed?"

He asked casually: "I heard you say, you want to mourn or something."

"Her son died not long ago."

The bishop made a deep and heavy voice: "It's suicide."

"Are you sure it was suicide? What is the reason for suicide?"

"There's no reason why you have to die, you just don't want to live."

The old man shook his head slightly: "If you have to say it, you probably have completely exhausted your talents. His son, who is in the same major as you, is doing research on prosthetic body development. He is also Sally Ruth's One of the students is your direct senior... If you want to see Sally Ruth in the future, you can also mention this matter to her.

"That kid, when he was in Sogo, could still make a little bit of something.

"But after he 'graduated' and started his own business, he encountered consecutive failures. It has been about seven or eight years of consecutive failures... Not long ago, he finally chose to commit suicide and ended his life."

"Is the company looking for trouble for him?"

The corner of Russell's mouth twitched slightly, and asked politely.

But he also knew that it was probably impossible here.

If it was the Tianen Group, maybe it would be like this... However, on Sogo Island, they didn't bother to interfere strongly with the losers.In other words, those who can be eliminated from Sogo Technology Group are all "left behind" who have been judged to be worthless.If their ability can still be valued by the company, it is impossible to leave through the direction of "graduation".

He can realize that this person is probably one of the few talents that has been exhausted.

"You guessed right, he was just completely eliminated. Or, he was 'optimized'."

The old man closed his eyes compassionately and solemnly: "He dedicated the most valuable years of his life to the head office. The last prosthetic agreement he created was the 'Sea Anemone Agreement'. You should know its name... …and this was the last worthwhile, ahead-of-its-time creation of his life.

"...Ah, yes. I remember. Most valuable agreement before the 'Astrologer' agreement."

Russell's expression was a little subtle: "It turned out to be him."

The Sea Anemone protocol, for the first time, realizes hot-swappable replacement of prosthetic hands of the same type and brand, and the models are compatible up to four models before and after.This means that there is no need to re-adapt to the replacement of the prosthetic hand... You can also keep some prosthetic hands with different functions, and switch according to specific needs.

This has greatly liberated the labor force, allowing only one person to complete the work that previously required three or four people, or monster mechanics who were forced to transform to four arms.

It also used to be the mainstream and was popular in Sogo Island for about three or four years.

The Astrologer Agreement is a brand new version optimized by Russell and Sally Ruth.

Because Russell pointed out that the sea anemone protocol did not solve the most fundamental problem-that is, the switching of cross-type prosthetic bodies.This means that a person can often only assemble one type of prosthetic body. Although it can also supplement its functions by switching models, this is tantamount to encouraging companies to produce some replacement prosthetic hands.

For example, for the same medical prosthetic hand, one model is equipped with a musculocutaneous suture assist device, and the other model is equipped with a nerve separation and fusion system.In the past, when performing major surgery, I would find two doctors with different prosthetic bodies.But now isn't it equivalent to forcing all doctors to buy another set, and dismissing the one who doesn't buy it?

Moreover, this is entirely to encourage companies to be bad-no longer thinking about multi-functional integration and optimization, but to sell more "DLC" at a slightly lower price and at a much lower cost.And the Sea Anemone Agreement completely encourages "use one brand to death", because it greatly reduces the replacement cost of the same brand, which is equivalent to changing the direction and increasing the trial cost of changing brands.

It's like the "cloud space bound to a brand account" that is almost necessary for brand mobile phones.

It can switch the prosthetic body, so there is no reason to bind the same brand. This is a complete function and then backhanded castration.Unless, this is his own design purpose - to allow a large number of prosthetic body companies to equip the sea anemone protocol, so as to bind their existing users and start to roll in the stock market.

Therefore, Russell, who was still a young man at the time, simply went a step further, and with the help of Leziren's mentor, he tinkered with an upgraded version.

——Look at my hard work, everyone, don't make black-hearted money.

On the basis of the Sea Anemone Protocol, the "Astrologer Protocol" realizes the hot-swappable switching of prosthetics of the same part and across types for the first time.Just like Russell himself - after he removed his engineering prosthetic hand, he didn't need to re-adapt or install a new prosthetic hand drive, and he could use the combat prosthetic hand made of "Heaven-sent" materials directly by plugging it in .

In order to seize the market, the Astrologer protocol also integrates hundreds of engineering plug-ins. The "Astrologer Aoi Lily" that Russell used before can directly replace and upgrade the prosthetic body for Delphinium without a workbench.

Because he himself is a movable workbench.Among the commonly used functions that had to be plugged into an external disk board in the past, except for offensive functions such as network intrusion, others have also been integrated into it.For example, the infrared scanning of the prosthetic eye, the intelligent recognition of the prosthetic eye, the automatic balance of the prosthetic leg and other software-level functions.

This is completely an upgraded version of the Sea Anemone Protocol - it has also successfully caused those companies that mass-produce "prosthetic body DLC" with extremely low cost performance and functions to be castrated to lose a lot of money.

... From this perspective, Russell may also be responsible for that person's suicide.

It was Russell himself who started to optimize him.If Russell was announced as a creative person in the astrologer agreement, maybe that unknown senior would have murderous intent on Russell.

——At that time, he will probably be arrested by the Three Sages.It was not his turn to be depressed now, and finally committed suicide.

Even if he used to be an employee of Sogo Group, the executive department would not show any sympathy for him.

Sogo Group is the fairest and most ruthless enterprise among the Seven Islands.

Fairness and ruthlessness are both reflected in the same place-whether you are an old employee or a new employee, there is no preferential treatment during the exam.Periodic evaluation results above all else.

As long as you don't enter the worship meeting and become Dr. Zanbai, that is, the "problem maker"... Even if you have worked here for more than ten years or even decades, if the number of "failures" accumulates enough, you should still get out , without any affection.And if the ability is strong enough, even if you have just joined the job for only three months, you can be directly promoted after the cumulative number of "excellent" reaches the standard.

Once you stop making progress—or in other words, as long as your speed of progress is significantly slower than your peers, you will be directly abandoned.

And those who can enter Sogo Group are geniuses with high self-esteem.

Russell actually understood this feeling quite well.

When he was in another world before, there was a saying in his university that there were "four madhouses", the first of which was the School of Mathematics.

The students who can enter there are all the top mathematics talents in the country.

But there is still a talent gap between these "top talents in the country", and the gap between the strong and them is even greater than the gap between them and ordinary people.

When Russell saw these monsters back then, he was also full of awe.

Luckily he wasn't in the math school.

He didn't dare to imagine how much the pressure of studying there would be - when he was in high school, everyone was favored by the teacher, and he was a top student who was praised by people.It is not uncommon for the national league to win the first place in the province and the top three in the country, and even joined the national team in high school.But when they went to college, they realized that they were just mortals.Even if you try your best to study, you still often fail to pass the exam, and you may even fail the make-up exam.

So I started to wonder if I am not even a "mortal" but just a lowly scumbag?

Then I started feeling hopeless and even wanted to kill myself.People who hang themselves and jump off buildings come every few years.

So much so that even the school got used to it later, and the parents would be notified in advance before the grades were sent out, so that they could pay attention to the child's mental state... After the students have been tortured by geniuses, they will only think about "" Not being fired is a victory."

——That was just four years of torture.

In Sogo Group, this kind of torture will continue until old age.Most people can understand their limits and realize that they will never be able to become Dr. Zanbai in the first year of entering Sogo Group.

Sogo University itself is already very impressive, and when they graduate and join the Sogo Group with excellent graduation results...you can see the outstanding seniors and sisters from the last year, the last year, and the last year are struggling hard Ups and downs.Looking around, there is not even a bastard, but there are always those 10% failing and 30% missing every month.

Three bad grades equals one failure, and two failures will result in expulsion.It only takes two months at the earliest to be kicked out... It is very difficult to persist in it for a year.

And if they can persevere, or even get promoted...they can see a wider world and feel higher pressure.

Colleagues are not static, they are also constantly improving and learning.This is not a matter of sailing against the current, if you do not advance, you will retreat, but if you advance slower than others, you will also retreat.

But the most desperate thing is that this is not some deformed organizational structure.It is an extremely correct theory of elimination: if you do not do this, you will not be able to catch up with the development of the times, those "improvists" and the optimization of artificial intelligence.

"Living in Sogo Island is really tiring, so I didn't say much when you left. Here, if you just want to live, you won't be particularly tired... But if you pursue the meaning of life and seek your own If you want to dream, you must tightly clenched your fists and squeeze out the blood and marrow from every bone."

The old man said slowly: "So, it is obvious that the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, but his mother did not feel any strong sorrow for his death.

"On the contrary, she felt a sense of disappointment... she was finally able to let go of her heart, and sighed 'that child can finally stop.' It is impossible to allow their own burnout and depravity...their pressure is all imposed on themselves."

Having said that, the Bishop took a deep look at Russell: "Wendy is like this, and so is Lycaon.

"It's you...you see these things very clearly."

"Because I understand that I am not a fanatic chasing the light. I am just a mirror, reflecting the nature and desire of others."