Overturned Tower

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This is unreasonable!

Even if the "real little Liuli" is not dead, he will no longer show his face in public, nor will he sing anymore... But the huge traffic he brings can make those who have forgotten about little Liuli suddenly recall it again .According to previous market model calculations, this will actually help them launch this virtual idol to make a lot of money.If they succeed, they can replace their own work by transforming a large number of idols into "virtual idols".

In the future, some adults can also be promoted to the surrounding area... For example, a simulated maid robot with a built-in virtual personality of an idol.

Logically speaking, this should be a well-received technology, right?

So don't you miss Xiao Liuli's song?

Don't you want her to live again?

However, these people seemed to wake up suddenly, so indifferent to this kind of marketing.

Seeing the bankruptcy of the "Virtual Little Glass" project, Delphinium couldn't help showing a satisfied and happy smile.

Although she didn't know why, the people in Happy Island suddenly seemed to have a higher IQ group... But it didn't stop her from laughing at the smart Tianen Daily management: "It really deserves it.

"They don't understand at all that the 'Little Liuli' they made is not the one people love at all."

In the executive office, Delphinium was sitting in her place.

Now she was finally led by Russell, and gradually began to fish when she was at work.

And Russell stood quietly behind her, standing sideways in front of the window, the winter sun shines on the back of the chair through Russell.A diamond-like radiance shone from him, making Delphinium appear as if embraced by darkness.

"Flotie."

"what's up?"

"Do you remember, a long time ago..."

Russell looked out the window sideways: "You told me when I first entered the executive department. The 'color ratio' of the executive department is 1:2:7.

"Only [-]% of them are clean 'white'. Only they are good people who really want to work hard to protect the people and punish the villains.

"And 20.00% of the people are completely black - they are not those who hesitate and feel moved when they are persuaded by interests. They are undercover agents lurking in from the very beginning, or they are completely bribed informant."

"There is indeed such a thing. It should be not long after the little Liuli incident."

Delphinium nodded, turned her chair and looked back at Russell: "I thought you were too clean at the time, and I was always worried that you would be deceived by others. That's why I reminded you."

"Ah."

Russell breathed a sigh of relief: "You specially reminded me not to disclose any secrets of the Special Operations Department to the Executive Department. And don't tell another person the mission of someone in the Executive Department.

"Because every breach of trust has the potential to cause 'white people' to die because of us.

"I thought at the time... what should we do? Only one tenth of the people supported us, and we couldn't confirm who they were. After all, it is entirely possible that an undercover agent from a certain force is attacking other forces. Go all out. Even if it is sacrificed during the mission, it may be the hidden child of other forces.

"Later, I soon realized that it was impossible to rectify the executive department. Although you are the minister of the executive department, in fact your power is not unlimited-not so much that you are the top manager of this department, Rather, it is because you have no ambition...and even if you have ambition, because you are too young, have never worked in the grassroots department, and have almost zero circle of friends, you can't organize your own team. That's why the board of directors put You put it in this position."

"……Is such that."

Delphinium also sighed: "At first, I thought they put me in this position because my psychic power was too useful."

"Then when did you find out that's not the case?"

"It was at the time of Tiansong. After I awakened the demon, I learned from her that the board of directors had already stored a batch of 'lethal love' psionic chips."

"That's pretty late." Russell smiled.

Delphinium heard this and glared at Russell: "What about you?"

"When we saw the Paradise Bird."

"……So early?"

"Because the board of directors is willing to let you out to fight."

Russell was still staring out the window, and said softly: "Although you can pilot heavy mechas, there are not too few pilots of your level. If they really think that your psionic power is extremely valuable, then You will not be released to engage in such dangerous combat.

"Because the board of directors knows that there are discordants there, and they also know the danger of the mages. But they didn't inform you and the inferior ones.

"If it is said that the inferiors are not notified, it is because the inferiors are powerful enough. Then they did not notify the 'very important you', which actually shows one point..."

"I'm actually not as important as I thought...Right."

Delphinium took the words, and replied softly with a wry smile: "Actually, I almost realized it afterward.

"I work harder and harder, not to show my ability or loyalty to the company...but I hope that when I sit in this position, even if I can't do anything, I don't really want to do nothing.

"Even if there is one person who thinks that as long as he comes to my position, he will definitely be able to do better than me. It shows that my laziness has indeed caused trouble to those members of the executive department who work hard.

"So. Even if it's just for that tenth... No, it should be said, the 80.00% of the members of the executive department, I can't 'do what I should not do'."

When she said this, she paused.

Delphinium looked at Russell with some doubts: "I said this suddenly, and I was waiting for the birds of paradise to be away...

"With our relationship, you can speak as much as you can."

Russell finally looked back.

His pupils flowed with a clear brilliance that delphinium had never seen before: "You told me two days ago... that you want to meet Chairman Sai Lun, right?"

"But didn't you reject me then? So I gave up."

Delphinium wasn't that wayward girl—she knew that Russell was a little more sensitive about such things.

Russell, however, just shook his head.

His voice sounded in Delphinium's heart without warning:

"All I said at the time was 'not yet'.

"Now, the time has come.

"Finally, I successfully sneaked into the subconscious of the group.

"At this time, we have the cards to bargain with Sai Lun."

Chapter 62 Twilight: Dreams

It wasn't until he reached this state that Russell finally understood why there were rumors that "crossing the wall of Leviathan will lose the essence of being a human being".

His redshift level finally reached the ninth level.

It is only the last step away from the tenth-level redshift, which is the highest level in theory.

But even so, Russell's spirit inevitably began to alienate...

The biggest difference is that the separation between him and the "vessel of God" has finally disappeared.

Just like the psyker lost control, degenerated and turned into a demon - at that time, the soul could not bear the psionic energy expanding inside the spirit body, so it split open.The swelling demon squeezed the spirit body, and the remaining part was inherited by the demon.

Although in theory, the two are combined into one.But in fact, it is just the core of the "demon" covered with shells called "memory" and "personality".

Now the separation between Russell and the God's Container has disappeared... The God's Container that existed inside Russell's spiritual body was like an oil drop suspended in water. When Russell broke through the wall of Leviathan, Russell gave it to him. "Digested" out.

They are completely and truly one.But this time with Russell as the main body.

When Russell possessed some of the abilities of the "God's Container", he also possessed some of the qualities of a demon.The biggest difference is that he can dive into the sea of ​​group subconscious.

Originally the sea of ​​group subconscious resisted everyone.A waking will will make the spirit "lighter" and can only be suspended on the surface of the sea of ​​subconsciousness of the group; after falling into sleep, with the weakening of willpower, the individual's will can sneak into deeper places, but that At that time, their consciousness was hazy and fuzzy... This made them unable to make any changes to the sea of ​​subconsciousness of the group with a sober attitude.

But at this moment, Russell can project his spirit and sink into the deep layer of the group's subconscious sea when he is not asleep.

According to the "subjective cognition hypothesis" of psionics, it is said that the "group subconscious sea" in everyone's cognition is different, and the performance is based on personal cognition.At this moment, Russell can prove that this statement is indeed correct——

Russell sat on the back seat of the floating car, took out a bottle of champagne from the wine cabinet next to him, and poured it for himself.

The golden wine, under the warm-colored lights inside the floating car, seems to be shining liquid gold.And a string of tiny bubbles emerging from the bottom, looks like a crack under the light.

Russell held it up and aimed it at the light.

And at the moment when the golden light penetrated the wine and shot into Russell's eyes.

Russell felt his consciousness leave the body in an instant, and suddenly "forward" and drilled into the crack.

When he woke up again, he appeared in a huge "art gallery".

On both sides are sky-high towering golden walls, on which are hung countless moving and talking portraits like the portraits in Harry Potter.

Every portrait is talking to the paintings around it, but none of them can see Russell... It's as if there is no "person outside the painting" in their cognition.

The most recent portrait around Russell is a delphinium driving a car.

However, the delphinium in this painting is not as rational and cold as she usually is.

She was curled up in a fluffy and soft lazy sofa, dressed in a cool swimsuit, holding an exaggeratedly huge barbecue, biting it off with a manga-like mouth, and still talking to the front.

There was also a painting hanging in the direction she was looking in front of.

But the painting was blank inside.

That's where Russell was originally.

This is not to say that Delphinium is hungry or hungry/nor is she a lazy soul in her heart... because this kind of intention is highly concentrated, with an abstract and underlying predictive nature that needs to be interpreted by humans.

She is curled up in the lazy sofa at the moment, which shows that her heart is a little tired at the moment; and its warmth can warm the "coldness" of the heart, but she is not wearing thicker clothes, just leaning on the sofa, so it shows that Cui There is still a small amount of loneliness in the finches, but this loneliness can be easily resolved, and there is already an object to resolve.

She is dressed in cool clothes, which means that she wants to "take off the shackles", but there are still a few clothes, which means that she does not want "wild and unrestrained freedom"; she is eating food exaggeratedly, which means that her heart is Hungry, desperate for something.

And what she was gnawing on was a huge barbecue, maybe...it was herself.Because the first time Russell and Delphinium went out to eat, they ate barbecue.The size of the barbecue was so huge that she couldn't control it, which showed that she had a slight fear of her "talent" in her heart, followed by greater greed and more determined actions.

"do not be afraid."

Russell suddenly said: "I will always stand by your side."

"……What do you see?"

The delphinium who was driving didn't look back, so his voice was a little low: "Is it in my heart?"

"Sorry. It's already an instinct."

"It's okay, you don't need to apologize. My heart is upright and there is no shadow. There is nothing that cannot be shown to others... especially what you see."

Delphinium smiled.

She hesitated for a moment, and asked, "But if you modify the minds of those people, will it be a little..."

"I didn't distort their memories and personalities."

Russell shook his head: "I just removed the effect of the 'fog' on them."

"fog?"

"Actually, I don't know what that is..."

That might be the essence of the spiritual plague.

Russell said in his heart.

His consciousness returned to the gallery again in the blink of an eye.

In this supposedly windless gallery, there is a faint, hazy colorful mist drifting slowly from a distance.

It is so beautiful and ethereal, like the aurora flowing on the ground.It wrapped Russell in it, but it did not cause any harm to Russell, but healed his fatigue.

But after it flowed through, iridescent stains appeared on some of the portraits on both sides.

They are like a kind of oil, attached to the surface of the painting.Everyone's color is different, but it comes off easily with just a swipe.But if it stays long enough, it will become part of the "painting" itself.

And those people whose true color of the frame is polluted by this iridescent color, they will become more crazy and radical visible to the naked eye.The portraiture itself would also start to become "quite homely".The more people are polluted, the more likely they are to be further polluted.

Delphinium hasn’t changed much, because her will strength is high enough; her mind doesn’t have much dirt attached to it, so she only feels that her “spirit has improved” and “the mood is not so messed up”.

"...Those things should be related to man-made, maliciously guided public opinion, or rumors spreading around."

Russell said uncertainly.

For the past few days, he has been wandering in the sea of ​​group subconscious.

Russell noticed that the more people who are persecuted and bullied on weekdays, or the people who are more likely to believe rumors, or the people who are easily induced by the media and become angry or sad, the more likely these "colored fogs" will be attached to their portraits. ".And only a few people can resist these colored fogs, not be infected by the fogs and stick to themselves.

Although Russell also knows that even for people in the normal world... being bullied, deceived, and misled is normal, so it is normal and reasonable to change their minds.

But in this world, it is obviously different.Everyone becomes more sensitive and more susceptible to permanent effects.Although this may also be the reason why the cyberpunk world has caused people's excessive psychological pressure...

... But what if the cause and effect are the opposite?

It is precisely because people are easily infected by that "fog" that the world has come to this point.

So Russell made a special experiment, which was to erase the dirt deep in the hearts of these people.

He could see with the naked eye that the people he wiped became rational overnight... Although it didn't mean that the social atmosphere would improve overnight, it did make some people recover.