Chapter 061 Du Guanqi's Questions 1
Du Guanqi never thought that one day he would really experience the daily life of a homeless person in a super dream.
Although Du Guanqi became unable to speak due to illness at a very young age, he was born into a relatively wealthy family and received a good education.
After that, whether he was running Truth Broadcasting or continuing to think about the nature of the world, Du Guanqi received help from some friends and supporters. His life was not rich, but he had enough food and clothing and did not need to worry about what to eat every day.
But in the super dream game "Another Possibility", Du Guanqi experiences every aspect of this truly desperate life from the perspective of a homeless man right from the start.
In the freezing cold, the homeless man was going to rummage through nearby trash cans, which might contain leftover food or some dangerous items.
These trash cans emit a foul stench from time to time, and most of the food found has already rotted and spoiled, but for these homeless people, they have no choice.
Occasionally, kind-hearted passersby would lend a hand to these homeless people and give them some change. At this time, the homeless people can go to some small shops on the street to buy some bread to fill their stomachs. They cannot enter some large supermarkets because they will be stopped by the security guards at the door.
At the beginning, the homeless man would try to find some odd jobs, but no store would hire a homeless man to work, because decent and clean clothing was the minimum requirement for these stores to have employees, and no one wanted a homeless man who smelled bad to drive away all their customers.
It is impossible for these shops to afford the homeless people's housing, clothing and other expenses.
It was even more impossible to apply for a job in a large company. Before he could even get to the door, he would be stopped by security and kicked out. Although the homeless man explained that he was here for an interview, large companies have their own recruitment channels. How could they allow a homeless man to go in for an interview?
Even if the homeless man repeatedly stated that he had a stable job experience and was very serious and hardworking, it was useless because there were too many people like him. The company couldn't even hire normal people.
The most despairing thing is that homeless people don’t help each other.
Sometimes this homeless man was so tired and sleepy that he lay down on the street to take a nap. When he woke up, his tent, food and even shoes were stolen by other homeless people.
He could only walk barefoot on the cold snow, where gravel or other sharp objects might be hidden, cutting his feet and causing them to bleed, and he would soon lose consciousness due to the cold.
All these feelings were conveyed to Du Guanqi in a very real form.
Although the third-person perspective weakened the sense of immersion, it did not weaken the transmission of negative emotions, and it also made Du Guanqi feel an inexplicable sense of sadness.
Because he was like a passer-by, a person who did not exist in this world watched the homeless man go through his life from a God's perspective.
This homeless man had a good job and good professional skills, but after becoming a homeless man, he seemed to be instantly isolated from the entire human society. It was as if there was an invisible barrier in the world that completely isolated him from all the achievements and wealth of human development.
He tried hard to fit in, but encountered repeated setbacks.
This wall can be the grand gate of a company, the security guard at the entrance of a shopping mall, the look of disdain and hatred from passers-by, or the greedy and fierce look on the faces of other homeless people when they see supplies that can be looted.
So the homeless man could only survive with difficulty. He didn't know if he could make it to tomorrow.
If he is unlucky tomorrow and fails to find expired food in the trash can or enough waste as fuel, if he is unfortunately robbed, beaten or sick by other homeless people, then perhaps the pain he experiences today will become the last memory of his life.
In this process, Du Guanqi discovered that he could influence the behavior of homeless people at certain specific points.
For example, where should a homeless person go to look for food today, how should a small amount of cash in hand be distributed, etc.
But Du Guanqi can only make choices at certain points. Some choices may not turn out as he wished, and sometimes he may not be allowed to make a choice at all.
For example, when the protagonist occasionally receives some change from kind people, he will definitely choose to buy a lottery ticket, scratch it with hope, and then confirm it again and again with disappointment before throwing it into the tin bucket in front of him to burn for warmth.
During this process, Du Guanqi had no choice but to watch the homeless man buy lottery tickets with hope and then throw the scratched lottery tickets into a tin bucket and burn them with disappointment.
Du Guanqi discovered that, from a third-person perspective, although he could feel infinite sympathy for the homeless man and could feel his various complex emotions, this perspective took away his sense of immersion, allowing him to see everything as a bystander, which naturally led to some thoughts.
Du Guanqi felt a little sorry for his misfortune and angry at his lack of fighting spirit, but at the same time he had deep doubts about the rationality of the existence of this world.
As for the homeless man, he didn't understand why a normal person with all his limbs couldn't find a suitable job to support himself. He also didn't know why the homeless man still insisted on buying lottery tickets every time, pursuing that illusory possibility and continuing to waste the little cash he could use to buy food.
At the same time, he developed deep doubts about this world.
In the world of Superdream, there is no time snow, no scary space-time creatures and space-time activities, and there are large tracts of fields and resources to be used. People live in a truly beautiful pastoral era, without worrying about crises that may occur at any time, and without worrying that a super-large city will be destroyed by scary space-time creatures overnight.
But why are so many homeless people still outsiders in the city?
Their labor force is thus severely consumed. For these homeless people, the world has only given them a miserable life, and for the world, they have also lost the infinite possibilities that homeless people may bring to the world.
Is this setting reasonable in this worldview? Since there are no space-time particles and space-time creatures, why is this society so cruel to homeless people who are also human beings?
Du Guanqi really wanted to discuss this Mewtwo with the author, as he had some things to say.
But Mewtwo obviously didn't end there.
When the homeless man was about to run out of money, a vendor from a nearby bar gave him some cash out of sympathy, which made the homeless man very grateful.
Then, in Du Guanqi's vision, the whole world froze. The homeless man who had just received the cash and the vendor who turned around and walked back to his bar had highlighted signs on them, which meant that he could choose any of the protagonists as the main perspective at this point in time to experience the story.
After selecting the main perspective, it can influence the series of decisions he makes next to a certain extent.
If you continue to choose to be a homeless person, you can use the money properly to live a barely manageable life. But you will not be able to see the content of the story line of the small vendor.
On the contrary, if you choose the vendor, although you can experience another story content, the behavior of the homeless man after getting the money is completely out of the audience's control. It is possible that the homeless man will not be able to make good use of the money, which will affect his final fate.
This form of experiential Mewtwo is relatively rare.
The vast majority of experiential Mewtwo are complete story lines. The audience does not need to think too much, just experience the entire story according to the producer's ideas.
But the Mewtwo "Another Possibility" is just like its name, always encouraging the audience to try another possibility.
Maybe it's letting the characters choose different behaviors, or changing different characters at any time. And in the intricate choices, weave out the events experienced by each character and the final outcome.
After some consideration, Du Guanqi decided to choose the small vendor.
He felt that this experiential Mewtwo must be played many times in order to sort out every choice for each character and find the best ending.
The life of a small vendor is obviously much better than that of a beggar. As a bar owner, he can be said to have no worries about food and clothing and does not have to worry about starving.
You can even drink some cocktails you mix yourself. The wonderful taste mixed with the slightly intoxicating liquor makes Du Guanqi, who is used to the life of a homeless person, feel like he has arrived in heaven.
He can still make some choices for the bar owner and help him run the entire bar business prosperously and better and better.
Du Guanqi noticed that the bar owner was very self-disciplined. Although many people would choose to numb themselves with alcohol in such a desperate environment, this bar owner had a good bartending skill but never drank too much, only occasionally, always keeping himself sober.
He had only one thought in his mind, which was to run his business with integrity, accumulate wealth and change his own destiny.
But then the bar owner's life was disrupted by street gangs.
The gangsters broke into his bar to collect protection money, and not only smashed his drinks, but also beat him up.
Du Guanqi can then shift his perspective to the role of a gangster in one of the street gangs and experience the life of a gangster.
Before, Du Guanqi had not experienced much of the violent and dangerous side of this society from beggars and small vendors. It was not until he put himself in the perspective of the gangsters that he realized that the world was even more chaotic than he had imagined.
Frequent gang fights put people nearby in great danger.
There are no mechanical prostheses or supernatural powers in this world, so a most ordinary pistol, although in Du Guanqi's opinion it is only the lowest-level kinetic weapon in the real world, is enough to cause heavy casualties.
The weak bodies and thermal weapons that are extremely lethal to ordinary humans make this parallel world in Mewtwo extremely dangerous. Even the police who maintain order have to be cautious when arresting criminals. If they are slightly frightened, they can only choose to empty the magazine to protect themselves.
This is even more chaotic and disordered than the real world where Du Guanqi lives.
After all, in the real world, those street gangs don't have so many channels to get a lot of guns, and although the DCPD doesn't really care, it will send out special mobile teams to deal with large-scale gang conflicts. For these superpowers, ordinary kinetic weapons cannot pose any threat to them, so they don't need to be as nervous as the police in the parallel world of Mewtwo.
Of course, when it comes to the frequency of crime, it is more frequent in the real world where Du Guanqi lives. There is almost no crime in the rich area in Mewtwo, which is a real paradise on earth.
It’s just that in Mewtwo he takes on the perspective of a gangster, and will be forced to be involved in various violent incidents, and cannot experience the feeling of paradise on earth.
After taking on the gangster's perspective, Du Guanqi discovered that the gangster was not as vicious as he first saw.
Many of his actions were based on the instructions of the gang leader, and being in such a group, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and complete his tasks.
Because even if he doesn't do these things, other gangsters will do them for him, and once he is kicked out of the gang, he may face a fate worse than death.
So he could only continue to bully ordinary people in this guilty and confused mood, because he only had two choices, either to persecute others or to be persecuted by others.
Finally, after a gang fight, the gangster was injured and fell to the ground. He felt that his life was about to end, and the people around him all stayed away, and no one was willing to come up and help him.
Just then the sound of an ambulance was heard in the distance.
The gangster lying on the ground was frightened. His heart seemed full of anticipation, but also full of fear.
The reason for his expectation was that he hoped the ambulance was coming to save him, thinking that perhaps he could survive without dying. However, with his savings and income, he was simply unable to pay the sky-high ambulance bill.
Just before he was about to fall into a coma, he saw a handsome and amiable boss.
Apparently the boss called an ambulance out of kindness to save him.
Then Du Guanqi can choose to experience Mewtwo as this boss.
This time he finally understood that there was so much fun to experience in this super dream!
Although there are no hovercrafts in this world, the boss has a special extended luxury car for traveling, and even a private jet.
He sat in a spacious office to handle affairs, and all his subordinates were respectful to him.
After work, he can go on vacation anywhere he wants, do whatever he wants, and is very particular about food. This is in stark contrast to the previous three people.
What shocked Du Guanqi the most was that all kinds of seafood feasts, foods that had completely disappeared on the old land, were presented in front of him in an incredibly realistic manner.
Although only 10% of the emotions were transmitted, the wonderful taste and the joy of enjoying the food still firmly occupied Du Guanqi's brain, sweeping away all the previous negative emotions and making him feel a pure and intense happiness.
Du Guanqi can also make decisions about the boss's behavior, and what surprises Du Guanqi is that after making different choices, the story line begins to develop in different directions.
If one chooses to be callous, has no sympathy for the poor, and pursues personal gain at all costs, then the boss's previous act of rescuing the gangster was not actually out of kindness, but an attempt to win people's hearts and use the medical bill to keep the gangster firmly under his control and make him do some shady things for him.
The reason why these gangs are fighting and falling into chaos is because of the instigation of people including the bosses. Everything is done to attack competitors and seek the greatest benefits for themselves.
If you choose to help others, be kind to your neighbors, and help others to the best of your ability, then the boss's act of rescuing the gangster is a simple act of kindness. He has established a good relationship with the gangster and the small vendors before.
This boss uses the resources at his disposal to help other kind people in the world as much as possible.
It was not until this point that Du Guanqi felt that the whole world seemed a little more reasonable.
Yes, since this world has no terrible time and space activities, and has abundant resources and sufficient supplies, why do humans continue to fight and kill each other? If it is a war between countries, it is understandable, but in the same city, why are people still so numb and indifferent?
At this time, a good person with good intentions finally appeared, making Du Guanqi feel that the world was not too bad.
But then, at the end of Mewtwo, when the boss was riding in his private car, he was hit by an unidentified vehicle, and a gangster got out of the car and fired several shots at the boss without saying a word.
The boss's bodyguards failed to react in time, and the kind-hearted young tycoon died in a pool of blood.
Du Guanqi was unable to see the face of the criminal clearly. His vision gradually darkened, and the whole Super Dream ended.
Du Guanqi could no longer bear it. He had finally experienced a little pleasure in Mewtwo, but it was quickly consumed by this last scene.
"What does this ending mean?"
"Are you telling me that kind people will never be rewarded in this world? Or are you telling me that the seemingly existing beauty is actually a fluke, false, and will eventually be shattered?"
"Isn't this too unreasonable? The people in this world are clearly living in such a comfortable environment, but why can't they live a good life like normal people?"
The little happiness and warmth that had finally appeared before were ruthlessly shattered by this unreasonable and cruel ending. Du Guanqi's confusion about this worldview also reached its peak again.
However, after the last scene appeared, there was no credits list like other Mewtwo, but instead a prompt that Du Guanqi could enter the second round.
In the first week, although the audience can make some choices about the behavior of these characters, they cannot switch between the four characters at will. They must experience them in the order of the homeless man, the peddler, the gangster and the boss.
But after the second week, you can directly choose a character from the beginning to experience. You can go through the four story lines from beginning to end, and you can also choose any character at any time.
This time, Du Guanqi decided to play all the endings of the four characters.
On the one hand, he wants to change the fate of these characters, and on the other hand, he also wants to find loopholes in this Mewtwo in this way, so as to refute this unscientific world view setting!
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