Volume 4: No One Survives in Fantasy High School Chapter 16 The Joy of Electronics
"…Morning? Evening?"
Never mind. It doesn’t matter anyway.
After waking up, Li Lin sat on the bed and thought for dozens of minutes before he realized that he was awake.
When I opened the curtains, what came into view was the light of dusk. The steady and thick light like metal pierced through the window and sprinkled directly on the bed, making the bed full of wrinkles due to a bad sleeping posture stained with a layer of color like a work of art.
The world outside the window was still full of people. Some people were rushing to work and flying in the air on drones. On the ground, the cyborgs were talking and laughing, and from time to time they projected their words to add credibility, teasing the artificial women. The school seemed to be taking a break at night, and a group of students in school uniforms and strange cyborgs swarmed out. If the humans in front were still human-like , many of the ones emerging now did not look like humans.
These students wearing school uniforms or school badges often have all kinds of strange parts on their bodies, which is simply creepy in Li Lin's eyes. But these students are very happy, and from time to time they fly over the eaves and walls under the scolding and electric shocks of various merchants, bringing a wave of lighthearted trends. I don't know where these obviously illegal prosthetic modifications came from.
But if you think about it carefully, just like there were always Internet cafes and other weird things around the school in the past, students always have spare money and time to tinker with those wonderful things. And sooner or later they will become supporters of these things.
So it is basically understandable why there is a girl with Medusa's snake hair, a boy with four legs, an Asura with six arms cosplayed as one of the Eight Clansmen, and other weird cyborgs.
“…”
I can't understand a thing, it's an eyesore.
Why do humans do such weird things? Can't we just be a good human being?
Looking at those deformed students, Li Lin curled his lips, took the coffee brought by the smart butler, took a sip, and forced himself to cheer up.
Li Lin also knew that this was not possible. Not all natural people were like him, well-fed and well-clothed, with everything covered by the government, hiding in the city as a victim. Not all people were as lucky or unlucky as he was.
Cyborg means transcending humans.
What does it mean to surpass humans? It means the loss of jobs. When the prosthetic assembly line technology appears, normal jobs will inevitably be replaced by countless AIs and simple prosthetics. The original humans can only speed up to catch up.
Just like when smartphones replaced ordinary phones, they replaced and compensated at a short, ghostly speed, but everyone could accept it. Humans have a strong ability to accept, and they can quickly accept such a fact and be happy about it. After all, the price of replacement prostheses has been reduced year by year, and even to the point where a month's salary can buy more than a dozen. People around are using them, and if they don't use them, they will be out of touch with this environment and the entire social circle. In this case, what reason is there not to use them?
Of course I have to use it. If I don't, I will not only lose my job, but also lose all the premises for communication, and people will treat me differently. It's like a person who has actively fallen into depravity, and people will look down on me for no reason.
And when ten years have passed, when all this has evolved, completely natural people will become precious and strange beings. Just like people who still use Nokia and don't have social software in the era of smart phones. It's as if they have been abandoned by the entire era, as if the world around them has nothing to do with them, and everything those people talk about is something they don't understand.
That's how it feels. Everything has nothing to do with me. Li Lin knows very well why he can't fit into this world. Because of the ten-year gap, his values, ideas, and outlook on life have long been out of touch with this new era. Technology changes are often faster and faster. It seems to be ten years now, but in the more distant era, it may be twenty years, or fifty years. If a person in 1960 came to the world of 2020, she would probably not understand the world in front of her at all.
I really don't understand why it has become like this. Why have those things that should be despised, or opposed become a reality that is taken for granted? Why do people not care about their own flesh and blood?
Li Lin could not understand this at all. Li Lin, who lived before the Big Bang, could not understand this at all.
Maybe he is not the only one who can't understand it, but so far he is the only one.
The things that are truly familiar to him are probably the bits and pieces in the game. Those settings, those languages, those logics are all things that Li Lin is familiar with. Only the most real side that remains after discarding all external things is what Li Lin is familiar with. Whether it is a player, an NPC, or anything else, only under the state of equality and cognition does Li Lin feel that he is no longer abandoned.
On the contrary, he lives very well in this world where everyone is fair.
Don't worry about those deformed and alien cyborgs, and don't worry about those AIs that are so considerate that they are creepy. Everyone fights each other in a perfect world, fights hard, and strives to climb up. Isn't this great?
Li Lin really likes the kind of world that competes with each other, is stained with blood, and relies on oneself. Although he knows that his thoughts are selfish and despicable, and that there will be no happiness in the world he likes, if humans can change their thoughts, they are no longer human. Li Lin still rejects the world today and lives alone.
"Happy birthday."
Looking at himself in the mirror, Li Lin sighed slightly, lay down on the gaming chair, and fell into darkness.
The familiar and warm darkness was like his mother's embrace, gradually dragging his consciousness beneath the water. In the chaotic calling and haziness, his consciousness recognized himself again, and everything in front of him became familiar to Li Lin again.
Game world, library. A dim candle burned at the corner of the table, illuminating the desk in front of Li Lin. The mysterious records and magical mysteries recorded on it made people feel extremely fascinated. These abnormal things were placed in the library in good condition, waiting for someone to find and read them. Just like now.
"It's still comfortable here..."
Rubbing his body and feeling the slightly rough texture of the high-back chair behind him , Li Lin sighed with contentment.
