349.Dungeon
After the elevator stopped, as the elevator door slowly opened, Gu Zhuo saw a bright hall in front of him. The incandescent lamp in the hall is emitting a warm and comfortable light.
At the front of the hall, directly above the wall facing Gu Zhuo, a yellow lamp shone down. Under the shroud of yellow light, there hung a portrait of the crucifixion of Jesus, which was very thrilling.
In this painting, Jesus was crucified, covered in blood, tightly wrapped in a thin cloth, and with disheveled hair. In front of him was a group of thugs holding iron forks and steel spikes, and behind him was a blurry scene of light and darkness.
The tone of this painting does not match the atmosphere of the entire hall.
Except for this rather retro painting, the hall is completely filled with a sense of technology. There are many robots walking back and forth, transporting various documents or things. They look different from Elsa.
If Aisha was deliberately made to look similar to humans, then the busy machine employees in front of Gu Zhuo were deliberately made to look different from humans, which seemed to be easy to distinguish.
"These are industrial robots. They are created simply to complete work and have no other purpose or use. Most of their appearances are related to their work, so they look very strange in your eyes. But they can also Understand it and it will help you do a better job.”
After hearing Aisha's explanation, Gu Zhuo looked at these robots that didn't care about them at all, just moving around like an industrial assembly line, and sighed:
"Are there many of them?"
"A lot. Because they are not expensive and the instructions to be entered are simple, companies often equip them as low-level employees."
Aisha didn't say anything, but Gu Zhuo knew the deep meaning of her words.
It is because of the existence of these cheap and endless industrial robots that they do not need to eat, drink, have any work insurance, or rest.
They can work endlessly until they are scrapped, and the machine parts can no longer move and fall to the ground, making a "crunching" sound, like an old classic car.
At that point, the company will retire them and replace them with a new batch of industrial robots.
For a small sum of money, you can get a batch of industrial robots that almost never make mistakes.
Then who will use those cheap labor?
The lives of the people at the bottom are getting worse and worse, and their labor can no longer be exchanged for any value.
Gu Zhuo sighed with emotion and continued to follow Aisha.
Aisha did not lead Gu Zhuo through the gate, but bypassed the robots and came to the back of the company. Aisha said while leading him:
"This is a small energy company opened by V himself. It is approved by the higher-ups. Here, there are no spies sent by the company, so you can speak and do things freely. V is very powerful."
Hearing this, Gu Zhuo nodded.
The two of them walked all the way to the back door of the company. There was an elevator here, but the elevator door was closed tightly and it was very hidden. You couldn't see it unless you looked carefully.
Aisha put her face close to her like before and placed her eyes on the elevator to scan. After a flash of red light, the elevator door slowly opened.
The two walked into the elevator.
Surprisingly, this elevator actually has floors.
From the negative first floor to the negative third floor.
Aisha first pressed the negative first floor, then the negative third floor, and finally the negative second floor. Just then I heard a "ding" in the elevator, and a mechanical female voice said:
"Authentication."
"Elsa."
Elsa answered in the elevator.
Then, the mechanical female voice replied:
"Identity authentication completed, confirmed to be Aisha, and can pass."
After confirming his identity, all the elevator floor buttons suddenly went dark, as if they had failed instantly.
"This is V's secret passage. The negative three floors in front are all laboratories, but they are just a cover-up. What this really leads to is the dungeon."
Before Gu Zhuo could ask questions, Aisha explained to him first.
"Underground city, is that where the people at the bottom live?"
Gu Zhuo dislikes the word "lower class" very much, but he can't think of any other words to replace it now.
Hearing Gu Zhuo's question, Aisha nodded:
"Well, you can also understand that it is a slum there. It seems to me that you don't understand our world. Do you want me to explain it to you?"
"Explain it."
“Our social hierarchy is graded like a pyramid, except that according to the social hierarchy, people from different classes live in completely different places.
"At the top of the pyramid, the most senior people, the leaders behind the companies, all live in Paradise Island, which is the world directly connected by that high tower, Arasaka Tower. It is a good ecological environment, A beautiful artificial natural world that you can think of as a giant space station.
"There is no hunger, no poverty, no disease and no pain. People just need to live freely, do entertainment every day, and get proper rest. Arasaka Tower will protect them, and it also has all the information about that paradise island.
"And the place we just stayed at, which is the small energy company where V works, belongs to the place where people in the middle level of the pyramid live. It is called the world, without any other name. The world is also divided into those who are richer, or those who are slightly Poor, but no matter what, their births not only have numbers, but also names.
"They still have a certain dignity and conscience, and they also have the capital to be human. Only those who are born, defined by the upper class and the residents living on Paradise Island, and the heinous people will be thrown underground. Come to the city."
When Elsa said this, the elevator suddenly stopped.
The elevator door slowly opened, and a brand new picture unfolded in front of Gu Zhuo.
It was a dark, lifeless world.
The streets were messy and littered with rubbish, and the dim street lights were flickering, as if they were broken light bulbs from a previous home.
The light swept across the damp and dark ground, creating a bleak scene, like a thorn in a person's throat, making those who looked at it panic.
Even wearing a mechanical helmet, Gu Zhuo smelled a rotten smell and musty smell in the air.
This smell belongs to poverty, backwardness, and the smell of the slow decay of human souls.
Aisha slowly walked out with Gu Zhuo and stepped onto the street outside.
Stepping on the street outside, Gu Zhuo found that the road was even covered with moss.
He stepped on the moss, and the soles of his feet were slippery and greasy, as if he were stepping on a soft creature. It was disgusting and made him want to stay away.
The whole thing here reveals a vile, dirty quality.
It brought Gu Zhuo back to the slums in his previous world. He had been there, where crime thrived, and children would use guns to rob people. The feeling given to him here was exactly the same as the feeling given to him in the slums of his previous world.
"The underground city is where the people at the lowest level live. Here, people are born with only numbers and no names at all, and V is one of them. Those who had names were also thrown into the underground city because they committed crimes. Come.
“It’s ridiculous that living in such a privileged society, they still pretend to demand human rights and believe that people’s lives cannot be taken away casually.
"Those heinous people who killed countless civilians were just stripped of their names, left with a number, and thrown into the underground city. But those who harmed the interests of the company and did not make any other mistakes were directly killed without mercy. Erase it.
"This is their human rights. Only people related to the residents of Paradise Island have human rights. If they violate their interests, they are no longer human beings. They are just a series of cold numbers that do not need to be remembered."
Aisha said, although her words were very flat and without any emotion, Gu Zhuo always seemed to hear something else, something different in her words. There seems to be a dangerous momentum that threatens to overwhelm the building.
It seems that when V created this android, he really put a lot of effort into making her what she is now.
"Then where are we going now?"
Gu Zhuo glanced around the street and saw no one. The street was so empty and quiet, surrounded by dark ruins, not even a decent unfinished building.
"Go and build you a weapon."
Elsa said, not caring about the dirt on this street, and strode forward.
Gu Zhuo followed her and walked into the darkest and most vermin-infested corner of this society, but at the same time, it also hides the last shining light of human nature.