The title subtitles gradually faded away, and Ye Zhou looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but feel a little confused.

Before him was a court.

In other words, this is the scene of a hearing that is not too large.

The people attending the hearing were obviously divided into two factions, sitting on both sides of the hall, while Ye Zhou was in the position of the center host.

From the information provided by the simulator, he already knew the theme of the hearing. In fact, even if there is no information, he could clearly feel the contradiction between the two parties participating in the hearing.

On the left side of Ye Zhou, each one is a normal person in the traditional sense, and on the right, there are many "newcomers" who have been transformed or "healed" and have integrated flesh and blood and machinery.

Some of these newcomers used artificial prosthetic eyes, some had mechanical arms, some had their entire heads wrapped in helmets, and some could hardly find a piece of normal flesh and blood on their bodies.

Ye Zhou didn't know what they had experienced from "people" to "newcomers", was a helpless move for survival, or an active choice to pursue evolution, but it is undeniable that when this group of people appeared in front of him, he did feel a great impact.

Is this the future of AES technology?

Before Ye Zhou's thinking continued to spread, the hearing clerk sitting in the main seat spoke:

"Well, I think everyone here has already understood the purpose of today's hearing - the bill on the restriction of AES and artificial organ abuse. Just now, we have introduced the main content of this bill to you. Now, we invite representatives of both sides to speak."

As soon as he finished speaking, the indicator light on the "newcomer" representative table on the right suddenly lit up. Ye Zhou did not see anyone doing anything. Perhaps someone was connected to the speech system of the conference room through Bluetooth.

Following the instructions of the hearing officer, one of the newcomers with relatively low levels of transformation stood up and spoke:

"Dear hearing officers, Hello, friends here. My name is Li Xing, and I am honored that I was invited to attend this hearing. Here, I will express my opinion on behalf of the opposition to the AES Act."

"First of all, I want to explain my own situation to you."

"As everyone can see, my right hand and eyes use artificial organs. In addition, in places where I can't see, my left leg bones also use metal bones - this is also considered artificial organs in a sense."

“The purpose of using these organs is simple: to survive.”

"In a car accident six years ago, I lost both eyes and the rest of my body was seriously damaged - I almost lost the ability to live a normal life."

"With the help of AES and artificial organs, I have basically restored the living ability that normal people have, and I can even stand here to speak to everyone."

"Now, I'm going to continue to share a set of data with you."

While speaking, Li Xing slid his finger on the screen in front of him, and a simple data comparison picture was presented to everyone.

After pausing for a moment, he continued to speak:

"There are two data on this chart. One is the average care cost and other economic losses caused within three years of recovery from the injury. The other is the total cost of transplanting AES artificial organs, which is the average annual maintenance cost."

"As you can see that from the moment, the price of a set of AES systems is extremely high, even exceeding the total cost of my three years of care."

"However, this is just the initial installation cost. After the transplant is completed, the annual maintenance cost of this system is less than one-tenth of my care cost as a disabled person, and the overall economic loss means that the cost of this system can be recovered in less than five years."

"This can be a very intuitive explanation of the fact that a set of AES artificial organs can bring a disabled person who cannot create any value and can only consume resources back to work in just five years and make up for the initial cost of this system."

"I think everyone knows the meaning of this fact, and I don't need to explain it too much."

"Now, what will happen if we want legislation to limit the development of the AES system?"

"Will our needs change? No, in fact, there are still a large number of people with disabilities who need AES help, but due to legislation restrictions, AES prices have surged, and they are likely to lose the opportunity to restore their labor forever."

"This is a process of one's growth and the other's growth---on the one hand can maximize the use of social labor and create new resources, while the other hand allows the weak to live in pain and consume the resources that have been produced easily. I think everyone knows how to choose."

After Li Xing finished speaking, the representative of the Zhengfang immediately pressed the speech button in front of him and then spoke:

"Hello everyone, based on the previous speeches of the opposing representative, we have the following points to emphasize."

"First, the content of this bill is to limit AES technology and artificial organ abuse, rather than prohibit the use."

"Second, in fact, there have been abuses of these two technologies now, and some people have even begun to falsely advertise the two technologies, inducing some people who have insufficient knowledge of the technology to actively replace healthy organs."

"Third, we believe that the abuse of two technologies has extremely limited actual improvement in productivity - this is a very simple inference. Electronic prosthetic eye can make the blind people see the light again, but what benefits can an artificial prosthetic eye integrate with infrared technology bring?"

"If we want to use infrared technology, independent infrared eyepieces are the best choice."

"So, in general, AES technology is a technology with extremely high initial returns but with extremely fast marginal effects. If such technology is not restricted, it will likely lead to mismatch of social resources and affect the healthy development of the entire society."

"My words are finished."

Ye Zhou, who was floating in the air, listened to the speeches of both the positive and negative sides word by word. After the speeches of the negative side, he shook his head gently.

This person's direction is right, but he didn't say anything about it at all.

The so-called marginal effect of AES technology is not an effective argument that can be used to oppose this technology, because the limit of AES technology is far from artificial senses, but...the artificial brain.

When humans continue to develop AES technology and finally raise this technology to the limit, all human perceptual signals can be replaced by electrical signals, which means that the human brain is no longer a simple biological brain, but an electronic brain.

Everyone can connect with everyone else through a wide-area neural network. The gap between people begins to narrow infinitely, the speed of information transmission reaches the highest, and the transmission of knowledge is thoroughly media.

Under this situation, the existing economic network and social structure of human beings will completely collapse, the mode of production will undergo fundamental changes, resource allocation will be disrupted, and ideology will also begin to be reconstructed.

By that time, people are no longer alone.

It is a group of independent carriers and unified thinking.

It's like...the swarm of insects controlled by the Queen of Blades.

But such insect swarms are mechanized.

A chill rose on Ye Zhou's back. In fact, he didn't expect that far before entering the ending. He initially regarded this ending as an interesting exploration.

However, everything changed when the "newcomer" used the intelligent system that controlled the conference room with Bluetooth network.

Ye Zhou had only one thought in his mind: they crossed the line.

AES technology must be limited, but how to limit it?

The discussion in the venue continued. Ye Zhou looked around and suddenly discovered an unusual detail.

Among the group of newcomers on the opposite side, there is a person quietly moving towards the front of the crowd.

The other companions next to him seemed to notice his movements. Someone curiously grabbed him and asked, but he just shook his head and did not answer.

So, among the verbal confrontation represented by both sides, the first rebel appeared.

He walked out of the opposing crowd and headed towards the positive.

Seeing this scene, the representative of the righteous said proudly:

"Dear hearing officer, please note that now we have convinced a real beneficiary of AES technology, which is enough to prove that even a person who has gained a huge profit from this technology will favor limiting the technology as long as he has normal logical thinking..."

"Come on, sir, can you please get closer and tell us why you changed your position?"

However, the smiling speaker did not receive a response from the rebel, who walked straight into the crowd, as if trying to hide himself.

After realizing his predicament, everyone on the opposite side understood and blocked him from the positive side's sight. This was a kind act, but Ye Zhou saw a huge crisis from it.

He is now in the perspective of God, so, from his perspective, he can fully see that the so-called "rebel" was not to hide at all, but to measure position and angle.

What exactly does he want to do?

Ye Zhou moved to his side, and his message emerged from the simulator:

Wang Lang, welding worker.

Welding… laser?

Ye Zhou saw a special device on his wrist, and that device was the portable laser welding gun that has gradually become common even in reality.

However, this welding gun is obviously modified.

He suddenly realized what this person wanted to do, but he could not change anything.

So Ye Zhou retreated from a distance. The next second, the burning light in the man's hand lit up. Everyone in the conference room subconsciously looked back at the position of the light source, but the next second, a more dazzling light burst out.

The dot matrix laser containing tens of thousands of degrees of high temperature directly pierced their eyes, and the retina was instantly ablated. In just a few seconds, dozens of people lost their eyes.

Screams came one after another, and the opposing representatives on the other side were also shocked by this scene. After a brief hesitation, they rushed forward and pressed the worker named Wang Lang to the ground.

However, everything is irreversible.

At the last moment when the picture became dark, Ye Zhou heard him laughing wildly and shouting:

"Now, do you still want to stop us?"
Chapter completed!