The man was lost in thought. He was thinking about a very important question.
The power to issue money in this world...is in whose hands?
What Yulia wants most is to save money to buy Yuki an adult prosthetic body. This shows that the concept of currency still exists in this era.
But when he learned about the "gene tax", he just felt weird.
Gene tax is a tax levied by lords from residents. They will take away a number of people from a settlement every year to fill the human gene pool and ensure human genetic diversity. This is how Yuki's brother was taken away.
In addition, residents do not need to bear more taxes.
In other words, the "government" (no matter what political form it exists in) does not need money to carry out social public construction and meet social public needs.
So, in this era, who is issuing currency? What role does currency play?
For what reason does this "gene pool" exist? Why did the lord build this thing?
However, no one has ever answered these questions. Yulia works all day long, and only stops in front of Yuki's hut for a while late at night. The last time she came back was because she heard that Yuki picked up someone.
Look at it. The man was too embarrassed to disturb this hard-working woman's rest. But most of the others just regarded his question as a joke and said "hahaha" without knowing why.
Now, he only discusses this issue with the little boy when he and Yuki go out to pick up trash.
"It's so difficult, Yog..." The little boy leaned on a chair with a back covered with lead-green mold. He had just pulled this chair out of the trash. During the Ascension War, it might have belonged to a high-ranking official.
Advisor: "What else is there above the lord... It seems that no one has raised similar questions..."
"There must be levels above the lords. Otherwise, there is no need for them to abide by something called the 'Dyson Principle'." The man pondered: "What exactly is the 'Dyson Principle'? Who proposed it? A man named Dyson
person?"
——What is the relationship between this person and the real owner of the name "Yog"?
Yuki shrugged: "I really don't know, it seems that the Dyson Principle does not allow us to kill people...that's it?"
"Primitive." The man without lungs simulated the sound of "sigh" with a sound generator. In his impression, the name "Dyson" is more related to an engineering concept called "Dyson Sphere". Again
If not, it has to be related to physics.
"It's better to talk about the Paralympic Games." Youki shook his head: "'Yog', do you remember it? You are an athlete, right?"
The "Paralympics" is the highest event in the world. According to men's understanding, this should be called the "Paralympics", and then there is a corresponding event called the "Olympics". However, in men's memories
, the level of the "Paralympics" is far higher than that of the "Olympic Games". The rules of the "Olympic Games" are very rigid. Among other things, they do not even allow the use of genetically modified technology to breed super horses in equestrian events, nor do they allow the use of genetically modified horses in equestrian events.
Doping for horses. In short, the level of competition is average.
After the rise of artificial prosthetic technology, the Paralympic Games became a scene like a fight between gods. It can even be said that the Paralympic Games was the stage for countries and enterprises to demonstrate their technical level at that time.
An Olympic athlete competes with a Paralympic athlete, just like table tennis players from other countries in the world compete with table tennis players from a certain table tennis empire.
The day when the Paralympic Games record surpassed that of the Olympic Games was also considered a turning point in human history.
I don't know why, but when he recalled all this, the man still felt a faint sense of pride.
——Am I... the first disabled athlete in the world to surpass the world record of ordinary people?
Yuki swore that he had never heard of the Olympic Games. There was only the Paralympic Games in the world - only the Paralympic Games. This is the largest athletic event in the world, with dozens or hundreds of different sports.
Warriors will compete on the same stage.
And this competition will literally mean that all losing participants will temporarily lose some of their functions. [Paralympic is a combination of the words paralyze (disablement, disability) and olympic]
This topic was brought up by the man when he asked Yuki about "martial arts." According to Yuki, all martial artists and athletes today have become famous through the Paralympics and have become the best among people.
At least this news gave the man some comfort - it seemed that he was "reborn and washed" instead of "traveled through the flow". At least he was indeed the "future" of his own world, not a "parallel world".
Yuki really hoped that the man would be an athlete. But the man always felt that he should not be this kind of person. There was a voice in his mind shouting "wrong" - this is definitely not a real martial arts.
According to Yuki's description, the only "external martial arts" displayed at the Paralympics. It is true that one can practice external martial arts to be invincible, but...
——"Practice martial arts without practicing kung fu, and you will end up in vain."
This sentence was wandering in the man's consciousness inexplicably.
When the man thought of this sentence, he didn't know why he wanted to laugh. Part of his consciousness told him that the so-called "internal strength" was a fictional concept in fantasy novels. But another part of his consciousness told him that someone really created it.
"Internal strength" is different from the "internal strength" in literary and artistic works, but...but...
Every time a man thinks about this, he feels like there is something wrong with his artificial eyeball.
Inexplicable.
However, this feeling also made the man doubt something.
Could the so-called "creator of internal strength" have something to do with him?
——Who was I in the past?
The man could only sigh like this. Could he be the descendant of some important person?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, according to Yuki, in this world, in addition to athletes, there is a kind of person who also masters "martial arts".
They are called "Xia Ke", and they are thugs who control this force. They believe in an evil god called "Mo Di" and use an ancient thug named "Aaron Swartz" as their spiritual mentor to disrupt peace and destroy
Order is the enemy of human civilization.
"That's not good." The man thought, "According to some plot about amnesia, I seem to be... very likely to be such a dangerous person?"
"Okay, rest up." Youki drank a large portion of the last bottle of copper candy, then picked up the man's head, found a small hole in the upper jaw, and poured the remaining small bottle of copper candy into it. Youki
The degree of mechanization of Ji's body is very low, less than 50%, mainly concentrated in the hands and feet, and it can also absorb and transport metal sugars through biological tissues. But this is the only way men can eat now.
"Go on and find parts, and try to make a foot for you this month!" Yuki shouted happily. His feelings for men were quite complicated. At the beginning, he really wanted to have a father, but he didn't
I know why, during the process of getting along, he developed a little bit of "pet" emotion towards the man.
The man also nodded and followed. He secretly made up his mind to make a pair of feet as soon as possible and stay away from Yulia and her son.
It was not because he was ungrateful, nor because he was afraid of Enoch's naivety. He just suddenly realized that his mysterious background might bring danger to Yuki and his son.
He is most likely a "knight", and since "knights" are called "enemies of human civilization", he must not have a very good reputation among the officials.
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However, no matter how urgent it is to save parts, it still depends on luck.
Ten days have passed, and the man and Youki have only managed to save a component to control the motherboard, two transmission bearings for large machinery [this can be used to make the "leg bones" of the thigh].
Fortunately, I have a skill that I can use without dying anywhere. Soon, many people in the town saw the man replacing parts for themselves. After this incident spread, some people occasionally entrusted the man to do some simple repairs.
I don’t know why, but the man’s repair skills are really good. Except for a few control chips that are damaged, or the accuracy of the current pair of old prosthetic hands cannot meet the repair requirements, so far, there is basically nothing that he can’t repair.
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This also earned him some compensation.
A month later, he finally saved some money.
For this little savings, Yulia once had the idea of "saving up". According to her opinion, all the money should be used to prepare a coming-of-age ceremony prosthetic for Yuki. The man was picked up by Yuki in the trash. He earned
The money should belong to Yuki as a matter of course. Yuki has no such intention. He has already been paid in the process of scavenging, and the money earned should belong to men. He almost has to fight for this matter and his own
Mom had a quarrel.
The result of a quarrel with a large construction machinery is most likely to be disastrous - the speaker volume is really loud and consumes electricity. The man stopped the quarrel between the two and assured Yulia that after he took good care of himself, he would
You will make more money to repay the kindness of saving your life.
So, after a few days, the man was finally able to stand up.
Yuki has only one comment about this body - "so ugly".
The man now has a head. Under the head is a small section of cervical vertebrae. The cervical vertebrae are supported by a metal bracket. Below this silver bracket is a straight beam. At both ends of the beam are two prosthetic hands. The prosthetic hands are beautiful streamlined shells.
Under the cross beam is another vertical steel column. Under the steel column are two ball joints. Under the ball joints are thighs cut from the transmission shaft.
To put it simply, the man's head is now in a funny style, his hands are in a graceful sketch style, and the whole body's skeleton is in a stickman style - with a realistic-style battery hanging on it.
The mayor's evaluation of this is "impractical". In his opinion, it is a huge waste for men to choose to use solid steel columns as raw materials for their thighs. This consumes a lot of energy when moving, and the Achilles tendon of the calf,
A bracket with unknown meaning was also installed. As a structure for "lifting heavy objects", this is really unqualified.
The man just smiled at this, well, to be precise, he simulated a polite laugh.
The mayor didn't understand this kind of "etiquette", but he just thought it was strange. He patted the man on the shoulder and said, "But it's good to have hands and feet. The big man who collects the genetic tax will be here soon.
, if you look weird with no arms or legs, you might attract unnecessary interest from others, which would be bad."
To the townspeople, the "Big Boss" is a man of life and death.
***The author has something to say***
Aaron Swartz is a computer genius who became famous at a young age, the co-founder of the famous social networking site reddit, and the designer of web.py. He is also a Robin Hood in the digital age, committed to the openness of network information, but he was involved in
He was charged with illegally hacking into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and jstor (full name: journal storage, an online system for storing academic journals) and will be subject to up to 35 years in prison and a fine of $1 million. During the plea phase of the case, Aaron S
Watts hanged himself with a belt in his apartment in Brooklyn, New York, on January 11, 2013. His body was later discovered by his girlfriend. He was only 26 years old.
Regarding the story of "Aaron Swartz", I recommend everyone to watch the documentary "Son of the Internet".