Overturned Tower

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Maybe because Coco drank too much, her voice became high and loud, even a little sharp: "Why did you leave me there—"

"Ah, sorry sorry..."

Russell watched as Ringo jumped off the bed, trotted all the way to his front, and subconsciously stroked Ringo's hair.

"I promised to keep an eye on you..."

Ringo's voice sounded very aggrieved.

Compared with the clear and lovely voice before, her voice now sounds softer and smoother.

Acting coquettishly, it is as sweet and greasy as soaking in syrup.

Russell was drowning in syrup, with the look of an old man on a subway phone.

"...Did you drink too much?"

With his left hand, he pressed Ringo's chin, and with his right hand, he opened her eyelids and saw clear bloodshot eyes.

"Can you have cocoa? Shall I take you to the hospital?"

Russell said casually.

That is to say... But as an excellent employee of the executive department, Ringo must have had a medical examination and he knows it well.

Cocoa allergy is relatively common among small animal relatives.Probably similar to people with seafood allergies among humans, and less than people with alcohol allergies.

"I don't~have~"

Ringo seemed to be drunk, and made a sweet and sticky voice: "I'm just more sensitive to cocoa... Drink a little, and nothing will happen."

"Then I won't see a doctor, okay?"

Russell reminded: "If you feel uncomfortable, you can just yell. No. 44 can send you directly for an injection."

"It doesn't matter if you faint~"

Lingo smiled and leaned in front of Russell, with the rich sweetness of cocoa in his breath: "Even if I pass out without saying a word, the hotel will take me to the hospital for treatment. If this is the case, then there is nothing to be afraid of~"

Russell just smelled the strong cocoa breath from her mouth and nose, and knew that Ringo had not just drank this cup.

She really doesn't drink.

But while waiting for herself, she must have drank more than one cup of hot cocoa... She became visibly excited.

"You are just bullying me, Mister Qunqing..."

Being touched by Russell on the head, Ringo moved his head closer to Russell's palm, whimpering like a puppy.

This is a common kinship syndrome among canine kinship... longing for the touch of a powerful person.Not just the hair, but the chin, ears and neck.

Often in elementary school, this nostalgic reaction is curbed through education.But now under the exciting effect of cocoa, Ringo has obviously exposed his true nature.

"If the captain is still here...if senior sister is here, it will not be so easy for you to escape..."

Her voice was sweet, but there was a sense of resentment in it: "But I can't do anything.

"After all, I'm just a mere pet dog... If the owner doesn't take me out, no matter how much I scratch the door, I won't be able to get out..."

Like being coquettish, but also like crying.

The voice was too weak and delicate, and it seemed to have a crying tone... But Russell couldn't tell whether she was really crying.

... Just as wine does not make people drunk, everyone gets drunk.

She probably just wanted to drink hot cocoa on purpose until she was drunk.With the intoxication brought by cocoa, vent the resentment and fear in your heart.

What she said was indeed good.

If Ringo's experienced captain and his girlfriend were still alive, it would not be so easy to let Russell go out and contact locals at will outside the surveillance range.But Ringo's work experience is obviously insufficient, and she didn't realize that she had to accompany Russell at all times and couldn't let him out of her sight, so she let Russell go at will.

The situation is now clear.

In the three-person team accompanying Russell, Ringo should be positioned as a vase who is responsible for dealing with Russell and gaining Russell's favor.

The main purpose is to be responsible for suppressing and alleviating Russell's anger when the other two "bodyguards" make tougher demands that make Russell unhappy... At the same time, in a more private space, you can continue to Accompany him and keep Russell within sight of the trio at all times.

In other words, Ringo is the "personal" bodyguard placed in the open, and her task is to stick to Russell at all times.

The two people who died in the air crash before were the real bodyguards who followed Russell in the dark and killed the suspect in advance.

"Keep your mind, Ringo. Don't think about it."

Russell could only whisper softly, so that at least she would not lose control of her psychic power.

He could already see a pink halo flickering in Ringo's eyes.That is a sign of psychic activation.

And when you don't want to use psionic power, psionic power is automatically activated... This is the sign that the floating redshift is close to blueshift.

"You don't know!"

Ringo said in a tearful voice, "I was originally... just a pet sent to you by Sun Island.

"I'm going to be sold. According to Sun Island's mission, I would sleep with you from the very beginning, on the first night with you... The only person who can live in the same room as you is you personal bodyguard...

"But I was very cunning and didn't tell my real mission. Because I didn't want to...because what I like is my captain..."

"...I don't need that kind of bodyguard. I'm a guy with a girlfriend."

Russell frowned, but he still patiently persuaded him: "I'll take you out with me tomorrow, good boy..."

"I know you don't need it...we all know it. You are a 'hero' ultramarine, handsome, gentle and intelligent, and there will be no shortage of people who love you..."

Lingo couldn't help but say everything: "What Sun Island wants is to borrow seeds.

"According to the investigation, your parents are both psykers, and you are also a psyker. According to Thoth's psychic research results, there is a special gene related to psychic adaptability... and I am the most suitable, An 'adaptant' capable of giving birth to powerful offspring.

"That's why it's me...that's why I don't understand anything...

"My captain and senior sister actually accompanied me here. They are not only the company's monitors, but also my monitors...

"If I can give birth to an heir with you, it will be transformed in my womb. Through the 'spiritual resonance' technology, it can be born with wisdom similar to yours... If you die, it will also inherit Your psychic power."

"……why me?"

Russell gasped, and couldn't help but ask me: "I don't think I'm... 'smart' to the point where Thoth's psychic power is disturbed?"

If you count the godfather and his awakened core, it is barely the same.

However, the ability that Qunqing exposed to the outside world may be called smart, but it is definitely not wise.

Lingo whimpered like a dreamer: "Because Professor Chen wants to prove that psionic adaptability can be inherited. You and your mother have the same psionic ability, which is why you are the best and only one on this topic." samples of..."

That is, the sin from Sun Island.

Chapter 38 The Original Sin of Pride

It is completely different from the style and sin of Shenzhi Heavy Industry.

If the original sin of God's work is greed, then Thoth's psychic power is arrogance——

Not only is the triple sun disk used to divide people into four distinct power classes... It can be seen from the situation of Ringo's endorsement that Thoth's spiritual energy doesn't care so much about human rights.

The other psykers of Sky Island are either criminals, heroes, or white gloves of the Executive Department.But in any case, at least the status is not low.

However, on Sun Island and the sky island governed by Thoth, who is most familiar with psykers, psykers have become consumable tools after their mysterious aura has faded.

Those "battle suits" require various permanent modifications before they can be worn.And after the company closed down and the project was aborted, those psykers who had undergone in-depth transformation and could not adapt to other new battle suits could only be forced to lose their jobs.Even when the plan is going on normally, if the version of the suit is updated, it will make many previous modifications meaningless, and even weaken the performance.

Not to mention, there are also experimental-level battle suits that are tentatively developed-this kind of battle suits are usually only used by the experimental subjects themselves.Maybe after assembling and obtaining data, it will be eliminated and a more optimized new product will be released after just a few days.However, after the technical support and version update and maintenance of the old suits are cut off, it may even be difficult to obtain repair parts.

Ringo and the others, as a salesman, a live advertisement, a test product, and an endorsement model, certainly cannot accept personal transformation as they wish.In that case, it will undoubtedly weaken the expressiveness of one's own products, and may even be sucked away by the other company.Even as a consumer, the cost-effectiveness of mixing different modifications is the highest, but Ringo can't do this-it is undoubtedly a violation of the contract.

And after graduating, how long this suit can be used before it will be obsolete, or how long the old modification will be invalidated after the version is updated... These have nothing to do with whether you work hard or not.Because there are too many psykers, they are just consumables.

If it is for the sake of truth, for optimization, and for performance, scholars can let the renewable resources of "human beings" be consumed without hesitation.

In the face of the greater truth, the life and death of a mere individual need not be cared about.

And based on this idea, other evils will also be born.

For example, what Ringo told Russell now is the open secret of Sun Island—the so-called "population optimization" theory.

Sun Island is an "optimization" society that completely cuts off clans, clans, and relatives.

In Russell's understanding, it is a social Darwinian concept with wisdom, scholarship and research as its sole core.The "physical class" of the triple disc is to continuously eliminate the degraded superiors, collect the "benign mutants" born in the inferiors, and put them into the first disc for breeding.The entire triple disk is like a set of giant petri dishes.

Although wisdom cannot be completely inherited through blood, and there is a very small probability that parents with the same spiritual relatives will be born with completely different spiritual relatives, but whether it is intelligence, talent or spiritual adaptability, it is obviously related to genes to some extent.

Therefore, Sun Island has a special kind of underground transaction...that is, borrowing seeds.

The sperm of some scholars, sages, and doctors, as well as high-quality sperm bought from other sky islands and smuggled in refrigerated transportation, were sold at high prices on the black market of the second and third discs.Many families will use artificial insemination on the black market to try to create smart children with a higher probability to change the fate of their parents.

It's like if you can't get the goods by drawing a card yourself, you just buy an initial number...

Likewise, there is another, deeper sin based on this situation.

——That is the human trade.

No matter if they are men or women, no matter if they are locals or foreign islanders... the mercenaries of Sun Island will hunt for highly educated talents with a doctorate or above.They capture doctors, not necessarily to kidnap them to obtain money or technology... Even if doctors serve them, they may not be able to research anything of value.Or, they simply don't have the resources to support the research that will lead to the reports.

It's like stealing expensive mobile phones and computers, removing the CPU from them and extracting traces of gold-this is a business with no cost performance at all.These mercenaries hunt doctors in order to smuggle them to the second or third disk to sell their offspring.It's like matching a horse with a breed. If you don't get pregnant, you don't even need to charge money.From this point of view, most of the captured ones are male doctors... because the breeding efficiency will be higher.

"In addition, Sun Island also has a business called 'Replacement'..."

After being coaxed by Russell, Ringo sat on the edge of the bed with him.

The girl propped herself on the edge of the bed with her hands between her legs.And the upper body leaned forward at a dangerous angle, as if it was about to fall down at any time.

"I'm a replacement."

"What's a replacement?" Russell asked.

"I told you before... the doctors of the first round will also be sent to the second round for unified care after giving birth. And those who can be selected from the third round are the best Genius. They can stand out in the educational environment of the third disc, and it is usually easier to show their excellence in the second disc.

"...Therefore, there will be some 'doctors'. Because their children's academic performance is not good and they are disappointed, they use the chip replacement technology of the company that does the 'replacement' business to exchange the chips of the two people. , to exchange social identities. That is, to secretly replace my stupid child with a smarter child in the early childhood stage, so as to ensure that the child can enter the first disc.

"In addition to doctors, there are also big businessmen who do business in the second disc... They will also directly buy a smart child to exchange identities with the child they gave birth to."

"But you have also completed your studies at Nephthys University."

Russell's voice became lighter: "You are not bad."

Ringo suddenly raised his head and took a deep breath.

"Yeah, I'm not bad..."

She murmured in a low voice: "But I have tried my best."

There was a touch of sadness on the raised little face, but there were no tears in her eyes.

"From that exchange to the time when I entered university, they would still send me some money and living expenses on a regular basis. I didn't think much of it at the time, that is, I had an older sister who was much smarter than me. But in the final exam of my freshman year, I took a class No.12. I didn’t even get into the top ten.

"Since then, I haven't seen them again ... the tuition fee is gone."

Ringo smiled wryly.

Her voice was low, as if she was drunk, and she seemed to be whispering: "I was relying on participating in the experiment to get tuition fees. Because I was still holding my breath... thinking, how could they look down on me so much? It's just that I didn't study hard. If I get serious, I can still rush to the front row.

"I must be admitted to graduate school and PhD. Not to impress them, but to let them know what they gave up."

For the first time, Ringo's voice became so calm.

It's neither as cute and mellow as usual, nor as soft and greasy as before.

Instead, it became low and ordinary, and sounded with a hint of intellectuality—to use a metaphor, it would remind people of the voice of a young teacher who had just graduated and came to teach a junior high school.

This should be her original voice.This cold tone was her normal tone of voice.

Chapter 39 Ringo: Human beings have limits...

It sounds like a very inspirational story about not bullying the young... the poor girl.

Russell became energetic after hearing this.

According to the development in the novel, if Ringo is the protagonist, then the next step should be to wake up instantly after deciding to work hard, and then rush to the first place in an instant.According to the traditional genre, it is simply a point-controlling boss or a hidden genius in the past; or the whole fish-catching system, the more fish you touch, the higher your score will be, and so on...

So he couldn't wait to ask: "And then?"

"...Then, I soon discovered that there is a limit to human efforts. The wall called 'talent' cannot be overcome only by hard work and determination. I tried my best and was full of confidence... But in During the school year exam, I only passed the eighth place in the class and the fifth place in the same major.

"The exams at Nephthys University are very difficult. In other words, the exams at the universities on Sun Island are very difficult... In my first year, I only maintained an average score in the early 12s. No.81 under normal circumstances; and this time I got an average score of [-] in the exam. I originally thought that my progress this time was enough and big enough...but other than me, other people also I started to work hard, but I couldn't get rid of their scores at all.

"I went to ask about No.7's grades in private, and he was faultless about my grades; and from what he said...everyone in front of him and each other's grades can be said to be faulty.