Chapter 202 Absurdity

absurd!

A group of people came, scanned your entire body, and then told you, "We have the data. Go back and wait to die. Another you will live forever."

The father was immediately furious and argued with them rationally.

Later, another researcher came out, and his attitude was better than the first one. He explained to the family.

It is impossible for two 'me's' to exist at the same time.

Only through death can the younger brother's consciousness be uploaded into the digital life world.

With no other options, the family could only return home with heavy hearts, taking their weakened younger brother with them.

From then on, the father became silent and went out early and returned late every day to get food, while the mother stayed by her younger brother's side, who was getting weaker day by day, and cried her eyes out.

Until her younger brother passed away.

Sure enough, people from the research institute came and demanded to take away the younger brother's body.

They said they needed to upload consciousness within 24 hours, and the body had to be handed over to them.

Having come this far, the father did not step in to stop them, and even deep down hoped that what they were saying was true.

Tian Shuang whispered, "They succeeded. We saw our younger brother through the screen. He's a lively, active, and healthy little brother."

"It looks and sounds exactly like its younger brother, shares the same memories, and even talks to its parents about its childhood..."

His parents were overjoyed. They would talk to him on the computer every day, as if their son were still alive.

News of the experiment's success spread throughout the base.

Everyone was cheering.

They created an eternal kingdom where there is no death.

Humanity is standing at a new era of technological civilization.

Life is no longer confined to the physical body; they no longer fear disease and aging; they no longer fear the monsters and eerie polluted areas outside.

As long as the data is preserved intact, the soul can continue forever.

A small number of people have raised questions.

Do digital life forms possess true consciousness?

Or is it merely a highly realistic program, rather than an independent entity?

But the cheers and celebrations drowned out all the doubts.

At first, Tian Ling and Tian Shuang were also very happy.

Their brother is still alive!

They simply live in another spatial dimension.

There are no disasters, no monsters, no diseases...

Every day, the two sisters would run to their younger brother to chat and confide in him while their parents were out looking for food.

However, with the release of this technology, the suicide rate at the base has been rising rapidly.

People gave up struggling to survive.

No food?

It's okay. After the physical body dies, it will enter the digital life world, where it can have everything.

More and more people are logging into the digital life world.

Influenced by this atmosphere, the father stopped going out to find food, and the mother stopped doing handicrafts to supplement the family income.

Then... the servers in the digital life world started lagging.

The younger brother, who was chatting with the two sisters on the screen, suddenly became vacant, and what came out of his mouth was no longer warm words, but a string of chaotic code.

The younger brother's behavior became increasingly strange.

It began attacking surrounding objects and went on a rampage of self-replication.

The two sisters were quite frightened by what they saw.

But soon, scientists found the root cause of the problem, examined the code, debugged the program, and a mouse cursor appeared on the screen, indicating that countless lines of code were being fixed...

The younger brother returned to normal and didn't even remember what had just happened.

Only a few people discovered all of this.

The two sisters told their parents what they had seen, but their father refused to believe it.

As a Sentinel, he must go out and kill mutants, walking on the edge of danger, in order to obtain food to feed his family.

He lived an extremely difficult and exhausting life every day.

He had witnessed too much death—those torn apart by the mutants, those lives lost in hunger and despair—all weighing heavily on his heart like stones.

The emergence of digital life is a ray of light in the darkness, his only solace in this cruel world.

How could he bear to give it up?

The mother stood silently to the side, both afraid of losing her son and unwilling to disobey her husband's wishes.

"The digital life world is a complete scam!" Tian Ling said excitedly.

Song Liang and the other three exchanged glances.

The sisters' parents were not in the house, and the outcome was obvious.

really.

“My sister and I joined the opposition to try to awaken those who place their hopes on digital lives.”

Tian Shuang paused for a moment, then choked up and said, "A few days later, my father had a mental breakdown. No matter how much we tried to persuade him, he gave up on seeking guidance from a mentor and was determined to enter the digital life world."

"After Dad left, Mom chose to do the same thing as those people and ran into the street to end her life."

The mother also left a suicide note.

Hopefully, the two sisters can reunite with their family soon.

Tian Ling, with her fiery temper, ignored her sister's objections and smashed the computer provided by the base, never logging into that system again.

More and more people are taking to the streets to commit suicide.

Opposition members took to the streets, holding various signs and surrounding the entrance to District 1, demanding a halt to the Digital Life project.

The situation gradually spiraled out of control.

The base has introduced a new policy, choosing to allocate a small number of slots daily by area through a lottery system in order to control the number of suicides.

As for those who oppose them, the top leadership directly chooses violent suppression.

Left with no other choice, the opponents went underground, communicating with each other using coded messages.

They assassinated the director of the research institute in charge of the project, but it had no effect; the Digital Life Project continued as normal.

"It's not working...the plan is still proceeding as normal..."

As the sisters were talking, another bug occurred; their tone and movements became extremely stiff.

One sat on the sofa, the other stood by the dining table, muttering to themselves, "It's not working... the plan is still proceeding as scheduled..."

Qi Jun took two steps back, signaling everyone to leave quickly.

Duan Xi made a discovery at this moment.

There are many contact slips of paper stored in the bedside table in the bedroom.

"We can't take it, can we? It'll be discovered once they recover." Zhou Tianqi whispered, "They'll be found out."

Duan Xiyi thought it made sense, so he released the peregrine falcon back to report.

Song Liang and Zhou Tianqi quickly entered the room to check the contents of the note.

Qi Jun stood at the doorway, watching the two sisters warily, lest they suddenly revert to normal.

*

On the other side.

Tao Haohao and Chengzi returned with four B-level sentries, their loot plentiful.

Each of the six people was carrying several bags.

"The situation in Districts 8 and 11 is the same as yesterday; those people are simply insane."

Orange complained, "The streets are covered in blood. Do you think a normal person wouldn't go crazy in this kind of environment?"

That's terrifying.

If an ordinary person accidentally wanders into this contaminated area.

If you can't find the key and have to face people queuing up to commit suicide with smiles every day, you'll probably become mentally confused within a few days and eventually be assimilated by this polluted area.

Tao Haohao put the bag on the coffee table and plopped down. "There aren't many supplies. I searched for a long time but couldn't find much food."

A person who is determined to die is unlikely to store food at home.

The shops on both sides of the street were empty.

This contaminated area has almost nothing.

The most valuable reward is that so-called digital life world.

But is it really a good idea to take this thing out with you?