The Mechanic - Chapter 79

[Chapter 79 The Ordinary World (2)]

Zhang Xun wore a black long straight wig, a thick scarf covering half of his face around his neck, a loose sweater, a skirt that he felt was slightly shorter, and a thick cotton coat, wrapped around his legs. Warm boots, looking uneasily not far away, trying to negotiate with a woman in black leather with a shaved neck and a tattoo snaked around her neck.

It has to be said that the difference between the appearance of women and men is becoming more and more blurred, otherwise the tall bodies like James and Diego would have been controlled by mechanical police in minutes.

James shaved his face and put on a short brown wig, but he was wearing a neutral leather jacket, dark jeans and Martin boots. Although he looked a little too tall and his shoulders too wide, he was very handsome and handsome. T’s aura. And Diego is a bit like a drag queen because of his overly developed muscles. . .

Diego found a makeup robot a few years ago from a garbage disposal plant. As long as the facial structure is scanned and then the makeup is selected, several robotic arms extending from the robot will quickly apply foundation, eye shadow, eyeliner and other things to you. face. He and James used this method to put heavy makeup on themselves to change their faces, trying to make them invisible to their own fathers.

But cross-dressing and pheromone spray aren’t enough, they need to buy themselves an identity so they don’t trigger an alarm if they’re caught on any camera. And the woman in the black leather jacket was an operator that Diego knew before. She is responsible for negotiating a good price with them, and then notifying the internal informants who work in the population system, and quickly finds the population that matches their appearance in the system and makes some minor modifications, and then passes the verification information, which is engraved as a three-dimensional code and stored in the Will be sold to the three of them in the database.

That’s what Zhang Xun did the last time he went to the city to collect data. It’s just that with the support of Paradise Lost at that time, he didn’t need to worry about the details of obtaining the fake identity. Zhang Xun was worried that Adam already knew that he had infiltrated the ordinary world, and that there were traitors in the population system. If Adam had already communicated with Eden, would this method still work now?

James and Diego came over, and the woman in black had already stepped on a suspension-powered motorcycle and sped away, leaving only a blue light that had not yet faded away.

“It’s all arranged.” James said, and handed a round silver button-shaped device to Zhang Xun, “Your name is Shen Tong, you were born in Hangzhou, China, and settled in North America when you were sixteen. A college student in electrical engineering.”

“A college student?” Zhang Xun glared at James with a “are you crazy” expression, “Do you think I look like a college student?!”

“You are Asian, and you always look like twenty. Next year.” James winked his right eye at him.

Zhang Xun was speechless, but even such an unreliable identity took a lot of trouble to get. He put the metal disc called “Button” on the back of his hand, and felt a fine suction similar to being stuck.

Button is a portable database commonly used in the ordinary world, which stores everyone’s identity certificate, wallet, and various people and people, people and Eden, and various extended AIs, as well as messages sent and received with the network. It is bound to the owner after scanning the owner’s facial contour for the first time and picking DNA samples from the skin. Once it has not touched the owner’s skin for more than two days, all data will be destroyed by itself.

When the Button is activated, a layer of blue light floats on the surface. A line of phantoms are projected from the center of the circle, “Please wear smart lenses or dock ‘chords’. If you want to turn on external projection, please say ‘extended’.”

In order to protect personal privacy, few people choose to let Button put the owner in browsing content is released. Some people choose to use smart lenses, while others choose to have a device called a “chord” implanted in their head. There are two types of smart lenses, contact lenses and rimmed glasses, which can be paired with a Button or any screen-enabled device when worn. The chord is a docking station attached to the temple, and several thin nano-transmission wires are connected to a specific location in the brain through a simple and quick operation. After completion, Button users can embed it on the docking station, so that people and Buttons are equivalent to being integrated. If they want to browse some web page information, they can open it with verbal instructions or concentrate on using brain waves to send instructions.

Of course, Button was developed by Eden with the assistance of YOU, the world’s largest electronic product company, in the past ten years. The products include various price points, and they are updated quickly, completely changing people’s life rhythm and quality. Continents, almost everyone uses them. At that time, Zhang Xun also asked James to bring back a damaged one for him, and worked hard with Pan to disassemble it and study the structure inside.

Now it seems that Button and chords are probably the first foreshadowing of Eden and Adam.

In the future, if Adam’s experiment in Paradise Lost is successful, Button will be his ship to pull the ordinary world into the collective consciousness.

Zhang Xun and the other three all chose contact lenses. At the moment when the pairing is successful, he can see many things that are not in reality in the field of vision in front of him. Road signs, location introductions, 3D advertisements, and all kinds of colorful decorations on buildings make the originally simple and remote town suddenly become bright and colorful. The fusion of 3D and reality can be as real as the real, just like the beautiful woman with devil horns on the front and back of her head who walked near them, so real that she could just reach out and touch it.

Only a faint blue circle at the bottom of the image can tell which is virtual and which is real.

They slipped quietly into the midst of these virtual images and real buildings and pedestrians, causing no commotion.

This is the first time in nearly ten years that Zhang Xun has seen so many people in the ordinary world. Eighty percent were women, as he had heard before, but the gender identity was already very vague. Some women are much stronger than him, even taller than James. Many of the men I see occasionally are very thin and slender, their clothes are complicated and meticulous, and their colors are bright. But most of them followed behind their wives or mistresses obediently, and rarely took to the streets by themselves, always with an instinctive humility in their demeanor, quite different from the masculine image Zhang Xun was accustomed to in Paradise Lost.

The streets managed by the cleaning robots are spotlessly clean, with no leaves or rubbish in sight. The walls are white and flat, without any trace of graffiti, and there are flower beds that are well maintained and managed but lack creativity by the roadside. Everything has a neat geometric shape, without any abruptness or collision.

On the road and in the air, some aircraft with simple and smooth lines quickly passed through, constantly rushing between various buildings, picking up and picking up passengers who called the aircraft. These aircraft have no head and tail, no indicator lights, no pilots, and no traffic lights in the city. All passenger vehicles are all carried out by Eden’s extended AI-Hermes is responsible for scheduling and optimizing time and routes .

Occasionally, a smooth silver cone would stand by the roadside, with a soft white light slowly on and off overhead. These are the city police responsible for maintaining order and law and order in the city. They are usually in a standby state and are distributed in every corner of the city, connecting all the surveillance in the city. Once a riot is found or an alarm is received, several mechanical police officers closest to the riot site will be activated, transform into a suitable form and quickly go to the accident site to solve the problem.

All three of them put voice changers under their scarves to avoid revealing their identities with their low voices. Diego led them into a sparsely populated street, and tried to choose a route with fewer mechanical police officers. Along the way, the mechanical police did not seem to notice.

Zhang Xun tried his best not to be nervous, his heartbeat would be detected by the mechanical police if his heartbeat was too fast. He pulled on the scarf, making sure it covered everything from the nose down.

At this time, the sky has gradually darkened, and the sunset drifted quietly in the distance, covered with a layer of soft mist. The road was soaked into a small inn imitating the Mediterranean style with palm trees in front of it. The cool tones of blue and white were softened by the rays of the sun.

Zhang Xun noticed that there were no mechanical policemen in this alley.

Just as he approached the door, a woman with a cold face but sharp eyes, who shaved her hair below the temples, suddenly pushed open the door and walked out.

Zhang Xun took two steps back and was hit with gold stars. Before James could come over, a woman in a dark red leather coat that fit the curves of her body had already supported Zhang Xun, lowered her phoenix eyes with slender eyelashes slightly raised and asked with a smile, “Are you alright, little beauty?”

Zhang Xun thought. Fascinated…little…beautiful? ? ?

It’s so weird that these two adjectives should be used on him in his lifetime.

“Uh…it’s okay…” He cleared his throat awkwardly, not used to the female voice modified by the voice changer, and took a step back.

The red-leather-clad woman with a punk-like atmosphere slightly raised the corners of her red lips, and twiddled her silver-gray hair with her fingers, her eyes fascinated and blurred, “It’s my fault, let me buy you a drink to make up for it? ”

Hey, Lucille. Calm down, he’s not your thing.” Diego took off his voice changer and said casually.

Lucille’s silver-gray eyes with black eyeliner on the top opened slightly, and turned to Diego in disbelief, “WTF? Why are you?!”

Diego smiled and opened his hands, ” I can’t get along in there, so I came to join you.”

Lucille turned to look at Zhang Xun and James, “Then they too…”

“Yes.”

Lucille rolled her eyes and covered her hands with her hands. On his forehead, he cursed a complicated swear word.

Diego hooked James by the neck and gave her a wicked smile, “You still owe me a favor, sweetheart. How is it, is your flight still open? Can you give the three of us a ride?”

” Call me sweetheart again, the old lady will break your dog’s legs.” Lucille squinted his eyes and threatened, and brushed the black metallic… leather whip that was coiled in a circle around her waist with his hand.

Zhang Xun recognized that the whip was a kind of semi-intelligent weapon. When used, it could be deformed, stretched or shortened at will, and even opened its original docile scales into sharp upside-down blades.

She sighed and opened the door of the hotel, “Come in first, it’s too conspicuous outside.”

The author has something to say: So finally the first female character appeared~~~_(:з”∠)_Thanks

for the vote The little angel who came out of the mine~~~: Love Pippi and Xiuxiu

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