Night Hacker Chapter 6: Console
Early in the morning, Gu He woke up with a headache.
So what talent test is over? How many grades did you get?
He only remembered that after Leader Lorna and the others left, he fell asleep shortly after returning to the sofa, and didn't even watch the underwear show of the supermodel contest.
"Something else seems to have happened?" He thought hard, but he couldn't remember it like he was drunk.
Fan Debao didn't know where he went. He walked around the hall and went to the bathroom to wash up, but he still didn't see the chunky figure. He probably went to Licai's side.
The wooden door of the izakaya was opened, but the outer glass sliding door was still closed, with a sign saying "open later".
It was just dawn, and the rain that had rained all night had stopped, and the eaves, lanterns, and neon signs were still dripping with rain.
The messy neon lights in the alleys and streets have been coldly extinguished, like all the ghosts of the night.
Without the rain, the alley is not much colder than the street, except that there is no traffic, but it is also a noisy scene of people coming and going.
A street singer walked past the store, a group of gangsters with tattoos passed by, office workers with briefcases, young girls with scantily dressed clothes and cigarettes, and missionaries who babbled , ragged tramps...
Gu He looked at it for a while, then turned around and walked into the small kitchen through the cowboy door of the bar to have a look. He found a thermos cup for guests and made himself a cup of wolfberry water.
Alcohol hurts the body, but wolfberry nourishes the liver and protects the kidneys.
As a doctor, he knows very well the principle of not keeping healthy when young, and keeping a doctor when he is old. Goji berry water must be drunk from a young age.
While drinking the warm wolfberry water, he found the remote from the bar and turned on the wooden TV.
"Santo Company is a big consortium here, right?"
Gu He had already discovered that there were three vines here and there everywhere.
There is an all-in-one desktop computer in the kitchen, without a mouse, the keyboard is embedded in the machine, and a 12-inch monochrome monitor.
Computers, TVs, karaoke machines and other equipment all have the same trademark, which is three intertwined green vines.
However, on these trademarks, middle fingers, crosses and some insulting swear words are painted. Lao Fan and the others seem to hate Santo Company very much, but they have to use these devices.
The morning news is playing on the small TV screen:
"The Supreme Court made a judgment that Santo won the anti-monopoly case"
"Santo released the first generation of built-in modem notebook computer, the Internet era has arrived"
"The unemployment rate in the Walled City District, Lannitang District and other places hit a record high, and the mayor promised to improve the situation"
Gu He sat on the sofa, read some news, and made sure that his judgment was correct.
The level of technology in this world is really like the 80s, but it is much more advanced in some aspects.
"The gap between rich and poor here is huge..."
He frowned and looked at the slum scene in the "rotten mud pond area" on TV, with shacks, unfinished buildings, landfills, dirty children, and gang members with fierce eyes, it was really shocking.
However, when the Santo company news was broadcast just now, the video showed the "Garden District", one of the wealthy districts in the city, with neat streets, skyscrapers, beautiful garden villas, various schools, hospitals, arts Museum and so on.
Santo Company is indeed a large consortium, forming the so-called "New World Bank" with other consortiums of major companies.
The New World Bank firmly controls Liuguang City, choking all upward channels.
Ordinary people work as cows and horses all their lives, and may end up dying alone in the garbage dump on the street.
There is an old saying on the street: They are in heaven, we are in the muddy pond, and everyone has a bright future.
As for himself, he is worse than ordinary people, he is a wild dog.
When Gu He saw the next news, he almost couldn't hold back a mouthful of wolfberry juice, coughing so much that he choked.
"The police seized an organ truck, and more than 100 stowaways died"
This refrigerated truck was found in the Mud Pond area, and the compartment was full of mutilated bodies of smugglers, whose kidneys, corneas and other valuable organs had been removed. The police suspect that the case is related to the Mud Gang.
Brother Zhuang and the others didn't do it. Could it be that the victims were those companions from yesterday?
Gu He scratched his head, no, Brother Zhuang is the Game Gang, not the Mud Gang...
Let me put it this way, there are twenty-nine districts in Liuguang City.
The Lanni Gang is in Lannitang District, and this is Juhui Street in Kabukicho District, so it's okay.
"But, as my wild dog..."
Gu He already knew that no one cared about how many wild dogs died in Liuguang City, and it was not news if less than a hundred died at a time.
No, you have to hug Miss Caiyin's thigh tightly...
If you can't become the cowherd, there is no Miss Caiyin to help you find a legal identity.
He may fall into the claws of the Game Gang again, and picking kidneys and cows is no longer just threats.
"God, dog day." Gu He hugged the thermos cup tightly, why did he come to such a world.
I really want to go back, there are family, friends, and safety...
After a long while, he sighed and took a sip of wolfberry water. Attitude, attitude is very important, it's best to just lie down at the moment.
"What happened to the test results last night?"
Gu He carefully recalled that when Captain Lorna and the others left, he was still steady, and the vortex of light in his mind kept displaying "nervous overdrive".
Speaking of which, the hallucination is quite real.
Thinking of this, suddenly, he felt that rotating swirl of light appeared in his mind again.
"What the hell?" Gu He was so frightened that he changed from sitting slumped to sitting upright, and the wolfberry water in his hand was no longer fragrant.
Why is the hallucination still there, a sequelae of fragmentation?
As soon as he put his attention on the light vortex, a burst of blue and purple light overflowed uncontrollably, just like the dots of halo caused by the strong and dazzling city advertising screen.
When the gorgeous light fell, an old-fashioned electronic panel appeared in the original light vortex.
The panel is about the size of a keyboard, covered with a layer of misty light and shadow, it seems that it has not been fully activated, only a few light bars like program progress bars and some buttons can be vaguely seen on the panel.
The only buttons that can be seen clearly for the time being are:
【Database】
【Compiler】
【Share】
"Good guy, go away..."
Gu He shook his head hastily like a rescue, but he couldn't dispel these clear hallucinations.
He couldn't help remembering that he was traversed by a computer leakage, that panel really felt like a computer console.
Could it be that the plug-in is online?
But, but!
As a psychologist who is proficient in applied psychology and psychiatry, I usually like to flip through "Madness and Civilization". The first thing I think of is not my adventure, but...
"I'm not crazy, am I?"
Gu He stared blankly at the console panel in his mind.
If the patient has any hallucinations and the psychiatrists believe them to be true, then he will soon no longer be a doctor, but the younger brother of a "world president", "alien world liaison officer", "reincarnated emperor" and other strange people...
Even time travel can be a mental problem.
"Reduplicative Paramnesia"
This is a rare mental illness. The symptom is that the patient firmly believes that some things around him have been swapped, such as a spouse has been replaced, and his hometown is another place; what's more, he believes that the whole world has been swapped.
After a while, the illusion in my mind remained unchanged.
Gu He had no choice but to explore carefully, but neither [database] nor [compiler] could be opened.
He tried to click the [Share] button again...
Suddenly, caught off guard, some information boxes popped up like a failure:
"No shared contacts available"
"The current number of shared contacts that can be created is: 1"
"Creating a new shared contact"
In an instant ~IndoMTL.com~ Gu He's mind was filled with various strange lights, his nerves were boiling, and all the scenes in the living room around the sofa were pulled by the speed into gorgeous and frozen lights and shadows.
He seems to have entered another dimension, and he can clearly feel that the console is connected to another brain at a distance...
With an indescribable feeling, a slender figure loomed in the light and shadow ahead, it was a woman.
She seemed to be sitting on the ground, looking left and right, looking shocked and at a loss.
"Who are you..." Sure enough, a female voice came from the other side, but the signal was very poor, the voice was mixed with the buzzing and chirping like a video cassette, the other party's voice could not be heard clearly, and it seemed to be disconnected at any time , "Here is... the psychic network?"
Crazy, I'm really crazy...
Gu He was even more astonished than she was. Words such as dissociative disorder, schizophrenia, and paranoia flashed through his mind.
Listening to what she meant, it seemed that I was really connected with her soul, just like a video call.
But he is more inclined, he is crazy, he has another personality, and he is talking to himself.
The cassette-like beeping sound is still there, and the connection has not been broken, but the other party is also cautiously silent.
After a stalemate for a while, the female voice suddenly said again:
"Santo company sent you here? I don't know how you can do this, but I will continue to investigate and will not give in."
Uh girl, who are you, where are you, what are you talking about?
Gu He's head was full of question marks, and he tentatively said, "I've seen you for a long time, I've seen you for a long time..."