Newport City, the story world of Ghost in the Shell, is a highly prosperous East Asian city.
Compared to arriving from a busy airport, you can only get a quick glimpse in the air. If a visitor approaches from the sea, he will be immediately shocked by the steel jungle lined with skyscrapers, the dazzling neon lights on the streets, and the colorful signboards with Chinese characters.
However, when you go deeper into the neighborhood and see with your own eyes, behind the bright skyscrapers, the narrow back streets filled with nauseating electronic light, piled with prosthetic garbage, damp and depressing, are like ugly scars. Humanity has become an incurable blemish on the city. It will bring another deeper subversive impact.
The old dwellings are surrounded by colorful advertising signs; only the last ray of sky can be seen from the narrow lanes covered by skyscrapers. Living people who have long been castrated by life are walking buried in the filth, their eyes are dull and their bodies are numb, completely ignoring the scantily clad and posing robot sex dolls in the window.
Slums are often the red light district, which is what most people remember as Newport City.
However, when the AE86 dragged two long wheel marks and drove into Xingang City beyond time and space. Wu Chen was extremely shocked by what he saw in front of him.
This is the ruins of a destroyed city.
There are ruins of skyscrapers with broken sides and riddled with holes everywhere. The remaining parts that were relatively well preserved were piled high with dead bodies. Many were unable to escape, and the corpses hanging in the windows hugged each other tightly, spreading to the ground and blending into a larger pile of corpses. Without exception, these corpses had undergone varying degrees of cybernetic transformation during their lifetime. Then there was a collective death, like melting candles, countless corpses merging into one. Exposed wires, nerve bundles, subcutaneous tissue, bionic organs, and polymer materials were stewed into a pot of porridge. It is also like a solidified magma belt that once upon a time flowed freely along the narrow back street and swallowed up everything.
The in-vehicle brain quickly scanned the surroundings and found that among the melting corpses scattered all over the place, not a single one was intact. All the flesh was torn, the faces were ferocious, and the half-body bodies in different postures were like the living dead whose lower body was trapped in magma and struggling desperately, frozen in the moment of death. It seemed that the dead in the entire city had merged together. Upstairs, downstairs, and on the streets, there were fused corpses everywhere.
Eyes full of corpses.
The air was filled with the acrid smell of roasted electronics and burnt human flesh. "Master, the remains are connected to each other to form a huge prosthetic circuit. Because the prosthetic body is still charged, the human tissue attached to it did not rot, but turned into dried meat."
Through the holographic window, look around at this city that melted and then solidified. Wu Chen was extremely shocked: "You are saying that these remaining prosthetic bodies derived from human remains have merged with each other to form a giant... circuit."
"That's right, Master." The car's smart brain suddenly enlarged the screen.
At the center of the cross street, there was a faint light shining through the gap between a large pile of corpses. Soon, a prosthetic eye emerged from the depths of the pile of corpses. Immediately afterwards, countless prosthetic eyes, like a swarm of hermit crabs looking for food, poured out of the pile of corpses like a tide. Spread out in all directions.
"Oh my god..." It seems that the brain is also infected by trypophobia: "Humans have died, but they are still 'alive'."
As the owners of prosthetic eyes, humans are like plastic models that melt at high temperatures, fuse with each other after cooling, and are already doomed to die. However, the prosthetic body he carried was still stubbornly on standby. Relatively flexible organs such as prosthetic eyes and hands can leave their broken bodies and... forage on their own?
The strange situation made Wu Chen's scalp numb and his bones felt extremely cold.
The brain has named the fused prosthetic remains: "Cyborg-Complexes".
What's even more terrifying is that the prosthetic remains are still electrified. And through the fusion of prosthetic body remains, a circuit is formed, covering the entire city.
"Master, complete the commission as soon as possible." Enter the shooting location designated by the client into the navigation, and the brain will fuzzy calculate the best plan.
"Act." Wu Chen ordered.
"Yes!" The four female warriors quickly got out of the car, opened the smart trailer at the rear of the car, and took off the transformed motorcycle.
"Armored maneuver." Wu Chen ordered again.
"clear."
Armored mobility is an armored form between armored riding and armored flying. The female warrior wears armor and rides on the rear wheels, driving upright. Similar to a unicycle, it can maneuver quickly on the road. The front wheels detached themselves and transformed into a wheeled unmanned vehicle for investigation first.
Armored mobile form, taking into account both movement and combat. Zhi Nao vividly calls it "Arcee's roller skating". It is the common posture used by the three Arcee sisters in battle.
Four female armored warriors guarded AE86 from the front, rear, left and right, carefully avoiding the cyborg complexes all over the street, and quickly maneuvered towards the entrusted destination.
The four wheeled unmanned vehicles that set out first have reported back the terrain along the way in real time. Store the newly created data entries in AIAI for big data calculations.
"Master, the state of the cyborg complex is like human brain waves in deep sleep." As we go deeper into the city, our intellectual brain gains more and more.
"You mean, the giant circuit composed of cyborg complexes is like a sleeping brain?" Wu Chen understood.
"Yes, Master." Intelligent Brain explained in more depth: "Even though the prosthetic body can store and analyze digital information, it does not have 'autonomous authority'. Only the human user implanted in the prosthetic body can input commands before they can be passively executed. "
Recalling what he saw along the way, Wu Chen suddenly realized: "This is the original intention of Ghost in the Shell. Connecting each other. Fusion into one."
"Connection." Zhinao understood it more deeply than Wu Chen: "It's like the insertion of bodies between humans, ultimately for the connection of souls."
"Very impressive." Wu Chen had no way to refute.
"Therefore, the way human beings reproduce is destined to desire deep connections with each other from the beginning of their birth." The divergent thinking of the intelligent brain seems out of place. Or maybe it has a deeper meaning.
"The description is very vivid." Wu Chen smiled knowingly, and by the way, the hellish experience in front of him was slightly relieved.
"Master, following the 'cyborg complex belt', there are very weak light signal pulses. It's like slowly flowing 'digital blood'." The intelligent brain locally amplified the energy structure in the complex belt. The data fibers buried in the complex body and entangled with each other slowly and slightly transmit pulse signals. It's like the blood vessels covering the entire city are still working weakly.
"This is a city of living zombies." Wu Chen understood: "All human corpses, mechanical creations, intelligent terminals, and even the ruins of skyscrapers, together form a cyber zombie city. Or it can be said to be an 'urban living zombie'. The entire city The city turned into a giant cyber zombie. In this way..."
"What to do?" Zhinao always liked the conversation with Wu Chen.
"Fight against death or continue memory." After saying these words, Wu Chen's heart was inevitably touched.
"You don't want to be forgotten at all costs, right?" Zhinao understood.
"Yes." Wu Chen nodded lightly.
Driving out of an underpass tunnel, my eyes suddenly opened up. In the circular stadium surrounded by skyscrapers, the target object was quietly prostrate on the collapsed pillars. There was a faint light swimming in the half-open and half-closed prosthetic eyes.
However, Wu Chen didn't know how to describe what he saw from the front window of AE86.
I racked my brain and couldn't even name it.
Because Wu Chen never lacked imagination and could not find any memory related to it.
What is this?
