After taking a few deep breaths, Hesta took the file folder from Anna's lap again.
"You seem to like analyzing others," she lowered her head and continued flipping through the documents. "To be honest, this bothers me a little."
"...I was the one who was offended."
"No, it's not offensive, but disturbing." Hesta whispered, "On the surface, every word you say is talking about me, but in fact, I am forced to listen to what kind of person you are - in this world There are so many people who are obsessed with the Golden Age, its literature, its technology, and the almost perfect picture of life she painted for everyone... But when I expressed shock at your bad comments, your first reaction was that I 'Gensokyo' has been shattered.
"Have you ever thought that this is the projection you put on me?" Hesta suddenly changed the subject. She raised her head, "Anna, has your 'Fantasy' been broken by anyone?"
Without waiting for Anna to answer, Hesta had already looked away and spoke again, "No need to answer, I have no interest in this question. I just don't want to face your inflated ego from these questions again - this huge His narcissism bothers me.
"Of course, you can also say that these are my defenses——"
"I didn't say that," Anna laughed. "My curiosity always comes at the wrong time. Please forgive me."
Hesta turned over another page of documents expressionlessly. She saw some photos, showing a few workers with confused expressions and a pile of metal skeletons that had not been filled with simulated materials.
"Let's go back to the story just now..." Hesta said softly, "Then, have those cases been solved?"
"They were all detected, and the speed was very fast... I should say very fast. Several murderers and other masterminds behind the scenes were executed on the sixteenth day after the verdict was issued. Part of the illegal property in their names was confiscated, and part of it was compensated to To the families of the victims.”
"Really, that's not bad...at least the police in the golden age were not just for free."
"Because the criminals left all the evidence of the crime - the entire dismemberment process was live broadcast, and they also specially recorded it and edited it into different clips for later sale."
"...To whom?"
"We'll start from the other end," Anna whispered. "Do you remember the simulator production documents from earlier?"
"Remember, I produced a lot, made a lot of money... and so on."
"Yes, but the emergence of these simulated people has unexpectedly stimulated other markets... Let me give you an example. You know, at the end of the Silver Age, humans have realized that child marriage is immoral. However, some men It can only go into heat in children who are not yet sexually mature.
“At the same time, these men are well aware that their actions will incur the intense wrath of society at large, and so they are left looking for alternatives;
"From the time when the first batch of high-priced simulators entered the civilian market, their spring has arrived - simulators are commercial products, and although they have some operating specifications, no one will use a product according to the product instructions. As long as A thing that looks like a child, feels like a child, and sounds like a child can arouse emotions for children in human hearts. This is so precious. After all, these people could not place it in the past. Lust finally has a solution that doesn’t harm society.”
"These are not the only people who have been liberated. People have all kinds of hobbies - some people love killing, some people like to be imprisoned, and some people like freshly dead bodies... Although some of them are willing to take risks for pleasure, there are more people He doesn't have the courage to commit a crime, and he doesn't want to give up his peaceful life.
"After the emergence of artificial people, everything began to change. These people also longed to 'walk into the sunshine', because now they can be completely 'harmless'. This is like a person buying a washing machine and going home. He is Whether he wants to dismantle the machine or make peace with it is entirely his own freedom - from now on, their existence will not harm anyone's interests, so they should no longer have to endure the criticism of others for their innate preferences. "
Ana reached out and flipped through the documents in the folder a few more pages.
"As a result, different 'dark side movements' broke out all over the world." She whispered, "'The moon has a dark side, and so do I.' This is their slogan."
"...does it work?"
"We still mobilized some resources. At that time, several places even allowed private holographic live broadcasts, and paying viewers could participate in different projects from a first-person perspective - which also included some high-priced customized services, hundreds of them. Thousands of paying viewers are in their respective residences, listening to the same sound, feeling the same touch, and enjoying the same--"
"No need to go into details..." Hesta turned the material in his hand to the next page in disgust, "What does this have to do with the previous murder case?"
"Simulators are not cheap."
"so?"
"Behaviors that can cause fatal harm to people will also cause irreversible damage to the parts of the simulator. Although the damaged parts can theoretically be replaced, the effect will be greatly reduced..." Anna looked at Hesta. The file folder on his lap, "Especially, if you want to be able to bleed, scream, and beg for mercy like a real person when you are severely injured... Most of these simulations need to be specially customized - after all, ordinary household robots do not need to add blood or Enter the intense panic response.”
Anna looked at Hesta, "And simulators are not cheap."
Hesta finally understood.
"The Golden Age," Anna repeated the name again, "I guess it must be the freest era in the history of human civilization. For the first time, humans have the ability to actively adjust their population. In the middle and late stages of the Golden Age, there were about 70 people in the world. % of human beings are born from artificial wombs, and the rest insist on maternal reproduction for religious reasons... But this is also freedom. Residents of the Golden Age always have the freedom of choice.
"It can only be said that it is a pity that these past events have not been preserved. An era of great power outages destroyed all the details of these history. Otherwise, today's people can only marvel at the imagination of their ancestors and then lament themselves."
Hesta continued to flip through the folder on her lap, her expression cold, but her left hand was trembling slightly. She once again saw a batch of official documents from the Fourteenth District, which took about sixteen years from rectification, production reduction, to complete ban on the sale of humanoid robots in Southern Zhou.
"So you don't have to wonder why the base has the ability to make perfect prosthetics, but never makes simulations," Anna said softly, "because all technical behaviors that blur the boundaries between humans and machines are strictly prohibited by the Mother City."
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