Even though the fat boss regarded Wu Ming as a local and didn't speak too clearly, he still knew what the other party wanted to express.
I long for my dreams to be recognized, I long for the value created by myself and what I want to do to be recognized, I long for spiritual satisfaction through realizing my dreams, and I hope to find the meaning of living in this world.
This problem does not only exist with Fat Boss, but is a common phenomenon in the entire wishing world.
The Wishing Network has built a seemingly perfect world, where resources and materials can be generated out of thin air, and everyone will no longer have disputes due to resource and material limitations. Apart from suicide factors and disasters caused by involvement in the matrix of disasters, Everyone enjoys a nearly unlimited natural lifespan, and all human requirements and wishes can basically be fulfilled by making wishes on the wishing network.
But it cannot satisfy people's spiritual thirst and their desire to be recognized.
Although there is a wishing network, everyone has the power and ability to chase and realize their ideals and dreams. They no longer need to be trapped by the limitations of reality and talent like in the old days. Even many dreams can be fulfilled through a simple wish. At that time, people became more hesitant.
Do people want to realize their dreams and ideals, or do they want what they do to be recognized and needed by others?
Wu Ming thought it might be the latter.
Morrie has been troubled by this kind of thing, and the owner of the memory he digested has also despaired of this kind of thing. Even Morrie's grandfather - the one who desperately asked the wishing network in Vincent's reappearance. The old man who made a wish to commit suicide and never wanted to wake up again chose to commit suicide because he was unable to realize his own value.
A conversation with the fat boss made Wu Ming feel inexplicably depressed, so that later he took Elizabeth and Siegfried to thank the fat boss, and after leaving the clothing store, he could not calm down for a long time.
After Elizabeth excitedly handed over the fried skewers to express her approval, and Siegfried highly affirmed the design of the mask helmet, the fat boss gradually showed signs of astonishment, surprise, then tears of joy, and finally burst out laughing like crazy. The look was still vivid in Wu Ming's mind even after returning to the tower.
Seeing the fat boss's expression of joy at being recognized by others, Wu Ming felt like he had a lump in his throat, and there was a tightness in his chest that he couldn't let out.
After politely thanking Vincent and sending away the rebel captain who suddenly received an urgent summons from the Pioneer Council, Wu Ming used the material conversion module to shape the bricks on the top of the tower into a set of tables and chairs. , then facing the direction of the setting sun and thinking about life.
"Hmm... Brother, are you a little preoccupied today..." Elizabeth, who was also sitting at the round table, saw that Wu Ming didn't seem to hear her. She broke off the pistachios in her hand hard and turned to look at Siegfried next to her. , whispered in a low voice: "Brother Fei, did you notice when the eldest brother became like this?"
Siegfried couldn't put it down and played with the new helmet mask he got today. After hearing Elizabeth's question, she raised her head and thought carefully for two seconds, then pointed at herself with a strange expression and asked: "I haven't been with anyone for more than ten years. We’ve had a good deal with each other, do you think I can notice this kind of thing?”
"Oh -" Elizabeth prolonged the ending with some dissatisfaction, and then she immediately came up with a new guess: "Hey! Brother Fei, do you think it's because I went to eat today and didn't leave any food for him? That's why I'm angry..."
"I don't think he is that stingy. Besides, aren't you the one who is in a bad mood because he didn't eat delicious food?"
"Hey...what's wrong, big brother..."
Wu Ming listened to the two girls murmuring behind him, and his thoughts that were gradually drifting away were brought back by their chat.
"Moli." Wu Ming tapped his fingers on the table unconsciously, making a "tuk-tuk" sound. After Moli heard the call and raised his head blankly, his voice came faintly, "I'm going to go there today." I took a trip to a nearby city and saw some things..."
Mori curled his lips and guessed what he saw: "Then I think you may not have seen anything... good."
"It's really not a good thing... It is clear that the Wishing Network can grant all wishes, but everyone in the city has a lifeless and lifeless look on their faces. It feels like..." Wu Ming paused, as if he was looking for Words suitable for description. After a long time, he continued: "Living corpse...well, living corpse."
Not only this city, Wu Ming also saw the same similar images in the images of other cities transmitted back by the stealth spy plane. Everyone had an expression of indifference, looking lifeless and lifeless, like a living corpse.
The sun had gradually fallen into the horizon at this time, leaving only the blood-like sunset glow dyed red by the setting sun. Elizabeth and Siegfried also stopped whispering, looked at the two of them curiously, and listened to their conversation quietly.
"It is precisely because all wishes can come true on the Wishing Network that today's situation has been created." Perhaps it is the journey to other worlds that has increased his knowledge, or it may be that he has gained a lot of insights from the previous philosophical thinking. Morrie (since (think) talked with an indifferent expression, "In our world, the differences between people have been eliminated, and everyone now enjoys nearly omnipotent power. Do you know what this means?"
Wu Ming glanced at Mori lightly, and before he could answer the latter added: "This means that what you can do, others can do, even if there is a wishing network to support you in pursuing your dreams, but what you end up doing is The achievements he has made seem to others to be nothing more than a common wish."
“Wanting to do things that even the Wishing Network can’t do, wanting to prove oneself, reflecting one’s own value, wanting one’s achievements and masterpieces to be heartily recognized by others, this is the biggest pursuit of people in our era and this world. .”
Due to the existence of a completely unreasonable technology like the Wishing Network (Wu Ming calls it technology), the development of human civilization in this world has indeed made a leap forward - saying it is a leap is not even appropriate. If you want to change it To describe it with words, Wu Ming is more willing to describe this progress as...
Ascension or... sublimation.
Moreover, after Wu Ming witnessed the strange creations made out of thin air by the wishing technique, he also focused on using stealth probes to conduct data observations and research on the basic structure of the world, and came to the conclusion that the world structure of the wishing world is not just stable or unstable. The problem is that the entire world has been affected by idealism and has been transformed by idealism to a certain extent!
But it is clear that idealism has exceeded the threshold and reached the level where people's thoughts can be turned into reality and thus affect the material world. However, the earth has not turned into a weird world with round sky and squares, and the starry sky has not turned into an oil painting style like a child's graffiti. , and there are no various nightmare monsters appearing out of thin air, melting all living things into a nightmare world of symbiosis and death.
At least under most macroscopic conditions, the external manifestation of the wishing world is still a stable material world.
This means that the wish-making network in front of us is another route that is completely contrary to the idealistic nightmare that is heading towards uncontrollable absurdity and nightmare, a path that idealism has never imagined...
Only the mind soars.
But the ascension of idealism has caused the development of the entire civilization to take too big a step. The emergence of a technology that transcends the current era and scale will inevitably have a huge impact on the entire social structure and people's lives. But if the supporting social sciences and people However, if the ideological concepts have not progressed along with this leap, or even stagnated due to over-development, it will undoubtedly be as dangerous as a child playing with a pistol with the safety on. If there is a slight mistake, waiting for civilization It will be a disaster.
Wu Ming was unable to draw conclusions about whether this world was arbitrary, nor was he able to comment on the quality of this civilization, but he felt as if he understood why this world was "abandoned."
"It's a pity that technology advances too fast and takes too big a step. People's thoughts and concepts are far from adapting to the development brought about by technology..."
