Recently, workers in Night City can feel that the atmosphere in the city has become significantly tense.
On weekdays, it is rare to see patrolling peace officers appearing in groups on the streets. They patrol the streets 24 hours a day, all the time. Each of them carries a gun to disperse any form of violence. The crowd that gathered either fired a few empty shots to drive the workers home, or simply knocked down workers they thought looked suspicious and imprisoned them.
The muddy streets mixed with ice slag and snow have become even more deserted. Except for the peace officers patrolling back and forth, it is difficult to see other workers wandering the streets at other times.
At first, people thought that this was just because the chairman wanted to strengthen security and manage them, so he ordered these security officers to patrol intensively... After all, no matter how well they concealed it afterwards, the fighting that night still had the sound of cannon fire. But it couldn't be concealed, and all kinds of rumors spread quickly.
And the police officers, even if they arrested a few people who initially spread the rumors, were completely unable to stop the workers from gossiping.
The version of the story gradually fermented and changed as people passed it on word of mouth.
From the very beginning, late one night, the Sheriff led his men and used small artillery to blow up a shack where workers lived. It seemed that the family was still occupied by a pair of teenage brothers and sisters, who used to be the children of engineers. This kind of more realistic gossip gradually became more and more outrageous.
For example, the brother and sister were found to have anti-human tendencies and were promptly discovered and executed by the sheriffs.
For example, they preached to others that workers should unite to protect their own interests, and were shot to death by sheriffs with small artillery while resisting arrest.
There were even rumors that they were trying to improve the living conditions of the workers, hoping to unite with the workers to overthrow the brutal rule of the chairman. Even the weapons and the location of the uprising were chosen, but unfortunately it was exposed and they were arrested by the sheriff with weapons. Pay off.
Among the talking points passed down by workers orally, the third type is undoubtedly the most talked about, the most processed, and the most widely circulated.
First of all, usually those fierce and fierce police officers only need to rush up and shoot people in the head with the butt of their rifles to arrest people. There are very few occasions where they even shoot people. Those who can pull small artillery to carry out humane destruction are definitely not the ones. What kind of trouble? Although the workers only had a few years of general education, there are records in history textbooks about how the chairman treated those troublemaking workers.
Grape bombs were fired on the streets, causing huge casualties to the workers who had participated in the anti-Japanese protests.
Secondly, the spread of memes is also selective, because different memes themselves, like genes, compete with each other. It's just that genes selfishly and desperately want to enter the body of the next generation, and the competition between memes is more intense. They need to continue to expand and spread, enter other people's brains, enter other people's thoughts, and even enter books and languages. Even in all media that can record culture.
Therefore, the more interesting a meme is, with a simple structure and easy to retell, the more competitive it will be in the communication process, and the easier it will be spread by word of mouth. In addition, when everyone spreads this story, they will Adding your own details bit by bit may eventually lead to rumors being added to the story and spreading more and more outrageously.
Thirdly, perhaps no one dares to admit it, but deep down in their hearts, the vast majority of workers long for this kind of thing to happen.
They are not mindless puppets, nor are they bloodless and tearless robots. Seeing that those gentlemen can live a much better life than they do without high-intensity work, many workers will have thoughts in their hearts.
Of course, if someone like him can replace him, will the prince and general Xiang Ning have the guts? Most of them couldn't say these words. If they really didn't have the slightest resistance, then there wouldn't be so many workers who actively responded to the previous uprisings when the engineer led them.
However, when the entire city restricted heating for the third time and frequently lowered the heating level, even the dullest worker should notice that things were not simple.
Some workers who are older and have more experience turn their worried eyes to the direction of the city center from time to time.
Towards.
The energy tower still stands there, and the top of the tower is still spewing out high-temperature steam. But in the eyes of some people, the energy tower that seems to stand tall on the sky is already in danger.
The fire has died down.
The situation became worse and worse in the next few days, and the output power of the energy tower in the center of Night City dropped again and again.
Under the chairman's orders, several greenhouse areas and industrial parks with unimportant output stopped operating, a large number of workers were laid off, and in order to relieve the pressure on the energy towers, the heating level was further reduced.
For a time, a large number of workers were unemployed, and the existing jobs in Night City were further squeezed. Social unrest occurred, and the sound of shootings by vigilantes could be heard in the streets.
Everyone who has experienced it is clear that the various facilities of the energy tower are once again on the verge of reaching their limits.
Everyone was waiting for the fire passing ceremony to start again, but in the end they didn't wait.
On this day, winter came.
Accompanied by the earth-shattering sound coming from the energy tower, flames spurted out from the exhaust port of the energy tower like fireworks. The blue-white plasma was pushed by the huge pressure and shot into the sky, forming a line of energy. A band of plasma flames stretching across the sky and the earth. .
A large number of charged particles were thrown into the sky together, forming colorful 'streamers' all over the sky.
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