"Perverted dreams reflect the dreamer's perverted psychological desires. Maybe he has masochistic tendencies?" Moses was deeply shocked by the weird and bloody pictures, and his voice became shrill. "The monkey's behavior represents the lack of your inner emotions, family affection? Love? Childlike innocence? In addition, there are currently no technological elements in the dream. Are you disgusted by technology?"
"Disgusted? No. I am passionate about technological transformation." Munch chose the last question to answer, "But one thing must be clarified. I think technological progress brings about gaps between species. Arrogant humans are more like Nature’s parasite.”
"Interesting insight." When Monk avoided the main question, Moses already had the answer in mind. "Can I have a look at yesterday's dream?" Munch blushed, but before he could stop him, Moses clicked to switch the dream.
The scene is reconstructed, and the two enter Munch's residence in Watson Building. An FL-2 suspended bed that is facing obsolescence has a squeaking sound of collision between its parts. A man is lying naked on the bed, and an equally naked woman is twisting her body, but the man is not Munch. On the note paper beside the bed, a string of characters was written with a pen: TS-010628. The hormonal scene continues. Munch immediately chose silence. "Look, that string of characters is really everywhere." He looked away, trying to change the subject.
"Suspended bed? Your dreams are really full of details." Moses covered up her embarrassment with a joke. She noticed that there was an unknown flower tattooed on the woman's back. The corolla was in the shape of a human face, and triangular vine leaves circled the center. The stamens are surrounded. The man beneath her has a strong build and a black mole on his nose. Moses pulled the woman's face closer and magnified it. There were no organs on her face, only a layer of smooth and white skin. Except for the black mole, the man's facial features were also blurred. "Hmm...heavy taste, a sign of mental illness." Moses said secretly.
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"The diagnosis time is over." The prompt sounded, the lights in the consulting room slowly turned on, and the imager on the ceiling was retracted. As the dream disappeared, the flow of information between Munch and Moses was immediately interrupted.
Because of the last scene, the two of them were silent for several minutes after taking off their glasses. Finally, Moses took the initiative to break the situation. "According to the monitoring data, after sharing the dream, your emotional level returned to a stable state. Well, I hope we can make new progress in the treatment in half a month."
"You seem to have done nothing except commenting." Monk complained in his heart, but said: "Thank you Dr. Taylor for your efforts." He tried hard to maintain his polite image. He reached out to hug Bain, and with a wild movement of his limbs, he lifted up the hem of Munch's clothes, revealing a corner of the triangular vine leaf tattoo.
Looking at Monk's retreating back, Moses Taylor nodded towards the hidden surveillance camera behind him. A pair of unfathomable eyes observed everything that happened in the consulting room just now.
Under the guidance of the spherical robot, Monk entered the elevator and arrived at the hospital lobby. With a burst of emotionless blessings of "I hope you recover soon," he left the Tozcana General Hospital. The sun is in the middle of the sky and the temperature outside is gradually rising. The entrance on the other side was still crowded.
After spending too long in the confined space of the hospital, Monk decided to walk alone, canceling the shuttle bus at the end of the corridor. "Didi." Standing on the moving track of the express lane, the implant prompted that it had received two new messages. Monk unfolded the details of the information, one from Moses Taylor, who filled in the latest diagnostic conclusion on her case: the patient's mood has stabilized, and the slight psychological distortion is within control. Allowed to receive supplies. One came from the Material Distribution Committee of Tozcana City.
"Dear Mr. Monk Bryan:
After confirmation by your attending doctor, you have obtained the right to receive this round of material distribution. Please go to distribution point 0216 as soon as possible and receive this material after passing identity authentication. Because you are the first batch of volunteers in the Freshman 1.0 series, you will receive an additional reward of 10% of the total amount of supplies. Please collect the supplies within 6 hours, otherwise it will be deemed to be automatically given up. "
Munch turned off the message, and the mental exertion of the whole morning finally paid off in a substantial way. If it weren't for the mandatory requirement of the Material Distribution Committee that after triggering a psychological diagnosis, each resident must be confirmed by the responsible doctor before being entitled to receive materials. Monk would not bother to waste time on this kind of thing.
The moving crawler of the express lane came to an end, and Munch stepped towards Mulberry Street in Nord District, where the material distribution point No. 0216 is located. The distance is not too far, just walk two blocks north after crossing the central square. Bane poked his head out of his backpack, shaking his head up and down in time with Monk's steps. The skyline in the distance is broken by several tall tower-like buildings.
In the upper domain where the city of Tozcana is located, there is a building called a parasitic tower, with an "obsidian" energy source embedded in the core of the structure. Experts in the upper domain reached a consensus that obsidian provides power to drive the parasitic tower. The energy absorbed from the lower domain has become an important condition for the growth of native food. Therefore, the number of parasitic towers has become the most obvious symbol of strength for each city.
Before the second great shock in 2055, for each newly built parasitic tower, you only need to open the energy transmission pipeline to the transition zone between the upper and lower domains, and then embed obsidian to activate the parasitic tower. Every city frantically built parasitic towers at all costs. Within a few years, the living environment of the upper domain took a turn for the worse, and the proven obsidian resources were exhausted. The energy radiated outward by the parasitic towers became the only source of native food growth. . In 2055, the Great Shock occurred again, and the transition domain mutated. The unknown material spewed out enveloped the energy channels of the original parasitic tower. The strong phagocytosis of the area made it hopeless to build a new parasitic tower. On March 22, 2056, the "Parasite Tower Protection Convention in the Upper Domain" was promulgated, stipulating that all residents of the Upper Domain, regardless of city or class, have the responsibility and obligation to protect the existing Parasitic Towers. From then on, the Parasitic Tower became the key to survival in the Upper Domain. fundamental.
The number of parasitic towers in Tozcana City is fixed at 32, ranking second among the cities in the Upper Domain. Second only to the 35 in Avalon City to the east.
High-rise buildings on both sides stand opposite each other. In the space separated from the streets on the ground, self-driving vehicles in the shape of water droplets reflect different colors under the sunlight. The complex preset driving paths spread all over the space 5 meters above the pedestrian walkway. . The water-drop trucks run smoothly and quickly in their best condition.
The images of Munch and Bain are reflected on the glass curtain wall on the street, and above his head, a giant advertisement occupies the remaining part of the glass curtain wall. While reducing optical pollution, it also provides a display for Dairaft Commercial Company. stage. Several models with sexy clothes and attractive figures were holding the latest generation of arm implants in their hands, and they were twisting and turning. At the same time, there was an advertising slogan flashing next to them: New Life 5.0 Series, give you what you want. everything of.
Among the hurried pedestrians on the street, no one paid attention to the content of the advertisement. Except for people like Munch who walked voluntarily, most of them could not afford the cost of the drip cart. Most of them had thin faces, sunken eyes, and listlessness, which was in sharp contrast to the tall buildings behind them and the fast-moving vehicles. The scarcity of native food has led to its high price, making it a luxury item that can only be enjoyed by the upper class. More people choose to undergo body implant modification and make a living by injecting energy fluids. Counting government subsidies, the price of body implants can only cover 50% of the population. The remaining people can only rely on regular distribution of supplies to survive with difficulty. Because of the government's monopoly on native grains, unless there are special channels, material distribution is the only way for ordinary people to obtain native grains, and Munch falls into this category.
There was a huge crowd ahead, and the line of people queuing up blocked the route forward. Monk looked up and saw a less conspicuous sign posted on the window of the building behind him, which read Material Point No. 0214. He looked at the sign that was inconsistent with the huge flow of people, and felt ashamed of this little trick. Without stopping, he protected Bain's head with his hands and trudged through the crowded crowd to the central square of the city. Several unbearable curse words came from behind him.
"Those who look up to the gods will have glory; their faces will be as warm as the sun. Those who follow the devil will have disaster; their faces will be as cold as frost." In the central square, a monument with a unique shape is erected. The square base is engraved with complex patterns, symbolizing the rays of the sun, and the above-mentioned folk motto is engraved in the center of the base. From the base upward, the monument is divided into three sections. The middle is a rectangular parallelepiped, and the two ends are triangular pyramids with equal bases. In the gaps between the three blocks of the obelisk, a super-powerful magnetic levitation device is laid, which holds the main body up in the air and continues to rotate at an extremely slow speed. The giant umbrella-shaped structure set up with the obelisk as the center of the circle isolates the surrounding sunlight and casts a darkness. In the triangular pyramid at the top, the angle is carefully designed to simulate sunlight shining down from the top. No matter which angle it is rotated, one side of the obelisk will always be illuminated, while the other side will always be bathed in darkness.
On the illuminated side, ten dynamic avatar frames are listed. Standing alone at the top is the supreme ruler of Tozcana City, Sammy Anderson. The nine grids below, three rows and three columns, respectively display people who have made great contributions to the city. Among them is a man wearing a police uniform. , whose name is displayed as Donnie Young, his eyes full of justice, looking firmly into the distance...
Munch walked into the shadow cast by the monument and reached out to wipe the sweat from his forehead. The sun outside the umbrella-like structure is hot and dazzling, but Munch's eyes are extremely cold, looking sharply at the photo in the center of the darkness. The man in the photo is sharp-edged and heroic, with a black mole on his nose. His name, slid underneath: Anthony Garcia.
Munch looked at this man whose brows had many similarities with his, expressionless, and then sighed softly. Although he is unwilling to admit it, this man who is nailed to the face of shame, always in darkness, and despised by others is Munch's biological father.
