"A lifetime of illusions, only to see the truth upon death." This is the first sentence of this human congressman's description.
""Don Quixote"?" Lu Wen looked at him.
"Um."
Chen Qiang put down the bread in his hand.
He sat across from the two of them, looking calm.
"One of the consequences of fear is that it makes people confused and cannot see the true appearance of things." Lu Wen whispered this famous line from "Don Quixote", "In your world, Are all creatures distorted, fantasy or reality?”
"What's a fantasy for you is a reality for me," Chen Qiang said.
The book "Don Quixote" depicts a declining aristocrat who is fascinated by chivalric novels.
He imagined what he wrote in the book into reality.
Those magic and justice, struggle and inheritance collided in his mind.
So in that century when knights disappeared, he put on heavy armor, got on his horse, and chased the lost spirit of chivalry alone between dusk and dawn.
He recognized the girl from the neighboring village as his mistress. He fought with the windmill and stubbornly believed that it was a giant.
"You suffered from something terrifying in your childhood, and the world began to become distorted, so Zero created another world for you, the world you thought you saw in your dreams." Lu Wen said.
"I have never dreamed. I am awake. This world is not in a dream, it exists in reality."
"What do I look like in your eyes? A torn monster? Squirming flesh? Covered with eyes?"
"Roughly the same."
Yin Liuyue watched the two chatting from beginning to end, but she couldn't find a common topic.
This guy named Lu Wen knows Zero well.
She had no idea what Don Quixote was.
The conversation between the two people sounded to her like it was encrypted.
"According to ordinary people's thinking, after discovering me, they should pay close attention to me and monitor my actions until I come into contact with the teacher." Chen Qiang said
"That's just the way ordinary people deal with ordinary people." Lu Wen looked at him.
"The teacher said that he wanted to build a perfect world, so I am willing to follow him and turn this twisted world into a page of history."
"But now you've been abandoned by him."
Lu Wen looked at Chen Qiang.
This human councilor has a lot in common with the little painter.
Childhood is their common weakness.
Zero took advantage of that moment and gave them another world, a world that was better than the cruel real world.
"Did you know that the death of the family who adopted you may be related to No. 0?"
"I know, I watched them die."
This man is hopeless.
At least the young painter knew how to stay away from Mowu City to protect his beloved.
Chen Qiang actually watched his family die.
Perhaps in his eyes, those dead family members were all terrifying monsters
"They adopted you after all."
"Everyone knows the world differently. The world you see is the world that is generally recognized. This world exists, so why can't the world I see exist?"
When Chen Qiang stated all this, his tone did not change.
It was as if he had always been just a passerby.
"I saw the sky was blood red, the earth was full of abyss, monsters were walking in the world, everyone was living with demons... You can think this is my fantasy, what if this is not it?"
"Actually, you don't deserve that epitaph." Lu Wen looked into his eyes, "You have been delusional all your life, and you are still confused at the end of your life. This is you. You are paranoid that you are right and that No. 0 is right. "
Lu Wen stood up, knowing that there was no point in asking anymore.
He walked to the door and opened it.
Facing the early morning breeze of Baker City.
Yin Liuyue followed him.
"Why don't you continue asking?" she asked.
"It's not necessary, I already got the answer I should know." Lu Wen looked into the distance, "Sometimes, people know that they are wrong, but they are unwilling to correct it because that mistake cost him too much, so He can only wallow in his mistakes, and once he wakes up, the price will completely break him."
This sentence is not too loud
But he was standing at the door.
So in the room behind, Chen Qiang, who was eating bread, heard clearly.
He sat on the stool, lowered his head, his body trembled slightly, and soon returned to calm.
Lu Wen and Yin Liuyue returned to the car and gradually drove away.
"Tell me, is Zero looking at us now?" Yin Liuyue sat in the passenger seat and fastened his seat belt.
"Yes, and he knows the content of my previous conversation with Chen Qiang. He can hear every word clearly." Lu Wen said.
"Then doesn't he know all our plans?" Yin June asked.
"Do we have a plan?"
Lu Wen smiled, their plan was to destroy Zero's plan.
Dr. Jiang seemed to be interested in training the two of them, so he didn't give any other suggestions. He just opened up the permissions of all the equipment for them to use.
I always feel that this old-timer is very confident.
"What did you mean by your last words when you went out just now?"
"Chen Qiang has actually realized that everything he suffered in childhood was planned by Zero, including those horrific events that distorted his world view."
Lu Wen looked for a hotel with a relatively high rating on the map.
Make it your destination.
"The death of the family who adopted him was also caused by Number Zero. It can be said that all the tragedies he has experienced since childhood were caused by Number Zero."
"Then he is still determined to work with Zero?"
"Because apart from that, he has nothing else to do, and there is no hope in his life... Zero can at least give him a real dream, so that he will not be too painful."
"It would be better to die than to live like this."
A controlled life is such a tragedy.
Before the two arrived at the hotel, a piece of news came out.
[Human councilor Chen Qiang swallowed a gun and committed suicide at home. The reason is currently unknown]
[After investigation, Councilor Chen Qiang suffers from long-term depression and lives alone all year round]
died.
Chen Qiang knew that although his exposure caused Number Zero to give up on him, he still had one last thing worth using.
That was his death.
"Number Zero can arrange his death to make it more like it was created by a bionic human organization. That can also have the effect of increasing conflicts, but in the end... he may have finally woken up."
A life controlled like that means nothing.
During the conversation between the two, Lu Wen kept reminding Chen Qiang.
“A lifetime of illusions, it’s hard to see the truth before death.”
If he doesn't make a decision for himself, he won't see the truth.
So Chen Qiang made the final decision.
Arrange your own death.
He opened the door and took one last look at this twisted world.
The sound of gunshots woke up the neighbors in the quiet morning, and they all walked out.
At the moment of death, he finally got rid of Zero's control, and he didn't know if the world in his eyes had returned to normal.
"He died on the street. No. Zero had no time to arrange the scene. After the gunshot, people around him quickly discovered the body, so No. Zero could not take advantage of his death."
How is No. 0 feeling now
Do you feel like things are getting out of his control
"Get off the car. The restaurant is here. Order whatever you want to eat."
Lu Wen parked the car on the side of the road.
The car modified by Dr. Jiang has built-in surveillance without blind spots, which can prevent some people with evil intentions from installing eavesdropping devices on the car.
Yin June ordered a table as usual.
"Chen Qiang's words actually revealed a message. Zero has a bigger plan. Each plan complements each other. Even if there is a problem in one of them, it will not affect the final outcome too much. He wants to provoke a fight between the city and the no-man's land. of war.”
Lu Wen leaned back in his chair and analyzed it carefully.
Something is missing.
The deaths of several congressmen from different forces may be used to achieve the ultimate goal.
But that plan was ruined.
Make it public.
Now, whenever an android councilor dies, the first thing people think of is Number Zero, not anyone else.
So the MP's death has no value.
But listening to Chen Qiang's tone, Number Zero seemed to be indifferent.
"It turns out... his goal has actually been achieved, and there is only one thing to do next." Lu Wen suddenly figured out a key point.
"What?" Yin Liuyue looked up at him.
"If you think about it carefully, the doctor is here to train you, not to make you eat and drink all day long."
"I don't know Zero. You and the doctor have been discussing it for several hours in the early morning. Who knows what kind of riddles you are playing. She is just a beautiful girl from an ordinary family."
“…”
Large-scale wars often originate from small-scale local unrest.
When casualties reach a certain level, both sides will begin to lose control.
So-called, getting angry.
"Casualties, this is the result of Zero's final request, and he has done it." Lu Wen said.
"You mean... the battle between the underground organization and the android forces last night? But wasn't that deliberately provoked by the two of us?"
"Yes, but even if there are not two of us, there will be others who will provoke a fight. The most critical point is... we must let the android organization from No Man's Land come to Baker City."
After the reformed councilor died, Number Zero was already halfway to success.
With the anger of being slandered, many androids risked their lives to sneak into Baker City to investigate the truth of the death.
What happens next is simple.
Let these androids interact with an underground organization, the Executive Directorate, or the military at will, and it will turn into a fire conflict.
"Last night's battle damage was 1:4. It seemed that the androids had won a complete victory, but they escaped in despair. They must have been holding their breath in their hearts. These guys' brain circuits are quite simple. They cannot stand this anger. Will come back again," Lu Wen said.
"You are an android yourself, and you actually scolded your own compatriots." Yin Liuyue rolled her eyes at him.
"No, I am actually... in a sense, a little more advanced than those androids."
"The legendary sixth generation of androids that haven't been released yet?"
"No, I can't explain it to you."
Lu Wen looked out the window.
No matter how sunny the weather is, there are always low-pressure clouds over the city.
Zero's plan is not very shrewd, but it gives people a feeling of being unstoppable, and the links are intertwined. As long as any link fails to stop him, the results of the plan will not change much.
"You just said that Zero needs to do one more thing. What is it? To draw the war away from those two forces and spread to the entire Baker City?" Yin Liuyue asked.
"Yes." Lu Wen nodded, "The reason why I agreed to your plan last night was to use the android organization in No Man's Land to weaken the underground organization in Baker City... I hadn't thought of this at the time. Dr. Jiang was right. , I’m still not flexible enough and my brain can’t turn around, so I’ll be at a disadvantage against Zero.”
Last night's plan was simple.
Jia Ren's underground organization is chasing Lu Wen. Naturally, Lu Wen cannot just sit back and wait for death. He has to show them some color.
So he agreed to the girl's plan.
Lead the members of the underground organization to the place where the android organization lurks, and trigger a war between the two sides.
In fact, Lu Wen had already seen very far at that time.
Before executing Yin June's plan, he calculated it many times.
Based on Baker City's current attitude towards androids, the capabilities of underground organizations, the strength of android organizations in no-man's land, and other factors, a comprehensive analysis was made.
in his calculations.
The battle between these two organizations, no matter how fierce it is, will never spread to all of Baker City.
The underground organization is inherently unpopular, and the android organization in No Man's Land is also unpopular. The possibility of a war between these two organizations alarming the entire Baker City is slim.
The worst-case scenario is that the war lasts too long, requiring the Baker City Council to intervene.
"What method will Zero use to involve the entire Baker City in the struggle between these two forces?"
Lu Wen sighed.
Kill more congressmen? This approach won't work.
Leading two groups on a crusade to blow up the Capitol? Neither organization is that stupid.
And it's all too obvious.
Zero's arrival has been made public, and no matter what strange things happen, they can be blamed on him immediately.
Although this city is chaotic, there is still some basic order.
"Chaos? How to expand the chaos?"
Lu Wenzheng lowered his head and thought about these two words.
Trying to figure out Zero's next plan.
But something suddenly happened in Mowu City, which stunned him for a moment.
"A councilor and a deacon from Floating City are coming to Mowu City?"
This is information received from within the Executive Board.
Very few executives know.
The news about Lu Wen was given to him by Wei Boyan.
Wei Boyan told him not to let ordinary people know.
No one has been to Mowu City in Floating City for many years.
Congressman, this is understandable, he is one of those 29 old immortals.
As for the deacons, there is no executive bureau in the floating city. They have set up a deacon office, and all disputes are mediated by the deacons.
At this critical juncture, what are these two doing in Mowu City
The atmosphere in Mowu City is very strange now.
Under the operation of Ma Bo and others, many ordinary people knew that the android organizations outside Mowu City had established an alliance and expressed their willingness for peace.
"Is it to prevent the birth of another Eden?"
Or…
Take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Completely destroy the android organization outside Mowu City
(End of chapter)