Tan Yan looked at the endless mountains in the distance, then turned back to look at the white tower where 154 innocent people were imprisoned.
Reason told him to leave here and take Liang Xian back to the real world. Even if he couldn't save people, so what? They had successfully locked the evil consciousness in this world that suppressed consciousness, and the mission was accomplished. Saving 154 people was beyond his ability, so even if he didn't save them, it wouldn't be wrong.
But from an emotional point of view, Tan Yan hopes to save people.
At the same time, his intuition also told Tan Yan that the border ahead was more dangerous and he needed to make some preparations.
Without much hesitation, Tan Yan made the decision.
He asked Chen Xuexi, "When are you going back?"
"We are leaving now. We have hunted some game. Why, do you want to go back?" Chen Xuexue asked.
"Well, my friend fell asleep, and it's a bit tiring to carry him on my back." Tan Yan glanced at Chen Xuexue's airship, wondering what language to use to better express the word "hitchhiking" in this world.
"You want a ride?" Chen Xuexue smiled kindly, "Get in the car, I'll take you home."
Airships are called "cars" in this world. Is this a continuation of language habit
Tan Yan sat in the back seat with Liang Xian on his back. He touched Liang Xian's chest and found his heart was still beating, but he didn't know what happened to his consciousness.
"Is your friend sick?" Chen Xuexue glanced at Liang Xian and reminded him, "If he is sick, you can send him to the White Pagoda. The gods will cure him."
"No, he just sleeps very soundly." Tan Yan replied calmly.
"That's good." Chen Xuexue started the airship and slowly flew towards the villa area where Tan Yan had just escaped.
Tan Yan noticed that he was wearing a bracelet on his hand and was very curious, but reason told him not to ask easily.
"How old are you this year? How old is your son?" Tan Yan tried to start a conversation.
"I'm 35 years old now, and my son is 17. He'll be getting married in a year, and I wonder which girl he'll be assigned to."
He is 35 years old and has a 17-year-old son. His son will get married in a year, and even his wife is assigned to him. This kind of protection... Tan Yan thought that if it were him, he would rather live freely in the dangerous world outside than be kept in captivity like this, stifling all possibilities of progress.
Chen Xuexue is not a person who is good at active thinking. His long farming career has made him a little dull, and he has no doubts about Tan Yan.
After understanding his character, Tan Yan decided to take a risk and ask some non-common sense questions to learn more about the world.
"You have only one child?" he asked.
"Yes, in order to control the population size, the average family can have two children, but the childbearing age is 18-25 years old. If you are over 25, it is no longer the eugenics period, and we will take the initiative to do sterilization. Our family has only one child, and the rest of the quota is given to other families. My neighbor can have three children, and it is the quota I gave her. After their youngest child is born, we can take him in to raise and share their pressure." Chen Xuexi replied.
Tan Yan felt a chill down his spine when he heard this, and said, "Can I visit your house? I'm about the same age as your son, and I want to make friends with him."
"Of course, no problem," Chen Xuexue said, "I can even treat you to game."
Tan Yan stretched out his and Liang Xian's sleeves to cover their wrists so that Chen Xuexue would not notice that he was not wearing a bracelet.
The speed of the airship was very fast, faster than Tan Yan's running speed. In less than ten minutes, they arrived at the villa area. Chen Xuexue parked the airship in a yard and took Tan Yan into his home without any precautions, like a domesticated animal that had lost its wildness and vigilance.
Chen Xuexue's wife was about the same age as him, in her thirties. Like him, she had no guard and welcomed Tan Yan warmly. She even asked her son to come downstairs to accompany Tan Yan.
The way they entertained guests was just like any other family.
Chen Xuexi's son is also named Chen Xuexi, let's call him Chen Xiaoxuexi. He walked down from upstairs, took out fruits and tea to entertain the guests, turned on the video screen on the wall, and sat with Tan Yan to watch TV.
Tan Yan picked up the fruit on the table. It looked like a common apple in the real world, but when Tan Yan pinched it, he felt something was wrong.
He looked at Chen Xiaoxue and asked, "I heard from your father that you once complained that the food provided by the gods was bland and tasteless?"
Chen Xiaoxue behaved like a normal 17-year-old boy, a little cold and a little immature. After hearing what Tan Yan said, he turned his head and said word by word: "Our daily food is a gift from God. It is the most nutritious and suitable for us. We should eat it with a grateful heart. How can we dislike the taste of food?"
This is not like the behavior of a rebellious teenager at all. Just as Chen Xuexue said, after entering the White Tower, he has become well-behaved and changed for the better.
"Aren't you curious about the outside world?" Tan Yan asked again.
Chen Xiaoxue was like a robot, with no expression on his face when he mentioned these things: "You can't go outside, it's very dangerous."
This boy, who could once protest against the taste of food, is now a person living within the framework set by the "Gods".
Tan Yan chatted with him intermittently, occasionally paying attention to Liang Xian's situation and occasionally taking a look at the entertainment programs in this world.
There are no advertisements or actors. It is always a propaganda film, promoting how terrible the outside world is and how happy it is in the safe zone. People don't need to work, worry about money, rush for life, suffer from illness, or live so tiredly. The gods will give everyone everything, and they just need to enjoy it with a grateful heart.
Indeed, the family was wealthy and the three of them looked healthy. It was said that they strictly followed the god's schedule every day, sleeping when they should sleep and resting when they should rest, and they did not dare to violate it at all.
Living like prisoners in prison, they can only see what "God" allows them to see and do what "God" allows them to do.
The image on the visual screen suddenly changed. A man in a white protective suit appeared on the screen and said, "Super alert, super alert. Two patients with sabotage tendencies have escaped from the White Tower into the living area. They are not wearing wristbands. Please pay attention to the people around you. If you find someone without a wristband, call the police immediately and send them back to the White Tower for treatment."
Probably because Liang Xian destroyed the surveillance equipment, "Tian Shen" did not have photos of Tan Yan and others and could only confirm them in this way.
Chen Xiaoxue looked at Tan Yan's wrist. Tan Yan opened his clothes, revealing a bracelet exactly the same as his, and asked him to look at Liang Xian again.
Chen Xiaoxue nodded with confidence, pressed a button on the bracelet, and said, "Dad, Mom, our guest has a bracelet, I have confirmed it."
The bracelet conveyed the relieved voices of Chen Xuexi and his wife. They did not apologize to Tan Yan for their disrespectful behavior, because what the gods said was absolute and could not be resisted.
At this time, Tan Yan was certain that the bracelet was something given to humans by "God" and should be used to monitor, control and confirm identity information.
He grabbed Chen Xiaoxue's hand and asked, "Besides communicating and confirming identity, what else can the bracelet be used for? One for each person? Can't we take it off? Aren't you afraid of losing it?"
Chen Xiaoxue's brain was a little dull, so he answered whatever Tan Yan asked: "I've worn it since I was born, so I can't lose it, and I can't take it off. The bracelet will remind you what to do and when. If you don't listen to the warning once, you will be punished if you don't listen twice."
"What if I want to sleep during dinner time?"
"You can apply and say that you are not feeling well and want to sleep." Chen Xiaoxue said.
"Oh, how do you submit an application? Please teach me. I have never tried it." Tan Yan guided.
Chen Xiaoxue didn't have any doubts. He had lost the ability to think independently. He just followed the orders of others. He raised his bracelet and pressed a few times on it: "Okay, just click OK and you can go to sleep."
Tan Yan leaned over to look at the small screen on his bracelet, then pulled his hand and quickly clicked "OK".
"What are you doing?" Chen Xiaoxue asked, "I don't want to sleep."
"No, you want to." Tan Yan put his hands on Chen Xiaoxue's eyes, and under the influence of consciousness, Chen Xiaoxue slowly fell asleep.
After he fell asleep, Tan Yan followed the same method and made Chen Xuexue and his wife fall asleep as well, and then put the family of three on the bed in the bedroom.
Tan Yan looked around the house and found two hunting poles, bullets, and a hunting license. Only people with this license could take the pole out for hunting.
All the household appliances were more advanced than those in the real world. The fawn was placed on the operating table, and a robotic arm was automatically processing the fawn's body. The hostess didn't need to take care of it at all.
Their daily life is reading, playing and exercising. The schedule is posted on the door of the living room so they can see it every day.
The books on the bookshelf were all books praising the wisdom of the "God". Before I was 18, I had to get up every day and recite an article.
Can such a life be called happy
Tan Yan was not an educator and did not understand such profound things. He only knew that he needed to wait for Liang Xian to wake up and solve the current dilemma together.
He was very worried that those people in protective clothing would investigate door to door. If the bracelet had a positioning function, then even if he changed himself and Liang Xian into Chen Xuexue and Chen Xiaoxue, he would not be able to fool those people.
Fortunately, those people seemed to trust the people in the wildlife reserve very much and did not search anyone's house. They just spread the news on TV.
Tan Yan was very worried that Liang Xian’s injuries were too serious and he would never wake up.
He put Liang Xian's head on his knees, looked at Liang Xian's young face, and secretly hoped that he could wake up soon.
God seemed to have responded to Tan Yan's wish. After resting for about five hours at Chen Xuexi's house, Liang Xian woke up with his head covered with his hands, looking painful.
The author has something to say: I know everyone wants to know why humans in this world have become like this. Don’t worry, I will reveal it slowly.