Chapter 34 Dyson Principle

"I'm really sorry." Dr. Schultz kept apologizing while helping Xiang Shan put on a brand new prosthetic hand: "I'm really sorry. My uncle, he didn't mean that at the time. We are sorry for him. Sir, you are naturally very grateful, but..."

"I understand." Xiang Shan made a gesture with his newly replaced right hand, indicating that Dr. Schultz did not need to say any more. This hand originally belonged to the swordsman Longconi, and its parameters are far stronger than the junk prosthetic hand he used before. There is also an electromagnetic system in the palm, which can produce various linkages with the handle of the knife made of magnetic materials, making it impossible to create a hand with a fleshy hand. Completed sword move.

After the explanation, he understood what happened to the townspeople.

They couldn't bear to see this kind of "direct destruction of biological brains". For them, the image of the crime itself is enough to trigger a stress response.

Directly destroying the biological brain is a violation of the "Dyson Principle" and will cause those who break the ban to lose the protection of civilization and lose all human rights they can have in this era. In a sense, this is indeed a punishment more terrible than the death penalty. Because death row prisoners also have basic human rights, ensuring that they will not suffer punishment other than the "death penalty" itself [such as "abuse"]

But individuals who have lost the protection of civilization can be subjected to anything.

At the same time, everyone in this era believes that the "Father of All Machines" watches every individual equally.

Expressed in a non-religious discourse system, it is "there is a supreme dictator who can monitor everyone through anyone's visual prosthesis or monitoring system."

Although when Xiangshan destroyed Longconi's biological brain, Longconi was already attacking Xiangshan. Xiangshan may be on the borderline of "not breaking the rules."

But most townspeople are incapable of discerning this on the fly. Even if they can figure it out through thinking and explanations from others, they still feel strong fear at the "time" when the incident occurs.

In fact, whether this matter can be regarded as "breaking the ban" depends entirely on the mood of the local arbiter.

This kind of incident in the zone between "breaking the ban" and "not breaking the ban" can arouse strong fear in everyone. They are very afraid that they will be watched and punished by the "Father of All Planes".

That doesn't "look like mass hysteria", that is the unique mass hysteria of this era - "fear of power".

"There are no specific legal provisions, and there are no precedents to cite or supplement. The regulations that seem to be extremely liberal actually indulge the power of the tyrant..." Xiang Shan lowered his head and pondered: "What the hell is the Dyson Principle... ?”

He already knew the so-called Dyson Principle from the memory of Will Grand Doug.

It can be said that the Dyson principle is the only law and even the only morality in this era. It has only six articles, and there is even an "Article Zero" that does not provide any substantive content, and each article has only a few notes. In this era, any behavior that does not violate Dyson's principles is regarded as "permitted".

Article 0: All individuals who do not explicitly refuse to abide by the Dyson Principles, or do not explicitly violate the principles, will abide by the Dyson Principles by default and accept the protection of civilization. The Dyson Principle is the only universal principle of human civilization. Anything that doesn't violate Dyson's principles should be allowed.

Article 1: All humans have an obligation to maintain human genetic diversity. Refusing this obligation will automatically result in the loss of civilized protection.

Article 2: It is prohibited to harm other people’s biological brains.

Article 3: It is prohibited to manufacture, use and sell addictive drugs.

Article 4: Private property exists and is protected.

Article 5: Anyone is allowed and only allowed to establish an organization in the form of "an individual declares allegiance to another individual".

Only these six.

"Sounds like something that extreme liberals and anarchists would like. Especially the last one... Is this to prevent the emergence of a 'government', a 'collective' with its own will? With this kind of political tendency people..."

The image of a barbarian with a savage-like face suddenly appeared in Xiangshan's mind. This group of people does not necessarily believe in doomsday rumors such as "2012". However, they are inexplicably worried about various catastrophes, and they just live a good life, voluntarily giving up the convenience brought by modern civilization, and insist on establishing various survival bases. In addition, they generally distrust others, like to form small gangs, and are extremely fond of talking about "survival."

For them, this is the embodiment of "free will."

Thinking of this, Xiang Shan felt as if a piece of his memory was missing. He seemed to remember...the period of survival in the wild...the green rainforest...and...

My memory is indeed too incomplete. Even if I find an opportunity, I can't recall them all.

So-called "lords" were also not allowed to have armies. Those who seem to have a highly consistent prosthetic body are nominally a free group willing to follow and be hired by the individual lord. The officials under the lord were not systematic civil servants, but personal assistants to the lord. The lord does not even have the power to issue orders to the people in name. He only provides "civilized protection" and is the person who morally "should destroy the thugs" - even whether the thugs want to be eliminated is the lord's own freedom.

——Order in name only.

This is Xiangshan’s view of this era.

Except for a few people related to the "human gene pool" derived from the first Dyson Principle, there is nothing that can be called "order" in this era. Everything goes backwards...

Feudal era? Slavery?

No, it's not the same. The imprint of modern technology already exists on human civilization and has a profound impact on this era. The tyrants of this era have technologies that the ancient tyrants did not have. Therefore, even such a messy "free" tyranny can restrain everyone.

The strong have the freedom to ravage the weak at will, and the weak theoretically have the freedom to resist, but they are unable to exercise this power due to limitations of physical conditions.

This era may seem free, but some people are undoubtedly freer than others.

"It is precisely because of this that the chivalrous light on the earth will not be wiped out..." Xiang Shan thought this way.

Unfortunately, Will's memory of the knights ends here.

Strange to say. Logically speaking, if a person who has lost all memory rashly absorbs the memories of others, his personality will almost certainly be affected. But Xiangshan now finds that Will's memory has almost minimal impact on his personality. There is no difference between his way of thinking and what is recorded. It seems that Xiangshan's forgotten memories are bigger than he imagined, so huge...

I don’t know to what extent it is.

He must be a man with a lot of stories.

This made Xiangshan even more interested in memory storage devices. He now has several more memory storage devices on hand. Part of it came from the giant man named "Leif", and the other part came from Paulus and Longconi. Anthony's memory storage device disappeared, and it must have been picked up by someone.

Xiang Shan's trophies were recognized by the townspeople as "Xiang Shan's private property". They did not dare to touch them without permission, so they collected them all and gave them to Xiang Shan. Anthony was beaten to death by Leif, so someone was thinking wrongly.

Xiang Shan didn't bother to pursue the matter. It is said that Paulus. Ronconi knew Anthony well and moved around frequently. Their perceptions of the world probably overlap to a large extent. These three guys are not very good at martial arts, and Anthony is also a martial artist in the art of gunnery. Xiangshan felt that he could also master the martial arts of gunpao, but he didn't know how to use hot weapons, so he was not interested in Anthony's martial arts algorithm.

The only thing that made Xiang Shan feel regretful was that the memory storage device of the mysterious enemy that popped up at the end was completely burned and could not be recovered.

There is no doubt that he is a member of Leif's group, but Xiangshan just doesn't know what he is here for.

In addition, the prosthetic bodies of those people also belong to Xiangshan.

——You have to find time to absorb those memories... At least you have to know what the hell "Green Forest Road" is...

"...Hero? Hero?" Dr. Schultz's call interrupted Xiang Shan's thoughts.

"What's wrong?" Xiang Shan asked.

"Your left hand has been installed." Dr. Schultz said carefully.

Xiangshan jumped down from the operating table and looked at his arms. These arms originally belonged to the swordsman. The streamlined silver shell resembles a handicraft. It was incompatible with the crudely made armor on his body. But it is undeniable that this is a good pair of hands. The organic combination of classical power transmission and artificial muscle fibers makes these hands incredibly agile.

Xiangshan waved a few tentative circles. An explosion-like sound blasted through Dr. Schultz's auditory system.

Dr. Schultz looked at Xiang Shan with trepidation. Xiangshan was a full foot shorter than when he went to his house half a month ago. His legs were replaced with artificial muscle structures and reverse joints. In this state, Xiangshan's legs are always in a "charged" state, and he can exert force at any time and accelerate to supersonic speeds instantly. In addition, after adjusting the center of gravity in this way, Xiangshan can more easily fall forward and fight while lying on the ground.

His outer armor was still the one forged in the village. It was covered with scars and probably wouldn't be able to withstand the next battle of the same intensity.

The head, torso, arms, and legs all seemed to come from different eras and different price points.

Xiangshan said to himself: "If I had these hands in the morning, I wouldn't have to sacrifice my prosthetic hands to borrow strength..."

"By the way, hero, there is one more thing..." Schultz said cautiously: "The Enoch who betrayed us has escaped, but his friends and friends were caught by us before they had time to escape. There is one more thing, Uncle thinks you need to know..."