Chapter 814: Elliot's Resistance
As an industrial city tasked with maintaining channels, Folkestone naturally has a port.
The port of Folkestone is the English Channel. After the baptism of rising sea levels, the English Channel has widened a lot, and the area that can be used as a seaport has also shifted. Therefore, this Folkestone is similar to what Lear knows about Marvel's Fox. Passage is not a position.
At the same time, the port is not grand: there is indeed shipping here, but not much.
Since the rabies virus broke out in the old network, a large number of AIs with autonomous consciousness have in turn controlled war machines, among which submarines are the most popular:
A total of four corporate wars took place before the collapse of the old network. The second and fourth corporate wars both had major conflicts on the ocean. Nuclear submarines were the most lethal maritime military units at the time.
In order to protect their own assets at sea and attack local assets at sea, both combatants built many nuclear submarines. With the release of the rabies virus, these combat units have become real maritime ghosts.
AI has inherited human experience and even done better. It is familiar with every waterway and can even detect the waterway. The risk of shipping by sea is too great.
Currently, the English-French Channel is escorted by human-controlled nuclear submarines and patrols composed of biological and chemical weapons such as cyber dolphins, but the scale should not be too large. The main material transportation of this channel is oil and gas, and it also carries network cables.
Real bulk cargo is now transported by airships and air freighters improved by airships.
The airfreight point does not need to be set up in Folkestone, a town that may be hit by typhoons and tsunamis at any time, so the port is not large.
But you can see things you can't see in Night City: the whale's black-blue back and barnacle-covered tail fin churning on the surface.
This sea area definitely belongs to the company, but I don’t know which company it belongs to.
Elliot walked into the port's warehouse district, and the situation here was not optimistic: compared to the work he had done at the Eurotunnel factory, it was purely physical work.
Next to automated cranes and forklifts, workers wear outdated exoskeletons and use smoking prosthetics to move goods.
Seeing them, Elliot felt like he saw himself—no, far lower than himself.
"Working here to earn 1,000 a month is super hard. It's unstable and hurts your body." Elliot said with emotion, "Did you know that Britain launched the second Glorious Revolution a hundred years ago? ', it was nice to say that the King of England will protect his people so that oppression and violence will no longer exist."
[Lille: Hush! Stop talking! This is a sensitive word! 】
Elliot was stunned for a moment, carefully closed his mouth, and said in his heart:
"What's wrong? I usually post on the Internet every day, and I haven't seen the network supervisor talk to me."
[Lille: Is there something wrong with your head? You are an ordinary civilian, and your inner assessment is that you are the safest person. Of course, no one cares about your obscene remarks on the Internet. 】
[Lille: You are now discussing with EC officials how to get project funds to other companies. Now that you are talking about this, are you not afraid that the gendarmerie will deal with you? 】
[Lille: You have to remember that you are no longer 2,000 euros, but 200,000, or even 10 million, 100 million, or even a billion. 】
[Liel: With one billion in his pocket, if he comes up with an excuse to rob you, this is an organization with strong moral values and discipline. It is even more normal for him to rob you without saying a word. 】
After hearing this, Elliot thought silently:
I'm a billion now
His heartbeat suddenly beat so fast that he almost couldn't breathe.
Calculating that one billion is too much, let’s start with two hundred thousand.
After adjusting his mood, Elliot put his hand on the fingerprint recognition lock——
This is an abandoned warehouse listed on the European Community real estate transaction website. It comes from a small business that was closed down by European banks due to poor management.
[Identification system version: European Barrier Ver.2077.332044]
[Fingerprint recognition passed]
[ID card verification passed]
[Biometric Passed]
[You have passed the certification, you are welcome to visit. 】
[Email Name: Foreclosure Property No. A335128]
[Sender: Sevens]
[Sevens: Elliot, this property comes from a previous, unimportant company that has gone bankrupt, and their boss ran away to avoid bankruptcy liquidation. 】
[Sevens: European banks have put the rights to use the real estate on the Internet. There are eight months of use rights left, and the starting price is 90,000 euros. For some reasons, the last auction failed, and the next auction will be two hours later. , feel free to shoot. 】
[Sevens: This warehouse is not big, but it is small and safe. It should be enough to accommodate you and your fellow workers. 】
[Sevens: I'm going through the formalities for you, go check out the place. 】
This place is indeed not big, covering an area of more than 2,000 square meters, basically the size of four basketball courts. The interior is 10 meters high, with a single-story roof, and a three-story structure on the side with 8 offices.
In addition to looking dusty, the ground is full of oil, and the smell is weird.
all is well.
Spacious and bright - although it is a cloudy day today, even if it is cloudy, it is nice to have a window that can really see the sky outside. Even if it rains, it is also nice, and you can still hear the sound of raindrops.
Elliot suddenly felt a strange sense of satisfaction: "This place is really nice, after me"
[Lille: We will live here until the matter is finished. 】
[Lille: Let's go in and take a look now. Johnny? ]
When Elliot walked through the corridor on the second floor and passed by the window, Johnny happened to appear by the window:
[Johnny: There were two people following us but they left. It seems that they were just scouting the place. ]
Elliot's heart trembled: "Then let's change the place?"
[Lille: Change what? Folkestone is so small, not to mention the cheap and easy-to-use site. A man worth 200,000 can't even defend a small warehouse. Just find a place to bury yourself. ]
[Lille: You. Hey, can you have some backbone? The enemy wants to demolish your house, and you say dejectedly: How about changing places? ]
[Lille: You are such a coward! 】
Perhaps it was because he had been with Johnny for too long, or perhaps Elliot's cowardice had exceeded Lear's imagination, or perhaps Lear had lived in an extraordinary world for too long. Facing Elliot, who often switched back and forth between "soft" and "hard", Lear was already a little angry-
This kid, not only is his brain not bright, his attention is not focused on learning, and his mind is full of eroticism, but his courage has not increased at all!
Elliot scratched his head awkwardly, and suddenly felt ashamed.
Muramasa scolded him, and Johnny scolded him, but Lear had never really gotten angry.
Now three people, three AIs have said this, and Elliot finally couldn't hold his face.
But. But he was really scared, afraid that one day he would die in bed, die while eating, and die on the road.
And these were just his daily routines, his quiet time after work. When he thought that these times would be broken, he was afraid, irritated, and even a little resistant
Resistant to enter this new world.
Elliot also felt that he was bad, but he just couldn't get rid of this emotion.
Johnny disappeared from the field of vision, replaced by Lil.
Lil stood in front of Elliot, and the little fat man raised his head and looked at Lil's steely face. At the same time, he felt a hard steel palm on his shoulder:
"Think about the things you posted on the Internet, think about your colleagues, and think about yourself.
If you still resist, and you still talk nonsense on the Internet while resisting, it can only mean one thing:
You deserve all your dissatisfaction with this world, and you have contributed to the fact that this world has become what it is now."
"I"
Click.
An abnormal light sound sounded, and all the words Elliot wanted to say were held back in his stomach, and Lil disappeared.
[Lil: There are people. ]