MTL - Overturned Tower-v2 Chapter 4 【Crayon】Chip

"Looks like you've figured it out."

The inferior glanced at Russell, and said flatly: "It seems that these demons don't even have their freedom restricted.

"But they were all transplanted with another kind of chip—a control chip invented by Thoth's psychic power, which is specially used to imprison high-risk prisoners, 'Crayon Type II'.

"Unlike the protective chip, this control chip exists in the form of nanometers. Once injected, it will take effect permanently. Therefore, it cannot be taken out."

"crayon…"

Russell murmured, chanting this innocent-sounding and harmless word.

The poor explained: "Some children will play a game. They use crayons to draw a few roads or grids on the ground, and then define a certain color as a road, a certain color as a flame, or a swamp, and then walk on it. They deliberately don't touch the other road, it's like walking on a single-plank bridge between two buildings."

"Ah... I've heard of that game."

Russell nodded slowly with complicated emotions: "It's parkour on the ground."

In this world, "parkour" is a cool sport.

It has a sense of defiance because it's dangerous and has a "feeling of freedom"; but it's not illegal, and it's not seen as dangerous or aggressive... just running across the roof That's all.

Because of this kind of movement, in most cases, it is oneself who is endangered.

Even if you rely on special props...for example, shoes that can jump from high places without breaking your legs, or hooks that can be ejected from the waist, special tools that can walk sideways and walk horizontally on buildings. Props like climbing boots allow them to move forward in more imaginative ways.

But for children, it is impossible for their parents to encourage them to engage in such dangerous sports and buy them equipment.

So the children like to draw lines on the ground with crayons. Imagine this is the route they would take when parkouring.

And if the shoes wipe off the crayon, it means that they "stepped on the edge", that is, "slipped and slipped"-symbolizing "dead".

They would construct increasingly complex terrains, and everyone would take turns working on the questions.

It is best to have a map that only you can pass, and everyone else will "die".

In a way, it's almost like Mario Maker...

This is actually the same as the "police and thief" on the earth to simulate chasing battles, "hide and seek" to simulate hunting for prey, and "throwing sandbags" to simulate long-distance combat.

Children are the most innocent. Games that are popular among children generally vaguely satisfy a certain "nature"...or "instinct".

Russell hadn't retrieved his past life memories when he was a child, and he also wanted to play "crayon parkour" with other neighborhood children.

But he was never welcome.

Because he is too strong. Therefore, it was refused to join.

Russell got too much dexterity from his own schizophrenia.

Not to mention this kind of childish simulated parkour... When Russell was a few years old, he could easily jump up a tree, or simply climb a tall building. When he first entered elementary school, he liked to climb onto the classroom door and crouch quietly with other classmates. And the moment they entered the door, jumped behind them and hugged them to frighten them.

Thinking back now...

This may be an "instinctive desire to hunt" brought to Russell by spirituality.

Although Russell didn't understand anything, he still subconsciously imitated the hunting of cats - he liked to approach people from behind, and silently rushed over to hug them.

Today, Russell can even avoid bullets and even cut them off with a knife.

Those children certainly could not have this level of dexterity.

This means that the questions they gave Russell back then would never be able to stump Russell; and the questions that Russell gave himself with moderate difficulty, those children would never pass...the game thus became meaningless. Russell also stopped playing the crayon game a long time ago.

Now these demon prisoners are like being trapped in a never-ending game of "crayon"...

"They can't leave their own 'color', can they?"

Russell murmured softly.

He couldn't help but sigh how advanced this "imprisonment" method is. At the same time, there was a creepy fear of this control method.

It fundamentally eliminates the possibility of "jailbreak". Because it is impossible for them to walk on the ground of the same standard color all the time outside.

Moreover, it can also minimize the management difficulty—

After all, each prisoner can only walk on tiles of a specific color. As long as they leave their floor tiles, they will immediately feel unbearable pain...then there is no need to worry about the problem of prisoners running around. As long as the color of the corridor is changed by the machine, a certain group of prisoners can be controlled to come out to let the air go, and others cannot leave their rooms at all.

"...But in this case, wouldn't the prisoners fight each other?"

Russell asked.

This restraint also means that it solves the "force gap" to the greatest extent.

Even if you can't beat the opponent, can't you push someone?

As long as you touch the opponent lightly, you will feel the sharp pain as if being shocked by a high-voltage electric shock. The specifications of the prosthetic bodies used by everyone are the same, so there is almost no difference in strength and physique.

This instead achieves a subtle "fairness".

As long as there is someone who hates you, you will feel severe pain every day. As long as there are enough people, they are invincible.

"Because this chip also eliminates the possibility of suicide and killing each other."

The inferior spoke slowly: "Devils can't choose to end their own lives, and they can no longer endanger the lives of others. With the injection of chips, their thoughts are also stamped... They can curse each other and each other, but they can't do anything. Attack each other. It's like those people without tails who can never figure out how to use their tails.

"Their limbs were all removed and replaced with similar prosthetics. This also means that their actions can be taken over at any time... voluntarily crossing the line, or stop action to accept punishment."

"And there are cameras and bugs everywhere here. In addition to the ones in the sky, the ones on the ground... there are everyone's eyes and ears. Everything they hear, see, and think will be transmitted to the designated location All the instructions made by their prosthetic bodies will be transmitted to that place, and they can interfere at any time.

"That's where the real 'memory armed' research institute is located.

"—As for the demon here, it's just the object of research."

The inferior said, leading Russell to a small room.

As he walked, he slowly explained to Russell: "The one called 'Blind Snake' just now was a kindergarten volunteer.

"Because the kindergarten she was in had three consecutive deaths in a year due to accidents such as falling, cardiac arrest, and sudden death at night, so we secretly investigated.

"The places where the children fell were not in the kindergarten. We were still investigating these accidents, and we found out that they were all related to this kindergarten. Later, we found that there were eleven other cases that had not been discovered... And behind these cases, is The 'Blind Snake' is murdering these children.

"Her psychic power is a kind of delayed-acting poison. By releasing a special poison to something, and making the opponent's skin touch. When the poison is in contact, the opponent will become extremely calm and peaceful. Afterwards, She can detonate the poison at any time within forty-eight hours, paralyzing the opponent for a certain period of time... The moment of paralysis is equivalent to the time the opponent is exposed to the specific poison."

"...Then what is she planning?"

Russell couldn't believe it.

"Nothing."

The inferior said flatly: "When she was in her twenties, because of taking illegal and powerful drugs that can increase happiness, it caused the throbbing pain of the fetus in the abdomen, stepped on the empty steps, slipped down and had a miscarriage.

"Her psychic power was awakened at that time. The ability to 'quiet' and 'paralyze' others was mixed with hate and love. After she was discharged from the hospital, she became a kindergarten volunteer. While loving other people's children At the same time, they are also jealous that they can have healthy children, and they also have a strong dislike of 'active' children.

"And this kind of psychic power develops further... She becomes a demon named 'close your eyes and hold your breath'. Her original wish is to kill as many 'active children' as possible. She started It will intermittently paralyze the children's bodies, and if the child is on the verge of danger at that time, he will immediately fall.

"Later, if she finds out that there is an extremely active child who is lucky enough not to die, she will angrily sneak poison into the other party, paralyzing it until death at night. This process will take several hours, The child is immobilized in bed ... until the heart goes into paralysis. At that point, their parents may be there and not know it."

"And such demons are everywhere here—almost every one of them has multiple, innocent lives in their hands. The very few who have no victims in their hands are also because our arrests are fast enough."

As he spoke, he glanced at Russell coldly: "Do you understand?

"Demons are inhuman. When they really become demons, they only have one idea left... an idea that can be ignored as long as they can achieve ~www.novelbuddy.com~. There is no reasoning with demons In any sense, because demons don't care about reasoning, rules, morality... They don't even care about the threat of life, because they are not afraid of death. They just hope to go as far as possible on this road.

"But demons will cunningly deceive you into thinking they are persuaded by you.

"If you choose to turn a blind eye... choose to help it hide, the demon will become more extreme and crazy as time goes by.

"At the beginning, the devil just wants to be loved. In the middle stage, he will distort the lover's mind, rewrite the memory of the people close to him, and disturb the social relationship of someone he likes. Later, he will kill "love yourself" at will The level of 'attenuation' of the familiar, unscrupulously trick passers-by back home, and when the other party 'doesn't fall in love' with him, he will kill him and 'replace him with a new one'.

"Because the demon's desires will gradually expand and distort. On the contrary, their morality, rationality and other 'blue shift' related values ​​will gradually decay, and they will completely return to zero when they hatch.

"The morality of the devil is like a game player who has no scruples; compared to a player who doesn't care so much about a game and just wants to have fun, the devil can do whatever it takes to fulfill his 'principal wish'. Therefore, Demons will eventually become more and more dangerous.

"At the end of the day, it's because those things that have already been obtained are no longer precious. If it was an ordinary person, they would dislike it at that time and look for other pleasures... But the devil will not.

"Because demons only go one way or the other, they're only interested in one thing. So they're bound to seek stronger and stronger stimuli.

"—reciprocating cycle, never ending."