Deceitful Game

Chapter 268 Memory is Self

Mingpo looked at Chen Bingwen.

Chen Bingwen did not escape from the hallucination, and the evidence is that the hallucination has not ended.

But he actually regained consciousness and saw Mingpo's phantom directly.

"If your eyes were on someone else..."

Chen Bingwen said, "Perhaps it will leave them stuck here forever... or cause them to have a mental breakdown."

"And what about you?"

Mingpo retorted, "Aren't you human?"

………No."

Chen Bingwen was silent for a moment before speaking, "Perhaps it's because I'd rather experience that fear again than be afraid to see it." "Ah, I understand."

Mingpo grinned and sneered, "You're a masochist."

"...If you insist on saying it that way, then there's no problem."

Chen Bingwen shook his head, but surprisingly admitted, "I do enjoy this feeling of self-reproach."

What he truly feared was neither his father's accidental death nor the collapse of his father's former image.

Rather, he himself had unknowingly strayed from his father's former expectations.

"Shortly after the war began," Chen Bingwen said softly, "I knew... that my father was actually dead when I last saw him."

He became a conman and used a token of time to return home, leaving behind a suicide note.

"After that, war broke out."

Chen Bingwen began to speak.

The surrounding scenery changed again.

The roar of artillery fire reduced the city to ruins. On one side were humans, tanks, and airplanes; on the other side were robots and drones.

The real war was over from the very beginning.

"At that time, I thought..."

Chen Bingwen said softly, "My father didn't become a good judge because he ignored public opinion. If I were in his shoes, perhaps we wouldn't have encountered this problem."

"So... I tried becoming a corporate judge."

"Oh?"

Mingpo raised an eyebrow.

He certainly knew what "corporate judge" meant. If the executives were a pack of biting dogs, then the corporate judges were the devilish henchmen of the eight giants.

They aren't even human beings; they're just tools the company uses to exploit others.

But surprisingly, Mingpo didn't laugh at Chen Bingwen; she just listened quietly.

"I soon discovered that there were too many obstacles at work and too many things to consider."

Chen Bingwen sighed deeply: "It's not like I can just decide how to judge. Let alone uphold justice... I don't even have the power to change anything. Artificial intelligence will do everything, and all I have to do is act like an actor, bringing down the gavel, pronouncing the verdict, and signing... All of this is simply because 'non-human beings do not have full human rights and have no right to judge humanity.'"

"...It's so painful."

In the corporate era, the profession of "lawyer" no longer exists.

Because of the existence of non-human intelligent entities, this kind of rule-based work has been completely replaced by artificial intelligence.

As for the company judge…

Rather than being the controllers of the law, they are more like "supervisors of the implementers." The company wants the legal department to achieve certain goals, and their role is to ensure that these goals are being implemented correctly.

"Didn't you try to resist?"

Mingpo asked softly.

Chen Bingwen was silent for a moment, then turned around and asked, "And what about you?"

The two exchanged a glance, both already knowing the other's answer.

Mingpo first looked away, turning his gaze to the hallucination that resembled a disaster movie more than a war film: "Were you also a High Heaven Lifeform before?" He remembered that in the hallucination just now, the collar Chen Bingwen wore around his neck was the dark green of a High Heaven Lifeform.

But now, his collar has turned sky blue.

This means that he has now joined Millennium Technology in the Tianji sector.

"It was because of that incident that I met that prisoner. The man who was bombed before he was even released from prison."

Chen Bingwen sighed, his expression wistful: "Back then... I was moved by him."

"What's wrong? Are you touched?"

…No, it's more like…it's disgusting.

Chen Bingwen turned around, repeating his words with an extremely complicated expression: "I actually... I actually felt nauseous when I heard what my father said."

Do you know how I felt at that time?

"When I came to my senses, I was terrified. I didn't know when I had fallen to this state, nor did I know what I would become next. I felt that this was all the original sin of the High Heaven beings... So I connected with Millennium Technology and switched jobs to Europe." Europe.

Mingpo pondered the unfamiliar term for a moment before realizing it referred to the Heavenly Secrets Sector.

When the war began, Mingper was still too young.

Newborn Mingper was already doing his utmost to survive. At the time, he didn't even know where Europe, America, Oceania, or Australia were. And after the war broke out, these locations became meaningless.

The culture of the old era was wiped out. Although it was not destroyed, it was sealed away and monitored.

Anyone who tries to get in touch with and learn will leave a record... No one knows what the company intends to do with these records, but sometimes, the unknown is the real fear.

Therefore, everyone tells their children not to touch those taboos from the old era.

"And then?"

"They're all the same."

Chen Bingwen chuckled self-deprecatingly: "In fact, Gao Tian Life might be in a better position."

"Millennium Technology is responsible for operating and maintaining the Tianwen system. They even created a 'Tiangong' system based on the Tianwen system to monitor every move in the material world. The principles are similar."

"In the Celestial Sector, even just 'preparing to commit a crime' can lead to arrest and even execution. People believe this is a message brought back by time agents from the future... If that were true, that would be one thing. But I know that's not the case."

"That is merely a calculation of the 'danger level' based on monitoring everyone's various physical indicators and relying on big data collected by cameras throughout the entire sector."

"...thought crime?"

Mingpo was somewhat surprised.

Even beings of high heaven can commit thought crimes, but only those involving unauthorized alterations to time and space. This is because such actions would create time paradoxes, directly changing the lives of others.

If we consider the core elements constituting a person as memory and social cognition, then any alteration of time and space would mean the mass killing of others. Because once time and space are altered, those involved are no longer the same people they were before.

This is something that Mingpa now fully understands.

Ai Shiping became this unfamiliar person after receiving memories of his past life!

If Mingpo also regains her past memories later...

For those who know Mingpao now, does that also mean they have lost him forever?