Wasteland Love Game

Chapter 258. 252. Teaching of Sky Language

After a night's rest in the hotel, Chen Entropy woke up in the clouds of the morning sun.

The hotel brought them breakfast for three people, and Chen Entropy walked to the dining table first to eat.

After a while, Baihu and Chu Jianlai also came out of their respective bedrooms.However, their spirits don't look very good, and they look sluggish.

"Did you not sleep well yesterday?" Chen Entropy handed them their breakfast and asked curiously:
"The bed in the bedroom is soft and hard, and it's much more comfortable to lie on than my bed at home~"

"I didn't sleep." Chu Jianlai replied lightly, assuming a fairy-like posture.

"I don't dare to sleep either," the white fox murmured softly, drooping its ears.

Ever since Baihu and Chu Jianlai knew that there was a camera installed in the room, the two of them became startled.

But it's not their fault.After all, they were used to being fugitives in Yeshu City, and they were used to living in a hidden environment.

Now they are suddenly asked to live under 24-hour surveillance and sleep under surveillance cameras. This contrasting life experience is enough to make them feel like they are sitting on pins and needles.

However, Chen Entropy slept soundly, after all, he was very aware of the urgency of this city.

Yeshu City once reached a tourism agreement with Sky City, and the rich and powerful people who come to vacation every year alone contribute at least one-fifth of the city's finances.

As for Sky City, which regards tourism as one of its main revenue industries, they naturally have a set of reasonable rules and regulations.

Sky City does monitor tourists 24 hours a day, but they are not unprincipled.At least they will not take the initiative to do anything unfavorable to tourists until they violate the rules in the manual.

Even if there are tourists who violate a certain tourist rule, as long as the situation is not too serious, the sky city government will try to choose to repatriate the tourists instead of imprisoning them.

After the three of them finished their breakfast, Chen Entropy took them out of the hotel and onto the city streets.

There was no one on the street as far as the eye could see, and the silence was eerie.Only the walls and tree stumps on both sides of the road are covered with political posters saying "The King is watching you", and the pages are whistling in the wind.

"Why is there no one?" The white fox didn't seem to like this quiet atmosphere very much, the fur on his head was about to explode.

"Because it's 09:30 in the morning and everyone is working." Chen Entropy replied naturally:

"All residents in this city have their lives arranged. When to go to work, when to leave work, when to entertain, and when to rest. Everyone's life must be carried out step by step according to the regulations, and there is no time for even a minute. Bad."

Chen Entropy took the two of them to a convenience store on the street.

As soon as I entered the door, I heard someone in the store shouting in unison: "Welcome!"

The three looked up and saw the employees working in the store bowing to them with a standard that would make people in Arakawa feel ashamed, and then continued to work separately.

The clerks of this convenience store are very efficient at work, especially the clerk who is arranging the shelves. His hands are dancing like machines, and the shelves are organized like a work of art in a short while.

Chen Entropy bought three cans of drinks casually and walked up to the clerk at the counter.

The face of the counter clerk is always full of smiles, a package and checkout process is very skilled, and the service attitude is unbelievably good.

But what makes people feel uncomfortable is that the faces of the shop assistants here are all with the obvious smiley expression, which looks a bit weird.

Immediately afterwards, the counter clerk took out an instrument with an electronic screen from under the counter, and said to Chen Entropy with a smile on his face:
"Please rate our service!"

The three of them approached the scoring instrument and saw six options on it, in order from best to worst:

"Ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, no ok, no ok".

Chen Entropy casually clicked the button of "OK, OK", and the clerk was obviously relieved by this, and quickly bowed a standard ninety-degree bow, saying:
"Thank you for rating me as 'good good', welcome to visit next time!"

After leaving the convenience store, Baihu whispered:

"The way they laugh is so weird, it feels like they're forcing themselves to laugh."

"The reason why these people become convenience store clerks is not because they like this job, but because they are forced to be assigned here as clerks for the rest of their lives." Chen Entropy shrugged and explained:

"It's the same for other people in this city. They don't have the right to freely choose their careers. Their lives have been arranged by the government from the beginning."

Chen Entropy took out the drink from the packaging bag and divided a bottle between the two:
"But even if they are forced to arrange work, they can't show a passive attitude. The scoring device that the clerk just took out is similar to the 'performance appraisal' link. Put him in jail or shoot him~"

"How cruel!" Baihu covered his mouth, shocked by this behavior.

"Speaking of the scoring device, I'm also curious about the six scoring levels." Chu Jianlai recalled something unnatural, and asked:
"What's 'good good' and 'no no bad'? It sounds awkward, like words that a child who hasn't gone to school would use."

"The answer to this question is also very simple~" Chen Entropy took a sip of soda and replied with a smile:
"Sky cities have their own script, called 'Sky Language'."

"Sky language?" Chu Jianlai and Baihu were immediately aroused with curiosity.

"To put it simply, the essence of Sky Language is that they will delete all words that are considered 'unnecessary' by the government, and even replace some words with emoji, trying to simplify the writing system to the greatest extent." Chen Entropy Answered:

"For example, when they want to describe something more 'good' than 'good', they cannot use the word 'excellent', because these two words do not exist in Sky Language. They can only superimpose two 'good' Together, it can be used to describe something better than 'good'."

"The word 'bad' has long since disappeared from their sky language dictionary. When they want to describe a bad thing, they can only use 'bad' to describe it, or add more 'no' words to show it The severity of this matter."

"As for the words 'freedom' and 'democracy', this dangerous word is the first group to be removed from Sky Language. People who grew up learning Sky Language have never heard of such words, and don't know how to use them. How do you express this idea~”

Chu Jianlai nodded thoughtfully, and analyzed: "So that's it. The essence of sky language is to control the people's language, so as to control their expression and thinking, so as to consolidate the rule of the city government?"

"That's right ~ just imagine, how could a group of people who don't even know how to express the word 'freedom' resist the tyranny of the government?" Chen Entropy said with a smile:

"So the essence of sky language is to weaken their language and thinking functions, so as to reduce the possibility of their thinking and resistance."

"It's ridiculous." Chu Jianlai scratched his head.

"There are a lot of absurd things in this city, and you will see even more outrageous things soon~" Chen Entropy looked at his watch and said with a little expectation.

The three of them investigated on the street for a while. On the surface, they were shopping for clothes, but they would inadvertently ask the store clerk for information about the "Velvet Alchemy Workshop".

Unfortunately, these residents seem to have no impression of this alchemy workshop, and they all shook their heads in denial.

"At least one thing has been confirmed, that is, the popularity of 'Velvet Alchemy Workshop' here is very low."

Chen Entropy is quite optimistic about such a result.After all, it was only the first day they came to this city, and it was appropriate to investigate things step by step.

After spending most of the morning, Chen Entropy did not find any practical clues, so he had to take the initiative to contact Hekalis.

"Let me take a look. According to the information, the 'Velvet Alchemy Workshop' was witnessed in the "Middle Floor Area C" of Sky City. "Hikaris checked the information and replied:

"It's where factories and small workshops gather. A factory worker took a selfie after work, and the sign of the alchemy workshop happened to be in the background."

The city divisions of Sky City are first divided into upper, middle and lower floors, and each floor is divided into different areas.

The upper layer is the open-air city on the deck; the middle layer is composed of the cabin of the airship; and the lower layer is the bottom layer of the giant spaceship, which mainly contains important equipment such as the maintenance room of the spaceship and the energy supply furnace. Do not enter without permission.

Before Chen Entropy opened the Ministry of Tourism, he sent them the Tourist Regulations for a look, and then his face suddenly turned a little dark:
"It's broken! Area C on the middle floor is an area where tourists are forbidden to enter!"

"Then what should I do?" Hekalis clicked his tongue lightly and complained, "Do you want to just return without success?"

"I can only sneak in." Chen Entropy suddenly clapped his fists and said with determination.

"While we were talking, there were five cameras on the street watching you from different angles." Hekalis reminded:

"Sky City's surveillance system is stricter than you imagined. Even if I can help you hack some of the cameras, they will quickly notice and go on alert. Do you think you really have a way to sneak in?"

"Of course I have a way!" Chen Entropy looked at his watch, as if he was waiting for the time to come.

Soon, the clock pointed to eleven o'clock at noon.

A loud broadcast suddenly sounded in the sky above Sky City, and it seemed that everyone in the city could hear:

"Citizens of Bahamut, it's eleven o'clock in the morning, and it's time for the daily "teaching time".Citizens are requested to put down their work within 10 minutes and go to the nearest 'confession room'!May the glory of the sky be with us! "

"What is the teaching time?" Chen Entropy's friends obviously had doubts after hearing the broadcast.

"Want to take a look with me?" Chen Entropy suddenly suggested:
"Anyway, we are not prohibited from participating in the tourist regulations."

Soon, the citizens left the shops, office buildings, and other jobs, and came to the streets in droves, making the empty space look a bit crowded.

The people, like marionettes driven by orders, walked forward with neat and heavy steps.

Chen Entropy signaled his two companions to follow the crowd.A few minutes later, they came to the door of a movie screening room that could accommodate hundreds of people.

At the entrance of the screening room, two soldiers were checking the information of registered citizens and letting them in one by one.

Soon, Chen Entropy and others came to the two soldiers.

The soldiers activated the mechanical prosthetic eyes to check the identities of the three of them, and then asked, "Are you tourists?"

"That's right, can't tourists experience your 'teaching time'?" Chen Entropy asked innocently, tilting his head.

"Of course you can experience it! We welcome it very much!" The soldiers made way sideways and decisively put the three of them into the projection room.

After entering the screening room, Chen Entropy took two companions to find a corner, and said relaxedly:
"Look, I'm just saying they'll let us in?"

"So what exactly is this 'teaching time'? "The white fox asked impatiently.

"To put it simply, it's a worship activity close to religion." Chen Entropy pointed to the screen and said, "Look, it's about to start!"

Before I knew it, the auditorium was already full of people.

The light in the projection hall suddenly dimmed, but the projection screen in front of the room suddenly became brighter, revealing a man's face on the screen.

The man has simple red short hair and should be about 50 years old by visual estimation.He looked at the people outside the camera with piercing eyes, and he had a kind of calm and prestige.

He is the current king of Sky City, and his full name is "Dickassan F. Kennedy".

King Dekasang cleared his throat and said in a thick voice:
"My dear citizens, may the glory of the sky be with us!"

After the voice fell, the people in the projection hall clasped their hands together, as if they were praying to the god statue.

Immediately afterwards, Dikassang gave an impassioned speech that lasted for half an hour.The content of the speech was very cliché, probably educating the people to work hard, abide by city laws, and work hard to make this city great.

Half an hour later, the king's speech ended, and the projection screen gradually dimmed.

Chu Jianlai and Baihu turned their heads to look at the citizens sitting beside them, only to find that most of these people had tears in their eyes, and their bodies seemed to be trembling slightly from excitement.

At some point, the entire screening hall was filled with a fanatical atmosphere comparable to a cult.It seemed that it was not their monarch who was speaking to these citizens just now, but the god they had always believed in.

"That man's speech is ordinary, why are they so excited?" Baihu couldn't help asking.

Hearing Baihu's words, the citizens at the side immediately turned to look at her, and exclaimed in surprise: "What did you say? You actually used the king to say such bad things?!"

The citizen used three "no" words in one breath, combined with the citizen's glaring expression, it seemed that he was very angry at Baihu's speech.

"Sorry, we are new tourists and don't know the rules. Be careful next time!"

Seeing this situation, Chen Entropy quickly covered her mouth, smiled and apologized to the citizens next to her, and quickly dragged them away from the screening room.

"Don't forget the rules in the visitor's handbook. You must not disrespect their king at any time, otherwise we will get into trouble!" After leaving the screening hall, Chen Entropy reminded in a low voice.

"Oh. I was wrong." The white fox shrank his neck, and put his ears on his hair in frustration.

"So, what is the purpose of you taking us to watch this boring speech event?" Hekalis yawned in Chen Entropy's earphones and asked lazily.

"This speech event is called "teaching time" by them, and it will be held routinely every morning at [-]:[-] am and [-]:[-] pm, with the purpose of preaching and brainwashing the people and strengthening their loyalty to the city. "

After observing the surveillance cameras around, Chen Entropy explained in a low voice:
"Tourists are allowed to participate in this event. If tourists can be influenced by the king in this kind of event and become a member of the city voluntarily, it will be a good thing for their government..."

"And I have a plan now. As long as you use this daily routine, you can sneak into the middle-level C area where the velvet alchemy workshop is located."

(End of this chapter)