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Chapter 318 Martial Arts Live Stream: Starting by Breaking Through the Lawless Zone
Chapter 318: Chapter 318 Martial Arts Live Stream: Starting by Breaking Through the Lawless Zone
"With this, the initial preparations can almost be completed." In the early morning, after spending the whole night "browsing" online, Feng Xue finally came to grasp the basic infrastructure of this world and was ready to start her own actions.
The world, in general, really did resemble that standard Cyberpunk style—capital ruled the entire World, and technology was quite advanced, with neural interfaces, artificial bodies, exoskeletons and other science fiction elements all present.
In fact, according to her research, Feng Xue found that several decades ago, this world could have been described as a paradise-like utopia.
The highly developed technology of this World led to extremely low survival costs—a single credit point was enough to buy a box of nutrition fluid that would last a month, and with strong materials, more than a hundred thousand people could be packed into a residential building. Controllable nuclear fusion had even driven energy prices to an extremely low level.
On the other hand, an advanced AR network allows a person to enjoy most pleasures without leaving home. Whether it’s delicious food, beautiful scenery, or arts and entertainment, all could be experienced through AR technology. If one was willing to undergo a bit of alteration, experiencing pleasures beyond human capability was just a matter of several strings of code.
Perhaps some might feel virtual wasn’t as good as natural, but what is so-called "natural," really? Isn’t the taste you experience just "data" transmitted to the brain by your taste buds?
Then why should the data compiled for all your senses, representing deliciousness, be considered inferior to the taste in reality?
Thus, the low consumption of reality and the abundance of the virtual world formed a society where all needs could be satisfied with minimal cost. Theoretically, in this World, as long as one had a savings of 1,000 credit points, one could live a happy and disease-free life forever.
But when Feng Xue saw such an environment, even without looking at history, she saw the impending Hell.
After all, if everything could be obtained without effort, how many people would still strive?
Or conversely, would those few elites who saw the limitations of the times and stepped forward, struggling to guide societal progress, accept working and researching tirelessly only to live worse than those parasites?
When money earned had nowhere to be spent, would anyone still work to earn more?
When there was almost no gap between the higher and lower classes, did class still have any meaning?
Indeed, after a brief period where history could not be traced online, the structure of this World began to change.
The only traces found online were of increasingly expensive residences, increasingly complex network subscription content, and worsening urban security.
Although there was no direct evidence, Feng Xue believed that the chaotic environment of the affordable housing areas was definitely cultivated intentionally. The purpose was none other than to force people to earn more money, thus entering a safer living environment.
Such a trick might not have been very covert at the time, but it seemed like all the higher-ups in this World had silently permitted all this to happen. What was supposed to restart societal operation undoubtedly led to the genesis of the ensuing Hell.
Even today, factories here continued to repeat labor-intensive assembly line work—not to maintain employment or anything like that but simply because human labor was cheaper than the cost of wear and tear on machines—
Machines needed maintenance when they broke down and consumed energy, while workers only required a salary, and they would naturally solve the rest on their own.
If they couldn’t, then it was no big deal to hire a new batch of workers.
However, these changes did set the stagnant civilization of this World into motion once more.
Those living on the bottom would join gangs to avoid unknowingly dying from a stray bullet, yet often they would die by bullets or knives aimed directly at them.
Those living in the lower strata would work arduously to afford the exorbitant rent, striving not to return to places where they could be killed by gangster gunfire at any moment.
Those living in the middle strata, even if not striving to climb up, would work diligently to maintain their current class.
And in such a high-pressure environment, the online world was still filled with all the pleasures you could imagine, allowing one to release all their stress within it, while tempting premium services continuously siphoned money to ensure no one could build a comfortable zone again.
Entertainment to death, capital supreme—these eight words were sufficient to describe this era in its entirety.
"Constructing a Kaidan in such a world isn’t too difficult; the only problem is how to increase the ’intensity’ of the Kaidan..." Feng Xue adjusted her glasses terminal, which integrated the Masked Rider’s brainwave sensing function, and used the Taiyin Transformation Technique for minor adjustments to her face. With a beep, facial recognition was passed, and her terminal information also switched to another identity.
"Bert Wall, an idol artist launched by Dor Media, originally crafted with a tough and athletic persona to fit the mainstream aesthetic. Four years ago, as mainstream aesthetics shifted towards a more effeminate style, he quickly became outdated and unable to bear the agency’s training loan, so he sold his identity. Having settled the training loan since the takeover, he is now an independent artist with an entertainer’s number and professional certification..."
Feng Xue went through the information on this identity in her mind, opened her personal terminal, and entered the network interface. To maintain the persona, Mobike Gang had been updating his personal webpage, occasionally posting trending updates. Although not highly followed, the path wasn’t entirely unknown.
"Now that’s professionalism!" Feng Xue nodded, donning an unruly fashion, and in an instant, the image of a decadently cool sports guy emerged.
It wasn’t that her temperament had changed from the previous sharp brother image but rather that she had learned to change the display of unruly fashion by hiding and showcasing specific tags.
Standing in front of the mirror, she made small adjustments to her appearance, bringing her closer to Bert’s original image and temperament, nodding in satisfaction.
Taking a few potentially useful illusionary items from the wrapping cloth, Feng Xue stepped out the door and headed to the unlawful areas of the lower district. It was then that she took out a wide-angle holographic drone made for live streaming the previous night. While activating the follow mode, she went online to activate a streaming room that Bert had not used in years, which only had a following of zombie fans.
Moments later, the screen went live, and Feng Xue made a slight alteration to the name of the streaming room—
[Streamer with two and a half years of Martial Arts Training returns to Esgray, first mission is to bust through the unlawful areas!]
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