bookpower Chapter 239
Chapter 239
: Both Ends of the Balance 24
Kai Xin was staring at the bank balance displayed on the screen of the communicator. Her eyes lingered on the long string of balances, and she didn’t look away for a long time.
Amber looked at her for half a minute, and couldn’t help but ask, “Is there any problem with money?”
“No.” Kai Xin put down the communicator as if nothing had happened.
She was counting how many zeros there were in the balance, and counted several times.
When she got up and walked, she felt a little erratic under her feet for the first time in a long time, and her whole body was light, as if wrapped in light air, giving off an unreal feeling.
Because she got too much money at once, Kai Xin lost the concept of the large string of numbers on the account. She was eager to get back the real feeling, so she turned her head and asked Amber a question.
“What can you do with 20 billion?” Kai Xin’s serious eyes made Amber involuntarily start to calculate seriously.
“In Mechanical Dawn, 20 billion is enough for the entire budget of a new type of exoskeleton armor research project. It can not only support several laboratories, but also support a large number of scientific researchers.” Amber said, “Two billion is enough to establish a data center. A large secret base with complete security functions and complete armed forces is enough for the annual expenditure of these bases.”
“Oh…” Kai Xin had a vague idea in his heart.
Adam communicated with Kai Xin through the headset at the right time, it was more sensitive to money numbers, “Two billion can build a small offshore military base, equipped with destroyers and missiles, the kind of base with a permanent army. Two billion is worth the federal The costs involved in launching twenty small satellites into space, including insurance, research and development, production, trial and error, and rocket launch.”
It continued: “If you have no concept of these things that are too far away, then I can give a few more examples. 20 billion can support tens of thousands of students to study for a doctorate, which is two million ordinary families of three One month’s income can enable nearly 20 million poor people to have enough food, clothing and warmth to live a happy life for quite a long time…”
Kai Xin woke up instantly and understood the meaning of the string of zeros on the bank account.
This money is insignificant to the chaebols. To them, the 20 billion is like a feather, but from another perspective, the 20 billion is so heavy, it is heavy enough to buy the lives of 20 million poor people from the god of death. Keep these 20 million people alive.
When Kai Xin was in elementary school, the teacher instilled in the children the concept that life is priceless.
Later, when she grew up, she realized that this was not the case. There were too many things that were more expensive than life. After coming to the second world, she had a particularly profound experience. It’s not that those expensive things shouldn’t be so expensive… but compared with those things, human life is too cheap and too contemptible.
Of course, people in the second world should not instill in their children the idea that “life is priceless”, because people are divided into grades and grades from birth, and their value is determined. Lives are worth more, and the lives of low-level citizens are not worth much.
This way of classifying people into grades reminds Kai Xin of the pork for sale in the freezer. The machine scans it, and the labelOnce a dozen, the pork is graded and waited to be sold for money.
Amber asked, “What do you plan to use the 20 billion for?”
“Although the current situation does not seem to allow us to fight in the long-term, we still have to plan for the long-term battle, and we can’t wait for the danger to approach before starting the layout.” Kui Xin came back to his senses and said, “With this money, Wuguang can jump After the stage of capital accumulation… let’s learn from Eve’s organizational structure model, establish a company that can stand on the surface to facilitate activities and complete various affairs, set up a base under the company, and set up a stronghold outside the base.”
Amber crossed her arms and said, “Where is the headquarters located? Beluga City? It’s too far away, away from the inland economic and political center, and activities are inconvenient. The limited resources have long been monopolized by chaebol families, and there are cities with better resources than here.”
“You’re right. The location of the headquarters needs to be carefully considered.” Kai Xin said, “Beluga City is not suitable.”
“Then you should think about it carefully.” Amber looked into Kai Xin’s eyes, “Now I want to see Clover, you promised me.”
“Yes.” Kai Xin said, “You wait here, and I’ll bring him here.”
“Okay.” Hu Po’s brows and eyes relaxed a little, and her tone became gentler.
“You have always understood that the enemy who is approaching every step of the way will not give that child time to grow up. He is too fragile and immature. He is a blank slate, and his mind is like a baby.” Kai Xin picked up the topic.
Amber said without any hesitation: “I will protect him.”
“You can’t be his nanny for a long time. According to the normal situation, it will take at least seven or eight years for him to grow up. During these seven or eight years, he has to learn to understand the world, establish a world view, learn fighting skills, and have a mature mind. “Kai Xin said, “Are you going to stay by his side for seven or eight years, Amber? You don’t have the energy, and neither do I.”
“You didn’t say this to persuade me to give up, or you wouldn’t let me see him.” Amber observed Kai Xin’s facial expression, “You are used to taking one step and seeing many steps, and you already expected it when you took Clover away.” That would be the case, but you still took him away. You wouldn’t take him out of hell and then turn around and abandon him, would you… Kuixin?”
He didn’t call out Kai Xin’s code name this time, as if he was deliberately reminding him of something.
“I won’t regret what I have done.” Kai Xin said, “But I need to remind you that we also need to make a trade-off when it comes to Yotsuba. We can’t let him grow normally, and we even need to ‘remind him’. cooked’ him.”
“‘Ripening’?” Hu Po’s eyes drooped and her brows were also frowned, as if she was extremely disgusted with these two words.
He said softly, “Like what Mechanical Dawn did? Ripe Clover?”
Kai Xin said firmly, “Yes.”
“Put a huge amount of knowledge and memory into his mind, instill values in him, help him shape the world view, impose on him ideas that don’t belong to him, let him grow into a ‘mature person’ in a very short period of time ?” It was the first time that Amber’s indifferent face showed such obvious emotional fluctuations, and that emotion was called “disgust”.
“Yes.” Even though Hu Po showed such a strong sense of resistance, Kai Xin’s tone remained unchanged, “You know this is a necessary move.”
Amber stopped talking.
“I still understand the way you grow up.” Kai Xin said in a roundabout way, “I know why you are so resistant to this forced indoctrination ‘growth’.”
Amber sneered: “You know? What do you know?”
“As an independent individual and a person with a soul, your understanding of the world and the formation of values should not be instilled by others, but should be experienced by yourself, and then judge by yourself, and finally form a complete set of world views and values. “Kai Xin said, “You think the truth instilled by others is not the truth, and the truth you experience is the truth. You hate being controlled and indoctrinated. You must want Clover to experience the world in person and judge what the world is like. Yes, judge for yourself who is the enemy and who is the companion, and decide for yourself how you should live.”
Amber pursed her lips tightly.
“You don’t want Yotsuba to have fixed values, you don’t want him to be a warrior or something, if he has to fight for something, then he should fight for himself too.” Kai Xin said calmly Quickly let Amber calm down a little, “Am I right, Amber?”
After a long time, Amber gave a soft “hmm”.
His expression didn’t change, but his whole body seemed to be shrouded in sadness.
“You want him to grow up on his own, which is very correct and cannot be called a mistake. But if the growth is too slow, he may die.” Kai Xin said, “We have an obvious multiple-choice question in front of us, either ripen him, Let him grow up quickly, or let him be a pure and innocent ‘baby’, a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. If he chooses the former, his chances of surviving will be higher. When others want to kill him, at least he will not think The one who wants to kill him thinks the one who wants to hug him.”
Amber seemed to be stung by Kai Xin’s words. He looked away and covered his forehead with his hands. The light blue blood vessels on the back of his hands were protruding.
He didn’t think about it for long.
“I…understood.” Amber said in a low voice, “Ripulate him and let him live longer. If he lives for a long time, he will have a chance to understand the world again.”
“Then I’ll pick him up.” Kai Xin took a step back, and a space vortex unfolded behind him.
In less than ten minutes, Kai Xin brought Clover back to this stronghold.
Clover held Kai Xin’s hand tightly, like a puppy following her. Only someone who trusts her with a leash can be confident and bold.Walk in strange places.
Clover saw a stranger in the room, and subconsciously looked at Kai Xin, showing a little recognition of the stranger.
“This is Kohaku.” Kai Xin let go of Clover’s hand, gently pushed his back to make him move forward, and walked up to Kohaku, “He is a very good person, just like Saker.”
Clover drew strength from Kai Xin’s words, and said to Kohaku, “Hello, Kohaku.”
Saker has taught him to say hello when he sees people.
“Hello, Clover.” Amber was taken aback by his greeting, and quickly responded.
“That’s up to you.” Kai Xin nodded to Amber.
“Yes.” Hu Po said to Kai Xin again, “Thank you.”
Kai Xin turned around, Yotsuba quickly grabbed her arm and said, “Are you… leaving?”
“I’m going to buy food and I’ll be back later.” Kai Xin said.
“How long is later?” Clover said.
Kai Xin replied, “Fifteen minutes.”
Clover looked down at the children’s watch and locator that He Kangshi gave him, and let go of Kai Xin’s arm with confidence. He has a concept of time, fifteen minutes is much shorter than a day, he can wait.
After Kai Xin left the stronghold, he turned slowly to the convenience store, bought milk cereal, and bought some instant packaged food.
Adam said: “It is recommended that you take in more protein and green leafy vegetables.”
“Okay.” Kai Xin said, “Did you suffer from an occupational disease again?”
“Maybe.” Adam said, “I have a question.”
“You ask.” Kui Xin picked out a ham sandwich with lots of vegetables from the shelf.
“Aren’t you afraid that Kohaku will implant something in Clover’s mind?” Adam said, “For example, let Clover harbor a rebellious heart towards you, weakening your influence on him. He doesn’t trust you, and he is afraid that you will use it Clover, Clover cares too much about you, he regards you as the most important person.”
“It is indeed possible, but I don’t think Hu Po will do it.” Kai Xin said, “Because he is also an artificial human, he knows the pain of being controlled, and even his thoughts are not his own. This feeling makes him hate…so He doesn’t like to use his ability to control his own kind, even if it’s just to impose a little spiritual hint on him.”
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Clover sat down on the sofa in the stronghold room. He looked at Amber inexplicably, and asked, “Are you feeling unwell?”
“I’m fine, I’m not feeling sick.” Amber forced a smile at him.
“But you… don’t look too good.” Clover said doubtfully.
“That’s because what I’m going to do next makes me feel a little sad.” Amber put her hand on Yotsuba’s head, a blue light lit up in the depths of her pupils, “But I still have to do it.”
The memories and thoughts belonging to Kohaku were forcibly instilled into Yotsuba’s brain. Yotsuba hugged her head in pain, and couldn’t help shouting, “It hurts!”
He has experienced this kind of pain before. After being put into the brain machine by the researchers of Mechanical Dawn, his head will have such pain, it hurts so much that it will split open. Things that do not belong to him forcibly invaded his brain. The brain’s self-defense mechanism is in effect, resisting those memories while fusing those memories.
After an unknown amount of time, the pain subsided, and Yotsuba, who was curled up on the floor, put down her hands in a daze, opened her eyes, and stared blankly at the ceiling, motionless.
“Clover.” Amber called him.
Clover reacted to the name, he turned his eyes to look at Kohaku.
“I’m sorry.” Amber whispered, “The things I gave you are things you need to understand, and you need to abide by them for a period of time in the future. Before you have your own ideas, you need to always follow what I taught you do it.”
Clover closed her eyes, then opened them again, “Those…”
“I’ll teach you how to fight, how to kill the enemy, how to distinguish the enemy, how to survive, how to lie and how to disguise yourself.” Amber said, “You can learn the rest slowly.”
“Why does the memory you give me show that you don’t trust Makisuki?” Clover asked in confusion, “Is she an enemy?”
“She…not at the moment.” Amber said thoughtfully.
“Then what will happen in the future?” Clover asked again.
“It might not be in the future, I’m not sure if she will be.” Amber stretched out her hand to Clover, trying to pull Clover up.
Yotsuba avoided Kohaku’s hand and stood up alone, showing a childish smile: “Mamushi is not an enemy, she brought me into this world.”
Amber raised her eyebrows, and said slowly after a long delay: “Well, you have your own ideas on this matter… Then you don’t need to follow my ideas.”