Chapter 1 I have a kind of numerical beauty
Chapter 1 I have a kind of numerical beauty
The woman walked into the room, sat down, and adjusted her watch, and a 3D projection screen appeared.
The photo showed a young oriental man with a pair of dark eyes as deep as the empty sky, which made his originally sunny and handsome face look a little gloomy.
Below was the man's name and other information. The woman just glanced at it and stopped reading, not only because she had seen it many times, but also because the man was sitting in front of her.
"Lu Li, huh?"
The man sitting opposite the woman was wrapped in a straitjacket, tied up tightly from head to toe, with only his head exposed.
With his growing beard and dirty hair, it's hard to tell what he really looks like.
"In the company's prison, is there anyone else who is treated the same as me?" Lu Li smiled, seeming to be mocking and self-deprecating.
The woman was not angry. She lifted the purple hair beside her ear and said in a businesslike manner, "You can call me Nifeil. I will be responsible for taking the final notes for you. I hope you can cooperate so that I can get you the breakfast you want."
Lu Li was silent for a moment, as if he was thinking about something. After a while, he sighed and said, "The breakfast I want to eat is probably no longer available in this era."
Nifell did not ask Lu Li what he wanted to eat. This was not her task today. She looked at the time and began to ask formal questions. "Before the execution begins, I have a few more questions to ask you."
She paused and flipped the screen on the projection. The screen showed a middle-aged man wearing exoskeleton armor. The armor on his chest was broken and a spear was inserted into his heart. He fell in a pool of blood.
"Master Lin Zhengdong, did you kill him?"
Facing Nifell's question, Lu Li looked up at the man in the picture and sneered, "Master?"
Nifell frowned and said, "Answer my question. You know, there are many ways to execute a person."
Lu Li withdrew his gaze from the projection and stared at the woman in front of him. This was a standard "new era" human being, and her appearance was somewhat different from that of the humans of the old era. For example, her purple hair was not dyed, but a manifestation of her genes.
Nifell was stared at by Lu Li, and she felt a little uneasy for some reason, but her face remained calm, and her voice rose a few tones, "I have read your previous transcripts. You admitted your crime, but you did not explain your method of committing the crime."
Lu Li leaned back and twisted his neck, as if he was stretching his muscles because he was restrained for too long. "I've already told you how I did it, but you just don't believe me."
There was a flash of strangeness in Nifeil's eyes. Indeed, the man in front of her had described his "modus operandi".
But the content of the description was too bizarre, it was simply impossible.
Just when Nifell was thinking about how to pry open the man's mouth, Lu Li looked at the ceiling and spoke, reading out names one by one.
"Lin Zhengdong, Wang Luo, Ning Feige, Murong Gu, Liu Huabo, Hongwu, Ma Huguo, Li Xiao, Tian Huahu, Cheng Lu."
With each name mentioned, Nifell's brows furrowed a little more. The people Lu Li was talking about were all world-renowned martial arts masters.
Although she looked down upon the martial arts left over from the old times, thinking that they were just hoaxes that could not stand a single blow in the face of the power of technology.
But she also had to admit that those people were very well-trained and were equipped with exoskeletons. From the perspective of individual humans, they were very strong.
And the man in front of him, without the help of any technological power... killed all ten martial arts masters.
It is a consensus among all people that human beings are physically weak. Historically, the strongmen recorded in history could only deadlift several hundred kilograms, which was already their limit. However, after being equipped with an exoskeleton, even a sickly person can easily lift a stone of three or four hundred kilograms.
And those martial arts masters who are already strong and healthy can easily exert a force of thousands of kilograms after wearing exoskeletons.
"how did you do it?"
Nifell couldn't help but ask, it was her mission to find out Lu Li's secret, and at the same time, she was indeed curious now.
"Is it hard to believe?"
Lu Li smiled and said, "I don't think it's difficult to kill them."
"That's impossible. Stop saying that your martial arts are better than theirs. I've looked up information. Why did boxing matches in the old days have to be divided into different weight classes? You're not even in the same weight class."
Nifell leaned forward and looked Lu Li in the eye. "If you confess now how you discovered and exploited the system loophole, the company can consider revoking the punishment against you and give you a position in the company depending on the situation."
After hearing what Nifeil said, Lu Li was stunned at first, and then he realized that these people had misunderstood. They thought they had found a system loophole in the exoskeleton developed by the company and thus defeated those so-called martial arts masters.
No wonder the company locked me up for so long and didn’t want to kill me, because they wanted to find out if there were any loopholes in their products.
"It seems that you have suffered a lot of economic losses."
Lu Li laughed sarcastically.
"What's your answer?"
Nifell asked, yes, this is what the company is really worried about.
This incident caused a huge uproar, and even though the company was able to control the media, many people still knew about the ten martial arts masters being killed in physical combat. This not only made the public question the quality of the company's products, but even a batch of orders from the military were returned.
The company did not want to get rid of Lu Li hastily before finding out the truth of the matter and ensuring that there were no loopholes in the company's new generation of exoskeleton system.
“Have you ever read the comics?”
"what?"
Nifell didn't expect Lu Li's answer to be this. She had heard of comics, which were a form of entertainment content in the last century. But did the issue they were discussing now have anything to do with comics?
"When I was a kid, I read a comic called Baki. There was a character called The Strongest Man on Earth in it. I thought his fighting ideas were pretty good."
Lu Li was reminiscing, while Nifeel, who was sitting opposite him, looked confused.
"Mr. Lu, please answer the question seriously."
Nifell said with a cold face that she thought Lu Li was playing a trick on her.
"It's really hard to communicate with you, so I'll just be brief and concise. In short... when facing someone who is stronger than you, you should use skills. When facing someone who is more skilled than you, you can also use stronger strength to win."
Lu Li said with a grin, "Your exoskeleton may be a good thing to increase your strength, but those people are too weak in skills."
"You're saying that you, who are only in your twenties, are much stronger than those masters who have been immersed in martial arts for half their lives?" Nifell was full of disbelief. "Are you strong enough to overcome the absolute power gap?"
Not to mention that Lu Li killed ten martial arts masters, even if Lu Li killed a child wearing a company's exoskeleton, she would find it incredible. After all, the power of the human body is limited and fragile.
"You can understand that."
As Lu Li spoke, he closed his eyes, as if he didn't want to communicate with Nifei anymore.
Before the company sent the purple-haired beauty in front of them, more than a dozen interrogators, negotiation experts, and psychologists had "chatted" with them, but they did not get the answers they wanted.
Most of what he said was true, but these people didn't believe it because people only believe what they want to believe, and this has not changed even today.
The company believed that they had found a system loophole in their product and even gained control of the backdoor of the company's network, which allowed them to defeat the ten martial arts masters so easily.
They hope to find loopholes in their own systems and also to find out whether there is any resistance organization supporting them.
But in reality, he was alone, and he had already prepared for the end.
He knew that Nifell was the 'last chance' sent by the company to give him. The company's patience had been exhausted over the past six months, and by now the company's system should have been fully updated, and the social impact of what he did was gradually disappearing.
Nifil was like a foot that the company stretched out in front of his face. As long as he licked it with his tongue, he would have a chance to survive, but he didn't want to lick it.
"Then let me change the question. Why did you kill them?"
Nifeil took a deep breath and continued to take notes, ready to follow the process.
"I worked as a dog for the company, betrayed my position, and killed my master... There are too many reasons, you should know them clearly."
Lu Li yawned and glanced at the time on the projection. "Can we start the execution?"
Nifell frowned. She had seen people who were not afraid of death, but the man in front of her was too indifferent, as if... he was bored with this world.
Just like a strong man standing on the top of a mountain and feeling lonely, it reminded her of an ancient oriental word: loneliness is invincible.
She stood up and put away the projection, "I'll take you to the execution ground."
The transcript will be kept in the form of an audio recording, and as Lu Li is a special death row prisoner that the company is paying attention to, she, as the final recorder, will also have to record the entire execution scene, which will then be filed together with the death certificate.
Escorted by two guards wearing exoskeleton armor, Lu Li was quickly sent to the open-air execution ground.
In the glaring sunlight, he squinted his eyes, adjusted to the light, and glanced around.
"What a bad taste! Sometimes I really don't know where your so-called progress has come from. Isn't this just a step backwards in history?"
Lu Li looked at the execution platform with a mocking tone, which was an electric motor device.
When the execution begins, he will be fixed on a platform and several mechanical arms will pull his limbs until his body is dismembered.
He remembered that this form of execution was called "five horses dismembering a body" in ancient Eastern times, and there were many similar methods of execution in the company.
In order to prevent accidents, the outer perimeter of the circular square is filled with soldiers armed with live ammunition. There are also several figures standing on the high platform of the wall, paying attention to the situation below.
"Thugs like you should be severely punished to serve as a warning to others."
Nifell said beside Lu Li, "Any last words?"
Lu Li walked up the stairs step by step under the escort of two guards, "I remembered the praises my master gave me when I was a child..."
As he spoke, his straitjacket was untied, and a guard fixed his neck with an exoskeleton arm and a gun to his head, then fastened him to the machine tool step by step.
Nifell didn't understand why Lu Li would say these things when he was about to die, but she still asked curiously: "Are they praising you for being a martial arts genius?"
Lu Li, who was fixed on the machine tool, felt the power of the robotic arms around him, grinned, and looked at the figures on the platform.
The robotic arm used for the executions was also a product of the company, and whether intentionally or not, the company used the same series of models as the exoskeletons worn by the people he killed.
Looking at the cameras around, Lu Li guessed that the company was probably using the models that had been defeated by Lu Li to punish him in order to clear their name and show that there was no problem with the quality of their products.
This can not only prove that their exoskeleton robotic arms have no quality problems, but are also powerful enough to crush and tear apart a human body.
As for those martial arts masters who were defeated? It can only be said that they were bad, and it has nothing to do with the company's products.
And if Lu Li really understood the system loopholes, then in the face of death, he would definitely not miss the opportunity to escape by exploiting the system loopholes.
Of course, the company did not think that Lu Li could interfere with their products without the assistance of any electronic equipment. They wanted to see whether the "organization" behind Lu Li would intervene in the execution.
Lu Li couldn't help but sigh that the company's calculations were very good. Normally, no matter what, they would be able to restore their reputation or strike back at the rebels this time.
But today, the company miscalculated and he made the right bet.
The old man on the high platform, wearing a black robe and sunglasses, looked down at Lu Li with a reassuring smile on his face.
Lu Li also laughed, revealing a mouthful of sharp white teeth, and laughed out loud, as if he was going crazy before dying.
If he hadn't been held in place by a robotic arm, he would have probably laughed himself to death.
The executioner pulled the switch, and Lu Li immediately felt a powerful force acting on his limbs. His neck was not fixed by the mechanical arm because this execution plan was to make the prisoner die in pain.
If the prisoner is strangled to death or his neck is torn off, it will be a very easy death. However, if the prisoner's limbs are torn off, he will wail for a long time before dying.
Lu Li lamented the cruelty of the company and wanted to thank the person who designed today's execution plan. He smiled happily, and under the shocked gazes of everyone, the muscles in his limbs tensed to resist the power of the mechanical arm.
"Master is not praising me as a martial arts genius..."
Lu Li's voice was slow at first, but as he exerted more strength, it gradually took on a tone of gnashing of teeth. The muscles in his limbs were knotted, and the raised hills seemed to have the power of a volcanic eruption.
The man's voice and the whirring sound of the mechanical arm were intertwined, like a whisper from purgatory. "He said that I... have a kind of numerical beauty."
(End of this chapter)