Martial Arts Livestream: Breaking Through the Lawless Zone from the Start
"With that, the preliminary preparations are almost complete." In the early morning, after spending the whole night "browsing" the internet, Feng Xue finally had a general understanding of the basic structure of this world and was ready to begin her actions.
Generally speaking, this world does indeed have a standard Cyberpunk style, where capital dominates the world and technology is quite advanced. You can see everything you can find in science fiction, such as brain-computer interfaces, Mechanical Prosthetic Body, and Exoskeleton Symbiosis.
In fact, according to her investigation, Feng Xue discovered that this world was a utopia that could be described as paradise just a few decades ago.
The world's highly advanced technology has resulted in extremely low living costs. One Credit Point is enough to buy a box of nutrient solution that can last for a month, while high-strength materials can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people in a residential building. Controlled nuclear fusion has driven energy prices to an extremely low level.
On the other hand, a highly developed AR network allows a person to enjoy most pleasures without leaving home. Whether it's delicious food, beautiful scenery, or art and entertainment, all can be experienced through AR technology. If one is willing to accept a little modification, experiencing pleasures that surpass those of humans is just a matter of a few lines of code.
Some might argue that virtual flavors are inferior to natural ones, but what exactly constitutes "natural"? Isn't the taste you experience simply "data" transmitted to the brain by your sense of taste?
So how can the data compiled to represent deliciousness based on all your senses be worse than the actual taste?
Thus, low-cost real-world consumption and an abundant information world constitute a society that allows people to satisfy all their needs at extremely low cost. Theoretically speaking, in this world, as long as one has 1,000 Credit Point, one can live a happy life without illness or disaster for the rest of one's life.
But when Feng Xue saw this environment, even without considering history, she saw the impending hell.
After all, if everything could be obtained without effort, how many people would still bother to work hard?
Or conversely, can those few elites who saw the limitations of their time, stepped forward, and strived to guide social progress accept that they worked tirelessly and devoted themselves to research, only to find themselves living worse lives than those who were complacent and idle?
When there's nowhere to spend the money you've earned, will anyone go out of their way to make more?
When there is almost no difference between the upper and lower classes, does class still have any meaning?
Sure enough, after a brief period when the internet could no longer trace its history, the structure of this world began to change.
The only traces that can be found online are increasingly expensive residences, increasingly complex online paid content, and increasingly worse urban security.
Although there is no evidence, Feng Xue believes that the chaotic environment in those cheap residential areas is definitely intentionally created, with the aim of forcing people to earn more money so that they can move to a safer living environment.
Such a petty trick was probably not considered particularly insidious in that era, but it seems that all the higher-ups in the world tacitly approved of it all. What was originally intended as a step to get society running again undoubtedly led to the birth of hell.
Even today, the factories here still rely on manual assembly lines for repetitive labor, not for reasons such as maintaining employment, but simply because the cost of human labor in this world is lower than the wear and tear on the machines.
When machinery breaks down, it needs maintenance and consumes energy, while workers only need to be paid, and they will take care of the rest.
If we can't solve it, we can always hire a new batch of workers.
However, these changes did indeed set the world's stagnant civilization running again.
People living at the bottom of society often join gangs to avoid being killed by a stray bullet, but they often die from bullets or knives aimed at them.
People living on the lower class work hard to pay the exorbitant rent in order to avoid returning to a place where they could die at any moment from stray bullets during gang shootouts.
Even if people living in the middle class don't strive to climb up, they will work hard to maintain their current social class.
Even under such high pressure, the online world is still full of all the enjoyment you can imagine, allowing people to vent all their stress. And those tempting paid projects will continue to extract money to ensure that no one can build a comfort zone again.
"Entertainment to Death, capitalism above all else"—these eight words are enough to describe everything about this era.
"Constructing Weird Tale in such a world isn't really that difficult; the only problem is how to increase the 'intensity' of those Weird Tale..."
Feng Xue adjusted the glasses terminal that integrated the Kamen Rider brainwave sensing function, and used the Great Yin Molting Technique to make minor adjustments to her face. With a beep, the facial recognition was successful, and the terminal information switched to another identity.
"Burrlett Wall, an idol artist launched by Dore Media, was created to fit the mainstream aesthetic at the time with a tough, athletic persona. However, due to the shift in mainstream aesthetics to a more effeminate style four years ago, he quickly became outdated and sold his identity because he couldn't afford the training loans from his agency. After being taken over, the training loans have been paid off, and he is currently an independent artist with an artist number and industry qualification certificates..."
After reviewing the information about this identity in her mind, Feng Xue opened her personal terminal and entered the network interface. In order to maintain her persona, after taking over this identity, Mobik Gang has always maintained a personal webpage and occasionally posts some updates based on trends. Although it doesn't attract much attention, it's not entirely unknown.
"That's what you call professional!" Feng Xue nodded, and with her Unruly Fashion sense, a kind of decadent, sporty, and handsome guy immediately emerged.
The reason he no longer sports the "Sharp Brother" look isn't because Feng Xue's temperament has changed, but because he has learned to alter the changes in his Unruly Fashion by hiding and revealing specific Tag.
Standing in front of the mirror, she made some minor adjustments to her appearance to better resemble Burrlett's original image and temperament, and nodded in satisfaction.
After taking a few potentially useful Phantom Object from the Wrapping Cloth, Feng Xue pushed open the door and went to the Lawless Zone of the lower level. There, he took out a wide-angle holographic drone that he had made for a live stream the night before. He activated the follow mode and started Live Broadcast Room on the internet that Burrlett hadn't used for years and only had a string of zombie followers left.
A moment later, the screen started up, and Feng Xue had also made a small change to the name of the Live Broadcast Room.
[The streamer, who has been training in martial arts for two and a half years, returns to Asgerry, and the first thing he does is raid the Lawless Zone!]
Regarding the buying and selling of identities, it's not convenient to say much about it, but identities themselves aren't valuable, and fake IDs are everywhere. What's truly valuable are interpersonal relationships. For example, if you buy a fake identity, even if all the documents are genuine, but you've never lived in that place and have no relevant records, people can easily find out by doing a simple check.
Of course, there are also cases where the whole family dies, the village is hit by a disaster, or the entire village is relocated. This is a common place of origin used by low-level fake identities, but this in itself is easy to arouse suspicion.
You could say that buying an identity isn't about buying a document, but rather a collection of that person's social relationships.