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Li Qinwu nodded. "Zero, did classes like the rich and poor still exist in your time?"
Zero replied, "Simple wealth disparities had disappeared, but I understand what you mean."
Individuals possessed differing amounts of social resources. Some held enough resources to squander for ten centuries, while others possessed enough to squander for a thousand trillion centuries.
Li Qinwu typed: "Then is it possible that those who possessed excessive social resources altered their bodies into inhuman forms just to experience sensory pleasure?"
Zero asked, "You mean?"
Li Qinwu typed: "Rich people, for the thrill of it, turned themselves into tentacled monsters. They walked on their hands, used their legs to grasp tools, ate with their asses, and excreted through their mouths. They grew a hundred pairs of eyes and a hundred pairs of ears."
"They cut out the parts of their brains that controlled reason and emotion, then infinitely amplified the parts that perceived stimulation, turning themselves into lumps of flesh that only knew how to receive stimulation."
Zero said, "But they were still human. Artificial intelligence could not possibly betray humanity."
Li Qinwu typed: "Then that tentacled lump of flesh, with not a trace of human appearance left, charged out of its villa to pursue the ultimate sensory experience, slaughtering normal-looking humans in the streets! Eating them! Torturing them to death!"
Zero: [Thinking]
Li Qinwu continued typing: "Then such genetically modified monsters became a trend among the wealthy and powerful at the time."
"Those monsters who possessed vast amounts of social resources turned themselves and their soldiers into monsters, then went around eating humans who at least looked human."
"To improve efficiency, they even dispatched artificial intelligence Men of Iron to capture natural humans, or cultivated cloned