Chapter 61 Du Guanqi's Doubtful Month(1/3)
Du Guanqi did not expect that one day he would really experience the daily life of a homeless man in a super dream.
Although Du Guanqi was unable to speak due to illness when he was very young, he was born in a relatively wealthy family and received a good education.
After that, whether to hold the Truth Radio or continue to think about the essence of this world, Du Guanqi received help from some friends and supporters. Life is not very rich, but she also has no worries about food and clothing, and she does not have to worry about what she eats every day.
But in the super dream of "Another Possibility", Du Guanqi experienced all aspects of this truly desperate life from the perspective of this homeless man.
In the severe cold, the homeless man had to search for nearby trash cans. There might be leftover food or some dangerous items in the trash cans.
These trash cans emit a foul smell from time to time, and most of the food they found has rotted and deteriorated, but for these homeless people, they have no choice.
Occasionally, there will be kind passers-by who will lend a helping hand to these homeless people and give them some change. At this time, homeless people can go to some small shops on the street to buy some bread wraps. They cannot enter some large supermarkets because they will be stopped by the security guard at the door.
At the beginning, the homeless man would try to find some odd jobs, but no shop would hire a homeless man to work, because decent and clean clothes are the minimum requirements for employees in these stores. No one wants a homeless man with a foul smell to drive away all his customers.
And these shops cannot afford the homeless people's living room, clothing, etc.
It is even more impossible to find a job in those big companies. If you can't walk at the door, you will be stopped by the security guard and expelled. Although the homeless man explained that he was here to apply for an interview, the big companies have their own recruitment channels, so how could he allow a homeless man to come in for an interview?
Even if the homeless man repeatedly stated that he had had a stable job experience and was very serious and down-to-earth and willing to work, it would be useless because there were too many such people. The company could not even take care of hiring normal people.
And the most desperate thing is that the homeless man and the homeless man will not help each other.
Sometimes the homeless man was too tired and sleepy, so he lay down on the street and slept for a while. After waking up, his tent, food and even shoes were stolen by other homeless men.
He could only walk barefoot on the cold snow. There might be gravel or other sharp things hidden under the snow, cutting his feet into blood, and soon losing consciousness due to the cold.
All these feelings are conveyed to Du Guanqi in a very real form.
Although the third-person perspective weakens the sense of substitution, it does not weaken the transmission of negative emotions, and it also makes Du Guanqi feel a sense of empathy and sadness inexplicably.
Because he is like a hurry passerby, a person who does not exist in this world watches the homeless man through his life from the perspective of God.
This homeless man had a good job and good professional skills, but after becoming a homeless man, he seemed to be isolated from the entire human society in an instant. This world seemed to have an invisible barrier, completely isolated him from all the achievements and wealth of human development.
He tried hard to integrate into it, but he repeatedly encountered walls.
This wall can be a magnificent company gate, a security guard at the entrance of the mall, a passerby with a little disgust in disgust, or the greedy and cruel look on other homeless people when they see the materials they can snatch.
So, the homeless man had to survive with difficulty. He didn't know if he could persevere until tomorrow.
If tomorrow is unlucky and fail to turn out expired food in the trash can, and fail to find enough waste as fuel, if he is unfortunately robbed, injured or sick by other homeless men, then perhaps the pain he has experienced today will become the memory of the last scene in his life.
In this process, Du Guanqi found that he could influence the behavior of homeless people at certain specific nodes.
For example, where do homeless people go to search for food today, how should they allocate a small amount of cash in their hands, etc.
However, Du Guanqi can only make choices at some specific nodes. Some choices may go against their wishes after making them, and sometimes they may not be allowed to make choices at all.
For example, after occasionally getting some change from kind-hearted people, the protagonist must choose to buy a lottery ticket, scrape it away with expectations, and then repeatedly confirm it with disappointment, and then throw it into the iron bucket in front of him to burn it for warmth.
In this process, Du Guanqi could not make a choice, so he could only watch the homeless man bought the lottery with hope and threw the scraped lottery into the iron bucket and burned it with disappointment.
Du Guanqi found that from the third-person perspective, although he could have infinite sympathy for the homeless man's mood and felt the various complex emotions of the homeless man, this perspective was separated from the sense of substitution, allowing him to see all this with the mentality of an onlooker, and naturally he could have some thoughts.
Du Guanqi was a little sad about his misfortune and angry at his failure to fight. At the same time, he had deep doubts about the rationality of the existence of this world.
For the homeless man, he did not understand why a normal person with healthy limbs could not find a suitable job to support himself. He did not know why the homeless man had to persist in buying lottery tickets every time, pursued the illusory possibility, and continued to waste the little bit of pitiful cash he could use to buy food.
At the same time, he developed deep doubts about the world.
In the world in the super dream, there is obviously no time and snow, no terrible space-time creatures and space-time activities, and there are large areas of fields and resources to utilize. People live in a truly beautiful pastoral era, and do not need to worry about the possible crises at any time, and do not have to worry about a super-large city that will be destroyed by terrible space-time creatures in a daze.
But why are there so many homeless people still outsiders in the city?
Their labor force was severely consumed. For these homeless people, this world only gave them a tragic life, and for this world, they also lost the infinite possibilities that homeless people could bring to this world.
Is this setting reasonable in this worldview? Since there are no space-time particles and space-time creatures, why is this society still so cruel to homeless people who are also humans?
Du Guanqi really wanted to discuss with the author of this super dream, and he couldn't speak up some words.
But the super dream obviously did not end here.
As the homeless man was about to end his life, a small vendor from a nearby bar gave him some cash out of sympathy. This made the homeless man very grateful.
Immediately afterwards, in Du Guanqi's vision, the whole world fell into a freeze state. A high-profile sign appeared on the homeless man who had just received the cash and the small vendor who turned back to his bar, which meant that he could choose any protagonist as the main perspective at this time node to experience it.
After choosing the main perspective, it can affect the series of decisions he makes to a certain extent.
If you continue to choose a homeless man, you can use the money properly to live a life that you can barely maintain. But therefore you can't see what the storyline of the small vendor tells.
On the contrary, if you choose a small vendor, although you can experience another story, the behaviors performed by this homeless man after getting the money will be completely out of control of the audience. It is possible that the homeless man will not be able to make good use of the money, which will affect his ultimate destiny.
This form of experience-type super dreams is relatively rare.
Most experiential super dreams are a complete storyline, and the audience does not need to think too much, just keep experiencing the entire story according to the producer's ideas.
But the super dream of "Another Possible" is like his name, always encouraging the audience to try another possibility.
Maybe it is to let the characters choose different behaviors, or it may be to change different characters at any time. And in the complex choices, weave the events that each character experiences and the final outcome.
After thinking about it, Du Guanqi chose the small vendor.
He felt that this experiential super dream must be experienced many times before he could straighten out every choice of each character and find the best ending.
The life of a small vendor is obviously much better than that of a beggar. As a bar owner, he can be said to have no worries about food and clothing, and he doesn't have to worry about being hungry.
You can even drink some cocktails you made by yourself. The wonderful taste is mixed with a slightly intoxicating wine, which makes Du Guanqi, who is already used to the life of a homeless man, feels like he has come to heaven.
He can still make some choices for the bar owner and help the bar owner run the entire bar business prosperously and get better and better.
Du Guanqi noticed that the bar owner is very self-disciplined. Although many people choose to use alcohol to anesthetize themselves in this desperate environment, the bar owner has a good bartending skill but never drinks. He just drinks a little occasionally and always keeps himself awake.
He had only one thought in his mind, which was to manage honestly, accumulate wealth, and change his destiny.
But then the life of the bar owner was broken by street gangs.
The gang gangsters broke into his bar to collect protection fees, not only smashed his wine, but also beat him up.
Then Du Guanqi can shift his perspective to one of the street gangsters and experience the life of the gangsters.
Before, Du Guanqi did not experience too much violence and danger in this society in beggars and small vendors. It was not until he brought the perspective of a gangster that he realized that the world was even more chaotic than he thought.
The frequent gang frenzy has put everyone nearby in great danger.
There are no mechanical prosthetics in this world, nor are there extraordinary power, so the most ordinary pistol, although in Du Guanqi's opinion, is only the lowest kinetic energy weapon in the real world, which is enough to cause major casualties.
The weak body and the extremely lethal thermal weapons for ordinary human bodies make this parallel world in super dreams extremely dangerous. Even police officers who maintain order should be careful when arresting criminals. If they are slightly frightened, they can only choose to empty the magazine and protect them.
This is even more chaotic and disorderly than the real world where Du Guanqi is located.
After all, in the real world, those street gangs do not have so many channels to get a large number of guns. Although DCPD is not very responsible, they will send special mobile teams when dealing with large-scale gang conflicts. For these superpowers, ordinary kinetic weapons cannot pose any threat to them, so there is no need to be as worried as the police in the parallel world of Super Dream.
Of course, if we talk about the frequency of crime, it is still more frequent in the real world where Du Guanqi is located. The rich area in the super dream has almost no time to commit crime, and it is a real paradise on earth.
However, in the super dream, he brought in the perspective of a gangster, and he would have to be involved in various violent incidents and would not experience the feeling of heaven on earth.
After bringing into the perspective of a gangster, Du Guanqi found that this gangster was not as vicious as he saw at the beginning.
Many of his actions come from the instructions of the gang boss, and in such a group, he can't help but grit his teeth and complete his tasks.
Because even if he doesn't do these things, other gangsters will help him do them, and once they are kicked out of the gang, he may end up worse than death.
So he could only continue to bully ordinary people in this guilty and confused mood. Because he had only two choices, either to persecute others or be persecuted by others.
Finally, after a gang fight, the gangster fell to the ground in wounds. He felt that his life was about to end, and everyone around him was hiding far away, and no one was willing to come up and pull him.
Just then, the sound of an ambulance sounded from a distance.
The gangster lying on the ground was frightened and his heart seemed full of expectation, but also full of fear.
The reason he was looking forward to it was because he hoped that the ambulance would come to save him, thinking that he might not have to die, but with his savings and income, he was simply unable to pay the ambulance's sky-high bill.
But before he was about to fall into a coma, he saw a handsome and kind boss.
Obviously, the boss called an ambulance out of kindness to rescue him.
Immediately afterwards, Du Guanqi can choose to experience the super dream as this boss.
And this time he realized that there was so much happiness in this super dream that could be experienced by him!
Although there are no floating cars in this world, the boss has special extended versions of luxury cars for traveling, and even private jets.
He sat in a generous office to handle affairs, and all his subordinates were respectful to him.
After work, he can go on vacation anywhere he wants to go, do whatever he wants, and pays great attention to food. This is in a very sharp contrast with the previous three people.
What shocked Du Guanqi the most was that various seafood meals, such as foods that had completely disappeared from the old soil, were extremely realistically presented to him.
Although only 10% of the emotions are transmitted, this wonderful taste and the joy of enjoying food still firmly occupy Du Guanqi's brain, allowing all the negative emotions to be wiped out, allowing him to feel a simple and strong happiness.
Du Guanqi can also make a choice about the boss's behavior, and what surprised Du Guanqi was that after making different choices, the storyline began to develop in different directions.
If you choose to be insensitive, have no sympathy for the poor, and pursue personal interests regardless of everything, then the boss’s previous behavior of saving the gangster was not actually out of kindness, but wanted to win people’s hearts, and use this bill of medical expenses to keep the gangster firmly in his own hands and let him do something shameful for himself.
The reason why these gangs are in chaos is because of the instigation of people, including their bosses, is to attack competitors and seek the greatest benefit for themselves.
If you choose to help others, be kind to your neighbors, and help others to the best of your ability, then the boss's behavior of saving the gangster is a simple act of kindness. Therefore, he has established a relatively good relationship with the gangsters and previous gangsters.
With the resources he has mastered, this boss helped other kind people in the world as much as possible.
It was not until here that Du Guanqi felt that the whole world seemed to be more reasonable.
Yes, since this world does not have terrible space-time activities, and has abundant resources and sufficient materials. So why do humans continue to fight and kill each other? It is understandable if it is a war based on states, but in the same city, why are people still so numb and unrelated to themselves?
To be continued...