Chapter 144: Striving for a Better Life

Chapter 144: Striving for a Better Life

Ashe momentarily froze, then changed the topic: The Tea Caf is tolerable, after all, I enjoy watching beautiful women. But the problem is, why are there so many scantily clad men posing provocatively in places named Mud Caf? Its a real assault on my eyes. If I werent a fugitive, I would report them to the Heresy Court for ruining the cityscape. There should be legislation specifically prohibiting this

I advise you not to meddle, Freya warned. You may not enjoy it, but we do. So men can ogle beautiful women, but we women cant appreciate handsome men?

Thats not the main issue, after all, its a traditional profession, albeit on a larger scale, so its not entirely beyond comprehension. Ashes face darkened. I wandered a bit further and saw some workers at a construction site.

What about the workers?

They over half of their bodies had become mechanical. Their legs turned into wheels, their hands into multi-toolboxes, and even their eyes had become mechanical If I hadnt seen them drinking and heard them chatting, I would have thought they were robots.

They cant possibly be robots, Freya dismissed with a wave of her hand. Fully automated robots are expensive and require regular maintenance, hiring these mechanical workers is much cheaper. I recall you havent been in prison for long, mechanical workers have been popular in Caimon City for over a decade, how come you seem like youve never seen them before?

Are there many such mechanical workers in Caimon City?

Not necessarily on construction sites, their hands can change components, and with some simple training, they can take on jobs as assemblers, maintenance workers, and other technical professions.

Freya took a big bite of her spicy Lala Fatty, her lips smeared with yolk sauce. Generally speaking, most ordinary people who have no hope of becoming sorcerers would change their jobs to become mechanical workers, even clerks are no exception, the only difference is the degree of mechanization.

Ashe was stunned. Non-technical labor is also mechanized?

Of course, not to mention limbs and spine, replacing the organs with mechanical implants has many advantages. Freya poked at her bun. The heart can be replaced with a more powerful Fire Seed, the lungs with a Combustion Engine with stronger circulation, and the stomach with a Energy Pool with stronger digestion and absorption power

Nowadays, mechanical modification is very cheap, a standard set of mechanical implants can be paid off in three or four years with diligent work, but the effect is excellent: it allows you to have a longer endurance and be more energy efficient.

In times of hardship, you can barely survive by just drinking water, while maintaining a high level of energy; in times of wealth, you can have more physical strength for enjoyment and experience more exciting sensory experiences.

If it werent for the fact that mechanical implants would reduce the efficiency of a sorcerers arcane energy absorption in the Virtual Realm, many sorcerers might choose mechanical implants instead of the more expensive biological ones.

Freya shrugged. But now for ordinary people, the Universal mechanical hand and the Energy Pool mechanical stomach are almost necessities, otherwise no company would be willing to hire them. Most practical tools are designed with the mechanical hand as an interface, without a mechanical hand, you can hardly use any tool. Like the head chef in my college cafeteria, his mechanical hand can be connected to a spatula, which can automatically heat up, cool down, and add seasonings. His steak is particularly delicious.

And apart from the middle-aged and elderly, most young people are very beautiful, regardless of gender. Even the goblins are handsome, and some people even have starlight in their eyes real starlight, the kind that twinkles in their pupils.

Obviously, everyones appearance has been artistically processed by a medic. But Ashe couldnt say anything about that his face was also sculpted by Medic 222.

The reason for purchasing the Screen of Knowledge is that updating the chip version also costs money. Most people are born with a Miracle 1 chip, which is slow, has limited storage space, and can only be considered usable. Most adults update their chips to version 10 or higher. The newer the chip version, the stronger the functions, the better the experience, not to mention many applications require a certain version. Lower version chips cannot use higher version applications.

The Screen of Knowledge is the glass display screen they were looking at. Compared to the narrow light screen displayed by the chip, the Screen of Knowledge has higher resolution, bigger size, better colors, larger storage space, and stronger performance.

Even though they were both information entertainment terminals, the Chip was equivalent to an implanted smartphone, while the Screen of Knowledge was equivalent to a personal computer.

So, are you saying that most people, once they earn money, invest it in sex, gambling, drugs, body modifications, clothing and jewelry, and virtual entertainment?

Thats right.

Ashe opened his mouth as if to say something, but then closed it again.

Only when he had eaten the last piece of milk egg cake did he could not help but ask, And what about you? Are you the same?

Yes, but I have no interest in gambling or drugs, and since Im aiming to become a Sorcerer in the future, I cant do any biological modifications at the moment.

Are you happy then?

Freya gave him a strange look.

Very happy.

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