IJWTRQ Chapter 108

Tan Yan looked at the endless mountains in the distance, and then looked back at the White Tower where 154 innocent people were imprisoned.

Reason told him to leave this place and take Liang Xian back to the real world. Even if they can’t save people, so what, they have successfully imprisoned the Evil Consciousness in this world where the consciousness is restrained to death, and the mission has been completed. Saving 154 people is beyond his ability, even if he doesn’t save them, it’s not wrong.

But from an emotional point of view, Tan Yan hopes to save people.

At the same time, intuition also told Tan Yan that the frontier was more dangerous, and that he needed to make some preparations.

Without much hesitation, Tan Yan made a decision.

He said to Chen Xuexi: “When are you going back?”

“I’m leaving now, I’ve already hunted the wild game, why, do you want to go back?” Chen Xuexi asked.

“Um, my friend fell asleep, a little tired of carrying him.” Tan Yan glanced at Chen Xuexi’s airship, wondering what language to express hitchhiking in this world.

“Hitchhiking, right?” Chen Xuexi smiled kindly, “Get in the car, I’ll send you back.”

The airship is called a ‘car’ in this world, is it a continuation of the language habit?

Tan Yan sat on the back seat with Liang Xian on his back, he touched Liang Xian’s chest, his heart was still beating, but didn’t know what happened to his consciousness.

“Is your friend sick?” Chen Xuexi glanced at Liang Xian, and reminded him, “If he’s sick, you can send him to the White Tower, Tian Shen will cure him.”

“No, he just sleeps a bit like the dead.” Tan Yan replied calmly.

“It’s good then.” Chen Xuexi launched the airship and flew slowly toward the villa area that Tan Yan had just escaped from.

Tan Yan noticed that he was wearing a bracelet on his hand, and was very curious, but reason told him not to ask lightly.

“How old are you this year? How old is your son?” Tan Yan tried to strike up a conversation.

“I’m 35 years old, my son is 17 years old, he’s going to get married in a year, I don’t know which girl will be assigned to him.”

35 years old has a 17-year-old son, the son also will get married in a year, even the wife is assigned to him, this kind of protection…Tan Yan thought, that if it was him, he would rather live freely in the dangerous world outside than be kept in captivity like this, killing all possibilities of progress.

Chen Xuexi is not a person who is good at active thinking, his long-term breeding career has made him a little dull, and he has no doubts about Tan Yan.

After learning about his character, Tan Yan decided to take a gamble and ask some questions without common sense to understand more information about the world.

“Do you have only one child?” He asked.

“Yes, in order to control the population, in general, a family can have two children, but the childbearing period is 18-25 years old, and more than 25 years old is not a good birth period, we will take the initiative to do sterilization. Our family has only one child, and the remaining share is given to other families, my next door can have three children, I give them my quota. After the youngest child in their family is born, we can take care of them and share their pressure.” Chen Xuexi replied.

Tan Yan felt a chill down his spine when he heard this, and said bravely: “Can I visit your house? I’m about the same age as your son and would like to make a friend.”

“Of course no problem,” Chen Xuexi said, “I can also treat you to some wild game.”

Tan Yan lengthened the sleeves of his own and Liang Xian’s clothes to block the wrists area, preventing Chen Xuexi from noticing that he was not wearing a bracelet.

The speed of the airship is very fast, even faster than Tan Yan running at full speed. In less than ten minutes, they arrived at the villa area, Chen Xuexi parked the airship in a courtyard and led Tan Yan into his house, without any precautions, like a domesticated creature that had lost its wildness and vigilance.

Chen Xuexi’s wife was about the same age as him, in her thirties, and she was as defenseless as he was, she warmly accepted Tan Yan and called her son to go downstairs to accompany Tan Yan.

Treating guests like any other family.

Chen Xuexi’s son is also called Chen Xuexi, let’s call him Chen Xiao Xuexi, he came down from upstairs, took out fruit and tea to treat guests, turned on the video screen on the wall, and sat with Tan Yan to watch TV.

Tan Yan picked up the fruit on the table, it looked like an apple that is common in the real world, but Tan Yan pinched it, always feeling that there was something wrong.

He looked at Chen Xiao Xuexi and asked: “I heard your father say that you used to complain about the tasteless food provided by Tian Shen?”

Chen Xiao Xuexi is like a normal 17-year-old boy, a little cold and a little second-year syndrome. Hearing Tan Yan’s words, he turned his head and said word by word: “Our daily food is a gift from Tian Shen, it’s the most nutritious and most suitable for us, we must eat it with gratitude, how can we dislike the taste of food?”

This doesn’t look like a rebellious teenager at all, as Chen Xuexi said, after entering the White Tower, he has become obedient and become good.

“Aren’t you curious about the outside world?” Tan Yan asked again.

Chen Xiao XueXi is like a robot, he doesn’t have any expression on his face when he mentions these things: “Never go outside, it’s dangerous.”

This young man, who used to be able to protest because of the taste of the ingredients, is now a person living within the frame prescribed by ‘Tian Shen’.

Tan Yan chatted a word or two with him, paying attention to Liang Xian’s situation from time to time, and occasionally watching entertainment programs in this world.

There are no commercials and no actors, it has always been a propaganda and educational film, propaganda about how scary the outside world is and how happy it is in the safe zone. People don’t need to work, don’t worry about money, don’t have to run around for life, don’t suffer from illness, don’t need to live so tired. Tian Shen will give them everything, just enjoy it with a grateful heart.

Indeed, this family is very wealthy, and all three members of the family look healthy. It is said that they strictly abide by Tian Shen’s schedule every day, sleep when it’s time to sleep, rest when it’s time to rest, they dare not violate it at all.

Live like prisoners in prison, seeing only what ‘Tian Shen’ allows them to see and do only what ‘Tian Shen’ allows them to do.

The picture on the visual screen suddenly changed, and a person wearing a white protective suit appeared on the screen, he said: “Special level alert, special level alert, two patients with destructive tendencies have escaped from the White Tower into the living area, they didn’t wear bracelets, please pay attention to the people around you, once you find people without bracelets, call the police immediately and send them back to the White Tower for treatment.”

Probably because Liang Xian destroyed the surveillance equipment, ‘Tian Shen’ doesn’t have photos of Tan Yan and others, so it can only be confirmed in this way.

Chen Xiao Xuexi looked at Tan Yan’s wrist, Tan Yan pulled back his clothes, revealing a bracelet that was exactly the same as his, and let him look at Liang Xian again.

Chen Xiao Xuexi nodded with relief, pressed a button on the bracelet, and said: “Dad, Mom, our guests have bracelets, I’ve already confirmed it.”

From the bracelet came the relieved voice of Chen Xuexi and his wife, they didn’t apologize to Tan Yan for this impolite behavior, because what Tian Shen said was absolute and could not be resisted.

At this time, Tan Yan confirmed that the bracelet was issued to humans by ‘Tian Shen’, and it should be used to monitor, control, and confirm identity information.

He grabbed Chen Xiao Xuexi’s hand and asked: “What is the use of the bracelet other than conversation and identity confirmation? One per person? Can you take it off? Not afraid to lose it?”

Chen Xiao Xuexi mind is a little dull, he will answer whatever Tan Yan asks: “Wear it since birth, can’t lose it, can’t take it off. The bracelet will remind people what to do and at what time, once you don’t listen get a warning, you will be punished if you don’t listen twice.”

“What if I want to sleep during mealtime?”

“You can apply, saying you are not feeling well and want to sleep.” Chen Xiao Xuexi said.

“Oh, how to apply, you teach me, I’ve never tried it.” Tan Yan guided.

Chen Xiao Xuexi didn’t have any doubts at all, he had already lost the ability to think independently, and he would act as soon as other people ordered him. He lifted the bracelet and pressed it a few times: “Yes, just click OK and you can go to sleep.”

Tan Yan leaned over to look at the small screen on his bracelet, took his hand and quickly clicked ‘OK’.

“What are you doing?” Chen Xiao Xuexi asked, “I don’t want to sleep.”

“No, you want to.” Tan Yan put his hand on Chen Xiao Xuexi’s eyes, and under the action of consciousness, Chen Xiao Xuexi slowly fell asleep.

After he fell asleep, Tan Yan made Chen Xuexi and his wife fall asleep in the same way, and put the family of three on the bed in the bedroom.

Tan Yan checked the interior of the home, there were two shotguns, the ammunition provided, and a hunting license. Only those who have this certificate can go out hunting with guns.

All household appliances are more advanced than in the real world, the deer is placed on the operating table, and the robot arm is automatically handling the deer’s carcass. No need for a hostess at all.

Their daily life is reading, playing, and exercising, the timetable is posted in front of the living room and can be seen every day.

The books on the bookshelf are all books praising the wisdom of ‘Tian Shen’, before the age of 18, they have to get up and recite an article every day.

Can such a life be called happiness?

Tan Yan is not an educationalist, so he doesn’t understand such profound things. He only knows that he needs to wait for Liang Xian to wake up and solve the predicament together.

He was worried that those people in protective clothing would investigate door-to-door, and if the bracelet had a positioning function, then even if he changed himself and Liang Xian into Chen Xuexi and Chen Xiao Xuexi, they wouldn’t be able to deceive those people.

Fortunately, those people seem to trust the people in the wildlife conservation area very much, and they didn’t search individual homes, but only spread the news on TV.

Tan Yan was very worried that Liang Xian’s injury was too serious and that he would not be able to wake up from now on.

He placed Liang Xian’s head on his lap, looked at Liang Xian’s young face, and secretly hoped that he would wake up soon.

God seems to have responded to Tan Yan’s wish, after resting at Chen Xuexi’s home for about five hours, Liang Xian woke up holding his head in pain.

I’m not sure if living without freedom of thought, but didn’t have to work hard for a living either, is good or bad…