731 、 A New Social Ecology
This was how it all started. Two hot-blooded young men with powerful backgrounds started quarreling. They didn't know why they were so angry, but they finally couldn't take it anymore. They ordered their T-600 guards to beat up the other party.
The T-600s naturally would not lay their hands on these customers. Both sides did not. What happened next was very lively. One of the two sides led four T-600s, and the other led three T-600s. Just like that, they fought fiercely. There was no need for courtesy in a fight between robots. Every move was fatal, and every punch was accurate. After a very satisfying hand-to-hand fight, the side with more numbers won, and the loser fled dejectedly.
This time, the originally insignificant street fight was widely noticed because of the robot. Under the deliberate push of some people in the dark, people began to discover this new continent.
As a result, the robot gladiator arena was quietly opened to the public. People could pay a high price to watch specially arranged robot combat performances here. The T-600's appearance was also modified to look strange. Some people added ferocious ram horns, while others added heavy armor. Wealthy businessmen set up their own robot combat teams. With the technical support provided by the Guardian Group, the T-600 robots were customized and then participated in the gladiator arena.
Fights with cold weapons, hot weapons, and even robots fighting against beasts were not provided for television broadcast. If one wanted to watch these performances, one had to buy a reasonably priced ticket to watch them live. For some celebrity teams and celebrity robots, the tickets to the competition had even been hyped up to six digits!
Countless T-600s were derived from this, and a large amount of actual combat data was also recorded in the Guardian Group's database.
This trend reached its peak when the Guardian Group stuffed a few death row prisoners into an armored vehicle and let them fight against the T-600s in an exhibition match!! The audience saw the armored vehicle charge desperately, and then it was surrounded and overturned by the T-600s! In the end, amidst the screams of the death row prisoners, the outer armor of the armored vehicle was dismantled bit by bit by more than ten T-600s. The death row prisoners were pulled out of the armored vehicle one by one. Then, amidst the crazy roars of the audience, the death penalty was carried out on the spot!
This kind of bloody, crazy activity, if placed in a healthy society, would be completely unacceptable. But in the world of Pacific Rim, a distorted society where the end of the world was approaching, it became a trend.
On this basis, the Guardian Group also launched a robot gunfight event. After equipping a large number of Guardian Type IV robots with low-damage weapons, people formed small teams and armed with live ammunition to fight these robots. The firepower of the robots only hurt for a while when it hit people, but these people were equipped with weapons that could easily tear the robots to pieces.
Of course, these robots weren't for you to take apart and play with. To participate in this event, everyone had to pay a high fee. But this did not stop the crazy popularity of this event. Compared to sitting in the stands and watching a slaughter, it was better to do it yourself!
The Guardian Group also broadcast these events live, so that people could enjoy watching other people dismantle the robots into parts, or being beaten by robots with thick foam on their hands and feet. Among them, there were also many celebrities, such as the Tearing Robot Expert, the Trap Master, the Robot Demolition Expert, and so on.
In addition to the craziness, the social ecology of the 'Garden of Eden' began to be rewritten. Robot guards were used on a large scale. After the kaiju invasion, the conventional military forces that had stagnated were also reorganized, preserving their elites and stationed in Eastern and Southern Europe. Together with robot guards, these troops formed the powerful ruling position of the 'Garden of Eden'. There were even rumors that a robot army began to appear, but this rumor has not been confirmed.
High-level officials and rich businessmen mainly live in metropolises such as London, Paris, Munich, and Milan. In these places, there are no more people except for a large number of service industry workers. Moreover, these service industry workers are not allowed to bring their families to live in the 'Garden of Eden'.
In the peripheral second-class cities, there are mainly second-class rich businessmen and nouveau riche, including a large number of service industry workers.
Scientific researchers engaged in high-tech technology, as well as excellent managers and talented senior talents, live in special industrial parks, including their families. Every year, these talents are evaluated and assessed. Once they fail, they will be kicked out of the 'Garden of Eden'.
In the periphery, there are large tracts of farms, planted with various crops that have not been contaminated by the kaiju, to meet the consumption of the 'Garden of Eden'. Because these farms use a large number of intelligent machinery and robots provided by the Guardian Group, there aren't many farmers in fact.
Of course, this is the most ideal situation. In fact, such a large-scale population flow and immigration action can't be completed in a day or two, not to mention that people are not willing to leave the 'Garden of Eden'. In response to this, the senior executives of the 'Garden of Eden' have reorganized their industries. Many enterprises, especially heavy industries, have been relocated to the 'Garden of Eden'. Along with that, the jobs have also been relocated.
Want to resist the relocation? Want to go on strike? It doesn't matter, as soon as they go on strike today, robot workers will replace all their jobs tomorrow, and these people will immediately lose their jobs.
The high price of uncontaminated food and the impact of a large number of robot workers have made it more and more difficult for ordinary people to live in the 'Garden of Eden'. In order to find a meal, they have to leave their homes and go to other places to find jobs. Even so, they find that they still have to compete with those tireless robot workers for jobs, making their lives more and more difficult.
However, the senior executives of the 'Garden of Eden' are not completely ruthless. They quickly announced the 'Anti-Monster City Wall' plan, which is to build a super wall more than 100 meters high and more than 10 meters thick on the entire Pacific coast. They also claimed that this wall is so strong that even if a level 4 kaiju really appeared, it wouldn't be able to destroy it. The construction of the wall has brought a large number of job opportunities, which has more or less calmed the boiling public grievances.
After learning that the construction of the 'Anti-Monster City Wall' has begun ahead of schedule, Tang Yu also specially called Chen Gang to discuss the plan of using robot workers to build the wall, further creating unemployment and expanding social conflicts. However, he temporarily shelved this plan, because doing so is too purposeful. Therefore, he only proposed the conservative proposal of using robot workers in the most dangerous areas.
If the invincible kaiju is the fuse that caused the collapse of the previous social structure, then the emergence of robot guards and robot workers is the torch that ignited this fuse.
Because they have long known that the kaiju can't be completely defeated and eliminated, the senior executives no longer care about the useless things like sustainable development. After getting the two swords of the robot guards and robot workers, nothing can stop them from expanding their greed. They are also very smart. They know that they placed the army and their families on the edge of the 'Garden of Eden'. This way, even if other people cause trouble, they can sleep peacefully.
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