Chapter 719, Artificial Intelligence
Outside the gates of Barrier 61, there was a line of people standing in the doorway, waiting for identity verification.
“Name?”
“Jiang Xu.”
“Did you bring the clearance paperwork?”
“Brought it!” An accompanying reporter beside Jiang Xu hurriedly handed over their papers.
Ever since Barrier 61 admitted the stragglers, it had always been the center of attention for the entire Barrier Alliance, partly because it was the only barrier full of stragglers, and partly because of Wang’s AI.
Right when Ren Xiaosu and the others entered the Sacred Mountain, Wang’s official media wasn’t idle for a moment, sparing no effort every day to record the life here, as well as how good the law and order was, and how fast the cases were solved.
Jiang Xu wanted to record the truth of the entire era, how could he miss something like this, it could very well mean a change in the times, and even affect the way of life of humans in the future.
So Jiang Xu sent an application for a visit to Wang as the editor-in-chief of Hope Media, and Wang agreed at the first opportunity.
Barrier 61 was not a look-alike project, everything here made Wang’s barrier managers proud, they even often openly lamented that they didn’t expect the stragglers to be a bit better managed than the barriers.
Recently, Wang’s upper and lower ranks had been busy, and it was said that Wang Shengzhi wanted to simply move Wang’s administrative center to Barrier 61.
The soldiers at the city gates who were responsible for checking the documents quickly verified the identities of Jiang Xu and the others, which included checking the authenticity of the documents against the authenticity of the documents, as well as whether or not the photographs were of the person, and so on.
Until ten minutes later, an officer greeted him and politely said, “Welcome Chief Editor, you’re here to visit Barrier 61, I’ll immediately prepare a special car to arrange for you to visit the journey.”
Jiang Xu’s influence wasn’t just limited to Luo City, people’s respect for Jiang Xu was from the bottom of their hearts.
This respect did not come from power and money, but his attitude and wisdom.
Only Jiang Xu waved his hand and said bluntly, “I came over this trip to find a fight, so I don’t need you guys to take care of my ups and downs, and I’m afraid that I won’t be able to see the itinerary you’ve arranged.”
That Wang’s officer smiled a bit awkwardly, “There is nothing unseemly about our 61st Barrier, so feel free to visit as you please.”
“Good, then thank you in advance,” Jiang Xu smiled, after saying that, he took a step towards the inside with his crutches, there were only five people in their line, all of them were Hope Media’s journalists except Jiang Xu, he said to the four journalists, “Look well, observe well, don’t forget what we are here for. ”
After entering the ledge, what this saw was a bit different from what was imagined.
According to the reporters’ imagination, Barrier 61 was full of stragglers, so shouldn’t they all be poorly dressed and everyone look sad?
As it turned out, the people here didn’t look any different from the barriers, and didn’t feel that anyone always had a bitter face.
Jiang Xu turned around and laughed, “What, can’t see anyone else doing well?”
“That’s not true,” a reporter scratched his head, “I think this is quite a slap in the face of the walled people if we take it back.”
Before this, there were some barriers in Luo City who rejected the stragglers entering the barriers, while some others condescendingly treated the stragglers as an inferior race, and said that even if the stragglers entered the barriers, they would still be stragglers, and could not be turned into barriers.
But now the stragglers of Barrier 61 didn’t look any different from the barriers people.
In just a few short months, the stragglers were already dressed neatly and even behaved politely.
It was said that Wang had also set up a special night school at Barrier 61, and many of the stragglers had spontaneously signed up to learn knowledge after work, and were very motivated.
So, in all probability it seems that the environment still creates the people, rather than the people creating the environment.
Jiang Xu did not respond to this topic, but saw a middle-aged man standing by the street and said: ”Hello, I am a reporter, can I delay you for two minutes to ask you a few questions? It doesn’t matter if I don’t have time, I just hope it doesn’t cause you any burden.”
That middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, but still agreed.
Right at this moment, Jiang Xu suddenly saw that this middle-aged man even raised his head and looked around, Jiang Xu’s gaze followed over and he realized that the other party was looking for the camera on the street.
However, Jiang Xu did not mention this matter, but first asked, “What kind of work do you do at Barrier 61?”
“O,” said the middle-aged man, “I’m in the water company, that’s the water supply side of the job, and I occasionally go to the heating side to help out.”
“How’s the salary, is it enough for food and clothing?” Jiang Xu asked.
“This is certainly enough, and there is no foreman exploitation, quite good,” said the middle-aged man, “In the past, at the construction site outside the wall, it was said that it was issued two thousand a month, but it was just over a thousand in the hands, and now there is no such thing.”
“Oh?” A reporter asked, “Then you should be feeling happy now?”
“We don’t know what happiness is, but it’s better than before,” the middle-aged man replied.
The reporter muttered in a low voice, “Looks like Wang didn’t tell a lie either.”
Jiang Xu smiled at the middle-aged man, “Ok thank you, sorry for delaying you for so long, we have a small gift here please accept it.”
Saying that, he asked the reporter behind him to hand the middle-aged man a box, while inside the box was a delicate fountain pen.
At this time, Jiang Xu suddenly asked, “Just now I saw that you have been standing by the roadside, are you waiting for someone? If you still have things to do, we’ll leave you alone for now.”
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said, “It’s not so much waiting for someone, but there was a wallet on the ground when I just passed by, and I was the first to see it, so I had to wait here for the owner to come back to look for it.”
A reporter froze for a moment, “Then you are really picking up money.”
The middle-aged man waved his hand, “Not really, it’s mainly because the barriers stipulate that I have to be fined if I don’t pick it up when I see it and leave straight away, and if I take it away it’s even more serious, I’ll be detained for 7 days.”
The reporters looked at each other in disbelief, they didn’t expect Barrier 61 to have such a regulation.
But this was a good thing to ask people to pick up money, it was just a little too strict, although it felt strange, the direction was good.
After the middle-aged man waited for the owner, the middle-aged man left.
Jiang Xu thought about it and said to the reporter beside him, “Let’s stay for today, and we still need to slowly observe how the 61st Barrier is in the end.”
But just at this moment, Jiang Xu looked up and suddenly realized that it seemed that the nearby surveillance cameras had all turned their direction early, and were all aimed at their group.
Jiang Xu tried to walk forward for more than ten meters, and those cameras followed his pace and turned.
He knew that these cameras all had the function of sound collection, so I’m afraid that the conversation between them and the middle-aged man just now had been recorded in its entirety.
He didn’t know why, but the passersby he had just questioned said that they were doing well, but Jiang Xu always had an indescribably strange feeling.
He is a free man, the definition of freedom is to be able to make choices according to their own initiative, but this freedom if always being watched, will always let him have a kind of unspeakable sense of awkwardness.
However, Jiang Xu think, this world can live well for the displaced people may have been very good, the displaced people will not have their own this kind of superfluous worry it.
Jiang Xu is not a pedantic person, if this AI just monitor everyone a little bit, can less starve to death a few people, he will not say anything, after all, he can not represent the displaced people.