Chapter 4 Monsters
Monsters, theM, used to have various names when human technology was underdeveloped and understanding of the natural world was still limited.
For example, if a meteorite falls from the sky, it is called a divine weapon, and if a turtle floats in the river, it is called Carrying the River Picture.
Therefore, in order to facilitate understanding, we use "strange objects" to refer to those places of unknown origin that are thought to come from other worlds, parallel planes, hyperspace, or reincarnation of the three worlds of heaven and hell, and cannot be analyzed with current technology. , the 'being or object' that restores and reproduces its principles.
The company currently believes that when these 'strange objects' appear on Earth for unknown reasons and purposes. Due to the limitations of some unknown physical laws on the earth's plane, there are no conditions to support these 'things' to show their complete appearance. Therefore, most monsters can only retain their partial core and appear in the form of some kind of man-made object with similar rules on the earth.
In other words, from a literary point of view, the 'existence' of another world is an inverted silhouette on this earth.
This is the monster.
Yes, projection, just like the shadow of the same person, may be large or small, long or short, and the same monster may appear differently on different earths.
Some monsters have powerful energy, some monsters are not threatening at all, some monsters can communicate between the real world and other worlds, and some monsters even threaten to destroy the world if left unchecked.
It cannot be classified or distinguished. After all, once it is analyzed, reproduced, classified and changed from 'unknown' to 'known' by human technology, it itself loses its management significance and cannot be called ' Monster' up.
Therefore, changing from a 'monster' to a 'mundane thing' is also a scientific process in which humans gradually understand, study, and transform nature.
But it is obvious that for the company, if it is just worthless garbage, there is no risk at all, and there is no value in active management and control.
Therefore, most of the login monsters currently in the company's warehouse have rules and mechanisms that cannot be analyzed based on scientific principles for the time being, or they contain radiation energy that is too large to be utilized and transformed.
Once left out of control, it may cause permanent irreparable damage to the natural environment and ecosystem. What's more, it causes turmoil in the structure of civilization.
Therefore, there have been various secret associations and organizations in human civilization for a long time. For various purposes, they hide in the shadow of civilization and are responsible for the collection and management of monsters.
The M Company.
Monster Inc. is one of them. The establishment of this company can be traced back to the end of the 21st century. It is the first company with monsters as its main business projects and research objects... "Wait, wait a minute, the end of the
21st century? Then Aren’t they all…Earth 0 era things?”
Yes, long before the first star gate, the first system, the first super smart brain prototype chip was created, long before the singularity of the technological explosion , in the world of Earth 0, the original and final only Chigo.
The chairman of the company and the first generation general manager came into contact with monsters due to family tradition, so he used the cutting-edge technology at the time and used his genius economic acumen to establish a business group with monster collection, research, storage, production and leasing services as its main business. and continues to this day.
TheM Company, a member of the Earth 0 Security Committee, a monster company in the universe, a multiverse parallel earth, and a designated monster dealer.
Li Pan looked at this 'retro' office, so this place is probably the so-called 'starting point of everything'.
But even things of this nature like 'monsters' can engage in monopoly sales. These companies are too outrageous...
There is an explanation from the landline and the company tradition of paper-based office. Although the office area is not open at this time. The fight was as messy as the battlefield, but Li Pan was still able to dig out a large pile of documents from the scattered desks and cabinets, including files, reports, memos, instruction manuals, and various supplementary instructions for product catalogs. He drank coffee and studied them carefully, and also Now you can have a basic understanding of Monsters, Inc.
Human beings are arrogant, human beings are cowardly, and human beings are terrifying.
If you don't understand the existence, you call it a monster. If you can't fully understand or control it, you will subconsciously try to destroy it.
But just because we can’t understand it now doesn’t mean we won’t be able to understand it in the future.
For example, ancient humans were afraid of fire and worshiped the sun. Now they have mastered fusion, made Dyson spheres at will, and dominated the infinite universe and galaxies.
In the same way, ancient humans on Earth 0 once regarded these monsters as gods, holy objects, and magical treasures to fight for, keep, and analyze.
Even if these monsters are really gods from other worlds, with the explosion of technology and the development of the times, the mystery of the monsters has been quickly unveiled, and their status has plummeted, so that those who were previously enshrined in the temple Toys, even the affixes such as 'something higher than human' have been deleted, and are now completely reduced to commodities that can be freely traded on the shelves.
Yes, so what if you have the power to destroy mankind? Which major company these days doesn't have two J-star antimatter bombs hidden in its warehouse? What's the big deal about destroying all mankind? Who are you looking down on?
Of course, on the other hand, as human scientific research progresses and exploration goes deeper into the world, humans will naturally come into contact with more and more monsters that they cannot understand and control. It is impossible to eliminate them completely indiscriminately, or to hope to hide them all. Someone must be responsible for managing and dealing with the consequences of these things.
And it doesn’t matter whether it’s strange or not. Even if you don’t know what a monster is, you will figure it out one day. And since things are rare, you can speculate and invest now.
Under a mature market system, as long as there are buyers, anything can be valued and traded.
To put it bluntly, TheM Monster Company is an exchange that specializes in the buying and selling of monsters. They acquire monsters that cannot be analyzed by the other party's technology from the Scientific Ethics Committee, Zhutian Company and scavengers.
Then based on his rich experience in this field, he analyzed, purchased, valued, quoted and sold the monster, and sold the monster to the technology laboratories of those giant companies for more in-depth research. This is Monsters, Inc.’s main source of revenue.
These days, the little money the poor have is really not enough to fill their teeth. The only way to get ahead is to make money from companies.
And monsters are indeed a huge market with unlimited potential. After all, at the level of Super Zhutian Company, the struggle at the safety committee level does not even mean much. In the final analysis, it is still a competition of technology. Whoever can be one step ahead will win. Taking control of the overall situation is the iron law of human development to this day.
The most powerful and advanced technology is naturally the research on edge technologies that are hitherto unknown to humans, such as monsters.
Of course, transactions involving monsters and companies at this level must be decided by the board of directors at the level of Earth 0 Corporation, and a subsidiary like Earth 0791 is, to put it bluntly, a regional warehousing and logistics center under Monster Company.
The task of the general manager of the subsidiary company is naturally to recover and keep the monsters from the Earth 0791 plane, and to complete the monster transactions between the head office and other chaebols. Of course, in view of the rarity, high value, and high risk of monsters, it is a typical three years without opening and three years after opening, so the daily work is mainly to check in the warehouse... Li Pan said, "Damn it, after going around for a long time, I'm still
a Look at the warehouse!"
After hanging up the phone, Li Pan stood up and noticed that the cheap formal clothes and plaid shirts he rented were torn. Although his body was restored by the filing cabinet, these clothes were not restored... Li Pan thought for a while
, Picking up from the ashes, there was the formal suit that the coffee monster was wearing just now.
How should I put it? It's a very strange material, soft and tough, as if touching human skin, but now it's ice cold. It's a bit strange to say this, but for some reason, Li Pan feels that this formal dress has been 'dead', and with a little force It will be torn into pieces, and naturally there will be no bulletproof effect.
So Li Pan picked up the phone and dialed 0791001.
"What is this? Is it also a monster?"
he heard his own echo say on the other end of the phone.
"Formal Wear/Guardian,
appraisal, controllable
group in-app purchase product, monster sub-project.
Formal Wear/Guardian may be the projection of the cub of an alien creature on the earth.
Formal Wear/Guardian can symbiosis with employees and resist harm, But the formal suit/guardian will also feel pain and die.
If the employees do not respect their formal suit/guardian, the formal suit/guardian will also get angry and run away.
If the employees treat their formal suit/guardian well, the formal suit/guardian will get along well with them. I will fight with you until the end.
The company only reimburses the first formal suit/guardian for full-time employees.
Although I am still in the internship period, as an acting manager, I can also enjoy this benefit." "
Oh, it can be reimbursed, then I'll give it to you One set."
Li Pan put the dead formal suit on, it was a bit too big, so I had to make do with it.
"The general manager can check the formal attire customization in the phone book and send a fax to customize the formal attire/guardian.
But to equip the formal attire/guardian, you need to accept the formal attire/guardian trial and consume a silver key."
Li Pan narrowed his eyes. "Wait a minute, what's the use of this silver key?"
"The key can open the door."
"... Nonsense, be specific."
So the phone added emphasis,
"'Key' can open 'door', by definition Open. The properties of monsters cannot be explained scientifically, and they can be used as long as they comply with the rules.
I can use the key to open any entrance, or I can use the key to open any seal, or directly open the warehouse and borrow the monsters in the company's warehouse. I am the general
manager, I have the right to borrow the company's inventory for monster purchasing tasks, but since I only have one key in my hand now, maybe I should be more cautious and take a look at the inventory before making a decision." Monster keys, so mysterious...
Li
Pan He took out the key again and looked at it.
From what he said on the phone, it sounded like this thing could only be used once. It might be an internal reward or currency within the company.
But that's right, he didn't know when the formal attire would be customized and he didn't know when it would be delivered. There would also be some trials, but he was definitely in stock in the company's warehouse. If the general manager could borrow it... wait! Which warehouse? The one targeted by the Uzumaki Gang?
"I suddenly realized that there may be security risks in Warehouse No. 7. In view of the unexplained attack, which resulted in the deletion of all previous employees of the company, perhaps I should conduct an inspection in the warehouse, investigate the cause of the previous attack on the company, and report it to the head office. "
Li Pan also realized that if the people from Monster Company died so cleanly, there must be forces targeting them. Of course, the mastermind behind the scenes is definitely not the Uzumaki Gang. That kind of little Yakuza is just trying to find a way out of trouble. Since Monster Company is a member of the Safety Committee, his opponent might be a super plane of the same level as Ye Clan or Takamagahara. company.
But now, whether he wants it or not, he has already boarded the pirate ship and has been saved. Sooner or later the deletion will be done to him, and he has to take action even to protect himself.
Li Pan immediately picked up the phone and asked while running back and forth, looking for the inventory list of Warehouse No. 7 in the surrounding filing cabinets.
Before he joined the job, he walked around Warehouse No. 7 under the leadership of Daxiong. He knew that the warehouse was quite large. There were six floors of constant-temperature warehouses above and below ground. The containers were sealed, and the internal lines were disconnected. Security instruction cards were required for entry and exit. The yard There are also automatic defense cannons, intelligent identification of landmines, and decommissioned armed robots outside.
Although there are no full-time private security guards at the level of CSI, because of the extra money given to the NCPA branch in the neighborhood, the cameras near the warehouse street have been connected to the police station’s surveillance subnet, and there are vehicles patrolling in the morning and evening. Once the police are called, three Within minutes the police were dispatched.
But what surprised him was that with this security configuration, according to the company's inventory, there was actually only one monster kept there, and the others were empty boxes used to deal with junk items inspected by the tax bureau.
"In order to avoid going wild and out of control, all monsters must be kept separately in a specific environment. I should check the status of the warehouse immediately." "
What kind of unlucky stuff is in Warehouse No. 7 that I have to go to in person? And what's going on with your computers?" The station can't be turned on?"
Li Pan was also speechless. This unfortunate company had deleted all employee files at once, and naturally all the mission reports were gone. In the piles of internal affairs files, the monster-related information has been blacked out with small black bars, which makes people's eyes dazzled.
Damn it, we’re in the cyberpunk era, and the company still only has a fax machine, a paper shredder, and a coffee machine. It’s so fucked up.
"The company server has been offline urgently and cannot be used until the system is reset. After the company facilities are damaged, you can call the cleaners/time reset after work to restart. It will be back to normal when you go to work tomorrow. Please note that the cleaners
only Provide services for the blue zone and the yellow zone."
Li Pan was stunned, "Blue zone? Yellow zone?"
"The blue zone is safe, with no monsters or low security risks. The yellow zone is controllable, and the monsters have been controlled and kept in accordance with regulations. The red zone It's dangerous. The monster is at risk of losing control or has already lost control."
"...Hey," Li Pan suddenly thought of something and narrowed his eyes, "That damn mood deviation value assessment, couldn't it be something you guys created?" The result of the phone
call The echo in the phone replied,
"I don't know."
Li Pan was speechless, "You don't know? Aren't you the company's exclusive system for intelligent assistance? Don't you know?"
Phone,
"I am the office landline/Psychic echo, at some point Also known as 'soul communication', 'subliminal dialogue', 'psychic whispers' and 'psychic mediumship'.
When calling the employee's internal line, when the employee is in a state of being unable to answer, I can answer instead, but can only report that the employee is available from the task site Organize and analyze the intelligence."
Then this thing is not as good as the system. The intelligent assistant can at least know how to search the Internet... The
phone continued,
"The company needs to restart, and I need to work overtime to check the status of the 42 warehouses in the city one by one tonight. It is recommended to give priority to starting from the 7th, and enter the red zone one by one to check the status of the monsters to ensure that there will be no loss of control."
Li Pan sneered,
"I'm here! It's only 2,500 yuan a month and you're making me risk my life!"
"I'm the tenth of the 0791 branch. Four managers."
"Two thousand five hundred dollars!"
"This city used to be called Thirteenth New Tokyo."
"Two thousand...huh? Are you saying that the destruction of the old city has something to do with the monsters? Aren't you saying that the company committed suicide by itself..."
Li Pan suddenly realized that the monster out of control was not caused by the company itself, let alone the real one. Corporate war, dynasty change, in 0791 it was the first time that Gao Tianyuan was replaced by the Ye family. And to be honest, the Ye family didn't do anything to the local aborigines. They also reissued relief loans. The company is mainly here to make money.
But he immediately reacted,
"That's none of my business. The situation in front of me is clearly a mess left by the people in the previous term! If you have the ability, pick up those who deleted the files and finish it off yourself! Threaten me?
" I have twenty-five hundred dollars a month and you want me to save the world?
Go talk to Grand Duchess Camilla of the Night Clan. Go talk to Mr. Oda of Takamagahara. They invested millions in the Night City. It's over 100 million, maybe they care."
Then the phone call came slowly,
"I know that remuneration is not the key, the key is the contract. Only by complying with the contract can the rules be activated. And my manager's authority is based on the temporary labor contract. Only then were they recognized by the filing cabinet.
And I know they don’t care. When the flood comes, it will always be the people standing on the top of the mountain who survive first. Even if hundreds of billions are invested in the Night City, it is just a drop in the bucket to them. If they invest again, They can afford it thirteen times.
But a living of 2,500 yuan a month is all I have now."
"Fuck!"
Li Pan was so angry that he hung up the phone and looked at the memo in his hand angrily.
'Delete/delete, identify, blue, a medium to communicate with the subconscious, the object of communication is unknown, some people think that what they hear is the echo of the soul, some people are tasked with communicating with us on the other side, it is some kind of artificial intelligence, some people think It’s an auditory hallucination similar to schizophrenia. I think it may be my own conscience. '
Liang Nima's height.
Li Pan crumpled the memo into a ball and threw it into the wastebasket.
After thinking about it, I first made a call and asked the cleaners to come over and wash the floor. Then he got up and left the company.
No matter what, let’s take a look at the big bear.
Maybe he wasn't deleted from the company's existence, but was just beaten to death by the Uzumaki Gang.
That way his family would at least have a chance to apply for an interest-free loan for workers' compensation benefits.
Of course the hope is slim.
(End of chapter)