LAWLESS ORIGIN

03. Multiple identities

Monday, June 30, before dusk.

Saigon City, outside the gates of the Maggie Noble University.

Wealthy area, lake-floating restaurant.

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The machine pontoon boat, bring Ji Xi and the bald girl, to the lake restaurant, the bamboo forest box.

Machine pontoons, amphibious, belong to the "second-order automatic control robot", the price is less than tens of thousands of dollars.

Bamboo forest box, with bamboo and aquatic plants, planted plant walls.

The dense bamboo leaves, like a roof, subtly shade the sun.

This is the "zero-order ecological architecture", of utopia:

With living plants, planting becomes a building.

In the middle of the box, is a small platform floating, on the surface of the lake.

The restaurant on the lake, under the slanting sun, has a very beautiful, and quiet scene, very popular with the rich.

JiXi, dressed in cyan clothes, walked into the bamboo forest box, as if had blended into the green environment.

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In Utopia, public service buildings, are mostly open-air, and rarely capped.

Do not add entities, unless necessary.

Utopian architecture, popular Occam's razor style, maximalist design.

In Utopia, buildings with more than two floors, are extremely rare.

Utopia houses, all of are movable, and absolutely safe buildings.

For buildings with more than two floors, it is difficult to solve safety problems.

For example: jumping off buildings, defense, relocation...

Historical psychologists of the 22nd century, named the high-rise buildings of the 21st century pre-social period: artificial cliffs.

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Two "seventh-order robots", the mantis queen and the scorpion princess, followed from the lake.

The moment, the robot jumps into the lake, the soles of the robot's feet, are reorganized into goose paw shapes.

The mechanical feet quickly slap the water surface, and with the help of the recoil force of the water, the robot walks on the surface of the lake.

In Utopia, robots are all made of metal foam.

Metal foam, has a small specific gravity, and is very lightweight.

Robots walk on water, is more common in utopia.

In particular, the "seventh-order robot", walks on the surface of the water, as if walking on the ground.

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Ji Xi sat down, his hair braided, not only hanging to the ground, but also an extra section, lying on the floor.

The bald girl, joked about JiXi again:

"Your hair, at last, is down to the ground.

You've had your hair for 12 years, right? "

JiXi is helpless:

"yes, it's been twelve years.

When I was five years old, my mother left me.

On the day she left, she said to me:

When I'm standing, my hair hanging down to the ground, I'll be able to see her again.

I haven't cut my hair, since I was five years old.

In another two years, when I'm standing, my hair will hanging down to the ground. "

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Bald girl question:

"Why didn't your mother let you cut your hair?

How inconvenient it is for you to have such long hair. "

JiXi explained:

"At parting, my mother asked me to remember one sentence:

My talent, comes from my difference.

She didn't let me cut my hair, so I always remembered:

If I am like the others, I will be lost to the people, and I will lose my talents.

Not only will I not see her, but I will probably, not live to be eighteen. "

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Bald girl mercy:

"What kind of wonderful mother is this?

to raise such a freak son as you. "

JiXi was silent, bored admiring, at dusk, the sunset landscape on the lake.

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After a while, the bald girl asked curiously:

"What's your ranking at another university?"

You're also the worst student, aren't you? "

JiXi laughed proudly:

"Haha, not only am I not the worst student.

Even worse than my grades, there were dozens of students. "

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The bald girl is suspicious:

"Is there such a thing? Which school is it? "

JiXi laughed at herself:

"Mosi Poor University."

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The bald girl suddenly:

"No wonder, Mosi Poor University, in the slums of the North City.

A paradise for troubled teenagers, and an amusement park for bad students.

Troubled teenagers and bad students in Saigon City, are almost all concentrated there. "

JiXi nodded:

"So, this is the best place, to hide my second identity."

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Prompt:

The "Metal Foam" part of this book is exaggerated, and cannot be realized in modern times.

Index of Facts:

Ecological Architecture, Reference: Postmodernist Art, Plant Material Installation.

Extremism, Reference: Postmodernist Design, Minimalist.

Metal foam, reference: Materials Science.