Those who reincarnate must die.

Hospital robbed?

Zhang Lang narrowed his eyes and raised his hand to try and flag down a taxi, but no one stopped. It wasn't until later, when he asked a question through a search engine, that he realized hailing a taxi in this world was entirely dependent on the internet!

"What a world where a country bumpkin can't get by!" Zhang Lang sighed, opened a ride-hailing app, and called a car that happened to be nearby.

"To section B12!"

"receive!"

Zhang Lang then realized that the driver was actually a robot. This kind of low-skilled job no longer had a place for humans…

But since everything is already mechanized, why not produce vehicles that can drive themselves directly, instead of creating robot drivers?

It wasn't until Zhang Lang saw a woman hailing a taxi on the roadside and the robot driver getting out to help her with her luggage that he understood what was going on.

Providing services isn't just about doing a single job well. When you think an invention can replace human labor, previously overlooked problems often suddenly surface and become amplified, causing inconvenience. Rather than making repeated changes, it's often more efficient to go straight to creating a robot that completely replaces humans.

It can do everything a human can do, so naturally there won't be any other problems...

The city itself isn't very large, especially given its pyramid-shaped structure. The central area is actually much smaller than the lower area; however, movement often requires using specific elevator tracks for vertical transport. Overall, though, the destination isn't far!

In just over ten minutes, Zhang Lang was taken to his destination and paid the fare online as soon as he got out of the car. The automated driver didn't even wait for him, as if it wasn't worried at all that he would renege on his payment.

Indeed, in this highly information-driven society, your every move is monitored by the internet. If a credibility issue arises, it can have a fatal impact on your life!

After paying the fare, Zhang Lang still had over five thousand yuan left in his convenient account.

The so-called convenient account is an account that allows him to make password-free payments, similar to carrying spare change with him at all times. He believes this identity should have even more savings, but accessing the funds would require knowing the password. He only inherited the identity and doesn't know the memories of the original identity. Therefore, this five thousand or so is basically his operating funds in this world.

He didn't know if the number was high or not, but he had just had the external brain chip installed, which cost him over two thousand points. He also spent over thirty yuan on a taxi. So it shouldn't be a lot, but it should be enough to last him a few days.

With these thoughts in mind, Zhang Lang entered that hospital.

"Sorry, this question is not in my database, and I cannot answer it..."

At the information desk, Zhang Lang received a cold reply from the robot. In this damned hospital, apart from other patients waiting like him, there wasn't a single living person in sight!

The information desk is a machine, the nurses are machines, the security guards are machines, and there's no registration desk at all, because you can register automatically just by logging into the hospital's website.

It's important to know that brain-computer interfaces not only assist in thinking, but can also monitor a person's hormone levels. When you decide to seek medical attention and complete the registration, the hospital has basically completed the initial diagnosis and triage. The next step is to wait in the waiting area for your number to be called.

If someone has mobility issues, a robotic caregiver will come to assist them. Human nurses will only appear to perform more flexible and complex tasks if special care is required.

Zhang Lang arrived at the emergency room, where there were noticeably more humans, but they all seemed very busy. Zhang Lang went to the nurses' station, attempting to ask the human nurse on duty...

"Excuse me, how can I help you?" The nurse on duty looked up and smiled, but her eyes unconsciously drifted to the brain chip on Zhang Lang's head...

"I……"

Zhang Lang initially considered telling a lie, impersonating a police officer or detective, but then realized that in this well-established, highly efficient, and information-sharing society, lying was both difficult and costly. He wouldn't need much; if the other party simply asked for his police ID, he'd be in trouble. If his answer wasn't plausible enough, the other party could easily call the police on a whim.

Zhang Lang considered for a moment, then changed his words, "Excuse me, I lost something. It's a necklace. Could someone please bring it to the nurses' station?"

"Um... I'm sorry, I haven't received it..." the nurse smiled and said, "What kind of one is it? I can keep an eye out for you."

"Just a regular silver necklace..." Zhang Lang casually remarked, "I didn't expect something to go missing in a hospital. Honestly, there are security cameras here, aren't there?"

"Sigh, even with surveillance cameras, it's not always useful!" the nurse complained casually. "The pharmacy went missing quite a few Caentrons yesterday..."

"Karntron?" Zhang Lang raised an eyebrow and asked naturally.

"It's just a commonly used additive..." the nurse sighed. "It's a drug used to alleviate the burden on the body caused by prosthetic modifications. It's not valuable. Who would steal this stuff?"

"Maybe they're from the Lower City!" another nurse chimed in. "I've heard that many people there have undergone excessive modifications and desperately need this stuff. The additive is very valuable there."

"But people from the lower city can't possibly get here..." the nurse retorted. "After all, there are so many robotic police officers watching... By the way, sir, please leave your contact information..."

The nurse, halfway through gossiping, finally remembered Zhang Lang. When she looked up to ask again, she found that the tall man with the brain chip was gone...

"Karntron...?" As he walked out of the hospital, Zhang Lang had already searched for relevant information online using his chip.

This is a body conditioning agent commonly used in urban and rural areas. It has multiple functions, including anti-rejection, reducing pain, balancing the physical body and mechanical prostheses, and enhancing physical compatibility.

Generally speaking, people who have undergone prosthetic modifications, including all those who have received brain chip implants, need to take this drug long-term.

However, because this product is very cheap and has few toxic side effects, it is a common medicine in the urban and rural areas, and is sold in most pharmacies and even supermarkets.

As for the poisons commonly kept in hospitals, they are usually high-concentration and high-dose, requiring certain controls, but they are not particularly dangerous poisons. Therefore, this theft case did not attract much attention.

Judging from the nurses' casual conversation, it wasn't a very serious matter. However, one of the nurses' remarks caught Zhang Lang's attention: even surveillance cameras might not be useful.

In this world, places like hospitals, pharmacies, and warehouses must be under strict surveillance, and it might not be as simple as just cameras. If they weren't used, does that mean the culprit stole the medicine using methods beyond the conventional understanding of this world?

It's highly likely that the perpetrator was a reincarnated individual...

The nurse's words were a clue. This kind of medicine was commonplace in the upper and middle districts, but it could fetch a high price in the lower districts where medical conditions were poor. Therefore, it was very likely that the reincarnators' mission was related to the lower district; they were born in the lower district in this world!

Getting to the lower city is easy; Zhang Lang just needs to remove his external brain chip and refuse to connect to the Tianluo Network, and he'll be sent away. But coming back will be difficult.

He had considered using force, but this was a technologically advanced world with level four weapon restrictions. Not to mention, the robotic police officers everywhere on the streets looked formidable.

Earlier in the taxi, Zhang Lang had seen a robotic police officer handling a traffic accident. This mechanical monster, holding a gun in one hand, easily lifted an overturned truck with the other – its strength was at least fifty times that of an average person! Coupled with the aid of high-tech weaponry, each robotic police officer was a monster that no human could defeat!

Zhang Lang was quite confident in dealing with three or five monsters, but there were probably tens of thousands of them in the entire city. If he violated the laws of this world and was wanted by the authorities, it would be very troublesome.

Before fully confirming that the reincarnator is in the Lower City, we cannot easily give up our identity as residents of the Middle City... However, investigating things in the Middle City, where there is surveillance everywhere, network coverage everywhere, and police patrols everywhere, is indeed extremely difficult...

Zhang Lang was resting on a bench at the edge of the spacious sky plaza. Several children were playing football in the plaza when suddenly, one of the children kicked the ball, and the football flew towards Zhang Lang!

Zhang Lang was focused on thinking and didn't notice at first. He only realized it when the ball flew right in front of him and could only instinctively dodge it. The ball grazed his external brain chip and flew past, hitting the glass railing not far behind him and bouncing back with a thud.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, sir..."

The children who had been playing rushed over to retrieve the ball and apologized to Zhang Lang. The parents who were looking after the children also arrived, but when they noticed the external brain chip on Zhang Lang's head, they all showed a barely perceptible look of disdain before leading their children away...

In this world, external brain chips are synonymous with mental instability, stupidity, madness, and mental illness...

However, Zhang Lang was not upset by the contempt he received. On the contrary, he turned around and stared at the tall glass railing in a daze, and suddenly a plan came to mind.

"Hollow... I forgot to ask, will wearing this thing on my head allow them to read my memories and thoughts?"

"Theoretically, yes! Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to manipulate various functions with your mind!"

Xu explained:

"However, it can't read very deep things. At most, it can only read the wearer's intense psychological activities, such as hatred, joy, sadness, anger, etc. So if someone gets into a dispute, or even has thoughts of killing, the nearest robot police can react in advance. This is also why this well-established world allows carrying weapons..."

"However, you're even more amazing than the average person!"

Xu continued to laugh:

"Even I, the one residing in your head, can't fully enter your mind. Your regenerative ability seems to have a special protective effect on your nervous system, though the specific mechanism is unclear. My guess is that to read your thoughts, one must affect or even damage your nerve cells. Such slight damage would be immediately erased by you, just like the feeling when the evil spirit tried to invade you!"

"Furthermore, your water attribute is now close to fifty points, making your self-defense mechanism stronger. So, you're basically the one issuing commands to the chip, making it difficult for the chip to read your complex thoughts..."

"That's good..." Zhang Lang nodded and stood up from the bench. "Let's go down!"

After several stops, the taxi took Zhang Lang to the West K13 area.

Compared to the previous places, the lighting here is somewhat dim, and the facilities aren't as modern. Looking at the altimeter, this is 1009 meters!

That's right, this is the lowest area in the central district. Looking down along the glass railings on the street, not far away, there is a hazy fog. That is industrial waste gas with added settling agents. Because of special treatment, it is heavier than air and will settle downwards.

Although these exhaust gases will gradually dissipate into the surrounding area, they have been continuously replenished by the upper and middle urban areas and the lower urban area itself, thus forming a dynamic balance and accumulating to a thickness of about seven or eight hundred meters, basically encompassing the entire lower urban area.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg of the appalling living conditions in the lower district.

Zhang Lang's purpose in coming here was simple: since the normal methods couldn't get him to the lower city, he would use some unconventional methods!

For example, jump from here!

Of course, the streets and squares are blocked by glass curtain walls several meters high, so Zhang Lang couldn't possibly climb over the walls and jump out. If he did, everyone would know that he did it on purpose, and he would be removed from the Central District. In that case, the fall would have been for nothing.

He had to figure out a way to "accidentally" fall down in a way that was inconspicuous or appeared relatively natural.

So he walked around the neighborhood, found a sports equipment store, bought a billiard cue, and then carried it around the street.

As he walked, he noticed a mechanical policeman patrolling with a gun coming towards him. Zhang Lang's lips curled up slightly. Just as he was about to brush past the mechanical policeman, he suddenly tripped and, seemingly in a panic, swung his billiard cue and lunged at the mechanical policeman!

Almost simultaneously, the robotic policeman reacted, its indicator light on its head turning from blue to red, instantly entering combat mode, raising its gun, and aiming it at the staggering Zhang Lang in front of it!

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