[Quick Transmigration] The Truman Show

BIGBROTHER, the most beautiful thing about this program is that the people staring at the telescreen can judge these bibliophiles, issue any dirty orders at will, and decide their life and death at will.

But it's sad for bibliophiles because it's the only way they can get salvation.

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City X, 21:00

Countdown: 153 hours

……

Truman escaped from that ancient villa in a panic.He didn't even remember how he got back to the fire brigade until the mechanical hounds roared at his feet, and that was when he woke up.Its eyeballs shone red, the color of vigilance.

He touched its nose, "You smell him?"

With a muffled growl, it jumped back again.

Truman's hand froze in the air, "Even you are afraid of him..."

……

"It has nothing to fear, it's just a pile of copper, iron, batteries, and wires. According to the computer program, it's going to 'perform tasks', Truman," the captain stood by the lifting pole, looking down at him , "Are you upset?"

Truman lowered his head, looking a little lost.

The captain sighed, "Come on."

Truman nodded, grabbed the automated copper rod with one hand, passed through the ceiling on the first floor, and slid up silently.On the dim upper terrace, four men sat in a corner under a yellow chandelier, playing cards around a card table.

"Unhappy? Do you want to play cards?" The captain said casually while looking at his cards, "You know, there are not many chances of you being invited to the poker table."

This is the evildoer in the team, and it's just a joke at the poker table.

"No," Truman laughed, "I don't like playing cards."

Suddenly there was a loud noise of bombers in the sky, one, three, seven, thirteen, flying towards the east.

"I heard that war has been declared long ago."

"Yeah, it seems like there are bombers going up every second."

"Since [-], we have waged and won two nuclear wars."

"The news says that millions of troops have been mobilized"

"But in fact, at least tens of millions of troops have been mobilized, known as millions"

……

Truman asked, "Why is there a war?"

"Who knows, maybe it's because we're too rich and the rest of the world is too poor"

"I've heard rumors that the whole world is starving while we have enough to eat"

"The whole world is working hard while we are having fun"

Truman murmured, "If the war has already broken out, then why are there still so many programs and so many people staring at the TV wall to interact with it all the time, why are so many people still going to nightclubs, parties, and enjoying themselves?" Enjoy, aren't they worried?"

"We won't be playing today," the captain slapped his cards, stood up, and waved his hands indiscriminately. "Let's go! I'll teach this little lost lamb a lesson."

……

The table is scattered.

Truman and the captain sat on the roof, looking at the lights of Wanjia hidden in the darkness.

Dotted with dots, countless dotted lines are formed, and these dotted lines are woven into an impenetrable and huge net.

"Am I asking the wrong question?" Truman asked.

The captain shook his head, "No, you know, after a man decides to become a fireman, he always has that -- at least one -- itch. He wonders what the hell he's doing, what the books say What, he will be tempted to think, but this kind of thinking will not make you feel happy, but will make you depressed and lonely, do you understand?"

"Truman, believe me, I was once tempted to read some books to answer these doubts. But it was a long time ago. The forbidden fruit has been eaten, the poisonous snake has climbed back on the tree, and the garden has been destroyed. Overgrown weeds..."

"I did open those books, but they were blank. There were words on the pages, but nothing was said inside, or in other words, it was pretentious, and none of it was believable. If it was a novel, they talked about It's full of people who don't exist, and the whole thing is a piece of imagination. If it's non-fiction, it's even worse, and this professor calls that one an idiot, and this philosopher yells at that one. They're all destroying the light. After reading those books, you just feel lost."

"You know why, even if a war is about to break out, no one will worry about it?"

"The reason is simple. You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want someone else to build a house, hide the nails and wood. Likewise, if you don't want someone to be dissatisfied with politics, you don't want If he's worried, don't let him know all about the problem."

"Maybe, you have to let him know one side of things, for example, let him know the fact that 'the country declares war but will win'. Of course, the best course of action is to let him know nothing, for example, let him forget about the war Even if the government is inefficient, bloated, and the tax burden is maddeningly high, it is better to be like this than to let the people worry about the government. This is the happiness of the people.”

"The most beautiful thing about fire is that it can destroy responsibility and consequence. If problems become too burdensome, throw it in the furnace. Forget about them. Burn them and burn everything clean. The flame is bright , is clean."

"But if you open those books and don't burn them, then you're on the fringes of society - hunted by mechanical hounds, imprisoned, sent to mental institutions, like those poor book collections in BIGBROTHER as guilty..."

"The more a man knows, the more delusional he is; the wiser he is, the less lucid he is."

"Do you know why those bibliophiles come back to Big Brother to wait for trial and seek salvation? Because they regret it, they regret being bewitched by those books, they fear the day of fleeing in the dark, they long to come to Big Brother, accept trial and seek forgiveness and redemption."

……

When Truman was lying on the wooden bed in the dormitory, he was still thinking about the captain's words.

But he was never confused or shaken by those ridiculous books.

In the bottom of his heart, his thoughts are even more extreme:

The world is always false.

In this false world, it doesn't matter how you turn black and white and confuse right and wrong.

Because the people are just weak and incompetent animals, unable to face the truth and cherish freedom, they must be ruled by others and deceived by those who are stronger than them.

Human beings always have only two choices: one is freedom and the other is happiness.

For most people, happiness is more important than freedom.

But it is clear that the bibliophile did not choose happiness, nor was he freed by it.

He was just plain stupid.

What's more dangerous is that just a few hours ago, he was almost seduced by this stupid bibliophile...

Truman also has a secret. He once hid secretly in a library for seven days.

He read the books there.

But he sprinkled kerosene with his own hands and ignited the fire.

The person who lured him into hell was never those books, but a bibliophile.

A vile, self-deprecating bibliophile.