[Quick Transmigration] The Truman Show

Thinking is bound to be painful.If you think, you will become different; if you are different, in this sick society, you may only be put in prison, in a mental hospital.

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City X, 9:00

Countdown: 94 hours

……

Surveillance Room Three.

When Bibliophile No. [-] went to deliver medicine to Shi Kuang, everyone was shocked.

"I didn't expect her to be a pharmacist"

"How is it possible? You really think it's so easy to become a pharmacist. There are only so many pharmacists in the empire."

"Maybe she's 'experiencing life' again, will she play the role of a pharmacist next?"

"But she is the heir of the Alcott family."

……

However, this noble lady failed to enter the No. [-] surveillance room, and she was stopped at the door by the underage surveillance.

Truman blocked the live broadcast, took her medicine, and asked her coldly, "Is this the medicine you made?"

She froze slightly, then nodded.

"How long will it take this medicine to eradicate his old disease?"

"I'm not good enough at pharmacy, so there is no way to eradicate it, only temporary pain relief"

Truman frowned and hurried away, "The medicine has been delivered, you can go."

She said quickly, "When the live broadcast is over, I want to take his pulse and decide the dosage of the medicine."

The underage monitor finally let the door open and let someone walk in, "Come in and wait."

She breathed a sigh of relief, walked in and saw Shi Kuang, who was sitting in the live broadcast camera, did not step forward, and sat in front of the surveillance camera with Truman.

Shi Kuang also noticed her and nodded to her.

Bibliophile No. [-], who had just sat down, immediately stood up and bowed respectfully to Shi Kuang.

Truman scoffed, disapproving.

Seeing the two children sitting together, Shi Kuang laughed, "Continue? Underage supervisor?"

Truman gritted his teeth, "Continue!!"

Bibliophile No. [-] withdrew his gaze, and looked at the various interactive questions displayed on the monitor screen. His slender fingers slid up and down, his gaze swept, and then he pointed to the question at the bottom with the lowest number of votes. asked, "How about this?"

Seeing the question, Truman was slightly stunned:

Why are books burned?

This is a forbidden question, but it should indeed be a question that Shi Kuang wants to answer.

But why should she say it!

Truman was not happy.

She observed his expression and whispered, "Uncle should like that someone asks this question. If he sees that there are still people in this world who are thinking and asking, he will be very happy."

Truman's expression was a bit strange, and he suddenly asked, "You, call him uncle?"

She nodded.

Suddenly having a niece at such an age made Truman feel a little uncomfortable.

Truman's ears were flushed, but his back straightened a little, but his expression became more serious, "Got it!"

Then Truman twitched the corner of his mouth again, trying to make his expression a little bit more like that of an elder facing a younger generation - kindness.

Yes, kindly.

After Truman manipulated the voting data and forcibly pulled this question to the top of the list, he took the time to smile at her, "You—very good."

Encouragement in kindness.

Bibliophile No. [-]: ...

Please don't laugh!

Creepy!

She smiled back awkwardly.

Truman continued to care for the younger generation, with a hint of school exam, "Have you thought about this problem?"

"I asked him this question when I was young. He said that there are some problems that I need to think about by myself. He asked me if I have the courage to bear the pain bravely, because the process of thinking is bound to be painful." Bibliophile No. [-] listened carefully to the teacher. Kuang said with a smile, "When a person grows up, his curiosity will disappear. If I still want to ask this question after I grow up, he will tell me the answer. This is our agreement."

Truman's expression froze slightly.

You came here to fulfill your promise?

——Are you sure this isn’t pulling hatred?

Do younger generations disrespect their elders that much?

It's just abominable!

……

However, when Truman turned his eyes back to the screen, his eyes became more gentle.

"About a few hundred years ago, when entertainment TV first became popular, the billboards on the roadside at that time were probably no more than a dozen meters wide, instead of billboards hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters like now. Why? Because cars go by so fast these days, ads have to be stretched to make an impression..."

In addition to the two people on the monitoring screen, the middle-aged women facing the TV wall were also gradually bewitched by the old man's beauty and his somewhat hoarse and magnetic voice, and began to listen carefully.

"Hundreds of years ago, there were libraries and publishing houses at that time. But the editors of publishing houses no longer frantically printed all kinds of classic classics. Why? Because people no longer have time to read famous books, and because of various utilitarian purpose, they are keen on the so-called abstracts and brief introductions of famous works, so that the premise that famous works will eventually be eliminated is also established. Initially, the editors will collect [-] novels into one anthology..."

"Think about it, how much is four hundred? How do you squeeze four hundred novels by Mark Twain, Owen, Poe, and Maupassant into a thin booklet? It can only be simplified. Peeling, Deboning, pitting, melting, draining, destroying. Every important adjective is cut out, every vivid verb is cut out, every metaphor and simile that provokes a little philosophical thought is cut out. Every story is cut out, just Like being sucked dry by a leech, every story seems to be the same. Mark Twain reads like Poe, like Shakespeare, like Ray Bradbury..."

Shi Kuang looked at Trumen with frank eyes, gentle brows and eyes, and a smile on his lips.

Truman captured how often he blinked when he said this:

<smoke>

All sick and only think about cigarettes!

This old man must die early!

No, you can't let him die early, or you will be the one who loves you.

……

Truman poured a cup of hot water and handed it to him.

Shi Kuang didn't answer and looked at him innocently.

"Drink more water." The irritable underage monitor forced the hot water cup to his mouth, and said in a bad tone, "Do you want me to pour you?"

Shi Kuang blinked again, his dry and pale lips trembled:

<good>

Damn!

The old man seduced him again!

Why are you still thinking about that thing when you are sick, why are you so shameless...

The underage monitor's ears were red, and he turned and left the camera angrily.

Bibliophile No. [-] asked him suspiciously, "Do you have a fever?"

Truman gritted his teeth, but there was happiness hidden in his brows and eyes, "No!"

"Then are you in love?"

"You—how do you know?"

"It's nothing, I just feel the taste of love"

"... the taste of love?"

"To me today, everyone seems to be in a relationship?" Bibliophile No. [-] was a little puzzled, and suddenly whispered, "Do you think he is in a relationship?"

"what"

"He'd never smiled like that before."

"……Um."

"The eyes are also very gentle, as if looking at the closest lover."

Why are the current juniors so outspoken and gossiping about their elders so casually.

Really helpless.

But, dearest lover—

Truman's ears were red, and he looked at Shi Kuang in the live broadcast from the corner of his eye, just in time to see him pick up the hot water cup on the tea table and take a sip of water.Then, he lowered his eyes and stroked the edge of the water glass with his fingertips, his movements were gentle, just like the eyes he was hiding under his eyelids at the moment.

For a while, Truman was also dumbfounded.

He had never thought of such a Shi Kuang.

"There are fewer and fewer words in books, and more and more pictures. Apart from books, there are more and more entertainment activities to enjoy. Since you can have fun, how can you have the patience to think. Later, actors, singers, Racers and drag racing gangs are highly sought after, and the term 'intellectual' must become a curse word. Why?" He paused, handed the hot water cup to his lips, took a sip of water slowly, and continued , "Because humans are always afraid of unfamiliar things, they start burning books. There is more than one way to burn books, but people holding matches are everywhere. Humans long for the freedom of being born equal, but humans can only be processed become equal..."

……

After Shi Kuang answered the top three questions on the list, this interaction was directly stopped by the underage monitor with the reason of "excessive words and deeds, temporary isolation, and interrogation by the monitor", and even the task was selectively ignored by the monitor up.