Chapter 207: Contactees And Non-contactees
After resolving the most terrifying concern about Geegle peeking at screens, Xiang Chuan directly opened her personal terminal in front of everyone and started searching with Geegle.
Just as Chou Manman said, when some Class Eight Grade One students glanced at her movements, they didn’t take it seriously at all, but instead, buzzing discussions came from the positions where other first-year high school class students were located outside the canteen.
“Did you see it? It’s really a blank screen.”
“That girl from Class Eight is really a contactee. My aunt’s information was actually accurate this time.”
“I said long ago that she was a contactee. I’ve followed Xiang Xue’s live stream room for so long—how her sister cooks at home, don’t we audience members know?”
“Do you think we can borrow some historical information from her in the future?”
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When students from other classes saw Xiang Chuan’s terminal light screen was completely blank, various discussions emerged. Some felt excited, some felt novel, of course, a small group of students and production escort ship employees also harbored small dark thoughts: Why isn’t it me who contacted the information turbulence?
Modern people’s material desires are very low. Before Xiang Chuan brought out gourmet food, books, and TV series, they rarely actively craved anything, but after contacting these ancient cultures, while feeling novel and enjoyable, some desires also grew in their hearts.
Most people were more curious and eager for other ancient cultural products, but a small portion fell into negative emotions. When they saw these things in the hands of Xiang Chuan, Xiang Xue, and even the entire Xiang Family, jealousy gradually arose in their hearts, believing that they should be the information turbulence contactee, that they should be the one to utilize the vast ancient knowledge treasury!
If the information turbulence processing office of other fleets knew their mindset, the staff there would only angrily curse back: Do you know that it’s because of people like you that we work so hard!
According to the secret records of the information turbulence processing office, information turbulence contactees from other fleets have encountered vicious incidents caused by jealousy from fleet residents. Although thanks to modern excellent medical technology, the contactee ultimately had no life-threatening danger, and after that the government strengthened protection for this contactee and their family, but afterward this contactee seemed stimulated and no longer shared materials from the information turbulence. If it weren’t for the government side still able to detect through residents’ personal terminal servers that this contactee’s personal terminal retained the medium connecting to the information turbulence, they would almost suspect that this contactee had disconnected from the information turbulence.
This case later became a research case for psychologists from various fleets, because after the Dark Virus Crisis, such social incidents caused by jealousy psychology rarely occurred.
Psychologists’ research found that such similar cases rarely occurred before because modern material conversion technology could greatly satisfy modern people’s material needs. Material conversion technology could generate various inorganic raw materials, making rare and expensive goods or material shortages rarely appear on the market. Although occasionally residents wanted to eat seafood but had long lost contact with the Fourth Fleet, at that time liquid food and solid food technologies on the market were mature, and the giants of the food processing industry could already simulate various flavors of food according to demand. The later launched seafood-flavored liquid food quelled such calls.
But information turbulence contactees cannot bridge the gap between contactees and other residents through material conversion technology; the connection between information turbulence and contactees has no regularity. Among the contactees registered in the information turbulence processing office to date, there are both ordinary company employees and military escort ship soldiers working on the front lines of route development, even a one-year-old child who just applied for a personal terminal.
This makes the connection between modern people and information turbulence a phenomenon entirely dependent on luck. Moreover, the ancient materials publicly shared by information turbulence contactees with society or the government are invaluable for the Twelfth Fleet, which lacks over ten thousand years of historical records. After government audit, some of these materials are made public to society or included in the History Research Institute’s exhibition hall.
Luck, plus the highly watched popularity, this causes non-contactees to develop imbalanced psychology toward contactees, ultimately evolving into jealousy toward information turbulence contactees.
This research summary by psychologists received attention from the information turbulence processing office. After that, the processing office shifted part of its focus to protecting information turbulence contactees and their families. Because psychologists suggested: As long as the connection between information turbulence and modern people has no regularity, the jealousy psychology of non-contactees toward contactees will not disappear forever. Rather than trying to control ungraspable human hearts, it’s better to focus energy on protecting contactees.
It must be said that the psychologists’ suggestions really had some substance. After the information turbulence processing office adopted the psychologists’ opinions, such situations were indeed rarely encountered.
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Homeroom Teacher Zhu Bingwen, who noticed these emotions among some students and escort ship employees outside the kitchen, touched his chin, thinking whether to discuss with the principal after returning and arrange a public class on psychological emotions for the school’s students.
The influence brought by Xiang Chuan affected the entire Third Fleet, and the Agricultural University Affiliated High School, where her club is located, was even more deeply impacted, so it’s inevitable that some students develop jealousy psychology. And how to prevent and respond to these situations is also one of the things these teachers should think about.
Zhu Bingwen turned his gaze to the kitchen, watching the Class Eight Grade One students in the kitchen making all sorts of mishaps while stirring mayonnaise. Xiang Chuan had to keep a blank light screen open to issue instructions to the kitchen AI to prepare new ingredients, while busily cleaning up the messes for the other students. Although the scene was chaotic, the students’ faces were no longer as lifeless as when he entered the class at the start of school, but radiated vitality and sunshine.
Sometimes when Zhu Bingwen saw Class Eight Grade One causing various waves in the school and being nagged by other homeroom teachers and subject teachers, he would also fall into self-doubt: Is it a correct decision to let the students in the class develop freely and actively contact ancient culture?
But seeing Class President Lu Daiqing write outstanding after-action reviews after studying ancient literature, Drama Club President Chou Manman improve her acting skills from awkward to proficient on the club activity room stage, and Long Xiaoxian and Cultural Committee Member Mandy develop interest in ancient architecture after the school anniversary and create various eye-catching little gadgets, Zhu Bingwen still believed that his decision was right, and the class motto he set for Class Eight Grade One was right.
All of this was brought by Xiang Chuan.
Zhu Bingwen thought, turning his gaze to Xiang Chuan who was frowning and swiping on the blank page’s light screen inside.
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Xiang Chuan had no idea what touching things her homeroom teacher outside the kitchen was thinking. She looked at the three bowls handed over by Ouyang Yating, Ainuo, and Liang Gong, where mayonnaise perfectly exhibited oil-water separation, and couldn’t help but twitch the corner of her mouth.
She even began to miss the chef machine at her colleague’s home.
On the importance of chef machines to 21st Century People, ×
On the importance of chef machines to humans, √
Why do 21st Century People, even knowing that most handmade things taste better, still choose to let machines do the work?
Naturally to prevent so many hidden dragons and crouching tigers from emerging!
