Chapter 25 Ethnicity

聽 聽聽Carter was momentarily curious, "So why didn't you stay an athlete?" 聽 聽聽Janet sighed, "Accident." 聽 聽Then, a zombie crisis broke out in Janet's world, and her competitive athletic skills became life-saving skills. 聽 聽聽She'd be dead if it weren't for her athlete's physique and shooting skills. 聽 聽聽However, Carter needed to learn precisely what Janet was聽talking about聽with the accident. But he was suddenly curious about Janet's story. 聽 聽聽Carter asked, "Are you in the club?" 聽 聽聽It needs to be clarified if the professional athletes Janet referred to were club or federation teams. 聽 聽聽Club pro athletes could be varied; however, Federation pro athletes would generally only pick first-class citizens. 聽 聽聽In the WasteLand Era, only first-class citizens with natural genes would actually qualify as athletes in the true sense of the word. 聽 聽聽Competitions between clubs are more like a black race. There was no fair sportsmanship in this kind of match. They just needed to make sure the game was enjoyable to watch. 聽 聽聽Janet had already prepared her speech, "Yes, I'm from the club." 聽 聽聽Now that so many people in the cleaning center were paying attention to her, she needed a way to explain her abilities. 聽 聽聽She聽actually聽didn't know if the original owner had any exposure to shooting. The original owner was Defect, and very few official records about her should exist. 聽 聽聽Janet couldn't even find any information about her original identity. 聽 聽聽She only had basic identity information, and even the acquaintances she knew only had one Bonnie. 聽 聽聽Janet guessed that the original owner's identity might be fake. 聽 聽聽What if the person who had tried to kill her was inside the cleaning center? 聽 聽聽Janet looked around. The training room was full of people, both hunters and cleaners, who were undergoing combat training. 聽 聽聽If someone聽in聽there knew Janet from the past and saw something strange about her, he would show up or step in to test her. 聽 聽聽That's her chance to get a clue. 聽 聽聽Carter looked like she believed Janet's story, "The club's pro team is pretty good too." 聽 聽聽Sherry nodded, "The club's selection criteria is much tougher." 聽 聽聽The Federation team only took in first-class citizens, making the competition less fierce. However, the club members covered five citizen classes, and any athletic talent could appear. 聽 聽聽Carter and Sherry looked at Janet a little subtly for a moment. 聽 聽聽Janet had graduated from college at eighteen and had probably gone on to play underground as a club member the year before she entered the Clean Center. 聽 聽聽It may have been聽earlier,聽when she had been making money at the club while going to school. 聽 聽聽Sherry and Carter said at the same time, "Hard work." 聽 聽聽Janet: "锛燂紵锛燂紵" 聽 聽聽Carter, "That said, you're the first Defect I've ever seen." 聽 聽聽Janet looked to Sherry, who said, "First one I've ever seen, too." 聽 聽聽Usually, Defects don't make it through the screening process at the cleaning center to come in and work and fail to pass the training. 聽 聽聽Carter asked again, "Do you Defects know what you used to be?" 聽 聽聽Yeah, what she used to be. 聽 聽聽The Defect didn't have "product traceability," and Janet couldn't find聽out half of聽where she originated from. 聽 聽聽"I don't know." Janet asked, "What about you? What class of citizen are you?" 聽 聽聽Carter said, "I'm a second-class citizen; I'm MadeMan." 聽 聽聽Janet looked shocked, "You're a MadeMan!" 聽 聽聽This聽was the first MadeMan she had ever come in contact with. 聽 聽聽Replicant was possible in Janet's world. Her world had cloning technology. 聽 聽聽But MadeMan was a black technology that was only available in Wasteland World. 聽 聽聽Carter was a sentient being created through artificiality. 聽 聽聽"Right." Carter sensed that Janet was a little excited. 聽 聽聽Janet was聽very聽excited and asked, "But isn't MadeMan all awesome?" 聽 聽聽MadeMan used gene editing technology, which usually gave him many additional skills. But Carter seemed to have only a few special skills. 聽 聽聽Carter bristled, "What do you mean?" 聽 聽聽Janet聽shook her head, "I didn't mean to scold you." 聽 聽聽Carter explained, "This also depends on our production batch. Some MadeMan are made to be just expendable." 聽 聽聽Carter said this with no particular expression as if accepting very matter-of-factly the fact that he was an expendable item. 聽 聽 聽Replicant MadeMan and Robot were all expendable. 聽 聽聽They were initially toolmen created by first-class citizens. However, because they had a sense of autonomy, they were divided into citizen classes according to how beneficial they were to the Federation. 聽 聽聽Janet asked, "May I ask which genes you synthesized?" 聽 聽聽MadeMan used gene editing technology, and generally, they fused multiple advantageous genes. 聽 聽聽Carter explained, "Our batch of Madean fused some of the genes of sheepdogs, so we're loyal enough to be highly domesticated." 聽 聽聽They would never turn their backs on the Federation or the humans. 聽 聽聽Janet continued, "And what about you? Captain." 聽 聽聽Sherry replied, "I'm a third-class citizen, a Replicant." 聽 聽聽Janet froze and remembered Lynn saying that replicators don't live very long. 聽 聽聽Sherry said quickly, "That's okay. Things like genetic potions or switching to mechanical prosthetics can interfere with our lifespans. That's why I do this job to save money." 聽聽In a way, she and Janet are in the same category. 聽 聽聽Sherry and Janet instantly became close. Janet continued to ask, "So what did you come up with to extend your life?" 聽 聽聽Sherry said, "I want to upload my consciousness to the cloud in the future, and then I'll use the mechanical prosthetic body myself." 聽 聽聽Sherry planned to completely shed her human body聽to聽change to a different body later. 聽 聽聽In a way, Sherry can achieve immortality聽as long as聽the cloud servers don't crash. 聽 聽聽That's so cool. 聽 聽聽But Janet was still conservative; she still preferred the human body itself. 聽 聽聽Sherry asked, "You want to extend your life by injecting genetic agents, don't you?" 聽 聽聽Janet nodded. 聽 聽聽Sherry said, "I can give you a profile. I had a course of gene potion injections before, and then I gave up. Our center's genetic potion is also very advanced; you can visit the medical department when you have time; it's free for employees to go there for consultation." 聽 聽聽Janet's eyes lit up when she heard 'free.' 聽 聽聽Sherry transferred the information to Janet's employee bracelet. 聽 聽聽The three exchanged information about each other's lives: a Replicant, a MadeMan, and a Defect. 聽 聽聽Janet wondered, "What's the current record for the 100-meter dash?" 聽 聽聽Sherry: "I haven't paid attention to it either. Are you interested in that?" 聽 聽聽Civilians generally had little interest in sporting events. 聽 聽聽The reason was simple: Human speed could not compare with That of Robots and MadeMan; in robots' eyes, human speed was too slow. 聽 聽聽Many people found it tedious to watch human athletics. 聽 聽聽Janet had followed sports events in her past life, but unfortunately, after the zombies appeared, human competitive sports were forced to end. Janet opened the search box of her sub-brain and searched for "world 100-meter sprint record". 聽 聽聽The search result showed 9 seconds 58 seconds. 聽 聽This record was聽actually聽the same as Janet's world. 聽 聽聽In other words, although Wasteland's technological level was at least a hundred times more advanced than Janet's world's, the athletic record remained the same. 聽 聽聽However, the records of competitive sports remained the same, which proved that humans had made no progress. 聽 聽聽In the Age of Doom, people's lack of progress meant regression. 聽 聽聽Human purebred genes have not evolved. 聽 聽聽Janet had never seen a first-class citizen and didn't know what these nobles were聽really聽like. 聽 聽聽From her superficial knowledge, it was possible that sixth-class citizens would be the mainstream of human evolution in the future. 聽 聽聽She considered "Degree of Alienation" and "Talent" options on her system panel. 聽 聽聽There may be a chance for her to become a sixth-class citizen聽in the future. 聽 聽聽Janet became the hottest person in the forums after her morning training. 聽 聽聽Someone uploaded a video of her shooting test to the forum and put it on top. 聽 聽聽Many people began to suspect that Janet's data testing was wrong and asked the observation room and the R&D room to conduct a second assessment of Janet. 聽 聽聽In the afternoon, the fighting class assessment was held. 聽 聽聽A lot of people gathered around the fighting arena. 聽 聽聽Janet was聽actually聽better at shooting, but she had no systematic training in fighting. 聽 聽聽The fighting field is a 1v1 mode, requiring hunters and cleaners to compete聽with each other. 聽 聽聽Janet was a cleaner and needed a hunter to go on the field. 聽 聽聽"Janet is on. Who's going to fight?" 聽 聽聽"Me." 聽 聽聽Across the ring came a girl with short white hair and a height of 180. eighty percent of this woman's body was mechanized; both arms, including her left leg, were made of mechanical material. 聽 聽聽It was the first time Janet had seen someone with such a high degree of mechanization. 聽 聽聽The hunter's physical quality was crushing to the cleaners. With such a high degree of mechanization, Janet could聽totally聽use her Metal Manipulation talent. 聽 聽聽But that would be very much against sportsmanship. 聽 聽聽Janet still wanted to train in fighting simply. 聽 聽聽Janet hadn't fought Robot at all, and she lacked any understanding of mechanical force at all. 聽 聽聽The woman was swift, and their fight lasted less than a minute. 聽 聽聽Bang-- 聽 聽聽By the time Janet reacted, she was on her back. 聽 聽聽Immediately afterward, she heard the sound of her shoulder blade snapping. 聽 聽聽The audience froze. 聽 聽聽The woman was also shocked. She apologized, "I'm sorry! I thought you were a fighter." 聽 聽聽Sure enough, humans couldn't fight robots.