the pink mosaics -- (c) pinkwork novel / 粉紅色的馬賽克
No sound, Fear, Running and Fresh Blood.
A mushroom cloud is rising slowly and quietly in front of the deep blue sky, then another follows, and more and more ...
Giant glass column tubes of different diameters are scattered in a shallow water zone in the middle of pacific ocean. They are actually a group of chicly designed independent houses. Each has three floors, the bottom floor is under water. The interior have different styles also. Some have big sofa, sleeping bed, cartoon figures, furry dolls. The other have Jacuzzi and acient roman sculpture installed. Some have reflective wall film, so not allow people or fishes ouside to see through, cover these houses a shroud of mystery. To look closer, inside one glass tube a pair of nude boy and girl are chasing each other around their home. The other side, on one tube 's rooftop a young boy is lying comfortably in the beach chair, enjoying the sunshine. Few people are doing wakeboarding on the sea.
To move the eyesight down underwater ... a bunch of colorful coral fishes are kissing the tubes' glass walls, eating algae attached on the glass surfaces. Several curious dolphins are swimming around. A big curved message screen is installed in almost every glass tube house. Apart from these, you can see "soldiers" wearing sensors on their upper body are fighting at their homes. One is sitting on a sofa chair with his mini pet sleeping aside. One is standing. One whose upper body is lying against a cool lime rock column, her legs are immersed in the Jacuzzi. To look from the far side, this place is really like the heaven, deep blue sky and water. People (Angels) here don't like to wear clothes and feel shame either ...
Superficially these soldiers do not have any disciplines. They are actually belong to a group of elite special forces under the World Parliament Army, named "the angel forces". It composed of boys and girls with average age of 16. Their eyes' and fingers' muscle nerve response is at least 10 times faster than normal people. They are selected from ten of thousands of volunteers. Today their mission is to sit comfortably at their homes, and through the encrypted radio signal to control their "airships" to fly to the enemy unnecessary damage thousand miles away to fight. The civilized new world still has enemy?
Nearly one year ago, a group of primitive people in the green zone elected a new leader. He leaded his followers to tortue a thousand year old tree to death and then burnt it up. After a series of debate and debate and debate, this morning the world parliament finally declared this legally elected leader is against the "Green Bill", and passed an order to arrest him. The content providers are so excited about this news and even put the once so hot "World Lawyers Association vs Scientists' Union" conflict aside.
The world army flagship first drops hundreds of "shake bombs" from the space to the enemy site. These bombs can provoke a mini earthquake. "Its strength will be so weak that it will just make the enemy tunnel network collapse, but won't lead to any unnecessary damage above the ground surface." that's what the elite scientists said but no one has proved that. Then it's the angels 's turn to fight. Their airships will fly close to the ground and kill the enemies one by one. The real-time image will be projected on their message screen at home. It's 100 percent feel like on the real war site, except they won't see the real blood.
According to "Little Angels Protection Bill", a software has to be installed in every little angel's message screen. This software could automatically generate "mosaics"to block the blood or bloody images in less than 0.00001 second after they appear. In the past people use red mosaics, but the psychologists said red mosaics also have "violence" implication, so now only "pink mosaics" are allowed. A bunch of primitive people get hit on head, they will soon turn into a heap of pink mosaics. The screen image is moving fast, the pink mosaic "cloud" explode like firework on a deep green background, with the hit figures on the left bottom corner rising rapidly at the same time. One can imagine the image they're seeing is very artistic. That may be why soldiers these days are all volunteers.
Few primitive people luckily hit down an airship. One of them picks up a piece of metal debris, waves it high to the sky to demonstarte their victory. In just a few seconds they are burst into a heap of pink mosaics. On the far far side, a quiet glass house underwater. A "angel force" member has fighted for several hours and feel tired. He presses a button to inform the heardquater, his airship control is immediately shifted to another member. He takes off the sensors, then hugs his male partner to sleep ...
未來世界的某一日 ... 粉紅色的馬賽克
沒有聲音、恐懼、逃跑和鮮血。
一朵蘑菇雲在深藍色的天空下寧靜地緩緩升起。接著是另一朵,還有更多,更多 ...
在太平洋中心某處的淺水區,散布了很多直徑大小不一的巨型玻璃圓柱體,其實是一間間設計精緻的獨立玻璃屋。每條玻璃柱皆有三層,最底的一層在水面之下。裡面的裝修各式其色,一些擺放了沙發椅、睡床、毛毛公仔。另一些在大廳中間裝置了按撫浴池及卡通人物雕塑。還有一些安裝了反光牆幕,完全不讓人看穿內裡的情況,多了一層神秘感。再留心細看,某條玻璃圓柱內一對全身赤裸的少男女在奔跑禧戲。另一邊的玻璃柱頂層天台,一個少男躺在沙灘椅上,悠閒地享受著日光浴。不遠處的海面還有幾個人在滑水。
視線移到海底。一大群珊瑚魚在喙食玻璃外層的綠澡,還有天生好奇心重的海豚在圓柱中間穿插。原來很多「單位」也安裝了弧形的大型訊息屏幕。除此以外還看見一個個上身穿著了感應控制裝置的「士兵」在家中「作戰」。他們一些躺在沙發椅上,身邊還有他們心愛的迷你寵物甜睡著。一些站立著。一些上身倚著冰涼的雲石柱,雙腳浸在按撫浴池之中。遠看這裡像極一個天堂,藍天白雲,尤其是這裡的人﹝天使﹞都不太愛穿衣服,亦不會覺得羞恥。
這班看似沒有任何紀律的「士兵」,其實是環球政府軍隊的一支精銳無比的特種部隊。他們有男有女,平均年齡只有16歲,對視覺刺激和手指肌肉的反應都比常人快很十幾倍,是萬中選一的精英,被稱為「天使部隊」。今天他們的任務就是安坐家中透過加密的無線電波,控制自己的機械飛行器到幾萬公里外的敵方陣地作戰。
文明的新世界還會有敵人嗎?記不記得年多前,綠色地區一班原始人選出了一位新領袖,他帶領他的追隨者將一棵千年古樹虐待至死,然後把它燒掉。環球議會經過反覆的討論又討論又討論,今早終於投票裁定他們違反「綠色法案」,要遞捕這位領袖。各大訊息供應商都對這個消息感到很雀躍,甚至把曾經鬧得熱哄哄的「環球律師會」和「科學家聯盟」的爭拗也放在一旁。
巨型作戰旗艦先從太空掉下百幾棵「震盪彈」,在敵方的陣地誘發一場小型的地震。「強度剛好能夠令敵方的地道網崩塌,又不會引致地面的無辜傷亡。」這是那班精英科學家說的,但從來沒有人去證實真假。然後是天使部隊出動,他們的飛行器會低飛逐一獵殺敵人。作戰畫面即時在他們家中的訊息屏幕顯示,感覺仿如置身真實戰場一樣,唯一是他們不會看見鮮血。
根據「保護小天使條例」,每名小天使「士兵」的屏幕必須安裝一套安全系統,能夠在鮮血於畫面出現後的萬分之一秒內,即人類視覺神經產生反應前用馬賽克方格遮掩。以前是用紅色的方格,後來心理學家認為紅色同樣會引起血腥的聯想,目前統一採用鮮粉紅色的馬賽克。一班原始人戰士被擊中,隨即變成一堆粉紅色方格。畫面快速移動,在深綠色的背景下一堆堆粉紅方像煙花一樣爆發,螢幕右下方還有不停跳升的「命中」數字。你會覺得他們眼前的畫面很有藝術性。難怪現代的軍人全都是自願入伍。
幾個原始人僥倖擊落了一部飛行機器,其中一個興高采烈地拿著一塊燒焦了的廢金屬片向天空揮舞,要宣示勝利。不消幾秒便化成一堆粉紅方格。遠方寧靜安逸的水底玻璃屋內,一名天使部隊成員連續作戰了幾小時,覺得累了,發訊號通知總部。他的飛行器控制權隨即被轉駁至另一名成員。他輕鬆將身上的感應器一一除下,然後又可以跟身旁的男伴相擁而睡 ...
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