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Experience 2

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Summary of the story of "Seeing and Hearing" The filter of Li Shu's mechanical prosthetic eye automatically dimmed, blocking the dazzling white light when the steam valve released pressure. The iron-gray "Level 3 Mechanic" logo in the corner of his field of vision remained motionless. In the "Furnace City" that relies on the "Central Heat Tower" differential engine to distribute all power, the level is engraved on everyone's power interface authority. His job is to maintain the secondary steam pipes in the lower industrial area, performing each inspection calmly and selfishly collecting "spark velvet" from the pipe insulation - a rare insulation material that can briefly overclock a personal auxiliary engine and be exchanged for high rewards on the black market. He needed the money to purchase an illegal neural interface maintenance for his father, who was paralyzed due to a work-related injury and relied on the most basic life support cabin to maintain his life, to delay the degeneration of his brain machine. During a city-wide power load switching, a series of abnormal resonance frequencies appeared in the monitoring log of Li Shu's auxiliary engine. This frequency was highly correlated with the abnormal wear data of the pipeline section he was responsible for each time it delivered energy. He could have deleted the logs, but the greed of overclocking the engine and the fear of being blamed for the failure drove him to impulsively retain and analyze the data. The analysis pointed to a hidden protocol: Some pipes were preset with higher "resonant fatigue coefficients." This subtle data snoop triggered Central Heat Tower's audit protocol. Inspector Ye Xun of the Power Dispatch Bureau was sent to investigate. Ye Xun is a devout believer in system efficiency and firmly believes that the load distribution calculated by the difference engine is the only truth that maintains the heartbeat of this steel behemoth. He regarded Li Shu's behavior of privately modifying the engine, which may interfere with the resonance stability of the system, as "disharmonious noise" that must be eliminated.