If you just talk about beauty with facial features, Diana is not outstanding, more and more women choose to use technology to carve their faces, due to the homogenization of aesthetics, in Randall's eyes, beautiful women basically look the same. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Diana, however, is different.

She does not have long hair that symbolizes feminine charm, her short blonde hair is neatly trimmed, her facial features look ordinary, and her dark blue eyes under her thick and long eyelashes are particularly attractive. The tall and slender body is wrapped in an off-white suit, lined with fair skin, giving people a sense of sober and noble.

Randall liked her a lot.

After a few pleasantries, Diana saw Michael off and took him to the second floor of the cake shop. The second floor was actually small than it seemed to seem, and there was only one bedroom, which Diana kept for her son, and squeezed it with piles of flour and cream.

"You're going to live with my little one," Diana said, carrying his luggage, "It's almost noon, I'll go prepare lunch first, you pack your bags."

"Yes, thank you, ma'am."

He had nothing in his suitcase, except for a few sets of clothes that were necessary toiletries.

The room is not big, perhaps because of the lack of furniture, and it feels quite spacious visually. A wooden bunk bed, two small tables and chairs, and a wardrobe are all the furnishings in this room. There is no air control system, no cleaning machines, no computers and internet, and even no appliances other than a lamp.

In the moment of being corrupted by technology, this is a situation he has never seen before, but he is unexpectedly not annoying.

He briefly walked around the room and saw a picture on the table and chair with vases.

The photo is a group photo of two people, Diana, and a doll, to be exact, a doll-like child.

The blonde Barbie that girls don't play with, it's the dolls he saw in a shop specializing in dolls when he was very young, with a strong oriental color. Pure black soft short hair, delicate facial features seem to be handmade, but the current technology and beauty can't make such a beautiful face, it's too beautiful, especially the other party's dark purple eyes, even, he feels a little scary.

At lunchtime, Diana warmly introduced the situation while serving the food on the table.

"This is Area 13, which is the most remote place in the D-class area, and you may have discovered along the way, there are almost no advanced things here, if you need anything, you're welcome, just tell me, and I can tell you where to buy." Ah, it's very easy to get around, the tram to the center of town runs every fifteen minutes, and if you go around the area in the afternoon, it's easy to find the pick-up location."

Diana was very fond of children, but she did not spoil them, and she always believed that everything should be discovered by herself in order to have fun.

"Well, okay, I'll be shopping around in the afternoon," Randall nodded, he thought of a question, and he didn't know if it was appropriate to ask, so he hesitated for a moment and whispered, "Madame...... Do you live with two people?'

In that photo, there are only Diana and the child who looks like a doll, and for an average family, there are at least three people in the photo, right?

However, he noticed that not only the picture in the room, but all the photos in the house were only two people.

Diana smiled indifferently, "Did you notice? It's amazing, it's just me and the little guy in this family at the moment, his father is missing, well, it's almost a year."

"Huh?!"

Missing for a year?

For the Empire, because of the tracking and positioning function of the ID card, there are almost no real missing persons, even the old people who are lost because of their old age, the severe degeneration of the hippocampus in the cerebral cortex, or the explorers who explore the desert and accidentally lose their way, the process of the government locking the location never takes more than 2 hours.

Missing for a year, there is almost only one reason, the owner of the ID card no longer has any vital signs, in other words, dead.

He knew what it was like to lose someone important, and now he couldn't laugh at the death of his mother.

Diana smiled easily.

It is the smile that only those who have suffered and finally overcome them.

"Oops, are you worried about me? What a good boy.'"

Diana cupped Randall's chin that couldn't help but drop.

"Look in my eyes, do you see even the slightest trace of sorrow and pain?"

Randall stared at those deep eyes in some confusion and shook his head.

Diana let go of her hands and enjoyed her lunch elegantly.

"I believe that no matter what happens, he will eventually come back to me, and besides, he is the father of my invincible little fellow, and nothing will happen."

Infected by the other party's optimism, he also smiled.

"Well, Madame's husband, he will definitely come back safely."

"Of course."

Diana's lunch consisted of simple tomato bisque, fried buns and salad, and dessert was a piece of almond cake, which was more delicious than anything he had ever eaten. When he was done, he was ready to go for a walk, and Diana kindly handed him a small nylon bag containing a full bottle of water and his afternoon snacks.

"Don't play too late, go on an adventure, and be safe."

"Okay, then I'm leaving."

Area D, located at the southern tip of the phoenix empire, if the empire is compared to an eagle soaring with wings, then Area D is the two feet of the eagle, each foot is roughly divided into seven administrative districts of different sizes and shapes. Area 13, on the right foot of the eagle, is connected to a piece of land with territorial waters on three sides, by a slender strip of land less than two kilometers wide.

It is connected to the R zone.

It is often compared to the rat in the hands of an eagle, and in their eyes, this rat is a disgrace to the Empire.

Almost all the citizens of the empire think so, the R zone is a disgrace to the empire, and this phrase is also included in textbooks, and every day children remember it in their minds and imprint it in the depths of their souls.

Therefore, the only 13 districts of the empire connected to him are naturally not popular. At one point, the total population of the 13 districts fell to 100,000, compared to only 13% of the other districts, and in the end, the district government had to take measures such as reducing taxes and providing higher living security to attract citizens to live there.

Starting at Diana's cake shop, he used the 3D map that came with his ID card to try to visit all the iconic locations in Area D.

The first is the district center.

The nearest tram stop to Diana's cake shop is just a 10-minute walk away, and any tram ride will take you through the district centre. A life-size bronze statue of Emperor Roy IV must be placed in the center of any area, as is required by law. The bronze statue is said to have been modeled after the coronation of Roy IV, who wore a crown and held a scepter and looked down on his subjects. Every day at 8 a.m., 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., a 3D image of the phoenix, the symbol of the empire, is displayed over the statue, and the national anthem "Song of Eternal Life" is broadcast.

When Randall arrived at the center of the district, there was a black crowd around the statue, and the national anthem seemed to have just ended, and people were quickly dispersed around the statue.

Secondly, there is the commercial street.

The most representative of the regional culture is actually the commercial street, which sells goods, which directly reflects the scientific and technological level of the region and the spiritual level of the people. The most popular area in Zone C, where Randall lives, is a variety of small household appliances, such as an automatic egg cooker or a palm-sized spherical cleaning machine. He once bought a spherical machine as a gift for Mother's Day, and it was a great help for his mother, who was not good at cleaning.

However, on the commercial street of the 13th arrondissement, Randall sees few shops selling electrical appliances. In overcrowded stores, there are everything from food to clothes and shoes, and there is no specific type, but these are all the most primitive human demand goods.

There are very few shops that sell flowers, musical instruments, audio-visual products, and so on.

Between every two adjacent areas, there is a fifty-year cross-ditch. He suddenly remembered his father's words.

Due to time constraints, he was only allowed to go to one more place after shopping in the shopping street, and in the end, he chose to go to the most deserted place in the 13th arrondissement.

The 3D image suspended above the ID card is a small town called LOTUS, adjacent to the R area, and the information shows that the occupancy rate of this town this year is only 0.002%.

An entire residential area, almost empty.

When Randall arrived, it was almost dusk, and the orange light rendered the colorless clouds layer by layer, making the whole world appear chaotic.

Perhaps because of the perennial uninhabited relationship, the district government has almost forgotten this piece of land, and all the residential buildings seem to be rickety and hugging each other for a long time.

There was not a single street lamp, no light, and no sound.

He walked alone on the uneven path, and the shadow in front of him grew longer and longer.

Until finally, completely overwhelmed by the darkness, he did not feel fear at all.

Even, he was a little excited.

The darkness that he couldn't see his fingers, the air full of the smell of decay, the surroundings so quiet that he could only hear his own heartbeat, no matter what it was, it was his first experience.

He is like a child who tastes candy for the first time, naively does not know how to converge, and goes deeper and deeper.

"Smack."

It seemed that he had stepped on something soft and slippery, and almost in the next second, he fell the side of the road.

I must have stumbled over something.

He pulled out his ID card, a crimson viscous liquid obscuring part of the display with the movement of his fingers.

The ID card suddenly started barking.

Randall had heard it, and in the last month, he had heard it many times.

This is a warning call for the approach of threatening weapons.