I am a slave.

I've been here for a long time, but I still don't know where it is.

This seems to be a city located below the ground, looking up at the dome above, there are upside-down buildings and various flying machines shuttling back and forth, which is where the citizens of this world live, in the center, a chasm spans the entire dome in the east-west direction, and it seems that the people here use the huge luminous objects in the chasm to simulate the existence of the sun.

"Hey! You! The new dumb guy doesn't want to eat anymore, does he? Hurry inside! I think you're trying to do it again."

At this moment, a guard in dark gray thin armor raised some kind of weapon with a bright white light in his hand and scolded.

"Ahh Pressing a switch on his chest, the fully enclosed pure white steel armor resounded with the humming of electricity. He then turned around and slipped into a huge elevator before anyone could touch him.

"Report, G17 freight elevator applies to go up to the ground." Inside the elevator, which can accommodate nearly 100 people, there is a separate room. Inside are also uniformed military personnel. But that room seems to have a special circulatory system, because the man is not wearing fully enclosed armor like I am. Looking around at the dozens of people, all of them had numbness written on their faces, as if it was destined to be a journey with no turning back.

yes, how many more people will come back alive.

"G17, you can go up, good luck".

With a soft click. The elevator began to move up rapidly. As the altitude rose rapidly, a huge cavity that seemed to reach the ground filled almost the entire line of sight. The hollow is densely packed with conveyor belts and unmanned vehicles several people high. The usual bustling scene stopped. This is the mine on which this world lives, I don't know how many years it has existed, how many years it has been excavated. On a normal day, tens of thousands of "slaves" in the pit worked day and night in exchange for enough liquid "food" to satisfy their stomachs. Well, if that could also be called food.

But just a few days ago, all the conveyor belts stopped – and it's not uncommon for them to restart in less than a loop. This did not affect the excavation of slaves like us, but as more and more ore was piled up at the bottom of the pit, the conveyor belt was no longer working. In desperation, all the slaves were sent from the pit to the so-called "surface" under the heavenly dome. Then the sturdiest hundreds of them were gathered together and asked to go to the real ground in search of --- sand.

Yes, it's just looking for sand. It is said that many of the components of the control system under the dome are made of sand. There are all kinds of minerals for human survival underground, but there is no sand.

Originally, only a small number of all the slaves took turns to go up to the ground in search of sand, but recently it seems that this need has become more urgent.

"Hey, dumb!" One of the next to me touched me with his elbow and said.

"I hope you're lucky this time, but this time, I won't be able to save you again. It's not a place for people to stay up," the man said, pointing to the sky.

I nodded gratefully at him. He patted me on the shoulder, and we didn't say a word.

His name is Junhiro, and he's the only person I've been able to communicate with normally since I came here.

That day, when I opened my eyes, I saw the person in front of me. In the haze, I could see his mouth open and close, but I couldn't understand what he was saying, but he seemed to be in a hurry. My head hurts, I can't think of anything, I can't breathe, and the air content here seems to be low. When I opened my mouth to say this, my chapped throat only made an ah~ah~ sound. Junhiro's face looked a little surprised, but then he seemed to be even more anxious. He pulled me out of some kind of plug-in device, looked back, and said something but I didn't know what it meant, but there seemed to be a puzzled look on his face, maybe. Because then I lost consciousness.

When I woke up again, I was pulled into a room by the man, wearing some kind of armor and a strong stench. It looks like someone has just passed through.

Yes, as now, wearing the same armor and standing inside the same elevator. The difference is that the same smell emanates from his body.

"30 seconds from the ground" an electronic synthesized sound disrupted their thoughts, and everyone pulled the metal masks on the back of their heads forward, and their bodies were covered in some kind of metal. Then an electronic screen appeared in front of me, showing the image of the camera on the top of the helmet and the 100% values of several items.

"It's 10 seconds off the ground. 5 4 3 2 1 Ready to open the cabin" The sound fell, and the elevator doors slowly retreated to both sides, and a blazing wind blew in front of you.

"Time 6 hours, direction 172-174, departure" The headset remembered the voice of the person in the small room in the elevator. Everyone walked out according to the direction specified on the screen against the manic hot wind, at first they walked side by side, and after dozens of steps, they dispersed, and looked up into the distance, the dim ground, the dim air, the dim sky, everything was a lifeless dusk. Looking back, I can't see the appearance of the elevator anymore, I can only see a red pillar of light pointing to the zenith at the original location of the elevator, which is the indicator light for coming back.

There were still 5 hours and 55 minutes to go, and I was calm, and I walked forward with a heavy and hopeless heart, remembering when I first came here.

At that time, my head must have hurt for a long time. At that time, everyone thought that I was dumb who had survived - because I couldn't understand what they were saying, and I couldn't answer, so I had to pretend to be dumb. At that time, I ate a green, viscous liquid, which was difficult to swallow at first. It was later learned that only those who came back alive or wounded slaves could eat such "delicacies". It wasn't until I started digging in the pit that I realized that food could be so unpalatable.

Maybe after completing hundreds of task credits, you already have a basic understanding of what they are saying. At first, I was only curious about words like "100 years", "surface", and "country", but then once a few people were pulled out when they were talking about this, and no one said this anymore. Because those individuals haven't been seen since.

As I was just walking and thinking about things, I suddenly noticed that something was different on the ground. Look up into the distance. As if luck was really good.

This is the remains of a road more than ten meters wide, on which some severely corroded metal boxes stand intermittently, and there are four semicircular arches that should be wheels in the place where they touch the ground, like shrunken unmanned transport vehicles, which should also be some kind of transportation, but it is impossible to see where the minerals are carried. After walking along the road for more than 40 minutes, there were ruins and broken walls in front of me, which looked similar to the buildings below, but I don't know why they were built on the ground upwards, and there were still more than three hours and fifty minutes left to look at the meter. The oxygen pointer was still more than 70 percent away, and I thought that this should be the city that the officer said before departure. As required before departure, the current location was marked and a building that looked very spacious was entered.

Everything in front of me is different from the perception of the underground, looking at all kinds of strange objects that are cluttered all over the ground. From his satchel, he took out the instructions that had been handed out before departure, and there were other things marked on them besides sand. For example, all kinds of rectangular items with interfaces, and things that can display certain contents when connected to the armor battery.

Ten minutes later, this is the seventh thing that looks like a target in front of me, and something unexpectedly appeared when I connected it to the power supply without hope, but what does this AMD 7999X 1024CORE mean?? I took out the pattern and looked at it, and soon found that it read:

"High matching resources: Keywords: INTEL-AMD-CYRIX-SMIC, if you find such items, please make sure to bring them back in time, priority - high."

This discovery made me stunned for a while, and when I looked back at this strange thing, the display was different from the picture just now, and I glanced at what in the lower right corner - Rainforest Wood Wind WINDOWS-18 GHOST Flagship Custom PAD Edition - The words are completely incomprehensible. Either way, let's take this thing back in time, and I think we can exchange it for some flavorful food. After saying that, I looked at the meter, and there was still more than fifty percent of oxygen, which should be able to return safely.

Returning to the ruins of the road when I came, I wonder why the surface of this world is completely different from the underground. It seems that there are many mysteries waiting to be solved, but as a slave with no status, in order to ensure the survival of the people above the sky, he can only work in the pit for the rest of his life. Or pick up a few pieces of equipment in the bag, you can apply to go to the factory to do some slightly easier work.

I was looking forward to it when I was lamenting that my luck has always been really good, when I suddenly heard the sound of "Zila~Zila" from the helmet, and my heart sank, and I found that the pointer representing radiation was rapidly pointing to the red ** field with the original yellow. I remembered that most of the people who couldn't go back underground were killed by this elusive so-called radiation cloud. I thought I might have to explain it here today.

Hey~ Inexplicably came to this completely unfamiliar place, listening to others speak a completely unfamiliar language, it seems that his good luck has been consumed. Seeing this kind of radiation cloud that heard a wide range of radiation floating from a distance, there is no place to dodge in the open space here, seeing that he can't hide horizontally and vertically wearing this heavy protective armor, he can only lie on the ground as if he was fated, looking at everything in the sky, thinking that this little life will be explained here.

Unwilling? Maybe there is, but I came inexplicably at the beginning, and now I want to die inexplicably, there is really no more unlucky than myself. Looking at the white luminous objects that appear and disappear in the clouds in the sky that are blown up by radiation clouds, this should be the real sun they say. But why isn't it as bright as the underground? … …

It became more and more uncomfortable, and in just a few minutes, the blood in the whole body seemed to be boiling, and he couldn't raise any strength, and his vision began to turn a little red, and he couldn't see it so clearly, and he would probably die on this desolate ground in a short time. The sun in the sky seems to be getting bigger and bigger, and with a wry smile, is there any hallucination? Resign yourself to your fate. Slowly open your arms with the strength you have to meet the death that is coming.

But why is the sun getting brighter and bigger? Under a spirit, the sun in his eyes quickly fell into the air not far from him, and he was suspended there. In his blurred vision, a pale blue beam of light hit him, and a person slowly descended from the beam. "Is this thing you are looking for really so important? Do you have to send someone to pick it up? Will they save themselves then? Maybe it can't be saved," the man spoke.

"Finally Found You"

"Why did you suddenly appear again when you hid your signal?"

"Perhaps, you've already resigned yourself to your fate?" Listening to the man's slow words, he just wanted to say that you are aiming at the wrong person, but his throat was a little dry, and before he could speak, the man spoke again, "It seems", the man said while looking at the surrounding environment, as if he was very unfamiliar with it, "I don't need to do it anymore." ”

"I... I.. Look for.. Here we are... I didn't speak for a long time, and I said a few words with difficulty, and breathing was an extremely difficult action.

"You... What are you talking about? Are you expressing your unwillingness? The man paused, as if thinking about something. Now that you've come to this point, you don't have a chance. ”

I gasped and realized that something was wrong, as if what he said meant something cross-server chatting with me, but my brain was already having a hard time working. The throat has also lost control.

"I'm not going to do it myself, so I don't have your blood sticking to it. This... Even if it's the end. After all... It's been too long, hasn't it? With a sigh. It was as if the man's tone sounded a different kind of relief.

Eye.. I almost couldn't open my eyes, and my heart, which was originally waiting for death, became more curious and inexplicable at this moment. Whatever the man said, it was going to have nothing to do with me. The body became very heavy and heavy, and at the moment when I was about to lose consciousness, a familiar, palpitating feeling suddenly came to me. An explosion was heard after a whistling roar. With the last of his strength, he opened his heavy eyelids, and his blurred vision was filled with fire. There was a gust of wind, and another person appeared in front of me, and it felt very, very familiar, very, very intimate. The person who came gently picked up his upper body, and a nice female voice said something in his ear, but he couldn't really hear it". It's too late... Return... Backtracking... to the point of origin ... With that, a dazzling ball of colorful light struck his chest. At that moment, all the power was rapidly returning to him, and the white light was rapidly repairing the broken body. A blue bubble suddenly appeared on his chest and quickly wrapped himself, and his body felt weightless, as if he had floated in mid-air. "Don't think!" With the voice, a pure black beam sprayed towards him, and the woman who had whispered in her ear just now resolutely turned around to block the attack. At this time, the wave bubble suddenly expanded upwards at an unreachable speed, as if a brilliant passage guided itself through, and the woman who blocked the wave beam looked at herself with a trace of shocking blood at the corner of her mouth and smiled.

"Wait for me, no matter how long it takes, find me"

This time, I heard it clearly.

In the next moment, everything was gone.