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Legend has it that a few years ago, when many people in Xiacheng District of City B were still leaders of the older generation and Zhong Min had not yet mixed in, there was a little girl who looked no more than a teenager who broke into the largest gang in Xiacheng District at that time, the "Lishui Gang". At the time, the Lishui Gang was the largest underground mechanical prosthetic (machine-made human structure used to replace damaged human organs or enhance functions) trading center in the lower city, and the little girl came to say that she was going to buy out a business here, a new type of brain prosthetic business, for someone to fill in random numbers on a signed check in exchange.

At that time, the boss of the Lishui Gang was not in the gang, and the second boss wanted to send the little girl away, but the third boss had bad intentions towards her. The little girl was drugged in her cup at the dinner party, and when she woke up, she was already in the bedroom of the third master. Just as the three masters walked into the bedroom, the entire Lishui Gang's territory suddenly became dark, all the circuits were powered out, and even the backup generator could not work normally.

In the darkness of the night, all the people with prosthetics went berserk or went into a mess, and the rest of the people were left to flee for their lives, and no one knew what happened that night. After the little girl walked out of the headquarters of the Lishui Gang after dawn, the three masters were found on the operating table, leaving only the head connected to a body with three prosthetic limbs. The second boss was found in the sewer, covered in feces, and had gone insane. The big boss rushed back by plane the next day, but the plane flew off the course halfway, entered the clouds and mist, and crashed into an unknown mountain.

The Lishui Gang has since fallen apart, and the original deal has since disappeared in the lower city. Later, the little girl went on to do several businesses in the lower city, but if anyone went against her will, or made insulting remarks to her halfway, those gangs or people suffered misfortune. Dressed in black, with a pale face, a flat expression, and deep eyes, he once directly or indirectly led to the dissolution of four gangs in Xiacheng and the death of twenty-eight well-known figures in one year. This little girl, who is rumored to be the merchant of the Grim Reaper in the lower city, is Gu Yu.

2

While eating, while listening to Zhong Min tell the legend of Xiacheng that she had heard, Zhong Li actually felt that the steaks she had carefully cooked were impregnated with a special taste.

"You said this person is Gu Yu?"

"Yes, I've talked to them about this legend in many old shops, and those who say they have seen it with their own eyes have basically the same description of her appearance, so it doesn't seem like an apocryphal. I reckon if you can get her downtown, you'll still be able to scare people to death. ”

Zhong Li listened to a lot of descriptions from his sister, although many of them were obviously exaggerated, but the description of Gu Yu's appearance was indeed similar to his own impression, but there was one thing he cared about very much, or he couldn't figure it out. "You say these legends come from seven or eight years ago?"

"yes."

"Nearly ten years have passed, and her appearance hasn't changed at all?"

"If you pay attention to maintenance, there shouldn't be too many changes."

"No, I mean......" Zhong Li coughed dryly, "I mean she's only in her early twenties by all accounts, and she looks about your age to be exact." ”

"You mean she still looks like she's older than me right now?" Zhong Min was a little surprised, "Although no one in the legend said how old she was at the time, I don't think it should be a teenage girl, at least it should be about the same as me at that time." She thought for a moment, "Is it that the model of her game is based on her model at that time, I know that many girls will not follow the model in the game (meaning that the game character model is updated at any time according to the real character model scanned by the stealth warehouse)." ”

"But in the video communication just now, she looks similar to that over there, or she seems to be smaller. She looked like she was the same age as us over there, but she looked about the same age as you in the comms. ”

"How can this be, will she still grow in reverse?"

Zhong Li frowned and guessed: "Could it be that 'Gu Yu' is actually just a code name or an organization, but there are many people who play the role of 'Gu Yu', and the current Gu Yu and your legendary Gu Yu just look very similar." ”

"Based on our current understanding, this is indeed an explanation, let's wait for her to come and ask her personally." Zhong Min lay on the table, with a mysterious expression, and said to Zhong Li: "But no matter what the explanation is, if it is related to the name 'Gu Yu', then we have to be careful, after all, she has the nickname of 'Death'." Although her ultimate goal is Lao Yuan, you and your little Yuan may not be able to eat melons. ”

Zhong Li's brows furrowed even tighter, "Does she really want you to spread it so dangerously?" I've been with her for half a month, and I don't think she's a dangerous person. ”

"Maybe it's not a person, maybe it's a different style. But you also said that she took Lao Yuan's invention as her target, which means that this must be her serious business, and we can't take it lightly. At present, it seems that it is not enough for her to tell us what to do as soon as she comes up, but you still give your little sister Yuan a reminder about something, let her talk to Lao Yuan. Then it's just a matter of arranging a meeting as soon as possible. ”

"What do you think, little goblin?"

"In front of Gu Yu, don't call me a ghost, I still want to live for two more years." Zhong Min thought carefully with the spoon in her mouth, "That's it," she said with the spoon in one hand, "Even if she says it's not in a hurry, she can't keep putting it off." And while I'm still here, I can be a counselor for you. Tomorrow, I will bring your Xiao Yuan back as usual and accompany her on a date first. In the evening, we will slowly explain the situation to her, let her find Lao Yuan as soon as possible, if she has anything to think clearly, I will just help you persuade. ”

Zhong Li touched her little mushroom head across the table, "It seems that this steak was not made for you in vain." ”

"That is, you go back here to rely on the old lady, and only I can help you Zhang Luo." She said with another breath of long-term qi that looked like she was pretending to be at her age, "This little thing in front of her eyes can only be arranged like this, if she is really that Gu Yu, then everything has to follow her will, thinking about it as she goes." ”

3

The next day was sunny again, Zhong Li set off from home early to the station, and Zhong Min went out of the house with Zhong Li in order to avoid becoming a small light bulb, and turned to Xiacheng City.

The unmanned taxi slowly passes through the low-rise houses of the detached residential area and the large lawn that looks like an oil painting backdrop, and turns onto the urban expressway as it approaches the urban agglomeration. The highway is full of unmanned vehicles, running at a speed of 120 or 30 miles without interfering with each other, even if the occasional vehicle turns, or even a breakdown, the surrounding vehicles can calmly make evasions, decelerations and other actions.

This is because all vehicles are under the control of the road system as soon as they enter the fast lane. The system will plan the road application of all vehicles, and take the data of the vehicle itself, the condition of the road, etc. as relevant factors as a reference, and plan their own driving mode and route for each vehicle after co-ordination. The spacing and speed of all vehicles are controlled under the limits of a safety factor, so that the road system has room to make temporary adjustments and avoid the risk of accidents. As long as no major accidents occur, ordinary accidents will not cause serious accidents. When a major situation occurs and the system cannot quickly develop a solution, the system will regionally return control of the driver.

The dove-nest-like residential buildings clinged to the road, and countless windows flashed before they could see clearly, presumably living a similar life in the windows. A pigeon nest will have a stealth warehouse, and a stealth warehouse will have a large stealth game, so there will be a life in another world. Everyone lies quietly in their nests, and their sky is bound to be in another world. At this point, Zhong Li is not far from them.

As one of the largest cities in the world, City B, even at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour, it takes an hour to drive from the east through the city to the west. It's close to the city centre, but it's open because the roads are lined with universities. Most of these universities were founded between 200 and 150 years ago, and many decades ago they were overcrowded. Zhong Li's grandfather once exhausted his youth and came here, and his grandfather spent a lot of time to get here, and when he came to his father's generation, most of the people who came here were eunuchs and people who really wanted to be scholars.

When money has become a non-necessity, there are suddenly fewer people who come to this university district for profit, and the huge campus that was originally built to meet the interests of all parties is left with only two kinds of people who must have academic qualifications and those who really love certain subjects. Today, in addition to the laboratories and workshops that are still in operation, most of the school buildings have become ruins. Except for educated children and old men and women with cats and dogs, few people visit them anymore.

Patches of thick ginkgo trees, the edges of the leaves began to yellow, and the six or seven-story poplar ash had already had leaves that could not bear to fall off, except for a few high-rise buildings that came out of the woods, and it almost became a sea of trees. Occasionally, a young man who was about the same age as Zhong Li's sister wearing glasses looked up at the boundless leaves, and Zhong Li knew that the world in their eyes was different from his own.

After passing through the school district and the relatively low scientific research area, a huge station that could stand side by side with the mountains behind it appeared in front of Zhong Li's eyes. This station is forty or fifty years old, but it is difficult to find a building of similar size other than other large public buildings in City B.

A hundred years ago, there was a trend of building huge buildings, which were originally built to cope with the huge flow of people, but as such buildings appeared one after another, the significance of the huge volume changed from simply satisfying the use of the crowd to showing the charm and national power of the city, just like the huge Gothic churches built by people in the Middle Ages.

The station in the northwest of City B caught up with the tail of that trend and became the tallest and largest station in the world. Less than half of the 48 platforms that were originally designed are now working normally, and the carrying capacity of 300,000 passengers per day, which was originally designed to meet the daily delivery capacity, now only needs to bear an average of 3,000 or 4,000 passengers per day.

However, this is not the decline of cities, but the times have changed, and it is no longer the era when you need to face to face to solve problems, but an era in which everything can be simulated and carried by numbers alone.