"I've always regarded her as my best sister, but I didn't expect her to treat me like this..."Ji Ran said very sadly, recalling the bits and pieces of the two together before, Ji Ran's heart was even more sad.

"Xiao Ran, don't be sad, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and after a long time, you will be able to see a person's true face." Chu Xiaoxiao patted Ji Ran on the shoulder and said.

"Actually, she used to be very good to me, but I don't understand, why did she become the way she is?" Ji Ran said sadly.

"People will change, not to mention that Xie Yuxin used to be kind to you, but she just used you as a green leaf to accompany her, do you think she is really good to you every time she sends you new clothes? Look at the clothes she gave you, they are either stalls, or very ordinary, and the most expensive ones are only a few hundred yuan, right? Look at her again, she is full of famous brands, and she costs four or five hundred yuan to make a facial mask, and she takes you with her, doesn't it just seem that you are very earthy, and she is very foreign? Chu smiled and looked at Ji Ran and said.

"No, it won't, Shin Shin won't be like that." Ji Ran shook his head and said.

"Hey... Xiao Ran, you are really simple enough, you think of people too simply, Xie Yuxin is by no means as perfect as you think, if she really treats you as a good sister, will she speak ill of you behind your back? Will they quarrel with you because of a trivial matter? You helped her wash her clothes, and she still hurt you like that, if it were me, I would have thrown the clothes in her face a long time ago. Chu Xiaoxiao said unevenly.

Ji Ran thought about it carefully, and what Chu Xiaoxiao said seemed to have some truth, but she still didn't want to believe that her good sister who shared the dormitory with her would calculate herself so carefully.

"Okay, don't be angry, it's not worth it, or else, you're not in a good mood right now anyway, how about I accompany you for a drink or two? I invite you. Chu Xiaoxiao looked at the time, it was only seven o'clock in the evening, which happened to be the time when the nightlife began.

"Forget it, I'm not going." Ji Ran shook her head gently, she was not a person who loved to drink, and at the same time, she didn't want to use wine to drown her sorrows.

"Oh, how boring it is to be alone in the bedroom, let's go, you are such a beautiful beauty, if you stay in the bedroom, wouldn't it be blind?" Chu smiled and pulled Ji Ran out of the bedroom.

When the two came to the road outside the campus, Chu Xiaoxiao stopped a taxi and called Ji Ran to sit up.

"Xiaoxiao, where are you going to take me?" After Ji Ran sat in the taxi, he looked at Chu Xiaoxiao and asked.

"You'll know when you get there, it's guaranteed to be a fun place." Chu Xiaoxiao said with a smile, on the ultra-wide screen of the unmanned taxi, the voice input was three degrees of space, which was the name of a nightclub, and the intelligent unmanned taxi immediately chose the nearest route and set off towards the destination.

Ji Ran sat in the unmanned taxi, looked at the skyscrapers outside, and found that the world was changing so fast, remembering that when she came to S City when she was a child, the tallest building was only four or five hundred meters high, and now there are more than eight hundred meters high, and there is more than one.

Both sides of the road are also clean and tidy, people's lives are also colorful, more than ten years ago, people have to work hard for seven or eight hours a day, with a meager salary, but also look at the face of the boss, the little brother who delivers the courier is even harder, working more than ten hours a day, and, often because of a quarrel and being abused and beaten by customers, and now all this does not exist, the little brother who delivers the express has been replaced by a variety of small drones, a large number of artificial intelligence investment, but also makes people's lives easier and easier.

In this era, even the subsistence allowance is higher than the average salary in the first-tier cities a decade ago, which means that even if you don't do anything, you won't go hungry and can enjoy perfect social welfare.

Although you only need to go to the relevant department with your ID card to fill out a waiver of labor agreement, you can get unlimited subsistence allowance qualifications for free, and live a worry-free life from now on, but many people still prefer to take a meager income and refuse to give up the right to work, although artificial intelligence can bring them a better and more comfortable life, but many people are still unwilling to get something for nothing, and want to use their insignificant labor to defend their dignity as human beings.

And Ji Ran's parents belong to this kind of person.

Ji Ran looked at the drones flying around in the night sky, looking at the beautiful and complex world of science fiction, and heard that the third large-scale permanent residence base on Mars will be completed soon, and at that time, many people may have to immigrate to Mars.

Ji Ran looked up at the beautiful night sky, looked at the bright stars in the sky, and couldn't help but think of Wuxiang's promise to herself: "I will pick the most beautiful stars and give them to you..."

If this sentence is placed in the past, it may never be a wish that can never be realized, but in the future world, maybe all this will become a reality, human beings have landed on Mars, just like Columbus discovered the American continent back then, the Age of Discovery turned the entire earth into a village, and now human beings have landed on Mars, opening a new chapter in the interstellar voyage, maybe it will not be long before human beings will go deeper and farther to the sea of stars, to a broader universe.

There are so many stars in the sky, there are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way alone, and there are only 9 billion people on the earth, with an average of 10 suns per person, which is a lot more than that.

It may sound like a fantasy right now, but in time, when technology does get there, it will all become a reality.

Ji Ran looked at the bright night sky, and couldn't help but smile, her beautiful smiling face was more fascinating than the moon in the sky.

Soon after, the car slowly stopped in front of the nightclub of the three-dimensional space.

After Chu Xiaoxiao brushed his face to pay, he took Ji Ran out of the car.

"Xiaoxiao, you know I can't drink, why did you bring me to such a place?" Ji Ran looked at Chu Xiaoxiao and hesitated.

"Oh, it's okay, the alcohol here is very low, and the cocktail is only three or four degrees, no different from drinking juice." Chu Xiaoxiao said with a smile, and pulled Ji Ran into the nightclub.

As soon as you enter the nightclub, you will be dazzled by the various virtual reality scenes.

All kinds of people, piercing and explosive music, coupled with all kinds of cool and dazzling virtual illusions, made Ji Ran feel as if he had come to a world where demons were dancing, and the whole person was going crazy.

Chu Xiaoxiao took Ji Ran to a private room, ordered a few bottles of cocktails, asked for a super luxurious fruit plate, and danced passionately while listening to the music.

"Come, Xiao Ran, let's drink." Chu Xiaoxiao took a bottle of cocktail and touched the bottle with Ji Ran, raised his head and drank it.

Ji Ran looked at the cocktail, it looked so high-end, she hadn't drunk it on weekdays, and it smelled a bit of lemonade.

Ji Ran took a small sip first, the taste was refreshing with a faint taste of sweet wine, and it tasted good.

"Hehe, it's not poison, drink it with confidence, it's okay." Chu Xiaoxiao looked at Ji Ran's cautious appearance and said with a big grin.

"Why is yours pink and mine green?" Ji Ran looked at the color of the cocktail and asked strangely.

"I'm white peach-flavored, and yours is lime-flavored." Chu Xiao said with a smile and handed his cocktail to Ji Ran.

Ji Ran took the pink cocktail handed over by Chu Xiaoxiao, tasted it carefully, and sure enough, it was a peach flavor, the fragrant peach flavor, coupled with the vodka aroma, was cool and refreshing, as if standing on the Alps.

"Xiaoxiao, how much does this cocktail cost?" Ji Ran drank half a bottle of cocktail, looked at Chu Xiaoxiao and asked.

Nightclubs are originally high-consumption places, even if it is an ordinary bottle of mineral water, it can be sold for more than a dozen yuan here, and this beautifully packaged cocktail is not cheap.

"One hundred and eighteen." Chu Xiaoxiao said with a smile.

"Huh? One hundred and eighteen? So expensive? Ji Ran's eyes widened in surprise.

"Hahaha, teasing you, one hundred and a half dozen, thirty-one bottles, not expensive." Chu Xiaoxiao said with a smile.

"Thirty isn't too expensive." Ji Ran thought sullenly in his heart.

"Come on, drink, it's okay, it's still after drinking." Chu Xiaoxiao said as he bought a dozen more with the virtual shopping system, and soon after, an intelligent robot entered the room with twelve bottles of cocktails and placed the wine neatly on the table.

"Oh, smile, why are you buying so much wine? Can't drink it. Ji Ran looked at these cocktails, even if he drank them as water, he couldn't finish them.

"It's okay, don't look at the wine, it's not necessarily enough to play for a while." Chu Xiaoxiao said with a smile, it seems that today is not just an appointment with Ji Ran, is it also an appointment with someone else?