Hanghu City, Xiajiang District.

Sunshine International Community, 9 buildings 3202, a set of indoor area of more than 20 square meters of finely decorated single room rental.

A young man in his twenties, sitting on the mahogany floor, holding a Wacon high-end pen tablet in one hand and a touch brush in the other, sketches lines and colors in the canvas area of the screen from time to time, and is engaged and serious.

Under his brush, a cute anime woman with long pink hair, a lolita dress and white stockings gradually takes shape and appears in front of people in a three-dimensional way.

Slightly modified.

The last one is dropped, and the work is sent to the customer through the penguin account.

"Thank you, Brother Ming, I am very satisfied with this original painting of Anasta, and the final payment will be sent to you immediately!"

Dingdong, Alipay sent a notice of transfer of 300 yuan to the account.

He put the tablet away, stood up, moved his neck and limbs, walked to the floor-to-ceiling glass window on the edge of the balcony, looked at the buildings and rivers in the distance, and listened to the noise of car horns and other human activities.

Somehow, Wei Ming always had an instinctive irritability in his heart, lingering in his heart.

Wei Ming, male, 26 years old this year, height 175, weight 144 pounds, mediocre appearance, messy hairstyle, ordinary dress, can't be hooked with handsome characters, there is no woman's popularity since childhood, graduated from junior college, and studied animation art in school for three years.

After graduating, he first entered the IT field and became a UI designer.

Last year, due to the impact of the epidemic, the cold winter of the Internet and other factors, he lost his job, and he usually worked part-time as an original artist, but became the only source of income, coupled with his solid painting skills, excellent figure painting, and a certain popularity in the circle of original artists, there are many new and old customers who want him to place orders, and the price ranges from 300 to 800 yuan per sheet.

Wei Ming spends four hours a day to work, can draw about 15 pictures a month, and earns five or six thousand a month.

And this income level, compared with the consumption level of Hanghu City, a new first-tier city, is difficult to save any money.

After all, the rent of this finely decorated house alone costs 2,200 per month, and the electricity bill is calculated separately.

It costs 1500 for a meal.

Buy clothes, watch movies, get a haircut, go shopping for at least 500.

Miscellaneous expenses such as mobile phone bills cost more than 300.

In a month, the total cost of various expenses will be more than 4,500.

Wei Ming, who lives as a freelancer as an original artist, does not have much savings on him.

So there is no need to mention the words like finding a girlfriend to get off the list, there is no such economic strength.

A house and a car are just unattainable dreams for him.

In the future, China's economic growth is sluggish, the birth rate is declining, and the number of unmarried cocooning groups is increasing, and I am afraid that there will be a contribution to him.

In fact, Wei Ming is not unmotivated, in the years after graduation, he worked hard, often worked overtime, tried to take on all kinds of private work, even rarely rested on holidays, usually saved more than 100,000 yuan every year, and his boss and colleagues all praised and admired.

But......

Sometimes your efforts may not be rewarded, but may be hurt and intensified.

caused Wei Ming to fall into depression for a while, and he relied on drugs to sleep normally.

I haven't even come out of that state even now.

Stand in front of the window, open the window, and let some air in.

Looking at the scenery in the distance.

Smell the air mixed with car exhaust, chemical plant pollutants, and PM2.5 levels.

Wei Ming shook his head.

"It's better to have air in the countryside."

"Why don't you go back to the countryside, rent a house with a small yard, and then grow some vegetables in the yard, raise some chickens and ducks, if you feel tired, you can put on a backpack and go to the neighborhood to go hiking, or bring a fishing rod and fish in the lake......"

"This kind of life may also be very good."

Wei Ming's face showed a look of longing, and even an impulse arose in his heart.

After all, as a freelancer, he can go anywhere in the world, and there is no need to stay stuck in a big city and breathe uncomfortable turbid air all day long.

Moreover, the cost of living in the countryside is not high, and you can also grow your own vegetables and breed them, which is suitable for health preservation and full of fun.

It's a good idea to go to the countryside and develop.

……

Quasar.

The oldest, most massive, and most energy-dense object in the universe.

They are the product of the evolution of galaxies to the end, and their core is generally a massive black hole with millions to tens of trillions of masses of the Sun, surrounded by nebula dust with a diameter of tens to tens of thousands of light-years.

Under the huge gravitational pull of the black hole at the core of the quasar, the dust of the surrounding nebula continues to fall into the center of the black hole, which is shaped like a giant eye-shaped accretion disk.

Due to the fall of a large amount of matter, at the poles of the black hole, a huge amount of conversion energy will push a large number of high-energy particles to be ejected outward at a speed infinitely close to the speed of light, forming two huge pillars of light.

Right here and now.

In a star field 12.7 billion light-years away from the blue star, a quasar with a core black hole with a mass of more than 1,000 trillion suns, after swallowing enough material, caused by quantitative change, suddenly exploded!

A violent ray burst eruption was formed.

Among the countless high-energy particles ejected, there is a strange high-energy particle, which contains unimaginable energy, very similar to the primordial particles that were born in a very short time during the Big Bang.

Then, at a speed far exceeding the speed of light, beyond common sense, he crossed endless time and space, and flew in a certain direction of the blue star.

……

It's approaching evening.

It's getting dark.

The row of turquoise office buildings across the river began to light up with colorful neon lights.

I remembered my good years when I was only 26 years old.

It began to exude a thick twilight like the twilight of this evening, and I fantasized about living an idyllic and comfortable rural life.

Forty years of early retirement.

"Is it really appropriate to think about retirement so early, eat and wait for death?"

"Painting a two-dimensional cute girl every day, can you fill the emptiness of no object?"

"Isn't it better to have a house and a car in this prosperous world to have a place of your own than to be empty and not leave something in the world?"

"Life can't be as brilliant as summer flowers, but at least it must emit a little light and heat that people can see, just like that meteor, like a red line, although inconspicuous, but piercing the sky."

"No, why did that meteor fly towards me?"

I am surprised!

There was no time to dodge, and the thin red line went straight into Wei Ming's forehead and entered his brain.

Boom!

Wei Ming's eyes seemed to reproduce the scene of the Big Bang, endless energy and dazzling firelight, jumping and shining in front of him, showing countless changes, forming an orange world of fire, full of rage, disorder and chaos.

Puff~

Wei Ming suddenly fainted.