01 Starlight

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The dawn and the darkness faded quickly, and the light was like a golden sword, tearing through the haze of the curfew.

Luo Xing opened his sleepy eyes, and there were bits of golden light reflected in his black pupils.

5:00

Turning his head to look at the time, Luo Xing sat up from the bed, got out of bed, and entered his daily routine.

After washing, Luo Xing walked to the window and looked out of the window.

Towering buildings, quickly fading their dark coats, shimmering with a harsh metallic sheen in the sunlight.

Whoosh~ An airbus rushed past the window, and through the ten-centimeter-thick tempered glass, Luo Xing clearly felt the scorching temperature sprayed out of the rear of the bus.

Luo Xing's thick eyebrows furrowed slightly, and in an instant, he returned to normal, his expression became blank, and the trace of emotional fluctuations was hidden by the fear in his heart.

This is a no-no! He admonished himself in his heart.

Luo Xing knew very well what the change in expression meant in this world ruled by machines.

He had seen his fellow workers in the factory take them away by the R-type mech because of a slight mood swing, never to return, and then vanished.

Set, the planet dominated by machines. Any living being is their vassal. Human beings are strictly controlled, such as clothing, food, housing, transportation, and even emotions. Humans are like programmed programs that can only play by their rules, and violating them means destroying them and then reorganizing.

The days are very short, the nights are very long, twenty-four hours, and the night takes up two-thirds, and this long night, because of the curfew, everyone can only sleep in solitude, and the cycle repeats until the end of life.

This information, Luo Xing also learned recently, ten days ago, his emotions were abnormal, in addition to fear, emotions other than longing, and then all kinds of emotions that he couldn't describe swarmed in, accumulated to the bottom of his heart, and turned into deeper fear.

Whew~ Luo Xing calmed down, exhaled deeply, and turned around to carefully inspect everything in the room.

In a small room, a bed is placed horizontally, and the bedding is neatly stacked at the head of the bed, like a regular white box. A set of white overalls, neatly arranged at the end of the bed like a quilt.

At the end of the bed is a door, which opens and closes twice a day, and on the left side is the bathroom, and the contents inside have their fixed positions, even the angles.

Luo Xing checked very carefully, thinking about every detail from getting up in his mind, and after making sure that nothing was missing, he walked to the side of the bed and put on his work clothes, the moment he put them on, his body seemed to disappear out of thin air, leaving only a head with black hair, black eyes and yellow skin, because the whole room was pure white.

After tidying up, Luo Xing walked to the door and stood quietly.

1… 2… 3. Count silently in your heart until you count to ten, and the door silently shrinks into the wall.

The scene in front of you contrasts strongly with the tranquility of the house, between the towering steel buildings, all kinds of flying vehicles are constantly flowing and criss-crossing, seemingly chaotic, but orderly.

But the most are the airbuses with a length of about 100 meters, they are like steel dragons, whistling through the air, the air waves generated by the speed, blowing Luo Xing's exposed skin slightly tingling, and the overalls are like white sails sailing in the wind, hunting sound.

Hum ~ An airbus hovered in front of Luo Xing, the distance from him was only twenty centimeters, the door opened, Luo Xing stepped in, the car was already full of people, but it seemed that he was the only one, because only Luo Xing was moving, Luo Xing walked to his fixed position and sat down, except for the occasional blinking eyes, no different from a puppet.

This scene took place in various parts of the city, and columns of steel dragons marched through the city and galloped towards the outside of the city.

The silent travel made Luo Xing feel depressed, the sound insulation effect of the bus was excellent, except for the rhythmic breathing sound, no sound could be heard in the car, Luo Xing wanted to see what the world outside the window was, he didn't dare, he wanted to think about his life every day so repeatedly, what was it for? He didn't dare either!

The only thing he can do is to make himself more like a puppet as usual. But this added a bit of gloom to his already suppressed emotions, he wanted to roar, he wanted to vent, but this was just an idea buried under fear.

The speed of the airbus was extremely fast, and in a short time it flew out of the city's barriers, a shroud of energy that shone with a blue halo, like a giant hat, firmly fastened above the steel city.

The inside and outside of the city were like two worlds, the golden sun had leapt into the sky, the scorching arc of light raged the sky overhead, ploughing the ground below with a blade-like light, the golden sea of sand and air distorted, except for silence, it was still silence.

The temperature in the car gradually rose, and on the monitor in front of Luo Xing, two scarlet numbers warned him: Don't yearn for the world outside the city - 63 degrees Celsius.

Sweat seeped from under the skin, leaching shadows in the white overalls, and then quickly coalesced to form a lake. The carriage seemed to have become a steamer, and the smell of sweat wafted throughout the carriage, wandering between Luo Xing's mouth and nose.

He wanted to move, to relieve the depression caused by the dullness and heat, but he didn't. He knew that this was something that he had to go through every day, that it would last about 10 minutes, that the bus would start the refrigeration unit in 10 minutes, and that it would take another 20 minutes to arrive at the place where he worked every day.

Luo Xing couldn't name it, it was full of fear, at least for the past ten days.

Suddenly, there were several strange noises in the carriage, although they were very slight, but in Luo Xing's ears, they shook his panicked heart like thunder.

Oh no, he thought, there were anomalous people in the carriage.

Ten minutes of high temperature is the test of the reaction of the people in the car, the high temperature of 40 °C, people who produce other emotions, rarely can survive, especially those who have just had an abnormality.

The noise was only for a moment, and then it didn't happen again, and the Airbus went as usual, and after five minutes, the refrigeration was turned on and the temperature inside the car dropped to 26°C.

The cool temperature calmed Luo Xing's uneasy mood, and he comforted himself, "It's okay, there will be no inspection." ”

The Airbus was punctual, and when the time jumped to 6:00, it just passed through another layer of blue reticle.

This is another city of steel, the city of ole – the city of manufacturing, where everything needed to produce smart machines is available, from the most basic components to the energy cores of the machines.

There is also the place where Luo Xing works, the breeding ground.

There is a representation of life and death, the incubator is like an incomparably large queen ant, the walls are hung with an egg-like hatching cabin, Luo Xing is out of the hatching cabin, implanted in the brain with a chip, and the code engraved in the eye.

The chip stores very little information, which is what he needs for his work and the rules of the world, and in addition to these, there is also a part of the language.

The code represents his identity, if he is a person, it is better to say that the product is accurate, after all, only the commodity will be printed with the code.

However, this is the rule of intelligent machines, and it is also the sorrow of mankind.

Five minutes to go, Luo Xing thought.

For ten days, he had been calculating like this every day, and although he knew that the time of the Airbus could never be wrong, he wanted to do it anyway, because then he could feel his presence.

Suddenly, the bus that had just passed through the barrier came to a stop, and the huge inertia made Luo Xing's body lean forward violently, and before Luo Xing could react, the airbus seemed to lose energy and fell to the ground at a rapid speed.

Yes...!

Luo Xing finally let out an instinctive cry, and the next moment his face was as dead as ashes, and he knew that he had been detected.

Because the Airbus did not crash, but landed smoothly to the ground. However, his hoarse shouts still echoed in the carriage.

"Everyone, get out of the bus and get checked!" An indifferent voice came from the loudspeaker above the bus.

Luo Xing hurriedly got up, his expression returned to normal, he followed the flow of people out of the bus, blending in with the crowd, hoping that he could pass the customs in a fool's way.

But the huge row of R-type mechs in front of him, and the swarthy gun muzzles on both sides of their fuselages, told him that there was no extravagant hope here, it was just a senseless fantasy.

"Starlight, you have hidden in the ranks of the clones and tried to infiltrate our core area, are you going to break the Convention of Sets and start a war again?"

An indifferent voice came from the front, Luo Xing was stunned, his gaze passed through the crowd, and landed under the R-type mecha.

It was the place where the voice came from, and there stood a man with blond hair, dark purple eyes, and a well-proportioned body, which made Luo Xing feel a kind of fear from his soul, which was the power contained in his body.

The most distinctive thing is his clothes, which are not white, but black tights that resemble soft armor, with a blood-red S logo on the left chest.

Seeing this sign, Luo Xing's breath stagnated, and his heart's beating seemed to pause for a few seconds, "This is... Type S? ”

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