"Am I dreaming?"

Char looked at the purple-haired girl sitting opposite and couldn't help but be suspicious.

He twisted his cheek hard, it hurt, it wasn't a dream.

"No matter how she ended up here, her target must be me! Is she a sorcerer who covets the power of the Hermit, or an enemy I'd rather lose my memory than hide from? ”

Char's mind was a mess and she couldn't keep her cool.

If the girl is a sorcerer, Char may be able to survive if she surrenders the power of the hermit.

If it's the latter, things are in trouble.

At this moment, Char can only pray that the girl is afraid of the passengers on the subway and will not make a move on herself.

But is it possible?

Char guessed that the passengers on the platform fell asleep, and the girl made a ghost.

She must be a dream builder.

After all, only Char and she were the only ones on the entire platform who did not fall asleep.

No, Char was also pulled into the dream by a strange force, and even met the dream girl.

It's just that Char's headache happened to attack, interrupting the dream and waking him up.

In other words, on the entire platform, only the purple-haired girl was not affected by the nightmare plague!

Char's heart was filled with inexplicable fear, and her head was full of chaotic thoughts.

"Anyway, stay away from her first!"

Char stood up and came to the car door, pretending to stare out the dark window, but with the help of the reflection of the window, he paid attention to the purple-haired girl's every move.

"She's spying on me?"

Char found from the reflection that the purple-haired girl opened her eyes, and the direction of her gaze was clearly herself!

This discovery made Char fall to the bottom, and finally arrived at the subway terminal station, he rushed out with an arrow and ran out of the subway station.

"Whew..."

The long-term irregular work and rest made Char's physique extremely poor, and before he could run a few steps, he was tired and out of breath.

It's already dark.

Solar street lamps cast a dim glow that barely illuminates the streets.

Hope that the eastern district of the city is very desolate, but it is just night, and the streets are quiet, and not even a pedestrian can be seen.

Occasionally, a self-driving hoverbus drove by, and it was also empty and empty.

Da Da...

Char didn't have to look back, he heard the footsteps following him getting closer and closer.

"She's stalking me!"

Char's lungs were about to tear, and she couldn't run.

"Why are you following me?"

Char could only stop, turned around, and sure enough, saw the purple-haired girl following closely behind him.

The purple-haired girl's face was as usual, her breathing was steady, and she didn't look like she had just run wildly.

She was stunned at first, and a trace of disdain appeared on her beautiful little face: "Are you too self-conscious?" ”

Immediately, the purple-haired girl walked quickly past Char, came to a building in front of her, and rang the doorbell.

The door soon opened, and a handsome man in a suit looked at the purple-haired girl with a smile and said, "Susanna, welcome!" ”

The person who opened the door was Ande, the android of the Oneiroi Group.

Char ran wildly all the way, and he had already arrived at the training base of the Oneiroi Group.

To Char's surprise, the purple-haired girl was named Susanna, who was also a student of the "Dreams Come True" program.

"It's no wonder that she understands Zhumeng and takes the same subway as me. It turned out to be all a coincidence. ”

Char shook his head and laughed at himself.

"Hey, Char."

Ander was about to close the door, when he happened to see Char standing on the side of the street, and said in surprise: "You came with Susanna?" Are you friends? ”

"Encounters... It's just a chance encounter. Char explained, a little embarrassed.

"Exactly. I'll take the two of you on a tour of the facilities at the base, and I'll be able to share dinner with the rest of your classmates. I forgot to introduce it officially, I am the person in charge of this training program, you can call me Mr. Ender. ”

Ander said with a smile.

"The android is in charge?" Char smiled bitterly in her heart, no wonder it was said on the Internet that this era is divided into three kinds of people.

The first class is the rich.

The second class is androids.

The third class is the poor.

The poor are at the bottom of society, not even as good as androids.

The rich would rather exploit the submissive, more capable androids and give them important work.

"Mr. Ender, I'm sorry for your trouble."

Suzanne bowed slightly, very polite, and not as indifferent and disdainful as Char.

Ander, the android, leads Suzanne and Char into the training base.

It is a huge building with a strong Gothic style.

Towering minarets, pointed arches, huge stained glass, and gloomy atmosphere make Char feel like stepping into an ancient castle.

How can there be such an ancient building in such a modern city as Hope City?

"It's called Fort William, and it was built by a billionaire named William before the Great Recession. He was obsessed with the Second Age and spent a lot of money restoring the architecture of that era. But before Fort Wilhelm was completed, the Great Recession arrived. Fort Wilhelm is a work in ruins, and there are many places that have not been repaired. Oneiroi chose this location as a training base simply because of the low rent. ”

Ender walks along the promenade of the castle and explains the origin of this ancient building.

"The Great Recession..."

Char quietly opens the holographic bracelet and looks up the entry for the Great Recession in the history books.

The Great Recession was a catastrophe that happened a hundred years ago.

At that time, human civilization was striding forward and developing rapidly.

Political, economic, cultural, and technological development has reached its peak.

Later historians called that era the Golden Age.

But suddenly the Great Recession came.

No one knows the real reason why the Great Recession happened.

Some say it's a plague.

Others say it's a war.

Whatever the reason, the result is obvious.

The economy collapsed, the country disintegrated, science and technology regressed, and wars were frequent.

The world is crumbling, and everyone is in fear.

It took fifty years for the Confederation to rise from the ashes and re-establish the state.

Human civilization has only been revived again.

But 100 years later, the Great Recession is still affecting human society.

The gap between the rich and the poor has widened, the contradiction between the rich and the poor, the abuse of drug prosthetics, the proliferation of guns, racial discrimination, the soaring suicide rate, cybercrime...

In Char's view, Hope City is a microcosm of the Federation, a deformed society full of injustice.

"Human civilization is terminally ill."

Char's mind was filled with the words of a philosopher.

"No matter how bad this era is, life will always pass." Char shook his head and walked towards the depths of the castle.