[This extended statutory holiday is coming to an end soon, everyone must take precautions on the way back, I hope this scene in the article will never come.] 】

Msstein, the mother star that gave birth to an unknown number of lives and gave birth to many species, has existed in the vast macro-universe for a long, long time, as for how long it will disappear? Nobody knows.

The city has been weathered by the weather, and now all the streets are lined with shops selling all kinds of energy blocks, and apart from the occasional clothing store, there are no other shops.

The road is quite wide, with a brightly lit skyscraper constantly casting all kinds of dreamy lights onto the street, and a huge display screen in the doorway that repeats an animation.

In the picture, there are children one by one, some are laughing and playing, some are lying down and resting, some are drawing randomly on the ground or paper, and some are exercising seriously.

The monitor deliberately enlarges the picture of the child exercising, and the child who occupies the entire display screen of the exercise, the expression on his face is so serious, so stubborn, as if he is unwilling to give up easily.

In front of these exercising children are long steel pipes that are silvery-white and emit psychedelic light. The children in these exercises, or around, or climbing, or dancing, or grasping, clinging to the pole and scratching their heads, seem to be dancing, and as if showing themselves.

At this point, the screen of the monitor suddenly terminates, and it returns to the original screen again, and continues to play, again and again, without stopping.

"Dad, what are we doing here?" A small child looked up at an adult in a long black trench coat in front of him.

This child is very special, and his bright black eyes are clearly printed with white small characters: No. 98992.

The sky-blue pupils of adults also have the same line of small white print printed on them: number 32345.

The adult looked at the child, "Let's go in and watch the dance, let you learn human dance, you always fail the dance class, and if you continue like this, it will be difficult for you to graduate." ”

No. 98992 frowned helplessly, and reluctantly followed No. 32345 into the door of the skyscraper.

The street, shrouded in the darkness of the night, fell into a peaceful slumber after the skyscrapers welcomed the last guests of the day, as if they had died corpses, without any life.

He, who seemed to be only fifteen or sixteen years old, wore a one-piece swimsuit that shimmered with golden light, and his body trembled as he looked at the pairs of eyes that filled the seats around him.

His head was buried low in his chest, his eyes were timid and full of fear, and his clothes shimmered with golden light, not very thick. In the middle of this closed stage, although there was no cold wind blowing, he felt that his body was cold to the bone, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

"Jump! Jump, we're here to dance, not to see ugly humans!"

"Jump! Is this the kind of a dancer who has been trained since childhood?"

"What about the stewards? Come out! Hurry up and get this guy dancing, we don't have that much time to watch him in a daze!"

"That's it, jump! What a daze! Jump, dance!"

"Jump, dance!"

"Quick! Jump up!"

"Fool, jump!"

He listened to the shouts from all directions, his body trembled violently, and he glanced behind the curtain of the stage in fear, and moved to the center of the stage step by step.

His hand touched the silver steel pipe, and his heart was full of fear.

"Fool, jump! Let's dance!"

"Fool, hurry! If you don't dance again, we're ready to leave!"

"Fool, hurry!"

His heart trembled violently, and the words in all directions were like heavy hammers, hitting the bottom of his heart again and again, making his body tremble slightly, and he could barely hold the steel pipe.

He glanced horrified behind the curtain again, and a pair of eyes that shimmered blue were staring at him, his body shaking violently, clutching the steel pipe in front of him.

A burst of music exploded violently in his ears, and the roaring music, as if he had injected drugs into his body, his body involuntarily began to move slowly with the rhythm of the music.

"It's finally time to dance."

"Calm down and watch the dance carefully."

The pairs of eyes sitting around him finally quieted down when he began to move, and the whole stage was full of music and only his body dancing silently.

Around the steel pipe in the center of the stage, he scratched his head again and again.

He clings to the cold steel pipe, or like a snake spitting out its core, or like a crane drying its wings, or like a coiled snake attached to a pillar, or like an upright beast, or like a woman moving lightly in lotus steps, or like a chivalrous warrior in attack, around the steel pipe, around a fixed prison, dancing his body.

And his body flashed with golden light, and the back of his clothes was like a tail, and the long tail wings continued to change shape with his dance, deducing a dreamy picture.

"Yes, it's ok. This dance is ok. ”

"Well, it looks pretty good."

The music slowly stopped, and he stopped dancing, his gaze falling on a pair of eyes, but there was no focus, only scattered points of light.

He bowed slightly to all the stares cast at him, and walked backstage.

"How many are there today?"

"It's five, and it'll last until two o'clock in the morning."

"It's a rare public rest day today, so you have to watch it all."

"Yes, you have to watch the whole scene."

"Oh no, I'm running out of energy. I'll need to recharge my energy first, and I'll see you later. ”

"Fortunately, I brought an energy block, so I'm not afraid that I will run out of energy halfway."

He stepped out again, dressed in a silver veil. The flowing tulle sets off him like a fairy, but this tulle is too thin and too thin.

His body loomed under the tulle, and it was not so much that he was clothed as that he was wearing nothing.

This layer of tulle can't hide anything at all.

His hands cover his chest and his lower body.

Looking at his looming body under the tulle, sweat gradually oozed from his body, and the feeling of being watched by a pair of eyes made his whole body not an inch relax, and his whole body was tense like a full bowstring.

His hands no longer knew where to cover himself, one would go up, the other would go down, and the sweat would spread layer after layer on his forehead.

"Is this what humans are? Is this the human emotion?"

"Shy? Feeling shy in front of everyone's eyes? Haha, humans, what a stupid species. ”

A mechanical, emotionless female voice sounded, she stood up and laughed, dancing below him like him on stage, not caring about her dwindling clothes, but on closer inspection, the woman's purple pupils were also engraved with a small line of words: 235634 number.

"Ha, human, let's learn!"

"No wonder you can only be reduced to dancers, emotions will only make you fall into the abyss." Woman 235634 howled uncontrollably.

"Come on, you're a machine, how can you compare to this little guy? This little guy is full of flesh and blood, but he is a warm person! ”

"Isn't the machine good? Humans are nothing more than stupid animals. If they hadn't died on their own, would they have let us take over the planet? Besides, there are still a few humans, and only a few can be seen on this stage, right?"

"Okay, what are you going to do about these? Watch the dance, watch the dance. Little one, hurry up and jump. ”

"Stupid human, hurry up and dance."

"Let's dance!"

He looked at the pairs of eyes around him projecting on his body, and he only felt that his whole body was as if he had been doused with cold water, and he was constantly trembling. His hands wanted to cover his body, but he sighed helplessly that his hands were so small and weak.

He looked at the eyes around him, took half a step slightly, his eyes projected on his legs, his hands hurriedly blocked downward, and a layer of fine sweat appeared on his forehead again.

"Idiot, what to cover? We don't have any interest in you, hurry up and dance, we just want to enjoy the dance!"

"Fool, dance, take your hands away!"

"Fool, let's dance!"

Once again, the sound of cursing came like a tidal wave, drowning him out.

He only felt as if he were a lonely boat in the stormy waves, constantly shaking with the shocking waves, and facing the danger of being drowned by the waves at any time.

"Fool, dance!"

"We're not here to see your shyness, we're not here to see your dirty body, hurry up and dance!"

"Let's dance!"

He listened to the insults one by one, his whole body trembled, and he glanced at the curtain, and then hesitated to put one hand on the steel pipe.

"Dance! Let's dance!"

He looked over his body, looked at his body that he couldn't cover anymore, sighed secretly, and held the steel pipe tightly with both hands.

The music rumbled again, and his body pressed against the steel pipe, only to feel like his back was pressed against a cold block of ice.

235634 stood up suddenly, he trembled violently, and hurriedly covered his body with his hands, but he forgot that he was dancing, and slammed on the ground of the stage, and the whole person faced the ground of the stage, lying on the stage.

"Idiot! Stupid humans! "235634 threw a stinky shoe out of nowhere and threw it at him.

The 235634's throw seemed to make all eyes look at a new game, and various objects kept smashing on his body.

He was buried under a mess of objects, his body shivering.

"Stupid, let's go, such a dance is simply an insult to us!"

A blue-and-white robot like a garbage truck quickly rushed onto the stage, shoveled him up like garbage, and retreated backstage.

He hid in a room behind the stage, surrounded by a collection of cardboard boxes covered in dust and stains, like a garbage heap.

In a room that was occupied by all kinds of cardboard boxes, he huddled in a corner, hugged his knees, and stared at the cardboard box beside him intently.

His clothes were gone, like a banana peeled, and he had nothing but his own body.

He stared at the filthy cardboard box, his eyes blinking with tears in his eyes.

He also thought about crying, but crying had no effect, except to make himself more sad and uncomfortable.

He recalled that when he was a child, he was probably four or five years old, and he was kept in a room like a pig and a dog.

The room was huge, there were many children like him, and it was still big for him now.

He knew, he always knew, that he had been wearing a collar around his neck from birth, and that this collar was red.

He saw other people with collars around their necks that were blue, white, green, black, and yellow.

He knew that the color of the collar meant what he would do in the future, and that a red collar like himself could only practice a strange dance around the pole every day, day by day, month by year, year after year.

The blue collar is to be kept as a pet in the future. The white collar is meant to be used as a test subject for study. There are also green collars, black collars, yellow collars......

Human, he knows that he is human.

However, in this era, there are only a few human beings.

The rest of humanity, he knew from a history book called the Machine Empire, had long since perished, just like other species that had been wiped out in the dust of history.

He knew that he was just being treated as a toy, or a commodity, in captivity, waiting for the day when he would be sold. ，

He looked at the cardboard box beside him, reached out and touched it, for fear of breaking it, and hurriedly retracted his hand.

The stage has been cleared, the central steel pipe has been removed, and all eyes are fixed on the back of the curtain.

He was pushed out and stood in the center of the stage, naked.

He shivered, looking at a pair of eyes, not knowing where his fate would go, and his eyes were a gray color.

"Be still, be still. Today, we're joining a project called a live auction of this human being. The highest bidder wins!"

"This human being has been kept in captivity with us since birth, guaranteed to be free from any diseases and in good health. I have been practicing dance since I was a child, and I may have been a little unfamiliar, so I was always afraid of certain things. But that's fine, as long as you take control of the collar around his neck, he'll listen to you in everything he does. ”

"Now, guys, you can go down and inspect this human's body to make sure it's intact."

A pair of eyes were fixed on him, 235634 took the lead and walked off the field, groped around him for a while, slapped a few times, nodded slightly, and returned to his seat.

Pairs of eyes came down the scene one after another, groping around him, or afraid of hitting, as if they were picking a piece of goods.

Every time he was groped and patted, his body would involuntarily shudder, looking at a pair of eyes as if he was choosing goods, picking himself, and there was only darkness in his heart.

"Okay, everyone checked? So now, let's start auctioning off this one human. The starting price is one hundred energy blocks, and each price increase cannot be less than ten energy blocks, let's get started. ”

"I'll give you one hundred and fifty energy blocks!"

"I'll give two hundred!"

"Three hundred!"

"Four hundred!"

"Six hundred!"

"Nine hundred!"

"One thousand one hundred!"

He looked at a pair of eyes as if bidding for a piece of goods, and there was no other feeling in his heart except for endless desolation, he sighed heavily, remembering a sentence written in the history of the Machine Empire: Human beings have become extinct, and now is the age of machines, the age of wisdom, and the age of civilization that has never been seen before.

The Age of Civilization? The era of civilization is the era of a group of intelligent robots that buy and sell human beings as goods? He thought.

"Fifteen hundred!"

"Two thousand! I'll give you two thousand!"

"Two thousand one hundred!"

"Two thousand six hundred!"

"Three thousand! I'll give three thousand!"

"Three thousand, is there anything higher than three thousand?"

He looked at No. 235634 who stood up, looked helplessly at the ceiling of the stage, closed his eyes slightly, and knelt on the ground of the stage as if resigned to his fate, sticking out his tongue like a dog, and smiling dryly at No. 235634.

"There is nothing higher than three thousand, then this human being is now owned by the 235634. This is the controller of the collar, enter your number, and you can control this human by directly docking it. Happy shopping. ”

235634 walked up to him and patted him on the head as if his master were patting a dog's head, "From now on, you will be mine." Come back with me, my pet. ”

He laughed dryly, like a dog, and rubbed on 235634's lap, "Hello, my master." ”

"After today, you will change your name to Dabai." 235634 tapped him on the top of his head again, and nodded to him slightly after docking the signal for the collar around his neck.

"Yes, my master, from now on, I am the Great White." He smiled wryly and nodded to 235634, not hearing 235634's order and still kneeling on the stage floor, crawling with his hands and feet.

"Stand up and walk, from now on, you can only dance for me alone at home, you know? You are not allowed to wear anything at home, and when I take you out into the street, you are not allowed to wear anything unless it is cold, understand?"

"I understand, master. I will obey your commands, master. He looked around the room, and all he could see was an infinite black, not a single ray of light could reach his eyes.