Book of the Night II: Dark Tide: Sunset Chronicle

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If you walk in the night, you will fall, for there is no light.

- The Bible, the New Testament, the Gospel of John

Everything in life is connected by the chains of darkness......

- Nietzsche

This little murderous world

It's already going on against the innocent

Take the bread from his mouth

Set him and his house on fire

He took away his clothes and shoes

Took his time and children

This little murderous world

Mix the dead with the living

Whiten the sludge and show mercy to the thieves of the country

and all words may be turned into rumors

Thank you for twelve guns in the middle of the night

So the innocent rest in eternal peace

Only the crowd blurred his fleshy body

And he was buried in the dark sky

Only the crowd understands deeply

How weak the murderer was

- Paul Éluard, The Last Night

I had a dream, but it wasn't just a dream

The bright sun is extinguished, and so are the stars

The endless sky is dim,

A dark, roadless, frozen earth

Blindly swaying in the dark and moonless sky

The dawn comes and goes, and the day never falls,

People are in fear of grief

Forget the passion; Their hearts are all there

Stiffness turns into a selfish supplication, a prayer for light

- Byron, "Darkness"

And I saw a wild beast coming up out of the earth...... The image of the beast was alive and could speak, and all those who did not worship it were killed...... And it caused all men, great and small, rich and poor, free, and slave, to receive a mark on their hands and on their foreheads. Except that which is sealed, no one who has a name or a number shall buy or sell......

- The Bible, the New Testament, and the Book of Revelation

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On June 27, 0005, above the blue parent star, a satellite with a precise structure and solar energy absorption operation "Kuafu" was moving slowly, and suddenly, the information image transmitted by "Kuafu" to the Ministry of Electronic Science and Technology of the Ganggu Government on the ground suddenly disappeared, and the picture was in the form of a raindrop, making unbearable sharp noise.

At the edge of the solar system that Kuafu could monitor, two strange and sharp rays of light overlapped each other at an incredible high speed, and the collision produced a violent halo, like fireworks in the universe.

Far away from the solar system, the interweaving of two mysterious rays became more and more intense, and from far to near, one light had a cold texture like silver-white metal, and the other continued to overflow with a vigorous and gorgeous dark green, like two giant dragons hundreds of kilometers long twisted together endlessly, churning, tearing, turning into a space vortex of incalculable range, like a giant drill in operation, about to pierce the heart of the starry sky of the solar system.

The power and speed of the white light were faster, suppressing the green light to death, and it was immediately brought into a meteorite group, and the green light was suddenly changed by the meteorite group. No sound can be transmitted in a vacuum, otherwise it would be difficult for the explosion, no matter how violent, to "dub" the impact. The silver rushed towards the blue target in the established direction, the friction quickly ignited the air, and an indescribable high temperature was produced in an instant, and the outer layer of the silver light suddenly widened and thickened, completely shielding the fiery red burning from the periphery and smoothly rushing into the atmosphere.

June.

This is an ordinary small city on the coast of the East Asian continent, Yanzhou New Town Development Zone.

After working continuously for the whole day, and working overtime for half an hour for twelve steel pounds, he was finally able to sit down and rest, and Tie Xiang only felt that his whole body was about to fall apart. He lay on the wooden bed in the dormitory full of sweat, looking at the dilapidated ceiling full of cobwebs and became stupid, and sang casually in his mouth: "Another year of spring is like, and another year of summer is like pee......"

Excessive fatigue makes it impossible to concentrate during non-working hours. With two hands over his head, he rummaged around on the bedside table, and inadvertently pulled out an old yellowed newspaper, which was estimated to be more than ten years old, and read it with great interest. The new calendar has been in place for five years, and the media is basically based on electronic information, and only the hardcore of their own publications issue commemorative paper and newspaper collections every year, and the number of paper reading materials in this era has been pitiful. If the newspaper is sold in the thrift market, it might sell for ten pounds or eight pounds.

After all, he didn't plan to ask Tan Jue to arrange a job after he was released from prison, because he temporarily changed his mind when they met for the last time five years ago - he saw Tan Jue's shining red palm, and Tan Jue and the two dolls' weird smiles. Fortunately, Tan Jue didn't know why, he didn't come to him again, he guessed that Tan Jue's smile meant that he had gained insight into his secrets and no longer needed himself. But later a fellow inmate told himself that Tan Jue's parents were dismissed, this news may be true, when Ganggu just controlled the global economy and telecommunications, in order to maintain stability, he still continued the original official personnel, but in the past three or five years, they were gradually replaced, and the people who were basically on the horse were Ganggu electronic information scholars. However, there is also news that Tan Jue had gone to a key university to study for a doctorate with excellent grades before his parents fell, and he would eventually be assigned to an important department in Ganggu, which may have been a good destination for Tan Jue. Besides, I don't need a good job anymore...... Thinking of this, the corners of Tie Xiang's mouth turned up slightly, a little proud. After he was released from prison, he went down the cliff to push and search, and finally found some scattered old world currency, although not complete, but took it to the bank to exchange, and there were about three million steel pounds. His current job is just a pretense for him to pretend, and he just wants to find more opportunities to get close to her......

Putting aside the chaotic thoughts, Tie Xiang began to read the old newspaper: he suddenly saw the title of a science column: "In the future of 20 years, human society will undergo great changes", so he muttered to read: "The world-famous scholar XXX predicts that in 20 years, the average life expectancy of human beings will reach more than 200 years, the world will no longer be many countries, and human beings will become members of the same big family." Supplies will be abundant, and people will be free to choose any commodity, such as cherries in winter and snowflakes in summer. People will travel around the world through high-tech means, and even do interstellar travel casually, and it will be cheap. Invisibility clothing can make people invisible, wearing wall clothing can make people wear walls, genetic medicine can make people grow bird wings without side effects, soar in the sky at will, and can also instantly produce fish gills and swim freely in the sea. After taking a special compressed nutrition pill, you can not go hungry for a year, and the hospital can cure all incurable diseases......" Seeing this, Tie Xiang held the newspaper into a ball and threw it into the garbage can. If nothing else, even the old tools for information dissemination - paper - have not disappeared, computers have not become as emotional as people think, smarter than humans, he thought with some mockery: in twenty years, the remarks of these so-called scholars and experts are tantamount to farts, what is the trend of human society, who can fucking say? Which of these false prophecies came true? …… There is still one thing that has really been realized, and that is that mankind has been forcibly unified, but it is difficult to say whether this is progress or not. Reunification does not mean that there are no wars, local wars are still protracted, and as long as it is a government composed of human beings, it is impossible to cure the ills of mankind once and for all.

The door was suddenly knocked open unceremoniously, and a thin and dry young man swayed in naked, still shaking a can of beer in his hand, yawning and saying, "Fat brother, go out with me at night, I will invite you to dinner!" ”

Tie Xiang reluctantly straightened up: "What are you doing?" I still have to be on duty...... "This kid is Ma Fa, the son of Manager Ma, who dropped out of junior high school, anyway, his father will leave him at least hundreds of thousands of pounds of property, and he will have no worries about food and clothing." Ma Fa is a typical little scoundrel, he has no courage and no body but loves to learn to fight, and if he can fight, he has to bully people unforgivingly, and if he can't fight, he runs to Tie Xiang to help him. Tie Xiang was hindered by his own hostile fence and had to help. At this time, Tie Xiang is no longer an ignorant teenager five years ago, his personality has become calm and calm, after so many years of exercise, his physical fitness is very good, and he will not suffer if he really wants to fight, not to mention that in this global society under the rule of law, the deterrent effect of the law is extremely strong, and the police force can also solve or even avoid conflicts in time in the first time. Ordinary people who have been in peace for a long time have a considerable sense of fear of the labor prisoners released from the prison, and Wen Qitai's fame in the first prison has gradually grown, and many people in this factory know that Tie Xiang's cousin is the Tai brother of the first prison, and he will be released in two years. The story about Tie Xiang's cousin beating Zhao Sheng with a gun has also become more and more bizarre, so that colleagues think that Tie Xiang belongs to the reclusion of a master, so no one dares to provoke him casually, as long as Ma Fa takes Tie Xiang to the street, those little hooligans will hide far away.

"That...... Have you forgotten that I'm sixteen, ......? Accompany me to the mobile phone procedures! "Ma Fa likes Tie Xiang very much, and everything has to be tied together.

Tie Xiang was very sympathetic to him. Yes, when you reach the age where you have to have a mobile phone, this little bastard will have to behave and be responsible for himself in the future, and if you still mess around like before, as soon as the number of negative mobile phone records expires, you will have to be sentenced. Tie Xiang had just entered prison when he was seventeen years old, and when he was released twenty-two years later, he had to reissue a mobile phone. Although the mobile phone is purely computer operation, but the procedure is more complicated, must use the real name, a person must hold and can only hold a mobile phone, there are many rules, the most special step is to have a real information of their own adult who already has a mobile phone as a guarantee. The main reason is that Ganggu wants to control 100% of the world's human beings, and mobile phones are not only for making calls, but also equivalent to legal residence permits and ID cards.