Masked people, mutants, faceless people.

- About 10 years ago: August 2106, another city: the large city of NJ.

Zhang Xiaozhu is 16 years old, and the thing he hates the most is to look in the mirror, he hates to see the face in the mirror, his own face. On that face, the left eye is half smaller than the right eye, and the left forehead is much larger than the right, and this difference between the left and right faces is even more prominent. Moreover, Zhang Xiaozhu's nose is also crooked, and his mouth is also crooked in the same direction, both to the left.

If you block the left side of your face, cover the part below the bridge of your nose with a mask, and only look at a quarter of your face in the upper right corner, Zhang Xiaozhu will be a handsome teenager no matter how you look at it. But, whenever I look at myself in this way, after a moment of satisfaction and fantasy, there is only greater suffering, one-quarter fantasy, three-quarter pain.

Zhang Xiaozhu sighed in his heart, he searched on the Internet, and his deformity was related to environmental pollution, but he still couldn't forgive his parents for abandoning him at that time.

Zhang Xiaozhu remembers that when he was 15 years old, a welfare agency specializing in sheltering deformed people introduced Zhang Xiaozhu to a construction site to work as a coolie, and this construction site was both ordinary and unusual.

Ordinary, because, like other construction sites, it is to build commercial and residential buildings, or to build ordinary office buildings. And not ordinary, because the people who work here have facial defects. Some of them are burn and scald patients, and the other part is facial deformity patients like Zhang Xiaozhu.

At the same time, the supervisor of the construction site also asked everyone to remember to wear a mask mask when going out at night, so as not to scare new colleagues or be scared by new colleagues.

Fortunately, the breathability of this mask is not bad, from unaccustomed to habitual, it only takes a day or two. The only bad point is that the mask mask almost all looks exactly the same, not privately customized, everyone usually in order to distinguish different people, can only look at the big number on the forehead of the mask, and when looking at it from a distance, the number is not very clear, so, every once in a while, there will always be jokes about the wrong person.

The work on the construction site is tiring, but the pay is good. Although the people who work here have physical or physical defects, the state controls them very strictly, and the complaint channels are unimpeded, and they can complain to the government through video chat and scanning their ID numbers, and the managers on the construction site do not dare to deduct their wages indiscriminately. What's more, in today's society, the number of individuals who are not able-bodied, who are deformed people, is constantly rising, and the group is also expanding, how can we manage them well? Neither country can fail to think about it.

It's just that this salary, whether deducted or not, is only so meager. This kind of meager can't be said to be three meals a day that can't be guaranteed, the key is that Zhang Xiaozhu wants to go for plastic surgery all day long, which will be a lot of money.

Zhang Xiaozhu consulted many plastic surgeons on the Internet, and those doctors said that the brain tissue in his left eye and left forehead could not be removed, which was a big problem, and some doctors didn't want to communicate with Zhang Xiaozhu at all, and hung up the video as soon as they saw his left forehead.

"There must be a noble person who can solve your problems." Zhang Xiaozhu always remembered what a doctor on the Internet said to him, although he also remembered that the doctor hung up the video after saying this, but he was more inclined to remember what the doctor had said before hanging up. "Nobleman, there will definitely be."

I don't know why, Zhang Xiaozhu always feels that in the early morning, he likes to watch some caterpillars on the green leaves, slowly wriggling. He would have thought why? Why do they crawl around? Why don't they keep crawling in the same direction and farther away?

Zhang Xiaozhu only has 7 years of compulsory education, and his education level is not high, but an instinct makes him understand that he can't crawl back and forth like a caterpillar and always spin in place. He believes that if he is a caterpillar, he must climb into the wider world.

And the necessary condition for going out and coming into contact with others, those normal people, is face and appearance. "It's a face-looking society." Zhang Xiaozhu read this and a sentence on the Internet, and he believed it. In order for the "masked man" to really go to the upper echelons of society, he must first get rid of the mask!

After he was full of wine and food, Zhang Xiaozhu would occasionally talk to his co-workers about his thoughts, but those older co-workers generally just said that he was naïve, and then sighed, shook his head, and looked helpless. Zhang Xiaozhu is not a stingy person in his temperament, and he is just taking the ridicule of others at his ideals as the wind in his ears.

He always felt that the day of transshipment seemed to be about to appear.

- Three months later: October XX, 2106 Another city: the large city of CZ.

Zhang Xiaozhu moved with everyone from NJ City in the southeast of Country C to CZ City in the southwest of Country C to work. CZ City is a border city, which is very different from NJ City, but no matter which city you go to, "masked people" always have their own places to consume.

In those establishments, the proprietor cares about the money, not what you look like. A place like a food stall is, after all, just a food stall. "Small business, just don't pay the bills." The robot waiter who serves the food will say this.

That night, Zhang Xiaozhu and his co-workers ate supper at a food stall near the construction site. So, a person recognized Zhang Xiaozhu.

(This...... Isn't this the, Li Gouzi? Zhang Xiaozhu exclaimed in his heart.

Zhang Xiaozhu quickly recognized the other party, isn't this his good brother in the welfare institution? When old friends met, it was a reunion at the end of the world, and the memories of fighting together as a child surfaced in Zhang Xiaozhu's mind.

"Let's go! Go to KmiTV. I'm in for a treat, and we don't get drunk and don't go home. Li Gouzi immediately said that he wanted to have a good chat with Zhang Xiaozhu.

Although Zhang Xiaozhu also felt that the incident happened suddenly, he immediately ran back to the construction site and asked the foreman for leave in person. Zhang Xiaozhu was very excited, very excited.

Li Gouzi called Zhang Xiaozhu to a relatively remote KmiTV, asked for a luxurious private room, and asked for four escort girls. Seeing Li Gouzi ordering all the expensive things, Zhang Xiaozhu couldn't help but look at him with admiration.

(Li Gouzi, we are about the same age, why is he so rich?) Zhang Xiaozhu beat a drum in his heart.