The Dawn Base is bigger than she thought, and it is bigger than the children imagined, most of it goes deep underground, forming a solid metal barrier between the gray mud and rocks, the stars cannot be seen in the underground dwelling at night, but it is still brightly lit, on the metal walls, the white metal wire glows with soft light that makes people see everything, the maglev elevator runs non-stop all day long, the metal sensor door opens and closes, as long as they want, they can easily reach the top and overlook the surroundings.

One of the little creatures whispered to her that she could be assigned to an adjacent room with her brother and friends, and she agreed. A girl wants to avoid a big, grumpy girl who has been bullying her, so Nata puts her on the upper floor, lives with the first batch of girls, and solemnly admonishes them, "Here, mother (as the children call the main control system of the base) can detect all bad behavior, and if you think you can unknowingly violate the laws and safety regulations of the base, or bully others, then you will regret it." ”

In order to make them feel the consequences of breaking the law here, she decided to take them to the "Custody Zone" hidden deep in the base at the bottom of the base, a small dark room, the cold walls were empty, and the corridors of the entire underground "Custody Zone" were in the darkest state, damp and cold, making it almost impossible to see the road ahead, and the dense surveillance cameras on both sides told them that you couldn't fly.

The last time Natalia visited this place, the bravest of them also kept their mouths shut, and this time, there was no exception.

It was a daunting walk on such a silent and ghostly path, but she was determined to give them a warning and led them straight into the depths. The children streamed into the narrow tunnel, the empty black metal corridor was silent and silent, only the sound of their footsteps echoed in each other's ears. Suddenly, some terrible voice suddenly sounded, sharp and thin, as if a looming ghost was wailing, screaming, crying in their ears, and the atmosphere of the whole corridor looked even more ghostly.

Natalia stopped, for the other children were too frightened to go any further.

"Follow me," she ordered, but it was clear that her majesty was not enough to make the other children overcome their fears, and they shook their heads frantically, and some of the timid children had begun to cry.

"We'll have a chance to see it later," she just felt like a bad-hearted big sister at the moment, "Remember, anyone who violates the laws and safety regulations of the base will be sent here to be their company, and whatever happens to you will be at your own risk." She deliberately used a "they", and these two words were enough to make people think about them.

This little deterrence played an irreplaceable role, and everyone obediently obeyed, and for the first time, Nata only felt her stomach ache with laughter as she watched their miserable relatives return to their rooms.

It's a pity that she didn't have long to be happy before she met a few people who made her not so happy, several girls and boys, including Anya. Most of the boys will shut up after looking at her more, because in the eyes of these boys, she is a girl, beautiful, weak, in a sense, she is Mr. Summer's spokesperson in front of them, including Mr. Summer, all the "numbered" gentlemen trust her very much, and give her enough power to manage them, even if she doesn't like to deal with them, but the boys still respect her, at least when they meet her, she will give enough respect, of course she heard a few boys behind her back say that she can only be a fox by selling her body, But after all, they are a minority, and they only dare to whisper behind their backs.

Girls have the opposite feeling. Anya is the most obvious of these, she hates herself, so much so that as soon as she sees herself, this mean girl angrily scolds the wall "the bad bitch of the merchant", which she said to herself on purpose. If words could also be criminalized, the girl would have been locked up in the deepest part of the "surveillance area" long ago, but unfortunately, unless it was malicious abuse in person, the "mother" would not have given a warning because of a vague word.

Nata's attitude towards her is incomprehensible and can be patient, but she has never been able to smile at her.

Anya is a very beautiful girl, although she is not the most beautiful, but she has no obvious flaws in her facial features, and she is very good at dressing up, coquettish, and knows how to show her weakness, so she is very popular with boys.

When she was thrown into an orphanage a few years ago, she learned how to win the hearts of the vice principal and the teacher in the arms of the assistant principal. But Nata knew that she must not like this, that she was not willing to be the confinement of a fat headmaster, that she was not willing to smile at all kinds of men all day long, that she was not willing to sleep with all kinds of disgusting fellows like a maid, so she came to the school, away from Ms. Dave and the Deputy Principal, away from the teachers who made her sick, away from the fat worms who were always stroking her with their fingers, or wriggling on her, and here she was undoubtedly free, and she was not sure to be free for Mr. Summer, this young, handsome, respectable, In a sense, it is inevitable that men who are their saviors will have a good impression, compared to the boys around her, Mr. Summer is too prominent, and Anya, who is used to relying on all kinds of men at school, naturally wants to capture his heart.

Nata couldn't guess if Anya really liked Mr. Summer, or if she had deeper feelings, but Anya was trying to seduce her, and she probably thought that Mr. Summer was God's compensation for everything she had lost, so she redoubled her efforts to get his attention.

She neither dressed up, nor did she try to scratch her head, fiddle with her breasts, show off her legs, and she didn't speak softly, but she could make Mr. Summer so trusted, and no one would be willing to accept this result, probably in her position. So Nata tried not to provoke her, only hoping that time would smooth out her anger, and for now, she walked over in silence, maybe it would be better to smile, but she really couldn't smile at Anya, only a well-bred man like Mr. One could do that, she could only keep herself as silent as possible.

Her silence seemed to make Anya even more angry, she spit out the word "rotten" to insult her, she pretended not to hear and walked over, but she heard what the other girls said to Anya, and then several of the girls laughed, sharp and loud, as if they were laughing at her on purpose.

It was endless, she walked over in disgust, although she wanted to cry, and she wanted to argue with these people, but she understood that doing nothing was the best thing to do, they wanted her to cry, she laughed at them, they wanted to hurt her with words, she should tell them with her actions, words were just a gust of wind.

Many of the kind-hearted children have long since subconsciously distanced themselves from them, and not everyone can tolerate the unwarranted accusations of Nata, which is a good thing, at least to show that Anya still has opponents.

The girls over there saw that she ignored them, and they also thought that they were bored, so they ignored her. Without the upsetting abuse, she felt a lot better, but the depression in her heart couldn't be easily dissolved, what did she do wrong? She tried to think about herself, but she couldn't come up with an answer, and finally, she went to the top of the base in a trance, and she was supposed to relax herself.

At the end of the metal corridor is the amazing disc called the Levitation Elevator, which allows you to quickly traverse every floor of the base, including the "Supervision Area" at the bottom and the "Tower" where Mr. Summer is located. In Hanting's subway, she has always had only cold hard cement, mossy slate, and all kinds of blackened wires and rotten water pipes above her head.

After getting used to staying here, every time she went down to the subway, she would be depressed by the narrow passages of the tunnel, as if her hands and feet would be tied, no wonder none of the children living here would go back to the underground.

She reached the top of the base via a levitation ladder, the bright silver metal door being slammed open and quickly closed to ensure that no one could enter or exit the passage. She walked through three isolated metal doors before reaching the outside. As soon as she stepped on the observation deck at the top, a strong earthy smell mixed with a fishy smell came from all around, and the air was cold and humid, like a sticky rain, but she knew that there had been no traces of raindrops in the past few days, all of this was just a dull illusion caused by her long-term stay in the base.

She greedily pouted the damp air that smelled of earth, and then looked up at the dusk before nightfall. The sun star was fading away in the yellow clouds, and it was only a few steps away from disappearing at the end of the mountains, and in the sky not far away, a few remnants of flying shadows soared in the yellow sky, and no one could tell whether it was an eagle or a beast. In the underground legend, there is an extremely terrifying bat-like monster on the ground, which is called the bat corpse beast, and its size can even be as big as a small building, which is a monster among monsters, and those few black shadows, she looked at the wings that were faintly fanning in the clouds, and only felt that it was most likely the legendary monster. Luckily, she believed that the base's defenses were strong enough to defend against the mutant creatures that had taken over the land since the beginning of time, and that the base had always been capable of anything.

She looked down at the other side of their room, where boys and girls were gathering in groups to enjoy the night, whispering, some looking at Nata, as if they were part of the twilight scene, pointing at her. She could clearly see her bedroom, the light was like daylight, her sister was writing something at her desk, she was mostly drawing.

After all, I don't know when she has become deeply dependent on the Dawning Base, she is gradually becoming familiar with every inch of the wall, every glass cover, every bedroom, every corridor here, and she has a sense of belonging here that makes it difficult for her to let go.

But who isn't the orphan who came here?

At school, they are like wild dogs, most of them are poor and miserable, and they suffer from terrible diseases. They were thrown into school to be educated by the teachers and the headmaster, but that education, in a sense, was like a stray wild cat and wild dog being trained, and they were certainly required to obey the teacher's orders, and at night, the beautiful girls would be picked and pulled out like goods, and some handsome little boys would be the same, and if they disobeyed, they would only be beaten and punished more cruelly, and the gray worm was not the first boy to be trampled off by the teacher with three fingers cut off alive.

She suddenly remembered something she had heard, Anya was called out by three teachers at the same time when she was not more than ten years old, it was the middle of the night, and when she came back in the early morning, her whole body was bruised and naked, and her lower body was bleeding profusely. She must have been terrified, and she must have screamed and cried, there is no doubt about it.

Some girls can smile and play carnal games with a few greasy and fat old men, and some girls will feel disgusted when they are forced to have physical contact with their sweethearts, Anya may have been the latter, but life has turned her into the former. She had probably prayed for a hero like Mr. Summer to appear, but she wasn't lucky.

No one can rightly blame Mr. Summer for not saving them earlier, and no one can criticize Anya for not becoming the character she is now, she must have been kind, but the truth has scratched her soft heart in pieces and shattered.

For a moment, Natalia suddenly began to cry, for herself, for Anya, for the gray bug, for all the others, why the Mother of the Tunnel was so cruel, why she was so lucky, she couldn't understand, but she seemed to understand why Anya hated herself so much.

This understanding sent chills to her heart, and a certain sense of loneliness suddenly welled up in her heart, and her tears intensified, as if she wanted to drown out the stars that lit up in the sky, and she couldn't stop it.

The fog of the evening became more and more foggy, and the afterglow of the sunset at dusk had already been swallowed up by the twilight unconsciously, she wiped the tears from her cheeks, and raised her head again to stare at the tower, but her heart unconsciously began to appear in her heart Mr. Summer's face. In the past, he would have worked at the top of the Tower, but now, the tower has died down, and its owner has left it.

Staring at the lonely tower, she suddenly woke up like a dream, if one day, Mr. Summer abandoned her for some reason, what should she do then? As soon as this terrible thought came out, it was as if it had taken root, and it could be cut no matter how much it was chopped.

An even more terrible sense of loneliness arose in her heart, and her already exhausted tears seemed to be irrepressible and began to pour out. Damn it, she thought, and tried to wipe her eyes, why wasn't she satisfied? Why do you want more?

Her life here was like a dream, and in the hall of the Liberty High School, in the slave market in Red Square, in the laboratory of the military station, in the streets and alleys of Hanting, and beside the subway tunnels of the metropolitan station that she had witnessed, many children who had suffered the same thing as her had never enjoyed everything here.

"Is this really a dream!?" She wiped away her tears, clutched her chest in confusion and whispered questions, but she was afraid to know the truth, probably, she was not even as good as Anya.

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