Chapter 2 There is no choice
"This is the audit room, and the residents of the lower class go to the upper level, and they need to be audited in the audit room."
"We're the auditors this time."
"Citizen 9A3022, you are about to turn twenty."
"According to the relevant regulations, as a descendant of soldiers, your parents died in the line of duty, and for this, you will have an official opportunity to sublimate."
Wang An nodded.
Sublimation is a ritual, or a process, a procedure that neither his parents can tell. But what is certain is that those who have been sublimated will surely awaken their abilities.
If his ability is strong enough, Wang An can even directly enter the seventh layer above ground!
Even the most garbage ability can allow Wang An to break through the limits of ordinary people and enter the third layer above ground.
On that level, the bracelet no longer only displays the holder's citizen number, but directly displays the holder's name. That means that Wang An has full citizenship.
It also means that he has the right to recover his parents' property.
There is no doubt that this is an opportunity to change lives and change the future.
For Wang An, maybe it is the most important one!
Now that he has been practicing the family tradition for many years and has not made progress, and is unable to awaken his ability, sublimation is the only way for him to "return to civilization".
He knew that this day had existed for ten years, and he had been waiting for this day for ten years.
Decade!
"I have a lot of time, anytime."
After taking a few deep breaths, Wang An tried not to be happy or sad, not to let his pain in the past ten years be manifested, and to answer as normally as possible.
The three people behind the table looked at each other, and then the person on the left knocked on the table: "Regarding sublimation, there is news that is not very favorable to you. β
"What?!"
Wang An was stunned. It was like a basin of cold water, and he heard a great sense of foreboding from this man's words.
"Your uncle recently filed a petition with the court to suspend your sublimation because you may have been involved in a burglary in his home. He said that it was this theft that caused you to lose your credit and go down to one level above the ground. But the stolen item has not been found yet, and he believes that you may know where it is. Now sublimation, it will make your uncle lose the right to pursue the lost property. β
"That's a frame-up! I didn't take anything from him! It was he who wanted to occupy everything from my parents! β
Wang An's emotions were a little out of control.
The auditor didn't care about Wang An's response, in fact, as the auditor of the sixth floor above ground, he felt that he was very kind to the "ants" on the first floor of the ground.
Who will pay attention to the life of ants?!
The auditor feels that he is one of the very few people who cares about the life of ants, and kindness is his best quality.
"Whether it is framed or not, we are not judges, and we cannot make a verdict."
He looked at Wang An from behind the lamp and said, "If necessary, of course, the military can ignore the local verdict." But this time it wasn't like that. β
"The military made a new decision after receiving the court's advisory letter."
Wang An's hands trembled slightly.
Extreme anger and extreme nervousness made him use a lot of strength to not lose control.
"Your sublimation is postponed for a year."
"No!"
Wang An struggled weakly, and there was a noise in his head.
"You don't have the right to refuse."
Said the auditor in the middle.
"Why!"
Wang An suddenly erupted and shouted loudly.
The extreme excitement and hope were shattered, and the extreme pathos and anger that followed made him unable to restrain himself.
For others, a year may not be a big deal, but for him, a year will be in the hands of the guy who makes him feel disgusted.
And a year later, he will be twenty-one years old, and the best time to activate his abilities has passed!
More likely, after a year, that guy filed a complaint again, and once again delayed Wang An's sublimation.
Day after day, never-ending!
This huge contrast made him want to punch everyone in the face of these censors at once!
Anger, incomparable rage!
However, in the next second, his bracelet suddenly emitted a violent electric current, causing his entire body to twitch instantly, and the severe pain and soreness made him fall to the ground with a bang, crashing into the chair behind him.
"It's the rule, and we all need to follow it."
Looking at Wang An, who was rolling on the ground because of severe pain, the examiner had a disgusted expression on his face.
It is really rude for a person on the ground floor who has no ability to dare to yell at the auditor on the sixth floor above ground. It should be a good thing for him to be taught a good lesson by the bracelet.
Wang An lay on the ground, clenched his fists hard, his teeth creaking.
But no one cared.
In this world of Reiki revival, there are too many people who can create things out of thin air. Food, energy is in constant supply. It doesn't matter so much whether the people at the bottom are dead or alive.
Wang An left the audit room in a daze.
He slouched back into the elevator and shrank in the corner, staring stupidly at the world outside the glass window.
The hope of life was ruined in this way. I have lived hard until now, and only despair remains.
He thought that maybe there was some basic fairness in this world, but the facts gave him a slap in the face.
Without the ability to awaken and without any strength, he is nothing in this world.
up to one level above ground. The elevator stopped with a rumbling sound, and Wang An's bracelet chirped to remind Wang An to leave the elevator. The increasingly rapid sound could not make Wang An "sober", and a violent, almost tearing electric shock told Wang An that he had no right to stay in the elevator.
Wang An held his arm and stumbled out of the elevator.
At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the tall buildings in the sky were full of lights, like the Milky Way in the sky. It's just that these lights don't bring any real light to the ground floor. On the street outside the elevator, it was pitch black, with only a few street lamps flickering on and off, making a sizzling sound.
Wang An walked to the bench on the side of the street in despair, and he didn't know what was on the bench in the dark, and no one cared about it
He sat there and heard the other half of the bench chant like a soul musicianβa sign of impending collapse, creaking like a ghost's hand scratching the glass.
His parents once frightened Wang An, who refused to sleep at night. All the creaking sounds are ghosts at work, scratching the glass in an attempt to break into someone's house, or making business on a bench and making a prank......
The king sat there quietly.
The strong stimulation in the elevator restored his mental state.
In any case, life goes on.
Forget about sublimation, in the future, he may have the opportunity to enter the second floor above ground, find a rough job there, and after a while, maybe find an ugly, stout mother-in-law who is easy to raise, and then give birth to a bunch or a child.
Whether it is his mother-in-law or children, they can only be replaced by numbers. Even if you have a name, you won't admit it.
β¦β¦ In the eyes of those people, they are just numbers.
The future life is probably destined to be so boring.
Or just stay there until you die on the ground floor, rotting in the dirty mud.
That's exactly what that disgusting guy wants!
Wang An slammed the bench hard, as if he was going to smash the man into the mud.
After this hammer blow, he finally made his decision.
In any case, awaken the ability too!
It's not just sublimation that activates abilities. It can only be said that the process of sublimation activation ability is the most stable and safest. In addition to this, there are a few other avenues.
For example, by practicing certain exercises, there is also the opportunity to awaken the abilities of related aspects. The mystical exercises practiced by Wang An are one of these exercises, but so far, he has not awakened the abilities related to "martial arts".
There is also one of the most intense, dangerous, and with the lowest success rate.
Swallow the life essence of those powerful lifeforms, and use the strong energy blast in the life essence to activate your abilities in an instant. If you're lucky, you might be able to activate a fairly advanced ability.
However, not to mention that advanced life essences are difficult to obtain, the success rate of this process alone is prohibitively low, and the mortality rate is outrageously high.
So much so that for hundreds of years, very few people have actually succeeded by swallowing the vital essence of a powerful life.
It can be said that no one wants to choose this path unless everything is over, there is no way back.
Wang An is the one who has no way out!
In any case, he has to have the ability!
No matter how big the price is, you can pay for it!
He's going to take revenge, and he's going to make that disgusting guy pay the price he deserves! He wants to take back everything that belongs to him!
He has no way out, so what scruples do he have?
Wang An rubbed his face, stood up, and walked through the sidewalk that squeaked and creaked, as if it was full of rotten mud, and there were once street trees planted here, and there were many of them. But now only the fungus should be left fluorescently in the dark.
Eventually, Wang An returned to his small house.
The cat glanced back at Wang An on the table, and seemed to find that Wang An's state was not quite right, and barked in a low voice.
Wang An smiled and rubbed the cat's head: "It's okay, I'm fine." β
He said, "You go and rest, I still have to cultivate for a while." β
The cat looked cautiously at Wang An again, and finally turned its head, jumped off the table, and disappeared into the darkness.
Wang An sat in his room for a few minutes.
My parents said that when encountering big things, the most important thing is not courage, but calmness. Courage may save the lives of ten people, but calm courage can save the lives of a hundred, a thousand people!
Now that you have made up your mind, you need to be careful.
After taking a cold shower under the sprinkler head that had been blocked in most of the places that emitted a peculiar smell, Wang An returned to his room again,
It looks like it's business as usual.
No one is tracking, no snooping. Wang An carefully pulled out a box from under the bed.
This box was originally left to his mother before his father's sacrifice, and his mother transferred it to Wang An before his death.
"Never use it unless necessary!"
These were supposed to be the last words spoken to Wang An's mother and Wang An, after which she left home in a hurry, went out of the city with the troops, and then never returned.