Chapter 1: Attacked
Qiao Yuanjing stood outside the cordon, looking at the billowing black smoke coming out of the opposite building in a heavy manner.
The cold manipulator cleared out the corpses inside one after another, piling them up into small mountains.
The bodies lay there silently, waiting for the corpse trucks to be taken away in batches.
Eventually, they will be thrown into a crematorium and burned to ashes.
Since then, dust has returned to dust, and dust has returned to dust.
"The whole building is a boarding house, and it is divided into small cubicles the size of coffins, and the slightest spark can spread quickly, and the people inside don't even have a chance to escape." A female voice came from Qiao Yuanjing's side.
The person who came was dressed in a police uniform and stood beside Qiao Yuanjing.
This is Qiao Yuanjing's friend, An Jia.
"It's a new era, how can there still be a long-forbidden existence like boarding houses?" Qiao Yuanjing's voice was a little hoarse, and her spirit was a little poor after months of running.
Anjia was helpless: "Where there is demand, there is a market." β
Qiao Yuanjing sneered.
Six months ago, the starship of extraterritorial civilization landed on Earth, and Earth officially entered the interstellar civilization.
The law of the jungle of "survival of the fittest" has been vividly interpreted since that day.
A wave of unemployment triggered by the advancement of civilization has swept the world.
Qiao Yuanjing lost her job before her internship ended.
After that, he was turned away by 19 units.
It's just that in the interstellar era, those traditional enterprises have been far more impacted than them, and they are facing a life-and-death crisis.
Qiao Yuanjing, as a fresh graduate who has just graduated, even if she performs well in school, she is still immature compared to competitors who have been working in the workplace for several years.
She didn't feel unbalanced because of it.
At least, she didn't become impoverished, and at least, she had a relatively solid family.
"It's not an accident." Anjia said heavily: "More than a month ago, a white bracelet was missing in this building, and there was no clue to the case. β
Qiao Yuanjing subconsciously touched the white bracelet on his hand: "This is not the first case of missing people, right?" Is there really no clue at all? β
An Jia smiled bitterly: "These cases have long been taken over by the people from above, we don't even have room to meddle, and we don't know how the progress is?" β
Qiao Yuanjing sneered: "They are so passive and slacking off, and they don't give an explanation for a long time, aren't they afraid that the people will be dissatisfied?" β
"It's not necessarily passivity, it's not that simple." Anjia paused and reminded: "At present, all that are missing are some white bracelets, you should try not to go out alone." β
"Well, I know. It's getting late, it's time for me to go back. Qiao Yuanjing glanced at the people who came not far away, turned around and waved his hand at An Jia.
Qiao Yuanjing knew in her heart that since she did the standard test, Anjia's colleagues didn't think much of her.
After the earth entered the interstellar civilization, it immediately tested the spiritual power potential of young people on a global scale.
Resources are limited, and everything is prioritized over young people, and among young people, priority is given to those with good qualifications.
Therefore, their generation was divided into three, six, nine and other ranks, and the cultivation resources were distributed according to their ranks, and the white bracelet was the last of them.
It's like the last scumbags in the class, who are the poor students in the teacher's mind, and they can only sit in the back, and they even have to sit in the corner all year round.
And the status of the white bracelet may not even be as good as the scumbag, because the scumbag may still have a counterattack one day, and the white bracelet, because of the limitation of qualifications, is destined to be unable to turn over for a lifetime.
In this world, there is never a shortage of colored glasses, nor is there a shortage of fallen stones.
Every time she stood beside Anjia, there were always all kinds of disdainful and disdainful glances.
And she has no intention of making a false deal with them.
It's just a coincidence that she's here today.
"Yuan Jing."
Qiao Yuanjing squeezed out of the crowd, and was just about to go to the bus stop when he heard a pleasant voice sound. Qiao Yuanjing turned around.
It's a couple, and she happens to know both.
She saw a pair of hands on the other side with ten fingers clasped together, and the woman's other hand was also wrapped around the man's arm, and almost the whole person was about to hang up.
When the man saw Qiao Yuanjing's gaze, he shrank his hand a little uncomfortably, and finally gave up helplessly, and smiled stiffly at Qiao Yuanjing.
Qiao Yuanjing nodded at them: "Long time no see, Shen Yuan, Mu Qing." β
"It's really you, it's really been a long time, and you have lost a lot of weight." Shen Yuan's eyes swept over the place where Qiao Yuanjing was wearing the bracelet, and sighed: "But some things are destined, don't think too much, and there's nothing wrong with being an ordinary person." β
Qiao Yuanjing glanced at her seriously, and she understood the meaning of Shen Yuan's words.
"Yes, some things are destined, what should be yours is yours, what shouldn't be yours won't belong to you even if you grab it, and what can be snatched away probably won't be a good thing."
When Qiao Yuanjing said this, there was no turmoil in his heart.
When people's feelings are betrayed, they will probably go through a process of disbelief, hysteria, reluctance to accept their fate, and finally fall silent.
But Qiao Yuanjing is different, the whole process of falling out of love seems unusually calm.
The separation between her and Mu Qing is doomed, from the day of the standard test, or from the day of the arrival of extraterritorial civilizations.
So his later drift away, Qiao Yuanjing saw it in his eyes and tacitly understood it.
And now, she doesn't hate, resent, or love, at most she just misses a little and misses her naΓ―ve self at the beginning.
Different from Qiao Yuanjing's indifference, her words made Shen Yuan's face blue and purple, purple and black, and finally changed to a smile: "By the way, Mu Qing and I have been selected as escort students, and we are going to Ruihe Civilization for further study, I don't know when we will meet again, it is better to go and eat something together, and we will say goodbye." β
"There's no need to eat, I'm afraid I'll lose my appetite, so leave it at that."
Qiao Yuanjing said goodbye to the two of them, and when she arrived at the bus stop, the last bus had just left, she looked at the sky, gave up her plan to take the bus, and reached out to stop a taxi.
The driver's eyes swept over her white bracelet and gave her a second look, a hint of regret flashing in his eyes.
However, he quickly retracted his gaze and started the car: "Where?" β
"Jixian Yaju." Qiao Yuanjing's expression was very light, and she seemed a little absent-minded.
Halfway through the car, Qiao Yuanjing realized that the route was beginning to shift, and just about to exit to ask, he heard a click, which was the sound of the taxi door being locked.
She was stunned, put her hand on the car door, and broke it hard: "I want to get out of the car and open the door for me." β
The driver didn't look back: "Little girl, you haven't arrived yet." The voice seemed a little weird.
Qiao Yuanjing immediately realized her situation and quickly calmed down: "What do you want to do?" β
The driver didn't answer her, and not long after, the car braked sharply and stopped by a river, and the driver turned back with a cruel smile: "What are you doing?" The dregs of the white bracelet should not be a waste of resources. β
He wanted to kill her!
Qiao Yuanjing realized this, and took the first step to open the car door, wanting to seize the road and escape.