Uptown, a luxury apartment.

Jin Ling had just returned home from a day's work, walked from the entrance to the bathroom, lost her outer clothes and underwear, and stepped into the bathtub barefoot, the water temperature was just right.

Find a comfortable position to lie down and the jacuzzi gets to work, soothing the fatigue of the day.

The apartment is very large, luxuriously decorated, and all the food, clothing, housing and transportation are all complete, compared with the lower city, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as poor and luxurious.

But Jin Ling has no sense of belonging here, and she has always had a premonition that she will leave here and go to the world outside the upper city, to the wasteland and the lower city, to feel the cold wind, the scorching sun, and the extreme temperature difference.

A colleague in the martial arts hall said that she did not know the blessing in the blessing, and told her that outside the Shangcheng City was a wild place, and only here was the continuation of human civilization.

Jin Ling never argued, she had a secret in her heart, a secret about the truth in Shangcheng District.

The Uptown has never been a paradise, let alone a continuation of human civilization, it is just a fictional mirror of that group of people, and all the signs of prosperity are hiding its torn core.

It is true that living in Uptown, Jin Ling can have a luxury apartment of her own, a job that earns a salary, no food and drink, and no threat to life from the outside world.

But that's about it.

The lives of the residents of Shangcheng have seen the end of their lives, and they have no future, so they can only repeat their daily lives in the greenhouse, wasting their time in the leisurely days that seem to be singing and dancing, until the end of their lives, and then put them in boxes.

Perhaps for the vast majority of people living in Uptown, it is already a heavenly gift to be able to live a life of worry-free food and clothing after the Walking Dead Catastrophe.

But in Jinling's case, the longer she stays in Uptown, the more she feels like she is in captivity.

Jin Ling knew how Shangcheng was born and how the residents of Shangcheng were screened, so it was purely an accident that she was able to stay in Shangcheng.

Especially when she accidentally had synaesthesia with Zheng Nannan, Meng Chang, and Luo Li, the rejection of Shangcheng became more and more intense, and through Zheng Nanfang and Meng Chang's vision, she slowly learned what kind of world is outside Shangcheng.

The upper city is closed, and those who come in alive cannot get out alive.

Therefore, Jin Ling guessed early on that the so-called end-of-road carnival road race might just be a scam from beginning to end.

The reward for the winner of the road race is to enter Uptown, but how can these people who have returned to the wild outside of Uptown spend their days in Uptown?

Do people in Downtown really yearn for Uptown? Can the people of the upper city accept the people of the lower city?

Uptown and Downtown are two very different worlds.

Since the emergence of their antagonism, there should not be, and cannot be, a day when they intersect with each other.

Later, in the uptown district where Jin Ling is located, a week before the start of the road race, a huge satellite projection screen appeared.

On that day, Jin Ling suddenly realized that the end-of-road carnival road race was just a show for entertainment and pastime in Shangcheng District.

……

Jin Ling told Zheng Nannan what she had seen, so Zheng Nannan set off from the west, intending to participate in this road race.

Zheng Nannan thought very simply, he was going to go to the roundabout, and Shangcheng was the only way to go around the island.

If all the people in Uptown can see this game, then he is using this event to chisel through the gates of Uptown, and perhaps then some people around the island will see him and understand that the fateful covenant of many years ago will finally come and it is time to make a choice.

Meng Chang tries to stop Zheng Nannan's simple and violent actions, and tells him that things are not so simple.

The forces that govern the research of the hive and the forces that organize the road race are not a group of hemp ropes, and there are many unknown information intertwined with them. After the Hive appeared, one of the forces set out to hold road races, and it's hard to explain why, but it's clear that road races are more than just a bloody eighteen banned show.

Meng Chang believes that the road race is related to the hive, and perhaps there is a meaning in the wrestling game between the two forces.

In the end, the three of them reached a consensus that Zheng Nannan would participate in the competition, and they would give help to other aspects.

It doesn't matter if he wins the championship or not, I just hope that Zheng Nannan can find some things that Jin Ling and Meng Chang don't know in the process of participating in the competition, so as to judge the possible purpose behind the whole incident.

The three of them have no intention of pitting against the forces behind the scenes, each with their own goals, but they can just do it through a road race.

Jin Ling wants to leave Shangcheng District, Meng Chang hopes to study the hive independently without jurisdiction, and Zheng Nannan has only one purpose from beginning to end, to go around the island.

Especially the appearance of Lori later, the idea of the three of them joining forces was even more firm.

No one thought that this milky little doll would actually live in the roundabout.

It's just a pity that Lori is too young, innocent, and doesn't know anything, so she can't get and pass on information through her.

……

Jin Ling once chatted with Zheng Nannan once, wanting to ask him why he was so obsessed with rounding the island, and Jin Ling was very curious about Zheng Nannan's identity.

Zheng Nannan was very young, but sometimes he was very old, and he rarely talked about himself, and Jin Ling and Meng Chang only knew that he came from the west.

In the early synaesthesia, Jin Ling happened to see Zheng Nannan's field of vision, and there was a mangrove forest swaying in the wind in his field of vision, with the shadows of the trees, which was particularly beautiful, and it was a scenery that Shangcheng City did not have.

Jin Ling asked him what kind of place this was, Zheng Nannan was vague, and replied lightly: Home.

Later, Jin Ling stopped asking, everyone has secrets and things they don't want to mention, maybe Zheng Nannan's obsession with the island doesn't have any complicated reasons.

……

It was late at night, and the water in the bathtub was warm.

Jin Ling stood up, grabbed a bath towel to wrap her hair, left the bathroom naked, and stepped on a series of wet footprints on the ground to return to the bedroom.

The bedroom is lit with a night light, and the soft bed is filled with the scent of a woman who lives alone.

Jin Ling lifted one leg and put it on the side of the bed, carefully wiping the body lotion, from the leg to the feet, from the waist and abdomen to the chest, the movements were gentle and slow.

After doing bedtime care and drying her hair, Jin Ling turned off the night light, covered the quilt and lay down, reached to the dresser and touched it, and retracted it back into the quilt.

The moonlight is hazy, there is a cool night breeze blowing outside the window, the curtains are slightly moving, and the wind chimes are crisp.

Holding the wind chime with one hand, he stood silently beside the bed, and then the moonlight that came through the window was like water, and he carefully looked at Jin Ling's sleeping side face.

After a long time, hearing Jin Ling's even breathing, the figure beckoned behind him, and more figures appeared from the corners of the living room and kitchen, blocking the door.

The figure next to the bed took out a watering can-like thing from his arms and sprayed it at Jin Ling's face.

After waiting for a few minutes, he reached out and patted Jin Ling's face.

Jin Ling was unresponsive, as if she had fainted, completely unconscious.

The figure turned on the night light, revealing a black uniform, and said to the outside: "Everything stays in place, wait for the expert group to come." With that, he bent down and picked up Jin Ling, turned to leave.

There were also two uniformed people guarding the door of the apartment, and when they saw the man who came out with Jin Ling in their arms, they nodded and signaled, and waited for the elevator to come up and sent the two in.

'Ding'

The elevator stopped on the first floor, and the man in uniform walked out of the apartment building with Jin Ling in his arms and got into a black SUV that had been waiting outside the gate for a long time.

There was only one driver in the car, who looked back and said with a smile: "It didn't take much effort." ”

The man in uniform put the sleeping Jin Ling on the seat, lit a cigarette, and said, "We are moving fast, she is defenseless." ”

"It couldn't be better." The driver started the car and drove out of the apartment complex and sped off on the widest road in Uptown.

The driver was a young man who talked a lot and kept asking questions, but the man in uniform in the back row did not smile, but only answered a few words perfunctorily.

The car passes through the brightly lit city, the night view in the car window and quickly retreats, and finally enters a tunnel.

The tunnel was long, and near the end of the tunnel, there were many armored vehicles on both sides, the people in the cars were wearing the same uniforms as the men in the back seats, and the armored bodies were sprayed with paint, outlining the English letters of the RCA.

The car slowly came to a halt in front of a row of barricades, and a man in uniform with a gun knocked on the window.

The driver dropped the glass, shook the tag around his neck, and said with a smile: "Southern Laboratory, there is a pass." ”

The gun-wielding man nodded, turned around and whistled, then let go of the barricade and activated the button, opening the tightly knit alloy gate.

The wind was howling outside the door, and the long night was dark, and it was impossible to see the road ahead.

The car started again, passed through the alloy gate, and broke into the night wilderness.

The road outside the gate was no longer smooth, the car was violently bumping, and the young man driving frowned, barely controlled the steering wheel, and turned on the headlights, reflecting the weedy road ahead.

The sleeping Jin Ling was jolted and fell on the shoulders of the uniformed man, and the quilt wrapped around her body fell, revealing her fragrant body.

The young driver saw his body whiter than the moonlight in the rearview mirror, and couldn't help but let out a sigh of admiration, and said, "It's so Yanfu." ”

"Drive well." The man in uniform snorted.

The young driver smiled and asked tentatively, "Isn't there any welfare?" It's a long way to go, alas. ”

The man in uniform glared at him, then couldn't help laughing, shook his head and sighed: "You kid, be serious, this is a mission, don't think about those useless." ”

"More than half of the task has been completed, okay?" The young driver smiled and smacked his lips: "Just touch it, will it be successful?" ”

"Fuck off." The man in uniform smiled bitterly, lit a cigarette and handed it to him, and said, "Concentrate on driving, and when this time is over, go back to any uptown to play." ”

"Stingy." The driver bit the cigarette, rolled his eyes helplessly, and still didn't give up: "Then you can touch it for me and tell me how it feels." ”

"Bastard." The man in uniform couldn't cry or laugh, and scolded with a smile: "Aren't there any women in the experimental area?" The monkey is in a hurry, do you know a knife on the head of the color word? ”

"Antique." The young driver pursed his lips and said no more.

The man in uniform shook his head with a smile, glanced down at the snow-white body leaning on his shoulder, his throat moved, Yu Guang looked in the rearview mirror, and saw that the driver was not looking, and quietly stretched out his hand between Jin Ling's legs.

Jin Ling leaned limply on the shoulder of the man in uniform, unconscious. After a while, my fingertips were slippery and warm.

"Hey, hey." The man in uniform smirked.

Young driver: "What are you laughing at?" ”

Man in uniform: "Nothing—huh?" ”

The man in uniform was stunned, and when he looked down, he saw that his two slender legs were twisted together and clamped his hand.

Jin Ling flipped her palm, pushed open the blade groove of the eyebrow trimming knife, and slashed between the throats of the man in the homemade clothes.

The young driver had a hot back of his head, as if he had been splashed with a basin of hot water, and then he heard a strange sound of 'Hehe' behind him, and turned his head suspiciously, just saw a touch of snow-white flat lower abdomen, and suddenly his throat was cold.

The buggy stopped in the middle of the field for a few minutes, the doors opened, dropped two heavy objects, and started again.

Jin Ling wiped the blood from her face, opened the window, and the smoke in the car floated out, and then a wind called freedom blew in.