Chapter 45: Luke's Story
Luke on the bed looked at Jane with a complicated gaze, and it was a long time before he asked in a weak voice, "Why did you save me?" β
"I can't die or be saved, that's not my character. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Jane's answer was still the same as before, seeing that Luke was still looking at him with complicated eyes, he continued, "Don't talk about this, it's important to eat first, you don't want to be hungry anymore." With that, Jane moved the food bag closer to Luke.
Luke's face showed a hesitant look, and after a while, seeing that Jane showed no signs of retracting, he slowly raised his hand and took the small packet of food, and the original hesitant look was instantly replaced by gratitude. After tearing the opening, he stuffed the bag into his mouth and sucked it quickly, it seemed that he was really hungry, in less than a minute, the bag was completely deflated, at this time he still looked unsatisfied, raised his hands and squeezed the corners of the bag, trying to squeeze every drop of it inside.
Watching his movements, Jane asked with concern, "Haven't you eaten enough?" Do you want me to go get you another bag? β
Hearing Jane's question, Luke's movements suddenly stopped, he glanced at Jane hesitantly, then at the food bag in his hand, and after a while, he still shook his head. After squeezing twice harder, and finding that there was really no food left in the bag, he placed the bag on the table at the head of the bed, and then he turned his head to look at Jane, and slowly closed his eyes.
"It looks like he's still very weak." Jeka said beside him, "Let's let him rest for a while." β
"Are you sure there's nothing wrong with that?" Jane asked uneasily.
"It's basically fine." Jecca replied, "As long as he eats normally for a few more days, he can recover." β
"Okay." Jane was silent for a moment before agreeing, "Then let's go out first." Then he said to Luke, "Luke, then you can rest well, and I'll come back to see you later." Luke, who was lying on the bed, nodded slightly, but did not answer.
The three men walked out of Luke's room, and at the door of the room, Jacka stopped, and he turned to the two people behind him.
Seeing Jaka's movements, Jane also stopped and stood in place, the scene suddenly fell silent, and after a while, Jaica spoke: "Jane, you are the only good person among all the people I have seen in Space City. When he said this, even Zhou Xin could hear the complex emotions contained in it.
"Ha-ha-, you won the prize, I just did what I was supposed to do." Jane also seemed stunned by Jecca's words, and he was silent for a long time before replying awkwardly, "Besides, you can't say that I'm the only good person in Space City, are everyone else, including you, a bad person?" β
"Others, not good or bad, can only say that I am an ordinary person like them." Jecca's answer was a little noncommittal, "Maybe it's because you're new here, and you don't know some unspoken rules yet, so it's very dangerous for you." For the sake of seeing that you are quite pleasing to the eye, I would like to remind you. He paused, then said slowly, "Million, million, don't bother with things that don't concern you in the first place." This time, it was good that Lukka was really just unconscious from lack of food, if for any other reason. At this point, his words stopped,
"What do you mean?" Although Jeka's reminder was already very clear, Jane still felt confused, and he subconsciously asked.
"Jeka's reminder is clear, and I reminded you of that when you first came here." Joe said behind Jane, "You don't have to ask the specific reason, it's for your own good." β
Although there were still some doubts in her heart, Jane couldn't continue to ask questions now, and said goodbye to the two of them, and then the three of them dispersed and went back separately.
Back in her room, Jane said to the camera: "It seems that there are still a lot of secrets hidden here, and it seems that they all know about it, but I don't seem to have gained their complete trust, so they can't tell me what happened, it seems that the next step is to find a way to gain the trust of the people here." β
That's the end of the video, and the screen goes black again.
"Atlas, aren't you here yet?"
"Right away, right away."
After a while, the screen lights up and the next video appears. As usual, Jane was the first to appear in front of the camera.
Jane, who appeared on the screen this time, obviously had a happy look on her face, "After two days of recuperation, Luke finally recovered, and after this incident, his attitude towards me seems to have completely changed, just now when I went to see him, he also told me to let me stay in his room after eating, he didn't tell me the specific reason, but I think he should know when he arrives." β
As soon as his words fell, there was a hurried knock on the door, and Jane walked to the door unhurriedly, and when she opened it, a figure flashed in quickly through the doorway, and when she came in, she took the door with her. Since the camera was placed on the table, at this angle, Zhou Xin could see the person's appearance clearly.
He was about Jane's size, slightly shorter, and his clothes wrapped tightly around his body, revealing his bony build. The biggest difference from Jane was his face, which was as thin as his body, with a pointed chin, and another obvious feature of his face was that the cheekbones on his cheeks were very prominent, which looked like a protruding hill.
The man was still panting after closing the door, as if he had been doing some kind of intense exercise, and his face showed a look of relief, while Jane, who had just opened the door, looked at him strangely.
"Luke, you're just sick, don't do any strenuous exercise." Jane reminded with concern.
"Noβno problem." Luke gasped and replied.
"Is there anything wrong with keeping me in the room?"
"This - this thing - for you." As he spoke, Luke pulled out a box from behind him.
Zhou Xin looked at it and found that this box was somewhat familiar, while Jian recognized it at a glance, "Food?" Is this your share? What are you doing for me? His tone was a little surprised.
"Shhhh β
"Where did that come from?" Jane asked, and after a moment, he looked surprised, "It can't be stolen from someone else." His voice was slightly louder.
"Shhhh Don't worry, this is what I got from the food distribution center. β
"Isn't that your own food, what are you going to do for me?" Jane still didn't understand what Luke meant.
"Alas-" Seeing that Jane still didn't understand what he meant, Luke seemed a little anxious, and he simply said directly, "This is the second food, you don't care about the rest, just take it." β
"Second food?" After listening to Luke's words, Jane also knew the seriousness of this matter, and he hurriedly lowered his voice and asked, "How did you get two portions of food alone?" Don't lie to me, it's your share. β
"This is indeed the second copy, you don't care how I got it." Luke handed the box to Jane, and seeing that Jane didn't reach out to take it, in order to prove that this was the second food, he took out another box from behind him, "Look, this one is my own, now it's no problem, you can take it." β
"No, I won't take it unless you tell me how I got it." Jane shook her head stubbornly.
Seeing that Jane still refused to accept the food, Luke became even more anxious, "Don't you know what food means in Space City?" Let's take it. β
"If you know the importance of food, why do you give it to me?" Jane, however, remained unmoved.
Seeing this, Luke sighed deeply, "That's not for your sake of saving my life, otherwise I wouldn't have let others know this secret." Why do you want to know where this food comes from? If you tell you why, will you accept it? β
"You tell me the source first, and then I will consider whether to accept it or not." Jane still didn't give a clear answer.
Suddenly, Luke fell silent, and after a long time, he spoke again: "Well, I can tell you the detailed reasons, but you have to promise me not to tell anyone. After getting Jane's assurance, Luke hesitated for a moment before speaking.
"The food was taken from the food distribution centre, but it was not obtained from normal channels." "But it's not really a big deal, I just hacked into the food distribution center system and made a copy of my pick-up information in the database, so I have two identities to pick up the food." β
"How did you do that?" Hearing Luke's explanation, Jane looked a little surprised, and he lowered his voice and asked, "Isn't it reasonable to say that this kind of database is not very tightly guarded?" How can you just hack in? β
"Maybe it's hard for others, but it's not a problem for me at all." Luke's voice was a little bitter as he answered the question, and then he showed a look of remembrance, and he was silent for a long time. Looking at Luke's expression, Jane did not rush to urge him, but quietly waited for his next step, and after a few minutes, Luke said a fact that not only surprised Jane, but also surprised everyone watching this video, "In fact, the latest generation of the food distribution center's database was designed and developed by me. β
"W-What?" When she heard Luke's words, Jane looked a little overwhelmed, "Are you sure you're talking about the food distribution center's database and not anything else?" He confirmed again.
"Otherwise, why do you think I can do this?" After telling the truth, Luke breathed a sigh of relief, he waved the two pieces of food in his hand and said lightly, "Of course, the database is very tightly guarded, do you think that any person can hack into it?" β
Jane showed a surprised expression, and he subconsciously asked, "Are you so powerful?" Designing a database for food distribution centres is not easy. What happened after that? How did you become like this now? As soon as this question came out, Luke's face immediately turned dark, and seeing the change in his face, Jane hurriedly changed her words, "I'm just curious to ask, if you don't want to say it, forget it." β
"Didn't anyone tell you not to ask people similar questions?" Luke said emotionlessly, and Jane suddenly showed an embarrassed look, "This--I said it, I just asked it subconsciously." Forget it, you didn't ask me. β
Luke didn't say a word, looking at Jane in front of him with a blank face, and the expression on Jane's face became more and more embarrassed. Taking a deep breath, Luke spoke, "For your sake, if you want to know why, it doesn't hurt to tell you." He gave a look of remembrance, then asked a question, "What do you think of the food in Space City?" β
"How?" Jane felt that some of the questions were a bit inexplicable, but he replied honestly, "It's acceptable, except for the poor taste, the rest is basically the same as what I eat on the ground." β
"Oh? Then your food used to be very good. Luke looked surprised, "What did you do before?" With such a good treatment, what are you doing here? β
"Thisβ" Jane couldn't tell the real reason, of course, and he snorted, "I have a hard time, too." β
"Oh, then I see." Luke nodded and replied, "There are some people here who are going through the same situation as you. Then he turned the subject to himself, "Do you know what I used to eat?" β
"I don't think it's going to be bad." Jane said subconsciously.
Luke shook his head, "It's about the same as what we eat now, and the food for the staff is only two bags a day, and only the food received as a tourist is three bags, as for why they have three bags, it's to attract them to work in Space City." After a pause, he asked strangely, "It seems that your treatment on the ground is indeed very good, don't you know what ordinary people on the ground eat?" β
"I don't usually go out to eat, so I don't know much about it." Jane replied awkwardly.
"Okay." Luke's tone was a little helpless, "Actually, those ordinary people are much worse than what we eat now......