Outside, the rain was pouring non-stop, and in the small pipe, Zhu Kunming, Allena, and Will all listened quietly to Henry's story. Will and Allena saw Henry's words as complaints, while Zhu Kunming listened to his understanding of time.

"One hundred and six years old! That's a lot of money! But I've lived enough, I want to die, I have to die! ”

Henry began to get tired of living day after day, he didn't know what he meant by living, now he just lived for the sake of living, repeating what he had done yesterday day after day, and spending day after day mechanically under the envious gaze of others.

"Man, it's your business to want to die, only a person like you who is from a wealthy background will feel that there is too much time!"

Will said impatiently, and then involuntarily looked down at the form in his hand. Will looked down at his watch with great skill, a common practice for people living in the slums, because they would always look at their watch involuntarily, always fearing that their time would be cleared to zero in the next moment and die.

"Twenty-three hours!"

Henry's eyes swept over Will's watch, and he saw that the young man in front of him who was fiery at heart would die in twenty-three hours if he had no income.

"What is your view of time?" Just when the scene fell into silence, Zhu Kunming, who had been pretending to be a dead man in the back, suddenly opened his mouth and asked Henry.

"Time is the arbiter's game!" Henry was silent for a while, and then said indifferently; "The arbiters set prices, collect time, and under the manipulation of these capitalists, most but a very small number of people will die. It's just that this time is early and late, so no matter how you work and how you earn time, it is only to postpone the date of death! ”

What do you mean by that? Doesn't it mean that as long as there is a stable job, then anyone can live forever! Will frowned when he heard Henry's words, because his words were not the same as what Will had heard over the years.

"What would you do if you were given a hundred years?" Henry asked in a deep voice at Will in front of him.

"Moving out of the slums, of course, to live in a richer special zone!" Will didn't know why, but he still said what most people thought.

"Yes, everybody wants to live better in the Special Administrative Region and enjoy better benefits and treatments. But what I want to say is that in fact, this is just an illusion, a perfect blueprint planned by the government! ”

Dayton District is scheduled to be hourly, and spending here is also hourly based. There are hundreds of slum districts like Dayton, and above the slums is the plutocratic district, of which Henry is from the new Greenwich district of the plutocratic district.

In other words, if it takes you ten minutes to drink a book of coffee in a slum, you will have to pay a day to drink the same kind of coffee in New Greenwich.

Of course, an increase in consumption represents an increase in income, and a day in Dayton is about 30 hours of work, and in New Greenwich it is about a month.

Many of those who had survived the slums were happy to go to the rich districts, but what awaited them was a new start to their busy lives. Because these people who come to New Greenwich will find a very cruel thing, that is, they can't even buy a house in New Greenwich with the time they have saved up for a lifetime and are proud of.

And in order to put an end to people's hope of immortality, everyone's time will be monitored, and if you live past a hundred years, or have more than two hundred years in your hands, then you will be invited to the rich district, and no one can refuse this invitation. And when you live past 100 years, you will have a new discovery, that is, the original second hand is gone, replaced by a beating based on minutes.

Henry lifted the sleeve from his arm and let everyone look at the minute hand on his arm that danced like the second hand.

"Doesn't anyone want to change all that, prices are going crazy every day, doesn't anyone want to change?" As Henry told Will, his face was at a loss, because there was a huge gap between Henry's words and the education he had received for more than twenty years, and Will's instinct was telling himself, Henry was right.

Will was a big boy who had just come of age, but he had never seen anyone in the slums live past a hundred years old, and most of those who had lived past ninety years old had disappeared, vanished like the wind.

Will looked sluggish, and the cognition he had cultivated for more than twenty years collapsed in a single thought. He was at a loss now, he thought of Pieru in the Relief Hall, and he thought of his mother, who was about to celebrate her fiftieth birthday.

Pieru is also almost ninety years old, and if he is lost in the ghetto, will there be hope? And Will has always wanted his mother to live a better life in the Special District, if Henry's words are true, then can this wish still come true!

"What would you do if you had that much time, lad?" Henry glanced at his watch, and the expression on his face could not tell whether it was sadness or joy.

"Me!" Will couldn't help but glance at his watch again, and then smiled wryly with some lack of interest; "I want to change my habit of always looking down at my watch! And I can guarantee that I won't waste my time like you, but go back and do something meaningful to figure out why Xiao is doing all this! ”

"What an interesting answer!" With Will's affirmative answer, a smile appeared on Henry's face, because no one had ever cared about the reason for all this. The rich who have the time to spend all day drinking or earning more time while the poor can't even afford to eat, who would think about these things!

Zhu Kunming, who had been listening to Will's words, applauded, and he looked at the two in front of him amusedly, because these two people provided him with another insight into time.

"You've had too much wine today, go back to where you came from, Dayton isn't for you. And I, it's time to go home too! Will glanced at Zhu Kunming on the side, the big things that happened today exceeded the sum of Will's life, so he really didn't have the mood to teach Zhu Kunming a strange lesson.

Will glanced at the heavy rain outside, then patted Henry, who was standing outside, on the shoulder, and rushed into the rain without looking back.

Henry stood motionless, staring closely at Will's back.

"It's not death that people are afraid of, it's everything that is lost after death! If you have nothing to lose, then death is just a friend you haven't seen in years, nothing to be afraid of! ”

(End of chapter)