Chapter 2: The Upper Class
early morning
The sunlight pierced through the thin mist, which seemed to cast a green veil over the hazy world, and a few small birds in the distance were showing their beautiful singing voices to the rising sun, and the low houses left a mottled beam of broken light, as if the sound of dust colliding in the sunlight could be heard.
"Bang!"
The door of the house opened automatically, the sound of mechanical operation broke the original tranquility of the house, Liu Yi wiped it with a towel, sweating profusely into the room, when she didn't stay up late, Liu Yi would run around the street outside the laboratory every morning. The laboratory is located in the western suburbs of the city, and is not part of the previous residential area, so there will be fewer people gathered around, and there will be no chaos like the city center.
Back in the room, after washing up and changing into clean clothes, and then simply eating breakfast, Liu Yi lay on the desk and hooked and scratched. In the past two years, Liu Yi has spent most of her time at her desk, and she can feel extremely comfortable when she sits here.
"Oh, I'm going to pick up my clothes today!"
Suddenly remembering Uncle Yang's explanation yesterday, Liu Yi reacted violently and looked at his watch, the time had passed noon unconsciously, although it was a sunny weather outside today, but due to the obstruction of high-rise buildings, people living on the ground could hardly see the sun.
"Let's go check the location first!"
Walked to the landline and pressed the information button, and a three-dimensional image of the city was slowly displayed in mid-air, and then the image slowly focused on a red dot, which was the location sent by Uncle Yang, a top clothing design store in the city.
"I'm going up again..."
Looking at the location of the store, Liu Yi shook her head helplessly.
In the past ten years, the social progress of human beings has undergone tremendous changes, the continuous innovation of building materials has made the floors higher and higher, and the suspension car has also made it more convenient for people to travel up and down, so under the continuous development and construction, the city has gradually developed a new city in the sky above the high-rise buildings.
However, high-rise houses and suspension cars require expensive capital, which also directly catalyzes the previous invisible and incomprehensible social hierarchy, under the continuous construction planning, people gradually set up a specific air road for the suspension car, and the city is also divided into two parts, the upper and lower parts, of which the drunken gold fan is naturally called the upper class.
Put on her coat and simply tidy up, Liu Yi walked to the nearest bus stop, the economy moved up, the social structure also changed, and many people in the service industry had to work in the upper class of society every day, so there was a specific bus route. There are two intersections between the stop sign and the studio, open the iron gate and walk on the potholed road, the alleys on both sides of the road are empty and very depressed. Unlike the prosperity of the upper class, in this darkness where no sunlight can shine, crime and chaos continue to grow, and the government has no intention of managing it, so many people have moved out.
After a while, we came to the intersection of the stop signs, and in the distance a tightly packed bus was lowered, and every window was welded with solid iron bars.
Sitting on the bus, accompanied by the sound of clanging, the bus runs on the city's air road, and the high-rise buildings on both sides extend nearly two meters to the edge to facilitate the parking of the vehicle. With all sorts of shops along the street and dazzling hovering vehicles in the air, this is what a city should look like compared to the darkness beneath the line.
The car is parked at the famous Fifth Avenue intersection, and as soon as you get out of the car, you can feel the popularity of the place, the streets are crowded with people, and countless neon lights are flashing as far as the eye can see. Walking down the street, just a few steps away, you will arrive at the entrance of the top design store, which has a retro decoration and can be seen through the glass with all kinds of beautiful clothes.
"Hello and welcome!"
As soon as I opened the door of the store, before I even stepped into the store, a crisp greeting came from the room. A clerk with a delicate face walked out of the front desk with a smile and asked softly as he walked.
"Hello, welcome to Huamei, how can I help you!"
"Oh, I..."
"Sir?"
"Huh?"
When the clerk walked up to Liu Yi, glanced up and down at what he was wearing, interrupted Liu Yi's words in a strange tone, and then looked at Liu Yi with strange eyes. Seeing the strange expression of the clerk, Liu Yi was a little confused for a while, so she had to stop in place with a curious face and wait quietly for the clerk's next words.
"I'm sorry, sir!"
"What's wrong?"
"That's right, the clothes in our store need to be ordered in advance, and then specific designs and cuts are made according to the user's requirements, so the clothes currently placed in the store will not be sold separately!"
"Well, I know that!"
"Not only that, but the order in which clothes are ordered is based on the price, and our designers are among the best in the world, so the price of each piece of clothing will be very expensive, and..."
“···”
Listening to the clerk's chatter, Liu Yi finally understood what the clerk meant, looked down at his thin clothes, and his shoes that were still stained with mud due to the wet ground, and began to laugh helplessly. In the past two years, I have mostly been nested in the laboratory, so I didn't pay much attention to my dress, and today when I came to the upper class, I simply wore a coat, but I didn't expect to get such a response immediately.
"Hello, stop for a moment, I'm here to pick up clothes!"
"Pick, pick up clothes?"
"Yes!"
"Oh, then, come with me!"
The clerk looked at Liu Yi suspiciously, then turned around and led him into the store, which was the hall of the store, with more than a dozen bright and gorgeous clothes. The clerk muttered a few words at the front desk, and then led Liu Yi through the hall to a side door, inside which was a corridor, and the walls were covered with group photos of celebrities. After passing through the dark hallway, you will come to a bright room, and in the center of the room is a black machine more than a person high.
"Sir, we need to verify your identity, please stand in front of this side of the machine, the clothes ordered in our store can only be taken by the person who pre-ordered them!"
"Good!"
The shape of the machine is like a boxy cube box, when Liu Yi stands in front of the side of the box, the machine with a "tick" sound, the screen on this side slowly lights up, and then a circle of red light flashes in the center of the screen. After waiting for a while, the camera hole at the top of the screen cast beams of red light, instantly enveloping Liu Yi's body.
"Tick!"
"The information matches!"
With the sound of the machine, the red light shrouded in the body faded, and the red circle in the middle of the screen gradually dispersed, and finally the screen displayed some basic information about Liu Yi. The clerk standing on the side rubbed her eyes, looking at the information on the screen in disbelief, she would never have thought that the famous Liu Gongzi was the appearance in front of her.
"The clothes are ready for you, now press your palm print on the screen!"
"Oh!"
According to the instructions of the machine, Liu Yi pressed his right hand on the screen that lit up in front of him, and as soon as he touched the palm of his hand, he felt the electric current swimming in the skin, and after a while, the four sides of the screen lit up with green light lines, and then the screen on the other side of the machine cracked from the middle, and when the screen was fully opened, the customized clothes were quietly suspended in the machine. Although it didn't take long to get the clothes from the time I came in to the present, these complicated procedures made Liu Yi feel troublesome.
"Why doesn't the designer connect the recognizer to the door, detect when the customer enters the door, and then automatically match the relevant information in the background, so that the customer can directly confirm when he enters the door, which can save the customer's time and avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble!"
Looking at the clothes in the machine, Liu Yi muttered quietly, the clerk has been following left and right, which makes people feel restrained, since the machine is used, why not thoroughly. The clerk next to him lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking, and when he saw the machine open, he took out a specific gift box from the machine and carefully put away the clothes.
"Liu Gongzi, this is your clothes, some precautions about the clothes are printed in the box, go back and open the box to see, unlock the lock on the back of the box, only with your palm print can you open!"
"Okay, thank you!"
The clerk handed the gift box to Liu Yi, and the somewhat strange tone just now began to normalize, and carefully told Liu Yi. Reaching out to take the gift box, seeing the change in the attitude of the clerk before and after, Liu Yi thought in her heart that this was not what her life was like.
"Hey, that person just now turned out to be Liu Gongzi!"
"Young Master Liu? That Liu family of Tang Sheng Manor? ”
"That's right! Looking at what he was wearing, I thought it was a flower boy at first, so I received the matching information inside, but I didn't expect that as soon as the information came out, he turned out to be the Liu family of Tangsheng Manor! ”
"Wow, have you behaved well, I heard that after the mysterious disappearance of the lord of the Liu family, the huge amount of property of the Liu family has been attributed to the name of Liu Gongzi, who is so young and single, and now he is a hot character!"
"I don't know! Liu Gongzi kept smiling faintly, I couldn't see any change in his mood! ”
“···”
Before they walked out of the store, they heard the chattering of the two clerks behind them, but they didn't expect that their ordinary life in the past two years would become Wang Lao Wu, who was young and golden, in their eyes. Looking at the endless stream of vehicles on the street outside, rows of flashing neon signs, I have been alone in the dark ground laboratory for a long time, and I am still a little unaccustomed to the excitement here.
When you stand in the center of the arch bridge and see the scene on both sides, the flowers on the top are in strong contrast with the silence and gloom below, and the distance between the two worlds seems to be separated. The scene in front of her was so unreal, like a dream, Liu Yi couldn't imagine that only ten years later, human society would become what it is now.
"Horn!"
"Walk or not!"
I don't know when, the bus has stopped at the stop sign, and the people who are going to leave have also gone up to sit down, the driver looked at Liu Yi who was standing on the side of the road, and honked the horn and shouted at him.
"Hey, it's coming!"
reacted and hurriedly walked into the bus, and before Liu Yi could sit down, the car began to shuttle quickly through the city in mid-air. Just after noon, the bus was not so crowded, Liu Yi found a place by the window and sat down, after driving down the line, the car was lit up with dim lights, and the surrounding was silent only the hum of the engine could be heard, and people didn't know what they were thinking.
"Bang!"
Before I knew it, the bus had stopped at the stop, and it was still the same stop sign just now. Although it was just past noon, the light outside was already very dim when I walked out of the carriage, and it was very desolate to be in such a lonely environment.
Wrapped in clothes, Liu Yi walked quickly towards the laboratory, but before she reached the intersection of the first alley, she suddenly felt something rapidly approaching behind her, and hurriedly turned around to look back. As soon as he turned around, he saw a face that was getting closer and closer, the owner of the face was burly and blue-skinned, wearing a white suit and flying at a low altitude, quickly approaching the willow. And behind him, you can vaguely see two or three figures holding guns in pursuit.
"Hide... I can't hide from it..."
When he turned around, the distance between the 'person' and Liu Yi was less than ten meters, and these distances were almost negligible under high-speed flight, looking at the 'man' who was about to collide together, Liu Yi's heart began to wail, he knew what the consequences of such a high-speed impact would be, especially when the opposite side was still a sturdy Huixing person.
"Bang!"
As soon as he came into contact with the strong body, it felt as if he was in contact with a hard piece of steel, and then with a loud bang, Liu Yi's body began to spin and tumble in the air, and I don't know how long it took, until the body hit the corner of the alley again, and then it re-touched the ground.
"Fuck, your sister, Huixing!"
The scene in front of her gradually fell into darkness, Liu Yi's feeling of death had never been so close, when she was churning in the air, her chest felt like it was about to crack, and the sharp pain instantly spread throughout her body. When he hit the wall and fell to the cold and damp ground, his body was so painful that he lost consciousness of the pain, and only vaguely felt that those glowing stars were gradually flying away.
Lying in a dark corner, time seemed to stand still for Liu Yi at this time, everything around him turned into a black and white silent movie, I don't know how long it took, and finally the darkness in front of me fell into endless darkness.