On the third floor of the BGI Library, in an inconspicuous corner, a young man sat in the corner, holding a book in his hand, reading with relish.

The young man's face was yellow and thin, but he was as quiet and deep as a lake, and his dark eyes had nothing but a thirst for knowledge in books.

It's hard to imagine a 15-year-old boy sitting here quietly reading a book for six hours straight, and barely flipping through nearly half of a book as thick as a Xinhua dictionary.

When you're tired of reading, you just squint and rub your temples, take a break, and within five minutes, you'll pick up a book and read again.

If it was mathematics, physics and chemistry or something, Chu Xiao was naturally in no mood to read it, he was fed up with this kind of boring book, but he was very interested in the "Card Making Basics" in his hand, and he would not feel tired after reading it for a whole day, but would only feel satisfied.

I have watched it countless times, and I have watched it again just to consolidate the foundation and deepen the impression.

There is nothing interesting about this thick book, a lot of boring theoretical knowledge, and there is a little bit of practical operation.

In the eyes of other children, this book is no different from mathematics, physics and chemistry-related books, and even more boring than those, but in Chu Xiao's eyes, this book is the door to a new world, which contains infinite mysteries.

The reason why he is different from other children is probably because he has an inextricable relationship with the card, which has traveled through time and space.

"Chu Xiao, the library is closing."

The librarian walked up to him and spoke softly.

She could see this boy here every day, no matter whether it was windy, rainy, or hot and harsh, this boy would always come here early, sit all day, and even forget to eat, or have no money to eat.

She had such perseverance at a young age, and because of this, she had talked to the boy and learned that he lived in the nearby Black Street.

Black streets, as the name suggests, dark streets, no sunlight, only cold and dark.

The sunlight is blocked by the surrounding high-rise buildings, and most of the people who live in the black street are poor, living the lowest life, and some people can't even afford to eat.

Chu Xiao should belong to the level where he can't even afford to eat, the boy's parents died of an epidemic in his early years, but he miraculously survived, since he was ten years old, he has lived alone, I don't know how he survived until now.

A person who can't even afford to eat, but is obsessed with books to the point of forgetting to sleep and eat, which makes her pay more attention to this boy, can spiritual food resist hunger? I couldn't, because the boy had a yellow face and thin muscles, and he looked malnourished.

"Okay, I got it."

Chu Xiao closed the book, stood up and felt numb in his legs and lost consciousness, and stood against the wall for a while before relieving himself.

"Well, you can take this bread back and eat it."

Chu Xiao didn't twist, and took the bread and thanked him.

Almost every day, Sister Xin, who is also a librarian, will give him food, sometimes bread and cake, sometimes chicken legs and duck wings, he didn't want it at first, but Sister Xin forced it into him, so he never refused again, he really needed food.

The librarian can only belong to the lowest working-class class, even so, Sister Xin will give him food every day, which makes him feel the warmth he has not seen for a long time.

Walking and shaking, it seemed that his legs and feet were not dexterous, but in fact, the numbness in his legs had not completely eased, he put the books back on the shelves, and then walked downstairs.

Looking at the book that the boy put on the bookshelf, looking at the back of the boy staggering away, Su Xin sighed, she was almost hungry to a skeleton but did not forget to study, this precious spirit is really precious.

I thought of my younger brother who was not angry, and he didn't know how to be blessed in the blessings, and often complained that the family had no money to ask the teacher for guidance, when would the younger brother be able to be admitted to Sika School with half the boy's efforts.

Walking out of the library and looking at the new world, Chu Xiao no longer had the same sense of novelty as he first saw the new world a year ago, and now he only had a desire.

Longing to soar through the skies on a shuttle and be in the company of birds, or dive to the bottom of the sea to say hello to the fish; Eager to create a card movie that can be shown in a virtual reality theater; Eager to fight with cards in hand and teach those gangsters in the dark streets a hard lesson.

The sky is dark, the street lights are bright, all kinds of shuttles with gorgeous tail flames shuttle through the Hongxia District, in and out of the major high-rise buildings, some people are going home after work, some people are going to watch the newly released card shadows, and some people are going to spend time and drink.

In short, no one cares about the means of transportation under the crotch, because the shuttle is the most common means of transportation in the world, there is no pollution, and the energy comes from a small card.

Shuttles are different because the companies that create them are different, and at the tail of the shuttle, above the fumarole, there are various brand logos, which are in some ways a status symbol.

Chu Xiao didn't know the shuttle brand, and he didn't care, because he didn't even have a shuttle.

While slowly walking towards the black street, he opened the bread bag, and he had to finish eating the bread before walking to the black street, otherwise he would accidentally meet the thugs, and his bread would be robbed.

The streets are full of poor people, and there are many orphans like him, who form gangs in groups to steal other people's food and federal coins, and live a miserable life.

Chu Xiao didn't want to go along with them, he had a dream, he wanted to be admitted to Sika Academy, and realize his desires one by one.

Stopping outside the dark and secluded black streets and alleys, with the help of the street lights, Chu Xiao stuffed the last bite of bread into his mouth and walked in cautiously.

As soon as he entered the bottomless alley, it was like entering an abyss without light, and a chill surged into his heart, Chu Xiao tightened his wide leather jacket, the kind that lost his skin, and turned into another alley, the black street had not seen the sun for too long, and it was as cold as falling into an ice cellar.

Chu Xiao habitually pinched his nose, there was a sour smell of rotten meat here, and the people in the black street were so poor that they couldn't even afford to eat, how could they get rotten meat?

It was the carrion of people, and in the dark streets, people starved to death or died of disease in small rooms, and no one cared about them, and over time, the corpses decomposed, and a disgusting stench permeated them.

The black street does not affect the life outside, so the government does not care, and no one wants to enter the black street and deal with those crazy people who are messing around, especially those in the upper class.

The smell of wine is also afraid of the deep alleys, and the stench of rotting corpses naturally cannot be transmitted around the labyrinthine black streets to the wonderful world outside.

Turning into the third alley, the disgusting sour smell gradually dissipated, but the sound of "uh-huh-ahhhhhh

Many men and women in the streets are indiscreet, and everywhere can be a battlefield full of artillery fire.

Even if they are raped, women do not resist, but instead go to the enjoyment, some of them are already AIDS patients, and they carry out the evil carnal trade with the attitude of enjoying one less at a time, or harming one by one.

The technology in this world is very advanced, medicine is also very advanced, and the HIV virus can be easily eradicated, but the people in the black street have no money to go to the hospital, and they can only wait to die if they suffer from AIDS, so there is the barbaric scene before.

These people in the black street live the lowest life, living day after day in a mess, and in the end they don't even have the dignity they have left.

Of course, most of the people in the black street still retain their dignity as human beings, and still have a trace of the illusion that life will fall into darkness at some point.

Chu Xiao pinned his head to the other side and left in a hurry, and was blocked by several black shadows after taking a few steps.