2123, May, 22 Chang'an City. Pen Fun Court www.biquge.info Saturday.

Under the blue sky.

A criss-cross intercity maglev fast track.

Supertall buildings with different shapes

Everything exudes a thriving and vibrant atmosphere.

The busy and orderly city is playing the notes of peace to every citizen.

There is a large area of open space in the center of the city, which is a transparent holographic inner image mask.

Inside it is a faintly recognizable remnant of an ancient Chinese castle-style building.

Among the tourists weaving back and forth on the ten-meter-high glass cover, twenty or thirty people dressed as eleven or twelve-year-old students sat around the glass cover.

In the middle is a very beautiful young teacher, with a teaching projection flying instrument suspended above his head, and the projector is still projecting like a new student joining the class.

The teacher is explaining: "Most of the local students in Chang'an City should have been here, or some people have seen relevant materials before, this war relic is the former landmark and city center of Chang'an City, China: the bell tower, built in the 17th year of Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty in ancient China, 1384 AD...... It was later destroyed in 1939 and renovated five times...... In 2042, it will be almost completely destroyed due to being on the brink of a nuclear explosion. ”

Then he pointed to a deflated bell-shaped metal object not far away: "It was a 6.5-ton Jingyun clock destroyed by the shock wave of a nuclear explosion, and it still has very strong radioactive elements."

In 2049, the Asia-Pacific government deliberately retained the original appearance of Chang'an City when it was treated and rebuilt, and only the scattered and burned corpses were disposed of, so as to remind everyone of the cruelty of war and the process of human civilization accompanied by a lot of self-destruction, and to prevent human beings from being blinded by hatred and desire again...... Students can also see the glorious images of the clock tower and the real-life replay ...... during the nuclear explosion through the image inside the protective cover. ”

Outside of the densely drivewayed, crowded urban areas, there are lush forests, but in the jungle outside the settlements, you can occasionally see a trace of abandoned roads or building roots under the vegetation.

Although more than 70 years have passed since the third thermonuclear war, the number of human beings has not yet recovered to half of the pre-war period, especially in China, which was once the world's most populous region, now has a population of less than 700 million, and after the integration of intelligent robots into society, human beings' desire to raise the next generation is getting lower and lower.

It is dozens of kilometers away from Chang'an City, Xianyang City.

The former Acropolis of Chang'an has been abandoned after the thermonuclear war, and in the dense forests around here, too many limbs and bodies were buried decades ago, although the epidemic prevention treatment and purification were carried out after the war, but people seem to want to escape the pain of the past, or because of the lack of population and unnecessary, except for some locomotive roads, everyone invariably avoids rebuilding this old city.

Except for a very seriously renovated mausoleum and monument next to the airport road, this area has rarely been visited by ordinary citizens.

However, an area with the airport as the core is surprisingly tall and small, with more than a dozen top international hotels and restaurants. The lavish décor, the neat cruising lane, the various lights and three-dimensional advertisements seem so out of place with the dilapidated but dense bungalows and the lush greenery around it.

The air is filled with suspended spherical mechanical guards that can be found everywhere in the streets of the bustling regional center, and there are no children and strollers, school buses, police cars, etc., but there are all kinds of tattooed men and men in fancy clothes.

The few women are either powerful women with a few robot bodyguards by their side, or charming women who are dressed so enchanting that people dare not touch them.

The reason why it gradually became the most famous night capital in the whole of China after the war is because the abandoned airport was transformed into an underground gambling club by an international gaming organization called "Black Mud" decades ago.

Hotels, casinos, nightclubs, and red-light districts are no worse.

The airport's spacious apron has been transformed into the world's third-largest underground tuning car arena.

It is home to the tentacles of feared gangsters, chaebols and politicians, as well as thrill-seeking plutocrats and a large number of young people who have lost themselves.

There are even criminals from various countries who are hiding here.

The only security management here is the various suspended circular mechanical guards with the logo of the Black Clay Company, and the half-hidden barrel under the circular sphere camera makes everyone who wants to commit a crime calm down.

Everyone here knows,

Anyone here who has violence or crime is not going to go to court.

Rather, it is a direct killing or a brutal arrest.

Unless you're a big member of the Black Mud Group or a senior member of the Black Mud Club.

So while there are a lot of criminals here.

However, the crime rate is much lower than in the average city.

It is true that the membership logo that represents status is only possessed by those who are wealthy and in high positions, and ordinary people are rejected by the high membership fee.

But the government seems to be blind to those who do not leave the area, even ordinary wanted criminals.

The unmanned cruisers of those police stations also never patrol this area, let alone patrolling police cars and police.

The rapid prosperity and development of Chang'an City are also inextricably linked here.

There have been some government officials who had ambitions to purge the area from its administrative jurisdiction, but various accidents or personnel changes have prevented it from coming to pass.

There is a rumor in the market that this black mud company was founded after the thermonuclear war in the last century, and the founder was a senior general who retired from dozens of countries.

The indifference of governments to a large number of ex-servicemen led them to organize such a club on their own initiative.

They provide for themselves by operating a number of highly lucrative industries to support a variety of neglected retired officers and soldiers.

Later, I heard that this organization has infiltrated the military systems and even political circles of various countries, and has become an untouchable behemoth, and its profits are even comparable to those of the top ten large groups in the world.

They are not listed, so there are no public financial statements to know how profitable they are.

These rumors are impossible to verify, but the murderous aura that permeates some of the group's managers can be felt in the rigor and discipline unique to the military, and even the occasional special army tattoo on the senior waiter of one or two bars makes the bar riots here much lower than the bars in Chang'an.

In particular, the mechanical whispering sound between the joints of the strong arms or legs of those senior attendants is very special, this kind of expensive hybrid bionic prosthetics is not only unaffordable for ordinary people, the most important thing, they are obviously not the kind of realistic biological prostheses for civilian use, they have no restrictions on safety strength, these are military high-density prostheses that can easily pinch and explode human bones, even if most of them are not the latest models, but they are still military models that can be shaken hard with combat mechs, who wants to provoke them?