Towers through the clouds lower the neon-lit night sky, lavish floats weave through the dense rain curtains, and blue tailflames sweep across the massive holographic projections floating on the surface of the buildings.

The projection of a real whale turned over in the sea of clouds, accompanied by brilliant fireworks, and the low and melodious whale chirping resounded in the night sky.

……

Lin Chuan, who was dressed in a crisp suit, wore brown rimless glasses, and walked out of the Ember Restaurant on the 99th floor of the Araki Tower under the respectful gaze of the bionic mechanical waiter, with a swaying girl in his arms.

But if you look closely, you can find that Lin Chuan's hand did not cover the girl's unbearable waist, but hung in the air, blocking the cute butterfly tattoo on the girl's waist, which is a standard gentleman's hand.

The girl raised her head, glanced at Lin Chuan with some disgust, and muttered with a sigh of wine, "You like this butterfly very much?" As he spoke, he pressed Lin Chuan's hand to his waist.

"Miss Mo, I can't sell my body...... Phew, it's not a showman, although this butterfly is beautiful, it's not the one I like to see. ”

Lin Chuan naturally raised his arm and glanced at the time, but his gaze was uncontrollably looking at the colorful butterfly tattoo under the blue-purple neon, but this downward gaze seemed to have misunderstood Miss Mo.

She blushed and spat "Rogue." But his body became a little softer.

"I'm really sorry, I have to go first, or I won't be able to catch the next empty rail."

Lin Chuan hurriedly stopped a floating car, stuffed Miss Mo in, and after telling the driver the address, he closed the car door directly.

Seeing the floating car go away, Lin Chuan hurriedly rushed into the nearest elevator, and after reaching the 69th floor, he rushed into the shopping mall, slipped into the warehouse of the big bird turn clothing store, put the suit and tie with the tag in it, and took off the old glasses.

Before going out, he deliberately wrinkled his ironed white shirt and messed up his back, and soon changed from a well-dressed gentleman to a somewhat down-and-out company employee.

After quickly changing his image, Lin Chuan hurried to the elevator room again, and before the elevator door closed, the voice of Lao Zhang, the warehouse manager, came from a distance behind him:

"Xiaolin, I'll work early the day after tomorrow, remember to come back in the evening to deliver the goods."

"Got it!"

Lin Chuan looked at the information of the next order on his mobile phone seriously, and answered without raising his head.

In order to make up enough tuition fees to go to the ideal university, Lin Chuan found three part-time jobs, tutoring, delivery, and registered as a junior stand-in in the most popular stand-in APP.

For example, Miss Mo, who had dinner with him at the Ember Restaurant just now, just wanted to find a stand-in to deal with the family's urging to marry, and Lin Chuan only needed to accompany her for a meal to earn 500 federal coins.

It is worth mentioning that this is the first time that Lin Chuan has received an order from more than 50 floors, and just after Miss Mo handed him the transparent ordering tablet, he turned to the last page until he found a three-digit dish "Autumn Mood".

When Lin Chuan finished ordering, he realized that it was a piano piece...... As a result, he finally went to such a high-end restaurant, but Lin Chuan could only come out on an empty stomach.

In addition, Lin Chuan also played the role of an uncle who held a parent-teacher conference for elementary school students, and cried breathlessly at the funeral......

It's hard to make money.

And the next order, Lin Chuan needs to play the son of an old woman, the sister of the stand-in who placed the order, her brother got off work too late a few days ago, and was made by a scavenger on the way home, the old lady at home has been immersed in grief and can't get out, and Lin Chuan needs to comfort her.

……

As the floors got lower and lower, there were more and more people in the elevator, and the elevator finally reached the 33rd floor.

Catching up with this air rail train according to the plan, Lin Chuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and making plans was a small habit of his.

Whether it is studying or coming out to take over the order of a substitute, Lin Chuan will plan in advance, and sometimes, he will even accurate the time to the second, in order to improve his efficiency.

If he had been bored with Miss Mo for a while just now, the clothing store he was responsible for delivery would have closed, and even if he hadn't removed the tag, Lin Chuan would have to buy the "sky-high" suit, so only poverty can make people resist the temptation.

And Lin Chuan's least favorite thing was that his original plan was disrupted because of other people's reasons, but now he is not angry with Miss Mo at all, and his mind is full of the colorful butterfly tattoo.

Eighteen-year-old boy, it was when the firepower was strong, Lin Chuan did not deliberately control his reverie, and his imagination did not commit crimes.

……

……

The night sky became deeper, and the fine raindrops formed a beaded curtain, covering the heavens and the earth.

finally comforted the old woman who lost her beloved son, and Lin Chuan's mobile phone also received a text message from the bank:

"Your savings card with tail number 9527 earned $200.00 at 20:17 on May 28, and the current balance was $10,112.23. 【Ideal Bank】"

This is the first time that his balance has exceeded five figures, and although he is still 20,000 yuan away from making up the tuition for the first year, Lin Chuan still thinks that he should celebrate.

Catching up with the last air rail train, Lin Chuan was lucky to find a place by the window, and before falling asleep, the old woman's sentence echoed in his mind:

"It's gone, and I know what it means to be gone."

On the airrail train to the holographic projection, a pure white robot is broadcasting the latest federal news:

[The Federal Parliament sent a congratulatory message to the Transcendent Academy in the 7th District, congratulating the more than 100 C-level graduates of the Transcendent Academy, which will begin to expand its enrollment in September, and is expected to recruit more than 1,000 new students for the first time.] 】

[The crime rate in the 9th District remains high, and the federal government may adopt mandatory control.] 】

【Ideal Biotechnology Company in District 5 Launches a New Generation of Anti-aging Drug ......】

Half a century has passed since the Third World War, and the Federation's nine safe zones have isolated the wilderness and the outside world.

With limited land in the safety zone, the city can only grow vertically, and in addition to the dilapidated surface roads, elevators and floating cars have become the main transportation facilities.

The 33rd floor of the air rail platform seems to have become a dividing line.

Even in the ninth security zone with the highest crime rate, people above the 33rd floor enjoy the prosperity brought about by the high development of technology.

The advertising projections of various anti-aging drugs there are higher than the building, and they are slowly scrolling upwards until they disappear into the sky.

And people living below the 33rd floor can only hear the noisy sounds, those skyscrapers that break through the sea of clouds, leaving them with only a sense of dark oppression.

……

[Arriving at the station ahead, Gwangrim Tower Station, Gwangrim Tower Station is the terminus of this empty rail, please bring your belongings and get off from the left side. 】

Lin Chuan opened his eyes a little tiredly, walked down the empty track quickly, scanned his pupils in front of the public locker by the platform, took out the schoolbag that was stored here in the morning, went to the bathroom and changed into casual clothes, and then walked through the huge iron gate guarded by IPC and walked into the elevator.

The iron door seemed to separate the two worlds, and the walls behind the door were covered with filthy electronic graffiti, which seemed to smell of decay in the air under the reflection of blue-green fluorescence.

Raindrops dripped down the eaves, washed over the dusty glass walls, and flowed into the narrow dimly lit alleys.

Lin Chuan, who finally stepped on the ground, put on a hood, revealing only the slightly pale lower half of his face.

Beneath the pure black hoodie was a little washed white jeans, and even though the canvas shoes on his feet were a little worn, he carefully avoided the neon puddles.

There were not many pedestrians on the road, most of them bowed their heads numbly, walking like a walking corpse to the next destination, and in the deeper alleys, there were girls selling sex and negotiating prices with their customers, and there were also drunk men shouting nonsense with their tongues out.

Lin Chuan stopped at the door of the convenience store, hesitated for a moment but walked in, and bought a ham sausage and a strawberry-flavored protein bar for twelve yuan, and then continued to walk to the edge of the city.

There are fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road, and the streets are becoming more desolate and dark.

Near the suburbs, you can see a huge floating fortress hanging over the edge of the safety zone, and every time he looks up at these nuclear reactor-powered behemoths on the ground, Lin Chuan will sincerely feel his own insignificance.

The faint sound of gunfire and engine roar grew clearer and clearer from far to near.

Lin Chuan was unmoved, but calmly walked into the alley next to him, took down a loose wall tile from the dilapidated wall, took out the dagger that had been hidden in it a long time ago, and put it in his pocket.

Growing up in the suburbs, he was used to the chaos of the place, where gunshots rang out, and it could only be that people in the wilderness had crossed the fence, because the guns in the safety zone were strictly controlled.

The heavily armored float truck hung at the end of the road, and several heavily armed IPC security soldiers ignored the height of more than ten meters and jumped directly from the float vehicle, followed by a dense burst of gunfire.

The IPC is a federal law enforcement agency, and each law enforcement squad is equipped with a floating vehicle, and full-body exoskeleton armor, and is the only law enforcement officer in the security zone who can legally carry a gun.

During a firefight, the IPC will indiscriminately attack all lifeforms within 20 meters, and Lin Chuan doesn't want to get into trouble.

After less than a minute, the night sky was once again silent, as if nothing had happened, except for a few leaves blown off by the circular air flow of the floating car.

The "scavengers" who had been waiting on the side for a long time were like vultures that had seen carrion, and they swarmed up, and Lin Chuan also took a step forward and walked over.

These scavengers are scavengers in the 9th district, and most of them survive by collecting supplies from corpses, while others take risks and do some illegal and criminal acts.

Sometimes, hungry scavengers also take some of the corpses...... These unidentified wilderness people are a special group of people who only exist in Sector 9 of Chaos.

Lin Chuan ignored the vigilant gaze of the "scavengers" and said to himself:

"The suburbs are getting more and more chaotic now, are you sure you can be awake just by meditating?"

"I guess it'......"

The voice in Lin Chuan's head was very unconfident.

He was about to complain when a ragged scavenger stood in front of him.

The somewhat rudimentary mantis knife catapulted out of the scavenger's mechanical arm, and the dark red rust on the blade exuded a dangerous aura.

I thought of the old woman's sentence, "It's gone, and I know what it means to be gone." Lin Chuan slowly closed his eyes, clenched the dagger in his pocket, and whispered under the puzzled gaze of the scavengers:

"I'm out to work."

"Okay!"