The Eugene Galaxy is an ordinary galaxy in the Milky Way.

One thing that is slightly more notable about the Eugene galaxy than those inconspicuous galaxies is that there is an indigenous civilization here.

It was an indigenous person who evolved from a canine-like creature with a furry body to adapt to the cold climate of their planet.

According to recent discoveries, this indigenous civilization here has advanced to the atomic age, and nuclear energy has become an efficient energy source in the civilization.

However, indigenous people are indigenous people, and it is difficult for most civilizations to be interested in indigenous people, except for civilizations that have a need for sociological research, and a civilization that is keen to help them.

However, in addition to civilization as a whole, there are still many individuals who will be interested in indigenous people, such as certain "indigenous poachers".

In fact, the indigenous poaching of the Eugene system was once rampant, and the canine natives here had sky-high moments in the interstellar pet market.

However, with the change of market hotspots and the operation of the Tinder Alliance in the "Star Sea Community", the punishment for indigenous poaching has gradually become more severe, and the canine natives here have gradually been forgotten.

Today, no one is interested in the unremarkable natives here, not even poachers bothering to come to this place.

But unfortunately, the Eugene system happens to be next to the "service paradise" that has just participated in the interstellar society.

Unfortunately, the servants of Paradise decided to find more masters, so they set their sights on the indigenous planet.

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"Xiao Cheng, your recent work attitude is unbelievable...... You see, everyone else is fighting for the future of the company, why do you leave work as soon as you arrive? ”

“…… The company does not have overtime pay, I do not work overtime. ”

In a company in an indigenous country on this planet, a friendly exchange between a boss and a subordinate is taking place.

Makoto is a new employee at the company, and although veteran employees have advised him not to leave work so early, he insists that no overtime pay is illegal.

So after he didn't "volunteer overtime" for a week, his boss interviewed him.

"Xiao Cheng, you can eat indiscriminately, you can't talk nonsense, why doesn't the company have overtime pay? But now the company is very difficult, it is in a critical period of its career, and we need to get through it together! ”

"You see which of those old employees didn't volunteer? Xiaocheng, you are still young, you have to learn to empathize, you must learn to understand the company's difficulties, overcome the difficulties, only when the company is better, everyone will get better! ”

Xiao Cheng listened to the "bitter mouth" teaching of his boss, and secretly glanced at him, but did not say anything.

The boss's words were very emotional, and his tone was subdued, as if he was really in some terrible difficulty and needed to overcome it together.

But in fact, Xiao Cheng only saw his boss buy a house in full some time ago, and even secretly gave a car to a relative of a big man, and he didn't know where the money came from.

"Alas, Xiao Cheng, I know that you are young and vigorous, but being young also has the benefits of being young! If you start struggling at this time, then your life for the next ten years will not be a problem! ”

"I think I was as young as you back then, but I have struggled for more than ten years to have such achievements as I am now! You are younger than me, and the future is immeasurable! ”

"So listen to my advice, work hard, struggle, think about your future, the next big boss is you!"

“…… Yes, yes, you are educated to ......" Xiao Cheng didn't want to listen to this nonsense anymore, followed his boss's words, and then found an excuse to leave here.

Several veteran employees also saw him, but they all hurriedly said hello and staggered by, still struggling to work overtime.

Seeing these "voluntary overtime" employees, and thinking about their future vision, Xiao Cheng sighed and left the company's gate.

The place where he works is a big business, and it has collusion with many forces, and ordinary people like him can't fight them at all.

There have been many young people who have decided to use extreme suicide methods to threaten their bosses and get their rightful rights after the arbitration failed.

But they were soon labeled as "malicious wage bargaining", and they were happy to go to prison for several months, and their lives were ruined.

He just enjoyed as much of the rest he had left before the company got impatient, and it wasn't long before he could be one of those "volunteer overtime" employees.

The scenery along the way is a bit depressed, and it's winter, when the average temperature is below freezing.

But occasionally you can see some driven beggars on the streets, people with disabilities who cannot find any work, and who can only hope for mercy on the road in order to stay alive.

However, it was clear that they had "affected the appearance of the city" and were expelled by the patrol.

Although there were "relief stations" sponsored by the nobles and grandfathers in the city, only those who were able to do heavy physical work were accepted there, and the number of places per day was limited.

But this scene is already strange in the city, and all the pedestrians on the streets just glance indifferently and then do what they have to do.

Although Xiao Cheng's heart was touched, there was nothing he could do about it, after all, he himself had to save money to make ends meet.

Except to send a blessing in his heart, he could only hurry past this unpleasant scene.

He is still some way home, and although it is far from the company, he can only afford to rent a house in this place.

He hadn't taken a few steps when he heard a noise coming from the intersection in front of him.

But I saw a few aristocratic grandfathers racing on the road throwing a perfect drift at the intersection, and in the blink of an eye, they sped in front of them, and they could only see the black dots that became smaller rapidly, and it was hard to imagine how fast they drove.

One of them was not very skilled, and he passed by Xiao Cheng, first feeling his hair being blown up by the wind under the action of the air current, and then his belated heart beating violently.

He had just almost died, and the horror of hindsight made him already sweat coldly, and goosebumps broke out all over his body.

This completely unpredictable line of life and death caused him to collapse directly to the ground, breathing heavily, and struggling to stand up for a while.

He glanced at the patrols just now, but saw that these guys were like nobody, as if they didn't notice the illegal behavior of drag racing, and they were still reprimanding those pedestrians who were walking on the road normally, telling them that if they crashed into the noble grandfather's car, they would not be able to afford it for the rest of their lives.

“…… What a fucking world......" Xiao Cheng muttered to himself, and then dragged his weak body back home as soon as possible.

He was really afraid that he would almost be in trouble like he had just been, and as the patrol said, the compensation for his death would not cover the noble grandfather's car.

After returning to his "kennel", that sense of security gradually settled his frightened heart.

He lay wearily on his bed, staring at the ceiling for a long time before he pulled out a book from the side of the bed that he could reach.

The bookcase, which has been read countless times and appears to be a little damaged, is printed with the words "The Unsolved Mysteries of the World".

It's one of his favorite books, and he especially likes one of the "unsolved mysteries" – the mass disappearances of decades ago.

At that time, there were frequent large-scale disappearances of people in various parts of the world, the source of which is unknown, and the outcome is unknown, except that many people mysteriously disappeared from this world.

Although the aftermath of this incident has settled down, speculation about this incident has never stopped, including what "time and space turbulence theory", "government conspiracy theory", "terrorist creature theory" and so on......

And what Xiao Cheng agrees with the most is the "alien abduction theory".

This speculation is that a group of aliens used ultra-high technology to capture these people for some purpose. However, this speculation is also the least agreed, because no one thinks that aliens will do such a boring thing.

But Xiao Cheng longs for it, and he wants to see the wider world before he dies, even if the aliens treat them as pets or something worse.

His family has actually been cut off by his generation, and all his relatives have died early for various reasons, and he is the last one seedling.

And he doesn't plan to get married, even though the law here says that if you don't marry and have children, you have to pay a high fine, he doesn't want his offspring to live in such a sad world.

This "Unsolved Mysteries of the World" has been turned over by him, but every time he sees this one, he relish it, hoping that there will really be a group of aliens to take him away.

After reminiscing about "The Unsolved Mysteries of the World", he calculated the remaining rest time, and turned out another new book that he hadn't finished reading yet, "Ideal World", and continued to read it.

This book is full of yearning for the extremely good living conditions of the future world, and it is very popular among these poor classes.

But this is actually a "bad book", because its author is an aristocratic grandfather who does not understand the suffering of the people, and the "ideal life" in the book is an extension of the current life of those who are in the upper class.

There's even a classic quote in it: "If you don't have food to eat, then go eat meat." ”

However, it does not prevent Xiao Cheng from liking to read this book, which is good material for dreaming and can add a lot of pictures to fantasy time.

“…… That's nice...... Is this the life of aristocratic grandfathers? Hope to have this dream tonight......"

With that in mind, he pulled out the "dream capsule" that was placed in the depths of the drawer.

This is a "low-end luxury" developed by a certain aristocratic grandfather who has compassion for them at the bottom, and this medicine can make the user have a high probability of having dreams they like while sleeping.

As long as you hint more before going to bed, you can have a wonderful dream, and it is not impossible to experience the life of a noble grandfather in a dream.

Therefore, even if this drug has a large burden on the brain, it is also crazy among the people at the bottom, and most people's wages are spent on it.

Although the feeling of emptiness when waking up is severe, the "addiction" of dreaming is completely impossible to refuse.

Xiao Cheng now has the last grain in his hand, and he has always kept it as a thought, but today's encounter makes him need a little spiritual comfort.

So after dinner, he took the "dream capsule" and soon fell asleep.

He had a wonderful dream.

He discovers that he is no longer in this fucking world, but has gone to a dream "paradise".

There, he's just in charge of playing, and he doesn't have to worry about anything else, but a kind of robot takes care of it.

He doesn't have to work, but if he likes it, he can work with a playful mindset.

There is no annoying boss and no disgusting restrictions, he can pick and choose at any time and return to a life of entertainment to death.

And everything he likes, those extraterrestrial life, cosmic adventures can also be perfectly experienced in the virtual world.

If he could, he wished the dream didn't end.

But dreams are like that, there will always be a day when the bubble bursts.

Xiao Cheng woke up from her sleep again, and what caught her eye was her "kennel".

A huge sense of emptiness enveloped her, and at this moment, all kinds of dark emotions came over her, and she began to self-doubt, self-fear, and soon evolved into extreme destructive emotions.

She didn't want to feel this emptiness anymore, she wanted to jump from a tall building and say goodbye to the whole world.

“…… But suicide is punishable...... Penalize......? ”

"It's weird...... Memories are a little ......" she hugged her head, trying to remember her past and everything in this world.

She should be a company employee, working from 9 to 5 every day, and was reprimanded by her boss not long ago. But......

"Boss......?" The fat figure in the memory has been blurred, and even began to fade rapidly, and soon disappeared directly from the memory.

Instead, there were the lives of her dreams, which seemed to be what she had actually experienced, not just "dreams".

However, her perception of the place was not abnormal.

She remembered that the world had been unified by a steppe people, but this huge country had collapsed in just a dozen years, and those divided countries had formed the current social structure hundreds of years later.

It seems that all unpleasant memories have been erased, and only basic cognition remains, as well as some "extra memories".

"I'm ...... I should be...... Xiao Cheng? My job today is ......" As she remembered this, she suddenly fell into a state of extreme sleepiness and was about to fall asleep almost immediately.

It was also at this last moment that a warm embrace embraced her, and said in a soft voice:

“…… Sleep, master, you don't need to work. When you wake up again, it's over......"

Here's a fragment of her memory, and peace has returned to the "kennel".

Subsequently, the seemingly ordinary "kennel" suddenly changed dramatically, the dilapidated walls and houses were restored to their bright appearance, and the crystallization of countless technologies was all over it, which seemed to be the "future world" in Xiao Cheng's dream.

And in this beautiful building, a series of exchanges also sounded:

“…… I thought that the use of familiar environmental projection could help the 'master' gradually adapt to the new body and new life, but I didn't expect it to have the opposite effect and induce the owner's self-destructive emotions. ”

"Sure enough, the 'masters' are too fragile and must be protected by us......"

(End of chapter)