In the spring of 2088, Huazhou Development Alliance, 11th Free Trade Zone, Edoto.

On the edge of Adachicho in the lower town, somewhere in a cheap apartment building.

In a small room of more than a dozen square meters, there are a few fragmentary paper leaflets scattered around, visible to the naked eye, and they are cleanly poor.

The dim light shines through the vents of the exhaust fan into the dimly lit room, and the light and shadow on the wall flicker, the projection TV repeats the daily news.

"Smack."

Suddenly, the emaciated teenager staggered up from the bathroom floor where there was only one person, shaking his head.

The clear pulse between the forehead and the faint smell of blood lingering on the tip of the nose constantly stimulated the sensitive nerves of the young man.

The amount of information that was rudely poured into his mind made him feel uncomfortable, and it also made him realize his current situation very quickly.

He crossed.

"It's... What the hell is this, am I a little too unlucky..."

He looked at the blood marks on his wrists in amazement, and muttered to himself:

"If I die again now, will I be able to catch the next round of reincarnation?"

The original name of the owner of this body was [Aragaki Nagisa].

A month ago, Aragaki Nagisa was an honor student at Fujiwara High School, hardworking, excellent in character and learning, no bad habits, except for comparing Sven who doesn't like to talk much, is a very ordinary male high school student.

Although Nagisa Aragaki's mother is a senior employee of Fujiwara Biotechnology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Fujiwara Foundation.

He himself lived in Shinjuku, Kami-jo, Edo, since he was a child, and attended an aristocratic school that only "high-class people" could enroll.

This kind of origin has surpassed most ordinary people in this magical world.

But that background is now a thing of the past.

Everything changed a month ago when Fujiwara sent the sad news of the unexpected death of Nagisa Aragaki's mother, Yuko Aragaki.

As soon as he ended his mother's funeral in a daze, Nagisa Aragaki began to receive "receipts" from various group companies one after another.

Delos Multinational Bank's loan bills, Goethe's rent, TCPD's service fees, Umbrella Trauma Team's insurance money, Arasaka's funeral company's labor expenses, and Fujiwara's monthly tuition and miscellaneous payments.....

The numbers on the hefty bills are suffocatingly red.

Without the protection of his mother, the pressure of life in this indifferent city poured straight towards the boy, leaving him no time to react.

Although the mother had purchased a high amount of accident insurance before her death, because the cause of death was diagnosed as "death from overwork", the insurance company refused to pay the accident insurance and only gave the compensation of the work-related injury insurance.

This insurance money is actually not small, but the loan amount on the bank account of her mother, Yuko Aragaki, is a bit scary, and Nagisa Aragaki who has no regular income cannot hold the loan at all.

After repaying the bank loan, there was nothing left of the insurance money, and Aragaki Nagisa obviously received more than this bill.

The Aragaki family is a single-parent family, and Yuko Aragaki is in the Ryukyus, but it is now under the jurisdiction of the 13 wards.

And when my mother was young, she ran away from home and went to Edo to develop, and she had already cut off contact with her hometown, so Nagisa Aragaki only had one relative, her mother, and she didn't have any relatives or friends.

Fujiwara, where my mother worked in the past, had "taken care" of Nagisa Aragaki.

The company hinted that as long as he signed a "deed of sale", the company would take care of him as a guardian until he succeeded, and the price was that he would have to work for the company to pay off his debts for decades to come.

It's just that Nagisa Aragaki refused this "generous" treatment at that time, and Fujiwara never asked about him after that.

Nagisa Aragaki sold his family's floating car and almost all of his valuables, barely settling the messy service bills.

His credit rating plummeted as his account balance nearly bottomed out, and he lost his ability to live in Kamijo Edo.

What's even worse is that Aragaki Nagisa easily listened to the persuasion of his mother's former colleagues, accepted the other party's "help", and handed over the remaining little money to the other party to handle the moving procedures.

As a result, Nagisa Aragaki was cheated even on the last bit of net worth.

He also lived in a cheap apartment on the edge of the lower city, closest to the chaotic outer city, and only paid a month's rent, which was a complete "clean house".

He had just moved out, and he received a transfer certificate and notice that the school had handled for him "intimately", and a manual service bill was attached.

Because the schools in Xiacheng were divided according to the district, Nagisa Aragaki was also transferred to the neighborhood community welfare school that best suited his economic situation.

Although Nagisa Aragaki lost his mother and fell into unprecedented hesitation, he still wants to graduate from school and find a job at a large company.

[Get a ticket to the mainland] - this is his mother's biggest expectation for him.

Today, when the government functions of most countries and regions in the world have been replaced by major multinational corporations, a strong government country will make more people yearn for it.

So even though Nagisa Aragaki is very confused about his future, he will continue to follow the path that his mother pointed out to him.

But the realistic beating did not let Aragaki Nagisa go, and even dragged him up with a big slap on his left hand and right hand.

Because Nagisa Aragaki moved into a cheap apartment closest to the chaotic outer city, the school environment he was assigned to can be imagined.

When Nagisa Aragaki reported to school the next day, he had just been brought into the classroom by a teaching robot covered in graffiti, and was dragged away by several male classmates "under the nose" of the robot lecturer.

He still vividly remembers that before he was dragged out of the classroom by a group of people, the mentally disabled robot was still there giving a speech welcoming his new classmates.

This group of classmates with different hairstyles dragged Nagisa Aragaki into the toilet and "welcomed" him without saying a word.

It's not that Nagisa Aragaki hasn't tried to resist, but he's just a "natural person" who hasn't undergone any transformation.

And his classmates all have more or less prosthetic or martial arts chips on them, and his weak resistance seems ridiculous and pointless.

After being "borrowed" all the balance on their bodies and warned that they would have to pay a "tuition fee" every week in the future, this group of "new classmates" let go of Nagisa Aragaki who had been educated with a blue face and swollen nose.

This "first lesson" is impressive.

However, this is just an appetizer, and the nightmare of teenagers has only just begun.

Because I didn't have the money to buy trauma services from a large company, I naturally didn't have the money to go to a regular hospital, so I had to buy an emergency medical kit with the only paper money left at home and treat my injuries myself.

Sitting on a dimly lit street corner, licking my wounds alone in the cold roar of the engine, the indifference and loneliness are enough to be unforgettable...

Because he has no money to buy security services, the community police basically don't care if he lives or dies.

Because the police in Edotsu are all subordinate to TCPD (Edo City Police Department) - which is also a public company.

Although theoretically these police officers are responsible for managing the security of the city, for those ordinary citizens who do not have the money to buy their company's services...

Unless it is a rampant criminal who actually shoots and kills people in front of them, they will probably only provide some "free services" such as collecting corpses and washing the floor.

With no money to pay his rent, he will be evicted from his low-cost apartment next month.

If he loses his identity as a "Downtown resident", then he will be reduced to the more chaotic environment of the [Outer City].

It's a real hell.

If a young man like him, who has little social connections, is reduced to sleeping on the streets outside the city, he will most likely wake up the next day on a smuggling boat bound for Southeast Lidao, or be put into a jar of material for some black market prosthetic doctor.

Money! Money! Money!

Nagisa Aragaki had never known that money was so important.

The looming situation forces Aragaki Nagisa to find a way to make money, and although the city does not starve the poor to death, there are ways to make life worse than death.

Nagisa Aragaki tried to find a job that would make him money in the short term, but most of the decent jobs he could find required the applicant to have various prostheses or be equipped with advanced chips.

The physical work of the factory requires a prosthetic body to strengthen the body, and the mental work on the management side requires having a high-level skill chip, but it takes a lot of money to install the prosthesis or buy the chip...

And Nagisa Aragaki has no money.

The landlord of Aragaki Nagisa once pointed him out the maze, and the correct solution was actually as follows:

He could take out a loan from the company, get a prosthetic or buy a chip, go to work, and then work to pay the company back — just as Fujiwara promised him.

At that time, Nagisa Aragaki, who was still a little stubborn, was still unwilling to accept this kind of "loan to work" blessing, otherwise he would not have refused the "preferential treatment" of Fujiwara's company.

He wanted to earn some money to go back to school, and he didn't want to resign himself to becoming a part-time machine.

Fortunately, Edo is so big, there is no shortage of job opportunities, and Nagisa Aragaki can still find a job, although most of these jobs are either less profitable or not very serious...

His first job was as a salesman for a black shop downstairs selling weapons in the apartment.

But within two days, the owner of the black shop harassed him, and if it weren't for Nagisa Aragaki running fast, he would almost be killed.

Later, the prosthetic doctor he introduced to the landlord handed out small flyers on the streets, but in fact he was secretly peddling illegal Mewtwo.

He worked for two weeks in this job, and successfully missed two meals of education from his classmates.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and later he unluckily sold cereal to the heads of plainclothes policemen, and all the goods were confiscated.

Not only did he receive a warning from the school, but he even owed a lot of debt to the prosthetic doctor...

Later, he was introduced by a "friend" he met in Cereal to join a street gang in the fringe area, and became a peripheral member of the gang's periphery.

Mainly responsible for doing some errands for the gang, I thought I could take this opportunity to avoid the "debt collection" of my classmates - in fact, I did avoid it once.

But after escaping the education of his classmates, he could not escape the beating of society, and Nagisa Aragaki was later abandoned as bait in a gang conflict and was almost beaten to death by someone from another gang.

The final result is that after a month of tossing, he has earned nothing except for an extra injury, and Nagisa Aragaki's life has become more and more difficult.

After learning from the pain, Nagisa Aragaki recognized a cruel truth:

Prosthetics, smart chips, and various genetically modified agents have enabled human beings to achieve new evolution, and natural people are not competitive in this society.

He has not "evolved", but he is actually a "disabled person" in this society.

Since you can't beat left and right, then find a way to join.

Although Nagisa Aragaki didn't have the money to buy prosthetics, he had more or less accumulated some contacts in his street life for most of the month, and a "good friend" he met in the gang revealed a piece of gossip to him:

[The gang has recently bought a batch of black goods, and as long as the price is very low, you can get the advanced chips of Athena Technology. 】

That friend happened to have something to do with the gang leadership, and as long as Nagisa Aragaki could afford the reserve price, he could help Nagisa Aragaki get one out.

More advanced intelligent chips can bring more powerful information processing efficiency, and the effect on improving personal ability is very terrifying.

Originally, he didn't even look at this level of chips in the past, but he had already sold all his family property when he moved.

Naturally, there are all kinds of chips, and if he had known that it would be difficult to find a job without chips in Xiacheng, how could he have left one or two at that time.

But it was so far, it was useless to regret it, and the price that the "good friend" said was just within the acceptable range of Aragaki Nagisa.

He borrowed a small amount of money from the gang and got an Athena P-AVII. smart chip.

Nagisa Aragaki is confident that with this chip, he will be able to get a lot of jobs to make quick money with his hacking skills, and he will be able to pay back the money soon.

It's a pity... The poor boy was deceived this time.

The chip he bought had a hidden virus in it, and if it weren't for the fact that he was using an external brain-computer interface, he would have burned out his brain the night he plugged in the chip.

Even if he didn't burn his brain, the last valuable "equipment" on his body, the valuable [external brain computer], was also destroyed by the chip virus.

At that moment, this teenager who was tortured by reality finally collapsed completely.

Penniless and in debt, and even losing his brain, Nagisa Aragaki will probably be kicked out of his apartment the next day to fend for himself.

There weren't many options left in front of him:

gritted his teeth and sold his body to pay off his debts; Or refinance surgery to modify the spinal brain-computer interface or other prosthetics to become a real part-time machine; Or abandon the dignity of being a human being and become a deplorable puppet of despicability...

Not seeing the slightest bright future makes the teenager feel hopeless, and in the end he chooses... It's a hundred.

- and then he was picked up by a traverser.

…——…——…——…

“... So, I'd better just wipe my neck and open it again, right? ”

Nagisa Gaku, who had slowly digested his memories of his youth, rubbed his head and stared blankly at the blood-stained knife at his feet, a little eager to try.

This kind of Tianhu start, don't do it!

"From the history of this world... There are a lot of discrepancies with memories, and I guess I have traveled to the future of another parallel world? Merely... What's going on here..."

Nagisa Aragaki raised his bloodstained wrists, and inexplicably, a "word" suddenly appeared in his mind:

"[I want to go back to... None of them were hurt]"

What happened next was a bit more than he could have imagined.

I saw that the wound that was still bloody just now was slowly healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, but after a few breaths, the tender white skin under the bloody marks on the wrist had actually recovered as before!

If it weren't for the blood left on his arm, he would have thought that the wound he had just seen was just an illusion.

"So I'm a... Is it mutated because it's too poor? ”

Nagisa Aragaki muttered to himself.