Jiang Bei took out the goods from the shopping basket one by one and stacked them on the counter.

Behind the counter, the owner of the convenience store wore a floral apron, rolled up his sleeves, and scanned the barcodes of the goods with a laser scanning gun.

When he swept to one of the boxes of shampoo, he flipped the box over to confirm the words on his eyes, and then grinned: "Hair growth shampoo again?" ”

The boss's surname is Chang, and Jiangbei, who will come to the store every once in a while, and the boss can also be regarded as acquaintances.

The laser scanner in the boss's hand "dripped" and entered the shampoo, and at the same time glanced at Jiangbei's fairly thick black hair: "Actually, it's okay for you to look at it, the amount of hair is okay, there is no need to pay so much attention." ”

"It's called planning ahead." Jiangbei also accompanied him with a ride, "Eight of the ten in our line of work are bald, and there are two on the way."

I just graduated not long ago, and I'm almost the one on the road. ”

The boss nodded sympathetically: "Well, programmer, I understand." ”

After a pause, the boss changed his words: "So, you have to hurry up even more, Xiao Jiang." You see that you are young now, you have hair but no belly, and your salary is not low.

It's the right way to get a beautiful daughter-in-law now! Like me, I got married at the age of nineteen, my wife is beautiful and virtuous, she listens to me in everything, and I let her go east, but she doesn't dare to go west. Now they all have a second child......"

The door at the back of the store opened, and a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl walked out with a blank face: "Dad, Mom said that she would come back late when she went shopping with her colleagues today." She told you to remember to wash and dry your clothes and come back in the evening for her to check. ”

"Gotcha!"

The boss responded almost reflexively, and then immediately realized that something was wrong, and when he looked down, he saw Jiang Bei's expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

"Uh...... Haha, it's good to do laundry and exercise. The boss rolled up his sleeves and waved his arms twice, as if to show off his non-existent muscles.

"Yes, yes, of course."

Jiang Bei responded with a smile and lifted the bag containing the goods in his hand. He stretched out his hand and scratched in front of him, and the retina in front of him appeared with a list of various UI operation interfaces, and as the screen scrolled with his operation, a large eye-catching "Payment" button soon appeared in the middle of the field of vision.

Implanted chips provide great convenience to modern people's lives. The light curtain projected directly on the retina can complete almost all the operations of people's work, travel and daily life.

In fact, Jiang Bei is not a lonely sword saint of the type of "no woman in his heart draws his sword", and he understands the reason of what the boss said. However, the reality does not allow it.

To be honest, in retrospect, Jiangbei still has some regrets. I don't know how good my sister is, and I mistake the game for a treasure. During college, whenever I had a little free time, I sat with my sand sculpture roommates in the Internet café for five consecutive times, and I always felt that there was still more time.

When all the life and energy of the school were filled with the blessing of 996, I was surprised that the young love in the school was the easy difficulty, and after coming out, I went directly from the beginning to purgatory. It's like the teacher saying, "Okay, students, we just learned about quadratic equations today, so today's homework is to solve the Riemann conjecture."

So he definitely can't hand in this homework, but fortunately he still has a faithful and reliable five girls.

Especially in the past two years, the rise of AI drawing has driven the frenzy of the welfare industry, and the number of tons of astringent drawings comparable to toilet paper has been frantically output, bringing the gospel of LSPs and pushing the human XP system in the direction of rushing for psychiatrists. So he thinks he can deal with it now.

Walking out of the convenience store, Jiangbei walked down the street at night with a shopping bag.

Kangtu City is not the kind of place that is very suitable for going out at night, at least not in Xiangjiang District. At ten o'clock, there are almost no pedestrians on the streets, and the night is like a huge picture scroll, composed of several different shades of black tones, mixed with the city's unique red and green light, like a stain in a picture scroll.

The convenience store owner complained last week that a supermarket two blocks away had been robbed in the early evening. When the robber put a knife holder around the cashier's neck and asked him to withdraw the money, at least five people inside and outside the store saw it, but none of them did anything.

They were like the audience outside the screen who didn't care about the popcorn, quietly watching the robber ransack every coin on the counter, munching on melon seeds and watching him walk away. It wasn't until the robbers disappeared around the corner that the sheriff's department received a call from the police.

But you can't blame them for anything, that's how it has been these days. People have learned how to manage their own affairs, and they don't even dare to help an old man who slips on the street without a deposit of 180,000 yuan in their pockets.

About halfway through, Jiangbei saw a man.

A man in a white suit, wearing a high top hat and a black cane in his hand, seems to have come out of a picture scroll. Dressed elegantly, but the image doesn't feel like it should appear on the empty street in the middle of the night, but more like preparing to attend the Grammy awards ceremony.

He lifted his cane as Jiangbei walked by his side and crossed it in front of Jiangbei.

Jiang Bei was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at this eye-catching guy, and was sure that he should never have a chance to meet such a person. So he hesitated and asked, "Uh, excuse me...... Do we know each other? ”

"Oh, just a small problem, it won't take up much of your time, sir."

The man stepped forward slowly, his movements graceful like the Xizhou gentleman who often appears in movies. The roadside lights fell on him like a large sheet of silver, making him look as if he had come out of a dream.

"Excuse me, is this 'real'?"

"What?" Jiangbei didn't understand this question.

But the man seemed so serious, as if he was really desperate for an answer to this unclear question.

But he didn't really seem to want to get an answer from Jiang Bei, but let out two disturbing weird laughs.

"Ah, that seems to be a long way from the 'real', and my journey is not over yet."

He said this without a beginning, and he suddenly poked out his left hand.

Jiang Bei swore that this was the fastest guy he had ever seen in his life, and his naked eyes couldn't even see the movements of that arm. When he came back to his senses, his throat was already clutched.

The powerful palm of his hand was like pincers, and the tremendous pressure squeezed the last shred of air out of his throat. The white suit contained a terrifying power that was completely incompatible with his image, and Jiang Bei felt like a powerless chicken cub in front of him.

Jiangbei couldn't speak, and even thinking seemed to be cut off by a strange force. He saw a terrifying excitement appear in the man's eyes.

He saw the man's other hand stabbing at him.

With a lightning puncture, Jiangbei's chest cavity was pierced like a paper window, and the gushing blood stained the white suit. He saw the man's hand pull out of his chest, clutching a blood-red mass in his hand.

Jiangbei quickly realized that it was his heart.

The man pulled out his heart.

"Fatal Injuries, Vital Signs Dangerous ......"

"Emergency numbers are being automatically dialed...... Failed to dial ......"

A prompt popped up in the light curtain in front of him, and his vision quickly blurred. Jiangbei seemed to hear the man's laughter, mixed with the alarm sound from the chip, but soon it was also getting farther and farther away in his ears.

The man let go of his hand. Jiangbei broke free, but then fell into the arms of gravity. It was as if an invisible hand reached out from the center of the earth, dragging him downward.

Jiangbei fell on the icy sidewalk.

The dying alarm flickered in front of me and gradually blurred. The lights dimmed, the sidewalks were as cold as polar glaciers, and the world seemed to be coated with a dark filter. Everything is moving away from me.

That's what it feels like to die.

In the last moments before everything plunged into darkness, he seemed to see the light.

Like a meteor dragging a beautiful trajectory, tearing through the darkness and rushing straight from the other side of the abyss.

The next moment, an incomparable burst of light and heat.

It was as if all things were annihilated.