Chapter 3: The World of Sorrow (Thanks to the Alliance Leader Who Resolved to Lettuce)
Walking out of the giant dome hall of admissions, the sky outside was overcast, and the thin raindrops kept falling from the dark clouds, hitting the black square, splashing a splash.
Whew-
The cold wind blew, and a little rain fell on Heshia's body, and a cold feeling came from her skin.
"This weather ......"
Hehia looked at the rainy world outside, and stood with many students who had just come out.
If it is ordinary rain, with the current technology and tools, there is naturally no need to be afraid, but the rain on the planet of the jade skirt is not, especially the 26 districts in the north, which will be more or less affected by this corrosive rain.
The reason why the entrance hall uses a edged spar dome is to resist this corrosive rain, if it is metal or common concrete, I am afraid that it will be dilapidated in a few years, and then the safety is in jeopardy.
In a year, during the rainy season from April to May, the rain on the planet is very toxic, and from June to August, the toxicity is slowly diluted, and the corrosiveness is greatly reduced.
What to do, do you want to call a rental car, it feels so expensive, but it seems that there is no other choice, Heshia thought to herself.
Although her living expenses are not much, she basically has no income, so everything has to be saved to spend, but fortunately, now that she has graduated from junior high school and entered high school, she can do some simple work to make money.
After hesitating for a while, Hesia, like the other students, booked a hovering taxi with her personal terminal and waited patiently.
The gray rain curtain fell on the world in front of her, falling on the ground, the dome, and the steel structure, hitting different splashes, mixed with water vapor and cold, constantly hitting the wind, although she knew that the rain was a little poisonous, but the silence in this hustle and bustle, still made Heshia feel a faint happiness.
I'm about to become an adult, and I can do a lot of things in the future.
"Hey~Hehia~"
Just as the gray-haired girl stood in front of the rain curtain and waited, a familiar voice came from behind her.
This is?
Heshia turned around and saw three girls walking towards her, dressed in the same school uniforms as the girls, who were also classmates in her junior high school class.
"Are you here alone, Hesia?" One of the outgoing, short-haired girls walked over and slapped Heshia on the shoulder.
"Uh, yes." Hesia's expression was the same as that of a bird, a little cringe and nervous.
Timid, introverted, and socially phobic, this is probably the label she left the deepest impression on others.
"Ahaha, you're quite bold,"
The girl smiled, and then the four of them stood together and talked about their participation in the assessment today.
"Clara, Millie, how did you do on the exam?" The short-haired girl asked about the other two classmates.
"I thought I could do it, and I danced for a while, and the teacher was stunned." A girl in an avant-garde crop top gestures.
"Are you planning to make your idol debut in the future?"
"Of course, being an idol can make a lot of money, and there are countless men who have blown me gold coins, so this kind of life is chic, and I don't want to do that kind of rigid job."
"Hey, it's amazing, Clara will become a big star in the future, don't forget about us, I'll go to you then."
"Where's Millie?"
"I went to the assessment of Sleb Academy.,I should be able to pass.。 Sleb School Park is a school specializing in medicine-related occupations, and the school park is dominated by tidal sequences.
"Millie is humble again, many of the elders in your family are in pharmaceutical companies, and the road ahead has been paved."
"There." Although she didn't admit it much, she couldn't hide the smile and smugness on the girl's face.
The short-haired girl smiled and talked to the two classmates, this kind of skillful speech and social skills made the gray-haired girl on the side envious.
"What about Lina?"
Finally, the gray-haired girl next to her couldn't help but whisper, she had been at the same table with Lina for a while before, so she was quite familiar, and she was not as scared as other classmates.
"I-ll talk about you later, Hesia." Lina deliberately sold it out.
"I ...... I applied for the Erin School Park.,I've been preparing for a long time.,Maybe this time.。 The girl hesitated a little.,Still didn't say anything about applying for Eddes Academy.,After all, it's too self-conscious.。
"Erin School is not bad, right?,I remember when I was in the second year of junior high school,,You were reading medicine-related materials.,Then you'll start preparing.,It's a good student.,Hesia.。
Erin School Park is a medium-ranked university in the North Seven District.,Mainly train doctors and nurses and other professions.,But,If you really want to become a doctor,,You must go to college.,If it's just a high school graduate.,Then you can only go to be a nurse.。
"Erin Academy,It's okay." Millie whispered, seemingly a little disdainful and a little jealous.
The city where the four of them are located is not a big city, and the quality of teaching in the junior high school is also very poor, even if the students with the best grades in the class can enter the middle ranked high school in the North Seven District, it is an enviable thing.
"By the way, have you heard about Tiffin?" Clara spoke suddenly.
"I don't know, what's wrong with her."
"She's got a boyfriend." Clara said in an exaggerated tone.
"Well, it doesn't seem so strange." Lina ran her hand through the hair on the side of her ear.
In today's era, the information network is developed, and people are generally precocious, even if they fall in love in junior high school, it is not unusual.
"The problem is that the boyfriend she found still has elf blood, but he is handsome~ so envious."
"Elven blood, this is indeed a bit rare, most of the elves on the planet have migrated away."
In fact, at the earliest time, this planet was developed by the consortium of elves in the Federation, so the name is also very characteristic of the elves, 'Jade Skirt', but with the later industrial development and environmental degradation, many elves have slowly left this planet and gone to other star fields of the Federation.
"Yes, yes, so I'm very envious, her boyfriend also bought her the latest 'Moyun Workshop' personal terminal, and I see that the online price is at least 30,000 federal dollars."
"Wow, that's rich." Several others sighed.
There is a large gap in the income of each star field in the Federation, and the median income in the 'Four Leaf Crystal' star field is 32,400 federal coins per year, that is, this is equivalent to the salary of ordinary people for a year.
"This Tiffin really knows, she used to know that she deliberately wore skirts to seduce boys at the Winter Festival Gala, and she couldn't bear the cold weather, but now she doesn't know what tricks she played, tsk."
"Or Millie, you can learn too." Lina teased on the side, as if she was not surprised by this kind of thing.
"Me? I estimate that I will have to wait until the second year of high school, and if the grades are okay, I can ask my aunt for money to have plastic surgery and beauty, which I know very well, after all, many people in our family are engaged in related industries. ”
"Millie is really good, you're too timid, go straight to it, those boys are very easy to fool, shouldn't you have never found a boyfriend yet, the main reason is that it's not easy to find a rich, handsome and single person."
Clara laughed at her companion with impunity, not caring if she offended people with her words.
"You." Millie wanted to refute sarcasm, but looking at Clara's decent figure and skin, she suddenly felt inferior again, and her voice was lowered.
However, when she turned her head and saw the gray-haired girl standing in the corner, her mood suddenly improved again.
"Hesia, you're so pretty, you should have several boyfriends, why don't you see them buying you something."
"I, I've never been in love."
The girl replied a little frightened, she didn't know why the fire suddenly burned on her.
"Alas, it's fake, I don't believe it, now who doesn't want to find a man to spend money on himself, I see that your appearance is okay, if you don't read and read stupidly, how can you not get any of them." When Millie said this, she teased her eyebrows.
"Hahaha." The other two on the side also laughed, which made the gray-haired girl ashamed, and she didn't know how to respond and refute it.
In their class, most of the popular ones are the kind of people who can speak and sing, or love sports and battles, while students like gray-haired girls, who study silently and rarely interact with others, are often marginal characters and little transparent.
"Who do you think you are, and you still expect to get ahead by studying, fool! Hahaha!" Someone in the class once laughed at those introverted classmates like this, causing countless people to laugh.
Although learning is indeed not a panacea, Heshia knows this in her heart, but she is still sad to be told this, and she feels that standing in place is a kind of torture.
Fortunately, in the end, Lina played the round.
"Okay, okay, don't laugh, Heshia is the one who is going to be admitted to Erin Academy, if you become a doctor in the future, you still have to go to her." That's why the two didn't continue to joke.
"That's the point, by the way, it's my turn." Lina loosened her short hair at the side of her ears with her hand, revealing large, round gold earrings that were also encrusted with rubies.
"I'm participating in the admissions review of Turbulence Instrument High School, which you may not have heard of, because this is a school in the South Third District." In the Emerald Skirt Planet, the environment in the southern hemisphere is much better than that in the northern hemisphere, and it is also a more affluent place.
"It is a subordinate school of the 'Black Snail Group', and it is convenient to enter the company after graduation."
"The Black Snail Group? Is that the company that makes waterproof materials? ”
"Yes, that's it, and the benefits are not bad." Although Lina pretended not to care, a few people next to her knew that this was a very enviable big company.
For a while, the topic focused on Lina again, and the gray-haired girl on the side became unattended again, but she didn't need others to care, but this state of no one paid attention to made her relax.
Time passed slowly, and the car called by Heshia came.
"Well, did you call a taxi yourself? I knew that I would call you to carpool with us, so I could save a lot of money. Lina was slightly surprised.
"Ah, this." Heshia didn't know how to answer, so she nodded, and walked into the car in quick steps, and then gradually closed the door.
After sitting in the gray hovercar, the rain and noise outside suddenly fell silent, and only the slight sound of dripping inside the car could be heard.
The AI of the autonomous driving starts to alert, and then the handwriting is also displayed on the screen in front of the car.
[Welcome to travel by car, your target is: Patio at No. 653 Xuanshi Street, Arpeggio City, North 7th District]
[Please OK: Yes/No]
"Sure."
[Received, the vehicle starts to plan the route, please wait]
[Planning is complete, start driving......]
The mechanical voice of the automatic AI is calm and quiet, which makes the girl's originally chaotic mood slowly settle down.
Electronic AIs are so nice, at least they don't say uncomfortable things.
In the car, the girl leaned against the window with the information bag in her arms, looking at the gray world outside.
The rain was still falling, and the water droplets slid through the car window, and then rolled down in a line, and Heshea unconsciously drew patterns on the window with her fingers, and it took a while to wake up.
She is not a celebrity in the class, although she has good theoretical grades, but except for the teacher, not many people actually pay attention to this, just like in a very poor school, everyone talks about which one plays very well, and no one worships people with good grades.
This is not a strange thing, the economy in the Four Leaf Crystal Star Domain is sluggish, and many companies have begun to reduce their staff, even if they have good academic performance, it is difficult to get a decent job.
Anyone can do the same, after all, technology has reached a bottleneck, and the lives of federal residents today have not changed significantly compared to 1,000 years ago.
Without a new track, there will be no new vitality, and a lot of work is standardized and foolish, that is, it does not need to be done by particularly capable people, but relationships and channels become important.
This makes wealth gather at the top, and the bottom is also addicted to all kinds of entertainment and comparisons, worshipping luxury, consumption, etc., after all, it is painful to face this cruel reality that cannot be changed.
This is an era of highly developed science and technology and civilization, and it is also an era when any beautiful illusion falls to the ground, and human beings use knowledge and experience to transcend the shackles of nature, but knowledge and experience have in turn become a new chain of interests.
"So, it's a sad world."
Heshea felt sad about the ridicule of her classmates, but she also knew that it was not just a question of a few classmates, and that many people were looking for answers.
Of course, there is also a more obvious way out, and that is the practice of transcendent sequences.
The transcendent sequence, from 1 to 9, will be promoted once every time the structure of the transcendent core is added, and different structures and veins will also bring all kinds of incredible abilities, which is amazing, and this is also a rare way for people to transcend their own class.
The more powerful and special the ability, the more complex the structure required, and even though they belong to the same sequence level, the strength of the two can also be very different, and this is the reason for this.
The reason why Edex Academy is desirable is that it has 5 ways to progress to the Transcendent Sequence 5 that is evaluated as perfect, which allows the practitioner to have a more solid and perfect foundation and thus go further in the future.
If it is a crude and simple structure to advance, I'm afraid that sequence 2 is the end of many people's lives, after all, the foundation is too fragile, and slightly taller buildings will lead to collapse and collapse, and the transcendent core of the high sequence is no less than a ignited nuclear fusion reactor, and the power it produces is also more special, and it is extremely difficult to restrain this power and still keep sanity and not pollute, which is why the number of high-level transcendents in the entire sea of stars has not been very large.
Thinking about various things in her head, the gray-haired girl slowly fell asleep in the car with the information in her arms, until an hour later, a mechanically synthesized prompt sounded.
[Vehicle Arrived at Destination]
When it arrived, the gray-haired girl rubbed her eyes and sat up, which would make her spirit much better.
She opened the car door and stepped out, revealing a large square patio.
The crimson steel is angular and protects and separates the central patio, from which the vast patio is constantly in and out of the spaceships and hovercars, and around the four walls of the patio is a long trapezoidal staircase, in which the lights flicker, the pedestrians shuttle, and countless shops and houses hide in the steel jungle underneath, and the white gas is also discharged from the abyss-like patio.
This is where Hehia lives, Arpeggio City, an industrial city located underground.