Chapter 66: The World Beyond the Well
After bidding farewell to Mr. Fernandi, Hesia continued to work at the 'Glass Dream', and although she may have received some subsidies in high school, it is more practical to earn her own money overall.
As my mother said, when you can make money on your own, you feel a great freedom because you don't have to rely on others.
In this way, the bar in 'Glass Dream' is still being renovated, and Hehia is finally on vacation again.
Do you want to go out or spend it at home?
Heshea sat in front of the bed, one side of the bedroom window emitting a bright realistic sunlight, reflecting her lower body, her slightly slender legs exposed to the sunlight, white and bright, her toes showing a semi-transparent color.
I've been very busy lately, with work, music, and occasionally school.
Lying back on the soft quilt, Heshia looked up at the ceiling above her head, her nerves relaxed slightly, her eyebrows slowly stretched, and then her eyes closed again.
I'm going to sleep at home today.
In this way, in the sunny window, the fan whirred and turned, bringing some circulating air, and in the morning shortly after waking up, Ti Lan continued to sleep, her legs arched first, and then slowly lay flat on her side, her soft hair sprinkled between the quilts.
Time passed silently, no one bothered her, no need to go to work, forgetting the complicated formulas and study materials, and the girl enjoyed a quiet holiday.
Today is Sunday, June 5th.
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In the afternoon, Heshia finally got out of bed, not because she didn't want to sleep, but because she was hungry.
Ahh
With a long yawn, Heshia sat down in front of the bed and shook her head, flicked her hair, and stood up.
Two simple steps to the mirror, leaning over to look at yourself in the mirror, flaxen gray hair color with black eyes, side bangs to cover the ears a little, you need to use hairpins to close or pull up, in order to fully expose the small ears.
Sitting in front of the dresser, the girl simply straightened her hair with a comb, tucked the long hair on one side of her ear, then took a rubber band headband and tied it and landed it on her chest, and then the other side did the same.
After a brief grooming, she stood up, opened the closet next to her, rummaged through a dress suitable for summer outings, and then changed into a pair of strappy sandals and prepared to go out.
It's a sunny day, and after eating something, she's ready to go to the ground to have a look.
After packing her things, Heshea grabbed a small bag, put away her belongings, and went out.
Since entering the third year of junior high school, because of the pressure of academics and the constraints of life, she has almost no energy to care about other things.
Because my father is gone, too.,She's the only one in the family.,She has no one to rely on.,If you can't get into Erin School.,It's extremely difficult to repeat your studies.,Not only may you not be able to support it financially.,In addition, the mentality will be more likely to collapse.。
After spending a whole year like this, she didn't take a breather until she graduated a month ago, but she still couldn't completely relax, because the acceptance letter had not yet been received, and even if she was accepted, she had to worry about her future job.
Now, these things finally stopped bothering her, and she was finally able to relax and do something that she hadn't been able to do before.
For example, go for a walk on the ground on the patio.
Although there is a kind of realistic sky underground, it always lacks the atmosphere and immensity of a natural sky.
Walking into the vertical elevator leading to the top of the patio, the girl watched the numbers on the screen keep changing upwards until the last floor was '0', and the crimson steel elevator door slowly opened.
Walking out of the passage in the patio, Heshea couldn't open her eyes to the fierce sunlight in front of her, and put her arm in front of her forehead, so that she stepped on the dry, thumping steel staircase in the warm wind.
Holding on to the guardrail, she stepped out of the staircase and looked out.
In front of me is a white world, the ground is gray and hard, and there are grains of sand and dust in the wind, which will make you feel gray and fluffy when you blow on your body.
No wonder people rarely come out, the girl thought, but she still likes this feeling.
Outside the surface of the patio in Arpeggio City, there is only one large parking lot except for a desert with no vegetation, and under the scorching sun, the parking lot is also very lonely, and there are not many vehicles entering and leaving.
Some of the larger trucks that are suitable for driving on the ground will tow the goods to the back, unload them here, and then the drivers will leave their cars here and go to the arpeggio city under the patio to rest and relax for a day or two before continuing on their way.
Walking onwards, away from the metal floor near the patio, Hehia stepped on her sandals and came to the dry ground, her white summer dress fluttering in the hot wind, she ruffled her hair from her ears, and then crouched down again, looking at the ground in front of her.
The surface of the earth, which was originally wet with rain, cracked into irregular cracks after exposure to the sun, and gently broken with your fingers can crush the edges to form gray-white powder particles.
These particles are slowly twisted between the hands to dissipate into a fine powder in the wind.
A long time ago, this land was full of verdant green, but due to the corrosion of poisonous rain, it is no longer vegetative.
That's probably what it means.
Heshea slowly stood up, her forehead sweating slightly from the sun, and she prepared to return.
As she walked on the hot ground, a truck approached from a distance, slowing down toward the parking lot.
"Hi, little girl~" A person leaned out of the big truck and looked at the girl below.
"Walking outside alone?" The driver looked in his 40s, with thick arms and a beard.
"Yes, come out for a walk." Heshea needed to speak loudly for the other to hear.
"Hahaha, take a walk, okay." He laughed out loud and thought the little girl was funny.
"Here's for you." He threw down a pale yellow straw hat.
Before Heshia could say anything, the straw hat with rough edges and a slight prickly hand, the big truck continued on, slowly driving into the parking lot.
The automatic loading and unloading machine boom moves, pulls up the container behind the truck, and then moves it to the side of the freight elevator track, and soon the contents of the container are sent underground, and the driver's task is completed.
Hesia fumbled with the straw hat, put it on top of her head, and walked towards the parking lot, where she soon saw the uncle come out, with two bottles of cold mineral water in his hands.
"A bottle?"
The other party threw it over, and Heshia caught it with a little hurry, not because she was slow to react, but because she had never encountered such a thing.
Very ordinary mineral water, probably the most basic T7 level emergency drink, has no other use than hydration, but it is also extremely cheap, and can even be produced automatically with small machinery purchased by yourself.
As she got closer, Heshia could see that the uncle's face was ruddy, hairy, and he was wearing overalls with slight stains and oil, as well as the smell of sweat.
"Why don't you go to the parking lot lounge and sit down, it's not so sunny there, and it's safer."
"Okay." Heshea had never actually been to this parking lot, and today she was a little curious.
"You're a child born in Arpeggio City." Walking on the road, the uncle asked casually.
"Yes, uncle."
"Ha, me, I am from Feijian City, North District 6, and I have a daughter who is about the same age as you, and she is currently in the second year of junior high school."
"Did you run so far?" Hesia knew that the North 6th District was at least 200 kilometers away.
"Begging for a living, how can there be anything far from it." He said nonchalantly.
"What about you, running outside alone, aren't the family worried, I still see it, if a bad guy suddenly kidnaps you, there is no surveillance around." Although the safety factor in the federation is not low today, it cannot be ruled out that some extreme situations in remote corners can occur.
Heshia blinked, "I'm just walking around the edge of the patio and not going too far." ”
"That's good, the surroundings of Arpeggio City are quite stable, if it is a wilderness road, a wilderness where there are no people for dozens of kilometers before and after, people will be like beasts when they go in." He said with emotion.
"Anything can happen on the way, and it's best if there's nothing to do."
"It's always tense on the way to run, and it's only when you get to the place that you can rest and relax."
Arriving at the parking lot, where there were only a few people, the two of them walked up the stairs of the lounge, which was noticeably much darker.
The whole lounge is composed of a steel structure, only at the top there is a rain-proof and corrosion-proof compartment, the roof is ^-shaped, and below is the airy and spacious lounge, where fixed steel seats and beds are placed, and below is the overhead part of the support, through which the wind whins and whines.
It's not that there are no comfortable buildings and environments in the Federation, but many times, in order to save costs and expenses in the lower and remote areas, it is generally enough to use them.
In the past, people always had a pathological obsession with high technology, thinking that everything would become universal after the development of technology, but this sentence is also inaccurate. Constant technological upgrades do reduce costs, but as long as the returns in a place are not large enough, or the owners are not that wealthy, they will still be limited by costs and will not exceed the upper limit they set.
Leaning on the volley corridor outside the lounge, the wind blew, taking away the sweat on his body, and there was a burst of coolness, looking at the baked and hot surface in the distance, the two continued to chat.
"I envy you children, you can spend every day carefree, although you will encounter some troubles, but now looking back, these are probably happy troubles." The driver's uncle put his arm on the steel guardrail, quietly enjoying the wind.
"What has Uncle been through before?" Heshea didn't refute, but continued to ask curiously.
"I, I'm going to fight with someone else for the girl I like." He grinned.
"It's a pity that although I won, the girl I like is still not with me."
"Does she like the person you're fighting with?"
"No, it's another boy she just knew, well, that boy is a bit handsome, and I have to admit it."
"At that time, I was very sad, hugged my brothers and cried, and vowed to wait for ten years for the other party to change their minds."
"As a result, now I can't even remember what she looks like, I only vaguely remember that she likes to wear white dresses, maybe it's the back of that summer that hooked my soul." The uncle looked into the distance and took a big sip of mineral water again.
"People are like this, the things they cared about at the time were slowly forgotten."
"Whew, don't talk to you little girl, I'll have to find a place to sleep." He flattened the water bottle and threw it into the trash can on the side, then turned and entered the lounge in the back.
"Just now I saw you walking alone, and I thought there was something on my mind that I couldn't think of, but I ended up talking a few words about nothing, really." He shook his head.
"Go back, it's sunny outside, I'm sleepy." He waved his hand behind Hesia's back, then shuffled through a separate cubicle with a sloppy step, ready for a good night's sleep.
"Uh, thank you uncle for your kindness." Although Hehia wanted to laugh a little, she still felt a little warm.
She wanted to return the hat to the other party, but now that the other party also went to sleep, she had to give up.
Turning back to leave the parking lot, she continued to walk around the patio before heading to the steel staircase that turned back with a little amusement.
Although I didn't see any special scenery when I came out today, my mood seemed to be much better.
Just like a frog, it grew up in a well, thinking that what was in the well was its everything, there were people it liked, things it hated and sad about, happy for it, and weeping for it. But time passes, and when it comes out one day to go to the distance, it will slowly realize that this life in the well is only a small part of life, and life is still long, long, and there are still many unknown scenery outside, and endless distances are waiting.
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