"Let's broadcast today's gas phase for you."

"Article 1: All employees in the society, between 8:00 and 10:00 this morning, please do not step into the door of the company with your left foot."

"Article 2: Today's double number is restricted, and all those whose mantissa numbers are even at the end of the year of birth and death, please do not drive vehicles, including children's cars, bumper cars, go-karts and other vehicles."

"Article 3: The north gate of the Third People's Hospital is temporarily closed today, and all citizens and friends who are not hospital employees are requested to take the initiative to detour."

“……”

The progress bar was pulled back, and in the small mobile phone screen, the well-known gas anchor wearing gold-rimmed glasses continued to broadcast in his magnetic voice again:

"Article 1: All members of society ...... this morning"

So repeatedly, the owner of the mobile phone stared at the screen, standing at the door of the economic and trade building where people came and went, like a stone blocking the flow of people. You have to ask him why he is nervously looking at his phone here?

Because he forgot to look at the weather forecast when he went out today, he stepped into the company door with his left foot first and was fired. The whole process was very skillful and fast, and it took only half an hour before and after he got the resignation certificate.

But why did he miss the gas phase forecast?

Because the alarm clock was broken, and he was working overtime last night, because of the cold in the spring, his mind was dizzy, and when he woke up and found that he was late, he hurried out. The subway was noisy and crowded, and the looping gas phase forecast became faintly inaudible. He tried to keep his body balanced, trying to distinguish carefully, but the deadly serial call of his boss came again, and he could only take care of this head first.

The day of a social animal is always busy and ordinary.

When he bought the coffee requested by his boss, he ran into the door of the company with a thin sweat, and the first left foot to step out started his bad luck for the day. The boss was a little regretful, patted him on the shoulder, and said to him: "Xiao Ming, the coffee is good, but it's a pity, I'm actually still very optimistic about you, come on." ”

A colleague who competed with him for the same business case, named Care, gloated and said: "Xiao Ming, don't be discouraged, you just made a little mistake." Young people, it's inevitable to make some mistakes, and there will be opportunities in the future. If you are developed, don't forget your old colleagues. ”

The company's cleaning aunt suggested to him earnestly when he came out of the personnel department in a daze with his resignation certificate, "Xiao Ming, it's better to work hard and take the exam." The young man has a bit of fighting spirit, how good a civil servant is, the iron rice bowl, the grandson of the second uncle of my neighbor next door was admitted to the civil servant of the gas phase bureau! ”

Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming.

It's like a spell.

But I've worked hard enough, Xiao Ming thought.

In this world full of absurd rules, he lives every day seriously. He studied hard, worked hard, was polite, civilized, and law-abiding, although ordinary, he felt that ordinary people were not ashamed, and people who lived seriously were not ashamed. Although his parents died early, he could only live with his aunt, but he never complained. He came to this day step by step, but was forced to lose his job because of the absurd mistake of entering the company with his left foot.

Why?

Is it that I wonder if I ask this question? Or is the world too weird?

Xiao Ming took his eyes off the screen of his mobile phone and looked at the tallest building in the city center, the Gas Phase Bureau. A question began to swirl in his mind: What is the truth of the world?

Everyone who lives here knows it.

The truth is that the place where they live is a fictional world, the so-called world of fiction.

That is to say, one second you are still reading a novel with relish, and the next second, someone mysteriously tells you that the world you live in is actually a novel, and then you raise your head, squint your doubtful little eyes, and spit out a wise saying:

"I know, who or is it? We all call ourselves paper people here. ”

This statement has been around for a long time, and no one doubts it. After all, this place is full of all kinds of absurd rules, and at first glance it is not a normal person.

The official version is -

When people gradually awaken to their self-consciousness and perceive the truth, this fictional world will collapse. To stop this collapse, the world consciousness responded. It began to save itself, and its self-help was the suppression of self-consciousness, even the erasure.

Like the origin of the universe, consciousness collided with consciousness, creating a Big Bang that blew up the basic rules that make up this world.

So, the world went off the rails.

Today, 30 years have passed. With the tenacious spirit of weeds, humanity has managed to survive and find a way to survive in this out-of-control world.

In short, the world's foundational rules were blown to pieces, and new rules were born to fill them. And these new rules are like a thousand strange patches, or scars on a wound, which are often absurd, bizarre, and unreasonable.

You discover it, you obey it, and you can survive in this world. Otherwise, you risk being captured again by the world consciousness hidden within, with terrible consequences.

Of course, things can't be that simple.

The first chapter of the New World Book says: Rules have three characteristics.

1: The rules are distributed in regions. Different regions have different rules, so people divide cities according to different rules, and the upper city where Xiao Ming is located is considered a big city.

2: Rules are not set in stone. This can be seen from the gas phase forecast, which changes every day, which is the crystallization of human wisdom for decades, which can be predicted by special means and widely advertised.

3: There are gaps in the rules.

That's the whole truth.

At this moment, Xiao Ming felt as if his life was off the rails. He has kept the rules for twenty-three years, but the world has not given him any tolerance, he is as ordinary as a speck of dust, and he can be blown away by the wind at any time.

The anchor's voice continued to broadcast, and this man who was so personable in the past that he was so charming that he was so heartbroken that he seemed hateful at this moment.

I've lost my job, what man do you want?

Xiao Ming held his mobile phone tightly, glanced at the shared bicycle outside the building, and suddenly had a great courage in his heart, and strode over.

He is like a warrior who will never return, after recognizing the true meaning of life, he only thinks about destruction, click on the APP, scan the code, unlock, step on the seat, and do it in one go.

Five minutes later.

"Hey, are you riding or not? If you don't ride it, give it to me, there's just a car here! A panting office worker passed through here and sent a soul torture to Xiao Ming.

He saw this man riding on the car from afar, but he didn't see anyone go for a long time, isn't he sick? Don't ride it to him.

The office worker muttered in his heart, and was about to say a few more words, when he suddenly saw the person in the car turn his head, his reddened eyes pressed under his black-rimmed glasses, and before he could speak, tears flowed down.

"Damn, what are you doing, I just asked if you want to ride, why are you crying!" Office workers took three steps back.

"I, no, ride." It's not that Xiao Ming doesn't want to ride, it's that he can't ride, and the end of his birth year is an even number, and today's limit number. He cried, not only because he finally chose to bow to the world, but because he found that he couldn't be a bicycle destroyer, and he didn't even have the ability to curse the world.

His swear vocabulary is so scarce.

The good character seemed to be far away from him at the moment of expulsion, but the despicable and evil glanced at him, leaving only four words: disdain, get out.

"Let it be given to you." Xiao Ming wiped his tears and let the car out.

"Well, then I'll thank you...... Thank you? The office worker repeatedly confirmed that he should not touch porcelain, so he dared to come forward. He couldn't help but look at Xiao Ming curiously, and saw him nod at himself, "You're welcome." ”

Quite polite.

Xiao Ming, who was very polite, turned around and left, he returned to the door of the building and picked up the cardboard box of sundries he had just discarded on the ground, and turned around and left like an ordinary unemployed person.

But in fact, he didn't go far, but sat in a small park nearby, surfing the Internet, filling out forms, making appointments, and about twenty minutes later, a green car stopped in front of him with a dragon swinging tail.

I saw a line of white characters sprayed on the body:

[Rescue Station No. 49 - Quick Rescue Vehicle - No. 10]

As a government agency, the role of the aid station is to help all those affected by the "violation" to return to their daily lives. There are a total of 49 aid stations in this upper city, and this number is constant, because if you reach 50, something will happen, and this is the lesson of blood.

"Squeak, squeak." The windows on the side of the car are open, and the awning and counter are erected, making it look like an ice cream truck.

Two heads poked out of the car, a man and a woman, the man had long hair tied up behind his head and a small tug, and the woman combed braids, both of them were young and beautiful, and they were both wearing dark green uniforms and wisteria badges on their chests.

"Yan Yueming?" The long-haired man took his mobile phone and confirmed it to Xiao Ming.

"It's me." Yan Yueming stepped forward and showed her ID. When the man saw it, he motioned to his companion and handed him a piece of cardboard paper.

"Hello, aid station 49 is at your service. Please tell me first, what color is the pattern on this paper? Braided asked.

The pattern on the paper is a four-like animal, and it has no facial features, just a blur, and it is impossible to distinguish at all. It is called "phase", which is taken from the "image" that is formless and unphaseless, and also has four dissimilarities.

This is the nickname given by human beings to the consciousness of the world, and they have named the corresponding institution "gas phase bureau".

On homophonic stalks, human beings never admit defeat.

Yan Yueming paused and replied, "Green." ”

This is a common atlas test, made of a special material, that can be used to test whether you have been affected by the world consciousness because of the violation, and then the cognition. If it's serious, you'll be taken to the Third Courtyard right away.

Oh, and the Third Hospital is a psychiatric hospital.

The long-haired man nodded, and then handed out a form, "The mental state is still very good, okay, it's okay, fill out the form." ”

"Hmm." Xiao Ming picked up the pen and wrote, and quickly pushed the form back.

Braided glanced at him and pronounced his name, "Yan Yueming?" ”

I saw that the personal information on the form read:

Name: Yan Yueming

Gender: Male

Age: 23

Marital Status: Unmarried

Education: Bachelor's degree

Origin: 1-3 Lane of the upper Chengpu box

Yan Yueming nodded honestly.

Braids couldn't help but look at him again curiously. Yan Yueming, it sounds very much like the name of a handsome guy, but it turns out that the real person is Xiao Ming, with bangs covering his forehead, black-framed glasses covering his eyebrows and eyes, and looking a little sad with his head slightly lowered, making it difficult to have a clear impression of his facial features. Look at the dressing again, plaid shirt canvas shoes, mediocre.

But lovely ladies never judge people by their looks.

Braided and winked, and smiled at him, "Then I'll register you, the unemployment allowance will be handled quickly, you don't have to go to the aid station again, save trouble, we will send you a text message directly to notify you after we finish it." Then, if you don't find a new job within a month, the grant will be credited to your account on time. ”

Yan Yueming: "Thank you." ”

Maybe Yan Yueming's posture was too cooperative and too well-behaved, and the two of them couldn't help but smile, and then said in unison: "You're welcome." Wishing you a happy life and business as usual. ”

After finishing speaking, the two put away the awning and counter and drove away. The green cart merges into the traffic, as agile as a fish when it came.

Yan Yueming looked at it, and her heart suddenly felt a lot easier.

Maybe it was the attitude of the two that infected him, maybe it was the unanimous sentence "life is happy, everything is as usual" moved him, he felt as if he could do it again, and unemployment was not a big deal when the sky fell.

Human beings are so adaptable, from the awakening to the Big Bang, and now, there is no hurdle that cannot be overcome.

With such a mood in mind, Yan Yueming decided to go home. His home is in Pu Box Lane in Dongcheng District, where many people live in this alley, all of whom are locals in the upper city, and Yan Yueming's family is the first residential building to enter at the entrance of the alley.

There is no one at home now, and my aunt left for the city to see the stripper yesterday.

She's always so dashing.

Thinking of this, Yan Yueming's mood couldn't help but be a little more open. He felt that if his aunt knew the news of his dismissal, he would not take it seriously, but when he took a rare luxury taxi home and saw the rain from a distance, his heart suddenly chuckled.

It's raining in Dongcheng District.

The doors and windows of the house are closed, right? Although she forgot to look at the weather forecast, Yan Yueming would close the doors and windows every time she went out, so that this little thing would not be abrupt.

But did it say it was going to rain today?

Oops.

Yan Yueming immediately took out his mobile phone and re-opened the "Gas Phase Forecast", his focus just now has been on the first one, and he didn't look at the rules and regulations in the back, so look at it at this moment-

"Article 4: There is local rain in Dongcheng District today, please make sure that you do not have any containers placed on your windowsill. When it rains, don't order any takeaway that contains fish as an ingredient. ”

Yan Yueming in the back doesn't care for the time being, anyway, there is no one at his house, but there is still his long grass doll on his windowsill.

Yan Yueming couldn't help but secretly pray that this strange world could kick the glass flower pot out of the container ranks, but when the driver stopped the car at the entrance of the alley, he saw through the car window that the window in his bedroom was open, and he was waiting for the baptism of rain, he knew that his hope was dashed.

He searched his intestines and scraped his stomach, and finally thought of a dirty word to describe his mood at the moment - garbage world, eat, you.