Before I knew it, all the classes in the morning were over and it was time for the lunch break.

Wu Er happily invited Lu Xun to go to the hot springs.

Lu Xun really couldn't imagine the hellish picture of soaking in a hot spring with a pile of bones, so he refused.

"Go on your own, I'll have to leave school for a few days."

"Huh? Brother Lu, didn't you just come back, why do you want to leave again? Ul was dumbfounded, "Did the old class agree?" ”

"Well, the old class allowed me to only have two morning classes a week...... The premise is that academic performance does not slip. ”

He went to Zhang Lei's office in the morning just to talk about it.

Zhang Lei is a reasonable head teacher, he admires Lu Xun as a good student, and he also understands Lu Xun's family background.

As the only poor student in the entire Jinghai No. 1 Middle School, Lu Xun's situation is indeed a bit special, so the old class agreed.

In fact, aristocratic schools generally do not admit ordinary students from outside the city.

There is a special reason why Lu Xun can be an exception.

His parents had sacrificed their lives for the underground development of Jinghai City.

After his parents left, his uncle and aunt took Lu Xun to his home to raise him as if he were his own.

But my uncle also encountered an accident in a plane rift exploration operation organized by the Jinghai high-level three years ago and became disabled...... It's not an ordinary cripple, but the kind that is crippled to the extreme.

Several elders have made great sacrifices for the development of the city.

Not long ago, Jinghai City passed the audit of the People's Federation and was successfully promoted from the lowest first-class self-circulation city to the second class!

A small level, but at the cost of generations.

At that time, the whole city was full of celebrations and bustling.

But many of the heroes were absent from the feast, and they fell before dawn to sleep forever.

As a civilian, Lu Xun was able to be admitted to No. 1 Middle School, and was exempted from extremely high tuition fees and received poverty subsidies...... This is actually thanks to my uncle's "workers' compensation".

However, he was still short of money.

What is lacking is not a small number.

It's a huge sum of money!

Even many elite families living in the inner city special zone can't easily come up with huge sums of money!

So Lu Xun always seemed out of place with his peers.

When his classmates are studying, he is making money!

When the classmates went shopping, he was making money!

When his classmates were making objects, he was still making money!

Lu Xun said that you are "naïve", immature, and live heartless and lungless, like children.

But he was actually a little envious of them in his heart......

In the three years of high school, other people's youth is colorful.

And his three years were spent on the operating table in a black clinic, and his youth was only bloody.

……

"Brother Lu, if you are short of money, tell me that Middleton's embassy in the United Nations of People will allocate me more than 8,000 yuan a month for living expenses, and I have nowhere to spend it."

Your couldn't help but pull Lu Xun into the corner and whispered:

"I saved more than 40,000 yuan myself, and I will give you all of them, and I will give you 6,000 every month until the end of my study abroad period."

"Don't go to odd jobs, it's hard and tiring and you can't earn a lot of money. You're a middle school student, don't live so hard. ”

"Let's go, Brother Lu, come to the hot springs with me!"

Hearing this, Lu Xun glanced at it meaningfully.

This kid actually wants to allocate 3/4 of the study abroad funds given to him by the embassy to his tablemates.

If they knew about it, the skeleton would be demolished for you!

"The Necrons give you funds to buy study materials, hire tutors, do experiments, and learn knowledge, counting on you to bring back human knowledge and help the Necrons develop and build."

Lu Xun said to him: "It's not for you to use to help your tablemates." Keep the money for yourself, I don't need it. ”

"I understand the truth, but I'm not the material for learning at all!" Your couldn't help but hang his head, and the soul fire in his eyes was gone.

A year ago, when it first came to Jinghai No. 1 Middle School, it was the bottom of the grade, and a year later, it is still the bottom of the grade.

It felt that the clan was really blind, so it chose its own piece of waste material to come to the People's Federation for "further study".

"We've been in contact with mathematics, physics and chemistry since kindergarten to lay the foundation, and you want to catch up after only a year of study?"

"Don't deny yourself easily, math is not as scary as you think, take your time, everything will be fine."

Lu Xun patted it on the shoulder as a sign of encouragement.

Then he waved his hand, dropped a "bye-bye", and turned around to leave with his bag on his back.

Urlo watched with some loss as his buddy's back faded away until he disappeared from view.

It suddenly remembered something, and the soul in its eyes swelled, and it hurriedly chased after it, shouting as it ran:

"! Brother Lu, you're gone, who did I copy my homework? What about Vier's homework? ”

It's a pity that Lu Xun slipped away without looking back.

Tuliuur froze in place.

Once again, it recalls the horror of being dominated by math teacher Zhou Yong.

I couldn't help but shudder.

For the first two weeks of school, its math class was spent in the penalty station.

finally looked forward to the savior, but the savior shook in front of his eyes for a moment and flew away.

It didn't even want to soak in the hot springs in an instant......

In the entire 4th class, your only has a good buddy Lu Xun.

The other students have a very average relationship with it, and it is embarrassed to ask others to borrow homework and copy it.

Without Brother Lu, how can it live?!

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Jinghai City is composed of three parts: an inner city, an outer city, and an underground city.

Among them, the inner city and the outer city are residential, commercial and entertainment areas...... Collectively known as living quarters.

The inner city is also known as the "Elite Special Zone".

The inner and outer city is not separated, and you can move freely.

However, if civilians from outside the city want to settle down in the Special Administrative Region, they must obtain a pass.

The prerequisite for obtaining a pass is to be an "elite citizen".

What exactly is considered an "elite citizen"?

According to Lu Xun's understanding, it is determined by the value that individuals create to society.

Jinghai City will set a line of values that will be used to distinguish between elite and non-elite.

This standard is not set by people.

There is a supercomputer in Jinghai City, and the system administrator is an artificial intelligence called "Lingxi", which can also be called "0C".

It's set.

Doctors, construction workers, magicians, breeders, city hunters, city guards, taxi drivers...... No matter what profession you are in, as long as you can create value for Jinghai City, and the value reaches that standard, you can be certified as an elite by 0C.

Once you become an elite, you will be able to work and live in the inner city, and your children and grandchildren will also have the right to live in the Special Zone until they reach adulthood.

It took only a few years for someone to make the class jump.

But someone tosses all his life, and in the end he is still a civilian.

It's brutal to use artificial intelligence to manage the promotion pathways of millions of people across the city.

The value of people is quantified, which is actually terrifying.

Some people say that you are worthless, and you can still shout out the phrase "don't bully the old and poor".

But 0C thinks you're a piece of shit, and you can't argue with it...... Because the data is directly thrown in your face, you just can't create much value for society.

For example, Lu Xun's uncle, in the judgment of 0C, he estimated that even being alive was a waste of air, and it was an unnecessary scum that dragged human beings back.

And, just what it seems.

Because the educational resources that ordinary people can enjoy are not comparable to those of the elites in the inner city.

Children of the elite have a high probability of becoming elites.

And the descendants of civilians, it is difficult to have a fish to leap into the dragon gate.

However, there is also a benefit to AI-managed cities.

It can make absolutely rational judgments, draw up the most conducive route for urban development, maximize the use of all the resources of a city, do a good job in the talent echelon reserve, and make good use of every inch of land.

From a macro point of view, artificial intelligence has indeed lifted more and more human beings out of poverty, and science and technology have indeed advanced rapidly, with free cities prospering day by day, and human races becoming more and more prosperous.

Moreover, 0C is only system management, and it has no decision-making power when it comes to major matters, and can only provide solutions.

In short, the pros outweigh the disadvantages.

As long as the AI doesn't rebel, it's a good companion for humans!

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Lu Xun walked through the bustling streets, crossed the tall city walls, and returned to the outer city, and immediately felt a strong sense of disparity.

Low houses, garbage everywhere, wild dogs wallowing in the mud...... A stark contrast to the look of the inner city.

One wall, two worlds.

Lu Xun belongs to the outside one.

The material life and security conditions are very different from those in the inner city.

Lu Xun glanced back at the tall city wall, then looked away and continued to move forward, without nostalgia.

One day, he will take his uncle, aunt and cousin to the inner city to settle down.

This is a determination he made many years ago, and his ambition remains the same.

Instead of going home, he changed directions and headed for the entrance of the dungeon.

The inner and outer cities are nothing more than "living quarters".

And the dungeon is the core and lifeblood of a self-circulating city!

What is a self-circulating city?

As the name suggests, the resources created by the operation of a city alone are enough to provide for the needs of the entire population.

Even if the city gates are closed for a thousand years, people's lives will not be affected.

In the event of an invasion, the city's defenses ensure that most of the crisis is resolved.

Even in the event of an apocalyptic disaster, you can evacuate all the surface population to the dungeon in a few hours and turn it into a fully enclosed underground shelter!

This is the standard of a first-class self-circulating city.

A city that can become a paradise on its own.

Jinghai City on the surface is just the tip of the iceberg.

The dungeon is the real body!

There are more than 300 floors of bases below Jinghai City.

Steel mills, farms, livestock farms, paper mills, distilleries, power plants...... All the resources needed for human life come from the dungeon.

The underground world of more than 300 floors is the result of more than ten generations of Jinghai's pioneering.

This behemoth is like the heart of the city, constantly pumping blood to the surface and sustaining the lives of millions of citizens.

The existence of the self-circulation city is to deal with the next meeting of the celestial spheres and the next war of the hundred clans.

In order to survive, each race racks their brains and does everything they can.

Because no one knows, will the next extinction be themselves?

……

Lu Xun queued in front of one of the elevators for more than ten minutes, and finally it was his turn.

"Please step forward, place your hands on the touchscreen, and look straight ahead." The electronic beep beep sounds.

Lu Xun provided the palm print and iris, and authenticated his identity through scanning.

"Hello classmate Lu, have you skipped class again? That's not a good habit. ”

"The school approved it, don't be verbose."

"Are you going to be an apprentice at the Lin Sheng Slaughterhouse on the 174th floor today?"

"Yes." Lu Xun said lightly, "I'm a middle school student, and the law says that I can't sign a formal employment contract, so why should I not be an apprentice?" You set the rules, 0C! ”

"This is to make students pay attention to their studies, you have a lot of potential for growth, and don't let the small profits in front of you delay your great future. The cultivation of high-end talents is often very difficult, as the so-called 'ten years of trees, a hundred years of people', the history of human civilization proves ......"

This artificial intelligence is so talking!

Tell you, you're still excited, aren't you?

Lu Xun was full of black lines, and as soon as the elevator door opened, he rushed in with a swish, and finally got rid of this annoying guy.