Chapter 18: Reality
In this room full of ragged and smelly "great gods" up and down, Atai and Guan Zhe do not stand out at all.
Like the workers who flock to the city every year, they are just one of millions of migrant workers. In small places like the huge city of Deep Water and the Three Rivers, there is never a shortage of laborers like them. They are needed at construction sites, by emerging private enterprises, and by various assembly manufacturing industries and production lines that can support the status of the nation's world factory.
They have come here with fighting spirit, dreams and hopes, and then after experiencing rounds of black intermediaries, black bosses, devilish hellish "17 17 7" work system and all kinds of malicious wage deduction and torture, after suffering all kinds of cynicism, hostile rejection and discrimination caused by status and the gap between the rich and the poor, they have given up their so-called self-esteem. Faith, begin to accept their own tragic fate, indulge in the cheap online world, from the simple victory of e-sports, from the easy acquisition of the virtual world, to find a little bit of happiness and satisfaction, deception and paralysis of the self.
There are even some people who have become the so-called "gods of the three rivers", the kind of "blind streams" who live on the streets in the eyes of people, and have started to work at the end of the day to "play for three days a day", smoke loose cigarettes for 2 cents a piece, eat a bowl of "hanging wall" for 5 yuan, go on an all-night net for 8 yuan all night, sleep in the free open-air hotel "Haixing Hotel", and go to the park to solve their physiological needs when they are really hungry and thirsty.
Their youth is buried here, their time is wasted here, and their souls are rotting here.
What a funny joke for advanced players. I don't know when, Guan Zhe woke up from his dream, looked at Atai, who was still asleep in the lower bunk, and looked at the "walking dead" lying next to him, he was a little stunned, lit a cigarette, and began to ponder the earth that Yaowen said. Although it seems to make a lot of sense - yes, from the perspective of nature, human beings are indeed hanging on the hook. But, what are we who are the same human beings? The man lying on the bunk in front of him wearing only a pair of red underwear is curled up and lying with his back to Guan Zhe, the funny thing is that the man's underwear has a big hole in it, Guan Zhe can see the pleated flesh on his buttocks at a glance, he thinks this outfit is really funny, but when he looks down at himself, he finds that there is a hole in his underwear at some point, and there are a few black hairs coming out of it. Guan Zhe, who originally wanted to laugh, seemed to have just been woken up by someone splashing him with a bucket of ice water, and suddenly felt that there was no smile at all.
yes, humans who are also advanced players, what are we?
And at this moment, an absurd and strange idea suddenly popped up in Guan Zhe's mind, which made him become scared and panicked.
3 million years ago, our ancestors opened the back door of the rules of the world, embarked on a leap of life, if the rules of the world really exist some kind of back door, then today we can also open another back door, from the relatively few human players, out of a hanging heavenly way?
Heavenly Daoβthat was the most apt word he could think of.
The next day, after Atai woke up, the two walked up to the Sanhe noodle restaurant and each came to a bowl of familiar "hanging wall noodles", the difference is that today each person added three more eggs, Atai smiled and said that after making some money, he had to treat himself.
After that, Guan Zhe left two hundred yuan and a little change in his pocket and deposited the rest of the money in the bank. Atai had long since lost his identity and had no mobile phone or bank card, so he could only wrap his money in socks and stuff it into his trouser pocket. For him, this money is indeed the biggest gain this year, which is equivalent to a "huge amount of money", and he is a little uncomfortable with it.
"Why don't we go change now, I want to buy myself a bag. There is a stall in the vegetable market, and the price is good, maybe we can find a treasure. "Atay said.
"Just listen to you. Guan Zhe looked a little absent-minded.
"What's wrong with you today, you were listless early in the morning, and you seem to have lost your soul. β
"It's nothing, maybe I've made too much money, and I'm not used to it. β
"Don't say it, I'm not used to it! In the past, the maximum amount of money was 100-200, and the pocket did not exceed 200 yuan. I don't have a phone, so I don't need any electronic payment. β
"Wait for some more savings, let's get together and buy you a mobile phone." β
"I'm useless with that thing, and besides, it's a lot of trouble to charge. It's like raising a baby, and you have to be taken care of all day long. β
"But when I'm bored, I can play games. Go to the Internet cafΓ© for 8 yuan overnight, go to the hotel to sleep in the bunk for 15 yuan, pack charging also comes with free WIFI, there is a mobile phone, we can play heroes online or something. β
"That's a good point, then why didn't you see the game last night. β
"Didn't you get tired last night, and you wanted to sleep. β
"I'm not interested in playing games, I like to watch movies or something, if you don't believe it, I like to watch the earliest martial arts films, "Five Rats in Tokyo", "Gorou Bagua Stick", "One-armed Knife", I have watched it many times. β
"You can see it on your phone. β
"The screen is too small, and I don't feel like I'm used to it. β
The two first found a third-rate barber shop, and both cut a hairstyle that was not fashionable. Then I found the clothes stall in the vegetable market that Artai said, and tried on some well-fitting clothes from a pile of recycled, washed and refurbished second-hand clothes. It is said that the proprietress has a somewhat unclear relationship with the security captain of the vegetable market, so you can use this corner of the vegetable market for free. Because of the low price and the promotion of absolutely genuine goods, it is very popular with the surrounding laborers.
Atai chose a set of half-new and half-old Ness sportswear for himself, plus a pair of eighty percent new Lin Li sneakers, which wrapped his body and matched it very well, looking a bit of an athlete.
Influenced by Atai, Guan Zhe also chose a set of seventy-percent new four-leaf clover sportswear, with a pair of whitewashed Kuangwei board shoes, and also turned into a petty bourgeois youth.
The two of you look at me, I look at you, look at each other and smile.
"Ah, isn't this Guan Zhe?"
Just as they praised each other for each other's changes, a female voice came from the side. The two followed the sound and saw a slightly chubby woman wearing bright red lipstick and a thick pink face, leaning on the arms of a fat man with a thick face, looking Guan Zhe up and down.
"It's Ah Yan......" Guan Zhe saw the person coming, but he was a little embarrassed.
"What Ah Yan, Ah Yan's, is it also your name?" The fat man looked very unhappy, looking at Guan Zhe with a look of disdain, "Stinky boy, I haven't seen you for a while, I have grown in!"
"Who are these two meows?" Seeing the fat man's unfriendly attitude, Atai didn't have a good face.
"It's a colleague in the factory in the past. β
The woman known as Ah Yan sneered and said, "What colleague, didn't you chase me back then?" It's so strange now. β
Ah Tai looked at the extra fold of flesh on the woman's chin, and then glanced at the fat on her waist, and then his eyes stayed on the two lumps of white flesh that emerged from the woman's neckline, bumped Guan Zhe with his shoulder, and said with a smile: "I didn't see it, you kid used to like this kind of tone." β
Guan Zhe smiled awkwardly and said, "It's not a chase, it's a bit good." β
"Do you have a good impression of going to the cafeteria every day to cook and deliver food for Ah Yan?" the fat man said with disdain, "You dick, I don't see it, I've been getting along recently." β
Ah Yan was Guan Zhe's colleague when he worked in the electronics factory in the past, and he used to be in the same team as Guan Zhe. Guan Zhe's kung fu when he first entered the factory was also a delicate little fresh meat, so at the beginning, Ah Yan took care of Guan Zhe intentionally or unintentionally, which made Guan Zhe, who had no acquaintances, feel good and liked this slightly chubby woman. It's just that Sun Nan, the team leader in the team, that is, the fat man that Ah Yan relies on now, is a little interesting to Ah Yan, who has a plump figure, and originally saw that there was no man around Ah Yan, so he planned to stew fresh meat over a slow fire, but he didn't expect a Guan Zhe to be inserted halfway, so he was unhappy with him horizontally and vertically, and he found fault and made things difficult at work. Although Sun Nan has no ability, he relied on someone in the factory to bully Guan Zhe with the whole class, and deducted Guan Zhe's salary at every turn, and finally forced Guan Zhe to quit his job.
Perhaps it was the famous brands of Atai and Guan Zhe that played a little role, although Sun Nan's eyes were full of disdain, there was also an extra layer of doubt.
It was at this time that the female boss of the clothing stall interjected inappropriately: "This ...... Two people, two sets of clothes and two pairs of shoes, add up to a total of 360 yuan, and give 350 together. β
Ah Yan chuckled unconsciously, "I'll just say, why do you have the money to wear famous brands, it's a knockoff that you bought for a long time." β
Hearing Ah Yan say this, the female boss was not happy, and hurriedly said: "What a copycat! What kind of counterfeit goods are sold at my stall, but they are all recovered from the university town." β
Sun Nan also smiled: "That's the second-hand goods that others have worn, and the dick silk is the dick silk, and it is only the share of wearing second-hand clothes and picking up broken shoes that others don't want." β
"You laugh at him meow!" Seeing Sun Nan's sneering at Guan Zhe, Atai couldn't hold back his anger anymore, he looked at Guan Zhe and asked, "Are these two goods your friends, I think this pig is not cleaned up by him." β
Seeing Atai's fierce face, Ah Yan was a little scared, and shook Sun Nandao: "Forget it, Brother Nan, let's go." β
Sun Nan said nonchalantly: "Cut, if you have a helper in the future, I'm afraid of you!" Tell you, the security captain of this vegetable farm is my cousin, dare to provoke me, beware of discounting your legs." β
Guan Zhe had suffered a lot at Sun Nan's hands, and knew that this fat man was a villain who would be avenged, and he was afraid that Atai would get into trouble, so he also took Atai's hand and said, "Brother Tai, don't pay attention to him, let's go." β
Ah Tai pulled Guan Zhe's hand away, and then pointed at Sun Yan: "Do you know what kind of beast you are facing, but he has not been fierce for a long time." β