This room is very large, and the interior is all made of silver metal materials, matte, which does not irritate the eyes, but because it is too monotonous, it is a bit emotional.
The three chairs behind the table are the only bright spots in the room, and they are indeed bright spots. There is a colored dot on the back of each chair, red, green, and blue.
Lian Chuan has been calling the three administrators Xiaohong Xiaolv and Xiaolan according to their colors.
Xiaohong, Xiaolu and Xiaolan haven't shown their faces, but they have made a sound. Unfortunately, Lianchuan can only be divided into two according to the voice, the mechanical man and the mechanical woman.
But such a classification is meaningless, it sounds like a greeting every morning.
"How's your day today?" The mechanical female voice appeared above the head, and Lian Chuan defaulted that it was the administrator Xiaohong.
"It's okay." He replied.
"It's a bit perfunctory." The mechanical male voice sounded from the rear right, so it's impossible to be sure, the voices of Xiaolu and Xiaolan are exactly the same.
"To be precise," Lian Chuan thought for a while, "I haven't started today."
"How do you start?" Xiaohong asked.
"Let's do this now." Lian Chuan turned sideways suddenly, avoiding the unknown object rushing from behind.
When this thing approached, Lian Chuan didn't notice it at all, and he was startled when he felt the slight air current stirred up by the attack behind his ears.
A white shadow brushed past him, without hesitation, he slammed his palm on the back of the white shadow.
This is a humanoid creature with no clothing covering its body, and it is dazzlingly white.
According to the force fed back from his palms, he could tell that this was a body, but the bones were not of normal strength.
Although he didn't know why such a creature appeared here, he didn't give it a second chance to attack.
Without even carefully observing the details and shape of this thing, before it turned around, Lian Chuan's hand directly penetrated its body, just like the mutant that solved the school before.
It wasn't until he fell to the ground that he realized that it wasn't any strange creature, it was just a male human being, at least on the outside.
To be more precise, this human body has just been fished out of the culture fluid not long ago, and it still has a characteristic paleness.
"Wow." Xiaohong's voice sounded.
Lian Chuan didn't make a sound, took a step back, and didn't continue to look at the "person" on the ground.
"It's amazing." One of Xiaolu and Xiaolan said, "Sure enough, he is the only one who can match Betelgeuse."
Probably a test.
It's just that Lian Chuan doesn't understand why he is here, and why the administrator needs to test him. Apart from daily maintenance, Betelgeuse has not been activated for a long time...
But he still didn't speak, he didn't express or ask questions, he could think a lot, but he never opened his mouth easily.
Sometimes it is even necessary to do nothing at all.
No thoughts, no words, no expressions, perfect tools are the safest.
"Why did you just kill him?" Although the speed and tone of her speech did not change, Xiaohong's tone was obviously questioning.
"Self-protection." Lian Chuan replied, "Anything that endangers my life is inevitable."
This is a memory with countless pains and scars engraved in his mind, no matter how many resets he goes through, it will remain.
After all, he is the only one who can match Betelgeuse.
"Huh." Xiaohong's tone changed again.
"If you come across abnormal individuals during the cleaning recently, I mean from your feeling, if you encounter them, you must take them back completely." Lei Yu said something in the car when he left the City Affairs Office with Lei Yu.
"Yeah." Lian Chuan nodded, meaning to capture alive.
The difficulty is not small, but since Lei Yu said it, it is an order.
"The celebration day is coming soon," Lei Yu said, "no problem can happen."
Festival Day is the biggest festival in this huge city, held every 300 days for two days.
The main city will open the passage, and all those hidden in the darkness will flood into the safe zone.
Two carnival days with no curfew.
Each time feels like the last.
One day in advance, the teams of the cleaning team entered the standby points distributed in various fortresses in the main city.
"Let me introduce to you, our new team member, Xiaolu." Lei Yu stood at the door and said something, giving up half the space of the door, and a person squeezed into the room from his side.
Lei Yu patted him on the shoulder: "Lu Qian."
There are six people in Lian Chuan's team. When they heard the name, they greeted each other calmly. Lian Chuan leaned on a chair in the corner with his legs resting on the table. Scanned.
Lei Yu saw everyone's reaction in his eyes, and in his view, it was all normal.
"The leader of your team is Lian Chuan." He raised his chin towards Lian Chuan, "All actions are up to him."
"Understood!" Lu Qian straightened his back and roared.
Lian Chuan was startled, and his foot on the table slipped to the ground: "Don't shout."
"Understood!" Lu Qian continued to answer loudly with his back straightened.
"Get out." Lian Chuan said.
One of the team members stood up with a smile, and patted Lu Qian's arm: "Go, I'll take you out to get acquainted with the surrounding area."
"How is it?" Lei Yu asked.
"In the future, don't always join us if you are too stupid," Lian Chuan said, "We also work hard. A whole group of people who are too stupid is not enough to die."
Lei Yu smiled and turned around and walked out.
Lian Chuan stepped back on the table and stared outside the door.
Lu Qian, newcomer.
Joined Team Six of the Cleanup Team on the first day.
But the day before he had died on the school playground.
It was his third day in the first team of the cleanup team.
"Boss," Compass walked over, a little unhappy, "Does this person have any background?"
"Which backstage will send the related households to the cleaning team to die." Lian Chuan said.
"Yes." Compass nodded.
I can't remember the details of what happened in the school. The only thing I can remember is the name of the dead team member and Lei Yu's statement that the abnormal individual was completely recovered. The cause and effect have been blurred.
Lian Chuan knew that the memories of the relevant personnel who participated in that mission had been reset for an unknown number of times.
It doesn't matter, anyway, everything about them doesn't belong to them.
And he will always be the alien with an incomplete reset, his brain is like a hard disk that has gone wrong, with countless bad areas, countless read and write errors, and countless fragmented information.
He didn't know if there was another person like him, he only knew that he must not be the first.
A brain that cannot be fully reset.
It's a secret he needs to keep hidden at all costs.
"H3 intersection in D area, redundant passers-by." A voice came from the intercom.
"Ours," Lian Chuan stood up, "Let's go."
Just as Lu Qian was about to enter the room, he was at a loss when he heard these words. He stood by the door and watched the fully armed team members come out of the room quickly one by one.
"You and my car." Lian Chuan said when passing by him.
"Yes!" Lu Qian straightened his back.
Lian Chuan paused, then turned his head: "If you call me again, run over by yourself."
Lu Qian straightened his back and tightly pursed his lips and did not make another sound.
"Do you know how to use the equipment?" Lian Chuan stepped onto a black A01 parked beside him.
"It will work," Lu Qian followed, listening excitedly to the slight sound of the exoskeleton moving, staring at the car in front of him, "All my training is to join the cleaning team."
A01 is a special model for the cleaning team. It can be straddled by one person or two people. It is not restricted by the terrain because it does not touch the ground. It travels smoothly, with amazing speed and strong maneuverability. wall...
These are the contents of the training materials. Lu Qian only drove the A01 simulator in the training class, and it was the first time he had such a close contact with the real car.
"The third asterisk on the third page of the textbook," Lian Chuan started the car, "What does it say about the time limit for departure?"
"What did you say?" Lu Qian was stunned.
"If the main driver gets on the car within three seconds, if the entourage does not get on the car, it will be regarded as giving up the task," Lian Chuan said. "Twice giving up will be treated as voluntary withdrawal from the cleaning team."
Lu Qian ignored the shock, jumped up and sat on the seat behind Lian Chuan, and the recycler knocked on Lian Chuan's helmet.
bang!
He hurriedly moved the recoverer to the back before the automatic safety buckle locked.
The car rushed out suddenly, and there was a gust of wind without a sound, and the safety buckle on his waist tightened.
"I... don't remember this one," Lu Qian felt a little depressed listening to the wind whistling in his ears, "I can clearly memorize it. Really, my theory test is class A, is it the textbook version..."
"There was no such thing," Lian Chuan said.
Lu Qian opened his mouth and said nothing.
"But keep this in mind when driving with me," Lian Chuan said.
The wind was blowing very fast, Ning Gu stood on a broken steel frame, watching the debris flying in the air through the cracked goggles.
"Do you feel that the wind has been particularly strong these two days?" Nail was behind him, holding an iron rod, and kept rummaging under his feet.
More debris was swept into the wind as the iron rod rose and fell, black and gray and white, it was hard to tell what it was.
This is a huge metal cemetery composed of iron and steel bodies and abandoned machinery. There are endless hills spread out high and low, cold and hard.
The thick black mist in the sky was getting lower and lower in the strong wind, but it never faded away. The outside of the black mist is still black mist, and the outside of the black mist is still black mist, which cannot be penetrated by light or blown away by the wind.
It has been like this since the day the world was created, as the crazy uncle said.
It's just that Ning Gu doesn't understand why there are always so many debris in the air that can't be found.
These flying debris convinced Nail that there was another world beyond the black mist.
It’s not impossible to think so, but the world outside the black mist is only the main city, and the reality is always cruel, the crazy uncle said again.
"Do you think so?" Nail picked up a small flat piece of metal, a palm-sized square that could reflect a human face. He looked back and forth a few times, and stuffed it into the leather pocket on his shoulder. .
"Yes." Ning Gu tightened his collar. Although the wind here is always strong, there is always a difference between strong wind and light wind.
He jumped off the steel frame and walked forward.
"Where are you going?" Nail yelled and asked while continuing to search.
"Don't follow," Ning Gu said, "I'll come back and find you."
"Are you going to find Uncle Crazy again?" Nail said, "It's contagious, don't talk to him."
Ning Gu turned around and smiled.
Crazy Uncle is an uncle whose face is buried by beard and hair. He is called a lunatic because he looks too abnormal. In fact, after getting in touch with him, you will find that he is not only abnormal in appearance.
He's just not normal.
"Come on, let me make a prediction for you." Crazy Uncle stood at the door of his hut and waved to Ninggu.
"No." Ning Gu bent down and entered his hut.
Crazy Uncle’s hut is far away from the shelter where everyone lives. It is in the depths of the metal cemetery. bowl.
But Uncle Crazy said it looked like a turtle shell, so he even drew it for him.
He knew that a long time ago, probably long before the beginning of the world, there were many plants and animals everywhere, and the turtle was an animal.
But then everything disappeared, and people's memories of animals became less and less, and the few animals that could be named gradually became legendary ancient beasts.
Now only the dignitaries of the main city can have a small number of artificial pets, or a few small flowers that can only grow in special containers.
No, there is also a caracal.
It was a wild beast, a real beast, unprecedented in history, and the only one in the entire world outside the domain, ferocious and agile, coming and going without a trace...
Uncle Crazy said it, and of course he also drew it for him.
Crazy Uncle's drawing is ugly, and a few lines really failed to make Ning Gu understand what a caracal is.
I only remember its owner's name is Lian Chuan.
The main city kills like a cold-blooded and heartless hyena.
He has no heart! Crazy Uncle said.
But he has a caracal. Ning Gu was a little envious.
"I'll figure it out for you," the crazy uncle entered the house, took down a kettle that was burning on the stove, and poured him a glass of water, "Want to listen?"
"No way," Ning Gu said, "When I was 22, you made a fortune telling me that I would not live to be 20."
"How do you know you're really 22 years old?" Crazy Uncle said, "What if you're actually only 19?"
"Then I'll die next year?" Ning Gu fell back on the chair and looked at him.
"Who knows," the crazy uncle poured himself a glass of water, took out a small cloth bag from his pocket, and shook something into the water, "Alive or dead... we may have died long ago Woolen cloth."
"What is it?" Ning Gu leaned over with great interest.
"Children can't drink." The crazy uncle hid the cup and avoided it.
"Anyway, I'll die next year," Ning Gu said, "I'll take a bite."
"Then you may be going to die now." Crazy Uncle said.
"It doesn't matter, he might have died a long time ago," Ning Gu followed him around, "You just said that."
"No, no, that's all, it's hard to find!" Crazy Uncle ran around the room with the cup in his arms, "Maybe this is the only thing we can find in this life!"
"Nervous." Ning Gu fell back on the chair again, "You count as one."
"I'm not a fortune teller," said the crazy uncle. "I told you, I'm a seer."
"Then make a prediction." Ning Gu said.
"Which aspect?" Crazy Uncle looked at him immediately, "When will you die?"
"The wind is so strong." Ning Gu looked at the door, the wind covered with debris kept pouring in from the door, and a layer of incomprehensible ash fell on the cup, "Is the car coming?"
The crazy uncle stared at him.
"How much longer?" Ning Gu said again.
Crazy Uncle stared at him for a while: "It doesn't matter, based on my experience, tomorrow."
"Okay," Ning Gu slapped his hands, jumped up from the chair, and walked out the door, "Trust you once."
"Do you want to go?" Crazy Uncle asked.
"It's not that I haven't been there before." Ning Gu said.
"It's different. You used to go secretly, maybe you didn't even dare to move after getting out of the car." Crazy Uncle took a sip of tea, "This time you want to enter the main city."
"So what?" Ning Gu turned his head.
"Don't go," said the crazy uncle, "you will die."
Ning Gu laughed, walked out with big strides, raised his arms and shook, and raised his voice against the wind: "I died when I was 20 years old."