Chapter 23 The Real World

The weather was not bad, the light golden sunlight shone down, and the delicate outline of An Wu Jiu became more and more clearly outlined, the tiny fluff that could not be seen in the bunker, as well as the narrow and slender double eyelid folds, were all revealed in Shen Ti’s eyes. in front of you.

The wind blew An Wu Jiu's hair, he raised his hand and pulled the hair on his cheeks behind his ears.

"I don't want to now." An Wujiu said.

Shen Ti asked him why.

“Because you don’t want to say it yet.” An Wu Jiu pursed his lips, looking at Shen Ti, his eyes were terribly clear, like the only lake in this wilderness.

"When you want to say it, you will naturally say it."

Due to An Wu Jiu's serious attitude, the atmosphere between them changed from joking to seriousness.

Shen Ti stopped joking and walked forward side by side with him.

It was an amazing experience for both of them.

Having participated in so many rounds of games, Shen Ti has never had a companion. The reason is simple, he doesn't need it or is interested. It was the first time for him to come back to reality together like this.

And it is even more unfamiliar to An Wujiao, who has amnesia.

"You said I would take you in..." He turned his head sideways, "Where is your home?"

Shen Ti smiled, "I don't have a home. I don't have a place to go."

“Then where did you stay after you returned to reality from the altar last time?” An Wujiu frowned slightly, looking a kind of pitiful beauty, but he spoke directly, like an interrogating police officer .

Shen Ti made a thought, paused, and then showed the expression that he finally remembered, "Underground Club. I bought a special blend of synthetic cocktails, the name is Piano Man."

Hearing him talking about underground clubs and wine, An Wu Jiu felt a little bit of curiosity in his heart.

"tasty?"

"Generally, it smells like synthetic chemicals. But it's so strong that I fell asleep after drinking it."

An Wu Jiu tilted his head to look at him, "Where do you sleep?"

"Club's deck, I slept there, and my whole body hurts when I wake up in the morning."

In An Wujiu's impression, underground clubs are messy places and usually not legal, but the current government's control is limited and it's hard to reach out. Behind those clubs are often big capitalist conglomerates, which seem to be places for entertainment, but in fact there are many criminal strongholds hidden behind them.

Drugs, human trafficking, pornography, illegal circulation of virtual currency, countless crimes.

“How dare you lie in that kind of place all night.” An Wujiu said slowly, “I heard that many people are stunned in underground clubs. Those with better qualifications are forced to become sex partners, almost as organ suppliers.”

This word sounds very high-sounding, but in fact it means that people can harvest organs and provide them to those who buy them at a high price and fit them. Today's environment is so polluted that six out of ten people suffer from diseases that require organ transplants.

But An Wujiu didn't expect that after Shen Ti heard his words, his first reaction was so biased.

"Then do you think I belong to the category with good qualifications, or poor qualifications?"

Originally walking forward non-stop, hearing this question, An Wu Jiu stopped.

He turned around and took a closer look at Shen Ti's face, especially those eyes.

Even the eyelashes of this man are brown, which can become translucent in the hot sun.

Generally speaking, being scrutinized by a person will produce more or less discomfort, and always feel that one's appearance is being stared at. But it was very strange, when An Wujiu stared at it, Shen Ti actually thought it was very interesting.

As if scanned by a sincere artificial intelligence.

The scan turned out, "The good kind."

An Wu Jiu retracted his gaze and added a sentence in his heart.

Still the best kind.

Shen Ti chuckled softly.

"How on earth did you become like this?" An Wujiu walked forward, so Shen Ti followed, "When you are kind, you don't lie at all, you're so sincere. "

Of course An Wu Jiu didn't know the reason.

So he walked forward silently, without answering.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew up, accompanied by the loud noise of the engine and wing wheels turning. An Wu Jiu turned his head, his long hair was lifted by the wind.

This is a modified old-fashioned aircraft, similar in size to past helicopters, in the shape of an ellipsoid. The aircraft gradually descended, and the cracked glass window also descended. A person stuck out half of his head and pushed the flying glasses up.

It's Wu You.

Thinking of Zhong Yirou's locomotive, this was the second thing that surprised An Wujiu after returning to reality.

Wu You controlled the button and opened the door of the aircraft. Although it was old, there was enough space for two people to sit there.

He proposed to take An Wu Jiu for a ride, An Wu Jiu didn't say anything, Shen Ti first got into it.

"The seats are quite comfortable."

Wu You put on the glasses again, "I bought it from the second-hand market. The previous owner was a fat man who died of a venereal disease and a new type of tuberculosis."

After he finished speaking, he added, "This is what it says on the product introduction."

Shen Ti's face changed instantly, he lifted his butt, seeing that An Wu Jiu had already sat in, he could only sit down again.

"It's been disinfected seven or eight times." Wu You glanced at Shen Ti from the rearview mirror, and muttered softly, "I'm afraid of dead ghosts."

An Wu Jiu also found that many parts in the aircraft were of different colors, old and new.

Like the product of a patchwork.

"You little devil, you really are pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger." Shen Ti fell on the seat, but the seat made a snapping sound, as if it was very unstable.

There really isn't anything of good quality in the flea market.

"Who said that?" Wu You pressed the safety button and observed An Wu's reaction from the rearview mirror.

An Wu Jiu also looked at him from the mirror.

"I found out from the next morning." An Wujiu said, "You are not simple at all. The panic, impulsiveness and timidity you showed after entering the game are all disguised. Because you hope I can sympathize with you, Or use you."

Wu You was noncommittal, "Then how did you find out?"

"After getting up in the morning, I observed Yang Ming and Lao Yu's clothes. This is what worries me the most. If you drag them, it is easy to leave traces. But you didn't. You took off your coat, Lao Yu's shirt, and you dealt with it afterwards."

Wu You shrugged, "It's so smart, it's a pleasure to work with you."

After finishing speaking, he asked An Wu Jiu's destination. After thinking for a moment, An Wujiu gave the address of a hospital. Wu You nodded and called out his name, "Vivian."

[Good morning Xiaoyu. ]

Wu You repeated what An Wujiu said about the hospital, "St. Georgia Hospital."

[Ok, I'll guide you right away. ]

The aircraft's intelligent navigation system emits an electronic female voice with a natural and soft tone. The timbre preference of ordinary men for synthetic speech is often sweet type, or the aura of the royal sister, but this one is obviously different, not so much gentle, but more loving.

Immediately, blue lines appeared in front of the aircraft's windshield, showing intricate maps and navigation routes within 0.3 seconds.

[Based on the current air traffic conditions, the following two routes are recommended for you. ]

One of the blue lines on the glass turned orange and the other turned pink.

Wu You clicked on the pink route.

[Received, navigation turned on, estimated time 19 minutes and 23 seconds. ]

[Start flying, please pay attention to safety. ]

The aircraft traveled at an extremely fast speed along an air route invisible to the naked eye. Soon, An Wujiao, whose back was tightly pressed against the seat, saw them from the glass window away from the wilderness and into the city.

The city did not deviate much from his recollections.

The turbid air paints all the landscape with a grayish color. Looking down, the crowded slums underground are like a monster living in a concrete forest. The dark and greasy walls are cast into a shell. The small windows are close to each other, like countless eyes that come together.

Seeing people panic.

The male model with the holographic projection of the adult advertisement is as tall as the Philadelphia government building behind it, and the air medium causes his image to keep flashing, like an old TV with poor signal. He held a small jar of pink medicine in his hand, shook it, took another one himself, and then showed a fluttering look.

In the advertisement, his feet are on the sewage-flowing floor of the administrative square, and his head is higher than the slogan on the building - freedom, health, wealth.

On the ground, all kinds of people passed between the legs of the male model. Everyone was wearing different VR equipment. Their eyes were fixed and their expressions were numb. No one cared about the huge projected genitals hanging above their heads.

Among the numb people, there are also some hunched and scrawny people, young men and women, old people, and even children who don't look more than 1.4 meters tall.

"This is the most chaotic neighborhood in Philadelphia." Shen Ti held his face in his hands, with a sarcastic smile on his face, "I'm afraid the children here are born with poison."

Wu You continued: "There are a lot of them, most of them are thrown into the waste street. After all, contraceptive products are expensive enough for them to buy ten small bags of abortion pills, and they will be arrested for abortions here, so they have no choice."

orphan

The courtyards were packed to the brim, like canned sardines.

An Wujiu asked, "Didn't these people go to the altar?"

"No, there are many people like them." Wu You said, "It's just that they won't survive the first round."

For some reason, An Wujiu felt suffocated, he raised his head and looked up. The city's tall buildings plunge into the clouds, like the towers of Babel in Babylon.

The aircraft's route was adjusted upwards, An Wu Jiu saw a relatively low-rise building, the roof of the building was a beautiful sky garden, the sunlight penetrated the clouds, shining those rare roses like rubies.

The melodious sound of the violin could be heard in the garden, and men and women could still be seen dancing with red wine glasses in their hands.

Free, healthy, rich.

An Wu Jiu sighed slightly and briefly, and looked away. His head hurts a little, like the sensation of the electrodes irritating the skin.

[Destination has been reached. ]

So fast.

[The air parking fee in this lot is 50 USD/1 hour, whether to park...]

Wu You interrupted: "Let us down, then you can drive to a place where you can park for free and wait."

[Ok Xiaoyou. ]

Shen Ti deliberately imitated Vivian's tone, "Okay Xiaoyou." As a result, Wu You almost got trapped in the aircraft by controlling the seat belt.

When they came down, Wu You whispered to An Wu Jiu, "Why do you want to be with this kind of person?"

Such people?

After An Wu Jiu listened, he turned his head to look, Shen Ti stretched his arms like a cat, "Rich area, hello."

"He wants to follow me." An Wu Jiu turned his head and said directly.

St. Georgia Hospital is the best hospital in Philadelphia.

According to An Wujiu's childhood memories, their family originally settled in Shanghai, but due to work reasons, it seems that it was a Sino-US cooperation project. His father came to Philadelphia alone, and later, the whole family moved here temporarily.

But why didn't they go back after that?

The memories of childhood and adolescence are very vague, An Wujiu can only give up. He came to the door of the hospital with two other people. To screen patients for treatment, four uniformed security guards stood outside the hospital gate.

An Wujiu raised his eyes, there are eight miniature cameras on the upper edge of the door.

Soon he wondered why he was so sensitive to surveillance.

"Please show your net income within three years and online banking records." A security guard in white gloves reached out to stop them from moving forward.

"You have to look at these when you see a doctor..."

Wu You turned around silently, rolled his eyes, and lowered his hat lower.

An Wu Jiu said, "I didn't come to see a doctor, I just wanted to consult..."

The security guard interrupted and repeated what he said earlier, like a robot with a low level of interaction.

"Please show your net income and online banking records within three years."

There was no other way, An Wujiu thought of the altar, he opened the panel and showed them the balance on it.

"You still have more than 53,000 points? It's almost 600,000 US dollars." Wu You was a little shocked, "You won't win all the time, right?"

An Wu Jiu pursed his lips as an answer.

The security guard in front of him finally stopped being inhumane like a robot. He waved his hand towards the hospital, "The left hand when entering the door is the consultation interface."

An Wujiu nodded and walked into this hospital. It is clean, advanced, and orderly, which is very different from the neighborhood just now. Wu You didn't follow. He said he had to keep an eye on his aircraft, and walked alone to the street opposite the hospital.

They found the consultation interface, which was a huge suspended electronic screen, which displayed other hospitals under the same system, with rainbow logos and spiral DNA logos.

In the middle is a prompt: [Please touch the relevant page for consultation].

An Wujiu stretched out his hand and tried to click on the [patient inquiry] on the right of the center.

But suddenly, his index finger stopped in mid-air.

"What's wrong?" Shen Ti asked.

An Wu Jiu turned his head, looked down at Shen Ti's hand, and made a strange request, "Can I borrow your gloves?"

Shen Ti frowned, but let go.

Is this his anti-reconnaissance habit?

Seeing his hesitation, An Wu Jiu thought he would be rejected.

"Take off yourself." Shen Ti stretched out his hand towards him.

It felt a little strange, but An Wujiu couldn't say what was strange. But it would be better if Shen Ti was willing to borrow it. He nodded, his fingers grabbed a little leather glove in the gap between his fingertips and pulled it out, but he found it difficult to pull it off, so he started to peel off the black leather glove with both hands, starting from the wrist. down.

He was cautious, as if ripping off the skin of some kind of viper.

After taking it off, An Wu Jiu was stunned.

Shen Ti's hands were covered with bizarre and twisted purple-black patterns, like tattoos, but not exactly like tattoos. These patterns were intertwined and extended into his invisible cuffs.

"What are you looking at?" Shen Ti took the glove from his hand, lowered his head to hold An Wujiu's hand, and put the glove on for him.

When touching it, An Wu Jiu realized that those vine-like lines were actually slightly raised, invisible to the naked eye, but obvious to the touch. In an instant, other pictures jumped out in front of his eyes, like a frame in a video.

It is a picture of him being tightly entangled by many snake-tail-like things.

An Wu Jiu plainly felt a strong sense of suffocation.

"Scared by my hand?"

Shen Ti lowered his hand, and rarely said without gagging, "That's why I never show it to others."

The author has something to say:

I accidentally copied and pasted the wrong chapter yesterday. I updated and replaced it with chapter 22 at 11:30 last night. It is new content (if you can’t see it, clear the cache or go to chapter 22 from the previous chapter, and you can see it ), apologies again, sorry everyone

The next chapter will be updated ahead of time, and it will be posted at 0:00 on the 3rd, so you can get up early and watch it! On the 4th and after the 4th, it is still at ten o'clock every night!

①Clamping: An editing technique that inserts an irrelevant frame into a continuous frame when editing. For example, when you watch a love movie, a female ghost suddenly pops out, and then there is no more to continue. Play romance.

There are several clips in the movie Fight Club.