Milky Way - Solar Rings, 14 Ring Regions

At night, thunder rolls in the gloomy sky. No rain falls, and the air is dreary and oppressive.

Lightning flashed, and a manor house in the suburbs stood out.

The surroundings were quiet again, and the faint sound of thunder was heard.

The first light illuminated the place. Not a manor, but a mental hospital.

Restore the darkness again. The building lay dormant like a beast in the dark.

In contrast, the city is 100 kilometers away. High-rise buildings rise from the ground into the dark clouds, and countless shuttle buildings that have turned into small dots pass through them.

Under the dark clouds of the dome, a huge airship slowly circled the city. The hull is lit with neon lights and advertisements displayed.

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After the thunder and lightning, the air became even more dull.

Until a sharp siren pierced the night sky and echoed over the hospital.

[The patient is detected to be out of the ward, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, please stay in the room and do not lie in the corridor-]

Two minutes later.

The hospital was in chaos. In the front yard, two figures stood by the front door one mile and one away.

"Damn, what do you want." A rapid, muffled voice rang out. The middle-aged man in a security uniform lowered his voice, and from time to time nervously turned his head to look at the figure at the door of the building.

He's a little clever. After the system alarm sounds, the patient is aware that he will want to flee, so he goes to the front door as soon as possible. He noticed that a strange colleague had arrived earlier than him, and pointed to the bushes outside the door and yelled not to run. They even picked pebbles from the trail and threw them over.

There was no reason why he shouldn't trust his colleagues.

So he opened the front door and was about to go into the bushes. The colleague next to him suddenly quickly took off a security uniform, revealing the dazzling blue and white patient gown underneath, and ran out of the gate with a happy expression.

He knew it was over.

Once it is known that it is the person who opened the door and let the patient escape, this profession obtained from the hands of robots will naturally come from and go back.

Robots that don't get tired are easier to squeeze and cheaper than humans.

The solution now is: let him go, and the god will not know it, and the job will be saved. No one will find out that they let it go.

"If you don't want to be caught by me, get out." He controls the door closing, making a vicious gesture in the hope of scaring him away.

However, he forgot that the young man in front of him was a patient in the mental hospital. Most of the people here have a bit of a problem with their brains.

"Leave?" The young man screamed, clutching at the fence and squeezing his face up, squeezing his face out of shape, as if he wanted to get back. Hanging eyes glared at him slantedly: "Don't even think about it-"

So there is the previous dialogue.

"Damn, what do you want." The security guard hated it.

The young man's expression suddenly straightened, like a normal person: "You know, I'm penniless, so I'm going out like this......"

The security guard looked behind him again, and a figure approached from the door.

[User Dynton transfers 1000 consultation points to you.] 】

"Only 1000?" A string of messages displayed on the retina, the young man complained dissatisfied, and then said to himself: "Forget it, what kind of bicycle do you want?" Add a friend, have a meal together or something. ”

[User: Mu Su applies to add you as a friend.] 】

"No, you don't! Now you can roll ...... You can leave. The security guard changed the difficulty of getting out of the exit to leaving.

"Accept, accept—" The young man shook the fence and shouted excitedly.

Seeing that he was crazy, the security guard had no choice but to accept it again.

"Is it okay this time?" He had already heard the voice behind him, and he couldn't help but look back nervously. Two figures were walking through the park in the front yard, coming this way.

He looked back anxiously: "...... the hell you"

The sound stopped abruptly. He could no longer see the young man.

He put his face on the fence suspiciously, shook his eyes from side to side, and by the flash of thunder, he saw only the empty streets.

"Tintton? What's wrong. ”

A greeting from a colleague came from behind him.

"It's okay...... I'm afraid the patient will run away from the door, so come and have a look. Nothing. Tendon said casually, walking back behind the two.

Just as lightning pierced the dreary night sky, the shadow of the fence stretched narrowly. One of the eerie black shadows stood out.

Tinton was shocked. Turning his head uneasily.

Boom –

Amid the rolling thunder, all he could see was the empty front door.

Was everything that just happened just a hallucination that I was too nervous about......

He didn't have that idea for long.

Ten minutes later, a message popped up in the horizon.

[Your friend Mu Su invites you to pay for him: District 14 Kjeldahl Interstellar Group consumption fees, a total of 194 credits.] 】

[Your friend sent you a message: Mu Su: Love you (Bixin)]

Tincon shuddered and chose to pay.

And then a few minutes later—

[Your friend Mu Su invites you to pay for him: Convenience chain store consumption fee: 33 credits]

"Uhh

Valentine Avenue Park

On the bench by the park path, a young man with black hair and black eyes, dressed in a blue and white hospital uniform, sat on his butt and let out a long moan.

There are several couples walking and snuggling around, whispering faintly, exuding the sour smell of love.

Suddenly, an exclamation came: "Look! It's a shooting star. I thought I'd never see a meteor in my life......"

"Liu Xing? He doesn't shoot his family, why is he running here with his children. ”

On the bench, Mu Su looked up. Nothing but clouds can be seen.

In fact, even if there are no dark clouds, only the zenith iron dome can be seen in the orbit around the sun.

Across the trail is a long street. From time to time, shuttles descend from high altitudes to the ground, and men and women get out of the car. Pedestrians come and go on the street. Ground transportation is rare. The only thing that can be counted is a group of teenagers and girls skating by in groups of three or five playing power skateboards.

Billboards on the walls of the building flicker, projecting a variety of advertisements against the park, unscrupulously announcing noise pollution.

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Listening to the advertising words around him, Mu Su took out a can of Coke from the bag.

Hiccup –

Opening his head and drinking it all, Mu Su hiccuped and turned his head to look at the other end of the bench, where a middle-aged man staring at his clothes held up a soda can in greeting.

"Nice clothes, right?"

The middle-aged man smiled reluctantly, turned his face back, and moved to the side without moving.

【…… Bizarre, madmen are welcome here. 】

Hearing the madman, Mu Su subconsciously looked up in the direction where the voice came from.

Building on the right, screen billboard.

It was a black man, standing in front of a plain white background. Hair and beard trimmed just right, looking gray. A suit is neat and straight. Neat and straight.

Those blue eyes reveal infinite wisdom, as if they can penetrate people's hearts.

He stretched out his arms as if holding something. The voice was deep and magnetic: "You call it a game, but I'd rather call it another world." ”

"And this." A string of 0s and 1s appeared in his palm, transforming into an old-fashioned metal key "To open the door to another world, you'll need it-"

His tone changed abruptly, and he was much more relaxed: "The key is 10,000 credits, and there is no second price." After a sound sleep...... Welcome. ”

[After falling asleep, it has now landed on the valve game platform, details ......]

【?-Her’name’is’Lola，She’was’a’showgirl. With’yellow’feathers’in’her’hairs…… Crimson Martian exoticism. Wandering in the ......】

The screen is replaced with another advertisement.

"Maniac Space." Mu Su was interested.

"Hey, do you want to see magic?"

"What?" The middle-aged man on the other end of the chair looked blank.

"Magic." Mu Su turned sideways: "Whatever you give me, I can turn it into money." ”

……

Mu Su grabbed the middle-aged man's shoulder, snapped his fingers and said excitedly: "Quick, anything will do." ”

"Street magic shows." The middle-aged man craned his neck, touched his pocket, and said, "I don't have any ......."

As he spoke, he pulled out a fist-sized control board from his pocket, presumably putting it in his pocket carelessly when he came out.

The young "street magician" snatched the control board from his hand, crossed the path, propped his hand on the park fence, and jumped over it with his hand.

Smack-

The foot was mixed with the fence, and the "street magician" slapped his face on the black pavement. The voice was clear enough for him to hear.

The street magician scrambled to his feet, wiping his nosebleed with his sleeve and whining and crying, all the way down the street into the alley across the street.

What's going on there.

Under the beautiful lights, a man and a woman are arguing in the alley. The male is bloated and obese. The woman has slender sleeves and long sleeves, dressed in a thin nightdress, and her long legs hang from the stockings she hastily put on.

She has exposed metal circuits on the outside of her forearm, and is a synthetic. It seems that there was a dispute over prostitution.

The bench was facing the alley, so he could see it clearly.

Then he saw that the young "street magician" picked up the control board he had given him and knocked the fat man unconscious. Then, as the mechanical woman covered her mouth and exclaimed, she retreated, crouched to her side, and rummaged through her pockets with great dexterity.

After a few moments, the rewarded "street robbery magician" stood up, his bloodstained face looking this way, his legs crossed, his arms spread out and bowing slightly, in a gentlemanly salute.

He seemed to hear a voice in his head.

"Wow~"

……

An hour later.

A family hotel on the outskirts.

Compared to the glitz and glamour of the urban agglomeration in the distance, this single-family inn on the plain is quite peaceful.

Room 301

The latest valve gaming helmet is placed next to the bed. Rather than a bulky adjective like a helmet, a mask is more appropriate.

It's so thin and light that you won't feel uncomfortable even when you're in bed. It's just not as convenient as the game warehouse.

Because it's a newly purchased game helmet, it only contains the game "After Sleeping" that I just bought.

The game's advertising slogan clearly appealed to Makisu. He worked hard to "earn" some money and hid here to play games. And take advantage of the ten minutes of distributing the game helmet to the official website to learn about the game.

The game features random dungeons. It just started earlier today. As the main computing program, the quantum computer Zhizi has collected all the information of the modern history of mankind for hundreds of years. Whether it's historical documents, entertainment videos. Or even if it's an online work, just make it at hand. are recorded and absorbed,

To describe. It's like an AI that reads all the literature for hundreds of years and then lets it write a novel.

The impatient Makisu couldn't wait to jump on the bed and put on his helmet.

It was pitch black in sight, as if blindfolded or in the dark.

At first, you can still feel the presence of the body. A few seconds later, the unfamiliar female voice rang in her ears, and at the same time lost sensation of her body.

[Welcome to After Sleeping.] 】

[Log in to the Internet.] 】

[DNA sequences have been recorded.] 】

[Location: 14 Circumsolar Area.] 】

【Neural Access ......】

[Body detection has been completed, all enforcement systems are disabled by default.] If you want to turn it on, please call out the setting in the game. 】

[The current player avatar is the default synchronous reality.] If you need to make changes, please call out the action settings. 】

[The loading mode is sleep mode.] In the current mode, you can only match with players in the same mode and enjoy a 1:7 ratio of gameplay time. It is possible to maintain a continuous online time of up to: 72 (×7) hours in reality. With the Game Warehouse, you will be able to play in deep sleep. 】

[Nerve heart rate recording ready.] When the player is abnormal, the game will be forced to pop and a fee will be charged, and contact medical care will be provided. 】

[Default costume immediately...... Completed】

【Ready】

[Please enter a nickname.] Special characters other than Chinese and English will not be allowed to be used as nicknames. 】

Mu Su, who was dozing off, finally saw that it was finally his turn to appear, and he didn't want to blurt it out.

"Crazy."

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*Article 5189 of the Law of Synthetic Humans: At all times, robots must retain distinct external features that distinguish them from humans.