Chapter 1264 The Beginning of Chaos
power cut!
Sara couldn't help feeling a little panicked. She was finishing today's homework on the computer. By the way, she turned on the stereo and listened to music while turning up the heater in the bedroom. Although it is winter, the room is warm enough to keep warm just by wearing an ordinary single shirt with long sleeves.
For Sara, it was a very comfortable life. You don't have to think about and calculate the high energy usage fees, you can make yourself feel comfortable as you want. Compared to the thick ones I had to wear before, the bedroom was as cold as an ice hole. Compared with the days when I sometimes couldn’t get my fingers out while doing homework, my life now is simply heaven!
My parents are just ordinary working-class people, and it is impossible to afford too extravagant energy expenses. Sara and her brother have been coming this way all these years, and they should have gotten used to it. But because of the green light ring, they experienced within a month how comfortable life should be when the price of energy is so cheap that it can be ignored.
So when their energy supply was suddenly cut off, Sarah couldn't help but panic. She quickly searched under her bed, where the green light ring of their family was hidden. Sarah found out when she removed the pile of items one by one and finally found the green light ring. The green light ring, which had been shining green for a month, no longer had any light.
The originally bright green emerald-like ring surface has lost its luster, and it looks like a colorless and transparent crystal. The power outage at home also attracted the attention of Sarah's mother, who quickly ran from the kitchen to Sarah's room.
When she just opened her mouth to ask what happened, Sarah lifted up the green light ring that had no energy with a look of horror.
And this is just the beginning. As the first family to get the green light ring, Sarah's green light ring had no energy at all, and in just 24 hours, a large number of green light rings began to lose energy.
According to the different energy consumption of each household, the energy depletion time of the green light ring is also different. Some families who got the green light ring obviously got the green light ring later, but they ran out of energy than some families who got the green light ring earlier.
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"You guys are selling fakes! This green light ring is useless after only three days!" shouted the muscular bearded man. The person he yelled at was a skinny man running an underground business.
The skinny man pushed the strong man away: "Stay away from me, keep a distance! How do I know if you broke this thing yourself? You must know that I got it through a special channel. It cannot be a fake. I warn you, don't expect good fruit if you're tangling."
The skinny man glared at the strong man, and revealed the weapon hidden in his waist. Although the strong man was full of reconciliation, he still had no choice but to let the other party go. Buying the green light ring cost me a lot of money! I originally hoped to save energy bills at home, but failed.
If I still have to pay for energy expenses, my family will have no money for food this month, what should I do! The strong man beat the wall unwillingly.
And the skinny man who sold green light rings in the underground market was actually a little worried. In fact, the special channel he mentioned came from the hands of some members of Public Eye. He is an agent of these people, members of the Public Eye who do not come forward to sell the Green Lantern ring, but let him pass it on.
In this way, although they have to share an extra share of money with themselves, these members of the public eye are relatively safe.
Although it is said that Norman is cleaning up the company, but people make money, and dead birds die for food; this is not empty talk, many people are still very willing to take risks in order to make some money. Just like in Li Jie's main world, although the laws of various countries have various strict regulations on drug safety, don't there still be counterfeit drugs? And it can also inject many people openly.
The same is true in this world. Although Norman is cleaning up, many people feel that they still have to make money if they can make money. The so-called dead birds are up to the sky, and they will not die for thousands of years.
Originally, these people in the public eye sold the green light rings they got through the underground resale business of skinny men. But lately the skinny man has been complaining about a faulty green light ring they got, and it won't be long before it's over.
The members of Public Eye who were in charge of providing the green light ring felt that what the skinny man said was nonsense, but all they got were very formal green light rings, how could it be fake?
It wasn't until the green light ring they used at home lost their power that they discovered that the skinny man was telling the truth.
More and more green light rings began to lose their energy supply, as if the power plant had pulled the main gate to cut power. All the green light rings are invalid!
There is a saying that goes well: It is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal.
Although the use of the green light ring is sneaky for many people, but undoubtedly because of the existence of the green light ring, many people have experienced a completely different life within a month.
And this also includes many Osborne Group employees, members of Public Eye, and so on. They have all experienced how luxurious life can be when the energy supply is released (equivalent to the per capita resource consumption of the United States in 2020). People are born to love to enjoy and pursue a better life.
Countless people were ruthlessly thrown into the abyss of their original life just after experiencing what is called a real modern life.
As Li Jie said, for most people, being able to stick to a difficult life is simply because they have not experienced a better life.
It's like taking a child from a country-level poverty-stricken mountain village to a big city like the capital Shanghai, and let the child experience what a computer is, what a smart TV is, and what a smartphone is. When the refrigerator door was opened, there were all kinds of snacks and ice creams inside. In the hot summer, you can enjoy the coolness of the air conditioner.
Braised pork, which can only be eaten every Chinese New Year, has become a common home-cooked dish in urban families. When all this was in front of the rural children who had never seen it before, he was thinking about his old days. Every morning, I have to go to the river one kilometer away to fetch water, and I can only eat tasteless corn mush in the morning. Milk bread, soy milk and deep-fried dough sticks may not have been eaten at all.
In addition to studying every day, I have to work hard every day, so I still can't eat well or wear well. In contrast, everything in the city is so beautiful, dreamy like heaven. After seeing all this and enjoying all this, can the originally simple and kind-hearted rural children return to the countryside to live the poor life?
Standing in heaven and watching hell, life is like a melodrama. Standing in hell and looking at heaven, who is busy for whom?
When Sean excitedly told Norman: "The green light ring has failed! It looks like we can succeed!"
Norman's face was ashen. He clenched his fists and squeezed out a sentence through his teeth: "Sean, the chaos has just begun."