Chapter 3186

The damp and smelly room was filled with a chill, not just a feeling, but a chill.

The entire prosperous city was built on top of this place. The once bustling city became the foundation of the new city. Here, it was difficult for sunlight to shine in.

The only thing that allowed people to distinguish between day and night every day was the street lights.

So in a sense, here, day and night were exactly the opposite of the world above -

When daytime came, the city lighting system would all go out, and the slums at the bottom would usher in "darkness".

When the sun went down, the city lighting system would be powered on again, and it would be daytime in the slums.

There was no sunlight, only wind, which made the temperature in the slums about 20 degrees almost all year round. Perhaps it was this terrible situation that ensured that at least no one died from extreme temperatures such as cold or heat.

The girl returned home and wiped her cheeks stained by black water.

Because of the damp and cold weather, as well as the drainage problems in the upper city, most of the buildings here were "wet", and then the mold would drip down mixed with liquid.

Fortunately, it is not fatal, because those who have not produced antibodies have become part of the city.

Those who survived all have antibodies, or their parents may be gene-modified people.

She started to cook dinner. She wanted to thank the masters above for not cutting off the power supply to the slums at the bottom, but in fact it was not that the masters did not want to do that, but it involved the problem of circuit modification, which was a big trouble.

After calculations by the Universal Giant Enterprise, they came to a conclusion that if they wanted to modify the line and stop supplying power to the slums, then the cost of their route modification would be enough for them to supply power to the bottom for more than a thousand years.

So no one wanted to mention this matter. It was not only a matter of spending money, but more importantly, the various troubles brought about by the route modification might cause greater losses.

The girl simply wiped a dead mouse and some insects she picked up, peeled them, and put them on the cooking appliance.

This is a... round rolled iron plate. It is not a strict appliance, because the principle of its heating is to turn it into a resistor when it is powered on, and then it will heat up.

No one will come to the slums to collect electricity bills. Sometimes there will be short circuits here, but the city's management system artificial intelligence will find the problem as quickly as possible and let the engineering robot complete the circuit restoration work.

Gradually, this has become a kind of life.

The girl has no friends, brothers and sisters. When she was born, it is said that her mother personally sent her to the slums. She was a beautiful woman. She put the girl at the stop and left.

The scavenger brought her back, of course not out of kindness, just thinking of using her as a doll to vent his desires, but unfortunately, the scavenger died before this day.

People in the slums don't live long.

She inherited everything from the scavenger, and also inherited a lot of problems. It is common to use sex as a means of transaction here, but to be honest, there is nothing worth trading.

She collected some dried paper pieces together and flattened them with stones. These things can be exchanged for some food in the slums.

Some people are crazy about things with written records, especially in modern times when electronicization is very high and even toilet paper has to be imported from other planets.

Paper that records text has a certain value.

Soon, the mice and bugs on the iron plate were sizzling. She quickly cut a few slices of mushrooms and fried them on both sides with the grilled fat. Dinner was ready.

She sat at the small table, looked at the "sumptuous" dinner, and slowly closed her eyes.

The scavenger who picked her up was also a human. Only humans would pick up human babies. This is just like humans would not pick up a dog and intend to use it as a tool to vent their desires... It's not impossible.

But here, most people will only use their own race as an object to exchange body fluids, not those "animals".

The human scavenger taught her to pray. It is said that this is a ritual that existed in ancient humans and it will bring good luck.

She clasped her hands and fingers together in front of her chest, closed her eyes and began to pray, just like the old scavenger did before he died. She thought of many things.

She hoped to leave here one day, hoped that her mother would wake up, and hoped...

She hoped for many things, but in the end, she prayed and hoped that she could survive.

After finishing her prayer, she began to taste today's delicious food. The mushrooms, which were full of stench and as if they were eating shit, were wrapped with sour rat meat. The touch of life brought by chewing them hard in her mouth made her shed tears of happiness.

On the contrary, the insects tasted much better. She didn't know how to describe the taste. Anyway, they were delicious, soft, smooth, and fragrant.

After eating, she put on her clothes. The temperature here would be lower at night, about 17 or 18 degrees. Although it would not freeze people to death, it would definitely be uncomfortable.

She was ready to rest, but before resting, she had to figure out what the well-packaged thing was.

There are some people in the slums who can read, and even in the abyss, there are people who yearn for light.

So even in the slums, there are people who persist, hoping to seize the opportunity one day.

"This... is a brain-computer interface. Do you know what a brain-computer is?"

A woman in her thirties looked over and over, and the girl nodded, "I know, I've heard about it."

The woman found the pull tab to unpack the package, gestured and asked, "Can I open it?"

The girl hesitated, but still agreed.

The woman unpacked, took out the brain-machine that was only the size of her little finger, and took out the instruction manual, "It says that you prepare the side with the arrow... I remember you are human."

The girl nodded and continued, "Aim this at your nasal cavity and push it all the way in. You may feel a little uncomfortable and uncomfortable during this process, but it will be fine after it is all pushed in."

"Then there is an... adapter here. If you press this button, you will feel a slight dizziness for about ten seconds."

"After the dizziness is over, you can enter their virtual network."

The woman returned the thing to her, "A brain-machine, it's useless, but if you want to exchange it for something, you can go find a machine head."

Here, any service needs to be charged, and there used to be brand new receivers and brain-machines that were sent with garbage.

But people soon discovered that all brain-computers have a free use time, the longest is about three days, and the shortest is only one hour.

Once the time is up, they can no longer use it, and they can only continue to enjoy it after recharging.

If it were just that, it would be nothing, but the bad thing is that they have no means to remove the brain-computer terminal.

For people in the upper world, taking this thing out may be to go to a nearby surgery center for a while, and the surgical robot will do everything within two minutes.

But for people in the slums who are still living in the primitive world, they can't take it out in their lifetime!

Some inferior brain-computers have brought bad experiences to some people, and there are always a few unlucky people who die at home because of brain infection or spinal cord infection.

But this thing can be exchanged for other things, food, or something else, and there are people who specialize in this business.

After saying thank you, the girl took the things and left. She didn't know how to read, or she didn't know all the words, only a few of them.

There are no schools in the slums. Those who know how to read regard knowledge as a kind of wealth and will not teach it easily.

Occasionally they would reveal some knowledge and become the subject of heated discussion.

The girl knew about fifty words, which was the limit.

However, she could understand the pictures and, with the intermittent words she knew, she could comprehensively infer the contents of the instructions.

The instructions were made of degradable plastic and had no value. She flipped through them and looked at the pictures on them, gradually becoming fascinated.

In the past sixteen years of her life, there was only darkness, despair, and pain... She thought of the descriptions of the upper class and the virtual world by those who had been connected to brain-computers or interfaces.

Full of light, full of hope, and full of beauty!

She held it tightly, and she suddenly developed a desire. She wanted to see what the world above was like.

Why did her mother prefer to abandon her to maintain her image.

Is that place really more important than a living daughter?

She tossed and turned until midnight and couldn't fall asleep. She sat up, recalling the instructions the woman had told her, and then put it on her nose.

After more than ten minutes of mental preparation, she used a small rod to press against its bottom and pushed it into her nose.

In an instant, her entire nose felt sour, and then the sourness continued to spread throughout her body. After about ten seconds, it felt a little better.

After taking a breath, one nostril felt a little oppressive, but overall there was no discomfort.

She lay on the "bed" and thought about a lot of things in her mind.

At this time, her emotions were complicated and difficult to describe. After a long time, her ups and downs gradually calmed down. She took a deep breath, then closed her eyes and pressed the button.

In an instant, it seemed as if countless information had overwhelmed her nerves, and she lost consciousness, but soon her consciousness began to recover. She opened her eyes and looked at the dark "night" around her, touched her nose, and there was a little runny nose. She never had a runny nose, but it didn't matter.

Just when she didn't know how to activate this brain-computer, suddenly some prompts appeared in front of her eyes-

"Brain-computer initialization..."

"...Initialization completed"

"Do you want to log in to the virtual world?"

"Yes/No"