The world enters the age of mythology.

Lu Yiming suddenly became sad, and his dream of salted fish was shattered.

I originally thought that by clinging to the government's thigh, I could fish with a high salary and play around, and my whole life would pass.

But now, the government doesn't seem to be very reliable...it seems a little too weak.

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Chapter 25 Leaving the Institute

Early the next morning, Lu Yiming packed his luggage and left the institute with mixed feelings.Take a shuttle from the suburban bus station to Huadong City, where I used to live.

East China City is one of the satellite cities of Yunhai City. It is responsible for absorbing part of the population of the mother city and has a part of its own industries.

The famous Internet company "Tengli Dad" is located in East China, and it is because of this that there are various Internet companies large and small in this city.

The digital information industry can be regarded as a pillar industry in East China.

After all, Lu Yiming used to be a member of the Internet migrant workers. Every day, he moved bricks on the Internet to live his life, and he was a monk for a day.The boss is drawing big cakes like "stocks, options, dreams" all day long, but when it comes to a raise, even if it is a hundred yuan, his face is bound to go black, as if his heart was cut off.

The boss's shout seemed to sound in his ears: "...You young people can't think about making money all day long! Have a dream, a dream! Do you know what a dream is? When I started my business, I didn't work every day. By 12 o'clock, I woke up at 5 in the morning!"

Lu Yiming shook his head and smiled bitterly, throwing these past memories behind his head.

This time, after returning after two months, his mentality has undergone a subtle change.

Looking at the cars coming and going on the highway, the whole society seems to be nothing, and the commercial trade and logistics traffic are still normal. Lu Yiming always has an unreal sense of contradiction.

He didn't know if he should believe Professor Huang's theory, and he didn't know when the S-class disaster would come.Still, it's better to prepare for the worst possible situation than to be careless and nonchalant.

Lu Yiming suddenly remembered something and made a phone call: "Hey, mom... ah, it's me, I'm back from abroad! What, you're shopping for vegetables... pork is rising again?"

"Oh, then buy some chicken."

As before, my mother started chatting about some small things in life, and then asked him whether he was used to eating foreign food, whether the little girls abroad were beautiful, whether the language was fluent, and so on.If you can get a foreign daughter-in-law, it would be better.

"Eating habits, eating habits, pizza, beef!"

The older generation always has a mentality of admiring foreigners, as if asking a foreign daughter-in-law can honor their ancestors.Even Lu Yiming has no interest in foreign women.

"...Don't keep saying this, I mainly go to work, where do I have time to find a foreigner to fall in love? What about a foreign wife? And foreigners all have body odor, you know, you have to apply a lot of perfume to be able to Mask the taste."

"By the way, this time a big bonus was given!" Lu Yiming hesitated for a while, and only reported a fraction of the money. "There's a full... 20 bonus! Cough cough!"

"What, 20?! Really or not?" On the other side of the phone, my mother's voice was slightly amplified.

In their small city, 20 is indeed a lot of money.

In particular, Lu Yiming has only just graduated from school for a year, and he has a bright future to be able to earn this amount of money.

"Of course it's true. You can make money very quickly when you develop games. Those local tyrants can top up hundreds of thousands of dollars... I tell you, if this project does well, the annual salary of one million won't be a problem!" Lu Yiming pretended To exaggerately say, it is a vaccination in advance.

"The stock is listed, maybe there are tens of millions."

"One million annual salary? Really fake?"

"Of course it's true. Two months' salary is 20, isn't it one million a year?"

Mom fell silent, and it was a little hard for her to accept this fact.

Her life experience was useless in the face of this high salary, and she couldn't continue to guide her son, which made her a little at a loss.Immediately afterwards, she couldn't help but start to think about what kind of girl could match her talented son.

Lu Yiming sighed in his heart, his parents kept thinking, what did you do wrong, what did you do wrong, it was all because you didn't earn enough money!

As long as they make enough money, they will shut up immediately.

He asked again: "By the way, did anything strange happen over there? It's that kind of strange thing... Has anyone died mysteriously nearby?"

"Strange thing? Oh, the grandmother next door ate black fungus overnight. She got food poisoning. It took several days for her to be rescued after being sent to the hospital."

"I tell you, don't eat black fungus overnight..."

When Lu Yiming heard that nothing happened on his parents' side, he felt relieved: "...Forget it, that's it, the money is over, you can save it for me, bye!"

After hanging up the phone, I opened the banking software and transferred 20 yuan to my mother's account.

In fact, his parents are very frugal people, and the consumption in the small county is very low. In addition, they all have retirement wages and are in good health. The money is just stored in the bank.

But for parents, the son's ability to make money means a sense of security and achievement.

The farmer's uncle also needs a harvest when he farms.What's more fulfilling than a son earning money?

Lu Yiming already had a strange picture in his mind of his parents blowing every time they met...

In this way, more than an hour passed in a hurry, and after leaving the station, he found two teammates waiting for him on the side of the road.

"Hi, Lily, Zhong Peng!"

"Get in the car, come to the city, do you feel a lot more relaxed?" Jin Lili waved her hand in the back seat and greeted, "The atmosphere in the research institute is too serious, I don't want to talk once I enter, suppressing the truth nature."

"Relax? When I think of an S-class disaster in the future, how could I not relax..." Lu Yiming shrugged and sat on the co-pilot.

Jin Lili said heartlessly: "Haha, don't worry, don't worry! Those scientists always exaggerate the facts. In fact? Even when the sky is falling, there are tall people standing on it. It's been ten years since the prophecy was issued. Now, is it not good so far? Maybe it can last for more than ten years?"

"Although I was so worried when I first entered the research institute, don't I come here every day?"

"And we already have the ticket, so we have a better chance of surviving... Ann, live your day well."

Lu Yiming shook his head and just sighed secretly.

He now knows even more than his two teammates, and he understands the seriousness of form.

The car was parked in a parking lot near a large security company, and Jin Lili pointed to the 30th-floor building opposite and said, "This is where we work... It claims to be a famous security company, but it's actually a network Data collection base."

"Actually, there's nothing special about it, just check in every day. We are not the staff responsible for information screening, so we usually have more freedom of movement, and we can go wherever we want. If we can find a naturally occurring strange thing by chance. , of course the best."

"However, if your superiors send corresponding task instructions on your mobile phone, then you have to make a trip in person. So your mobile phone must be turned on 24 hours a day, understand? It is best not to drink alcohol, so as not to make mistakes. "

Lu Yiming is not an alcoholic and knows the importance of the mission: "No problem."

Chapter 26 Social Change at the Macro Level

Jin Lili looked at Lu Yiming's expression, paused, and then said, "Take it easy, don't be so serious. Because East China is relatively affluent, the social environment is actually quite good, and supernatural phenomena are rare. On average, I run errands once a week. Well, and most likely it's not serious business, it's just some people's whims, boring and troublesome."

"The poorer the place, the more bad things happen. We are relatively leisurely here."

Lu Yiming thought for a while, this is actually a bit similar to Professor Huang's theory, because the poorer the place, the more serious the superstition.

"...If you encounter some public officials, they don't know you, but you need their cooperation, just open the software in your mobile phone, make a call above, and you will be notified soon for them to cooperate."

"But don't mess with your power, because every action you make is recorded on the file. If you do too much, you will still be criticized."

"No, no!" Lu Yiming said quickly, "I'm still very honest, and I won't take the initiative to bully others."

There are some people who have a little power in their hands, they feel like they are superior to others, and they use chicken feathers as tokens.From the student union of the university, to the workplace and officialdom, this type of people can be found everywhere.

It's actually hard for Lu Yiming to imagine why many people have such an inexplicable interest in pretending, and he has no desire to bully others.

To put it bluntly, his character is a bit of a salty fish mentality. If everyone can live in harmony, let's live in harmony as much as possible... Can you prove that you are superior to others?

After explaining these precautions, it is actually a very leisurely job.

Lu Yiming said: "It's agreed to invite you to dinner, and you can order whatever you want."

"Ha, that's going to slaughter you hard. I know a good restaurant!"

Zhong Peng was still so taciturn, he basically didn't like to talk much.Seeing Lu Yiming's eyes, he just nodded slightly.

The three walked into the small restaurant near the security company, the "Big Rice Bucket Canteen".

The environment here is very good and the price is not expensive.Since it is the company's internal restaurant, the confidentiality agreement is relatively loose. Everyone chatted casually in a box, and the atmosphere was quite relaxed.

"Hey, my biggest dream right now is to find a monster that suits me and enhance my superpowers..."

"It's really hard to say what the future will be like..."

"Even if you find it, it's very dangerous for you to explore on your own?" Lu Yiming took a sip of water and asked casually, "These things can kill people, and there is a chance that they will mutate."

Jin Lili frowned and said, "Oh, that's true. But the weird things in the research institute, no matter how suitable they are, only have the right to use, not the ownership of the items. If there are two similar superpowers, how will they be distributed? "

"Natural superpowers like you have a smaller number. Superhumans like us are the largest group of people. I am not the only one with regeneration ability..."

"If possible, it's best to find a monster as a hole card by yourself. As long as you find it yourself, the first ownership is yours. Although the risk is high, the benefits are also high. And even if you don't use it yourself , it can also be used to trade with the research institute..."

"Hey, yes."

Lu Yiming can understand this statement.

However, the appearance of strange things is often accompanied by supernatural events with a higher level of danger. How can it be so easy to find?

……

The next few days turned out to be calm, and Lu Yiming even felt that he was an idler with nothing to do. He had almost nothing to do, no tasks, and no abnormality.

Anyway, being idle is boring. He began to carefully observe the society through online channels, trying to spy on some clues.

Even if the government departments have used the greatest force to cover up some facts that have happened, they can still observe the subtle changes that are taking place in the world from various macro perspectives.

First of all, the first point is the sharp rise and fall of the stock!

The shareholders of some giant companies are reducing their holdings in large quantities, and it is a bit unusual that some star stocks are obviously in a low state and are also reducing their holdings in large quantities.

The only reason Lu Yiming can think of is that these top rich people who have learned the news are selling their equity and want to buy a lot of "ship tickets".

The price of "ship tickets" is undoubtedly extremely expensive. The cost of the research institute is so large that not only government support is enough, but also some financial assistance from these top rich people.

If the end of the world does come, stocks or money will inevitably become waste paper. It is better to buy one's own life.

This fact is very helpless, but it is naked and cruel.

He sighed in his heart: "In any era, when disaster strikes, the rich have a better chance of survival than the poor."

The so-called "rich is only three generations", because if the ancestors have not been rich, the poor are likely to have lost their children...

Secondly, there is a second point. Unlike the stock market, the prices of rebar, iron ore, copper, silver and other commodities have risen for many years, which is like a super bull market!

This is completely at odds with the current state of the economy, because when the economy is weak, commodity prices tend to be weak as well.

A group of economists from securities companies called out "unbelievable". In fact, they couldn't figure out why the prices of these materials were so strong.

Lu Yiming speculated that the construction of some super projects may require a large amount of these materials, which has caused a long-term bull market in commodities.

After getting this information, he pondered: "In other words, this super project is unlikely to be placed in space... Humans have not landed on the moon for a long time, and the most advanced rockets can only launch a few hundred tons of things. , is unlikely to allow a large population to flee."

"So, this super project is still on Earth."

There is a third strange phenomenon. Political disputes at home and abroad are basically invisible, except for some trade disputes.

There are fewer and fewer strife about politics, as if world peace has really been achieved...

Some small countries are still in conflict, and the big countries have become extremely harmonious.

In other words, the world has not fought a war for a long time, the leaders of various countries have become more and more Buddha nature, and the cooperation of various countries is far greater than the competition.

It was unimaginable for world peace in the past!

What is even more strange is that countries have completed firewalls through the "Internet Sovereign Space" agreement, and people of all countries can only see the news within each country.

The reason is also very simple. According to Lu Yiming's guess, governments all over the world are busy covering up all kinds of supernatural events. In the face of an imminent S-class super disaster, all kinds of trivial matters become insignificant.

These are the oddities in society that are hard to hide at the macro level.

Of course, if you don't think about it in a certain direction, most people will not pay attention to it at all. They will only think that the world is working normally, the sun is still rising in the east and setting in the west, and everything is the same as before.

Chapter 27 The Strange Thing Breaking In

Lu Yiming couldn't help but be a little at a loss after looking up these clues at the macro level of society on the Internet.He didn't know what the predicted S-class disaster was, but with such a huge amount of money invested in it to build some super shelters, this disaster would definitely be extremely serious.

Those top tycoons will never make fun of their real money.

"Drip!"

Suddenly, Lu Yiming's cell phone rang, and when he looked closely, it was a call from the institute.

He didn't dare to neglect, and quickly connected, "Hello, hello!"

"Mr. Lu Yiming, hello." There was an electronically synthesized voice on the phone, which could be regarded as a standard dubbing in the institute.