long night fire

Embers of the Night Author: The Squid Who Loves Diving

brief introduction:

Everyone on the dust believes that there is a way to a new world buried deep in a ruin amidst danger and famine. As long as you can find a unique key and open that door, you can enter the new world.

There, the earth is fertile, like milk and honey flowing, and the sun is shining brightly, as if it can wash away the cold and gloom.People no longer have to face barrenness, monsters, infection, distortion and all kinds of dangerous things.

There, children are happy, adults are happy, and everything is beautiful.

Every antiquarian, relic hunter, and historical researcher on the dust knows that this is the new world.

first prelude

Chapter 1 Uniform distribution

Area C on the 495th floor is an activity center with gray-green exterior walls and various graffiti. Six or seven girls walked in with excited or expectant or nervous expressions.

Their clothes are simple in style and monotonous in color, mainly blue, black, white, and green, but they all have exquisite appearance and youthful appearance.

Glancing at the only LCD screen on the entire floor, the leading girl couldn't help but whispered:

"I don't know what kind of husband the company will assign me?"

"It's mainly about your personality." Beside her, the girl in a green top and blue trousers bit her lower lip and said.

As the second generation of genetically modified drugs, they are not worried about the appearance and height of their future husbands, as they are above the standard anyway.

The girl in the lead glanced at her companion:

"You have forgotten that apart from people of our age who participated in unified marriage, there are also those whose wives have passed away. Some of them are in their 50s and [-]s. They have not undergone genetic modification at the embryonic stage and have many defects."

In order to ensure that there are enough newborns, the company they work for stipulates: "For those who have reached the age of 20 or have graduated from higher education and have not freely married, the company will arrange a spouse uniformly, and those who do not accept it will be punished uniformly by the 'Order and Supervision Department'. For the first violation, the energy ratio will be reduced, and the corresponding contribution points will be deducted; for the second violation, the company will be expelled from the company and left to fend for itself.”

Similarly, those who are widowed and have no offspring will be forced to participate in the unified distribution three years after the widow and under the age of 60.

"And, even if it's not these people, don't you expect your future husband to be in an M-class family?" Another girl joined the discussion and joked.

The company is divided into three levels: one is D-level employees, from D1 to D9; the other is M-level management, from the director level represented by M1 to the board members and chief scientists corresponding to M3; there is no letter code, only one title , that is "Big Boss", an unusually mysterious lady.

The girl in the green top and blue trousers pouted and said:

"When did you hear that people on ordinary floors were assigned spouses on floors 346, 347, 348, and 349?"

346 to 349 are the floors where M-level managers live. The energy supply is abundant, and the per capita housing area is more than ten times that of ordinary employees. Moreover, these four floors have their own independent elevators, water purification, ventilation, sewage and education. system, their children will not have contact with ordinary employees under normal circumstances.

The only exception is the higher education stage, because the entire company has only one university, which is on the 350th floor.

The children of ordinary employees need a test to decide whether to start work or go to university, while the children of management can receive higher education without the test.

Within the company, there is no one who does not want to be a management, and no one does not want to have a relationship with the management.

As for the "big boss", let alone the ordinary employees, they don't even know what she looks like. Only at the end of the year, the beginning of the year, or when major events happen, can they hear her voice through the radio, so, very Few people dream of being appreciated by the "big boss" and jumping up to the management level.

Of course, there are still few representations, just not many.

The girl in the lead smiled and said:

"That's why I always let you fall in love freely in school. Look at Chen Bei, her husband was booked by the 'Material Management Department' as soon as he graduated. There must be backgrounds in the family!"

"Meng Xia, are you embarrassed to say it? Why don't you fall in love freely?" The other girls mocked at the same time.

"It's not like you don't know me? What I'm good at is talking about it." Meng Xia admitted without any shame that she didn't have the courage.

After laughing about it for a while, the girl in a green top and blue trousers asked curiously:

"Meng Xia, do you know the level of Chen Bei's husband's family? You have always known each other very well."

Meng Xia glanced left and right, lowered her voice and said:

"Say it's the Operations Cluster Director of the Ministry of Security."

"Wow..." When the girls were amazed, a group of young men walked in at the gate of the activity center.

The two groups of people looked at each other for a few seconds, and each shifted their eyes a little shyly. After all, no one can tell whether their future husband (wife) is across from each other.

A man with a height of about 1 meters and a clean frame glanced at the old tables in the activity center and the benches and chairs around the tables, and said to the companion beside him a little nervously:

"Shang Jianyao, tell me, what kind of wife will the company assign to me?"

His companion is about 1 meters tall, with straight eyebrows, bright brown eyes, deep-lined face, slightly messy black hair, covering half of his forehead.

The young man named Shang Jianyao glanced sideways at his companion and said:

"First of all, you have to be assigned before you can talk about what it is like."

He was wearing a dark blue two-piece suit, his arms were bulging, and the fabric stretched out his lines, making him look masculine and powerful.

"Ha, it's not so unlucky, is it? This time there are only two more men than women." The man with a height of 1 meters and relatively ordinary facial features laughed.

His expression gradually calmed down, and he muttered:

"Will they look down on me? I am only 1 meters tall after genetic modification, I am not handsome, and my grades in all subjects are only average..."

Shang Jianyao said with a serious expression:

"That's not the key, the key is your name."

"Name? What's wrong with the name Long Yuehong? My father's surname is Long, and my mother's name has a red letter in it, how meaningful." Long Yuehong said to herself in confusion, "Yes, the company's unified distribution will not look at my height. How much, what I look like, it is said that they are all random after excluding blood relationship... Ah, will they treat me as a woman because of the name, and then assign me a husband? What should I do?"

Shang Jianyao looked Long Yuehong up and down and said:

"Biological organ transplantation, nerve reconstruction, artificial uterus, perfectly solve the problem."

Long Yuehong laughed awkwardly twice:

"Haha, how is that possible? I mean how could they get it wrong, every single one of my profiles says men!

"Your way of thinking is really strange. Shouldn't normal people think about appealing?"

Before Shang Jianyao could respond, he said again:

"So, why is my name the key?"

"The name represents a person's fate, random assignment is fate." Shang Jianyao replied solemnly.

Long Yuehong's expression froze for two seconds and said:

"I knew you couldn't come up with any constructive ideas!"

As soon as the words fell, he turned to ask:

"Shang Jian Yao, what kind of wife do you want to assign?"

Shang Jian Yao raised his chin and said:

"I do not need.

"The company's resources are insufficient, and the human beings on the ashes are in dire straits. The shadow of famine, infection, distortion, and animalization still hangs over the whole world. How can I get married?"

"..." Long Yuehong let out a "ha", "You are getting better at joking."

Shang Jianyao looked at him and said without a smile:

"I have already applied to waive this unified allocation."

"Are you serious? Impossible, how could the company promise you to give up this unified distribution! Haha, I almost believed you!" Long Yuehong was startled at first, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xianyu, the supervisor of the activity center on the 495th floor, left his seat, walked to the LCD screen, and started debugging.

This old man with gray hair and staggering steps used to be an employee of the Security Department responsible for external operations. He had been at the D7 team leader level. Later, due to his age, he left the Security Department and was promoted to a D8 level. The manager in charge of the activity center on this floor.

Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong were very curious about the old man's past experience, and they always liked to come to the activity center to play and ask questions, but Chen Xianyu strictly abided by the confidentiality regulations, just picked up some knowledge that everyone knew, Just like an ordinary employee who was born, grew up, studied, worked, grew up, and grew old in the "inner ecological zone", and has never been out of an underground building in his life, and has seen the real sky.

"Okay, it's time to start." Chen Xianyu held a remote control panel and pressed it heavily.

The display screen flickered a few times and gave off a faint light.

Long Yuehong, Meng Xia and the others immediately held their breath, waiting for the result of the assignment.

They don't worry that the items will scroll too fast and they can't see clearly, because the activity center on each floor only displays the results related to the residents of this floor.

Chapter 2 review

When the second hand of the old wall clock in the activity center, which was likely to stop at any time, creaked and turned three and a half times, lines of text finally appeared on the LCD screen.

Meng Xia and the others quickly searched for their names, and then breathed a sigh of relief one after another.

Most of them are not satisfied or excited, but not unhappy.For them, it is no different from taking the exam as usual, as long as the result is not too bad, anyway, their parents, grandparents, and grandparents also came here in this way.

The rest are more confused, because they don't know who their marriage partner is, which floor they are from, which department their parents belong to-even if they all entered college and received higher education, the people they know are still concentrated in the same department And "neighbors" on the same floor.

Long Yue Hongzai carefully looked up and down several times, and couldn't help but whispered to himself:

"Why isn't there my name?"

"Because your name is not good enough." Shang Jianyao next to him didn't change his expression.

"..." Long Yuehong wanted to refute, but sadly found that she agreed with the other party's conclusion.

This time, there are thousands of people who meet the conditions and are forced to participate in the unified marriage, and there are only two more men than women. If it is not for bad fate, bad name, and bad luck, how can they become one of the two unlucky ghosts? ?

Long Yuehong paused, then said sadly and angrily:

"Not even your name!"

He didn't see which woman Shang Jianyao had successfully paired with.

Shang Jian Yao slightly raised his right eyebrows and said:

"Didn't I say that? I have already applied to give up this unified marriage."

"This, this, really? How could the company, how could it agree..." Long Yuehong was stunned and confused, feeling like her world view had been subverted.

He has lived for 21 years, and he has indeed heard that those who meet the requirements did not participate in the unified marriage, but there are sufficient reasons: the other party is either lying on a hospital bed and may die at any time, or participated in the external operations of the Ministry of Security , I don't know if I can come back.

Anyone who is healthy and qualified within the company will not dare to violate the regulations.

This is one of the core obligations of being a company employee.

Long Yuehong was relieved by this incident, looked at Shang Jianyao and said:

"Are you prepared to accept a reduction in energy rationing?

"It's not bad. The scariest thing is the deduction of contribution points. You can't have enough to eat at all! We can only set D1 level, only 1800 points per month, and we can only eat meat once a week, and one-third of it will be deducted once." What is the concept of one?"

"The company agreed, and there is no need to deduct it." Shang Jianyao smiled slightly.

"No, it's impossible, it's impossible..." Long Yuehong muttered to herself and suddenly thought of something.

If Shang Jianyao really applied to give up this unified marriage, it means that there will only be one more male than female participating in this marriage.

Only one more person...

I, I am the only unlucky one... Long Yuehong's mouth was half opened, and a strong sadness welled up in his heart.

At this time, the display screen began to turn pages, briefly introducing the basic information of those people who were successfully matched with the residents of this floor, so that they could find each other and go to the various "Order Supervision Bureaus" under the "Order Supervision Department" to register for marriage.

"Meng Xia, your husband is an outsider!" After everyone looked at it for a while, the female side was the first to erupt in exclamation.

Meng Xia's expression was slightly solemn, his eyes moved slightly, and he read in a low voice:

“张磊；男；出生：荒野流浪者；年龄：25岁；3年前被公司吸纳，表现一直良好；身体无隐患；住所：622层A区192号；员工层级：D4；电子卡编号：04311029189……”

"There are really outsiders..." Long Yuehong was also attracted by this incident, and she turned her head to discuss with her companions.

They all know that the company will regularly recruit wilderness wanderers to supplement the population and improve their genes, but because the residents on this floor have never worked with outsiders before, and no one has married them, so everyone is more concerned about this matter. Treat it as an anecdote.

"Meng Xia, it's actually alright. Although he used to be a wanderer in the wilderness, he is now a D4 employee. He is only 25 years old. He is very powerful!" The girl in a green top and blue trousers comforted her friend.

D4 means changing from an ordinary employee to a senior employee, senior employee, who can serve as a deputy for a small research project, a monitor of a factory production line, a deputy leader of a security force, or an order supervisor of a certain area on a certain floor. D1 has increased by at least 2000 points.

"But the effect of genetic improvement after adulthood is not so good..." the young man on the other side of Long Yuehong muttered.

At this time, he saw the information of his marriage partner:

“周琪；女；出生：内部员工；年龄：30岁；曾经有过一任丈夫，死亡5年，目前养育有一个孩子；系主动申请参加本次统一婚配；身体无隐患；住所：569层B区27号；员工层级：D4；电子卡编号：01609052558……”

"Yang Zhenyuan, your wife is 10 years older than you..." Long Yuehong also saw this entry.

Yang Zhenyuan, like most of his peers in the company, has a fair face, a strong body, and good looks, but he is slightly delicate and looks more introverted.