long night fire

Dr. Lin looked at it for a while, and finally wrote:

"Reexamination results on July 46, 7: The symptoms did not improve, but they did not worsen either. There was no tendency to violence and no aggressiveness. It can be considered harmless for the time being."

……

傍晚6点是公司规定的下班时间，除了需要加班的特定项目组和某些24小时轮班制的岗位，所有员工都将离开位于大楼第5层的“管理区”、第6到第45层的“研究区”、第46到第145层的“工厂区”（兼维护区）、第146到第345层的“内生态区”，返回足有300层的“生活区”。

Because the energy quota is limited, and both husband and wife and elders in the family may be at work, many employees choose to eat in the "material supply market" on each floor.

This place is divided into two parts, one part supplies sweet potatoes, potatoes, rice, flour, meat, vegetables and fruits from the "inner ecological zone", and materials such as cloth, sugar, and salt from the "factory zone", and the other part supplies All kinds of cooked food are affectionately called "staff canteen".

The cost of eating in the cafeteria is higher than that of cooking at home, and the taste is not very good, but considering the energy quota that everyone is short of, and the exhaustion of working all day, it seems to be a better choice.

And this is also the tendency passed down by the company's top management - hoping to reduce energy consumption through unified meal supply.

When Shang Jianyao returned to the 495th floor, there were still about 6 minutes before the opening time of the cafeteria at 30:20—because some positions needed to be cleaned, disinfected or other necessary things after work, so, to be fair, the board of directors stipulated , the opening time of the canteen is half an hour after the official end of get off work.

For those employees who returned to their respective floors before 6:15, the "Activity Center" next to the "Material Supply Market" is the best place to spend the rest of the time. They can gather together and chat about life and work under the lights All kinds of things inside, and mention the people struggling to survive outside with a clear sense of superiority.

Some employees will hurry up and sell things they no longer need at home in exchange for more contribution points. Therefore, every night from 6:6 to 30:7 and from 8:30 to [-]:[-], the lobby of the "Activity Center" There will be a small market inside.

As soon as Shang Jianyao walked in, he saw the supervisor of the "Activity Center", Mr. Chen Xianyu, Mr. Chen sitting on a small bench that creaked from time to time, with a bunch of strange objects scattered in front of him.

"What is this?" Shang Jianyao squatted down and picked up a rectangular object with a metal casing and a black screen.

"Who knows? Anyway, it's quite strong. It can be used to smash people, or to prevent bullets." Mr. Chen poked his chest.

"Where did it come from?" Shang Jian Yao asked while fiddling.

Chen Xianyu cleared the phlegm in his throat and said:

"The youngest son of my comrade-in-arms, he is also serving in the 'Security Department'. He just came back from a city ruins in the old world. Hey, time flies so fast. I watched him be born, and I watched him grow up ..."

After reminiscing for a while, Mr. Chen added with a smile:

"Anyway, it's been screened. If the company doesn't need it, you don't have to hand it in. So, he put it on consignment with me, the old man. You know, I don't have to go to the cafeteria. Someone will cook for me."

He has a lot of employees under him.

Shang Jianyao glanced at the spiderweb-like cracks on the black screen of the item, thought for a while and said:

"How many contribution points?"

"Not expensive, not expensive, 500 points." Chen Xianyu quoted a price at will.

Shang Jian Yao put down the item slowly, and muttered:

"10 catties of meat."

After saying the word meat, he and Chen Xianyu swallowed their saliva at the same time.

Shang Jian Yao glanced at it, and picked up another item:

"Is this a watch?"

"Yes, the watch has a complicated mechanical structure inside, and it can still run up to now. It can be used just by adjusting it." Chen Xianyu's eyes lit up and said, "How about it, do you want to think about it? Its pointer and time mark have arrived It will light up by itself at night, and you can see clearly without turning on the flashlight. Let me tell you, old man, there are definitely no more than 100 people who can have a good watch in the entire company. If you have it, you don’t need to Relying on the radio to tell the time, you don’t need to come here to look at the wall clock, you will become the envy of the residents on the entire floor, maybe there will be a little girl who will take the initiative to ask you to fall in love..."

Shang saw the watch in Yao's hand, the silver strap had many cracks and was stained with rust, and on the emerald green dial that looked like a jewel, the second hand was jumping intermittently, and glass shards were everywhere.

"How many contribution points?" Shang Jianyao asked in a calm voice.

Chen Xianyu slowed down before speaking:

"Sixty thousand."

Shang Jianyao put down the watch with lightning speed, as if it was very hot.

With a monthly salary of 1 points for D1800 employees, it takes almost three years without food or drink to save enough.

Chen Xianyu didn't expect Shang Jianyao to buy it, he was just joking with the young man, and he pointed to the pile of metal round cans in the middle and said:

"Do you want to buy this?

"Good stuff, military cans!"

Shang Jianyao picked up a can, only to see that the plastic film on the outside was torn, and the logo became extremely blurred, only the words "braised beef in brown sauce" and "500g" could be vaguely seen.

"How about it, isn't it heavy? That means it's a lot of weight!" Chen Xianyu spattered and said, "Old man, let me tell you, this kind of military canned food is delicious, and it's a delicacy that I can't forget in my whole life. Much better than the shrunken cans from The Salvation Army!

"If it weren't for the child of my comrade-in-arms who dug up a whole box this time, you might never be able to eat it. The price is 60 contribution points, which is very cheap, right? You go to the 'supply market' to buy a catty of raw pork, and you have to 50 points, and it does not include seasoning, no one will help you make it, and you may not be able to buy it! Also, heck, if you run out of this can, you can still hand over the metal shell to the "Material Management Department" for some contribution points. Is it a good deal?"

Shang Jianyao looked at the old man, and when he finished speaking, he suddenly asked:

"How long has it expired?"

"How do I know the shelf life? I don't know how to convert the year in the old world." Old man Chen's eyes widened. "Anyway, the new calendar is only 46 years old. You can eat it."

As he said that, he showed an expression of reminiscence:

"When I was in the 'Ministry of Security', I went out on a mission, lost my supplies, and almost starved to death. Fortunately, I found a military warehouse and found this kind of canned food. At that time, they had expired for many years. Is it okay if I eat it? It tastes delicious."

Chapter 4 Rumors

Shang Jian Yao held the can, but didn't respond, nor put it down.

After a few seconds, he opened his mouth and asked:

"Can it sing?"

"Huh?" Chen Xianyu suspected that there was something wrong with his ears for the first time after living for so many years.

At this time, Long Yuehong came in from outside the "activity center" with two yellow plastic lunch boxes, and saw Shang Jianyao.

He greeted with a smile on his face:

"Let's have dinner together later!"

"Will you invite me?" Shang Jianyao put down the can and stood up.

Without even thinking about it, Long Yuehong shook her head and said:

"Won't.

"Don't you still have a lot of subsidies?"

Although Shang Jianyao's parents didn't leave any inheritance, the company gave him a certain pension. When he went to college, he received an additional 1200 points of subsidy every month—every college student got it.

This allowed Shang Jianyao to barely maintain food and clothing.

The deadline for the subsidy is one month after the college students are assigned to work and officially go to work.

Seeing that the embarrassment of being rejected did not appear on Yao's face, Shang said with a smile:

"Shouldn't happy things be shared with friends?"

"Do you want to say that inviting a meal is the best way to share?" Long Yuehong has become more and more used to Shang Jianyao's jumping thinking in the past two months.

Chen Xianyu, who was listening to the conversation between the two, interrupted with a smile:

"Yes, Xiaoyue, you are still so depressed in the afternoon, but you become so happy in the evening, you must have encountered something good."

"Don't call me by my nickname..." Long Yuehong muttered first, and then said with a smile on her face, "My mother said that there is no need to wait for a unified marriage next year. She and my father have several colleagues whose daughters did not go to college. work, she is going to introduce us to each other and see if we can develop a romantic relationship."

Employees of the company have only one chance to take the college entrance examination. If they fail, they will be assigned a job uniformly (after work, if they perform well, they will be recommended to go to college). age of marriage.

Young people at this stage yearn for free love. After all, this is definitely better than random assignment. It is not purely luck, but has a emotional foundation.

Of course, there are not many people who can truly fall in love freely, because after starting to work, they go out at 7:30 in the morning and get off work at 6 in the evening. , The "activity center" is closed, the street lights are turned off, and everyone has to go home and prepare to rest. Therefore, young people have very few suitable opposite sexes, and the time they can contact is limited.

Relatively speaking, whether in ordinary schools or universities, free love appears more frequently.

As Long Yuehong was talking, she suddenly felt a little melancholy:

"I don't know if they will fall in love with me. I am only 1 meters tall after genetic modification, and my looks are average. My grades are not very good, and I haven't been booked by any department..."

"There seems to be something over there..." Shang Jianyao interrupted Long Yuehong's self-pity, pointing to an old table a few meters away.

There were many employees around, as if they were discussing something.

Long Yuehong was curious, and followed Shang Jianyao.

He scanned around and saw an acquaintance, so he blurted out and asked:

"Aunt Ren, what are you talking about?"

The Aunt Ren he was talking about was a middle-aged woman in her forties, wearing a polyester shirt, with good eyebrows, and her hair was simply tied up in a bun.

Her name is Ren Jie, and she lives next door to Long Yuehong's house. She is an employee of a department under the company's "Strategy Committee" and only has a D3 level.

Ren Jie glanced at Long Yuehong, sighed and said:

"We're talking about a recent rumor."

"What rumors?" Long Yuehong asked curiously.

At this time, Chen Xianyu, old man Chen withdrew his gaze, looked at the pile of military cans in front of him, couldn't help touching his stomach, and swallowed his saliva.

He seemed to recall the feeling of opening a similar military can when he was extremely hungry.

"It really can sing... No, it made my stomach and soul sing." Chen Xianyu had an association and expressed his heartfelt emotion.

On the other side, Ren Jie looked around and said in a low voice:

"It is said that the company wants to deprive everyone of their reproductive rights."

"Ah?" This topic was a bit unexpected to Long Yuehong, and he couldn't understand what it meant for a short while.

Ren Jie glanced at Shang Jianyao who was still smiling, and continued:

"The company may allow couples who want to have children to submit biological materials under the guidance and help of doctors.

"Then, set up a large 'fertility center' in the research area to uniformly carry out test tube culture, artificial uterus pregnancy, baby growth assistance and intervention. In short, when you pick up your children, they may be several years old.

"Hey, it is said to liberate women from pregnancy and childbirth, and alleviate the company's labor shortage."

When Ren Jie said this, a woman in her twenties who was watching beside her couldn't help but said:

"Isn't this a good thing?"

"How can this be called a good thing?" Ren Jie said with a serious face, "It is the gods who conceive life, er, God, the sacred right bestowed on us, how can we give it to the machine? At that time, how will you build relationships with your children? "

"Yes, yes." A man sitting diagonally across from her touched his hair and said worriedly, "It is said that the old world was finally destroyed because of a series of taboo experiments that did not follow ethics."

Ren Jie nodded frequently, then turned to look at Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong:

"Xiao Shang, Xiao Yue, what do you think? Do you also think that the birth of life is the key to the reason why people are called human beings, and it is a sacred right bestowed by heaven?"

Shang Jian Yao nodded without hesitation and said:

"Yes."

Long Yuehong saw that Aunt Ren's eyes were wide open, looking at her with bloodshot eyes, and said with a low "hiss":

"Yeah yeah."

"You guys still understand the truth." Ren Jie smiled.

At this time, an employee laughed and said:

"Are you taking it too seriously? This is just a rumor. My uncle works in an organization under the board of directors, and I have never heard of it!"

Ren Jie responded very seriously:

"Just to remind everyone. If someone comes to ask for opinions at that time, they must oppose it."

Some people were silent, some nodded, and some asked with rich associations:

"If this regulation is really implemented, will the marriage be cancelled, and the unified marriage be cancelled?"

The man who mentioned the rumors of the old world before said in a tone:

"Won't.

"Director Ji said that a harmonious and healthy marriage is the key to maintaining the mental stability of employees under the current environment."

Director Ji is called Ji Ze. He is a member of the company's board of directors, vice president, and M3-level executive. He often speaks on the radio, and at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, he will greet everyone through the display screen of the "Activity Center".

While everyone was discussing, a bell rang suddenly from next door to the "Activity Center":

"Jingle Bell!"

Except for a few, the vast majority of people stood up at the same time as if they heard the sound of the charge.

This time the bell came from the "Material Supply Market" to remind everyone that there are only 3 minutes left before the canteen opens.

Seeing the neighbors starting to move towards the "staff canteen", Long Yuehong glanced at Shang Jianyao beside him: