Neverland

The portable mecha worn on Qin Wei's wrist detected her unstable emotional dynamics, and automatically entered the combat readiness state. The original bracelet-like object switched forms in an instant, and buckled on her like a wrist armor ready to go. A dangerous red light flashed on his wrist.Qin Wei was startled by the sound, she regained her senses, and manually adjusted it to standby mode.

Such an interruption, on the contrary, dragged her out of the quagmire of memories.

Qin Wei smiled self-deprecatingly, and put the photo frame in her hand on the table.

The relationship between her and Qin Zhiyuan is more like a superior and a subordinate than a father and daughter.If it weren't for Qin Zhiyuan's time limit, Qin Wei would probably be like every one of his confidantes, leaving such a place in the central area would be enough.

The photo on Qin Wei's desk was found in Qin Zhiyuan's room when he was packing up Qin Zhiyuan's belongings.Qin Wei kept it at first, just to show a little warmth in front of Qin Zhiyuan's old confidant.Later, although she didn't need it anymore, she also forgot to remove it, so she just left it like this.

On this desk representing the highest authority in Area C, almost nothing was arranged by Qin Wei on her own initiative.

Qin Wei once kept a photo of Song Yan, it was the winter of the first year they met, the new era retained some of the customs of the old era, and the enthusiasm for the new year was still high.That evening, Song Yan sent Qin Wei a photo.

It is a professional habit for guides to erase traces of their own existence intentionally or unintentionally when performing tasks.The same is true for Song Yan, she communicates face-to-face with Qin Wei most of the time, and mostly chooses phone calls instead of text messages when she needs to communicate remotely.

This was the first time that Song Yan took the initiative to leave something for Qin Wei.

When Qin Wei received this message, she was sitting in the narrow storage room under the stairs looking for things for the New Year. The dilapidated lantern that had been used for several years was tilted at her feet, and the adhesive tape on it Losing its stickiness, a red baffle hangs precariously from the lamp body.

The communicator in her pocket rang at the right time, Qin Wei wiped the ashes on her hands, and only found out that it was a photo when she clicked on the message.Song Yan was standing at the bottom of the tube building, with the dark entrance of the building behind her, only the firework stick in her hand illuminated her face.

Song Yan smiled, twirling a crudely made fireworks stick made of plastic and gunpowder, with a smile on her face.

—Happy New Year, reads the message attached to the photo.

At that time, Qin Wei's communicator was a second-hand product bought from the black market, and the picture quality was indescribable. This photo would become blurred if it was enlarged, but Qin Wei was still very happy.

She set up a separate folder for this photo and kept it carefully.

Unfortunately, when Qin Wei returned to Area C, due to the replacement of the communicator, there was an omission in information synchronization, and this photo happened to be among the lost files.

By the time Qin Wei found out about this, it was already three months later.At that time, she took the latest communicator from the scientific researcher and buckled it on her wrist without saying anything.

From a gangster in the slums to the leader of District C, Qin Wei didn't have much time to wander and be confused.Thanks to her high-level mental strength, although she did this job reluctantly, she was able to handle it with ease.

The other generals in Area C are not as powerful as her, and Qin Zhiyuan's blood is flowing in her body. Adding the two together, no one expressed dissatisfaction with her superior position.She logically inherited Qin Zhiyuan's position and became the master of the central office.

It's just that the extremely cruel training left irreversible damage to Qin Wei. In the days when she first came out of the scientific research room, she was irritable and sensitive, and some tiny stimuli could hurt her extremely sensitive nerves.

Excessive mental strength brought her a burden, and her keen insensitivity made her restless all the time. It was not until Qin Wei finally learned to control this instinct that she got better, but left behind the problem of headaches from time to time. .

Qin Wei closed her eyes and rubbed her temples.

The computer desktop automatically entered sleep mode because she hadn't operated it for a long time. A crow icon was moving left and right on the white background, and its tail feathers cut long black tracks.

Qin Wei swiped open the screen with her hand, and clicked on the pending message that popped up.

At [-]:[-] p.m. in Zone C of the New Era, a time reminder popped up on Yan Cen's communicator, reminding him that it was time to rest.

Major Yan Hongfei's work and rest routine is that he must fall asleep on time at nine o'clock every night.However, Yan Cen doesn't rely much on sleep, so he doesn't pay much attention to this reminder.

Yan Cen lay on the bed, and continued to read the unfinished document from earlier.

The small warm yellow night light at the head of the bed is very friendly to human eyes, and you won't feel sore eyes when reading at night.

"After returning to Neverland, can we also get one like this?" Xu Muzhou came out of the bathroom after washing up. He stepped on the slippers and climbed on the back of the bed with ease, and discussed with Yan Cen: "Apply in your name." , it’s not beyond the scope of my knowledge.”

"You like it?" Yan Cen asked.

"It's suitable for reading." Xu Muzhou said.

"Then you fill out the application form." Yan Cen said.

"...Okay." Xu Muzhou leaned over and fished his communicator from the bedside table while chatting these useless gossips with Yan Cen.

The communicator of the New Era is completely different from the mobile phone in Xu Muzhou's mind. In sleep mode, the communicator is more like an ordinary bracelet. It is usually worn on the wrist and connected to a single Bluetooth headset.

The headset is responsible for talking and listening to information notifications. If you need to process messages or communicate online, you need to connect an external virtual display screen.From this point of view, the technology of this world is indeed somewhat similar to Neverland.

What Xu Muzhou couldn't understand the most was that the externally placed virtual display would only display the content to the owner of the communicator, and outsiders would not be able to watch the above content without authorization.

Xu Muzhou couldn't understand the principle of this thing. He hid in the toilet in the work area for an hour this morning before he managed to figure out how to use the communicator.

"But having said that, Qin Wei does have something special." Yan Cen said: "Song Yan was wrong this time."

"Huh?" Xu Muzhou didn't know why he suddenly brought up this question, and asked suspiciously, "What are you doing?"

"The homepage of the central public website of District C." Yan Cen said: "I looked through it when you went to work during the day——Qin Wei is different from the former leader, she is willing to delegate power...Qin Wei has a very complete leadership team, economy, The scientific research and the resources are assigned by the subordinates, and Qin Wei only looks at the general decision-making. This kind of management mode is very clear-headed for a 24-year-old girl."

"Yes, speaking of this, I still remember it." Xu Muzhou sat up, facing Yan Cen and said: "I can occasionally hear them gossip at work, saying that Qin Wei is planning a circle outside the central area. The town wants to build a family area for the staff in the central area... The people in the scientific research team are quite happy, after all, they are always in the central base, and it is not easy to start a family."

"She is building a social class." Yan Cen said, he closed the document he had finished reading and put it next to his pillow, and looked at Xu Muzhou: "...she is shortening the 'class'."

Xu Muzhou didn't understand what he meant for a moment.

Yan Cen stretched out his hand, and raised his palms up and down in front of Xu Muzhou.

"Remember what Song Yan said, in this world, there are only high-level areas and poor areas-in other words, people are only divided into high-level people and low-level people." Yan Cen shook his wrist and gestured: "There is a fault in the middle, which divides the high man from the low man."

"This is so normal." Xu Muzhou understood what he meant, and continued: "The reconstructed version of human society is equivalent to the second week of the game. Those who get more resources can pass the level faster. Those so-called 'advanced people' Of course they understand this truth, so they will widen the class gap, and only in this way can they continuously obtain more resources."

"Yes, even the leaders of other districts still do this." Yan Cen said, "But Qin Wei didn't."

Yan Cen paused as he spoke, spread out his hands, drew a distance, and said: "...At this distance, people only need to be divided into two types. But Qin Wei began to draw a distance between the two. Create a new section. This level is related to the upper class, but also close to the lower class."

"What does this development mean when the overall distance has not changed?" Yan Cen said.

"...represents that the distance between classes has shortened." Xu Muzhou said.

For Xu Muzhou, this is not difficult to understand, after all, he came from that kind of society.Everyone is equal is an empty talk, and people themselves will reach different classes and become different people because of their origin, ability, and opportunity.Compared with the simple and crude division model of the new era, this kind of increasing class can form a complete society, thereby building a chain of social operation.

From the perspective of long-term development, this transformation is a good thing.

It's easy to say, but Qin Wei is a so-called "upper class person", and it's not a good thing for him to achieve this level of perfection.Because this means that the original cliff-like class has become a ladder. As long as they have the ability, anyone can climb up from this ladder, and the absolute advantage of the original superiors is gone.

"So I said, Song Yan was wrong." Yan Cen said with a smile: "You can laugh at her as much as you want when you go back."

Just as Xu Muzhou wanted to complain about why he laughed at Song Yan for no reason, the communicator in his hand vibrated, and a group message popped up.

Seeing him looking down at the news, Yan Cen asked, "What's wrong?"

"Colleagues working overtime in the scientific research team said that Qin Wei is back." Xu Muzhou said nonchalantly, "And they said that there was a breakthrough in the experimental sub-item, and they want to report to Qin Wei."

At the same time, in the central office area on the ground, Qin Wei approved the visitor's report request.

The special scientific research team is dedicated to serve Qin Wei, knowing how much she attaches importance to scientific research content, so she is used to this kind of overtime reporting.

"Major General." The visitor came straight to the point: "The B-2 sub-study has basically completed the preliminary test stage, and the formal test can begin-this is the content report."

The sub-item B-2 is based on the necessary experimental technology derived from the research direction given by Qin Wei. Generally speaking, it is a human body cryopreservation technology. After all, Qin Wei is not sure about her guess, so she is not going to go there. not return.

This technology has entered the experimental stage half a month ago, the technical level is average, and there is no risk of failure.

Qin Wei agreed, took the document from the other party, flipped through it meaningfully, and jumped to the last page to sign and file.

However, in the next second, Qin Wei's hand paused, the tip of the pen was hanging on the paper, and it did not fall for a long time.

"Major General." The other party asked nervously, "Is there something wrong?"

"...No." Qin Wei said.

She put down her pen with a calm expression, and signed her name on the reserved column on the last page.

But Qin Wei didn't return the document that should be filed to the other party immediately. She put down the pen and rubbed her fingers on the paper.

This kind of experimental report will usually indicate the participants of the experiment on the last page, so that it is convenient to understand the situation in the future, or to pursue accountability.This is the custom, and it is the same today.A total of 18 participants in the special experiment group were divided into three groups, one of which was dedicated to B-2 research.

Qin Wei's eyes fell on the last line signed by the participants.

——Xu Muzhou.