mayfly era

"It's nine o'clock." A silver-haired man shook the wine bottle in front of him. He looked like a person who liked retro culture very much. He drank the most old-fashioned rice wine, wore antiques, and even the cigarettes he smoked The most old-fashioned burning paper cigarettes that need to carry a lighter with them.

He is handsome, but his taste is unpredictable.

"Hmm." Another man sitting beside the silver-haired man casually snorted as a response.

This man was dressed in a young and fashionable way, looking forward with a blank face, his eyes were dark and quiet, reflecting the most clear appearance of the lights at night.

"Boss Chen, if I want to listen to AI playing electronic music, I'd rather not come to your place. You have traffic jams and bad alcohol." The silver-haired man said rudely.

"I'll go and see, drink less." The man called Boss Chen said, got up and walked towards the exit.

The name of this bar is "Bar". Apparently, Boss Chen didn't spend much time thinking about the name.

His bar is in the oldest commercial building on Bar Street, with old-fashioned fire escapes, which have narrowed over time because they are always used for storage.

Chen Yue walked briskly around the ubiquitous wine boxes and walked to the depths of the fire escape.

Old fashioned fire escapes always have some weird noises.

For example, the damp moss hanging on the ceiling accidentally drops a round and turbid water drop, for example, some old and abandoned machines occasionally make a "click" gear sound.

There is also the smell, there is always a kind of damp that is too gloomy to melt, and the accumulated dust for a long time exudes a wonderful bitter smell.Just like the weather in Central City, he hasn't seen the sun for more than half a month, and he feels like a bitter plant.

At this time, he heard a sound similar to the whimpering of a young animal, the sound was not loud, and it penetrated into his ears subtly. He quickened his steps and walked towards the direction of the sound.

"t?" Chen Li asked aloud.

"Hmm..." There was a quick and weak reply from behind the large dark brown wine box containing rum.

"It's time, it's time for you to go on stage." Chen Li said impersonally.

He was answered by short panting and the sound of cloth Mosuo on the ground, "Boss Chen...I..."

Chen Li hesitated for a moment, frowning slightly, the expression on his face was somewhere between blame and worry.

He walked around the big wine box and saw the familiar scene. He had seen T crouching behind the wine box so embarrassingly many times, not only pitiful, but also passive and sabotage.

T is his employee here, he can sing and dance well, and someone will always buy him wine.

In this era, the reason why living people are still required to engage in entertainment work instead of being replaced by simulated robots is because even with the development of technology today, it is still impossible to completely replicate all the physical characteristics of human beings. A person's normal body temperature is at least 0.7 degrees Celsius lower.

Humans are extremely sensitive animals, with a mere 0.7 degrees Celsius, but there is a huge difference in touch, not only including temperature, but also the soft and hard texture derived from temperature, human's willingness to pay and acceptance of emotions.

T leaned against the wall and sat on the ground with his legs curled up.It was a dim yellow wall, so it made his face even paler.He was shaking violently, cold sweat had soaked his hair, and was still dripping down his chin.

Chen Li's keen sense of smell smelled him, but it was very faint, not enough to attract the attention of people other than him.But it's also troublesome, and if you don't deal with it, it will cause a lot of trouble.

——Omega's estrus period already has an independent code to stipulate various rules, which is very funny.

"How long has it been this time?" Chen Li held T's trembling arm, took the needle in the boy's hand, and injected the boy with the inhibitor.

Even though his hand was steady and the needle left the skin quickly, the liquid inhibitor still made T frown, "Boss... I haven't seen him for a long time."

"It's him who didn't see you?" Chen Li's tone was flat, and he couldn't hear his appeal for gossip, but he was indeed gossip.

"No!" T pursed his lips, defending his boyfriend, "He went away and hasn't come back yet...he will be back soon."

Chen Li hesitated for a moment, and then said too much, "You shouldn't be affectionate to such a person."

T grinned when he heard his words. He smiled childishly, with crooked eyes and a small dimple on his left cheek.

He looks very childish, but also very energetic.In this era, there are not many people like him with stretched facial features and no thick mist between his brows.

"Take a break quickly, you still have work." Chen Li urged.

"Got it! Give me a hand, Boss Chen..." T was still a little weak, his tone seemed to be coquettish.

Chen Yue didn't pull him, but picked up the two scattered inhibitors on the ground, and put them into his pocket, "I'll keep this for you, don't overdose."

T curled his lips, indicating that he received education.

When Chen Li went back, the silver-haired man had already emptied two large bottles of rice wine, and the stage projected colorful lights, reflecting the wine bottle, his slightly drunken face and sloppy posture.He's putting his legs on the table and playing the game console in his hand. This kind of game console with a rough display and a small joystick is very old-fashioned, but the silver-haired man is having fun, pushing the joystick. .

"I'm not telling you to drink less." Chen Li picked up the bottle and threw it into the recycling bin.

"This is called wine. What you drink is electrolyte water prepared by chemicals." The silver-haired man seemed a little drunk, and yelled wildly.

"You were born in the wrong era."

"Hey, Lao Tzu is the most awesome in any era!" The silver-haired man put his arm around Chen Li's shoulder, "Where are you little things here, why don't you come out and sing?"

"Just come out."

As soon as Chen Li finished speaking, the stage background display board was pulled away, and a boy who looked a little thin got out of it.

The boy was wearing a baggy white short-sleeved shirt and baggy jeans that concealed his thin frame.His attire is very common in lower society, and warehouse workers often dress like this.

Bar workers tend to wear skin-tight, shiny outfits that reveal expanses of skin smeared with glow-in-the-night pigments and hair, often brightly dyed.

And this boy has pure black hair, because it is not modified, it looks special.

The boy went straight to the edge of the stage and sat down, looking lazily with the microphone to his lips, he said, "I don't think you're all drunk yet."

"...he who is not drunk does not deserve the night," he went on.

His voice was unexpectedly sexy, and it didn't quite match the boy's appearance, maybe it was a voice that was deliberately lowered to disguise, but it had to be said that it was perfectly suitable for such a place.

In this era, electronically synthesized music and intracranial climax music are all the rage, and there are few places where people can hear songs sung by live people. The profession of singer is gradually being replaced by DJ.

Only a few old-school bars will invite singers, singing ditties from the past. T likes to sing foreign language songs from the last century, and he can also sing songs written by himself, but they are far less popular than imported ones. Chen Li asked him to sing less, but T insisted on keeping one or two songs, and Chen Li couldn't help him.

Accompanied by the music, some guests in the bar began to dance on the dance floor, and some toasted to each other. They enjoyed all kinds of physical stimulation, indulged in it and refused to leave for a long time.

Central City, this city is everyone's Garden of Eden, nothing is forbidden after dark.People run wild and deformed in the dark city, don't be surprised by what kind of monsters you encounter.

"Because this is a paradise for monsters."

In such a noisy environment, Chen Li has always maintained an incompatible calm, as if all the hustle and bustle is a matter of another dimension to him.

He looked at the boy singing on the stage, and suddenly remembered something, lowered his voice and asked the silver-haired man: "The young master of the Mei family hasn't returned from the S2 continent yet?"

The silver-haired man raised his eyelids, with some doubts in his voice, "It's been two weeks since I came back, it's rare that you care about this."

Chen Li shook his head, "I don't care."

"That little man is Young Master Mei?" the silver-haired man asked directly.

"Don't use your logical ability to speculate on gossip."

"Hey, why can't you gossip, Black Soul and I like to watch entertainment news when we have nothing to do..." Before the silver-haired man finished speaking, he saw Chen Li chair on the back of the sofa, his head suddenly tilted to the side.

"Fuck, are you okay? Come again?" The silver-haired man reached out to touch Chen Li's forehead, and heard a burst of even and long breathing that sounded out of place in the noisy environment of the bar.

"Sleep, really." The silver-haired man smiled helplessly, and continued to play games while guarding Boss Chen who suddenly fell asleep.

The busy days made Chen Li accidentally fall asleep, and when he woke up again, the silver-haired man beside him was still crackling playing games, there was no one on the dance floor, and there were quite a few booths, but they were all drunk Like mud, more like rags than people.

"All right?" Chen Li asked the silver-haired man.

"No, except that you sleep scary," the silver-haired man teased with a smile, "It's almost time for me to withdraw, what time does the store close today?"

Chen Li looked at his watch, it was ten past three in the morning, "Right now."

Leaving the manpower to clean the place, Chen Li went out with the silver-haired man. He looked very tired, and the silver-haired man looked at him worriedly, "Have you not slept for a few days?"

"Less than a week." Chen Li rubbed his eyebrows.

"Someone will replace you today, take a good rest, you may be busier after a while."

"Ah."

"Then I'll go back first. Are you okay alone? Are you driving?"

"No, let's go."

The silver-haired man seemed to have long been accustomed to his prudence, and the two walked to the street together.The silver-haired man's car was parked on the side of the road, and an electronic ticket was printed on the glass window.

The silver-haired man turned a blind eye to this, Chen Li patted him on the shoulder and said, "You're drunk, don't turn on the manual mode."

"My car's manual has been broken for years."

"...Actually, the boss locked it for you."

"I don't know if I should say a bad word or not."

After sending the silver-haired man away, Chen Li took out the e-cigarette from his pocket and took a puff. The blue light on the filter flashed a few times, reminding him to charge the e-cigarette.

Chen Li usually doesn't smoke, but these days he is so busy that he often relies on this gadget to keep him refreshed. For the first time in history, he lost electricity.

He walked to the multi-function charging station on the side of the road, dropped a metal coin, and charged the electronic cigarette.

This charging station is very old, it looks like it has been working for at least 20 years, the red shell is full of cracks, but the charging efficiency is very fast.

Three o'clock in the morning is the final stage of the city's nightlife, and the streets are still noisy.Vehicle manufacturers have minimized the noise of engines in the long-term market competition, but the sound of air being torn by high-speed moving iron blocks is still so harsh.I don't know when it will be resolved.

Chen Yue didn't like the sound of the car. He took a few steps towards the side of the building and tried to stay away from the driveway. Although this distance didn't help, he held the charging cable and looked up at the dark cloud-covered sky expressionlessly.

The e-cigarette was fully charged soon and made a brisk ending sound. Chen Li took it off and took a sip. The sweet cocoa essence almost sent him away.

He frowned and replaced the liner particles.

The slightly cold air and a large number of mint-flavored calming particles in the wick calmed down his slightly irritable mood due to exhaustion.

Suddenly, he heard the sound of metal rubbing and spring contracting, which quickly and massively occupied his hearing.

He looked back, and there was a flashing red dot two blocks away that was rushing towards him quickly.

——The "G" patroller, a hunting robot made of the latest materials and technology, is used by many departments.

What makes this number of patrols out?

Chen Li's heart moved, perhaps there was some important information waiting for him to "harvest".He touched his lower back. He only carried a pair of ribs today, and there was a bar-shaped energy bomb in the boot tube.

These patrollers passed him by and ran forward in an orderly manner.

Chen Li watched the patroller go away, his eyes quickly captured the information, and soon he located the target of the patroller, but the figure was already far away, and the physical characteristics could not be seen clearly, it was not the acquaintances on the list.

The figure circled around and suddenly disappeared from the ground.

Chen Li recognized the place where the person disappeared, "Gate 33, Beicheng District".

"Gate No. 33 in Beicheng District" is not a surface building or a traffic link in the central city, but a place that residents of the central city will never go to, nor should they go - the interface between the underground city and the urban surface.

The underground city is a special area that has existed in this country for a hundred years. Only the central city, a super-giant city in the country, has an underground city.

There is the dark side of the city, another world completely different from the bustling city.

Citizens are deprived of their identity due to crimes and other reasons, and they are locked up in dungeons that see no light for life. Without normal food, water, and sunlight, they can only eat the garbage and debris of the city and survive day after day.

He had seen many people climbing up from the dungeon, but this was the first time he saw someone going into the dungeon.

Is it impatient to live?Chen Li thought.

His sleepy head was throbbing. Originally, the patrol had nothing to do with him, but this time, this murderous guy plunged into his jurisdiction.

Chen Li sighed irritably, walked to the closer door No. 34, and opened the door of the dungeon with a plug-shaped electronic key.

A strong stench rolled out, it was hard to imagine that this kind of smell actually existed in human society, and it instantly aroused people's nose and eyes.

Chen Yue jumped down expressionlessly.

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The author has something to say:

Add some settings: the country number is A133, the country name is translated as "the place where the mountains hold their heads high" in the common language, the ruling class is called "G" by the people, and there are thirteen bureaus under it, and the city where the story takes place is called " Central City", a mega-city that is also the capital of the country.

ps is a long sequential narrative, the label is only for plot division

Soft sci-fi, more fantasy and less science

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