After billions of reincarnations

The main star of the third district, Earl.

Socrates.

As one of the ten famous cities on the main star of the third district, Socrates City is known as the "space hub".There are one-third of the spaceports of the entire planet Earle here.Socrates' unique space force field allows it to conveniently establish space transmission fiber channels that connect with various space nodes.

It was once said that if the city of Socra was blown up, the main star of Earl would lose an arm.Because here it is possible to carry out the fastest far space shuttle voyage with more than one-third of the planets belonging to the third zone.

The main star of the star area can only effectively and timely control the subordinate asteroids through the long space voyage of this kind of space node.

"Space Hub", "Space Pearl"...the city of Socrates surrounded by these laudatory titles is indeed beautiful.

At night, every building and every suspended train track passing through the sky will emit a soft and dreamy light.If you look down from a high altitude, the city of Socrates is like a dream city floating in dreamy brilliance, gorgeous and brilliant.

But these things actually have nothing to do with many people living in this city.

Just like we look at the lotus pond reflecting the lights, in the eyes of the viewers, the lotus pond reflects changing light, and the lotus flowers and lotus leaves are swaying in the light.But only living under the lotus leaves, the fish swimming in the pool know what it looks like under the sparkling ripples.

——That has nothing to do with beauty and brilliance.

Dark and cold.

It's full of sludge.

Socrates is like this.

Some people live in high-rise buildings above the neon lights. They hold wine glasses behind the floor-to-ceiling windows, admiring the endless stream of lights, just like people on the bank admiring the sparkling light and shadow on the surface of a lotus pond, and then say, "ah, what a beautiful city, what a beautiful city." dream world".Then, there is another group of people who live in the shadows under the lights, huddled on the cold docks, beside the garbage dumps, smelling the stench that never goes away, like fish swimming underwater, seeing only rotting things all day long pool mud.

Adai is one of those people who live underwater.

She is a 12-year-old girl who was born near a smaller spaceport in the city of Socra. She earns her living by picking up the trash that the spaceport staff pick up every day, which is discarded by space tourists.There are all kinds of unnamed things, from different star regions and different planets, most of which have been eaten by a bite or two.

After the staff cleaned them out, they cursed and dumped them on an abandoned construction site near the space port, waiting for the garbage truck to come and take them away.

Adai has been here for a long time, knowing the time when each worker is used to taking out the garbage, and then as long as the person in the blue overalls pushes out the garbage, she will squat aside and wait.As soon as the staff left, she rushed up and quickly searched for edible and usable things from a pile of messy things.

— before the garbage truck comes.

There are many people like Adai, and everyone is used to living like this.

Many of them are unable to find any formal job because they have no identity.Every year, countless young people with dreams travel thousands of miles from various planets to the third district.They're trying to get ahead here, to be the ones who can rule over the life and death of a planet.

There are very few successful ones, and most of them are swallowed up by various cities.

Because legal space shipping is officially monopolized by the main star in the third area, the price is high.And most of the people from these small planets chose to take the risk, listening to the black ship merchant's nonsense, and coming by cargo spaceship.There is no official traffic record, and when they reach the main star of the third district, they will find themselves facing a choice between going to jail for breaking the law or becoming a temporary worker in a factory.

Most people choose the latter option.

So they were swallowed up by these big cities.

And these people, many of them gave birth to children, but they couldn't afford to support them, so they had to be thrown away at various garbage dumps.

Adele is one of them.

She had better luck, survived, and then dealt with garbage from birth.

Today, Adai quietly ran to the commercial street in the evening, and it was already late when she came back.The trash has been scoured by other homeless people around here and it's cleaner than a dog licks it.

Hungry, Adai retreated under the bridge hole of the nearby overpass.

From here you can see the lights of the city center in the distance.The shadow trees of tall buildings stand on the sea of ​​lights like trees.

Every time she sees the center of the city, Adai feels that the city is actually stuck in a pile of mud and is getting corrupted little by little.Those towering buildings are like poisonous flowers pulling out their branches from the mud.

And people like her are bones in the mud whose flesh and blood have been drained by poisonous flowers.

In the past, starvation is definitely not a pleasant thing, but today Adai is still very happy.

She lowered her head and carefully took out a small paper package from her pocket.

The paper was originally used to wrap chocolate in tin foil. When she picked it up, she liked it shiny, so she kept it.Unwrapping the tinfoil layer by layer, Adai's movements were as gentle as if she was afraid of breaking something.

In the very center of the tinfoil, is a ring.

A ring set with dark red gemstones.Even in a dark environment like a bridge hole, the luster of the gems on the ring is still beautiful.

Adai fondled the ruby ​​on the ring reluctantly.

She ran to the commercial street today to see how much such a ring can sell for.A dirty child like her can't enter those jewelry stores, and can only look through the glass at the visiting ornaments in the window.Adai didn't understand the difference between gemstones, so she went to see the one with the lowest price.

Even the lowest one, a few thousand star yuan, is an astronomically huge sum of money to Adai.

Adai stroked the ring, thinking how much chocolate she could buy after getting the money, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but twitched upwards.

"Brother, let me just say it, this little guy must be weird."

A shadow suddenly cast in front of him.

A Dai subconsciously held the ring in her palm, and raised her head in horror.

A young man with a long face, long hair and ripped jeans looked at her maliciously.There was also a fat man in a red vest standing in front of her.

Adai knew these two people, and they called him "Axiu" for the long-faced one, and everyone called him "Big Brother" for the fat one.Axiu and his eldest brother are the most feared gangsters in this area of ​​homeless people. In this area, everyone usually picks up metal and valuable things, and they have to hand them over to them.

Seeing Ah Xiu and his eldest brother, A Dai's face turned pale immediately.

The eldest brother seemed too lazy to talk to such a small character as A Dai, so he just snorted coldly.

Axiu looked at Adai's pretty face, licked his lips, raised his leg and kicked Adai: "Be honest, hand over the things, and then do a little favor for brother, and brothers will let you go." about you."

Adai was kicked to the ground by him, biting her lip and getting up from the ground without saying a word.She lowered her head and stretched out her hand.

Ah Xiu thought she was sensible and reached out to pick her up.

Just when Axiu stretched out his hand, Adai suddenly raised her head and bit Axiu firmly.

"what--"

Axiu let out a cry of pain, his face contorted.

Seizing the moment when he was in pain, A Dai rushed out from the gap between the two of them by virtue of her thinness, holding the ring tightly, and ran away.

"Damn it, little bitch!"

Ashiu yelled.

There was a fierce scolding sound behind her, and Adai gritted her teeth and ran with all her strength.She knew that if she was caught up, there would definitely be no good end, and the ring would definitely be lost.Holding the idea that she must not be caught up, A Dai rushed out of the bridge hole and rushed into the tightly packed slum buildings.

Although Adai had run the fastest, she hadn't eaten all day today and was very hungry.

As soon as she entered the alley, Adai tripped over something on the ground, her legs gave way, and she fell directly to the ground.

With this fall, Axiu and the elder brother behind him also caught up.

As soon as Ah Xiu raised his foot, he was about to step on A Dai's back: "Damn it, I must let you know how powerful I am today."

This foot was lifted in the air, but it didn't fall down.

a knife.

A strange knife was handed over from the side, and it was placed in front of Ah Xiu.The scabbard was inserted into a black scabbard, and the scabbard was inlaid with intricate and beautiful gold decorations. The gold shone brightly in the dark, attracting people's attention.

But it wasn't the gold on the scabbard that made Ashura stop his movements.

The knife was handed over flatly, without even taking it out of its sheath, but an inexplicable chill swept across Ah Xiu's whole body in an instant.Intuitively, he felt a kind of fear in his soul.

Stiff all over.

The speed of his brain slowed down, and Ah Xiu didn't even think about why the big brother behind him stopped talking.His eyes moved up inch by inch along the gold-encrusted scabbard.

He could hear the fragile sound of his bones uncontrollably, and his intuition made a judgment one step earlier than his brain—cold sweat soaked his whole body in an instant.

The hand holding the handle of the knife was slender, pale, and didn't look very strong, with clear wrist bones.These hands are so clean, you can tell that they are pampered at a glance.

Moving his gaze upwards, Ah Xiu's pupils shrank slightly.

On the upper part of the wrist bone, it is a strangely gorgeous red.

The cuffs of the wide robe sleeves were wrapped with gold threads, and the wide scarlet sleeves hung down. It was a gorgeous fabric he had never seen before, and the flying red was so gorgeous that it was disturbing.And on this flying red background, there is an unimaginably exquisite embroidery, and the white in the flowing clouds spreads its wings.

Axiu's experience told him that he should run away, but his body couldn't move under that kind of icy cold, and the blush was like magic, attracting him to continue looking up involuntarily.

Look up.

Finally, Ah Xiu saw the face of the man holding the knife clearly in the dark.