Zhang Big Cat recovers from illness at home [Interstellar]

The fragrance wafted through the streets and alleys, making the gluttons in Lin Xuebi's stomach active.

There are [-] points issued by the subsistence allowance in the bracelet, and drinking a cup of milk tea with [-] points is still a bit of a luxury.Looking around at the delicious food, he swallowed his saliva, but thinking that he had failed many interviews and would be kicked out of the social assistance station in a week, Lin Xuebi still held back.

He decided to go back to the social assistance station to eat a special meal for one point.

Although I have been eating for two and a half months, I am almost tired of eating.But with one point, there are meat, vegetables and soup, and what's more, a bicycle.

In the interstellar era, science and technology are advanced, and the unmanned express delivery business has truly spread to thousands of households. Food and daily necessities in this world are not too expensive.Even if you live in a remote house, the convenient transportation can also solve the problem of working hours.

Even if she finds a minimum-wage job, Lin Xuebi can still lead a moderately prosperous life.

However, in order to "encourage" genetic optimization, the federal government has invested a lot of money and developed many intelligent machines to replace manpower.Completely cancel repetitive and non-technical work.

For a person like Lin Xuebi who can't even read interstellar characters, it's only natural that he can't find a job.

However, Lin Xuebi is already 21 years old, past the age of free tuition.Even if he comes from another time and space, the Federation will not make an exception and let him go back to school in order not to miss his best reproductive stage.

Of course, Lin Xuebi didn't have the shame to learn to read characters with those seven or eight-year-old children.

But he didn't expect that it would be so difficult to find a job and improve his plan through online learning.

After crossing two streets, you will come to the Social Assistance Station.

The hall of the social assistance station is very spacious and magnificent, surrounded by various machines.All kinds of orcs lined up in front of the machine, applying for the items they needed.

From the scholarship program for top students, to the disease insurance for the elderly, and low-threshold vacancy inquiries.All walks of life, all fields, everything.

But the place with the most half-orcs is genetic optimization.

Most of the half-orcs living here can't afford communication bracelets, so they can only check their progress through the machine in the lobby, which can often create a feeling that many people are willing to carry out genetic optimization.

Since Lin Xuebi knew that the subtext of gene optimization was surrogacy, he gave up the idea.

It is definitely pregnant.

Lin Xuebi once saw a muscular man wearing clothes that looked very expensive after a successful gene pairing, went back to the dormitory of the social assistance station with his stomach straight, and directed the expensive smart butler robot to clean up those things that he was reluctant to throw away. cheap items.

He didn't know if the dark-skinned man was happy, but that watermelon-like belly really scared Lin Xuebi.

Go through the lobby to the dining hall of the Social Assistance Station.

It is open 24 hours a day, with one-click operation, allowing all citizens with financial difficulties to come and eat.

Of course, the food here is not very good, very bland.

Every time Lin Xuebi comes over, he doesn't run into a few people.

Even the low-income people living in the relief station are unwilling to eat every meal here.

Go to an electronic display window, press your fingerprint on the touch screen, identify your identity, retrieve account information, deduct points, and wait for the meal.

There is no choice of dishes here, and there is no notice of the dishes. What you eat is all about luck.

You only need to wait for [-] seconds, and the electronic window prompts that it is completed.The translucent glass was opened, and a fast food was waiting for Lin Xuebi to take it out in the insulated cabinet.

Lin Xuebi was lucky today.

Four things were placed neatly on the iron dinner plate.A palm-sized deep-fried chicken cutlet with black pepper sauce, a small dish of garlic lettuce, a large bowl of white rice, and a bowl of winter melon soup.

The portion is given according to his height and weight, and there will be no shortage of satiety.

Finding a seat to sit down, Lin Xuebi took a bite of fried chicken cutlet expectantly, and sighed in disappointment.

Sure enough, it was still the same, and the taste was very bland.

But it is also better than yesterday's pig's trotter peanuts.Today's fried chicken cutlet was at least slightly peppery, and yesterday's pork trotters were totally confinement meals.

The dining hall is quite big and can accommodate hundreds of people for dinner at the same time.But looking around, there are only five people including Lin Xuebi.

It's a bit lonely, but when you think about it carefully, it is undoubtedly a great thing for a society to have no beggars, and even so few people receiving subsistence allowances.

As for human rights and dignity, Lin Xuebi feels that everyone has his own ambitions.

He often heard those half-orcs say that as long as he is healthy, he will have one child every year or ten years, and he will have no worries for the rest of his life.

Empty the food on the plate and you can leave.

There are robots in the cafeteria that are responsible for closing and cleaning.Even if he wants to do cleaning work, he has to compete with robots first.

About to reach the elevator entrance, Lin Xuebi sighed.

Thinking of my remaining 290 nine points, and less than a week of free accommodation.He finally walked back to the hall, took a brochure of gene optimization, and planned to go back to the room to read it carefully.

If it is a test-tube baby, there is no need for close contact, maybe he can consider it.

Poverty made him spineless.

Since it is a rescue center, the accommodation conditions are naturally not very good.

Some are like Lin Xuebi's dormitory in high school. There are three bunk beds in a small room, which can accommodate six people at the same time.

There is only one cabinet for storage in the entire room, which is divided into six equal parts.With a storage space of less than half a cubic meter, it can barely hold clothes, backpacks, daily necessities and other items.

If there are few people, you can hide some things under the bed. Once there are six people, it will be too crowded.

The rescue station will not have a room for each person because there are few people, but must wait for the room to be full before opening the next room.

Undoubtedly, they are using the size of the site to indirectly refuse them who have no achievements to settle here.

The good thing is that each dormitory has its own small balcony and independent bathroom.The light is sufficient, so that the environment is not depressing.

Washing machines, hair dryers and other supplies are readily available.There are also robots that clean the environment every day.Even the napkins are provided free of charge, so poor and white old friends don't need to worry about such trivial matters.

But TVs are impossible to have.

The unemployed should try to find a job instead of enjoying such luxuries as entertainment.

There are not many homeless people currently living in social assistance stations.

Most of them are interstellar visitors similar to Lin Xuebi, and a small number are poor federal citizens.

Among the interstellar guests, only Lin Xuebi was unable to jump time and return to the original world.The planets where the rest of the people live have established diplomatic relations with the Federation. After earning the money for the boat ticket, they will hope to jump back to the planet where they grew up.

Similar to Lin Xuebi's situation are the federal citizens.

Some people are genetically too poor to enter the workplace in the interstellar era.Some people just don't want to work by nature and just want to hang out at home.

The former, like Lin Xuebi, struggled painfully after repeated failed interviews, accepted genetic matching, lived here temporarily, and waited to be selected.The latter is purely lazy, staying up until the family and the Federation don't support them, and then use their bodies to exert their last remaining heat.

After a simple wash, Lin Xuebi sat on the bed.

Very boring.

The two old friends have gone out.One of them successfully applied for the outstanding student bursary and was here to wait for the start of school.The other was genetically optimized in the previous week.He exercises every day, and he also goes to the genetically optimized query machine to see if there is a successful match.

The dormitory is poor and white, with only a genetic manual and a little bit of entertainment.

He glanced at the lonely genetic manual beside the bed, and would rather sleep than open it.

Lin Xuebi didn't sleep well.

The dream repeated his past in fragments.It's all very ordinary life.Going to class, eating, and taking college entrance examinations are too ordinary to be ordinary.

It wasn't until the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground in the dormitory that Lin Xuebi struggled out of the nightmare.

"I'm sorry. I woke you up." Nie Shujie wiped the sweat off his brow, breathing heavily, obviously very tired.

Seeing that the other party didn't mean it, Lin Xuebi waved his hand and said it's okay.

Nie Shujie is a friend who has undergone genetic optimization.His original pure human appearance is just a pair of rabbit ears with gray fluff.But both jumping ability and hearing ability have been greatly improved.The bones shrunk slightly, and his appearance became more delicate and lovely.

Lin Xuebi felt that it was not too difficult to accept such a level of change.

I just heard that rabbit-type orcs are very popular and have high fertility.

Seeing that everything under Nie Shujie's bed was pulled out, Lin Xuebi asked in surprise, "Are you leaving?"

He remembered that Nie Shujie still had two months left.

"Yes." Nie Shujie, who was so tired, simply sat down and had a rest, and chatted with Lin Xuebi, "I have already matched the right person. He is quite generous and rented me a single apartment. All meals are included. There is still pocket money every month. Come and see me when you are free in the future. But it is not convenient to live permanently.”

Nie Shujie knew that Lin Xuebi was against gene optimization, so he deliberately said some benefits.

Lin Xuebi glanced at Nie Shujie disapprovingly, and said, "Your genes can find a suitable job now, why do you want to live there?"

In Lin Xuebi's view, Nie Shujie has forgotten his ambition to be a travel anchor and has become a person who sells his body.

Hearing such naive words, Nie Shujie smiled helplessly: "You must not have read that book, have you?"

It's the genetic optimization manual.

"The price of gene optimization is very expensive. One time requires [-] points. Depending on the physique of each person, the number of optimizations is different." Nie Shujie smiled helplessly, "I optimized five times. Where do you think these points come from? ?”

Lin Xuebi's face turned pale.

The wool comes from the sheep, and naturally it is borne by the rich partner.

"Is it possible to pay back while working?" Lin Xuebi knew that this was impossible.

How could the Federation not think of things he could think of?

And there are so many unemployed people here, why can't they think of a way to borrow money to do genetic optimization first, find a job and then slowly repay the loan.

As Lin Xuebi expected, Nie Shujie shook his head, "Unless it is optimized into a special beast, or perfectly optimized, it is impossible to repay the full amount within half a year."

Once you have a job, you can no longer live in a social assistance station.After deducting the living expenses from the salary, I can save less than [-] points in half a year.

What's more, there are many pure humans like Nie Shujie who need to be optimized five times.

Hundreds of thousands of debts, as a person who needs to live in a social assistance station, how can it be repaid?

Failure to score these points within half a year is a violation of the law.

Old rules, mandatory matching.

All of this ultimately leads to the same thing.

The Federation is trying to increase the population.

But genetic optimization is like buying a lottery ticket.

What if I was lucky and awakened into a special type?

Even if most people finally accept genetic pairing obediently and pay off their debts with their bodies.But there are still a few lucky ones who can work well just relying on their genes.

Is it a debt?

Or soar into the sky?

This is Schrödinger's cat.No one knows until the moment the box is opened.

But Lin Xuebi knew that if he couldn't find a job again, he would be kicked out of the social assistance station and forced to perform genetic matching.

The author has something to say: Lin Xuebi is looking for a job with great interest.

Playing and singing in the restaurant: simply adapt the lyrics of the tune according to the festival and the atmosphere of the restaurant.Three or more hands are preferred.

Food anchor: The appearance is distinctive.Has specialties, such as opening durians with bare hands.It has supernatural powers, and it is better to breathe fire.

Atmosphere host: Just don’t act like a person.

Lin Xuebi: ...is there nothing normal people can do?