Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 1 Uniform Distribution

Area C on the 495th floor is an activity center with gray-green exterior walls and various graffiti. Six or seven girls walked in with excited or expectant or nervous expressions.

Their clothes are simple in style and monotonous in color, mainly blue, black, white, and green, but they all have exquisite looks and youthful looks.

Glancing at the only LCD screen on the entire floor, the leading girl couldn't help but whispered:

"I don't know what kind of husband the company will assign me?"

"It's mainly about your personality." Beside her, the girl in a green top and blue trousers bit her lower lip and said.

As the second generation of genetically modified drugs, they are not worried about the appearance and height of their future husbands, as they are above the standard anyway.

The girl in the lead glanced at her companion:

"You have forgotten that apart from people of our age who participated in the unified marriage, there are also those whose wives have passed away. Some of them are in their 40s or 50s. They have not undergone genetic modification at the embryonic stage and have many defects."

In order to ensure that there are enough newborns, the company they work for stipulates: "For those who have reached the age of 20 or have graduated from higher education and have not freely married, the company will arrange a spouse uniformly, and those who do not accept it will be punished uniformly by the 'Order and Supervision Department'. For the first violation, the energy ratio will be reduced, and the corresponding contribution points will be deducted; for the second violation, the company will be expelled from the company and left to fend for itself.”

Similarly, those who are widowed and have no offspring will be forced to participate in the unified distribution three years after the widow and under the age of 60.

"And, even if it's not these people, don't you expect your future husband to be in an M-class family?" Another girl joined the discussion and joked.

The company is divided into three levels: one is D-level employees, from D1 to D9; the other is M-level management, from the director level represented by M1 to the board members and chief scientists corresponding to M3; there is no letter code, only one title , that is "Big Boss", an unusually mysterious lady.

The girl in the green top and blue trousers pouted and said:

"When did you hear that people on ordinary floors were assigned spouses on floors 346, 347, 348, and 349?"

346 to 349 are the floors where M-level managers live. The energy supply is abundant, and the per capita housing area is more than ten times that of ordinary employees. Moreover, these four floors have their own independent elevators, water purification, ventilation, sewage and education. system, their children will not have contact with ordinary employees under normal circumstances.

The only exception is the higher education stage, because the entire company has only one university, which is on the 350th floor.

The children of ordinary employees need a test to decide whether to start work or go to university, while the children of management can receive higher education without the test.

Within the company, there is no one who does not want to be a management, and no one does not want to have a relationship with the management.

As for the "big boss", let alone the ordinary employees, they don't even know what she looks like. Only at the end of the year, the beginning of the year, or when major events happen, can they hear her voice through the radio, so, very Few people dream of being appreciated by the "big boss" and jumping up to the management level.

Of course, there are still few representations, just not many.

The girl in the lead smiled and said:

"That's why I always let you fall in love freely in school. Look at Chen Bei, her husband was booked by the "Material Management Department" as soon as he graduated. There must be background in the family!"

"Meng Xia, are you embarrassed to say it? Why don't you fall in love freely?" The other girls mocked at the same time.

"It's not like you don't know me? What I'm good at is talking about it." Meng Xia admitted without any shame that she didn't have the courage.

After laughing about it for a while, the girl in a green top and blue trousers asked curiously:

"Meng Xia, do you know the level of Chen Bei's husband's family? You have always known each other very well."

Meng Xia glanced left and right, lowered her voice and said:

"Say it's the Operations Cluster Director of the Ministry of Security."

"Wow..." When the girls were amazed, a group of young men walked in at the gate of the activity center.

The two groups of people looked at each other for a few seconds, and each shifted their eyes a little shyly. After all, no one can tell whether their future husband (wife) is across from each other.

A man with a height of about 1.75 meters and a clean frame glanced at the old tables in the activity center and the benches and chairs around the tables, and said to the companion beside him a little nervously:

"Shang Jianyao, tell me, what kind of wife will the company assign to me?"

His companion is about 1.85 meters tall, with straight eyebrows, bright brown eyes, deep-lined face, slightly messy black hair, covering half of his forehead.

The young man named Shang Jianyao glanced sideways at his companion and said:

"First of all, you have to be assigned before you can talk about what it is like."

He was wearing a dark blue two-piece suit, his arms were bulging, and the fabric stretched out his lines, making him look masculine and powerful.

"Ha, it's not so unlucky, is it? This time there are only two more men than women." The man with a height of 1.75 meters and relatively ordinary facial features laughed.

His expression gradually calmed down, and he muttered:

"Will they look down on me? I am only 1.75 meters tall after genetic modification, I am not handsome, and my grades in all subjects are only average..."

Shang Jianyao said with a serious expression:

"That's not the key, the key is your name."

"Name? What's wrong with the name Long Yuehong? My father's surname is Long, and my mother's name has a red letter in it, how meaningful." Long Yuehong said to herself in confusion, "Yes, the company's unified distribution will not look at my height. How much, what I look like, it is said that they are all random after excluding blood relationship... Ah, will they treat me as a woman because of the name, and then assign me a husband? What should I do?"

Shang Jianyao looked Long Yuehong up and down and said:

"Biological organ transplantation, nerve reconstruction, artificial uterus, perfectly solve the problem."

Long Yuehong laughed awkwardly twice:

"Haha, how is that possible? I mean how could they get it wrong, every single one of my profiles says men!

"Your way of thinking is really strange. Shouldn't normal people think about appealing?"

Before Shang Jianyao could respond, he said again:

"So, why is my name the key?"

"The name represents a person's fate, random assignment is fate." Shang Jianyao replied solemnly.

Long Yuehong's expression froze for two seconds and said:

"I knew you couldn't come up with any constructive ideas!"

As soon as the words fell, he turned to ask:

"Shang Jian Yao, what kind of wife do you want to assign?"

Shang Jian Yao raised his chin and said:

"I do not need.

"The company's resources are insufficient, and the human beings on the ashes are in dire straits. The shadow of famine, infection, distortion, and animalization still hangs over the whole world. How can I get married?"

"..." Long Yuehong let out a "ha", "You are getting better at joking."

Shang Jianyao looked at him and said without a smile:

"I have already applied to waive this unified allocation."

"Are you serious? Impossible, how could the company promise you to give up this unified distribution! Haha, I almost believed you!" Long Yuehong was startled at first, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xianyu, the supervisor of the activity center on the 495th floor, left his seat, walked to the LCD screen, and started debugging.

This old man with gray hair and staggering steps used to be an employee of the Security Department responsible for external operations. He had been at the D7 team leader level. Later, due to his age, he left the Security Department and was promoted to a D8 level. The manager in charge of the activity center on this floor.

Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong were very curious about the old man's past experience, and they always liked to come to the activity center to play and ask questions, but Chen Xianyu strictly abided by the confidentiality regulations, just picked up some knowledge that everyone knew, Just like an ordinary employee who was born, grew up, studied, worked, grew up, and grew old in the "inner ecological zone", and has never been out of an underground building in his life, and has seen the real sky.

"Okay, it's time to start." Chen Xianyu held a remote control panel and pressed it heavily.

The display screen flickered a few times and gave off a faint light.

Long Yuehong, Meng Xia and the others immediately held their breath, waiting for the result of the assignment.

They don't worry that the items will scroll too fast and they can't see clearly, because the activity center on each floor only displays the results related to the residents of this floor.