Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

"what happened?"

Werther stared at the picture on the light and shadow screen. The city below turned green. Jean stared at the city. The picture captured by the floating robot shocked them greatly.

"What's the matter, Lord Jean?"

Tamai asked, Gene said.

"This is what it was like 200 years ago."

Many people in Section 10 looked at it carefully. Although the city was in a mess, some high-rise buildings looked new and there were green plants, and the streets were empty.

No one knew what happened, Gene said.

"Let's go, we have to go down and take a closer look."

After a while, the group of people landed. Gene squatted on the ground in disbelief and pressed his hands on the road. There was nothing wrong. The people from Section 10 took out the testing equipment. It was indeed asphalt and the composition was correct.

The toll booth at the entrance to the city was intact. Jean walked into the guard box and looked at the old-fashioned computer and the change on the table. Jean picked it up, and others also felt novel.

"This is the first time I've seen this kind of banknote."

Because when Bright City started the currency era in the past, it used banknotes made of polyester material. Firstly, it could not be copied and secondly, it was easy to recycle.

Gene opened the cash register in the guard box. There were a lot of banknotes inside, stacked neatly together.

There was a car next to it that had crashed into another guard box. Gene walked over, pulled up the dented hood of the car, and then took a look at the mileage of the car. It was still new.

The scene in front of me is extremely unbelievable. The city more than 200 years ago still exists. After more than 200 years of darkness, it is impossible for such a city to remain intact.

Tamai walked into a gas station not far away, looked at the scattered things in the small supermarket, picked up a bag of packaging boxes, and looked at the production date.

"It's January 3rd, 2076."

Gene hurried over and saw that it was the world's largest-selling Oly biscuit at that time. It had a shelf life of 12 months and was strawberry flavored. Gene picked it up and sniffed it, and there was still a little residual strawberry flavor.

People from Section 10 brought the equipment and tested it. Based on the residual odor molecules on it, it was certain that the bag of biscuits had been opened a few days ago.

There was still gasoline in the gas station, which was the most incomprehensible thing. Tang Rao used his strength and held up the pipe. Soon the gasoline spurted out, and a smell of gasoline filled the air.

The people in Section 10 started testing. The small supermarket seemed to have been ransacked. Only the cleaning supplies were still intact. Gene picked up a bottle of car cleaning fluid, unscrewed it and poured it out.

The people from Section 10 quickly checked out the ingredients, Gu Yi scratched his head and said.

"This is no longer a problem that we can understand at the moment. It may involve the theory of time."

Jean nodded. What they saw in front of them was too shocking. These things that were more than 200 years ago are still so well preserved. In such a destroyed world, it is impossible to happen. It has violated physics. Learn the rules.

Tamai looked at the world of more than 200 years ago and felt extremely excited. It was really the right time to come out this time. Many people in Section 10 felt fresh.

Although there are written and video materials recording the past world, everything in front of them is too new for them.

A group of people entered the edge of the city. Behind the gas station was a straight avenue, but the avenue was full of vehicles, and it seemed that many car accidents had occurred.

What made everyone unbelievable was the palm trees in the flower bed. Under the light, these palm trees looked the same, and people from Section 10 immediately began to check them.

"Is it possible that this place was trapped in that time?"

Tamai asked, Jean shook his head, this was not something they could answer, Tang Rao said.

"In the era when we were still human beings, the theories about time were only preliminary fantasies, without any clear evidence, and there was no science and technology to develop the science of time. Many things only existed in science fiction novels. "

Time passed by, and Gene sat on the lawn, looking at the fresh grass in his hand, and tasted it in his mouth. It did taste like grass.

People from Section 10 were taking pictures everywhere and collecting information. Gene watched Tang Rao go to a restaurant opposite, and soon Tang Rao came out with a large bag of things.

"I found a piece of ham."

This made everyone unbelievable. After the paper that had been penetrated by oil stains was torn open, a scent of aroma spread in the air, and a person from Section 10 immediately set up a stove.

Gene took the knife in the restaurant and trimmed off the outer part of the ham, then started to heat it on the oven.

After a while, an aroma that made many people drool spread out, but Tamai and the others also knew that they could not eat the food here casually in such a situation, and they did not even plan to take off their protective clothing, although the The oxygen content is very high.

"It definitely smells like ham."

Tang Rao took a bite, and Gu Yi and Weite also came over. It was not easy to find food that had not been taken away. Soon a person from Section 10 brought a watch. The battery was already dry. , the time is fixed on May 23, 2077.

More than a year after the disaster, Gene ate the last piece of ham and gave the rest to Section 10 to take back.

"I wonder what would happen if we took the contents outside?"

Gu Yi asked the question, and soon everyone returned to the outside of the toll station. After a few steps, the dark world was outside, and Gene walked out with the ham.

However, something strange happened. The ham in Jean's hand began to turn black quickly, as if it was being burned. Then it began to turn black and soft, turning into a puddle of black water. A disgusting smell appeared briefly, and then All that was left in Jean's hand was black dust.

Tang Rao started retching, and Gene also felt uncomfortable, he said.

"The same goes for the ham I just ate."

Tamai said with relief.

"Fortunately we didn't eat, otherwise we would probably have to undergo surgery by now."

Werther took the snack package just now. As soon as he walked out of the edge, the snack package began to fade. Gradually, it was no longer visible what it was, and then turned into crumbs.

Then Jean and the others tried to bring many kinds of things out, but the result was the same. When these things were taken out of the city, they would turn into black dust.

Only hard stones are better, but their density will also become smaller and they will become easily crushed.

"We can only continue to visit the city center or other places."

Tang Rao said, this place is too incredible, it can indeed be understood that time inside has stopped.

The group of people continued on their way, and Section 10 released the robot. A wider search was necessary.

"what is that?"

Tang Rao pointed in the distance. Jean looked over and saw a flickering colorful light. Everyone had their destination and walked all the way. Jean explained some items of this era.

The people in Section 10 are still recording everything. Even if they can't figure out the problem here now, Bright City will have to send people over to continue the in-depth investigation.

It was getting closer and closer to the colorful patch, and everyone noticed that there was a large swaying barrier in front of them that looked like water waves, and it was getting closer and closer, right near a building.

"There's nothing strange about the instrument."

Jean walked into this swaying light and didn't feel anything. There were many such colored light barriers erected in many places.

Jean and the others walked a few more places, but still found nothing. Tamai looked at a machine placed at the entrance of the store, with a waist bar, buttons, and coin buttons.

"Is this some kind of cargo machine?"

Gene said.

"This is a game console."

Tamai saw the word "nostalgic" on it, and then the people in Section 10 made a small power supply machine and connected the game console. Everyone was surprised by the rough and clumsy picture and the need to insert coins. The way they can play is truly something they have never seen before.

Gene got two chairs and chose a fighting game. Tang Rao walked over and started playing with Gene. Both of them were very skillful in playing the game.

"I loved this game as a kid."

Jean said and Tang Rao chuckled.

"Yeah, I played it too when I was a kid."

After a while, many people in Section 10 took turns to play, and everyone seemed to have discovered a new world. The game looked rough and was a bit awkward to operate, but it was still very fun to play.

"I think the world before was pretty good, Master Jean. It was much simpler."

Tamai said and Gene shook his head.

"In an age where information technology is not very developed, many people are content with what they have and do not feel anxious or uncomfortable due to excessive information."

Tang Rao nodded.

"Then the information age came, and human beings changed. Capitalists continued to launch entertainment products in order to more easily control the people at the bottom."

Tamai smiled.

"Capital is the same regardless of that era. It determines the wages of a class, then provides cheap entertainment to attract them to consume, cultivate their habits, and finally lends them money so that they will never be able to turn around in their lifetime."

In the past, when 7ke could borrow money profitably, some businessmen also got involved, and the city was in a state of chaos. Finally, after 7ke completely gave up its business rights and could no longer borrow money, the city became slightly better.

But soon some capital's hot money began to pour into some small loan companies. At that time, the city was rectified many times by Alpha, and finally the capital's desire to destroy the bottom came to an abrupt end.

"This era of advanced information technology is really too harmful."

Tamai couldn't help but sigh, and Gene smiled.

"Because at that time, the world's physical capital had basically no room for growth and had been completely fixed. Only the Internet had endless potential. Through the Internet, capital had emptied the wealth of generations around the world."

Tamai said after Jean finished speaking.

"This must be a sign before the destruction of mankind. After all, in the end almost all the wealth went to the hands of the 0.1% of people."

Tang Rao lit a cigarette, handed one to Gene and said.

"War, hunger, and poverty are constantly coming to the world. It is clear that the world will be much better if only a little bit of capital is provided, but they are still making money crazily at this stage, and even promote the war behind their backs, wanting to reshuffle the cards. . This is really too scary."

Werther smiled.

"In the end, it was detected that the material on the asteroid that humans dream of contains. Finally, capital will join hands, and humans will have the strength to board the asteroid before it leaves this planet."

Tamai sighed.

"I used to be one of the people who was coerced by capital. Really, a lot of the things I did at that time were done at the behest of capital, and I had absolutely no way to reverse everything."

Gene laughed.

"Of course you are comfortable as you enjoy yourself every day. There is no need to worry about anything."

Tamai laughed.

"Yes, Lord Jean, human beings are always weak when facing hardship. No one likes to see suffering, and no one wants to live a hard life. As long as there is a good life, human beings can easily get lost in desire. of."

A person from Section 10 came over and asked.

"Four adults, what should we do now?"

Everyone looked at Gu Yi, who had relatively good theoretical knowledge in this regard.

"We'll stay here for a while, or a few days, and then you can go out and see what changes will happen to your body."

As soon as this was said, many people in the 10th Department agreed, because everything here was too unreasonable.

"I won't accompany you anymore. I'd better go back to the spaceship."

Tang Rao said that he was about to leave, but at this time, the shaking colorful barriers in front of him began to gradually disappear, and something shocking happened again, and the city began to become chaotic, or something was wrong.

"Everyone, be careful. Everyone, come here. If something goes wrong, I can protect you."

Gu Yi shouted. Something was wrong with the city. He saw a phone booth. The kind of phone booth that required a card to be used actually appeared in this era.

jingle!

A quick phone call rang, and everyone looked at an old orange phone booth on the street not far away. Gene walked over and answered the phone.

"Hello!"

"Where's the woman just now? She's the one wearing a short skirt and pigtails. Please let her answer the phone."

Gene asked with a solemn expression.

"Sir, if it's convenient, I can ask, what year is it this year and when is it?"

There was the sound of horns and the sound of traffic coming from the phone, making it very noisy.

"There's something wrong with your brain, right?"

"Sir, can you tell me?"

Gene held the phone while the others looked on in shock.

"You really have something wrong with your brain. It's May 23rd, 1987."

Gene looked on in shock, while the man on the phone urged.

"Hurry up and get her on the phone. I know she's there. She wants to make me angry on purpose."

Gene's hands couldn't help but tremble as he asked.

"Sir, can you tell me where you are now?"

"Where am I and why should I tell you? You are a very strange person."

The phone hung up, and Gene stared at the phone booth, when those colorful barriers appeared and the phone booth disappeared.