Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

"Indeed, Mr. Jean, how on earth did I leave this world?"

Justin found it strange because they had no memory of how he and Li Wei left this world after entering this world. When they woke up, they were already in the research room.

Gene smiled and lit a cigarette and said.

"Some things may not be as you see them."

Gene said and handed a wrinkled cigarette to Justin. Gene had no memory of this man who knew him. He also knew very well what was going on with him now. He was just a memory.

But Jean knows that he is part of Jean's memory. Jean still remembers everything in Winter City very clearly over the past eight months, and he cannot leave this world, as if he has been locked by something. Average.

"Mr. Jean, have you tried anything?"

Jean nodded.

"I entered a nightmare town at the beginning. People on the street would repeat the same thing almost every day, because time was completely frozen on that day."

Justin said hurriedly.

"Mr. Jean, Li Wei also went to that town at that time."

Gene smiled with interest.

"That young lady, is her consciousness also in this world now?"

Justin nodded excitedly, feeling extremely lucky to be able to see Gene again.

Then there was Tommy's matter, which Justin began to tell Gene without reservation. At this time, there was a knock on the door, and soon an angry man stood at the door.

"Justin, when will you pay back the money you owe us?"

Justin was stunned, and Jean saw several people at the door staring at Justin aggressively, looking very angry.

"what money?"

Just as Justin finished speaking, several people rushed in, and at this time Gene took out some money.

"How much does he owe you?"

"Total 367D."

Gene quickly took out the money and returned it to these people, and Justin looked solemn.

"Mr. Jean cost you money and I don't even know who I am when I wake up."

Gene smiled and picked up the hat, then said.

"Come to my house. My house is quiet. I have a day off today. Let's have a good chat."

Along the way, Justin discovered that many people in this transit town knew Gene, and many people were greeting Gene along the way.

After Jean bought some food and wine, he took Justin to a two-story courtyard on the edge of the town. Jean opened the door. The furniture in the room looked very old, but the overall room was very nice. Clean and felt very comfortable.

"Tell me something you know about me."

Justin took a sip of wine and started talking to Gene. Gene smiled happily. An hour later, Gene stood by the window with a bottle of wine, looking at the busy crowd outside.

"This place is actually very comfortable. There aren't too many disputes, and everyone lives a relatively prosperous life, but there are still some capitalists."

Justin laughed.

"What kind of world has such a group of people? Indeed, this world seems peaceful to me, because technology has completely stagnated."

Gene said.

"Yes, there is no such thing as technological development in this world. Although many people have questions, they mostly focus on running their own lives every day."

Looking at Gene's indifferent smile, Justin tried hard to remember how he got out of this world. He still remembered the scene before he woke up, where he and Eddie were talking about how to launch a larger military operation. , completely controlling the north.

"Mr. Jean, you have been here for more than a hundred years, won't you get tired of it?"

Jean shook his head.

"Definitely not. This place is very big. I will leave this place after a while and go to the next place to live a leisurely life. This kind of life is quite good for me."

Justin hummed and then said.

"I don't know how long it will take me to leave this time. Mr. Jean, if as you said, you are just a part of Jean's lost memory in the real world, have you tried any methods?"

Justin was also curious, Gene said.

"Everything you can think of has been tried, including death."

Justin stood up and asked.

"How will you be in this world after death?"

Gene said.

"It will appear in a garbage dump."

Gene said, Justin felt strange, Gene explained.

"It was a place full of dense fog, and there was a lot of garbage, or a lot of weird-shaped garbage."

Justin found it strange, Gene said.

"It's like a car without wheels, a plane without wings, a painting that has just been painted in the middle, or some weird machinery, and every dead person will appear in that garbage dump, and then they will stay for a while , just left the garbage dump and disappeared.”

"Where did they go?"

Justin asked.

"It should be about becoming a member of this world, with a new identity."

Justin asked after swallowing.

"What about you Mr. Jean?"

"I tried to kill myself but it didn't work."

Gene said, picked up the blade on the table, and suddenly stabbed his heart. However, the blade passed through the clothes, but could not penetrate Gene's skin. Justin observed that Gene tried In other ways, his body is like steel, without any damage.

"It's strange."

Justin also felt strange. He picked up the knife and gently slid it on the skin. He immediately grinned and hurriedly covered his hands, and red blood seeped out.

"Would you like to give it a try?"

Gene asked, but after Justin bandaged the wound, he hesitated.

"Maybe Mr. Jean, all you see are people after death in the real world, and Yuko created everything, but I am still alive in the real world. I don't plan to do this without any real and reliable information."

Gene laughed, and Justin also looked a little helpless. Then Gene took Justin out of the house, and after going out, he told him the history of the world.

There has not been any war in this world for hundreds of years. The purpose of the army's existence is only to use some factories and some weapons and ammunition.

"Indeed, such a world feels incredible. Tommy still has many things that he hasn't told me. I know that he still hides many things from me."

Justin sat helplessly on a fallen dead tree on the side of the road. After Gene walked for a while, he came to a somewhat dilapidated warehouse. When he opened it, there was a Beetle inside. Gene got in and started the car. Got the car.

"Let's go, I'll take you to Nightmare Town."

Justin was confused, Gene said.

"There is such a thing as a wish coming true in this world, or this car is the only tool to enter the nightmare town."

Li Wei has told Justin about Nightmare Town in detail, and Justin also wants to see this town with his own eyes.

After the car started, Gene drove along the path. After a while, Justin felt a bump, and everything around him changed in the blink of an eye.

"what happened?"

Gene laughed.

"It's strange."

As soon as Justin looked up, he saw a small town under the gray sky in the distance, and the car quickly drove into the town.

Justin looked at the expressionless people in the town. Many of them looked tired. They were walking in a hurry. After Gene stopped the car, he took Justin into the town.

Justin was still talking about what he remembered about the nightmare town that Li Wei told her.

"The fat woman's name is Mary. She is a very nagging woman."

Justin took a look at the small supermarket with many empty shelves. Mary was dozing off. Soon Justin saw the tavern again. Gene told him that the owner of the tavern inside was very strict and was once a PLC. .

The two walked through the streets. Everything Li Wei had said about this town basically matched. Soon they came to the apartment where Li Wei had lived briefly.

On the first floor of the apartment, an old woman was knitting in the hall. When Gene went in and asked, he found out that all the rooms had been rented out.

"The most peculiar thing about this town is that every day you wake up, almost everything happened in the past week. One week is already the limit. Even if you die here, it might be Monday when you wake up tomorrow morning. It’s Tuesday or some other day.”

Justin listened to Jean's words, and soon the two of them came to the sawmill in the south of the town. This sawmill had been recruiting people, but the door was never opened, and no sound was heard.

"Have you gone in to see Mr. Jean?"

Gene shook his head, and then he quickly turned over and planned to enter the yard directly. However, the moment Gene jumped in, Gene was already standing under the wall. Justin felt unbelievable.

"what happened?"

Gene brought some things to stand on. Justin stood up and leaned on the wall to look in. It was dark inside and there was nothing there. Justin looked behind him strangely. Everything seemed normal.

"There's a lot of these inaccessible places in this town that are completely dark."

"Mr. Jean, how long did it take you to leave this town?"

Gene scratched his head and then laughed.

"I can't remember this clearly, because there is no concept of time here, but it may have been several decades. I understand everything that can be understood here very clearly."

Justin came to the gate of the sawmill and pulled the chain.

Click.

The chain actually fell off, and the old chain broke. Jean felt strange and then said.

"See if you can open it?"

Justin swallowed and then opened the door. The two of them were stunned for a second. Inside the door was not a sawmill, but a towering city in the sky.

"Am I dreaming?"

Justin muttered, Jean's eyes were solemn. There was a floating city in front of him, and many aircraft could be seen around. These aircraft were all round, and the entire floating city looked densely packed.

"What's going on?"

Jean's eyes were solemn, and he looked at the situation in this floating city, which seemed familiar.

Justin was about to step in but was stopped by Jean. Jean quietly stared at a tall tower building in the distance of the floating city. There was a huge dial on it, and there were not numbers on the dial. Although it was faint, You can see it, but you can't see it clearly.

However, Gene soon became convinced, he smiled.

"This is the Brilliant City."

Justin asked, not quite understanding.

"Is this where you live, Mr. Jean?"

Gene nodded, and the two looked at a ball of fire in the sky in the distance, which was the sun, and finally they walked in.

As soon as they entered, the two discovered that the place they were in was the outside of an abandoned metal cabin floating in the air. There were garbage floating everywhere in the sky. Now Gene was even more convinced that the city in front of him was a brilliant city.

From the structure of the building and the patterns representing the 12 departments on the huge clock dial, it is certain that this is a Brilliant City.

"How are we going to get there, Mr. Jean?"

Justin asked, but Gene shook his head.

"Go back, you shouldn't be here."

Gene looked at the door behind him that had begun to become somewhat fragmented. Justin swallowed, and he also felt something bad. Suddenly, Justin found that his body was becoming transparent, and Gene shouted.

"Go back quickly."

Justin returned to the door and his body recovered unexpectedly. He looked at Gene's happy face and said.

"Mr. Jean, who created this place?"

Gene smiled, lit a cigarette and said.

"Maybe it's not God."

At this time, accompanied by a loud crunching sound, the metal cabin seemed to be subject to some kind of pressure, and began to dry up, and the door disappeared.

Jean had never thought that after opening the door to Nightmare Town, he would be able to see such a floating and brilliant city. The buildings were almost all made of metal. Jean looked down and found that everything below was pitch black and there was nothing. , a large amount of wreckage can be vaguely seen.

There was a loud boom, followed by a violent flash of light, and the tallest building in the city collapsed in an instant. With the fire, Jean looked into the sky in the distance.

Groups of blue flames continued to fall, and Gene was a little confused.

"What exactly is that?"

Jean looked at the flames, which seemed to resemble human figures, and he was a little strange. The blue flames in the sky scattered into the bright city like meteors.

"What on earth is this?"

A ball of flames scattered over, and Jean saw not far away, a humanoid figure with blue flames burning all over his body and a completely blue body, staring at him eagerly.

There was a loud bang, accompanied by a burst of violent red light. In an instant, the blue humanoid was penetrated, and the beam of light instantly split into pieces. It was torn apart in the body of the blue humanoid, and the blue flame humanoid was also destroyed. Divided into countless pieces.

There was a young man standing on the ball. He was wearing a uniform and looked very strong. The ball passed by in an instant. Gene looked at the young man in confusion, and the young man also looked at Gene in shock.

"Mr. Jean, when did you come back?" (End of chapter)