I return from Mars after a thousand years

Dark river bottom.

Only the skeleton of the light armored vehicle was bombed. Each special forces soldier carried two grenades. Six people had twelve grenades. The power of the explosion can be imagined.

The little blue car was even worse, like a piece of kraft paper being crumpled into a ball and burning in the fire, and the unburned part was soaked in ice water.

No one in the world has stayed in the darkness longer than Xiao Ran, and no one hates the darkness more than Xiao Ran... He tore open the twisted iron sheet and swam out of the car.

The strategy of dying together may help him temporarily escape tracking.

He blinked a few times and adjusted his vision to dark night mode, and the distant and near scenery was clear at a glance.

He even heard calls from the bridge.

"m?"

Xiao Ran swam toward the distance along the current.

Thinking all the way.

He knew that m was the codename of the Metaverse Project, but in this world, m seemed to have been given a new meaning. If he guessed correctly, m became the abbreviation of an organization.

This organization is directly controlled by the supreme ruler.

It can be seen from the performance of the special forces that the M organization is domineering, brutal and brutal.

Xiao Ran was very worried. After all, the consciousness of his parents lived in this world.

At first, he was just curious and wanted to take a look into the metaverse. Now, curiosity has turned into a desire to explore. He must find out what kind of world this is and whether it is as good as he was preached back then.

After swimming for more than ten miles, Xiao Ran saw a gap in the ice. Someone put down a dilapidated iron bucket, filled it with water and lifted it up again.

Not far away, there are many artificial gaps, and even fishing lines are hanging down, and people are fishing.

The time now is around 11pm.

In the middle of the night, a group of strange people were active.

He emerged from a gap in the water.

Three meters away, an unkempt homeless man yelled: "Damn it, winter swimming, you are so cold-resistant? My fish were scared away by you..."

Xiao Ran was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he picked up an ice lump, turned into a fish and threw it at him.

"Hey, I have a chance to catch fish with my bare hands. I'm very capable!" The homeless man immediately said with a smile on his face. He picked up the fish and looked at it carefully. "What kind of fish is this? I've never seen it before?"

Xiao Ran had already left.

Climbing up the embankment, he was a little surprised by what he saw.

In the wilderness of several square kilometers, there are countless wanderers gathered around the campfire. Their gray clothes, messy long hair, and cold faces make the men, women, and children look like

Like ancient nomads.

Canvass, cardboard boxes or iron sheets were used to build all kinds of strange shelters. Dried fish, corn or radishes were hung randomly on the outer walls. The air was filled with a strong smell of alcohol and an indescribable stench.

The atmosphere is weird and decadent.

There is a barbed wire fence surrounding the area. It is unguarded and can be easily destroyed, but these people don't seem to want to leave here.

Looking into the distance, you can see the flashing neon lights and high-rise buildings of the city to the north, farmland to the east, the river to the west, and a scary mountain of garbage hundreds of meters high to the south.

I wiped it, something is very wrong.

Affected by the homeless man, Xiao Ran uttered a curse word.

He remembered that the advertisements for the Yuanverse were overwhelming at that time.

"...Why are you hesitating? The paradise of your dreams is right in front of you! Eternal life, equality, happiness, a perfect world without epidemics, disasters and wars! 100% reproduction of you, your house, your family, and your pets

, your life... will be with you forever, all the good things are in——m!"

My mother was so moved by the passionate advertisement that she took her father to visit the Metaverse Experience Center and held a family meeting when she came back.

Mom wiped away tears and said that if Xiao Ran gave up joining the "Cicada Project", she and her father would give up the idea of ​​living in the metaverse. Because Xiao Ran was going to be sent to Mars and would not wake up after who knows how many years. The most she and her father could do was

If you can live for decades, you won't be able to wait until the day we meet, unless you enter the metaverse...

Xiao Ran burst into tears and didn't know what to say.

Dad kept sighing and struggled several times, but could not utter a word.

Maybe Xiao Ran was brainwashed by UN officials, and his lofty ideal of finding a way out for mankind made him never look back. Maybe Xiao Ran was too sad. After falling in love for half a year, Yuchen heartlessly broke up with him because of a misunderstanding.

Perhaps, an inexplicable intuition guided him to embark on the "point of no return"...

My mother sold her house to raise the funds to immigrate to the Metaverse...

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Everyone who comes to this world pays a heavy price.

My parents' life seems normal now, just like before.

However, there are nearly 10,000 homeless people in front of us. Why are they so down and out? Are they oppressed by others, or are they willing to degenerate?

Xiao Ran must understand that he is afraid that his parents will also fall into this situation. Also, he wants to know who is manipulating the world behind the scenes and whether the rules are reasonable. In this case, after returning to 2033, he can stand up and expose Yuan Yuan.

The truth of the universe to prevent people from being deceived.

He walked over and sat down by a campfire.

No one greeted him, no one refused him, they all looked at him coldly.

It should be a small family.

The parent is a burly middle-aged man with a full beard, a rusty machete in his waist, and a bottle of strong liquor in his hand.

The wife has dirty braids, a shell necklace hanging around her neck, and is grilling a fish.

The son was seventeen or eighteen years old. He stared at Xiao Ran with squinted eyes and with great hostility. He was chopping firewood with a sharp ax and stopped at this moment.

The daughter is twelve or thirteen years old. She looks at strangers curiously and her eyes are very bright.

Xiao Ran thought she was a shy little girl, but she ran over and touched his body but found no weapon.

"He's not here to fight."

After that, she sat back down in her seat with confidence.

The man had noticed it early and handed him the bottle. Xiao Ran thanked him and said he didn't drink.

"If you don't drink or smoke, your life will be worse than a mangy dog." The young man mocked.

Xiao Ran smiled helplessly and asked, "Who are you fighting with?"

"Some people want to drive us away and drive us into the desert to starve us to death." The little girl said angrily. "They also robbed our house and confiscated our things, even my dolls!"

"who are they?"

Xiao Ran asked in shock, he even robbed the little girl's doll, is this a human being?

At this time the man spoke up and said firmly.

"I see that you are not a sufferer, so don't ask around."

The woman tore off a piece of grilled fish and handed it to Xiao Ran, forcing a smile and saying.

"Eat, eat something and go home quickly. Be careful of being stared at by the three-horse man. They are a bunch of mutts who are worse than animals."

Three horses, m dog...

Xiao Ran's curiosity became more and more intense. If he wanted to know the truth, he had to win the trust of these people, so he smiled.

"I can do magic, do you want to see it?"

The little girl immediately said excitedly: "Imagine, you will change soon!"

Xiao Ran picked up a small wooden stick, pretended to mutter something, then turned it into a lollipop and put it in the little girl's hand.

She stuck out her tongue and licked it, jumped up in surprise, and gave her mother a taste.

"It's so sweet! Mom, it's sugar, it's really sugar!"

The whole family laughed.

Xiao Ran picked up another long branch and shook it in the wind, turning it into a snake.

People around came running over.

"It's amazing!"

"Awesome, so awesome!"

…

The wanderers looked at Xiao Ran with expressions of admiration, shock and excitement.

"This little brother, will you become salty?"

"I've run out of wine, please turn me into a bottle of Shao Knife, just one bottle!"

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