Chapter 71
"Children, it's time for you to wake up." The divine messenger's voice rang out, and everyone in the bath awoke, like newborn children.
All joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness were erased, and the crowd in the pool opened their eyes.
"Now you are officially residents of this city. Welcome to Mengchuan City," the divine messenger said with a smile.
He snapped his fingers.
Then everyone woke up with a start, and their eyes regained focus.
Or rather, they thought they were clear-headed.
Some of his memories were completely erased, and he entered the city like a child coming into the world.
Welcome to Yumekawa City.
They were then put on a bus, which only drove around twice before dropping them off in front of the buildings.
"There aren't many people in this building. You'll have to find a room yourselves," the driver said.
Xiao Shengyun and Zhou Zhi chose a building that was relatively flat. There was a small room on the right side of the first floor, where the building manager usually lived.
Xiao Shengyun knocked on the glass window, and a tall woman came out.
"A new resident?" The woman was about the same height as them, over 1.8 meters, and was wearing a long black dress.
"Yes, are there any vacant rooms here?" Xiao Shengyun asked.
The woman led them to the third floor and opened the door with her fingerprint: "How about this room? There are other empty rooms upstairs that you can also take a look at."
So small.
It's about the size of a hotel double room, with a bathroom, a table, and a bed. The bed is quite large, easily accommodating two people.
Having perhaps seen too many abnormal creatures, Xiao Shengyun was somewhat flattered by the woman's gentle attitude. Just to be on the safe side, he asked, "Is the rent the same for different floors?"
"The higher the floor, the more expensive it is. This room costs 300 credits per month, while the top floor costs 1,000 credits." This is because the higher floors have better lighting, while the lower floors are blocked by other buildings.
"This one it is." Although I still don't understand what credits are, I can't go wrong with the cheapest one.
"Would this gentleman like to go and look at the apartments on other floors?" she asked Zhou Zhi, turning to him.
"Can we share the apartment?" Zhou Zhi asked, glancing around the room.
"Sure, you can come back to me if you want to rent a place." The woman was very good-natured. "The first three days of stay are free of credit points, and you can pay me the rent after you get your salaries. However, if you are late on rent, the consequences will be very serious."
Her voice was gentle and not intimidating, but once you consider where this happened, the word "serious" had to be taken seriously.
"Salary? You still need to work here? How are you going to find a job then?"
The woman said, "The work will be arranged uniformly. As for other basic information, I'll bring the manual over in a bit."
She went downstairs to get the manual, and the two of them walked around the room to make sure there were no listening devices or anything like that. The room probably hadn't been lived in for a long time, as everything was covered in a layer of dust and needed to be cleaned first.
There was a small washing machine in the bathroom, which saved a lot of work. Xiao Shengyun took off the bed sheets and duvet cover and threw them in.
Because the room was small, it was cleaned completely in no time.
"There's something in here. Can you pry it open?" Zhou Zhi pointed to the only table in the room, an old wooden table. After it was wiped clean, the brown grain looked soft and delicate. Nowadays, almost no one uses tables made of this material.
There is a large drawer and two small drawers on the table, all of which are locked and cannot be opened.
Xiao Shengyun had never done such delicate work as picking locks before. After thinking for a moment, he said, "It might be impossible to pick it open. We can use a knife to open it."
He took out the short knife that Zhou Zhi had handed him when he got off the bus.
Before they could reach a conclusion, the administrator came over again, carrying a brochure-like booklet, six bottles of nutrient solution, and two cards.
That handbook was probably the most important; the two of them opened it together, and it described the origins and size of the city.
In 2150, pollution erupts. This is not a disaster, but a crossroads in human evolution.
Those who have been corrupted are chosen messengers of the gods; they possess healthy bodies and great strength, and should have been the hope for saving humanity.
However, the ignorant masses were blinded by fear and regarded these messengers as aliens who had brought about the disaster. They issued a "decree" and launched a frenzied hunt for the messengers.
In order to survive, these messengers were forced to build strong walls, trying to protect their last piece of pure land in this chaotic world.
Humans outside the city have never given up hunting down the polluters. Once a polluter is discovered, they are imprisoned in the "island nation" to endure cruel torture and inhuman experiments.
Under the city's leadership, for the sake of human civilization and hope!
What kind of subtle writing is this? First, they wipe away memories, then they portray the awakened as monstrous floods, in order to gain the fear and loyalty of the citizens.
The city is indeed built on a mountain, with the outermost layer forming concentric circles from the bottom to the top, consisting of residential areas, commercial areas, industrial areas, and the "temple".
The residential area consists of ten buildings, each with twenty floors and twenty-five rooms per floor. Based on this calculation, the city can accommodate a maximum of five thousand people. According to the administrators, there should still be many areas in these buildings that are not fully occupied, so this number can be further reduced.
The commercial area is very small, a thin ring between the residential and industrial areas on the map, and the bottom right corner of this page is marked "No food is sold".
No food sold?
Whether it's people or pollutants, food is a necessity. You can go without clothes, you can go without a place to live, but you can't go without food.
Next is the industrial zone, which contains several large factories. The manual details the job positions and wages in each factory.
Wages consist of credits and nutrient solutions. Credits can be used to purchase goods in the commercial district, while nutrient solutions provide basic food sustenance.
The manual also contains some strange rules, such as a power outage from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next morning, and a weekly prayer meeting at the temple that everyone must attend...
Those six vials of nutrient solution should be a three-day supply for two people, and the fact that they didn't charge rent for the first three days suggests that this was a trial period offered by the city.
Xiao Shengyun gave all of these to Zhou Zhi, as he didn't need to drink them, and the other party accepted this silent kindness.
We'll talk about that drawer tomorrow; he needs to rest now.
His hair was rather long, damp and draped over his shoulders. His clothes were also wet, and the thin short-sleeved shirt accentuated his defined muscles, which didn't quite match his refined face.
"Go wash up first, and go to bed early tonight." Xiao Shengyun felt that humans were more fragile than himself.
Zhou Zhi went into the bathroom, where there was only a glass and a bath towel. He rinsed his mouth with the glass and then took a quick hot shower.
The golden liquid in the bath might not necessarily harm his health, but he wouldn't take the risk.
In such a place, you have to maintain your body in peak condition every minute.
Zhou Zhi wrapped himself in a bath towel, then washed his wet clothes and took them out along with the bed sheets and duvet covers that had been thrown into the washing machine.
There was no balcony, but there were large glass windows. He drew back the curtains, and outside were high mountains and tall buildings. Beyond the layers of buildings, at the end of the view was that white temple.
"Do you need my help?"
Xiao Shengyun saw that he was carrying a large bundle of things and took the largest bed sheet and duvet cover from him.
There are no clothes hangers here, so we can only tie a rope to the iron pipe for hanging curtains.
"Take it." Zhou Zhi fully unfolded the bed sheet and stuffed two corners into Xiao Shengyun's hands, who followed his instructions with a blank expression.
He picked up the other two corners, unfolded a large sheet, and smoothed it out. Then he took the other two corners from Xiao Shengyun's hands, and the sheet was neatly aligned.
Xiao Shengyun watched in astonishment. He lived alone and basically just took the clothes out of the washing machine, crumpled them up, and hung them on the balcony to dry, leaving them all wrinkled.
He followed Zhou Zhi's instructions and repeated the process twice, and the large piece of cloth shrank several times, becoming flat and smooth, and was hung in front of the window.
The clothesline has limited space, so we have to save space as much as possible.
Xiao Shengyun also took a shower and dried his clothes.
Once in bed, he realized an embarrassing problem: he was going to be completely naked with another man that night.
The clothes were washed, and the two of them were only wearing underwear. What's worse, they only had one blanket.
Zhou Zhi also realized the problem, and his usually calm eyes showed a rare hint of helplessness.
Xiao Shengyun: "How about I sleep on the floor?" He can transform back into his original form and sleep on the ground; he won't freeze to death anyway.
Dean Zhou pondered for a few seconds and said, "When a person has a high IQ, it can be used in any field."
He spread the quilt out, picked up the short knife, and cut it in half, splitting it into two single-person-sized pieces.
This knife is for killing contaminants; it's more than enough to cut through a quilt.
"That's fine."
So this is how it can be solved?
Xiao Shengyun added another label to Zhou Zhi's existing ones, such as "gentle" and "kind"—"intelligent".
So he just crawled inside.
The two of them lay flat on the bed like two silkworm cocoons.
"What did you see in your memory today?" Zhou Zhi suddenly asked.
"Some things from my school days." Xiao Shengyun didn't think it was something to be proud of to have his wings feathers washed, so he chose a more familiar topic, so he would have something to say if the other party pressed him for details.
"Oh." The person next to me didn't play by the rules.
"But why didn't you get infected?" You know, pollutants are much more resilient than humans.
"Maybe it's because my past was boring, with no particularly joyful or sorrowful memories. It was the same in both classes and the lab. People like them are searching for the most important memories for humanity, but I didn't."
Don't you have any important memories?
Xiao Shengyun felt a little sad for some reason after hearing this. This answer was expected, because the other person seemed as bland as plain water.
But he was still sad. Shouldn't humanity be diverse and colorful? Even he had the memory of being beaten by Ms. Xu. Whether it was important or not, he didn't know, but it was profound enough.
It looks like a painting that has lost its color.
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