Chapter 11
It was a colorful city.
Jiang Yunu was taken to the sky above the city by a flying car. When the car slowly landed her, she saw a red sun shining in the sky, which meant that the city was about to enter the night. However, the various neon lights on the ground and in the air had already lit up impatiently, as if they wanted to compete with the afterglow of the setting sun for who had the brighter light.
Dense and orderly circular tracks cover the sky. From a distance, the city looks like a steel "beehive". Because it is night time and neon lights are flashing everywhere, it looks like a "disco ball" style beehive.
It has a futuristic yet retro feel.
There are several branch forks on each circular track, and the forks are connected to the piers leading to various construction areas.
The speed of the flying car slowed down obviously after entering the city. It passed a gate built in the air. Jiang Yunu could also see in the golden light of the setting sun that a ray of light flashing with a faint electric arc swept across the front window of the car.
This should be some kind of inspection device.
Because this flying car was obviously registered in the warehouse, even though Jiang Yunu sitting inside was an out-and-out illegal resident, the artificial intelligence still allowed the vehicle to pass, allowing the flying car to lower its altitude and smoothly merge into a circular track.
The car's intelligent automatic voice broadcast: "Welcome back to Shatt City. It's been a hard day's work. Welcome home!"
This voice is different from the previous one criticizing Jiang Yunu. It is probably pre-recorded, not the voice of this in-car artificial intelligence. It also sounds more emotional and full.
Although Jiang Yunu shouldn't have been in the "welcome home" line, as this was her first time entering this unheard-of city, it didn't stop her from saying "Thank you" to the car's center console.
This pre-recorded welcome voice was the first welcome Jiang Yunu received after coming to this world. Chat City was also the first place whose name she clearly knew.
Based on this, Jiang Yunu's favorable impression of it increased rapidly.
The flying car took her into the circular track and then turned onto the pier at a fork in the road.
When the car entered the pier, Jiang Yunu heard a slight buzzing sound next to the back seat, and then the small robot - she remembered the number was 129, retreated from the device that looked like a charging station, and its wheels slid across the ground and approached the car door.
Jiang Yunu suddenly realized: the car must be reaching its destination.
Robot Sweeper 129 is ready to get off the vehicle.
"..." Jiang Yunu touched the seat belt on her body, but she hesitated.
Jiang Yunu was thinking to herself, should she really get off the car with the robot?
She still remembered that when she first boarded the car, the voice onboard told her she was "trapped at the centralized garbage processing station." The centralized garbage processing station sounded like some kind of public health facility. Jiang Yunu hadn't encountered a single person there for a long time, only the robot that had called her a ride. This suggests the area was likely sparsely populated, with intelligent robots generally operating there. However, as a waste disposal facility for human cities, the area remained under human jurisdiction, so intelligent vehicles were deployed to handle the occasional human activity.
Jiang Yunu looked down at herself and realized two major problems -
First, she had no way of explaining why she was there.
Second, she didn't know how the world would treat illegal immigrants.
After finally leaving the isolated island and arriving at a place where he could see people and learn more about the world, Jiang Yunu didn't expect to be sent to a "small dark room" and have his freedom of movement restricted as soon as he landed.
So after thinking about it, she made a decision.
When the flying car finally stopped on the ground, Robot Cleaner No. 129, in accordance with the principle of "human priority", made room for the car door in advance and prepared to ask people to go out first when the door opened. However, the automatically opening and closing car door had just opened a crack when Robot 129 felt something, and the other party "whoosh" out from the crack of the door at a speed that even the robot could not catch.
Robot 129: "Chi?"
Robot Cleaner No. 129 was confused, so it slowly executed its own stuck program, waiting for the car door to be fully opened before turning around to entertain the trapped people whom it had dispatched to take back to the city in a smart car... Wait, where are its people?
Robot 129 turned around and found that the seat by the rear window was empty.
The automatically popped-out seat belt was still securely fastened, but the person underneath it had disappeared.
Robot 129: "Ji?!"
Jiang Yunu relied on the fact that she was a child and the automatic seat belts of the car seemed to be set for an adult's body. She easily slid out from under the seat belts in advance, touched the door, and slipped away as soon as the door opened a crack.
The car seemed to be parked in a public parking lot rather than an internal parking lot of some public security management agency, which made it easier for Jiang Yunu to escape.
After getting out of the car, she immediately locked onto the nearest entrance and exit within her field of vision, then jumped into the green bushes of the parking lot next to her, ran along the bushes, quickly shortening the distance to the exit, and then jumped out lightly and nimbly at the end of the bushes, like a little wild animal that had just entered human society, leaping over the gate originally set for vehicles, and jumped into the golden light of the setting sun shining on the entrance and exit of the parking lot.
The wounds on his body had not healed yet, but Jiang Yunu didn't seem to feel how painful they were.
The evening breeze was filled with the scent of the city. She breathed in the wind that smelled of human activities. Before her eyes was the gorgeous neon city created by humans, and in her ears she could hear the endless flow of cars on the circular tracks.
Jiang Yunu took a deep breath and felt that she was finally alive again.
A man was forced to be isolated from the world and survive on a deserted island where he was the only living creature, and he almost died again.
The evening atmosphere of Xiate City pulled Jiang Yunu back to the mortal world, making her no longer feel like she was still floating somewhere, but finally landed firmly on the ground.
About half an hour later, Jiang Yunu walked into the street of any random street.
She was no longer wearing the clothes that would definitely be an eyesore in the city. Instead, she was wearing clothes that were a lot looser, but at least normal and relatively clean.
After noticing that there were public parking lots in the city, Jiang Yunu immediately searched for public trash cans after slipping out of the parking lot, and successfully found a public recycling bin next to the trash can.
The recycling classification in Shatt City is done well. The charity recycling bin is also equipped with artificial intelligence, which will actively remind passers-by what items can be recycled and what charity items are in its "belly" today. If someone needs it, they can operate on the panel to select and take away the items put in by others for free.
Jiang Yunu took advantage of the fact that there was no one around the machine, ran over quickly, pulled the panel, and took out a set of clothes from the charity recycling box.
The top is the simplest hoodie, the pants are casual pants with elastic waist, and the shoes are a pair of sneakers that are one size too large.
Jiang Yunu used clothes to cover the wounds on her body, pulled down her hat to cover her hair, and stepped on slightly wobbly shoes, but she felt that this was probably the time she looked most like a human being since she came into this world.
A city is much larger than an isolated island. Jiang Yunu certainly cannot explore the entire City of Shat on foot in one day.
And more importantly, she found that she was hungry again.
Evening is the time when you are most likely to smell the aroma of food.
Jiang Yunu didn't know where she was going. In this strange and new city, in the human society she had finally come into contact with, it didn't matter which direction she went. Everywhere was new to her. But soon, she found herself unconsciously following the smell of various foods.
Some of the food aroma came from shops on the street, some from residential buildings that she could see as far as the eye could see, and some windows facing the street wafted out the aroma of food that was particularly homely.
Jiang Yunu not only has no home here, but also has a pocket that is cleaner than her face.
Jiang Yunu: "..."
The two bottles of nutrient solution that Jiang Yunu had left before escaping were lost when he jumped into the sea. It would have been better if he didn't think about it. Once he thought about it, he felt that this incident was even more heartbreaking than the external injuries on his body.
It hurts. It really hurts to lose resources when supplies are scarce!
Jiang Yunu stood silently in the sunset, reminiscing about the lost nutrient solution for a long time. The aroma of various foods lingered in her nose, and the content displayed on the public screen on the street drifted to her ears.
The streets of Chat City have a feeling of combining high technology with traditional daily life. There are various small shops on the streets that are very similar to the world that Jiang Yunu used to live in, and there are ordinary-looking residential buildings. At the same time, there are futuristic floating screens on the streets. Many stores have smart robots helping humans in front of them, and the flying cars that come down from the pier from time to time are also very sci-fi.
Jiang Yunu was attracted by the sound coming from the floating large screen. She looked at it and found that some dazzling advertisements she had seen before had ended. Now, it seemed that a conference or ceremony was being broadcast. She saw a large number of people sitting in the audience. As the camera moved, she also saw a spacious podium. Behind the podium on the podium, there was a tall man holding a speech. He lowered his head slightly when the camera swept over him. It was not known whether he was about to speak or the speech had ended.
Jiang Yunu looked at the screen for a while, and his first reaction was that it turned out that holding conferences would be inevitable in the future world.
It seems that technological progress has not been able to evolve away human formalism.
Jiang Yunu looked away and heard the commentator on the screen continue to speak passionately: "What you are watching now is the 136th graduation ceremony of Duma College which just ended not long ago. Unsurprisingly, this year's outstanding graduate representative is from-"
Jiang Yunu didn't listen any further. Her attention was already drawn to a shop in front of her, and she couldn't take care of anything else for the moment.
Because just now, Jiang Yunu discovered that the small robot at the door of the store carried out a notice board that read:
【Free tasting after 8 o'clock】
free!
Taste!
Jiang Yunu didn't care about Duma or Niuma College anymore. Her eyes were shining, and she only saw the hope of eating normal human food tonight.
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