Su Mingan sat ten meters away from Xiaomei's house.
From a house not far away, there was a constant stream of shouting and cursing from a rough man.
Just now, after returning from the garbage mountain, Xiaomei saw the man walking into her house. She explained that he was her father and asked Su Mingan to wait in the distance.
As a result, after Xiaomei entered the room, he heard such a sound.
"——You money-loser, why don't you just die? You're a dirty thing that makes money by selling your body. You've made me lose face... Damn it, I should have strangled you to death when you were born! If you were a son, at least you could have continued our family line. Now I feel unlucky just looking at you..."
The cursing of the man in the room had become increasingly harsh, and even the barrage of comments could no longer be heard.
"Bang!" There was a sudden loud noise from inside the door, and the man's scolding stopped.
Su Mingan took a step forward, pushed open the door, and saw Xiaomei with a red and swollen slap mark on her face. Her hand with a mechanical arm was raised high, and next to her was her father who had fallen unconscious.
"I never thought of fighting back." Xiaomei's eyes were fixed, her fingers were "clicking", and there was a trace of the man's blood between her fingers: "Why do you force me, why do you force me... why do you pull my hair, why do you hit me.
Why does he have to gamble all day long? Why does he take away my mother's medicine and destroy this family... I just want to have a family. Is there something wrong with me? Is there something wrong with me?"
She breathed rapidly, trying her best to breathe, and her eyes were red.
Wet hair stuck to the sides of her face, and her lips were bleeding from the beating by the man.
"Dong Anan is not my biological sister, she was adopted... I grew up in a family of three, me, my father, and my mother, all three of us are inferior personalities. I knew from a young age that I had to work hard and make a lot of money..."
She spoke tremblingly and quickly, and the chip on the back of her neck was flashing red light at a very fast frequency.
[Current emotion value: 95 points, extremely dangerous...] Xike said softly.
"Before, the inner city came to select people for work. I knew that the opportunity to change my fate had come, so I went to pick up trash. I bought so many books that my eyes almost went blind. The Dawn system finally approved my adaptability. I filled in the two work directions of machinery and economics. I can enter the city, even if I am an inferior personality..."
Her body was shaking violently, and blood was dripping from the mechanical arm.
"However, people with inferior personalities are always at risk of emotional overload, and are more likely to lose money...
My father locked me in the house and wouldn't let me go. He said that girls from the fringe area only need to be pretty enough...
And then, and then…”
She raised her head.
His eyes were empty.
“…And then nothing happened.”
"And then it's what you see."
"I became 'that kind of woman'."
"To keep her skin smooth, she doesn't wear a robotic arm. Women who make this choice are cheap and ridiculous, no different from bedbugs..."
“Ding ding ding—”
The red light flickered rapidly, and she stood there, her eye sockets like deep black holes.
Her face had lost the vivid vitality of the night, as if all the liveliness of the night had faded away in the day.
[Current emotion value: 99 points, severely overloaded...] Xike said.
“Sometimes I just want to think about what I want to do and not compromise with the mundane. I actually don’t like mechanics at all.
I saw on the news that many people can pursue the careers they are most interested in because they have the family background to try and fail, and the adaptability of the Dawn system will let them go...
But I can’t. I don’t have the family background, I don’t have the ability, and I’m not smart enough.”
She took off the robotic arm with a clang, revealing her arm that was red from being squeezed by the inappropriate size.
"I have to think about how I can survive if my relatives get sick and I have to have money to treat them. I have to think about how I can survive if this house is forcibly requisitioned one day. I have to have money...
My future is limited... I don't dare to explore what I like, I don't dare to look up at the sky, I don't dare to invest in the field I am interested in, I don't dare... I don't dare to think too much. "
She lowered her head, opened the drawer, and took out a small wooden box. She opened it with a "click" and inside were several blood-red flowers.
——【Rose blood.】
Su Mingan has long known that this addictive psychiatric drug is widely used. It is an illegal drug and long-term use can cause death.
In marginalized areas, people's lives are extremely difficult. Taking this drug is like spiritual comfort, allowing them to find comfort in hallucinations.
Xiaomei stared at the rose blood in her hand with a somewhat crazy smile.
It was the first time that Su Mingan saw this shy girl smiling in such an unpresentable way.
It was as if there were sweet dark clouds fermenting in her chest. She stared at the cold blood-red flowers in her hands with eyes as bright as if she saw heaven.
When she raised her hand and was about to swallow the rose blood, Su Mingan took a step forward and grabbed her thin wrist. With a "pop", the rose blood fell to the ground and shattered.
…
[Perfect clearance (TE2) progress: 50%]
…
"That's enough." Su Ming'an said, "I'll take you back to Central City."
Xiaomei stared at him.
The madness on her face softened little by little, and she seemed to have recovered from the hallucination.
She must have eaten rose blood more than once. Her mental state has deteriorated to this extent. Her condition just now was obviously abnormal.
"...I just now." She said, "What did I do?"
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