Chapter 138 One Year Later
One year later.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Qin Mengmeng was in the kitchen.
She carefully cut the cold steamed buns into two halves, coated them with egg liquid, heated the pan with cold oil, and fried them until cooked. She also used the same pan to fry the fish. After the fish was cooked, she made a pot of fish soup with the tofu.
Qin Chuan went out to use the restroom and was very surprised to see this scene: "What's going on today? Are you cooking for me?"
Qin Mengmeng is not the kind of person who likes to cook. She can be considered hardworking in her essential work like construction, but when it comes to the trivial matters of life, she can be said to be incredibly lazy.
She can cook and her cooking skills are quite good, but if there is someone else in the house cooking, or if she can order takeout and she won't starve to death, she will definitely not cook.
Unless she is in a good mood today.
Qin Mengmeng asked him: "Do you want to eat?"
Qin Chuan said: "It's not time to eat yet. I'm not hungry, but just because you cooked, I have to taste it."
He sat down at the table and finally knew what happened to make Qin Mengmeng so happy. Qin Mengmeng said, "I finally know where those people from Project 601 went."
Qin Chuan: "? What 601 Project...Oh."
He remembered that the suicide note written by Qin Mengmeng mentioned the mysterious disappearance of Project 601...that was the beginning of everything.
"Are they still alive?" Qin Chuan asked in surprise.
Qin Mengmeng: "...Of course I'm still alive."
If they were all dead, it wouldn't be so difficult to find out any information. Dead is dead. It's a simple matter that can't be concealed, and there's no need to conceal it.
Qin Mengmeng said: "They are all in the underworld."
Qin Mengmeng drew a circle on the table with her chopsticks and said, "I finally figured out what's going on in the underworld."
First of all, we have to start with human society.
In fact, human society has never been a large piece. Those who live in cities think so because they are in the middle of it and cannot see the whole picture.
From a macroscopic perspective, human society is actually a grid of cities filled with people, connected by public roads. The actual space occupied by humans is actually very small - of course, many people think that humans have truly occupied the entire earth, but that is an illusion of urban residents who rarely go out into the wild.
"It's just like the molecular model that our chemistry teacher showed us during lab class when we were in school. Human cities are atoms, and public roads are the chemical bonds that connect each atom."
The underworld is a world that contrasts with human society, but is not a complete counterpart.
In Hades, there are only cities but no roads.
There are only atoms, no chemical bonds.
Therefore, on the satellite maps of human society, there will be large undeveloped green areas outside cities. They are all wilderness, mountains, wilderness, deserts, rivers, or lakes, all places where humans rarely set foot.
But Hades has none of that.
There are only cities in Hades.
The public roads to Hades were cut off.
If there is a public map of the underworld, it would probably be like a bunch of bubbles, not touching or connected to each other, floating in the void.
Those bubbles are the cities of human society.
Qin Mengmeng tapped one of the bubbles with her chopsticks: "Every city has its own bubble in the underworld."
Qin Chuan stared at the map on the dining table for a long time. After a long time, he took a breath and said, "The situation in the underworld is not..."
Qin Mengmeng nodded: "Yes, it's very dangerous."
Public transportation roads are praised as the lifeline of human society. This is not only not an exaggeration, but an objective description of the reality.
The reason why human society can be connected from points into a matrix, and from scattered cities and villages to form a country, is because of the existence of public transportation roads.
Once the public transportation roads are lost.
"Doesn't that mean every city is equivalent to a different world?"
What’s even worse is.
Even the information flow that is the basis of modern human society, the Internet, optical cables, electrical cables, water and electricity... these things are all laid out along public transportation roads.
If cities are isolated from each other like bubbles, then all these things will no longer exist.
No wonder the underworld seems to be a reflection of reality everywhere, but there is no Internet. Although there is no Internet, there is electricity because the new city has its own power plant.
"But what does this have to do with Xiaoluo Village?"
Qin Mengmeng said: "It has a lot to do with it. Just like I said before, after the connection between cities is cut off, it's like a different world."
The development of the world is so different from one another. Without the identity created by public transportation and information flow, the fate of each city in the underworld is very different.
"Xiaoluo Village has a small population, but its infrastructure is worse than the new city," Qin Mengmeng said, "because there is no power plant there."
"The population is small, and the people are from the countryside. They are related to each other and know each other well. In addition, the living environment is poor—"
For modern people who have eaten, used, and seen so much, an environment without even electricity is extremely harsh!
"So the ghosts there quickly connected, and because of inertia, they believed that the state should be responsible for the power outage and internet outage in their village."
Qin Chuan was drinking fish soup when he suddenly choked.
He coughed for a long time and laughed like crazy: "They are not going to petition."
Qin Mengmeng also felt that this matter was full of flaws. People had died but they still had to petition and demand that the country be responsible for their situation... But for some reason, she was increasingly able to understand why everyone did this.
"Yes, they went to petition." Qin Mengmeng spread her hands: "To be honest, this is actually a very difficult thing, because it is difficult to leave the village, and it is even more difficult to leave the village in the underworld."
But we finally got in touch with them.
Project 601 was established for this purpose. From the very beginning, Project 601 was intended to target the underworld... Liu Xiaodao kicked Qin Mengmeng out of the project with good intentions.
At that time, he was not clear about what kind of project this was. He only knew that something was wrong and there seemed to be something fishy, but he didn't know where the fishy thing was. He had a family to support, and even if there was something fishy, he had to make money. Qin Mengmeng was still young and her family had no burden. He knew that she would not die if she did not make money for a while, so he got Qin Mengmeng out.
"He has good intentions." Qin Mengmeng said, "Unfortunately, if I had stayed there earlier, I would have known about the existence of the underworld."
Although she got the advantage but still acted ungratefully.
Xiaoluo Village is completely different from Xincheng and Jiangdu.
Xincheng is a chaotic city. Entering the underworld from Xincheng is certainly life-threatening, but it also provides the most room for ambitious people to act. Qin Mengmeng has made it to the present day in Xincheng. She cannot be said to be a city lord, but she is more or less important.
Xiaoluo Village is a prosperous place created by the self-governance of the villagers. There is no danger to life when entering the underworld from Xiaoluo Village, but you can only work as a worker, honestly do the construction and renovation for them, and then earn some wages.
You may earn more than working outside, or you may not, because it is a charity project and there is almost no possibility of the government’s investment making a profit.
Jiangdu is even worse. It is a breeding ground for poisonous insects where many heroes fought for supremacy and only one man was left.
Entering the underworld from Jiangdu basically means that new players will face the final boss directly. Most people die in the end. There were many people who entered Jiangdu with Yu Jiuye, but only Yu Jiuye was noticed by Qin Long because of his excellent personal strength and survived.
"So." Qin Chuan thought slowly and asked his own question: "The underworld... is very big?"
Qin Mengmeng said: "It's very big."
The underworld is basically a reflection of reality.
“Are all cities mapped?”
Qin Mengmeng thought for a moment and said, "That's not necessarily true... It's currently speculated to be the case, but there are still many cities that have not been discovered in the underworld."
Qin Chuan rubbed his hands, and suddenly a lot of golden lights jumped out in front of his eyes. He saw an opportunity.
"The underworld is actually like a different world that is in urgent need of development! We should not regard it as the underworld, hell, or a reflection of reality, but as a brand new world!"
"Isn't this Columbus's New World?"
"The unemployment rate is so high now, no one can find a job, the social economy is in a downturn, and everyone's life is not easy. If there is a new world,
Qin Mengmeng shook her head: "If only it were that simple."
If it were really that simple, there wouldn’t be any apps. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the state power could be directly involved?
"The underworld has no economic benefits to speak of." Qin Mengmeng said: "Rather than saying that a whole new continent has been added, it's better to say that there are many more burdens that need to be focused on in poverty alleviation."
Qin Chuan: “…”
The passion in his heart quickly calmed down: "Oh, so that's it, then it's okay."
The two of them lowered their heads and ate silently. Qin Chuan was not very hungry, so he drank two mouthfuls of fish soup and asked again: "Then do you still have to continue live streaming in the future?"
Qin Mengmeng said: "Of course I will continue to live broadcast. The 601 project in Xiaoluo Village has nothing to do with me. I have several projects to do in Xincheng. It is impossible for me to leave."
It can even be said that because the new city is currently under her operation and does not need Mr. Robot and others to pay for its operation, even if she wants to leave, it will be difficult to be allowed.
Mr. Robot is a social animal wearing black-framed glasses. He bluntly said that Xincheng is the best-run case among all the cases, and this is inseparable from Qin Mengmeng's personal charm. If Qin Mengmeng is ready to give up, he can't force her to continue, but he will find Qin Mengmeng's home and hug her thighs and cry bitterly.
Qin Mengmeng: “…”
Qin Chuan commented: "So this truth is of no benefit to the current situation at all."
"Yes." Qin Mengmeng hummed: "But I know the truth, I am very happy."
As for work.
People have to work while they are alive.
Just keep working.
It's the kind of job she likes, so even if the work is tiring, she will be very happy.
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