In the boundless ocean of stars, the earth is, after all, the most inconspicuous drop of water, not even a wave.
But even such an inconspicuous drop of water has a satellite accompanying it.
--Moon
Today, the rapid development of human technology has long been able to establish space station residences and planetary colonies in space. Various self-sufficient space stations have also become a beautiful scenery outside the earth.
Among these space stations, there are foreign countries that have experienced resistance wars and obtained independent governance rights; there are also private space stations built by top wealthy people who have spent a lot of money to build them, and they are also their private countries; there are also public space stations controlled by specialized airlines...
Every space station is an extraterrestrial country far away from the earth, and secular legal provisions will not take effect here.
All rules and regulations are dominated by the big guys who make the rules, and their wishes are the law.
In space, there are not only these space stations floating in the orbit of the earth, but also many colonies established through modular "building blocks" on the moon and even on the more distant Mars.
However, compared with the space station closest to Mother Earth, the situation of these lunar colonies and Mars colonies is actually not very good.
A truly wealthy person would never choose a place far away from the earth and lacking corresponding supplies as his residence.
Even now, on distant Mars, there are habitable module properties produced by large companies for sale. The prices of these colonial residences are so cheap that the rich can hardly believe it.
——You can buy a property on Mars for only 100 million euros.
However, although they are very cheap, few rich people are willing to buy these colonial residences far away from the earth.
Who the hell would be stupid enough to live in a place like Mars where birds don't shit.
However, these things are indeed far away for ordinary people and those middle-class people who are not qualified enough.
But it doesn’t matter, the travel tickets to the moon and travel to Mars are the tickets provided to those middle-class people who are unwilling to be ordinary and long to become the powerful class.
After all, if you have never eaten pork but seen pigs running, isn’t it considered a beautiful thing?
Looking around the world, I wonder how many ordinary civilians have never seen pigs running. For a mere few hundred thousand, you can enjoy entertainment that is superior to others. Looking at it this way, it seems that being cut like leeks by the powerful class is no longer a problem. This is something unacceptable.
Although the experience of these field trips is not even close to the experience in Mewtwo, it doesn't matter.
Unfortunately, the pocket money of the elite and the travel expenses of the middle class are an unattainable dream for those marginalized people at the bottom.
At least for Lucy, this was an unattainable dream for her.
But now, the dream has fallen into reality, like a meteor falling, held in her hands.
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A tourist attraction on the far side of the moon, Wanhu Crater.
A lunar float hovers in mid-air. The background is the dark and dark universe and only half of the dark blue earth is exposed. White clouds flow on the sphere like white silk.
Everything here is static, with the Lunar Rover being the only living thing.
It wandered alone on the moon's surface until it came to a small complex of buildings.
[Wanhu Station] arrived.
"Welcome to the moon journey. We have now arrived at the first travel point on the moon. Please don't walk around after getting off the car. Here, we will be able to experience an unprecedented experience in Mewtwo."
"Next, all passengers are asked to get off the bus in an orderly manner and follow the tour guide's instructions."
There were not many passengers in the floating car, and most of the seats in the car were empty, but there were also more than a dozen tourists, and everyone's face was filled with the joy of traveling.
Except for a white-haired woman.
She was wearing a bloated aviation suit. Since she had not yet stepped out of the car, she did not wear it.
Wearing only a protective hood in an aviation helmet, the white hair exposed outside was dyed into a gradient color by the light.
"I didn't expect that when I came to the moon for the first time in my life, I would come with you." She looked at the moon scene outside the car window and said without looking back.
Sitting on the seat next to her was Sasha, who was also wearing a bloated aviation suit and a hood, and was lively and pretty with a happy face.
Hearing Lucy's emotion, she opened her eyes wide, smiled playfully, stretched out her finger to poke Lucy's face, and said with a smile:
"Does this matter? If you care about your money, I can call you next time I go to the island to travel."
Lucy sighed softly and smiled helplessly: "No, I was just a little surprised... I never thought that I could really realize my dream before, let alone that I would have the energy to invite others to come with me. Moon, the most important thing is that that person is still you."
Sasha shook his head:
"This is nothing surprising. You will feel lonely when you travel alone, just like watching movies alone, going to the hospital to see a doctor alone, or going to a restaurant to eat alone... I often did these before joining the Mann team. thing."
"Every hacker needs to get used to being alone, even if they know very well that it will increase the probability of their sudden death." Lucy sighed.
"That's why we need to stick together even more during his absence." Sasha continued with a smile.
Lucy looked at her calmly and said calmly, "Actually, I can still find Qiwei."
"She is a member of Mann's team. Maybe we will have the opportunity to work together in the future, but she is an outsider now. Why would she look for outsiders to form a team if she doesn't look for her own people?" Sasha said.
"That's right," Lucy said compromisingly.
"And the year-end bonus left by that bastard is enough for us to live happily for a while, not to mention you now have the right to live on the space station, which is something ordinary people can't ask for in their lifetime." Sasha smiled and continued to poke. Looking at Lucy's face:
"You are now a truly rich little woman."
Lucy smiled bitterly for a while, reached out and patted Sasha's hand away, put the aviation helmet next to her on her head, stood up and communicated through the helmet's communicator:
"Come on, it's time to get off the bus."
At this time, the float car happened to be parked at the parking location of the travel point, and many passengers were already eager to get off the car.
Sasha nodded, picked up his helmet, and put it on too.
Following the tour guide, the two stepped off the float vehicle.
With my feet on the soft ground, everything seemed so beautiful. Even when I walked, I felt like I was floating. Some of the passengers beside me were already jumping impatiently on the spot, jumping several meters high. Light as a swimming fish.
The tour guide's narration came to my ears. She was a cute little girl who looked to be in her twenties. Her voice was soft and pleasant, but the content was the same introduction. She was nothing more than explaining the origin of the Ten Thousand Houses Crater. And introduce who Wanhu is.
Many tourists were too lazy to listen to these boring contents. After blocking the tour guide's channel, they went on to enjoy themselves. This trip was expensive, and they were not here to listen to lectures.
[In view of the general environment,
There was nothing the tour guide could do about this. After all, the passengers would have limited freedom when they got off the bus, and she could not stop these middle-class people who were of high value to her.
However, she was relieved that two tourists were still willing to listen to her story.
Under the guidance of the tour guide, Lucy and Sasha walked to the outer edge of the crater.
"Wanhu...Lin Mo seems to be Chinese too. I always feel that the two of them are similar in some ways." Sasha chatted privately to Lucy. The two of them seemed like classmates who deserted in class.
Lucy curled her lips. As soon as she heard the word "Lin Mo", she felt a little irritable inside, and subconsciously replied unhappily:
"It's been several days, how can you still
Can't you forget him? "
Sasha smiled softly. The laughter seemed a bit distorted through the communicator, but Lucy could still hear the humor in her laughter:
"You are very dishonest, Lucy..." She turned her head, Lucy's figure reflected in the helmet:
"Indeed, when I heard that the nuclear bomb was aimed at him that night, I cried... To be honest, I haven't felt the sadness that the sky is falling for a long time."
"But now, since he has said that he will not die, then I have to believe it. If we meet again in the future and I still look like a crybaby, he will definitely laugh at me, so I will be more No chance."
"So, have you adjusted your mentality now?" Lucy asked indifferently.
"Yes, but what about you, Lucy?" Sasha looked meaningfully at her "best friend" beside her, and asked word by word: "Why do you still look so depressed and gloomy?"
"Haha, aren't I like this in normal times?" Lucy sneered.
Sasha looked at her quietly and finally said nothing.
"You two, go this way, don't get lost!"
The little tour guide waved vigorously in front, and seemed to have discovered that Lucy and Sasha were falling behind. In order to prevent herself from falling into the situation of being "no one cares", she did not want these two tourists who were willing to listen patiently to run away.
Lucy followed without looking back.
Following Lucy slowly, Sasha stared straight at her back and sighed silently in his helmet.
As a woman, she knew very well what Lucy was feeling in her heart right now.
Lucy is different from her. Before meeting Lin Mo, she still had Mann and other teammates to rely on, and her life was barely getting through.
But Lucy is different.
Even though she pretended to be strong, Sasha could still see the vulnerability beneath her strong disguise.
That night, she felt sad about Lin Mo's departure.
Lucy, on the other hand, felt fear.
She was like an abandoned, helpless person, sitting alone on the window sill and looking at the moon, her eyes confused and weak, as if her dream had been shattered.
After that, she began to get along well with Lucy. In just a few days, she got to know her new "best friend" better.
Lucy is strong, but also very weak. Every time she looks up at the moon at night, she is more eager to escape than to realize her dreams. She is very insecure.
This is what Sasha is worried about...
Although Lucy still pretended not to care, Sasha knew very well that for some ulterior reason, she studied psychology.
So she knew very well that once her "best friend" took off her guard, the feelings buried deep in her heart would definitely burst out like a blazing volcano!
For a person like her who has been alone for a long time, once she is willing to accept the weakness in her heart, the overflowing emotions will definitely drown herself and another person, and regard the other person as her life-long support... Sasha looked at Lucy's back was silently lamenting.
If that day really comes, how will the relationship between them be handled?
I don’t know if the bestie relationship I have worked so hard to build can make her defenses stronger...
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"Okay, that's it for the introduction to Wanhu Attraction Area. We still have half an hour of free time for free activities. Once the time is up, we have to go to the next tourist spot. You two, I will stay in the train first. Waiting for you."
Seeing that her work was finally completed, the tour guide girl was relieved. She bowed slightly to the only two passengers who were willing to listen to her story, and finally ran back to the travel floating train as if she was running away.
The two astronauts in spacesuits looked at each other and stopped in place for a long time. Finally, Lucy said "Let's go" and she walked towards the crater. Sasha hurriedly jumped up and down to follow. passed.
Sitting on the edge of the moon crater,
Hanging her feet in the air, looking at the dark abyss-like moon crater, Lucy was very quiet. Through the glass of the helmet, she could see her complex expression.
Sasha sat quietly next to her, and she could feel that Lucy was not as happy as she imagined.
This is very strange. Lucy obviously wants to travel to the moon, but now she is not as happy as her best friend.
"What's wrong? You look depressed?" Sasha couldn't help but ask.
"It's nothing, I just think the moon... doesn't seem to be as fun as I thought it would be?" Lucy murmured uncertainly.
Sasha tilted her head and asked, "Why?"
"I don't know, maybe it's different from what I imagined. I wandered around the world for a long time before I finally came to Night City. It was very chaotic, but also very safe. For some reason, I have always been afraid of Arasaka Company. Find me... This kind of fear makes me always feel that the place where I usually live is hell." Lucy revealed her heart:
"Actually, I haven't gone to school, and I only know the moon-related knowledge from advertisements and Mewtwo. In Mewtwo, I can run around freely without restraint, and I can also drive the moon rover happily. When racing, the body will not be trapped in this cumbersome aviation suit..."
Sasha nodded thoughtfully: "Do you think the real moon is different from the one in Mewtwo?"
"Yeah." Lucy nodded slightly and continued to look at the bottomless moon crater, her legs couldn't help but swing.
"In the end, dreams and reality are different after all. I used to beautify the moon too much. Now that my wish has come true, I can't be happy. Maybe what I want is not to travel here... it's just that To escape reality.”
Sasha's face fell, and she sighed:
"Well, hearing what you said makes me a little worried about my island trip. I was really looking forward to it."
Lucy took a deep breath and no longer looked at the dark moon crater. Instead, she raised her head and looked directly at the sun.
The scorching sunlight was quite dazzling. Even though her eyes had been replaced with scanning prosthetic eyes specially designed for hackers, Lucy still felt the urge to cry.
Sasha was stunned for a moment when she saw this, and then quickly reached out her hand to cover her eyes.
"Hey, don't you know that looking directly at the sun is bad for your eyes? Although we all have prosthetic eyes, if we can help it, we should try not to look at it." Sasha said worriedly.
Even though her vision was blocked, Lucy still didn't move and suddenly said for no reason:
"Actually, he knows everything."
Sasha was startled and quickly realized who Lucy was talking about.
"What's the meaning?"
"Did you forget? I invited him to my house. At that time, I wanted him to watch Mewtwo with me. Well, it was Mewtwo related to the moon." Lucy smiled playfully and glanced at Sasha.
Sure enough, as soon as these words were spoken, Sasha's expression suddenly changed.
She looked at Lucy nervously and asked, "What did you do in Mewtwo?"
"He didn't do anything. He rejected my invitation and said with a serious face that I was trying to escape. At the time, I thought he was very ignorant. Now that I think about it, he was right." Lucy smiled slightly.
Sasha breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Lucy quietly, and said angrily: "You mean to scare me, right?"
Lucy raised the corners of her mouth slightly, pretending to be innocent and said, "Aren't you trying to scare yourself?"
Sasha turned to the other side silently, not wanting to talk to Lucy.
"So he gave you the right to live in the space station because he saw your lack of security, right?" Sasha asked without looking back.
"Well, I learned about the situation at the O'Neill Space Station before I came here. Generally speaking, it's pretty good. Although it's an autonomous country, the security there is pretty good. There aren't even homeless people there," Lucy said.
Sasha nodded and agreed: "Compared to those orbiting space stations, the lunar colony is no different from the earth. There are still homeless people and the security level is average. I just said
I heard that some tourists are discussing that after visiting the scenic spots, they will go to the moon base to find sex dolls..."
"Well, that's why I said, he knows everything." Lucy's tone was soft, as if she was feeling emotional.
And this is what makes her feel incredible.
Before that, even she didn't know the essence of her dream, she actually wanted to escape.
But the boy miraculously saw through it at a glance.
So the return gift he gave had almost nothing to do with the moon. Instead, it became the right to live on the space station that he paid a lot of money to buy.
From now on, no matter where she is, whenever she feels scared and confused, she can go to that space station.
Because there is your own residence there at all times - the safest residence in the world and the best place to escape.
Perhaps, when they first met, the moon travel ticket he gave me was not an accident, but a premeditated plan?
However, she was too lazy to think about it anymore.
Because even though she now has the right to live in the space station, she still feels lonely and hesitant, and her inner weakness has not been resolved.
Rather than living in a space station, it would be better to be a little hacker next to him...
After all, that guy can always see what other people desire and want deep in their hearts, and then he will help realize it with a smile and nonchalant attitude.
She felt scared that night when she sneaked into Arasaka Beach, so the boy gave her explosives and let her blow them up at will. The so-called company authority seemed not worth mentioning in his eyes.
Since you are still so "weak" now, why bother leaving him...
Let's go back...
Taking her legs back from the dangling position, Lucy stood up and faced the only sun in the dark space. Facing the bright white light, she exhaled softly.
She turned around and walked to Sasha.
The lady who had turned away and ignored her just now raised her head in confusion and looked at her in confusion.
Lucy chuckled, "I won't run away from you anymore."
Sasha blinked, looking confused.
"What do you mean?" she asked warily.
Not able to escape?
What won't you run away from?
"I just want to say that after this trip, let's go back to Night City." Lucy put her hands together behind her with a smile on her face, rubbing her fingers restlessly like a little liar.
"The moon is nothing interesting. Although Night City is a hell, I am not used to life on the space station now, so it is better to go back to a familiar city. There is no need to continue to escape. Next time we have a chance, we will go to the island together. travel?"
Sasha stared at Lucy suspiciously.
In the end, she said helplessly: "Okay."
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It is also a desert full of dust. The brown sand creates a bad land with a harsh environment.
Three off-road vehicles parked here, and five people gathered around the car to look out. Among them was a young man sitting on the roof of the car, holding his chin idly and couldn't help but yawned.
"Ah sneeze!"
As if he had inhaled some dust, the yawn instantly turned into a sneeze. Lin Mo rubbed his nose in distress.
"Young, did our little guest catch a cold? Why did he suddenly sneeze?" Mickey, who was standing next to an off-road vehicle, saw this and couldn't help laughing and joking.
Lin Mo shrugged and said casually: "Maybe someone missed me."
"You're a rich man, isn't it normal for a few girls to miss you?" A woman sitting next to an off-road vehicle chuckled and teased.
She was wearing a red-green jacket that resembled a racing suit, and her long black hair was tied behind her head, making her look neat and cool.
Lin Mo looked at this important NPC who had appeared many times in the game, shook his head, and changed the subject:
"Sister Panan
, stop teasing me, let’s talk about today’s mission. Is the Ranger family we are meeting with today the Bucker family in the south? "
"Yes, we have to deliver the contents of the car to them safely before this mission is officially completed."
Lin Mo nodded thoughtfully and said no more words.
