Jiang Miaomiao was very scared.
Her hands were tied behind her back and her mouth was gagged. She had been locked up in this dark and cold house for a long time, so long that she was exhausted from hunger and her mouth was dry from thirst.
She didn't know what was waiting for her next, but she had a clear premonition that it would not be a good thing, and she might even suffer unimaginable persecution, and her life would be in danger.
She always thought that Jizhou City was a society governed by the rule of law and never thought that she would be kidnapped.
She admitted that she had made a mistake. She should not have found an unreliable part-time job online because she wanted to buy the latest "Hongguo" mobile phone out of a desire to compare with her classmates.
Jiang Miaomiao didn't think she lacked vigilance. Although she found a part-time job online, her job location was in the bustling business district of the city. When she stepped into the splendid building, she never expected that she would be exposed in broad daylight. I was stunned.
"Why hasn't the patrol come yet? Jiang Lian will definitely call the police. There are so many surveillance cameras inside and outside the building, so the patrol will definitely find me..."
Thinking of her brother who depended on her for life, Jiang Miaomiao felt a glimmer of hope in her heart, "The place where I was interviewing for a part-time job and suddenly fainted was not very far from Guangming Community..."
While moving her numb body, she bumped into someone next to her.
"Jiang Miaomiao, you touched my wound." A young man moaned from the side.
Jiang Miaomiao quickly apologized: "Yes, I'm sorry."
There were five or six people detained in the room, and Jiang Miaomiao spent at least three days with them. At first, they all chatted and encouraged each other, but then they stopped talking because they were too hungry and had no energy.
The young man next to him was named Fang Wen. He had yelled and cursed the kidnapper before and was rushed in and beaten.
Jiang Miaomiao had chatted with Fang Wen and knew the other person's experience.
Like her, Fang Wen was also a student. Unlike her, Fang Wen didn't get a part-time job and was kidnapped. Instead, he went to a bar to meet a female netizen, and ended up in this big dark room.
"The bar also has cameras."
Jiang Miaomiao thought, "Maybe Fang Wen's family will call the police to come here... No, with so many people in the room and so many people missing in Jizhou City, the patrol room will definitely be able to trace them here!"
Just as he was thinking about this, the lights in the room suddenly turned on, and the dazzling light made Jiang Miaomiao feel uncomfortable. As the door opened, a group of uniformed murderous thugs rushed in.
Jiang Miaomiao and others were driven out, walked through the long corridor, turned many corners, passed many rooms, and finally came to a spacious, clean and bright white room.
Jiang Miaomiao felt strange.
She always thought that she was being imprisoned in a dilapidated factory or an abandoned house by a vicious gangster, but she did not expect that the environment here was clean and tidy, with high-tech instruments in each room placed in an orderly manner, and the corridors being cleaned spotlessly. The staff working there were wearing white coats, and they were no different from intellectual elites.
The entire place looks like a hospital, laboratory, or scientific research institution.
The security guards not only wore uniforms, but were also fully armed. They looked well-trained and disciplined. Although they had guns in their hands, they seemed to have nothing to do with the murderous and brutal gangsters.
When Jiang Miaomiao looked around with fear and confusion, groups of men and women in ordinary clothes were brought to the scene by security guards.
Different from Jiang Miaomiao, Fang Wen and the other five or six people, these people later looked calm and did not look like they had been kidnapped at all. Although some people were slightly worried, their faces were more excited and eager to try, just like a group of people about to Soldiers on the battlefield.
Some people still have pious expressions on their faces, like believers worshiping in church.
Jiang Miaomiao was confused and had no idea what was happening.
Not long after, a middle-aged man with glasses and a bookish air walked up to the high platform. He glanced at everyone with a smile, and finally his eyes fell on Jiang Miaomiao, Fang Wen and others intentionally or unintentionally:
"You guys are lucky.
"The experiment was successful earlier than expected, so the fate of you mice has been changed. Not only that, the institute will also give you a new chance that others can't even dream of."
He looked away at Jiang Miaomiao, faced the more than a hundred people in the room, raised his voice a bit, and said in a high-pitched tone:
"In this world, extraordinary people are not only supermen who fly into the sky and escape from the earth, but also nobles who control wealth and power. Every ordinary person living in Xia and Shang Continent wants to become an extraordinary person, achieve freedom of wealth and class jump, and become the world's leader. owner.
“It’s just a pity that you are poor.
"Poor people are not qualified to become extraordinary. You have worked hard for food, clothing, housing and transportation. Just to live, you will use up all your labor income and life-long efforts. Not only do you have no money to buy force potions, but you are also not qualified to practice exercises.
"On the surface, every person in the Yan Kingdom has the opportunity to step into the threshold of extraordinary people, but in real life, the rich people who have become extraordinary people will have their descendants become rich people, and you poor people are destined to live forever. Generations are poor!
"This is the underlying rule of how this world operates!"
After a sonorous and powerful speech, the middle-aged man stopped and looked at everyone present with the eyes of looking down at the ants, his face full of contempt and disdain.
Jiang Miaomiao was a little absent-minded.
Even though she was behind bars and in an unknown situation, she was deeply touched by the other person's words.
She is not only an ordinary person, but also an ordinary person who has a difficult life.
Her father died on the job when she was young, but the employer refused to admit that it was a work-related injury. In the end, it was only out of humanitarian considerations that they were compensated a mere 30,000 yuan.
Her mother was not dissatisfied with this result and traveled here and there for several years. Not only did she achieve nothing, but she was exhausted both mentally and physically and suffered from various illnesses.
So his elder brother Jiang Lian dropped out of school early and became a construction worker.
In this highly intelligent era, all walks of life are filled with precision machinery and intelligent robots. There are not many jobs that companies can provide to ordinary people, so Jiang Lian's income is meager.
Jiang Miaomiao relied on the other party's meager income to continue going to school.
Originally, they couldn't afford to rent a house in Guangming District, even if it was just an urban village. Fortunately, the landlord Su Tangjing sympathized with them and reduced the rent by half, so they could live in a somewhat decent manner.
When she was young, Jiang Miaomiao was very sensible and never asked for anything from Jiang Lian. Although she was short on food and clothing, she never cared.
But as she got older, under the influence of the comparison culture of her classmates and the consumerism outside, she also became more self-conscious and yearned for more and more things.
She wanted to replace her worn-out and stuck mobile phone, but she couldn't find a way to ask Jiang Lian, so she wanted to work part-time to make some money.
It's not that Jiang Miaomiao hasn't thought about her long-term plan in life, but it's just that there's really nothing to think about. It's just finding a job after graduation and supporting herself.
The salary will definitely not be high, after all, intelligent AI is prevalent in all walks of life.
There are better practical tools, and the value of people as production tools has been greatly reduced. There is very little irreplaceability left, jobs are very limited, and competition is too fierce.
As for becoming an extraordinary person... Jiang Miaomiao certainly envied extraordinary people, but he never thought that he could become an extraordinary person.
A monthly salary of 3,000 yuan is just enough for food, clothing and accommodation. Even if you can save a little every month, you won't be able to save 20,000 yuan a year.
The lowest-level Force potion cost 500,000 yuan. How many years would she have to save it? By the age when you have saved enough money, your body has long passed the period suitable for cultivation.
As for promotion and salary increase, Jiang Miaomiao has no extravagant expectations at all. Which sect or company's management does not have children or relatives? Even if she has outstanding abilities and is lucky enough to be promoted, it will be the end of her career to reach a lower-level management position.
And if you take a tube of Force potion, you will not be 100% transformed into a transcendent.
Once ordinary people lose a bet, they will lose even the capital of their normal life.
The development of science and technology in Xia and Shang Continent has been stagnant for too long, society lacks new points of wealth growth, and everything has long been an iron-clad class order.
Under the current situation, if you want to achieve a class jump, you must become an extraordinary person, and if you want to become an extraordinary person, you must have money. An endless cycle is right in front of you.
"Why?"
Jiang Miaomiao suddenly heard someone asking loudly next to her. She turned around and saw that it was Fang Wen, who was staring at the middle-aged man on the high platform with a red face, "Why is this happening?
"Why can't poor people change their own destiny? Why am I destined not to be a strong person since I was born?!"
The middle-aged man on the high platform sneered: "You ask why? Well, I'll tell you why. Because this world is decided by the strong, and the weak are essentially the assets of the strong.
"Answer me, why should a strong person let his assets be lost in vain?
“If everyone can become a strong person and there are no weak people in this world, what is the difference between the original strong people and the weak people?
"If it were you, would you tolerate the loss of your property and accept that your descendants would become cattle and horses?
"Anyone who becomes a strong person will control the weak in every possible way, making the world differentiate between strong and weak, so that the weak will never become strong enough to threaten them.
"There is a difference between the strong and the weak, this is the order; the weak eat the strong, this is the rule!"
Fang Wen fell to the ground slumped, his already weak body seemed to have lost its soul.
Jiang Miaomiao pursed her lips tightly. Many doubts in her heart were answered, but it was this answer that made her feel like she was falling into an abyss.
"Dr. Lei, we came here to be volunteers for experimenting with new force medicine, just to become extraordinary beings and control our own destiny. Do you want to regret it after you told us so much?"
"Dr. Lei, you just said that the potion was successfully developed. Do you want to drive us away? We have signed a contract. No matter what, you have to give me a tube of potion!"
"Yes, we need to take the potion!"
"Give us the potion..."
"I don't want the money anymore. I'll return the money to you and give me the medicine..."
Jiang Miaomiao was stunned when she heard the shouts and shouts around her. She gradually realized that except for a few people such as herself and Fang Wen, most of the people were volunteers who came to test the medicine.
Dr. Lei raised his hands to signal everyone to shut up. When the room became quiet, he said arrogantly like a god giving alms to mortals:
"I tell you all this to let you understand that the institute is giving you a chance to change your destiny and gain a new life.
“Opportunities like this are so precious and not everyone can have them.
“As a human being, the most important thing is to know how to be grateful.
"Want potions? Okay, sign a new contract, accept the employment of the institute to work for the institute from now on, and accept the chip implanted by the institute, so that the institute can monitor your physical condition in real time and collect experimental data. Then you can become one of our own just like these armed men.
“Everything is done voluntarily, and the institute will never force it.
"Think clearly, if you are willing, come and sign the contract and undergo chip implantation surgery, and then you can get the force potion to become a transcendent!
"Remember, this is a gift."
Volunteers around Jiang Miaomiao immediately swarmed over and rushed to the desks in front of the high platform, scrambling for pens to sign the contract.
Jiang Miaomiao bit her lip.
Reason told her that things would not be that simple.
There may be many problems with the contract, the chip, and the potion that will be taken later. If she chooses to sign, she may lose herself and become a target controlled by the research institute.
But if you don't sign, you're missing out on a great opportunity to become an extraordinary person.
Even the only chance in a lifetime.
A few years later, when she is so tired from heavy and tedious labor day after day that she is covered with occupational diseases but can only live in a cheap and simple house, eat shoddy food, and use cheap and low-grade items, will she envy those people? Peers of the same age who are well-dressed, go to high-end shopping places, and spend a lot of money?
Will you regret your hesitation and cowardice today?
But wasn't she kidnapped? Why was she persuaded by the bad guys to do what the kidnappers wanted her to do? Shouldn't she find an opportunity to leave, report the crime, and get out of danger?
"What are you still struggling with? Do you want to be a poor person who is looked down upon by others all your life?" Fang Wen got up from the ground, glanced at Jiang Miaomiao, dropped these words and ran forward.
Jiang Miaomiao took a deep breath, and her eyes gradually became firm.
This is gambling with your life.
And countless people don’t even have the chance to go to the gambling table!
We can escape from the immediate danger, but it is difficult to escape from the sea of suffering in life!
"Anyway, I'm going to die. If I lose the bet, I won't live anymore!" Jiang Miaomiao raised her steps.
Just as she stepped forward, a deafening loud noise suddenly came from not far away. With the violent impact of extraordinary energy, the entire institute trembled instantly, as if the world was about to collapse!
A loud shout immediately rang out: "The Demon Subduing Department is handling the case, everyone is lying on the ground!"
