Outside the ward door, Li Liang was holding a lunch box in one hand and resting on the door handle with the other hand.
The father's voice came from the ward: "Li Shuang, remember, your life was given to you by your brother. No matter when, you must remember today."
"Well," Li Shuang's voice was filled with tears, "Dad, I..."
Hearing this, Li Liang pushed the door open and entered.
"The food in the hospital is pretty good today," Li Liang pretended not to notice the atmosphere in the room. He smiled and put the lunch box on the bed table in front of his brother. He stretched out his hand and rubbed his head. "Eat quickly. After today. Everything is fine."
"Brother, thank you..."
"Tsk, what are you talking about?" Li Liang sat down on the hospital bed, "By the way, a few days ago you said that the artificial intelligence you developed has any other interfaces..."
"Brain-computer interface," Li Shuang forced a smile.
"Yes, I heard that this thing is in the wind now. They say that if you stand in the wind, a pig can take off. After today, you will take off."
Li Shuang punched his brother: "You are the pig."
Seeing that his brother finally smiled, Li Liang felt a little relieved and said with an exaggerated expression: "Mr. Li, what are you planning to name this big company?"
Li Shuang shook his head seriously, "It's our company, brother. From now on, what's mine is yours."
"Okay~" Li Liang rubbed his brother's head lovingly again, "When you get better, I will help you start a business."
"Well, from now on... I hope our family will always be safe and sound, so our company will be called..."
Li Shuang's words were interrupted by the sound of the door opening, and a nurse came in looking down at the case in her hand.
"Bed 3, living donor kidney surgery, who is Li Liang?"
"Me," Li Liang stood up, and his father also stood up, but he was shaking slightly nervously.
"The test results are out, there's nothing wrong with it," the nurse nodded, "Let's go, the director has made arrangements."
Li Liang took a deep breath and followed the nurse out. Just as he walked to the door, his younger brother's voice came from behind him:
"elder brother."
Li Liang paused for a moment, without looking back, and said in a brisk voice: "Everything will be fine after today."
No one noticed that when he closed the door, the knuckles of the hand holding the doorknob turned white.
.
"Everything will be fine after today."
Li Liang suddenly woke up, rolled over and fell to the ground, knocking over the large and small plastic boxes beside the bed. The bionic eyeballs, joints, bolts and other small parts that fell out of the boxes were clattering all over the floor.
It’s this dream again, it’s been three years, I always dream about that moment, and then I regret not looking back, taking one last look at my father and brother.
Someone downstairs cursed angrily: "What? Early in the morning..." A series of machine-gun-like curses came up from the metal floor.
Li Liang got up from the ground, plucked his ears and looked indifferent. He was obviously used to it. He just looked at his "bed" which was only half a meter wide. He sighed again and lazily bent over to collect the parts on the floor.
The narrow utility room in front of him is Li Liang's place in this era.
I don't know what went wrong with the living donor kidney surgery. When Li Liang woke up from anesthesia, he was lying not on the hospital bed, but on the lathe.
An old man with a wrinkled face and dressed like a sheet metal worker told him that it was the year 3021 AD.
It's just that it spanned a thousand years. What the old man said next was even more difficult for Li Liang to accept.
The old man calls himself Massey and is a bionic pet doctor. He runs a private clinic specializing in "rescuing" bionic pets that have problems. In order to save costs, the old Massey often goes to the garbage dump to pick up parts thrown away in the city.
After rummaging around all day that day, he couldn't find anything suitable. Old Massey was a little frustrated, but when he was leaving, he saw a rusty cabinet peeking out from the hill-like garbage pile.
According to his words, at that time he also thought that his trip would not be in vain, so he spent a lot of effort to dig out the cabinet in the middle of the night and dragged it back to the clinic.
After studying the next afternoon, Old Massey discovered that it was a liquid nitrogen freezing device, a very old human sleep technology that only appeared in popular science books. More importantly, this device that looked like garbage was actually still operating normally. The operation shows that its precision should exceed the era to which it belongs.
So, Old Messi opened the device and rescued a living dead, Li Liang.
At that time, Li Liang was confused. He couldn't understand a lot of Massey's professional terms. The only thing he understood was that he died during a living kidney donation operation and was frozen into ice. A thousand years later, he was A veterinarian who repaired cars came to the rescue.
In the next three years, Li Liang became an intern at the "Meisai" Bionic Pet Hospital, as well as... a driver, a cook, a security guard, and a cleaner... because there were only two people in this clinic.
Old Mesai was very stingy, so Li Liang's life was quite ordinary, but he was very satisfied with having a place in this cold world.
Boom boom boom.
After violently banging on the door, Old Massey shouted outside the door: "Li Liang, get up quickly, come downstairs and kill that counterfeit medicine seller, kill him!"
"It's coming, it's coming," Li Liang shook his head, threw a few eyeballs into the box, and opened the door.
Outside the door, Old Massey was wearing greasy work clothes. His hair was as disheveled as if he had been electrocuted. There was something wrong with the left bionic eye, which was shaking constantly. The other biological eye stared at Li Liang: "That old man downstairs is dead so early in the morning." Ji Ji Wai Wai Wai Wai, I have tolerated him for a long time." He handed the screwdriver in his hand to Li Liang, "Go down and fight him to death."
"Okay," Li Liang nodded, "Is there anything else?"
"No more," Old Massey nodded with satisfaction, turned around refreshed, and asked as he walked as if he remembered something, "By the way, after dumping the body, I'll buy three buns on the way."
Li Liang suppressed a smile and followed the old man out of the utility room.
The clinic is actually a larger apartment, with the living room converted into a maintenance workshop. The most important equipment is a semi-automatic maintenance and diagnosis machine tool, placed in the center of the floor like a giant mechanical spider. Tool cabinets and unopened new accessories are piled around the machine tool. At first glance, they don't look much better than Li Liang's utility room.
The rooms on both sides of the utility room that used to be "bedrooms" are now filled with all kinds of animals.
Of course, they are all bionic.
Most of them are sheep, and there are also some dogs, ducks, roosters, etc. With the skill of old Massey, he can repair these "basic models".
The animals blinked and stayed in place obediently. At first, Li Liang felt a little scared.
But now Li Liang has long been used to it. He even used scrap parts to assemble a bionic rabbit for himself. However, the onomatopoeic components could not find the rabbit one and installed a sheep one instead.
What~~
As soon as the two of them arrived in the living room, Li Liang's bionic rabbit jumped on the machine tool and screamed non-stop, with its ears perked up and looking around.
"It has no aesthetics at all," Old Massey pointed at the Bionic Rabbit angrily, "Tear this thing down quickly, or it will lose its popularity if word spreads about it."
"Oh," Li Liang stepped forward and touched the bionic rabbit.
What~~
Obviously very cute, Li Liang shrugged, unscrewed the head of the bionic rabbit with a click, unplugged the sound component, threw it into the tool box on the side, and shook the screwdriver in his hand at Old Messi: "I Gone."
"Yeah," Old Mesai patted Li Liang's shoulder and said seriously, "Remember, it's stuffed with three delicacies."
"oh."
Of course Li Liang would not really kill the medicine seller downstairs.
This two-story building faces the main street. The Mercer Clinic is on the second floor. The first floor is a pharmacy. The owner, Ford, is also an old man. What he sells is not medicine for treating illnesses, but a cheap hallucinogen called SLOW. It is said that after knocking it, it can affect the brain's perception of the passage of time. Everything you watch will be slowed down ten times. However, the side effects are relatively serious, so the business of old Ford is as bleak as that of old Massey.
The two old men upstairs and downstairs wanted to kill each other every day. Li Liang had long been used to it, and even wanted to have sex.
The door of the clinic opened on the side of the building. Li Liang wandered downstairs along the barbed wire stairs embedded in the wall, and then walked out of the garbage-filled back alley.
The air was slightly cool, mixed with the smell of humidity and haze. It was not yet dawn, but the ground and mid-air on the main street were already busy with traffic. In the darkness, the hum of anti-gravity engines of airships and cars mingled together.
The shops on both sides of the main street are not yet open for business, and some holographic signs are sparsely flashing. Passers-by are hurrying, and their bodies pass through those illusory lights and shadows, as if they are walking in colorful fog.
Standing on the roadside, Li Liang lowered his head and looked at his bracelet, which read June 1, 3024, 7:59 in the morning.
One minute left.
He looked back at the two-story building behind him. A sign composed of neon tubes hung outside the second-floor window: "Masay Pet Hospital". The red and green neon tubes gave off a misty light in the light morning fog.
He hung it up last year. At that time, he and his boss Massey stood in this position and looked up at the new sign. Old Ford leaned against the door of the store and laughed so hard that he asked Massey if his pet hospital had been turned into a barber shop. The two old men almost came to blows.
After arriving a thousand years in the future, Li Liang discovered that many of the fantasies in twentieth-century science fiction novels were unreliable, such as the streets full of neon tubes.
But in Li Liang's opinion, that hazy color was quite cyberpunk.
hiss.
A pain in his waist brought Li Liang back to reality. He frowned and rubbed his abdomen. When Old Massey rescued him from the quick-freezing hibernation chamber, he was missing a kidney, so Old Massey installed a bionic kidney on him. It was probably the wrong model and caused constant pain.
However, whenever the bionic kidney hurts, Li Liang is always happy, because although the living donor kidney surgery failed, his brother must have been saved. Maybe the reason why he became frozen was because his brother wanted to give him a new life at this moment. .
Didi, didi.
The bracelet rang, and the time showed eight o'clock.
Li Liang raised his head, and at the same time, all the pedestrians on the main street stopped and looked up at the sky.
The next moment, the sky started to light up from the east. Accompanied by the brisk music, a magnificent ray of light flowed through the sky, and finally converged into a line of artistic words in the middle of the sky: Hyanthus
Then the sky completely lit up, like a huge dome, covering the entire city of Zhongjing.
A smiling and energetic voice came from the dome: "Good morning, it is eight o'clock in the morning on June 1, 3024. Dear citizens, it is another sunny day today. Let us thank Xi'an together! "
"Thank you Xi'an!" Countless people shouted in unison. Of course, it was the background sound played by Tianmu itself. Like Li Liang, people on the main street just wanted to give Xi'an the middle finger.
The world belongs to Xi'an.
It took Li Liang a long time to understand that this was not a slogan, but a reality. All property on the earth, including every planet that humans have set foot on, directly or indirectly belonged to Xi'an.
A nuclear war hundreds of years ago completely changed the ecological environment and international environment of the earth. Now, all mankind gathers in seven giant cities, living under the canopy created by Xi'an, and outside the canopy there are only radiation, sandstorms, drought and... exhausted.
The executives of Xi'an and the subsidiaries he controls live in the upper city above the sky, overlooking the world they control, while hundreds of millions of ordinary people live in a cover made of electronic screens, and are injected with chicken blood every morning. The announcer wakes up and gets up to work for Xi'an Company.
A new day officially begins.
The canopy simulates a clear blue sky and the rising sun, and even occasionally simulates some birds and airplanes. It looks quite realistic. The only drawback is that a piece of the canopy to the east of the city is broken, like a square black hole hanging in the sky.
The "sunlight" was dazzling, and the main street soon became a mess, while the airships in mid-air and high altitude were much more orderly, like fast-flowing chains, woven layer by layer into a dense network between high-rise buildings.
Although everyone works for Xi'an, obviously those who can earn more money always live more comfortably, such as buying an airship.
Li Liang would stand on the street at eight o'clock almost every day, waiting for the "sunrise", carefully looking at the world in front of him, and every time he would sigh in his heart: "This is the future."
Just after he finished sighing today, Li Liang noticed an airship swinging down from the traffic in mid-air and slowly landing on the next street corner.
The shape of the airship is quite retro, like a sailboat with two sharp ends. The hull of the airship is colorfully painted, with a big word "Bao" very conspicuous. There is a canopy in the middle of the airship, and the canopy is filled with cages, and white smoke is billowing out.
Li Liang hurried to the airship. After all, he had an important task to do in the morning - buy steamed buns.
This airship is a mobile "dining boat" selling steamed buns.
"Good morning, Old Tang," Li Liang rushed to the first place and stuck his head into the boat to say hello to the boss.
"Early, early, early!" Old Tang, a middle-aged fat man with a smile, wiped his hands and walked back to the table, "Or is it the three delicacies?"
"right."
Old Tang opened the drawer, packed the buns and handed them out. Then he pointed at the newly posted advertisement and said with a smile: "The new one has the flavor of chives. Do you want to try it? The real chives from Shangcheng District are not Synthetic."
Li Liang glanced at the price and shook his head: "I don't like leeks."
Okay, one bun is worth half a month's salary, so he should just eat synthetic three-fresh stuffing.
At this time, the bracelet dinged and a message came.
Li Liang was about to open it when Old Tang grinned and said, "The message came early in the morning. I guess it's good news. I'll bet on a leek bun."
"Are you sure?" Li Liang raised his bracelet and tapped it lightly, and a voice message was played: "Li Liang! You are fired!" Old Messi's roar attracted the attention of passers-by.
"Uh..." Old Tang was stunned for a moment and smiled awkwardly, "Okay, at least you can eat a steamed bun stuffed with chives."
Li Liang shrugged: "No wonder I feel like I'm going to be unlucky this morning."
"Hahaha, let's make another bet." Old Tang handed out the steamed stuffed buns stuffed with chives and laughed, "Bet this is your last bad news today."
"thank you."
Li Liang, who was slowly walking back with his buns in hand, didn't notice that just a few minutes after he left the mobile dining boat, two people walked out of the glass door of the nearby store.
"Are you sure it's Mesai, not this one named Li Liang?"
"This guy is being ordered around by Mesai all day long. Seeing as he can't even afford a bun, he must be just a handyman."
"Time is running out, let's try him today."
