Su Mingan sat ten meters away from Xiaomei's house, modifying the machine in his hand.
From a house not far away, a rough man's shouting and cursing kept coming.
"Why are you back? Ah, you are my daughter. You are here to laugh at me, right? The incompetent good-for-nothing dad only drinks and plays cards all day long and loses everything. He even loses your mother's money to buy medicine. Already...
What kind of look do you have... How dare you raise your eyes to look at me!
"Get out! Get out!!"
Just now, after returning from the garbage mountain, Xiaomei saw the man walking into her home at a glance. She explained that he was her father returning home and asked Su Mingan to wait in the distance.
As a result, after Xiaomei entered the room, he heard such a sound.
Even from a long distance, Su Mingan could hear the man's high-pitched yelling and cursing. The neighbors on the street took a detour. This kind of thing was normal. There were no security teams in the fringe area.
With a soft "click" sound, Su Mingan transformed the mechanical legs in his hands with the help of Level 10 [Mechanical]. He tentatively connected his own legs. The ice-white metal covered his legs. They did not appear bloated, but presented a kind of Streamlined fit. He stood up straight little by little, and there was a clear "click-click" sound from below. He tried to move his legs and finally felt the distance spanned.
It worked.
After five days in a wheelchair, he was finally able to move on his own.
Su Mingan could think of many reasons why Akto would not be equipped with this kind of mechanical leg, but the bigger reason was that he felt that he only had the self-respect of a pure human being.
Obviously he is the reformer of Liming Intelligent Brain, but Akto is unwilling to install anything related to machinery. No Dawn chip or mechanical legs installed,
Face everything purely with the physical strength of a human being.
Su Mingan took a step forward, but almost fell down. The "driving style" of this mechanical leg was a bit torturous. Unless there was an emergency, he would still sit in a wheelchair.
"You lose money, why don't you die? You are a dirty guy who sells his body to get money. I have been completely disgraced by you. When people from ten miles and eight streets saw me, they mocked me and said, 'This is your daughter. I I slept with him last night... His grandmother should have strangled you to death when you were born!
If you were assessed as a Type 2 personality, would our family stay in this miserable place? What's your use now? If you were a son, you could at least continue our family lineage. Now I feel unlucky looking at you. I hope I don’t beat you to death today."
The curses of the men in the room were getting worse and worse, and even the barrages were becoming unbearable.
"Bang!" Suddenly there was a loud noise from the door, like the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground, and the man's yelling and cursing stopped.
Su Mingan took a step forward and opened the door. As soon as she entered the door, she saw a small eyebrow with red and swollen palm marks on her face. Her robotic arm was raised high,
Next to her was her fallen and unconscious father.
The man, smelling of alcohol, fell to the ground with blood oozing from his chest.
"I never thought about fighting back." Xiaomei's eyes were straight, her fingers clicked, and the man's blood remained between her fingers: "Why are you forcing me, why are you forcing me...why are you pulling me? Hair, why are you hitting me.
Why did he do this to me, why did he have to gamble all day long, why did he take away my mother's medicine and destroy this family... I just want to have a family, what did I do wrong? Is there something wrong with me? "
She was breathing rapidly, trying to breathe as hard as she could, her eyes red.
Shi Dudu's hair stuck to the side of her face, and her lips were bleeding from the previous man's hand.
"Dong An'an is not my biological sister, she is adopted. I have known it for a long time. She is from the city. We are completely different... I have been in a family of three since I was a child. I, my father, and my mother are all inferior personalities. I have known it since I was a child. You have to work hard and make a lot of money..."
She spoke tremblingly, very fast, and the chip on the back of her neck flashed red at a very fast frequency.
[Current emotional value: 95 points, extremely dangerous...] Xiko said softly.
"Before, the inner city came to select people to work. I studied hard. I knew that the opportunity to change my destiny was coming, so I bought books that the people in the city didn't want. Those books were so new, some of them hadn't even turned a few pages...
I didn't have money to buy more books, so I went to pick up trash. I bought so many books that I almost went blind. The Dawn System finally passed my adaptability.
I filled in the two job directions of machinery and city-state economy, and I can enter the city, even if I am a person with inferior personality..."
Her body was shaking violently, and the blood on the mechanical arm dripped drop by drop.
"However, no one in my family approves of me going to work in the city. People with inferior personalities are always at risk of emotional overload, and it is easy to lose money...
My father locked me in the house and wouldn't let me go there. He said that girls from the fringe area just need to be pretty enough...
Then, then…
She looked up.
His eyes were empty.
"...and then there was nothing more."
“Then that’s what you see.
"I became 'that kind of woman'. "
In order to keep her skin smooth, she does not install a robotic arm. Women who make this choice are cheap and ridiculous, no different from bed bugs...
"Didi didi didi one by one"
The red light flashed rapidly, and she stood there, her eye sockets like deep black holes.
Her face lost the vivid vitality at night, as if all the vividness of the night had faded in the day.
[Current emotional value: 99 points, seriously overloaded...] Xiko said.
"Sometimes I just want to think about what I want to do, and I won't compromise for the world. I actually don't like machinery at all.
I saw on the roadside news that many people can engage in the careers they are most interested in because they have the financial resources to try and make mistakes. As long as they accumulate enough knowledge, the adaptability of the Dawn System can let them go...
But I can't.
No family background, no ability, not smart enough. "
She took off the robotic arm with a "Xiao Dang" sound, revealing her arm that was squeezed red by the inappropriate size.
"I have to think about if my relatives are sick, I have to have money to cure them. I have to think about how I will survive if one day this house is forcibly expropriated. I have to have money...
My future is restricted... I dare not explore what I like, I dare not raise my head and look at the sky, I dare not invest in the fields that interest me, I dare not... I dare not think too much. "
She lowered her head, opened the drawer, and pulled out a small wooden box. She opened it with a click, revealing several blood-red flowers inside.
On the scarlet-based cloth, the solid flowers looked like solidified blood.
1【Rose blood. Su Ming'an has long known that this addictive psychotropic drug is widely used, so it is not surprising that Xiaomei's family has it. It is an illegal drug and long-term use can cause death.
In the fringe area, people's lives are extremely difficult. Taking this medicine that brings them happiness is like a kind of spiritual comfort, allowing them to find comfort in their hallucinations.
It's low-cost satisfaction. With just one, you can get the supreme illusion of happiness without the need for delicacies.
"I don't dare to explore my future, because if there is a slight mistake, I will be doomed... I don't have any capital to try and make mistakes." She stared at the rose blood in her hand, showing a somewhat crazy smile.
It was the first time that Su Mingan saw this shy girl smiling like this.
It was as if there were sweet dark clouds fermenting in her chest. She stared at the cold blood-colored flowers in her hands, her eyes shining brightly as if she had seen heaven.
When she raised her hand to swallow the rose blood, Su Mingan took a step forward and pinched her thin wrist. With a "pop" sound, the rose blood fell to the ground and scattered.
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[Perfect clearance (TE2) progress: 50%]
"That's enough." Su Mingan 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, and her mental state has dropped to such a low level that her previous state was obviously abnormal.
"...I just did." She said, "What did I do?"
She immediately saw her father unconscious on the ground and realized what had just happened.
She lowered her head and said, "Have you seen the color of the back of my neck? Although I can't see it, it must be dark red now..."
Slowly, she squatted down, stretched out her pale hands, and picked up the broken rose blood stained with dust bit by bit.
"You said you were going to take me back to Central City...what happens after that? Under the judgment of the Dawn System, can you do favoritism for me, an inferior personality? You are a fair and selfless leader of the city-state, and you want to break the law for a woman from the fringe area. The rules of the city-state for decades?
I have seen the chaos in the Fringe Zone, and I have also seen the resistance of the Chapter. If they were to catch this kind of evidence and make it public, Central City's credibility... would be gone. "
She spoke slowly, her eyes gradually becoming clear and watery:
"As for me?
In what capacity am I accompanying the leader of Central City? I have no scientific knowledge, no advanced personality, and no stable emotions. Are you... trying to arrange a secret lover's identity for me? Or an invisible person without a name? "
Su Mingan let go of his hand.
Xiaomei’s thin wrists were all red.
The leader of a city-state is the one who cannot show favoritism. It is impossible for the Dawn System to allow a person with an inferior personality to enter Central City.
"And." Xiaomei said.
When she said this, she knew that she was personally cutting off her own escape route.
It's not that she doesn't want to follow the city lord, no matter how anonymous she is, it will definitely be better than here.
…But she must not become a burden to the city lord or a hidden danger to the city-state’s credibility.
She doesn't hate the Dawn System. Living in such an apocalyptic world, everything Akto has brought about has been a huge change, otherwise everyone would still be living in the [Danger Zone]. If you hate him for this, you are no different from an ungrateful villain.
He had already saved her once, and now he would just let her fend for herself.
She looked up.
At this moment, sharp pain surged through her internal organs.
She wanted to reject the road he had paved for her and continue to live in the mud.
...What kind of future does a person like her need?
Many people in the surrounding alleys had seen her body. She was so dirty that she couldn't look back.
"Your invitation to me now." She said:
"Is it the sympathy in your heart for a girl, or is it your true disgust for this system of measuring city-states?"
Su Mingan didn't answer.
He would not say that in addition to some emotional factors, there is also the biggest rational factor in extending this invitation.
"Ding dong!"
[Perfect clearance (TE2) progress: 55%]
"If it's the former, then I'm the only one who appears in front of you, so you sympathize with me. I'm lucky." Xiaomei said, "If it's the latter, what about the thousands of girls who are just like me? City Lord, If you can't see them, will you save them one day?"
After saying this, she suddenly lowered her head.
"I'm sorry." She said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...I'm too greedy. You've done a good enough job, and it's too, too embarrassing to ask you to see people like us again."
She was born in the quagmire, but she had such a vision and concept. She did not pull at him like a life-saving straw, nor did she complain like some residents of the fringe area.
... She is even much better than the players who are still arguing on the World Channel about whether to arrest Su Ming'an.
Is this a child who grew up in sewage?
Su Ming'an didn't understand...Why would she be an inferior personality?
Can a person like Asa Acto, who arranges the death of others at will, be a person with a high personality?
"This pistol is for you." He removed a silver pistol from the wheelchair and stuffed it into Xiaomei's hand.
This is the best model from Central City, Treya's proud work. There is a six-pointed star on the gun, which represents hope.
If you don’t have the determination to resist, you must at least have the power to protect yourself.
She may not shoot, but she must not not hold a gun.
"Is it used to commit suicide?" Xiaomei said.
After getting a firearm for self-protection, her first reaction was to commit suicide.
She gripped the handle of the gun, wiped away her tears, and suddenly laughed.
"I'm just kidding." The corners of her eyes were stained with tears, and her eyes were as clear as streams: "Suicide is also illegal. I will live well until the day I see you perfectly transform the city-state.
On that day, people with inferior personalities can live well, children can be protected, and girls like me can live healthily and grow up in classrooms.
The fate of all of us, and hundreds of millions of people in the city, is in your and Dawn's hands.
I want to see that day, so, Lord Asa, you must live on...live better and longer than me. You are much more important than people like me. "
Su Mingan looked at her expectant eyes and turned around.
"I hope you can have the freedom to calm down your emotional overload, repair your personality, and pursue your future," he said.
Asa Aktor.
Can he bear such hope?
The rose blood in her hand and the chip on the back of her neck were both made by him.
He opened the door and wanted to breathe some fresh air, but he heard noisy voices and footsteps in the distance.
"According to travellers, someone has seen the Lord of Akto City here."
"Search from house to house and take away all the scoundrels."
"You guys go this way, and team No. 3 goes over there."
