Traveler, High School Student, Homeless

Jiang Ming, who said so, glanced at Virgil holding Xiaowei's hand, and felt a desire to complain in his heart.

The three of them held a girl each, and they always felt a strange sense of symmetry. What's the matter?

"It's like this is my first time in a futuristic place, um, I don't know what it's going to be like. Like Blade Runner? Or Ghost in the Shell?"

Wearing the red coat that never seemed to change, Dante walked out from behind with a smile on his face.

"I'm sorry to trouble you, Jiang Ming, for the expense."

Nero, who came out with Ji Liye from behind, looked at Jiang Ming with a somewhat apologetic expression. He was too shy to afford a shuttle ticket, so he could only accept things like the favor of his father and friend, and let this young man I really feel ashamed.

"There's no need to see others like this. Your father and I are friends who share life and death. You don't need to worry too much about whether you bring money with you. If you really feel embarrassed, do more research in the next period of time. Look around for something fun to do."

Jiang Ming smiled indifferently.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Jiang Ming."

"Well, leave it to me!"

Ji Liye thanked him very earnestly, and Nero also thanked him again with an embarrassing expression. Compared with Dante who shamelessly rubbed the ticket but fooled him by saying "you are worthy of being Virgil's good partner", The two couples were serious, which made Jiang Ming a little embarrassed.

Having said that, it is incredible that a guy like Virgil would have such a sensible and honest son.

Aliangliang Muli, who came together, did not take the same spaceship. The other party seemed to have his own travel plan, but they all booked the same hotel.Therefore, after everyone gathered together, they set off together and walked forward together with the flow of people.

Soon, Jiang Ming saw the person who was holding a sign [Devil May Cry] and was responsible for picking them up.

A black male who looks very strong and capable, wearing a suit and sunglasses.

"Hi everyone, I'm Morpheus, and Neo asked me to pick you up."

The man showed a friendly smile to Jiang Ming and the others.

"Hello, Mr. Morpheus, please help lead the way."

The greeting and short conversation ended quickly. The man named Morpheus said that he was once Neo's comrade in arms and fought together to save mankind in the old world.Now that everything has returned to peace, he has chosen to retire and become an ordinary self-operated taxi driver. With a wife and children, his life can be regarded as peaceful and beautiful.

Walking out of the station, light and shadow enveloped everyone in the next moment.That is the light emitted by the holographic advertisements on the huge buildings that are several thousand meters high in the city, and the colorful lights are spread in various places. Unlike the gasoline cars that basically drive on the ground in Yunhai City, flying cars can be seen everywhere in the sky. anti-gravity vehicle.Nano-technological roads will automatically identify traffic jam areas to form pedestrian bridges for passing, and light particles form various road signs in the air to plan driving roads.

The gap between the top and bottom of this huge city is unbelievably large, and tens of thousands of levels of air traffic roads have been planned from top to bottom.Artificial sunlight guarantees the illumination of the middle and lower layers of the city that can never see the sun, and artificial intelligence strictly simulates the alternation of day and night.Universal medical security, free housing for life and basic relief services allow local residents with a residence permit to have a good life that is difficult for ordinary people to experience even if they do nothing. They can never worry about problems such as houses, cars and jobs. Compulsory education is even more popular. At the level of master's and doctoral students, the memory technology that directly injects knowledge into the brain makes the mechanical learning method of reciting completely disappear.

Courses that study inquiry and literature still need to be taught by teachers.

This giant city has a population of nearly 167 million people, but it is still orderly and has almost zero crimes. Last year, there were only 3 crimes, and more than half of them were crimes committed by foreign tourists. So far this year There were only [-] criminal incidents.

"The top floor of New Zion is an artificially simulated ecological area, where the villas of various top rich people and super-large companies are located. It is a place where rich people can live, but there will be no exclusion measures for ordinary people. To play, of course, the premise is that you don't enter the private area."

Driving a very cool looking anti-gravity car, Morpheus introduced to several people in the seat while driving in the city.

"The upper area is more of a variety of economic areas, food, movies, clothes, cosmetics and so on. This is the most prosperous place in the city, but generally local residents come here to play. Foreign tourists, more to the top and mid-tiers."

While speaking, the car crossed the clouds and entered the lower area.

"The middle area, um, we came up from here just now. This is a very complicated place, and it occupies the largest area. There are various living areas, divided by different ethnic groups or beliefs, and there are many interesting places. Tourist attractions, after all, this is the surface area, there are many relics of mechanical civilization of the old era and more ancient human civilization. I heard that many historical researchers like to wander in the middle area, trying to discover various things of the old era, and Some scholars say that human civilization first waged war on mechanical civilization, haha, although I don’t know if it’s true or not, but this conclusion is quite ironic and interesting.”

Neon lights once again enveloped the sight. Unlike the upper city of Dingcheng District, which is composed of various super-high buildings, there are a large number of various buildings in the Midtown.The strange thing is that there are a large number of abandoned and severely damaged buildings mixed in, which are particularly conspicuous compared with those buildings that are feasting and feasting. It is probably the relics that Morpheus said.

This is indeed the most prosperous area. A large number of anti-gravity vehicles are advancing up and down along the planned path in the sky, densely occupying a considerable area in the sky.This is a place where light cannot be received, but there is simulated sunlight in the sky, but because it is night now, the display is night.

Um, wait, why did it turn blue?

Jiang Ming opened the window and looked out in doubt, and saw a line of large characters appearing on the blue sky.

[Your Windows-99900x is updating the system automatically. To avoid system damage, please do not turn off the computer. The current progress is 0.00015%]

Jiang Ming: "..."

"Shit, the new controller turned on auto-update again!"

Morpheus cursed in a low voice.

You could tell the place was interesting in every sense of the word.

"Since this is the Midtown, it means there is a Lower Town, right?"

Kamijou Touma, who was sitting in the back row, asked curiously.

"That's right, but it's an underground area, so the car can't get down."

Morpheus shrugged.

"The lower urban area is divided into several areas. Those close to the central urban area are the grassroots people. No, to be precise, it is the area of ​​the bottom people. Don't show a heavy expression. If you say that you are the bottom people, in fact, you have no ability and no self-motivation. , only willing to accept the group of people who are guaranteed to be alive at the minimum. New Zion’s security measures allow even the useless residents to get a house of more than 80 square meters, a car with 2000 Star Alliance coins, and a large monthly salary. Living allowances are generous, and almost all medical expenses can be reimbursed by the government when you are sick. With such living conditions, it is naturally a good choice to stay in the free housing and be a vampire in this city without doing anything.”

"Of course, the downtown area is not just like this. Old Zion is also in the downtown area, which is now a tourist attraction. There are also various urban infrastructures in the downtown area, such as artificial intelligence nodes. These things are run by the city. That's the point."

"In addition, there is [Bottom Area] below the lower part of the city, which is the area extending to the mantle layer, where many research institutions are distributed, but to be honest, I don't understand what they are studying, but the operation of this city It seems impossible to do without those institutions."

While talking, the outline of the booked hotel can already be seen from a distance.

"To supply such a huge city, the energy needed is probably amazing, right?"

Dante suddenly asked thoughtfully.

"Of course, but this problem is easy to solve. Each of us is the source of energy for this city."

Morpheus said with a smile.

"What do you mean?"

Jiang Ming didn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

"Invisible nano-power generation robots are distributed in every corner of this city. As long as you leave your house and walk on the street, every step and every movement of yours is rubbing against these nano-robots. These machines form a A huge network, through space folding technology, converts every move of all things in the city into energy, transmits it to the folding space, and then sends it to the energy network of the entire city."

"Heat, movement, and everything that can be converted into energy will be absorbed by these nano-robots and turned into energy to maintain the entire city. But don't worry about this thing suddenly draining your body, the recognition system and emergency stop system can prevent any Something unexpected happened."

"Sounds incredible and unimaginable, right? There are still many incredible places in this city."

By the time he said that, the car had already arrived at the hotel.Morpheus' car stopped on the 650th floor of the hotel, and a platform in mid-air quickly condensed, forming a staircase that connected to the gate of this floor, and even created a sculpture out of thin air to stand at the gate.

"I hope you have a happy week ahead, I think this city should have quite a few memorable places."

Morpheus said with a smile to the people who got out of the car, and then drove away.

And the travel time of Jiang Ming and his party in this future city also started the first day.

Chapter 170 Eight: Street Stowaways and Stowaways

The warm light shone on the lively street at this moment.

Holding Fengzi's little hand, Jiang Ming walked through the noisy crowd, looked at the shapeless people around him, and glanced at the surrounding shops from time to time.

"Should it be called a big city?"

The flow of people seems to be dozens of times higher than that of Yunhai City.

At this moment, after everyone put away their luggage in the hotel room.Because they have just arrived in this city, everyone dispersed, walked around to see what they wanted to do, and then had dinner together, and then went back to the hotel to sleep. Tomorrow is the beginning of the serious travel time.

"It feels great."

Feng Zi, who was beside Jiang Ming, whispered.

"It's really powerful. After all, the technology here is much more developed than that in Yunhai City. It's like coming to two completely different worlds."

Jiang Ming also spoke with emotion.

Walking on the road are fully human and fully robot, some people who have transformed their bodies into cyborgs, and some other strange but powerful-looking guys who are hard to describe.

There are a variety of stores on the road, you can order food in the store, or you can choose to call for takeaway.It is worth mentioning that, because of the extremely developed space teleportation technology, the prepared takeaway can actually be teleported to the designated access point near the order address in an instant.But even so, the delivery staff still exists, and it is a project specially customized for customers who want to experience the eliminated service.To be honest, Jiang Ming was very puzzled when he first learned about this thing. He already had the teleportation technology, but he had to spend more money to find a deliveryman to ride an electric flying car to deliver it, and he had to shout his name with a loudspeaker , What is this picture?

But to be precise, most of the physical stores in this city are unnecessary.In many cases, these physical stores are provided for tourists, and locals can use the space teleportation technology to get whatever they want without leaving home.It can be said that this is a world where people can live well even if they never go out from birth to death.Tsk, I always feel that if I think about it this way, I will have a chilling feeling, what's the matter?

Walk through a bridge generated by nano-machines out of thin air, and come to the other side of the air highway delimited by light particles. Roads and various shops were opened up on it.There are many special delicacies, as well as various souvenir shops and shops with no specific purpose.

Stairs intersect each other, and there are a lot of elevators that move up and down and left and right. Jiang Ming and Feng Zi stepped into an elevator at random, and they came directly to the top of the skyscraper.What made them feel a little magical was that the roofs of several buildings nearby were connected together to form a huge music square.At this moment, a man wearing a mask and full of tattoos was playing electronic music on the center stage. At a glance, at least 3 to [-] people were reveling around the stage in the square.

"Come on, let's get high together tonight!!!"

Amidst the roaring sound, a very beautiful blond girl jumped onto the stage, took off her clothes, shook and danced.

"Jiang Ming is not allowed to look!"

The next moment was Fengzi, who became vigilant in an instant, jumped up and stretched out his hand to cover Jiang Ming's eyes.

"Don't be so nervous, I didn't watch it."

"You are clearly watching, and you don't even blink!"

"Tsk..."

Although it was only for a moment, Jiang Ming was indeed slightly shocked. Is the atmosphere here actually open to such a degree?

Thinking like this, Jiang Ming hugged Fengzi who jumped up, and then directly kissed her on the cheek.As expected, Feng Zi, who was still full of anger, immediately blushed and became at a loss in the next second. Well, it seems that this is the way to deal with this girl.

"Don't pull it, don't pull it, Ji Liye, I didn't watch it! I really didn't watch it!"

Jiang Ming, who was thinking like this, suddenly heard a familiar voice beside him, turned his head, and saw Nero waving his hands helplessly, and Ji Liye walked out of the crowd by his ears.Good guy, it seems that he is not the only one suffering.

"It's simply too H, it's shaking so much..."

The girl in her arms huddled into a ball and muttered to herself.

"It's okay, it's okay, the little ones don't have some charm, you don't have to worry about Fengzi."

Jiang Ming quickly patted Fengzi on the head to comfort him.

"Jiang Ming, do you think Fengzi is a child? Don't pat Fengzi on the head, leave here quickly. If you stay here for a long time, Jiang Ming will be infected with the H virus and become a super beast who knows nothing but H. Senior!"

Feng Zi said in a loud voice.

"Who will become Senior Beast, you girl, don't use words indiscriminately!"

Jiang Ming refuted Feng Zi twitchingly as he walked towards the elevator leaving here.

"Then, junior beast? But Jiang Ming is older than Feng Zi."

Fengzi began to seriously think about what to call Jiang Ming.

"It should be the Beast Husband, bah, remove the word Beast for me, how can I become a Beast when I am so handsome and unrestrained."

Almost being misled by Feng Zi, he almost used Jiang Ming, who the beast called himself, to say with black lines all over his head.