Jiang Bei took out the items from the shopping basket one by one and stacked them on the counter.
Behind the counter, the convenience store owner wore a floral apron, rolled up his sleeves, and scanned the barcodes of the products one by one with a laser scanner.
When he spotted one of the boxes of shampoo, he turned the box over to confirm the words on it, then grinned: "Hair growth shampoo again?"
The boss's surname is Chang, and Jiang Bei, who comes to the store every now and then, can be considered an acquaintance with the boss.
The laser scanner gun in the boss's hand recorded the shampoo with a beep, and at the same time glanced at Jiang Bei's thick black hair: "Actually, you look fine, the hair volume is fine, there is no need to pay so much attention.
"
"This is called preparing for a rainy day." Jiang Bei also chatted with him, "Out of the ten people in our industry, eight are bald, and there are two more on the road.
I just graduated not long ago, so I’m almost on my way out.”
The boss nodded sympathetically: "Well, you're a programmer, right? I understand."
After a pause, the boss changed the topic: "So, we must hurry up, Xiao Jiang. You see you are young now, you have hair but not a belly, and your salary is not low.
The right thing to do now is to find a beautiful wife as soon as possible! Like me, I got married at the age of nineteen. My wife is beautiful and virtuous. She obeys me in everything. She doesn’t dare to go west when I ask her to go east. Now she has a second child.
.”
The door at the back of the store opened, and a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old walked out expressionlessly: "Dad, Mom said she went shopping with her colleagues today and would be back late. She asked you to remember to wash and dry your clothes tonight.
Come back and check with her."
"Okay!"
The boss responded almost reflexively, but immediately realized something was wrong. He lowered his head and saw Jiang Bei's expression that was half-smiling but not smiling.
"Uh haha, it's good to do laundry and exercise." The boss rolled up his sleeves and waved his arms twice, as if to show off his non-existent muscles.
"Yes, yes, of course."
Jiang Bei responded with a smile, and lifted the bag containing the goods into his hand. He stretched out his hand to draw in front of him, and an operation interface full of various UIs appeared on the retina in front of his eyes. The screen scrolled with his operation, and he was in the center of his field of vision.
A large and eye-catching "Pay" button soon appeared.
Implanted chips provide great convenience to modern people's lives. The light curtain projected directly on the retina can complete almost all the operations that people need in their daily life for work, travel and daily life.
In fact, Jiang Bei is not a lonely swordsman of the "god of nature without a woman in his heart" type. He also understands what the boss said. However, reality does not allow it.
To be honest, looking back now, Jiangbei still has some regrets. When I was young, I didn’t know how good girls were, and I mistakenly regarded games as treasures. During college, whenever I had some free time, I went to the Internet cafe with my idiot roommates five times in a row. I always felt that I still had plenty of time.
After graduation, all my life and energy were filled with the blessing called 996, and I was shocked to realize that green love in school is an easy difficulty. After I graduated, I went directly from entry to purgatory. It felt like the teacher said "Okay"
Dear students, we just learned the quadratic equation today, so today’s homework is to solve the Riemann Hypothesis.”
So he definitely won't be able to hand in this assignment, but fortunately he still has a loyal and reliable fifth girl.
In particular, the rise of AI drawing in the past two years has led to a craze in the welfare industry, with tons of pictures comparable to toilet paper being output crazily. This has not only brought good news to LSPs, but also pushed the human XP system towards the goal of boosting the performance of psychiatrists.
He pushed a lot in the direction. So he felt that he could still deal with it now.
After walking out of the convenience store, Jiang Bei walked on the night streets with shopping bags in hand.
Kangtu City is not the kind of place that is very suitable for going out at night, at least not in Xiangjiang District. There were almost no pedestrians on the street after ten o'clock, and the night was like a huge picture scroll, composed of several different shades.
The black tone makes up the main color, mixed with the city's unique red and green light, like stains on the picture scroll.
The convenience store owner was complaining just last week, saying that a supermarket two blocks away was robbed in the evening. When the robber put a knife on the cashier's neck and asked him to withdraw money, there were at least five people inside and outside the store.
I saw it, but no one took any action.
Like the audience outside the screen holding popcorn and having nothing to do with anything, they quietly watched the robber steal every coin on the counter, ate melon seeds and watched him walk away. Until the robber disappeared around the corner.
The Sheriff's Department received the call.
But you can't blame them, it's just like this these days. People have learned how to mind their own business. Without a savings of 180,000 yuan in their pocket, they don't even dare to help an old man who slipped on the street.
About halfway through, Jiangbei saw a man.
The man in a white suit, wearing a tall top hat and holding a black cane in his hand, looked like an image coming out of a painting. He was elegantly dressed, but that image felt like it shouldn't appear on an empty street in the middle of the night.
It's more like preparing to attend the Grammy Awards ceremony.
When Jiang Bei passed by, he picked up his cane and placed it in front of Jiang Bei.
Jiang Bei was stunned, turned around and looked at this striking-looking guy, and was convinced that he would never have the chance to meet such a person. So he hesitantly asked: "Uh, do we know each other?"
"Oh, just a small question. It won't take up too much of your time, sir."
The man walked forward slowly, his movements as graceful as the Western gentleman who often appears in movies. The street lights fell like large pieces of silver on him, making him look like he had just stepped out of a dream.
"Excuse me, is this 'real'?"
"What?" Jiang Bei didn't understand the question.
But the man looked so serious, as if he really wanted to get the answer to this unclear question.
But he didn't seem to really want to get answers from Jiang Bei, and instead let out two disturbing and weird laughs.
"Ah, that seems to be still far from 'real'. My journey is not over yet."
He said this without any end, and he suddenly stretched out his left hand.
Jiang Bei swore that this was the fastest guy he had ever seen in his life. He couldn't even see the movement of that arm clearly with his naked eyes. When he came to his senses, his throat had already been grasped.
The powerful palms like pliers squeezed out the last trace of air in his throat. The body in the white suit contained terrifying power that was completely inconsistent with his image. In front of him, Jiang Bei felt like a powerless creature.
of chickens.
Jiang Bei couldn't make a sound, and even his thoughts seemed to be cut off by strange power. He saw a frightening excitement in the man's eyes.
He saw the man's other hand thrust forward.
With a lightning-like puncture, Jiang Bei's chest was pierced like a paper window, and the spurting blood dyed the white suit red. He saw the man's hand pull out of his chest, holding a blood-red thing in his hand.
.
Jiang Bei soon realized that it was his heart.
The man took out his heart.
"Fatal injury, vital signs in danger"
"Automatically dialing the emergency number and dialing failed."
A prompt popped up on the light screen in front of him, and his vision quickly blurred. Jiangbei seemed to hear the man's laughter, mixed with the alarm sound from the chip, but it soon became farther and farther away from his ears.
The man let go of his hand. Jiangbei was freed from the restraints, but then fell into the embrace of gravity. It was as if a big invisible hand stretched out from the center of the earth, pulling him downwards.
Jiang Bei fell on the cold sidewalk.
The life-threatening alarm flashed in front of my eyes, gradually blurring. The lights became dim, the sidewalks were as cold as polar glaciers, and the world seemed to be coated with a dark filter. Everything was moving away from me.
This is what death feels like.
At the last moment before everything fell into darkness, he seemed to see light.
Like a meteor dragging out a beautiful trajectory, tearing apart the darkness, and rushing straight from the other side of the abyss.
The next moment, unparalleled light and heat burst out.
It's like everything is annihilated.
The new book sets sail again, please collect it, recommend it, and keep reading it! Especially, please keep reading it! (Kneel down and thank you)