Leaving Wu Dazhi's scrap warehouse with the package, Yu Zhesen looked depressed.
"Give the package to the most beautiful woman in the bar today", is this a prank?
Aesthetics vary from person to person, and the title "most beautiful woman" never belongs to any single individual.
But if this is a prank, then this customer is too generous - he paid a commission of 1,000sp points for this order, deducting 10% of the middleman, and Yu Zhesen can get a full 900sp points after completing the order! <
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How strange.
Yu Zhesen once suspected that the package contained any dangerous contraband, but Wu Dazhi assured him that he had checked it in advance and there were no dangerous items in the package.
Wu Dazhi told him: "It's just a perfume."
"Why does a perfume need to be shipped through you at a high price?" Yu Zhesen asked.
Wu Dazhi smiled: "The high price is paid to the delivery service, not the goods themselves."
Indeed, not many people know about Hongyu Bar. The goods delivered this time are not gray items, but the place they need to go to is a gray area.
Yu Zhesen also learned about the existence of Hongyu Bar from a colleague a few months ago.
"Hongyu" is a secret bar located underground in the northern streets of the old city. The place is shown on the map as a rental area converted from an abandoned office building.
If you want to enter Hongyu Bar, you must go through the basement of the office building.
And the bar only opens after 8 pm.
Most of the people who go there are not there to drink, but to gamble.
This is not an ordinary underground bar, but a casino.
Every wine in Hongyu Bar is several times or even dozens of times more expensive than the normal market price.
Because buying a drink here is equivalent to placing a bet.
Regular customers of Hongyu Bar all know that at 10 o'clock every night, the iron ball hanging above the long circular table in the bar will win a big prize.
Three types of wine have been put into the iron ball in advance. According to the rules, guests participating in the bet can purchase any five types of wine before the lottery is drawn. If the type of wine purchased by the guest is exactly the same as the wine in the iron ball, it will be considered
Tonight's winner.
After the results are announced, if there is a winner, the bar will take out 50% of the day's income and divide it equally among all the winners.
Even if you don't guess all the types correctly, if one of the five types of wine you buy matches the lottery result, you can basically make back your money. If you guess two of the types correctly, you can make money.
Yu Zhesen had made two small fortunes there before, but he had exploited loopholes in the rules by cheating with supernatural powers.
Because Hongyu Bar allows guests to place orders at any time before the lottery draw, Yu Zhesen chose to wait until the last minute to rely on his prediction ability to directly obtain the correct answer.
The SP points he won the first two times have become his current favorite ride. Purchasing and modifying it is a big expense.
Yu Zhesen is a very peaceful person, and he has not indulged in the desire to get something easily for nothing, nor does he want to be targeted by the big boss behind the bar.
So since he bought his own motorcycle, he has never been there again.
The mixed atmosphere of that place did not make Yu Zhesen feel comfortable. Even if he occasionally met a hot beauty, it would be difficult for you to tell whether her body had been operated by a knife or which parts had been turned into bionic silicone or metal machinery...<
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Prosthetic body modification is the most avant-garde method nowadays, but Yu Zhesen is a conservative.
No matter how exaggeratedly the benefits are exaggerated by researchers or technology companies in related fields, calling it "the ultimate direction of human evolution", he is unwilling to turn his body into a half-human, half-machine.
Even in the top circles of academia, scientific research leaders from different factions have great differences on this.
Yu Zhesen remembers that when he and Shen Yunqiu first moved into that rental house, they turned on a TV program to entertain themselves while cleaning, and happened to hear a debate about the direction of human evolution.
Different from the usual debate between Party A and Party B, the program is a three-party debate.
In addition to Party A, who supports direct surgical transformation of the human body, and Party B, who insists on refusing to transform and rely on superpower genes to achieve evolution, there is also a young doctor who, on behalf of Party C, proposed the idea of "using technological exoskeleton armor combined with stable and controllable superpower genes"
The third argument.
Although both parties A and B gained more momentum in the debate on the TV show, Yu Zhisen supported the young doctor's views more.
Obviously, the current Iron Dome Security Bureau also pursues the purpose of "mainly exoskeleton armor technology, supplemented by supernatural genetic abilities". Unless a specialist is accidentally disabled, prosthetic transformation will be considered.
Yu Zhesen’s evaluation of this is a conservative and steady strategy.
Although he also yearns to transcend the laws of biology and avoid birth, old age, illness and death, he still hopes to maintain the fun of being a living person rather than evolve into an immortal form that drinks engine oil and chews energy blocks.
"Hey, is this Dr. Qin?"
Yu Zhesen sat astride the motorcycle and dialed the number Shen Yunqiu recommended to his psychiatrist Qin Yuqing.
"Hello, Dr. Qin, I am Shen Yunqiu's friend and I would like to consult with you about psychological issues. What time is suitable for you?"
"Today? Now? Uh... no, no, no, I'm free, I'm free. Then I'll come over."
Yu Zhesen hung up the phone and drove to Qin Yuqing's psychological clinic.
The clinic is located in the south of Shangsu District, and is connected to the old city by a cross-sea bridge. It takes about half an hour to ride there.
Since Hongyu Bar would not open until night, Yu Zhesen planned to meet Qin Yuqing first.
According to Shen Yunqiu, Dr. Qin's psychological counseling is very miraculous and effective. Before, he worked overtime until he became depressed and felt that he was about to die. Thanks to Dr. Qin, he had the courage to continue living.
Although this sounds a bit exaggerated, Yu Zhesen still plans to give it a try.
The clinic is on the 33rd floor of an office building rented out to various private studios and small companies. The shop is not large, and there are only Qin Yuqing and a young female assistant inside.
"Mr. Yu Zhesen, right? Mr. Shen mentioned you."
Qin Yuqing, who was wearing an open-front white coat, put her hands in her pockets and smiled at Yu Zhesen who came in.
She looks to be in her early thirties, with light makeup on her face, a pair of rimless gold-rimmed glasses, and her long, silky black hair hanging loosely behind her head.
"What did Shen Yunqiu tell you about me?" Yu Zhesen smiled.
"This is the patient's privacy, so I won't disclose it." Qin Yuqing winked at him and motioned for him to follow her to the darkroom inside.
Yu Zhesen sat down on a recliner according to Qin Yuqing's instructions and looked around curiously.
"Is this a place for psychological counseling?"
"Yes, we will use hypnosis for auxiliary treatment." Qin Yuqing nodded.
"You haven't asked me what I want to consult, but you want to hypnotize me as soon as you start?" Yu Zhesen asked in surprise.
Qin Yuqing said: "If you enter a semi-hypnotic state, you will understand in more detail."
"Dr. Qin, do you use hypnosis to control others?" Yu Zhesen grabbed the armrest of the recliner and did not hide his nervousness.
"Many people have asked me this question." Qin Yuqing pulled a chair with pulleys over and sat down next to Yu Zhesen.
"Then your answer is..."
The lights in the room suddenly turned off.
After a while, a small, faint light lit up above Yu Zhesen's head.
"Mr. Yu, you don't have claustrophobia, right? Do you feel uncomfortable in such an environment?" Qin Yuqing's voice became very soft.
"Well... no problem, just call me Xiao Yu." Yu Zhesen smiled shyly at her.
Qin Yuqing nodded: "Next, you just need to look forward, don't look at me, just listen with your ears."
Yu Zhesen looked straight ahead. The black wall turned out to be a screen, and what was playing on the screen was an ever-changing kaleidoscope-like pattern.
At first he thought it was nothing special, but gradually he was surprised to find that he could hardly take his eyes away from the screen.
"What did you see?" Qin Yuqing's voice rang in his ears.
"A kaleidoscope of change."
"So, is there something in the middle of the kaleidoscope?"
"I saw...a running white horse."
"Okay, please remember, when you see this white horse stop, it means we have entered a virtual space..."
"I saw it! Virtual space!" Yu Zhesen suddenly shouted excitedly.
Qin Yuqing on the side was startled by him. Fortunately, she was well-informed and quickly calmed down. She asked cautiously: "What did you see?"
"The white horse passed through a luminous ring, and the road ahead suddenly became clear...a white and silver circular hall...surrounded by transparent glass..."
Qin Yuqing was stunned. This situation was completely beyond her expectation.
Something went wrong with the hypnosis? Or was this young man not in the zone at all and was teasing her with nonsense?
According to her plan, after Yu Zhesen saw the white horse, she would use the signal "the white horse stops running" to guide Yu Zhesen into deep hypnosis, and then start looking for his psychological obstacles.
The so-called entering the virtual space together is just a hypnotic talk.
In the past, none of the patients she had faced would follow the white horse and see these strange scenes like Yu Zhesen.
Yu Zhesen's words are still chattering, but from the initial excitement and clarity to half-asleep babble.
Qin Yuqing frowned and began to record what Yu Zhesen mentioned.
Outside the glass walls of the white and silver hall are the vast blue fields and blue sky, and there are simple towns on the hills in the distance...
The winding road crosses the river through a stone arch bridge, and a wooden boat with people sitting on it passes slowly under the bridge...
Qin Yuqing began to realize that these things described by Yu Zhesen belonged to the "old era" and were far earlier than the Iron Dome era.
This is so strange...
After a while, Yu Zhesen's mumbling became softer and softer, and finally the sound of steady and regular breathing sounded from the recliner.
Qin Yuqing shook her head and pressed the remote control to turn off the screen.