Adam Sturgess is a very ordinary lower-world boy, at least on the surface.
But after getting to know him deeply, you will find that he is not ordinary. He has an experience that ordinary people can't even imagine, a girlfriend from the upper world.
"Ring ring ring"
The alarm clock kept ringing in the early morning, and Adam, who was sleeping soundly in bed, opened his confused eyes.
Wash your face, brush your teeth, eat breakfast, and it’s another day at work.
Adam is 22 years old. He works in a machine shop. His daily task is to use a lathe to process screws, just like most people in the lower world.
"Morning, Adam!"
"morning"
Riding his beloved bicycle to the factory, Adam put on his greasy and smelly work clothes and greeted the workers around him.
Although Adam is only 22 years old, he has worked in the factory for 8 years and knows everyone here.
However, there was something wrong with the way his coworkers looked at him today, as if he was wearing ill-fitting clothes or the zipper door underneath was open.
"What are you doing?" Adam looked at his clothes, then at the zipper door below, and walked towards his lathe in a daze.
The factory where Adam works is not large. In order to save costs, dozens of lathes for processing screws are all piled up in a large workshop.
Adam lowered his head and said nothing, walking towards his No. 38 lathe.
What was surprising was that the factory manager, who would not show up easily in the past, was actually standing in front of his lathe today, as if waiting for him.
"Are you Adam Sturgess?" The manager is a middle-aged black man wearing a blue suit and gold-rimmed glasses.
There was sadness in Adam's eyes. Normally, the manager would not show up. Whenever he talked to someone, it meant that person was fired.
"It's me, am I going to be fired?" Adam raised his head with difficulty, and finally understood why the workers looked at him in a wrong way.
You must know that in the lower world, being laid off means going hungry and losing your source of income.
Although people like Adam call themselves factory slaves, the biggest dream of farmers farming in the countryside is to work in a factory and become a glorious working class.
Therefore, being laid off is very scary. There have even been news about people being fired from factories and committing suicide because they could not bear the pressure.
"I heard from your co-worker that you have a girlfriend from the upper world. Is this true?" The manager did not mention the dismissal, but changed the subject.
Adam looked at the manager in disbelief. When he told these workers that he had a girlfriend from the upper world, everyone took it as a joke. No one believed that a small person from the lower world, struggling around in the factory, could have a girlfriend from the upper world.
A girlfriend from the upper world.
"This" Adam's face suddenly changed, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, her name is Eva. We met at the Holy Mountains of Two Realms, and I saw her there."
The lower world and the lower world are two planets very close to each other, and the closest one is called the Sacred Mountain of the Two Realms.
Hundreds of years ago, the upper world was not as developed as it is now, and could connect two planets with floating orbits.
Therefore, the earliest explorers carried oxygen bottles and used ropes fired from ballistae to reach the lower world on the Two Worlds Mountain.
Today, the access to the Holy Mountains of the Two Realms has been canceled and turned into a forbidden holy land.
But in theory, if you have a thousand-meter rope and a ballista that can shoot the rope out, you can carry an oxygen bottle through another world.
Of course, this is not easy. Not to mention that the Holy Mountains of the Two Realms are located in a closed area, and even the guards patrolling 24 hours a day will make you regret the idea of illegal smuggling.
"Can you tell me in detail?" The manager took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to Adam.
Adam took the cigarette and replied with reminiscence in his eyes: "That was ten years ago, when I was 12 years old. My aunt lived at the foot of the Holy Mountain. When I was a child, I didn't pay attention to the so-called restricted areas. Every time I went
When visiting my aunt, I would climb over the barbed wire fence and go inside to play.
It wasn't until one day that my aunt told me that people in the upper world came down from the top of the Holy Mountain a long time ago, and I became more interested. Finally, I mustered up the courage to carefully avoid the patrols and walked up the mountain.
He reached the top of the holy mountain and stood on the top of the mountain where explorers crossed two worlds.
There, I met Eva. She was as curious about the Holy Mountain as I was, and her father was a patrolman in the upper world, so she often accompanied her father up the mountain. Our fate was amazing, Eva had a super
The powerful electromagnetic slingshot can shoot steel balls hundreds of meters away from the holy mountains in the upper world into our world.
When she saw me, she was just as surprised as I was when I saw her. We were hundreds of meters apart, two worlds apart, looking at each other through the clouds and mist. The sky was really nice that day, and there were not many clouds.
The sky was blue. Eva raised her electromagnetic marble and hit it over at once. To this day, I can't forget that the steel ball broke through the gravity of the upper world and came to the lower world.
The falling scene."
"It's really a miraculous work of nature. You guys got to know each other like this?" The manager was so unbelievable that even the surrounding workers gathered around him unknowingly.
Seeing that the workers did not go to work, the manager did not curse for the first time. Instead, he ignored these lazy people and urged: "What's next?"
"Next, I went to the top of the mountain to wait for her every day, but she didn't come often. In order to see her clearly, I entered the factory when I was twelve years old, just to have money to buy a telescope.
It’s not just a black dot that can be seen vaguely. Later, I got my own telescope, and Eva also got hers. We stood on the top of the mountain and wrote on the drawing board, and we were able to "
Before Adam finished speaking, the manager asked in surprise: "Do you know how to read?"
"My aunt knows some words, although they are relatively simple ones, but that's enough." With a happy look on his face, Adam told how he communicated with Eva and how he worked hard to wait every day.
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Listening to Adam's story, people around him were unconsciously fascinated.
It turns out that there is such a beautiful love in this world, which is more beautiful than fairy tales, and people can't help but be immersed in it.
"What happened next?" someone couldn't help but ask.
Hearing these words, Adam's eyes turned red and he choked up: "Later, we grew up slowly, and when Eva was 17 years old, she decided to come to me. However, the fares at the two technical secondary schools were too expensive, and from the top
If you take a train all over the world, a round trip costs hundreds of thousands.
Eva didn't have that much money, so she could only take the risk and use the method used by explorers hundreds of years ago, bringing oxygen bottles and using a rope ballistae. But just when she was about to succeed, the patrol team from the lower world discovered
She, the men broke her rope with guns, and I watched Eva fall down."
"Oh my god, this shouldn't have ended like this!"
"God, is Eva dead? Will you ever see her again?"
"You are just making nonsense. The explorers from hundreds of years ago died countless people trying to reach the lower world. How dare you do that?"
Voices of regret, accusations, questions, all kinds of voices came one after another, making it very noisy and chaotic.
Adam's heart was full of self-blame. He covered his face in pain and cried: "Since that time, I have never seen her again, and I don't even know whether she is alive or dead.
I didn’t know this would happen. Eva said she was well prepared. She can do what those explorers could do hundreds of years ago. I didn’t expect to alert the patrollers, let alone that they would start.
Gun, otherwise I would never agree to let Eva come over. What I hope most now is to hear news about her again, but I can't do anything."
Adam cried very sadly. Since that time travel failed, he has never heard from Eva again.
If possible, he really wanted to go to the upper world to find Eva and see if she was still alive.
But this is not realistic. A one million pass is too expensive. Even if he works in the factory until death, he will not be able to save such a huge sum of money unless there is a new turning point.