The woman was dressed exquisitely, and her clothes were adorned with bright colors.
Bai Lixin had already distinguished between the residents of the Order District and the residents of the Love District. The residents of the Love District, like the buildings, wore luxurious and colorful clothes, while the residents of the Order District wore clothes that were strict yet simple.
The young woman beside him should be a resident of the Love District.
The woman shook her head. “I don’t know, but everyone who disobeys the registration rules of the Love District has disappeared after being taken away by robots.”
Bai Lixin: “Disappeared?”
The woman looked around, grabbed Bai Lixin’s sleeve and quickly pulled him into an inconspicuous corner. “You’re from the Order District, right?”
Bai Lixin: “Yes.”
“No wonder you don’t know anything.” The woman lowered her voice. “Don’t discuss such matters loudly in public like you did just now, you’ll attract special attention.”
Bai Lixin: “What would happen if I attracted attention?”
Woman: “Nothing much, but if you behave strangely, the Black Bronze Legion will come knocking at your door immediately.”
“The Love District requires everyone to register here once they reach a certain age and wait for the partner assigned by the Brain. Once one of the two lovers dies, the surviving person needs to register here again.”
“It’s such a pity for that old man.” The woman sighed with regret. “If he didn’t want to register, he shouldn’t have come here in the first place. There are clearly better places for him.”
Bai Lixin: “What places?”
The young woman: “That place is freedom…”
“Amy, I finally found you.” Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by a man who suddenly appeared.
The two embraced tightly as soon as they met, and the young woman whispered to the man, “I’ve completed the registration, and as you said, I filled in the criteria for choosing a partner exactly as you instructed.”
The man looked a few years older than the woman, and he nervously inspected the woman in his arms. “I hope the Brain will match us together in everything.”
The woman was very nervous. “Do you think the Brain will grant our wishes? What if it misidentifies me and assigns me to someone else? I don’t want to be separated from you.”
The man immediately comforted her. “It’s okay, don’t be afraid. The Brain will definitely match us together, it’s so smart. I’ve been registered for three years, and the Brain hasn’t chosen a partner for me. It must know that we’re in love and has been waiting for you to turn twenty-five, so that we can be together naturally.”
The woman’s nervousness faded away. “I hope it’s as you say.”
Just as the two embraced tightly, the man’s expression suddenly stiffened.
The woman noticed the man’s abnormality and quickly asked, “What’s wrong?”
The man smiled, “You’re pressing on me. By the way, have you received any notifications from the Love District?”
The woman pushed the man playfully, “I’m so light, how could I be pressing on you? I just completed the registration less than ten minutes ago, how could they notify me so quickly?”
Her voice paused, and then she became nervous again. “Could it be you got a notification?”
The man quickly shook his head, “No, of course not. How could that be possible? I just can’t wait to become legal partners, that’s why I’m asking.”
The woman laughed, ”You’re hopeless, you’re going to drive me crazy with your questions every ten minutes. I’ll be so annoyed with you.”
The man: “How could It be every ten minutes? That’s too long, I have to ask you every five minutes.”
The woman glanced shyly at the man, “You’re going to drive me crazy with your questions.”
The two chatted as they passed by Bai Lixin, gradually moving away and blending into the dance floor.
Escape System: [Master Bai Lixin, I feel that man is lying. Just a moment ago, he should have received a notification from the Love District.]
Bai Lixin looked at the woman’s happy and sweet smile: [….]
The man received the message, but the woman did not. The outcome was predictable.
After a brief interlude, Bai Lixin took the elevator to the top floor under S419M’s guidance and walked to the rooftop.
This building was not very tall if compared to those in the Order District, only seven stories high.
The Love District and the Order District were vastly different.
While the Order District preferred taller buildings, the heights of the Love District buildings generally stayed below ten stories. This white building was already considered one of the taller structures in the Love District.
Standing here, although he couldn’t overlook the Love District, he could still see the colorful buildings below.
Red, yellow, green, purple, blue, pink… The different colored neon lights turned the surroundings into a sea of color.
The wind blew fiercely, lifting the corners of Bai Lixin’s clothes.
He stood by the edge of the building, watching the brilliant colors stretched out below, suddenly reminded of Pris’s Xingchen’s “Star”.
Red, purple, blue, green, colorful, shimmering.
Was it a coincidence, or was there a hidden meaning?
What if the colors that Pris Xingchen sings about in the stars do not refer to the colors of star clusters deep in the universe, but to the scene in front of Love District?
S419M’s voice sounded: [Lord Host, the firewall is near your current location. Move twenty centimeters to the left.]
Following the instructions, Bai Lixin moved twenty centimeters to the left and found himself standing at the corner of the rooftop. If he moved forward, he would fall.
S419M: [It’s right here, Lord Host. Reach out in front and feel it.]
Bai Lixin obediently reached out his hand. Halfway through, he suddenly felt a burning sensation at his fingertips.
Accompanied by the burning sensation, the air in front of him seemed to shimmer.
Seeing this, Bai Lixin directly spread his hand and put out his palm.
As the contact area increased, the fluctuations in the air became more intense. This time, it wasn’t just a shimmer; the air rippled like a calm lake disturbed by the wind. Along with the ripples, Bai Lixin could also see a faint blue light that was barely noticeable.
He tried to push forward with his palm, but it couldn’t advance any further, as an invisible barrier blocked his hand.
S419M: [Please be careful, Lord Host. This is the seventh floor, don’t accidentally fall to your death.]
Like a diligent student, Bai Lixin asked, [Can a spiritual body really die from falling?]
S419M: [Ah, good question. I’ll have to think about that.]
[But as you can see, we can’t get past this firewall. I’ve traced the signal source here twice before, and both times I was bounced back. Do you have any way to get out?]
Bai Lixin held the invisible barrier with both hands, and heard the sizzling and burning sound emanating from his palms. Without even changing his expression, he used the barrier in front of him and leaned forward until almost half of his body was over the edge of the rooftop, maintaining stability in a very peculiar posture.
If someone looked up at this moment, they would be shocked.
Because a normal person would have fallen over already in this position, but the young man was standing steadily in midair, as if he were some kind of acrobat or performer.
Bai Lixin almost pressed his head against the firewall. Through the firewall, he could vaguely see ripples appearing one after another.
After the ripples, an indistinct and translucent scene appeared, like a mirage.
He saw an endless expanse of white.
White walls, white ceilings, white floors, white robots, and “people” wearing white protective suits and masks.
They were wearing white suits and masks, so Bai Lixin wasn’t sure if they were really people.
And countless white honeycombs.
There wasn’t just one honeycomb, countless honeycombs were neatly stacked in this space.
From time to time, robots or people in protective suits would walk up to the honeycombs and pull out things from inside, just like pulling out drawers in a morgue.
Bai Lixin moved closer, squinting to see what they were pulling out.
On one of the square metal trays, an arm suddenly drooped weakly.
S419M was startled and exclaimed in his mind: [Ahhhh, that scared me! Are those corpses?]
Bai Lixin: [Probably not. They look more like the bodies of the people trapped in the virtual world.]
But is that person whose arm drooped okay?
None of the other people pulled out had drooping arms, only this person’s arm drooped.
Outside the firewall, the person in the white protective suit pinched the arm of the person and shook it, then turned to the robot next to him and gestured, probably saying something to the robot.
Bai Lixin couldn’t hear the sound outside the firewall, so everything seemed like a silent film to him.
The robot nodded and stepped back, and then its abdomen slowly opened, revealing a white box inside.
The person in the white protective suit quickly tapped a few times on top of the honeycomb, and then a series of metal tentacles emerged from the center of the honeycomb, each tied with different tools, such as saws, nails, hammers…
The metal tentacles quickly reached the person in the white protective suit, and began to move without hesitation.
Blood began to seep out from the bed, slowly dripping down the arm and onto the ground.
A cleaning robot quickly ran over and cleaned up the blood on the ground.
The ground returned to its pristine white.
S419M felt uncomfortable: [What are they doing? Dissecting?]
Suddenly, it exclaimed: [Lor-lord Host! That person’s arm moved a bit!]
Bai Lixin also noticed it.
Just as blood flowed down the person’s arm again, when the blood passed over the person’s fingertip, the person’s fingers twitched slightly, as if having a spasm.
S419M was shocked: [He hasn’t died yet? He’s okay, but he’s being dissected like this?]
In S419M’s shock, the mechanical arm in the picture had already completed its task and began to retract.
Next, Bai Lixin saw the person in the white protective suit carefully take something out and place it in the white box next to the robot.
It was a semicircular, fleshy object.
It was covered with curved folds and red blood vessels.
It was a complete brain.
Bai Lixin could even faintly see the slight twitching of the cerebral cortex.
The person in the white protective suit gestured at the robot again, and the robot quickly put the white box back into its stomach and left.
The person in the white protective suit then skillfully removed the man, who was still dripping blood, from the metal rack and threw him on the ground.
When the man landed, Bai Lixin finally saw the person’s face head-on.
The head had a large gash, and inside it was hollowed out, with blood still flowing down from the forehead, quickly staining the ground red once again.
Under the blood was a very young face, looking like it was only in its twenties.
But for some reason, Bai Lixin felt like he had seen this face somewhere before.
The cleaning robot quickly arrived, picking up the person and put him on the trolley as if taking out the trash, and left.
Watching the robot gradually disappearing into the distance, Bai Lixin finally remembered where he had seen this face before.
Just now, in the lobby on the first floor, he had seen this face just over ten minutes ago.
However, the face before him appeared to be in his twenties, but what he saw was the face of someone in their sixties.
The old man who was unwilling to register and was forcibly dragged away by robots was this young man’s older version.
Although appearances changes, bones don’t change.
The young man was the old man.
The ground was cleaned up again, and the person in the white protective suit pushed the empty cabinet into the honeycomb.
Then, he casually opened the cabinet on the bottom right, and a face that was so familiar it couldn’t be more familiar suddenly appeared in front of Bai Lixin without any warning.
S419M: [Lord Host, I found you, great!]
Bai Lixin: […]
Being unable to move at all and lying in a cold cabinet like a corpse was definitely not good news for him.
The woman was dressed exquisitely, and her clothes were adorned with bright colors.
Bai Lixin had already distinguished between the residents of the Order District and the residents of the Love District. The residents of the Love District, like the buildings, wore luxurious and colorful clothes, while the residents of the Order District wore clothes that were strict yet simple.
The young woman beside him should be a resident of the Love District.
The woman shook her head. “I don’t know, but everyone who disobeys the registration rules of the Love District has disappeared after being taken away by robots.”
Bai Lixin: “Disappeared?”
The woman looked around, grabbed Bai Lixin’s sleeve and quickly pulled him into an inconspicuous corner. “You’re from the Order District, right?”
Bai Lixin: “Yes.”
“No wonder you don’t know anything.” The woman lowered her voice. “Don’t discuss such matters loudly in public like you did just now, you’ll attract special attention.”
Bai Lixin: “What would happen if I attracted attention?”
Woman: “Nothing much, but if you behave strangely, the Black Bronze Legion will come knocking at your door immediately.”
“The Love District requires everyone to register here once they reach a certain age and wait for the partner assigned by the Brain. Once one of the two lovers dies, the surviving person needs to register here again.”
“It’s such a pity for that old man.” The woman sighed with regret. “If he didn’t want to register, he shouldn’t have come here in the first place. There are clearly better places for him.”
Bai Lixin: “What places?”
The young woman: “That place is freedom…”
“Amy, I finally found you.” Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by a man who suddenly appeared.
The two embraced tightly as soon as they met, and the young woman whispered to the man, “I’ve completed the registration, and as you said, I filled in the criteria for choosing a partner exactly as you instructed.”
The man looked a few years older than the woman, and he nervously inspected the woman in his arms. “I hope the Brain will match us together in everything.”
The woman was very nervous. “Do you think the Brain will grant our wishes? What if it misidentifies me and assigns me to someone else? I don’t want to be separated from you.”
The man immediately comforted her. “It’s okay, don’t be afraid. The Brain will definitely match us together, it’s so smart. I’ve been registered for three years, and the Brain hasn’t chosen a partner for me. It must know that we’re in love and has been waiting for you to turn twenty-five, so that we can be together naturally.”
The woman’s nervousness faded away. “I hope it’s as you say.”
Just as the two embraced tightly, the man’s expression suddenly stiffened.
The woman noticed the man’s abnormality and quickly asked, “What’s wrong?”
The man smiled, “You’re pressing on me. By the way, have you received any notifications from the Love District?”
The woman pushed the man playfully, “I’m so light, how could I be pressing on you? I just completed the registration less than ten minutes ago, how could they notify me so quickly?”
Her voice paused, and then she became nervous again. “Could it be you got a notification?”
The man quickly shook his head, “No, of course not. How could that be possible? I just can’t wait to become legal partners, that’s why I’m asking.”
The woman laughed, ”You’re hopeless, you’re going to drive me crazy with your questions every ten minutes. I’ll be so annoyed with you.”
The man: “How could It be every ten minutes? That’s too long, I have to ask you every five minutes.”
The woman glanced shyly at the man, “You’re going to drive me crazy with your questions.”
The two chatted as they passed by Bai Lixin, gradually moving away and blending into the dance floor.
Escape System: [Master Bai Lixin, I feel that man is lying. Just a moment ago, he should have received a notification from the Love District.]
Bai Lixin looked at the woman’s happy and sweet smile: [….]
The man received the message, but the woman did not. The outcome was predictable.
After a brief interlude, Bai Lixin took the elevator to the top floor under S419M’s guidance and walked to the rooftop.
This building was not very tall if compared to those in the Order District, only seven stories high.
The Love District and the Order District were vastly different.
While the Order District preferred taller buildings, the heights of the Love District buildings generally stayed below ten stories. This white building was already considered one of the taller structures in the Love District.
Standing here, although he couldn’t overlook the Love District, he could still see the colorful buildings below.
Red, yellow, green, purple, blue, pink… The different colored neon lights turned the surroundings into a sea of color.
The wind blew fiercely, lifting the corners of Bai Lixin’s clothes.
He stood by the edge of the building, watching the brilliant colors stretched out below, suddenly reminded of Pris’s Xingchen’s “Star”.
Red, purple, blue, green, colorful, shimmering.
Was it a coincidence, or was there a hidden meaning?
What if the colors that Pris Xingchen sings about in the stars do not refer to the colors of star clusters deep in the universe, but to the scene in front of Love District?
S419M’s voice sounded: [Lord Host, the firewall is near your current location. Move twenty centimeters to the left.]
Following the instructions, Bai Lixin moved twenty centimeters to the left and found himself standing at the corner of the rooftop. If he moved forward, he would fall.
S419M: [It’s right here, Lord Host. Reach out in front and feel it.]
Bai Lixin obediently reached out his hand. Halfway through, he suddenly felt a burning sensation at his fingertips.
Accompanied by the burning sensation, the air in front of him seemed to shimmer.
Seeing this, Bai Lixin directly spread his hand and put out his palm.
As the contact area increased, the fluctuations in the air became more intense. This time, it wasn’t just a shimmer; the air rippled like a calm lake disturbed by the wind. Along with the ripples, Bai Lixin could also see a faint blue light that was barely noticeable.
He tried to push forward with his palm, but it couldn’t advance any further, as an invisible barrier blocked his hand.
S419M: [Please be careful, Lord Host. This is the seventh floor, don’t accidentally fall to your death.]
Like a diligent student, Bai Lixin asked, [Can a spiritual body really die from falling?]
S419M: [Ah, good question. I’ll have to think about that.]
[But as you can see, we can’t get past this firewall. I’ve traced the signal source here twice before, and both times I was bounced back. Do you have any way to get out?]
Bai Lixin held the invisible barrier with both hands, and heard the sizzling and burning sound emanating from his palms. Without even changing his expression, he used the barrier in front of him and leaned forward until almost half of his body was over the edge of the rooftop, maintaining stability in a very peculiar posture.
If someone looked up at this moment, they would be shocked.
Because a normal person would have fallen over already in this position, but the young man was standing steadily in midair, as if he were some kind of acrobat or performer.
Bai Lixin almost pressed his head against the firewall. Through the firewall, he could vaguely see ripples appearing one after another.
After the ripples, an indistinct and translucent scene appeared, like a mirage.
He saw an endless expanse of white.
White walls, white ceilings, white floors, white robots, and “people” wearing white protective suits and masks.
They were wearing white suits and masks, so Bai Lixin wasn’t sure if they were really people.
And countless white honeycombs.
There wasn’t just one honeycomb, countless honeycombs were neatly stacked in this space.
From time to time, robots or people in protective suits would walk up to the honeycombs and pull out things from inside, just like pulling out drawers in a morgue.
Bai Lixin moved closer, squinting to see what they were pulling out.
On one of the square metal trays, an arm suddenly drooped weakly.
S419M was startled and exclaimed in his mind: [Ahhhh, that scared me! Are those corpses?]
Bai Lixin: [Probably not. They look more like the bodies of the people trapped in the virtual world.]
But is that person whose arm drooped okay?
None of the other people pulled out had drooping arms, only this person’s arm drooped.
Outside the firewall, the person in the white protective suit pinched the arm of the person and shook it, then turned to the robot next to him and gestured, probably saying something to the robot.
Bai Lixin couldn’t hear the sound outside the firewall, so everything seemed like a silent film to him.
The robot nodded and stepped back, and then its abdomen slowly opened, revealing a white box inside.
The person in the white protective suit quickly tapped a few times on top of the honeycomb, and then a series of metal tentacles emerged from the center of the honeycomb, each tied with different tools, such as saws, nails, hammers…
The metal tentacles quickly reached the person in the white protective suit, and began to move without hesitation.
Blood began to seep out from the bed, slowly dripping down the arm and onto the ground.
A cleaning robot quickly ran over and cleaned up the blood on the ground.
The ground returned to its pristine white.
S419M felt uncomfortable: [What are they doing? Dissecting?]
Suddenly, it exclaimed: [Lor-lord Host! That person’s arm moved a bit!]
Bai Lixin also noticed it.
Just as blood flowed down the person’s arm again, when the blood passed over the person’s fingertip, the person’s fingers twitched slightly, as if having a spasm.
S419M was shocked: [He hasn’t died yet? He’s okay, but he’s being dissected like this?]
In S419M’s shock, the mechanical arm in the picture had already completed its task and began to retract.
Next, Bai Lixin saw the person in the white protective suit carefully take something out and place it in the white box next to the robot.
It was a semicircular, fleshy object.
It was covered with curved folds and red blood vessels.
It was a complete brain.
Bai Lixin could even faintly see the slight twitching of the cerebral cortex.
The person in the white protective suit gestured at the robot again, and the robot quickly put the white box back into its stomach and left.
The person in the white protective suit then skillfully removed the man, who was still dripping blood, from the metal rack and threw him on the ground.
When the man landed, Bai Lixin finally saw the person’s face head-on.
The head had a large gash, and inside it was hollowed out, with blood still flowing down from the forehead, quickly staining the ground red once again.
Under the blood was a very young face, looking like it was only in its twenties.
But for some reason, Bai Lixin felt like he had seen this face somewhere before.
The cleaning robot quickly arrived, picking up the person and put him on the trolley as if taking out the trash, and left.
Watching the robot gradually disappearing into the distance, Bai Lixin finally remembered where he had seen this face before.
Just now, in the lobby on the first floor, he had seen this face just over ten minutes ago.
However, the face before him appeared to be in his twenties, but what he saw was the face of someone in their sixties.
The old man who was unwilling to register and was forcibly dragged away by robots was this young man’s older version.
Although appearances changes, bones don’t change.
The young man was the old man.
The ground was cleaned up again, and the person in the white protective suit pushed the empty cabinet into the honeycomb.
Then, he casually opened the cabinet on the bottom right, and a face that was so familiar it couldn’t be more familiar suddenly appeared in front of Bai Lixin without any warning.
S419M: [Lord Host, I found you, great!]
Bai Lixin: […]
Being unable to move at all and lying in a cold cabinet like a corpse was definitely not good news for him.
