Chapter 2

Two years ago, one late night in April, City A, near the Logan Group Asia Headquarters.

Ji Mao walked on the cross street late at night, he was free.

His body is mainly composed of silicone and titanium alloy, with sensors all over the body, micro-cameras in the eyes, and the circuit integration center in the chest cavity. The brain is used to store the power system. The exquisite bionic skeleton allows him to move flexibly.

This shell originally belonged to the second laboratory of the Foresight Technology Company, a subsidiary of Logan Group, and its purpose is unknown.

The second laboratory is located on the third floor of the Logan Group’s annex building. It focuses on bionic robots. There are 76 robots connected to the intranet in the experimental warehouse. Ji Mao chose the most beautiful one, and it has a slightly similar image in the game. Similar, not the most practical. After all, he is looking for someone, not working.

He has soft and jet-black hair, white skin that can be seen even in the dark night, deep features, but a sharp chin, with a touch of mixed blood, and he looks exactly like an Oriental. His pupils are light brown, the bridge of the nose is straight, the curvature of the nose tip is subtle, it looks a bit erotic and the lips are thin. He walked in a hurry, his lips were slightly opened. He couldn't help but lick his upper lip with his tongue, there was something on his lips. Some radiant brilliance.

The water circulation system in the biochemical robot works well, making Ji Mao look no different from ordinary people. He is like a human using his brain to manipulate physical activities, freely manipulating this almost perfect body.

When he reached a street lamp, Ji Mao stopped. He looked at his reflection in the glass window on the side of the street and thought it was not bad, so he moved closer.

Several ball-shaped vehicles floated behind him. One stopped beside him. A man lowered the window and asked Ji Mao, "How much is a shot?"

Ji Mao turned his head and stared into the man's eyes, politely ask him: "What?"

The silver vehicle in the dark night suddenly trembled, the driving dashboard on the front window began to alarm. The man was so scared that he shivered and pressed the emergency mode. The vehicle stumbled and rushed forward. Ji Mao watched him struggle. After a while, he let him go.

On the blue planet in 2089, the sun is still shining, and nothing new has happened.

New energy sources are widespread, fertility rates have fallen severely, humans have been replaced by machines and artificial intelligence research and development has fallen into a bottleneck.

Just like fifty or a hundred years ago, there are still small-scale wars in some areas near the equator, and places where there are no hot wars are not peaceful.

The cruel gene division and the stabilizer injection of the low-gene population have turned the social class into a tall tower with smooth walls.

The people standing under the tower looked up and couldn't see the top, and they couldn't climb up forever.

Since labor is no longer valuable, and based on the principle of saving social resources, the lower-class population whose genes are approved below the red line do not enjoy higher education above community college.

The legalization of sex trade makes the lower-level people have a single source of income.

Most of the lower-class people live by receiving guarantee money after graduation, and the beautiful part will have a better life.

A perfect human body like Ji Mao, walking on the streets late at night, will inevitably remind people of legal or even illegal sex trade.

After the vehicle drove away, the surroundings fell silent again. Ji Mao turned around and continued to look at his own appearance illuminated by the glass.

Ji Mao's eye camera is mainly used to capture the human body dynamics, without adding a night vision function module for still life, so Ji Mao can not see the details and can only feel it out of thin air.

He raised his hand and touched the glass, but he didn't feel anything, he didn't have a tactile system.

Just when Ji Mao was wandering on the Logan Group’s intranet, he found some personal information left by He Zhi from the computer in the top office, and determined He Zhi’s residence in City A using photos and communicators. He went downstairs smoothly and walked for a while, and then found that this body was not suitable for excessive exercise, so he stopped.

He retracted his hand and continued to walk two steps down the street. It happened that a taxi was driving at the corner of the street. Ji Mao beckoned, and the taxi stopped in front of him.

He got into the car, touched his hand on the meter, the traveling device began to track its destination: Hengwan was automatically displayed on the interface.

Hengwan is a real estate built by Logan Group as a welfare for the senior employees of the group who live in City A. It has good privacy and is named because of its location on the shore of Henghu Lake.

He Zhi lives in a villa near the lake.

Ji Mao parked the vehicle near the entrance of the underground garage in the north, and stood on the side of the road for a while. After the vehicle moved away, he walked to the gate that automatically identified the owner of the household. At this moment, the monitoring status of the Hengwan Security Center on the screen, the B007 camera suddenly went black.

Ji Mao's palm shook near the credit card machine. After hearing only a beep, the gate opened upwards and Ji Mao walked into the basement calmly.

The B007 camera stopped working for half a minute and then resumed operation. Although it was not long, the security squad leader who was on duty went to the scene to check it, and found nothing unusual, and then returned.

The road sign of the Hengwan underground garage was very clear. Ji Mao easily avoided the surveillance camera and found He Zhi's residence.

The basement door of Villa No. 1 is tightly closed, and one of the five parking spaces allocated is vacant.

The voice-activated lights went out soon, leaving only the dim light of the wall lights in the garage, and the surroundings became dark and cold.

Ji Mao actually didn't like the darkness very much. He had been in the darkness for too long, but it was a pity that he was waiting for someone, so he had to endure it.

He slapped a few times with his foot boringly, and noticed the blue light glowing on the top of the iris lock at the door of He Zhi's house, and then turned to take a closer look.

He leaned close to the lock, tilted his head to look at the still closed iris scanner, and suddenly the corners of his mouth twitched. He was so perfect that he looked a little horrible in the dark basement.

The next second, the door of He Zhi's house made a soft sound. Ji Mao stretched out his hand and opened the door, strode in, and looked around.

This is He Zhi's home. He looked at his hands again and put them together, but there was no feeling of palm touching.

This is amazing. The eyes can see things, the brain can work, and the limbs are flexible. It looks like a person, but it's not a person.

Ji Mao comes from a completely different world. He has no identity, no job, no blood relatives, he does not belong to this society, does not belong to any place, but he still comes.

—— Ji Mao is an activist, he rushed out of the shackles and came to He Zhi.

He Zhi arrived home at one o'clock in the morning, with the smell of alcohol that he got at the party, and a bad mood.

His cousin, He Qingyu, turned 18 today, celebrating her birthday at the top floor of the hotel he just opened.

He Qingyu had called He Zhi hundreds of calls from early in the morning, begging Hezhi to be there to support her.

He Zhi was annoyed and asked the secretary to confirm that there was no arrangement for the evening, and he stayed at the company and played a game that a test team had reported wrong for a long time. After playing the game, he scolded the team leader who was working overtime with him and glanced at the communicator. After more than 20 missed calls, he rushed to the hotel.

It was almost ten o’clock when he arrived at the hotel. He Qingyu drank too much. She stood by the pool and sang a strong song with a microphone. When He Zhi came in, she yelled, “Brother!”

Then, He Qingyu’s little sisters and the little brothers all came over, all as if they had no bones, and they all said they wanted to respect He Zhi and stick to He Zhi's body.

He Zhi had a slight physical contact barrier. He was hugged by a group of people. He had a numb scalp. He suppressed the impulse and pushed away a little girl who was holding his arm.

He Qingyu turned off the microphone and squeezed in: "Brother! You finally came!"

He Zhi saw He Qingyu blushing and wanted to hug him. He dodged on his side. He Qingyu rushed into the air and fell into the air. On the sofa behind him.

He Zhi stood without shame and said happy birthday to He Qingyu, then pushed away from the crowd and walked out.

He was in a very bad mood, with the discomfort of being touched still on his arm. When he went downstairs, he took a shower in the hotel suite and swam for more than an hour, which made him feel disgust dissipated some.

After getting up from the swimming pool, He Zhi glanced at the communicator, and He Qingyu made a lot of calls to him. She knew that He Zhi didn't like to contact people, so she sent more than a dozen messages to apologize.

In the end, He Zhi still loved the little cousin. He went up to the top floor and asked her to come out. He gave her the gift he prepared before drove home.

He Zhi is 26 years old this year. He is the only son of Logan Group's Chairman He Yongchen. He received a complete education. He returned to China after graduation for more than a year. Now he is the General Manager of a technology company called Qianzhan under the group.

Qianzhan Technology is a bit famous. It was once a giant in the industry ten years ago. It was almost on par with Logan Group. Unfortunately, the aircraft used by the chairman exploded. The company lost its backbone and the successor was unable to support it. It gave Logan Group a chance to take oppprtunity.

In the third year of the accident, with the tacit approval of the Ministry of National Defense, Logan Group acquired Qianzhan Technology at a price that was neither high nor low, and took over the business empire of Qianzhan Technology in its entirety.

Nowadays, the core technology of Qianzhan Technology has been completely transferred to Logan's headquarters, leaving some marginal civilian technologies. It continues to use the name of Qianzhan Technology to make some money one by one.

He Yongchen asked He Zhi to go to this place that was already stagnant, originally trying to frustrate his spirit.

However, the tiger father has no dogs. Although He Zhi has a weird temper and outstanding ability, he soon made the technology company popular, and launched two wearable bionic game devices one after another, supporting several games at the same time. He was full and his financial statements were very beautiful. In addition, he had been single for many years and had no scandals. For a while, all the people in the circle of City A wanted to have a relationship with him.

No matter what era, as long as human beings survive, the hedonism and the psychological instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages are essentially similar.

It's a pity that the closer they got to He Zhi, the more sick He Zhi felt. He slammed on the accelerator and the car sprinted forward.

After the Udon Act of 2053 was issued, the tax on gasoline cars was so high that ordinary people could not afford it. Ten years after the Act was issued, in order to control the occurrence of car accidents, the Act added additional items and imposed restrictions on manual drivers.

Most people choose the spherical traveling device as a means of transportation, and there are not a few cars in sight in the busiest block of City A for three hours.

But He Zhi is not one of the majority. He doesn't like unmanned driving or cutting-edge aircraft. He only likes the sound of the throttle.

He Zhi parked the car in front of his house, pressed the window, lit a cigarette in the car, took a few puffs, pressed it out, and got out of the car.

He started the scan with his fingerprint, and slightly moved closer to the door lock. The infrared light scanned the iris of his right eye, and the doorknob moved down automatically and opened slightly.

He walked in the door, hung the coat on the hanger, and walked in. The light in the living room slowly turned on as he moved. He turned his head and glanced at the wall clock in the living room. He was about to walk upstairs when he saw a dark figure standing beside the wine cabinet at the junction of the kitchen—someone is in the house!

He Zhi suddenly woke up, his sleepiness disappeared, he cursed in his heart, stared at the shadow, and gently backed away, took a golf club by the door, and walked slowly toward the wine cabinet.

Ji Mao didn't notice that the danger was approaching. He invaded the home network in He Zhi's house and was going through He Zhi's private records unscrupulously.

The amount in Hezhi’s account is not small, and the music he listens to during exercise and work is very different. The emails to and from the professor discussing academic issues are written concisely, and the emails to the subordinates are even more precious. This is indeed the congratulation he knows.

In the past week, He Zhi has only viewed three news articles complimenting him, and twenty-nine articles against the Logan Group's monopoly on the market.

The last report that He Zhi browsed yesterday morning came from Financial Weekly Magazine. They interviewed an executive of Logan Group. The executive revealed that the chairman of Logan Group plans to let his only son He Zhi enter the headquarters to take up important positions. Through a collective vote of the board of directors.

And He Zhi is about to lead his Qianzhan technology company to launch a holographic game cabin, which will become the final work of He Zhi in the technology company.

In the sub-section after the interview, the magazine made an exception to give a detailed introduction to He Zhi’s holographic game cabin, and recommended that the game cabin also comes with a well-made love interactive game called The Last Day, the specific content of the game is still in the confidentiality stage, and only the protagonist of the game can be known at present—a man, a stylist working in a retro handmade styling shop, whose English name is Jimmy.

Ji Mao suddenly saw his name and lost his mind.

He remembered the past.

Ji Mao met many people in a particular one hundred days of reincarnation.

The Last Day is a greenhouse built for him by Shen Zhiyu.

Ji Mao woke up in the capsule apartment ignorantly. Shen Zhiyu stood in front of him and said to him, "Hello, my name is Shen Zhiyu. There are some things to tell you next. You have to listen carefully."

Shen Zhiyu accompanies Ji Mao. Spent three hundred days and taught him many things.

He told Ji Mao that he used to be the person in charge of a joint artificial intelligence project between the K City and the military of B City. When the project was about to achieve a major breakthrough, he found that the K City group leader’s motivation was impure, so he took Ji Mao’s data and ran away.

Shen Zhiyu took Ji Mao to Qianzhan Technology, hidden in the city, and installed him in a test game cabin. He imported part of the world parameters from 2088, tampered with the game program, and created a sterile world for Ji Mao.

When the game cabin began to test, every tester who entered the game cabin was like a tourist in the world of Ji Mao, along the fixed exhibition route, visiting Ji Mao's life.

Shen Zhiyu hopes that Ji Mao will cooperate with the game, but it is better not to fall in love with anyone.

Later, as Shen Zhiyu said, the game entered the testing phase, and gradually other men and women came to accompany Ji Mao and spend some time with him.

Soon after, Shen Zhiyu left. He left Ji Mao's a final words: "Don't find me in any way, don't reply to the news that I'm looking for you."

Ji Mao is very obedient and remembers it very firmly.

Ji Mao stared blankly at those people awkwardly showing good to himself—the pattern of suitors was fixed, and there were always only two choices.

Some choose to send flowers, some choose to send breakfast, some choose to take him to the beach for a ride on a breezy night, and some choose to take him to a gamble in the desert and open champagne for him. They come here with confidence and fail and return.

Ji Mao coldly accepts the confession, if there is a seemingly nonchalant response, he spends a hundred days at will, watching a death, seeing the suitor's body turn gray, and then returning to the first day.

Everyone has only one purpose, they want to get Ji Mao's heart.

But Ji Mao is very sober and likes his greenhouse very much. He wants to live freely forever, so he can't give his sincerity.

He Zhi is the last person to enter the 100-day cycle.

He is the same as everyone else, but not the same.

The fixed choices are of course the same, but it is He Zhi that makes the difference.

Others are all tourists in the world of Ji Mao, and He Zhi is his dream.

People always consciously avoid things that bring pain to themselves, and Ji Mao did not make the mistake of blaming He Zhi, so he stopped recollecting and re-read the introduction of the holographic game pod in Financial Weekly.

Ji Mao thought that He Zhi would not be back tonight, so he turned off the program of radio reception to the outside world, adjusted the reception rate of the camera to the lowest, leaned against the wine cabinet and studied the news about the game cabin intently, and forgot to pay attention to the iris. The movement of the lock.

Because his own program is too complicated, the intranet technology of He Zhi's family is between civilian and military, and the invasion will overload Ji Mao's physical hardware. If it does not save energy, it will be overloaded.

When Ji Mao found someone behind him, it was too late.

He Zhi is back, and is very close to him.