Night’s Nomenclature - Chapter 5
[5. Transcendent position]
Once Qingchen thought about it, would there be a countdown on other people’s arms?
It is precisely because of this speculation that he would take the subway so cautiously to go far away to verify some things, so as not to be found by people looking for clues in the future.
But then a series of changes followed, making Qingchen almost forget this guess.
It now appears that his speculation has finally come true.
There must be a lot of people who have crossed from the earth to this world. There are only two in this prison, not to mention the world outside the prison.
How many travelers are there?
several hundred?
several thousand?
What are they crossing for?
Qing Chen could not be sure.
“The newcomer here is a bit interesting, I’m afraid he’s not a fool,” someone laughed while looking at the collapsed teenager: “I heard that he was sentenced to 7 years for tax evasion and evasion? Cry, I’m only crying now.”
“People who dare to provoke tax collection agencies these days are not fools…”
Qing Chen looked at the source of the sound, and it was a young man with mechanical legs. When the other party saw him, he raised the corner of his mouth and said with a smile: “Hey, new comer, are you ready?”
The surrounding crowd burst into laughter, as if they were all waiting to see the show.
This place is obviously so sci-fi and advanced, but the evil side of human beings does not seem to have changed.
Qingchen frowned, but ignored it. He looked back at the boy surrounded by drones.
I’m afraid only he knows that the reason why the other party didn’t cry yesterday and only cried today is because the other party is just like himself today, he just passed through the “greenhouse” of the earth, and he can’t accept this reality.
This is not speculation, but he has seen each other.
Qingchen is 17 years old and is a sophomore at the Los Angeles Foreign Language School.
And this collapsed teenager is a freshman.
The two did not have any intersection, but Qingchen never forgets it, as long as they have seen it, it is hard to forget.
This made Qingchen a little surprised. Could it be that the location before the crossing was similar, and the location after crossing would also be very close?
He couldn’t be sure.
However, Qingchen discovered one thing: all the people here speak Mandarin, and no one speaks dialects.
At this moment, the robot guard is rushing up the stairs, and each step can cross the five steps, accompanied by a unique hydraulic transmission sound.
That young man was already crying like a man.
Half of the people in this prison fortress are equipped with mechanical limbs. It is quite a feeling of encountering an old friend in a foreign land when encountering people on earth in a place surrounded by such steel beasts.
When ordinary people encounter “compatriots” in unfamiliar places, they will have an inexplicable sense of security.
Ke Qingchen didn’t feel this way. Looking at the teenager who was on the verge of collapse, he realized that “compatriots” may not be able to help you, but may become a drag.
Not everyone can remain calm in the face of this new mechanical civilization.
What he has to do now is to survive the first two days, and then go back to Earth to find out why all this is.
Qing Chen watched silently in a low-key manner. For some reason, his mood at this moment was more calm.
Up to this point, all the prisoners were standing still.
He looked around the prison fortress. The nine robots who had just rushed from the gate outside the prison area left three under martial law in the square downstairs, while the rest went upstairs to take the panicked teenager away.
The square downstairs is very wide, it feels like a football field size.
The open square is divided into several areas: restaurant, fitness equipment entertainment area, reading area, audio-visual area, etc…
There is no partition between these areas, like a large free space, and on the edge of the square, there are 8 large steel gates.
Those gates are so big that they can allow armored vehicles to pass directly.
Suddenly Qingchen was stunned. He saw that three people had appeared at the dining table in the square downstairs.
A middle-aged man who looked to be in his 40s was sitting, and two other young men were smiling and guarding him, then looked up at the prisoners upstairs with interest.
In front of the middle-aged man was a chess board, and on the chessboard was a set of endgames.
The most astonishing thing is that next to the chessboard on the dining table, there is actually a cat napping on its paws. It is gray and has two tufts of pointed hair on its ears. It looks a bit like a lynx, but it is not.
Maine Coon cat.
Can you keep cats in prison?
!
Qingchen was a little shocked. His eyes were attracted by the “compatriots” just now, so that he didn’t see when the three people and one cat came to the square.
At this moment, the middle-aged man was staring intently at the chessboard, as if what happened upstairs had nothing to do with him.
Moreover, what surprised Qingchen the most was that even the robots in the square thought that the three and one cat did not exist.
The serious and tense upstairs and the relaxed and calm downstairs are like two different worlds in stark contrast.
Among the three, two young men were wearing normal blue and white prison uniforms, while the middle-aged man was wearing a white training uniform.
In this gloomy and depressing environment, that smear of white is extremely dusty.
Qing Chen thought to himself, could this be the warden?
No, although the other prisoner was wearing a training uniform different from that of other prisoners, the training uniform still had a small black sentence number embroidered on the chest.
This middle-aged man is also a prisoner, but he is the most special one.
As if sensing his gaze, a young man beside the middle-aged man suddenly turned his head and looked back at him with a smile.
Qing Chen immediately took it back.
After the collapsing Earth teenager was taken away, the broadcast sounded again in the prison fortress: “Go to the restaurant in order to eat in the queue.”
As soon as the words fell, Qing Chen saw all the prisoners turn to the right, and then lined up in a long formation, heading towards the square along the stairs.
Until this time, Qingchen had no chance to count all the prisoners: including him, 3102.
This prison fort has a total of seven floors, and prisoners on each floor form a team, led by the prisoner at the front of the team, and proceed to the restaurant in an orderly manner.
During this period, no one jumped in the queue, and no one left the team. Qingchen felt that everyone here seemed to be operating according to the established procedures, and everything was “restrained” by others.
This order does not end until everyone finishes their meal from the robot window.
It seems that after finishing the meal, you can move freely.
Qingchen and the others lived on the fifth floor, so when it was their turn to eat, the people on the first floor in front had already finished their meal, and they saw two burly prisoners pulling a young man directly to the one closest to the restaurant. When he walked to the cell in the building, there were a lot of people who were yelling beside him.
Another person explained: “Hurry up and pull him into the cell, don’t hurt him in the square, be careful of the meddling of mechanical prison guards.”
The prisoner who was pulling the young man casually responded, “Don’t worry, I’m not an idiot like Yang Jie.”
At the same time, the young man struggled and screamed: “Let go of me!”
But just as he was about to be dragged into the cell, the young man’s voice turned into a pleading: “Please forgive me!”
However, no matter what he said, no one paid any attention to his request, and instead drew louder jeers.
Suddenly, the old man with mechanical eyes in front of him turned around and smiled: “Don’t look around, it will be your turn later.”
Qingchen glanced at him calmly, and the old man suddenly felt that the eyes of the young man on the opposite side seemed a little different, and he didn’t know why, but he felt a sudden tightness in his heart.
After dinner at the window, the formation was scattered.
Qing Chen noticed that the three people around him were approaching him, as if trying to control him directly!
He suddenly accelerated his pace, and the other party also accelerated his pace, surrounding him tightly!
The next moment, the pictures in the prison fortress seemed to go through Qing Chen’s mind carefully.
The 18 steel beast-like machine guns on the dome stand silently, like sleeping tigers.
72 drones hang from card slots in the grey alloy ceiling like sleeping wasps.
210 monitors slowly turning the angle, and 3 robots in the square stand with guns.
One by one, the prisoners took their meals from the window, and some complained about the unpalatable synthetic meat again today.
There are people washing dishes by the sink, and others washing dishes for others.
As more and more people finished eating, the square began to become lively. Everyone came and went, and some went to the fitness area. UU reading www.sonicmtl.
com and some onlookers at the ceremony.
However, everyone subconsciously avoided the middle-aged man staring at the chessboard.
The man was still looking at the chessboard earnestly, and no one was approaching for five meters. It was like a calm and hard rock on the sea level. All the turbulent waters and ships had to give way.
Qing Chen suddenly carried the dinner plate, and accelerated through the three-person circle, walking towards the middle-aged man.
Looking at the direction he was heading, many people suddenly realized what this newcomer wanted to do.
Gradually, more and more people turned their attention to him and whispered, and the expressions on the faces of the prisoners seemed to be waiting to see him laugh.
There are many prison newcomers who find that middle-aged men are abnormal, and there are many prison newcomers who want to rely on each other to get out of their predicament. Qingchen has never been the only one.
But in fact all have failed.
However, Qing Chen turned a deaf ear to those bantering voices, and continued to pass the crowd with the dinner plate in his hands.
Before he could get close, he was stopped by the young man beside the middle-aged man. The other party said with a smile, “New here, I know what you’re thinking, but we won’t help you.”
The other party guessed what Qingchen was thinking, and Qingchen turned his attention behind the young man.
The middle-aged man turned a deaf ear to all that was happening around him, as if he had not heard anything.
He looked at the middle-aged man seriously and said, “I can solve this endgame.”
The middle-aged man didn’t raise his head until then, and then the square suddenly became quiet, and the cat opened its eyes.
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Thank you Haihunyi for being the Silver League of this book.
Thanks to Liren, Teacher Ren, Snoring Mouse, Dabinger, Hot Comments on Talking Sao Talk, Yan Zuzu, and Wang Jianing for being the leader of this book!
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