Parallel time, Blue Star, New Republic 17th year.
This was an era that was changing with each passing day. On the one hand, new science and technology were developing at a rapid pace, but on the other hand, there were too many backward and decadent existences at the bottom of society.
The entire world was in a state of separation and rampage.
The advanced and the backward coexisted. Some people were driving their sports cars, while others were still pulling their rickshaws.
The modern metropolis had appeared, but the old and backward towns were still like stars in the sky.
Many types of energy coexisted, including coal, oil, wind power, but electricity had become another new type of energy…
…
Zhong Hai was the most prestigious city in the New Republic of China.
It was past ten o'clock at night. Lu Li had just finished work and walked out of the office building.
He raised his head and looked at the sky that was blocked by the tall buildings. His heart fell silent…
Zhong Hai was at the forefront of the revolution. To most of the other cities in the Republic of China, it was like the future they imagined... It had the most splendid things! However, for ordinary people, living in this place really made them feel too small. They were like ants struggling in this huge city.
It was very helpless and despairing.
Back then, when Lu Li had just graduated from the university, he was also ambitious. He stayed in this cutting-edge metropolis without hesitation. He wanted to realize his ambition and become a pioneer of the times!
However…
Unfortunately…
After entering society, you have to accept the real reality. You have to know that you are not born to be a protagonist! You're just an ordinary person!
There were too many influential people in Zhong Hai. Some of them were talented, and some of them were born into the second and third generations of the family.
This city was a paradise for these people!
To ordinary people, it was devouring them!
Lu Li was in a rather irritable mood today. He didn't run like a stray dog to the nearby streetcar stop, take the last streetcar, and return to his rented apartment in the suburbs.
He walked on the road expressionlessly, or rather numbly.
His mind was filled with complicated thoughts…
It had been four years since he graduated at the age of twenty-three and started working.
Over the past four years, Lu Li had seen one colleague after another join the company with ambition, and then one colleague after another left in disgrace and returned to their hometown.
This city was swallowing people!
Lu Li also started to wonder if he should…leave this place where his dreams rose and fell.
Today.
Lu Li's parents called him from his hometown.
As usual, his mother, Yu Qin, urged Lu Li to find a girlfriend as soon as possible…
Then, she told Lu Li not to worry about the house. She and Father Lu had sold an old house in their hometown. Together with their lifetime savings, they had made a total of 700,000 yuan for Lu Li!
In addition to the 300,000 or so that Lu Li had saved up over the years, he now had about a million.
This amount was enough to pay a down payment in Zhonghai.
Of course, the location of the house had to be in a very remote suburb of Zhong Hai.
In Zhonghai City, the housing prices in the core areas, such as the western districts, were 130,000 yuan per square meter…
Outside the core area, the housing prices in the Dongcheng Area were also above 70,000 square meters…
Only by going further out could he barely find a house with an average price of 20,000 to 30,000.
For a smaller apartment, about one million yuan was enough for the down payment.
Thinking of this, Lu Li's eyes sparkled. Unknowingly, he clenched his fists.
His parents were from an ordinary dual-income family in his hometown. To be able to gather 700,000 yuan, they must have emptied the family. It was not just their savings, but even their retirement money.
"Do I want to live like this?”
"Squeeze your family dry and become a resident of this revolutionary metropolis? Stand in this future era?"
Lu Li asked himself.
This was indeed the way that most of the immigrants stayed in Zhong Hai. Two generations of people sacrificed everything in exchange for a place to stay in Zhong Hai.
" My current salary is 16,000 yuan after tax, plus the mortgage..."
Lu Li did some simple calculations in his mind. The result he got made him feel hopeless.
This society was very cruel. You would never get the corresponding reward if you worked hard.
"I don't want to live like this."
Lu Li spat and said firmly.
Rumble!
Rumble!
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, followed by the sound of thunder.
In an instant.
Heavy rain poured down.
In this night, bean-sized raindrops fell.
Lu Li hid in front of the shop and looked at the rain and the panicked crowd…
The rain continued to fall.
At this moment, something happened to Lu Li without warning. No one noticed.
A round crystal clock appeared in Lu Li's eyes…
The clock was turning at different speeds.
Ta…ta…ta…
Inscrutable information began to appear in Lu Li's mind.
After an unknown amount of time.
Lu Li received all the information and came back to his senses.
In his eyes, the virtual Quartz Clock also disappeared.
Lu Li was shocked!
He raised his head and looked at the middle-aged man who was hiding from the rain with him.
Lu Li saw a few simple messages above the middle-aged man's head:
'Name: Cheng Xiaoxian'
'Age: 42 years old'
" Remaining lifespan: 31 years, 78 days, 12 hours, 56 minutes, and 32 seconds."
Lu Li swallowed. He turned around and looked at another girl who was about his age.
'Name: Gu Ping'
'Age: 26 years old'
'Remaining lifespan: 9 years 15 days 3 hours 47 minutes 29 seconds'
Did this mean that this girl who wasn't bad looking could only live to be thirty-five?
Lu Li was in a daze.
He continued to look at another middle-aged man with a plump figure and a simple and honest face.
'Name: Fan Changjiang'
'Age: 36 years old'
" Remaining lifespan: 3 minutes and 23 seconds "
Lu Li's eyes widened.
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Due to special reasons…hmm…you know, I had to change the background of this book to a new period of the Republic of China after the magical changes. Other than the name accident, the content has not changed.
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