City D.

Lower block.

In the slums in the lowest level of City D, even "sunlight" has become a luxury. There is no sunshine here all year round, only iron-gray steel plates, endlessly set above everyone's heads.

Neo specially changed into a formal dress that was washed white.

He has been unemployed for more than a month.

In the last job, Neo was in a canning processing workshop, responsible for one of the canning processes.

The reason for his unemployment is that he found that the "meat products" used in cans were mostly carrion that had passed the shelf life. After adding various flavors that concealed the smell, they were put into cans and sold. He asked the supervisor for questioning and was kicked out of the processing room five minutes later.

Immediately the next day, he received a court summons saying that he had slandered the reputation of the former company and wanted to compensate a large amount of compensation.

Neo remembered the unhappiness of his previous job, so he sorted out his formal clothes in front of the mirror, calmed down his mood, and walked out of the apartment. Although Neo felt that the content on the screen was weird everywhere and he repeatedly doubted whether the computer was hacked, out of the urgent need for survival, he still came to the last place marked on the screen with the optimistic idea of ​​"trying it and not getting pregnant."

When he saw this place, he thought it was ridiculous.

In his impression, the address on the screen was clearly a "unfinished building" preparing to be demolished a month ago.

It is said that a wealthy man in the street was attracted by the street, bought it at a low price, and was preparing to transform it into a "green light district" with good quality and low price... It is something that men know.

I went out early, and in order to save transportation costs of only 10 credit points, I walked for nearly an hour to Neo, who was designated at the designated location, but was shocked by the traffic and hustle and could not speak.

The location of the unfinished building that should have become the "green light district" of the paradise of poor men has become a magnificent building. The dark red walls are covered with bats' patterns, and the corners of the bat's mouths seem to show a blatant grin. The style of the whole building is full of postmodern artistic style.

The entrance was also made into the shape of a "bat". The open door was set into the bat's exaggerated mouth. Neo was at the end of the queue and watched the poor people wearing human-like appearance enter the tall buildings in an orderly manner. He suddenly felt a strange illusion that "they were all eaten by bats."

This strange illusion made Neo shudder subconsciously, but when he came to his senses, he realized that his trembling was a little puzzled.

Standing at the end of the team in a daze, Neo simply asked the candidate ahead when he had nothing to do.

Logically speaking, in the slums, the number of poor people who have time to play computers will never cause such a situation where there are thousands of people.

After asking, Neo suddenly realized.

It turned out that the strange "recruitment notice" that was hacked into his computer and made on the screen not only appeared on his screen, but also in the street holographic advertising windows, cheap mobile phone information, paper flyers on the ground, radio sounds in transportation, multiple radio stations, all the ways he could think of were advertising for this newly emerged "Dream Life Experience Hall", covering the world and using everything, and the means were both cheap and practical.

"Awesome."

Everything echoed. Neo quietly gave a thumbs up for the "company" that appeared in the lower block and lined up quietly.

One morning passed, and the people who entered only went in and did not leave.

He secretly asked the front again, it was said that there was a back door inside, and it was said that in order not to disclose the recruitment method, the company left the other exit, whether successful or failed.

Neo, nervous, felt relieved again.

After waiting for a long time, it was his turn.

...

Entrance.

Behind the bat's big mouth is a dark black hole.

Ten meters away, an ordinary door stood in the depths of darkness, and a light was lit in the center of the door beam wall. The light was not strong. At first glance, the upper part of the door was bright and majestic, while the lower part seemed to be soaked in the dark abyss, half in the light and half in the dark.

Neo took a breath and unscrewed the door.

There is a bright passage behind the door.

Neo breathed a sigh of relief, and when he walked here, he finally felt a little bit of a world of life, which was less strange.

There seems to be no other staff in the company. Fortunately, there are corresponding signs in the passage to the job application location.

【Travel left】.

【Walk to the right】.

【Up to the third floor】.

[The second door on the right hand side, open].

"Please sit."

In the empty room, there are only four walls, and a long table that looks like it is in the center.

Behind the long table is a young interviewer wearing a white windbreaker.

In front of the young man stood a hard cardboard folded into a triangle-stable structure, and the letter "L" was written on the side facing the door.

“L?”

Neo recalled the content on the screen last night and said intimately that the last word of the multiple-choice ellipsis was not a garbled code.

Sitting on the stool, Neo calmed down.

He began to look at his interviewer.

At first glance, the interviewer's facial features looked nothing surprising, but Neo was very nervous and subconsciously shrank his body. He had the illusion that the other party would cross the table at any time, revealing a ferocious look, and hit him to death with one punch. When Neo cleared his strange "illusion", he couldn't help but find it funny. How could the interviewer beat the candidate to death casually?

A faint smile appeared on the other person's face, which made Neo calm down and no longer think about it.

"Neo, it turns out it was you... I've been waiting for you for a long time."

L seemed very happy and rubbed his palms hard. After he said something that made Neo feel inexplicable, the young man coughed twice and raised a piece of white paper.

Neo was a little confused. When he entered the door, he observed for a while and there was obviously no paper on the table.

"As usual, ask a few...small questions now."

Neo nodded and sat upright.

"Name."

"Neo."

"age."

"38 years old."

"It's old."

"?"

The young man smiled and put down the paper. Only then did Neo notice that the paper was blank and there was no problem at all. Neo suddenly had the illusion of "he was fooled".

"A middle-aged man at the age of thirty-eight, living in the garbage dump, single, unmarried, accomplished nothing, and doing nothing. Facing the 'instructions' on the road, you have no doubts, follow the rules and numb execution, haha, you, can't do it."

Neo lowered his head.

I suddenly realized that the "application" had already begun when I stepped into the door.

Wait a minute.

I wonder if the instructions given by your company are wrong?

He raised his head, dissatisfied and prepared to make an opinion.

"Shh."

The young man raised a finger: "Anger? Not bad, he still knows how to be angry. Then, enter the second stage of the assessment."

Neo's eyes flashed, and the young man crossed the long table and walked to himself at some point.

His first reaction was: It turned out that he would really step over and hit people!

The young man quickly stretched out his two fingers and poked Neo's forehead.

Bang.

Neo's eyes were dark.

Before losing consciousness.

A gentle voice whispered in his ear.

"Go to sleep."

"I wish you a wonderful night."

...

The heavy rain is like smoke, washing the earth.

When Neo opened his eyes again, he had arrived at another completely different "world".

The ground, the stars were gone, and under the torrential rain, they were extinguished in pieces.

The world, in front of Neo, gradually entered the complete darkness.

The heavy rain fell, gathering into turbid torrents, and on the ground full of gullies and potholes, gathering into new "lakes" and "river".

But these rivers and lakes are no longer clear and beautiful, mixed with metal residues and scorched earth, surging endlessly, and they look like dirty tar.

Neo looked at the desolation and despair in front of him in shock.

He lowered his head and found that he had no body.

He was left with only a "view" and in shock, he watched the world in front of him weakly towards the ending.

"What are your thoughts?"
To be continued...