Mysterious Catastrophe

Wilson and Jason exclaimed: "No wonder the old man didn't even go to work when he heard that he wanted a ride. The natural man is indeed a local tyrant!"

"Okay!"

Aaron nodded blankly.

In fact, if his true infinite lifespan were to be revealed, it would probably bring the Life Bank system down immediately.

But this is just an identity, which is more in line with his personality.

Chapter 1014 Medicine

"There are more than 80 years left..."

Walking out of the life bank, Chloe looked at Aaron, as if looking at a gold mine, with indescribable envy in her tone: "That is to say, you can live at least a hundred years, which is really a long life..."

"Are there no long-lived people around you?"

Aaron asked casually.

Chloe's expression instantly became sad: "No... Many people died soon after losing their jobs because their accounts ran out of time... My parents, they, they also chose to keep the remaining accounts after they were fired. The balance was transferred to me..."

"Feel sorry……"

Aaron sighed and turned to other questions: "Is it possible to access the metaverse from anywhere in the world?"

"Of course!"

Jason replied as a matter of course, as if it was normal for people to eat and drink.

"So... Except for a few natural people, almost all human beings have accounts in the Life Bank, and time can be traded... Then those bank executives, directors...can't live for a long time?"

Aaron suddenly thought of a question.

The life restriction in this world seems to have been circumvented!

"Yeah! Those noble lords in the upper city can generally live for hundreds of years..." Wilson nodded vigorously, with indescribable envy on his face: "As for the Life Bank, which is a giant Leviathan, it is said that those directors have no Old and dead, they have lived from the establishment of the bank to the present, they call themselves 'the immortals'! But we prefer to call them vampires!"

"Very apt!"

Aaron nodded, and went to the cyber group's virtual store in the Metaverse for a stroll.

All kinds of mechanical prosthetics are sold here, such as the very good mechanical arm-the laborer type [-]!

Without it, you wouldn't even be qualified to move bricks to a construction site!

"If I want to buy it, how do I trade it?"

Aaron pointed to a robotic arm.

The beautiful woman in the clerk's costume replied with a sweet voice: "Our company provides free door-to-door delivery service, as long as you are in a certain city, you can deliver it... If it's just skills, as long as your chip is suitable, sir, you can send it immediately." It can be transmitted!"

Aaron always felt that this woman looked familiar, as if she had the same skin as the bank female employee.

I just don't know if it's a man or a woman.

He came to the virtual skills area and looked at it casually:

[Driving (General): Elementary]

[Description: You can master the ability to drive a class-C suspension vehicle and a floating spaceship proficiently... It needs a Gaia sequence 007 or higher chip to carry it! 】

[Price: 100 days! 】

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[Driving (general purpose): intermediate level]

[Explanation: To master most of the driving skills of civilian machinery and some of the driving skills of military airships... a Gaia sequence 017 or higher chip is required to carry it! 】

[Price: 300 days! 】

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【Fighting: Elementary】

[Price: 50 days]

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【Gun Shooting: Advanced】

[Price: 1000 days]

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All kinds of skills and knowledge... exude a seductive light.

It just takes time!Enough time! !You can buy the corresponding module, inject it into the chip, and learn it instantly!

Aaron scanned around with interest, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Less...basic subjects!"

"Even if a person downloads a module through a chip and learns to drive a spaceship, he only knows what it is, but not why... If this continues, all the technicians will be trained, and the scientific research ability will be wiped out!"

"In addition, in the metaverse of virtual reality, you can enjoy any delicious food, beauties, and satisfy all human desires... This is no longer a mental narcotic at the level of nipple music, but a mental atomic bomb!"

Aaron sighed and pressed his glasses.

This is his exit procedure.

The next moment, he returned to the airship in reality, and countless yellow sands flew towards him.

"Brother Aaron!"

Beside them, the thin Arthur and the ugly Wilson shouted excitedly: "From now on, you will be our brother!"

On their account, the balance is in single digits!

How does it compare with this kind of local tyrant?

If it wasn't for the account of the Life Bank directly tied to the individual's brainwaves, maybe they even wanted to steal Aaron's heart!

Uh……

Aaron watched coldly, feeling that these four people would not rob him, and they were basically good people.

'Even if the account is unique and bound, there are ways to rob...'

Aaron put his right hand on the car door and narrowed his eyes slightly.

At dusk, the outline of a huge city appeared before Aaron's eyes.

The first is a black spot that suddenly appeared on the horizon.

Then... the black spot grew bigger and bigger, towering like a mountain. It was a city built of countless steel, concrete and metal.

Red, green, blue, yellow... neon lights of various colors began to shine brilliantly before it got dark.

All kinds of colors play together, completely tearing up the darkness, causing terrible light pollution even in the daytime.

Numerous airships, planes, and even the airborne car driven by the old man, like densely packed bees, are constantly flying in and out around the hive.

When he got closer to the 'city that never sleeps', Aaron felt something was wrong.

The high-rise buildings he saw before were indeed there, but only in the center of the city that never sleeps.

And outside the city center, there is an area ten times that size...

"Is this a slum?"

Aaron looked at the low and dilapidated shacks, all kinds of pipes and wires were directly exposed, and some of them were even three-none houses built with waste cardboard, and couldn't help being silent.

Originally, he thought that this world is so developed that he would see a city full of sci-fi like the metaverse!

Now it seems that such a city does exist, but only in the upper city!

The slums in the lower city still maintain the same mess and even darkness for thousands of years!

"Welcome to the city that never sleeps, the city where the light never ends!"

The old man parked the car outside an old garbage dump and yelled loudly.

Aaron looked over, and saw in a shed not far away, a beautiful woman with a rolling chest, chasing and beating a skinny man: "Dare to whore for nothing? See if I don't beat your lower body to pieces!"

Not far away, a few sneaky guys who looked like gang members were collecting protection money from a few children...

Farther away, there were occasional explosions and the sound of gunshots...

"It's really... a very dynamic city."

Aaron sighed.

"All cities are like this. If you want a safe environment, a beautiful neighborhood...it's easy, go uptown!"

Jason put his arms around Aaron's shoulders beside him: "But brother, your money is barely enough, but your status will definitely be difficult... You are a criminal in the city that never sleeps! Do you want to open an account? I know someone who can give it to you." You get a [-]% discount!"

"Don't listen to Jason, he can know a ghost!" After parking the car, the old man snorted and said, "Why don't you let me find a reliable middleman for you, and only need a negligible intermediary fee..."

While speaking, he rubbed the index finger and thumb of his right hand.

Aaron understood immediately, pressed the virtual glasses, transferred 30 days to the old man, and paid Jason for the glasses equipment at the same time.

"The boss is awesome! Is there anything else you need to serve?"

Jason showed a pleasant smile: "The old man is still smart. This trip is equivalent to returning home with a full load. Everyone can allocate at least seven days! I want to take a vacation, I want to take a half-day vacation, no, one day!"

Chloe rolled her eyes: "Jason, don't throw money into virtual reality games, you will die!"

She looked at Aaron again, and suggested seriously: "Actually, a permanent residence in the city that never sleeps is useless...the most important thing here is aristocratic status! Without noble status, you can't enter the upper city, and you will be beaten to death by those iron-headed guards." of!"

"Iron-headed guards?"

Aaron heard a new term.

"It is the person who has lost everything and sold himself to the cyber company. After the transformation, 90.00% of the organs in the body have been replaced, leaving only a head wrapped in an iron shell..."

The old man knocked on his head, showing a creepy smile: "If you lift the skulls of those guards, you will see a brain in a glass petri dish..."

"Living in the slums, you don't need any identity, you just need to have money... and money can be transferred and traded through the virtual reality network..."

Chloe finally gave a piece of advice: "Be careful with those gangs, they are like scavenging hyenas."

However, Aaron was keenly aware of some differences from these descriptions.

"The top management of the city that never sleeps does not have the same interests as the three giant Leviathans..."

'That's right, the Life Bank is chasing the highest profit, wishing that natural people all over the world could connect to the Gaia network and digitize their lifespan... The nobles of the city that never sleeps are at most local tyrants in a small area. Such a world-class giant is simply incomparable...'

He thought for a while, looked at Chloe, and smiled: "You are very honest, miss... Then, I want to hire you again."

"Hire...me?" Chloe pointed to herself, a little vigilant: "What do you want to do... Let me tell you, my mechanical hand is very powerful..."

"Chloe, you are a good person. I just came to this city. I would like to ask you to find me a safe and quiet room, as well as water and food...Of course, I will not lose your agency and protection." cost."

Aaron didn't care what Chloe thought, and said what he thought.

He does need a 'guide'.

As for being scammed?

For a real "long-lived person", even 100 or 1000 years... are just floating clouds.

"I……"

Chloe was still hesitating, but the old man and Jason quickly agreed: "No problem, Chloe is happy to serve sir... As a team, we will also provide support for Chloe."

The old man even straightened his waist, acting like a housekeeper: "Dear Mr. Aaron, I have lived in this place for more than 40 years. Where is the cheapest accommodation, where are the most beautiful women, and where are the best goods, old man all know!"

"Life...for more than 40 years?"

Aaron looked at the old man: "Are you only in your 40s?"

"Of course..." Wilson next to him continued to explain: "In our place, most people will be fired at the age of 35, and those who can live to 40 years old are old men..."

Seeing the vicissitudes of life on the old man's face, Aaron could only put his hands in his pockets.

Well... you have the final say!

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A moment later, Aaron, who turned into a slum boy, came to a block led by Jason, Wilson, the old man and other dog legs.

Although this neighborhood is still very poor, it is all reinforced concrete buildings. Although there are only one or two floors in general, it is much stronger than the shacks built with waste cardboard.

"Master Aaron, this place is called 'Comet Street', and it is the best and safest place in the slum..."