Deep in the Living-Chapter 224 - 213: Earth and the Moon

Luo Di stood at the crossroad outside the City Investigation Bureau, quietly waiting for the traffic light to change.

But when the pedestrian green light lit up across the street and everyone began to cross orderly, he remained still, letting passersby continuously walk past him.

He had a very strange feeling.

Even though he had a clear goal in mind at the moment,

and had taken up a new hobby,

watching the passing pedestrians, he always felt something was missing, and he felt a return to a familiar state, a state of being alone.

When the second green light came on, Luo Di crossed the street and headed towards the Youth Apartment.

His suitcase was already packed, he just needed to go back to fetch his things and he could leave.

Considering that Yu Ze had a week’s vacation, Luo Di did not plan to bother him. After all, Yu Ze had already helped enough, and it was sufficient for him to head to the Capital alone; he could ask Mercury Group for anything he didn’t understand.

Ding!

The elevator stopped on the eleventh floor.

As Luo Di prepared to return to his bachelor apartment for the last time, who knew that two people would be standing at the door?

Yu Ze, wearing round sunglasses and a bun, and Ms. Yun, who looked younger than Luo Di, currently cosplaying a nun with pink hair, even wearing a cross on her chest.

Yu Ze had already looked towards the elevator and waved his arm enthusiastically, "Fellow citizen, shall we go together?"

"You can calculate everything, can’t you?"

"Cause leads to effect."

"What about your vacations?"

Yu Ze spread his hands, "Due to the Island Incident, all offshore activities have been suspended, there’s nothing fun here. Why not go back to the Capital and spend time in the library, or watching your assessment could also be interesting."

"Alright."

...

The pink sports car raced down the highway, after all, it was night already, and they wouldn’t reach the Capital until the early morning even at a speed of 200 km/h.

Yun still watched her favorite anime program,

while the two boys chatted in the back seat.

"Fellow citizen, how does the intake of the pituitary feel? Or what does it feel like to officially have the Corner system?"

"It’s alright, so far the only impact it seems to have is inverting my daily routine."

Yu Ze lit up, "That’s great~ Such changes in routine are quite normal. After all, another name for the Corner system is the ’Fear System’, and most things related to fear happen at night.

I guess you probably chose something related to the Assassin type, linked with the Murderer, such a type naturally likes to be active at night.

However, there are few night owls in our department, so if you join, you’d fill the gap for the night shift. If there’s any urgent matter that occurs in the early morning, there’d be no need to call me anymore.

You better pass the assessment quickly!"

"My pituitary is still in the initial phase, is it possible to join directly like this?"

"Like us, you can join as an Intern Investigator.

Eventually, it all depends on the specific results of the assessment, the upper management will allocate you to a department according to the assessment results. Of course, your subjective preference will still account for a certain proportion of the allocation.

So, try to choose our department when the time comes."

Luo Di continued to inquire: "Is there anything different about the work of a Capital Investigator?"

"You’ll know when the time comes, focus on passing the assessment for now. Since you are a key focus, if you report by the end of tonight, the assessment could probably be arranged for tomorrow.

Maybe even directly tonight.

I’m not at all worried about your ability,

the only concern is your ’Heart’.

Though you were the main hero in the Island Incident, the ’problem’ you displayed was also reported by me. Including using ’me’ to escape trouble.

The higher-ups have strict requirements for ’Heart’, because anyone qualified to go to the Capital Investigation Bureau may later need to go to the Corner.

If even the basic Heart is problematic, then one will completely lose oneself under the whisper of the Corner and become humanity’s adversary.

We certainly wouldn’t be foolish enough to cultivate our own enemy, right?

But of course, I’m sure you won’t have any problems."

"Thanks."

"I’ll take a nap now~ You can watch the anime with Yun."

Yu Ze placed a calming talisman on his forehead and promptly fell asleep,

Luo Di did not continue to ask other questions, although there were many answers that could be directly obtained from Yu Ze, perhaps exploring these answers himself would be more interesting.

The night fell,

Luo Di was not sleepy at all and followed Yun to watch what was so-called animation.

Having never been exposed to animation before, he quickly became immersed in its plot delivered through animation, unexpectedly finding it not bad at all, and without realizing it, he watched ten episodes.

It was at this moment.

In front of the car window,

the end of the freeway revealed a city, a unique city that was illuminated only by moonlight without any artificial lights.

It’s known that the Corner Law has quite strict urban construction regulations.

In any city within the United Nations, there must be sufficient lighting systems and two completely different power supply modes, so that even if the electricity is cut off, biological energy can support the light.

Lighting is the best way to prevent the formation of Physical Corners, and all cities must be illuminated to the standard 24 hours a day.

However, the city in front had no illumination spilling out,

If it were a normal city, even the light on its walls would be enough to radiate around five kilometers, illuminating the countryside and forests.

Just as Luo Di was about to ask, Yun, who had been watching animations all along, directly removed Yu Ze’s talisman paper.

"Senior brother, should we detour?"

Yu Ze stretched lazily, stood up, and looked towards the city without lights, "We’ve arrived at the Moon so soon, and I haven’t slept enough yet~ Alas, let’s continue sleeping when we get back.

To detour~ Crossing the Moon might waste more time than taking a detour, and we might even encounter troubles." freeweɓnovel-cøm

"Is Moon referring to Moon City?"

Luo Di had learned the relevant geography in high school culture class; Moon City was different from other cities and was a satellite city exclusively for Capital Earth City.

But that was all he knew.

Yu Ze could see Luo Di’s confusion at a glance and directly gave him the answer he wanted:

"Moon City is currently the only satellite city in the country, based on the Capital and expanded out, the two cities are 30 kilometers apart and connected by special rails.

Moon City is designated as an Experimental City.

Corner Law is not strictly applied to it.

[Day and Night Rotation] is the most obvious manifestation. During the night, Moon City will only keep some basic street lights, and most building lights and city wall lights are turned off.

Unless there is really a large-scale Corner effect inside, all these lights would be turned on.

Besides, if you go to the Moon, you’ll see many different things; it’s very interesting~ and also quite dangerous. Inside Moon City, the control over Pseudo-Person is relatively relaxed, and it’s better for you to find out the specific reasons later."

"Hmm."

The vehicle sped along the bypass freeway, and the scale of Moon City was almost equal to Mingwang City and Jupiter City, it could definitely be considered an independent city.

Yet, this obvious alternation of day and night and the city management independent of Corner Law made Luo Di also very interested.

"Will I be carrying out as...signment in Moon City later?"

"If you, Luo Di, want to complete your pituitary soon, Moon City is indeed a good choice, but it still depends on the attitude and arrangements from above.

Moon City isn’t somewhere you can go just because you want to."

"Alright."

Almost at the moment the vehicle bypassed Moon City, a warm and strong radiance spread forth.

The originally ordinary freeway here turned into a self-luminous track, resembling a band of stars.

The car’s sound system also simultaneously emitted a sound, receiving a mandatory audio from the Capital.

[Welcome to Earth Orbit, the license plate ’Earth A-██████’ has been confirmed. As the vehicle has one more person than when departing the city, please proceed to the checkpoint along Track #2 for temporary personnel registration.]

Luo Di’s gaze followed the highway dubbed Earth Orbit and looked towards the front end.

A cityscape of unimaginable scale appeared in the distance.

Buildings of a hundred meters are common in this city, and even five buildings that reach up to a kilometer thrust into the clouds could be seen, one of them seeming to bear a familiar logo which appeared to be from Mercury Group as he looked closely.

Numerous flying vehicles hovered between cities.

From the smallest drones to large technological airships.

Some gigantic airships seemed completely commercialized, porjecting various commercial advertisements or company profiles on their surfaces.

He hadn’t even entered the city yet, and Luo Di was already shocked by the scale and level of development of the Capital.

Immediately following, his gaze moved towards the high places in the city, towards the upper part of the kilometer-high buildings, into the depths of the clouds.

There seemed to be something gigantic floating above, similar to a ring-shaped UFO.

"That is... what?"

"Fellow countryman, you do have good eyesight~ That’s where you’re going to have your interview later.

The center of the nation,

[E.I.A World Bureau]."

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