In the steel jungle woven by algorithms, every takeout order is a carefully designed survival game.
Chen Xiao never thought that he would become a live gear in the capital system. His mother's leukemia diagnosis was like a talisman, welding this 985 dropout to death on the electric car seat. A fatal car accident on a rainy night caused a mysterious code to bloom on his retina - an intelligent agent calling itself the "Hummingbird System" could predict the world in three seconds.
While other riders were still kneeling for overtime penalties, Chen Xiao's delivery box began to receive special orders:
• A birthday cake sent to the funeral home, signed by his sister who died in a car accident three years ago
• At three o'clock in the morning, the black incubator marked "urgent" suddenly started breathing on its own on the cross-river bridge.
• The mineral water sent by users with five-star reviews was scanned and showed that it contained nano-positioning chips.
But the more generous the "death retrospection" rewarded by the system, the more creepy Chen Xiao felt - those navigation routes that were automatically corrected during heavy rains, and those body temperature monitors that came with late-night orders, it was clear that someone was feeding a behemoth through the eyes of 300,000 riders.
At this moment, his mobile phone was vibrating wildly, and the bright red "Hummingbird Headquarters Building" was dancing in the destination of the new order. At the bottom of the countdown at 23:59:59, the system suddenly popped up a hidden prompt: [Please wear a gas mask for delivery]. Heavy rain was beating on the roof of the charging station. Chen Xiao looked at the "battle mode" that was automatically unlocked on the dashboard of the electric vehicle, and finally understood the essence of this counterattack. It was a battle for power between two systems on the human spine.
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A very good science fiction work, good luck to the author
A very good science fiction work, good luck to the author