Mo Lichen stared at the weird pop-up window on his phone screen. The incandescent lights of the subway car reflected a blurry halo on the screen.
Want to understand the meaning of life? Want to really... Live?
There are only two buttons below: [Confirm] and [Cancel].
"In what age do you still use this kind of memes..." Mo Lichen sneered, and habitually slid his thumb to the left to close the advertisement.
On his twenty-third birthday, he had to work overtime until nine o'clock in the evening. He was already so tired that his eyelids were clenching. After graduating from Ordinary University, he joined an ordinary Internet company, worked as an ordinary programmer, and received an ordinary salary. His parents run a small supermarket of less than 50 square meters in his hometown. His younger sister, Mo Xiaoxiao, is just a freshman in college. He has to send 2,000 yuan back home every month.
This is reality.
A mechanical female voice sounded from the subway announcement: "We are arriving at the station ahead, Century Avenue. Passengers getting off the train, please be ready——"
The carriage shook violently.
Mo Lichen was caught off guard and his body fell forward. In a panic, my fingers instinctively wanted to grab something, but they only pressed on the cold phone screen.
Not swiping left.
It is pressed in the center of the [Confirm] button.
"Fuck——"
An electric touch came from the fingertips. It was not static electricity, but more like something had penetrated into the blood vessels along the fingers and flowed straight to the brain along with the blood.
[Active confirmation of detection of life forms...]
[Soul Wave Matching...]
[Matching degree 100%... Binding successful]
[Welcome to the "Daily Shenhao Lottery System" version 1.0, Host: Mo Lichen]