At 2:13 in the morning, Zhou Ye received an ordinary night shift order. After the passenger got on the bus, the navigation suddenly turned red, and there was a line of words at the bottom of the screen that he had never seen before: countdown to death, 24:00.
He initially thought it was just a system glitch.
It wasn't until twenty-four minutes later that the man in the back row who had been talking just now actually died at the finish line.
What's even more strange is that when Zhou Ye opened the driver app again, the orders, routes, and passenger records for that night were all gone, as if this person had never been in his car.
From that day on, another path occasionally appeared in his navigation.
Gray, intermittent, marked as "rejected" by the system.
On the red route, only one person dies, the price is clear, and the result is stable; on the gray route, anything can happen, zero, three, six, or even more.
The system always chooses the safest answer.
But Zhou Ye couldn't help but look at the deleted road.
Later, he realized that what was really scary about this city was not that it had a system that could know who would die in advance, but that it had already learned to pick out among everyone the person who was most suitable to be sacrificed.
And now, it is also learning Zhou Ye bit by bit.
