The faucet on the lawn was spraying water in circles. Zhang Heng looked up at the sky and found that the weather was good today. There was plenty of sunshine, and the wind was just right. Occasionally, a few white clouds drifted by, but the trajectory of those clouds looked a little stiff.
Zhang Heng checked his body and found that he had all the game items with him, including his Pestilence Bone Bow and his newly acquired Shrouded Scabbard. However, it also made him look like he wasn't a good person.
If he were in the real world, he would probably be invited to the police station for kung fu tea in less than ten minutes if he were to appear on the street like this. However, Zhang Heng noticed that the residents in front of him did not show much surprise on their faces. It was as if his appearance here was nothing out of the ordinary.
Other than that, Zhang Heng noticed one more thing.
Everyone who passed by him, including himself, was wearing a bracelet on their hand. If he was not mistaken, it should be a small personal terminal. The bracelet was very light, weighing less than 50 grams. It had a titanium shell, and it could project images into the air. It looked quite high-tech.
Zhang Heng saw a young couple navigating directly to a restaurant with the bracelet, and a woman who looked like a housewife was shopping on it.
So Zhang Heng learned from them and used his fingerprint to unlock the bracelet, summoning the projection of his personal terminal.
The way this titanium bracelet worked was also very similar to a mobile phone. It was also a unified operating platform with various functional modules.
Zhang Heng first clicked on his mailbox.
The emails were arranged according to date. In this case, the first email was undoubtedly the most important.
From: G7Z Security Company
Date: March 15, 2077
Recipient: Zhang Heng (G7Z Security Employee E Group 3- 07958)
Subject: Job Notice (Read)
Hello, Employee E3- 07958, Zhang Heng. The company now notifies you to go to Room 3094, Unit 12, Yacheng Apartment, Area D, before 14: 00 on March 15, 2077 to carry out a bodyguard mission for two weeks. The target is Xu Qian (photo). The mission will end at 14: 00 on March 29, 2077. During this period, please ensure the target's safety. You can discuss the specific details with the target. If you have any questions, you can also contact the company.
I wish you success in your mission.
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Sure enough, reading the email was always the right choice when one did not know what to do. This quest was called Bodyguard, and the content of this email was related to Bodyguard. Not only did it explain what he needed to do next, but it also revealed his current identity. He was an employee of the G7Z security company. This morning, he received a notice from the company asking him to protect a person named Xu Qian for the next two weeks.
Zhang Heng looked at the time displayed on his wristband. It was almost half an hour before 14: 00, and from the sign on the grass, he came to the conclusion that the community he was in now was Yacheng Apartments.
However, he did not rush upstairs to see Xu Qian.
Instead, he spent some time going online to search for some information. Finally, he was able to figure out the background of this instance dungeon.
It was the year 2077, but it was not the timeline of the world he was in.
The background of this quest was a bit like the American TV series "The Wizard of the High Castle." However, it was not as dark as "The Wizard of the High Castle."
The United States, China, and the Soviet Union still won the final victory. However, the huge losses caused by World War II made humans learn from their mistakes. Finally, they decided to establish a union and become a huge federal country. After that, they shared all technology and culture. This also explained why the game's background introduction stated that New Shanghai 0297 belonged to the Federation.
The establishment of the Federation allowed humans to enter an unprecedented era of peace. Away from the threat of war, humans could develop and build with peace of mind. Coupled with the sharing of technology and culture, the level of technological development of humans in this timeline was slightly ahead of the real world.
After the elimination of trade barriers, the economy ushered in unprecedented prosperity. The pursuit of monopoly interests by capital gave birth to huge conglomerates. Shengtang Morgan Group was one of them. At the same time, humans were not satisfied with continuing to live on Earth, and they began to move into space.
New Shanghai 0297 was born under this background.
It was a huge space station city. The centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the center simulated gravity. In order to control the Coriolis effect, such space station cities were usually built very large.
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Zhang Heng closed the webpage and checked the subsequent emails. Most of them were advertisements, recommending a variety of products and discount information. Unfortunately, Zhang Heng could not find any information related to the shellac record that he was looking for in the main quest.
Other than that, there were several emails he sent to his friends and family. Like him, his friends were employees of the G7Z security company. As for his family, Zhang Heng's parents were still alive. He also had a sister in this timeline. Zhang Heng's bracelet saved their photos and videos, but they had nothing to do with his family in the real world.
All three of them stayed on Earth, and they would regularly video call him once a month. It was less than a week since the last call. So, Zhang Heng did not have to worry about this matter in the short term.
That was all the information he had gathered in the past twenty minutes.
For now, Zhang Heng did not see any danger in this dungeon.
According to the information he found on the Internet, the third level of New Shanghai 0297 was very safe, and the annual crime rate was very low. But then again, he thought he had returned to high school after the first proxy war. It didn't take long for him to discover the alien creatures hidden in human society. With that in mind, Zhang Heng would not take it lightly this time.
He looked at the time, and there were only ten minutes left before 14: 00. Without further ado, Zhang Heng turned off the projection on his bracelet and decided to meet the target named Xu Qian first. He wanted to learn more about this mission.
Since the main quest did not require him to protect Xu Qian, theoretically, even if Xu Qian died in front of Zhang Heng, it would not affect his quest this time. Zhang Heng could even leave after meeting Xu Qian and ask for leave from the company.
After that, he could collect his shellac records with peace of mind. With his extra 240 days of game time, Zhang Heng believed that as long as there were shellac records in New Shanghai 0297, he would be able to find them. But the question was, would things really be that simple?
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