Dark Side

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With Luo Di's reply successful, his attention was pulled away from the computer screen, and a strong feeling of hunger compelled him to quickly go downstairs to find food.

However, this time he did not have a strong craving for brains, perhaps because he had already ingested the Pseudo-Human pituitary from the lake, and was simply hungry.

There happened to be a noodle shop downstairs, and it was run by Chinese people.

One pound of beef noodles, plus an extra pound of beef toppings, and three servings of side dishes. They drank every last drop of soup, leaving the burly men with big bellies at the next table speechless.

"Phew... I'm alive again."

I can't do that anymore; it's too harmful to my health. From now on, I'll carry some food with me when I go out at night, or eat some instant noodles beforehand when I get back to my rented room. Using my pituitary gland too much will lead to extreme physical exertion.

As Luo Di walked out of the shop, he looked at his bracelet; it was only seven o'clock.

This is a good opportunity to learn more about this Moon City. The most direct way is to find the local Investigation Bureau or the Mercury Hotel, where you can immediately obtain the most comprehensive information.

but,

Luo Di didn't want this so-called comprehensiveness, or the sense of security of being able to directly pierce the unknown and reach the end.

He is now enjoying the feeling of exploring the unknown.

In the future, once you venture into a remote corner, there won't be any information like the Investigation Bureau providing you with all the details. Exploring the unknown will be a crucial skill.

Upon closer examination, the Bureau's decision to grant Luo Di the title of "commissioner" also served this purpose, hoping that he could act independently without relying on the Investigation Bureau.

And most importantly, Luo Di's current level allows him to be so willful. Luo Di idea is to gain experience and pleasure by exploring the unknown, and gradually replenish his pituitary gland in the process.

He returned to the building where his rented apartment was located.

The landlords had a simple dinner and were heading to the exit of the Earth-Moon Tunnel to solicit customers when they encountered Luo Di standing outside the door as soon as they opened it.

"Young man, have you eaten yet?"

"I just ate."

"That's good. I see you haven't been out much during the day. If you haven't eaten, you can come here and have some noodles."

Without saying a word, Luo Di transferred five hundred yuan to the Old Couple in person.

This is a huge sum of money for the Old Couple; sometimes, during the off-season, they might not earn this much even in ten days.

"Young man, what's this?"

"You two don't need to go out to work tonight. I have some questions I'd like to ask. May I come in?"

"Come in quickly, old man! Open your jar of tea!" With a single glance, the old woman told the old man to brew the best tea in the house, and then led Luo Di into the house.

It's the same size as Luo Di's rental apartment, a one-bedroom, one-living room unit.

The room was filled with a lot of clutter, making it very small, and the sofa and other items were clearly many years old.

In addition, Luo Di also noticed that a portrait of a young man was hanging in the living room.

A cup of hot tea was quickly brewed and brought over. Since the elderly couple had already received payment, they sat properly opposite them.

They acted very professionally, as if they needed to provide a sufficiently detailed answer to justify this sudden transfer.

"Just be casual. I'll just ask about Moon City."

"If you ask, I will answer you with everything I know."

"This is my first time here as a passenger. There were many 'residents' on the same train. What is their situation?"

The old man smiled helplessly. "To put it nicely, we're residents; to put it bluntly, we're exiled. My wife and I were also exiled here. Before, when there were three of us in our family, we lived in Earth City."

There's really nothing wrong with saying it.

My son is a disappointment. He can't study hard and doesn't work properly. Even when he's given a job, he often causes trouble. In the end, he became Pseudo-Human because of some things.

After all, he's our son. We didn't tell him about it right away, but the capital city quickly found out.

The son was taken away as Pseudo-Human, and received news of his death six months later.

We were stripped of our Residency Qualification in the capital for Crime of Harboring Imposters and were soon exiled here. We've been quite lucky; we've managed to live here successfully for over ten years, and we've even acquired ownership of this old building and bought a beat-up car for taking passengers. Life's not too bad.

"So, people who break the law in the capital will be sent to Moon City and become its residents?"

"It's close, but it's not necessarily illegal."

Some people who couldn't make it in the capital were forced to come here. Anyway, the residents here are mostly excluded from the capital's social circles; they just live one day at a time.

Luo Di nodded and continued, "It seems that the management of Pseudo-Human in Moon City is quite lax?"

The old woman standing nearby immediately began to complain, "It's not just relaxed, it's completely unmanaged. This city is modeled after the outside world, with no Day-Night Cycle, and not even the most basic Investigation Bureau."

Humans and Pseudo-Human live together in this city, maintaining a very delicate balance.

My old man used to drive quite a few passengers, and occasionally he'd encounter passengers with obvious signs of being Pseudo-Human, but they weren't interested in the two of us old folks.

"No Investigation Bureau? Humans and Pseudo-Human coexist?"

Luo Di had assumed that the Moon City was lax in its management of the Pseudo-Human, but it turned out to be a state of complete neglect. No wonder the website had set up a special Moon City Special Zone and it was so easy to interact with the Pseudo-Human.

He even suspects that many Pseudo-Human have registered accounts on 4hs specifically to use offline events to find prey.

The old woman waved her hand. "Only Moon City would dare to do that. After all, it's right next to the capital and has the ultra-fast transportation mode of the Earth-Moon Orbit, which allows people to travel back and forth in less than ten minutes."

No matter how many Pseudo-Human there are here, they don't dare to carry out a large-scale massacre, and they don't even dare to commit Bright Side killings.

Because the threat from the capital always looms over this area.

Rumor has it that the "Full Moon" that appears every night is a form of surveillance by the capital. The moonlight falls on most areas of the city, and if any Pseudo-Human dare to cause trouble in the city, the capital may send people to deal with them.

We met once five years ago.

A large-scale riot broke out in a shopping mall, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of people.

The capital immediately dispatched two people, who completed the suppression within minutes, publicly executing the Pseudo-Human regime in the streets. Since then, no major casualties have occurred.

The closer you are to the Earth-Moon Orbit, the safer it is.

As long as one lives a normal life, there is basically no need to worry about the threat posed by the Pseudo-Human.

"I see..."

Luo Di has thoroughly figured out how the Moon City operates and has roughly guessed the true purpose of establishing this satellite city.

Just like the Eden hidden beneath Pluto City, this Moon City is also a kind of "dark side" in some ways, except that everyone knows about this dark side, and it has its own necessity.

Luo Di sipped his tea, pondering:

"But does this balance, achieved through the deterrence of the capital, truly represent stability? What about those places that can't even see the light of the capital—haven't they already rotted and festered?"

Using the excuse of failing the assessment, the higher-ups specially assigned me here as a specialist. Was it just so I could explore the dark side of the moon?

Are you trying to use this to determine my true skill level?

In any case, let's start by cultivating my own pituitary gland and explore this gradually through posting on the website.