The Last 299 Days of Humanity

Chapter 91 One Thousand Eight Hundred Taels of Sleep
Yao Dan kept nagging in his ear, which annoyed him a bit.

But she did help me a lot today, so I can't really blame her.

Their learning and memory abilities are very strong, and now he increasingly treats them as human beings, rather than as intelligent tools to be disposed of at will.

"My husband, my husband, look!"

"What's wrong now? Can't you let me get some sleep in peace?"

"They're heading into the city!"

Yu Qing sat up abruptly and called out, "Who is it? May I enter the city?"

"No, it's those rows of boxes that are entering the city."

Yu Qing looked out the window at the checkpoint and saw rows of self-propelled boxes automatically sliding through the checkpoint and heading into the city.

Yu Qing grabbed Yao Dan's hand and said, "Come with me and try to conquer the challenges!"

They ran over quickly, two steps at a time, and positioned themselves between the two bicycle boxes, sticking close to the box in front of them, and nimbly made their way through the checkpoint.

But the boxes got faster and faster once they entered the checkpoint, and they could hardly keep up.

They wanted to sit on the box, but the box was smooth and four or five meters high, and they couldn't climb up at all.

Just as they were about to leave the automated cargo fleet, the light suddenly dimmed, and the boxes slowed down, soon crawling like snails.

Yao Dan asked in a low voice, "What... is this for?"

Yu Qing said, "Who knows? It's pitch black all around... By the way, Mi Fei said that the people of Wuding value sleep more than anything else. They don't allow any light or sound while they're sleeping. The box must have slowed down to reduce wind noise or something."

"Husband, what are we doing coming in at this time?"

Yu Qing was speechless for a moment. Yes, what's the point of coming in at a time like this? The whole city is like a dead place; nothing can be done.

Besides, it's pitch black here, not as pleasant as outside the city. He wanted to get into the city as soon as possible, but he's made himself stupid.

Now they dare not go anywhere, and can only follow behind, feeling the boxes. As for where they are going, who knows!
Yao Dan knew Yu Qing was afraid of the dark, so she held his hand tightly. At this moment, he was both hungry and anxious, and he was also too tired from last night to today. He felt that he might be sick, and suddenly he sneezed loudly.

This was quite a surprise; the street was suddenly brightly lit, and the sky above was still bright. To ensure their sleep quality, they had deliberately tried to cover the sky as well. Yu Qing's loud sneeze inadvertently blew open the sky.

This was tantamount to disturbing some people's sleep, which was infuriating. Immediately, a chorus of curses could be heard from all around.

But within seconds, the street was plunged into darkness and silence again, as if nothing had ever happened.

While Yu Qing and his companions were still in astonishment, they were suddenly trapped by something. They could neither speak nor move.

They were lifted up by something and taken somewhere, then left there.

Yu Qing had never felt so terrified and helpless. He regretted his rash decision.

He didn't even know what shape the thing that was binding him was, and he couldn't even communicate with Yao Dan. The Spirit Rhinoceros Necklace seemed to be ineffective or blocked here.

Around 7:30 PM, the surroundings suddenly lit up again. They had been dumped in a large hall. Two humanoid girls removed the cylindrical covers from their bodies.

A languid man strolled in, as if drunk, taking ten minutes to cover a distance of less than twenty meters. He glanced lazily at Yu Qing and said, "You... violated... Article 9, Paragraph 3 of the Wuding Public Law, causing the residents of Wuding to lose sleep... totaling 1,800 taels, a fine of 3.6 million RB or 72 hours of detention."

Yu Qing thought to himself that this guy might be the "sloth" in charge here, but he really didn't understand what it meant to lose 1,800 taels of sleep. Where did sleep get measured in kilograms? So he voiced his question.

The sloth yawned and said, "You know the saying 'time is money,' right? You... the time you interrupted the sleep of 78 people from Wuding is equivalent to 1,800 taels of gold. Considering you are a passerby from out of town and it's your first offense, I only fined you a fraction of that. Do you understand?"

Yu Qing said, "What if we choose 72 hours of detention?"

The sloth yawned again: "Okay. But I must remind you, these 72 hours don't include 20 hours of sleep each day, so it's actually 24 days..."

Yu Qing hurriedly said, "We'll pay the fine."

The sloth yawned and said, "It's time for me to go home. You all need to settle your accounts and leave by seven tomorrow morning."

After saying that, he stood there snoring loudly, and was carried out by two humanoid girls. At that moment, the room suddenly went dark again.

Yao Dan muttered under her breath, "That son of a bitch... he came to read one article and then left."

Yu Qing sighed, "This time we'll have to wait another ten hours or so. Damn it, 'time is money' can be explained like that. Burying them would be like burying gold. But how do we compensate for the time he's wasting?"

His stomach was growling with hunger. He had just noticed that the house was empty and there was no way he could find anything to eat.

Now he can only hope that tomorrow will come soon, that the checkpoints will return to normal, that Chang'e and the others will be able to enter the city smoothly, quickly complete their resupply, and then leave this awful place as soon as possible.

Yao Dan said, "Husband, why don't we ignore their damn rules and run away? I don't believe they can hold us back. Look at that guy just now, I could have killed him with one finger."

Yu Qing said, "Forget it, don't forget why we came here."

Yu Qing leaned his head against Yao Dan's chest and sighed, "This earth has been ruined by my cousins. I really don't know where we can go to settle down in the future."

"Husband, how did they become your cousins?"

"I mean their ancestors were just like ours, pure and simple people."

"How about we go back to the First Paradise? Although there are some strange animals there, they're still easier to deal with than your cousins."

"We'll see when the time comes. We can't thrive in that tiny place like the amusement park."

Yu Qing yawned and tried to lie down on the ground for a nap. Yao Dan bent her legs to give him a pillow. When he straightened his legs, he tripped over something.

He used his foot to slowly hook the thing over, held it in his hand for a long time, but still couldn't figure out what it was. He showed it to Yao Dan.

Even with her night vision activated, Yao Dan couldn't see clearly. But then she suddenly remembered something and whispered to Yu Qing, "I just saw this thing hanging on that sloth's waist."

"Are you sure?"

"One hundred percent sure."

"So what is this thing?"

(End of this chapter)