Section 56 City
Humans are a kind of social animal.
When humans live in a certain place to a certain number, cities naturally appear.
What is the specific basis and origin of the name Novo Minsk? This question has long become unverified. People can only speculate from the city name that the earliest settlers here may be Russian blood descendants from the old era.
Magnetic levitation vehicles can adapt to most terrains. Although people are still accustomed to classifying it as the category of "cars", no one can deny that the speed of this light vehicle of 300 kilometers per hour has long surpassed the fuel machinery of the old era.
Running calmly in the vast wilderness, feeling the regular shaking of the car body. Zhao Yi's heart was filled with vague excitement and expectation.
He really wanted to see the city Feng Tansong mentioned with his own eyes. Because of curiosity and ambition.
He truly felt the loneliness and weakness of a person.
He needs companions.
Zhao Yi does not agree with those recruiting followers from other immigrant planets
They are difficult for themselves, or they cannot develop enough loyalty to themselves. Under the temptation of interests and money, there are many things that can be sold as goods. Among them, they also include conscience.
Industrial civilians are completely different from citizens
Many of them, to be precise, should be more than 99% of them, and may never be able to get their deprived rights in their lifetime. The reserve system has been written into the Constitution by the Federation and Pan-United Union, which stipulates a limit of 100,000 yuan, and zhèng Fu also imposes many relevant clauses on the purchase price of ore, resource output, and market. On the surface, as long as industrial civilians work enough, they can indeed save up 100,000 yuan in deposits and return to the civilized world. But in fact, to do this, extractors need to find rich mining areas with sufficient metal content... Mining companies and zhèng Fu cannot turn a blind eye to high-mineral areas that are easy to mine. Therefore, this statement of getting rich through mining is actually just a concealment of scam. Neither the federal nor pan-United Union will allow industrial civilians to be converted into citizens on a large scale.
Once this happens, the resource output of zhèng fu will drop sharply to an extremely dangerous level. Moreover, the reserve system can reduce the unemployment rate to a minimum, and the food, medical insurance, and social welfare of this part of the population will not be responsible for... It is conceivable that no politician will allow society to re-accept industrial civilians. That will only bring new chaos without any profit.
The emergence of Feng Tantan gave Zhao Yi a completely different understanding of the special group of industrial civilians. He suddenly discovered that one by one
You may be able to obtain the most precious wealth that a civilized society will never give to you.
They have lost one by one, so they know more than anyone else to cherish.
They have nothing, so they will not have any scruples. They are fierce, brave, and crazy about the enemy.
They feel desperate about the future and the present
So, they dare to do anything...
There is no road on the surface of the planet ag64. After driving east for two hours, uneven building contours finally appeared on the horizon. Although it is very short and there is no regular arrangement, it is indeed a city.
Perhaps because it was just around noon, the whole city had not woken up from the carnival that last night, and everything seemed very quiet.
The houses here obviously have not been strictly planned.
It is very messy, the building walls are extremely rough and have no decoration, and it feels like a privately built slum on an immigrant planet. Old wooden boards, broken linoleum, rusted iron sheet, dirty plastic film... In short, all the materials that can be thought of and found may become part of the messy shed.
The magnetic levitation car slowly drove into the city along the street. Through the light blue window glass, Zhao Yi saw faces exposed from the cracks of the door and the middle of the window ling. They should be residents of No. minsk. There was no friendship or closeness in their eyes, only nakedness, nakedness, greed, indifference, and hatred.
"You shouldn't have driven in."
Feng Tantan, who was sitting next to the driver's seat, obviously had expected such a scene to happen. He had made a similar lawsuit to Zhao Yi more than half an hour ago, but the latter turned a deaf ear to him and smiled at him.
"Are these people industrial civilians?"
Looking at the hostile eyes, Zhao Yi asked seriously.
Feng Tantan nodded and said, "From the sixth year after the era of interstellar immigration, this place has become the largest industrial civilian settlement on planet AG64. Many people here are descendants of the first generation of civilians. There are no veins worth mining nearby, and they have long had no hope for the so-called citizenship. If there was not a river near the surface nearby, small-scale planting could be carried out... This city would have been abandoned long ago."
“Grow?”
Zhao Yi asked in confusion: "Food?"
“Poppy/Pork”
Feng Tantan shrugged and said, "The purified Haizi Luoziyin, crystal, has always been one of the best-selling goods on the immigration planet. People need to find happiness in fantasy, and they also need to imagine zi you in the bound reality. Without it, at least 60% of people in the New Minsk would starve to death."
"Sixty percent?"
Zhao Yi continued to ask: "What about the remaining forty percent? How do they live on?"
"Many mining companies have ore acquisition stations on ag64. Immigration Planet has fixed flights with them. Some residents are hired by them at very low prices. Of course, related service industries are also indispensable. Especially women... You should know that beautiful faces and graceful figures can be exchanged for food anywhere."
Feng Tandan seemed reluctant to talk about this topic. He was silent for a few seconds, shook his head in a lonely expression: "You may not understand what I just said. After all,... you are a citizen, and two completely different people from us. But no matter what, I have to thank you for your bread."
"Say the rest one by one"
Zhao Yi held the steering wheel with both hands and stared out the window, and his tone suddenly became very sharp: "You only talk about the situation of a woman. So what about the elderly? And the children?"
"You seem to be curious about everything here."
Feng Tan's voice was a little low, with a hint of sarcasm: "It's really rare. You know, you are a citizen."
"You haven't answered my question yet"
Zhao Yi's words were irresistible and determined.
"You really want to know?"
Feng Tantan turned around, and a strange and shining gaze was released from deep in his eyes.
Zhao Yi nodded slowly and surely.
"Drive forward, turn left at the second intersection and keep walking."
After pinching the bread in his pocket hard, Feng Tantan's voice was no longer as cold as before, with a hint of gentleness.
The rear of the car, driven by the repulsion force, spewed out two regular slender dents on the dusty street. A few seconds later, the suspended car driven by powerful thrust had disappeared from the corner of the street, leaving only the flying sand and dust all over the sky...
This is a relatively straight street with no dirty and dilapidated sheds, and the building materials of the buildings are mostly large pieces of heavy rock.
Following Feng Tansan's finger, Zhao Yi saw a shop on the street. It was very dilapidated and simple. At the door of the shop, there were several simple windows made of wood and scrap steel bars. Two burly men wearing black vests leaned against the doorposts, talking about a topic that interests them particularly. Greedy eyes still flashed from time to time on both sides of the street. The wanderers at the corners of the street looked at the car that did not belong to him, thinking about how to get it and how much it could be sold.
Zhao Yi filtered out those potential threat targets and turned his attention directly to the hollowed-out simple display window at the entrance of the store, a body hanging on a beam as thick as an arm.
To be precise, it should be fragments of human body cut from joints. The thighs cut from the buttocks were pale and almost gray, and the edge of the fractured mouth had a light green corrupt substance. The two arms hanging side by side with them had dried up, and their skin shrank back and left their nails. Next to these silences, there was a torso that should be connected to them. The genitals that were torn from the lower end of the body were half broken, and the deceased should be a male.
A sharp ice-breaking hook pierced his jaw and lifted his whole body up in the window. He opened his mouth wide, revealing several incomplete teeth. Because his entire head was tilted upside down, Zhao Yi could not see the eyes of the deceased. It felt like... it was a fish of strange shape. The captured person forced his cheek cover to tear it apart, and stretched his mouth to the limit in the simplest way to directly jamm the throat and fix it.
Both the torso and limbs show a very strange dark brown sè. The surface of the meat is shining with a thin oily shiny, as if it is made with special seasonings in a food stall for a short time, and then stewed with a low heat. Especially the torso of a man hanging on the edge of the window, his chest is cut from the middle and supported by a few relatively clean wooden strips. It looks like a strange-shaped butterfly, like the most common wax ribs at the entrance of the Immigration Planet Style Restaurant.
"No elderly person in the new Minsk"
Feng Tan's voice was hoarse and heavy, with a clear tooth sound like a fear of the cold, and deep sadness: "Not only here, the entire AG64 planet, and even other ore planets, there is almost no see that the elderly over the age of sixty are unable to work and cannot protect themselves. The only ending is to become someone else's food."
"According to zhèng fu, if the ore veins are occupied as mining areas, the daily ore output can be sold for about 100 to 150 yuan in federal standard currency. However, this so-called high return is just a cover-up. No industrial civilian, including me, can get such a high average ri. You must know that the distribution of ore veins is not even balanced. Even when I am lucky, my digger only digs out ore worth five yuan. Most of the time, my daily income is only two cents. Even... not a cent."
"I haven't taken a shower for two years. You know, this is a damn planet with almost complete desertification. While mining companies are purchasing resources, they also open some bathrooms and restaurants in cities like Novo Minsk. These facilities are basically for company employees and are also open to the public. A hot bath that costs five cents a day is considered a trivial cost to citizens of other planets. But in the eyes of industrial civilians, gum biscuits worth five cents are precious foods that last four days."
Zhao Yi pursed his lips tightly and stared at the human flesh window outside the shop in front of him without saying a word.
Yiyi, he was carefully chewing every word Feng Tansan said.
As a supplementary part of the serious shortage of agricultural and animal husbandry products, gum biscuits with artificial protein and synthetic fat are the most common type of gum foods.
There are many types of gum biscuits. According to different levels of consumer groups, biscuits also have their own different flavors, nutrition and prices. Among them, the "nǎi thin and crispy" made of pure beef nǎi and wheat paste is recognized as the best taste and taste in the Immigration Planet Supermarket. This 500g iron box-packed small crispy cake is priced at 160 yuan for federal currency.
Zhao Yi once saw the kind of cookies Feng Tanlan mentioned in the Earth Spaceport
It is very rough and wrapped in the cheapest kraft paper. This thing is actually the brittle gum protein cube. In order not to make it too unpalatable, sugar and salt have become the simplest additives. The largest purchase group of this kind of biscuit with a little plant smell is the industrial civilians who survive in various resource planets.
It is indeed very cheap, and it costs only five cents per five hundred grams.
"Before you, I had been hungry for two days. I looked for everything to eat like crazy. But on this planet that almost doesn't even grow grass, it is undoubtedly a luxury. I don't know if you can experience the despair of being so hungry that you don't have a penny in your pocket, and you can do anything for food. I want to kill people, and want to eat every piece of meat on them alive. Death is not a threat at all, but I still want to live. At least... I want to have a full meal and die again."
Feng Tantan once again grabbed the bag in his pocket. The food that could be touched gave him a sense of security of being down-to-earth. But for some reason, he only felt his nostrils were sour and his eyes were crying. He tried his best to calm his emotions, but it became increasingly difficult to suppress the anger and grief that erupted from the depths of his heart.
"I have no criminal swear... When I was very young, my teacher and books told me: Be a good citizen who is law-abiding. It was not until I was deprived of all my rights because I was unable to pay a reserve of 100,000 yuan and was exiled to this planet and became an industrial civilian. I suddenly realized that I suddenly realized that I was deprived of all my rights because I could not pay a reserve of 100,000 yuan and was exiled to this planet and became an industrial civilian.
Those high-sounding words with countless wonderful auras are actually empty and false lies. I have nothing, even if I put in hundreds of times hard work and hard work, I will never be able to get the so-called happiness. I have not found my wife yet. She was exiled to another planet. I don’t know if she is still alive.
There is no law among an industrial civilian. As long as you have enough strength, mouth... a woman can be your toy, a cargo, or even... food."
Zhao Yi's face was as stiff as a sculpture. He kept holding the steering wheel of the hover car tightly, and his fingers seemed to be welded together firmly. The restless and violent tyranny in his chest became more and more serious, almost unable to suppress it, and could explode at any time.
He heard this for the first time and saw it.
The information stored in the s12 computer also includes the massacres in different historical periods of human beings. In ancient times, medieval times, modern times, modern times... But that's because of war, because of prejudice between races, and the competition for regional resources and interests.
Now, human beings have entered the cosmic era. There is no country, nor a stubborn national consciousness. But blood and violence continue to speak, although they do not kill people directly, the ruling people will never make changes to this.
Looking at the corpse hanging in the window in the distance, Zhao Yi's face turned pale, and his chest and shoulders began to tremble violently like nerves.
In the eyes of normal people, it is a corpse.
To the starving industrial civilians, it was sausage, ham, and meat.
When there is nothing to eat, the scope included in the word "food" will naturally be infinitely magnified with despair and hunger.
They... are all their own kind.
It's a human.
"Where are those kids?"
Zhao Yi asked coldly and fiercely.
"What?"
Feng Tantan obviously failed to understand what he meant.
"You said that among the remaining people, besides the elderly, there are children. What about them? How are their situation?"
Zhao Yi almost squeezed out this sentence from his teeth. At some point, his eyes were covered with blood.
"child?"
Feng Tantan smiled and shook his head, and whispered almost moaning from the depths of his throat: "Children are also classified. Beautiful girls are usually bought and sent to immigration planets for professional training. It is said that the price of them every night after they become adults will not be less than 5,000 federal dollars. Some people like handsome boys, and ladies keep them like dogs. Or use drugs to stimulate them to increase their genitals in a short time... They are toys for those people. Although they can eat enough, they will never get zi you, let alone dignity."
Zhao Yi felt a flame in his body, and he was burning wildly. He looked silently ahead for a long time and muttered to himself: "Is this New Minsk?"
"No, this is the world we live in."
Feng Tantan carefully corrected his statement.
Chapter completed!