Even a street dog like Lorna who hasn't read much knows that the world has been turned into a complete mess by the era of extraordinary programs. Activating the black stone that Elizabeth mentioned is like opening the door to hell, and all the devils escape.
Out.
Information is somehow wrong everywhere, and alien species and strange objects emerge from this.
The wilderness is a particularly serious place, and many water sources have been damaged due to the nuclear pollution left behind by the previous great war, as well as various subsequent industrial pollution and biological pollution.
Therefore, these dilapidated places are not livable and difficult to develop and operate, which has led to the suspension of the expansion of Flowing Light City.
People can only go to the twenty-nine districts in this circle called the "Streaming Metropolis", and they are packed to the brim.
This is one of the reasons why the piece of bad land in the Walled City is valuable.
"Even the bone and blood area is crowded with some people, can you believe it?" Lorna said this, her tone pretending to be frivolous.
Gu He didn't dare to casually say this to her. This was actually very important to her. "That means the Bone and Blood Area is a good place."
"It's so good that if you go in, you can get an extra hand or an extra foot, both for free."
While Lorna was talking, the off-road vehicle was driving from the densely trafficked highway into the vast and open freight area, leaving the crowded city behind, but there were still good roads here.
"The cargo area," she said, "it's not wilderness until you get out of here."
First the expressway, then the ordinary road. The road is full of all kinds of huge trucks.
Some trucks were too big and filled with all kinds of goods. Lorna's modified heavy-duty off-road vehicle looked petite and exquisite next to it. The force made Gu He's heart sink, so he had to drink wolfberry water to calm down.
Heart.
He was really worried that the untied boxes, paper rolls and other huge objects in the truck might hit him, which might flatten the off-road vehicle.
"The Anzhou Freight Railway passes through this area." Lorna added, having already started chatting on the road.
"Go around from the north of Flowing Light City and connect it with places like Angel City and Newland City. All kinds of fucking goods are being dumped every day, and it's all money."
Gu He soon saw a section of the Anzhou Freight Railway's elevated railway passing above.
Off-road vehicles and pickup trucks follow the flow of traffic and drive into the "freight center." The freight area radiates from this area, and is filled with endless giant freight warehouses, employee dormitories, and shops.
In addition to the stations in the two industrial zones in the east and west, the goods produced by the factories in Liuguang City are distributed from here.
The headquarters building of the Railway Bureau is also here. In the freight area, the Railway Bureau, which is in charge of railway affairs, is more useful than the Metropolitan Police Department.
The bureau even has a "railroad patrol" responsible for ensuring the safety of freight railway transportation.
"The freight guy and the girl from Lannitan are a perfect match. They contributed half of the street rats in Flowing Light City, and they also run half of the factory assembly lines."
Gu He listened to Lorna say that the image on the streets was not very good, but almost no one in the city was as smelly as the freight man.
These people all have legitimate careers, driving for various companies, driving trucks, buses, trains...
However, the drivers are high-level freight guys, more often than not, they are guys who do hard work, lifting goods and cleaning up road debris, which is the role that Gu He was almost sold to by Brother Zhuang.
Among these freight guys, the high-ranking ones all live in small cells in the super-large dormitories near the freight center, while the low-ranking ones live in overcrowded shacks, depending on their seniority and authority.
"No matter how old you are, what authority you have, it's just a piece of cake." Lorna said, "You can't work for a few years before you die of overwork."
The sky here is always dusty, and there is always the sound and vibration of freight trains roaring past.
The living environment is so poor that there are not many neon lights. In comparison, Kabukicho is really a world of flowers.
"I heard that Santo and Seth are developing some kind of computer artificial intelligence." Lorna said mockingly, "Whenever it is done, all these freight guys will be unemployed immediately and they will all be driven into the wilderness."
"Do you have a problem with freight guys?" Gu He asked, looking out of the car window and seeing a group of laborers loading and unloading goods in the distance.
Those people were sweating profusely, and he felt like it was hard just to look at them. In comparison, they were better off as street dogs.
"I'm a mercenary. I've done the job of blocking roads and robbing goods a few times. The freight man was very annoyed. And, let me tell you, these people are not part of the street dogs..."
Lorna suddenly stopped talking and stopped talking. After a while, she said again:
"Street dogs have dreams. Street dogs will always dream. Dreams of good luck, dreams of getting rich, dreams of sweet pets, etc. I watch them all come to an end, but as long as they are not addicted to drugs, they all dream of a future. Even if there is no future, it is still the future.
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"But freight guys are different. They have jobs, but they actually know that they don't have long to live. They only live for a few years. Once a person knows where his death date is, he has no dreams and dares to do anything.
"Half of the bad things in Lanni pond were done by freight guys, but that's not enough.
"Some unscrupulous freight guys got some drugs from somewhere and sold them in the muddy ponds. That's how those ignorant girls were ruined. They got pregnant and rotten, and the children they gave birth to were thrown away and infected with the disease.
drug addiction.
"There are so many dogs in this city. Apart from bank dogs, what I fucking hate the most are poisonous dogs. Basically, they will die early."
Lorna spat, "Anyway, freight guys are crazy dogs at the bottom of the bank, messy things. I know they are also bad luck, but I just hate them."
"Hmm..." Gu He knew too little to comment, and his heart became a little heavy, "The freight area is the northernmost one?"
"Connected to the city, there is also a northern agricultural area. It is not connected to the city. It is further north and farther away from here. It is considered to be in the wilderness. It is full of various things. Fenggu wine is brewed there."
Lorna stepped on the accelerator and accelerated the car.
Gu He looked at the wolfberries floating in the thermos cup, "Are these wolfberries too?"
"Maybe, it may be imported from other places." Lorna chatted, "There are so many mouths in and outside the city, and there is only so much land in the agricultural area, how can there be enough food? Those big companies have other places.
Big farm.
"Almost all agricultural areas are assets owned by banks, and farmers are all working part-time. I don't know how they live. I haven't been there much. Anyway, I heard that if you plant the fields, you will become fertilizer.
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Gu He felt a little horrified when he heard this, and the wolfberry water in his mouth no longer smelled good.
The bank's monopoly is higher than he thought, and the darkness in this place has no lower limit than he could imagine.
It seems that the further north you go and the further you leave the city, the more naked, rough and sinister it becomes.
The Walled City area is already a city of sin, but the freight area further north is a hopeless place, and the agricultural area is definitely not much better.
"It's too difficult." He couldn't help but sigh, wondering how the goose could be so motivated.
"What?" Lorna glanced at him and couldn't help laughing again, "We are traveling, what are you doing with a stiff face? Just think that I was just talking nonsense. In fact, it was just nonsense. It's just an urban legend. It's me.
I'm just talking nonsense to scare you."
She reached out and patted his shoulder, "It's not that serious. If you feel uncomfortable, just think about the Acropolis Mountains and Lake Eden. There are many people in this city who are living a good life."
"As for those who are not living well, those are not humans, they are just dogs that only bark and complain."
"Drive well." Gu He pushed away Lorna's hand and said urgently: "Drive slower!"
In the evening, off-road vehicles and pickup trucks gradually left the cargo area and continued to drive north.
After a while, the traffic gradually decreased, and there were no good roads anymore, only some dilapidated and deserted roads, worse than those over the muddy pond.
There are no buildings on the vast, desolate, dilapidated land. There are piles of garbage in some areas, strong winds carry a stench, and there are dead vegetation everywhere, but some abnormal trees are still growing strong.
They have coordinates to rendezvous with the recovery pioneers.
Without coordinates, it is extremely difficult to find a tribe in the wilderness. Even if there is satellite information like the Metropolitan Police Department, it is difficult, because large tribes have "invisible equipment", so the information captured by the satellite is just a wilderness.
Of course there are large tribes like the Pioneers of Recovery, and there are even strange things that play hide and seek with bank dogs.
Wandering tribes like these get into trouble from time to time. If they can't hide themselves well, they won't live long.
But the coordinates were just a meeting point. The two vehicles met up with several vehicles of the Awakening Rangers before driving to the actual tribal camp location.
The sky gradually darkened, and it was the first time since Gu He traveled through time that he saw such an endless expanse of sunset and sunset.
The convoy bumped along the deserted road. When night fell, the moon appeared in the night sky without light pollution, and there were many light spots, densely packed, but pleasing to the eye, like stars.
"Wow..." Gu He looked out of the car window. The weather was very good today, and the stars could shine all over the sky.
"Look, watch to your heart's content. It's free and you won't get anything if you don't want to watch it." Lorna already knew that he wanted the data on the movement of the zodiac and constellations.
Of course Gu He would not be polite. He looked at the stars and thought about the knowledge that Elizabeth had taught.
He also brought the drawing she drew. He took it out of his pocket and looked at the star palaces and star charts on the paper, looking for the position of the first house in the night sky.
But he was not an astrologer, and Lorna knew nothing about it, so in the end she could only take a casual look.
But looking at the vast starry sky and being away from the neon lights for a while, he really felt very comfortable...
My heart, which was a little blocked after hearing Lorna's words, was relaxing as I stepped into this starry sky.
He thought that Jane should come here. You can't see this starry sky in the low-tech land, so Jane should take a look at this thing.
If there is anything good about lower-level subjects, this is definitely indispensable.
And Star Child, she should come too, that’s what her parents named her.
This should be a beauty that everyone can appreciate since childhood. The mysteries of the night sky are only for children to explore.
[Container, program level: Special 35%, ↑10%]
Gu He couldn't help but be surprised when he noticed the prompt on the console, but he also felt that he was comprehending something and was filling in some key data to the program. This feeling of tolerating the starry sky was another characteristic of the container.
At this time, in front of me illuminated by the car lights, among the stars in the night sky, there was a silver-winged figure flying towards me.
"Ha." Lorna smiled and pressed the car horn to say hello. Gu He also saw clearly that Sakai Kaoqing, who was driving a pickup truck next to him, shouted excitedly: "Miss Chiba!" Sakai Shukichi and Quan Lao also poked their heads in.
in sight.
As for the recovery vehicle that was leading the way, someone used the vehicle's loudspeaker to announce: "The guests are here."
The delicate and slender silver wings displayed a graceful flying arc, and Chiba Gibson flew towards the ground convoy in the night wind.
The big star who was once trapped in the screen is now a free person. She laughs in the starry sky: