Although the apartment is old, in this era, basic network interfaces are still available, just like electrical wiring and water pipes, they are indispensable necessities.
Chu Jungui lay on the bed, closed his eyes, and seemed to be sleeping. In fact, he was connected to the Internet and began to search and collect information.
Laizhou was originally an industrial and mining city. In the past, it was famous for its large-scale production of basic metals such as iron and aluminum. Its population at its peak exceeded one million. If it were on the mother planet of the old era, Laizhou's mineral reserves would probably be among the top in the world. However, it developed in the 35th century.
, with the improvement of productivity, human demand for various mineral resources has also increased exponentially.
About a hundred years ago, several major mines in Laizhou City successively exhausted their reserves, and the entire city inevitably declined.
Different from the home star, in this era, people have too many choices, and traveling to a foreign country has a new meaning. Foreign countries often refer to unfamiliar star fields hundreds of light years away.
However, the population of Laizhou has not decreased much. There are more people leaving and more people migrating in. Those who leave are mostly young people and those who come are mostly old people.
Laizhou is a big city with complete infrastructure and convenient transportation. Although the weather here is bad, the air is breathable. The outflow of people has brought the city's prices to a very low level. For example, this small apartment in Chulongtu
, the monthly rent is less than 200. If you want to buy it, you don’t need to spend much money. This is also the reason why many elderly people move here, because it is cheap.
Within the territory of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the natural dynasty currency was hard currency. Although each vassal state had its own currency, the more developed and prosperous the area, the more dynasty coins were used.
As the first academic institution in Xinzheng, Shenshang College has always been wealthy and uses dynasty coins to issue subsidies. Therefore, the information Chu Jungui checked also uses dynasty coins as the unit of calculation by default.
After looking through the information for an unknown amount of time, Chu Jungui heard the sound of the alarm clock. He looked at the time and saw that it was just before six o'clock, but Chu Longtu was probably already up.
As an experimental subject, Chu Jungui didn't need to sleep for long. He got up immediately and went out of the room to see that Chu Longtu was still sitting in the recliner, with the same posture as last night.
The alarm clock is still ringing, and the TV on the screen is still flashing silent images.
"Grandpa?" Chu Jungui called softly.
The old man seemed to have just woken up, and then he turned around and said, "It's you! I was thinking about some things from back then, and I fell into a trance without realizing it. Since you've already gotten up, go buy some breakfast. Go downstairs and turn right.
Two blocks away is Lao Liu's shop. The taste of his shop has not changed in more than ten years."
"knew."
Chu Jungui went out and successfully found the breakfast shop that his grandfather had mentioned. It was a very small shop, so small that there could only be two tables inside. It was still dark, and the wind was cold enough to penetrate his bones.
, but the small shop has already opened, and it is full of people, and there are still a few people queuing at the door.
They are all old people.
Chu Jungui stood in line, and it wasn't long before it was his turn. The breakfast in the store was very simple, with only a few items, mostly steamed or fried foods. Chu Jungui bought two breakfasts according to his appetite, one
A dollar is spent in total.
On the way back, Chu Jungui took out a hot bun and took a bite. It was unexpectedly delicious and full of ingredients.
When he returned home, Chu Longtu had already gotten up from the recliner and started to tidy up the room. The apartment was actually very tidy, with not much clutter. Except for Chu Yunfei's room, which had been locked for who knows how long, other places were very clean.
It's just old.
After breakfast, Chu Longtu asked about Chu Jungui's academic status. Chu Jungui suddenly felt guilty. The version numbers of the abilities he could really use were all very low, and he couldn't use them at all. They were just tactical deception versions.
The number passed 1, but it was only 1.02.
Fortunately, Chu Longtu didn't ask very detailed questions. He just asked briefly and it was enough for Chu Jun to pass the test.
"It's a good thing that you can enter the Business Academy. This is a military academy, and our family doesn't have any special connections. After you graduate, you will probably be on the battlefield. You should take advantage of the two years in the academy to learn something.
There is no luck on the battlefield. If you lose the battle within the planet, you still have a chance of survival. If you fight in outer space, you will die if you lose."
Chu Jungui nodded.
"I still have some collections here, which I got when I was young. There is something that suits you very well. You can use it for self-defense."
Chu Longtu got up, went to the cabinet against the wall in the restaurant, and opened the door. There were some dishes and a few wine bottles in the cabinet. The old man grabbed the cabinet board and pushed it in. There was a click.
Just retract a little, and then the entire cabinet structure sinks, revealing a mezzanine at the back.
Embedded on the mezzanine are two long guns and three pistols, of different models, as well as corresponding ammunition.
The old man's hand passed over the three pistols one by one, and finally took the middle one, handed it to Chu Jungui, and said, "For self-defense."
Chu Jungui liked the pistol very much. When he took it, he felt it was heavy, not very comfortable to hold, and full of texture. He touched it out of habit, but he didn't find any data interface, and it didn't look like there was a chip.
The old man glanced at Chu Jungui and said, "This gun has no chip or any auxiliary system. It is just a gun. Here are the bullets. Take it."
Chu Jungui caught a box of bullets thrown by the old man and felt his hand heavy. The small box of bullets was surprisingly heavy. He opened the box of bullets, took out a bullet and looked at it. There was no display screen on the bullet, and there was no visible bullet.
There is no programming data interface, and there is no micro engine that can adjust the flight attitude and change the direction, and some are just primers.
Just the primer?
The color of Chu Jungui's pupils quietly changed a little, and he scanned the entire bullet. Sure enough, there was no micro-equipment on it, but only primers.
This is a primitive bullet powered by gunpowder.
Chu Jungui did not reject primitive gunpowder weapons. For example, when he first came out of the rescue cabin, he relied on a printed gunpowder pistol to defend himself. But that was during the survival stage on an uninhabited planet. Now, as long as there are normal supplies, even those from the business school can
Rookie students use programmable smart rifles and micro-powered ammunition.
Take the electric shock bullet as an example. Not only can it adjust the energy release of the electric shock, but it can also rapidly disperse the kinetic energy the moment it touches a soft target to reduce penetration and avoid fatal damage.
What the old man gave him were antique-grade pistols or ammunition. The bullets were heavy and might be very powerful, but their power was limited. Today, when electromagnetic applications are common, gunpowder weapons are at a comprehensive disadvantage, and there are no more people.
Go research new gunpowder recipes.
Chu Longtu looked aside for a while and then said: "No need to look for it, there is no intelligent system on the gun or bullets. Sometimes, the simplest is the most reliable. No electromagnetic weapons are as reliable as old-fashioned firearms.
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"Understood."
Chu Jungui put the bullets and gun into his backpack, then remembered something and asked: "This gun doesn't seem to be of universal caliber?"
The old man nodded, "It can only use the bullets I gave you. You probably have very few chances to use it, and I only have so much inventory for the time being. If you want to make new bullets, you need several old-fashioned equipment, which are already available on the market.
It’s gone, maybe some old friends still have it. I have to ask them, and I can get new bullets when you come back next time.”
Chu Jungui nodded and packed up his backpack. He probably had little chance to use this gun, and there was no need for more bullets. He accepted the gun and bullets, just not wanting to make the old man sad.
The old man restored the sideboard, and Chu Jungui tried to order a batch of food and buy a new refrigerator to replace the old antique at home. However, after searching for a long time, he found that the huge city
In fact, there is no delivery service, so you need to pick up the goods yourself.
There’s no online shopping? I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Chu Jungui could only accept the reality, and finally hired a truck to move the refrigerator back from the goods yard. He spent an afternoon visiting several supermarkets before filling the refrigerator.
The old man watched him busy quietly, with a faint smile on his face.
After dinner, Chu Jungui said: "Grandpa, I will go to the college to report tomorrow. Please leave some money at home before leaving."
"I'm old and have nothing to spend money on. As you saw today, you can't buy anything with money in this city. When you are free, just go home and visit more."
No matter how Chu Jungui tried to persuade him, the old man refused to accept the money, so he finally had to give up.
The short period of visiting the family soon ended. In the early morning of the next day, Chu Jungui left the apartment and rushed to the airport. When he went back, he still took a cheap flight and once again experienced the crowding and obsolescence of the Youkun class.
I don’t know if other Kun-class spaceships will be better.
The spaceship took off, and the city in the porthole gradually faded away.
Chu Jungui never thought that there would be a city like Laizhou. This city has long been aging and obsolete, and most of its facilities are more than a hundred years old. It just relies on its excellent reliability to barely maintain its long-life operation.
There are not many young people left in the whole city, most of them are old people who are going through the last stage of their lives.
The cost of living in this city is even lower than the cheapest nursing home in a prosperous city. Perhaps it is precisely because you can live a life with the last bit of freedom and dignity at a small cost that it attracts more and more people.
Many old people come here.
Originally, Chu Jun thought there were rich people in the city, but when he left, he realized that he was wrong. This city has almost no basic services. How can the rich stand such an environment? A small restaurant like a breakfast shop
The shop still exists, and the shopkeepers are not so much trying to make a living as they are looking for people to talk to.
When he was buying breakfast two days ago, he heard the old people chatting in the store, and Chu Jungui knew that this was the only time in the day when those old people could chat with others.
The entire city is struggling on the verge of poverty.
How many cities like this are there on the entire Moon Song Star? How many kingdoms are there?
While he was lost in thought, Chu Jungui's identity chip suddenly popped up a prompt message, and the account balance jumped from 9600 to 11615. Chu Jungui was taken aback, and hurriedly checked the transferor's information, and then saw Chu Longtu.
Looking at the string of numbers with fractions, Chu Jungui's mood suddenly became complicated and indescribable.
He closed his eyes and sat silently until the spacecraft landed.