Prices on Sogo Island are much higher than those on Happy Island. This is because Sogo Island does not have as high a work rate as Happy Island.
This means that from the very beginning, Sogo Island has been filled with elites of varying degrees and levels, with almost no lower-level civilians. All simple jobs that are repeatable and without creativity have been replaced by artificial intelligence, which also means that ordinary people are very
It's hard to find a job, and naturally you can't survive. Those who can escape to other empty islands and be accepted by other empty islands are considered lucky.
Similarly, as there are fewer living people in the market, it also means that prices will rise. Merchants need to make more money from fewer people, and rich people don't care about the price difference.
Just buying clothes is difficult. Although fabrics are produced locally, clothing design is patented and copyrighted. The best and most fashionable clothes are always imported from Happy Island... That kind of clothes may only be available in Happy Island.
It will sell more than 20 credits, which is roughly equivalent to two meals of fried chicken.
But on Sogo Island, it can be sold for more than 180 credits.
A meal of fried chicken on Sogo Island may cost thirty or forty credits.
So Alice would take apart cheap clothes and make new clothes for Russell to save money.
Her main job on Sogo Island is as a black market doctor.
She specializes in going to black areas to treat injuries that cannot be found in the hospital, such as sharp weapon injuries of unknown origin, fractures or gunshot wounds... In addition, she also has another side job, which is to help people with injuries.
Man removes microchip.
Although the credit points of the two Sky Islands have different values, and the work income is also completely different... But even so, the difficulty of living well on Sogo Island is still much higher than that on Happy Island.
Even if Russell is just a truck driver in Happy Island, he can still drink Coke as much as he wants every day.
But when he was in Sogo Island, the most common food Russell ate was tofu, followed by cheap synthetic meat. Even though the cost and production process of simulated synthetic meat with better taste are almost the same as cheap synthetic meat, Sogo Island will specially produce it.
A very cheap, very bad-tasting kind of synthetic meat. You can buy a can of cheap synthetic meat with only one credit point, and it is sold exclusively to the poor.
This meat is like a lunch meat that is extremely starchy and therefore loose.
The "can" part of this kind of canned meat can be sold for more than half the price just by selling scrap products, and it can almost achieve perpetual motion. From this, we can see how low the technical cost of synthetic meat is. A meal
The cost of fried chicken may not be two credits, but the cost of selling it to a fried chicken restaurant alone is twelve to fourteen credits.
The factories that produce this kind of "poor man's can" cannot make any profit, and it can even be said that they lose whatever they produce...but they still do it because Sogo Co., Ltd. gives them social subsidies.
Because of the cold perception on Sogo Island, this is a "gentle" means of expulsion.
They are not like Happy Island, selling happiness as a commodity. Sogo Island is an absolutely strict and extremely cold elite society... They deliberately allow the poor to survive, but not live well.
In this way, only three types of people will be born: twisted lunatics and criminals, social beasts who will climb up at all costs, and incompetent people who are useless.
The first type of people will be screened out by crime detection devices and arrested before they commit crimes; the second type of people will be able to give birth to real elites and embryos of elites; and the third type of people can be specially used to highlight the
The elite's sense of superiority and happiness... can also be thrown to other sky islands to reduce useless "waste". The elites of other sky islands may also go to Sogo Island because the treatment is not good enough or it is too dangerous.
It is precisely because of this that Alice made a special trip to Sogo Island.
Because the residents of Sogo Island completely trust their detection system... Sogo Island is known as the "Island of Impossible Crime" and the "Artificial Intelligence Society". People may not even close the doors or windows when sleeping.
Because of this, as long as you do not commit crimes on Sogo Island, you will not be investigated at all. Even those who are uncoded will not be hunted down or traced at all. Because they are left specifically to warn others "If the elite is no longer
A sample of what elites can become.
Russell had repaired more than a dozen guns during his internship alone, but he had never heard of, let alone seen a shooting.
This can only be understood to mean that these crimes were forcibly stopped before they occurred. As for psykers committing crimes and demons getting out of control, I have never heard of them.
Coupled with the "idols" exported and sold by Happy Island, the best medical technology provided by Holy Blood Island, and the various food and entertainment facilities provided by Taoyuan Island... the rich people on Sogo Island live the most comfortable and safe life.
You never have to worry about being kidnapped by criminal organizations in Xiacheng District at any time, just like Happy Island.
In a sense, Sogo Island is the true cyberpunk world. It is far more cruel than Happy Island... It is a cruel "safety".
Even for a member of the Tower of Babel like Alice, whose identity is on the verge of being leaked, she can still remain safe on Sogo Island.
But Sogo Island is not a comfortable and safe paradise everywhere...
Although not many people receive treatment at Alice's mobile black clinic, it proves that crime, malice and death still exist in the "black area" that cannot be monitored by artificial intelligence.
Although doctors are relatively respected in black areas, they are not absolutely safe.
Because of this, young Russell felt fear in his heart every time Alice went out. It was a kind of panic of losing his only relative...a kind of fear of loneliness.
He could only feel some warmth and contentment by curling up in the cardboard box covered with blankets by Alice.
Until he was admitted to Sogo University and became a special admissions student... Russell's habit never changed.
To this day, Russell often curls up in a ball at home.
Because in this way, he could get warmth and peace of mind, as if he had returned to that night and was hugged by Alice and huddled in the cardboard box.
When Russell first went to Delphinium's house, he would subconsciously shrink up and squint to blow on the air conditioner. Although Russell himself argued that it was because the air conditioner in Delphinium's house was cooler, the container of God knew that it was because Russell was going to a strange place.
subconsciously feel uneasy about the place to sleep.
Whenever this happens, Delphinium will forcefully stick to Russell, saying that Russell's body is very cold, and forcefully commandeer Russell, using him as a pillow and cushion.
Although Russell always yelled that it would be very hot, he would still obediently "spread" himself out to make himself softer.
Time and time again... As time went by, Russell no longer always curled up into a ball when sleeping.
The Vessel of God also rejoices in this.
Russell, who curled up into a ball, filled the emptiness with the warmth of "love".
And Russell, who spread out again, did not lose that warmth... because there was new warmth in his arms.