In April 2004, the weather was still a bit cold.
The Qifan Street slums were crowded with people, and among them there was a strange face.
This is a young beauty with an oval face and a high nose. Her long brown hair is tied into a ponytail on the back of her head. She is wearing a pair of deliberately worn casual clothes. She is observing the environment here with very smart eyes.
Jesse Radsberry has always been a standard activist.
If you want to personally participate in the gathering of [Astrology] and join the organization called [Avalanche], you have to come to this Qifan Street slum. This is what is said in the corners of Uptown.
Taking action when he thinks is not difficult for Jesse, who has a lively and cheerful nature.
After nearly a year of expansion, the terrain of the Qifan Street slum has become complex again. Many new houses have been added out of thin air, making the so-called map in Jesse's hand useless.
Tsk, if I had known better, I would have spent more money to buy the latest version of the map in the old mouse's hand.
Jesse pumped his fist in the air in frustration, then shook his head from side to side to observe the terrain, pursed his graceful lips tightly, and refused to ask anyone.
It’s not that I’m embarrassed to ask for directions, it’s that I’m afraid that if I expose my flaws, I’ll be seen as a ‘fat sheep’ from the upper city.
Although everyone says that the Qifan Street slums and the Wufan Street slums are "safe areas" with relatively good atmosphere, Jesse, who has been educated in the upper city, still has a natural fear of the slums.
Jesse is an actor, according to her own words - [second-rate, but at least she has been on the big stage of the Kingdee Playground]. Half a year ago, just when her career was just starting and she was ready to show off her ambitions, a phone call took her from her job.
Pulled out of a sweet dream and face the cruel reality.
Jesse's father became a vegetable due to an accident.
Her parents are both employees of Shinra Company, and her father is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the No. 7 Mako Reactor. In an accident half a year ago, Jesse's father was injured because he fainted in front of the Mako Reactor for too long and did not receive timely treatment.
He was exposed to too much Mako and turned into a vegetative state due to severe Mako poisoning.
He sought treatment from many sources, but all he received was that he would always be like this for the rest of his life. Although his body was still alive, his "heart" was dead.
Because of the compensation and monthly subsidy from Shinra Company, Jesse's family was not in financial crisis, but Jesse was unwilling to give in. She always felt that her father's thoughts still existed.
A month ago, she came into contact with the strange view of "Astrology" by chance.
According to astrologists, there is a wonderful cycle within the planet beneath our feet.
Once a human dies, the body will return to the earth, but the spirit will be absorbed by the planet and become the life stream of the planet. The life stream of the planet will continue to circulate inside the planet, enrich the planet, nourish the earth, and eventually return again in the form of new life.
planet surface.
It often comes back again, even if life changes its appearance, it will never die, and the river of life will flow into eternity.
The planet is the eternal carrier of life.
When she first came into contact with this view, it had a huge impact on Jesse's outlook. Because she had been educated by Shinra since she was a child, she had always been taught that "when a person dies, there is nothing, and nothing will be left behind."
The viewpoint is said to be a conclusion reached by Shinra Corporation through scientific testing and verification.
However, scholars of astrology say that this is just a scam by the Shinra Company. Before the emergence of the Shinra Company, the Republic used another school of rhetoric, saying that after death, people will be judged by [God] and decide whether to go to heaven or hell. For example
The theology of the Republic even earlier had always been the ethics of astrology.
"Jesse, think about it from another direction. If your father's spirit breaks away from the body and merges into the planet, and then your heart is attached to the planet, is it closely connected with your father's spirit? Your father is always by your side.
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This is what the old gentleman who asked Jesse for horoscopes said. As he spoke, his eyes seemed to drift into the distance and he saw his wife who had been dead for many years.
Jesse quickly believed this rhetoric. Rather than being persuaded, it was better to say that she forced herself to believe it.
Then, she came into contact with a fact from the old gentleman that shocked her beyond measure - the Mako extracted by the Shinra Company was essentially the life stream of the planet.
In other words, every spray of fluorescent light in the night sky represents countless souls from all ages being thrown into the furnace of the Mako Furnace.
How many screams of souls are mixed with the huge roar of the magic reactor? If Shinra Corporation is allowed to continue its wanton behavior, the flow of life will eventually be drained, and the planet carrying countless lives will also move toward death.
[The planet is mourning, but no one can hear it], the old gentleman's voice was trembling when he said this.
Suddenly learning this fact, Jesse hid in the house for two full days without coming out. The truth about Mako was too cruel, how could a young girl who had always relied on Shinra and Mako accept it?
Until the morning of the third day, under the worried eyes of his mother, a pale Jesse walked out of the room, leaving only "I want to go to the Golden Butterfly Playground to challenge the big stage again", and then left home with a salute and a small amount of money.
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If the Shinra Company continues to behave like this, one day my father's soul will be consumed as fuel, right? There are very few organizations or countries in the world that can resist Shinra. Even Wutai has been completely conquered and turned into a docile and inhumane one.
Harmful tourist area.
Sure enough, the only option was to find the mysterious [Avalanche] organization.
The information was collected from many sources, and the information was either true or false. Once, Jesse was almost tricked into going to the Walled Commercial Street, but in the end she got the definite information - the Qifan Street slums might be able to find clues to the "Avalanche".
In this way, Jesse came to the Qifan Street slums with an almost reckless attitude.
But where to start? Jesse was in trouble. After much deliberation, she finally had to risk asking others for clues, asking where the most well-connected people or the most concentrated information in the Qifan Street slums were.
"Wouldn't it be over if you just asked [Seventh Heaven]?" Passers-by gave him a strange look.
Jesse blinked his big eyes: "Seventh Heaven?"
"If you want to relieve your fatigue and hunger after get off work, the best place to go is the [Seventh Heaven] bar. This is common knowledge in the slums of Qifan Street, a young lady from the uptown area."
"Oh? I, I, I am not..."
"You have such a clean face, and you don't have the faint rotten smell of the slums on your body. The key is that you are wearing brand-name goods that are only sold in the downtown area on Bafan Street. It's okay. Since the opening of Seventh Heaven, in the past year, Qifan Street has
There are always strange and unfamiliar faces, and you are not the least of them."
The passerby pointed Jesse in the direction of Seventh Heaven and then walked away.