Lin Sanjiu walked halfway and looked back at the place where the aircraft was parked.
The iron-grey triangular aircraft, with smooth lines and dark luster, sits among a lot of tattered and messy vehicles, as if it itself is about to break into a cold sweat: Generally speaking, luxury cars are always in danger in slums.
Although it is also called a parking lot, its facilities are far different from those in the CBD area - on a large piece of land that has been trampled hard by flying tools and human feet, there is not even a layer of cement floor, or even a strip of land.
There were no lines dividing the areas. A few pieces of wet clothes hung on the clothesline were swaying gently in the wind and swept over a small canoe-like flying tool underneath.
The parking fees are all paid in advance. The old man who charges the fee is an ordinary person, but he is not afraid of the ship owners running away. As a corresponding security measure, he used an iron chain to tie the new aircraft to the previous vehicle.
Add another lock - from a distance, all kinds of vehicles look like criminals being held up by a long chain.
"I hope the aircraft will still be there when I come back." Lin Sanjiu muttered in his stomach.
As long as the news can be spread as soon as possible and the gift bag and Yu Yuan can be brought back to her, let alone an aircraft, she is willing to take risks ten times greater. The child has been afraid, struggled, and suffered before, but he has never
I was pushed away and rejected by her - until three days ago.
She couldn't imagine what kind of state Ji Shanqing would be in at this time.
She even wanted to use the copy of Ah Quan on Ji Shanqing to make him forget what happened - in addition to relieving his pain, she also wanted to bury her own guilt; the thought of her actually pushing the two of them off the spaceship with her own hands
, Lin Sanjiu wished that she was no longer Lin Sanjiu.
The "Beacon Fire" billboard was not far from her, standing alone on a dirty muddy ground with puddles. Under the four big characters "Beacon Fire", there was also a line of small words written: "Welcome to Fanjia City!
The local beacon fire information system has a new registration office. It has great discounts and benefits all year round. Please move to the fifth floor of the 143rd wall."
"Fanjia City?" Lin Sanjiu said to himself while standing under the billboard, "The name sounds much richer than the city itself."
The problem was that she knew the destination but not the way - she raised her eyes and glanced at the countless city walls that were growing like weeds and had no rules at all. Not to mention the one hundred and forty-three walls, she didn't even know which one the third wall was.
Can't figure it out.
"Want to go to the Beacon Fire?" Someone not far away called out to Lin Sanjiu. She followed the sound and found that the person speaking was an immature boy; he was thin, looked embarrassed, and was only as tall as her chest.
Although he was facing an evolved person, he was not timid at all. He was quick and confident when trying to extort money: "I'm familiar with that place, so I'll show you the way. Have you just come here to walk in the clouds? I'm just telling you, you
You don’t look like a local... Well, make a friend and I’ll give you a discount, fifty fog balls.”
Lin Sanjiu narrowed her eyes and looked at him for a while.
"No more." The young man said very seriously, "The place is far away, and leading the way will waste time."
"...Have you seen my aircraft?"
"Ah? No," the young man's slender eyes on his melon-shaped face widened in surprise when he heard this: "What does it have to do with your aircraft? Forty-five of them, I still have a family to support."
"Does my head look bigger than the average person's?" Lin Sanjiu laughed, pointed to the entrance to the city wall in the distance, and said, "I think I can also ask for directions while walking. Trouble? I'm not afraid of trouble. Let's go, goodbye."
"Three," the young man immediately changed his mind.
"Deal." Lin Sanjiu stopped and said simply. "Have you ever succeeded in opening your mouth like a lion?"
"...No. But I have to try, what if?"
The blackmail failed, and the young man showed no regret at all. He waved to her and turned around to leave. When the two of them came to the outermost wall, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but stop and looked up at Fan Fan for a while.
A city.
She really couldn't find a suitable adjective.
Clusters of uneven walls, like woods, stand on the hills that gradually stretch into the sky. In the high air between the walls, there are ropes, slings, and pulleys hanging with both hands.
People whizzed by; people stepped on the edge of the high city wall and jumped between the gaps and windows. The sound of shouting, the steam of cooking and the sound of children playing were faintly boiling behind the deep walls.
Bricks, glass, wood, cloth and straw together formed the entire Fanjia City, making it look both shabby and gorgeous - all the geniuses inspired by survival were added piece by piece into its body, making Fanjia look like a shabby city.
The city is full of freedom, chaos and vitality in its chaotic atmosphere.
"Isn't it great?" The young man also looked up at her for a while and said with a smile: "I know Fanjia City is quite poor and the conditions are not good, but I am willing to live here for the rest of my life."
Lin Sanjiu looked at the skylight falling on his dirty hair and felt a little dazed.
Such a simple sentence, she has not heard anyone say it for more than ten years. Only ordinary people, only ordinary people who don't know how to be let go by the doomsday, can casually decide their future.
A place where she and her friends, no matter how powerful they are, can do nothing but become ants scattered by the flood.
"Oh, by the way," the young man turned around, breaking her momentary distraction, "My name is Yu Ming."
"The frog's croak?"
"It's the crow's rook!"
Lin Sanjiu scratched her face and followed Yu Ming into the entrance of the first wall.
A dim and cool breeze, faintly mixed with the smell of metal, sweat and food, rushed towards the two of them. The walkway was surprisingly wide, at least seven or eight meters;
After a few steps, it almost disappeared and turned into a long sigh, crossing the remaining road; it was not until meeting the next skylight that it woke up and became bright again.
"Follow me," Yu Ming said, "it's too far out here and it's not safe, so no one lives here."
Dusty plastic buckets, horizontal scaffolding, and bags of sand filled both sides of the walkway, leaving only a two-person wide path in the middle - the organization that maintains and manages Fanjia City.
Apparently, some materials used in daily construction are piled at the exit. It seems that they are either not afraid of people stealing, or they are not worth stealing.
"Live?" Lin Sanjiu looked at it, "Where do you live?"
Isn't this a walkway?
"People pile things here because no one lives there," Yu Ming pointed to the debris on both sides and said, "You'll know when you walk in. There are residential areas on both sides, with a walkway in the middle."
Lin Sanjiu pushed back the question "How can privacy be guaranteed?"
Although she knew intellectually that she was walking uphill, when she walked between the twisting and spreading walls on the dark and deserted road, she felt as if she had entered an underground maze - until she suddenly turned a corner.
After that, the human voice and human energy suddenly rushed towards her, like a greeting, calling her back to her senses.
The distant, faintly noisy city in my ears just now suddenly stretched out along the dark road, and reached out to touch Lin Sanjiu.
"Dangdang," Yu Ming raised his hand, "Welcome to Fanjia City!"
A child ran past with a shrill laugh from the distant aisle. Someone poked his head down from the skylight and shouted something in an unknown language. Suddenly, a hand raised a package, which seemed to rise and fall on the waves.
It seemed that it was passed one by one from the hands of ordinary people and evolved people. When it was passed into the hands of that person, he shouted "Thank you" and disappeared from the skylight.
There is a young mother sitting on a blanket spread in the corner. Judging from the utensils and objects around the blanket, it turns out that the corner of the road is her home. She is an ordinary person, but the child in her arms seems to have evolved.
Capable - Lin Sanjiu glanced at her secretly several times, not knowing what to do or how much time the mother and son had left to get together.
When she passed by an ordinary woman pushing a cart, she found that the cart was filled with soil and planted with various unknown green seedlings; the woman walked into the sunshine under the skylight and stood still.
, hands on hips, looking like a mother bear guarding her cubs.
"She grows vegetables," Yu Ming explained after walking over. "You can't plant them in the open space outside. If they are too far away, they may be stolen without being seen. Most people carry vegetables with them."
"Is a trolley enough?" Lin Sanjiu was very doubtful, "Can't we eat for a few days?"
"These are high-yielding vegetable seedlings developed for them by the evolvers." Yu Ming obviously didn't understand how to "develop" them, so he just made nonsense: "As soon as they use their power, the vegetable seedlings will grow rapidly."
There were too many words that came up at the moment, and Lin Sanjiu became mute, which was equivalent to acquiescing to "use your power to grow vegetables."
One Hundred and Forty Three Walls is just as long a journey as it sounds.
Although Lin Sanjiu was impatient, she wanted to send out the message as soon as possible; unfortunately, Yu Ming could not keep up with the Evolver, so she could only patiently follow him. Along the way, she had a tour of Fanjia City: she thought
The living environment in Fengzhen is ordinary enough, but unexpectedly, people in Fanjia City live on both sides of the road. Some people have pulled up tents, some have erected bamboo walls, and some have built themselves a small "room" with mud, stone, sand and bricks -
—If a rat cage can be considered a room.
Vendors, craftsmen and other unnamed professionals of all kinds, whether they are ordinary people or evolved people, are all mixed in between the "homes"; the central aisle will be crowded with people on both sides from time to time.
, the house that was quietly expanding outwards melted away. It led the two of them to walk unsteadily between the high walls, sometimes hitting dead ends, and the two had to go through the wall hole opened above.
Lin Sanjiu felt that her three fog balls were well spent.
After a dazzling, endless turn, fork in the road, and wall jump, her eyes suddenly opened up: on a "square box" protruding from the old city wall, she finally saw the four characters "Beacon Fire and Wolf Smoke".
...and standing at the door, wearing sunglasses, peeping his head, looking at the sneaky Batou De.
