StarCraft: Tyranid Empire.

Chapter 107 Tarsonis Slums

"I don't like it here, it reminds me of the old days when I lived here as a gangster kid - me and my brothers who didn't have parents or were tortured by domestic violence were like stinking A group of rats in the ditch whose hair was wet with dirty water, covered in oil stains reflecting colorful spots under the neon lights."

Before following several search teams composed of Tarsonis police into the largest slum in Tarsonis City, a Tarsonis-born Federal Marine Corps and an active grenadier of the Devil of Heaven who had lived in this slum for 18 years So said Private Xander Max to his officer Augustus.

Tarsonis City is the most magnificent and expansive city in the entire Tyrann Federation. This city is located on the vast plain between the only continuous mountains on the main continental plate of Tarsonis and the largest inland sea.The hexagonal outer wall of the city is still clearly visible even in low-Earth orbit. Outside the urban area is a huge industrial area covering the surface of the planet and one city after another.

In the territory of the Tyranid Federation, the city of Tarsonis is the place where the ambitious and the darlings of the times gain fame and fortune. Future politicians, galaxy merchants and technological geniuses can all have a place in this prosperous world.In contrast, there are even more people living in its vast slums than there are immigrants in the Sara system.

It was not that Augustus had never seen slums, and in Stilling, slums were areas that had not been included in the urban development plan.The rough urban area there is the product of a series of problems such as the rapid urban development and the large gap between the rich and the poor. It seems to be a large area of ​​low old urban areas and illegal buildings between magnificent glass buildings, just like mercury An ugly scar in the

Keha IV Steeling is home to the poorest people in all of Keha, but the slums of Tarsonis City are "underground" in the entire city.

The sky tower complex of the Genesis family is in the center of Tarsonis City, which is the most prosperous area of ​​the city and the starting point and end point of the entire continental transportation network.And between the central city and the suburbs, there are countless skyscrapers and buildings. Under these seemingly incomparably prosperous scenes, there are dark alleys called "stinky ditches".

The skyscrapers stand on a foundation reinforced with reinforced concrete and steel frames. There are only a few dense and winding roadways for pedestrians to pass between the buildings, and the highway is thousands of feet in the air.

On both sides of these alleys are steel walls that seem to extend infinitely upwards. On the walls are locked steel doors and windows sealed with water. Gustus is in the middle of the city with dozens of Tarsonis Police Force (TPF) armed with electromagnetic pistols and shotguns.

The floors that seem to go straight into the sky and are invisible to the eyes block the sunlight that should have been sprinkled on the ground, so these bottom alleys do not see sunlight all year round.

The hard-to-evaporate rainwater, poor ventilation, and sewers under the alley made it as humid as a tropical rainforest, and the air was filled with the smell of urine and an indescribable stench.Rodents and giant native slugs crawled in shadowy corners, and the rusty metal plates rattled and creaked amidst the whirring of the fans of the air-conditioning system on the upper floors.

At the end of the alleyway, there is another narrower or wider passageway, but no matter which direction you go, you can't get out of this labyrinth world under countless tall buildings.

No one has counted how many of these alleys there are, but what is certain is that there are at least tens of thousands of dark and damp black alleys in Tarsonis City.The environment here may be the worst and most unbearable in all Tyrannian Federation cities. Viruses breed in the humid and warm darkness, and plague and death are peeking at everything in the shadows.

Yet in these alleyways live untold numbers of the poor, the outcast thugs, the homeless, the jobless, the cornered gamblers, the junkies, and the men in what are considered the most menial jobs. the poor.They lived in those wider lanes, in sloping-roof houses built with vertical steel walls.

People in the slums have no balconies and can only use microwaves to dry clothes, but even clothes that are dried like this are quickly soaked by moisture.

There is no light source here, so the residents of the slums use cheaper but very bright neon lights to illuminate the dim world.These neon lights and the electric lights in the residents' homes are powered by the cables that they erected privately and exposed on the edge of the roadway wall. In the dark, the electric sparks that often sizzle and flicker can be seen.

"Mr. Augustus, we are going to get off work in an hour, and the search work may have to wait until tomorrow." A Tarsonis police sergeant next to Augustus said: "I really feel sorry for Mr. Finley. Worrying that in the night of the slums, the crime, chaos and violence seem to come from another backward and barbaric world, not Tarsonis, known for its technology and progress."

"You have to know that it is almost impossible to track the villains in the slums. There is no management here. Even the police station only sends out scout boats to patrol regularly."

"I'll add money," said Augustus.

"It's not about money." The sheriff helped his crooked hat brim, and slowly lit a cigarette.

"Two times more, let your chief send out better police officers and detectives from the upper residential area." Augustus looked at the colorful graffiti on the wall through the purple neon lights in the alleyway, a police officer Tell him that there is a relatively large residential community in front of this laneway.

Augustus knew very well that the Tarsonis police station had long been eroded by corruption like a rotten plank, full of wriggling vermin and bedbugs, and there were by no means a few capable police officers, but on this basis, clean There are very few police officers who do not accept facilitation payments, resident protection payments, and extort civilians.

The wages of most police officers are enough for them to live in this bustling metropolis, but in this materialistic, fame-seeking and impetuous false prosperity, even the police want to reap more benefits.

The cops in the downtown area can't recruit enough and let the idlers go, while the good cops in the rich area only care about the interests of the donors who pay them extra salaries.

In this perfunctory system of no favors and bribes, most of the cases of middle-class and ordinary federal citizens often have to be delayed for months because they are not accepted, and finally they are finally dismissed.And such trivial things as robbery, theft and malicious injury are not worth the time-valued police officers.

Unless the victim is a powerful aristocrat, even if it is a wealthy businessman, if he doesn't want to pay, he can't even think of hiring these uncles.

"It just so happens that we have to work overtime today, Mr. Augustus." The sheriff took a heavy puff of cigarette: "My detective just found some clues, someone can confirm that Tychus Finley—that is, the one in the photo This hunk stepped into Papa Rhett's bar at 52:[-] last night and stormed out naked this afternoon."

"He was completely naked, and with just three punches and two kicks, he knocked down two mighty and tall gangsters," the sheriff said.

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(End of this chapter)