Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

"Brother Yu, are you free tonight?"

"Still working in the back kitchen? Then it will be the year of the monkey if you earn money and marry a wife!"

"It doesn't matter if you don't know anything, I have a chance to make money now..."

"Enn, brother, didn't I contact you immediately when I met a nobleman? The nobleman is from the empire, and he is very rich, but I don't know anyone on Days Island. Brother, I am lucky again, so this The business just fell to us, I have to do it quickly, after this village, there will be no such shop!"

"My treat!"

"Okay! It's settled, wait for the food stall, see you there!"

Ah Wei hung up the phone, looking at the double image of the eaves of the beehive house on the ground being cast by the light, he didn't have a clue, because all the information about the "noble man" was made up by him.

But if you don't make it up, those two brothers will definitely not come. They are all ordinary people just like him. Although some encounters are true, who hasn't had a chance yet?

Awei put out the cigarette butt on the ground, took out another cigarette, lit it, and put it in his mouth. This coherent movement was completely subconscious, and it had completely become a muscle memory, as if as long as he did this, he would reduce the stress.

Not only did he have no clue about this matter, but he also had no clue about the two brothers themselves.

Ah Wei took over the conversation, swearing a swear word like a fan, and then said:

Maybe……

"You only have one life, Ah Wei, you have to think about it carefully."

The faint smile was quickly washed away by his current situation, and he was very annoyed, why did he suddenly think of the damned thing of rice noodles!
He patted his head hard to drive away the thoughts about pho.

……

"They took one of my kidneys."

But the boss was a member of gangsters, so Ah Wei hesitated for a while, and he didn't try to persuade the boss to buy a house in the area after the U district—once the investment failed and the boss got angry, the others would be gone.

Brother Yu never talked much.

He wiped the beer foam from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, and continued to say in the tone of "nothing to do with himself" just now:

"Ah Wei is right."

He quickly amused himself at the thought.

Thinking of this, Awei patted his face vigorously, letting the pain dispel part of the fatigue accumulated throughout the day, then stood up, patted his sore legs, and walked towards the direction of A-16 area.

The two looked at Brother Yu.

But quitting smoking but not drinking alcohol is equivalent to not quitting!

This way of distributing leaflets was once amazing to Ah Wei. The most annoying advertising text messages became less annoying in the minds of most men and a few women, and people were happy to get leaflets in this way.

"Let the brothers come today to introduce a big deal to the brothers!"

"I heard two days ago that there was a man who was selling second-hand mobile phones in District C, and his tie was pulled by the tie...in the dark alley of District C-17."

The boss is pretty nice. Ah Wei talked to him a few times before, and he feels that the boss is a good guy, but he has little knowledge. If he has so much money, he will definitely buy a house in the area after the U area, even if he can only buy one. Small hives are much more promising than places like Area A, and even if they are only used as real estate investment, they can still make a lot of money.

"The Tie Gang is a small gangster. It's just a matter of luck. During the construction of the mechanical hive, it came into contact with the electronic waste business, and it has grown to where it is today! But now there are so many people in the mechanical hive, and the market is bigger than before. ! Can his tie gang eat such a big market?!"

"What is the price of second-hand e-waste? I won't go into details. The two of you know more about the affairs of the hive than I do. What else is more profitable than selling e-waste?"

"They can't eat, so it's our turn?"

When Ah Wei came to the night food stall in District A-16, the place was already full of people. The prosperity of District A is the favor specially left by the mechanical hive to the "bottom people", so the nighttime customers here are mixed, and there are everyone. , almost filled the entire food stall in a mess.

Food stalls are an heirloom property made by an Asian boss who spent huge sums of money to purchase several beehives and punch them through.

Ah Wei held Lao Yang's hand:

Although Lao Yang's heart, which had been cooled by the world, was warmed by these words, he still did not give an answer. The excessive caution given to him by his age made him instinctively afraid of taking risks.

At this time, the fried noodles that the three of them wanted arrived, and Lao Yang and Brother Yu shoveled the fried noodles into their mouths like hungry ghosts.

"Brother! Your waist is gone! How dare you drink! Are you not afraid of death!?"

Now facing such a fragrant fried noodles, he feels more and more panic in his heart. He subconsciously thinks that he "doesn't deserve" to eat such a thing, so even if he has the heart to spend a lot of money to buy these fried noodles, he always Time doesn't know what to say.

He has never eaten such a delicious thing, maybe because he forgot, maybe because the chow mein at the food stall is so delicious that it is irresistible, when Ah Wei came back to his senses, he had already eaten the chow mein Empty.

It was a Luke girl in little clothes, trying to hand out flyers to passers-by.

"I'm in debt to a usury."

Awei was almost stunned when he saw Brother Yu. It stands to reason that although the prices in the mechanical hive are high, the light industrial products produced on the assembly line are almost cheaper than cabbage. Anyone can afford things like clothes and shoes , How did Brother Yu get to this point?
When meeting old friends in a foreign country, the three of them immediately blushed. They didn't talk much. After drinking for three rounds, until their bodies warmed up and they became dizzy, they could vomit out the unspeakable depression in their hearts.

The price of noodle raw materials is about the same as that of rice noodles.

As long as you swipe your mobile phone from top to bottom on the front of the girl's skirt, you will receive a flyer—an advertising text message for the food stall.

He sat at a square table in the corner, reported the number of people to the waiter, and waited a little nervously, thinking over and over again what to say to them and what kind of words to use.

Most people who can afford pho have relatively stable jobs. They work in a more formal factory or workshop, have social security and pensions, so they don’t care about spending the "sky-high price" of 26 pence to buy a copy. Delicious, but fried rice noodles with no nutrition at all.

"I contacted an e-waste repairer. They lack offline sales channels now. I remember, Lao Yang, didn't you do outsourced sales tasks in the information department of the lighthouse before? This matter is a piece of cake for you dish!"

Although he sells pho, he has never eaten pho. He probably knows what pho tastes like, but he has never eaten a whole serving of pho, because pho is not eaten by hard-working wage earners like him. of--

Lao Yang lowered his voice. Under the interference of the noisy people in the food stall, his voice completely disappeared after leaving the small square table in front of him.

The miserable smile on Brother Yu's face made Ah Wei take his hand back.

"This bastard place in the empire is really terrible..."

After about ten minutes.

He knew that once the eggs are cooked and put on fried noodles, the price of the eggs themselves will double immediately, and if they are put together with fried noodles, the rice can be sold for 26 pence.

Different from Lao Yang's reaction, Brother Yu listened carefully to A Wei's words, with an inexplicable light in his eyes under his long bangs.

Ah Wei tried his best to lobby:

But those who go out are friends. Even though he and the two brothers had no close relationship in the past, they still know the basics.

Three people of different ages, whose lives were terrible, raised glasses of different heights, clinked glasses and drank them all in one gulp.

"Before coming here, they said that the empire makes money, that the empire has many opportunities for development, and that the wages of the empire are high. These words are true, but they didn't tell us that there is no other choice but to work until we are exhausted!"

Taking another look at Lao Yang and Brother Yu who were devouring them, Ah Wei swallowed his saliva and licked the fried noodles.

"Ah Wei."

He pulled off the denim jacket and the ragged fleece vest inside, and Awei and Lao Yang saw the huge scar on his right waist at a glance. The scar had been stitched up, and most of the scabs had fallen off, revealing that it was not so fresh. new meat.

Lao Yang immediately thought that Brother Yu was addicted to smoking before, but now that he has no waist, he has quit.

Some passers-by in their spare time would even line up and wait for her to distribute leaflets, just to swipe at her skirt for a while.

"How do you know if you don't try? We didn't have a chance before, but now we have a chance! How long will it take for this kind of opportunity to come again? Even if the second chance does come, you still have to hesitate like now ?! Lao Yang! My brother! There will never be a second chance!

Awei looked at Lao Yang's eyes, then moved his gaze to Brother Yu's eyes, the gleam in his eyes forced the latter to dodge subconsciously.

Lao Yang swallowed the clouds and breathed out the fog, using the strength of wine to say things he dared not say during the day.

This kind of relationship, even if it is unreliable, is much more reliable than the relationship between outsiders and other people.

"One kidney is not enough to pay back, I have to pay the 'daily interest' every day, and the remaining money is barely enough for two meals."

The other two didn't dare to look at him, because Ah Wei, who was licking the plate, seemed to have turned into some kind of beast. His heavy breathing and greedy way of eating reminded them of the coyotes in the suburbs of their hometown.

Sweet and refreshing.

What is Yu brother thinking!

Lao Yang squinted his eyes and smoked, his knees under his elbows shook a little more, and he smoked harder.

"It was only later that I found out that that person was selling my own mobile phone... But his life has already been lost, knowing this can't bring him back to life."

"Who says it's not! I recently raised a woman who works from six in the morning to nine in the evening! Mother Gan Lin! You're so fucking stupid! You can't find a job that isn't tiring! No If you do it, you will starve to death!"

Ah Wei suddenly thought of something.

Brother Yu pulled down his clothes and held up a glass of wine with trembling hands, but Awei pulled him down.

After licking the plate, Ah Wei breathed a sigh of relief, his whole body was refreshed, as if he had changed himself.

Ah Wei looked at the fried noodles covered with a scrambled egg, but he couldn't eat any more. All he could think about was the price of the noodles, the egg worth 3 pence——

If we can grasp it this time, we will also marry his mother's dozen or so concubines, and buy a big house in the mechanical hive... in the empire!Pizza every day!Eat burgers! "

Ah Wei thought to himself, this is a good thing.

It is true that they are from the same hometown, but they were not closely related when they were in their hometown. The friendship between them only stops at "the same generation who grew up at the same time in the village".

Brother Yu, who was young but unshaven and unkempt, didn't say anything, but held up the glass that had been filled with wine with red eyes.

Lao Yang and Brother Yu came almost at the same time. Seeing the listless faces on their faces, Ah Wei immediately knew that they were not doing well.

Although the girl's AI is simple, it only repeats a dozen actions and a few expressions, but the level of debugging and calibration is obviously high, which makes the girl's movements and expressions more charming and vivid than ordinary women.

Brother Yu's spirit is not bad, but he looks very shabby in his clothes. He doesn't even have to wear cotton clothes in winter. He only wears a tattered denim jacket that he obviously picked up from nowhere, dragging a pair of clothes on his feet. Shoes brought from home.

He looked at Ah Wei, his eyes with complex emotions said everything:
"After we landed on the island, I was tricked and owed a lot of gambling debts."

'If there is such a holographic projection device in the electronic waste that the person said, I will also build an artificial intelligence to help me promote the rice noodles. '——A weird thought popped into Ah Wei's head.

Lao Yang said in a loud voice:

He looked at the plate with only a little bit of broken noodles left, stretched out his hand uncontrollably, picked up the plate, used chopsticks to eat the little bit of broken noodles left on the plate into his mouth, and then walked along the edge of the plate Start licking and don't stop until the whole plate is licked clean.

Lao Yang is almost 40 years old, a round older than the other two, wearing a cotton jacket that has been washed out, his spirit is extremely poor, and his two big dark circles scare him to death, as if he has not seen him for a few days and nights. Close your eyes.

Brother Yu was talking while staring at the cigarette in Lao Yang's hand.

Lao Yang spat on the dirty floor beside the table, squinted his eyes, rolled up the sleeve of his left hand that was holding the cigarette, and took a hard puff.

It was Brother Yu who responded.

But Brother Yu doesn't like to talk, so Awei can't know what Brother Yu is thinking for a while, so he can only deal with Lao Yang first.

Dozens of rows of star lights hanging above the open-air food stalls emitted bright but non-glare light of various colors, which reflected Ah Wei's tense face in colorful colors. When he raised his head under such lights, he could see the The holographic projection projected onto the street by the billboard outside the stall——

Brother Yu raised his glass and drank it down.

Ah Wei never knew what a whole serving of pho tasted like.

Maybe what brother Yu wants to quit is not smoking...

Lao Yang took out a new cigarette from the cigarette box and handed it over. Brother Yu took a look at the new cigarette, resisted his addiction and refused.

"It can't be done, my waist is bad, and I can drink two glasses of wine. As long as I smoke, the place where I was cut will hurt. It hurts like hell. The doctor doesn't know what's going on after seeing it."

The other two were silent, probably knowing about his situation.

Brother Yu didn't speak, and the three of them fell silent.