musicians of old

Chapter 73 South Dock Area
In the night, the van headed south through the Lenia district, and had passed the wharf bridge across the Pshol River.

Although this place is classified as the South Wharf area, it is still far away from the city boundary area full of piers and docks to the south.

Sparse gas lamps make it difficult to see people's shadows clearly. Although the speed of the vehicles is not fast, they are always forced to brake suddenly by pedestrians with weak safety awareness.

Fanning was especially not used to this kind of car chassis with almost no shock absorption effect. The appearance of bad roads was always caught off guard, causing everyone in the car to fly and fall. He felt that all the undigested things in his stomach were about to be vomited out.

On the relatively bustling main road, the orange-brown signboards protruding from the side of the shops along the street retreated for a while in Fanning's field of vision, and then the car pulled over and stopped.

"It's not easy to drive in here." The driver turned off the engine.

Fan Ning looked at the large swathes of muddy road in his dim vision, and then turned his head to look at the neat and bright street, and suddenly felt a sense of magic.

The biggest feature of the urban planning of Uvransel is that there is no planning. Schools, railways, factories, warehouses, commercial areas, slums and other blocks can be piled together in any arrangement and combination that can be imagined.

Perhaps the boundaries of the rich areas can be a little clearer.

The courtyard-style workers' residences along the side street were torn apart, and the coal transport trucks and steam rollers still working made sharp creaking noises, and the pungent smell of glue and gasoline wafted.

"The three of us just walked in," Dupont said.

Several well-dressed gentlemen stared at the ground without blinking, carefully avoiding the unknown lumps mixed with ice water, mud, oil stains and moss, which would burst or scratch when stepped on, and swelled and smelt. Viscous air bubbles, showing a strange color of chrome green under the not very bright light.

A few years ago, the empire successively promulgated the "Employee Housing Law" and "Public Health Management Law", which stipulated the maximum density of urban population and the layout of blocks, and made plans for public toilets, water supply and drainage and sewer systems in such areas, aiming at Improve the filthy living environment and curb the spread of tuberculosis, cholera and other epidemic diseases.

However, most of the progress of the work in the area has stayed in the scene in front of us.

"Exchange information about your respective abilities." DuPont, who was walking in front, did not look back, "The aspect I studied is 'Chi', and I have been promoted to the middle rank for 5 years, and the intensity of inspiration is about the fifth rank. 'You can selectively extract part of the sensory intensity of others and transfer it to yourself."

When DuPont said the last sentence, Fan Ning felt that his vision suddenly became severely blurred, and his feet lost the stable touch of "stepping on the ground".

The mutation lasted for a short time before returning to normal.

"The ability of those who know is really unpredictable. If it is a potential opponent, this information should be a core secret." Fan Ning was secretly startled, "And DuPont's ability to weaken the senses seems to restrain me, after all, the use of spiritual sense It is the translation of 'transcendent revelations into the regular five senses'."

The book "Translation of the Precepts of the Seven Lights" that he studied before systematically summarizes the general positive abilities that a wise person may obtain after being promoted in the seven phases.

Among them, the aspect of "pool" may strengthen the senses of vision, hearing, taste, touch and smell.In some positive cases, those who have been promoted either have improved physical functions, or become more beautiful, or become gourmets and cooks, and a small number of people have enhanced fertility, or acquired blood-related abilities.

From an artistic point of view, this aspect actually greatly improves performance or dance performance.

Fanning knew clearly that communication among Guiding School members was necessary, and that Dupont and Monroe should already know each other, and this round of sharing actually focused on informing themselves.

He said in the second: "The aspect I study is 'candle', um... just a few days after I was promoted, the intensity of inspiration should have reached the late stage of the third level. My 'light of first acquaintance' is that I can exchange two temperature."

"A rare talent, a rare gift, it seems that there is unexpected room for development and growth." Lawyer Monroe's tone was a little surprised, "The aspect I studied is 'Jin', and the intensity of inspiration is third-level. As for the light of first acquaintance..."

He quickly pulled out a gray pistol, aimed at Fanning's eyebrows in an instant, and directly pulled the trigger!
"Hoo--" The sound from the muffler was slightly harsh.

The bullet passed through Fanning's head as silently as if he didn't exist.

Sparks burst out from the lamppost a few meters away from the back of his head, and gunpowder smoke rose.

Fanning touched his forehead in disbelief.

I don't know if it happened because everything happened too fast, or because Monroe didn't have any real malice. His spiritual sense didn't have any warning, and he didn't even have time to show the startle reflex.

"The heat weapon used by me can save myself or my companions from any substantial harm, and the definition of companions is determined by my spirit." Lawyer Monroe explained.

DuPont immediately added: "I think Monroe can try grenade after he gets promoted to the mid-level."

Fan Ning recalled that studying the aspect of "Jin" may increase the strength or speed of those who know to a certain extent, endow them with the talent to use cold weapons or hot weapons, and have the potential to become a fighting master or a sharpshooter.They are also good at finding the enemy's physical or psychological weaknesses, sowing contradictions, and causing disputes. In some cases, the wise people seem to have gained the ability to control the storm.

But such a strange mysterious ability of this lawyer... Fanning has gained insight again.

If you are fighting with the enemy at close range, there is such a helper standing in the distance...

He just picked up the shotgun and gave a chug?

Thinking about it carefully, it's good to have such a helper on my side.

"If there is a battle between those who know, you will put self-protection first, and don't use too much force." DuPont finally told Fanning.

After briefly sharing the information, the three of them walked through the mud zone and arrived at the area where the demolition work had not yet progressed. There were sparse lights in front of them again.

"Hey, watch out!"

Amidst the laughter of several children with skinny arms and legs, Fan Ning was almost knocked down. They chased and fought with each other with the blackened broken wood, and the clothes could not see the original color at all.

"Take this alley, and later you can take a shortcut to get to the factory area faster." Lawyer Monroe pointed out the way.

"Can this also be called an alley?"

Fanning looked at the rows of low houses built facing away from each other in front of him. The two rows of houses shared a stack of back walls, and there was a narrow passage in front of the door.

A resident who just got off work took potatoes boiled in salt water from a neighbor in the opposite row without stepping out of the door.

These houses have no sanitation facilities. About every ten households share one public toilet and two faucets. There are two deep ditches on the ground of the narrow passage, and the sewage seeping from each house accumulates in it. People cleaned up and mixed together into a black and smelly solid-liquid mixture.

"The experience in winter is relatively good. I came here once in May this year, and I was almost not suffocated by the smell of sweat and feces." DuPont said.

"Providing housing is not the obligation of the authorities, and few employers think that they have the responsibility to provide housing for workers. Well... Only private builders are interested in this work. They will scientifically analyze the relationship between workers' bids and land rent, taxes, The relationship between interest rates and maintenance costs, and then give the 'optimal solution'."

The lawyer curled his lips when he said this: "This kind of double-row house group built next to the factory is their iconic work."

Several people walked back and forth in a row. Fanning's relatively thin shoulders were slightly away from the walls on both sides, but he still needed to turn sideways from time to time to avoid the residents who were squatting at the door and cleaning their mouths with tooth powder with a coarse cloth dipped in water.

Many workers in shabby clothes looked at the three gentlemen with expressions of awe, numbness, vigilance, or curiosity. However, the greedy and fierce eyes that are often seen in the slums rarely appeared here.

Compared with those tramps and thieves, or the precarious vagrants who do short-term work in the workhouse, the workers at least have their own families, residences, and a relatively stable job.

Besides, Monroe, who was at the end, always held the gray military automatic pistol in his hand.

DuPont said as he walked: "The family I chose to investigate today is someone who has dreamed of a strange man recently, and some family members have died strangely and tragically in the past few days. This is more efficient, and it is possible to find someone in between. contact."

"Brave and tragic death?" Fanning frowned.

"Lianka, a 21-year-old female factory worker, had bleeding gums for nearly three months. She decided to seek medical treatment because it had become severe in the past week. After receiving treatment, she did not improve. She went to the clinic for the third time yesterday, and the doctor beat her. As a result, the entire jaw collapsed and fell off, and he died of persistent vomiting of blood soon after."

After Dupont finished his story slowly in a melancholy voice, he reached out and knocked on the wooden door of the house in front of him.

Then he sighed: "This is the one, let's find out the details first."

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