Become a legend in the interstellar

Chapter 188 Second-hand World
"boom!"

Su Xia landed heavily, falling about ten meters.

The sewer here is designed to be quite spacious, with a gray-black oval top, and the front and rear cannot be seen. The odor in the air is not heavy, and it seems that the ventilation system is still normal.

Su Xia took out a flashlight, pressed the switch, and brought a bright light to this dark place.

And Ma Zhu finally groped down.

"My lord, just walk a little further. We are just one of the entrances and exits."

"Well, continue to lead the way."

Su Xia adjusted the brightness of the flashlight to the maximum.

The two walked one after the other, walking in this huge sewer, and the sound of footsteps echoed far away.

Su Xia noticed that there was no trace of running water on the ground of this sewer, and neither did the walls on both sides, which proved that it had not been put into use before, and the reinforced concrete layer was extremely thick, no less than the current air-raid shelter.

Not long after walking, there were poor people lying down and sleeping on both sides of the sewer.

They were covered in tattered and dirty quilts, and the blankets under them were the same color as the ground, but they slept soundly and didn't notice anyone walking by.

"Snoring...snoring..."

The snoring came and went, amplified by the empty sewer space, like a group of giants.

The deeper into this subterranean area, the more people lay on the ground and slept freely.

Gradually, some small houses appeared.

Like the ones on the ground, these houses are low and narrow. They are simply built with the most basic materials such as iron sheets, wooden boards, and asbestos tiles. The key parts are tied with plastic ropes or iron wires to ensure that they will not fall apart. The length, width and height are only two It looks like three meters, leaving enough passage for the rest of the people to pass.

Electricity was also connected to the ground, and scattered wires were fixed on the curved cement wall, like black blood vessels growing out of the sewer.

There was still a dim light in many of the houses, and through the cracks, the poor at work could be seen.

Some are sewing and weaving, some are sorting discarded machinery, and some are making simple food.

The deeper you go, the more lights come on.

This huge underground sewer space actually has a prototype of a small world, which can already achieve internal circulation to some extent.

After walking for half an hour, Su Xia actually passed a large shopping mall.

The underground shopping mall is very special, directly occupying the entire semi-cylindrical space, more than 20 meters long, and people who come and go need to pass through it. Under the dim chandelier, there are many common things on the ground on the metal shelves.

"Sir, that's sugar water, you can buy it here."

While walking through the mall, Ma Zhu pointed to a shelf in a corner. The shelf was full of small black glass bottles the size of a thumb.

Su Xia glanced at it, and a prompt appeared in front of her.

[Detected addictive ingredients can cause the user to fall into short-term happiness and hallucinations. Long-term use will damage the brain, and internal organs such as the heart, lungs, and kidneys will fail, causing irreversible and fatal damage to the body. It is recommended to destroy it on the spot 】

This kind of stuff, which is banned in the surface world, is openly sold in the underground world.

Its price is not cheap, the most common one is double-digit, and the average salaryman in the city who has to support his family may be reluctant to buy it.

On the two sides outside the mall, there are many poor people who are using straws to suck this sugar water.

They were wearing shabby clothes, some had not even eaten for days, and they had saved their money to buy this stuff, scrawny, so hungry that only a thin layer of skin was left, curled up in a ball, closed their eyes, or twitched, or Unconsciously sending out all kinds of strange babble.

[You triggered the quest "Flower of Life", do you want to accept it? 】

Before seeing Wu Gui's family, Su Xia triggered a mission.

The world is very big, and walking around can always trigger various tasks, but this task is more special.

[Mission: Flower of Life]

[Description: On the barren and dry soil, the flowers of life cannot bloom]

[This slum is controlled by a drug called "sugar water", most people's lives are gradually withering in false illusions, please find the source of this drug and destroy it in one fell swoop]

【This task has no time limit】

[Task requirements: Kill all the masterminds behind the scenes, leaving no one behind]

[Quest Reward: Purification Potion]

[Note: There is no level limit for this medicine, and it can be refined by first-order pharmacist apprentices, which can free the creatures addicted to medicines and regain their new life]

Seeing the mission description, Su Xia sighed.

This thing can't be completely destroyed on Earth's side.

Some countries are even starting to legalize, how is that possible on this decaying planet.

Unless everything is smashed, everything is overthrown, a new order is established with an unprecedented change, and it completely disappears under the new order.

[Task Tip 1: The Wu Gui family you are looking for is part of the delivery of sugar water]

Seeing this prompt, Su Xia's eyes narrowed.

This was completely unexpected to him.

Do you want him to get rid of Wu Gui's family with his own hands?
"You can only take one step at a time."

Su Xia sighed and moved on, looking for Wu Gui's family in this huge underground world.

Wu Gui's parents were involved in a gang dispute in the early years. The enemy broke into the house and chopped his parents into pieces in front of Wu Gui, who was only five years old, and chopped them up with a meat grinder to feed the pigs. Farm farrowing sows.

Later, Wu Gui lived with his cousin who was 20 years older than him.

The two brothers depended on each other and struggled to live in this dark place.

Su Xia recalled that Wu Gui often said before his death: "My cousin and his family still haven't moved out. Maybe I don't have enough money to send back. Wait for me to save some money for them..."

This time Su Xia also brought a lot of money, and even planned to find a serious job in the city for Wu Gui's cousin through his identity as a pharmacist, but the sudden side quest disrupted his plan.

In this way, he walked and searched among the dense buildings of the sewer pipes, enduring all kinds of strange smells, and it took another half an hour.

Ma Zhu's body is quite poor, and he can't hold it after walking for so long.

His face was as pale as paper, and he begged carefully: "Sir, can we... go to the nearby market to eat something first?"

"Oh? Is there a market underground here?"

Su Xia nodded and motioned him to lead the way: "Let's go, show me."

"Yes Yes……"

Ma Zhu breathed a sigh of relief and took Su Xia into a relatively low fork.

He is less than 1.6 meters tall, just walking in it.

But Su Xia had to lower her head, bend slightly, and walked a long way in this fork.

After walking out of the fork, the eyes lit up, and a small market with bright lights appeared in front.

It was past ten o'clock in the evening, but there were not many people coming and going in the market. Food, clothes, daily necessities and so on were placed on various stalls.

This area seems to be the intersection of several large pipelines, and the space is very large, with more than 30 stalls.

Ma Zhu walked to a food stall, swallowed his saliva, took out a crumpled three yuan and fifty cents from his pocket and handed it to the stall owner, saying, "Here's a fried rice and more meat."

"alright, please wait!"

The stall owner took the money and went to work.

Hearing the price, Su Xia was a little surprised and asked, "The food in the underground is so cheap?"

"This……"

The stall owner also glanced at Su Xia in astonishment, and found that Su Xia was white and tender, with expensive clothes and a sophisticated mechanical watch.

At first glance, it is the son of a rich family, no wonder he has to understand the prices of the underground.

But what is this person doing underground?
Even if you want to find slaves, you will not come in person. The slave traders who come underground are all middlemen.

Ma Zhu smiled awkwardly and explained: "Sir, the food here is basically second-hand and worthless."

"Second-hand? From the rubbish heap?"

"correct."

Ma Zhu pointed to the inside of the booth and let Su Xia see it.

In the stall, there were several large transparent plastic bags containing many messy cooked meats.

"These meats are all turned out from the garbage heap. At five o'clock every day, the garbage trucks in the city will start dumping garbage on the garbage mountain outside. At this time, we will rush in and pick out the good things..."

"Many rich people in the city will not finish their food, sometimes they can even find a whole chicken thigh steak, and many just eat a few bites and lose it. That's all meat, as long as you wash it, Re-cook and sterilize, and the meat can be eaten..."

In general, the meat in those large transparent plastic bags was turned out from the garbage heap, and had been smeared with meat in other people's saliva.

The processing process is very disgusting, but it can be eaten after all, and the child needs it most when he grows up.

In addition to food, other things here, such as clothes, daily necessities, etc., are basically second-hand.

Every place has its own way of survival.

In this slum, as long as you can use it and eat it, that's enough.

Many people here place their hope of improving their lives on the next generation, so they try their best to have children. More and more people are causing the prices of second-hand things to go up.

According to Ma Zhu, this kind of fried rice used to cost only two yuan and eight.

After all, the meat is drooled, the oil is fished out of the ditch, the rice is expired, and the cost is pitifully low.

The variety of food sold in this stall is less than a quarter of the price outside.

"No matter what, as long as you fry it in oil, it will taste delicious."

Ma Zhu held a plate, squatted beside the stall and devoured it with a look of enjoyment.

When he was addicted to sugar water in the past, he had no appetite for a long time. Today, he was cured by Su Xia's medicine, and his appetite came back.

And Su Xia really had no appetite, and she felt a little nauseated when she saw those big bags of cooked meat.

He also had a difficult life since he was a child, but it has not yet reached this point. The state has given his family a lot of subsidies, even the tuition fee is waived, so that he can receive a good education and eat normal meat.

(End of this chapter)