death of hope

Chapter 79 "Flying Windfall" (79) Chasing and Killing
A pair of warm little hands hugged his neck, Roy stopped laughing hysterically, and the elegant fragrance of Anna calmed him down.

"Those horrible people...they're gone..." she said.

Looking around, there were five corpses lying on the ground. Two gangsters who had been stabbed and injured were holding their stomachs desperately to prevent their intestines from leaking out. Those who had already grabbed the gold bricks ran away contentedly.

"It's too bad, the money and gold have been taken away, and we can't go."

"It doesn't matter,"

Roy flapped his buttoned coat pocket;

"Terra Federal Immigration Permit, Property Information Settlement Certificate, Infectious Disease Surveillance Report, and Interstellar Immigration Tickets are all well preserved.

Food and clothing on the way are all included in the ticket.It doesn't matter if you don't have money, but you will have a hard time after getting off the ship. "

"The two of us have never been afraid of suffering. After we immigrated to the planet, we will all do hard work. Although hard work can't make you rich, you can still make a living. There is always a way to get over it, but... Roy... your current mental state is very serious. worry."

"Sorry for scaring you."

Roy squatted down exhaustedly, grabbed his hair with both hands, sighed and said:

"The pressure was too great. I couldn't hold back my emotions just now, so I vented a bit."

"I'm more serious myself. Without my family, my heart is empty. I really hope this is all a dream."

"It's a pity that this is reality. If you want to survive, you have to face it."

"York City is hopeless. If we stay here, we will both go crazy."

"That's the way it is. As the old man said, there is nothing to miss here." Roy raised his head:

"Let's go."

Roy dragged the dead body out of the way, Anna left two bottles of drinking water for the injured gangster, and the two drove on the road again.
In the next half hour, it seemed that the disaster that tested them was over, and everything seemed to be going smoothly.

There were no more vicious gangsters blocking the road, and no damaged trucks blocking the road, so they drove straight out of the city and onto the outer ring road in the suburbs. Both of them leaned on their seats with tired expressions.

The beautiful vision for the future is gone, and there is only endless confusion and emptiness.

(It's not fair), Roy thought.

The New Year's bell is about to ring,
Corrupt federal politicians and mercenary black-hearted businessmen are drinking and having fun in the mansion, while kind and sincere lovers are working hard in the wind and rain.

Aunt Fanny, the drunkard on the block, once said,
Poor ghosts like us born in slums should have self-knowledge,
He deserved to go to the factory to screw screws for a lifetime, and he was injured at work when he was young. In the end, he was seriously ill, incontinent, and died in a community hospital with outdated medical facilities.

The children go round and round, repeating the hopeless cycle.

Even if you got lucky and won the lottery prize, don't feel like you're a shit,

You will become an upstart for a short time, but soon, you will be disgusted by the upper class, and you will quickly fall back to your own class, and you will fall into the mud, even worse than before.

(Damn it, damn it! What Aunt Fanny said...it has come true for me...)
The car drove up a section of elevated road, and the terrain on both sides had a panoramic view, which was very spectacular.

In the suburbs, there are mountains of industrial waste piled up to a height of [-] meters, creeks polluted into sticky and smelly ditches, and spaceships that have been dismantled into waste parts lying quietly in the federal military equipment cemetery.

Most disgusting is the Scarab Hill dump, where food waste is buried, a mound of garbage bags mixed with the rotting corpses of creatures, including humans.

The cats and dogs mutated by nuclear radiation chewed on the dead bodies with their sharp teeth, and tore up plastic bags with their claws, looking for leftovers to fill their stomachs.

A densely populated metropolis like York City is like a festering cyst on the planet Terra, which can always quickly infect the surrounding area, turning the soil into desert or saline, and the river into ditches or swamps.

Reckless exploitation of natural resources, crazy housing development and construction, endless industrial production... are all spreading towards a wider range.

The surrounding scenery proves that Terra, the mother planet of mankind, has been tortured to the brink of death by humans—this greedy parasite. Even the pastor of the church shook his head and said,

The Most High, Almighty Lord has given up here.

When I think that I am about to leave this planet abandoned by the gods and open up a new world with my lover, I can feel a little hope.

The real human colony will certainly not be as beautiful as the advertisements of the Immigration Bureau. Where there are people, there will be classes.

Even if you face unknown dangers, even if you start from scratch, it doesn’t matter if you are poor. It’s better than just waiting to die on this desperate planet. At least, your children will not die prematurely due to environmental pollution.

Roy's tense nerves relaxed a little, and he hummed a song,

Until he heard the roar of small aero-engines coming from behind.

"It's a drone, the altitude has dropped, follow us." Anna exclaimed.

"Damn! What are you afraid of...

Fasten your seat belts, I'm going to speed up! "

"God... Roy... I'm so scared..."

"Honey... this is the end of the matter, there is no other way! Sit tight!"

Roy slams on the gas pedal,

The V12 engine of the medieval muscle car roared, and the car reached a speed of 170 miles per hour (approximately equal to 273.6 kilometers per hour), almost catching up with the speed of an intercity high-speed train, but still far from the speed of an airplane.

"Oh my god, I feel like... the seat... is pushing my back."

"Did you get rid of it?"

"Maybe, I can't see the drone anymore...

Wait... it accelerates to catch up, and there's another white rotorcraft. "

"Twin variable rotors, white and red livery, yes?"

"Yes."

Roy gritted his teeth and said, "It's the plane of Sakura Co., Ltd.! We were discovered by the unmanned reconnaissance plane, and then the manned rotorcraft came to hunt us down."

The car radio was hacked, and a phrase in an unintelligible language came out:

"前の车の运転手さん, すぐに车车してください.でないと力力を依います."

"Damn it, what kind of birdsong does he speak!"

Ana, who had learned the language at community night school, translated it:
"Driver of the vehicle ahead, please stop immediately, otherwise we will use force."

"Don't believe their bullshit, I'm going to speed up!"

The radio jamming stopped, a horrifying flash of fire was seen in the rearview mirror, followed by three pops of "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Three small rockets flew out of the cylinders of the gyroplane pylon and exploded [-] meters in front of the car. Three large craters were blown into the asphalt road, and Roy had to shift gears to slow down.

(End of this chapter)