Doomsday Totem

Chapter 1
On the blue sky, there is a beautiful city - Yincheng.

It is said that it is like spring all year round, and it is warm every day; it is said that the streets there are clean and there are no piles of smelly garbage; it is said that many beautiful small houses are built there, located between gardens and lakes; it is said that the people there You are friendly with people, and you don’t need to worry about the knife behind your back; it is said that there is enough food every day...

These rumors have been circulating in the slums under the Silver City.This is a topic that people like to talk about in their spare time.Just as men dream of Snow White and women of Prince Charming, so men dream of a brave new world.

However, dreams belong to dreams, and reality belongs to reality.The slums beneath the Silver City are home to millions of civilians.They lived on the garbage left by Yincheng, and found valuable things in those discarded, even toxic garbage, and then returned them to the furnace for recasting, and then sent the raw materials to Yincheng in exchange for a certain amount of living expenses.For Yincheng, they are like a factory that disposes of garbage.

At this time, the afternoon sun shone on the Silver City, casting a huge shadow on the ground.

In that shadow, there are piles of rubbish piled up, the amount is indescribably large, like mountains with peaks and ridges, stretching as far as the eye can see.

A young man stood on the rubbish dump, looking at the bottom of Yincheng, and muttered in his heart, "139, 138, 137, 136, 135..."

As time went on, more and more people gathered on the garbage dump.When he counted to zero, the city in the sky rang a series of bells, and all kinds of garbage fell into the ocean of garbage at a height of hundreds of meters like a waterfall.

No one dares to go near the garbage waterfall, which contains all kinds of heavy objects, such as refrigerators, color TVs, robot remains, seats, and even cars...

Once hit, it must become a pile of meat paste.

Except that boy!He squinted his eyes, rushed into the falling garbage, dodged left and right, and looked for valuables in extreme danger.

"Damn! It's that kid Tie Slag again, really desperate."

"He, like their old man, is a desperate person."

"He robbed all the good things!"

The people who were waiting to pick up the garbage stood around the garbage disposal area, pointing fingers at the young man from a distance, and talking about it.

After a while, the garbage disposal was over, and people rushed to grab the garbage that had just fallen.Before that, the boy known as Iron Slag had already left the garbage dump in order to avoid conflict with the looting crowd.

"Hey! Iron Slag, what good things have you picked up again?" Just as the boy jumped off the garbage dump, a chunky middle-aged businessman came up to meet him.

Tie Slag smiled slightly, and opened his hand to show him.I saw a crystal clear glass tube lying in the palm of the hand.

"Good stuff..." The businessman looked at the things in Tie Slag's hands, his small eyes shone brightly, he rubbed his hands repeatedly, and sighed involuntarily.

Seeing the greedy expression on the merchant's face, Tie Slag put his hand away and walked over the merchant towards the town.The businessman quickly caught up, licked his face and said, "Brother Tie, let me make a price."

"I'm not short of food, drink, or useful. What do you plan to exchange for it?" Tie Slag asked as he walked, without any intention of stopping to discuss.

"Brother Tie, how old are you this year?" The businessman rolled his eyes and asked him back.

"What does it have to do with you?" Tie Slag walked faster and faster, answering impatiently.

"I remember that this year is almost eighteen?" The businessman laughed, his eyes, nose and mouth squeezed together, looking very wretched.He chased Tie Slag and whispered, "Have you ever seen a woman?"

"Not interested!" Tie Slag frowned, and walked forward quickly in two steps.

"Brother Tie...Brother Tie...wait for me..." Tie Slag walked extremely fast, faster than ordinary people running, and the businessman chased after him, a little out of breath.

"Are you annoying? My things can save lives. If you don't have something of equal value, don't even think about it." Tie Slag stopped walking and said impatiently.

"She is different from the girls you usually see, completely different, come here, just take a look, just take a look." The businessman pestered tirelessly.

The two usually have deals and are considered half friends.Tie Slag couldn't refuse, so he agreed to take a look.

More than ten minutes later, the two walked into Tieshan Town along the potholed gravel road.The streets were as dirty as ever, with dust and paper dust flying everywhere.The streets are full of stalls selling some weird semi-waste products.The corners of every alley or building are occupied by the homeless, with messy daily necessities, dark quilts, old and sticky clothes...

Every once in a while on the street, a person in dark blue canvas clothes can be seen.They are the cleaners in this town, but they don't clean up the garbage, they are only responsible for moving the dead bodies that may appear on the street at any time.

The businessman was doing well here, and many people who set up street stalls greeted him along the way.He opened a grocery store here.The so-called grocery store sells and accepts everything, as long as it has value.

At this time, an old man with gray hair and only one eye rushed out from the corner of the street, stood in front of the businessman with a smile on his face and said, "Boss, I have good products, and I have good products."

The businessman frowned and took a step back.The old man's blind eye was dripping with pus, and his gray hair was covered with sticky blood scabs, which made him look very disgusting.

"Go, go, go! What good things can you have? Go, I'm busy with big business."

"Spine, fresh spine, a young man who just died today! It's a good thing." The old man said persistently.

"Okay, okay, come and find me in the store later." The businessman waved his hand, gesturing him to leave.

"Boss, I haven't eaten for a few days..." The old man was still unwilling to leave, standing still.

The businessman interrupted him impatiently, "You old blind man, you don't want to die, do you? You can see who the people next to me are! How many lives do you have if you dare to ruin Brother Tie's business!"

The old man wiped his eyes with his dirty and smelly sleeves, and saw the people around the businessman clearly.I saw him trembling all over, retreating in a hurry, giving way to the road.

After walking forward for more than ten meters, the two came to the merchant's grocery store.This is a house made of wood and iron sheets, with graffiti everywhere on the wall:

'The thief dies - Iron Mountain Town Council. '

"Brother Tie, this way please." The merchant opened the door and invited Tie Slag to enter.

The shop was dark and smelled of oil.There are all kinds of old parts and broken electrical appliances lying around...

The businessman turned on the light, the dim light illuminated the room, and a young girl appeared in the corner.She was curled up, chained to the corner of the wall, and sold like a commodity.

When he saw the girl, Tie Slag secretly marveled.He had never seen such a white woman, as white as the book said, like an angel who had fallen from the mortal world.

The businessman introduced that it was sold to him by a group of desert travelers a few days ago.It is said that they found her in the desert and brought her back.Last night, he went to the old man in the brothel to give her a body check-up, and it was still perfect and worth a lot of money.

Tie Slag walked up to the girl and observed carefully.She was wearing a dirty white dress, covered with oil and dust, and the dress was torn in many places, revealing the fair skin underneath.This kind of skin color is definitely not something that people living on the ground can have.

"What's your name?" Iron Slag lowered his voice, trying to be as friendly as possible.

The girl raised her head, a pair of starry eyes were hidden in the messy silver curly hair.She pressed her lips tightly, staring at Iron Slag without saying a word.

"If it can be delivered to Sand City as soon as possible, it will definitely sell for a good price." Said the businessman beside him.

"I'm not a commodity!" The girl shouted loudly, and then coughed violently.

Iron Slag took out the kettle on his body and handed it to her.The girl snatched the kettle and drank it in one gulp.

"I'm not your enemy." Tie Slag said calmly, "If you are willing to come with me, I will take you to Sand City and find a kind and rich person to buy you. It should be much better than the situation here. "

"Human trafficker! Bastard! Scum! Scoundrel..." The girl cheered up after drinking the water, and cursed the boy in front of her with various vicious words.

The businessman's face turned red and then turned white. The girl gave him a headache before, and even bit him.Now she still dares to insult his most honorable guest, it is simply shameless.In a fit of rage, he raised his hand and slapped her across the face!
The girl instinctively closed her eyes and turned her face sideways, but she didn't wait for that slap.

"How can I sell it for money if I break it?" The lazily voice of the young man came from next to her ears, and the girl slowly opened her eyes. Beads of sweat were dripping from the merchant's forehead in front of her, her entire face was distorted, and her expression looked very painful.

"Brother Tie, I'm venting my anger for you." The businessman said with a sad face, just now Tie Slag waved his hand casually to block his slap.He only felt his wrist hitting an iron plate, and the pain was so painful that he almost shed tears.

"Ju Sang, I'm sorry." Tie Slag grinned, although he was apologizing, but it's unclear how sincere he was.

The businessman turned his head and saw that the girl was actually snickering, so he immediately straightened his face and said, "This girl, I am doing it for you, this brother Tie is a good person, if he is willing to buy you, it is yours." Luck, you know?"

"Cut~ Human traffickers are still good people?" The girl turned her head in disdain.

"You fainted in the desert. If it wasn't for that group of travelers who rescued you, you would probably have become a pile of bones." The businessman said earnestly, "They sold you to me in exchange for a reward for saving you. Fair; if they sell you to Lao Na in the brothel, I believe they will get paid more; the same reason, if I sell you to Dao Ya, Gui Tou, I believe the price will be higher; you know , in a place like this..."

"Whispering!" Tie Slag growled for no reason, interrupting the businessman's words.He stood up straight and drew a straight machete from behind his back.This is a single-edged knife made of steel bars. The back of the knife is very thick, and there are many curls on the blade, making it look bumpy.The businessman didn't know what he was going to do, so he stepped aside quickly.Tie Slag clasped his hands together, and slashed at the girl!

"Ah!" Seeing the domineering young man slashing at him with a knife, the girl screamed in shock!

With the sound of 'ding', sparks shot out from the blade, and the iron chain snapped.

"You go." Tie Slag said to the girl, "As long as you walk out of this shop, I promise you won't survive for three hours."

As he spoke, Iron Slag took out the crystal clear glass tube and threw it to the businessman casually.The businessman caught it in a hurry, cursing inwardly, 'Crazy!What if it is broken?Can't you pass it to me?The whole family is crazy! '

The girl froze for a while, looking at the boy in disbelief.Then, she slowly walked around the boy and the businessman, turned around and rushed out the door!

"She actually... really ran away." The two people in the grocery store looked at each other.

(End of this chapter)