Overturned Tower

The price of Sogo Island is much higher than that of Happy Island. Because Sogo Island is not like Happy Island, where the work rate is so high.

This means that from the very beginning, Sogo Island is full of elites of different degrees and levels, and there are almost no low-level civilians at all. All repeatable, non-creative and simple jobs are replaced by artificial intelligence, which also means that it is difficult for ordinary people to find a job and naturally cannot survive. Those who can escape to other sky islands and be accepted by other sky islands are considered lucky.

And in the same way, as the number of living people on the market decreases, it also means that prices will rise. Merchants need to earn more money from those fewer people, and the rich don't care about the price gap.

Just buying clothes is difficult—although fabrics are produced locally, clothing designs are patented and copyrighted. The best and most fashionable clothes are always imported from Happy Island... That kind of clothes may only sell for more than 20 credits in Happy Island, which is roughly equivalent to two fried chicken meals.

But when it comes to Sogo Island, it can be sold for more than 180 credits.

On Sogo Island, a meal of fried chicken may sell for thirty or forty credits.

So Alice would unpack the cheap clothes and make new ones for Russell to save money.

Her main job on Sogo Island is a black market doctor.

Specially go to the black area to treat people with injuries that cannot be found in the hospital, such as some unexplainable sharp weapon injuries, bone fractures or gunshot wounds... In addition, she has another side job, which is to help people Remove the chip.

Although the credit points of the two empty islands are different, and the income from work is completely different... But even so, the difficulty of living well in Sogo Island is still much higher than that in Happy Island.

Even if Russell is only a truck driver in Happy Island, he can drink Coke every day.

But when he was in Sogo Island, Russell’s most common food was tofu, followed by cheap synthetic meat—even if the cost and production process of simulated synthetic meat with better taste and cheap synthetic meat were almost the same, yet Sogo Island would produce it specially A particularly cheap, very bad-tasting, cheap synthetic meat can be bought for just one credit, which is sold to the poor.

The meat is like a luncheon meat that is extra starchy and therefore loose.

And the "canned" part of this kind of canned meat can be sold for more than half of the price just by selling scrap products, and it can almost achieve perpetual movement. From this we can see how low the technical cost of synthetic meat is. The cost of a meal of fried chicken may not reach two credits, but the cost of selling it to a fried chicken shop alone is twelve to fourteen credits.

The factories that produce this kind of "canned food for the poor" can't get any profit, and it can even be said that they will lose as much as they produce... But they still do this because Sogo Corporation subsidizes them.

Because of the cold cognition in Sogo Island, this is a "gentle" means of expulsion.

They don't sell happiness as a commodity like Happy Island. Sogo Island is an extremely strict and extremely cold elite society... They deliberately let the poor survive, but they don't live well.

Only three kinds of people will be born out of it-the twisted lunatics and criminals, the social animals who will climb up at all costs, and the incompetent who are useless.

The first type of people will be screened out by crime detection devices and arrested before committing crimes; the second type of people will be able to give birth to real elites and elite embryos; and the third type of people can be used to highlight The sense of superiority and happiness of elites... can also be thrown to other empty islands to reduce useless "waste". The elites of other sky islands may also go to Sogo Island because the treatment is not good enough or it is too dangerous.

It is precisely because of this that Alice made a special trip to Sogo Island.

Because the residents of Sogo Island completely trust their detection system... Sogo Island is called "Island of Impossible Crime" and "Artificial Intelligence Society". People don't even necessarily close doors and windows when they sleep.

Because of this, as long as there is no crime on Chongguang Island, no one will be investigated at all, and even those without a code will not be hunted down or traced at all. Because they are samples specially reserved to warn others of "what will happen if the elite is no longer the elite".

There are more than a dozen guns that Russell repaired during his internship alone, but he has never heard of or seen a shooting.

This can only be understood as the crimes being forcibly terminated before they were committed. As for psykers committing crimes and demons getting out of control, they have never heard of it.

Coupled with the "idols" exported and sold on Happy Island, the best medical technology provided by Holy Blood Island, and various food and recreational facilities provided by Taoyuan Island... the rich people in Sogo Island live the most comfortable and safe life. And never have to worry about being kidnapped by criminal organizations in the lower city at any time like Happy Island.

In a sense, Sogo Island is the true cyberpunk world. Far more cruel than Happy Island... that is a cruel "safety".

Even for Alice, a member of the Tower of Babel whose identity is on the verge of being leaked, she can still remain safe on Sogo Island.

But Sogo Island is not a peaceful and safe paradise in all places...

Although there are not many people receiving treatment at Alice's mobile black clinic, it also proves that crime, malice and death still exist in the "black area" that cannot be monitored by artificial intelligence.

Although doctors are relatively respected in the black area, it is not absolutely safe.

Because of this, every time Alice went out, the young Russell felt fear in his heart. It was the panic of losing one's only loved one...a fear of being alone.

He can only feel a little warmth and fullness by shrinking into the cardboard box that Alice has padded with blankets.

Until he was admitted to Sogo University and became a special student... Russell's habit has not been changed.

To this day, Russell often curls up in a ball at home.

Because in this way, he can get warmth and peace of mind, just like being hugged and shrunk in the cardboard box by Alice that night.

When Russell first went to Delphinium's house, he would subconsciously curl up, squint his eyes and blow on the air conditioner. Although Russell himself quibbled that it was because the air conditioner in Delphinium's house was cooler—but the vessel of God knew that it was because Russell was subconsciously uneasy about going to sleep in a strange place.

Whenever ~www.readwn.com~ Delphinium will forcefully post it at this time, saying that Russell is very cold, forcibly requisitioning Russell, using him as a pillow and cushion.

Although Russell always yelled that this would be very hot, he would still obediently "spread out" himself to make himself softer.

Time and time again... Over time, Russell stopped curling up in bed all the time.

The Vessel of the Gods is also comforted by this.

Russell, who huddled in a ball, filled the void with the warmth of "love".

And Russell, who spread out again, did not lose that warmth... because there was a new warmth in his arms.

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Part of the schedule has been adjusted back, from getting up at three o'clock in the afternoon to ten o'clock in the morning...

There is still the third chapter today, I will go to lunch and then come back to continue writing!

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