The Riddler Get Out of Terra

Magnificent lights are the signature of a mobile city. The more developed you are, the more you can see the brilliance of these human technologies shining on everyone regardless of rich or poor. Except for death, perhaps only when passing by these brilliant and useless artificial light sources, will There is a little bit of fairness in the world.

It's just that at this moment when everyone is exhausted, residents of mobile cities no longer have time to think about these useless philosophical speculations.

Under the low-quality and dazzling neon lights, every passerby is in a hurry. No one will stop to look into the distance, and no one will waste time staring at the lights and enjoying a moment of rest.

The negative consequences of years of military conscription in the Yan Kingdom have finally grown beyond concealment. The fueling of the governors at all levels has easily pushed the living standards of residents in the mobile city to an abyss. Food prices have skyrocketed, housing prices have soared, and public utilities such as gas, electricity, and Origin Stone consumption have Service charges began to appear openly on residents' living bills, like greedy and cruel mouths, devouring calories from their increasingly thin wages. (Monthly fee group 694936135)

But no one dared to say anything.

In the city, the governor's secret guards seemed to be everywhere, and every dark corner seemed to hide those cold and ruthless eyes. Their ears were so clever that no objections, complaints or painful curses could escape the eyes of the secret guards. As long as there is a little evidence, the order for forced conscription will come to your door.

Of course, they would not be so barbaric - after all, according to the decree established by the big man who cannot be named in Yanguo's capital, compulsory recruitment requires continuous provision of supplies and pensions for ten years or more. If the conscripted soldiers are in the north, they will not be so barbaric. Acting bravely can even get better treatment for relatives in the interior of Yan country.

But the central government won’t provide any money. The major mobile cities have to provide this money themselves!

As a result, certain unspoken rules gradually grew through trial and error, and finally became popular under the recommendation of some people with unknown purposes:

The secret guards collected intelligence and summarized the evidence. With this conclusive order, the yamen went door-to-door. All words were spoken on the line, and all responses were brutally suppressed. Misfortune brought about by words was jail time. But in the current situation, outside In these difficult times, can the unlucky man in prison still dream of his own treatment?

At this time, the yamen agent who is responsible for both trials and recruitment will pull out the conscription terms that have been prepared in advance and ask you if you need to apply for the probation regulations - to encourage criminals to enter the Yanguo conscription sequence as a second-class soldier. The same thing The proud policy of a man whose name shall not be revealed.

What can the hapless guy with solid evidence say?How could you still say so carelessly in front of a police officer who was fatter, stronger, and more professionally trained than them, that Lin Bei just wouldn't go? What can you do to Lin Bei?

It is said that the people's hearts are as strong as iron, but what kind of people's hearts are really stronger than iron?But this official law is really like a furnace. As long as it enters this furnace, any iron will be melted into finger-wound softness. Those who openly confront the police or oppose the conscription will be thrown directly into the soldier slave team. This is the same as seeking death. There is no difference anymore!

Besides, before going to fight for your life in the north, you can also be a bit arrogant as a recruiting team for a while. For example, those taverns and teahouses, these villages and towns, they look good, so what if you just take them away?Are you still arguing with the hero who is about to sacrifice his life for your safety?

So often the unlucky guy joins the conscription team with a sad face and within half a month, he can be arrogant and happy in the mobile city. Except for those hotels and shopping malls with nobles or big capital standing behind them, they dare not mess with the shops of ordinary people. suffered greatly from it.

Generally speaking, the recruitment team cycles once a year, recruiting in the winter, training until the summer, and then throwing them to the north. It often takes less than two months for these unlucky ones who join the recruitment team to be recruited by the recruitment team.

Reputation is at stake in the mobile city, where everyone hates and hates dogs.

As for good people who aim high and don’t want to harm others?

Of course there is, but how can human nature withstand repeated tests?Once the gate of depravity is opened, it is no longer so easy to close. Of course, good people can stick to their duties and live alone, but that can't stop most people from being idle and making trouble, right?

So no matter whether there are good, bad or all bad inside, when the conscription team leaves, even the most impoverished and helpless residents of Mobile City, who may have to join the conscription team in the next draft, will stand up and cheer, glad that a group of villains have left Mobile City.

And these people's money has been withheld, and they are euphemistically called "use the money of these villains to contribute to everyone in the mobile city." Who would refuse?

Even though their lives have not gotten better but have gotten worse after all these years, compared to other mobile cities, we are already much better, aren't we?

As a result, the mediocre ordinary people in the mobile city are becoming more and more anxious. They have to run quickly to stop the random thoughts in their minds to prevent them from falling into the abyss of confusion and pain due to temporary confusion. People must seize the time to work and switch to the winter salary as soon as possible. Spend the increasingly cold winter days.

boom.

Not only intentionally or unintentionally, a brown-haired Minotaur collided with a worker who was walking quickly. He was wearing thick clothes, but the petite Minotaur had long fluffy hair, his face was dusty, and he was distracted and weak. Weakness and weakness were displayed on her face from the beginning. The Elafia worker was wearing a dirty blue overalls, with the name of the factory where he worked written on it in white dye. He had a majestic figure, and the sleeves were high with muscles on his arms. The high bulge shows that he comes from a hard physical work background.

Originally, it should be easy to determine the outcome of the collision between these two people, but what actually happened was completely contrary to the judgment:

The frail Minotaur woman bumped into the strong Elafia worker at once, and the whole process was extremely smooth, relaxed and comfortable.

The sound of the worker falling to the ground attracted the attention of many people, but their attention was quickly diverted. The Elafia worker stood up without saying a word and bent over to the Minotaur indiscriminately. It was obvious that he was When he was hit, it was all the Minotaur's fault, but he didn't even have an explanation. He apologized casually and hurriedly left the scene of the accident and ran towards the factory.

The disguised Qilin's chaotic thoughts were briefly restored to clarity by this collision. She looked at the indifferent crowd around her, thought for a moment, and followed Elafia who left quickly.

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Chapter 225: Heart is like a broken branch ([-])

Enter the factory, wash it off hastily, put on better-than-no protection, and start working.

Start work, start work, start work, start work, start work...

Endless work, endless repetition, only the black stains on the assembly line in front of me, the short-lived human emotions in my heart become increasingly numb.

Which is more torturous, death or the current endless assembly line?

Elafia couldn't tell, or in other words, in this factory, in this mobile city, the low-class people who were like worker ants working diligently in the veins of the giant's body had been deprived of their thinking ability by day after day wear and tear. Every day is just about starting work, starting work, resting, starting work, getting wages, buying food, paying rent, and if there is no money, continue working... This is an endless cycle.

There is no social security system in the Yan Kingdom, and there is no pension for young people. Maybe there was originally some, but when the Northern War began, with all parties tacitly ignoring each other, the so-called pension system and humanistic care became a fig leaf in name only. , once opened, the empty and tragic reality inside will suddenly burst into the eyes of the offender.

Except for the high-ranking and colluding big shots, no one has the strength to say anything. Compared with the other countries of Terra, the Yan Kingdom undoubtedly has a longer history of civilization, but this history of civilization not only carries a weight that makes ordinary Yan Kingdom people proud, but also There are deep-rooted methods of oppression.

The people of the Yan Kingdom have been domesticated by themselves for too long, so long that...as long as the bottom line is not touched, it is so simple and easy for them to die slowly.

The Northern War is not a catastrophe that changes everything. It is an accelerator that unveils all tenderness and reveals the ferocious nature at the bottom. As it accelerates, more and more noble people begin to tear off the masks of kindness, revealing the greedy and bold hunger underneath. Eat phase.

As long as they grasp the scale, the Yan Kingdom will be as stable as Mount Tai, and their rule will be deep-rooted, coexisting with the sun and the moon.

Creak——!

Ah ah ah ah ah! ! ! ! !

Miserable and sharp screams sounded from the factory building farther away. Some of the "screws" who were working mechanically on the assembly line were faintly commotion, but most of the workers no longer cared about the screams or abnormal movements. The assembly line never stopped, and they started working like a machine. The action will not stop.

Elafia was once a member of the turmoil, but as he became more familiar with the factory and became more and more embarrassed in life, he also became "gloriously" one of the invisible and motionless old birds:

By listening to the sound, you can almost tell the approximate location of the factory where the screams came from.

Lafia has also been to the group workshop where the screams rang out. Compared to the workshop where he currently works, the place where the screams originated can be called hell - in order to ensure the accuracy of parts and reduce costs, the temperature of the workshop is very high, the environment is stuffy, and it is so hot. Workers only need to stay there for a short time before they become dizzy and make frequent mistakes.

Elafia stayed there for less than half a month before she gritted her teeth and bribed the workshop director with the money she had saved for three months. She used the next factory shift to run to the workshop where she was currently working and got out in time. Leave: As long as you are not a fool and find the dizzyingly hot and dizzying environment inside the workshop and almost no security measures, you will know what choice to make.

Only the unlucky ones who offended the workshop director or were recruited when wages were high will be thrown there all the time. Machinery that has expired early but continues to be in service because the factory owner wants to save costs will take their lives. of.

In recent months, the machinery in the workshop has become more and more dilapidated, causing more and more work-related injuries. From time to time, screams can be heard coming from the hot workshop, passing through the noisy interior of the factory, passing through the engineering iron sheets with extremely weak sound insulation capabilities, and entering the ears of other workers. inside.

But at this critical moment of the war in the North, the factory owners have every reason to withhold pensions and not allocate them - this is just to meet the demand for supplies in the North. Internal funds are tight and further buffering is needed. The government can testify to this!

Of course, it’s not that we won’t give it. As long as the war in the north is over, we can take a breath and recover a breath of blood, and then we can make up for your pension and work-related injury allowance!

All this is still witnessed by the Yamen!

But when will the Northern War end?Why can factory owners enjoy treatment that is much higher than that of ordinary workers, while living in villas, driving luxury cars, and spending a lot of money at a time when ordinary people almost have to borrow money for housing and food?

No one knows. Anyway, the government has judged that their capital chain is tight and they really do not have the ability to repay the pension. However, even though they are so miserable, they are still trying their best to provide a steady stream of material support to the northern border. This is a great thing for the country and the people!

So...can you all sacrifice yourself for Great Yan?

The dazzling governor shook hands with many factory owners on TV and smiled kindly and openly. The factory owners were in suits and leather shoes, and every strand of their hair seemed to be carefully taken care of. They had nothing to do with the two-shift workers in the factory.

The tired and haggard workers in the mobile city are still displaced. After one day away from the factory, they may be kicked out of their homes and wander in the empty streets of the mobile city without food.

As for the families of the disabled and deceased...even normal people face such a difficult situation when they are unable to start work, so what can this family do?

You may not be able to find one in a hundred families who are good at martial arts, other skills, and have relatives and friends to support them. Most of the families made up of mobile city residents are just mediocre members of this land. In an increasingly harsh environment, At this moment, they don’t even have the power to bargain.

Or, the whole family leaves the mobile city in hunger and cold - and when leaving, they have to escape the exploitation of city defenses at all levels and the hunting of Ren Yazi, which is a narrow escape. Ren Yazi, who has no moral bottom line, will even kidnap children to hunt their parents, and The governor's personal guards, who confirmed that the family was planning to leave, turned a blind eye and allowed a few poor people to be squeezed out of their last value.

Or, they can only accept the meager compensation offered by the factory owner, which may not even be one-tenth of the normal compensation, grit their teeth and swallow with blood, give up, and leave hastily, but where can they escape to?If you plan to leave Mobile City with this little money, the most optimistic scenario is that you will be drained of every last penny by the city defense team before you come back. The gloomy conclusion is that the soldier slave team will add another soldier slave.

But what if we can continue to stay in the mobile city?With such little money, you can’t even open a mobile stall. The Governor issued the latest urban appearance management bill ten months ago. Now, even if you can open a mobile stall on the street, you have to spend money with the city management department. , otherwise the stall will be confiscated and even fined.

As for a common man getting angry and blood splattering five steps forward?

The City Management Guard has now been reorganized with the City Defense Force, and they are on cross-rotation. In the name of city management, some of the money squeezed out of the streets of the mobile city has also entered the pockets of the City Defense Force. After several rounds of division, it is insignificant. A bit would be spent on city defense troops - as a small subsidy for equipment maintenance and repair.

And when the war in the north is blocked from the Yan Kingdom and the countries of Terra are actively responding to the disaster in the north and have no intention of attacking other countries, why do these equipments need frequent repairs and maintenance?

Of course, in order to maintain order in the mobile city.

Families with disabled people will end up with a few of them. They will disintegrate on the spot, and the injured will fend for themselves, or they will live with each other for a few months, and finally be dragged to death in some obscure corner, and even the corpses will be impatient. The people's teeth are accurately used to squeeze out the last value.

Of course, maybe there will be one more night shifter, one more newsboy fighting over a newspaper in the morning when the temperature is very low, one more underage child laborer cleaning up garbage from industrial equipment regardless of the risk of his life. But more importantly, there is a disabled soldier in the recruitment team, and his eyes are full of despair about death.

Chapter 226 Heart is like a broken branch ([-])

The assembly line finally stopped, and his work also ended. Elafia stretched out happily, and his stiff bones screamed, and his muscles felt sharp.

of soreness.

But in the boundless numbness, even this kind of soreness has an indelible sense of joy. It seems that only in this way can he have the warmth of life, instead of being a part that will be thrown into the trash can and reduced to waste when it wears to the limit. .

The middle-aged man and a few familiar workers lazily raised their hands to say hello, and then left slowly to go to the cleaning room to clean their work clothes. The other workers around him, who were still a little angry but not many, were about to leave. Groups of people approached the area where the screams came from, trying to find out what happened, but Elafia and other veterans knew what would happen in the death workshop early. During the years they ran to this workshop, they did not know what happened. How many times have I heard similar screams.

This means misery, pain, despair and inevitable depravity, which makes people feel panicked. But after experiencing it for a long time and seeing it a lot, they can harden their hearts and just live their own lives - even if they don't even think about it. They didn't have a good life either.

But as the news anchors who often appear on TV say, no matter how you compare them, they are better than the mud-legged people who work hard to farm outside the mobile city and have to avoid natural disasters, right?

Even if they are teetering before the abyss, they are still willing to immerse themselves in the packaged dream. It is not until they fall into the abyss that they realize that they have lost even the strength to struggle.

There were more and more chaotic thoughts in Elafia's mind, but he didn't pay attention to it. Everyone, no, most people would realize one thing in such a life, that is, relative to Yanguo, they were like They are the same screws on the assembly line, and they are two different species from those who are powerful and have families.

——The elite groups of Yan Kingdom always sing loudly about the tragic sacrifices and amazing results when hunting giant beasts. In their eyes, the glory built on bones and grief is so beautiful, attracting every aspiring person. People looked away.

But for the mediocre ordinary people in the Yan Kingdom, who are no longer in the same world as the mortals, what is the difference between them and the giant beasts?

No, there should still be a difference.

After all, even if the giant beast wants to eat people, it does not bother to pretend to have high-sounding excuses. Yes means yes, and no means no. Instead of being like some elites who are intoxicated in the prosperous age, they turn a blind eye to mortals on the one hand and flaunt their reputation on the other. How much contribution has it made to mortals?

Of course, Elafia would not have thought of this, but Jing Zhe, who had been hiding in the dark and watching him working mechanically in the factory, had to think of this.

There seemed to be a thousand thoughts shouting in her mind, each cursing the stupidity of the other. One said that what I did was of course good. From the purpose to the result, it was beneficial to the country and the people. If not My existence will only make these people worse. Then there was a person who laughed so hard that he was out of breath. He called her a fart over and over again. He was the knife in Emperor Yan's hand and was a famous executioner in the world. Is pride coming?

A voice sneered and said that the world is like this, and it has never changed for thousands of years. No matter how tender and tender the gauze is, it can't hide the reality of pain and despair. Then an angry retort sounded in the mind of the heroic young man. The voice was full of sorrow and anger that could not be ignored:

"Don't you plan to do something when Yan Guo is like this? Have you forgotten what you thought when you joined Yutai, and the oath you made?! Are you going to fight with the person you most despised and were least convinced of? Like those people, being a disgusting, shameless hypocrite and shameless?!”

No, no, I did these things after receiving orders from Emperor Yan. Hey, what's more, if I hadn't been the mediator, the current situation would have been worse and more severe. This Elafia didn't even Instead of starting work in the factory, the corpses are exposed in the wilderness with nowhere to sleep...

Ah.

Someone seemed to be sneering faintly in the darkness, causing sharp wounds in Jingzhe's repeatedly struggling soul, causing it to bleed.

Qilin's fists clenched unconsciously. She looked at Elafi who staggered out of the cleaning room and went to the cafeteria with less than half of her full day's salary to buy an extremely hard and frozen steamed bun with some pickles and then went home leisurely. Ya, the palms of my palms were already pricked with sharp pain.

Can't read any more.

she thought so.

Maybe I should take a sneak peek at the Governor's Palace to find out what he's up to?

Of course, they can also be factory owners. They are directly related to the Northern War. I go to supervise them because of my duty...

Qilin's eyes darkened, he ended his tracking of Elafia, and walked towards the brightly lit city center - if it were the era before the mobile city appeared thousands of years ago, most families who were either rich or noble might have scattered their wealth in the city. They have placed them everywhere in the city, and even set up strongholds directly outside the city, in order to obtain start-up funds to make a comeback after an accident. But at the moment, the center of the mobile city is their real gathering place. It is safe, stable, and less risky. At most, they can secretly dig a few more A subterranean tunnel for escaping when danger strikes.

But this also provided the best plan for Jingzhe's investigation today. Just by scanning the brightly lit center, Qilin discovered a building with extremely high brightness. Her eyes lit up and she approached it calmly.

Chapter 227 Heart is like a broken branch ([-])

Since the emergence of mobile cities, how to judge the economic level of a mobile city has always been one of the most troublesome issues for tax collectors in Dayan.

Think about it, a city built to avoid natural disasters. In order to avoid natural disasters, or to survive in the face of natural disasters, it should be built in the city model.

How many defensive facilities should be installed on the block:

The walls of the mobile city will be mixed with extremely tough ores, the steel structure will be repeatedly updated with stronger alloy formulas (of course, if it is on the verge of being scrapped or to show honor, the earliest urban structures will sometimes be retained), and the internal streets will be It is so accessible because it facilitates the migration of people to avoid disasters.

In the same way, in order to avoid natural disasters and move for long periods of time, a mobile city will have its own agricultural system, a waterway system for water storage and purification, and necessary defense facilities when facing enemies - the latter is especially aggravating. It bridges the gap between mobile cities and states.

Although with the rapid advancement of industrialization, the population in mobile cities is increasing, which makes the food and drinking water in mobile cities unable to make ends meet. It is necessary to constantly stop sailings to exchange supplies with the outside world, repeatedly squeezing multiple counties that only have fixed stops in order to reduce consumption. and the restoration of immovable farms, but the emergence of mobile cities does inevitably cut the tentacles of the supreme ruler away from the urban level.

Emperor Yan's solution to this problem is thorough and precise. On the one hand, thousands of years of propaganda have made "the true dragon saves the Yan Kingdom, and the true dragon rules the Yan Kingdom" a belief. The people of the Yan Kingdom have already acquiesced in the true dragon as the leader. , On the other hand, as early as when the real dragon was hunting the giant beasts, talent training bases such as Tianshi Mansion and Yumen City were established to lay the foundation for the continuation of rule.

Yes, although it is a little cruel and a little ruthless, Yumen City was originally built to hunt giant beasts and witness mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Now it is guarding the Yan Kingdom at the border and secretly fighting with the countries around the Yan Kingdom that are eagerly watching. The mobile city is indeed a training base for the Yan Kingdom.

Yanguo people who can live and fight in Yumen City naturally know how to forge weapons, identify directions, and know a few simple medical and martial arts skills. Their loyalty to Yanguo must also be tested, and they are qualified for many grassroots positions.

Outside, there are the loyal warriors like Yumen City who fight all year round as a deterrent. Inside, there is the Tianshi Mansion that recruits great talents from all over the world to fill the political system of the Yan Kingdom, and gathers most of the people who have the ability, family background, and resources. Together, they will have a bright future, and then use their distribution to fill many mobile cities in the Yan Kingdom, maintaining the Yan Emperor's relatively strong control over all parts of the Yan Kingdom.

In addition, there are Sisuitai, Yutai, Jinyiwei and other special organizations that conduct strict internal inspections and liquidations and perform external tasks to act as friction lubricants. Yan Guo has been bumping along for so many years.

This contemporary majestic emperor who is very unfamiliar to Jingzhe and completely different from the real world has even gone a step further. He has stationed troops in vast mobile cities. He repeatedly exchanged the Yumen defenders and Wen Chi and Wu Wan's mobile cities to improve their control capabilities, and then secretly spies from Jin Yiwei. Supervision, that's why the scene happened where Emperor Yan was furious and the nobles were too shy to speak.

Otherwise, how could he be allowed to act so "reversely" and harm the interests of the nobles without getting hurt?

Before this generation of Yanhuangs, there were also Yanhuangs who planned to touch the interests of aristocratic forces, but do you think they succeeded?

With the sword in Emperor Yan's hands, his subordinates would naturally be cautious and loyal and do their best.

But if you do this, you will naturally be in trouble and fish in troubled waters. After all, although the people in the capital are conscientious and eager to kill political opponents immediately and gain favor in front of Emperor Yan, the people in the local area... may not be able to work as hard as they do.

In the early years, Emperor Yan worked hard because of the performance evaluation indicators proposed by Jingzhe. However, as the Northern War gradually occupied Emperor Yan's attention, the assessment of local officials by officials at all levels gradually dropped:

After all, sometimes everyone understands that all the hype they say may not be able to convince the people of the Yan Kingdom to stand up and show up for the country - the Yan Kingdom has a huge territory, the northern battlefield is too far from the interior of the Yan Kingdom, and the evil itself is easy to recognize. And the continuous evolution has even given rise to characteristics that are not inferior to the power of the giant beasts in the outstanding individuals. It is difficult for the public to understand how critical and necessary the northern battlefield is.

You said that if the northern border was overrun, the Yan Kingdom would be torn in half on the spot, and everyone would have to pay a huge price. As a result, an astonishing [-]% or more of the population would lose their lives and families - but who wouldn't?

With the destruction of Yumen City, will the Yan Kingdom also be torn in half?With the Tianshi Mansion destroyed, will the Yan Kingdom be on the verge of collapse?With the Dragon Gate cut off, will the Yan Kingdom also suffer from severe injuries?

But these things all exist in imagination and have not happened, right?