The city gate of Jiuyang City is the same as the ancient city tower, one large, two small and three city gate holes, the rule is to go out and enter the right on the left, open at seven o'clock in the morning, close at six o'clock in the evening, the main gate in the middle is normally closed, and there is a large row of cement bungalows under the root of the city wall on the right, and the doors are all hung with signboards for various office purposes.

"Good morning, sir, we are survivors from the Sigang Mill, and this is my ID card......"

Du Buer temporarily acted as the team leader, leading everyone into a household registration office, two female officers sitting behind the long office desk, and two armed guards were standing guard, Du Buer quietly handed over a black plastic bag, which contained two high-end cigarettes.

"Don't come to this set! we don't accept gifts, no one will embarrass you if you do things properly......"

The female officer who didn't smile directly pushed the plastic bag back, which made everyone stunned, Du Buer had to hand over the ID card, but the other party waved his hand and said: "We don't look at the ID card, after you fill in the information, go to the next door for a physical examination, and then take a photo and record fingerprints!"

Everyone had to step forward to get the form and start filling it out, and queued up next door for a physical examination, but Xia Buer keenly found that there was a face recognition system on it when he passed through the security gate, but he had deliberately put on black-framed glasses and messed up his hair, who knew that he was fine in the past, but the guy behind him triggered the alarm.

"Stop, put your hands up against the wall......"

Several soldiers rushed out like wolves, and directly pressed the young man against the wall to search his body, and after some questioning, everyone learned that this kid was actually a wanted criminal before the end of the day, fortunately, the crime was just extortion, and the soldiers put him in the red mark on his file and let him go.

"I'm Nima! I'm scared to death......"

The young man patted his chest with a pale face, and waited for Du Buer to run to inquire before he learned that unless he had committed a major criminal case before, he would not be guilty of the past when he came here, but the previous police system was obviously enabled here, and he couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for himself, he used to be the most wanted criminal.

The next is a very normal physical examination, mainly for infectious diseases and mutants, the test of mutants is very simple, prick it on the arm with a strength gauge equipped with a steel needle, and if it bleeds, it will be qualified, Xia Buer, a unique mutant, naturally has no problem, but if Aunt Wu comes, she will definitely not be able to pass the heart rate test.

"Okay, let's go and take pictures and fingerprints......"

Everyone lined up to enter the photo studio one by one, and the photographer Xia Buji was not too worried, but if he dared to record his fingerprints into the system, it was likely that the place would be surrounded by heavy soldiers immediately, but fortunately, he had already prepared a fake fingerprint sleeve, so that Jiang Huizi, who was half-exposed in his chest, stepped forward to attract the attention of the operator, and easily passed the test.

There was no charge for the whole process, and the officers here did not accept gifts, which made the newcomers praise the honest style here, but when they lined up to receive the identity tag, the real drama began to be staged, and they were stunned all of a sudden.

"Damn! Is there a mistake with such a heavy tax......

Du Buer almost didn't jump up from his chair, but the female officer behind the desk said: "Is the 40 percent tax still heavy, if you don't pay taxes, who will protect you, and who will uphold the fairness and justice of the law, of course! You can also eat the supplies outside the city, as long as you don't bring them into the city, we won't collect taxes!"

"Can it be cheaper, these materials are all our lives in exchange for ......"

Du Buer looked at the other party crookedly, but the female officer said with a straight face: "We are not a vegetable market here, how can we let you bargain, and all your weapons must be stored in the arsenal, and the storage fee will be charged according to the number of weapons, and if you do not pay within the time limit, it will be confiscated and confiscated!"

"Sir, we have paid so much tax, do we have a free house for us to live in......

Du Buer sighed weakly, who knew that the other party actually said coldly: "No matter how much tax you pay, you can't be exempt from rent, if you can't pay the rent, you can go to the housing authority to apply for free public housing, but I would like to remind you that the environment of public housing is relatively poor, at least ten people in a room, you can do it yourself!"

The other party handed over a few more documents, which not only had a detailed map of Jiuyang City, but also a detailed description of various rules and locations, but the charging items occupied a whole page, not only the electricity and water bills were expensive and scary, but if you wanted to drive the car in, you had to pay an expensive license fee.

"Oh my God! The phone bill is five cents a minute, which is more black-hearted than the mobile link......"

Du Buer and the others were completely dumbfounded when they looked at the toll meter, and the little goodwill that had just risen was gone, but people were swordsmen and I was fish and meat, and no matter how heavy the tax was, they had to go hard, so they could only store the weapons and ammunition with a sad face, and then obediently drove the car to the door of the tax bureau to calculate the tax.

"Haha~ Good afternoon, everyone, ......"

Suddenly, a young man with oily hair and flour came over, nodded and handed over a few business cards, and said with a smile: "You are all new, I am Wang Jian, the general manager of Zhengyang Trading Company, I specialize in purchasing all kinds of scarce materials, you may as well sell the rest of the materials to me later, and I will give you two more points at the market price!"

"You're trading on the black market......

Du Buer took the business card and looked at it, but Wang Jian smiled and said: "How can I be! I am an innocent and serious businessman, the official purchase station is too dark, more than ten points lower than the market price, I specialize in pit you newcomers, but I have a regular façade, if I pit you, you can smash my store at any time!"

"Is there a way to smuggle our supplies in......"

Xia Buer took out a cigarette and handed it to him, Wang Jian hurriedly took the cigarette but shook his head and said: "The smugglers in the city are very strict, and the lightest ones are to do half a year of hard labor, you better not get into trouble when you just come, if you really can't trust me, you can put things in my store and sell them on consignment, I only charge two points of commission, how about it?"

"Things are sold to you at market prices, but you have to give us local accompaniment and show us around here......"

Xia Buer patted him lightly on the shoulder, and the other party immediately said excitedly: "No problem! I'm a purebred mountain city, no one is more familiar with this place than me, I'll help you go to taxes now, these guys from the tax bureau are also bad, just take your scarce materials, those things can be auctioned off in the market!"

With a local person as a guide, it is really different, Xia Buer and the others were originally confused on the tree, and you and I were confused under the tree, and there was no choice but to listen to others, and Wang Jian was not only a shrewd small businessman, but also very quick and enthusiastic in doing things, and handled things properly along the way, making them impeccable.

"Don't keep a car in the city, gasoline is more expensive than gold now, and the cost of raising a car can cover ten second wives, and they are all young students......"

Wang Jian gushed about all kinds of situations to everyone, Xia Buer and others hung up their identity tags, swiped their cards one by one to enter Jiuyang City, and the materials were pulled up by a group of laborers with tricycles, but Wang Jian said: "You must remember that you must hang up your identity tags when you go out, otherwise you will be detained if you are caught!"

"Can this thing be faked......

Xia Buer flipped the tag around his neck, this thing was just like the company's employee's access card, with his photo and basic information on it, but Wang Jian said: "Fraud is a capital crime, you must keep the identity card well, in case someone steals it and uses it to do bad things, you will be miserable!"

"What is the income of the residents here, and are the banknotes and bills officially printed......

Xia Buer raised his head and looked around, there was no situation in the city here, only a lot of rickshaws were running around, and Wang Jian smiled again: "Who still uses cash now, it is the same as before, it is paid by mobile phone, and those who can't afford to buy a mobile phone will be bartered, but the copycat machine is also very cheap, I'll give you a few apples later!"

Soon, the whole Jiuyang City will be in full view, just look at a river tributary to divide Jiuyang City into two, surrounded by rolling mountains, the whole Jiuyang City is like built on the bottom of a big wok, only the "bottom of the pot" can be regarded as a plain, and the houses in other places are one layer higher than one floor, which looks similar to the terraced fields.

It is very different from Xia Buji's imagination, although there are many self-built houses with two or three storeys high, but there are also many high-rise buildings, and you can see a lot of high-end residential areas and office buildings at a glance, which is not much different from the urban areas of third- and fourth-tier cities.

"Boss, have mercy on us, give us something to eat......"

There are a lot of disabled beggars begging along the way, and the beggars in front of them are not allowed to eat as long as they have money, and even earn more than some white-collar workers, but these beggars are really asking for food, and the girls in the team can't bear to take a little food to them, and the beggars are so excited that they almost break their heads.

"Does the government care about these people......"

Xia Buer instinctively frowned, they Gushan have special care for the disabled, but Wang Jian said: "Anyway, someone sends them relief food every day, and there is a free place for them to live, but the relief food can only ensure that they will not starve to death, and the rest will depend on themselves!"

"Ah Wei, why are you asking for food here......

A girl in the team suddenly screamed, a beggar with a broken leg immediately cried out "wow", the girl hurriedly jumped up and hugged him, and waited for the rest of the team to say that the beggar turned out to be the girl's ex-boyfriend, who was also a famous son-in-law.

"Huang ...... Why are you ...... here?"

Du Buer looked at a middle-aged beggar with a blank face, but the other party didn't cry, but couldn't wait to pounce at his feet and kowtow and beg again and again, and Du Buer was so frightened that he almost fell to the ground, but Lu Chengran said in a low voice: "That person turned out to be a big official, I didn't expect to be so miserable now!"

But Wang Jian said commonplacely: "This kind of thing is too normal for us here, we have the ability to eat meat and pick up girls here, and those who don't have the ability to sleep on the street to ask for food, no matter if you used to be a poor dick or a high-ranking official, you have to start from scratch here!"

"Wang Jian, can more than 500,000 people live in this place......

Xia Buer felt that the scale of this place was still a little too small, but Wang Jian really said: "It's overcrowded! There are still two small county towns below, but they are often attacked by living corpses, so everyone would rather ask for food here than go over to die, I'll take you to see it later, our housing prices here are too expensive to scare people to death!"