Chapter 32: Ghost City

After getting paid, Zhang Tianjiu went straight to the ghost market.

The ghost market is not a "specialty" of Norey, there are "ghost markets" on many colonized planets of the Weixi Empire. As the name suggests, this ghost market is shady, and it roughly means the black market.

However, many ghost markets in the Vesy Empire are directly controlled by retired soldiers of the lower castes.

The entire technological world, consisting of about 100 countries, occupies nearly two-fifths of the Milky Way. With such a vast territory, the territory of today's country is much larger than that of the ancient earth era. However, the nature of the country has not undergone any essential changes, and in the magnificent history of expeditions to the stars and seas, many imperial states have been born.

At present, more than 100 countries in the world of science and technology, in terms of the form of countries, are simply divided, that is, imperial and republic, or federal. However, imperial states are divided into centralized and constitutional monarchies. Most kingdoms and principalities are constitutional monarchies.

Before the war with the Xiuzhen world, the technological world was divided into two camps, with republics on one side and imperial states on the other. Many years ago, dozens of imperial states signed a mutual defense agreement in Dragon City, the capital of the Athos Empire, known as the "Dragon City Entente", also known as the Athos Entente, referred to as Ayo. In order to compete with Ayo, the republican state immediately held a conference in Sandys, the capital of the Silver Hui Republic, and announced the signing of an alliance agreement, known as the Sandys League, also known as the Silver Hui Alliance, referred to as the Hui Alliance.

Over the years, the two camps have been in constant friction, skirmishes have erupted from time to time, and relations between them have been very tense.

It wasn't until the large-scale invasion of the Xiuzhen civilization that this relationship was eased, and everyone reluctantly joined hands to fight against the Xiuzhen civilization.

The Vesy Empire has a long history among imperial states, and the hierarchy is particularly strict. A large number of lower castes and untouchables have always lived at the bottom of society.

And among these inferior groups, the military is the most powerful. After all, when other powers are extremely restricted, it is natural for people to worship powerful people.

The aristocratic authorities were relatively polite to the soldiers and retired soldiers among the inferior people, and gave them some preferential treatment. In order to encircle these violent people with combat skills, and at the same time to lure more inferior people to join the army.

Naturally, retired soldiers from all over the country gradually began to huddle.

The ghost market is the most direct manifestation of this kind of huddle.

The ghost market in Noray City is in Nancheng District, which is the largest slum in Nore City, and it is also the place with the highest concentration of retired lower-caste soldiers, and the ghost market is the most active.

The ghost market in the southern part of the city occupies more than a dozen blocks, divided into two floors: above ground and underground.

Zhang Tianjiu went directly to the basement.

Originally, it was an underground fortification, but it was turned into a commercial place many years ago, and it was completely controlled by people of the lower castes, as long as it was a person of the lower caste, it was unimpeded, on the contrary, people of the upper caste would not be able to move an inch here.

As soon as he arrived, Zhang Tianjiu was like a fish in water, laughing so much that his big mouth was cracked to the side of his ear.

It's been a long time since I've felt this way.

The ground was already full of slaughter, people were in panic all day long, and everyone who had some property and a little door was preparing to flee.

The battle situation is very bad, important cities have fallen one after another, and Noray City will definitely not be able to carry it for long, so it is better to plan early.

Seeing Zhang Tianjiu's strong body and full of energy, many pimps immediately stepped forward to solicit business, lowered their voices, and said mysteriously: "Brother, do you want to have fun, I have good goods here, the first-class girl who just arrived is only eighteen years old, and she is ...... smart."

Zhang Tianjiu smiled.

He knew the kid was lying. In the leather and meat shops in the ghost market, there are indeed occasional women from the upper caste, usually from the kind of second-class caste families that are completely declining, or they are directly abducted and deceived. The more brutal the rule of the upper castes over the lower castes, the more fierce the resistance of the lower castes.

Generally speaking, women from the upper castes will be most sought after when they appear in a leather and meat shop, even if they are average-looking.

But upper-caste women would never be in such roadside shops, and would certainly be controlled by big nightclubs.

However, Zhang Tianjiu naturally wouldn't expose it, his small eyes narrowed with a smile, and said, "Okay, okay, when I'm done, I'll come to you right away......"

Zhang Tianjiu's task was very important, and he had to immediately purify the 30 kilograms of CRT he had in his hands again. Last time in Old Perry's manor, he had an independent biochemical laboratory, but in Norley City, there was no such convenience.

But this is not difficult for Zhang Tianjiu.

He came to the heart of the ghost city.

It's also a no-go area for ghost markets.

Ordinary people of the lower castes are not allowed to enter here, with the exception of retired soldiers and active military personnel, but they are also subject to inquiries and registration. If you mess around in the core area, the "law enforcement agencies" in the ghost city will also be unkind to you.

In the ghost market, the laws on the surface don't work, and no one pays attention to them. The managers of ghost markets have their own complete "legal system" and their own "law enforcement agencies". It's just that the legal system and law enforcement agencies of the ghost city are very simple and rude, and it is basically who has the biggest fist and who has the final say.

But no one ever objected.

Are you upset?

Don't come to the ghost market if you're not happy!

Sergeant of the Special Operations Battalion of the 27th Mechanized Armored Infantry Division of the Ninth Army!

This identity is very popular in the ghost market.

Even if they are underclass caste veterans, they are also hierarchical. The highest rank is naturally mixed up in the army, such as "major", which is already the highest rank that the lower castes can reach in the army. Being able to get such a military rank naturally means that I am outstanding, equivalent to a general of a higher caste.

The current top manager of Norega City is a retired major of the inferior class.

The second is the special forces.

Special forces mean much stronger combat effectiveness than ordinary soldiers, and they are the backbone of the "law enforcement agencies" of the ghost city, as well as the backbone of the ghost city against the aristocratic authorities.

Sergeant Zhang received his pass after simply registering his identity information.

Zhang Tianjiu went to the Roche Biochemistry Laboratory.

Roche's Biochemistry Laboratory is well-known in Noregae City.

Dr. Luo Cheng is the pride of Nore's lower caste, and for many years, he was the only doctor of the lower caste.

Inferior people are greatly suppressed in all fields, especially in the academic field.

A doctorate degree is a height that is absolutely difficult for inferior people to attain. It's not that the inferior people don't have the wisdom of the people, the key is that the universities of the Weixi Empire have no intention of awarding inferior doctorates at all. No matter how good you are, no matter how high your level is, you don't want to become a doctor.

In the high-end scientific field of the Weixi Empire, inferior people are not allowed.

If Luo Cheng hadn't won the Annual Scientific Progress Award of the Galaxy Alliance because of a coincidence, he would never have received a doctorate.

It is not so much that this doctorate was awarded to Luo Cheng, but rather that it gave the scientific committee of the Galaxy Alliance a face.

The National Academy of Sciences of the Vesy Empire can claim hegemony behind closed doors, but it cannot change the fact that the science and technology of the Vesy Empire are backward in the entire scientific and technological world.

They can be dismissive of the inferior scholars in their own country, but they can't help but give face to the Scientific Committee of the Galaxy Alliance.

But Luo Cheng didn't get anything except a doctorate title, and even his life was even more difficult than before. The superior colleagues of the Imperial Academy of Sciences were all cold to him, "disdainful" to be with him, and set up obstacles to his research everywhere. Luo Cheng was furious, brushed his sleeves away, left the Imperial Academy of Sciences, returned to Noray Star, and directly opened a hospital in the ghost city.

Luo Cheng has a special contribution to biochemistry, but he is a doctor by profession.

As soon as Roche Hospital opened in the ghost market, it was immediately given special protection and became a "first-class security unit" in the ghost market. Over the years, Roche Hospital has become a well-known hospital for the inferior. All the "big people" who have a certain "status" among the inferior people, as long as they are sick, like to go to Roche Hospital to see a doctor.

Gradually, Roche Hospital recruited a large number of inferior elite doctors, and its reputation became more and more famous, and even aristocratic patients could occasionally be seen in Roche Hospital.

As for Dr. Luo Cheng himself, he rarely appeared in the hospital again, but plunged into his own private research room and continued to engage in his own biochemical research. That's what he loves.

It is not a very special and complicated condition, which generally does not bother him, and other doctors in the hospital can handle it.

Over the years, Dr. Luo Cheng has increasingly become an iconic symbol of the lower castes in Nore!

His status is so high and his reputation is so great that he is even above the top administrator of the ghost city, "Major".

The Roche Biochemistry Laboratory is located in the Roche Hospital, and the security level is very high. It's just that no one has wanted to treat Dr. Luo Cheng against him for many years, and those security personnel are a bit vain and don't take their work seriously. Besides, no matter how strict the security system is, as long as it relies on computer control, it basically cannot pose any obstacle to Zhang Tianjiu.

Little Peach doesn't eat dry rice.

Zhang Tianjiu went all the way unimpeded and went straight into the core area of the Roche biochemistry laboratory.

Dr. Luo Cheng was in the laboratory, wearing a white coat, and taking two students to do serious experiments. When Zhang Tianjiu pushed open the glass door of the laboratory and swaggered in, the three of them looked at him a little inexplicably.

It's been a long time since there have been no idlers in the core lab.

For a while, the three of Dr. Luo's master and apprentice couldn't come back to their senses, and they didn't know where this bald-headed and big-eared man with small eyes was sacred.

"Hey, who are you? Are you the new security guard? Are you in the wrong place?"

One of Dr. Luo's students, the only woman among the three, yelled at Mr. Zhang.

Look at this ruffian, he must be a soldier.

Among the inferior soldiers, many of them are such ruffians.