Chapter 1: Unwillingness
"Hmm~"
The old ceiling came into view vaguely, Mu Lingfeng rubbed the corners of his swollen eyes and sat up, looking at the small wooden table next to the bed, there was a porcelain bowl, and another porcelain bowl was upside down, and he knew what it was without looking, and there was a note next to it.
Glancing at the small room of less than ten square meters, Mu Lingfeng sighed, washed up briefly, opened the porcelain bowl, ordinary egg fried rice, and fiddled with the egg flowers in the bowl, Mu Lingfeng couldn't help but get angry.
"Dead girl, divide all the eggs into my bowl again!"
It's impossible to waste, and I can't blame my sister who feels sorry for me.
"Wang!"
Da Huang, who was lying on the ground, raised his head slightly, shouted at Mu Lingfeng, and wagged his tail with a depressed expression.
"Hungry, come!"
Mu Lingfeng kicked out half of the bowl, poured it in front of the rhubarb, touched its head, and slowly chewed the rice in his mouth.
Rhubarb was a birthday gift bought by his parents when he was a child, when he was still a newborn puppy, more than ten years have passed, it has dragged the old body, and has become an injured old dog.
Mu Lingfeng liked it very much, because it was loyal, because it was the only sustenance after his parents died in the war, and because it had saved Ling Xue more than once.
When he was eight years old, Mu Lingfeng, who went out to steal things for the first time, ran home happily with the food in his arms, but was beaten by a few little beggars at the mouth of the alley, snatched everything, dragged a body of injuries, and returned home, seeing his young sister crying with hunger, Mu Lingfeng wanted to pump himself in distress, but unfortunately he was so weak that he couldn't even stand on his feet.
It was Rhubarb who smelled him, ran out to find the little beggars, bit them, and snatched back the rest of the food.
Mu Lingfeng gently touched the rhubarb's head, stiffly picked up the rice in the bowl, and glanced at the words on the note,
"Brother, your cutest and sensible sister went to work at Sister Rou'er's house, and finished the meal obediently~"
Mu Lingfeng's heart warmed, and he wandered around the slums alone with his five-year-old sister, begging, stealing, and fighting fiercely with other little beggars all day long, with an empty heart and resentment, while glad that he could become his sister's support, the two depended on each other.
This house is still the one who fled here back then, and the neighbor uncle took pity on the two homeless children, and used waste wooden planks and iron nails to live for the two of them, and now the uncle has passed away for several years, and Mu Lingfeng, who is growing up, does not even have a chance to repay his kindness.
And the younger sister, who works at her Rou'er's sister's house every day, says that it is work, but in fact, she just spends a little time cleaning and tidying up the room, most of the time Tang Rouer is teaching her to read and write, teaching her social experience and knowledge, Tang Rouer silently played the role of a mother and sister, which made him grateful at the same time, and secretly hidden a little admiration in his heart.
Mu Lingfeng knew that Tang Rouer was a good girl, five years ago, Tang Rouer suddenly ran to the slum and told Mu Lingxue that someone was chasing her, Mu Lingxue, who was soft-hearted, opened the iron door and let her in, and the two played at home for an afternoon, and inexplicably became sisters.
Mu Lingfeng, who finally came back with a bunch of food, ignored her coquettish sister, drove Tang Rouer out, slapped her sister's ass a few times, and stopped after she promised not to open the door to strangers again, and the consequence was that Mu Lingfeng coaxed her sister for a week.
In the days that followed, she had been taking good care of her two siblings, Mu Lingfeng didn't know why Tang Rouer came to the slums, everything here was incompatible with her, who knew at a glance that she didn't belong here, appearance, temperament, obviously a good girl who knew how to learn, but she dressed herself like a little sister, maybe she wanted to protect herself, or maybe she was pursuing an alternative life, Mu Lingfeng didn't want to explore her past.
She didn't say it, he didn't ask, he only remembered that she said once that she would rather wait for the end alone than live according to her own ideas, Mu Lingfeng didn't understand it very well at that time, he only wanted to protect his sister when he lived, and his sister was the sustenance of his hard life.
"Whew~"
Mu Lingfeng let out a long breath, stopped thinking nonsense, turned on the old TV, and watched the beautiful hostess talk about the excellent policies and benefits of the Federation, swallowing rice one bite at a time.
Of course, Mu Lingfeng is not idle and bored to listen to her bragging, the welfare of the upper class has nothing to do with him, he just wants to be able to keep abreast of the current social situation, so as not to mix into the city, he happens to run into the army that went out to suppress it, and it will be troublesome if he is captured, he does not have a citizenship card.
Since the world pattern changed, after China successfully ended the Fourth World War, the Earth Federation was established, and China became the strongest administrative region in the world.
After the nuclear war, the earth is devastated, facing serious damage and resource and environmental crises, with less than 2 billion people left, and a considerable part of the displaced poor do not have federal citizenship cards, so they can only blankly hold the poor cards issued by the relief center, and are driven to the corners of the city to survive.
The rumors of the interstellar voyage plan quietly spread at some point, directly exacerbating social unrest, human rights demonstrations in the streets intensified, and the federal government was obviously ready to abandon a considerable part of the population, but continued to send troops to suppress the demonstrations and rebellions.
First of all, the slums, which have been completely abandoned by society, have been terminated from welfare and basic free education, and the slums, regardless of adults and children, wander the streets all day with nothing to do, desperate and helpless, at a loss, not knowing what awaits their fate, and once the so-called elite of mankind goes to the new star, how will they deal with themselves?
Suddenly, the picture on the TV changed, the beautiful hostess was replaced by the president of the Federation, and the old man with a gloomy expression, who looked a little sluggish, paused in front of the TV, took a breath, bowed deeply to the audience, and began to speak.
"Citizens of the Federation, following the successful research and development of the super mastermind 'Dawn' in 2060, the global underground shelter has also been completed, and the final safety test is currently being done, in view of the increasingly harsh environment and lack of materials on the surface, the Federation will send the army to arrange for all citizens to enter the shelter a week from today, and the surface will be handed over to the robot army controlled by the master brain to take destructive resource mining to build an interstellar spacecraft, thank you for your cooperation."
After saying that, the figure of the federal president quickly disappeared, and the beautiful hostess continued to talk about it.
Mu Lingfeng was slightly stunned, he understood what the president meant, only citizens could enter the shelter, and they, the poor people, were abandoned!
"! This GR era! ”
Mu Lingfeng was silent for a long time, and couldn't help but scold, the chaotic society, the rampant gangs, the various families and consortia that desperately squeezed the lower classes, seeing the president's gloomy look, Mu Lingfeng suddenly understood, the war made the family consortium rise, mastering a lot of resources and part of the power, the earth is not a hall of the Federation, the Federation can only try to maintain the stability and continuation of civilization, protect the interests of the citizens of the Federation, and the poor have brought a huge burden to the Federation, and it is impossible for the family consortium to come up with a lot of resources to help the poor, And the Federation is powerless.
"Woo~" Rhubarb lay on the ground and whimpered, not knowing whether he was grieving this cruel society, or grieving that he was about to die.
Mu Lingfeng hugged the rhubarb, looked at the egg fried rice that was almost unchanged in front of the rhubarb, got up and came to the kitchen, took out the pork ribs, chopped them a little bit, and then crushed them into powder, and cooked a pot of soup for the rhubarb.
Rhubarb is too old to sit up, the pain on his body is tormenting it all the time, he can only stick out his tongue and lick the broth in the bowl little by little, the meat and bones that he used to eat the most, he can't bite or swallow it, and now he can only hold on to the broth, and a tear quietly flows from the corner of Rhubarb's eyes.
Mu Lingfeng stroked Rhubarb's weak body, leaned together, and quietly accompanied it to finish the meal.
Put on her washed white shirt, jeans and a pair of old leather shoes, tidy up a little, make herself look less embarrassed, and write on the reverse side of the note left by her sister that she asked her to take the family's money and find Tang Rouer to go to the office with her.
He is simple and thrifty, not without money, just to raise enough 150,000 yuan, so that three people can go to apply for citizenship certificates together, go to live in the city together, and never separate.
Over the years, he has also made up enough 110,000 yuan, but unfortunately time is running out, Mu Lingfeng only has a week left, and finally took a look at Rhubarb, arranged the affairs of his sister and Tang Rouer, Mu Lingfeng had to go out and fight for himself!
Mu Lingfeng cautiously blended in the crowd, and walked into the city with the flow, everything was normal, Yu Guang glanced at the people walking by from time to time, his right hand in his pocket, slightly lowered his head, Mu Lingfeng tried his best to let himself walk naturally, and he hid a short knife in his trousers.
That's right, Mu Lingfeng's daily job is to wander the streets, stop those well-dressed and drunk people, and borrow some cash from them, but although people now will carry some cash to beep, it is far less than what they have in their card.
So those street gangsters and hooligans have also become his targets, these people's money is obtained through illegal means, often in cash, and with their money, there is no burden in their hearts, but the consequences of provoking them are often not pleasant.
Mu Lingfeng was not afraid of fighting, he was just afraid of being injured and seeing his sister crying. In fact, he is really powerful, when he was a child, he fought with a group of little beggars, and when he grew up, he fought with a group of gangsters, he has become accustomed to how to protect himself with his thin body, most of the time, he can protect himself very well, often looks miserable, in fact, it is just skin trauma, for him, he is used to it.
Mu Lingfeng never fights the ideas of those ordinary people, and the situation of those ordinary people is just a little more than that of people in the slums, and they are also living in struggle every day, maybe if they are moved once, there will be a child who will be hungry.
Mu Lingfeng can't do this kind of thing, in this damn era, the streets are full of unemployed poor people who have nothing to do, if it weren't for the sake of feeding his sister, he wouldn't have chosen this path.
In recent years, Mu Lingfeng has traveled all over the city, sometimes shooting several times a day, and sometimes not finding a suitable prey for several days.
The people on the street are becoming scarcer and scarcer, and there are few shops still open, most of them are ordinary people, Mu Lingfeng can start with fewer and fewer targets, thinking that today I am afraid that I will have to go to the place where the gangsters gather to make a dangerous trip, those gangsters are afraid that they will have to do it to a large number of ordinary people at the last time, so as to finally get a handful of them into the shelter, and at this time, the news of the government has not caused a large-scale panic, but there are still some small shops that are struggling to operate.
A fashionably dressed girl swayed past Mu Lingfeng, Mu Lingfeng's eyes were fluttering, pretending to look at her more, leaning against the wall and lighting a cigarette to swallow the clouds and spit out the mist.