Cars drive on huge intercity viaducts.

"Uh-huh~" Nora hummed along with the classical music in the car, smiling as she watched Mia and Mi'er running around in the car.

"Sister Nola, why is your car so big!" Mia exclaimed in surprise.

"Because there are so many of us." Nora touched her head, "So a bigger car." ”

"But it's too big." "There's a bedroom and a dining room. ”

"Honey, look!" Mia opens the door to the refrigerator and finds it filled with all sorts of food and drinks.

"It's not good...... "Before Mia could stop it, Mia had already taken out a can and pried it open with her hands and feet.

"It's caviar!" She cried out in delight, "Sister Nora, can I eat it?" ”

"Yes." Nora laughed.

You opened it all before asking...... Mi'er was speechless to this partner, and turned to ask Nola, "How much does this can cost?" ”

"I don't remember that?" Nora thought silently for a moment and asked the driver, "Martin, what is the price of canned caviar for golden sturgeon in the refrigerator?" ”

"Miss, I think it's about 30 silver marks." The driver said.

Girls: ..................

It's so expensive! It's actually denominated in silver marks!

"Is it so cheap?" Nora said embarrassedly, "It's not a very good brand, why don't you change it to a ......?"

"No, no, no!" Mi'er hurriedly stopped and said, "Mia likes it very much, doesn't she?" ”

"Huh?" Mia had just scooped a spoonful with a spoon and put it in her mouth, muttering indistinctly.

"What's that?" Eleanor, who was sitting on the side, looked out the window and asked suddenly.

Everyone followed her gaze and looked out, and saw a helicopter gunship hovering in the air outside on the edge of the abandoned building in the distance, the aviation machine guns turning and roaring like thunder, and the huge gunfire could even be heard on the viaduct here.

With the rain of bullets, the edge of the ruined building was shattered and fell like a collapsed building block.

"That's a gang in an abandoned building." The driver replied.

"Abandoned buildings? Faction? Eleanor asked with a frown.

"Ellie, you should know about the Imperial Crisis at the beginning of the Quaternary Age, right?" Seeing that the girlfriend was a little confused, Nola, as the host, explained, "At that time, a huge economic crisis broke out within the empire, especially Solomon City, where the real estate bubble was the most serious, and countless families went bankrupt overnight. ”

"In the outer urban areas, there are a large number of properties under development, which are unfinished due to the sudden rupture of the capital chain. These properties are mainly concentrated in the northern part of the city of Solomon, so there are a large number of abandoned buildings that are half-built, uncapped, or unrenovated after the cap. ”

"After that, it's a foreign invasion." Although the Solomon people were accustomed to calling it a "barbarian invasion", considering the feelings of Eleanor and Sidlifa, Nora also replaced it with the neutral word "foreign", "political turmoil, economic stagnation, and a demon tide, so a large number of foreign armies invaded Italy and Canada." ”

"After the Holy See of Solomon was established and gradually controlled the order in the city, the remnants of these foreign nationalities were driven to the abandoned buildings in the outer cities, and they were not provided with any water, electricity, materials and public services, so the order there was very chaotic, and gangs were rampant everywhere."

"Why doesn't the Holy See care?" Puzzled, Eleanor asked, "I mean, why would the Holy See expel them to the outer cities?" Can't they be accepted as citizens of Solomon? Just because their blood does not belong to the Latin nation? ”

"Not really." Nora explained, "Well, the employment on our side has relatively high requirements for the educational quality of personnel, and a bachelor's degree is the lowest employment threshold. ”

"Elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university have a total of 16 years, and the tuition fee plus the usual rent and living expenses cost almost 300-500 silver marks to study. Many families of origin of foreign ethnic groups do not attach importance to education and are unwilling or unable to contribute this money, which leads to a rapid decline in the education of future generations. The poorer you are, the more you can't get a good education for your offspring, and the poorer you are if you can't find a job, and so on from generation to generation. ”

Eleanor was stunned for a moment, with a bewildered expression on her face.

In the Holy Solomon Empire, which she was familiar with, civilian employment was basically based on apprenticeship, and there was a strong family inheritance. In the blacksmith trade, for example, old blacksmiths usually pass on their skills to their sons, and they also recruit young apprentices as helpers.

The apprentices are fed and lodging, but they are not paid, and they have to honor their masters as they did with their fathers, in exchange for the blacksmith to guide them into the industry. This process is usually relatively long, depending on when the master intends to retire, and then he will hand over all his skills to the apprentices and let them go out and start their own businesses.

However, as Nora said, the cost of learning alone costs 300-500 silver marks, which is too exaggerated. You must know that a blacksmith shop can't make that much money in a lifetime!

"So they ...... Can't get a job? So how to live? Eleanor asked.

"I can't even pay the rent, so I have to sleep on the streets." Nora replied, in a slightly lowered tone, "But Central City ...... It is the inner city of the ancient city of Seven Hills, and the homeless are not allowed to stay. ”

"So they were driven to the outlying cities, where there was no one to take care of it, where there was crime and violence. Many gangs sprise every month. Some gangs, having occupied small areas, swelled in power and will hit the attention of the main city, trying to sneak in and make money by smuggling or stealing. ”

"Then the mayor of the city who receives the report from the victim company will hire a security company to go to the outlying towns and take down the gangs...... It's like you just saw. ”

"Miss, we're about to enter the underground tunnel." The driver said suddenly.

"yes, okay."

The light outside the car suddenly dimmed, and the car was already driving down into the tunnel highway.

Eleanor looked thoughtfully out the window, the tunnel lights casting a twinkle on her blue pupils. Asker knew what she was thinking at a glance and asked Nola:

"Most of the gangs living in abandoned buildings aren't good people, are they?"

"Well, the people who usually live in abandoned buildings are basically violent criminal gangs. Because the high-rise buildings have better lighting and ventilation, and the ordinary poor people basically can't compete with gang members. "Innocent people who don't belong to gangs tend to live in airtight slums made of improvised building materials on the streets between abandoned buildings. ”

Eleanor gave Asker an angry look, which meant "Am I not going to know this?" Use you as a reminder? ”。

As for Nola, she was keenly aware of the eye contact between her and Asker, and couldn't help but be stunned.

I always feel that today's Ellie's attitude towards Asker is a little intimate? Is it my delusion?