Chapter 771: Matthias Nesman (Second Update)
(88106 .) As an orphan who lost both of his parents after Anthun's arrival, Matthias Nessman had a hard time, his parents were engineers at the Energy Center, and after Anthun's arrival, he had almost no resistance to being killed by monsters in the sky.
After waiting for a long time without waiting for his parents, Matthias knew that he would have to live alone for the rest of his life.
He wore the shabby clothes of adults he had picked up on the street, and the clothes were large, and the hem of his jacket hung down to his knees.
He was dark-skinned, but he had rather strange pink hair, but unfortunately it had become a mess like a chicken coop because he had not taken care of it for a long time, and even fresh water was a very valuable asset on Eden Island, which was surrounded by the sea, and Matthias did not consume any unnecessary precious water except for the necessary drinking water.
In fact, there are many children like Matthias in the Siman Industrial Complex today, most of them are the children of workers in the Eton Industrial Zone, some have found parents, and some are like Matthias who live in a fixed place and do odd jobs for a living, as long as they can eat enough, even if they are criminal.
However, after the arrival of the Imperial Army, the Siman Industrial Base was reorganized several times, and now it is no longer possible to see children peddling firearms on the streets as it was at the beginning, of course, it does not mean that this situation has been eliminated, but those people have been moved underground.
In this time of chaos, having firearms for self-defense is something that every civilian looks forward to, so the firearms business is the most popular and profitable business.
In front of the line of a group of imperial army in military uniforms, Matthias hurriedly pasted on the building next to the road to make way, in the Siman industrial base, the imperial army has a great deterrent, no one dares to provoke the imperial army on the surface, everyone knows that the reason for the arrival of the imperial army is to help them regain their lost homeland, even those forces that are secretly developing, do not have the courage to challenge the imperial army.
"I'm so envious, when will I grow up?"
Matthias looked at the back of the departing imperial army, and looked at the other party's neat clothes, the guns on his shoulders, and the sturdy leather boots under his feet were all things that Matthias envied.
Being able to join the Imperial Capital Army can be said to be the most desired thing for all young people in the Siman Industrial Base now, Matthias also wants to enlist in the army, but it is a pity that he is too young, standing far away in the recruitment office, and seeing that the recruitment conditions are written only for adults over the age of eighteen to sign up, he just dispelled this idea.
Matthias, who continued to set out to look for a job full of hope, was finally disappointed, not every day he could find a job, he was too small, and ordinary merchants would not hire such a small child, which would cause trouble, besides, all kinds of business in the Siman Industrial Base are in a recession, and everyone does not have much property, unless it is a person who originally lived in the Siman Industrial Base to have a property, Matthias went to school here, but unfortunately there is no money to pay for tuition, and his studies have to be interrupted.
"I'm so hungry!"
In the past six months, Matthias felt the most hunger, and after spending the little living money he had, Matthias tasted the hunger that he had not experienced for more than ten years.
The coarse bread distributed every three days by the Imperial Army is Matthias's greatest help to survive until now, the bread is so strong that it can only make dents when smashed with his fists, but it is the only support for a homeless person like Matthias who has no stable source of income.
Coarse bread should be soaked in hot water, preferably hot soup to taste good, Matthias still remembers the last time he soaked fist-sized bread in broth, it was yesterday at noon, from that time until now, Matthias has only drunk a few glasses of water, and the hunger has always been with him, and it also pushes him to try to survive.
Unable to find a job, Matthias was discouraged for a moment and headed to the outskirts of the Smann industrial base, where he had other ways to make money, such as broken machine parts, scrap paper, scrap metal, and plastics.
Although picking up garbage is a very disgraceful thing, Matthias has become very proficient after the initial discomfort, and even because of his studies, he can disassemble useful things from waste mechanical products, and he hopes to have a good harvest today.
There are many mountains of garbage on the outskirts of the Sman Industrial Base, where the daily output of the Sman Industrial Base is piled up, and everyone except the people who live here can smell the bad smell when they get close, and Matthias knows why.
Not only the garbage mountain, there is also a river full of garbage, black and smelly, the downstream of the river should be blocked, more and more garbage is piled up, the river water has become stagnant water will not flow, it is now the height of summer, the smell of bad can be imagined.
In fact, in the past, the suburbs were not so dirty, there would be special personnel to clean up the garbage, but now the situation has become like this, many of the cleaners are unemployed, except for someone who will clean the main road every morning to clean up the garbage, the other secondary roads are almost unattended, and debris can be seen everywhere.
Matthias covered his face with a homemade mask, and the brim of his hat was lowered, so as to avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble, don't look at the work of picking up garbage is very disgraceful, but there is a lot of competition here, and there are even gangs occupying it.
After all, where can the Imperial Capital Army take care of the suburbs, it is already very good that they can take care of the main street, and the most important job is naturally to wage war against the monsters in the energy center, even if they are dozens of kilometers away, sometimes the sound of artillery fire will reach the Siman Industrial Base.
Armed with a hollow iron hook in his hand, Matthias looked around warily and rummaged through a mountain of garbage, mostly plastic and stone, sometimes worn-out clothes or discarded mechanical parts.
Matthias was limited in what he could carry, he would only pick out the light and high-value things and put them in the pockets he tied around his waist, although he saw a lot of scrap iron, but the price of those things was too low, Matthias took the trouble to transport them back, and it was more likely to be robbed than sold.
Watching over the river, Matthias was a little moved, there were a lot of discarded electrical products on the river, and there were also people rowing in small boats in the river, and there were very few people who could go there, Matthias believed that as long as he had a way to go to the river, he could find something more valuable.
After spending the morning gathering half a pocket of something of some value, Matthias quietly left the garbage mountain, there were no garbage trucks coming here after noon, and every morning was the most likely to find good things, Matthias was now going to sell these things, and changing himself for lunch was the most important thing. I want to talk with more like-minded people about "DNF's Live Aradd"; Talk about life and find a confidant~
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