Chapter 466: The Recycler
On the court, several boys and girls who were playing also came over and gathered around Lake.
They are all Alita's friends, and they have just noticed that this fast motorcycle is speeding on the streets of the city, and the turning and drifting driving skills are too envious to them.
The driving skills that these teenagers and girls were proud of before are not worth mentioning in front of this car god.
Only now did they find out that the car god turned out to be the second venerable who Alita said that she would bring a new friend to play the ball game with today after their small group snatched the mechanical arm last night!
"Second Venerable Car God, hello!"
"How did you drive so fast!"
"This big drift technique is so handsome, you have time to teach me!"
A few of Alita's friends surrounded Lake and talked enthusiastically.
Lake didn't expect that he had just thought about driving a power motorcycle before, and he would make himself so popular among Alita's friends.
"Venerable No. 2, you are not allowed to drive my motorcycle in the future, and you are not allowed to learn!" Alita finally squatted off the ground and barely stood up, she felt her head still shaking, or the whole world shaking, Alita said weakly to Lake.
"Okay, take me to play, I haven't played a game like this yet!" Lake said to Alita with a smile, and Lake also knew that it was a little crazy to drive that speed just now, and it was normal for this ordinary human Alita to sit in the back seat of his motorcycle and be scared by the stimulus.
Alita waved her hand directly, "You play by yourself first, which side of you is short of people, let the Second Venerable play." I'm dizzy, so I'll sit on the side first. ”
Lake then stepped on, swapping into a pair of electric roller skates.
Fortunately, Lake used to be able to roller skate, so he tried it on this electric roller skate, accelerated and decelerated, and he could still play on it.
A group of five people has a metal hole similar to a basketball hoop, and after the ball is bounced out of the metal hole to serve, whichever pair throws the ball into the metal hole first wins.
In the process of moving with the ball, you don't need to shoot the ball, you only need to control the roller skates to slide on this field, avoid the opponent's blocking, and in the process of moving and sliding, you are not allowed to attack people, and other ways can be used.
The rules are pretty simple, after serving, Lake jumps first, scrambles for the ball, and then shoots.
The ball went in.
The teammates on the other side looked at Lake in disbelief.
Serving again, Lake grabbed the ball first with his sharp eyes and his super reflexes.
These Alita's friends, none of their bodies have undergone allomorphic transformation, they are just ordinary people's bodies, even if they have exercised, they are only stronger than ordinary people, and they are not Lake's opponents.
"Huh!" The ball went in.
"Huh!" The ball went in again.
"Venerable No. 2, you are not allowed to shoot from a distance!" The girl Alita was on the sidelines, sitting on a chair and shouting.
She had already recovered a little, and found that the No. 2 Venerable she had just met with her was shooting too accurately, and if she kept shooting like this, her little friend would not be able to play this ball game.
"Okay!" Lake said with a smile that he was a slam dunk master and had played many basketball games, but now he just changed to electric roller skates, and he had no problem dominating the whole court by himself.
Scramble for the ball again, and Lake dribbles and dunks.
Scrambling for the ball again, Lake broke through again after getting the ball, showed off his dribbling skills, and dunked.
After playing for more than ten minutes, Alita's friends stopped playing, and they all ran together.
The game is going to break up, and there is no one to play with Lake.
Lake felt that Alita's friends were too indomitable in their sports.
Alita, who was outside the court, smiled and replaced Lake, who came on the field herself and let Lake sit on the side chair and watch.
The ball game returned to normal, and Lake should watch the beauty sports and watch Alita play the ball game.
"If you say you want to bring yourself to the ball game, let yourself sit on the bench!" Lake sat in his chair and muttered.
The game went on for more than an hour, and the group of Alita's friends got tired and stopped playing.
Lake also felt it from the conversation between these young boys and girls, and the girl Alita seemed to be the eldest sister of these friends.
At the end of the game, a girl took a bag of drinks, came over to distribute them, and gave Lake a bottle as well.
The strength that Lake had just shown made him quickly integrate into this small group that he had just come into contact with.
Lake and these friends chatted casually.
"Let's go, Venerable No. 2, I'll take you to see the scenery, it just so happens that the ball game ends early today!" Alita finished her drink and said to Lake.
"Okay, can you let me drive a powered motorcycle?" Lake asked with a smile.
"No way!" Alita simply rejected Lake directly, the terrifying power motorcycle experience just now, Alita didn't want to experience it a second time.
Lake laughed dryly.
Alita sat back in the front of her power bike, and Lake sat in the back.
This time Alita drove slowly, more than half as slow as she had when she first went to pick up Lake and bring him in, and Alita didn't mention how fast she was driving a powered motorcycle.
After more than half an hour, Alita drove her motorcycle to an area of old buildings on the east side of the Iron City, and parked under an abandoned cathedral.
"Come, follow me up, the scenery above is good, when I have nothing to do, I like to come here and sit down!" Alita said.
Looking at the dilapidated church, Lake had already guessed that the girl Alita had come to show him the sky city of Salem.
From this direction and where the church is located, there is the city of steel on the ground, and the best vantage point from Salem, the city of the sky.
Lake also followed the girl Alita and began to climb to the top of the old church.
Both were in good shape, and after stepping over some broken stairs, they climbed the floor of an abandoned church. Come to the top of this abandoned old church and sit on the roof.
Alita looked at the city of Salem in the distant sky.
Lake glanced at it a few times, and it was this one who tried to check the city of Salem in the sky with his fiery eyes.
But the distance is still too far, this sky city is very high from the ground, and at such a round distance, you can't see through the situation inside this sky city, you can only vaguely see the appearance of Salem outside.
Three hundred years ago, Lake's last contact with the city in the sky was unsuccessful in infiltrating the interior of Salem.
Now, three hundred years later, Lake doesn't know what has become of this castle in the sky.
However, Nova, the supreme commander of Sky City, is definitely still alive, after all, the main quest of the dungeon world is still there.
"It's beautiful, isn't it, this Salem, one day, I'll go up!" The girl Alita muttered to herself in a very firm tone.
"By the way, do new Martian humans still exist?" Lake tried to ask Alita.
"Martians! It is rumored that after the [Battle of Skyfall] three hundred years ago, the Martians were completely extinct. The mother planet of the Earth also suffered an almost devastating blow in that war. Now this sky city of Salem is the only remaining sky city on earth. Alita said casually.
After hearing this, Lake was a little regretful, it seemed that he had no backup.
As the last hope of the whole village of Martian new humans, he can only fight alone to kill Vano, the commander of the Sky City.
"What do you think of the Recycler?" Alita, the girl, suddenly asked Lake this sentence.
"What is [Reclaimer], I haven't heard of it, I've heard of [Bounty Hunter], is [Reaper] the second name of [Bounty Hunter]?" Lake said.
"Oh, I almost forgot, you were brought back by Dr. Ed. We're not familiar with the situation in our steel city. Let me tell you, the Reclaimer is not a Bounty Hunter, they are two different systems. The Bounty Hunter can be said to be a non-governmental organization that maintains order in the Iron City. In our city of steel, if someone commits a crime, they will be wanted by the order of the city of steel, and the mechanical centurion will arrest him. But there are not many centurions, and it is not very easy to catch criminals who want to hide.
The Bounty Hunter assists the centurion in capturing and killing the Most Wanted Criminal, and can take the Wanted Criminal's head to the Iron City to maintain order and receive the Brain's reward. Alita, the girl, said to Lake.
"What about the [Reclaimers]?" Lake asked.
"[Recycler] belongs to the factory, and the factory maintains the operation of the Order Light Brain. Now the owner of our Steel City factory is called Victor, who was sent down from Sky City to manage Steel City. In the City of Steel, some people will take out loans from factories to buy mechanical limbs or allogeneous organs. But when these borrowers are not ready to repay, the factory will send [recyclers] to recover the mechanical alves or allogeneic organs that they purchased with loans and installed on their bodies. Of course, each time the [Recycler] recovers the corresponding mechanical limb or organ, he will also be paid by the factory. Alita, the girl, said to Lake.
When Lake heard this, he realized that in the original book, Hugo's friends worked for the factory, and in this copy world, it turned out to be this mode.
Lake looked at the girl Alita sitting next to him, don't think about it, Alita and her little friends must belong to the [Recycler], working for the factory, and will regularly perform tasks to recover the mechanical limbs or allogeneic organs that have been installed on those who don't want to repay the loan.
"If the allogeneic organs to be recovered are the heart, lungs, etc., and the person will die after the retrieval is recovered, will the [retrievator] also forcibly take back these allogeneic organs?" Lake asked.
After thinking about it, the girl Alita said in a low tone, "Yes." When people borrowed money from factories to buy the mechanical limbs or allogeneic organs, an agreement was already signed. And these organs and limbs that the factory loans are very cheap, as long as they work normally, they can afford to pay them back, and there is still a surplus.
Unless they are the kind of people who eat and wait for death every day, or spend money indiscriminately, they will not be able to pay it back, or they don't want to pay it back at all. I don't think it's cruel, after all, if there wasn't a factory to provide organs, those people would have died a long time ago, and it was the factory that gave them another chance to prolong their lives. But these people don't know how to cherish it, they don't know how to repay it, and they still want to repay it. ”
"By the way, Venerable No. 2, how do you feel about the [Reclaimer]?" Alita then asked Lake with an expectant expression.
Lake also felt it, and Alita now asked herself, probably if she wanted to pull herself into the [Recycler] team.
"It's okay, the [Recycler] can't be said to be good, but it's not a sin either, I feel like it's just the enforcer of the rules." Lake said after a moment's thought.
"If you had the opportunity to become a Recycler, would you join?" Alita was a little happy to hear Lake's answer, and continued to ask Lake.
"I, I haven't decided whether to join the [Bounty Hunter] or the [Reclaimer], I just came to this steel city, I will think again." Lake said with a smile.
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