83, one night in the walled city
The passage in the stone wall is wider than it appears below, and is fitted with sparse balustrades. Because of the horizontal excavation inside, all the houses have sloping roofs.
"Just stop at the door, I promise not to lose it." Sequence 7 says.
Zheng Yi locked the car and followed the two into the house.
The ceiling inside the house is not short, and the outside is the living room and cooking room, with a ceiling height of nearly three meters. Inside, because of the slope of the rock wall, it gradually sank, and the final height was two meters five, which was very suitable for Zheng Yi's height.
The inner room is a bedroom, and three bunk beds occupy three sides of the room. There is a desk in the middle, which looks like a university dorm room.
This is the home of the two scouts, the template for the middle class of the walled city.
Zheng Yi finished visiting the bedroom and went out to the outer room, where the two brothers had already pulled out a chair for him and placed a bottle of orange juice on the table. This juice must be blended with industrial raw materials used in refuge, mixed with secondary or primary water, which can be used to suppress the taste, or it can be out of sight.
Zheng Yi declined the juice and said, "You're welcome. ”
The two looked at each other and said, "You're wearing a helmet indoors, too?" ”
Zheng Yi listened to the voice in his heart, did not take off his helmet, and said, "The messenger's habit." ”
"You're too young as a messenger, I mean listen to the voice." The Scout's younger brother said.
The Courier is arguably a legendary hero of the wasteland. They traveled thousands of kilometers single-handedly, and were entrusted with the delivery of messages and small objects. In the world of information control, they are the people with the most knowledge, the most timely information, the most flexible brain, and the strongest survivability.
Messengers under the age of thirty are often apprentices.
"Age is not the key, the key is that I am successful." Zheng Yi said.
There is the best water to prove it!
The two scouts quickly accepted this fact. In this world, people who are weak in receptivity are dead.
When the elder brother said, "This is the first time you have come to the wall." Introduced by a friend? ”
They also called it "Walled City", and sure enough, the hero saw it.
Zheng Yi didn't like to answer the question, so he asked, "What are the specialties here?" ”
The two brothers glanced at each other, and sure enough, it was a messenger, and they did not leave the "specialty".
The elder brother of Sequence 7 said, "Our specialty here is gold. There's a gold mine in a canyon outside the city. The gold was dug up and sold to the shelter in exchange for a lot of water and food. Because the shelter requires us to increase production, the price of heavy oil and power generation equipment is also cheaper. ”
Gold is an important material for fine workmanship, and the Vault employs surface people to excavate it economically and steadily.
The semi-surface people in the passage process materials, produce semi-finished products, and finally the Vault is responsible for the production of high-end products.
This is how the raw material gathering industry is unfolding all over the world.
Zheng Yi, who has experienced the information bombardment, is very familiar with this ecological chain of civilization. It's just that the horizontal distribution of the hometown has become the vertical distribution here.
Zheng Yi asked, "Is this place deeply connected to the Vault?" He wasn't sure if his wanted warrant had been sent here.
The Scout brothers looked like this: "Don't worry, just avoid a few bounty dogs." They immediately remembered that most of the messengers worked part-time as bounty hunters, and they were embarrassed to say this with the suspicion of pointing at the bald head and scolding the bald man.
When the elder brother hurriedly staggered the topic, he took the initiative to ask, "Do you want to ship here?" ”
"My ......" Zheng Yi just wanted to exchange water for some gold and heavy oil, and suddenly remembered that in addition to glass bottled water, he only had bottled water. The owner of the camp used oak barrels to fill him with high-quality clean water, twenty liters each, but in this world, wooden barrels should not be on the surface at all.
Only in the consul's mansion can you see very limited wooden luxuries.
That's the most powerful man on the surface of the Western Regions.
"I still have ten bottles of premium water that I want to swap for heavy oil and gold." He thought for a moment that he should go to Ijuiluvida next time, and said, "I also need a flashlight, an emergency light, a camping tent, and a sleeping bag." How are your craftsmen here? I'm going to build some weapons and armor. ”
When the two brothers heard such a big deal, their voices trembled a little:
"Definitely help you find the best!"
"Find me another room to be alone, and I'll bring my own food." Zheng Yi said: "I don't like others to peep. ”
"No problem!" The two brothers said, "Aren't you going to play at night?" Just opposite, there is a casino and a massage parlor. Recently, a newcomer came, and the whole city was a sensation. ”
"Meaningless spending." Zheng Yi hasn't held back to this extent.
"Her asking price is very high, but as long as the man who has seen her, he thinks that no matter how high the price is, it is worth it. Even women will fall in love with her. When my brother said this, an abnormal and unorthodox flush appeared on his face.
"It's really worth it." The younger brother said the first words.
Zheng Yi understood the abnormality in it, and of course he would not go again. He is under a lot of pressure in this world, and if his identity is revealed, it will be a cloudburst bomb!
Think of angels or Maia, who can summon a cloudburst bomb anytime and anywhere?
Zheng Yi used a [sedation] when the two of them were not aware of it, in fact, [anesthesia] was used without contact, which made people calm down from a state of rage, excitement, and depression. It also has a bit of a role to play in the current situation where it is difficult to control yourself.
The two scouts really woke up from their obsession and coughed embarrassedly, the elder brother went to arrange a house for Zheng Yi, and the younger brother went to purchase tents and other light goods. These light goods are available in many places, and can be made in some channel factories, and they are of good quality.
Compared with Zheng Yi's hometown, these can be regarded as high-tech products.
Because the price is cheap, these two brothers will no longer earn the difference in the price of the goods, and it can't be said that the bottle of premium water is a consulting fee.
In a city that has not yet been out of order, fairness and reputation are still important.
After Zheng Yi threw out the bottle of premium water, he would not pay a single drop of water for accommodation and purchased goods. Unless he wants to trade large quantities of goods, it is a direct negotiation with the seller, and the two brothers will not get a commission.
Even so, the two are already very satisfied.
The Scout from Sequence 7 is indeed very relevant in Walled City.
As the highest level of the low-order sequence, he should also have some status. What's more, it is still a relatively rare auxiliary profession.
He quickly found a room on the same floor and spent a small sum of money to get the original owner to move to a mud house below for a few days. This is also common in the walled city, where many people borrow money on the houses on the stone walls just to lend them to the wealthy people who come to live in them occasionally.
Zheng Yi went to see the house, and it was really clean, and it could be described as a house with four walls. The whole room does not have all the furniture such as tables, chairs, beds, and stools, and it is just a room.
The only artificial attachment is the light in the living room and the aluminum panel door between the living room bedroom.
Fortunately, my brother came back quickly, buying two flashlights, an emergency light, a double-decker double tent, as well as a sleeping bag and an inflatable sofa.
"Tomorrow morning we will take you to the mines, where you can buy cheap gold and heavy oil. As for the weapons and armor you want, of course they are available in town, but there's a place outside the city that is more reasonably priced and of better quality if you don't mind an hour's ride. Said the elder brother.
"See you tomorrow." Zheng Yi pushed the chocobo into the room and closed the door, which was considered to be a finalization of tomorrow's itinerary.