Chapter 20: Survival Strategies

The western suburbs of the new magic capital.

Compared with the bustle and bustle of the east, the gray effect produced by the clustering of this large area of featureless houses makes people feel a different kind of oppression.

This is the civilian area of the Demon City.

When it is said to be a civilian area, it actually means a slum area.

The people who live here are the people at the bottom of society.

In the world of the remnants, the gap between the rich and the poor is still as irreparable as it was before the end.

According to statistics, 30% of the population of the Demon Capital lives here, but it only has less than 1% of the wealth of the Demon Capital.

Here, there are countless incidents of fights, robberies, thefts, hooligans, frauds, etc., which occur every day.

Even the vigilante Self-Administration (Local Self-Administration of the Earth Remnant Alliance) abandoned the area after being attacked several times by mobs.

Let this become a vacuum of power, the underground world of the magic capital.

Next to Longhua Avenue in the western suburbs, a small road with a slope extends along a dim street lamp.

About a kilometer or so, you can see a long wall, in the middle of the wall there is a gate, on which is hung the sign of 'Huxi XX Pincang X'.

I can't read a few words clearly, but if you look at the thick rust on the iron door, you can see that this is a warehouse that has been abandoned for a long time.

Inside the gate, a row of tall houses stood in the darkness, and the gray walls were covered with moss, and they looked lifeless.

However, their underground is brightly lit.

"Uh..."

The rhinoceros with a round belly burped.

I looked left and right at the half-gnawed roast beef leg in my hand and looked left and right a few times, and felt that I really couldn't bear to stuff all this huge thing into my stomach, so I reluctantly threw it into the big plate in front of me.

With a big hand, he rubbed the oil juice on his mouth all over his face.

Next to him, the black bear and the dumb leopard were equally oily, as if they had just rolled in a frying pan instead of nibbling on the barbecue.

"I'm so full..."

The rhinoceros patted its round belly in contentment, stretched its waist, and a canvas combat suit immediately burst open, revealing the swarthy body hair on its chest.

"You're all full, aren't you?"

Ma Ping'an's feet were on the table, his nails were trimmed with the knife in his hand, and only two feet of the stool under his buttocks were still on the ground, making a creaking sound.

"I'm full, I'm full... This barbecue is really delicious..."

The rhinoceros, the black bear, and the dumb leopard all nodded honestly.

"Let's have a meeting... Xiao Si, you can tell me about your situation first. ”

"Okay." Hu Sizheng cut a piece of tendon meat in front of him with a knife and fork, and when he heard Ma Ping'an speak, he quickly stopped.

"Mother-in-law and mother-in-law eat everything, not a gentleman at all." The rhinoceros muttered beside him.

"I now have 16 brothers in my workshop, and I have taken on 14 jobs since last month.

Two of them are repairing mechas, which have a lot of oil and water, and the others are some repairing cars and the like, which doesn't make much money.

Well, as of yesterday, except for those two mechs, all the other work has been done, and after the wages paid to the brothers, more than 24,000 yuan have been earned. ”

Speaking of this, seeing Ma Ping'an's brows furrowed, he hurriedly added: "But if those two mecha are also delivered, they can still earn more than 60,000, adding up to about 90,000." ”

Ma Ping'an hummed noncommittally, turned his head to the rhinoceros and asked, "Rhinoceros, what about you?" ”

The rhinoceros looked at Hu Si proudly, and his voice sounded: "The security management fees of Longhua Avenue and Hongmei Road are still the same as before, and a total of 680,000 yuan was collected last month.

Yesterday, however, the brothers snatched down a few more roads near the park in the western suburbs.

Although it is not very prosperous there, it can receive more than 100,000 yuan a month on several roads. ”

He didn't seem to be very sensitive to numbers, and as he spoke, he snapped his fingers: "So next month you can... You will have an income of about 800,000 yuan, minus the distribution to the brothers, well... Well... There are more than 300,000. ”

Ma Ping'an frowned, immediately put his feet off the platform, stood up, threw the knife in his hand on the table, propped his hand on the platform, and asked, "Knock down the Western Suburbs Park?" Where was the territory of the jackals, right? Didn't I tell you not to do anything to him yet? ”

The rhinoceros smiled and scratched his head: "Yes, but this kid took the wrong medicine, and he ran to Longhua Avenue to collect the security management fee."

When the brothers were angry, they began to fight, and they beat and struck, and they did not know how, so they went to their territory.

As soon as I saw it, I took over the territory. ”

The more he talked, the more energetic he became, and he rolled up his sleeves and prepared to have a live broadcast: "Boss, you don't know, that day..."

Ma Ping'an smiled bitterly: "Okay, okay... You have taken up the fattest two roads, and there are so many people staring at you!

It's good for you to destroy the jackals again, but I'm afraid that it won't be long before several other gangs in the vicinity will come to trouble you. ”

The rhinoceros raised his eyebrows and muttered: "Come on, I'm still afraid of them, if you dare to come to our territory to make trouble, I have to twist their necks one by one!"

When the time comes, we will take over all the neighborhoods around here, and the security management fee we collect can be turned over several times..."

Ma Ping'an put his face on the face: "Nonsense, Wei Wu and Liu Qiang in the west, which one doesn't have a dozen mecha on hand, and even they don't dare to put this big talk, do you know why?" ”

The rhinoceros was stunned and shook his head honestly.

Ma Ping'an patiently explained: "Although the new magic capital is nominally under the jurisdiction of the alliance, it is actually the territory of the three major families.

The Wang family is in Pudong, the Su family is in the Huangpu area, and Huxi and the suburbs are the world of Hu Boss.

It's just that people have already put it on the table, and many things are already disdainful to do, so they let you small gangs occupy a few roads and collect public security management fees.

But if you really dare to make any big waves, as long as you feel a little threat to them, they can destroy you with a finger. ”

Wei Wu and Liu Qiang are all smart people, so at least on the surface, they seem to be very responsible, you don't know what to do, I'm afraid that you won't survive tomorrow morning and be swept into a sieve. ”

"Boss, I know..."

Although the rhinoceros is not sophisticated, it is not a stupid person, Ma Ping'an nodded a few words, and then understood, touched his head embarrassedly, and said in a slurred voice: "Or... Why don't I give them back the land?

But the jackal boy doesn't know which horn to hide, where can I find him..."

"Damn, I've grabbed it, then forget it, just be careful in the future, don't mess around without my orders!"

Ma Ping'an shook his head, angry and funny.

......

At this time, it was already August 4113 AD, and it had been more than a year since Ma Ping'an arrived in the new magic capital.

After getting four million from Na Tianzhong, Ma Ping'an bought the warehouse in a remote area on the west side of Longhua Avenue and converted it into a multi-purpose residence.

The rhinoceros naturally couldn't complete their task, but the 10,000 yuan deposit had already been spent by them, so they could only honestly follow Ma Ping'an and start working for a long time.

In fact, if three points in their hearts are guilty, then the other seven points are only the temptation of 'following the boss to eat more well'.

In a mutated society like the Remnants Alliance, if you want to get ahead, it is naturally the most convenient way to take the dark road.

Compared with the prosperous area, Huxi, which is known as the hell of the new magic capital, has extremely cheap land prices.

A warehouse of more than 2,000 square meters, with a courtyard of 1,000 square meters, only cost less than 1 million to buy and decorate.

Of the remaining three million, one million was left for Hu Si to purchase facilities and open a repair shop.

In addition, through the relationship between You Shuang, he bought two lite versions of the X-5 and added a bunch of more decent weapons.

Speaking of which, even the market price of a lite version of the X-5 is about 1.5 million, and with those weapons, it has exceeded two million.

According to Ma Ping'an's original idea, it is good to be able to buy one, after all, the mecha is still controlled by the alliance.

Except for the inspection team and the adventure group with the adventurer's license, it will take a lot of effort and time to dredge the knots and transport them from Kuala Lumpur.

But I didn't expect You Shuang's energy to be so great, and the next day after the promise, two brand-new mecha had been shipped to Ma Ping'an, one of which was marked 'You Shuang's gift'.

While being surprised, Ma Ping'an also had some doubts about his purpose.

But after all, people still helped themselves, and at present, there is no problem, and at the beginning, one more mecha is equal to half more strength, so I politely accepted it.

He pondered that if he saw something wrong in the future, he would return the favor when he had the money.

The underworld forces in western Shanghai are intricately intertwined, and there are more than 400 large and small gangs.

Ma Ping'an spent a month collecting information, and another month to lay out provocations, and finally let the two lower-middle-level forces join forces, and then things were very simple.

At the critical moment when the two sides were playing happily and everyone was injured and colorful.

Rhino and the others drove two mechs into the battlefield and swept away all the leaders of the two forces in one fell swoop.

Most of the gangsters in the underworld were originally the masters of the mother, and after a little envelopment, Longhua Avenue and Hongmei Road, which were still prosperous in western Shanghai, were controlled by the beast adventure team led by the rhinoceros in name.

Choosing these two roads as the birthplace of his own power, Ma Ping'an has his own considerations.

Hongmei Road and Longhua Avenue are two parallel roads.

Extending out, one end passes through the Gubei business district and then connects to the Furong Road leading to the downtown area.

On the other hand, after passing a few roads near the Western Suburbs Park, there is Xinjiaocheng, one of the industrial areas of the new magic capital.

These two territories are now held by two larger gangs.

Furong Road is Wei Wu's shotgun club, and Xinjiaocheng is Liu Qiang's strongman hall.

The two large gangs each have a dozen mechs and hundreds of subordinates, and each has scruples about whom.

As a result, Longhua Avenue and Hongmei Road, which connect the two places, have become buffer points for the two gangs.

Everyone was interested in this, but no one dared to stretch their legs easily, and there were still a few small groups in Gubei and the western suburbs, and the beast adventure team in the middle was safe.

But at this time, the rhinoceros wiped out the jackal gang in the western suburbs park, indicating that the beast adventure team has directly bordered the strongman.

And because of the expansion of the territory, in this sinister environment, whether it will cause the dissatisfaction of the two major gangs is something that no one can estimate.

Ma Ping'an looked at the rhinoceros with his head down, with a look of guilt for doing something wrong, but he was embarrassed to blame him too much, so he could only sigh, who told him that he was afraid of death and refused to come forward in person?

Ma Ping'an, who has always pursued the first brain, cherishes this new life by chance.

Now it's not the underworld era when cold weapons were used to open films, even if you ride a mecha, you may not be able to guarantee that you will be unharmed under those high-powered beam guns, and this kind of dangerous thing is still good for rhinoceros to do.

They also enjoy this life of constant fighting, so why bother to deprive others of the fun?

Ma Ping'an often comforts himself like this.