Chapter 58 The Companionship of a Dog (2)
"Shouldn't you explain why?"
Hearing the inquiry, Jim's face instantly turned pale.
Of course, this is not because the lie was exposed, but because he and Ben did not expect that there would be hundreds of resentful spirit dogs hovering around him all the time.
Puff~!
Jim fell to his knees again, but this time with much more sincerity than before, at least... It's a true outpouring.
"Master, you must save me!"
Yi Qi couldn't help but roll his eyes, there was no one else in the office, and he... It's not a little girl who is overflowing with compassion, since the other party is willing to kneel, then there is no reason to stop it.
Of course, as the owner of the office, Yi Qi will not deliberately neglect the customers who deliver goods to the door.
So after resting his feet on the desk and changing to a more comfortable lying position, he looked sideways at Jim: "Let's talk about it!" Strange things are happening all around you.
Oh yes!
Tell me about what you've done.
Of course, I'm going to listen to the truth. ”
Seeing that kneeling didn't work, Jim could only cry and say, "I used to be ......"
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The laws of the Federation are brutal, but that's only in terms of competition.
For the people living at the bottom, the welfare and policies of the federation have always been very good, at least in such a cruel law of competition, leaving everyone with a way out.
Of course, this path of life is just as cruel.
It's not that life is cruel, but if you want to walk on this life path, you will inevitably encounter cruel competition.
If you have been eliminated from the competition, then this life path has come to an end.
In such a cruel law of survival, there is always derivation... Some cynical, but self-proclaimed clever guys.
Jim is one of them.
He is a little clever, but he doesn't have great wisdom, so he only sees the cruelty of the law of survival, but he doesn't think about it... Why would someone make such a cruel law of survival.
And what about Jim?
He thought he was clever enough to take a path that he thought was the way to live.
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Jim is smart, there's no denying that.
With this cleverness, Jim can make steady progress in his life and one day, jump out of the bottom of the Federation.
Unfortunately, he has an ambition that can't match his cleverness.
All right! Ambition is just Jim's own definition, and in the eyes of others, Jim is just ambitious.
Jim, who first arrived in Black Gold City, was not willing to be a lowly waiter, nor did he want to be a factory worker who had to work 12 hours a day, let alone become... One day, an underground worker will die in a mining disaster.
Therefore, he and three like-minded guys started the business of stealing and selling dogs.
Dog dealers belong to the profiteering industry, after all, there is no way to fill such a thing as appetite, which also leads to a shortage of dog meat, and any local dog can buy hundreds of federal coins.
As for the four Jims, they are engaged in the business of stealing dogs, as long as they sell a few local dogs casually, they can be in the black gold market for four or five days.
Compared with the hard-working workers and lowly service workers, the four of them are not too comfortable......
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However, people have no long-term concerns, but they must have near-term worries!
Although the four of them had a chic life, they were blacklisted in the black gold market because they did not report to the human resources department for three months, and their identities changed from free citizens in the white household to homeless people in the black household.
As a result, the four of them can no longer enjoy some of the city's benefits.
While city benefits are free to use, some of them require identity verification, so... Once you use these benefits, you will be caught by law enforcement officers in minutes and sent back to your place of birth after a violent beating.
This makes the lives of the four Jim gradually shift from the ground to the underground, although they are still chic, but there is an indescribable sense of grievance.
Fortunately, compared with the freedmen who arrived in Black Gold City at the same time, the lives of the four of them were still very superior, and then they began self-hypnotic self-comfort.
It's a pity that the four of them didn't know that in a place they couldn't see, there was an invisible hand that had cut off their way of life......
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Jim is a clever fellow, and under his careful management, the four of them have gathered some homeless people, and gradually become bigger and stronger, and then become the biggest dog dealer in the black gold market.
However, the four's footsteps stopped there.
As a black household, their best outcome is to be a dog dealer for the rest of their lives.
Or, the king of dog dealers.
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Years.
The lives of the four have not changed much, and there have not been many ups and downs, but their hearts have begun to twist.
The four of them lived like rats on the street, but many of the freedmen who arrived in Black Gold City at the same time as them managed to jump out of the lowest status, even though they still belong to the bottom of the Federation, they no longer have to do the lowliest, most onerous, and most dangerous jobs.
Some people are even better off than the four.
This makes Jim and the others extremely mentally unbalanced, because in their opinion, those guys are not as good as themselves!
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Jealousy is more terrible than ambition.
Ambition, at least will give you the motivation to move forward, but jealousy... It will only distort your values.
And when values are distorted, people will go crazy, a meaningless and worthless madness!
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The Jim Four are like that, they're crazy, they're jealous, they're dissatisfied, they hate people who live better than themselves, even... Hate this unfair society.
Yet, ironically, they don't dare to be anti-social.
Because they are the scum, they are neither willing to accept the reality, nor dare to rebel against the social scum of reality.
So, they live worthlessly.
Unfortunately, the Jim Four don't think so.
In order to vent their resentment, they began to have fun.
Although the four of them dare not be anti-social, it does not mean that they dare not vent their grievances on the heads of the weaker.
For example, dogs.
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Everyone has a grudge in their hearts, and if they don't vent it, the hurt person... After all, it will be yourself.
There are also many ways to vent, but venting your grievances by hurting others is ultimately harming others and yourself......
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Li Lei, one of the four, has a short temper.
Dog abuse started with him.
At first, Jim and the others didn't care, after all, in order to sell the meat for a good price, they would also undertake some slaughtering, skinning, and gutting work.
And these affairs are generally entrusted to Li Lei.
It's just that Li Lei's recent behavior is very abnormal, he didn't kill the dog first and bleed, but tied it directly to the shelf, and then skinned it alive, as well as disemboweling and removing the internal organs.
Sometimes, after the evisceration has been removed, the dog is still not dead and will perform some instinctive, unconscious trembling.
Every time at this time, Li Lei would tremble with him.
However, what Li Lei trembled was not physical, but spiritual, a pleasure that could dominate the fate of others and make people extremely happy.
Unfortunately, the pleasure will slowly subside.
Therefore, one day, Li Lei did not plug the dog's mouth with a rag, but peeled off the other party's dog skin little by little in an extremely miserable howl and extremely happy trembling......