Chapter 1: Scavenging Boys
In the year 355 of the founding era, three hundred years ago, the entire universe experienced the catastrophe of annihilation, the entire civilization collapsed, most of the earth's creatures became extinct, and human beings could only shrink in the city of China to survive.
For three hundred years, human beings have never been able to get out of Huaxia City within a radius of 100 kilometers, and they know nothing about the outside world, only that there are unknown monsters everywhere outside the city, and in order to survive, Huaxia City has set up a reconnaissance team to investigate these monsters.
The reconnaissance team is all the elite of the elite, going to unknown areas to explore and detect the information of monsters and determine whether they pose a threat to Huaxia City.
At the same time, the profession of hunter was born, specializing in hunting monsters outside the city to make money to support themselves, hunters have a relatively high status in the city, and the income is also rich, but life and death are unpredictable, and the mortality rate is second only to the reconnaissance team.
In the past three hundred years, the original scientific and technological civilization has been abandoned, and a new civilization system has been born, with the source energy of the human body itself as the core development direction, and there are more and more warriors, and powerful warriors are also the goal of everyone.
Huaxia City was built from more than 300 years ago to the present, the area is very vast, the structure of the whole city is like gossip, the central city is naturally the political core area of Huaxia City, is an independent circular city, there are 100 meters high city wall and the middle city isolation, only people with a very high status can live here. It is called the inner city, and it is also called the Cassa Huaxia.
For people from outside the city, the Lihua is very mysterious, and most people have never had the opportunity to enter it in their lives, and they don't even know what the structure inside is.
The middle city is divided into three rings, mainly used to grow food and store water, guarded by the guards, and is also the main source of food for the city, and at the same time the people who live here are important technicians, farmers, researchers, associations, consortia, etc. can live here, the environment is also very good, there are many green areas, and it is called a commercial area by people outside the city.
The outer city is the most extensive, divided into eight areas, and is isolated by a three-hundred-meter-high wall like Bagua, so that no matter which area is attacked by monsters, it will not affect the other areas, so that one area will not be broken and the whole city will be destroyed.
Also known as the Civilian Quarters, it is densely populated, and people who can have a house here are considered good families, and many can only live in their own tents, the space is small, some people even have only one place to sleep, and a hot meal is a luxury here.
Outside the city, there is a safe area outside the giant wall, which is a safe area that has been cleared by the guards, and there are patrols patrolling day and night, which is basically no danger, even if a monster rushes in, it will be quickly killed by the patrol.
In addition to the military camp of the patrol, there are two camps, the scavenger camp and the hunters' camp, and of course many small private camps, which were set up by some consortia themselves. These camps are specially prepared for rest and trading places for those who go out of town.
In the hunter's camp, hunters hunt monsters to trade here, and a large number of merchants in the city will buy the fur and bones of monsters here, which are excellent materials for crafting equipment. Sometimes you can also collect some precious wood and ore, which are even more precious and can usually be sold for a high price.
The scavengers in the scavengers' camp are collecting ancient utensils outside the city, there are special departments in the city that will collect this kind of things, and there will be people in private consortia to buy them, and sometimes they can sell a metal block for a high price, as for what these pre-genesis things are for, almost no one knows, as for the people in Lihuaxia who know it, it is not for the scavengers to know.
The danger of scavengers is not small, looking for things outside the city, sometimes encountering monsters, and within the safety range, it has been picked up a hundred years ago, if you want to have a good harvest, you can only go to the exploration area, where the garrison is clearing, the danger is not completely eliminated, there will definitely be good things, but the danger will be much greater, it can be said that risk and wealth coexist.
Outside the exploration area is the danger zone, where only the reconnaissance team has been reconnoitred, marking the location and monster information, the garrison has not had time to clear it, such an area is not strong to go to death. The outermost part is the unknown area, and almost no one will go to it, except for the "monsters" of the reconnaissance team.
At this moment, in the scavengers' camp, a ten-year-old boy is lying on a pile of metal equipment. The boy had long hair, which almost covered his ears, and his bangs were over his eyebrows, almost covering his eyes, and he looked a little thin in ordinary coarse cloth clothes, and his skin was yellowish because of a chronic lack of nutrition. Because it is not finished, it looks sloppy.
These metal equipment were all purchased from waste pickers, collected here and sorted and transported into the city, and Jiang Yunlan was the worker in charge of sorting here.
In this era, children of seven or eight years old have to go out to work on their own, and at the age of fourteen, they are considered adults and have to start a family, because of food, the poor rarely live past the age of 50, and the mortality rate of going out of the city to work is so high, it is very good to die of old age, so in this society, the young age of migrant workers is very common.
At this moment, Jiang Yunlan fainted, a somewhat sloppy man came over, saw Jiang Yunlan lying down and lazy, raised his foot and kicked a few times, and immediately shouted when he didn't react: "Whoever brought this fucking waste, you can faint doing this kind of easy work!" Drag away, drag away, drag away. ”
A bald man who was nearly forty years old immediately ran over and said apologetically: "Brother Zhu, I'm really sorry, he was in good health, his father was a scavenger, he learned a lot from him, and he had some skills, so he fainted without knowing why, so I'll take it back." ”
"I don't care what his father is, there's no need for waste here, fuck off." The man spat and drove him away irritably, and then shouted to an old-looking man in the distance: "Old fish head, you come here, you will do his share, the things here must be divided today, and the truck carrying the goods will come in the evening, and all the wages will be deducted if it is not done well." ”
Because he dragged everyone down, the bald man was embarrassed, picked up the boy and kept saying sorry to the people next to him, and then sent it to the boy's tent, he didn't have time to take care of the boy, so he threw it away, and went back to work by himself, and he couldn't deduct his salary, and his family lived on this money.
It wasn't until dark that Jiang Yunlan woke up and sat up and exclaimed, "You get out of here." ”
Seeing that he was in his own home, he scratched his head and said strangely: "Dream! It's strange, why did you suddenly fall asleep? Still having such strange dreams, why did a completely strange man appear in my dream and say a lot of inexplicable words, well, he seems to be called Ye Guchen! Why can I remember all the words in my dreams? ”
He shook his head, threw out these messy thoughts, patted his cheek and stood up, only to think that he fainted today, then there would be no way to complete the work, being scolded is a trivial matter, and it would be miserable to lose the job, he screamed and rushed out immediately.
As soon as he arrived at the door, he almost collided with the people who came in outside, and was hugged in the arms of the people who came in, "Yun Lan, you are so old and reckless." ”
The beard of the person who came was gray, and he looked like a man in his sixties, but he was actually only in his forties, and he looked very old because of his years of hard work and injuries. He is Jiang Yunlan's father Jiang Fan, but they are not biological, Jiang Yunlan was picked up by Jiang Fan when he was a child.
In this era, there are many children who have lost their parents, many of whom have died unexpectedly, mainly by monsters and from illness.