Volume 1 The Bastard of the Slums Chapter 3 The Slum Children Have Not Seen Good Things
"These shantytowns stacked on top of each other are far from being strange customs in Haizhou No. 12, and they are full of black households, robbers, thieves, and women. Flooded with drugs, the black market, human traffickers and all kinds of trades. The filth of human beings is often reflected here, and poverty and misery eventually hang over these shantytowns, and this embarrassment has not only lasted for hundreds of years. Sadly, there is not just one such garbage planet, but hundreds, if not thousands, of people living at the bottom of the starry sky, living a life far from the hardships of modern society, and there is nothing we can do about it. - National Geographic of the Great Eagle Empire
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As a newcomer who settled in the Lin manor, his status and reputation were quite embarrassing. In these rìzi, Lin Hai has been silently observing this new environment.
The estate is located in the 2nd area of Huanxing in the core area of Riverside Star. The riverside stars are well-connected and intertwined with the entire planet into a bird's nest-like modern society.
High-rise buildings are constantly being opened up in the air platforms that continue to extend towards the upper space of the planet.
As the social space continues to expand, there will naturally be a hierarchy of classes. The higher the houses and roads are built, the higher they go, the more modern the buildings with the latest technology become. If you want to have a corner of the upper space with a unique scenery, you naturally need certain assets and corresponding status.
Geography can easily divide an entire society. The prosperity at the top and the dirt at the bottom gradually formed a clear zone. Hence the birth of the high-end wealthy areas and dilapidated slums on the riverside.
Huanxing Area 2 is a wealthy settlement in the upper space, second only to Huanxing District 1. There are a large number of celebrity families of riverside stars here. The streets are spotless, and several monopoly cleaning companies keep the area clean and tidy every day.
As the manor of the president of Wayne Group, it is also very high-minded. Occasionally, I would see a business army car, stop at the manor, discuss something, and finally leave. Or at night, Lord Lin Wei's extended land vehicle drove in, and then walked into the bright manor with a few people to break the silence.
According to Guò Linhai's observation, four cars were most commonly used in the interior of the manor, one of which was the Lord's "Lincoln" extended land vehicle. It should be used by Lin Wei for business entertainment. If he goes to the company, he will transfer to another "ram" gray sè limousine. Another feminine car is the car of the current Lady Ning Qing. In addition, there is also a sports car in the shape of a bat, which is often driven away from the manor by Lin Hao to meet friends.
In the past few days, when I eat at the manor restaurant at noon, I will meet Lin Hai's three family members now.
Lin Hao obviously regarded him as a transparent person because of his deep estrangement from him, and he chatted with Lin Wei and his wife from time to time about things in the academy, compared to Lin Hai's isolation and incompatibility. Only the Lord sometimes broke his silence and asked if Lin Hai was used to coming in the past few days, or mentioned his plans to send him to the academy in the near future.
The so-called academy is probably also those famous universities in the empire, since he has arrived, although he is an illegitimate child without any status, he can't just eat and wait for death for the rest of his life. He grew up in the slums and had not received any education and cultivation in the modern system, so Lin Hai could also expect that it would be more worry-free to let him enter an academy than to place him in a manor with nothing to do.
Except for those who are not talking about it, Lin Hao is actually very smart. A seventeen-year-old who was able to enter Qingyuan Academy, a famous imperial school that has countless outstanding people out of the door, proves that he has actually inherited the excellence of his parents' bloodline.
It's just that being admitted to Qingyuan College doesn't mean that you have talent in business. In the overall situation of taking on the important responsibility of the group, the young Lin Hao really lacks a bit of fire. It is easier to become the target of those who have different intentions within the family.
The group's position in the imperial side has been shaken, and its business has suffered a setback. Lin Wei's body was weakened, and he had to start thinking about the succession of the title and the head of the family, and several brothers in the family had different intentions at this time...... Through these key points, Lin Hai seemed to understand why he was taken to the Lin manor.
If you want to use him as Lin Hao's shield to attract the firepower of those elders in the family, it seems more logical.
This would also explain why Lin Hao and the current Lady Ning Qing would tolerate his arrival.
This lavish manor is just an empty shelf, and the interior is actually filled with the indifference of real people.
This is the high society that those widows on the garbage star dream of!
Lin Hai was in a somewhat depressed mood, thinking so boringly.
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The new environment and the indifferent manor, although foreign to Lin Hai, did not have much rejection. It's because he can see the advanced mecha on the riverside star, and he doesn't even think about it when he sees the garbage star. Access to the computers in the estate that can be connected to the international Internet for a wide range of consultations. You can see the modern society that you can only see on TV, and the luxury in the manor that dazzles him.
Lin Hai has an almost paranoid love for machinery. When you think about it, it seems to have started with the mountains of garbage heaps in Haizhou Star. He grew up in a large number of abandoned electronic metal garbage heaps, and then these deeply growing memories naturally became his talent. It's just that no one knows how far his dedication and talent for machinery have come.
But fortunately, there is already enough environment in the manor for him to spend his time and have nothing to do. The powerful computer in his room alone had allowed him to quickly absorb information every day, and to learn about the knowledge that he had been unable to obtain from the once closed garbage star.
Basically, apart from eating and sleeping, there was nothing that could distract him.
However, the arrival of the red sè mecha outside the manor this evening is an exception to this indifferent and boring life.
For someone with an almost obsessive love for mechanics, there's nothing more fascinating than seeing an advanced mecha crystallized by technology.
The fiery red sè mecha has a smooth arc like a harrier, and two slender mechanical legs support the torso structure, and the light and shadow of the city shine on the fuselage, which is extremely beautiful.
Driven by the tracks of the mecha's bare feet, it was like gliding on the ice and came to the manor. The Wayne Group was originally an armor manufacturing company, and there was an organic depot on the estate. During the time that Lin Hai came to the manor, he had seen several mecha transfers, all of which were mecha lying on large trailers, so he once had a longing for the underground hangar of the Lin manor, he didn't understand this kind of longing, and roughly felt that the huge excitement of the pirates seeing the treasure in those ancient books was probably what he was obsessed with.
This is also the reason why he pays great attention to the information of Wayne Corporation these days, and does not reject this new home of his own.
And the mecha that was active like this made him as excited as a hormone, as beautiful as the special mecha that appeared in the garbage star before, compared to the broken copper and iron he made in the garbage star, whether it was beauty, material or electronic equipment, it was no longer a grade. Or not in an era.
Until the mecha slid and disappeared into the gradually closing underground hangar, Lin Hai was still drooling in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. Drooling at a mecha instead of a beautiful woman with straight hips, even Lin Hai reacted and felt that he was sick.
There were so many secrets in the manor that he desperately needed to uncover. The red sè mecha passed away like a cloud that appeared in the evening. It only left Lin Hai with a glimpse of the impression.
It's not just material deprivation. Haizhou Star still lacks a lot of information and knowledge, let alone access to the high-end technical information that makes up the fascinating mecha design.
Even if children in the slums want to learn knowledge to change their fate, there is still an insurmountable gap between them and orthodox society because of the gap in access to information.
His room was on the second floor of the manor. Living in the guest room of the villa, although it cannot be compared with the luxury of Lin Hao's suite, but its internal layout, advanced video paging system, and some artworks placed everywhere have already made Lin Hai, who has never seen anything good in the slums, very moved.
It's like coming to a treasure trove.
"The gold ancient globe on this shelf, this kind of retro art starts at least 30,000 yuan on the black market!"
"The tourbillon clock there, if you can take it away, it can live at least ten years of good rì ......"
"Even the doorknob is golden, if this can be down, it will be less than 10,000 not to mention! There are eighteen rooms on this floor, and each room has two such handles...... If it's all demolished...... How much is that......"
Children in the slums have dreams, and the massive amount of mechanical information in the computer is Lin Hai's dream.
However, the children of the slums also have a greed for material things because of their poor life, so Lin Hai will inevitably have some reverie when he sees this house full of luxurious furnishings.
With this in mind, the creature kicked the fist-sized gold globe on the table into his trouser pocket, puffing up the boss. Of course, he couldn't have really stolen it, but he just kept it in his pocket to cover it up. Imagine that if he is rejected by this family, it is a big deal that Lao Tzu will pack these things and steal them back to the garbage star, which is enough for the master to eat and wear for the rest of his life! . Sweet dreams like this.
These days, Lin Hai reads the information in that computer voraciously, and when he gets tired, he does these things. Of course, this is limited to the imagination of the pocket. In the end, he will still pout his ass and put this thing back on the table, wipe off his kneading fingerprints, and there will be no difference in the direction, in front of Li An, who helps him clean up the house every day, he will still make a calm appearance, as if these luxuries are like a cloud of smoke in front of him, a proud image of wealth and unyielding, poverty and unswerving. made Ang Lee look at him a little differently.
And at this time of his appreciation. The door behind him opened.
Steward Ang Lee will never come at this time! So Lin Hai's scalp suddenly went numb.
It's too late!
He just turned his head and watched the door open behind him. A tall and arrogant woman. Dressed in a slim black sè strap with lace edges, the two shoulder straps extend the proud arc of her breasts, and her long legs are as spectacular as her slightly cold and straight nose bridge, with a bit of breathless thrilling.
Then Lin Hai, who hugged a retro porcelain vase like a baby and almost didn't put his face on it, was exposed in front of her.
In this short moment, there was an atmosphere of extreme silence.
After a while, Lin Hai gently stroked the vase, put it back in place, and muttered, "... I almost collapsed. ”
Then he took the golden globe out of his bulging trouser pocket and put it back on the table, "Why did you roll to the ground so carelessly?" ”
He frowned and looked at the woman at the door, "You, who are you......?" Is there something wrong? ”
The girl was shocked.
Although she is an adopted daughter, she grew up in a highly cultivated and well-informed environment. I've seen shameless people, but it seems that this is the first time to be so shameless.
Immediately, her eyebrows frowned slightly, as if she hadn't seen the scene just now, but her face was even more cold and arrogant, and her eyes showed a faint disdain, and she walked straight into the room. Then he half-reclined down on a sofa against a floor-to-ceiling window, casually as if he were in his own boudoir.
At this time, the stellar sun of the riverside star was setting in the evening, and the afterglow of Jin Sè was shrouded over her body, and her red hair was still hanging down with water vapor on her towering chest, casual and freehand. In the glow, it is like a porcelain doll.
Seeing her long legs overlapping in the afterglow, Lin Hai couldn't help but rise and fall in his Adam's apple, swallowed his saliva fiercely, and there seemed to be a fire in his lower abdomen inexplicably, and finally understood why a very self-disciplined person like Li An, the manager of the manor, showed that obsessive look when he mentioned her-I don't know how many people in the entire riverside star, hoping to conquer this woman.
Thinking of the fact that the arrival of the red sè mecha in the manor today caused many people to greet her, and then contacted this woman who seemed to have just taken a shower and changed into civilian clothes, and could come and go freely in the villa, Lin Hai immediately guessed who the other party was.
Of course, she is Lin Hao's sister who is relied on, who has an extraordinary status in the Lin family and is the adopted daughter of the Lord, Lin Wei.
This dangerous woman has finally come to the door!
But in that case, it's much better to be confused than to be smart. Surviving in Junk Star, Lin Hai has long understood what camouflage is. But this woman is ten times more damn beautiful than the white widow next door to the garbage star!
Lin Hai's stunned gaze at one of her long legs was all in Lin Wei's gaze, and a slight trace of anger crossed her eyes.
Although it was the first time they met, the appearance of Lin Hai, who had just opened the door, and now seeing the beautiful woman come out of his gaze, Lin Wei had already made a basic conclusion about him: whether it was from a place like Junk Star, although he was the illegitimate son of his father, he did not have any superior bloodline of the Lin family. The whole person is shameless and vulgar!
Lin Wei is in her early twenties, and she doesn't know how much deception she has to deal with, not only with the aura of a proud daughter of a famous school, but also with the temperament that has been refined on many occasions, if you just look at her age, it is difficult to imagine that she is already the daughter of a lord who has a very high prestige in Wayne Enterprise, and can mobilize a lot of resources in one sentence. It's hard to find her kind of know-it-all and intimidating charm in an ordinary girl. And in her it can be perfectly combined.
So the sorrow in her eyes flashed, revealing a smile, "You are Lin Hai." ”
Lin Hai nodded.
"I heard about you, I'm Lin Wei...... We're about the same age, but nominally your sister...... So from now on. You are already a member of Lord Lin Wei's family. Her original meaning was to remind him that the family has family rules. It's just that if the other party understands it enough, it determines whether he will be happy in this manor or not.
Lin Hai was obviously stunned. Not long ago, when he came to the villa, he slapped his titular "younger brother" Lin Hao twice. He originally thought that Lin Wei, who had always been known for his strength and arrogance, would come to Xingshi to ask for his guilt, and he had even made plans for the worst. But I didn't expect Lin Wei to come to the door, but she said such a sentence.
But the calmer it is, the more violent the storm will be.
Lin Hai's sharp nose, like those hyenas of the garbage star, smelled a hint of something unusual. But Lin Hai didn't seem to notice it, and two rows of snow-bright white teeth opened under his slightly dark face, "Of course we are a family!" Heh, now they all live under the same roof. ”
Sure enough, he was born in a slum-like place. There should be a limit to being uneducated, and having no face and no skin.
The anger in Lin Wei's eyes finally emerged.
There have been many cases in history where illegitimate children from the countryside have seen the luxurious life and then have unqualified thoughts, and they have murderously plotted to seize the family property.
In the Great Eagle Empire, the status of illegitimate children has always been extremely low, and they cannot even be recognized by the mainstream at all, so they are not qualified to covet property. Although the laws are now well established, these are facts that have been tacitly accepted even by the Imperial Court for the customs that have been formed for thousands of years.
Lin Wei came today to confirm what kind of person Lin Hai is, she has been operating in Lin's business for so many years, which is tantamount to her hard work and part of her expectations here. And these are the foundations she laid for her younger brother Lin Hao. Now a Lin Hai suddenly popped up, if he grew up in the slums and was contaminated with the filthy habits there and had plans for the family business, then she would have to take precautions as soon as possible.
However, seeing Lin Hai's expression today, Lin Wei put her mind at ease.
This is the image of a vulgar citizen who has never seen the world, greedy for small wealth and immediate interests, and grew up in a place like a garbage star. Every word and deed is annoying, and it is impossible for such a person to have any grand ambitions for the family business. What's more, with his meager worldview, he didn't know what kind of behemoth the Lin family's Wayne Industrial Group was to him.
Thinking of this, Lin Wei looked at him and felt a little more sad. even inadvertently raised a smile at the corner of his mouth.
"Didn't eat."
"Ah...... Not yet. Lin Hai shook his head honestly and unceremoniously.
"Come with me...... I'm in for a treat. After Lin Wei finished speaking, she got up and walked towards the door.
Who knew that Lin Hai behind him looked flattered, "Go eat outside...... Are you asking me out? For the first time, I was a little excited! ”
Lin Wei's tall body suddenly paused at the door, and then resisted the urge to vomit blood and clenched her fists, and walked straight away without looking back.
Seeing Lin Wei disappear into the elevator in the villa in a rage, he didn't even wait for him to press the door directly.
The corners of Lin Hai's mouth were slightly amused.