001 Megalopolis
Xiahai City has a population of more than 300 million.
And the population is increasing rapidly every day, and the city is constantly expanding.
It is an unimaginable metropolis, a supercity unprecedented in the history of mankind.
Bai He took a spaceship, and after three days, he finally saw a corner of Xia Hai City.
Half an hour later, the spacecraft landed in front of the huge city wall, and everyone stepped out of the spacecraft to begin to undergo medical examinations, register their names, and receive temporary residence permits.
After completing a series of procedures, Bai He and his party followed Li Gang through the city wall, walked through the winding passages, and really entered Xiahai City.
"Get out, get out, the Buddha doesn't welcome you, get out!" On the opposite side of the street at the entrance, a group of people were sitting on the ground wearing masks, and when they saw someone coming in, they immediately got up and held up a sign and shouted loudly.
Li Gang said lightly to Bai He with a cold face: "Don't care about those poor insects, although they are the aborigines of Xiahai City, but because they have no ability, and the prices in the center of Xiahai are getting higher and higher, they can only continue to move to areas with relatively low prices, so they hate outsiders like us, and they don't do business every day, and they hold signs at various entrances and exits to protest." ”
These people didn't have the courage to come closer, they just held up signs and babbled, Bai He glanced at them, and then followed Li Gang to continue walking.
Because of his ability, even if he walked forward without squinting, he could still quickly understand the city.
Ancient civilization and advanced science are perfectly blended in this city.
In the distance on the street, the monk is chanting sutras, and not far from the monk, a robot is carrying goods.
Young people dressed fashionably and rode through the streets on floating skateboards. A middle-aged man in a suit, sitting on top of a hovercar, is in a meeting with company members via a virtual device.
Noisy and flashy, busy and peaceful.
This was Xiahai's first impression of Baihe.
"We outsiders, generally when we first arrive in Xiahai City, are temporarily living in Gleaning, and the owner of Gleaning Village is also an outsider, because we feel that those of us who come behind have a difficult foothold, so we opened a chain of Gleaning, as long as you hold a temporary residence permit, you can move in at a low price." Li Gang walked in front and introduced as he walked.
After a while, the gleaner appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
The area of Gleaning Village is almost the size of a small district, with a total of five rows of houses, and the density of the doors can be seen from the density of each room.
Li Gang took everyone to register and pay, and then moved in.
Of course, the money was paid by him temporarily.
When Li Gang paid, Bai He finally saw the appearance of the hope coin.
Sure enough, the hope coin is just as Li Gang described, using golden paper, one side is the Buddha, the other side is the moon watching Zen master, back. The view is an aerial view of Xiahai City.
After everyone put their luggage, Li Gang took everyone to eat the wind and dust washing rice, and after eating this meal, everything could only rely on himself.
Although Li Gang is not poor, he is not obliged to take care of these people all the time.
He just has a friendship with Shirakawa, and the others are just incidental.
At the dinner table, the chips were staggered, the cups were changed, and everyone was happy and drunk.
After entering Xiahai City, everyone really felt safe, especially the surrounding environment, which made them feel as if they had returned to the end of the world, and there was an indescribable feeling in their hearts.
The next day, Li Gang went to the auction house with Bai He and sold the good sleep fruit and some medicines. The money received by Baihe was not privately embezzled, but distributed according to the performance of everyone on the road.
This is also the last thing he did for these people, and in the future, he will no longer be the leader of everyone, just a small citizen in Xia Hai City.
The next thing is to buy communication watches, buy all kinds of clothes, and finally Bai He took Zhou Xue and Lin Qiaoshuang to move into the house introduced by Li Gang.
Although the price of the gleaner is cheap, each room is too small.
There is nothing wrong with a bachelor living in it, but Baihe is a person with a wife, and it is inconvenient to live in Gleaning Village.
The house introduced by Li Gang is in the third level of expansion in Xiahai City, and the living environment is much better than that of Gleaning.
Of course, the price is also much more expensive, and you need to pay 5,000 Hope Coins as rent every month.
The reason why Bai He brought Lin Qiaoshuang but did not bring other children was because Lin Qiaoshuang's appearance was really unpleasant, and other children were willing to adopt, but Lin Qiaoshuang was excluded, so Lin Qiaoshuang became his unavoidable responsibility.
Fortunately, Zhou Xue did not object to his adoption of Lin Qiaoshuang, otherwise he would really be in a dilemma.
On the third day, Gu Dao brought his younger brothers and sisters to recognize the door, and then they had a lively meal together.
Of course, I didn't drink this time.
Orphans under the age of 16 can receive a considerable amount of scholarship every month after completing the final registration as full citizens.
After discussing with the students, Bai He decided that everyone below Zheng Fei had to go to school. The tuition fee is partly dependent on the scholarship, and partly by him and Gu Dao to figure it out.
Xiahai City is changing with each passing day, Baihe really has the feeling of a countryman entering the metropolis in the past two days, there are many things he has never heard of, and occasionally there will be a rush situation, which is very embarrassing.
He knew that the easiest way to integrate into the city was to enrol and relearn in school.
At present, there are two kinds of schools in Xiahai City, one is a regular school that starts education from an early age, and the other is a crash course that allows outsiders to integrate into society more quickly.
After thinking about it, Shirakawa decided to sign up for a crash course for his students when he had the money.
Because Li Gang also has a job, it is impossible to revolve around them all the time, and Bai He took Zhou Xue and Lin Qiaoshuang to walk around the rented house in the next few days to broaden his knowledge.
He desperately needs a job that is enough to support his family.
However, in most stores, the work is done by robots, and there is no way to apply for a job.
And for the more advanced jobs, all require a citizen certificate and a certificate of ability identification.
Li Gang is already helping them apply for citizen certificates, but it will take a month at the earliest, after all, there are survivors entering Xiahai City every day, and the population continues to skyrocket. And the audit work can't be handed over to the robot, so it can only be manually reviewed over and over again, so no matter how fast the process is, it will take a long time.
As for the ability identification, Bai He has already made an appointment with Li Gang, and on Sunday, they will go to the private laboratory opened by Li Gang's friend to complete the identification, his first ability is very special, can it be kept secret or kept as secret as possible.
One afternoon, Bai He stood on the balcony and looked at the people in the square diagonally opposite.
"Believe me, the city has been hollowed out by demons, the wormmen are hiding in dark corners, controlling their believers, and are slowly eating away at us, the end is coming, the !! is coming" In the street square, a man in an autumn coat shouted loudly with his hands outstretched.
Shirakawa had been observing this man for two days, and he walked to the square almost every day, and then shouted loudly, saying that the worms were hiding among the people.
But apparently no one took his words seriously.
There are a large number of suspended surveillance eyes in Xia Hai City, patrolling the streets almost without dead ends, and if there are really insect people, it is almost impossible to hide from the surveillance eyes.
And White River's abilities didn't detect the existence of the Zermen.
But the strange thing is that this man is not lying, and if he does, it is impossible to be free of loopholes under the monitoring of the White River's ability.
So Shirakawa cares a lot, trying to find out if he is a madman, after all, a madman sometimes takes even a hallucination as reality.
But soon he didn't have time to pay attention to this man.
Because Sunday is here.
Early in the morning, Li Gang came over wearing a very sci-fi blue leather suit, and then Bai He went with him to the private ability laboratory.
Walking through the various alleys of the city, the two finally stopped at a very remote storefront.
"Brother Li, this... It can't be a black store, right? Bai He looked at the storefront in front of him and couldn't help but ask.
The store in front of them is almost impossible for anyone to come to the remote place, and this store doesn't even have a signboard, no matter how you look at it, it looks like that kind of black store that pits people.
"You don't think private ability testing is a legitimate business, do you?" Li just laughed.
Bai He suddenly realized and said, "I see, then let's go in." ”
"Wait, I'll go and say the code first!" Li Gang immediately spoke.
He stepped forward, knocked five times on the folding door, and waited quietly.
About two minutes later, a middle-aged man's voice came from inside the door: "Who are you looking for?" ”
"I'm looking for the fifth uncle!" Li Gang replied.
The middle-aged man said lightly: "There is no fifth uncle here, only the third uncle, you have come to the wrong place." ”
"The third uncle has a long second uncle, isn't three plus two the fifth uncle, open the door!" Li Gang said with a smile.
Sure enough, the door opened immediately, and the middle-aged man smiled obscenely: "Lao Li, long time no see." ”
"I went to find Miss Yilong more than ten days ago, and I haven't seen you for a long time." Li Gang immediately laughed and scolded, and at the same time clamped the middle-aged man's neck with his right hand for a while.
The middle-aged man grinned for a while, looked up at Bai He, and asked, "Is he your concubine?" ”
"Don't talk nonsense, otherwise Brother Bai will beat you, and I won't be able to save you." Li Gang put away his smile and said quickly.
The middle-aged man broke free of Li Gang's right hand, turned around and said, "Then come in, I am ready for what you said." ”
"Brother Bai, don't mind, this thing is just open-mouthed, he owes a beating, next time he sprays randomly, you don't need to make a move, I can't beat him to death!" Li Gang looked back and smiled at this time.
Bai He smiled and followed Li Gang into the black shop.
There is also a layer of blue cloth inside the folding door of this black store, and inside the blue cloth is a counter, surrounded by goods.
Li Gang led Bai He through the side door through the container into a small path, and after a few turns, suddenly the surroundings became brighter.
It was a white room, with all kinds of instruments that looked like high-tech, in addition to the middle-aged man, there was also a man and a woman here, and after Li Gang came in, they all smiled and greeted each other, obviously acquaintances.
"Let me introduce, that obscene guy is called Zhang Shouzhong, this little handsome guy is called Chen Qishu, this beauty is called Liu Jiaxin, and the buddy behind me is called Baihe, what are you doing here today, everyone knows it, I won't say more." Li Gang patted his legs and said with a smile.
Bai He looked at the three of them and smiled, "I'm sorry everyone." ”
"No trouble, I just wanted to see more rare abilities, which is why I joined this team." Chen Qishu immediately laughed.
After everyone said hello, the ability identification began.