Chapter 38 (I) Hell on Earth
Qinghua led Tang Shuxing to find the guy who didn't look amazing in a chain convenience store in the old district, Qinghua said that only he could get a real worker's card to go to the suburbs at a high price, as for what the worker's card was, Qinghua still didn't answer, but said that when Tang Shuxing arrived in the suburbs, he would look at it with his own eyes.
The person who got the documents offered a sky-high price of 5,000 US dollars, and Qinghua bargained with him for a long time, and finally it was 14,000 US dollars, and after waiting for nearly an hour, he got a worker's ID card, with two names written on it that did not match them at all, and there were no photos.
Qinghua led Tang Shuxing to use the ATM of the lower bank at the door of the convenience store, stuffed the worker's ID card into it, and checked it with the preset password, claiming that in this way the authenticity could be verified.
"Can this document be used as a bank card?" Tang Shuxing looked at Qinghua and inquired about one, and then stuffed the other one in.
Qinghua nodded: "The wages of the workers are also paid through this card transfer, but the wages are very low, and no one wants to go, but because the suburban project is in urgent need of manpower, the worker's ID card is simplified, there is no photo, only name, age and address, after all, it is too late to verify one by one." ”
Tang Shuxing looked at the card that Qinghua took out and said, "Since no one wants to go, why do you have to buy it at a high price?" ”
"Now if you want to go to the northern suburbs, the only way is to use a worker's card, because there is a blockade, there are many relatives living there outside the suburbs, only people with workers' cards can enter and exit there relatively freely, but there is also a time limit, at night, you must go back to the camp to sign in, otherwise, you will be considered a criminal, and the police will arrest your immediate family members in the city." Qinghua explained in detail, "Of course, there are also many people who want to escape from here, I don't know how you got into the city, I guess it's from the sea, because land and air are impossible, so this kind of document becomes very valuable in the black market." ”
Tang Shuxing held his own one, and the name on it was very ordinary, called "Mike. Feng", he flipped it up and down, and asked: "Then if we don't come back with the card, isn't the owner of this card dead?" ”
Qinghua shook her head and said: "Those who are willing to go there to be workers, one-third of them are addicts or people who are in urgent need of money, these people are waiting in the black market, waiting for the employer to take them to apply for a card, and then take a small amount of money, and then go home to buy some drugs**, or use the money to do what they want to do, and then wait for the police to come to the door to arrest them and put them in prison, or be directly killed." ”
"What a hell of a horror, the United States has become like this." Tang Shuxing shook his head.
"New York is relatively free, I heard that in Washington it is even more terrifying, there are daily shootings of demonstrators in the street, and I have heard that without demonstrators, the police will deliberately find people to be demonstrators, and then shoot them in the street as a warning." Qinghua's face was full of sadness, "A friend of mine was shot dead in Washington, and I heard that he was beaten into meat sauce. ”
Tang Shuxing shook his head: "In this way, Shangdu is still a paradise." ”
Qinghua was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood: "Are you from Shangdu?" ”
Tang Shuxing didn't have the need to hide it now, and nodded: "Yes." ”
Qinghua immediately became interested and asked: "We learned from the news and the Internet that Shangdu is really a paradise, but only people from the new district are eligible to immigrate there, and I heard that Shangdu is also taking some measures to transport some people living in Shangdu to the United States, I don't know if it's true, hey, I said, is Shangdu really heaven?" ”
Tang Shuxing looked at Qinghua and said: "Compared to the current United States, it can be regarded as heaven, but it is always only on the surface, and under the surface, it is actually the same, and there are high-pressure policies everywhere." ”
Qinghua looked at Tang Shuxing carefully at this time, looked at it and suddenly pointed at Tang Shuxing and said, "I know who you are!" I've seen you on the news, I know you! I know! I know! ”
Qinghua even said several "I know", but Tang Shuxing just looked at him coldly and asked rhetorically: "What if you know?" What are you going to do? Alarm? ”
"No, I'm looking for death, you're the hero of Shangdu......" Qinghua lowered her head and said to herself, "Why did you come here?" Why are you making enemies of the police? Wait a minute! Are you Tang Shu Xing? ”
Tang Shuxing looked at him and said, "Is it important?" I saved your life, the important thing is that you return my favor and take me to the old man of Weimen, otherwise you will die on the streets, understand? ”
Qinghua knew that Tang Shuxing was not threatening him, but he didn't understand what was going on? How could the hero of Shandu, such a powerful man, be smuggled into the United States, shouldn't he have stepped on American soil in a plane, on a red carpet and with cheers and flashing lights? Qinghua couldn't figure out what was going on.
At the same time, Tang Shuxing also knew that Reinhardt really didn't want him, nor did he release any news about him that was unfavorable to him, and it seemed that he still hoped that he would change his mind, but now that he was exposed, exposed in front of Qinghua's eyes, should this guy be killed?
Tang Shuxing didn't make up his mind, after all, he really didn't want to kill Qinghua for such a reason.
The two people with their documents walked towards the outskirts of the city, although there was a bus to go directly, and only a worker's ID card was needed to take it, but Tang Shuxing was still unwilling to take risks, insisted on moving forward on foot, and walked for nearly four hours before walking to the outskirts of the city.
"There was a war here?" Tang Shuxing asked Qinghua in a low voice as he walked.
"Yes, there was a small battle." Qinghua nodded, expressionless.
"Who and whom?" After Tang Shuxing asked, he wondered in his heart, could it be the resistance forces in the United States?
"The American Gangsters Federation and the New Administration." Qinghua replied, and glanced at Tang Shuxing as she spoke, "Of course, this includes the Huaqing Gang." ”
Tang Shuxing stopped: "What did you say?" When is the thing, how do I not know? ”
"A month ago." Qinghua replied.
Tang Shuxing understood, at that time he was at sea, and he didn't know anything about the outside world, no, strictly speaking, he didn't know anything about everything that really happened in the outside world two and a half months ago, and the so-called satellite TV that he watched on that island was actually broadcast by Shangdu National Television, and the authenticity was extremely low.
Tang Shuxing asked as he walked, "What the hell is going on?" ”
"National Guard!" Qinghua saw a slowly approaching Humvee in front of him, and there were five heavily armed National Guard soldiers standing next to and in front of the car, and he and Tang Shuxing immediately got into the half-collapsed building next to them, waiting for them to patrol by.
"The current National Guard is different from the past, they are the support force of the police force, and the weapons and equipment owned by the army are the same, in fact, in the final analysis, they are also soldiers in the former army, and the former guard team has been disbanded, because most of those people are ordinary people, and the power transferred by the current National Guard is in the hands of the Ministry of Defense, and in the past, it was in the hands of the state governments, and now the state governments are all in vain, and the implementation is an absolute centralized system." Qinghua hid in the building and looked at the soldiers outside.
Tang Shuxing also looked through the gap and asked, "Are you afraid that someone will rebel?" ”
"It's not that I'm afraid, it's that someone has already rebelled." Qinghua replied, "Not long ago, the National Guard in New Jersey, a battalion of soldiers rose up against the government, but it is strange that after too much fierce fighting, the soldiers of this battalion disappeared overnight, and it is rumored that it was done by people of different blood. ”
The two were talking, and found that two soldiers were interrogating a man who was pretending to carry rubble, the man took out his papers, but his eyes flashed, and he suddenly ran away after a while, and just ran less than three meters, he was shot in the back by a soldier and fell to the ground, and then the soldier stepped forward, stepped on his chest, shot him in the head again, and then beckoned other frightened workers around him to carry the guy's body away.
Qinghua turned her head to look at Tang Shuxing at this time and said, "See, right?" This is the current United States, the ** person, the former Secretary of Defense finally showed his true colors, and that dog day is completely the most loyal lackey of Shangdu! ”
Tang Shuxing just shook his head: "The United States is like this, I don't know what the scene will be in other occupied areas, it's really terrifying." ”
When the patrol passed, Qinghua came out with Tang Shuxing and continued to walk along the street, saying as he walked: "Everyone is in danger, but most people dare not resist, because there are too many secret agents, and the army is completely controlled, and the relatives of the army people say that their relatives and the two of them in the past do not know what is going on." ”
"It's the kind of vaccine." Tang Shuxing explained, "The vaccine developed through the Green Cross was to fully control the United States, the most powerful armed force in the world, if it had not been controlled, the world pattern would not be like this, and Shangdu might not have launched a full-scale war so soon." ”
The two walked a few more kilometers, and finally came to the dividing line in the suburbs, and saw that a high barbed wire fence was erected there, and there was a camera with its own siren every ten meters on the barbed wire, and from the notice board, there was a high-voltage electricity on the barbed wire, and there was only one below the entrance and exit A checkpoint where five large trucks could be paralleled, and the checkpoint was heavily guarded, and it seemed that there were at least hundreds of people guarding it.
"It's too late now, we need to find a place to rest, and go out early tomorrow morning, because it's almost evening, and when we go out again, we'll have to come back in less than half an hour at most, maybe we won't get out of that door, we'll have to turn around and come back." Qinghua shook her head and looked around, "I know there is a cheap hotel near here, and I still have some money on me, which is enough for us to eat and stay." ”
Tang Shuxing looked at the door for a long time before he said: "When you eat, you have to tell me about the war between the American Gangsters Federation and the government, if there is half a lie, I promise to send you to that group of soldiers and let them torture you to death in the most cruel way!" ”
Qinghua was stunned and hurriedly asked, "Why?" ”
"Because if you're also a gang member, why were the gangs kicked out after the war with the government, and you're still living freely at the border between the new and old districts of Chinatown?"