Year 2476. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At this time, the earth has long been divided into many regions, and the artificial intelligence agency called the 'Authority' is under the unified management. Among the many areas that are coded only by numbers, the number in this area is ......

16。

More than 400 years ago, before the 'cataclysm' struck, the area code-coded 16 was still called 'Sydney'. It is a fascinating area with beautiful scenery such as "Sydney Opera House", "Bondi Beach" and "Harbour Bridge".

Now......

The dim lights illuminated the 16th area under the night sky. Huge factories, dilapidated residential areas, and a variety of towering steel machinery are the standard in this area. These buildings have no planning or aesthetics, like a pile of large and small tin cans, crammed together with steel waste everywhere.

Here, the beauty of 400 years ago is long gone. Huge gears and chains were in non-stop motion, roaring through the black fog of Area 16. Beyond these towering machines are dozens of thick pipes with a reddened appearance. They connect factories and machinery, and lie in a haphazard manner in residential areas. From a distance, these pipes look like blood vessels exposed to the skin, and like maggots that have been molted raw, still with a trace of breath, and weakly wriggling the protective film on the surface.

But no matter how thick the film is, it can't stop the dirty water in the pipe. Extremely corrosive sewage seeps out of the pipes bit by bit, leaving a strong chemical smell everywhere in the residential area.

A swarm of rats seemed to be running away from something, running past the oil-stained shutters and jumping off the iron canopy. As soon as it hit the ground, it scattered from between the sewage, splashing a string of jet-black droplets in the air.

"Stop!"

Shouts rang out in the dark residential area, but quickly faded into the roar of machinery. In the alley, a teenager flashed out sideways. He bent slightly, deftly bypassing the pile of scrap metal in front of him, and struggling to catch up with the thin young man in front of him.

"Tomorrow! Tomorrow by all means! The money was ready early, just ...... It's just that I didn't expect my luck to be so bad today! The young man was dressed in a worker's blue cloth overalls, and he ran very fast, which obviously did not match his thin body like a hemp rod. While running, he called the name of the young man behind him and begged him to relax his repayment period: "Kaiyun! Just one day! Tomorrow! Tomorrow Mr. Marka will definitely pay back Mr. Marka's money! ”

"Don't talk nonsense! It doesn't matter to me if you bet or lose! I'm going to get the money today, not even in a day! "The boy called 'Kaiyun' has blonde hair, but in this residential area full of smoke and dust, it has long been dyed yellow. He wore a pair of windproof glasses on his forehead, a dusty homespun coat, and his jeans were stained with oil. Although his face was stained with the soot emitted by the factory, his eyes were blazing, revealing a ruthlessness that would never stop until he reached his goal: "What you owe me must be repaid!" ”

"What owes you! What I owe to Mr. Markia, what does it have to do with you! The young man panicked and struck his right shoulder in front of a residential house made of iron sheets. After a loud bang, it knocked a dent into the wall of the house - and in this situation, he still did not dare to forget to add the word 'Mikia' in front of the name 'Macia'.

"I'm his debt collector, I borrowed your money from him, and when the time comes, he's looking for me instead of you, do you say it has anything to do with me?! Cough...... Ahem...... "With too much force, Kaiyun inhaled a puff of air full of soot. Coupled with the pungent chemical smell in the residential area, he felt his lungs tighten, and he coughed heavily. Seeing that the guy in front of him was running faster and faster, Kaiyun stopped talking nonsense, he flashed sideways and flashed the hot steam spewing from a pipe next to him, and followed the young man in front of him.

'Squeak'!

A tooth-aching grinding sound sounded in front of Kaiyun's right. In a tin bungalow in the shape of a can, a resident leaned out to open the door to check on the situation. He seemed to have just returned from the factory and was about to rest, looking like he hadn't woken up. From a distance, Kaiyun could see his bearded and oily face, his angry expression.

"What's the fuss!" As soon as the words came out, the hapless worker recognized the young man who was a debt collector for Macia. Seeing him, the name Makya immediately appeared in the workers' minds, and they instantly sobered up. The man, twice as big as a teenager, was scared like a frightened rabbit, and slammed the door shut, extinguishing all the lights in the house.

In order to collect debts, Kaiyun has no time to pay attention to this drowsy guy. But the appearance of the daredevils reminded him of one thing: from the fork in the road from here, there was a construction machine that someone had left there, and piles of waste were piled up around it. And this path ......

It was exactly where the young man turned left down the alley!

With a certain intention, Kaiyun changed direction halfway, but he didn't expect to be unable to contain his strength, his feet slipped, and the sewage on the ground almost made him fall on his head. He cursed angrily, barely keeping his balance. As soon as he stood firm, Kaiyun casually wiped the sewage on his body and quickly ran to the machine.

The machine had a huge steel boom, and there were hills of steel scrap around it next to a few tin pot houses. With his right hand, he grabbed a slender steel bar that stretched out. With his left foot, he slammed his foot on a half-left door and jumped onto a foothold in the pile of garbage. On several occasions during the ascent, the sharp part of the pile of scrap metal cut a few cuts in his clothes, but Kaiyun didn't care. After a few hits to the top of the pile of scrap metal, Kaiyun took a breath and looked at the young man who was rushing towards him.

This is the place where he must pass. Kaiyun is naturally familiar with his goal of debt collection, and he can't be more familiar with it. He knew that if young people wanted to hide back home...... In fact, even if he really hides home, he has a way, or rather, there must be a way to enter this guy's house to force him to pay back. But......

'Trespassing is not the same as chasing in the streets, and the artificial intelligence that could alarm the 16th District Administration to maintain law and order cannot do that. Looking at the figure getting closer and closer, he had already made a plan in his heart: 'Jump down from here!' Stop this guy directly from the air! ’

It's going to be fine. It's just that......

He leaned out slightly, looked at the nearly four meters above his feet, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva between his throats. At this moment, Kaiyun felt that his legs and stomach were a little weak, and his calves seemed to be trembling instinctively. But......

These instinctive phenomena, caused by hesitation and fear, only lasted for a short moment, and then quickly disappeared. Looking back on my career as a debt collector at the age of fifteen, although I have always collected debts from these debtors who have little money, I have never had the experience of advancing money. Here's why......

It has nothing to do with this job, since he was a child, he was born with an almost stubborn belief.

"If you owe me, you must get it back." Kaiyun gritted his teeth, looked at the figure of the young man not far away, and lowered his heart.

Watching the target get closer and closer, he estimated the speed and distance at which he approached here......

5 m ......

4 meters......

1 meter ......

Without the slightest hesitation, Kaiyun jumped from the 4-meter-high scrap pile and fell straight down to the young man below!

"Bang!"

The young man's body was not strong, but when Kaiyun touched it, it felt like he had hit a solid rock. There was a sharp pain in his jaw, there seemed to be a taste of blood in his mouth, and his head seemed to be buzzing with thousands of bees. Even so, Kaiyun still held on to the young man's smudged overalls with both hands, and refused to let go.

The two fell to the ground and scuffled together. The young man was frightened by Kaiyun's fateful move, and suddenly ......

"Phew!"

A piece of the young man's overalls were torn off his chest, revealing a worn mechanical arm on his right shoulder.

The position where this arm and shoulder are connected is like a shoulder armor, slightly raised, and there is a boxy square pattern on it, which at first glance knows that it is a mechanical limb of the factory. The front end of the arm, due to the needs of the factory division of labor, has become fifteen fingers as slender as chopsticks, which are not the five fingers of a normal human palm.

The steel material of the entire arm is very old and rusty, and the parts that join the flesh are crudely connected, and the red-green wires under the skin can be seen. The signalers that receive nerve signals are like small glowing light bulbs, densely packed at the junction, emitting a faint green light. When young people are struggling, they can still hear the annoying 'squeak' sound of this arm due to the lack of proper maintenance.

With a single effort, Kaiyun rolled over from the ground and rode onto the young man. He groped with his right hand on the ground, picked up a slightly bent steel bar, and inserted it straight into the forelimb of his arm!

'Suddenly! The rebar went down the gap and inserted it. A burst of sparks erupted, and the slender fingers of the mechanical arm were like fifteen earthworms out of the soil, bending and twisting meaninglessly. Then, there was a crackling electric current.

"I don't have any money! There is really no money! This arm is not my own! The young man was shocked, and his left hand, which was still fleshy, swung his fist indiscriminately, hitting Kaiyun in the chest and face, trying to open the young man: "Let go!" This is a tool of the factory, broken! I'm going to be fired from the factory! ”

The young man's thin left hand was not as strong as his mechanical arm, but when it hit Kaiyun, it still instantly turned his face blue and purple.

Kaiyun endured the punch on his body, twisted his head, and spat aside a mouthful of bloody phlegm mixed with broken teeth. He didn't reply, grabbed the steel bar with both hands, and began to pry it up.

The harder you push, the louder the current becomes, and the slightest hint of burnt black smoke begins to emit. Looking at the young man with a trace of blood hanging from the corner of his mouth, the young man who fell to the ground began to become more and more fierce and crazy because of fear.

Kaiyun had already put the pain out of the way, and the harder the young man hit, the stronger his hands became, and he still refused to back down half a point. In the end, he endured the tumbling vomit in his abdomen......

With a snap, he bent a transmission shaft in the young man's robotic arm.

'Phew'.

The sound of engine cooling sounded. The old robotic arm activated the precautionary mechanism, spewing out a little bit of cooling liquid. Seeing the steel bar in Kaiyun's hand inserted into the spare drive shaft, the young man cried out in a tone begging for mercy: "Please, Kaiyun! I really don't have any money! ”

"Don't talk nonsense! Do you think I don't know anything, so I dare to borrow money from Mr. Marka to lend it to you? Kaiyun was just hit in the abdomen, and Kaiyun couldn't get up in one breath, so he had to grit his teeth and hold on for a while, before he spit out the second half of the sentence: "You're not the kind of person who will lose all your money in the casino, no matter how you always keep a little contingency until the next time the factory settles the salary." ”

After being told by the young man, the young man who had a pitiful look just now stared at Lao Yuan, and his face was full of horror: "You...... How do you know? That...... Those are my savings! Given to you, what should I do? ”

"What do I care about you? Let you go, what should I do? The young man wiped the corner of his mouth with his right hand, and inadvertently, he wiped the blood from his mouth on his right cheek. Under the dim light, it looks hideous: "No one forced you to borrow money." Since you owe me, it is only right to repay the debt. Or do you feel confident that you will cheat me out of my debts? ”

"No, it's not, how is that possible." When his mind was revealed, the young man couldn't help but be shocked. Soon, he squeezed out a smiling face, with a flattering smile, and looked at the young man: "Yes, yes, I saved a little, I didn't expect you to understand it so clearly." In my trouser pocket, you ...... Take it yourself. ”

"The Authority's policing AI is everywhere. Although we have an agreement to borrow money, if I take the money, they will consider it a robbery. And you give it to me, because there is an agreement, so it is just an act of repaying the money. Kaiyun squinted at the trouser pocket on the young man's overalls: "You take it out and give it to me, hurry up." ”

Now, young people really can't do anything. He felt that he had underestimated Kaiyun, and he was so clear about the management regulations of the Authority, which almost no one paid attention to.

This debt-collecting teenager ...... Sure enough, it's not those simple-minded gangsters who don't want to go to the factory to do heavy labor, and only think about how to make easy money.

The young man began to regret his decision: the people of District 16 knew that as long as they could avoid the debt collectors, when the time came, the debt collectors would have to put up their money and pay it to Makya - although Kaiyun never put high amounts of debt and was very picky about who he borrowed, but ......

Small money is also money. In the eyes of young people, compared to some other moneylenders in District 16 who did not hesitate to arm their bodies, there was no mechanized pure body, and Kaiyun, who was still young, was simply the best borrower...... No, the person who cheated the debt.

It's worth earning him for nothing!

And now......

He clearly miscalculated.

"Pay back! Your broken hand is nothing more than scrap metal that is not even as good as first-class steel, believe it or not, I broke it! Seeing that the young man did not react, Kaiyun frowned, like a small cheetah foraging for food, and roared in his throat. He gritted his teeth, and his rebar-cling hands slammed again, bending the second spare propeller shaft in the young man's robotic arm a little.

"Stop! Stop, stop! Stop it! The young man shouted, and his left fist instinctively swung out again, slamming it out!

"Bang!"

The brutal punch hit Kaiyun's left eye, and suddenly a large lump swollen, but he didn't snort as if he didn't feel pain. The young man was startled and tilted his head slightly, just in time to meet Kaiyun's cold eyes.

The borrower's heart trembled, and his blood-stained left hand trembled into his trouser pocket, and he took out a few crumpled banknotes and three or four casino chips: "Wait! Wait a minute! The money is here! The money is here! ”

Kaiyun glanced at it and sneered: "What is this?" Debt? What are my medical expenses? Or beg me to spare your life? ”

"Who dares to carry a lot of money on them? The rest, it's all in the banks of the Authority! "The young man was almost crying.

"Then transfer it to me." Before he finished speaking, Kaiyun's face had already reached a place no more than ten centimeters from the tip of his nose. His voice was unusually low: "Resident card, bank ID, password." ”

"What...... What resident card? ”

"Pretend to be stupid! If you can work in a factory, you must have the right to live in District 16! If you have residency, the Authority will issue you a resident card for District 16! Reside! People! Card! ”

Maybe it's Kaiyun's blood-stained face that makes the young man fearful; Maybe it was his sudden roar that caused the young man to be confused. The borrower unconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva, took out a card-like chip, and reported a string of numbers and letters in a trembling voice.

As soon as the words came out, the young man suddenly reacted to something: "I...... I don't owe that much debt, and the agreement clearly says yes. If you take it in the name of some medical expenses, I will definitely report it to the Authority, this is a robbery! The Authority will let the bounty hunters clean you up! ”

Kaiyun ignored him and snatched the chip known as the 'resident card' from the young man's hand. His finger swiped on the resident card, and an interface was instantly mapped on the surface, with the words 'Individual Management of Residents of District 16' written on it. In the 'Authority Bank' column under the 'Factory Entry Application', Kaiyun moved his finger and entered the ID and password he had just gotten.

Almost at the same time as the input, a thin green light shot out of the card. Kaiyun pointed the green light at the young man's eyebrows and scanned it. After a 'beep', he aimed the green light at his eyebrows. After confirming the brain information of both parties to the transaction, he skillfully transferred the amount owed by the young man to his account.

"You beat me, but I also broke your arm, and even if you pay two things, no one owes anyone. Wait until you change the password yourself. After confirming that the amount had arrived, Kaiyun wiped it on the small card again and closed the resident card. He got up from the young man, threw the card back on the young man, coughed heavily, clutched his abdomen, turned and walked slowly away to the other end of the alley: "I am a debt collector, not a robber. You borrowed 2000, and 1 month later you paid back 4000 to Mr. Markia. I'm optimistic about myself, I transferred away, not a single point, not a lot. ”

The young man suddenly cried out, "What...... What 2000? Obviously, there are only 1400 in hand! It should be counted at 1400! ”

"Of the 2,000 miles, 30 percent, or 600, is mine. I made it clear when I lent you money, and you just want to get the money from me and forget about everything. A mouthful of fishy breath welled up in his mouth, Kaiyun coughed twice, and spit out a mouthful of bloody phlegm: "Okay, next time if you have financial problems, welcome to come to me again." How much is Mr. Macia's interest, and how much is the principal interest. On my side, only 30% of the principal will be deducted, and no additional interest will be added. ”

"I don't have as many rules and regulations as other debt collectors, and I don't have those cumbersome interest calculations. However, there is one thing to be clear. ”

"Whether it's money lenders or me, it's very simple." The young man helped the windproof glasses on his head: "I owe it, and I will definitely pay it back." And I owe ......"

"Will definitely get it back."