Chapter 44: The Preliminary Exploration of Elysium
The location where Wei Ran explored the plane of "Elysium" was in the city where the plot of "Elysium" unfolded. Regardless of the Mark IV's positioning, Tony is on the other side of the city.
The city is run-down and densely populated, somewhat resembling a Mexican slum, with robotic guards with guns lining the streets.
Wei Ran and Tony belong to the black family in this plane, and the data terminal in the Elysium Space Station does not have their information.
Just by looking at the robot guards' zero-tolerance attitude towards the inhabitants of the earth, you can know that the attitude of these robot guards towards black households like Wei Ran is definitely not much better.
In order to avoid trouble, Wei Ran has been careful to avoid robot guards when walking on the street.
Pushing open a black ink-colored glass door, Wei Ran came to a place similar to a bar, there were a lot of people in the room, the space was crowded, the noise was chaotic, and the facilities were very simple, if it weren't for a few shuttle-type phantom lamps with obvious high technology content wandering around the sky above the bar, it was hard to imagine that this was a future time and space.
The bar seems to be a place for simple drinking and chatting, with no other entertainment, and three or five people get together to brag and fart.
After Wei Ran came in, he didn't see any waiters, and all the drinks were picked up at the bar.
"Damn the government, damn the rich, God should let them all go to hell." In front of Wei Ran, a strong white man with a wine bottle in his hand and a beard shouted loudly with a red face.
"Thomas, God doesn't care about this, he only favors a small number of people. And you must have seen God before the rich people. Opposite the bearded white man known as Thomas, a thin white man who was also holding a wine bottle joked.
"Alright, Mike, Thomas is drunk." This time it was an old man who was in the age of a sixtieth year and had a tough body.
"I'm not drunk, Darwin, there's no damn robot officer here, no one can control what I want to say. I have to vent well, or I'll get sick. Thomas, as if trying to prove that he wasn't drunk, staggered to his feet with the bottle.
"Excuse me, can you get a guy?" Wei Ran walked over.
The three of them shifted their gaze to Wei Ran's body.
"Haha, where did the little white face come from, this is not the place you should be." The bearded man known as Thomas pointed at Wei Ran and laughed.
"Thomas, you're really drunk." The lean white man named Mike quickly stood up and pressed Thomas back to his seat, which was shaking with a wine bottle.
"Please forgive him for being rude, sir, Thomas is drunk, and he's in a bad mood just after being educated by the robot officer again today." Although the old man was apologizing, his eyes were full of vigilance.
"It's okay, I'm not malicious, I'm not here to ask for trouble, I just want to sit down and talk to someone." Wei Ran knew in his heart that the lives of ordinary people in this plane were very bad, not only were they oppressed by the upper class, but their living environment was bad. Gangsters and bullies are also everywhere. All the laws and regulations are for the upper class, and none of them are for the sake of ordinary people, which can be described as an era of decay of etiquette and bias of law, and there is a lack of minimum trust between people.
Seeing that Wei Ran's face was kind and not like he was looking for trouble, the old man's whiteness eased a lot, and he stretched out his hand to invite Wei Ran to sit down.
"My name is Mike, the drunk, smelly mouth is Thomas, and the old man is Darwin." Mike enthusiastically introduced the three of them to Wei Ran.
"Wei Ran, a tourist." Wei Ran replied with a smile.
"Are you yellow?" Darwin suddenly asked, "The last time I saw a yellow man was more than ten years ago, young man, you must have come a long way to get here." ”
"Why do you say that?"
"There are more than 3 million people in this city, but there are no yellow people, you can only come from other urban areas." Darwin smiled, suddenly reached over and whispered, "Unless, you're the one up there." ”
Wei Ran smiled and didn't speak, since he came to this city, he found that most of the people he encountered belonged to the brown race with the typical characteristics of white people, followed by whites, and then blacks, the authentic yellow race really never appeared, maybe there was a small amount, but after many generations of mixed blood, it has disappeared.
"You shouldn't be a citizen, because citizens don't come to this kind of place." Darwin continued.
"It's called Liberty Harbor, and it's the only place where the robocops don't care, where we can say whatever we want." Seeing that Wei Ran was a little confused, Thomas held up the wine bottle and explained loudly.
"The owner of the bar is a very powerful rich man, and he specially opened this kind of place that does not allow robots to come in to check the post, in order to better make money for us poor." Mike sarcastically.
"And really a jerk." Wei Ran said.
"yes, fuck the bastard rich." Wei Ran's words hit Thomas's heart, causing him to laugh in response.
"You can see, young man, you don't seem to know much about anything, and you are so good to be able to pass through the dangerous radiation zone and come to this city." Old man Darwin praised.
The ensuing conversation was very pleasant, perhaps because of Wei Ran's words of scolding the rich bastard, which made Thomas and the others regard him as their own and did not have too many scruples.
On the premise that Wei Ran 'didn't know much about anything', like the well-informed old man Darwin, he asked a lot of questions and had a clearer understanding of "Elysium".
The Elysium plane is now at the end of the 22nd century, and the Elysium Station was established at the end of the 21st century and has a history of nearly 100 years.
At the end of the 21st century, the earth was plagued by disease, pollution, and overpopulation, and to add insult to injury, a nuclear war that swept the world was unleashed. This war has dealt a greater blow to the already overburdened human living environment, and the political regimes of various countries have also collapsed in the turmoil.
A group of wealthy people took advantage of the rise of robotics to steal power and build the Elysium Space Station in outer space in order to maintain their lifestyle, escaping the extremely harsh environment of Earth.
Since then, the planet has transitioned from a multi-national system to a federal city district system.
Humans live together in urban areas, each of which is far from each other, making it very difficult for people to communicate. Because there are many nuclear radiation areas left over from nuclear wars on the earth, if you accidentally step into them, you may receive a lethal dose of radiation.
The nuclear war has drastically reduced the population, but not only that, but the series of serious effects left by the nuclear war, and the harsh laws enacted by the citizens in the Elysium space station, have once again made the survival of the human beings living on Earth face the challenge of survival.
Darwin sadly recalls that when he was a child, the city had about 15 million inhabitants, but now it has just under 3 million, less than one-fifth of what it was then.
"Those who can survive healthily are a group of lucky guys, and nine out of ten children who grow up here will suffer from various diseases, and one of the ten who can really grow up healthy is very lucky."
"Darwin, you super lucky guy, you lived to be sixty-three." Thomas shouted with laughter.
"So, I like people to call me the old immortal Darwin." Darwin squeezed his eyes and replied with a smile of humor.
"Cheers to the old and immortal Darwin, to be healthy and alive." Mike held up the bottle in his hand.
Darwin was very knowledgeable, after all, he lived to be more than sixty years old, and he was already a very high age group among the surface dwellers of the Elysium plane.
However, Wei Ran still had some very crucial information that he couldn't inquire, and Darwin didn't know much.
No matter how long Darwin lived, he was still just an ordinary surface dweller, and some information was impossible to access, and Wei Ran needed to find a higher level of information to find out about the situation.
"Thomas, do you know who the tallest person in the city is?" Wei Ran asked.
"You're not trying to kidnap the rich, are you?" Darwin's face was strange.