005 Lao Zhengtai

After a long time, Han Biao asked why Kashanlina would let her call her "mother", and when he learned the truth, he couldn't help but burst into tears: "Mother drops a leg!" Giant Zhengtai, dwarf old man, Aunt Lori... What kind of world is this dog talking about? ”

Perhaps because of the hybridization and mutation of genes, or because of the influence and modification of the interstellar environment in this era, the genes of human beings have undergone a large degree of self-adjustment and evolution, and the average lifespan of ordinary inferior citizens has exceeded 300~400 old calendar years, while the average lifespan of inferior citizens with relatively more perfect genes has reached 500~600 old calendar years.

And the life span of some middle-class citizens and high-class citizens will gradually increase with the genetic level, and it is said that there are many people who live for thousands of years and above the noble silver bloodline.

In addition, the gene technology of this era is very developed, and those wealthy elites and nobles can repair the defects in their genes, improve the gene level, and delay the rate of cell aging by purchasing genetic drugs and gene re-cultivation methods, which has led to the overall life of human beings being greatly prolonged.

Theoretically speaking, the more perfect the genes, the stronger the cell living surname, the evolution of human genes and the existence of various genetic technologies, resulting in the fact that the real age of the person cannot be seen at all, if you want, and there is enough money, even if it is time to die, how young and beautiful or how young and beautiful, so, in this era, pickle girls need to be cautious.

In terms of the current length of human life, the legal age of adulthood is as high as 50 years old, and this "adulthood" age includes not only "physical adulthood", but also "psychological adulthood".

The vast majority of ordinary people will gradually mature their minds around the age of 50, and the psychological age of "young people" under the age of 50 is almost the same as that of minors under the age of 16~18 in Han Biao's era, not that they are "mentally retarded", nor do they exclude the existence of "precocious" genius children, but the human beings of this era maintain "childlike innocence" and "innocence" for a longer period.

This leads to Han Biao, who is only 20 years old with a genetic age, is at most a "child", not even a "teenager", and Kassenlina, who looks like a 16 or 7-year-old Kassenlina is 57 years old this year, and she has just become an adult, and as for the pea who looks like a child, she is already more than 100 years old.

Because of metabolism, teenagers with male surnames in this era will not grow soft beards until they are 3 or 40 years old, and it is no wonder that Kasannalina and Pea will regard Han Biao, who is only 20 years old and has an embarrassed beard, as an adult.

By the standards of Han Biao's time, 57-year-old Kassalina let Han Biao call her "Mom", even if he called her "Grandma", it was enough to be qualified.

Han Biao tragically discovered that he had finally become an adult, and now he went straight to the marriageable age, and now he went straight back to his childhood, but he ended his adolescence early.

An old lady who is only 20 years old and "decrepits before aging"?

This matter is so terrible, the thunder almost didn't pluck him, according to this calculation, when he is "adult", I don't know if there is still the "ability" to inherit the old Han family.

Because Kasanna and Pea are both mutants with genetic mutation blood, it is impossible to estimate the lifespan by the standards of citizens in this era, but the shortest-lived mutant lives to be more than 200 years old.

is only 20 years old, far from the legal age of adulthood Han Biao, now there is no need to worry about his identity, "minors" under the age of 50 do not have social rights at all, and naturally have no identity authority, in layman's terms, he has not yet reached the time to get an "ID card"!

When Han Biao was devastated and Kassalina muttered why Han Biao was so "young and old-fashioned", and "young" was talking "old-fashioned", their destination G City finally arrived.

G City is not a city, but Planet γ-44, the base of the D.87 ecosystem, the trading market of Area G, covers a very large area, as long as you want to get something, as long as you have money, you can buy almost everything here.

The surname of G City is very special, it is very similar to the flea market or small commodity distribution market of Han Biao's time, and it is the place where all the inferior citizens of the D.87 ecosystem base, as well as the vast majority of the lower citizens, buy and sell.

As an area that can provide a large amount of commercial tax revenue, the security here is officially protected by the D.87 base, and in terms of security, it is far more secure than other areas in the G area, as for whether you will be robbed after you buy something and leave G City, it has nothing to do with the base inspectors in charge of the security of G City.

Han Biao's flying motorcycles may have the same status as tractors in his time, and they are not allowed to drive in the middle, upper, and high-level waterways, and can only fly in low-altitude waterways close to the ground.

However, the place where Kasan's "mother" intended to go was not in the pelagic waterway, and not long after entering the city of G, it stopped in a dirty commercial area that was far less bright than the upper middle and upper floors.

It was obviously not the first time that Kashan and Pea had come to this business district, and after parking their cars in the "parking lot", they quickly dragged four maglev trolleys from nearby to transport goods, and Han Biao and Giant Dog, two big guys, came in handy to help carry the heavy metal parts to the trolleys one by one.

This kind of thing, which looks like a metal cart used by supermarket staff to transport internal goods, is provided by the market for customers to use free of charge, and the shape looks similar, but it has no wheels and is suspended one foot above the ground by magnetic force, so it can easily push a ton of heavy objects around without a little effort.

Although Kashan's "exoskeleton assisted carrying arm" is far more effective than manpower, after all, that thing needs to consume energy, and it is not cheap to charge the energy module of the flying motorcycle.

Besides, although Han Biao and the giant dog are still "children", they cannot be compared with normal people and they are "mutants", and no one will accuse them of using "child labor" in this "free paradise" where there is said to be no law.

This commercial area is not very large, that is, the size of two stadiums, it is located at the lowest level of the entire city of G, and like some other commercial areas that sell different kinds of goods, shops of various sizes sell all kinds of metal parts of unknown use, probably hardware stores and other places.

In addition, there is a large assembly workshop that is very similar to Kasanna's small "repair shop", which looks like a place to repair some large machines, Han Biao at the door of an assembly workshop, and also saw a 5-meter-high, which can be used by people to ride in it, which looks a bit like a robot, or mecha equipment, which should be the same kind of construction machinery as Kashan's "exoskeleton assisted loading arm", similar to the cranes, forklifts, and cranes of Han Biao's era.

In addition, Han Biao also saw a lot of people sitting in the shell of the "robot", busy walking around with those huge humanoid machines, some of them were staff of G City, and some were guests who came to repair or shop.

Some of the messy floors are littered with large, bizarrely shaped discarded parts, apparently abandoned by some of the people who have bought the replacements, forcing the maglev trolley, which is only a foot above the ground, to go around and around to avoid them.

It is not to blame that the environmental sanitation here is too poor, firstly, there is a large flow of people, and secondly, it is in the lowest commercial area, usually facing inferior citizens and mutant customers, and those who are responsible for managing the market do not have so much thought to provide a good shopping environment for these lowly and inferior people.

Han Biao vaguely understood from Kasanna's words that in the D.87 biosphere base, as well as the entire planet γ-44, the entire chaotic star field, and the entire interstellar human civilization, mutants with good surnames like them belong to the lowest level of society, and they are even inferior to inferior citizens.

Even if they are inferior citizens who are genetically mixed for more than 100 generations, they still retain their citizenship status, while their good surname mutants do not have any social rights and interests, and they are an isolated ethnic group excluded from the social system, and are regarded as monsters and miscellaneous. In addition to not being restricted in freedom and being hung up in the collar of slaves, their social status is no higher than that of black slaves in the earlier days of Han Biao's era, when racial discrimination was more serious.

In this case, although the Pan-Star Domain Joint Governing Body "Star Federation Council" recognizes mutants with good surnames as people of interstellar human civilization and allows them to live in the entire civilization system, it is obviously impossible for them to obtain their due social status and good and stable job opportunities.

In order to support themselves, mutants with good surnames often have to take risks and work hard for certain forces to make ends meet, and they are engaged in extremely high-risk, or "illegal" occupations, resulting in the term "mutant" is often associated with negative terms such as death, crime, blood, and violence, and even inferior citizens whose social status is lower than that of mutants also dislike, discriminate, exclude, and hate mutants.

The so-called "mutant person" is actually a human being whose genetic material is incomplete, or who has been infected or destroyed by radiation sources and pollution sources in the outside space, resulting in cell mutation.

This uncontrollable genetic mutation makes their appearance or ability appear to be a little different from that of normal people, or ugly or peculiar, and their characteristics are mainly classified as tall or short, ugly or unusual appearance, and strange deformities of some limbs or organs.

Kassenlina and Pea, weak mutants who are not physically and strength-mutated, are obviously impossible to sell their lives to obtain life-sustaining materials like powerful mutants like giant dogs, so they can only nest in Area G, open a simple private maintenance station, and rely on repairing flying motorcycles for others and repairing all kinds of simple mechanical equipment.

In my spare time, I go to the garbage mountain to find some damaged equipment parts and recyclable metal materials, take them home and repair them, and send them to G City to sell to second-hand parts dealers in exchange for some base credits to buy food.

Han Biao pushed a maglev trolley full of parts, and followed behind Kashan step by step, like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, looking around curiously, 100 meters above this commercial area, through a transparent aerial platform, you can see a large number of aircraft and pedestrians coming and going, it is very lively and prosperous.

In order to attract high-level citizens living in the inner ring of the base, the high-altitude boutique commercial area built by G City is simply the difference between heaven and earth compared with the lower commercial area, not to mention clean and tidy, and the goods sold are also some more refined, more high-end and more advanced goods.

It's a pity that mutants and inferior citizens are not allowed to enter high-rise shopping areas, while those citizens with high genetic levels want to come down, but they don't have that restriction, but they are only responsible for their personal and property safety.

This is where the "race class" of this era lies, people with inferior status can only be trampled under the feet of others, can never look up, and are not allowed to drive in the middle and upper waterways when driving, when there are disputes and conflicts with others, they must unconditionally take responsibility, even if they are walking, if they meet people with higher social status, they have to retreat to the side of the road and let others go first.

Feeling humiliated?

The reputation of the mutants forced by life to be associated with terms such as "death, crime, blood, and violence" has given them a lot of control by the Governing Body, and if something goes wrong, they are the only ones who will suffer, and if they still want to live in the base without being expelled, then they must accept this humiliation.

In order to reduce conflicts and troubles, the high-level management of the base is also troubled by the problem of race and class, and in order to reduce conflicts and troubles, this kind of regional surname law is simply formulated, and the racial groups of people with different identities are separated as much as possible to reduce the probability of conflicts.

"Hambio! What are you doing? Come here! ”

Kassalina's greeting not far away brought back Han Biao, who was stunned when he raised his head, and Kassan's they had stopped in front of a "hardware store" and hurriedly ran over with a maglev trolley.

As soon as he got closer, Han Biao saw the owner of the store, looked at the pile of bits and pieces piled up next to his shop, and said to Kasanna with a headache: "Mutant chick, I've told you a few times, these parts that have been eliminated a long time ago have not matched the current machine model, they have no value at all, and they can't be sold!" I'm a second-hand dealer, but I'm not a rag ......."

"Please! Boss, you just take it, right? Maybe there will be some customers who have discontinued equipment and will need these parts that are out of print? I'm going to buy food for the kids! Kassanlina folded her hands in prayer.

"I have that time to sell these rags to customers, it's better to sell something and make more money Okay, okay, I'm unlucky, you must not come again in the future, although I sympathize with you, but I'm not a branch of a welfare agency here, I don't have so much money to help you, these together give you 75... No, 70 base credits are good! ”

The boss, who was just an inferior citizen, had a headache and took a rough inventory of the old parts that Han Biao had shipped, and gave a price that was not too high.

Han Biao was a little stunned, although he didn't know what the purchasing power of this so-called "credit" was, but in front of the old ghost, the giant dog unloaded it first was full of 3 cars, enough to weigh several tons of parts, which could only be sold for 70 credits, which was completely disproportionate to the effort that Kasannalina needed to go to the garbage mountain to find, and after getting it back, it needed to be cleaned, repaired, and then transported to G City to be sold.

In this era, the average salary that a blue-collar citizen can earn per ephemeris is only 100~500 credit points according to the different genetic levels, while it is impossible for inferior citizens to have so much income, at most 1/3~1/4 of the inferior citizens, that is, about 20~100 credit points.

"That's only 70 credits for so many parts? You annihilator! ”

Pea almost jumped to his feet and screamed, "You fellow with a rotten conscience! Together, you can sell these parts for at least 500 credits or more! ”

The boss glared at the pea, who was only waist-high: "Shut up! You shorty man with no long legs! You're all scrap fixes! It's not even second-hand, a replaced scrap part of the same model can be sold for 50 credits, and your repaired scrap can only be sold for 5 credits at most!

Besides, I don't have to pay rent for my shop, do I? Don't have to pay transaction tax? My workers don't have to pay salaries, do they? You don't have to spend money to buy equipment, right? Am I a merchant? Don't forget, no one in the whole market except me, a fool, who will sympathize with you goddamn mutants and pay for the junk you picked up, no one will want this garbage at all! ”

Pea choked suddenly, blinked his little eyes for a long time, could only wilt, and muttered: "Annihilation Shang..."

"Okay, 70 credits is 70 credits..."

Kassalina reluctantly accepted the price, and inadvertently saw Han Biao pushing the last cart of parts standing behind her, grabbing the boss and pulling him in front of Han Biao: "Old ghost, look at these, these are all good things, just selling materials can also be worth a lot of credits, right?" ”

As she spoke, she uncovered the linoleum wrapped around some of the parts piled up on the trolley that Han Biao was pushing, revealing a silver metal component.

"What is this? It looks like it's new..."

The boss flipped the parts suspiciously: "It's not the external armor plate of the mechanical armor, and it's not the plastic steel shell of the construction machinery..."

"I don't know what kind of material it is, it's very hard, it probably has a heat insulation function, it's not a part, it's not an instrument, it looks like some kind of armor shell... But I'm sure that in my impression, there is no device that can match these things..."

The boss put away the testing instrument and said regretfully: "I can't use this thing, you can take it back." Or ask other shops that sell metal materials to see if they accept them. ”

As an old and cunning businessman, and is a franchise of second-hand spare parts, the boss is familiar with almost all the construction machinery and machinery and equipment on the market at present, to the point that he knows what model it is at a glance at the nut, and even he can't recognize it, which proves that this thing is indeed rare to the point of being very rare.

But as a businessman rather than a collector, no matter how rare a commodity is, if it can't be sold, it is equivalent to worthless, plus he is in the parts business, although he doesn't know what these things are, but judging from his experience, at most it is the shell of some kind of machine, compared to the parts with higher value, the value of the external armor plate is much lower, and the boss who does not operate this project does not dare to spend money to buy things that cannot be sold.

"What I found in the garbage area of Area G, maybe it's some kind of external armor plate for combat armor..."Seeing that the boss didn't accept it, Kasannalina was very disappointed.

The old ghost's eyes lit up, and he looked through it carefully again, and even took apart some other parts wrapped in linoleum to look at them, but said suspiciously: "That's not right!" There are no models of humanoid machines or combat armor that use these armor plates, at least none of the civilian models I know of, unless it's a military humanoid machine, and I'll give you another 5 credits, and you can keep these things. ”

Although it is impossible to determine the type of these armor plates, the material is very rare, and if it is a military humanoid machine or a shell on combat armor, someone may be willing to buy it and add it to their own machinery, because military things often represent durability and sturdiness.

"Only 5 credits? We're not selling! This guy is a merchant! Pea jumped on the cart and covered the linoleum.

"Military armor plates? Get out of the way! ”

And at this moment, a voice suddenly interjected, and at the same time, the petite Kassanlina was suddenly squeezed by someone, suddenly screamed, stumbled out several steps, and fell heavily to the ground!

"Kassan!"

"Mother Kassan!"

Pea and the giant dog screamed and pounced and helped Kasanna to her feet, but Kasanna's bare arms, who were only wearing suspenders, were covered with blood on the dirty ground full of discarded screws and nuts, and even a deep blood groove was cut on her elbows, and the bright red blood mixed with the oil on the ground poured out from under the flipped white flesh, which looked terrifying and shocking!;