Chapter 2 Slums

After that war, many broken mechs were abandoned, because of the chaos at the time, the abandoned mechs were quickly used by the homeless poor, and when the authorities wanted to clean up, it was impossible to do anything, of course, the most fundamental reason was that the abandoned mecha no longer had any economic value, and if it was to be recycled, its cost had far exceeded the purchase of a brand new combat mech.

In the slums, it is actually a very luxurious thing to have an abandoned mecha as a residence, Liu Fei is an orphan, he was adopted by an orphan old man who was scavenging when he was very young, and a few months ago, the old man died, and Liu Fei inherited this "huge" wealth.

This old heavy battle mech was covered in scars, tooth marks, and scratches, which were shocking, but for the most part, it remained intact in appearance.

Liu Fei climbed up the rusty mecha like an agile ape, and entered the engine room of the mecha, the engine in the engine room had already been disassembled and cleaned, Liu Fei converted the engine room into a comfortable bathroom, and the equipment of this bathroom cost Liu Fei a lot of savings.

The toilet facilities are environmentally friendly products, excrement can generate electricity, and the equipment can also collect water from the air for recycling......

Climbing from the engine room into the cockpit, the instruments in the cockpit have been dismantled, only two narrow beds, one is Liu Fei's, the other is the old man's, the old man's bed has no quilt on it, replaced by some wood carvings of different shapes and pieces of wood of different colors.

After entering the cockpit, after eating a little simple nutrient solution and compressed food, Liu Fei turned on the lights in the cockpit, and the small cockpit immediately became bright.

Under the bright light, Liu Fei picked up the carving knife and started today's work.

This is a job that Liu Fei got by chance, making handicrafts for a small shop with a long history, and the so-called handicrafts are carving pieces of wood into various shapes of art, which is a forgotten profession in today's vigorous development of mechanical civilization.

After picking up the carving knife, the indifference on Liu Fei's face disappeared, replaced by an incomparably focused look, a pair of eyes became extraordinarily bright, the sharp and small carving knife in his hand was extremely agile, very skillful, every time the blade crossed, the lines left on the wood seemed to have infinite life......

As time passed, the piece of wood, which was slightly larger than a fist, gradually revealed its rudimentary form, an eagle with wings ready to fly, although it was only a prototype, it looked very charming.

After looking at the prototype in his hand with satisfaction, and then at the ancient watch on his arm, Liu Fei put down the wood carving.

Although Liu Fei can quickly complete a carving work, this does not mean that he can work non-stop, in fact, Liu Fei's daily workload is basically fixed, because the sales volume of that small handicraft shop has constrained his workload.

However, Liu Fei is still very satisfied, the price of each of his carvings is very high, and the commission he gets is also very good, according to the current workload, one year is enough for him to earn enough for four years of tuition and living expenses.

It should be delivered today.

Liu Fei's eyes fell on a woodcarved tiger on the bed, it was a tiger entrenched on the mountain rock, majestic, tiger and tiger, although it was very small, but it showed the demeanor of the king of beasts who looked down on the world.

In fact, Liu Fei has never seen a real tiger, completely based on the data carved by the handicraft store, it is said that this animal grows in the distant solar system home planet Earth, fierce by nature, is the king of beasts, is a ferocious carnivore, unfortunately, Liu Fei can only rely on his carvings to imagine what the real tiger is like.

Liu Fei has always had a dream, hoping to return to the earth, the birthplace of human civilization, to see, however, Liu Fei knows that it is impossible to achieve this dream in a short period of time, in addition to being shy, the main reason is that the entire solar system is under martial law, and the earth is forbidden to any spacecraft to approach......

After carefully wrapping the woodcarved tiger in flannel, putting it in a cardboard box, and putting it in the backpack very carefully, Liu Fei climbed down from the top of the mecha and went straight to the commercial area of Zhuoerxing.

Liu Fei is not worried that someone will break into his mecha, in any planet, the protection of private property is quite important, if you do not get the permission of the owner to enter the room, the law stipulates that the owner of the room can shoot directly.

Of course, the ghetto is not so exquisite, in the ghetto the law is just a joke, for a lunch, murder and robbery happen every minute in the ghetto, in the ghetto, the fist is the law.

Liu Fei is not holding the law, but the fist, Liu Fei's adoptive father has a terrifying nickname, known as the "soldering iron head", the fist of the soldering iron head is not hard, however, the soldering iron head is ruthless enough, at least half of the trash cans of the entire Zall Mecha University are labeled with the soldering iron head, and anyone who dares to rummage through the trash can will risk the life of being attacked at any time, because, although the soldering iron head is extremely thin, it is ruthless, and it is even more fatal to fight. Even some small gangs in the slums did not dare to offend him easily.

When Liu Fei was five years old, he was knocked out of a front tooth by a gangster, and the soldering iron head waited for three days and three nights in the place where the gangster came in and out, and knocked out the gangster's teeth with a hammer......

Half a year ago, after the death of the soldering iron head, the people in the slum who scavenged for a living carnival for three days, and the trash cans of the Zall Mecha University were divided up in a few minutes, and the ferocity of the soldering iron head in the slum can be seen.

Liu Fei did not inherit the soldering iron's scavenging business, this is not that Liu Fei is unwilling, but the soldering iron is unwilling, the soldering iron head said, Liu Fei is a person who does great things, and he will never be allowed to do the work of scavenging, in Liu Fei's childhood, the soldering iron head never allowed him to pick up waste, even if he followed it from afar.

Although Liu Fei did not inherit the career of the soldering iron, Liu Fei inherited the ferocity of the soldering iron, and the soldering iron head instilled a kind of thought in Liu Fei since he was a child, not to be merciful to the enemy, if he does not move, he will beat the other party to be soft at every turn.

Everyone in the slum knows about the two fierce fathers and sons, the soldering iron head and Liu Fei.

In fact, Liu Fei did one thing in the slums, when he was five years old, he knocked out all the teeth of a gangster with a hammer, of course, with the help of a soldering iron, and after that, no one dared to harass Liu Fei.

According to legend, in order to let Liu Fei win the opportunity to work in Zall Mecha University, the soldering iron head entangled the president of Zall Mecha University for five years, during these five years, the soldering iron head did not know how many times he was beaten to the head and blood, you know, a university president is not a gangster in the slums, and he is surrounded by bodyguards who are always hugging him.

Maybe it was sincerity, or maybe the principal was also annoyed by the persistent bad old man of the soldering iron, Liu Fei finally entered the school, and even brought Li Meng in by the way.

The soldering iron head protects Liu Fei like an aggressive hen, but the soldering iron head is not as kind to Liu Fei as the outside world thinks, in fact, the soldering iron head has very high expectations for Liu Fei and is quite strict.

The soldering iron head has no culture, but he has his own set of teaching methods, his method is very simple, let Liu Fei memorize the books he picked up, and it must be within a limited time, Liu Fei will always remember that he did not complete the recitation task assigned by the soldering iron head once, and then was punished to stand on the top of the mecha for a day and a night without eating or drinking......

Liu Fei glanced back at the towering mecha, as if a pair of cold eyes were watching him from the cockpit, Liu Fei sighed, the soldering iron head has been dead for nearly half a year, but he always feels that the soldering iron head is still living by his side, always urging him, so that he does not dare to slack off.

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It was already completely dark, and the entire slum was shrouded in night, and the occasional light dotted the cluttered buildings, which looked particularly bright.

The slums at night are not quiet, the slums at night are much more lively, except for some poor people who come home from work, some sneaky crowds have also begun to come out to move, gangsters in groups and threes began to gather in some corners, the air is filled with the smell of drugs, some fireflies coated with thick cheap fat powder in the dark corners to attract customers, strong inferior perfume is disgusting.

Liu Fei walked through the flow of people, no one harassed him, in the slums, he was an incompatible existence, because the soldering iron head would never allow him to associate with the people in the slums, and Li Meng was able to get close to Liu Fei thanks to him helping Liu Fei knock on his front teeth.

Anyone other than Li Meng who tried to get close to Liu Fei would incur hostility from the soldering iron head.

For Liu Fei, the soldering iron head is an enigmatic existence, not at all like the short-sighted poor and scavengers, although the soldering iron head is not literate, but like a highly educated person, he knows a lot of anecdotes that the poor do not know, he is very good at understanding the psychological activities of others, and most importantly, he knows how to protect himself and Liu Fei in the complex slums.

In Liu Fei's memory, the soldering iron head never seemed to lose a fight, although most of the time it was a lose-lose, but his opponent would definitely be more seriously injured than him, which was also the main reason why people in the slums were afraid of the soldering iron head.

It's a pity that until the soldering iron head was dying, Liu Fei didn't have a thorough understanding of what kind of person the soldering iron head was.

Because of the soldering iron, Liu Fei is full of mystery in the eyes of the residents of the slums, and ordinary people are afraid of provoking the madman with the soldering iron head and avoid approaching Liu Fei......

The slum is very large, hundreds of thousands of square meters, if you look at it from the sky, there is only a wall between the Drow Mecha University and the slum, of course, the gate of the Drow Mecha University and the slum are actually more than a kilometer apart.

It is said that the first generation of residents who formed the ghetto was the mecha warrior who protected the Drow Mecha University, and after the battle with the alien aliens ended, many disabled soldiers remained, forming the first generation of the original inhabitants of the slum, and later with the development of the stars, more and more slums gathered, thus forming the current scale.

Probably due to the influence of the first generation of residents, most of the residents of the slum rely on the Drow Mecha University to live, just like the soldering iron head scavenging in the school, of course, that is only one of the ways to survive, there are many, many ways, such as providing drugs to students, providing sexual services to students, or colluding with campus gangsters to extort money and petty theft......

In addition to some crooked ways of survival, there are some relatively formal ways of doing business, in the wall five hundred meters away from the gate of the Zall Mecha University, there is a big hole that has been opened up to a street leading to the slums, it is said that half of the female students of the Zall Mecha University are here**, so, the students nicknamed this street "Fallen Street".

The depraved street is about 200 meters long, there are many teahouses, restaurants and small hotels on both sides, and the secret prostitutes are hidden in it, the school has closed this hole at least 100 times, but each time the closure time will definitely not exceed two days will be violently destroyed, in the long-term and unremitting tug-of-war, the school finally acquiesced in the existence of this hole, after all, this hole affects the livelihood of hundreds of people, in line with the concept of humanitarianism and harmonious society, it is very necessary to keep this hole.

At night, the depraved streets are bustling and prosperous, and there are countless students shuttling back and forth, and some small hotels are thriving, and the boys and girls who steal the forbidden fruit look cautiously when they enter and exit the door, their faces full of shyness and excitement......