Chapter 2 A Place Where Every Inch of Land Lives
The huge hall was full of people, so dense that even walking was a problem. And someone like Zhao Zhuo, who came late, had no qualifications at all, so he could only stand pitifully in the corner against the wall, barely squeezing out a palm-sized place like others, standing and sleeping. Like him, there are many more in the whole hall.
Such halls are common in the entire Quagmire Underworld. Or to put it more simply, the entire underground world of the quagmire area is completely made up of such cave halls. And these poor people living in the quagmire are nicknamed "cavemen" in the outside world.
Yes, the largest slum in the Federation, which claims to cover an area of 13 million square kilometers, actually lives underground. And when people say "13 million land", they are talking about the area on the ground in the mud marsh area. In fact, there are only 3 million people who are allowed to live in the mire area. Moreover, all of this land area comes from below the ground. It was dug up by people's own hands.
The earthly world of the quagmire area is covered with foul-smelling and highly corrosive silt swamps up to ten meters deep, not to mention living creatures, even the most rugged submarines in the Federation, which cannot be safely navigated. In such an environment, human beings cannot survive. And the name of the quagmire area is also derived from this.
With 3 million real living area, it has fed a population of 1.2 billion. It can be seen from this that the people here live a crowded life.
It is not an exaggeration to say that every inch of land is worth life.
Little by little, the clock on the wall of the hall went to eleven fifty. Zhao Zhuo, who was leaning against the wall and trying to sleep in a daze, was suddenly shocked, pulled out his hand that was shrunk in his sleeve, and stood up straight.
Not only him, but also nearly a third of the people who were drinking and playing cards or talking and laughing or sleeping in the hall at this time also stood up from the ground, and the expression on their faces became indescribably stern in an instant.
Among these men were men and women, old and young, healthy and infirm. However, the helplessness or excitement or determination that leaks from their eyes is the same.
These people will be my opponents!
Scanning the people in the hall, Zhao Zhuo habitually scratched his cheeks, and then, he began to walk along the wall towards the huge clock not far away. The corner was crowded with sleeping people, so he ignored it, stepped on the other person's body and face, and stepped on it. And the people who were stepped on were either used to it for a long time, or they had no objections at all, those who slept still slept, and those who didn't sleep just glanced at Zhao Zhuo lightly, and they didn't even have the interest in patting the feces on their bodies because of this.
Everyone who lives here is almost stepped on like this dozens or hundreds of times every night, and as long as they get used to it, they feel that it doesn't matter.
Let's say hello to each other.
Beneath the wall where the clock hangs, there is a closed door.
Zhao Zhuo and those who had the same purpose as him came to the gate one after another.
The hour hand moved, and soon it was at twelve o'clock.
Twelve o'clock in the night!
The door in front of him opened.
Two equally dirty and sloppy poor people walked out of the open door, glanced at Zhao Zhuo and the others who were standing densely in front of them, and spat out a foul stench of turbidity: "You all know the rules, are there any new arrivals?" ”
No one answered.
"Alright, come with us. Be quiet and don't make people sleep. ”
As the two of them turned, everyone rushed in and entered the world behind the gate. The door behind him slammed shut after everyone had entered.
It is a passage only three meters wide, and two people can walk side by side. On both sides of the passage, there is a rectangular space of one meter long, fifty centimeters wide, and two meters deep. At first glance, it looks like enlarged capsules.
Capsule apartment. This kind of thing, which is despised and even ridiculed by the outside world, is quite extravagant in the quagmire area. Outsiders can't imagine how happy and luxurious it is to have such a place where you can sleep peacefully without worrying about being stepped on, stepped on your chest, and stepped on your life in a place where you have to exchange a lot of money and even your life for a place where you have to stand still.
In the entire quagmire area, there are only 50 million capsule apartments. One can imagine how huge the impact on the entire quagmire area was when these capsule apartments first appeared. At that time, there were protests that instead of wasting precious housing resources in this way, it should be distributed equally among everyone, so that people can get fixed housing resources. And many more people are ecstatic and want to live in such a "spacious house" immediately.
Then, in order to compete for the right to live in these capsule apartments, the entire quagmire exploded into one of the most comprehensive, tragic and longest-lasting chaos since the establishment of the district. The number of people who died in the chaos alone was as high as 100 million.
And this melee also directly led to the birth of the "capsule gambling game".
"Trade your life for the chance to live here for a month!"
This is the slogan of "Capsule Gamble". It is also the purpose of Zhao Zhuo's participation in the gambling game.
I don't know how many people risked their lives in order to be able to sleep peacefully in this space of less than two square meters.
Countless people died one after another on the way to the two-square-meter bed.
Thinking of this, and looking at the capsules that were still empty at this time, Zhao Zhuo subconsciously licked the corners of his mouth, and then quickly "puffed" and frowned.
He licked the poop on his mouth again.
In the long hallway, there was no sound other than the sound of kicking footsteps and the occasional coughing. The silence of the people is terrible.
And it seemed that some people couldn't stand such an indescribable oppressive atmosphere, and the two poor people who were at the forefront spoke at the right time:
"You all already know the rules, but I'm going to warn you. There are 50 million capsule apartments here, of which 40 million are less than two square meters like this. In addition to this, there are five million larger apartments with an area of four square meters. Three million ...... in eight square meters Ten million square meters, of course, they are not capsules anymore, we can call them 'small apartments'. Then, there are 20 square meters of apartments for 700,000 yuan; 200,000 for 40 square meters; More than 80,000 ...... of 80 square meters and, finally, the remaining 12,000 160-square-meter houses. But don't think about it, it's for the gambling kings and champions in each district. ”
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