Chapter 1: The Underground World of the Mire Zone
When the world began to have heaven and earth, high and low inevitably appeared. And when the high and low appear, the contrast also appears.
Heaven and earth have high and low, clouds and mud have high and low, the sun and moon and mountains and rivers have high and low, and there are also high and low people.
To put it irresponsibly: in human society throughout the ages, the rich are high and the poor are low.
This contradiction has never been eliminated or even reduced since the emergence of human beings.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
The gap between the rich and the poor, even in a supposedly highly civilized society, remains a chasm that no economist can solve.
Oh, I forgot to mention, it's 3oo8 in the federal calendar, the 3,000th year that the people of this planet have survived here. The indigenous people of this planet had never seen these immigrants and invaders before.
All in all, at this time three thousand and eight years ago, the human invaders who came to this planet from far away forcibly occupied the planet, and while driving out and slaughtering the indigenous people, they settled and multiplied here. And the name of this planet is also jokingly called by some people with nostalgia - Earth. As for the place that used to be called Earth, who knows what is going on now.
In short, the people who have the civilization of the earth continue their civilization on this new earth. It's just that a new place has the unchangeable character of a new place after all. After all these years of running-in and adaptation, the Federalists finally fully adapted to this place a thousand years ago. And began to expand a new civilization on the basis of the planetary environment.
Compared to the Federation's last Earth home, the six areas of this new Earth account for two-thirds of the planet's total area, and the remaining one-third is occupied by oceans. Of these two-thirds of the six land areas, one-fifth of them are uninhabitable to humans. The remaining four-fifths are divided by the federal government into eight districts, large and small, from north to south. Each region is different in size, and it is ruled by dividing the territory. Of these, there are three ghetto, two plebeian districts, two upper strata districts, and one class district.
From the map, the entire Great 6 plate is pyramid-shaped from top to bottom, from north to south. The topmost and northernmost part is the uninhabitable third of the area. From there, there is a slum, a slum, a slum, an upper class, a class, an upper, a slum, and finally two slums.
The federal population is 5 billion, of which 3 billion live in slums. The remaining two billion are distributed in the remaining five regions in a three-to-one ratio.
The mire district is one of the most famous of the three major slums in the Federation.
It is not famous because its per capita income is in the single digits, nor because it has a total population of more than 1.2 billion, and certainly not because it is the least safe or geographically located in the northernmost area, closest to those "non-human" creatures.
It's because of its house prices. Or rather, the price of its land.
If Xinghua District and Liluo District in the upper echelons of the Federation are places where every inch of land is valuable, and Yunrang District, the class district of the Federation, is a place that money can't buy, then the No. 1 Slum District of the Federation is a place where every inch of land is golden, and life can't buy it!
Its expensive land price is the highest in the entire federation!
A slum with a per capita income of only a single digit has the most expensive land price in the entire federation! Such a situation has never occurred in all previous human history.
The mire area, however, is one such area.
Because for the people of this region, land is what they lack the most!
Especially, when it comes to winter............
"Whew-whew-whew-"
The howling of the northerly wind through the frozen stone forest is like a lullaby sung awkwardly by the drunkard father who has no five notes, and at the same time makes people's ears uncomfortable and urges people to be drowsy.
Zhao Zhuo leaned against the cold wall, dozing off in a daze. He wore a large hat that almost obscured his eyes, a tattered, heavy, musty fur coat, his hands curled up in his sleeves, and his Kusanagi boots were stained with the feces of some creature, and there was a frowning stench under the roasting of the surrounding temperature. However, under the background of the surrounding environment, this stench, which is definitely enough to smoke an upper-class nobleman, also seems a little dispensable.
Looking around, where Zhao Zhuo was, was a rather crowded hall. Under the dim yellow light, the entire hall was full of people. Although it was an extremely cold winter, and the temperature outside was even as low as minus 10 degrees, the temperature in this hall was kept at a fairly suitable stage due to the large number of people. Inversely proportional to the comfortable temperature is the quality of the air in this hall.
The musty smell of rotting food, the smell of filth vomited by drunkards, the smell of excrement from some old people after incontinence, and all sorts of messy smells that are absolutely not good, are mixed and intertwined in this dim yellow hall, and under the dim light, it is so strange and harmonious. And compared to these weird smells that can definitely smoke a normal person to death, the smell of feces on Zhao Zhuo's feet is simply fragrant.
For such an environment that ordinary people can't stand it, no one in the entire hall feels inappropriate. The sleeping pillow continues to sleep soundly with his arms, the one who should drink and play cards, continues to play cards with a wine bottle and picks his feet, and even in a corner of the hall against the wall, there is a middle-aged couple, who are carrying out the most primitive ** catharsis of human beings as if no one is around. The originally dirty and smelly air suddenly added such a trace of ** stench.
In fact, in the entire quagmire area, there are quite a few people who were born in such a large public. As for the shame and the like in the past civilizations, there is not even the dregs left that have been crushed by life.
People always have to adapt to the environment to survive. Shame is already a quality that borders on luxury for the people of the ghetto.
Whether Zhao Zhuo was born in such an environment, he himself doesn't know. The only thing he knows is that in the future, he will never let his children live in such an environment.
His biggest dream in life is to be able to buy a house in Xinghua District.
Although this dream has not yet seen even a little light, Zhao Zhuo believes that he has persisted for this for 18 years and will continue to do so in the next 18 or even 28 years.
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