Although the apartment is old, in this day and age, the basic network interface is still available, and it is an indispensable necessity like electrical and water pipes.

Chu Jungui lay on the bed, closed his eyes, and seemed to be sleeping, but in fact he had connected to the network and began to search and collect information.

Originally an industrial and mining city, Laizhou used to be famous for producing large quantities of base metals such as iron and aluminum, with a population of more than one million at its peak. If it is in the home planet of the old era, Laizhou's mineral reserves are afraid that they can be ranked among the top in the world. However, in the 35th century, with the increase of productivity, the demand for various mineral resources has also increased exponentially.

About 100 years ago, the reserves of several major mines in Laizhou City were depleted, and the entire city inevitably declined.

Unlike the home planet, in this era, people have too many choices, and going away has a new meaning, and the other country often refers to an unfamiliar star field hundreds of light-years away.

However, the population of Laizhou has not decreased much, and there are many people who have left and migrated in. Those who left were all young people, and most of them were old people.

Laizhou is a big city with complete infrastructure and convenient transportation, and although the weather here is bad, the air can be breathed directly. The outflow of people has also brought prices down to a fairly low level in the city. For example, Chu Longtu's small apartment has a monthly rent of less than two hundred. It doesn't cost much to buy it. This is also the reason why many elderly people migrate here, because it is cheap.

Within the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the natural dynastic currency was hard currency. Although each vassal state has its own currency, the more developed and prosperous the region, the more dynastic coins are used.

As the first university in Xinzheng, Shen Business School has always been rich and rich, and it is subsidized by dynasty coins. Therefore, the information consulted by Chu Jungui also defaulted to the dynasty currency as the denomination unit.

I don't know how long I flipped through the information, and Chu Jungui heard the sound of the alarm clock. He looked at the time, it was only less than six o'clock, but Chu Longtu was probably already up.

As an experimental subject, Chu Jungui didn't need to sleep for long. He got up immediately, went out of the house to take a look, and found that Chu Longtu was still sitting in the recliner, and his posture was exactly the same as last night.

The alarm clock was still ringing, and the TV on the screen was still flashing silently.

"Grandpa?" Chu Jungui called lightly.

The old man seemed to have just woken up, and then he turned his head and said, "It's you! I was thinking about some things back then, and before I knew it, I fell into a trance." Now that you're up, go get some breakfast. Go downstairs and turn right, and after two streets is Lao Liu's shop. The taste of his shop hasn't changed for more than ten years. ”

"Got it. ”

Chu Jun went out and found the breakfast shop that his grandfather said very smoothly. It was a very small shop, so small that it could only fit two tables. At this time, it was not yet dawn, and the cold air in the wind penetrated the bone marrow, but the small shop had already opened, and it was full of people, and there were still several people queuing at the door.

It's all old people.

Chu Jungui lined up, and it didn't take long for his turn. The breakfast in the restaurant is very simple, with only three or five kinds of food, mostly steamed or fried. Chu Jungui bought two breakfasts according to his own amount of food, and shared one yuan.

On the way back, Chu Jungui took out a hot bun and took a bite, which was unexpectedly delicious and full of ingredients.

When he went home, Chu Longtu had already gotten up from the recliner and started tidying up the room. The apartment is actually very tidy, there are not many clutter, except for Chu Yunfei's room, which I don't know how long it has been locked, the rest of the place is very clean, but it is just old.

After breakfast, Chu Longtu asked about Chu Jungui's academic situation. Chu Jungui suddenly felt a little weak, the abilities he could really use, the version numbers were very low, and he couldn't take it at all. The version number of tactical deception is past 1, but it's only 1.02.

Fortunately, Chu Longtu's question was not very detailed, and even if it was in the past, Chu Jun had passed the level.

"It's a good thing that you can go to business school. This is a military school, and our family has no special relationship, and after you finish your studies, most of you will go to the battlefield. If you want to take advantage of the two years in the academy to learn more things, there is no luck on the battlefield. If you lose the battle in the planet, there is still a chance to live, and if you fight in outer space, you will die if you lose. ”

Chu Jungui nodded.

"I still have a bit of a collectible here, all of which I got when I was younger. There's one thing that suits you well, and you can take it for self-defense. ”

Chu Long figured up, came to the cabinet against the wall in the dining room, and opened the cabinet door. There were some dishes in the cupboard, and a few wine bottles. The old man grabbed the cabinet board, pushed it in, and with a click, the cabinet board was retracted, and then the entire cabinet structure sank, revealing a mezzanine behind it.

Embedded in the mezzanine were two spears and three pistols, of various models, along with corresponding ammunition.

The old man's hand swiped over the three pistols one by one, and finally took the one in the middle of the size, handed it to Chu Jungui, and said, "Give you self-defense." ”

Chu Jungui likes the pistol very much, and when he took it, he only felt heavy, and it was not generally comfortable to hold, and it was full of texture. He habitually touched it, but he didn't find any data interface, and it didn't look like it had a chip.

The old man glanced at Chu Jungui and said, "This gun doesn't have a chip, nor does it have any auxiliary systems, it's just a gun." It's a bullet, hold. ”

Chu Jungui caught a box of bullets thrown by the old man, only to feel that his hand sank, and a small box of bullets was surprisingly heavy. He opened the cartridge box, took out a bullet and looked at it, there was no display on the bullet, no programmable data interface, no miniature engine capable of adjusting the flight attitude and changing direction, and there was only a primer.

Just a primer?

The color of Chu Jungui's pupils quietly changed a little, and he scanned the entire bullet, and sure enough, there was no miniature equipment on it, and some were primers.

It was a primitive bullet powered by gunpowder.

Chu Jungui did not refuse primitive gunpowder weapons, for example, when he first came out of the rescue cabin, he relied on a printed gunpowder pistol to defend himself. But that was in the survival stage of the uninhabited planet, and now as long as there are normal supplies, even the rookie students who go to the business school use programmable smart rifles and micro-powered ammunition.

Take the electric shock bomb as an example, it can not only adjust the energy release of the electric shock, but also sharply disperse the kinetic energy at the moment of contact with the soft target, so as to reduce the penetration and avoid causing fatal damage.

What the old man gave him was an antique-level pistol or ammunition. The bullet is very heavy, and it may be very powerful, but no matter how big it is, the power is limited. Today, when electromagnetic applications have become common, gunpowder weapons are at an all-round disadvantage, and no one is researching new gunpowder formulations.

Chu Longtu looked at the side for a while before saying, "Don't look for it, there is no intelligent system on the gun or bullet." Sometimes, the simplest is the most reliable. No electromagnetic weapon is as reliable as an old-fashioned firearm. ”

"Understood. ”

Chu Jungui put the bullets and guns in his backpack, then remembered something and asked, "This gun doesn't seem to be a universal caliber?"

The old man nodded, "It can only use the bullets I gave you." You'll probably rarely have a chance to use it, and I'll only have that little in stock for now. If you want to make new bullets, you need a few old-fashioned equipment, which you can't find on the market anymore, and maybe a few old friends still have them. I'll have to ask them, and the next time you come back, you'll get new bullets. ”

Chu Jungui nodded and sorted out his backpack. He probably didn't have much chance to use this gun, and there was no need for more bullets. He accepted the gun and bullets, just not wanting to make the old man sad.

The old man restored the dining cabinet, and Chu Jungui tried to order a batch of food, and by the way, he bought a new refrigerator to replace the old antique at home that he didn't know how many years he had used. However, after searching for a long time, he found that in the huge city, there was not even a delivery, and he needed to pick up the goods himself.

I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

Chu Jungui could only accept the reality, and finally hired a truck to bring the refrigerator back from the freight yard, and spent another afternoon running several supermarkets and stores to fill the refrigerator.

The old man quietly watched him busy, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

After dinner, Chu Jungui said, "Grandpa, I'm going to report to the academy tomorrow, so let's leave some money at home before leaving." ”

"I'm old and don't have anything to spend money on. You also saw today, in this city money can not buy anything. When you have time, just go home and have a look. ”

No matter how Chu Jungui persuaded him, the old man refused to accept the money, so he had to give up in the end.

The short career of visiting the family soon ended, and the next morning, Chu Jungui left the apartment and rushed to the airport. When he returned, he was still on a cheap flight, and once again experienced the crowding and obsolescence of the young Kun class. I don't know if other Kun-class ships will be better.

The spaceship takes off, and the city in the porthole fades away.

Chu Jungui never thought that there would be a city like Laizhou. The city is old and old, and most of its facilities are more than 100 years old, but they are barely able to survive with superior reliability. There aren't many young people left in the city, mostly old people who are going through the last stages of their lives.

The cost of living in this city is even lower than the cheapest retirement home in a prosperous city. Perhaps it is precisely because of the small cost that you can live a life with the last bit of freedom and dignity that it attracts more and more elderly people to come here.

Originally, Chu Jun returned thinking that there were rich people in the city, but when he left, he realized that he was wrong. The city is running out of even the most basic services, and where can the rich tolerate such an environment? Small shops such as breakfast shops still exist, and the owners are not so much making a living as finding someone to talk to.

When he heard the old people chatting in the store when he bought breakfast for two days, Chu Jungui also knew that this was also the only time of the day when those old people could chat with people.

The whole city is struggling to get on the edge of the poorest.

How many cities like this are there in the whole moon, and how many kingdoms are there?

When he was in a trance, Chu Jungui's identity chip suddenly popped up a prompt message, and the account balance jumped from 9600 to 11615. Chu Jungui was taken aback, hurriedly checked the information of the transferor, and then saw Chu Longtu.

Looking at the string of numbers with fractions, Chu Jungui's mood was suddenly complicated and indescribable.

He closed his eyes and sat in silence until the ship landed.