Chapter 786: Evil in "Junk City".
Inbaba, Ezbet el Haggana, the City of the Dead and Manshi Nasser are the four largest slums in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and are home to more than 70 percent of the city's population.
In particular, Manshnasser, the largest slum known as the "garbage city", is home to more than a million people, the vast majority of whom are a group of "zabari", Arabic for scavengers, including women and children.
Literally, the inhabitants of Cairo live entirely by recycling the thousands of tons of garbage produced in Cairo every day, or in a huge dump of garbage, to be exact.
As far as the eye can see from above, piles of white plastic bags, cardboard boxes, woven bags, waste clothes, bottles and cans, etc., and most of the buildings are low-rise shantytowns, as well as dilapidated brick and stone buildings that I don't know when they were built, and most of the areas do not even have the most basic electricity, water and gas supply facilities, not to mention any roads, public health and network coverage.
The people who live here sort and recycle countless toxic and harmful garbage day and night, barely surviving on their extremely meager income.
As for health or something, it is not in their consideration at all, and they rely on resistance to resist all kinds of dangerous viruses, bacteria and chemical pollution, and the average life expectancy is amazingly low.
Of course, since it is a slum, there are naturally no police patrols to maintain law and order, so over time it has become the perfect hiding place for drug dealers, gangsters, terrorist organizations, and anti-government groups.
Ultras Nahdai, a youth activist group that has repeatedly staged anti-government riots, is one such group hiding in the "garbage city".
The reason for its initial birth is very simple, that is, due to the economic recession in Egypt, a large number of young people in society cannot find jobs, coupled with the distorted propaganda of the Western media, making them feel that all this is the result of unfair social distribution and undemocratic political system, completely ignoring that 90 percent of Egypt's land is desert, the arable land area is only 55 million mu, the per capita is less than 0.55 percent, and more than half of the food depends on imports.
Perhaps the government can still maintain the food and clothing of the people when the global economy is still good, but once the global economy is in a recession or an economic crisis breaks out, then the United States will immediately issue a large amount of currency, invest it in the futures market and the crude oil market, and forcibly raise the transaction price several times.
As a result, the original budget can only buy half of the original food, or even one-third or one-fifth, and the soaring food prices will inevitably lead to an increase in the cost of living, which means a decrease in per capita purchasing power, followed by a series of evil consequences such as a decline in trade and domestic demand, the closure of factories and shops, and a surge in unemployment.
This has nothing to do with distributive injustice and the political system, and unless someone can use the polar costs to transform the desert environment on a large scale to make it suitable for farming, no amount of system will solve Egypt's current economic woes.
It can be said that since the end of World War II, every economic crisis has been the result of those financially developed countries passing on their own crises to the world.
However, there are too few people who can see through this, not to mention that young people are always the most vulnerable group to incite and take advantage of, and with the help of some people with ulterior motives, Ultras Nahdai quickly obtained start-up capital and began a vigorous "revolution".
Unfortunately, just when the "revolution" was in full swing, the military, the most powerful force in Egypt, suddenly stepped forward to take over power, quickly suppressed the anti-government riots in various places, and restored basic social order.
And those organizations involved in the riots naturally went on the junta's blacklist and were wanted and hunted down.
As a result, many of these organizations have lost their financial support from abroad, and have begun to privately carry out illegal and criminal activities in order to obtain the necessary funds to maintain the survival and development of the organization.
This is how the leaders of Ultras Nahdai slowly embarked on the path of abduction and human trafficking.
Most of the time, they only target homeless refugees, and occasionally kidnap a particularly beautiful little Lori under the age of 12 and sell it to local tyrants from the Middle East.
In just a few years, they have completed the transformation from hot-blooded youths to professional criminals, and their original ideals and vows have become a thing of the past, and in the end all that remains is a group of profit-hungry people, even inferior to the corrupt bureaucrats they tried to overthrow.
Vera was standing on the top floor of a brick and stone house at the moment, condescendingly watching every move on the other side, her eyes revealing a bloodthirsty light.
You don't need to ask to know that these guys who make a profit by selling children have successfully aroused her murderous intent, if it weren't for Lu Li's surveillance order, the dozen or so people in the opposite house would probably be cold by now.
Just when Vera was waiting a little impatiently, a strong wind suddenly blew in the sky, followed by a black shadow falling from the sky, landing steadily beside her, and asked in a low voice, "How is the situation?"
"So far, I've seen seventeen people, two of them at the window, two downstairs, four by the car, and the rest all spread over seven rooms. In addition, just ten minutes ago, I saw someone carrying a sack into the basement, which is probably where they held the girl. Vera didn't look back to explain the results of her scouting.
Because she knew that the dark shadow was none other than her own boss.
"Very well! Let this garbage disappear from the world tonight. Lu Li bent down and put the crying tired and sleepy little Lori in his arms flat on the ground, with a cold expression on his face.
Vera glanced down at the bruises on Selena's face and nodded slightly, "As you wish, my dear boss." But doesn't it matter if you put this little guy here? Manschnasser isn't a safe place. ”
"Don't worry, I'll leave a guard behind. With that, Lu Li took out the magic book from his pocket, summoned a huge insect with a body length of more than two meters, gave it an order to protect little Lori, and then jumped down and walked straight towards the entrance of the opposite building.
When the two young men guarding the door saw a stranger approaching, they immediately drew their pistols and shouted a warning in Arabic.
But before they could pose any real threat, they soon found their hands and feet flying for some reason, and then a sharp pain ensued, and they fell to the ground with a thud and let out a miserable wail.
"Ahhh!!!!!!!!!!!!hh
In the face of the invisible wind blade, their bodies are as fragile as butter.
Lu Li ignored the two screaming guys, intending to let them taste fear and pain for a while longer, rather than die happily.