Chapter 16 The Fringe Zone
"King" and cute baby, these seem to be two things that are completely irrelevant.
At this moment, Fang Qiang, who was not yet eighteen years old, felt that something was touched in his heart, he showed a bright smile at the baby in the black crystal, waved his hand, and turned around and went out.
He didn't notice that after the "baby" in the black box opened his eyes, he kept staring at his movements, Fang Qiang went there, and the baby's eyes shifted there, in the black square crystal, the baby's head seemed to be able to rotate freely, this self-proclaimed "king" existence, as if it was really a baby.
Because, only newborns follow the adult who raised them with their gaze......
When Fang Qiang walked out of the door, there were already a lot of people on the street, and people living in the fringes of the urban circle basically had little happiness of sleeping lazy, and they had to get up early to run for life.
It is rare to see any private vehicles on the road, and there are heavy trucks with anti-gravity devices coming and going, and the land in the fringes of the urban circle is cheap, and in addition to the large garbage dumps, there are many large warehouses built here to store the materials of the urban circle.
Heavy-duty trucks are also used to transport these materials, and trucks with anti-gravity devices, although they are loaded with hundreds of tons of goods at a time, are not slow at all, and they are quite light, and these truck drivers are driving unscrupulously in the fringe areas, which are also prone to traffic accidents.
Fang Qiang naturally wouldn't have the luxury of taking a car over and walking for an hour, and the location of the black marketeer he went to find was a community in the other direction.
Sunny mornings in autumn are always pleasant, and Fang Qiang carried his bag, thinking about how much the small amount of money he had saved could play in buying manipulators and processing machines.
Thinking about things, the steps are still very fast, which is also the reason why I often practice "Tai Chi" martial arts, and I can subconsciously dodge those pedestrians and obstacles on the road.
In the fringe area of the urban circle, the political axe rarely considers anything for the civilians in the fringe area, and the road is full of menacing trucks, not considering that most of the people here are residential areas, and Fang Qiang has long been accustomed to the metal giants whistling by.
So he didn't notice that on the main road on the side, there was a heavy-duty truck that was walking very slowly, this kind of heavy-duty truck was very large, and one was walking slowly, which was almost equivalent to placing an obstacle of equal size on the road, so that the vehicles behind had to slow down and turn, causing complaints.
Some drivers are desperately honking their horns, and some drivers are directly scolding with the loudspeaker when they pass by, if they don't have something to do, it is not impossible to fight on the street.
The windows of the heavy-duty truck were rarely rolled down, and in the fringes of the urban circle, which is not safe, the truck is generally required to be fully enclosed.
Truck drivers are very thin, with wide-brimmed ball caps, large blackout glasses, and dust masks, which is a common dress among people who come to the fringe areas of the urban circle, and many people think that the air in the fringe areas is dirty and must be protected.
It seems that the driver must have set the truck driving on the automatic control, holding a piece of paper and looking around the street on both sides of the window.
Fang Qiang, who lowered his head, hurriedly walked by, he didn't notice the somewhat strange heavy-duty truck on the side of the street at all, but the driver with the tight package glanced around, but his eyes were fixed on him, his whole body was stiff, and he was about to say hello, but he didn't expect Fang Qiang to turn around and cross the intersection.
Fang Qiang, who has exercised physically, walks fast, and when the driver reacts in the car, the person has already walked away, and in desperation, he can only start the truck in a hurry and turn on the road.
At this time, it was the rush hour, and such a large truck suddenly turned around on the road, almost blocking more than half of the road, and the brakes were rerouted, causing a series of chain reactions, and suddenly it was a mess, and the sound of honking and scolding became one.
Of course, Fang Qiang would not think that the chaos around him had something to do with him, disputes caused by traffic were commonplace on the streets, and his footsteps were still non-stop, and when the truck driver turned to the street he turned into, he found that the person had disappeared, and there was an intersection in front of him, and he really didn't know where he was going.
Fang Qiang's current direction is to walk towards the edge of the edge of the urban circle, and the reason why the urban circle is called a circle is because it is indeed distributed in a circle. The districts below each region are actually a city, with the 1st to 10th districts being the center of the ring, while the other urban circles are on the periphery of the ring, and the periphery of the periphery is the so-called no-man's land.
In the historical records, the supercomputer "King" was destroyed, and the mechanical weapons and mechanical creatures on the earth that chased and killed humans were out of control, some self-destructed, and some fell into a passive state.
The so-called passive state is that they will not actively attack people, but people will still be attacked after entering their set range.
The rebels, later known as the Political Axe Army, paid a heavy price in every habitable place to purge the murderous machines and establish residential quarters, while at the same time demarcating areas outside the residential areas as off-limits areas for civilians without military protection.
Gradually, residential areas became urban circles, and the population became more and more, but all the things that human beings needed land to produce were realized in factory production, and the need to eliminate peripheral machinery was also getting smaller and smaller.
The use of the army is a policy that costs more than it costs, and those mechanical monsters are very strong, and every clean-up operation has to pay a certain number of casualties, and the energy of these mechanical monsters is a built-in high-energy nuclear battery, and the energy supply time is based on a hundred years.
Just when land was about to become a bottleneck in the development of urban circles, the Age of Interstellar Exploration began, and a planet suitable for human habitation could bring enough land.
It costs a lot of money to clean up mechanical weapons, and there is not enough demand, so the political axe can safely carry out the transformation of the city circle and interstellar immigration, and the matter of these mechanical weapons has been shelved.
Five hundred years after the end of the war, human beings found that the range of activity and activity of mechanical weapons on the periphery of the dwelling area were greatly reduced, and the scope of the urban circle could be expanded outward.
This is the so-called urban periphery, and a large number of enterprises that need space and space have moved to the periphery of the urban circle, and it has developed to the present level.
Nearly 200 years after the establishment of the fringe area, there are often news of residents being killed by mechanical weapons, and the safety of the surname is not guaranteed, but there are also poor people who covet the cheap land price and living expenses here to live, which is also the reason why the fringe area of the urban circle and the core area of the urban circle are clearly divided between rich and poor.
About 100 years ago, field survey teams, surveillance systems, and satellites all found that the activity of various machinery remnants of the war had been greatly reduced, and almost ninety percent of them had gone to a state of slumber underground, and the danger factor in the field had been greatly reduced.
But there is still a danger, and the political axe is still strictly forbidden for residents to enter the wilderness, especially after several news reports of entering dangerous areas and being killed by mechanical weapons.
In any case, the transportation between the regions is maintained by fully enclosed high-speed rail and air transport, which has been a wild area for hundreds of years, and there is no need to pay attention to it now.
If viewed from a satellite, the Earth's urban circles are small circles wrapped in danger zones, and countless lines of transportation connect these small circles.
The land price of each urban circle is basically in accordance with the law of getting cheaper and cheaper from the inside out, because the closer the distance to the danger, the more people want to live, not to mention the more inward, the more convenient life is, and the more perfect the facilities.
The black market merchant Fang Qiang is going to find is living at the very edge of the marginal area, the house there is so cheap that it makes people laugh, I heard that the black market businessman who bought the waste products of the Black Wolf Labor Company is from the core area of the city circle, and he has a lot of money, this naturally cannot be compared, the black market merchant he is looking for is the same as himself, he is a character who fights and makes a little money.
The weather was fine, the more Fang Qiang walked, the more he felt ambitious, the victory in the virtual space mecha battle last night gave him confidence and gave him a kind of courage.
The change of people is often because of a trivial matter, fighting to the death with a strong opponent under realistic conditions and winning the battle, so that Fang Qiang, who has been working hard to survive, suddenly feels that he is very capable and courageous, and begins to feel that if he relies on his own struggle, he can achieve something.
In addition to this battle, the reason why he was so confident was that he thought that the supercomputer at home, with this "king", Fang Qiang felt that he could do anything, and the original goal of going to college and living in the core area of the urban circle was too small, and he could think bigger.
Of course, Fang Qiang didn't know that after he turned around and left the room, the baby in the black crystal stared at the door and was quiet for about five minutes.
When he realized that Fang Qiang did not come back, the baby's mouth flattened, and he began to cry, and the cry came out of the computer's speaker, fortunately, although Fang Qiang's room was small and cramped, the sound insulation effect was quite good, otherwise someone would definitely be suspicious when they heard the baby's cry coming from Fang Qiang's house.
When Wow Wow was crying, I could see that the baby's head on the monitor suddenly turned into a dynamic surveillance screen, and if there was anyone, it would be an image in the hallway.
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