Chapter 186: Happy Sugar Water
"Don't ...... Don't shoot, please follow me. ”
The man shivered, his face was bloodless, and his thin body looked like a living dead.
Su Xia nodded: "Let's go." ”
"Yes, yes."
The man led the way in front and did not dare to turn back, and the speed was not very fast due to the trembling of his legs.
Su Xia was not in a hurry, did not urge, and quietly watched everything here.
The slum was much more crowded than he had imagined, with no normal construction plan, gray asbestos tiles, dark blue plastic sheeting, rusty iron plates, broken wooden planks, etc., and countless low, dilapidated houses, many of which had no shelter from the wind and rain, but barely enough for people to sleep.
The deeper you go, the narrower the road becomes, and the muddy pavement is lined with broken plastic bags, rotting cardboard, wood blocks and other garbage, looking dirty and chaotic, and the stench ferments in every inch of the land.
This is a labyrinth built up by poverty, so that the people inside can never get out.
"Hoo ......"
As soon as the wind blew, the dilapidated curtains of the low rooms on both sides were lifted, and the people huddled in them to rest were clearly visible, all of them skinny, with sallow skin, and deep-set eye sockets, like bone shelves barely covered with rough human skin.
Unlike Su Xia thought, the people here were even worse off than the refugees in the camp, and the refugees still had some hope, with the promise of the Coral City government, even if that promise was far away.
But there was no hope here, hunger, sickness, and death had torn apart and devoured all that had been hope, leaving only a dark starry sky.
Su Xia had an indescribable feeling in his heart, he himself was not doing very well, but he couldn't be biased against this difficulty, maybe it was caused by his experience since childhood.
Many people say that the reason why people are human is because they have empathy.
"Have you ever thought about getting out of here?"
Su Xia put away the gun, turned off the safe, and asked the man.
In the personal panel, he saw the man's description and found that he had not injured anyone, and the only few robberies he had been bluffed and not to death, and a good education should lead him to turn back.
The man was still trembling, shook his head with difficulty, and whispered, "Get out of here...... Where else to go? ”
"Something is wrong with you, what medicine have you taken recently?"
"No, no medicine."
"Stop."
Su Xia spoke in a serious tone, walked in front of him, and observed carefully.
The man's body trembled uncontrollably, sweat was pouring down his pale face, his sunken eye circles were seriously dark, and he was only in his early twenties but looked like he was forty or fifty years old.
He recited his sentences, lowered his head, and didn't dare to look at Su Xia's eyes, so thin that it seemed that a gust of wind could blow him down.
"No wonder you want to come and grab money."
Su Xia understood, and directly took out a third-order healing elixir and stabbed it into his arm.
The man screamed, felt a tingling pain in his arm, stumbled to the ground, curled up in a ball with his arm clutched, foaming at the mouth, trembling more and more, as if he had gone mad.
Many of the poor people around them were awakened by this scream, but they did not dare to open the door, but just shrank in the corners of the house, praying that the people in the street would not focus on them.
Su Xia sat on a gray brick and waited quietly.
After a while, the man finally stopped convulsing, his face became a little more rosy, and he struggled on the ground a few times, and it took two minutes to slowly get up.
The weakness that has been affected by the drug for a long time is much less, and it is replaced by a clear mind, and an unprecedented lightness.
"So, that's a potion?"
The man shook his head, he had no formal education, but there was also a little bit of knowledge about potions in his barren mind.
He could guess that what Su Xia injected him just now must be a particularly expensive potion, and it was impossible for ordinary elixirs to have this kind of power.
Such a potion may be enough for the price of one to eat and live for a family here.
Su Xia got up and didn't answer, just said, "Continue to lead the way." ”
"Yes, yes......"
The man's eyes were a little brighter, and although he still lowered his head, his steps were brisker, and his body was no longer trembling.
Judging from his barren cognition, Su Xia is a good person, an absolutely good person.
"What medications have you been taking?" Su Xia asked the question again, and his tone was very flat.
"My lord, I ...... My name is Ma Zhu. He first said his name, looking humble, hoping to make an impression on Su Xia, and then replied: "That's not medicine, it's a sugar water." ”
"What kind of sugar water?"
"Black, a small tube, you can feel happy when you drink it, many people are drinking, but if you don't drink it for a long time, you will feel uncomfortable......"
"Oh."
Just like Su Xia thought, it was an addictive drug.
The people here are already poor, but they are at least alive, and as long as they are alive, it means that there is oil and water to scrape out.
When a person is weak, the whole world is malicious, and anyone can bite a piece of meat from him, and there are a large number of weak people gathered here, so they are targeted and become slaves of this drug, and they do not hesitate to rob or even kill people for this.
"Do you know there's something wrong with that sugar water?"
"Yes." Ma Zhu nodded, "But you can feel the happiness......"
"Hmm."
Su Xia understood, so she didn't ask anymore.
Ignorance is actually the greatest joy.
When the war subsided and society stabilized, classes gradually appeared, which were not obvious at the beginning, and became more and more obvious later on.
The children born here do not have a good education, they will inherit the poverty of their ancestors, and use the bottom thinking to obtain cheap happiness and live a long life.
And as long as the children of the elite class do not have major problems, they can go further with the help of their parents and become a new generation of elites, standing on the top floor of the whole city.
They will even take the initiative to produce many films, film and television dramas, etc., criticizing the rich and the government, so that the social elites in them seem to be ignorant and stupid, so that the ordinary people at the bottom who watch these works can get psychological satisfaction.
What popular culture works present to the public is only what they want to see, and it doesn't matter whether it's true or not.
The city is gradually moving in that direction.
The underground side of the slum is a former drainage system, which was mostly abandoned after the war, and most of the pipes are more than three meters in diameter, extending in all directions, and there is no wind and rain to worry about, so it is a good place to live.
"My lord, here we are."
The horse pillar stopped at the end of a small alley and, in the faint light of the moon, opened a rusty sewer manhole cover.
This is one of the entrances to the underground slums, as many people who live here know.
What appeared in front of Su Xia's eyes was a metal ladder that went down and extended into the darkness.
"I'll go ahead." Ma Zhu seemed to be worried that Su Xia would suspect him, so he moved quickly, stepping on the straight ladder and climbing down a little bit, and soon disappeared into the darkness of the sewer.
Perhaps due to long-term malnutrition, his night vision was not very good, and after entering, his movements were much slower, slowly groping for each ladder.
And Su Xia didn't say anything, just jumped in.
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