Chapter 187: Second-hand World
"Bang!"
Su Xia landed heavily and fell about ten meters.
The sewers here are designed to be quite spacious, with gray-black oval domes, which cannot be seen from the front and back, and the smell in the air is not heavy, and it seems that the ventilation system is still normal.
Su Xia took out a flashlight and pressed the switch, bringing a bright light to this dark place.
And Ma Zhu finally figured it out.
"My lord, just a little further on, we are only one of the entrances and exits here."
"Well, keep leading the way."
Su Xia adjusted the brightness of the flashlight to the maximum.
The two of them walked one after the other in the huge sewers, their footsteps echoing far away.
Su Xia noticed that there was no trace of running water on the ground of this sewer, and the walls on both sides were also not, proving that it had not been put into use before, and the reinforced concrete layer was extremely thick, no less than the current air-raid shelter.
It didn't take long for the slums to appear on both sides of the sewer with sleeping paupers.
They were covered with tattered and dirty quilts, and the blankets under them were the same color as the floor, but they slept soundly, not noticing that anyone walked by.
"Purr...... Purr ......"
The snoring came and went, amplified by the empty sewer space, like a group of giants.
The deeper you go into this underground area, the more people will sleep on the ground.
Gradually, some cramped houses appeared.
Like the ones on the ground, these houses are low and narrow, built with the most basic materials such as iron sheets, wooden planks, and asbestos tiles, and the key parts are tied up with plastic ropes or wires to ensure that they do not fall apart, and the length, width and height are only two or three meters, leaving enough passage for the rest of the people to pass through.
There was also electricity underground, and scattered wires were fastened to the curved concrete walls, like black blood vessels growing out of sewers.
There was a faint light in many of the rooms, and through the cracks it was possible to see the poor people at work among them.
Some people are sewing and weaving clothes, some are sorting discarded machinery, and some are making simple food.
The deeper you go, the more lights come on.
This large underground sewer space has the prototype of a small world, which can already be circulated to a certain extent.
After walking for half an hour, Su Xia actually passed by a shopping mall of considerable size.
The underground shopping mall is very special, directly occupying the entire semi-cylindrical space, more than 20 meters long, people need to pass through it, under the dim chandelier, there are many things that are very common on the ground on the metal shelves.
"My lord, that's sugar water, you can buy it here."
As he navigated the mall, Ma Zhu pointed to a corner shelf, which was full of small black glass bottles the size of thumbs.
Su Xia swept his gaze, and a hint appeared in front of him.
[Detection of addictive ingredients, can make the user fall into short-term happiness and hallucinations, long-term use will cause brain damage, heart, lungs, kidneys and other internal organs failure, causing irreversible fatal damage to the body, it is recommended to destroy on the spot]
This kind of thing is forbidden in the world on the ground, but it is sold openly in the world underground.
Its price is not cheap, the most common one is double-digit, and the ordinary salarymen in the city who want to support their family in Hukou may be reluctant to buy it.
On either side of the mall, there are many poor people who are using straws to suck the sugar water.
They were dressed in rudimentary clothes, some of them hadn't even eaten for days, and they had saved money for it, skinny and hungry enough to have only a thin layer of skin, curled up in a ball, their eyes closed, or convulsed, or unconsciously making all sorts of strange noises.
[You triggered the quest "Flower of Life", do you want to take it?] 】
Before he could see Wu Gui's family, Su Xia triggered a mission.
It's a big world, and walking around always triggers various quests, but this one is more special.
【Mission: Flower of Life】
[Description: On the barren and dry soil, the flowers of life cannot bloom]
[This slum is controlled by a drug called "sugar water", most people's lives are gradually withering in false illusions, please find the source of this drug and destroy it in one fell swoop]
【There is no time limit for this mission】
[Mission requirements: Kill all the masterminds behind the scenes, and don't let anyone go]
【Reward: Purification Elixir】
[Note: There is no level limit on this potion, and it can be refined by first-order pharmacist apprentices, which can make the creatures addicted to the drug get out of control and regain their lives]
Seeing the mission description, Su Xia sighed.
This thing can't be completely destroyed on any other side of the Earth.
Some countries have even begun to legalize, how is it possible on this decayed planet.
Unless everything is destroyed, everything is overthrown, and a new order is established with an unprecedented change, so that it will completely perish under the new order.
[Quest Tip 1: The Wu Gui family you are looking for is a part of the sugar water delivery]
Seeing this prompt, Su Xia's eyes froze.
This was something he didn't expect at all.
Do you want him to get rid of Wu Gui's family with his own hands?
"I can only take one step at a time."
Su Xia sighed secretly and continued to move forward, looking for Wu Gui's family in this huge underground world.
Wu Gui's parents were involved in a gang feud in their early years, and the enemy broke into the house, cut his parents into pieces in front of Wu Gui, who was only five years old, and used a meat grinder to fry the sows in the pig farm.
Later, Wu Gui lived with his cousin, who was twenty years older than him.
The two brothers depend on each other and struggle to live in this dark place.
Su Xia recalled that Wu Gui often said before his death: "My cousin and his family still haven't moved out, maybe the money I sent back is not enough, wait until I save some money for them......"
This time, Su Xia also brought a lot of money, and even planned to get a serious job in the city for Wu Gui's cousin through the identity of a pharmacist, but a sudden side quest disrupted his plan.
In this way, he walked through the dense construction of the sewer pipes, endured all kinds of strange smells, and another half hour passed.
Ma Zhu's physical foundation is quite poor, and he can't hold it anymore after walking for so long.
His face was as pale as paper, and he pleaded cautiously, "My lord, can we ...... Grab a bite to eat at the nearby bazaar? ”
"Oh? Is there a market underground? ”
Su Xia nodded and motioned for him to lead the way: "Let's go, take me to have a look." ”
"Yes Yes ......"
Ma Zhu breathed a sigh of relief and led Su Xia into a relatively low fork in the road.
He is less than 1.6 meters tall, and he just walks in it.
But Su Xia had to keep her head down, bend down slightly, and walk a long way in this fork in the road.
After exiting the fork in the road, a small brightly lit market appeared in front of me.
It was past 10 o'clock in the evening, but there were not many people coming and going in the market, and the stalls were filled with food, clothes, daily necessities, etc.
This area appears to be the intersection of several large pipelines, and the space is large, accommodating more than 30 stalls.
Ma Zhu walked to a stall selling food, swallowed his saliva, took out a crumpled three yuan and five cents from his coat pocket and handed it to the stall owner, saying, "Have a fried rice and more meat." ”
"Okay, wait a minute!"
The stall owner took the money and started work in a hurry.
Hearing this price, Su Xia was a little surprised and asked, "The food underground is so cheap?" ”
"This ......"
The stall owner also looked at Su Xia in surprise, and found that Su Xia was white and tender, her clothes were worth a lot of money, and she was wearing an elegant mechanical watch.
At first glance, he is the son of a rich family, and he has to understand the price of goods underground.
But what are these people doing underground?
Even if you want to find slaves, you don't come in person, and the slave traders who come underground are middlemen.
Ma Zhu smiled awkwardly and explained, "My lord, the food here is basically second-hand and worthless. ”
"Second-hand? Rummaged out of the garbage heap? ”
"That's right."
Ma Zhu pointed to the inside of the stall and asked Su Xia to see.
In the stalls, there are several large transparent plastic bags containing a lot of messy cooked meat.
"The meat is all turned out of the garbage heap, and every day at five o'clock, the garbage trucks in the city start dumping the garbage on the garbage hill outside, and that's when we rush in to pick up the good stuff......"
"Many rich people in the city don't finish eating, sometimes they can even find a whole chicken leg steak, and many of them are just a few bites and then lost, it's all meat, as long as you wash it, cook it again and sterilize, these meats can be eaten......"
In general, the meat in those large transparent plastic bags was turned out of the garbage heap and stained with the meat in other people's saliva.
The process of treatment is very disgusting, but it can be eaten after all, and children need it most when they grow their bodies.
In addition to food, other things here, such as clothes and daily necessities, are also basically second-hand.
Each place has its own way of survival.
Here in this slum, as long as you can use it and eat it, it is enough.
Many people here are pinning their hopes for improving their lives on the next generation, so they desperately have children, the poorer they are, the more they have children, Su Xia has seen a lot of children and pregnant women along the way, many pregnant women should still be in junior high school, and more and more people have caused the price of second-hand things to rise.
According to Ma Zhu, this kind of fried rice used to cost only two pieces of eight.
After all, the meat is stained with saliva, the oil is fished out of the ditch, the rice is expired, and the cost is pitifully low.
The variety of food sold in this stall is less than a quarter of the price outside.
"No matter what it is, as long as it is fried in oil, it tastes fragrant."
Ma Zhu held the plate, squatted next to the stall and devoured it, enjoying it.
When he was addicted to sugar water before, he had no appetite for a long time, but today he was cured by Su Xia with a shot of medicine, and his appetite returned.
And Su Xia really had no appetite, and felt a little sick to his stomach when he saw those big bags of cooked meat.
He has also had a difficult life since he was a child, but it has not been difficult to this point, the state has a lot of subsidies for his family, and even the tuition fee is waived, so that he can receive a good education and eat normal meat.
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