Chapter 19: The Children of the Orphanage

D5 Copperspot Snake Automatic Assault Rifle, from Night City all the way to Zimbabwe, this rifle will be found almost everywhere there is conflict, the caliber is larger than the average rifle, and the most valuable thing is that it can adapt to a variety of complex environments.

But Ryan didn't know if the D5 Copper Spot shot he had chosen would be able to penetrate the subcutaneous plating of that drunkard cyberpsycho.

Ryan followed behind Kia and Catherine, there were few pedestrians on the street, the movement of Arasaka and the drunkard just now was not small, people heard the gunshots, and subconsciously found a place to hide, life is still very important, especially for people in Night City and families.

Five minutes is not a long time, but two blocks away you are already in the abandoned factory area, and Kia's orphanage is surrounded by a former factory in Night City.

"The central industrial area of Night City used to be concentrated here, and it's a few minutes' walk down the road to the boundaries of the Coronado Farm District."

Kia said to Ryan.

Santo Domingo is divided into the Valley District and the Coronado Farm District.

The River Valley District is the area where Lane is now located, the abandoned factory and the high-rise buildings stand side by side, it used to be the central industrial area of Night City, and now the factory is more than half abandoned, but the Coronado Farm District is in order, and the hand of the Six Street Gang is only in the River Valley District, not to the Coronado Farm District.

Coronado Farm District is also home to the workers of the River Valley, where the houses are self-sufficient, with white fences and green lawns surrounding the houses, and there is a complete living system, hospitals, schools, shopping malls, and life here is like the traditional American community life of the early 20th century.

"In the past, the Riverdale was very polluted because of the factories, and at its worst, almost a quarter of the children born here were deformed, and the reason why Night City finally closed the factories here was not because the officials saw the deformed children so kind, but because one day the pollution from the Valley finally drifted to the central part of Night City."

Kia spoke angrily as she walked forward as she told Ryan about the history of the factories.

"The parents of those deformed children are simply unable to support them because of the mass closure of factories and the large number of layoffs and unemployment! In the end, most parents had no choice but to give up the treatment of their children with congenital diseases accompanied by deformities, and those deformed children also died one after another due to congenital diseases. ”

"Do you know how much Night City's population grew last year in 2076?"

Kia suddenly asked Ryan, this information will be saved in the data of the Arasaka Company, and although Ryan does not use the Internet, he also likes to read some information about Night City, and the population growth rate last year was negative twenty-seven percent!

"Twenty-seven percent of minus!"

Kia continued.

"The Arasaka Company doesn't even need cheap labor for the people at the bottom anymore, for them, the people at the bottom of Night City are dispensable, so more and more people choose to join gangs or start illegal activities, and now the people of Night City are no longer willing to have children, and the only source of population is people from other cities who come to this city to chase their dreams, they don't know that when they step into this city, they also have half a foot in the grave......"

Kia said, finally coming to the door of the orphanage.

It is an orphanage converted from an old factory dormitory, enclosed by a gray wall, just like the walls of those abandoned factories, so it is not conspicuous in an abandoned factory area.

"Almost all of the orphanage's parents died while working in Night City, and it is almost impossible to raise a child growing up in Night City through normal ordinary work, and most of the jobs in Night City have been replaced by machines...... They don't even have a job to move bricks and sell vegetables. ”

Ryan also admired Kia after hearing this, if it was really like Catherine said, it was not easy for a person to be helpless in Night City, relying on the income from commissions and online income to support so many people.

What's more, if Ruokia's purpose is only to take in the children who have lost their parents for charity, Ryan doesn't know what sustains him to persevere.

"Maybe in Night City, ordinary people are even deprived of the right to reproduce."

Kia muttered to herself, and with that, she pushed open the door of the orphanage.

What Kia feared didn't happen, and the orphanage's dormitory showed no signs of fighting, and there was no trace of blood or the smell of blood.

While Kia escaped from the drunkard Cyber Psychosis, she also told the children in the orphanage not to appear outside the dormitory, otherwise it was very likely that the escaped Cyber Psycho would kill them indiscriminately.

Chia breathed a sigh of relief and led Ryan towards the orphanage's dormitory.

The dormitory of the orphanage was originally also the dormitory of this factory, and after Qiya took over, the dormitory was renovated, and several classrooms and warehouses were transformed.

When the children in the orphanage heard someone entering the dormitory, they did not dare to see who it was, but hid in the room, fearing that it was a cyber lunatic in the mouth of Sister Kia.

"I said, Chubby, are you going to see who it is?"

In the room of the orphanage, a little girl with prosthetic legs in both hands poked the chubby round boy next to her and said.

"Shhhhh

Lisa, on the other hand, urged again.

"Chubby, now Grandma Hyde isn't here! Besides, there are only six people in our room, and if it's really cyber psychosis, you can report to the people in the other rooms, don't you think?"

Lisa said to Chubby, and then looked at the other four children in the room.

When the other four children heard Lisa say this, it seemed that there was indeed some reason, if it was really Cyber Psychosis, they would have to wait for him to come and find it room by room, it was better to go and see if it was now, otherwise all the twenty-seven children in the dormitory would be wiped out.

"Lisa has some truth in what she said, if it's really a cyber maniac, the six of us can still report to the others if we die."

One of the children said that he seemed to agree with Lisa's statement, and that the twenty-seven children were divided into five rooms, one of which had only three people, and although the rooms were all on the first floor of the dormitory, the dormitory had three passages down the stairs, and now it would not be impossible to escape.

And Chubby's room is the room closest to the stairs, as long as you stick your head out of the door and look at it, you can see who is coming up this staircase.

"Why don't you wait for Grandma Hyde? She just went upstairs to the warehouse to get her things, and soon came down...... And I don't look like I'm going upstairs like a person......"

"Harm, how can you be greedy for life and afraid of death, let your aunt and grandmother come and take a look."

Saying that, Lisa opened the door, and Chubby hurried to stop it, but Lisa's hands were prosthetics, and Chubby's strength was naturally not as strong as hers, so it was easily opened by Lisa.

"It's Sister Kia and Sister Catherine! There was also a man next to him......"

Lisa said, and when Chubby heard it, she asked weakly.

"Could it be that the cyber maniac kidnapped Sister Kia and Sister Catherine?"

Lisa heard Chubby's words, gave him a blank look, and said.

"You little fat man, if it were really the cyber madman Sister Kia and Sister Catherine, you would have been killed a long time ago! How can it still be hijacked. ”

"Who's that man, then?"

Chubby asked, and Lisa thought for two seconds, and a flash flashed in her mind as she remembered.

"Do you remember when Sister Kia came yesterday and said that there was a dumb brother who saved his life?"

"You mean that's the brother Ryan that Sister Kia talked about?"

Chubby suddenly realized after hearing this, and Lisa directly opened the door and rushed to the three people who were still on the stairs.

"Sister Kia! Sister Catherine! ”

Lisa's small body suddenly opened her arms and gave Kia and Catherine a big hug respectively.

Then Lisa's small eyes rested on Ryan's.

"You must be Brother Lane!"

Ryan was stunned and asked.

"You know me?"

Lisa nodded and said, "Sister Kia talked about you yesterday!" said that a dumb but very kind brother saved her many times, although he looks indifferent, but he has a good temper! ”

Ryan was even more puzzled when he heard Lisa's words, did Kia say that about herself?

What's so stupid and so kind? How did I not know that I was like this?

Do you have a good temper? It's okay compared to Mu Xuan's words, but it's especially bad for most people in Night City.

Ryan was still stunned, but Lisa opened her little hands again, she was not half as tall as Ryan, but she also hugged Ryan's waist and gave Ryan a hug.

Ryan felt the warmth of Lisa's tiny body and the coldness of her prosthetic legs.

The other children in the room also came out, and the children in the other rooms heard that Sister Kia and Sister Catherine were hungry, and they were all crowded at the entrance of the stairs, and it could be seen that they liked Kia and Catherine very much.

Lane noticed that most of these children were disabled, and that few were fully limab.

Various parts of the body have been replaced with relatively inexpensive leather-solid replacement prostheses, which are much cheaper than functional and weapon prostheses, but are also a significant amount to replace dozens of children.

Ryan couldn't help but be shocked when he saw these children, many of them were fat, none of them looked malnourished, and their demeanor was not as introverted and withdrawn as normal orphans, but like normal children.

It seems that Kia didn't lie to her when she said to the little beggar.

Kia and Catherine gave each of the children a hug, and only after a few minutes did Kia ask the children.

"Where's Grandma Hyde? Why didn't you see her?"