Chapter 122 Factory
"Hey——! Broom head! You almost didn't recognize it! I thought you died in a ditch when I stepped on the horse!" "
Barney! You are a fat pig! The more you eat, the fatter you are! Open your mouth!" Spray feces! Get beaten!"
"Oh, oh, be gentle, be gentle, damn? Those long legs are spot on! Who is it?" "
Oh, my son, I brought her to have her prosthetic body modified. Make some money."
" Phew! You can do it, Broomstick! You can get such a beautiful horse! Hey, is it exciting to ride?" "Stop talking nonsense!
Lend me your Susan for two rides!" "
Okay, Broomstick, by the way. Let me see, Susan has been firing off guns lately."
"Fuck! Give your big ass a seat! Is the igniter damaged? Didn't you take advantage of it and use the illegal gasoline from the Whirlpool Gang again? Wow, let me tell you. I'm really a scumbag!"
"No! I didn't! How could I do that to Susan? You believe me!"
Ayayama Ayako walked out of the garage and looked at the fat black bosozoku who was fighting with Li Pan. .
Barney is an ordinary person, a local gangster. His eyes, hands and feet have been replaced with cheap prostheses from black workshops. He is very fat. It looks like he eats cheap carbohydrates all day long. He is plugged in and surfing the Internet all day long without exercising. He has lost all his body fat. It's all piled up.
And his 'Susan' is a motorcycle, or an itasha covered in anime beauties.
Caiko doesn't know much about cars, but not many people ride motorcycles these days. The urban highways are all high-speed electric vehicles controlled by the traffic system. The speed is too fast. Without superhuman dynamic vision and intelligent route assistance, it is not normal at all. People dare to drive manually, let alone ride on the engine and get in the traffic.
Generally speaking, in the suburbs, where the road conditions are extremely poor, there are garbage piles everywhere, and in places that have not been maintained for decades, bosozokus will go directly to the garbage dump to dismantle car engines, build a few wheels and build various chariots for fun.
"Oh, the valve circuit is short-circuited, okay, this sound is right." "
Oh, broom head! I still have to rely on you!" "
Susan will lend me to ride for two days, and I will fill up the gas for you. Pay account of Flying Platform I renewed it for you for three days."
"Broom head~~ Oh, I love you! Mmm!"
"Get out!"
Then Fat Barney jumped into the garage, inserted the network cable into his neck, and got comfortable on the air bed. I lay down comfortably and went online.
Akiyama Ayako looked curious, "Your ex-girlfriend?"
Li Pan rolled his eyes and was too lazy to answer him. While changing into a motorcycle jacket, he explained casually,
"We used to be friends who picked up trash and raced together, this place belongs to us. In the secret base, there was a fool who got drunk and fucked around. He discovered that this cable can connect to pay TV on the external network, so everyone shared this account. When they got rich, they could watch some pay movies, have sex or something. Come up."
Akiyama Caizi took the cockscomb-like helmet thrown by Li Pan and got on the back seat,
"You used to be a street person? Then how did you become a company dog?"
Li Pan accelerated suddenly, and he didn't expect that the girl in the back seat actually He didn't touch his back, and he didn't even reach out to support his waist. He straightened his back and held the motorcycle between his thighs, sitting firmly. Hey, these waist and legs are quite strong.
I guess she doesn't like physical contact.
Li Pan shrugged,
"Life forces me to do that."
The two of them were driving motorcycles, wearing helmets that looked like cockscombs. They turned the sound and lights to the maximum, and the thump-dump-dong-dong sound was like a walking noise.
This kind of dressing up as the Romans did not attract the attention of the Uzumaki Gang. An armed squad even passed by without stopping them to check. But it is normal. After all, there are too many people living in the industrial zone. Although it has been repeatedly blocked, cleared and raided by the Night City police, the industrial zone is still crowded, and no one has time to screen them one by one.
Yes, literally a cockroach.
It usually appears in various corners of garbage dumps and restaurants. If you occasionally see one, it is already very disturbing, but no matter how hard you kill it, you can't get rid of it. Occasionally, it will lift the floor tiles in the corner. Wow! It’s a big nest! It’s simply a self-sufficient ecosystem!
After all, cockroaches are very cheap. It is easy to kill one or two by trampling them, but it is really difficult to completely eliminate them.
It's easy to die here in the industrial zone, but it's actually not difficult to survive. After all, with the perimeter blocked and supplies cut off, 'legal currency' is of little use here. In other words, you can survive without money.
And the City of Night is a mountain of extravagant and wasteful garbage. Just the leftovers of the upper class are enough for cockroaches to eat, not to mention the public security system and various private funds, and various social services provided by the tax deduction and rebate policy. Donations, food relief, refugee subsidies.
Coupled with the economic crisis from time to time, factories would rather have overcapacity than shut down and go bankrupt. Products that are overstocked and delisted cannot be sold, so they are simply thrown away. Anyway, we can’t just give it to the migrant workers in the city for free. That will save the cockroaches in the garbage dump.
Therefore, there is really no shortage of materials in the industrial zone.
Bullies like NCPA and Yakuza, who work for the company, prey on the common people, run rampant in the countryside, and exploit innocent people, have also been beheaded, skinned, and hung on telephone poles by the Maelstrom Gang during the years of war. out. Therefore, if you live in an industrial area, as long as you find work, you can actually have enough food and clothing. They even live a much more nourishing life than the social animals outside. It's quite ironic...
But people are not satisfied with just food and clothing. The industrial zone cannot connect to the public network. It is blocked and has no way to conduct legal transactions. It can only be bartered and black money transactions.
And because the output of the industrial zone is all junk, and the Whirlpool Gang is a group of savage and crazy lunatics, even the underworld in the underground city does not like this place, and has no intention of investing. High-end consumer projects such as pornography, gambling and drugs are very few.
As for the limited remaining deep network ports in the industrial zone, most of them are in the hands of the Whirlpool Gang. Most people can only take drugs, watch Mewtwo, drink and have sex, join gangs to rob, or simply kill each other to satisfy their empty spirits.
Of course, the Uzumaki Gang is not a good thing. They are just local unemployed workers who have to go out to rob as a group. They also have to deal with NCPA raids from time to time, so they do not exploit the locals so much.
But if ordinary people anger them, there is a high probability that they will be stripped of their kidneys and hanged from the street lights.
After being taken to an abandoned building by Li Pan, Cai Zi also became curious and couldn't help gossiping,
"Are we looking for your ex-girlfriend?"
"What? Why are we looking for her? If we want to infiltrate the Uzumaki Gang, of course we have to look for them directly. People. Hey! Bobo!"
Although Cai Zi also met a lot of strange people, the appearance of this guy still shocked her.
How should I put it? Others are highly prosthetic. He is simply a machine skeleton with a few pieces of flesh implanted in him. There are only a few pieces of human body from top to bottom. The organs are all installed in glass tubes and connected by pipes, and they are surging. , the steel teeth are really like a ghost, it is hard to imagine that it is a living creature.
"Fuck! Broom head! Shave your head!"
Bobo made a sound of metal colliding.
"Bobo!"
Li Pan also made a cheerful voice, kicked over a drug addict who was blocking the road and smashed Bobo's stall.
"Cao Nima, pay me back! You owe me the money for the goods!"
"Damn it, I thought you were dead! You should have spent it on me!"
"Fuck!" Li Pan drew his gun and pointed at Bobo's metal rod, "Say it again!"
Bobo shook, " Damn it, I forgot how much it cost."
Li Pan said, "345.17!"
"Damn, it's only three hundred yuan..." Bobo dug out, "I'll give you this transformer. I'll charge you 250. ."
Li Pan kicked its stick away with one kick, "I'll give you 250! Do me a favor. My son wants to join the gang." Bobo
stood up with a roar, the wheeled machine gun on his back and on his waist The hanging bullet chain jingled,
"Hey, wait for me to make a call."
Then Li Pan turned his head and looked at Cai Zi, who was staring at her with big eyes.
"Oh, I have a conflict with them. I'll tell you later that you want to join the gang. Sneak in and take a look." "Is
that your friend?"
"My friend is a love rival. For obvious reasons, I'm more handsome, so he I was dumped... Of course, I was dumped later, and then we started doing business together, smuggling garbage and selling it into the industrial zone. At that time, NCPA patrols in the periphery were quite strict, so there was probably a bit of a blending of interests." Li Pan scanned it
. Taking a look at the Uzumaki Gang gangsters who were staring at Caizi's thighs, they walked up and put their arms around Caizi, without actually touching her, and whispered, "If someone wants to have sex with you later, don't use the knife first, just scream
loudly I have a master. According to the rules, they have to peel off my skin before they can have sex with you. This can save a lot of trouble."
Caizi was not surprised, but looked at Li Pan curiously,
"You really peeled off your love rival. "What ?"
"Oh, that's none of my business. Duels are rules for robbing women. Of course you can rob men if you want. Here you have to duel even for a piece of meat. Just find a few whirlpools to help with the notarization. That's it. They made their own rules, and they will abide by them.
Of course, free love doesn't matter. Who cares who you have sex with, right? Bobo went out to do illegal work, and was doused with sulfuric acid. The boss bullied him that he was in an industrial area. He is an illegal resident. He has not been paid medical insurance. The only way to survive is to join the Whirlpool Gang."
After a while, Bobo shouted from inside,
"Hey Broomstick! Why do you want to join the gang!"
Li Pan yelled,
"She's attracted to someone! She wants to show off her face! Let's go back and make a few more holes in her head for fun, hehe!"
Caizi stared at him in disbelief.
Li Pan, "As the Romans do in the countryside, as the Romans do..."
After a while Bobo came back and said,
"Let's go then. Take my car."
"No, I have it."
"It's up to you."
There was a giant metal robot driving a kart. The car drove off, and Li Pancaizi followed behind on a motorcycle, swaggering into the industrial zone.
On the periphery of the industrial zone, there are a large number of wall-like residential buildings in a circle. This was originally a community for local workers, and considering the protection provided to the factory during the war, reinforced concrete and explosion-proof materials were used. The quality of ordinary unfinished buildings is vastly different.
"There are so many people living here..."
Although she is in a city, if her family hadn't unexpectedly gone bankrupt, Akiyama Ayako would probably never have set foot in a place like this.
Li Pan was also bored and casually introduced the situation of the industrial zone to her. Of course, he also heard what his friends said.
During the good years when Gao Tianyuan was prosperous, in order to increase productivity, he provided various benefits to workers, provided apartments, and provided medical and educational services. It was similar to the incentive policy currently implemented in the Pacific District. A hard-working man can raise a large family. , so it also accumulated a large population in the industrial zone.
But then the war failed, the financial crisis occurred, the factory went bankrupt and laid off workers, and the housing loan originally borne by the factory was repaid. The superiors wanted to demolish residential buildings in the industrial zone and drive the workers out of their homes to sleep on the streets.
But the workers here all had military backgrounds. Many of the engineers and mechanics who accompanied the army were not helpless ordinary citizens. They directly resisted with weapons and smashed the head of the bank clerk and threw him down from the building.
So as usual, the company sent local gangsters to take action, and the whole family threatened the workers to relocate. After this, ordinary company employees must have shriveled up and wandered on the streets obediently. Unexpectedly, it turned out that in an industrial area, the neighbors have known each other since childhood. They are either co-workers or comrades. They were very depressed when they were defeated and unemployed. This immediately aroused public outrage, and the local gangsters were arrested, thrown into a machine and hanged alive. Even Dongcheng Hui screamed for cruelty when they saw the scene and immediately called the police.
Then the NCPA came to arrest people, arrested several labor leaders, and beat them to death in the bureau. This completely intensified the conflict. In the end, the local branch was set on fire, and a whirlpool of union militants was established. Gang, and NCPA fight guerrilla war in industrial areas.
Damn it, you ask an auxiliary policeman who earns 5,000 yuan a month to fight guerrillas with veterans who survived the corporate war? What are you having fun with?
So the NCPA was completely ruined, and no one came to work in the industrial area anymore. Only the three-headed dog brought the TV station to suppress it from time to time, and fooled the bureau.
As for Ye's attitude, hey, it's too late for Gao Tianyuan to clean up now. There are many villages in the city that are difficult to demolish. Who has time to sort out the garbage piles and let them fend for themselves? Let’s talk about it later when I have my hands free.
And passing through these densely packed residential buildings, which were completely armed by the Uzumaki Gang's tank turrets, and past those abandoned gardens, community schools, hospitals, and kindergartens, there was a huge garbage dump.
Unlike the garbage dump outside the City of Night, the items here are all large items that have been further processed and sorted. The Uzumaki Gang and ordinary residents come and go, collecting chip components and rare metal materials from the garbage, and recycling them as much as possible. A remnant of the high-tech era. After manual sorting and sorting, they are then reshaped into usable materials.
And following the groups of heavy-duty trucks, bypassing the hills of garbage and entering the core of the industrial zone, this time not to mention Caizi, even Li Pan was eye-opening.
It's Takamagahara, no, now it's the Uzumaki Gang's super factory.
Once the main factory in the industrial zone, the surrounding decorations, walls, and glass buildings have long been demolished and reused. Now only the keel structure of the factory remains in the entire place.
In the midst of the hot, scarlet, suffocating smoke filled with the smell of sulfur, a huge dark steel metal beast was rising and falling with rumbling sounds.
It looks like a black dragon in Western fantasy. The huge mechanical arm is like an open bone wing, undulating and impacting in the smoke and dust, pouring the 'food' from the garbage truck into the maw of lava for incineration and recasting. The roar of the metal collision is like the roar of a dragon.
Mega Industry mechanical robot, MIMR super huge industrial machinery, fully automated production line, can produce production lines of production lines. As long as the raw materials are input and the blueprint is planned, the assembly of an entire automated industrial system can be completed, a factory can be produced on-site, and then the modules can be disassembled and transported for assembly.
Of course, not only complete sets of factory production lines, but also various war machinery, SMS, and starship modules can be produced.
In the era of the Eighth New Tokyo, this was the leading technology in the world, but now it has become commonplace. Nowadays, each of the newly launched OP orbital factories is the latest MIMR. There are hundreds or even thousands of them in the Jupiter space alone. This is the real productivity crushing.
But these Uzumaki Gang lunatics are so incredible, they can actually repair and restore a MIMR using garbage. It’s incredible. He is worthy of being a descendant of workers.
Li Pan took out two metal dust masks from the side pocket of the motorcycle and handed them to Cai Zi. This is like burning corpses, the PM must be more than 25.
Caizi didn't recover from the shock for a while,
"Okay, so big..."
Li Pan said, "What's this? Mine is bigger."
Caizi stared.
Li Pan, "I mean our company's factory, hey, where did you want to go?"
Caizi snorted coldly, scanning the surrounding forts and Uzumaki Gang soldiers,
"This place is too big, how can I find my mother? Could it have been Caught..."
"That's not easy, just ask. Bobo!"
"What!"
"Has anyone done anything right lately? Two shots!"
Bobo, "Bah! They're all tanks!"
Li Pan turned around. , "It seems that your mother is not involved. She may be dead. Later you go to the prosthetic morgue to see the fresh ones. I will go to the mass graves to see the cool ones and look for the remains of your mother's prosthetic body." Caiko
, "..."
At this moment, Li Pan felt his back soften. It was Caizi who involuntarily hugged his waist and pressed against his back.
Did you feel scared when you walked out of school and saw the true appearance of this cruel and ferocious world? Or are you worried about your mother's life and death and want to find a strong and reliable back to lean on? Or maybe, it's both...
Entering the super factory, Bobo said hello to the guard twice and went to get a soldier dog tag necklace.
"Bring it to you, Mazi. You can choose the prosthetic body first, and then go in and line up for surgery."
"Thanks, Bobo!"
"Xie Niima! Cleared!"
Bobo flashed his middle finger and drove away.
Li Pan handed the dog tag to Cai Zi,
"You go inside to scout, and I'll walk around outside. I'll meet you when we come out in two hours. Just say you regret it and just give the dog tag to the guard. In fact, many people are afraid of shrinking after seeing the operation
. , it’s normal to think that just for a few bags and a few pairs of shoes, it’s not worth selling your money. Of course, there are a lot of fools who are hot-headed and high on drugs. But there are a lot of hackers listening here, do
n’t If you use the communication frequency band to contact, you will be discovered immediately."
Caizi nodded. Sneaking into the investigation was a compulsory course for ninjas. There was no need for Li Pan to ask him to send a team to join the Uzumaki Gang with dog tags.
Li Pan rode his bicycle and went around to the back to look at the crematorium.
If there are many living people, there must be many dead people. In a place like the City of Night, where there are frequent gunfights, you will be beaten to death. However, when conditions permit, the Uzumaki Gang will usually pick up people for recycling and reuse. After all, no one has seven or eight implants these days. Fresh internal organs are valuable, and hair, teeth, and corneas are all collected. This is also an important source of income for the Whirlpool Gang.
People are full of treasures.
So Li Pan, smelling the smell and looking for breath, leisurely rode a motorcycle to the corpse crematorium, stuffed a handful of bullets, bribed the gate of the Whirlpool Gang, and went directly to the morgue to find someone.
To my surprise, I found it as soon as I entered the door.
Oh, not referring to Masako Akiyama.
"Ten Heart Disciple Duan Kecheng pays homage to the Lord! I did not know that the Lord is coming! I am not welcoming you from afar! I am offended and disrespectful! May the Lord have unparalleled magical power and live as long as the heavens! May the Lord be unified for thousands of generations and unify the three realms! Be invincible in battles and conquer all attacks! Wen Chengwu De , for thousands of years..."
Li Pan stared at the child with big eyes and small eyes. He jumped out of the pile of corpses, knelt in front of him, kowtowed three times and kowtowed nine times. After singing a set of words, the child turned around. God comes.
"You...are you reincarnated?"
The child with a bullet hole in his forehead raised his head and said cheerfully,
"In reply to the Lord, with your great blessing and protection, my disciple has been reincarnated. When I recover my cultivation, I will be here again." Smooth this world and pass on the laws of our divine religion! Expand the power of our divine religion!"
(End of this chapter)