Walking aimlessly on the dilapidated streets, Lu Xin realized that he had not looked at this street carefully for a long time.
The streets are filled with potholes, dust, and stagnant water from a few days ago.
There are dazzling neon lights everywhere, intertwined into a mess of chaotic and gorgeous colors.
After the Red Moon Incident, the surviving humans within the high city wall seemed to be divided into two completely different groups.
One is very busy, walking in a hurry, and has no time to take a second look at anything.
One type is not particularly busy. They sit listlessly on both sides of the street, spreading a baggage in front of them or setting up a table with some wild vegetables or some Unknown meat, or some rough-polished knives, or some worn-out ornaments, unknown technological items, etc. that some hunters outside the city had returned from exploring the abandoned city.
There are many people, they just gather together in small groups, smoking cigarettes and whistling at the women on the street.
There are still a lot of lunatics outside. When the High Wall City was first built, there was a time when there was not enough food to eat, but perhaps it was because there were suddenly fewer people in the world who needed to eat. The pressure on qualifications has been reduced, or perhaps the speed of civilization reconstruction has exceeded everyone's expectations. In just thirty years, famine or starvation has rarely occurred within the high city walls...
...To put it simply, it is not difficult to have a full stomach in the high-walled city.
...The difficult thing is how to make your life better!
These are the people wandering the streets with nothing to do. They have not even obtained the official status of the second satellite city, nor can they enter professional technical schools or schools, and they have never entered the main city in their lives. To live hope.
So instead they gave up all pursuits, did not work, and did not consider their life tomorrow.
They just wandered the streets every day, looking at everything passing by on the streets with blank eyes and no idea what they were thinking.
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Lu Xin just walked through the street and looked at everyone.
He was looking to see if any of these people were as dangerous as the clerk at the corner coffee shop.
As long as you can catch one, you can make a lot of money and save many people.
The figure of his sister always appeared from his side inadvertently. Sometimes, his sister appeared on the tall building next to him, and sometimes, she lazily crawled from the wires crossing his head. However, sometimes, it appears on the head of a certain bald man.
The two brothers and sisters patrolled the streets seriously.
Then I encountered nothing.
"This city is too big..."
After walking around seven or eight streets, Lu Xin, whose legs were sore, squatted on the street, smoking and eating a box lunch.
He summed up his experience in his mind: "Although the high-walled city was first built,At that time, the population was very small, but in the past few decades, more and more people have been born, and it suddenly exploded. In our No. 2 satellite city alone, there are more than one million people living in it. The police They complain every day that they are short of manpower. It is very normal for me to randomly encounter nothing..."
"If you patrol a few more times, you will definitely encounter something... "
"..."
After eating the box lunch, Lu Xin patrolled for a while, then went back to sleep and went to work the next day.
The next few days , He has always been like this.
However, Lu Xin was a little disappointed that there was nothing strange about this city.
"If this city is too safe, there is nothing." If I am needed, will Colonel Chen and the others take back my subsidy? ”
Lu Xin couldn’t help but worry.
However, he did not expect that problems would arise in his other job first.
"Xiao Lu, you don't have to come to work tomorrow! "
The director, whose hair was half bald but still combed carefully, pushed a dismissal contract in front of Lu Xin.
"Why? ”
Lu Xin was surprised by the director’s words and couldn’t understand.
The job was dismissed before the job was regularized. How can this be accepted?< /p>
Although in today's world after the Red Moon Incident, it is normal to be fired from your job due to economic instability, especially for people like me who only need to sit in the office and use their brains. There was no need to go to the dock or the factory to work day and night. There were many people watching, and the competition was extremely fierce, but Lu Xin still never thought that this matter would fall on him.
I am very conscientious in my work, and I have never made any mistakes over the years.
I am even a model worker, and the banner is still hanging in my partition.
Even if you want to resign, how can you resign yourself?
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"You have to understand this, Xiao Lu! "
The director forced a smile on his face, took out a cigarette and handed it to Lu Xin. He showed his teeth stained yellow by the cigarette and said with a smile: "The company is in a recession now. The same job, the maintenance You can't afford too many people. Compared with Xiao Lu, your business capabilities are almost the same, but Xiao Lu's work attitude is much better than yours. Look at you, you leave early every day recently, and there is no one around until you get off work... ..."
"Lu Cheng? ”
Lu Xin thought of the young man who always had a smile on his face and asked him to teach him how to deal with work, and fell silent.
He also knew that the director said that he left early. What do you mean?
Actually, I didn’t leave early, I just didn’t take the initiative to stay and work overtime.
“Director, can you give me another chance? ”
Lu Xin had a lot to say in her heart, but in the end she just asked in a low voiceOne sentence.
The director showed an embarrassed expression on his face: "Well, you are an old employee, and I can't bear to leave you. But as you know in our company, you can't afford to support idle people with every carrot and pit. When abilities are the same, attitude is very important..."
Lu Xin didn't listen to what he said next, because he knew it was false.
When he left the director's office, he saw that his belongings had been packed and placed in a box.
I don’t know who is so kind.
"Lu Cheng took care of it for you. He had long thought about moving to you..."
Beside the partition, Aunt Sun, who had permed her hair, whispered to Lu Xin said: "Xiao Lu, it's not Sister Sun who said you, you are just too honest. I told you before, don't teach others everything. Look, others are taking your job, right? I heard that this The boy is amazing. He is dating the director's daughter. The director is so smart, how could he not give the job to his own family?"
Lu Xin silently looked at the banner in his box and put it in. backpack and touched the gun inside.
But in the end, he didn't pull it out. Instead, he came downstairs, lit a cigarette, and walked slowly.
He remembered what Chen Jing had told him before.
If you encounter trouble in life, give yourself three pieces of advice.
The first is to call the police.
The second is to call her.
The third is to use a gun.