The flying car left the ice palace and passed through the ice towers. The earth gradually lost its light, just like countless eyes closed due to sleepiness, and could no longer see life. This period of darkness was very long, and it took half an hour to fly.
"Why is it so dark here? Is there no one living here?" Luo Tian asked.
Dugu Yun said in a low voice: "This is a dark restricted area, used to isolate the royal nobles from the lower districts. It is also a reserved area for the future battery processing plant."
Gao Shan added, "My mother told me that if anyone enters the Dark Forbidden Zone, it will be considered as treason and will be killed without mercy."
After passing through the dark restricted area, a large residential area with bright lights soon appeared.
Gao Shan excitedly leaned over the window and shouted, "We're here, almost home."
Luo Tian looked at the navigation map and said, "It's too early for you to be happy. There's still an hour left."
He adjusted the flight mode from high altitude to low altitude, and the buildings in front of him gradually became clear.
The residential buildings in the lower area are very dense, like a series of connected honeycombs. Each honeycomb has countless holes, and each hole is a room.
There was no one on the street, it was empty. At first glance, there were no shops, restaurants, banks, etc. There was only one type of building, and they all looked exactly the same: the honeycomb residential building.
There are some flying cars shuttling back and forth in the air and on the ground, and most of them will stop on the platforms that open out of the holes and fly in and out.
"Do the residents live in the holes of those beehives?" Luo Tian asked.
Dugu Yun said, "That's right. One hole is where a family lives. The space inside won't be more than 20 square meters."
"So small? Is the housing price too high? Poor people can't afford to buy a house?" Luo Tian remembered that three hundred years ago, a one-bedroom house in a first-tier city would cost the entire savings of several generations of a family.
Dugu Yun said: "The house was allocated by the Tianwang District, and it doesn't cost money. Don't underestimate these dozen square meters. For people in the lower district, this is their entire world. Many people will never be able to get out of this dozen square meters in their entire lives."
Luo Tian was shocked. This was not a house, it was hell. "Doesn't anyone want to go out and have fun? Traveling, shopping, dining, seeing a doctor, etc. There are so many colorful activities. How boring it would be if you can't go out!"
Gao Shan replied, "Brother Tian, you can travel and go shopping in Uranus City. For meals, just order in Kaiyuan Star City and the flying car will deliver them. It's a bit troublesome to see a doctor. You need to register at Star City Hospital, wait in line, and wait until it's your turn. After the doctor's diagnosis, he will come over if he needs to perform surgery on the spot, or take the patient to the hospital."
"Most activities are carried out in Kaiyuan Star City, so people don't want to go out?" Luo Tian asked.
Hearing the word "going out", Gao Shan's face immediately showed a horrified expression: "Brother Tian, don't you know? The law stipulates that if you want to go out, you need to report to the higher authorities and you can go out only after approval. Going out without permission is a crime, and the lighter punishment is detention and fine, and the more serious punishment is imprisonment and sentence."
Luo Tian understood immediately. No wonder there was no one on the street. He looked at Gao Shan with pity: "Is this your first time going out?"
Gao Shan nodded: "Yes! Kaiyuan Star City has everything, why should we go out? My mother told me since I was a child that going out is a dangerous thing, and only home is safe. She is right, this time when we went out, Pink Hair and I almost died, fortunately Brother Tian saved us."
Dugu Yun sighed: "The moment a person from the lower district leaves the house, it often means the end of his life."
No one spoke again until the car's navigation system prompted: Destination reached. At this time, the car stopped on a platform outside a hole in the air.
The three got out of the car. Gao Shan pressed the doorbell several times. After a long time, the door opened. A woman in white clothes opened the door. Her blue hair was disheveled and curly, and her face was pale. She looked like a critically ill patient in the ward.
When she saw Gao Shan, a look of surprise appeared on her face: "Son, it's great that they didn't make you into a human battery."
Gao Shan hugged his mother and said, "Yes, Pink Hair and I are not dead. It was Brother Tian who saved us."
The woman quickly invited Luo Tian and Dugu Yun in. She pulled her son and knelt down in front of Luo Tian. "Thank you for saving Gao Shan and Fen Mao. You are the benefactor of our whole family."
Luo Tian hurriedly helped her up: "Hurry up and get up. I heard from Gao Shan that you were very ill. Are you feeling better now?"
The woman sat on a chair with Gao Shan's help, sighed, and just as she was about to speak, she couldn't stop coughing. She covered her mouth with a handkerchief, and her body trembled from the violent coughing.
Gao Shan handed his mother a glass of water. The woman put her handkerchief on the table, drank some water, and felt better. Luo Tian noticed that there was blood in the handkerchief, and it seemed that she was seriously ill.
"I'm already in the queue, but I haven't received any notification from the doctor, and I can't go out, so I can only wait." The woman said helplessly.
Gao Shan said angrily: "We have waited for half a year, and now we are only ranked 302. We have to wait at least another half a year."
"Is there no faster way?" Luo Tian asked.
"There is a quick way, which is to spend money to buy a number so that you can rank higher, but one number costs 10,000 Kai coins. If mom wants to see a doctor right now, she'll have to spend at least 3 million to have a chance to be ranked No. 1, and that's assuming no one raises the price. Brother Tian, I'm making and selling weapons in Star City just to get my mom treated. I have no choice." Gao Shan became more and more angry as he spoke, clenched his fists, and his eyes became moist.
Luo Tian felt heartbroken as he looked at the desperate expressions of the mother and son. The small and confined space, the loss of freedom, the inability to afford medical treatment, all these things together, the people in the lower district were simply living in hell.
Dugu Yun looked at Luo Tian and said meaningfully: "I think you can think about how to change all this and help them. After all, you are a royal family member and should take on the responsibility of protecting them."
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