Cen Yu, of course, had no idea that Lu Zhan was already cursing He Yuxing at that moment.
While he was lying on the sofa, he was in contact with Jiang Min, who had also successfully arrived in District 7. Because they were the first to arrive, they received the agreed-upon number for the mission.
They didn't leave immediately, only saying they wanted to stay in District 7 a little longer, probably thinking it would provide more fun. The person who issued the mission acquiesced to their decision.
In the message, Jiang Min stated that most people in District 7 were unaware of what the group living in the tower was doing.
They called themselves the people of the Tali.
Jiang Min said this.
After sending the message to Cen Yu, he returned to the hotel where they were staying.
Compared to the Eden-like environment we had seen before, this place was clearly much more dilapidated. Although it was not the same as the abandoned buildings in the wilderness, it was still passable.
The buildings are less than a meter apart, making it impossible for two people to pass side by side. There is standing water on the ground, and the meat processing plants are nearby, so the canned meat they eat comes from this area.
Monkeys are good at chatting, so they naturally learned some news from the surrounding area.
Perhaps because this area is also considered a "slum," the permanent residents welcome these hunters from the wilderness—they usually bring money and equipment.
“They must be crazy to leave.” The speaker was a middle-aged man with flushed cheeks, the hotel owner, who told the monkey, “Those people are insane.”
“Some people have left the tower…” he said, taking a sip of ale and then hiccuping drunkenly, “The wilderness is too dangerous.”
“Freedom.” He scoffed dismissively, then said to the monkeys, “They’ll all regret it.”
"I haven't seen anyone come back."
The monkey didn't understand whether he meant that those people had gone to the Corruption Zone and never returned, or that they had lost their right to return to the Digital Zone—he guessed it was probably the latter—after all, these people had escaped secretly.
"Perhaps they've encountered something insurmountable," Jiang Min said after replying to the message.
The hotel owner didn't seem to care. He looked at Lis, momentarily confused, even wondering if he was seeing things because he was drunk... He actually had a very good memory, so he looked at Lis a few more times.
"Has your father or uncle been around here?" he asked Lis, his breath reeking of alcohol.
Lis glanced at him. "Probably not."
The boss was a little confused. He touched the back of his head. "I have a very good memory..." He shook his head, as if trying to make his thoughts clearer. "That was 30 years ago."
He whispered, "I've seen blond boys like you."
“…He’s really lucky,” he said. “The bigwigs in the tower said they need an adopted son.”
"They specifically searched for these poor, parentless children in the wilderness."
His words revealed a hint of envy, as if he wished he had been the one to be adopted.
Lis looked at the boss, "How old were you back then?"
"20 years old?" the boss said uncertainly.
“You’ve lived through the world before the apocalypse,” Liss said. “You’ve been a human, so why would you want to volunteer to be a dog?” he asked incredulously.
The boss was so angry he was about to stand up... but perhaps realizing that Lisi was too young, he sat down again before Monkey and Jiang Min could stop him. "Everyone wants to live a better life," he said.
As a member of the lowest rank in District 7, he had clearly longed for the tower that represented District 1.
"Even if all the blood is drained? Even if your original appearance is completely unrecognizable?" Liss asked again, unconsciously touching his blond hair as he spoke, as if trying to confirm that his scalp was still on his head...
The boss didn't understand why he said that, only assuming that the other person, as someone who grew up in the wilderness, had long harbored resentment towards the nobles of District One.
"The rumors about the wilderness are a bit exaggerated..." the boss said, "but they're all false."
He said, "Mr. Lu Zhan is a well-known philanthropist."
"He gave many of us a way to survive," he rambled on, as if they couldn't live without the district and those high-ranking nobles.
Jiang Min didn't speak; he simply exchanged a glance with the monkey.
Both of them discovered something... It seemed that none of the people in these digital zones knew what those bastards in Zone 1 were doing in the wilderness.
They seemed to think that the nobles in District 1 were all great benefactors, giving them the means to live in the "Garden of Eden".
"If..." the monkey said, "if those big shots in District One relied on..."
He suddenly stopped talking at this point because he noticed that his boss was avoiding his gaze.
This taught the monkeys something—they might have known it, but in any case, it only consumed the lives of those "things" in the wilderness, not theirs.
Looking out from the digital zone, even from the lowest corner of Zone 7, they could still see the beautiful scenery of the curtain wall—to them, the world outside "Eden" was completely unimportant.
Perhaps to them, the creatures in the wilderness are just poultry, not humans like themselves.
Perhaps feeling that the topic was too sensitive, the boss quickly lay down on the table and pretended to faint.
Apart from the smell of alcohol emanating from the boss, the only other sounds in the air were the rumbling of the machines operating in the meat processing plant next door.
Lis sneered, seemingly mocking the monkey's naiveté.
On the second floor of the hotel, by the open window, a woman sat holding Guoguo.
To conceal their whereabouts, the woman and Guoguo disguised themselves and did not enter the digital zone with Jiang Min's team. Instead, they chose the escape route that others had taken... Together, they looked at the towering "tower" in the distance, while also looking at the curtain wall that the people of District Seven could see every day.
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