Chapter 45: Shaking People
Xiao Shuai is a good friend of Fu Cai, the foreman on the deserted planet.
The two of them were childhood friends.
Five years ago, Xiao Shuai got tickets for an interstellar ship by chance and was able to bring three people with him.
The first thing he thought of was to take his younger brother with him and let Fu Cai and his younger brother leave the desolate planet together.
The reason why the desolate planet is called the desolate planet is because the resources here have been exhausted.
Only the base station is still connected to the Star Network. There's also an unmanned delivery service. Even the customs port is gone.
In this barren soil, everyone will slowly die.
Escaping from the desolate planet has been his firm goal since he was a child.
But Fu Cai said at the time, "If I leave, what will happen to the brothers in the engineering team?" He was a male with a B-grade gene. But the others' genes were even lower, many of them were C or D grade.
He is the absolute backbone of the engineering team. They are the second generation of construction workers and have been friends since their fathers' generation.
He always had an inexplicable sense of responsibility towards his brothers.
Xiao Shuai said, "Only by going to a large planet can your brother receive reliable treatment. You will also have a better future."
But no matter how much I tried to persuade him, he just wouldn't agree!
In the end, Xiao Shuai had no choice but to sell the other two places for 200,000 yuan as some start-up capital for their journey to the big planet.
When we arrived at the big planet, the prosperity here was incomparable to the barren planet. It was filled with robots and bionic people, and various magnetic levitation trains were shuttling through the air.
The bracelet can do everything.
Xiao Shuai is just like a country bumpkin coming to the city.
His wristband was very outdated; it was bought by his father and passed down to him after his death. It was fine for basic communication on a desolate planet, but not enough for life on a larger planet.
He followed the local customs and bought himself and his brother a cheapest bracelet worth 20,000 star coins.
He needs to spend the remaining 160,000 yuan frugally.
It is best to find some work at the beginning. It is better to earn money every month than to live off the savings.
He didn't find a job in the first month, and he felt that it was indeed a big planet, with stricter requirements.
After not finding a job in the second month, he started to panic. But he still tried to stay calm because his younger brother was younger and less sensible, and he was afraid that he would panic.
By the third and fourth months he had become desperate.
It has been five years since he moved out of the desolate planet.
He woke up early in the morning in federal government low-rent housing. The room was only 20 square meters, but a kitchen and bathroom were crammed in. The two brothers could only sleep in bunk beds, as the rest of the space was full.
He took a huge woven bag with him before going out.
This is what he bought during the live broadcast. The bag is quite nice.
This would conceal his identity as a scavenger.
He was once the second generation of a construction industry. He could build houses, carry cement, mix cement, and do plumbing and electrical work. He knew almost everything.
He came here looking for a job like this.
As a result, when someone swiped his bracelet, the spiritual level was D, and the other party didn't want it at all.
Even construction workers need to have a mental level of C or above, and many large developers only want B level workers.
When Xiao Shuai came out, he charged his old bracelet from five years ago.
Even his brother couldn't understand this move! Sure enough, his brother rolled his eyes and said, "Brother, there's no need. Charging costs money."
"What do you know?" Xiao Shuai snorted. "Rent's due soon! Don't forget!" He paused and couldn't help but nag, "There are so many people coming from all over the deserted planets now that there's not enough low-rent housing. I heard the federal government is planning to clear out a bunch of people. Let's pay the rent quickly and don't let anyone catch us."
Although this house is small, it's the cheapest at only 1,500 Star Coins a month!
They arrived early and caught the right time.
I heard that due to the large population, the new low-rent housing units being built by the federal government are only eight square meters. Of those eight square meters, the bathroom and kitchen take up four. The rest is just enough for a bed and a wardrobe, and there's nothing else!
Houses like that are called canned houses on the Internet! They are so depressing that you will feel depressed just by looking at them.
He had lived there for a long time and found 20 square meters too crowded. Now that he had his younger brother and all the stuff he had accumulated over the years, 8 square meters was too full to accommodate them.
"I know!" the younger brother said nonchalantly, "I'm working on a big deal now. If it works, we can live in a big house."
Xiao Shuai frowned. "I don't want to live in a big house. I just want to live here! Don't mess around! If we get caught for fraud, people like us without Star citizenship won't even be able to be deported. We'll be thrown into jail."
"Don't worry, the person I'm dating online this time has completely believed in my fake female identity!" There are more men than women these days, and everyone is confused.
Young masters from wealthy families are also favored by some females. Ordinary wealthy people can only meet females if they go to a very good university.
Therefore, males have to keep climbing in this society.
But this era is too complicated! Many people will never touch the corner of a woman's clothes in their entire lives. Pretending to be female to cheat money was once very popular.
After all, there are not so many females who are willing to chat with people in a "friendly" way online.
Females have always been sought after and looked down upon.
Only a liar can give this kind of emotional value!
StarNet has cracked down on scammers before.
But the profits are so great that many people take the risk. Just like my brother, his number has been blocked several times! This time he bought a fake number again.
Xiao Shuai has repeatedly advised him but he still hasn't changed. Fortunately, his younger brother doesn't go out to cause trouble every day. Now there are many reports online about the scam of pretending to be female.
Many people have already seen through the scams, but they continue just to gain this kind of emotional value and psychological satisfaction.
I can talk about love, but I don’t have money. My younger brother has met several people like this before, and he is so angry that he curses at home every day.
Seeing that he was stubborn, Xiao Shuai had no choice but to leave by himself.
Yes, he was there to scavenge. On a large planet, the gap between the rich and the poor is huge. The rich are extremely rich, and the poor are extremely poor.
That trash can is like a treasure trove, you can always find good things in it.
Once, he happened to catch the nanny robot taking out the trash. He looked over and saw half a box of nutrient solution, all of which were high-quality fruit flavors.
He took a closer look and found that it had only expired for two or three days! He took it home immediately, and during that time he and his brother had enough to eat every day.
For the poor people on the big planet, anything that is expired no more than six months is a good thing.
He absolutely trusted the StarCraft preservative system. It wouldn't spoil so quickly.
But there were also bad times, like when he went scavenging and was chased away. Or when he found something valuable and people snatched it away. Eight out of ten people living in public housing were scavengers.
There is no way. Now low-end industries are occupied by bionic people and robots.
They don't know how to get tired, and they don't even need to be paid, they just need to recharge!
Although buying one is not cheap, it is a one-time thing, which is more cost-effective than hiring someone! He can't enter the high-end industry!
Today, Xiao Shuai walked for several hours under the scorching sun, but didn't find anything good.
When he rushed to the trash can, some wealthy communities would not let him in. In those non-enclosed communities outside, many trash cans were guarded by people.
And some of the scattered trash cans outside have been turned over countless times.
Anything of value would be looted.
He was in a state of confusion. Of the 200,000 yuan he had brought with him, only 50,000 remained after all these years, and that was the result of his frugality.
When I was on the deserted planet, I thought I would live a decent life as long as I went to a big planet.
Who would have thought it would be like this now.
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