Chapter 146 Chaotic Block No. 13 (3) The Origin of the Identity Card...
Gao Mengtang arrived and lived in the master bedroom with Wei Wei. Tu Cheng and Bai Jie moved to the second north bedroom. Gao Geng's robotic arm needed to be charged, so it made some noise. He slept in the living room.
They chatted for a while, ate a few bites of food, and began to think about what to do next.
Stealing is a good way to go, but the opportunities for crime are limited. Bai Jie said that Block 13 is poor and you can't steal much. If you want to do something big, you have to go to the Sakurajuku District across the street.
However, only 4th-class citizens are allowed to enter the Sakurajuku area, and others need to apply for a pass.
It was just four o'clock in the afternoon and they were eager to make money, so they went out to look for opportunities.
Gao Mengtang led Pegana to stroll on the street. Before they knew it, they had reached the border of Yingzhu District.
There is a river between Block 13 and Yingzhu District, and the only access is the bridge over the river. There are relatively few people here. Gao Mengtang was standing on the embankment looking into the distance when suddenly someone stuffed a flyer into his arms.
When you unfold it, the most eye-catching sentence is: We are the heroes of mankind.
Gao Mengtang looked up at the person who stuffed the flyer into his mouth, and his face turned pale with fear. Half of the person's head was shrunk and deformed, his nose was pulled to his cheekbone, his eyes were drooping, and his mouth couldn't close. The other half of his head was swollen and had a jelly texture, like slime, light green, with his eyeballs and brain floating in the colloid.
This should be the alienated human being, the sixth-class citizen mentioned by Awen.
Gao Mengtang calmed himself down and said, "Hey, good morning... um, good afternoon."
The slime man ignored him and walked away.
There was only one person and one dog left by the river. Gao Mengtang looked down at the flyer. Next to the big words "We are the heroes of mankind", it was also written: Oppose the six-class citizen system
All human beings are created equal.
The axe that chops people, the axe that corrects [the law].
There is another sentence: Down with His Majesty.
Gao Mengtang held the flyer tightly and caught up with the man: "Hello, I had a head injury and lost my memory. Who is the Long Live Lord on the flyer? Have you seen him?"
"He is a traitor to humanity!" The slime man said, suppressing his anger. His voice was half deep and hoarse, and half sharp and piercing. Because of his deformed mouth, his pronunciation was not clear.
Gao Mengtang: "What's his name?"
"Traitor! His name is traitor!"
Gao Mengtang: "I mean the real name."
"I don't know!" The slime man continued to walk forward, his steps were fast, and he handed flyers to everyone he met. Gao Mengtang followed him closely.
"Although I have lost my memory," Gao Mengtang said breathlessly, "I still have a vague hatred for His Majesty. Can you help me remember him?"
Hearing this, the slime man finally stopped and asked sternly: "You hate him too? Then we are comrades."
He continued to distribute flyers, with Gao Mengtang following him.
According to the slime man, when the Black Tower game was first launched, there was no six-class citizen system. It was the Lord who used the Mastermind to create a new Law to classify people into different levels.
People like the Slime People, who were injured and alienated in battle, became the lowest sixth-class citizens with no way out.
"What is the mastermind and what is the law?" Gao Mengtang asked.
"You have completely lost your memory." The Slime Man explained patiently.
According to his description, the law is the system in the public beta period, but it is just called a different name. They don't know where the main brain came from. The slime people only know that the long live master can control the main brain.
The rest is similar to the descriptions of Awen and the tattooed man. Wansui Ye is a very mysterious player who rarely appears.
When the Black Tower game was officially launched, the Wise King Thirteen left behind a [Law]. According to Gao Mengtang's understanding, this was the ultimate main task: whoever killed the Wise King Thirteen would become the Wise King Fourteen.
The player most likely to become the Fourteenth Wise King is His Majesty.
The Thirteenth Wise King went to so much trouble just to find someone to kill Him?
Considering that He was a dead-born being with a strong desire to die, Gao Mengtang could barely understand a little.
The slime man said indignantly: "Long live the players are divided into different levels. The fifth and sixth class citizens live in misery, while he himself lives an extremely extravagant life. After he took over Epiphyllum Ridge, he squandered all his family property. Gems, rare minerals, crystals and jade were sent home like water."
"He probably knows that people hate him, so he hides in his manor all day and never leaves Middle-earth."
Gao Mengtang said "Oh" softly. He opened the map and saw that Zhongzhou was blank. Clicking it showed [This area is beyond the scope of the dungeon map]
According to what the slime man said, "I never leave Middle-earth", I am afraid that I will not see the strongest player 10 years later in this copy.
"He's so hateful and infuriating," Gao Mengtang cursed without any emotion, "Do you know Yue Fan?"
"I know. Yue Fan's wealth was also squandered by His Majesty. He built a stable narrow door leading to the other world... Why are you smiling with ill intentions?" asked the slime man.
Gao Mengtang smiled and shook his head: "Nothing."
He just thought that if he told Wei Wei that "Your Majesty had squandered all of Yuefan's property", Wei Wei would probably be cursing Your Majesty in his sleep at night.
The slime man stuffed another flyer into the man's pocket, and the passerby screamed in fear and ran away quickly.
"After the Narrow Gate was built, the power of the other world further eroded the Earth. More people died." The Slime Man said, "On Monday, the Axe Man will hold a demonstration. You will join."
His tone left no room for doubt, so Gao Mengtang had no choice but to nod.
"Go to the department store and look for the man with the gap." The slime man acted decisively. He wrote the address and store location on a flyer and stuffed it into Gao Mengtang's hand. "Go find him. You are good-looking and it is easy to arouse sympathy. The man with the gap may let you play cards."
Gao Mengtang accepted it well. From childhood to adulthood, he was always pushed to the front for sports events, flag-raising, and student representative speeches at school because he was good-looking. Parades, demonstrations, and card games, maybe the same thing.
The lower-level players knew very little about the Wansui Ye, and could not get any information from the slime man. Gao Mengtang held the flyer and said goodbye to him.
There was heavy smog in Block 13, and it was already dark by five in the evening.
I don't know what the Axe Chopping People do, but they have the ability to hold demonstrations and send people to distribute leaflets, determined to overthrow the Emperor. I guess they are not short of money.
Gao Mengtang followed the address on the flyer, took the bus, rode a shared bicycle, and walked for more than 10 minutes in the winding alleys before finally finding the department store.
The shop of the Gap Man is on the second floor, selling painting supplies.
Seeing those old painting tools, Gao Mengtang felt very friendly and his smile became gentler. He raised the flyer in his hand and said, "Hello. I received a flyer. He told me to find the Cleft Man."
There was a gray-haired old lady sitting at the counter, fiddling with a pile of rubber. Hearing this, she slowly raised her head and smiled kindly, "I am."
Gao Mengtang: “Eh?”
"Don't they look alike? That's what they all say." The old lady lowered her head and pushed aside the white hair on top of her head, revealing a bloody mouth running across her skull.
"You can just call me Grandma Hua. Come, child. Come." The old lady leaned on her cane and pulled down the door curtain. "Do you want to join the parade?"
Gao Mengtang repeated his lie about amnesia: "I have some impression of the Axe Man, and I want to learn more about him."
"Little kid, you want to be an axeman, but you can't do it." The old lady poured him a glass of sugar water, "You don't have an ID card, so your spirit points are not enough."
Since it required spiritual power, Gao Mengtang was not worried: "Let me try."
Grandma: "Don't try. You will become a lunatic and a sixth-class citizen like us..."
"I must try," Gao Mengtang said firmly, "I hate His Majesty to the core. He destroyed everything I had. As long as he's alive, I will suffer in hatred for one more day."
Having said that, Gao Mengtang said "I'm sorry" to His Majesty in his heart.
"Even if there is no hope, I will fight to the death. Because death is better than living like this."
The old lady's eyes flickered, and after a while, she sighed, "Great. That's the good thing about young people. I'll let you have a try, and I'll be watching over you, so nothing will go wrong."
She took Gao Mengtang to the inner room, which had no windows and was blindingly bright. There were more than a dozen tables along the wall, and a group of people were sitting by the tables and lamps, concentrating on carving something.
"Boss, who is he?" one of them raised his head and asked. He had three eyes on his forehead.
"He wants to join you."
As soon as these words came out, the others raised their heads and stared at Gao Mengtang. After a moment, they burst into laughter.
"He doesn't have an ID card. What is he doing here?"
"It plays a styling role."
"I understand. He's just putting it there as a vase. We're about to collapse. Let's just admire his face!" After saying that, the man laughed so hard that an eye could be seen in his throat.
Grandma Hua scolded them: "He is still a little kid, don't talk nonsense."
"Boss, everyone looks like a little baby to you."
Grandma Hua ignored them and comforted Gao Mengtang not to be angry. While speaking, she took out a rusty iron box and tremblingly opened the iron lid.
The thing inside turned out to be an ID card.
“My grandmother collected all the sixth-class citizen ID cards of the deceased people one by one.”
The ID cards during the public beta were all silver-white, but the ID cards in the box were mainly black or white.
There are black impurities on the white ID card. There are small white spots on the black ID card.
"The job of the axeman is to repair the ID cards and remove impurities." The old lady was picking out ID cards.
Gao Mengtang: "Is the white an impurity, or is the black an impurity?"
"You want to be an axe to chop people down?" A person with a mermaid's tail, with the tail fin slapping the ground?
"I'm seriously injured." Gao Mengtang rubbed his temples and frowned.
The old lady picked out something from the box: "There is war in the other world, and the creatures on the moon are extinct. Their dead souls have become white ID cards."
Hearing this, Gao Mengtang slightly widened his eyes. The origin of the ID card turned out to be like this.
"The ID card will turn black if it is contaminated by the Dead Born. So, black is an impurity." The old lady continued, "But the black ID card can also be used. However, after being fused with it, it will turn into a monster."
"So, here, if there is more white, black is an impurity. If there is more black, white is an impurity."
The old lady took out an ID card with a white background and a few black spots on it and said, "Try it. This kind of ID card has less spiritual pollution."
For Gao Mengtang, who has a foundation in sculpture, this kind of work is a piece of cake. He can dig out the impurities while carving a border and adding some relief to the ID card.
As soon as he picked up the carving knife, more than a dozen people in the room put down their work and gathered around to watch.
Gao Mengtang: "What are you doing?"
"You carve, and we'll watch."
"Show us your skills!"
"It's ok to show your legs!"
Grandma Hua tapped the floor with her cane. “Shut up, you bastards.”
Gao Mengtang pretended not to hear and dug out the impurities in a few seconds: "Is this all right?"
When he looked up, the atmosphere in the chamber changed.
The dozen or so people stared at Gao Mengtang's hand in amazement. The old lady's jaw was shaking with shock and was almost dislocated.
After a half-minute of silence, Grandma Hua asked, "Baby, are you feeling well?"
Gao Mengtang: "A little dizzy."
It's fake. The only discomfort is that the carving knife is of poor quality and doesn't fit the hand well.
But the top student is not picky about stationery, and he can do it quickly and well using nails.
"And there's more. There's still the second and third steps to repairing the ID card!" The mermaid who made him expose his legs slapped the floor even more agitatedly. "Hurry up and give him the adhesive and the broken card."
A group of people dispersed, picked up the materials on the table, and then gathered back together.
The adhesive is light green, and the broken cards are broken ID cards. After removing the impurities, the dug-out areas need to be filled. Gao Mengtang listened to their explanation of the operation and nodded, indicating that he understood.
First, dissolve the card fragments in an adhesive to turn them into a substance similar to Newtonian fluid, and then fill them into the hollowed-out cavity.
This step must be done quickly because the active ingredients in the adhesive will evaporate within 10 minutes after it is made. Both stirring and filling must be completed within these 10 minutes.
"Be careful, doll, don't touch the adhesive." said Grandma Hua.
Gao Mengtang: “Hmm.”
The adhesive has a faint grassy scent that smells familiar. Gao Mengtang mixed the broken cards evenly and filled them into the dug-out area, letting them sit for the adhesive to evaporate and the filled area to become solid.
Then carve it into the original appearance of the ID card.
Each card was scanned with high precision. Grandma Hua found the photo and asked Gao Mengtang to carve it according to the photo.
Gao Mengtang had memorized the original pattern on the ID card, so there was no need for comparison, but he still pretended to look up from time to time.
It fell like flowing clouds and water. Gao Mengtang pretended to be deaf when a group of people pointed fingers at him.
At the beginning, there were people giving advice on knife skills, imparting experience, and making comments.
After 3 minutes, those who had been pointing fingers withdrew their fingers and became as quiet as a quail.
Five minutes later, the contempt on his face turned into awe.
After 15 minutes, the carving was completed. The people around were so quiet that it was as if they had just died for 15 minutes. Not even the sound of breathing could be heard.
Gao Mengtang picked up the ID card and asked, "Grandma Hua, how am I doing?"
Grandma Hua was stunned for a few seconds, then slowly came to her senses and took it with trembling hands: "Okay, great!"
"You, you don't feel any discomfort at all? Not at all?" The mermaid tail finally found her voice.
Gao Mengtang felt that he had overacted and needed to pretend. He retracted his smile, said "Ouch", propped his arms on the table, and pinched his eyebrows: "Headache. My head hurts so much."
Others: …
Pretend to be more like it, thank you.
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