Chapter 16
Jiang Yunu had no idea that her neighbor, whom she had only met once, mistook her for a ghost and thought she was gnawing on human bones when she ate dried fruits and vegetables in the dark.
But it was just a coincidence that she had moved into this rubbish empty house on her own for a few days and had never really met her neighbors.
Jiang Yunu goes out before dawn every day and goes out to the streets at 5 a.m. when the control is lifted. She explores the city tirelessly and absorbs all the information she can.
Then, at 9:30 every night, when the night control regulations for children in Chat City come into effect, Jiang Yunu takes her only "No. 11 bus" - her own two legs, to run home from the restricted area.
She had begun to call the little garbage house home.
It gave her a place to stay, a place to sleep and store supplies. She barely had her own little territory in this city. If it wasn't called "home", what else could it be called?
The geographical location of the small garbage house also has certain advantages: its appearance is shabby enough that it will not attract people to explore. Even if outsiders try to explore in, just one look at the barren and dusty environment on the first floor, and the stairs with four or five steps broken, any normal person probably won't want to go upstairs again, let alone think that people can live here, nor will they think that there are any supplies worth stealing here.
Of course, Jiang Yunu is not a normal person.
And, speaking honestly, she felt that she really had nothing to steal.
On the contrary, when the thieves in Xiate City saw Jiang Yunu, they might not be able to help but give her some in return.
The charity recycling bins contain 80% of Jiang Yunu's daily necessities. Almost every item in her increasingly abundant nest has its previous owner. She collected them bit by bit from the recycling bins in various blocks like a hamster moving workers.
Jiang Yunu relied on others for his first few meals in Xiate City, and was fed miraculously.
But always relying on begging is definitely not a long-term solution. Jiang Yunu can't just do nothing every day, so she squats near various restaurants and food stalls to try her luck and see if there will be any kind-hearted person who will suddenly show up and treat her to a meal.
Fortunately, soon when Jiang Yunu explored another commercial street on the 12-circular track, she found that the charity recycling bins here would "refresh" the food after nine o'clock every night.
The No. 12 circular track in Shatt City is a well-known food circular track, famous for the major food shops surrounding the entire track. Its commercial scale is also much larger than that of Gin Street.
The first time Jiang Yunu set foot in this neighborhood famous for its delicious food, he was immediately overwhelmed by the aroma of food in the air.
These aromas were pervasive and rushed towards people from all directions, like a wave of delicious food aroma, wrapping Jiang Yunu in it in a "snap".
The spiciness is mixed with the aroma of fried food, the aroma of fried food is mixed with the aroma of flour and cheese, and the aroma of cheese pastries is mixed with the aroma of fresh fruit.
Jiang Yunu took two deep breaths and felt that even her breath was fragrant. She tried to extract a little heat from the air, touched her empty pockets, and then strengthened her mind. She ran past the stores with strong fragrance and went straight to the charity recycling box she had already spotted on the public map.
But when Jiang Yunu got to the recycling bin, he found that the recycling bins here were different from those in other ordinary residential areas.
The recycling bins here look more like a large refrigerator or crisper.
And on its panel was a line of words: [Please come and check after 9pm every night, there may be a surprise.]
Jiang Yunu checked the current items in the box and found that it was empty. This made her intuitively feel that the box should be filled with things. So, after deliberately noting the location of the recycling box and memorizing the time, Jiang Yunu first left the No. 12 circular track and went to the recycling boxes in other areas. At about 8:30 in the evening, she returned to the No. 12 circular track and was shocked to find that there was a queue in front of the recycling box!
This was the first time Jiang Yunu saw a recycling bin with people queuing up, and the line was not short, so she immediately joined the queue.
At exactly nine o'clock in the evening, a line of people had already formed behind her.
As soon as nine o'clock arrived, automatic robots slid out from the side doors of several stores. They were like smart store clerks who stocked the recycling bins on time. Each of them held a box of the store's lowest-selling food today, which the kitchen had over-prepared. They packed the food in insulated and leak-proof bags and put them into the recycling bins one by one.
Everyone in the queue received a meal successfully.
When it was almost Jiang Yunu's turn to get her meal, she heard two people in front of her talking to each other, and they obviously knew each other.
One person said, "Hey, why are you here to get the 'random relief meal'?"
Another said, "It's not the middle of the month yet, and this month's salary in star coins hasn't been credited yet."
The person who asked the question first sighed, "Me too. I'm still waiting for my salary. After paying the rent, my star coins are almost gone. I'll have to rely on boxes for food for the next couple of days."
After listening for a while, Jiang Yunu roughly understood that the recycling bins on the No. 12 circular track only hold food, and are replenished every night and emptied during the day. Each person is limited to receiving food once a day, and the food received is random, depending on what the local stores put in it.
Because the meals are highly random and only available after 9 p.m., residents with better economic conditions generally do not use this box, so the locals jokingly call the meals from this recycling box "random relief meals."
Jiang Yunu was so moved by the humanistic spirit of Xiate City that his eyes were almost filled with tears.
The existence of this recycling bin on the No. 12 circular track means that as long as Jiang Yunu is diligent and lines up early every day, she can have at least one normal meal every day.
Praise for the random relief meal!
Thanks to the unique humanistic spirit of Xiate City, Jiang Yunu was able to live a life with at least one meal guaranteed every day.
Many public areas in Shatt City have direct drinking water taps. Citizens can speak to the small AI onboard the direct drinking water dispenser to adjust the water temperature and heat it for them. On the island, Jiang Yunu either drank nutrient solution or directly drank "seawater." She's used to being a bit wild. When she first moved into the abandoned house, she even drank tap water directly from the bathroom faucet. It wasn't until she received a cup from the recycling bin that she suddenly realized she still needed some normal drinking water.
So the next day, as soon as the children's movement control was lifted, Jiang Yunu took her newly acquired small water cup to a public drinking water station, asked the AI to heat up some hot water for her, used the hot water to lightly rinse the cup, then filled it with water and started drinking normally.
Eating and drinking can be solved by leveraging public resources. Relief meals and drinking water are enough to cover Jiang Yunu's basic daily needs.
As for sleeping and living, they have already solved the problem by using empty and garbage houses.
Jiang Yunu overcame the basic survival challenges of living in a completely new place, and now she finally had more time to pay attention to things that also interested her but had to be put behind the "survival" challenge before.
For example, the supernatural powers she had heard about on the first night she arrived in Chat City.
For example, learn more about the street where she lives.
During these days of running around, Jiang Yunu discovered that information related to "superpowers" could be found everywhere in Xiate City, but she did not see anything abnormal in anyone around her, and did not see any signs that anyone had superpowers.
In a city where information about "superpowers" can be seen everywhere, it is obviously unreasonable that no one has superpowers. Jiang Yunu then speculated that there may be some kind of ability control regulations in the city - just like she, as a minor, is restricted in her movements at night.
The unauthorized use of supernatural powers is probably not allowed in the city.
But this does not affect the objective existence of superpowers in this world.
Jiang Yunu wanted to know more about superpowers. She tried to get information by eavesdropping on the residents' conversations, but found that this was too inefficient. The residents of Chat City seemed to be more concerned about their daily lives and more down-to-earth than talking about superpowers. Jiang Yunu heard them talking more about work, weather, recent prices, and what to eat on weekends.
The only two times Jiang Yunu heard passersby talk about supernatural powers was when a red-haired lady passed by and was asked by her companion, "Is your son sure which elementary supernatural school he wants to attend?"
The red-haired lady said, "Let him go to whichever school you want him to go to."
Jiang Yunu thought the two would talk more, so he stopped and wanted to listen quietly, but the topic suddenly changed to which fresh food store had the cheaper price tonight.
Jiang Yunu could only sigh and went to a bench near the public floating screen to watch the advertisement for an hour or two.
Advertising is also a channel for extracting information.
Through advertisements and occasional TV broadcasts, Jiang Yunu roughly knew that the superpowers in this world were linked to the elements and were divided into several major categories. Students of appropriate age could apply to primary superpower schools, and the admission threshold of primary superpower schools was low. There were basically no requirements for students' superpower levels, and the tuition was also low. If there were several primary schools in the same star region, the schools would compete for students and offer preferential policies in their recruitment advertisements to ensure that students only needed to pay a small amount of tuition to receive basic and comprehensive superpower system training.
However, if a person wants to develop his superpowers in depth and engage in a career closely related to superpowers in the future, then after completing the primary superpowers school, he must continue to apply for the advanced superpowers school.
The enrollment of advanced supernatural schools is completely different from that of elementary supernatural schools.
Jiang Yunu looked at the recruitment advertisements for a few days and realized that the difference between them was probably the difference between "compulsory education" and "college entrance examination".
The threshold for admission to good advanced schools with special abilities is extremely high, and the difficulty of admission to the top-ranked schools is even higher. There is also competition among the top schools.
Jiang Yunu tried to get some orthodox supernatural knowledge through TV, but it was obviously not working. Instead, he got some inexplicable "college storms" and "star zone gossip"
I've heard a lot.
Two days later, she realized her mistake.
She missed out on the best place to acquire new knowledge and learn about the new world - the library.
The more developed a civilization is, the more extensive and open its library is.
The Citizen Library of Chat City is indeed open to the public free of charge. It is a public welfare building. Anyone can enter during opening hours to look up information and use the sofas, tables and chairs in the self-service area to read and study.
Jiang Yunu checked the address and set off with great interest.
——Then he was stopped outside by the library’s citizen identification gate.
Jiang Yunu: "..."
I was careless and forgot that this kind of building usually requires passing through a gate, and like public transportation, citizens' ID cards must be recognized.
But just as Jiang Yunu was still unwilling to give up and circled the gate twice, wondering if she could "illegally invade", a voice came from behind her. The other party asked hesitantly, "Hello? Do you need help?"
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